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The Toronto Blue Jays were the talk of baseball after a mega-trade in November 2012 with Miami, then they added 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey and they looked like a favorite in the AL East.
Those projections didn't quite turn out, as the Jays see themselves at the bottom of the division. The offense has been good, but the starting pitching has been pretty awful to average at best. The Royals catch them on a 3-7 skid over their last ten games, while KC has won five in a row and are – again – within shouting range of the wild card. A three game sweep would be huge for the Royals.
In April, the Royals nearly got swept by the Jays, needing a Sunday walkoff win to salvage a 1-2 series split.
The Royals will send their top three starters out this weekend and face Dickey, Mark Buehrle, and J.A. Happ. Jeff Morten has a series preview from the Blue Jays side of things on Jays Journal here, but I wanted even more insight into the state of the Jays, and asked some questions of Kyle Franzoni, editor of Jays Journal and an authority on Toronto baseball:
It seemed like R.A. Dickey, Mark Buehrle, and Josh Johnson could be a decent trio of starters. Obviously, Johnson's been hurt, but what about the other two?
Dickey's struggles have been two-fold; consistency and the home run ball. For three starts, he'll look like the Cy Young winner the Blue Jays thought they were bringing in, but then the next three will look horrible and he'll get knocked around. Perhaps its the curse of the knuckleball, or perhaps it was buying too high on a guy having a career year at the age of 37.
As for Buehrle, he started out rough, but he's rounded out into the type of pitcher you expect him to be. Nothing overpowering, nothing truly dominant, but a solid, middle of the rotation guy. Since July 12th, he's been fantastic, posting a 5-1 record, a 2.41 ERA, and a 2.93 K/BB ratio. Now, he'll be overpayed next year for this type of production, but he's been a solid arm the second half of the season.
I think it would be unfair to not give credit to Colby Rasmus for the transition he's made this year. Yes, he's hurt now, but he's still ranked 5th among Major League center fielders in WAR and 4th in ISO according to Fangraphs. He's taken a big step forward and quieted some of the naysayers from last winter.
Casey Janssen and Brett Cecil have been perhaps the two most consistent pitchers on the Blue Jays staff this season, and as such, are the go-to guys at the back end of the pen. Missing Steve Delabar hurts a bit, as he's your swing and miss guy in tough situations in the 7th and 8th inning, but Sergio Santos has done good job in his time back with the team and hasn't been scored upon in his last 6 outings.
The rebound of Eric Hosmer has been phenomenal and makes him a tough guy to pitch to, but the one hitter I would always avoid throwing to in that line-up is Billy Butler. He may be having a bit of a down year in terms of power, but he's tearing the cover off the ball in August with a .358 mark, 5 home runs, and 16 RBI this month.
I'd like to say the Blue Jays can take two games in this set, but with the amount of injuries and the presence of so many Triple-A players in the everyday line-up right now, it would be tough for me to do so. The match-ups with Santana and Shields to book-end the series scare me, so if Toronto has any chance for a win this series, it's going to take them jumping on Guthrie on Saturday.


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The parade will start in the parking lot of the United Market Street at 50th and Indiana. It's going to loop around in the parking lot and exit the parking lot onto Indiana, head north on Indiana just for a moment before they hang a left turning west on 50th Street. Spectators for the parade are encourages to line up along the north side of 50th for the best vantage point.
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You have the stuffy white guy with no charisma (Romney), the super-religious southern boy (Huckabee), the blow-hard fat kid (Gingrich), the stuck-up hot bitch (Palin), the bat-shit insane girl with weird eyes (Bachmann), the asshole rich kid with a huge ego (Trump), the cool black dude who rises above it all (Obama), and the kid who's in all the scenes but doesn't have any lines (Pawlenty).
You also have the oddball, fringe characters who die by the end of the second act (Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Herman Cain).
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I've kept myself relatively versed in the financial crisis. I've read Michael Lewis' various Vanity Fair articles on the effect of the financial crisis on other countries, as well as his already-seminal book The Big Short, which details how the banks blew up here in The States. I've also seen the documentary Inside Job, a scathing (albeit biased) rebuke of the financial markets; and several episodes of PBS' Frontline series, which outlines how the people in power dealt with the event as it unfolded. I've also regularly kept up with newspaper articles about how politicians, the financial industry, and regular people attempt to deal with the aftermath of the crisis.
Obviously, I'm no expert and I'm probably late to the party, but I feel like I can draw some intelligent conclusions about this whole situation.
One of my conclusions is that the men who run the largest banks and control the financial markets seem to exist solely to fuck poor and middle class people. They may not be doing it directly or consciously, but they're doing it. And they're doing it because even if they do a shitty job — for example, CAUSING THEIR ENTIRE MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR WORLDWIDE BANK TO FAIL — they still get paid huge sums of money.
Both The Big Short and Inside Job raise an interesting point about the evolution of financial markets. In the past, investment banks were small partnerships — meaning the people who ran the banks were investing their own money and were therefore very careful with that money. (They took fewer risks and invested long-term.) They also dealt with simple financial products like stocks, bonds, and insurance.
Today, however, thanks to deregulation during the '80s and '90s, banks are making gigantic, risky investments with other people's money for short-term profits; they completely disregard long-term stability to beef up their bottom line. They also now deal with complicated financial instruments like collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps. These instruments and the highly-involved transactions necessary to deal with them are complicated enough to make even the brightest government regulators dizzy.
Maybe this is just opinion, but I can also conclude that there's nothing inherently valuable in the financial business. Consider: if you invent a useful product, there's value in that product. People will want to buy it, sell it, make it, and invest in it. It's a creative enterprise; if you invent a car, you can see the car in front of you and you can tell whether or not it's shitty. In finance, you're just moving around other people's money. So, if you're a pension fund and you invest in a set of complicated mortgage bonds, you can't tell right away if those bonds are broken or if it's a lemon or if it's secure. You have to trust the bank that sold it to you or trust the ratings agencies that rated the value of those bonds. And — guess what?! — you can't trust either because the bank just wants to take your money immediately and the ratings agencies are paid BY THE BANKS to rate their products! (Imagine if Apple paid Consumer Reports to "honestly" rate its iPods. That would be wrong, right???) Often, these banks would be creating profit out of whole cloth anyway. So what if the assets they were selling were complete garbage?
The one thing that is really infuriating to me is how the men-in-charge who didn't realize how bad the developing crisis was and the politicians who championed policies that led to the crisis in the first place are somehow still in positions of power. The majority of the people running those banks are still very influential within the industry. Ben Bernanke is still the chairman of The Federal Reserve! Timothy Geithner is the Secretary of The Treasury! Lawrence Summers was on the National Economic Council! I'm a supporter of Obama as much as the next liberal, but… WHAT THE FUCK?!?!
The other mind-boggling thing is that the financial markets resisted any sort of reform or new government oversight when OBVIOUSLY (right?) the lack of those things is what led to the disaster in the first place. They believed saying "Sorry, it won't happen again," was enough and employed an army of lobbyists to try to amend the bill in some way.
Huh? Why? Don't you want this to never happen again?
Think of the whole situation in this (very crude) way: Let's say some dude rapes a woman while a cop is standing nearby. The cop suspects the woman is being raped, but decides not to do anything about it because the dude says, "Hey, everything's cool here! I'm not violating anyone in any way!" Later on, the cop finds out that the dude WAS raping the woman after all. The dude should go to jail and the cop should get fired, right?
No, of course not! Instead, the cop gets PROMOTED, the dude gets a bunch of free condoms paid for by the woman's friends, and the dude's lawyer helps to write a bunch of new anti-rape laws to help his client. Meanwhile, the woman gets a pat on the back and is sent on her merry way.
I don't doubt that there are good, honest people who work in the financial markets and in government. But THOSE people need to be running things, not the assholes who don't relate to the people whose lives they affect. Frankly, I'm not optimistic.


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During a lecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Kenneth Deffeyes, professor emeritus at Princeton University, sounded a dire warning about global oil production and consumption: Major oil-producing nations and energy companies, he said, know that the production and consumption of oil are decreasing oil reserves that cannot be replaced. >>
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Employees called 911 around 4:15 p.m. when they thought they saw smoke in the building. Firefighters said employees though there was an electrical fire and evacuated the building.
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In his now celebrated lecture at the 1959 meeting of the American Physical Society, Richard Feynman pondered the potential of miniaturization in the physical sciences. His vision, based on known technology, examined the limits set by physical principles and proposed a variety of new nano-tools including the concept of "atom-by-atom" fabrication. In the intervening decades, many of these predictions have become reality. In particular, the development and application of nanofluidics is becoming a competitive and exciting field of research. These nanoscale analytical instruments employ micromachined features and are able to manipulate fluid samples with high precision and efficiency. In a fundamental sense, chip-based analytical systems have been shown to have many advantages over their conventional (larger) analogues. Despite the growth of this field, there are surprisingly few books dedicated to nanofluidics. This book will fill the gap in the literature for a text focusing on bioanalytical applications. Written at a level accessible to experts and non-experts alike, it has the potential to become a mainstream text book for advanced nanobiotechnology courses within academic institutions.
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Head coach John Tortorella decided to play all three of his star forwards on the same line for the first time this season on Wednesday against the Bruins, and the results were immediate and positive as Rick Nash, Brad Richards, and Marian Gaborik showed instant chemistry in the 4-3 win over Boston. Gaborik recorded his 14th career Hat Trick in the game, and this goal---just 4:36 into the opening period---was his first of the night. The finish by Gaborik is gorgeous, but so, too, is the cross-ice feed from Nash, the perfect head-man touch by Richards, and the breakout pass by defenseman Michael Del Zotto.
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We are very concerned that the article about the Blue Creek Wind Farm, Winds of change blow across Ohio (Oct. 7), submitted by Van Wert area Chamber of Commerce CEO Susan Munroe, is highly misleading.
Munroe claims that the 304 megawatt Blue Creek Wind Farm, built in northwestern Ohio by a subsidiary of Spain-based Iberdrola, provides substantial energy and economic benefits. However, her claims appear to be based heavily on information from Iberdrola, not on an objective analysis of facts about wind energy. Those facts call into question key points made in the article. For example, Munroe appears not to know that:
Electricity from wind is very high in true cost and low in true value.
The principal reasons that companies such as Iberdrola build wind farms (including Blue Creek) are generous government tax breaks and subsidies provided to wind farm owners.
The cost of government financial subsidies for wind energy is borne by taxpayers, including Ohio taxpayers, and is in addition to the cost of electricity from wind that shows up in electric bills.
Her favorable appraisal of wind energy ignores the adverse environmental, economic, electric system reliability, scenic and property value effects of wind farms. These adverse effects have been demonstrated in the U.S. and other countries where wind farms have been built.
Munroe's article cites $5 million in lease payments and local tax payments by the wind farm owner, Iberdrola, as having a favorable economic effect, but she seems not to recognize that these payments pale in comparison to:
The $172,688,076 grant from the U.S. Treasury Department awarded to Iberdrola on Aug. 20, 2012, accounting for nearly 30 percent of the capital cost of the Blue Creek Wind Farm. The cost of that grant money is borne by taxpayers, including taxpayers in Ohio.
(Spain-based Iberdrola is a substantial recipient of U.S. government tax breaks and subsidies. Iberdrola's Feb. 24, 2011, news release announcing 2010 earnings (highest ever) included the following: The Group has benefited from more than $1 billion in U.S. government incentives for wind power, the largest obtained to date by any renewables company. News releases on 2011 and 2012 earnings do not state the amount of Iberdrola's U.S. wind tax breaks and subsidies, but the company continues to receive them for each of its U.S. wind farms either as production tax credits ($0.023 per kilowatt hour of electricity produced, a 10 percent investment tax credit or a U.S. Treasury cash grant such as that for Blue Creek. Iberdrola is also eligible for 5-year depreciation deductions.)
The higher costs of electricity that will be paid by Ohio's electric customers due to the state's renewable portfolio standard that requires that an increasing share of electricity sold in the state be produced by using renewable energy sources such as Iberdrola's wind farm.
Munroe speaks of the private investment of $600 million in Blue Creek, apparently without recognizing that:
Nearly $173 million of that money came from the U.S. Treasury grant mentioned above.
Very little of the $600 million represents economic value added to the local or state economy. Except for the temporary construction jobs, a few permanent jobs and some local purchases, most of the $600 million was spent elsewhere – in other states or countries – for the turbines, turbine components, blades, towers and electrical equipment used in the project.
Munroe correctly states that businesses everywhere are deeply concerned about the cost and security of energy but, as noted above, she apparently is unaware of the high true cost of electricity from wind and the fact that electricity from wind turbines is low in real value because it is available only intermittently, volatile and highly unreliable. Wind turbines produce electricity only when wind speeds are in the right range. Other generating units, powered by conventional energy sources (such as natural gas, coal, oil, hydropower, nuclear energy and, perhaps, biomass) must always be immediately available to compensate for the intermittent, volatile output from wind turbines. This necessity adds to the true cost of using wind energy, and the unreliability of output from wind turbines adds to the burden on grid managers in keeping electrical grids in balance (supply and demand, voltage, frequency).
Electricity from wind turbines is low in value because it can't be counted on to be available when needed, and it is most likely to be produced at times when it is least needed. Wind turbines tend to produce most of their electricity at night in cold months, not on hot weekday afternoons in July and August when demand for electricity is highest. Furthermore, the electricity from wind tends to be low in value because the output can't be counted upon to be available at the time of peak demand, unlike reliable (dispatchable) generating units that can be called upon to produce whenever needed.
Undoubtedly, Munroe is correct in asserting that members of her local Chamber of Commerce are interested in reducing monthly utility bills. Business owners and their association leaders need accurate information about energy, both to understand the costs that businesses will bear and the effect of government requirements on energy reliability and costs.
Businesses that are planning to provide equipment or services to the wind industry especially need objective information about wind energy. In fact, there is very little evidence to suggest that electricity from wind will ever be commercially viable; i.e., be able to compete with other energy sources without government tax breaks and subsidies. Participating in industries that are dependent on federal tax breaks and subsidies can be dangerous, particularly at a time of massive federal deficits and a national debt of about $17 trillion.


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1- Sick2 Reviews
Kisses were for those you admired, those you loved... not those who caused you and your family pain.
I couldn't even bare to look at either of my parents though I could hear my mother's loud sobs echo through the living room. My mother and father were seated on the couch, hands tied behind their backs. My father had tape across his mouth to keep him from speaking seeing as how he'd been pleading for the intruders to take whatever they wanted and leave. My mother was sobbing loudly and horrifyingly I wished they'd tape her mouth so that I wouldn't have to hear the sound any longer. My older brother, Alexander, was on the chair next to the couch silently watching each move the intruders made. I was sitting across from him on the other chair, unable to see absolutely everything.
We all knew something bad would happen. None of us were stupid. People that broke in to houses weren't the nicest around and generally didn't just want tea before leaving. So, what would our intruders want? They'd taken very little. So far just cash and jewelry.
There were five of them. They all wore black masks that stretched across their faces, making them look scarier than they probably looked in real life. Or so I was assuming. Black masks just usually hinted towards evil motives... Well, actually the breaking in hinted towards the evil motives but...
They were each tall and well built. Two were smaller but still seemed in great shape. My entire family was very active but if it came down to it we wouldn't stand a chance. We were all tied for one. For two, we just weren't really all that violent. We were upper class. In all honesty we just didn't plan for this shit to happen.
Sadly, I realized my father had forgotten to set the alarm when we'd gotten home because we had been in a verbal fight. The words I'd screamed at him previously echoed through my head, scarring me. Would I ever be able to apologize after this?
I wasn't sure so... "Daddy, I'm sorry." I quickly apologized, tears resting against my eyelashes.
One of the intruders paused, laughing. "Mhmm, that sure does sound sexy coming from your mouth." His words made me gag a little inside. "Would you like to call me Daddy, little girl?" The man asked, stepping forward.
"I think I'm a little too old for you." I spit out, glaring at the man in disgust.
He just smiled, the fabric over his face stretching a little more. His hand flew down, smacking across my face. I closed my eyes, trying to bite back the cry that had formed upon my lips. The tears were already dripping down my cheeks, causing mild embarrassment. I'd never before been struck though I'm sure I'd deserved it many times with the way I treated my family...
"Hey, what are you doing Jack?" One of the men asked, coming forward.
"Just teaching this little bitch a little about respect." The man snarled, looking annoyed at having been interrupted.
The newest arrival looked as if he were about to object but then he shook his head, walking away. "Be quick with her." He called, almost sounding bored with the situation.
"Will do Gee." Jack responding, a smile lurking beneath his words.
Then he leaned down and I began standing as he pulled on the rope, binding my wrists together. It took quite a bit of effort to keep up with the man as we walked down the hallway together.
"Where are you taking my little girl?" My mother's shrill voice followed me down the hallway, followed by my brothers.
"If you touch her I'll kill you!" I had to admit... The words sounded fairly intimidating, even with my brother being bound.
The man pulling me along simply laughed and then we started going upstairs. My heart fell through my body as I realized that we were heading to a bedroom. It was obvious. What else would he want me for? I didn't know where any secret money was hidden. My father had instantly told them the number to the safe... All I had to offer was myself but it was something I wasn't going to be giving without a fight.
I struggled, fighting against the ropes as Jack pulled me along. He didn't seem inconvenienced in the least as he pulled me along, the ropes digging in to my fresh wounds.
I lost my footing, falling on to the stairs. Jack laughed, letting go as I tumbled down the stairs. The pain of my body hitting each step hit me and I faintly wished I'd hit my head. I didn't want to be awake for whatever 'Jack' wanted.
The footsteps from Jack's feet created a thudding noise that I tried to focus on to alleviate the pain coursing through my body. This time he grabbed me by my arm instead of the rope. I found a tiny amount of gratitude rising towards this act. My wrists burned so badly... My entire body ached. Would this pain ever go away?
"Which room is yours?" Jack asked.
I wanted to scream out but I knew it'd be no use. I was trapped with this sicko and his friends. "Right there." I whispered, looking straight ahead at my bedroom door.
Together we walked towards it. The door was hanging off of it's hinges slightly. Jack gently opened it, pushing me towards the bed. I stumbled, falling in front of my bed. Jack did the best he could to close my bedroom door despite it's damaged appearance. "See, I'm not so bad." Jack joked. "I made sure that we have a little privacy."
I said nothing. I had nothing to say. Was I supposed to laugh? It wasn't a date. It wasn't some fantasy. No, if he touched me in any way... It would be rape.
Jack stepped foward just as I made it on to my feet after the harsh struggle. My legs weren't bound in any way but it was quite tough to get on my feet with my hands tied behind my back. I flinched as Jack leaned closer, the smell of alcohol radiating from him. Suddenly I felt naseous, the smell lingering around my nose. "Give me a kiss." Jack whispered, in what he must have assumed was an alluring voice.
"No." I refused. I would not give him a kiss of my own free will. Kisses were for those you admired, those you loved... not those who caused you and your family pain.
"How about if I go downstairs and break your dear brother's arm?" Jack snarled, sounding determined. I didn't doubt for a second that he would do it.
"Please don't." Reduced to begging with just one threat. All it took was my family being used against me. I couldn't bare to be the cause of their pain, not again. The guilt of the intruders getting in to our home was still strong. I just knew... had the music not been so loud... my father would have heard. He would have called the police. This wouldn't be happening!
"Then kiss me and make it fucking believable." Jack snapped, standing in place.
I paused, "Can... can you untie my hands please?"
Jack seemed to think of it before stepping forward. I winced as his fingers pressed against my wounds so that he could cut the rope free. I felt the edge of the blade and breathed in deeply, just knowing he had pulled out a knife. Then the rope fell free and I instantly massaged around the wounds, trying to bring back feeling... that wasn't pain.
"Get to it." Jack snapped.
I stepped a little closer, apprehension coursing through my body. Jack gave me an expectant look as he stood in place. I had to stand upon my tippy toes to reach his lips and though the act disgusted me... I pressed my lips against his.
The kiss was passionless and short. Suddenly I was pushed away, causing me to stumble and catch myself by falling on to my bed. "Is that the best you've fucking got?" Jack roared.
I flinched involuntarily as his hand shot forward, grabbing me by the hair. Once again I had to fight the urge to cry out. His lips pressed against mine viciously, his disgustingly slimy tongue running along my teeth which I refused to move. I did not want any part of him inside of my mouth!
"Jack, where the fuck are you?" A voice yelled out, causing Jack to let go of me. I stumbled back, attempting to get as far away from Jack as I could.
"In here." Jack called out, smiling as if he'd just won something.
The door fell open as soon as the man touched it, having barely been hanging on after initially being kicked in when the intruders arrived. He took one look at Jack and then at me and asked in utter disgust, "What the hell are you doing?"
"Having a little taste." Jack replied, smugly. I wanted him to die.
The man shook his head, "Why is she untied?"
"We were having some fun." Jack responded, pouting slightly.
"We are not here to have fun." The other man said.
"Oh, I beg to differ." Jack responded.
"Fine, let me rephrase what I just said..." The man snapped, "We are not here to rape anyone."
Jack rolled his eyes. "She didn't say no."
"Come on, let's go. We need to get out of here." The man said, sounding thoroughly annoyed.
Jack stomped a foot, "I'd like to finish with the little girly here."
I felt myself stiffen at the words. It happened upon hearing the words. I didn't even have to think of reacting. My body didn't want him. My mind didn't want him. I didn't want him anywhere near me. "No." The man said, surprising me. What did he care if his sick friend had his way with me?
"Are you really going to stand in my way Mikes?" Jack asked, stepping towards the smaller built man.
"Yeah, I think so." Was the other's confident reply.
I found myself backing away further until my knees hit my bed, causing me to fall in to a sitting position. Did I really want to be in the middle of what could turn in to a fight?
More importantly; Did I really want to be around if Jack was the one that won?
Thankfully it didn't come down to that. Instead Jack backed away, holding his hands up in a sign of surrender. "Sorry man. Let's just drop it."
The other one nodded, "I'll meet you downstairs." He was smaller but gave the illusion of power while the other seemed to be nothing more than a brute. I silently wondered just who was in charge.
As Jack disappeared I held my breath, wondering just what my savior would want for his services. He had after all saved me from being potentially raped by Jack... Would I face the same situation with him?
"Did he hurt you?" The words that passed the man's lips surprised me so greatly that at first I couldn't find the words to respond.
"N-no." I finally choked out, finding myself exhausted by the situation. I never wanted to stand up again. I didn't want to move. I just wanted to curl up and cry.
The man simply stared at me for several seconds, making me increasingly uncomfortable. Finally he spoke again, "Are you ready to go downstairs then?"
Terror gripped me as I prepared myself to stand for what felt like a death walk. Faking courage I asked with a surprisingly steady voice, "What are you going to do to us?"
The man shrugged, "Nothing as long as you cooperate."
Strangely I felt myself believing him. He didn't seem to be bad in the way that Jack was. No, there was still something innocent about him.
"Come on now." He gently placed his hand on the back of my shoulder, urging me to stand on my own. Slowly I did. As I followed him out of the room I hoped we would remain safe through the rest of whatever the intruders had planned.
Cooperation had never sounded like such a struggle before tonight.


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Sea Gull Lighting 9424-12 Black Miniature Recessed Light from the Ambiance Collection
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CARETTA, W.Va. (AP) — A Logan County man faces charges of stealing copper from an idled coal mine in McDowell County.
State police Trooper C.A. Dunn tells the Bluefield Daily Telegraph (http://bit.ly/1eNUD10) that 41-year-old Frank Kovach Jr. of Kistler is charged with of destruction of property, theft, petit larceny and trespassing.
Kovach is accused of taking a section of mine cable from the Roadfork Mine. He also is accused of causing about $2,000 damage to electrical units and about $500 damage to a tram in the mine.
Dunn says a man who was with Kovach fled the scene.
Kovach was arrested Saturday.
The investigation is continuing.
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"Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right." -- Igor Stravinsky
Friday, August 20, 2004
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OK, is there a sillier sport than competitive walking? I mean, walking is what you do when you're too tired to run. Who in the world thought of the idea of walking races? It's like a race to see who can drive their car the fastest with the parking brake is on.
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Top Ten Best (and Worst) Communicators of 2007
Posted By Jeffrey Eisenberg On January 6, 2008 @ 12:55 pm In Offline Persuasion,Online Persuasion,Presentations | 4 Comments
Bert Decker trains executives to communicate [1] better. He's nationally recognized as a persuasive presentation coach and has an impressive client list. Not only is he a friend but we send people to his trainings. That's why his "Top Ten Best (and Worst) Communicators of 2007 [2]" is a must-read.
I'll give you his top three, but you'll have to read the post for the other seven and Bert's analysis.
Top Three Best
1) Gov. Mike Huckabee — What but for communicating would get a presidential candidate so far so fast?
2) Dr. Mehmet Oz — He became "America's Doctor" in one short year, because of his communications (and Oprah of course.)
3) Al Gore — Even if he hadn't won the Academy Award, Al Gore would get the communicator's comeback of the year award.
Top Three Worst
1) Alberto Gonzales — He not only lied, but showed he was lying because of his behaviors.
2) Michael Vick — When you want your public AND the judges empathy, it is not the time to 'gut it out' and put on a stone face.
3) Robert Eckert — The Chairman of Mattel was caught in a toy recall disaster probably not of his making, but 'the buck stops here.'
This is a long post with lots of worthwhile meaty commentary.
Read the "Top Ten Best (and Worst) Communicators of 2007 [2]" for yourself.
P.S. Barack Obama has proven to be an excellent communicator. It's not just what he is saying but how he's saying it that's turning people on. I'm registered as an Independent, and I'm not yet committed to any candidate, but he's making a great case for himself.
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Coco Rocha: Red Again?
While some of us prepare for dark autumnal hair-color transitions (we typically try to go almost black this time of year to better contrast with our olive skin when it takes a turn for the pale and pasty), Coco Rocha is bucking the trend and lightening up instead. The model, who cashed in her brunette locks for a shade of fiery red a few yeas ago before returning to brown, seems to be edging her way into auburn territory. Rocha turned up at last night's WGSN Global Fashion Awards in New York with middle-parted strands that were tinted a ruddy chestnut. It's subtle, but could signal a bigger transition to come (these things take time, you know). Which hue do you think works best for her?
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The book + workshop
Reading the book
before taking the workshop
is a nice way to prepare
for the letter-writing journey
that lies ahead.
It can trigger insights
into your own experience,
while filling you with hope
that you will find peace
in sharing your feelings
with your loved one,
who is now in spirit.
The Book
Invisible Ink: The Journey Beyond Words
by Kathy Curtis
This book is an intimate glimpse into the final chapter of a loving mother-daughter relationship. Through letters written to her mother shortly after her death, Kathy Curtis captured only the crystalline moments between hearing the word 'cancer' for the first time, and the final, deafening silence that descended after the funeral, three months later.
Then a few years later, her mother wrote back.
Creating this two-way conversation helped the author deal with her painful memories, as well as write into being a peaceful space where she and her mother could connect. For the umpteenth time in her life, she was shown the healing force of the creative act, which opened her spirit and gave her profound new insights.
Writing letters to the loved one whose loss we grieve is powerful medicine. In time, it moves us beyond grief to a place of spiritual awe. Reading "Invisible Ink" is a how-to grief manual and a compelling love story, all in one. It is short enough for those whose ability to focus was stolen by their grief, yet long enough to convey the full emotional experience of an illness, a death and a liberating spiritual awakening.
Reactions to the book
"Invisible Ink" is the story of a mother's death from cancer, and a daughter's discovery that they could still communicate after her death. Filled with keen observations and heartfelt longings, "Invisible Ink" makes all those unexplainable things that happen after the death of a loved one seem perfectly normal.
Reading Kathy Curtis' letters to her mother helped me get a clearer sense of knowing what I was experiencing in the early months after my father's death. The letters from her mother transported me, and helped me believe that I can have the same ongoing connection with my dad's spirit.
Jeannetta Holliman
The letters from your Mom speak to the possibility, maybe the reality, of being able to experience sweet hellos across the seeming abyss that is the boundary between this life and the next, whatever that life is--and is to be for all of us.
E.J. Thomas, CEO, Habitat for Humanity, Greater Columbus
Kathy Curtis' experience with her Mother mirrors the reality I see every day, and will help ease the concerns and anxieties most people feel about dying. Invisible Ink will be invaluable to patients before they die, and to their caregivers, as well.
Dr. Warren Wheeler, Medical Director, Nathan Adelson Hospice, Las Vegas
I absolutely loved your book. As a person who has spent much of my life having the honor of caring for people moving from this world to the next, I identified so much with your explanation of the process. Your book was very comforting.
Beth Delamarter, RN, Founding Partner and Administrator, Prestige Care, Inc.
The Workshop
Invisible Ink: Writing Through Your Grief
by Kathy Curtis
This 9-week on-line course helps you safely express what's in your heart after the death of a cherished loved one. Through your own words, the path to healing your grief unfolds. With every letter you write, the peace you seek comes a little closer. As you pour your heart out on paper, the pain of your loss is transformed.
Combining insights about creativity and grief, audio-based guided meditations to help quiet your mind, and a specific topic each week to write to your loved one about, this workshop gives you a roadmap for putting words to - and thereby, healing - the pain of the loss you have suffered.
There are many aspects to grief. Some are shared by everyone. But many are unique to you and the relationship you've had with your loved one. Giving yourself the quiet time to understand your loss and express it to your loved one - even after their death - is like having them there to help you heal.
This program, which is sent directly to your home email address, guides you step-by-step through an important journey that began the minute you knew you had to face your loved one's death.
Reactions to the workshop
I highly recommend Kathy Curtis's 9-week course of dealing with grief. I have used it with my clients and it was very successful. The fact that it is online so that people can work on these letters on their own time is invaluable. I will definitely utilize this resource over and over again.
Linda Erwin-Gallagher, LMFT, CEAP, SAP
A friend of mine died in November from lung cancer. It was very sudden, and rocked my world. Your course 'writing through grief' has been a huge help to me, especially the lesson on IMAGINING WHAT YOUR LOVED ONE WANTS TO SAY. I just wrote - and it was exactly what I needed to hear, and sounded like it came from him...and not me. I really appreciate all of the lessons and look forward to ordering your book.
I found the course very helpful and surprising in some ways, in how it helped me realize what was already inside me, but needed help getting out, to be heard. My husband died over four years ago, so I have already gone through much of my grief and made good progress. But the part I was still dealing with, was moving forward in my life, my new life. I felt extremely sad that I would be leaving my husband behind and going on without him. One of the lessons helped me to see that I had been carrying my husband on my back or shoulders, causing all kinds of tension and stress (I am prone to headaches). Writing helped me to see that my husband is always with me in spirit, always in my heart, and there is no need to feel I have to carry him on my back. I can let him go, knowing he will be with me on my journey in the years ahead, always in my heart. That was a revelation to me, and very freeing. I imagined my husband smiling at me, saying "You finally got it!". :) The course directed me enough, especially with the meditations, to help me reach my inner self and find the learning I needed, to move on. Thank you so much!
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These School Quatrain poems are examples of Quatrain poems about School. These are the best examples of School Quatrain poems written by international PoetrySoup poets
Being the shortest in my high school gym class
Attempts to play basketball brought no success
Broke my finger while trying to catch a pass
Leaping to take balls from tall girls? What a mess!
Always loved football, baseball and soccer too
But in basketball I succumbed to defeat
Just couldn't get into it, that is true
Till Dad took me to see the Miami Heat
Startled he was, watching me jump up and down
Although my enthusiasm was contrived
The cheers of other fans my loud voice did drown
This was the last time I saw my Dad alive
I'm so thankful now that I went to that game
Dad was so grateful for these moments we shared
When I watch basketball now, it's not the same
It was Dad and not the sport for which I cared
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I was born unto this world
A little boy called James
I was just like all the rest
Who in the playground played normal games
I knew my life was in trouble
By the time I reached the age of five
My mother had so many friends
I wondered why I was alive
The kids all used to laugh at me
In my short trousers and bloodied knees
If only they had known
What was going on, in the inside of me
Would they ever know
Why a mother would put you down
And pretend that your not there
As another arrives from out of town
Have they ever wondered
To go to school with clothes unwashed
Sleep on a concrete floor
While your Mother's comfortably sloshed
Do they ever stop and wonder
What happens around them day by day
They can't, because they are young like me
When all they want to do is play
My teens are around the corner
To secondary school I go
I survive and I get wiser
As I intend my life to flow
As we travel down life's highways
When we are born they are seldom written
You know the roads you want to take
For inside you, your internally smitten
You women
Know how to make
The best of what you've got in you
You do it everyday in your life
In school with rules,
Me and my freind have pencil duels;
My evil cat haunts the kids,
While some how opening pickel lids.
In this place,
It's not a race;
Get lots of rest,
For the big tests.
Study all night,
Don't get a fright;
This is just school,
No need to be cool.
Opening the doors to
the old studio I find
A playful capriole
sprinted across my mind
Into a sashay and a glissade
I drifted back
I could hear the teachers
stick go tap.tap.tap
Once a prestigious ballet
school of great poise
Filled with music as our
slippers sounded with noise
The mirrors are cracked
and the floors dusty
Rain soaked wood left the
room smelling musty
The charm stayed behind
as if waiting for me
Spotlighting a ballerina to
The goddess of the sea
The young girl danced
flawlessly then took a bow
Then sashayed off the stage
without a moistened brow
An old battered piano
appeared across from me
Bearing red ballet shoes
like a crimson canopy
Charm embraced her while
honoring her memory
As I looked into the mirror
I saw that girl was me
Carole Cookie Arnold
I will miss all my friends
When school finally ends
Sitting at the lunch table
Telling lots of stories and fables
All the laughing and goofing around
You know to stop when you hear that sound
Then you hush
And start to blush
I will miss these things about Elementary school
All the times we acted like fools
Now its up to the big High school
No more will we act like fools
School bully pushed off with both hands and feet.
With my heart in my throat, I stood up to cheat.
I am a clown with a weapon called pause -
I chased his focus with raucous applause.
I told him, "Feel free to stay or take flight."
I could tell this kid was set for a fight.
Being a sprinter, I went with my feet
and took off running in quick retreat.
I am a pacifist, I love what's quiet
so I dodge the spots where kids often riot.
I'm also a stoolie and finally stopped
to hide in the office and call the cops.
I don't live on the waving sea,
But I wave on land as far as eye can see.
I am the shade from summer's sun,
The shining stock on a hunter's gun.
I'm the match that lights the fire,
Keep me fed and I won't expire.
Use my heat from the hearth so bright,
Warming your cabin on a cold winter's night.
Scoreboard pads and high school notes
Stand in line to get my votes.
Notebook paper is a great invention;
It came from me, need I mention?
The dining room table serves you eat,
Under which you place your feet.
From my cradle a little boy fell,
Who am I, O won't you tell?
A tiny toothpick is not too small,
Nor a telephone pole a bit too tall.
I serve mankind in many ways,
So use me wisely, is my closing phrase.
Running around the playground,
Oh how I wish I could stick around.
Ouch I just fell on the ground,
Oh how I love the sound.
Dissecting frogs,
Checking out different kinds of logs.
There's even jars with baby hogs,
I've even learned about different kinds of bogs.
I like painting lots of flowers,
Maybe for a whole hour.
Once I even drew the Eiffel Tower,
And even a shower.
Math sometimes gives me trouble,
So I go to my teacher on the double.
We work together in our own little bubble,
And she pulls me safely out of the rubble.
By: Rebekah Fry
In Texas, High School Football is king
Every Friday night there's a game
A big event and the stands are full
The games aren't played for fun, they're for fame
In my second year of College life
My High School Football team went to State
I was compelled to go to Baytown
A Championship maybe their fate
So proud was I, my team on the field
In the high school color, power blue
The group of us sitting in the stands
Tyler High fans through and through
Then the Abilene team came on the field
I could feel a big lump in my throat
Man for man they all looked like giants
The front linemen were something of note
From the first snap, you knew things were bad
Abilene's linemen were in control
The whole line of scrimmage moved with them
My team got trampled under their roll
Yes, Trampled would be the word of choice
And it continued throughout the game
Abilene won the Championship
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Advise and Consent (1962)
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February 13th, 20122:04 pm
Gene Tierney returns to the screen after 7 years absence undergoing psychiatric treatment, which probably included recovering from endless caustic comments from Bosley Crowther throughout her career. He never had a nice word for her, ever, and here she sees that Walter Pidgeon deserved better! I wonder if she just rolled her eyes at every NY Times review? Crowther just relentlessly had it in for her no matter what she did. She must have snubbed him at a party as a starlet.
Anyhow, the film is long and talky, leisurely paced -- it plays itself out meticulously, Laughton and Pidgeon yes the standouts (Laughton would die soon after). Here, it's all in the talk and the deliberate observations. Senate subcommittee hearings play themselves out almost in full, the same with debate on the floor of the Senate.
This could quite possibly be the blueprint for every Aaron Sorkin episode of 'The West Wing' that he wrote. Surely he watched this as a kid, mesmerized.
— MarkW, Melbourne, Australia
June 11th, 20119:56 pm
What a difference fifty years makes! Bosley Crowther above complains that this movie depicts Washington as too sleazy and corrupt, betraying the innocence of 1962 when we all loved our President and believed the government to be good and righteous. By today's standards, unfortunately, it all looks tame and mild. Yes, politicians are corrupt and evil, hypocritical, selfish and backstabbing. A plot twist concerning blackmail and -- gasp! -- homosexuality is all filmed in shadows and odd angles, and a scene set in a gay bar circa 1961 seems intended to evoke a hellish den of perversion but is in fact just a bunch middle-aged guys sitting around a bar and listening to Sinatra records. But what a cast! Stars old and new fill the screen, and that's the best part of the movie.
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- Ellen Feig
- Yonkers, NY
- United States
Professor, Bergen Community College
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Can one teach young people to be moral? Is morality something that must be taught in the home? Is it innate?
Currently I am working on a professional development platform focused on teaching college students ethics and morality. Young people seem to be incredibly disengaged from others, have little sense of what it means to be moral, gracious or ethical and don't care. How can we teach morality or is it something that is innate?
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Jan 23 2013: Since most of the so-called "morality" we have today is wrong, false, misused, broken by those who teach it and who have taught it, along with many not even knowing themselves what morality is, what exactly would someone like yourself teach others?
Sounds to me like you believe or might want people to be "gracious, ethical, and what you term moral" in a world where that simply does not pay, benefit them or help because those who have given us these "moral codes" break them every day (for whatever reason) and have rigged the game 100% percent against those who would follow your terms.
What I was taught (lied about) was 180 degrees different from Mark down the street, a few blocks away.
I could tell he was taught something good and I wasn't. I knew by the time I was 3 years old, that I was one totally fucked up human being, even though I had no words to describe, explain or tell anyone with. I also, through some kind of child intuition, knew that I didn't know. If that makes any sense. It's difficult to explain even today.
Today, I make my own morals, my own code.
It really aligns with what I had heard other people say, had read what other people wrote and that was that the true power of life, is that one can do whatever they want to do.
The added feature for me, is knowing today that there is no such thing as karma. That is why the power of life can be so frightening.
Maybe a good place to start would be asking them to attempt to define morality themselves without being the slightest bit brainwashed with any ideas coming from someone else. That would taint the experiment, so to speak.
Some one said, "morals and ethics are not taught." Bullshit. I am empirical proof that they can be beaten into you.
They aren't just hygenically "observed.
Ultimately, no one can tell anyone what their morals are to be. They have a right to work that out for themselves.
If anyone thinks they do, then we are right back to where we are now and how we got here.
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A heavy downpour caught Mahamat Adams as he was making a delivery for a coffee shop on the Upper West Side on Tuesday.
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On Roller Skates in a DownpourBy Michele W. Miller
On Sundays, my 11-year-old sons and I roller skate at the Central Park bandshell. I dance while they basically roll around chatting about video games. On a recent Sunday, we hurried out of the park when it began raining. By the time we reached 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue, rain had soaked us and slickened the ground.
A sudden wind instantly obliterated every umbrella in sight. We reached the far corner of 72nd Street when it gusted even more fiercely, whipping the rain horizontally and throwing one of my sons off his feet. He hung onto a fire hydrant and his brother clung to a low iron fence. Without traction for my wheels on the wet sidewalk, the unremitting wind lashed me to a parking-sign pole (a total embarrassment for a onetime tristate roller-disco champion, now hanging on for dear life).
Then the wind ripped my glasses off my face. They careened across four lanes of traffic and a third of a block up 72nd – like something out of Dorothy's tornado – before crashing to the ground.
When the wind finally let up, we all went across the street and searched. Helpful strangers came out from under the awning where they'd sheltered. But we could find no sign of my glasses. My sons chalked it up as another great adventure with Mom, almost as good as the time we almost fell off a cliff hiking in the Palisades and nearly drowned in riptides on Jones Beach. Luckily, I really hated those glasses.
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An Encounter During a RainstormBy Kate Hakala
I was leaving my office in SoHo the evening of Aug. 1 when the rain began to pour down harder. Having no umbrella, I walked swiftly on Spring Street toward a block I saw mostly covered by scaffolding, joining the queue of unprepared New Yorkers who always huddle under construction to keep dry.
I had on a short skirt that exposed a large cut and bruise on my right knee, a souvenir from a painful sidewalk blunder earlier that week. From the corner of my eye, I caught a man about 30 years old, with blond facial hair and a trim blazer, studying my leg.
He interrupted the quiet of the dry pocket of sidewalk.
"Battle wound?" he asked. I looked up.
"You're scrappy," he continued. He smirked at me, his eyes crinkling. I looked him in the eye and smiled back.
There is only so long we can stay inside the shell of these moments, sheltered by awnings and overhangings and comfortable silences, waiting on a storm we don't know will let up. Without looking back, I stepped into the thick curtain of rain and limped up Broadway.
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Shelter From a StormBy The New York Times
A Soaking to Talk AboutBy Andy Newman
Ladies, gentlemen and children, fold your umbrellas for a moment and take a bow. You have just lived through the fifth-rainiest May day in the modern history of New York and the rainiest day since Tropical Storm Irene battered the city two summers ago, according to the weather historian Steve Fybish.
Exactly 3.02 inches of rain has fallen in Central Park so far today, the National Weather Service said. According to Mr. Fybish's extremely detailed records, this figure was last surpassed on Aug. 28, 2011, when Hurricane Irene brought 3.99 inches.
In the May rain category, Mr. Fybish said, Wednesday has been surpassed by only May 29, 1968 (3.99 inches); May 7, 1908 (3.82 inches); May 14, 1978 (3.38 inches); and May 31, 1940 (3.13 inches).
All this after the driest April since 1963.
Not only that, but 36 years ago Thursday, on May 9, 1977, it snowed.
Isn't weather something!
The View of New York Under an UmbrellaBy Phyllis Doig
This New England winter, I found photos from a weekend trip to New York several years ago when I traveled there to see a show.
Before the show, I went for a long walk, even though it had begun to rain. I quickly learned that you meet more people in the rain. Carrying a massive golf umbrella, I discovered many new friends at every street corner. No one spoke at first; they simply converged.
I spied a young gentleman coming out of church uptown (in a downpour, at this point) who had gotten caught in the rain in his Sunday best. He could do nothing, and simply stopped and started laughing. But when our eyes met, he suddenly straightened up, brushed off the water as best he could, and dashed for cover.
I crossed the street and followed a crowd of a dozen or so well-armed umbrella folk, all marching in the same direction – except for a mom and her half-pint coming the other way. Half-Pint carried her own umbrella, and cleared a path through the dozen simply by holding firm and letting her umbrella make the way. I heard many "oohs" and "ouches" before she came into view. Perhaps because I was last and had time to step away, I found myself simply standing there, laughing.
The show I'd gone to see was a comedy, but I have to say that New York provides enough comic moments just by being itself.
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A Silhouette in the RainBy Sara Felsenstein
It rained as I left work and moved mindlessly through Times Square. The city smelled of damp concrete and food-truck smoke. Colors, caught on raindrops, launched from billboards and splattered messily on the ground.
Rain is a commuter's nightmare. Umbrellas can't shield you from puddles of trash or the angry masses en route to Port Authority. They can't really even shield you from rain.
I turned down 47th Street, a street I've passed hundreds of times going to and from the bus terminal. Tonight, though, I was meeting my family for dinner and a Broadway show.
The city must have known I would stay, because somewhere on 47th Street, it changed. I looked up to see a silhouetted man walking briskly into the night like a character right out of an old film noir. All around him: glossy, reflected light.
The Barrymore Theater awning framed the whole intriguing scene.
My phone lit up with a message: Where are you?
I should have walked faster but instead stopped and captured three images on my camera. In New York, moments that jolt you from the present are rare and tend to happen only when you're alone.
I walked a few yards and opened the door to Trattoria Trecolori, where the maître d' knew at once who I was, smiled almost surreally and then led me upstairs to my family's table. Here, it was warm and dry and smelled of fresh garlic. I peered at the menu but my mind was still on that spot outside, on that shadowy, ageless man walking past the theater.
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Dancing in the RainBy John Barrow
A late July evening, 2010. My young Czech friend Pavel, who never travels without a huge camera hanging from his neck, was making his first visit to New York.
I took him to the Sheep Meadow, where he began snapping pictures of the skyline as night fell. The air was heavy and a strong wind rose. Lightning and thunder cracked the air. Almost instantly there was a huge downpour. I remembered the brick hot-dog stand, so we ran for cover. The hot-dog stand had turned into Le Pain Quotidien, and we joined a growing crowd of refugees from the storm, huddled on the covered patio.
Quite a mixed crowd — lithe blond women, Latino delivery bikers, muscle men with tiny dogs. The staff of Le Pain Quotidien began to remove the chairs, and it was clear they wanted to close up and go home. But the rain got even heavier. Read more…
Upper East Side, 4:22 P.M.By The New York Times
Lower Manhattan, 1:21 P.M.By The New York Times
Winds and heavy rains hit New York City today, and a piece of public art drew an appreciative crowd near the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street.


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Natascha Mair photographed by Ronnie Boehm Photography.
Anna Nikulina as Phrygia in Spartacus.
They finally put it online (yay). And so I'm working on gifing the entire thing haha.do you pronounce this likefridgeia bc i think i'm naming my kids that
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They were crucial for vaccines against hepatitis A and B. They took part in hundreds of early studies of HIV. And in 1961, two of them were shot into space.
But the role of chimpanzees in medical research is at a crossroads. Last week, the highest scientific body in the land put the issue on trial as a committee of the Institute of Medicine, part of the congressionally chartered National Academy of Sciences, met to deliberate the fate of nearly all of the world's remaining medical research chimps.


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Get ready Captain American fans! The sequel is coming soon! Check out the new trailer for Captain America The Winter Soldier trailer that features loads of kickass fights and more, allowing us fans to really see how incredible the upcoming title will be. The movie provides some better insight to Falcon who has some badass weaponry. And for those who are familiar with the Winter Soldier storyline, you won't be disappointed, cause he seems to be a worthy opponent for Captain America. Make sure to check out the movie when it comes out March 26 in the UK and April 4 here in the US.


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Alexandre Lopouchanski
South Broward sophomore
Wt.: 138; Record: 49-8
Comment: BCAA runner-up; Class 3A district champ; Nova Duals champion.
Chase Singletary
Somerset eighth-grader
Wt.: 145; Record: 38-2
Comment: Was a district and regional champion; won state title for second year.
Kenny Boyd
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Comment: Was a Class 2A district, regional champion and state runner-up.
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Antoine Winfield and the Vikings both had a common goal. They wanted the cornerback to finish his career in Minnesota. But Winfield and the Vikings also wanted to protect themselves.
Winfield, coming off the first Pro Bowl appearance of his 10-year career, wanted to be paid like a starter as long as he was in that role. The Vikings wanted assurances that if Winfield wasn't a starter they didn't have to pay him like a front-line corner. Keep in mind with Winfield having just turned 32 years old, the Vikings were justified to have some concerns about this issue.
The compromise they came to in announcing Winfield's five-year, $36 million ($16.1 million guaranteed) deal on Thursday is an interesting one and could be termed a de-esclator and potentially esclator clause. The verbiage states that if Winfield loses his starting job in 2011 and moves to the nickel role, the following season his salary of $7 million will be cut in half, meaning he will be paid as a top nickel corner rather than a top starting corner. But if Winfield eventually gets the starting job back his salary will jump back up to its previous terms.
What this means is that if Winfield loses his job, the Vikings won't be tempted to cut him because he's making way too much money. And Winfield won't be looking for a raise in either situation because he would be well compenstated for the position he plays. Of course, if Winfield keep the starting spot his salary won't change.
"I haven't seen anybody else with it," Winfield's agent, Ashanti Webb, said when asked about the unique deal.
Said Winfield: "Of course, I'd love to play all five years at cornerback but we'll just see."
This contract took some time to get done and, according to Winfield, talks had started shortly after the season ended. Negotiations broke down for a period in the spring but then resumed. Winfield, however, did stay away from the Vikings' offseason practices.
"It was important for me [to get this done] because I wanted to finish my career here," he said. "It will be my last stop. Usually you see a lot of players when they get up in age go to different teams. That won't happen to me. Once I'm done playing for the Vikings my career will be over."
The Vikings have been extremely pro-active when it comes to their starting cornerback this offseason. Cedric Griffin signed a five-year, $25 million deal that includes $10 million in guarantees in March.
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