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Lake Waramaug a waterfowl attraction
|A lesseer scaup. Credit: Julian Hough
The most numerous species were Canada geese, ring-necked ducks and common mergansers, the latter leading the way with more than 400 scattered about. That may sound like a lot, but Waramuag is the common mergansers capital of Connectiucut. Rafts of several thousand stage there in late fall.
A variety of other species were present in smaller numbers on Wednesday, and as usual a small cove on the east side of the lake attracted the best variety. In addition to small numbers of the aforementioned three species, the loose association floating on the calm water included 45 ruddy ducks, six lesser scaup, three buffleheads and a few mallards.
A small marshy area known as Ash Swamp, which is cut off from the main lake, held more mallards and at least five wood ducks.
There were no signs of other waterbirds such as loons or grebes, but neither would be unexpected. The lake is quite a magnate for all kinds of aquatic species amid the vast stretches of woodland in western Litchfield County.
One other "waterbird" of interest caught my attention with its voice. The fish crow's name suggests its affinity for wet places but of course it isn't what would normally be called a waterbird.
Historically, fish crows have been birds of a more southerly and coastal distribution, but they've extended their range in recent decades both northward and inland. They've pioneered the interior of Connectiuct via the big river valleys, using the Naugatuck River to establish breed outposts in Waterbury and Torrington and the Housatonic to move all the way to Pittsfield, Mass.
They also wander about quite a bit, which accounts for a few of them finding isolated but attractive places such as Waramaug and Bantam Lake.
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I consider better to mean:
- it focuses faster
- it focuses better in low-light
- it is sharper
- it has less vignetting
I have the 35-70mm f/2.8D and am considering upgrading to the G.
I only have the 35-70mm on crop, but considering the following:
Low light performance should be the same, considering the same maximum aperture.
I would say the 24-70 is a better lens (for some values of better).
It seems like, on paper, the 24-70 is better than the 35-70.
But consider the price: $1500-ish vs. $500-ish.
For me, as a non-professional, the price difference is well worth the sacrifice for what still is a great lens.
You can see a good comparison between the two lenses at Ken Rockwell (Review)
His summary is
Of the sharpness of the 35-70 he says
On the other hand you should see the SlrGear.com review of 24-70 lens
The results are singularly good. This is an outstanding lens.

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ANDERSON, S.C. – After claiming its first series win last weekend against South Atlantic Conference foe Carson-Newman, Anderson University baseball seeks a busy upcoming week with five games in six days, beginning with a midweek contest on Tuesday at GRU Augusta. First pitch from Lake Olmstead Stadium is set for 3 p.m.
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Facing a disappoint start to the 2014 season, tallying six straight setbacks, AU is winners of three of its last four, including capturing 2-of-3 from Carson-Newman, which entered the weekend at the conference leader. For the series, the Trojans posted 23 hits for 15 runs, capped off by an eight-run performance in the final game of the series as AU knocked off C-N, 8-2.
Preseason All-SAC Second Team honoree, junior Landon Beck, shined on the mound for the weekend, earning his first save of the season on Friday night and followed with a complete game victory over the Eagles in the rubber game. For the three-game set, Beck struck out 13 Eagles in eight innings pitched while not giving up a walk. On the young season, Beck has tossed 11 innings recording 19 strikeouts.
Entering the weekend with a .130 batting average with a double, junior middle infielder Brett Cash capped off the series with the Eagles with a 2-for-3 performance with a two-run home run and a two-run double to propel AU to an 8-2 win. Posting four hits for the weekend was senior outfielder Josh Hickman and sophomore first baseman Steven Cooper, as the tandem combined for four runs scored and four RBI.
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GRU Augusta, formerly Augusta State, enters Tuesday's game with a 4-6 overall mark, beginning the season dropping 2-of-3 to Carson-Newman. Since that weekend, the Jaguars are 3-4 coming off a series loss to Peach Belt Conference member Armstrong last weekend. Tuesday's meeting will mark the first time GRU Augusta has been at home since the home series with C-N.
Offensively, Jeff Rice leads the team with a .448 average (13-for-29) with four doubles, four RBI and seven runs scored. His impressive start to the season ranks him ninth in the PBC in average and eighth in doubles. Bradley Dennis and Hunter Boose join Rice combining for 26 hits, 10 runs scored and 13 RBI.
On the hill, Kip Custer carries a 1.42 ERA with a 2-1 record in three starts. Custer has tossed 19 innings and has struck out nine and holding hitters to a .264 average. Fellow starter, Frank Warren, is 1-0 in three starts for the year, joining Custer with 19 innings pitched and nine strikeouts.
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Last season, the Trojans split the season-long series with the Jaguars, as the teams protected their home fields with wins. Anderson notched a convincing 13-2 win over then-Augusta State on Feb. 14, 2013, while the Jags posted a 9-5 win in the Peach State on March 19, 2013.


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Contra Sirico (Part 3 of 3)
A similar lack of subtlety is apparent when we turn to a more direct attack on the shortcomings of "socialism" as Sirico understands it:
(T)he pope has put the problems of economics exactly in the right light: the practical issue that needs to be settled within the framework of a sound morality and understanding of human nature. Socialism fails for a precise and practical reason: It has no system for pricing factors of production to make economic calculation possible. Prices come from the exchange of the very private property with which socialism dispenses.
And yet the moral problem with socialism is more profound: It exalts theft as an ethic and overlooks the human right of freedom. (italics added)
In reality, the issue that Benedict addresses in the passage quoted in Sirico's text never mentions a "system for pricing factors of production," or anything remotely like it. Instead, he makes the common criticism against Marx, contending that his vision didn't make concrete predictions about the specifics of a post-capitalist society. Where Sirico (and perhaps Benedict as well) go wrong is here: The reality, as devastating as it is, is that above and beyond Marx's understandable reluctance to (as he put it) "write recipes for the cookbooks of the future," the democratic socialist experiment has done profoundly well according to almost all standards of human welfare: per capita GDP, productivity, educational status, social mobility, measures of happiness, rankings of infant mortality, health care coverage, life expectancy… need I go on? In contrast, the post-neoliberal United States scores at the very bottom of many of these measures.
Particularly egregious on this score are measures of infant mortality:1
When we look at infant mortality in particular, Sirico's comment about "theft as an ethic" has unfortunate ironic resonances; to be blunt, under conditions of minimal state protection for vulnerable lives, in a libertarian world of every man for himself (the gender is intentional, believe me), the weak are forgotten and infant lives are stolen. Democratic socialist states haven't "dispensed with" private property, except on the pages of polemics by economists like Hayek. Nor does Sirico's economistic nonsense about the absence of a "system for pricing factors of production to make economic calculation possible" make any sense here: democratic socialist states have reasonable costs for many of the things that matter most, such as health care. When a visit to the doctor is free or at minimal cost, no one has to declare bankruptcy for being sick. When a new mother has a state-mandated and protected year for maternity leave, the talk about "the human right of freedom" sounds painfully out of touch.
One can argue against Marx for his "materialism" as Benedict does, and yet the brutal reality is that libertarianism engages in an equally reductionistic, abstract, and unrealistic perspective onto the human condition. What does the obsession with private property or "the human right of freedom" disclose about the intimacy between a mother and her newborn baby? The reality of family and social and political life is infintessimally more complex than a formulaic conception of private self-interest. Recognizing this to be the case, and acknowledging that democratic socialist states have done a better job of protecting their citizens from the raw forces of globalization isn't advocating for a particular stance.
It is telling the truth, however.
Acknowledging that truth on Sirico's part would mean a recognition that markets are nothing more than mobilized secularity, completely indifferent and agnostic as to deeper moral questions. Sure, it is the case that a well-informed and morally-grounded public might push market forces in a positive direction, but an awareness of that fact is at least as old as Tocqueville's observation about the power of civil society on public opinion. To presume that the causal direction of moral influence moves in the other direction – that is, that the "conveyor belt" of morality comes from markets and deeply informs our lives as moral agents – is to ignore the profound way in which civil society has been disrupted and dislocated by market forces. It is to categorize that dislocation as sensible and just, and even worse, perhaps even God's will. It is to make an idol out of a secular institution. This may be not only "heretical" in a theological sense as Finn rightly points out – libertarianism at its core is nothing but a secularized attempt at theodicy, applied to market forces – it may commit heresy against the otherwise rich but endangered tradition of conservative thought itself.
1 Original source for the graph above: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/01/09/graph-of-the-...
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The last four countries in that liste are Australia, the UK, Canada, and the US: speaking English is (highly?) correlated with high infant mortality.
typo: liste -> list
I could correct it if only I could edit
Very clever to posit an English language correlation with high infant death rates. While we laugh, maybe we can forget that even at the bottom of the pile there remains a significant difference between our English-speaking country and the other three.
Great piece overall! I am always inspired when I read articles like this and wonder ... what can I or we do in my community
Interesting to see Finland on the list of low mortality rates; partly from a heritage point of view as my mother is Finn and that was her first language. I also live in a city that has the highest populations of Finns outside of Helsinki.
On the economic front, Finns were highly invested in the co-operative movement when it came to banking (credit unions are the preferred form), groceries, etc.
As a Catholic community, I wonder if we would be well served to support alternative economic and social programs in the form of various co-operatives. I notice that they are losing popularity even in the last 20 years in my community where there has been a historic support for co-ops. Globalization is having its effect. We have walmarts, superstortes, etc.
Catholics in Canada historically experimented with the co-operatives in the early 1900's.
Wonderful stuff! That you would try so earnestly to use reason and compassion to counter the nonsense of those with a compulsion to speak at length using neither is admirable. Stalin and his crew were no more communist than Hitler and his crew were socialist. Capitalism is a purely economic model and has no soul whatever. It is based firmly on the notion of profits. Earthly profits. Christianity is a purely religious model. It based on the life of Christ. Without the recognition of a soul such a belief provides it has no purpose other than yet another well intended, charitable organization.
In as much as some clearly find no real value in defining a clear and necessary separation between an economic model and a religious model one is left to wonder what specific price they place on a soul. One is also left to wonder what world they inhabit that allows them not merely to believe but to preach a near sermon suggesting trickle down charity is all we need. .
I do so wish these people with their grand delusions would spend less time redefining so many words so important to our understanding in order to fit whatever dream of glory consumes them at the moment. Pulling an adjective out of the hat and throwing it in front of a noun may well modify its meaning in a particular sentence but it does not altogether change its definition. Good greed does not exist.
"The reality of family and social and political life is infintessimally more complex than a formulaic conception of private self-interest." You mean "infinitely" - an infinitesimal is what you get when you divide a finite amount by a number approaching infinity - i.e., an amount approaching zero (which is not what you mean).
Even "infinitely more complex" will give unnecessary pause to a reader who expects words to have reasonably clear meanings, at least in expository writing. Just say "far more complex" or an unmodified "more complex," and let the reader get on.
Even "infinitely more complex" will give unnecessary pause to a reader who expects words to have reasonably clear meanings, at least in expository writing. Just say "far more complex" or an understated and unmodified "more complex," and let the reader get on.
Ok, I'll play devil's advocate.
Note that the numbers in that bar chart are infant deaths per 1,000 live births. If the x axis was scaled from 1 to 1,000, I would think that the differences between the various countries listed in that chart would be difficult to discern with the naked eye - it would suggest that, in fact, the US is in the same ballpark as those other countries.
For an actual visual of what I'm describing, check out this map of the world. Note that all of the countries listed in the original post's bar chart, including the US, are the same color - they are all considered to be in the same (the best) category. Unfortunately, that is not the case for many other countries, comprising, presumably, the majority of the world's population. Here are infant mortality rates from the other end of the spectrum (source here):
Burkina Faso
Central African Republic
I trust it's clear that the x axis would need to be re-scaled to include these countries in the bar chart.
I note, too, that the list of countries contained in the bar chart in the original post is curiously incomplete: it omits Bermuda, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau, Anguilla and Belarus, among others, all of whom do better than the US and who also do better than some or virtually all of the European and developed-world countries on the list in the bar chart. Now, I know nothing about the health care delivery arrangements for any of these countries. They may reinforce the point that I suppose that bar chart up in the original post is supposed to insinuate - or they may complicate it.
What causes infant mortality? According to Wikipedia, the strongest correlation is the infant's birth weight. To the extent that the US lags the other countries in that bar chart, the supposition is that more of our infants are born underweight. Why do we have so many underweight babies? The leading cause is preterm birth (i.e. the baby does not make it to full term before delivery). According to the Wikipedia article, citing a NY Times article as its source:
Even though America excels past many other countries in the care and saving of premature infants, the percentage of American woman who deliver prematurely is comparable to those in developing countries. Reasons for this include teenage pregnancy, increase in pregnant mothers over the age of thirty five, increase in the use of in-vitro fertilization which increases the risk of multiple births, obesity and diabetes. Also, women who do not have access to health care are less likely to visit a doctor, therefore increasing their risk of delivering prematurely.
Perhaps some of those factors would be amenable to improved outcomes by nationalized health care, or by some sort of semi-coordinated system like Obamacare. We will find out, I suppose, over the next few years. My expectation is that Obamacare's ability to improve these factors is marginal (which is not to say it is nothing; a marginal change can be a large change). My hunch is that there are cultural factors that separate the US from countries with better outcomes (e.g. I would bet that our birthrate also is higher than most of the countries on the list in the barchart), and those cultural factors may resist improvement via central government programs.
Please don't construe anything I've written here to suggest that I'm insensitive to the death of infants. I'd think that infant mortality might actually be an issue that would unite Left and Right in the US; nobody is in favor of an already-born infant dying. That the issue of infant mortality isn't on the national political radar may be suggestive - it may suggest that it's not perceived to be a major problem in the US. The map I've linked to above reinforces that suggestion.
I trust it's clear that the x axis would need to be re-scaled to include these countries in the bar chart.
Not at all. The US should be compared to countries that are comparable to it.
Q: Among the 13 countries that have a higher GDP per capita than the US and the 33 that have a GDP per capita less than the US but at least half of the GDP of the US, $39800, which ones have a higher infant mortality rate?
A: Qatar and Brunei for the first category, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar and the British Virgin Islands, Greenland, St Pierre et Miquelon, the Bahamas, Turks and Caico Islands, Oman, Bahrain, Cyprus, the Seychelles, Saudi Arabia, and Barbados for the second category.
Removing countries with population less than 1 million leaves: Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Cyprus, and Saudi Arabia.
Not at all. The US should be compared to countries that are comparable to it.
Perhaps I misunderstood the point of the bar chart, but I took the implication to be that those other countries were all dissimilar to the US - we're invited to assume that they are all social democracies and the US isn't - and that that difference accounts for the alleged lag of the US compared to all those other countries.
Also - as I noted, Hong Kong and Singapore (and a number of others) were, without explanation, omitted from the bar chart, even though their outcomes are better than the US's (and most of the other countries listed on the bar chart). How is it that France and Sweden are comparable to the US, but Hong Kong and Singapore are not comparable?
the democratic socialist experiment has done profoundly well according to almost all standards of human welfare: per capita GDP ...
According to these IMF numbers, of the countries listed on the bar chart, the US is second-best in per capita GDP. Only Norway does better (by quite a bit, by the way), and of the rest, only Switzerland comes within 10 percentage points of the US.
I also tried to look at unemployment numbers - a measure of economic/social well-being that, while not mentioned in the original post, is widely considered to be a basic measuring stick. I wasn't able to find apples-to-apples unemployment figures for the countries listed on the infant-mortality bar chart, but this table did provide unemployment figures taken sometime in 2012 for all of those countries, except the US. If we peg the 2012 US unemployment rate at 7.9%-8%, then the US is somewhere in the middle (if your glass is half full) or in the bottom half (if your glass is half empty).
Norway seems to outscore us pretty significantly in a number of measures; one wonders why the VIkings were so eager to leave. :-)
Btw, I think maybe our comments are now being listed in chronological order?
One interesting counter-argument worth considering is that the democratic socialist countries are free-riding on the technological advances generated by countries with more cutthroat versions of capitalism: http://economics.mit.edu/files/8172
Jim P. --
Rick Steves TV travel program last night was about Norway. Fascinating. A very beautiful country, but life there has always been extremely hard, and that's why so many came to America. It seems that they survived there by emphasizing cooperation with their small groups, not by rugged individualism in a rugged place. Hmm. Quite a recommendation for the crunchy con way of life, no?
Love those 1000-year-old wooden churches!
It really is unconscionable to be laissez faire capitalist. Modified capitalism works best. There are plenty of items in the news to clearly see that greed is runaway in this country. Believe it or not getting a colonoscopy is not necessary. But while Doctors absolutely recommend it the costs are astronomical compared to other developed countries. The busines of health care is the problem. In Iraq, China which is not subject to the tyranny of shareholders is able to buy more oil at a higher price. The motivation is to stimulate the economy mind you. Not to increase the wealth of Exxon Mobil and the hedge funds. Even Google, with the publication of the "New Digital Age" is in imperial mode. So much for "do no harm." The prodigious example of Capitalism needing a moral component is the crushing of the Middle Class in this country. Arthur Ryan in the 90s, then at Chase, fired 5000 people just to please a Mutual Fund Company. He then went to Prudential Insurance and baracuded a company once congenial to employees. The same for many other compaines.
The rich man will still have a most diffiult time entering heaven. Especially if he is not concerned with the downtrodden. No question the Archdiocese of NY is concerned with its 187 million renovation of its stone edifice, symbol of an Empire Church.
It seems that they survived there by emphasizing cooperation with their small groups, not by rugged individualism in a rugged place. Hmm. Quite a recommendation for the crunchy con way of life, no?
Ann - at the very least, it seems to be another refutation of Libertarianism!
Professor Geroux (may I call you Robert?) - I understand that the point of your posts is not to criticize the status quo in the US so much as to illustrate the shortcomings of libertarianism (and it's made for some thought-provoking reading). I don't consider the US to be essentially libertarian, and I'm wondering if you agree. Also, I'd like to understand your point of view on this: even though the term Democratic Socialist isn't really in our domestic political lexicon, do you consider the US center-Right / center-Left governance of the last 50-60 years to be fundamentally different in its view of government's role in caring for its citizens than that of some of the European developed-world nations (France, Norway, Germany et al)? It seems to me that it's more a difference of degree: we all have public educaiton but theirs might be more centrally coordinated, funded and measured; we all have government-sponsored health care, but theirs is more universal; we all have social insurance, but theirs is more generous; we all have unemployment protections, but theirs are more generous to workers; etc.
Btw, I think maybe our comments are now being listed in chronological order?
Did you hit "reply"? If so then yes, they follow chronological order, and that would be a big plus. Almost big enough to make up for the reversal of policy on self-edits.
Hi, Claire, yes, I did hit reply, possibly even the reply to the correct comment :-). So I think it is chronological now.
To clearly see particular excesses of Capitalism one merely needs to look at the present real estate "boom" which is being driven by hedgefund investors who are buying up blocks of real estate artificially raising prices so the ordinary person cannot afford to buy. This is worse than the schoolyard bully or the mugger in the street. Like the woman said: "A mugger just takes what you have in your wallet.. Wall St takes your life savings or your ability to afford housing. This is certainly comparable to a monopoly and should be regulated. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/behind-the-rise-in-house-prices-wall-street-buyers/?hp
So all you supporters of a completely free market, get your consciences in order and protest this kind of carpetbagging.
Ann - this comment couldn't possibly be more off-topic, but thought you might be interested in this article, "Who is the worst philosopher?" :-)
So let me ask: why is the "edit" feature no longer available?
Thanks for the fun article, Jim P. (I guess I'd have to say Hegel. But that's another thread on another blog :-)
Ann - during a car ride, I mentioned the article to my daughter, who is taking an undergraduate intro-to-Philosophy course at present. Her vote is Descartes. Mine is Neitzsche, although if John Ruskin were in the pantheon, I'd switch up my vote. Both our criteria were, "hardest slog to read, yielding the least edification".
I read several volumes of Nietzsche a few years ago (sideline to a research project I'm working on). He strikes me as a brilliant ranter--much more prone to asserting than actually constructing arguments. I think that if he were alive today, he might make an interesting talk radio personality--though I'm not sure he'd keep sponsors long. If you disliked the groups he was savaging (Christians, the bourgeois, most other thinkers), he'd be great fun; if you belonged to one of those groups, he would be enraging. As memory serves, he tended to savage almost everyone, so perhaps his fan base would be too small.
Jim and Kevin --
Yes, I can see a vote for Nietzsche. Oh, he was smart, but an out-of-control adolescent enjoying stamping his foot and throwing things. I tried reading him, but I just find him too unattractive as a human being to take him very seriously. And he was literally crazy, at least at the end.
I admire Descartes muchly. Brilliant, original, rightly influential, but not good enough to answer all his own great questions. I LOVE Ruskin on drawing. What can you possibly have against him? Besides his inventing the welfare state. :-)


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Close Tweet0 Share0 Comment0 Share0 Share0 Stumble It0 Print0 More Campus Union Twitter roundup: New Year's Day Laff Riot by hollyandersonsi Email Posted: Tue Jan. 1, 2013 The story of one afternoon in college football's postseason, as told through social media:Our remedy is SMASH MOUTH FOOTBALL. But also try some CARROT JUICE. RT @optoloper: I need your best hangover remedy. It's for a friend.— Capital One Bowl (@CapitalOneBowl) January 1, 2013Recipe for attendance disaster at the Heart of Dallas Bowl. 11 a.m. New Year's kick. Lopsided matchup. Big OSU hoops game on Mon. Then rain.— David Ubben (@davidubben) January 1, 2013Depends, what time does it start? RT @lakebuenavista: Will you be watching the @capitalonebowl today? bit.ly/TKn0TC— Capital One Bowl (@CapitalOneBowl) January 1, 2013First mistake of the day by Boilers RT @carminjc: #Purdue wins the toss and defers to 2nd half. Cowboys to receive.— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) January 1, 2013The tax staggered into the street, bleeding from his chest, as the Taxslayer threw a bloody knife into the gutter and ran.— Bobby Big Wheel (@BobbyBigWheel) January 1, 2013@andy_staples I KNOW WE'RE DOOMED WHY EVEN PLAY THE GAME— mgoblog (@mgoblog) January 1, 2013We're all Team Cheese Fries. RT @bama_man_judd: No kidding who is team Aussie Cheese Fries?— Andy Staples (@Andy_Staples) January 1, 2013I don't remember voting this guy President of the Outback— Chris Driver (@Jerkwheatery) January 1, 2013@jasonkirksbn It's through a wardrobe in an English country house— Geoff (@TheBadOne) January 1, 2013Mike Tirico advises viewers to "be patient" with Michigan's Outback Bowl uniforms.— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) January 1, 2013NEWRELPH TO PURPLEBUMPHIS— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) January 1, 2013SMART GUY INTERCEPTION— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) January 1, 2013The kid trying to recover in EZ for Georgia looked as if he was trying to grab a pile of mercury.— Ralph D. Russo (@ralphDrussoAP) January 1, 2013Say. Our. Name. RT @btntomdienhart: A #Huskers win in @outbackbowl easily would be biggest of day for #B1G.— Capital One Bowl (@CapitalOneBowl) January 1, 2013Jarvis Jones plus Taylor Martinez really is a collision of two of the very finest chaos agents— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) January 1, 2013Remember when Mike Gundy went onside while leading by like 49-0? He just called a throwback pass up 35-0— Jason Kirk (@JasonKirkSBN) January 1, 2013Would it be practical to track a statistic like "holding penalties drawn" for guys like Clowney? As Gruden says, a flag is basically a sack.— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) January 1, 2013Hide ya wife, hide ya ACLs RT @pistolsguy: Gundy is taunting Purdue fans by playing all these QBs.— Smart Football (@smartfootball) January 1, 2013Northwestern has TaxSlayed the bowl drought, folks. Congrats to @coachfitz51 and the team. First 10-win season since 1995 Rose Bowl team.— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) January 1, 2013I would play for Pat Fitzgerald. He would regret having me on his team, but I would play for him.— Dayn Perry (@daynperry) January 1, 2013Nebraska emerged from the locker room in gas form and have continued to move this fast through the early third quarter twitter.com/CapitalOneBowl…— Capital One Bowl (@CapitalOneBowl) January 1, 2013Q: Is there an infinite plane? A: Theoretically, yes. Q: Can Connor Shaw run sideways on this plane? A: Yes.— edsbs (@edsbs) January 1, 2013A Michigan Man only requires 9.8 yards for a first down.— Matt Hinton (@MattRHinton) January 1, 2013First down.twitpic.com/brm6x4— Chris Mottram (@ChrisMottram) January 1, 2013Jesus Clowney Christ!— Bunkie Perkins (@FOTProgram) January 1, 2013Jadeveon Clowney: "Fixed that for you."— Alex Nobert (@alexnobert) January 1, 2013If you believe in football gods balancing the scales, they just issued the angriest possible corrective in the Outback Bowl.— Mobutu Sese Seko (@Mobute) January 1, 2013Best part of that Clowney play was how far the RB's helmet went flying. At least 5 yards. Helmet didn't just fall off. It went AIRBORNE.— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) January 1, 2013I like the way Clowney just plucked the football up off the ground like, hey, this might be that guy's spleen.— @BarkingCarnival (@BarkingCarnival) January 1, 2013I want an ESPN 30 for 30 that is only about that one Clowney play.— thejuiceisgood (@thejuiceisgood) January 1, 2013I think Clowney could pick me up by my head with one hand.— Kaitlin (@kaitlinwithani) January 1, 2013Jadeveon Clowney killed a man, then PALMED THE BALL. Holy GIF sbn.to/Vr0xH6— Brian Floyd (@BrianMFloyd) January 1, 2013Connor Shaw on 4th and 3 could mean literally anything. He might turn into a flowerpot mid-play.— edsbs (@edsbs) January 1, 2013Important: Connor Shaw is considered the toughest guy in his family, over a guy named Jaybo who ran the triple option.— Steven Godfrey (@38Godfrey) January 1, 2013It's mentally tiny to draw any meaningful conclusions from arbitrary one off exhibition games. Base it on arbitrary *championship* games.— Luke Zimmermann (@lukezim) January 1, 2013First thought after the win: in #TDKR Batman when Catwoman disappears as he's talking, "So that's what that feels like."— Bo Cisek (@DaDoze55) January 1, 2013Happy New Year. Love, College Football — SB Nation (@sbnation) January 1, 2013 More Campus Union


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WINGATE, N.C. – Unable able to avenge an earlier season loss, Anderson University women's basketball dropped its 10th game of the season with a 91-73 setback at South Atlantic Conference-leading Wingate Saturday afternoon at Cuddy Arena.
With the loss, the Trojans fall to 12-10 overall and to an even 8-8 mark in league play, while the Bulldogs won their seventh game out of their last eight and continue to lead the conference with a 12-4 mark. Overall, Wingate is 16-4 and claim both games against the Black and Gold this season.
For the game, Wingate, which led the entire afternoon, shot 51.7 percent from the floor (30-for-58), the highest total Anderson has faced all season. From behind the 3-point line, the Bulldogs shot 62.5 percent (5-for-8) as starting guard Shelby Tricoli went 2-for-2 from behind the arc en route to her 10 points in 31 minutes. Leading WU in the point category was two-time SAC Player of the Week Kayla Harris with a game-high 29 points and 12 rebounds after shooting 10-for-14 from the floor.
Fellow forward, Janitsha Williams, poured in 21 points and pulled down eight rebounds as the Harris and Williams tandem combined for 50 of Wingate's 91 points.
Anderson was led by freshman guard Heather Jankowy, who scored 19 points, marking the seventh time in AU's last eight contests she has scored in double figures. Jankowy finished the contest going 5-of-8 from the floor including hitting three 3-pointers.
Also hitting three treys was junior sharpshooter Lesley Woods, as the Raleigh, N.C. native closed the game with 10 points, joining classmate Sierra Simpson who also notched 10 points. Junior Jasmine Franklin was a point shy of totaling double digits, finishing with nine points and five rebounds. Sophomore Jennifer Monroe grabbed a team-high seven rebounds for the afternoon.
As a team, the Trojans shot 40.7 percent (30-for-58) from the field and ended 8-for-20 (40 percent) from 3-point range. Despite the loss, AU recorded its highest free throw percentage of 73.9 percent since going 9-for-11 against Queens on Jan. 25.
"We ran into a really good Wingate team today," Anderson head coach Jimmy Garrity said. "They shot the ball extremely well today. Harris was impressive and we didn't have an answer for her."
From the opening tip, Wingate began the second meeting between the teams this season strongly, jumping out to a quick 7-0 lead, forcing an Anderson timeout. Following the break, the Trojans eventually cut the WU lead to just one by going on a 6-0 run beginning with Woods' first 3-pointer of the contest.
The Wingate attack answered the Trojan spurt with its own, increasing its lead with a 7-0 run, bringing the score to 16-8 with under 14 minutes left in the opening half.
The Bulldogs grabbed their first double-digit lead of the game when Harris dropped in two of her 12 first half points with a lay-in, taking the score to 25-14 at the 7:39 mark. With the momentum favoring the home side, WU eventually captured a 15-point lead with less than two minutes to play when Tricoli buried a 3-pointer, moving the score to 38-23.
After Simpson scored a traditional 3-point play with just over a minute left in the first half, Williams answered the 3-points with her own traditional 3-point play giving Wingate a 41-26 lead at halftime. The double digit deficit was AU's largest it has faced going into the second half this season.
The Trojans would only come as close as eight, twice, in the final half as the conference leaders shot 51.9 percent (14-for-27) from the floor and made 20-of-26 from the free throw line in the second half. With the score differential reaching as high as 22 with less than four minutes to play, the fouls began to rack up for AU, as the Trojans finished the contest with 30 personal fouls with Simpson fouling out for the first time this season.
"I was proud of our effort in the second half, we never gave up," Garrity said. "We will learn from this game as we prepare for Wednesday."
With the loss, Anderson dropped both matchups with the Bulldogs this year after completing the season sweep a season ago for AU's only wins in the head-to-head series since joining the SAC in 2010-11. With Coker and Catawba both losing this afternoon, the Black and Gold remain in a three-way tie for sixth-place in the conference standings.
Anderson returns home after completing a three-game road stretch on Wednesday when it hosts Mars Hill. Tip-off is set for 6 p.m. as the Trojans seek the series sweep after capturing a 78-71 victory in the Tar Heel State earlier this season.


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I am a SharePoint Developer with +1 year experience mostly working on SharePoint 2007 but very little on SharePoint 2010, Now I got a choice to either learn SharePoint 2010 or start learning SharePoint 2013 and do its certifications when they are available but not sure what would be the best way to move forward.
As always the answer is it depends.
My main recommendation would be that you should learn the product that it's most likely to be able to work with.
SP 2013 is where all the hype is at the moment, but in most companies the use of it is still out in the future.
And from a developer point of view if you know the direction taken in SP 2013 then the difference between learning future proff SP 2010 or SP 2013 is that big if you have a SP 2007 background.
If you stay with SP2010 then my recommendation would be:
If you can pick and choose I'd recommend starting with SP2010 with the focus above and then continue to SP2013, for a long time it'll be an advantage for SP2013 developers with a SP2010/2007 background
My advice - start to learn SharePoint 2013. Most core elements of both products are the same. If you have experience with developing SharePoint 2013 solutions , then you are also capable of maintaining solutions of older versions.
When you start to develop on the new platform, you'll learn the new VS features for packaging, object models (server vs client), Business Connectivity Services and many other features ... a lot of these features are also available in SP 2010 (may or may not in a limited version). Roughly, if you gain experience in SP 2013, you will automatically gain experience in SP 2010 with the addition that you are learning some new features as well, which will give you an advantage.
Knowledge is power :)


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Occasionally and frequently at inconvenient times (in the middle of important Angry Birds games) I get a screen that says:
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phone installed.
Phone is ready for use
I click OK and it goes away, but it always comes back. Is my phone really being updated this often. I doubt it. It always reports the same version, Eclair. Even if it was, I don't want to be notified like that.
How can I stop this?


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"The Listener" centers on Toby Logan (Craig Olejnik, "The Timekeeper"), a 25-year-old paramedic who has a big secret - he's a telepath. Until now, Toby kept his ability hidden, exploring its possibilities only with his longtime mentor and confidant, Dr. Ray Mercer (Colm Feore, "24: Redemption"). As he makes the rounds with his energetic paramedic partner "Oz" Bey (Ennis Esmer, "Young People F*#king"), "The Listener" follows Toby as he tries to help people in crisis, and in the process unravel the truth about his past. While his professional life is in check, Toby's personal life could use its own rescue. And with the help of Detective Charlie Marks (Lisa Marcos, "Diary of a Mad Black Woman") and his E.R. doctor/ex-girlfriend Olivia Fawcett (Mylène Dinh-Robic, "Da Vinci's City Hall"), Toby realizes his gift can help others.
"The Listener" was developed by award-winning Shaftesbury Films and Canadian broadcaster CTV and produced in association with CTV, FIC and NBC. The executive producers include: International Emmy Award winner Christina Jennings and Scott Garvie for Shaftesbury Films; Michael Amo ("Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111"); Tom Chehak ("ReGenesis") and Clement Virgo ("Poor Boy's Game"). "The Listener" is distributed internationally by Shine-Reveille.
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Is it permissible for a married woman to wear a wig if the hair was sacrificed to an idol or foreign deity? There is a temple in India, dubbed the "Richest temple in the World" where pilgrims shave their heads as offerings to their god. This temple supplies the top wig and hair extension manufacturers. If it is not kosher to eat food sacrificed to an idol, is it permissible or not to wear hair sacrificed to an idol since you're not ingesting it?
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The 6 Most Horrifying Ways Hospitals Can Kill You
First of all, DO NOT BE AFRAID TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL IF YOU ARE SICK. Nothing you read in this article is suggesting that it's just better to nurse your horrible infection back to health in the comfort of your own garage.
Still, some absolutely bizarre things can happen to you during your stay. Some of these accidents are rare, some of them, uh, not so much. But all are horrifying. Like ...
#6. Waking Up During Surgery
Being aware but paralyzed during surgery is one of those enduring urban legends that has survived in horror stories and campfire tales forever. Unfortunately, as we've kindly revealed previously, many urban legends happen to be totally true. This is one of them. Welcome to the world of anesthesia awareness.
This is either a training exercise or robot torture.
See, the drug that puts you to sleep (usually nitrous oxide) and the one that prevents you from moving or screaming are two separate things. Anesthesia awareness usually occurs when not enough nitrous is administered, but there's no way the doctors can know that, because the paralysis drug is working like a charm. Did we mention that the nitrous is also the thing preventing you from feeling the surgery? We really should mention that.
Just let us self-administer, you fucking hacks!
Sometimes, the experience is nothing more than a vague, post-surgery recollection of the doctor gathering the nurses around your genitals while laughing and taking pictures. But in almost half of anesthesia awareness cases in which the patient survived to tell the tale, they reported full consciousness and feeling the cold steel cutting into their flesh. One of those patients, Carol Weihrer, is in the unenviable position of knowing what it feels and looks like to have your eye removed, because she woke up during her 1998 procedure. You might say that she had a front row seat.
How worried should you be? Well, they say the chances of waking up paralyzed under anesthesia are about 0.2 percent, but they can rise almost tenfold for higher-risk operations such as cardiac surgery. In case you missed that, the surgeries that are most likely to kill you are also the most likely to ensure that, "So that's what it feels like to have a complete stranger wrist-deep inside of me," is the last thought that ever crosses your mind. In fact, we actually don't know how common it is, because gathering those statistics depends entirely upon how many patients survive to complain about it afterward. And, like many nightmarish experiences, it's thought to be vastly underreported because of sheer trauma.
There are some ways to monitor anesthesia awareness, such as with EEG, which checks brain activity for signs of incomparable horror, but the system isn't perfect. The main problem is with the hospitals that refuse to study the issue or even acknowledge how frequent it is, probably because no one would sign a hospital waiver if it included the phrase "may experience horrors the likes of which you are powerless to imagine."
#5. Being Set on Fire
Look, we're all scared of surgery. When you're being wheeled into that operating room, all that's running through your mind are the innumerable things that could go wrong. But, even at our most paranoid, being set on fire rarely makes that list. Unfortunately, turns out it should.
This happens. A lot.
Don't just believe us. A 2003 report found that approximately 100 surgical fires occur each year in the U.S., which is about 110 more than we are comfortable with. And more recent data suggest that this number may be three times as high.
In fact, there's a whole website dedicated to information about surgical fires, including detailed information on what fire is and how it happens (until now, we assumed it was witchcraft). The site lists no fewer than 36 items in your typical operating room that can just goddamn explode under the right conditions, like alcohol, gauze, ointments and your clothing. You'd better hope you don't go into cardiac arrest, because a good defibrillator blast at the right time can turn you into a screaming fireball. And according to an agency quoted on the site, "virtually all operating room fires ignite on or in the patient." In the patient.
In one reported case, a doctor had just wrapped up gallbladder surgery on Antoinette DePhillipo and smeared her abdomen with an alcohol-based cleaning solution before deciding to do a bit of impromptu cosmetic surgery to remove an unsightly mole. When he brought a hot cautery device against her exposed body, there was a sound that his assistants described as "similar to the lighting of a grill," which is one of the top five sounds we least want to hear during major surgery.
Followed closely by retching and panicked screams.
Fortunately, death is pretty rare (about one or two cases per year), but severe burns to the chest or face, or even serious organ damage, are very common, which you'd expect from being set on goddamn fire. Can we just opt for the leeches instead?
#4. MRI Accidents
We've already outlined how MRI scans are a billion times safer than the more widely used CT scans, but it would be remiss of us to allow you to remain un-terrified by even one of the instruments in your hospital's arsenal. The thing about MRI scans is that, instead of using radiation, they look inside your body using powerful magnets which, in addition to confusing juggalos, don't play nicely with metal objects. Specifically, anything metallic in the room has a tendency to get sucked straight toward your head, as if your face picked a fight with them.
They call it MRI because no one would pay for a Metallic Death Cannon.
The first MRI fatality occurred in 2001, when a young boy was tragically killed after the incredibly powerful magnetic force generated by the machine grabbed a nearby air canister and sent it flying toward the machine like a freaking guided missile.
Yes, that happened.
And it wasn't the first sign that MRI operational policies might need a quick revision -- the machines have made deadly weapons out of chairs, gurneys and even a loaded gun, which apparently fired haphazardly upon impact. According to Dr. John Gosbee, "Close calls in M.R. centers probably happen once a month."
NASCAR has a better track record than that.
Since 2001, hospitals have implemented some policies meant to protect patients from metal projectiles, possibly involving that plastic prison they used to incarcerate Magneto. But that doesn't help you if you have metal on or in your body when you go into the scan -- pacemakers and surgical clips are obvious dangers, but in one case, a welder was blinded when silver dust particles embedded in his eye became superheated by MRI magnets.
"Thankfully, it's pretty easy to just hose the old patient on out of there and towel everything dry."
Experts warn that you have metal in all sorts of unobvious places, including your nicotine patches and even the ink in your tattoos. But surely MRI devices have some kind of fail-safe, right? Of course! According to this source, in an emergency, a rogue MRI scanner can be made to expel its liquid helium, which cools the magnets, creating a frigid blast that can injure anybody nearby and (in at least one case) even blow the ceiling out of the room.


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August 5
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2003
- Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
- selected by Nanobug
- 2004
- Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others. ~ Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
- proposed by Jeffq
- 2006
- Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread... ~ Conrad Aiken (born 5 August 1889)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2007
- There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. ~ Guy de Maupassant (born 5 August 1850)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- Those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (recent death)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
- Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.
~ Wendell Berry ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2010
- 'Tis true, my form is something odd
but blaming me, is blaming God,
Could I create myself anew
I would not fail in pleasing you.
~ Joseph Merrick ~ (born 5 August 1862)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2011
- We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. ~ Wendell Berry
- proposed by Kalki
- 2012
|I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children; who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children; whose work serves the earth he lives on and from and with, and is therefore pleasurable and meaningful and unending; whose rewards are not deferred until "retirement," but arrive daily and seasonally out of the details of the life of their place; whose goal is the continuance of the life of the world, which for a while animates and contains them, and which they know they can never compass with their understanding or desire.
|~ Wendell Berry ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2013
|As soon as the generals and the politicos
can predict the motions of your mind,
lose it. Leave it as a sign
to mark the false trail, the way
you didn't go.
Be like the fox
|~ Wendell Berry ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2014
|If we are serious about peace, then we must work for it as ardently, seriously, continuously, carefully, and bravely as we have ever prepared for war.
|~ Wendell Berry ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2015
|A small but brilliant advance made today by someone's awareness may for the moment reach a very small audience, but insofar as it's valid and beautiful, it will make its way and become part of the whole world of consciousness.
|~ Conrad Aiken ~
- proposed by Kalki
- 2016
- Rank or add further suggestions…
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
- Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~ Wendell Berry
- used 7 November 2004, selected by Kalki
- If I could reach from pole to pole
or grasp the ocean with a span,
I would be measured by the soul
The mind's the standard of the Man.
~ Isaac Watts ~
(poem often used by Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man", who was born this day)
Ranking system:
- 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
- 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
- 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
- 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
- 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
Blond hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men. ~ Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her apartment that day
- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- 1 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:31, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
- 1 ~ Kalki 21:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Separate we come, and separate we go, and this be it known, is all that we know. ~ Conrad Aiken (born 5 August 1889)
- 3 Kalki 21:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
- 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
Far from making peace, wars invariably serve as classrooms and laboratories where men and techniques and states of mind are prepared for the next war. ~ Wendell Berry
One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ~ Neil Armstrong
3 ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC) (or a variant); better to use this on July 21, otherwise it might be confusing to readers. ~ DanielTom (talk) 09:54, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
- 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


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Looking at SQL Server indexed views I see that these views are updated within a transaction that updates dependent tables. I wonder if there is a way around it?
There will be about 10 views with 20 indexes that depend on the same table. I don't want to wait for updating views and indexes on views when I do an update on dependent table. I want to be sure that tables are updated within a transaction and views are updated after in some kind of a daemon mode.


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I came across a thread entitled How To Stop A Developer From Stealing Your Business Idea and i can't help but raise a brow. The issue talks about a developer being able to pass on the idea to another and benefit from it.
As a developer, what is the best way to assure your client that you will not steal his ideas? Are there any practices, laws or anything that takes care of the interests of both sides?
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If you or your child gets sick or injured, your first instinct is to go to the emergency room (ER) right away or call 911. These are good instincts in an emergency, but many people use the ER when it is not an actual emergency. This contributes to long ER wait times, high costs, and unnecessary medical care. Sometimes, using an urgent care clinic may be your best choice, and can help responsibly preserve the TRICARE benefit for future generations of military families.
It can be difficult to know whether an illness or injury is really an emergency, but the judgment is yours to make. If the condition is obviously life threatening, or causing severe pain and distress, then the need for an emergency room is clear. TRICARE views an emergency as a medical, maternity or psychiatric condition you believe could threaten your life, limb or sight without immediate medical attention. Other emergencies include severe, painful symptoms requiring immediate attention, or when a person may be an immediate risk to themself or others.
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Urgent care is when an illness or injury is serious enough to seek health care right away, but not so severe as to require emergency room care. Some examples include earache, toothache, joint sprain, muscle pull or urinary tract infection. You can get urgent care from your primary care manager (PCM), or from an urgent care center if your PCM is inaccessible. Urgent care can be quicker, with a lower cost and better results, compared to a crowded ER that may require unnecessary tests or hospital stays.
Many urgent care centers are open after normal business hours and on the weekend, so you can go at a time that fits with your schedule, or when a health problem warrants. If you have TRICARE Prime, you need to get prior authorization from your PCM or your regional contractor to avoid additional costs for visiting an urgent care center. If you are traveling, you need to contact your home region for authorization. You can find contact information for your regional contactor at www.tricare.mil/contacts.
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YORKVILLE - Martins Ferry and Buckeye Local have similar philosophies on their approach to the game of football.
That's part of why their matchups, over the years, have yielded some entertaining games and allowed the game to become an entertaining rivalry of schools that are just a few miles apart.
"This is always a good game for both schools and communities," said Purple Riders' head coach Dave Bruney. "It's become a game that both teams really look forward to, especially in the last six or so years."
The teams will renew that rivalry Friday night at 7 p.m. at World War II Memorial Stadium when the Panthers celebrate Homecoming festivities.
"We're going to have to fight for every win we get," said rookie Panthers' head coach Phil Pest. "Martins Ferry is a good team and this game is always fun for both schools because most of the kids know each other and will be up for the game."
Both teams got back to their winning ways last week after suffering losses in Week 4. Martins Ferry was an impressive winner against Union Local, while Buckeye Local fended off Edison.
"Our offensive line stepped up, showed some improvement and we were able to rush the ball well," Bruney said. "We're happy with the progress we've made since week one and we hope to continue to make progress each week."
The Panthers, meanwhile, will try to build on an impressive first half, which included an air raid from quarterback Nathan Kirk. In the second half, they were victimized by turnovers, which put the defense in some precarious spots.
"Our defense played well late in the game when we really needed it to," Pest said. "That was definitely a positive for us as was the first half by Nathan Kirk, who I thought played great."
Kirk has been steadily getting better since being inserted into the starting lineup. He's passed for 529 yards and six touchdowns, but he's been picked off eight times.
The Panthers' leading receiver is Shane Duncan with 13 catches for 365 yards and four touchdowns.
On the ground, Austin Marshall and Andy Stock provide a solid one-two punch. They've combined for 431 yards and two touchdowns.
"I am sure Buckeye is pleased with the progress they've made since Week 1," Bruney noted.
"We've got to be able to defend both the pass and the run. I think we've done a pretty good job of that all year, but whenever a team can be balanced, it presents some problems."
The Purple Riders' offense has been balanced in its own right as junior Eric Flowers has taken over the starting duties due to the injury suffered by Tyler Strama.
Flowers has been impressive, completing 44-of-63 passes for 542 yards and three touchdowns.
His favorite target is senior standout Cody Schau. He's made 35 catches for 520 yards and five touchdowns. Senior Robert Vargo has caught 19 balls for 213 yards.
The Riders have employed running back by committee with the likes of Marcus Sutton (52-283-3td), Brandon Laughman (47-309-4td) and Brian Styles, who didn't play last week due to injury.
"They're very impressive, especially along the line," said Pest. "They've had some injuries, but they're very quick and athletic. Plus, Schau is a really talented receiver and they're running some good schemes to get their playmakers the ball."
Bruney expects the Panthers' troops to play extremely physical.
"They use a lot of different stunts and blitzes and they get a lot of people near the ball to stop the run," Bruney said. "Coach Pest has done a good job getting his team on track. They're well coached and their kids work hard at what they're coached to do."


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Spanning Time
March 22, 2013
HERE WE go again. Hope surfaced this week that the Bellaire Interstate Toll Bridge will be finally razed. Benwood and Bellaire residents have heard that refrain all too often and always in vai....
Thanks for the laughs youse two...
Not to make anyone weep, but my friends and carried our bikes up and down those stairs to get to the Hills Dept Store where they sold all kinds of useful bike stuff. Not that we could afford much...{sob} {sniff}
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That bridge is a historical landmark! At least it should be declared a landmark! People of the Valley all have many fond memories of crossing the bridge while sitting in the back seat of their pappy's big old Buick! Stopping to hand the toll to the toll collector, man, those were the days! Real people, not machines collecting tolls! Ahhh, I gotta stop reminiscing, I'm starting to get all teary-eyed and my heart is breaking. WHaaaaaaaaaa sob sob sob ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
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Seems like the "new owners" of the Bellaire Bridge, are just as irresponsible as the "old owner" 8(
What a freakin shame.
If I remember correctly ol Roger had a $1000 a day fine, WHICH NO ONE ever collected.
Maybe Obama, or Ben Lofton will find a solution to this R O F L..........
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Prosecuting Attorney,
Daniel K. Knight
Child Support Unit
The Child Support Program in the State of Missouri is administered by the Department of Social Services Family Support Division-Child Support Enforcement (FSD-CSE). Missouri has enacted laws that allow the Family Support Division to collect child support through wage withholdings, garnishments, unemployment and tax intercepts, and liens without having to file a collection action through court.
Child Support services through the FSD-CSE are available without cost to all Missouri residents and are provided automatically to custodial parents who receive Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) payments for dependent children.
FSD-CSE is the agency that initially handles all cases. If they cannot adequately resolve the issue, they refer the case to the appropriate prosecuting attorney's office. The Child Support Unit of the prosecutor's office only works cases that are referred by FSD-CSE. This office does not have the authority to act without a proper case referral.
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CLIFFORD, Herta E., 92, of Steubenville, Ohio, died Sunday, June 9, 2013, at Catherine's Care Center.
She was born August 29, 1920, in Tilsit, Germany, a daughter of the late Gustav and Martha Reschleit Kaukereit.
Herta was Protestant by faith. She was a press operator at a dry cleaner.
Preceding Herta in death were her husband, whom she married in 1967, Charles T. Clifford who died in 1999; and sister, Irene Karlsson.
Surviving are two nephews, Robert D. (Patricia) Ludewig of Wintersville, OH and Walter (Virginia) Ludewig of Follansbee, WV; niece, Christina Strom of Sweden and many great-nieces and nephews.
Friends may call at Shorac Funeral Home (formerly McClave Funeral Home) 611 N. Fourth St., Steubenville on Friday from 11 a.m. until the time of service at 1 p.m. with Rev. Paul Danielson officiating. Burial at Ebenezer Cemetery, Bethesda, OH.
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PERUN, Paul A., 88, of Toronto, Ohio, passed away Thursday, November 8, 2012, at the Trinity Medical Center-West, Steubenville, OH.
He was born January 5, 1924, in Toronto, Ohio, the son of the late Edward Paul and Anna Snyder Perun.
Paul was a member of the St. Francis of Assisi Roman Catholic Church of Toronto, and A.A.R.P. He served his country during World War II in the U.S. Navy, and he loved to golf.
He retired as a self-employed owner of Paul Perun Accounting in Toronto.
Paul was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Stephen, Anthony and Edward Perun; sisters, Rita Zdinak, Theresa, Sister Geraldine Ann and Anna Perun.
He is survived by his wife, Charlotte Ann Cadegan Perun, whom he married February 2, 1951; sons, William Paul (Jana) Perun of Winter Springs, FL, and Robert Leo "Bullet" Perun of Toronto, OH; daughters, Paula and Ann Marie Perun, both of Toronto, OH; granddaughter, Morgan Perun of Winter Springs, FL; Rose Mary Gooch of Toronto, OH.
Paul's visitation hours will be from 2 to 4 p.m. and from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11, at the Clarke Funeral Home, 302 Main St., Toronto. Additional visitation will be held Monday, November 12, from 9 to 10 a.m. .at the St. Francis Catholic Church, Toronto.
A Vigil Service will be held 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
A Funeral Liturgy with Mass will be held 10 a.m. Monday, November 12, at the St. Francis Catholic Church with celebrant the Reverend Father Thomas Vennitti.
Burial will follow at the Toronto Union Cemetery, where there will be Military Honors by the Toronto American Legion.
Memorial contributions in memory of Paul may be made to the Tony Teramana Cancer Center, 3204 Johnson Road, Steubenville, OH 43952
To view the obituary, sign the guest register or send condolences to the family, go to www.clarkefuneralhome.com


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Serial/Series Title: NACA Special Report
N.A.C.A. Stall-Warning Device
Date: February 1938
Creator: Thompson, F.L.
Description: With some airplanes the approach to the stall is accompanied by changes in the behavior, such as tail buffeting or changes in the control characteristics of the airplane so that the pilot obtains a warning of the impending stall. Vith other airplanes it is possible to approach the stall without any perceptible warning other than the reading of the air-speed meter, in which case the danger of inadvertent stalling is considerably greater. Although it is not within the scope of this paper to discuss stalling characteristics, it is desired to point out that in general the danger of inadvertent stalling is greatest with those airplanes that behave worse when the stalling occurs; that is, with airplanes in which the stall starts at the wing tips. A warning of the impending stall is desirable in any case, but is particularly desirable with airplanes of the latter type.
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Accelerations in Landing with a Tricycle-Type Landing Gear
Date: February 1937
Creator: Jones, Robert T.
Description: In connection with the application of stable tricycle-type landing gears to transport airplanes, the question arises as to whether certain passengers may not experience relatively great accelerations in an emergency landing. Since the main landing wheels are behind the center of gravity in this type of gear, a hard-braked landing will cause immediate nosing down of the airplane and, when this motion is stopped due to the front wheel striking the ground, there will be some tendency for the rearmost passengers to be thrown out of their seats, The provided rough calculations are designed to show the magnitudes of the various reactions experienced in a severe landing under these circumstances.
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An Approximate Method of Calculation of Relative Humidity Required to Prevent Frosting on Inside of Aircraft Pressure Cabin Windows, Special Report
Date: December 5, 1940
Creator: Jones, Alun R.
Description: This report has been prepare in response to a request for information from an aircraft company. A typical example was selected for the presentation of an approximate method of calculation of the relative humidity required to prevent frosting on the inside of a plastic window in a pressure type cabin on a high speed airplane. The results of the study are reviewed.
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Boundary-Layer Transition on the N.A.C.A. 0012 and 23012 Airfoils in the 8-Foot High-Speed Wind Tunnel, Special Report
Date: January 1, 1940
Creator: Becker, John V.
Description: Determinations of boundary-layer transition on the NACA 0012 and 2301 airfoils were made in the 8-foot high-speed wind tunnel over a range of Reynolds Numbers from 1,600,000 to 16,800,000. The results are of particular significance as compared with flight tests and tests in wind tunnels of appreciable turbulence because of the extremely low turbulence in the high-speed tunnel. A comparison of the results obtained on NACA 0012 airfoils of 2-foot and 5-foot chord at the same Reynolds Number permitted an evaluation of the effect of compressibility on transition. The local skin friction along the surface of the NACA 0012 airfoil was measured at a Reynolds Number of 10,000,000. For all the lift coefficient at which tests were made, transition occurred in the region of estimated laminar separation at the low Reynolds Numbers and approach the point of minimum static pressure as a forward limit at the high Reynolds Numbers. The effect of compressibility on transition was slight. None of the usual parameters describing the local conditions in the boundary layer near the transition point served as an index for locating the transition point. As a consequence of the lower turbulence in the 8-foot high-speed tunnel, the transition points occurred consistently ...
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A Brief Study of the Speed Reduction of Overtaking Airplanes by Means of Air Brakes, Special Report
Date: May 1, 1942
Creator: Pearson, H. A. & Amderspm. R. F.
Description: As an aid to airplane designers interested in providing pursuit airplanes with decelerating devices intended to increase the firing time when overtaking another airplane, formulas are given relating the pertinent distances and speeds in horizontal flight to the drag increase required. Charts are given for a representative parasite-drag coefficient from which the drag increase, the time gained, and the closing distance may be found. The charts are made up for three values of the ratio of the final speed of the pursuing airplane to the speed of the pursued airplane and for several values of the ratio of the speed of the pursued airplane to the initial speed of the pursuing airplane. Charts are also given indicating the drag increases obtainable with double split flaps and with conventional propellers. The use of the charts is illustrated by an example in which it is indicated that either double split flaps or, under certain ideal conditions, reversible propellers should provide the speed reductions required.
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The Calculated Effect of Various Hydrodynamic and Aerodynamic Factors on the Take-Off of a Large Flying Boat
Date: June 1, 1939
Creator: Olson, R.E. & Allison, J.M.
Description: Present designs for large flying boats are characterized by high wing loading, high aspect ratio, and low parasite drag. The high wing loading results in the universal use of flaps for reducing the takeoff and landing speeds. These factors have an effect on takeoff performance and influence to a certain extent the design of the hull. An investigation was made of the influence of various factors and design parameters on the takeoff performance of a hypothetical large flying boat by means of takeoff calculations. The parameters varied in the calculations were size of hull (load coefficient), wing setting, trim, deflection of flap, wing loading, aspect ratio, and parasite drag. The takeoff times and distances were calculated to the stalling speeds and the performance above these speeds was studied separately to determine piloting technique for optimum takeoff. The advantage of quick deflection of the flap at high water speeds is shown.
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Characteristics of NACA 4400R Series Rectangular and Tapered Airfoils, Including the Effect of Split Flaps
Date: January 1941
Creator: Greenberg, Harry
Description: At the request of the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, tests were made in the variable-density wind tunnel of a tapered wing of 3-10-18 plan form and based on the NACA 4400R series sections. The wing was also tested with 0.2 chord spit flaps, deflected 60 deg span ratios of 0.3, 0.5, 0.7 and 1.0 respectively. In order to get data from which to calculate the characteristics of the flapped wing, the investigation was extended to include tests of the four rectangular airfoils of the NACA 4400R series (4409R, 4412R, 4415R, and 4418R) with full-span 0.2 chord, trailing edge split flaps deflected 60 deg.
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Comparison of Intercooler Characteristics
Date: May 1, 1941
Creator: Reuter, J. George & Valerino, Michael F.
Description: A method is presented of comparing the performance, weight, and general dimensional characteristics of inter-coolers. The performance and dimensional characteristics covered in the comparisons are cooling effectiveness, pressure drops and weight flows of the charge and cooling air, power losses, volume, frontal area, and width. A method of presenting intercooler data is described in which two types of charts are plotted; (1) A performance chart setting forth all the important characteristics of a given intercooler and (2) a replot of these characteristics for a number of intercoolers intended to assist in making a selection to satisfy a given set of installation conditions. The characteristics of commercial intercoolers obtained from manufacturers' data and of some computed designs are presented on this basis. A standard test procedure and instrumentation are suggested whereby comparable data may be obtained by different testing organizations.
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Comparison of Three Exit-Area Control Devices on an N.A.C.A. Cowling, Special Report
Date: May 1, 1940
Creator: McHugh, James G.
Description: Adjustable cowling flaps, an adjustable-length cowling skirt, and a bottom opening with adjustable flap were tested as means of controlling the rate of cooling-air flow through an air-cooled radial-engine cowling. The devices were tested in the NACA 20-foot tunnel on a model wing-nacelle-propeller combination, through an airspeed range of 20 to 80 miles per hour, and with the propeller blade angle set 23 degrees at 0.75 of the tip radius. The resistance of the engine to air flow through the cowling was simulated by a perforated plate. The results indicated that the adjustable cowling flap and the bottom opening with adjustable flap were about equally effective on the basis of pressure drop obtainable and that both were more effective means of increasing the pressure drop through the cowling than the adjustable-length skirt. At conditions of equal cooling-air flow, the net efficiency obtained with the adjustable cowling flaps and the adjustable-length cowling skirt was about 1% greater than the net efficiency obtained with the bottom opening with adjustable flap.
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Compressibility Effects in Aeronautical Engineering
Date: August 1, 1941
Creator: Stack, John
Description: Compressible-flow research, while a relatively new field in aeronautics, is very old, dating back almost to the development of the first firearm. Over the last hundred years, researches have been conducted in the ballistics field, but these results have been of practically no use in aeronautical engineering because the phenomena that have been studied have been the more or less steady supersonic condition of flow. Some work that has been done in connection with steam turbines, particularly nozzle studies, has been of value, In general, however, understanding of compressible-flow phenomena has been very incomplete and permitted no real basis for the solution of aeronautical engineering problems in which.the flow is likely to be unsteady because regions of both subsonic and supersonic speeds may occur. In the early phases of the development of the airplane, speeds were so low that the effects of compressibility could be justifiably ignored. During the last war and immediately after, however, propellers exhibited losses in efficiency as the tip speeds approached the speed of sound, and the first experiments of an aeronautical nature were therefore conducted with propellers. Results of these experiments indicated serious losses of efficiency, but aeronautical engineers were not seriously concerned at the ...
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