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- Arizona researchers tackle improved heat and drought tolerance in Upland and Pima cotton cultivars with possibly higher yields.
- Three-year-old project called "high throughput phenotyping of cotton" is led by USDA-ARS research geneticist Mike Gore, with technology input from University of Arizona precision agriculture specialist Pedro Andrade.
- Project has potential benefits across the Cotton Belt and in many different crops worldwide, including wheat, rice, and soybeans.
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Precision ag tools
Andrade says precision agriculture tools will play a major role in Gore's cultivar challenge by gathering precise information as the cultivars grow in the field.
Andrade earned his doctorate from the University of California, Davis in agricultural and biosystems engineering. He joined forces with UA research specialist John Heun to outfit a re-designed, high-clearance sprayer with high-tech sensors, GPS, and electronic acquisition instruments.
The unit travels down cultivar rows precisely measuring plant components and interactions before the equipment platform touches the plants.
"Mechanically-powered equipment moves these platforms faster through the plot and covers ground faster than a crew of workers," Andrade explains.
The precision agriculture tools are mounted on the front boom. The equipment includes infrared thermometer sensors which measure canopy temperature, and sonar transducers which scan canopy height.
Active spectral sensors record the amount of light reflected by the plant. A rapid-moving Lidar laser captures the plant's geometry. Three data loggers tally the data into a single mathematical algorithm.
This information is geo-referenced with serial output from a Hemisphere GPS-RTK Outback A320 ultra-precise positioning system. Additional navigation instrumentation from the Trimble CFX-750 provides steering assistance to the rig moving down the plant row and precisely turns the rig around to the next row of cultivars. The unit travels at one mile per hour.
The rig and electronic tools travel through the test plot four times a day – 7 a.m. and 10 a.m.; and 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. The afternoon readings dramatically vary from the morning readings due to extreme heat.
The rig travels through the plot weekly during the cotton-growing season to gather critical data over the plant development cycle.
Andrade says, "This provides a real-time picture of how different cotton cultivars handle heat and drought season long."
The Gore-Andrade team reviews the gleaned information to determine which cultivars better tolerate heat and drought. Successful cultivars are bred together to create the next generation of cultivars for tests.
Part of Gore's effort to generate higher yield despite environmental challenges is generating data on the plant's geometric stature or shape. Gore gathers comprehensive, phenotypic data designed to increase lint yields. Perhaps the plant geometry can be reinvented to spur higher yield.
Gore's rationale is based on his previous job experience in corn breeding. About 30 years ago, corn seed was planted much farther apart than today.
Research on the corn plant's physical structure suggested that a higher leaf angle on the stalk, including the flag leaf, increased the plant's capture potential of sunlight. This revelation ultimately changed the industry. Corn plants today are grown closer and generate higher yields as a result.
The same, Gore says, could be true in cotton.


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Vancouver firefighters have contained a house fire that broke out this morning near the Columbia River.
About 20 firefighters were called before 10 a.m. to the house in the 1000 block of Columbia Ridge Drive. When they arrived, the attic in the two-story home was burning along with the back of the building. A plume of smoke curled into the sky.
It took about 20 minutes to bring the fire under control, said Kevin Stromberg, a spokesman for the Vancouver Fire Department.
No one was home at the time. The home is in an area of single-family residences north of State Route 14 near the Columbia River.
It's not clear what started the fire. Crews are still putting out hot spots and an investigation are underway.
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Academy of the Sacred Heart recently announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2012-13 school year. East bank residents named to the honor roll are:
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Sixth grade: Addie Champlin, Eva Fenasci and Sophia Yarboroughn.
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Seventh grade: Rylan Edwards, Susan Endom, Caroline Martin, Julia O'Dwyer and Victoria Rosinia.
Eighth grade: Carley Bohn, Lauren Broussard, Katy Fenasci and Kaylee Tufaro.


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We report the generation of sub-Poissonian pulses of light by means of traveling-wave second-harmonic generation (SHG) in a type II phase-matched nonlinear crystal. On direct detection, the quantum noise on the output light, which is polarized orthogonally to the input fundamental field, is measured to be below the shot-noise limit by as much as 0.3 ± 0.2 dB (6 ± 4%). We show that the input fundamental-power dependence of the measured Fano factor, direct-detection noise as a fraction of the shot-noise limit, is in qualitative agreement with the quantum theory of SHG.
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STOUGHTON, Mass. (AP) -- A Mississippi man who grew up in Massachusetts goes to great lengths for a good pizza.
About 1,400 miles.
David Schuler returned to Jackson, Miss., last weekend with 150 pies from Town Spa Pizza, a restaurant in his home town of Stoughton (STOWE'-tun), just outside Boston.
It's a tradition he started years ago when he couldn't find a good slice in Mississippi.
He returned with 150 frozen, vacuum-sealed pies. That was a record for him. They cost $1,200.
He made the 16-state trek in 24 hours, munching on Town Spa pizzas he kept on the passenger seat.
Restaurant manager Kerry Hughes tells The Enterprise of Brockton he ships pizzas as far as California and Florida, but Schuler is his best out-of-state customer.
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March 20, 2014, 12:05 am TWN
SYDNEY -- Suspensions to eight players and a controversial NL West-clinching swimming pool incident last season helped expand a growing rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks.
But Dodgers manager Don Mattingly says he doesn't expect any serious animosity to carry over from last year when the teams meet to open the major league season Saturday and Sunday at the Sydney Cricket Ground. But he couldn't rule it out either.
The suspensions came after a brawl last June, and the incident was credited with igniting the Dodgers' run that moved them to the division title. Then when the Dodgers clinched the division crown in Arizona, they upset many Diamondbacks players by celebrating in the Chase Field swimming pool.
"Kirk (Gibson, Diamondbacks manager,) talked about it a bit yesterday," Mattingly said. "It's a rivalry when you play somebody 19 times a year in your own division. Those games get heated.
"I don't feel like there is going to be (problems) ... maybe there is. These guys play hard, and they're tough. For us, what happened last year is over and we should move forward and play."
Gibson was more or less conciliatory when asked about the brewing rivalry on Tuesday, preferring to talk about Australia as the location for his 1985 honeymoon "and that worked out pretty good, so I'm hoping this does. We're ready to go."
Mattingly said people don't think of baseball as a tough physical sport "in terms of football, hockey or in this country, rugby."
"Baseball is more mental toughness," he added. "Night in and night out, the travel, getting in late, all kinds of different things you deal with."
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When the village of Little Chute held its first Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival in 1988, Troy Landwehr was there as a novice 11-year-old cheese carver.
He was doing it as a project for the 4-H club he belonged to in the nearby town of Vandenbroek in southeast Outagamie County.
When the cheese festival observes its 25th anniversary this weekend (May 31-June 2) at Doyle Park here, Landwehr will be there under the shelter near the parking lot in the early afternoon on Saturday, June 1, as one of six carvers who will work on five 40-pound blocks of medium-aged Cheddar cheese.
Landwehr is a fixture at the annual event, which helped to launch his part-time career as a cheese carver on a national and international stage.
He averages about two-three carving projects per month but that number increases during the summer, as indicated by his five scheduled appearances during June of this year.
Upcoming Schedule
In addition to the customary appearance at the cheese festival here, Landwehr will be at the Piggly Wiggly supermarkets on Saturday, June 8, in Saukville (9 a.m.-noon) and Slinger (1-4 p.m.).
On the following day, he will be at Outagamie County's dairy farm breakfast at Erickson Farms, N9602 County D near Bear Creek in the northern part of the county.
On Sunday, June 30, Landwehr will be a guest cheese carver for the first time at neighboring Calumet County's "Sundae on a Dairy Farm." It will be held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on the Jerry and Ann Lintner family farm at McHugh and Killsnake roads northwest of Chilton.
Later in the summer, Landwehr will be at the Taste of the Northwoods festival in Eagle River on Saturday, July 13, and at the annual Hamburger Days celebration in Seymour on Saturday, Aug. 10.
Another scheduled public cheese carving appearance will be at an anniversary observance at Neuske's Meats in Wittenberg on Saturday, Oct. 5.
For his first carving venture in 1988, Landwehr recalls that he had about one hour of training with a woman from the Madison area. Since then, he has become one of the nation's premier cheese carvers in what he describes as "a niche industry."
Carving Variety
Landwehr carries out a great variety of suggestions, requests, and commissions for his carvings.
He ordinarily starts with 40-pound Cheddar cheese blocks but his list of accomplishments includes turning a 640-pound block into a Lincoln Memorial carving, a 1,200-pound Cheddar into the Statue of Liberty, various large blocks into replicas of the Presidential faces on Mount Rushmore, and a 2,000-pound block into a scene representing the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
The latter project required several eight-hour days of working in a cooler with a temperature at 40 degrees.
Because of his carving prowess, Landwehr has made guest appearances on the national morning shows of all of the major television networks. He has also made trips to Hong Kong and London for carving assignments.
Personal Contact
Regardless of that kind of attention, what Landwehr enjoys most is "interacting with people, especially children. I have the most fun at grocery story carvings."
While he is carving at public events, Landwehr readily takes questions from observers and answers them. To the critics who suggest that cheese carvings result in a waste of food, he points out that the snippings are immediately made available for snacking by anyone who is observing.
Once a carving is completed, Landwehr quickly sprays it with Pam cooking oil. This keeps the cheese fresh and from cracking and drying for five-seven days, he explains. "It's 100 percent edible."
Handling Requests
In addition to the public displays of his work, Landwehr obtains commissions from corporations and organizations for a specific carving such as logos or emblems. He usually completes those on his home turf, sometimes shipping them by air freight.
Landwehr also handles special requests. Holiday parties often fit into that category but one that he especially remembers was the carving of a cement mixer for a wedding reception because it depicted the groom's occupation.
Because of the sizing, Landwehr explains that carving heads of animals is a much better choice than trying to sculpture the entire body. "But birds and eagles look good," he notes.
In many cases, he works from pictures, sketches, or drawings.
Carving Insights
What might not be easily evident to casual observers is how important "the engineering" is to carrying out a successful carving.
By that he means that the finished product needs to have adequate support so it holds its shape, especially when the carving is being done in a warm setting over a three-, four-, or six-hour period.
For example, Landwehr cut a slab from the original 640-pound block used for the Lincoln Memorial carving. He then used that slab as a base for the large main piece.
Sometimes, the addition of color beyond the gold of the Cheddar cheese would embellish the carving, Landwehr observes.
For that reason, he says it is appropriate to use other cheeses such as blue, Pepper Jack, mozzarella, and Ricotta instead of artificial colors or to provide a special shape or texture such as lace.
Cheese Sources
Landwehr obtains most of his Cheddar cheese blocks from Simon's Specialty Cheese at Little Chute or through Vern's Cheese at Chilton.
For whatever he will carve at the Calumet County event on June 30, a 40-pound Cheddar block will be donated by Land O'Lakes Dairy Foods at Kiel, which is where the milk from the host Lintner farm's Holstein cows is shipped.
For larger blocks, Landwehr works with Wisconsin Aging and Grading at Little Chute. Another specialty for carvings is a round wheel of cheese (75 up to 5,000 pounds) - made only by Henning's Cheese of rural Kiel in Manitowoc County.
What Landwehr looks for in a cheese block for carving is a combination of high butterfat and a low pH. The cheese needs to be medium aged so it will have a combination of well-set curd (stability) while still being soft enough for precise carving.
For learning more about the traits of various varieties of cheese, Landwehr credits Pete Leuer of the Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board (WMMB). He also works with the WMMB's regional marketing managers for appearances such as one in Florida in July of 2012.
Foodie Revolution
Landwehr attributes a significant portion of the public interest in cheese carving to "the foodie revolution." This has created support for "food sculptures" not only of cheese but also of watermelon and various other fruits, he points out.
There are also quite a few people who make carvings from butter but the community of cheese carvers, including "The Cheese Lady" Sarah Kaufman, is rather small, Landwehr observes.
One special appeal of cheese is the "full sensory experience" that it brings, he says.
Joining Landwehr at the Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival in Little Chute at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 1 will be Kristi Krieski and her twin daughters Ashley and Anna of Reedsburg, Jeremy Vosters, and Ben Vander Logt. All have some connection with the Little Chute area.
During business hours on most weekdays, Landwehr is at the Kerrigan Brothers Winery retail store along Highway 55 about three miles north of Kaukauna. He can also be reached by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or by phone to 920-788-1423.
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Oswego, NY - About two weeks after leaving a California hospital, Bob Griffin is back in Oswego.
The former Oswego resident was hospitalized for 4½ months after a driver accused of being drunk slammed head-on into his family's car Jan. 27 near Santa Cruz, Calif.
His wife, Linda (Jones) Griffin, 42, formerly of Granby, was killed instantly. Their children, Basia, 5, and Esma Bo, 2, were hurt.
"It's a day-by-day process," Bob Griffin said Friday. "I'm walking with a walker. I can't quite hold myself up. And I use a wheelchair. I have physical therapists coming to my house to get better. Hopefully, in a few more months, I'll be maybe dancing and kicking my heels."
Griffin said he is still grieving, but his friends and family have been a huge support.
This weekend, they will rally around Griffin and his daughters during two benefits in Oswego. Griffin's parents, who have been taking care of their grandchildren in California, also will be there.
The first benefit is from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. today at Old City Hall on Water Street. Admission is $5. A group of Griffin's friends will play music.
The bands also will perform at the second fundraiser, from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at the American Foundry, 246 W. Seneca St. That benefit includes a chicken barbecue, silent auction and raffles, and costs $10 with a meal or $5 without.
Griffin said he suffered two broken femurs, many stomach injuries and a fractured right wrist.
Basia suffered a small spine injury. Bo had a broken right arm and broken right leg.
"They're doing great," he said. "They pulled through like troupers. By the time I woke out of my (medically-induced) coma at the end of February, they were practically healed."
The Griffins moved to the San Francisco area in 1998, nearly two years after they met in Oswego, Bob Griffin said. They married Aug. 13, 1999.
"This benefit will help me concentrate on healing and taking care of my daughters until I can get back to work," said Griffin, an information technology consultant.
"I never realized how many friends I made or how many people really knew who I was," Griffin said. "It's very humbling to see all this going on."


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MORE than half the world's oil supply is used for transport, and three-quarters of the energy used in transport is spent on the road.
But without new policies to spur efficiency, the amount of fuel used for road transport will double by 2050, with severe implications for carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions.
Most of the technologies needed to improve fuel economy are already available and cost-effective, so what is needed are policies that steer businesses and consumers in the right direction.
Fuel-economy standards, taxes, CO2-based vehicle taxes, and better product labelling are the four key policies recommended by the IEA. To judge the extent to which countries have adopted these, the IEA has created a fuel-economy readiness index (see map). Many advanced countries, especially in Europe and Japan, already have the right policies in place, whereas in North America there is still room for improvement.


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West Portland's Ronald McDonald House to stop operating in current location
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PORTLAND, OREGON -- January 17, 2013 -- Tom Soma, right, executive director of Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington, and Kevin O'Boyle, right, Doernbecher Children's Hospital administrator, talk about the future of the west side Ronald McDonald House that opened in 1984. The Portland's west side Ronald McDonald House, which each year houses hundreds of families whose seriously ill children are receiving treatment at Doernbecher and OHSU, has become far too expensive to keep open. Motoya Nakamura/The Oregonian
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★★★★★ '…authentic emotional depth… thrillingly well performed by a cast led by Glenn Carter's Floyd' Sunday Express
★★★★ 'A grim tale produces a gem of a musical… A huge plus is the Playhouse's mustily atmospheric railway-arch space… a 14-strong ensemble and eight-strong band who bring a zest to every vignette and song… At a time when insensitive media intrusion is under scrutiny as never before, Floyd Collins burns with peculiarly haunting relevance' The Telegraph
★★★★ Critics' Choice Time Out
'It's still only February, but we'll be lucky if we see a better production of a better musical all year in London' Mark Shenton, The Stage
'Could there possibly be a better environment in which to revive a little known masterpiece of musical theatre… beautifully directed… nothing they could do at the NT's Cottesloe Theatre could come within spitting distance of the atmosphere created in the vaults of Southwark Playhouse… get yourselves down to Southwark – Floyd Collins will, I fear, always be a collectors item and you've only six weeks to catch this revival' Edward Seckerson, The Independent
'Adam Guettel's terrific underground musical Floyd Collins is back – in the ideal venue…the enterprising Southwark Playhouse has given it a magnificent production…' The Observer
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Kentucky, 1925. Cave explorer Floyd Collins, dreams of finding fame and fortune underground. When a cave-in leaves him trapped 55 feet below the earth's surface, the media circus above ground makes his personal tragedy a national sensation.
Tina Landau and Adam Guettel's award-winning musical is an examination of the media's reaction to the events in the cave, the various attempts to rescue Floyd and a moving insight into a family's suffering.
Glenn Carter (Jesus Christ Superstar, Jersey Boys), Robyn North (The Phantom of the Opera) and Ryan Sampson (Doctor Who, The Kitchen Sink) lead a thirteen strong cast in this production, the first revival of the show in the UK for over ten years.
Playwrights Horizons Inc., New York City, produced, FLOYD COLLINS Off-Broadway in 1996 Presented by arrangement with JOSEF WEINBERGER LIMITED on behalf of R & H THEATRICALS of New York.
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Live Transatlantic Post-Show Discussion with Roger Brucker, chaired by Director Derek Bond
Roger W. Brucker is the co-author of Trapped! The Story of the Floyd Collins. He has written four nonfiction books and one historical novel about cave exploration. He has been exploring Mammoth Cave, the world's longest cave, for more than 55 years. He is a co-founder and past president of the Cave Research Foundation. More information is available at www.rogerbrucker.com
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UPDATE: Fees rise, social-service agencies losing funding
GRAND RAPIDS -- City workers were joined by public school teachers this afternoon as they staged a rally on Calder Plaza to protest city budget cuts.
The rally comes as city commissioners are putting the final touches on a budget that proposes to cut health care benefits for the city's 1,700 workers by up to 5 percent.
"We want to be treated fairly," said Phil Pakiela, president of the Grand Rapids Employees Independent Union. "We understand changes need to be made, but there's more than just putting it on the backs of labor."
Most of the city's 13 labor unions have worked without a pay increase or a labor contract for 1-1/2 years or more.


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After watching the New Yorker staff writer and author of The Orchid Thief, Susan Orlean, emerge from the elevator of Portland's Westin Hotel and spryly walk to the lobby, the first thing that pops into mind when she reaches me is how easy it would be to beat her up. She's a tiny sprig of a woman, 5-foot-2, 110 pounds, with long red hair cascading in sunny, strawberry waves past her shoulders. Her jeans are darker and much more expensive than mine; her black cardigan has a pattern of large holes, not unlike Swiss cheese.
"I was thinking we could go in there, but," she says, pointing and shrugging towards the door to the hotel's restaurant, "is it cold outside? I forgot my coat upstairs." She crosses her wee arms in anticipation of a shiver. But it's a warm day—albeit an overcast one, she agrees—and triumphantly coatless we head to Portland Coffee House for caffeine and chairs.
Susan Orlean is known as a writer who finds mountains hidden within molehills, huge gems of stories in seemingly tiny or mundane topics. Her first piece for The New Yorker explored the obsessive folding culture at Benetton, the upscale clothier; her latest, the world of homing pigeons. She is a tiny woman who has the power to see big things in everything.
"It's sort of a state of mind, asking questions about what's behind things, how things work in a place that seems so obvious you wouldn't think there's anything there," the former Willamette Week writer says, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. As she says that, I notice her left ear is pierced twice; the top earring is a diamond-studded clover. Meanwhile, her left wrist is adorned with a digital Timex watch. "It might not look like much, but there's a story underneath."
Orlean enjoys testing out anecdotes on friends during dinner parties, finding which stories resonate and make people laugh. She's been to Cambodia, she's climbed Mount Fuji, she's friends with Meryl Streep and has just finished writing a screenplay with her husband, John Gillespie Jr., that was commissioned by Steven Spielberg. How could you not want this woman as a dinner guest? And how could I miss her lecture that night, "Finding the Extraordinary in Everyday Life"?
After being introduced by Portland Tribune Life editor Audrey van Buskirk (who, ominously, ran out of the auditorium when her cell phone rang two minutes into the lecture, never to return), Orlean takes the stage. She's wearing a black shirt with elbow-length sleeves and a red and peach-striped skirt that's layered and fit for dancing, her trademark locks smoothed and shiny. She warms up the crowd by turning her need to stand on a wooden box behind the podium into a wildly received joke.
"I could stay here for a couple of days! You're such a wonderful audience," she professed before reading "Shooting Party," an essay from her latest book, My Kind of Place. Within minutes, the audience is head-over-high heels in love. Of the 800 guests, at least 90 percent are white women over the age of 55; bejeweled cardigans and heads of poofy white hair abound. In my row is someone who resembles a highly plucked Regis Philbin in a purple pillbox hat. Orlean is the eccentric, lovable friend everyone in the room wishes they had—or were.
"When I was working on The Orchid Thief, I thought, am I the only not-crazy person in Florida? And I can answer that, 'yes,'" she says before reading a passage from the book that was made into the award-winning movie Adaptation. (Take note: Old people dig Florida jokes.)
Of all the stories she reads in between her musings on how lucky she is to do what she's so passionate about, the night's moment of most understated irony comes when she reads an excerpt from "King of the Road." Specifically, the moment she reads this sentence from the profile of clothing designer Bill Blass: "Like most successful, wealthy people, he knows how to deploy a sort of captivating brattiness, to which other people quickly yield." After the essay, a coordinator from the lecture series, Voices Inc., asks that she shift her podium reading light.
"Ow! That's hot.... I burned myself for you," she jokes, holding her perfectly poised hand up to a crowd of chuckles. Is Orlean captivating her audience? Yes. But bratty? She did indict herself, after all, because yes, she's successful—and wealthy, to boot. Her newly built, $2.1 million vacation property was recently featured in The New York Times' Architecture section. And getting her to speak for 90 minutes requires you to make a reservation through American Program Bureau, an agency that boasts "the most diverse speaker roster in the lecture industry," including Gorbachev, Ted Turner, and Omarosa from The Apprentice.
Not including required travel expenses (airfare, hotel), you'd need $10,000 to hire Orlean as a speaker. Minus an industry-standard 15 percent agent's fee, that's still a $8,500 paycheck awaiting her for a 90 minute lecture. $8,500. And yes, I paid for her nonfat cafe au lait, despite being a cheap bastard. But I was the one thrusting cash at the barista, unasked, before she could even find her wallet. That's just a part of her magic, an infectious warmth and excitement and ability to engage any audience that, while talking to her at the counter, I forgot to get a receipt. My broke ass will never see that money again.
We discussed women in the media (why aren't there more?), having children and having a career (friggin' hard) and her upcoming projects (Rin Tin Tin bio!). We talked about why it is that writers never talk shop with their writer friends, the pros and cons of living in New York while young (making connections vs. having to pay sky-high rent). We went on about the importance of passion and ambition and a fundamental belief in one's abilities. We talked about the idea of generating story ideas as being indistinguishable from a fundamental curiosity about the way the world works and a desire to share those findings with others.
She discussed these things with wide eyes and a warm smile—unless, of course, she was just placating me and pretending to be interested. But either way, it's not every New Yorker writer who would graciously give up nearly two hours of a short business trip to talk to an anonymous brat like me, six hours before her speaking engagement, at the end of which she reminds audience members that extraordinary, attention-grabbing things are all around them, as long as they're willing to look deeply and listen attentively to everything.
Finally, during the lecture's Q&A period, the audience does not wait to dig for the deep, difficult questions they'd spent weeks preparing: "In the words of Bill Blass, can you tell us about that amazing skirt?" Orlean chuckles. "It's my favorite! I've worn it on a couple of book tours. It's actually from Japan," she says, using what may be an envy-evoking code of the rich.
Another woman asks how motherhood has changed her writing. She smiles and mentions that her 14-month-old son, Austin, has just discovered the joy of pounding on a keyboard. She's certain that this will cause problems in the future. She also mentions that motherhood prompted her to write a humor piece exploring why babies don't have jobs; soon after, an editor from Abrams, a publishing company, called and asked if she had any interest in turning it into a children's book.
"It's funny, because it seems that after a lot of celebrities have babies, they think, 'I'm going to write a children's book,' like Madonna did."
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And she acknowledges that. What she plays varies according to the situation, but it's what she wants to play and she'll "play it to death" if she enjoys it. She won't shy from the demanding, although a handful of highbrowed types suggest even her most obscure material is a bit on the fairground side. "I believe in what I'm playing," and for all that she considers her audience, musical credibility counts higher.
She seems to see her role as part-entertainer, part-missionary. Audiences are gently reminded that percussion is valid, thoughtful music, not something made up as it goes along. There are 2,000 solo scores in the closet behind her. She commissions them, ten at a time, from composers such as Jonathan Harvey, Piers Helliwell and John Psathas. The scores have dull names such as "Concerto for Percussion and Brass Band" or more entertaining such as "Gorilla in a Cage," "The Harlot's House" and "Seventeen Days Two Bottles One Duvet."
Composers call round with their score paper and they work on the pieces together. They have to be guided. Apart from the fact that composers aren't necessarily used to writing for drums, they're accustomed to putting a circled cross on a ledger line and waiting for a bash on a high, low or medium cymbal.
When Glennie points to the stack on the rack and says, "Yes, but which high, low and medium cymbal?" and then adds, "And crashed, stroked, rolled or what?" they can start losing the will to live.
She says: "We do need more repertoire, because hopefully there will be more and more players coming along, and they will need something to play. I mean, we still don't have a Mozart marimba concerto. There are many, many concertos out there and many of them are interesting, but not great pieces of music. You couldn't really compare them with a Beethoven violin concerto or a Tchaikovsky piano concerto.
"We're still looking for that, and it will come. I have absolute faith that this will come. It just needs time."
Halfway through Evelyn Glennie's show, she stands in a three-sided frame that has a small serving counter and a sign that reads "EV'S CAFF." This by the way, is a reminder that "Evelyn" is pronounced ever-lin and not ev-e-lin.
Hanging from the café roof are pots, bowls and frying pans. And with great enthusiasm she plays a tune on them. But then anyone who can accompany Björk on car exhaust pipes – "tuned" exhaust pipes, she stresses mysteriously – isn't going to balk at pots and pans.
For the benefit of photographs, we dig in the drum store and produce a collection of do-it-yourself instruments that have seen service and been forgotten. Among them is a plank with a row of black-painted cans nailed to it. Skillets at each end have been pushed flush with the board. Glennie presses at them and, to her surprise, they swivel 90 degrees and make another playing surface. "Oh," she says, "we must have been particularly inventive that day."
I have brought with me a question from my friend Colin, who in his time has been the man who sits and counts 124 bars before getting up and tinging his triangle. Once. "Ask her," he suggested, "if she agrees there are a dozen different ways to play a triangle or a tambourine, and whether she minds playing what some people consider to be toys."
So I do. And she chokes with laughter on her cookie. "It starts, I feel, in your first school years. One of the things that I'm trying to do is create a series of educational publications for classroom teachers. They may not know anything about a triangle, just that you hit it, so this whole perception of percussion ends up being about hitting and banging – very negative.
"So it has to start from a young age, where you have this little instrument and your imagination is wide open. So you can use a triangle-beater, you can use a fork, you can use a chopstick, anything you want. And I think it's important for people to have this openness, and truly treat an instrument in the way a child would treat a toy. They may look at it, take it apart, put it together again, and there are all sorts of possibilities with it. And once they've let their imagination run riot, then they can learn the rules.
"It can work the other way, where you learn the rules first of all and then go berserk with your imagination, but then I think we become a bit more inhibited. When you get older, you're a bit more conscious of how you're treating things.
"I feel it's important for people like myself – performing musicians – to get into the schools, show the youngsters a great big marimba or a snare drum, and really play it. Really, really play interesting music, maybe the same music that you'd play at a normal concert so that you're not compromising musically.
"Kids will listen to Stockhausen or anything, not knowing what it is. There are no rules there, and suddenly they're experiencing the emotional side of playing. And then just a little knowledge of these instruments can help them look, the next time they go to a concert and see a triangle player, and think, 'Now, I know why he's doing that. I know why the triangle is suspended the way it is, why he's holding it like that with his fingers in a certain position. I know why he's changing beaters.'
"Simple things can really enhance your visual and aural skills."
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FLINT, MI -- The search committee to find the next Mott Community College president was approved by the Mott Board of Trustees.
Richard Shaink, president at Mott for 14 years, announced in January that he would be retiring after a replacement is found. The board is preparing to start the search process.
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On March 3 and 4, roughly 200 people from seven separate groups met with board members and a consulting firm to discuss what they wanted in the next president. The groups consisted of Mott leadership, community members, Mott's executive cabinet, faculty and staff, union presidents and representatives and students.
Shaink is one of three Genesee County college leaders leaving their positions before the fall.
The 23-person search committee will meet at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 26, to get directions on the process. The meeting is open to the public and will take place in the Genesee Room of the Mott Prahl College Center, located on Mott's main campus at 1401 E. Court St. in Flint.
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- Lisa Banks, Mott business professor.
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- Lenore Croudy, Mott Board chairwoman.
- Michael Freeman, Mott Board trustee.
- Larry Gawthrop, Mott's chief financial officer.
- Frances Gilcreast, president of the NAACP Flint branch.
- Patrick "Shorty" Gleason, former Genesee County commissioner and former chairman of the Say Yes to MCC campaign.
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- Amy Hovey, U.S. Rep. Dan Kildee's district chief of staff.
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- Isaiah Oliver, Flint School Board president and Mott staff member.
- Lisa Poma, secretary in Mott's president's office.
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- Freyda Sugarman, Mott student.
- Mickarl Thomas, pastor of Vernon Chapel AME in Flint.
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NEW YORK (AP) — While oil continues to rise to new highs, the price of natural gas dropped 2 percent Thursday and has remained relatively flat since the recession.
Traders say the reason is simple: Oil is traded internationally and is heavily influenced by demand from China and other emerging economies. The U.S. is awash in natural gas but lacks the infrastructure to export it, and a recent boom in production has kept prices in check.
The contrast between the two was clear on Thursday. Natural gas plunged after the government said supplies dropped less than expected. It gave up 8.9 cents to settle at $4.057 per 1,000 cubic feet. Meanwhile, oil surged to $110.30 per barrel, reaching a new 30-month high, even though U.S. oil supplies have been increasing. They grew by 2 million barrels last week, according to the Energy Department.
Oil and natural gas seemed to be in lockstep in 2008, when prices for both spiked. "But there's really no relationship between them anymore," analyst Jim Ritterbusch said. The average price for natural gas dropped 5 percent last month, when compared with March of last year. Oil, on the other hand, surged 27 percent in the same period.
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LOWELL TOWNSHIP -- As his daughter recovers from two broken ribs and a head laceration, Tony DeVecht said it's still not clear what went wrong in Friday's I-96 crash that injured five Grand Haven teens.
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Today, Olds remained unconscious at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital in a medically-induced coma from a head injury. Bogner and Case also are in the hospital with numerous broken bones and other serious injuries.
According to a friend's update Sunday of their condition on a Facebook page called Prayers for 5 Grand Haven High School Students, both Bogner and Case suffered vertebrae fractures.
Michaels was released from the hospital Saturday and DeVecht came home Sunday.
The five girls were headed to the state semi-finals girls basketball game in East Lansing when the crash happened. The Grand Haven girls' team ultimately won a state championship.
The three teens in the backseat of the Honda CRV were not wearing seat belts, police said. They were ejected from the vehicle when it flipped over a cable barrier.
Tony DeVecht said the crash was "any parent's worst nightmare" and he's thankful for prayers coming from fellow students, parents and community members.
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He said the circumstances have been emotionally "tough" for his daughter because she knows the severity of the other girls' injuries.
"All they want to do is be with their friends," he said.
Before Friday's trip, the girls had been talking excitedly about their plans for about a week.
He said his daughter can remember the vehicle rolling at least four times. She was trapped in the passenger seat when it finally flipped over a cable barrier and stopped on its side.
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Well-wishers of the five teens are getting updates on their conditions via a Facebook page and are posting messages of support.
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Mr. Alfredo N. Mercuri
Modern Languages
Mr. Alfredo Mercuri, a native of Argentina, is a Lecturer for the Modern Language Department who joined UTB as a full time faculty since November 2009, after working, at the same institution since 2007 as a part time instructor.
Mr. Mercuri holds a MA in Leadership and Organizational Studies with emphasis in Conflict Management, and a Graduate Diploma in Translation. He is also a State Certified Medical Interpreter. As a faculty member for the Modern Language Department at UTB, he teaches lower level courses such as Elementary Spanish, SPAN 2315 and Basis Spanish for Bilingual Students, SPAN 2321 and 2322. He also teaches courses for undergraduate and graduate students for the Interpreting and Translation program, SPAN 2316 and TRSP 4366.
He is also involved in the development of online courses for the Graduate Certificate in Spanish Translation and in teaching courses such as INTG 6379 Medical Terminology for the same program.
MA in Leadership and Organizational Studies, Fresno Pacific University, CA
BA in Management and Organizational Development, Fresno Pacific University, CA
Graduate Certificate in Spanish Translation from University of Texas at Brownsville
State Certified Medical Interpreter
CV/VITAE: Mercuri Vitae
SPAN 2313, Spanish for Native/Heritage Speakers I
SPAN 2315, Spanish for Native/Heritage Speakers II
SPAN 2316, Career Spanish I
SPAN 2317, Career Spanish II
SPAN 2321, Career Spanish I
SPAN 2332, Commercial Translation
TRSP 4366, Interpreting I
2007 (as an Adjunct)
2009 (as a Lecturer)
Medical Interpreting and Translation
A.M. International Language Services, owner
Valley Children Hospital, interpreter and translator
Office: MRCS 324
Phone: (956) 882-8264
Fax: (956) 882-7215
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Buckhannon finishes fiscal year in the black
BUCKHANNON – The city of Buckhannon ended the 2013/2014 fiscal year with more revenue than expected. City Administrator Michael Doss said the additional revenue will give City Council more money for projects and help match grants to create improvements in the city.
"We actually ended with $245,783 more in revenue than we originally projected," Doss told The Inter-Mountain last week. "It was reported with the budget revision last night (at Buckhannon City Council's regular meeting on Thursday)."
Council passed a budget revision during the meeting to allocate the money. Doss explained that $146,783 of the revenue was moved to city council's capital outlay budget. Council can use the money for projects that may arise through the next year.
During Thursday's council meeting, Councilman Ron Pugh suggested a portion of the money should be used to purchase body camera and police cruiser cameras for the Buckhannon Police Department. He said the cameras could help settle any disputes between the officers and the public.
"We see the advantages of those, but we also see the comments we will see against them," Buckhannon Police Department Lt. Doug Loudin said during the meeting.
He added that he agreed with Pugh saying the cameras would be a way for the department to help address complaints from the residents. He said the cruiser cameras would also be helpful with DUI stops.
"I appreciate the request," he said. "Any device that we can use to better our department, I appreciate," Loudin said.
The other $100,000 will be used to help match grants the city has received. Doss said a portion of the money will be used to match a transportation enhancement grant the city is using to finish a project that will bring new sidewalks and lighting to East Main Street.
Another portion will be used to match a federal land and water grant that the city is using to make upgrades at the North Buckhannon Park playground. Doss said the funding will bring new playground equipment and handicap accessible equipment to the park.
Doss said the extra revenue came in a year where the city also allocated $100,000 for sewer upgrades and $100,000 to complete the city's public safety building.
"I have an 8 year history, and it is probably one of our biggest carryover fund balances the city has had," Doss said. "We also have $500,790.91 in the city's 'Rainy Day' fund.'"
Doss said that fund is used at council's discretion and could be used if any emergency arises.


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If you see an iPad lying around at New York Jets training camp in Cortland, you now have the password to access the playbook.
The Jets are using the password "1-9-6-9" to gain access to the digital playbook loaded on their team iPads.
The four-digit code refers to the last year the Jets won the Super Bowl over the Baltimore Colts in one of the most famous games in NFL history.
"It's just something to remember — 1969 is the last time this team was perfect," defensive tackle Sheldon Richardson told the New York Post. "That's a long time ago."
» Related: Report: New York Jets considering Long Island site for future training camps
Tim Tubito, the team's director of football video, is the one who came up with the passcode idea.
"If you don't want to be a champion, you're not going to be," head coach Rex Ryan said. "It's safe to say no one's going to be a champion if they're going to be like, 'Eh, maybe I'd like to' or whatever. That has to be why you play the game because you do want to be the best. Certainly I want to be the best and I know everybody in this organization feels the same way I do."
The Jets may want to change that password in light of news that Russian hackers have acquired 1.2 billion user names and passwords.
It also brings to mind this scene from the movie "Spaceballs."
Keith Olbermann discussed the password motivation on his "Worst Persons in the Sports World" segment on ESPN.
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Columbus --- St. Edward and St. Ignatius will square off for the Division I state baseball title at 1 p.m. Saturday at Cooper Stadium.
The Eagles dethroned top-ranked and defending champion West Chester Lakota, 6-3, in a semifinal game Thursday night thanks to a three-run fifth inning led by juniors Brian Boland and Vince Marquard.
The Wildcats advanced with a 7-5 win over Cincinnati Moeller in the other semifinal.
Boland had a run-scoring double and Marquard followed with an RBI triple to help seal the deal in the fifth for unranked St. Edward (24-6).
The Wildcats (28-5), ranked No. 2 in the coaches' state poll, split with St. Edward during the regular season.


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A final round of 68 left Michael Hoey in joint second place on 17 under par, three strokes behind winner Ross Fisher at the Tshwane Open in South Africa.
Hoey - who at one stage reduced Fisher's lead to a single stroke - and local hopeful Danie van Tonder finished in a tie for second place with Spain's Carlos del Moral a stroke further back.
Hoey moved to within touching distance with a birdie from 30 feet at the 11th, but a double bogey at the next stalled his progress.
The win was Fisher's first on the European tour in almost four years.
A final round of 70 left Waterford's Kevin Phelan four strokes behind Hoey.
A disappointing final round of 75 left Shane Lowry on four under par overall,
33-year-old Fisher had to withstand a couple of challenges on a wet final day to secure his victory, but a long eagle putt on the par-five 15th all but snuffed out the danger.
Fisher had not won on the European Tour since the 2010 Irish Open and, after tumbling out of the world's top 50 during his title drought, has now thrust himself into contention for the Ryder Cup at Gleneagles later this year.
As he stepped up to the 15th tee, Fisher's lead had been whittled down to two strokes by both Van Tonder and Del Moral.
Fisher had picked up just a single stroke for the round up until that point, but saved his best for when it counted as he reached the 15th green in two before holing a 30-foot eagle putt.
Careful pars at 16 and 17 ensured Fisher was able to walk up the 18th with victory assured and, while he finished with a bogey, a long-overdue win was secured for a player who has been as high as 17th in the world.
Victory leaves Fisher sitting 16th in the Ryder Cup standings and is set to lift him up to 52nd in the world rankings.


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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said on Wednesday that the league still does not have a date in which the status of the Hall of Fame game and other preseason games would be in jeopardy, but said, "Obviously that time is coming."
SportsBusiness Daily linked to a summary of the story that ESPN reported.
Goodell, speaking at the conclusion of the owners meetings in Indianapolis, noted the cancelation of the league's rookie symposium and said, "We're getting close enough now where those will have to be considerations." The lockout currently is in its 75th day.
Goodell was asked whether the owners, despite recent court victories, are more willing to compromise and seek "middle ground" with the players. He said, "Absolutely. We've said it before, this is going to be resolved through negotiations and the ownership knows that and the ownership believes that. It's imperative on all of us to get back to negotiating."
The commissioner acknowledged that the lockout has impacted teams' ticket sales.
Goodell: "I don't think you can ever underestimate the fans are still going through difficult challenges, just in the general economy here, and those challenges continue to impact on their decisions and rightfully so. We have to keep that in mind, and I know the ownership has been reminded of that over the last couple days."


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Kumarakom Lake Resort is a luxury retreat situated on the banks of the Vembanad Lake in Central Kerala. One of the best luxury boutique resorts in India, it offers guests a first-hand experience of God's Own Country, it's rich heritage and natural beauty.
A member of the very exclusive Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Kumarakom Lake Resort is the only SLH property in South India. 'Incredible India', a reputed travel and trade publication, has rated Kumarakom Lake Resort as one among the best five resorts in India. Kumarakom Lake resort also holds a nomination status for the Asian Architectural Excellence awards.
Acclaimed by the National Geographic Traveller as one of the 10 paradises of the world, Kumarakom is an ornithologists' delight. Criss-crossed by natural canals and surrounded by the Vembanad Lake, it plays host to migratory birds from around the world.
Accommodation options at the Resort include Heritage Villas (lake or garden facing), Meandering Pool Villas (single or duplex) and Presidential Suites. The dwellings are a careful reconstruction of the traditional homes or manas of Kerala. Many of them, transplanted from their original locations across Kerala and painstakingly reassembled. The restaurant, for instance, is an actual ettukettu (traditional Kerala homestead), which has been dismantled and resurrected.
The Meandering Pool Villas offer a totally unique experience for the guests. Each villa opens out into a pool that connects all the villas together.
Each room in the Presidential Suite has its own private pool. All aspects of the room, from traditional locks on the front doors to paintings that adorn the walls, are used to illustrate the vibrant ethos of Kerala.
The Resort offers a wide variety of cuisines. The multi-cuisine restaurant, Ettukettu, offers the guest the very best in Indian and Continental cuisine. Vembanad, the restaurant and bar by the waterfront, specialises in seafood cooked in traditional Kerala style. Thattukada offers typical Kerala snacks and tea.
The Ayurveda Spa at Kumarakom Lake Resort is a Green Leaf practitioner of Ayurveda, as certified by Government of Kerala. It is housed in the dwelling of the famous Chathamangalathu Mana, another of the historic homes to be transplanted to the resort.
The Resort offers a host of modern facilities as well as Internet, conference facilities and indoor games. Special pottery lessons and cultural, yoga and meditation sessions are also arranged.
Kumarakom is an year round destination blessed with a pleasant climate. The breeze wafting from the lake, however, makes it equitable throughout the year. The nearest airport is the Cochin International Airport, 80 kms away.


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EAST LONGMEADOW – Officials in East Longmeadow cut the ribbon on a new $1.5 million bike path in town Thursday but as the first walkers and bikers began blazing the trail, the police chief said he's concerned the trail isn't as safe and secure as he would like it to be.
The trail cuts a 1.8-mile path from Denslow Road behind Hasbro to Maple Street just off the rotary in the center of town. It winds through mostly remote areas, behind buildings, parking lots, and heavily wooded areas. Police Chief Douglas W. Mellis says security along the path could be better.
"I was hoping there would have been some type of call boxes. I don't see anything here I don't know if something can be planned in the future," he said.
Mellis says advance technology and fiber optic cables are available to form the basis of a security system. James Driscoll, chairman of the East Longmeadow Select Board, says although cameras are not in place now, they will be in the future.
"There is security camera monitoring that will be involved. We have bike (police) officers that will be regularly monitoring the program. It's as safe as any field or trail that you could hike around town," he said.
But even as Driscoll says police will watch the area to ensure safety, Chief Mellis says his department has lost tens of thousands of dollars in funding for community policing, and keeping an eye on the bike trail will be a challenge. He said the trail could also become a hang-out for teenagers.
"We'll include it in our patrols but with the loss of state money for community policing, we could have put more patrols out on weekends and in the early evening. We're going to do what we have to do and we'll address the problems as they come up and we'll try to have deterrents in place," he said.
Driscoll said the security cameras could be in place by the end of September, but Mellis doubts that is possible.
Plans for the bike trail were first unveiled almost two decades ago, but the road to the ribbon cutting has been bumpy. Officials needed to secure federal and state funding, develop plans, and buy land or get permission from Hasbro to run the trail through the company's back yard. Underground utilities were also an issue.
"There's an awful lot of lawyers and an awful lot of project managers along the way," said Driscoll.
Nearly 100 people came out for the ribbon cutting and immediately began using the path – and there was a collective sigh of relief that the dream is now a reality.
"I think it's excellent," said Derek Dallas of Longmeadow.
"We've been waiting patiently for it to be done and we're happy it is."
Sean Kelley is the senior project manager and he smiled when discussing the pent-up desire of people to begin using the trail. For weeks now signs have warned people to stay off the path because it was still under construction; even so, people have been walking and riding on it for some time.
"I think this is going to be a great asset for the community – a lot of bikers, families, people walking in the evening. I think the town is really going to use and appreciate it," he said.
Officials are trying to secure funding and develop plans to extend the trail north and south in two separate phases.


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Easy Chicken Wings
Total Time
1hr 35mins
Prep 5 mins
Cook 1 hr 30 mins
Great recipe for marinated chicken wings. Use as an appetizer or the main course.
Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 -4 lbs chicken drummettes
- 1 cup soy sauce
- 1⁄4 cup oil
- 1⁄4 cup white wine
- 2 garlic cloves
- Mix all ingredients together and pour over drumettes.
- Marinate overnight and bake at 325 for 1 1/2 hours, turning 3 times.
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Love this recipe - minimum ingrediets, great finished product! I did add 1 tsp dry Chili pepper and that did give a perk! I marinated them from 6 AM until 5PM. & the flavor was infused even after this short time. Easy recipe with great results. Thanks Diggy for a definate DO AGAIN recipe


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Fire damaged four apartments on 18th Place North this morning.
Two of the four Hanmore House Apartments that burned at 1601 18th Place North were occupied.
The residents escaped safely.
Dianne Clark, who lives in one of the burned units, said a neighbor kicked in her door.
Clark was told the fire started in a bedroom in another apartment.
"It started there and just engulfed the place," she said.
Battalion Chief C.W. Mardis said the investigation continues but the cause is believed to be accidental.
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No one is safe, not even liberals, from islamic supremacism and the assault on free speech. I am no fan of Juan Williams, but I will defend to my death his right to speak his mind.
During an appearance Monday on Fox News' "O'Reilly Factor," Juan Williams said: "When I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
National Public Radio has fired Mr. Williams for making this statement. And while I do not share Mr. Williams sentiments, so what?


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Research Topics
Javier Mar
Country: Spain
Detail Information
- The cost-effectiveness of nCPAP treatment in patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnoeaJ Mar
Clinical Management Service, Alto Deba Hospital, Mondragon, Spain
Eur Respir J 21:515-22. 2003..The remaining uncertainties concerning the impact of nasal continuous positive airway pressure on long-term mortality have only a relatively small impact on the economics of treatment...
- Which is more important for the efficiency of hypertension treatment: hypertension stage, type of drug or therapeutic compliance?J Mar
Service of Clinical Management, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Spain
J Hypertens 19:149-55. 2001..This study examines the cost-effectiveness of arterial hypertension treatment by age, sex, arterial hypertension stage, type of drug used and level of treatment compliance...
- Cost-effectiveness analysis of thrombolytic treatment for strokeJavier Mar
Clinical Management Unit, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Spain
Cerebrovasc Dis 20:193-200. 2005..We present a cost-effectiveness analysis based on a probabilistic model of the use of thrombolytic therapy in stroke treatment...
- [Effect on quality of life of nCPAP treatment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea]Javier Mar
Unidad de Gestión Sanitaria, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Guipuzcoa, Spain
Med Clin (Barc) 125:611-5. 2005..There is evidence that its use improves the quality of life of patients. The objective of the study is to measure the effect of nCPAP on the quality of life of patients in a Spanish cohort...
- [Probabilistic cost-effectiveness analysis of the treatment of sleep apnea]Javier Mar
Unidad de Gestión Sanitaria, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Gipuzkoa, Espana
Gac Sanit 20:47-53. 2006..To describe the application of a probabilistic cost-effectiveness analysis to nasal continuous positive airway passage (nCPAP) treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS)...
- Calculation of prevalence with Markov models: budget impact analysis of thrombolysis for strokeJavier Mar
Servicio de Gestión Clínica, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Spain
Med Decis Making 28:481-90. 2008..The objective is to develop a method for calculating the prevalence of stroke based on Markov models and to apply it to the assessment of the budget impact analysis of thrombolytic treatment...
- Budget impact analysis of thrombolysis for stroke in Spain: a discrete event simulation modelJavier Mar
Clinical Management Unit, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Spain
Value Health 13:69-76. 2010..The objective of this study was to calculate by means of a discrete event simulation model the budget impact of thrombolysis in Spain...
- [Quality of life and burden of carers of patients with acquired brain injury]Javier Mar
Unidad de Gestión Sanitaria, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Espana
Rev Esp Geriatr Gerontol 46:200-5. 2011..The objectives of this study were to measure the loss of HRQol as well as the burden of the carers of patients with ABI...
- [Probabilistic Markov models in economic evaluation of health technologies: a practical guide]Javier Mar
Unidad de Gestión Sanitaria, Hospital Alto Deba, Arrasate Mondragón, Gipuzkoa, Espana
Gac Sanit 24:209-14. 2010..Markov models are the standard method used in cost-effectiveness studies to represent the natural history of disease. The objective of this study was to show the key elements in building probabilistic Markov models...
- The impact of acquired brain damage in terms of epidemiology, economics and loss in quality of lifeJavier Mar
Clinical Management Service, Alto Deba Hospital, Mondragon, Spain
BMC Neurol 11:46. 2011....
- Reliability of portal control procedure in irradiation of breast cancer: a Bayesian analysisAvelino Alía
Department of Radiation Oncology, Txagorritxu Hospital, E 01009 Vitoria, Spain
Radiother Oncol 75:28-33. 2005..To determine whether the information gathered from a fixed number of periodic verification films accurately reflects the true imprecision in patient positioning during the whole radiation therapy of early breast cancer...
- [Cost-effectiveness analysis of using high doses of atorvastatin for the secondary stroke prevention in Spain]Arantzazu Arrospide
Unidad de Investigación Sanitaria de Gipuzkoa Oeste, Hospital Alto Deba, 20500 Mondragon Arrasate, Espana
Rev Neurol 51:1-11. 2010....
- Impact of disability on different domains of health-related quality of life in the noninstitutionalized general populationJavier Mar
Research Unit, Hospital Alto Deba, Navarra 16, Mondragon, Spain
Clinicoecon Outcomes Res 2:97-103. 2010..This study establishes a significant relationship between disability and the loss of quality of life in both physical and mental dimensions of SF-36, irrespective of the associated disease...
- Calculation of prevalence estimates through differential equations: application to stroke-related disabilityJavier Mar
Clinical Management Unit, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Spain
Neuroepidemiology 31:57-66. 2008..To assess disability, prevalence estimates are needed. The objective of this study is to apply a method based on differential equations to calculate the prevalence of stroke-related disability...
- Two-year changes in generic and obesity-specific quality of life after gastric bypassJavier Mar
Clinical Management Service, Alto Deba Hospital, Mondragon, Spain
Eat Weight Disord 18:305-10. 2013..ROC curves indicate that most of the HRQL measures are poor predictors of change in terms of reduction in body weight or BMI...
- [Effectiveness of pre-operative education in reducing anxiety in surgical patients]Esther Díez-Álvarez
Unidad de Enfermería, Hospital Alto Deba, Mondragon, Espana
Enferm Clin 22:18-26. 2012..To evaluate the effectiveness of a structured pre-operative interview conducted by operating room nurses in order to reduce the pre-operative anxiety of patients, and to determine the profile of patients who can benefit from it...
- Spanish recommendations on economic evaluation of health technologiesJulio Lopez-Bastida
Evaluation and Planning Unit, Canary Islands Health Services, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública CIBERESP, Spain, C Pérez de Rozas 5, 4th Floor, 38004 Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Eur J Health Econ 11:513-20. 2010....
- Geographical variations in the benefit of applying a prioritization system for cataract surgery in different regions of SpainRuben Roman
Evaluation and Clinical Epidemiology Department, Institut Municipal d Assistència Sanitària IMAS, Passeig Maritim, 25 29, 08003, Barcelona, Spain
BMC Health Serv Res 8:32. 2008..Our objective was to assess geographical variations in the impact of applying a prioritization system in patients on the waiting list for cataract surgery in different regions of Spain by using a discrete-event simulation model...
- Measuring health-related quality of life in drug clinical trials: is it given due importance?Ramón San Miguel
Pharmacy Department, Hospital Santa Bárbara SACYL, Paseo Santa Bárbara, Soria 42002, Spain
Pharm World Sci 30:154-60. 2008..The Aim of this study is to make a quantitative evaluation of the use of health related quality of life (HRQL) measures in drug clinical trials...


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This obscure woodcock has a very small range, being known from only three locations. Given the continuing loss and degradation of habitat within this area, and suspected population declines, it qualifies as Endangered.
Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J.; Collar, N. J.; Christie, D. A.; Elliott, A.; Fishpool, L. D. C. 2014. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International.
32-40 cm. Large, forest-dwelling woodcock. Long, heavy, dark bill. Black upperparts with large contrasting ochre-buff spots and little barring. Underparts fairly uniform orange-buff, with sparse blackish scaling. Black bars on hindneck and between eye and bill. Similar spp. Sulawesi Woodcock S. celebensis is smaller, darker, finely barred rather than spotted and highly unlikely to visit the range of S. rochusseni. Voice Undocumented.
BirdLife International. 2001. Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
Further web sources of information
Detailed species accounts from the Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book (BirdLife International 2001).
Explore HBW Alive for further information on this species
Search for photos and videos, and hear sounds of this species from the Internet Bird Collection
Text account compilers
Benstead, P., Bird, J., Davidson, P., Taylor, J., Tobias, J.
IUCN Red List evaluators
Butchart, S., Symes, A.
Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2016) Species factsheet: Scolopax rochussenii. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 23/10/2016. Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2016) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 23/10/2016.
This information is based upon, and updates, the information published in BirdLife International (2000) Threatened birds of the world. Barcelona and Cambridge, UK: Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, BirdLife International (2004) Threatened birds of the world 2004 CD-ROM and BirdLife International (2008) Threatened birds of the world 2008 CD-ROM. These sources provide the information for species accounts for the birds on the IUCN Red List.
To provide new information to update this factsheet or to correct any errors, please email BirdLife
To contribute to discussions on the evaluation of the IUCN Red List status of Globally Threatened Birds, please visit BirdLife's Globally Threatened Bird Forums.
|Key facts
|Current IUCN Red List category
|Scolopacidae (Sandpipers, Snipes, Phalaropes)
|Species name author
|Schlegel, 1866
|Population size
|2500-9999 mature individuals
|Population trend
|Distribution size (breeding/resident)
|680 km2
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KALAMAZOO — Trina Henry just stepped out of the shower when she heard a neighbor pounding on the door to warn her.
"It wasn't just a knock. He beat on the door to make sure I heard him," said Henry, 41.
That's how she realized her house was on fire Friday in Kalamazoo's Southside neighborhood.
"Had I not heard him knocking and all that, I would've still been up there and trapped in my bedroom," she said. "I thank God I got out."
The blaze, which was reported to Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety officers at 11:10 a.m., damaged the attic of the two-story house at 113 Remine St. and its upper floor was heavily damaged by smoke and water, Assistant Chief Brian Uridge said at the scene.
The neighbor, Austin Harding, 52, said he was away from his house when Henry called him Friday morning to tell him that an electrical breaker in her home had switched off and that she smelled smoke. When he arrived home a short time later, Harding said smoke "was just smoldering, coming out the back."
After seeing the smoke, Harding said he ran to Henry's house and banged on her door to warn her.
"I said, 'Get out, your house is on fire,'" he said.
The city fire marshal was at the scene Friday investigating the cause and origin of the fire. Uridge said it appears the blaze started in the attic. Public Safety officials contacted the Greater Kalamazoo Area Chapter of the American Red Cross Friday to assist Henry in the aftermath of the blaze.
Henry called her house a "total loss." Some irreplaceable items, such as photographs and antique toys, were lost.
Yet several hours after firefighters distinguished the blaze, Henry sounded upbeat.
"God is still in control," she said. "I just have to stay positive. This is not going to rock my world."
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