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Rob Segedin goes 2-for-4 with an RBI at the plate and posts two perfect innings to earn the save
NEW ORLEANS, La.-Freshman utility athlete Rob Segedin went 2-for-4 with an RBI during his time at the plate and tossed a pair of perfect innings to pick up the save as the Tulane University baseball team defeated Conference USA rival Southern Miss, 4-2, Saturday evening at the new Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.
Tulane and Southern Miss both had six hits, but the difference in the ballgame was pitching as sophomore southpaw Matt Petiton, freshman right-hander Robby Broach and Segedin combined to allow just one earned run while striking out seven. With the win, Tulane improves to 27-11-1 on the year and 6-4-1 in C-USA play. Southern Miss, meanwhile, falls to 25-12 overall and 5-6 in league action.
"We just played really well tonight," Tulane head coach Rick Jones said. "We made some great plays defensively and we got tremendous pitching from Matt Petiton and Rob Segedin. Robby Broach got a huge out for us in the seventh. We just played well defensively and scored enough runs. We bunched those runs up there in the one inning and put up a crooked number."
Tulane trailed 2-1 after a two-run home run by Southern Miss designated hitter Trey Cuevas in the top of the third. In the home half of the frame, however, junior shortstop Seth Henry tied the game with an RBI double before Segedin and junior first baseman Sam Honeck came through with a pair of two-out, RBI-singles to account for the final score.
After allowing the home run to Cuevas, Petiton retired the next five batters to step into the box and faced the minimum over the next 3.0 innings. With one out in the seventh, however, USM left fielder Chris Matesich singled to left center before centerfielder Bo Davis posted a two-out walk to chase Petiton from the game.
Broach got leadoff hitter James Ewing to foul out to first to thwart the rally, but shortstop Brian Dozier scorched a leadoff single to left to open the eighth. Jones called on his third baseman to take the mound and the rookie from Old Tappan, N.J., responded with three combined strikeouts, two pop-ups and a ground ball to second to earn his second save this week.
"He's one of the premier freshmen in the country," Jones said of Segedin. "We knew we had a special guy when we got him. His make-up is off the charts, and tonight he showed it."
Following a scoreless first, Tulane got things going in the second as Honeck walked and advanced 90 feet on a wild pitch by Southern Miss starter Todd McInnis. Junior designated hitter Andrew Rodgers followed with a hot-shot single to short, and junior left fielder Warren McFadden plated Honeck with a sacrifice fly to center.
The 1-0 lead did not last long, however, as Southern Miss shortstop Brian Dozier reached on a two-base error with one out in the third before Cuevas hammered a 2-2 Petiton offering over the wall in left. Down a run, junior second baseman Anthony Scelfo sparked a three-run rally in the third with a one-out walk, advanced to second on another McInnis wild pitch and tied the game on Henry's double to left. With two away, Segedin singled to shallow left and advanced to third as Matesich's throw to the plate was not in time, and Honeck followed with a run-scoring single to short.
Petiton (4-0) earned the win after allowing two runs (one earned) on six hits and two walks while striking out four over 6.2 innings. McInnis (6-2) was saddled with the loss after allowing four runs on five hits and four walks while striking out six in 3.1 innings.
Lost in the defeat was a solid relief outing by Southern Miss southpaw Wade Weathers. After replacing McInnis with two on and one out in the fourth, Weathers retired the next 12 Green Wave batters before Segedin singled with one out in the eighth. That would be the lone blemish on Weathers' day, as he finished with four strikeouts and no walks over the final 4.2 innings.
"It's a shame (McInnis) didn't have his command," Southern Miss head coach Corky Palmer said. "They were not hitting. It was evident that they were swinging and missing a lot. Honestly, if he had his command, he would have sailed through the (third) inning.
"It's not the easiest thing coaching this team. Everything has to go right. We have to catch the ball, get timely hitting and get to (Wade) Weathers and (Tyler) Conn. We work hard and have good players, but we're not nearly as talented, especially with all the injuries."
Tulane and Southern Miss close out the weekend on Sunday with first pitch slated for 1 p.m. before playing host to arch-rival LSU on Tuesday at 6 p.m. For ticket information, contact the Tulane Athletics Ticket Office at 504-861-WAVE or log onto the internet at www.TulaneGreenWave.com.


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TV Ratings: Soft return for 'V,' as 'Idol' controls Tuesday
'Dancing with the Stars' results show takes a bite out of 'Idol' at 8 p.m.
"Dancing with the Stars" took a big bite out of the first hour of "American Idol" on Tuesday, but not a big enough bite to keep FOX from dominating the night in all key measures.
Meanwhile, ABC's "V" returned with a 10 p.m. win in the demo, but still finished well under where it ended its fall run.
Among adults 18-49, FOX won the night with a 7.5 rating. ABC's 3.3 rating was a distant second in the key demographic. NBC's 2.7 rating followed closely, topping the 1.8 rating for CBS. The CW's 0.7 rating trailed.
Overall, FOX averaged an estimated 21.33 million viewers to go with a 12.1 rating/19 share. ABC's 6.6/11 was enough for second, nipping the 6.3/10 for a night of repeats on CBS. NBC was fourth with a 4.4/7. That left The CW in fifth with a 0.8/1.
FOX started the night in first with a 10.9/18 and a 7.0 demo rating for "American Idol," which was more than 3.5 million viewers under the Tuesday 8 p.m. hour from last week. Where did those viewers go? Some presumably went to the results for "Dancing with the Stars," which did a 9.2/15 (but only a 2.9 demo rating). CBS' repeat of "NCIS" had a 6.8/11 for third, far ahead of the fourth place total for NBC's "Biggest Loser." The CW's "90210" did a 1.0/2 for the hour.
"American Idol" improved dramatically to a 13.4/21 and a 8.0 demo rating in the 9 p.m. hour, though both figures were still below last week's numbers. CBS' repeat of "NCIS: Los Angeles" was second overall. ABC's "Lost" did a 6.2/10 (with a 4.0 rating in the demo for second) and took advantage of its strong lead-in to gain over a million viewers from last week. NBC's "Biggest Loser" had a 5.0/8 in its second hour for fourth. The CW's "Melrose Place" had a 0.7/1 for the hour, drawing only 1.06 million viewers.
CBS' repeat of "The Good Wife" won the 10 p.m. hour overall with a 5.5/10. ABC's "V" had a 4.5/8 overall and won the hour in the key demo with a 2.9 rating. Despite a solid lead-in, "V" was down by nearly two million viewers from its last November airing, though that lead-in helped "V" only drop 0.2 demo points from its fall finale. NBC's "Parenthood" was third with a 4.1/7 and second in the demo.
All ratings information comes from preliminary Fast National Nielsen data, which includes live and same-day DVR viewing. All numbers are subject to change.

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August 2012
Saunders misses sixth straight as M's close out trip
Michael Saunders had hoped to get back into the lineup at some point during this series in Minneapolis, but the Mariners outfielder was sidelined again Thursday as Seattle closed out its four-game set with the Twins.
Saunders has been out with a strained right groin muscle since a ninth-inning collision with Eric Thames in the outfield in Friday's 9-8 loss to the White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field.
Manager Eric Wedge said Saunders is very close to being ready, but the team will give him one more day to make sure he's 100 percent to go Friday when the Mariners return home to face the Angels.
"We just feel like he needs a day of rest, he's been pushing so hard to come back," Wedge said. "The best opportunity for him to play in the outfield tomorrow and play an entire game would be to give him some time today. We plan on him being in the outfield tomorrow."
Franklin Gutierrez was back in center field for Thursday's 10:10 a.m. PT getaway game after sitting out Wednesday's 10-0 loss to rest his legs as he eases his way back from a two-month absence.
The Mariners are eager to put that clunker behind them. They haven't had many of those this season, but it happens in baseball. The club can still win the series, which would make nine of 13 series wins, and they've already clinched their second straight winning month. That hasn't happened since the end of 2009, so this is indeed a good run.
Seattle finishes up its seven-game road trip today and then heads home for a nine-game homestand with teh Angels, Red Sox and A's.
Here is Seattle's full lineup against Twins lefty Brian Duensing (3-9, 5.28 ERA):
Dustin Ackley 2B
Franklin Gutierrez CF
Kyle Seager 3B
Jesus Montero C
Justin Smoak 1B
Miguel Olivo DH
Trayvon Robinson LF
Eric Thames RF
Brendan Ryan SS
Blake Beavan RHP
Saunders, Guti both out of lineup on Wednesday
Michael Saunders worked out under the watchful eye of trainer Rick Griffin this afternoon at Target Field, but the Mariners outfielder was not in the lineup for a fifth straight game for Wednesday night's battle with the Twins.
Saunders strained his right groin muscle in the collision with right fielder Eric Thames on Friday night in Chicago and the club is being careful not pushing him back too soon.
"I want to be playing games in September," Saunders said on Tuesday, "so we don't want to try to rush it."
Franklin Gutierrez is also not in tonight's lineup after playing the past two games upon coming off the disabled list. We haven't had a chance to talk to Eric Wedge yet today, so not certain on his status. But Wedge said Monday that Gutierrez would play the first two games and then be evaluated to see how he was doing.
The thought was he'd likely get a day off here at some point in this four-game series. And with right-hander Samuel Deduno on the mound today, Wedge has chosen to give him this one off so he can be ready to face lefty Brian Duensing in the day game on Thursday.
That puts Chone Figgins in center field tonight. He played there Saturday in Chicago as well, after Saunders got hurt and before Gutierrez was back with the club.
Here's the full lineup tonight at 5:10 p.m. PT against Deduno, a 29-year-old rookie who took his first Major League loss 10 days ago in Seattle when he gave up two runs and five hits in six innings in a game the Mariners went on to win 5-1.
Dustin Ackley 2B
Trayvon Robinson LF
Kyle Seager 3B
John Jaso DH
Justin Smoak 1B
Eric Thames RF
Miguel Olivo C
Chone Figgins CF
Munenori Kawasaki SS
Jason Vargas LHP
Zunino, Franklin, Paxton head AFL roster
Catcher Mike Zunino, shortstop Nick Franklin and left-handed pitcher James Paxton – three of the Mariners top young prospects – head a list of eight Seattle Minor Leaguers who were named to the Peoria Javelinas team on Wednesday as Arizona Fall League rosters were announced.
Zunino, the Mariners top pick and No. 3 overall selection in June's First-Year Player Draft, has been extremely impressive in his first few weeks at Double-A Jackson after being promoted from Class-A Everett this month.
Franklin, a first-round Draft pick in 2009, played in the AFL last fall as well and then has spent this season at Triple-A Tacoma.
Paxton, a fourth-round selection in 2010, has been pitching for Double-A Jackson this season.
Also named to the Peoria AFL squad were infielders Vinnie Catricala and Stefen Romero, right-handed pitchers Carson Smith and Logan Bawcom and left-hander Bobby LaFromboise.
Romero is a "taxi squad" participant, meaning he'll be eligible only to play on Wednesday and Saturday games.
There are six different AFL teams and the Mariners are one of five Major League clubs that has representatives on the Peoria squad. The Reds also are affiliated with Peoria, which means speed sensation Billy Hamilton, who has stolen 154 bases in the Minor Leagues this season, will be on that squad as well.
Hamilton will get plenty of attention, but it's a good chance for some of the Mariners top propsects to get additional playing time this fall as well. Last season, Danny Hultzen and Franklin were among the Seattle players who participated.
You can click here to see the full roster of the Peoria squad.
Felix putting up fabulous numbers
Felix Hernandez continued going where few pitchers have gone before with his 1-0 victory over the Twins on Monday. Thanks to Elias and Jeff Evans of the Mariners baseball information department for more fun Felix facts in the wake of his club record fifth shutout of the season:
– The five shutouts are tied for the most in a season by an American League pitcher since 1989, joining Bert Blyleven ('89), Roger Clemens ('92) and David Wells ('98).
– He joins Mark Langston (September 1988) as the only pitcher in Mariners history with three shutouts in one calendar month.
– Only two other pitchers in Major League history have had three 1-0 shutout wins in a calendar month: Carl Hubbell for the Giants (July 1933) and the Braves' Dick Rudolph (August 1916).
– He's the first Major League pitcher since Randy Johnson in 1998 with the Astros to record five shutouts in a 12-start span.
– Hernandez's 16 starts of seven-plus innings with one or fewer runs is a Mariners record, breaking the mark of 15 he set during his 2010 Cy Young season.
– Going into Tuesday's games, he had the lowest ERA in the Major Leagues (2.43), the most innings pitched (196 2/3), was third in strikeouts (184) and sixth in batting average against (.218).
Bottom line, there are a lot of really good Cy Young candidates in the AL right now between Jered Weaver, Justin Verlander, Chris Sale, David Price and Hernandez, but Felix has come from the back of that pack to definite front-running contention with a stunning two-month string of starts during which he's gone 9-0 with 1.40 ERA.
I'll keep saying it. When you have a two-month span during which you're tossing complete-game shutouts against the Rangers, Yankees, Red Sox, Rays and now the Twins – with a perfect game in the middle of that — it doesn't get any better.
Gutierrez in center tonight as Saunders still out
With Franklin Gutierrez back with the team today after being activated off the disabled list, he's sliding right into the lineup in center field against the Twins with Michael Saunders still sidelined with a tender groin muscle.
Saunders hasn't played since colliding with right fielder Eric Thames on the final play of Friday's 9-8 loss in Chicago, but is day-to-day and hoping to be back by Tuesday.
Gutierrez has been the hard-luck story for the past two seasons, so it'll be interesting to see what he can do with the season's final six weeks. Obviously the Mariners would love to see a strong finish by the 2010 Gold Glover, who still has a year remaining on his contract and figures prominently in the team's plans … if he can stay healthy.
Tonight is Felix night as well, with Mr. Perfecto gunning for his ninth straight win. Hernandez hasn't lost since June 12 in San Diego, going 8-0 with a 1.53 ERA over his past 13 starts. So, yeah, that's pretty good.
He's taking on a Twins club coming off a 2-8 road trip and sprting the worst record in the AL at 52-75. The Mariners themselves stubbed their toe with three one-run losses at U.S. Cellular Field over the weekend, so they'd like to get back on track after their eight-game streak came to an end.
Here's today's full lineup for the 5:10 p.m. PT start against Twins right-hander Liam Hendriks (0-6, 7.06 ERA):
Dustin Ackley 2B
Franklin Gutierrez CF
Kyle Seager 3B
Jesus Montero DH
John Jaso C
Justin Smoak 1B
Eric Thames RF
Trayvon Robinson LF
Brendan Ryan SS
Felix Hernandez RHP
Gutierrez comes off DL; Wells sent to Tacoma
After two months on the disabled list following a concussion, center fielder Franklin Gutierrez has been activated by the Mariners and will be with the team today as it opens a four-game series against the Twins at Target Field.
Outfielder Casper Wells was optioned to Triple-A Tacoma to make room on the 25-man roster.
Gutierrez, 29, had played only 13 games this season after coming back from a partially torn pectoral muscle when he got hit in the head by a pickoff throw to first base on June 28. After dealing with recurring headaches, he finally was able to make a rehab stint with Tacoma and hit .333 with seven RBIs and two home runs in seven games.
He'll provide some center field options for manager Eric Wedge, with Michael Saunders having missed the past two games with a groin injury after colliding with right fielder Eric Thames in the ninth inning of Friday's 9-8 loss to the White Sox.
Saunders said on Sunday he's hopeful of being ready to return by Monday, but he can also play left or right field.
Gutierrez was a 2010 Gold Glove winner and is one of the premier defensive center fielders in the game when healthy, but has struggled to stay on the field the past two seasons. He played just 92 games while hitting .224 in 2011 after dealing with a digestive issue early in the year and then straining his oblique muscle in the final month.
A career .256 hitter in eight years in the Majors, Gutierrez was batting .267 with two home runs and nine RBIs in 45 at-bats this season when he was hit in the face by Boston's Franklin Morales while going back to first base.
Wells, 27, has hit .226 with eight home runs and 29 RBIs in 74 games with the Mariners. He snapped an 0-for-16 slump with a two-run home run in the fifth inning of Sunday's 4-3 loss to the White Sox.
Wells had lost playing time recently with Trayvon Robinson getting most of the duty in left field and Eric Thames in right. He'll be with the Rainiers for their season-ended eight-game road trip starting in Las Vegas on Monday night, then be eligible to rejoin the Mariners after Tacoma's season ends on Sept. 3.
Start time re-set for 1 p.m. PT after rain delay
They're going to try to play ball at 1 p.m. PT (or 3 p.m. here in Chicago) as the tarp is being taken off now at U.S. Cellular Field after about a 90-minute rain delay.
The forecast doesn't look pretty today, but weather.com shows even higher rain percentages later tonight in the 7 p.m. range, so it appears they're going to try to start shortly and see if they can squeeze it in.
Frankly, there's not a lot of options as a later make-up date is pretty much impossible. The only common off day the Mariners and White Sox share the rest of the season is Thursday, Sept. 6. But that is in the middle of a Mariners homestand and they play a night game on Sept. 5 in Seattle against the Red Sox.
So it would be extremely difficult to fly to Chicago on the morning of Sept. 6, play a game and then get back to Seattle to resume their homestand the next day.
More likely, I presume, would be making up the game on the day after the regular season ends on Oct. 4 if it was necessary. Given the White Sox's situation, they may indeed need to play all 162 games to figure out their playoff situation.
The Mariners? I'm sure they'd be happy to still need to be playing at that point.
But hopefully we get this in this afternoon. Kevin Millwood is on the mound for a Seattle. He's a veteran who has been through a few rain delays in his 16 years in the Majors.
Saunders still out, but Gutierrez close to returning
We've got some heavy rain falling in Chicago as game time approaches here at U.S. Cellular Field, so not looking good to get this game with the White Sox going by its 11:10 a.m. PT start time. But we did meet with Eric Wedge pregame and there is a little news to report.
Michael Saunders remains sidelined again today, out a second straight game with a sore groin muscle from his Friday collision with Eric Thames. Saunders hopes to return by Monday's series opener in Minnesota, but Wedge said Franklin Gutierrez is also close to rejoining the club.
Gutierrez has been on the disabled list for eight weeks with a concussion. He played his seventh rehab game with Triple-A Tacoma on Saturday and went 1-for-3 with a walk and run scored. He's hit .333 with seven RBIs and two home runs with the Rainiers and hasn't had any further headaches or setbacks.
"I think he's close to heading our way," Wedge said. "He felt good again last night. We're going to talk further about it today, but I think he's getting close."
Gutierrez has played just 13 games this season after missing the first several months of the season with a partially torn pectoral muscle. He was playing well when he finally got healthy, batting .267 two home runs and nine RBIs in 45 at-bats while playing his usual outstanding defense.
But the 2010 Gold Glove winner was hit in the head with a pickoff throw to first base by Boston's Franklin Morales on June 28 and has been sidelined ever since.
Here's today's lineup, if we ever get this one going:
Dustin Ackley 2B
Trayvon Robinson LF
Kyle Seager 3B
John Jaso C
Jesus Montero DH
Eric Thames RF
Justin Smoak 1B
Casper Wells CF
Brendan Ryan SS
Kevin Millwood RHP
Saunders, Thames both sidelined after Friday collision
Center fielder Michael Saunders and right fielder Eric Thames were both out of the lineup Saturday after the two collided on the final play of the Mariners' 9-8 loss to the White Sox.
Saunders injured his groin muscle slightly as the two crashed together and was receiving treatment prior to Saturday night's 4:10 p.m. PT game at U.S. Cellular Field.
"Thames is OK. Saunders has a little bit of groin," manager Eric Wedge said. "When they hit out there, he kind of stuck and turned in a way that was kind of funky. He'll be a game-time decision in regard to his availability. Eric is good to go, but they've got a lefty in there tonight so we've got our other guys in there."
Chone Figgins got the start in center field, with Casper Wells in right field.
Thames said he could have played, though he was pretty banged up. He had the ball in his glove on Paul Konerko's smash to the right-center field fence, but it popped loose as Saunders crashed into him just as they both reached the fence.
"My pride is a little hurt, but I'm alright," he said. "Our heads are good, that's the scariest part. My shoulder and legs are banged up, but it's OK. I feel like I was in a car accident. It makes me respect the rugby guys a little more. But we're good."
Thames was still re-living the moment a day later, calling it "a tough pill to swallow." He said he saw Saunders at the last second, but was committed at that point to making the play.
"I don't want to say I expected it because we were both screaming, but we couldn't hear each other," Thames said. "I don't know if he's going to get it, so I have to go for it. Then he's about two feet away, I caught it and next thing I know we're on the ground face down and the ball is rolling toward second base. It happened so fast, but he got the brunt of it. It happened so fast, that's all I can say."
What hurt more was that Konerko passed the base runner who was tagging up at first and could have been called out for a double play if Thames had held onto the ball, which would have sent the game into extra innings tied at 8.
Here's the full lineup Saturday:
Dustin Ackley 2B
Trayvon Robinson LF
Jesus Montero DH
Kyle Seager 3B
Justin Smoak 1B
Miguel Olivo C
Casper Wells RF
Chone Figgins CF
Brendan Ryan SS
Blake Beavan RHP
Tough Friday: Mariners lose in painful fashion, Pauley suspended, Hultzen roughed up
Tough night on a couple fronts for the Mariners on Friday, starting with finding another way to drop a game at U.S. Cellular Field with a 9-8 loss that ended with right fielder Eric Thames having the ball knocked loose when he collided with center fielder Michael Saunders on a drive in the gap by Paul Konerko.
This after Seattle had rallied with six runs in the top of the ninth to take an 8-7 lead in a game they appeared dead to rights after Jason Vargas gave up three early home runs.
The Mariners took a lot of positives out of the comeback and even the last play, given the all-out effort by Thames and Saunders. But closer Tom Wilhelmsen was kicking himself for giving up the lead as the Mariners saw their record against the White Sox fall to 4-22 over the past three years and 1-6 this season.
They've lost 17 of their last 20 games at U.S. Cellular and this one hurt as much as any of them. Just ask Wilhelmsen.
What happened?
"They hit the pitches that I threw," the big closer said through a grimace. "You can't [bleeping] walk the go-ahead runner and I did that."
The pitch Konerko hit?
"Right down the middle," said Wilhelmsen. "That ball was driven pretty well. It didn't look to me like either one had a shot, so I was really impressed with their effort. It was enough to get the guys in."
And that's how a game ended after whip-sawing back into Seattle's favor just moments earlier with what could have been one of the most-dramatic comebacks of the season.
You can read my game story and watch a video of the game-ended collision here.
But that wasn't the only sore point for the Mariners on Friday. Mariners reliever David Pauley, now pitching for Triple-A Tacoma, was suspended for 50 games without pay following a second violation for a drug of abuse, according to the commissioner's office.
Pauley, who re-signed with the Mariners at midseason after being traded to the Tigers last year, had been pitching well for the Rainiers with a 3.14 ERA in 11 appearances. The suspension was not for steroids or performance enhancers, but for an unspecified recreational-type drug.
That spells the end of the season for Pauley, who had been a big part of the Mariners bullpen a year ago and might have been a candidate for a September call-up.
Then young starter Danny Hultzen went out and got roughed up for the Rainiers, lasting just two-thirds of an inning while giving up four runs on two hits and four walks. The 2011 first-round Draft pick is now 1-3 with a 5.14 ERA in nine starts since being promoted from Double-A Jackson and you have to wonder if he might get shut down soon as he appears to be running out of gas in his first year in pro ball.
On the plus side there, Franklin Gutierrez went 1-for-4 with a run in his sixth rehab game and appears on track to return fairly soon to the Mariners. Saunders was shaken up in his collision with Thames, but wasn't believed to be injured.
If he is unable to play for a while, Gutierrez could be a candidate to return sooner than expected. Otherwise, I suspect he'll stay in Tacoma until rosters can be expanded on Sept. 1. Casper Wells can play center as well, so the Mariners have some options if Saunders is out for a brief time.


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Does anyone have any experience with Sony Service, in particular with the Laredo, Texas repair facility? How long is the typical repair turnaround?
I just sent in my Nex-5, to have the rear LCD looked at (non warranty repair) and most likely replaced. I was not able to get a clear answer on the phone with Sony and I could not find any information on repair turnaround times on the website.
Also, I am not a fan of the Sony flat fee repair charges also, 1)depending on the required repair, price seems high and 2) you have to agree to pay the amount before anyone even looks at the camera to diagnose the problem. I will see how this plays out before upgrading to a NEX-7.
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low energy?
or low stamina?
could be lots of things, but i am thinking repair mostly here
while the body takes advantage of a repair cycle your wont feel much like exercising
I posted this a while ago but did not get much feed back. I would l would love to hear from any seasoned primal people. I am feeling better after keeping a regimens of magnesium, potassium, zinc, and calcium- taking only the mag. and pot. together). Thanks!
(posted two weeks or so ago) My blood sugar levels are fantastic now that I have gone primal, but I have no endurance and need to force myself to exercise. What is wrong with me? I was very insulin resistant, and eating a vegetarian diet with plenty fresh veggies and fruits with nuts and some fish. I experienced horrible blood sugar drops. I've been primal since the first part of June 2012, but I'm still feeling fatigued. I eat between 40 to 80 grams of carbs a day and don't want to go higher because of the misery I was in before from fruit and honey blood sugar spikes.
I follow the Smarter Science of Slim exercise guidelines and enjoy casual tennis, bicycling, walking, etc. I have studied hormonal balance and supplement with minerals and a whole foods vitamin- taking care not to combine minerals that interfere with another mineral's absorption. I also use 16 to 18 hour intermittent fasting- which has helped me understand true hunger and helped me become more self aware.
I am 42 years old and need to lose 15-20 lbs of fat. I am a mother of several children, the youngest is now eight. Any suggestions you could offer would be very appreciated!!
low energy?
or low stamina?
could be lots of things, but i am thinking repair mostly here
while the body takes advantage of a repair cycle your wont feel much like exercising
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Both for a while. It got scary there for a few weeks. What do you mean by repair- what would have been repairing specifically? I am assuming my system has had to repair from insulin resistance damage at least.
Start by adding about a pound of meat every day. Dial up or down from there as needed. I don't have energy without adequate protein intake. How much do you eat now?I have gone primal, but I have no endurance and need to force myself to exercise. What is wrong with me? I was very insulin resistant, and eating a vegetarian diet
Steak, eggs, potatoes - fruits, nuts, berries and forage. Coconut milk and potent herbs and spices. Tea instead of coffee now and teeny amounts of kelp daily. Let's see how this does! Not really had dairy much, and gut seems better for it.
Are you sure it's physical and not mental? I feel much better than I did prior to transitioning to primal, but I still have zero energy for exercise for exercise's sake. I know it's in my head.
You said you were vegetarian before - have you added red meat back in? Any chance you could be anemic?
Some people find that being steadily very low carb (less than 50 grams or so) for a long time can give them hypothyroid symptoms (like fatigue). With adequate protein intake, increasing your carbs just a little shouldn't make you crash (I had pretty bad hypoglycemia my whole life pre-primal, so I understand your fear there).
Starting slow with exercise might help build your energy. Make your first goal something like walking 30 minutes every day. When you've done that for a while, add another goal.
Thank you. I have added red near back into my diet- in fact I rarely even want to eat any meat but red meat. I just had my iron, thyroid, etc. checked and I have very healthy levels. I think I was resetting hormonally- got the iud out one month ago. It was very scary for me for a couple of weeks and I questioned everything about my diet, exercise, everything since i felt exhausted and drained all the time. This week I am getting exponentially stronger during/after each workout. I am amazed at how much better/stronger I feel now compared to two weeks ago. I do slow eccentric weight 'lowering' to failure sessions and sprint intervals to exhaustion. (since July-'smarter science of slim' style)
I stayed high protein and high fat even though I questioned what was going on in my body- and it was a great decision for me. I also continued with IF despite my fears and the posts on IF for women on the forum from Mark. I feel moe while and more at peace than I have in a long time. I appreciate all of the fabulous information and feedback that I have found on this site- and all the great informative links. :')
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The Golden State Warriors have not been known for very many big-time free-agent signings in their history, but their recent acquisition of Andre Iguodala might rank as one of the best.
Oracle Arena has been a place where players come when they need a temporary stop or are just idling in their careers. The previous ownership group of Chris Cowan and company did not put a quality product on the floor for almost 20 years and had the same lack of aggressiveness for the free-agency process.
The new ownership group of Joe Lacob and Peter Guber looks like they have figured it out in only a few seasons. The group, along with general manager Bob Myers, have moved the team forward with lightning speed into a perennial playoff contender.
That being said, let's take a closer look at the all-time best free-agency signings in Warriors' history.


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MOUNT PLEASANT, MI — A 20-year-old man died from a stabbing in downtown Mount Pleasant, police say.
Officers arrived at an apartment on South Main between East Broadway and West Michigan just before 4:30 a.m. and found Tyrone Stanley suffering from a knife wound, according to a press release from Mount Pleasant Police Public Informatin Officer Jeff Browne.
Medical personnel transported Stanley to the McClaren Central Michigan Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, Browne stated.
Mount Pleasant police arrested a 25-year-old man in connection with the stabbing and lodged him at the Isabella County Jail pending arraignment, Browne stated stated. The investigation is ongoing.
The Michigan State Police Grayling crime lab processed the scene.
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Do Hummingbird's actually rest? Fun day of bird watching and I actually got a shot of this bird "who does not rest" watching the feeder waiting for its turn :) Enjoy!
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The basic trip report, like my other one a few weeks back.
AA DTW-DFW (Eq: S80) -LAX (Eq: 772)
Cabin: Y, both segments.
The flight from DTW was originally half booked, but an earlier flight had delayed well pass my flight time I was standing-by on. I did not get F/C, however the agent saved me the 3-seat side bulkhead row for my sister and I (no special assistance obviously). Anyway, flight was fine- nothing out of norm. Arrived in DFW a few mins. early. Went to the LAX gate and I already knew that F/C was full, so hoped for two seats next to each other. Got my boarding passes early and boarded- sat in the infamous middle seat of the five with my sister next to me. And actually, not bad at all. I was enjoying it and watched Finding Nemo on the PTV. The flight crew were very upbeat and positive. Arrived in LAX early. Loved the 777. Would of been nice to be in F/C, but oh well. Time to enjoy California, but not before waiting 1 hour and 15 mins. in line at Dollar for my car rental.
Overall: A
AA LAX-DFW (Eq: 763) -DTW (Eq: F100)
Cabin: F, both segments.
Checked the night before for standby space and first still had 18 seats available (new config. 767 with 30 F/C). Arrived at the Self-Service machine about 55 mins. before departure (Labor day and it was very busy!), checked-in, went through security, got to the gate about 25 mins. before departure. The agent had my boarding pass ready and boarded. This was my sister's first time in first, but she was so tired and just wanted to sleep. The flight crew, esp. the Purser was excellent and just... super! I loved her. Arrived into DFW early but had to wait for the gate (about 5 mins.). Went to my next gate and checked-in for standby, got my boarding pass. The flight to DTW felt like forever just because I wanted to get home and sleep. In any case, again, the F/A working first was very nice.
Overall: A
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Love me like you do, love me like you do
Like you do, hold me tight and don't let go
What am I to do when you love me like you do?
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Show me, show me, show me the way to your heart
Ooh, my baby, baby, I'm begging, lady, lady
Put me in the middle, that's where I'mma start, uh huh
Not to be confused with Ellie Goulding's song of the same name, JB's "Love Me Like You Do" is more of a love-based ode to a significant other. However, it's not completely sex-free, either.


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A new Friendly's restaurant is nearing completion in the New Dorp Pergament/Shop n Stop lot. While it is always good to have new businesses open in our neighborhood providing services and creating jobs, one can but wonder - do we need more food here? The same shopping center lot already has a Dunkin Donuts, a bagel store, a Chinese restaurant, a Wendy's right next to it, and a Burger King being rebuilt on the other side. A Weight Watcher's store is strategically placed next to the donut store, but I'm sure Governor Paterson would frown upon the gratuitous calorie overload within this one block radius. I'm referring to his proposed "Fat Tax" of course.
While the Guv is targeting sugar-loaded soft drinks and not junk food with his landmark Fat Tax concept - he may be onto something here. After all, the current smoker taxes have successfully picked the pockets of nicotine addicts - why not cash in on other "harmful" habits with creative taxation. Let us examine a few options available for increasing the State's cash flow.
Fast food, of course, goes hand in hand with the non-diet beverages. After all, our justification is "good health", so a flat one-penny per calorie tax would be appropriate. So-called healthy salads would pose a problem, creative diners would simply garnish their garden-mix salad with a burger patty and cheese, so toppings would have to be taxed as well.
Obesity, naturally, very harmful to health. Tax every pound over the healthy limit. A related excess Body Mass Index tax would also generate enormous revenue, especially when enforced during this holiday season when our ritual festive feedings virtually ensure weight gain.
Jaywalking. Very unhealthy, both to the jaywalkers as well as to vehicles that may happen to impact them. Health care costs, traffic delays, lost productivity; definitely a taxable habit. Since most car owners rarely walk, the easy way would be to simply tax everyone who doesn't own a car. Tacking an MTA surcharge would help that agency's coffers as well - after all we do pay such surcharges on our phone bills (which have absolutely nothing to do with transit) and our dinky lil' VZ bridge (need I say more).
Caffeine, ah yes, the ultimate addiction. Who can go without their cup 'o Joe? Gastrointestinal complications abound, many drinkers add sugar (risk of diabetes) and milk/cream (flatulent cattle depleting our ozone layer resulting in UV radiation and skin cancer). Given the sheer volume of coffee consumed daily, even a small 5-cent tax per cup would push our State budget out of the red within a few months.
Internet addiction, by all means a taxable habit. Carpal tunnel syndrome, vision problems, sleeplessness, back pain; the health risks are enormous. A one-penny tax per webpage or E-mail would generate a marvelous revenue stream. It could also solve the Spam E-mail problem, and would definitely eliminate all those nonsense chain letter E-mails your cousin's nephew's roommate's brother's uncle spews out every day.
The concept is absurd, isn't it! When will our elected officials realize that they cannot legislate healthy choices? We are endowed with free will, and we have the common sense and the right to decide the fate of our own health. Bad health choices, possibly; bad habits, our prerogative. Nothing gives a Government the power to interfere with or tax our free will, however altruistic their intentions may be. If I wish to imbibe a can of sugar laden carbonated soda, however harmful it is perceived to be, I have the right to make my own health decision without being taxed for my choice. If I wish to sit in the privacy of my yard and have a smoke, sipping a cup of addictive coffee, while gnawing on a sugar covered donut; I have the free will to make my own choices without the taxman trying to pick my pocket.
So let us welcome our new Friendly's restaurant to the neighborhood, and once they open - be sure to visit and drink as many unhealthy high-sugar carbonated drinks as YOU wish, it is YOUR choice.


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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Services in BahrainPrint
Traffic is a Dubai based firm specializing in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and web marketing. In other words we are the people that can make your website appear on the first page of popular search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing and help you gain the most out of your web presence in Bahrain and Middle East.
We specialize in providing SEO services in Bahrain and the rest of the Middle East. Our core strength lies with our talented team of SEO engineers, with include experts in the field of search engines optimization for organic search engine ranking, social media management and multimedia development and production with a special focus on Bahrain and peripheral markets.
Another factor that makes us the best choice for SEO services in Bahrain - especially with regard to the local business establishments - is research. Our research into the mindset of Middle Eastern consumes, and understands of consumer behavior patterns in Bahrain, with regard to search engine utilization and keyword targeting make us the best choice for Search Engine Optimization in Bahrain. In fact our SEO services not only bring more customers to your site but they also help you evaluate opportunities and threats as soon as they emerge on the Internet scene.
However you don't have to take our word for it, click here to see some of our clients that have used our services to boost their site ratings. Traffic is your best bet for SEO Bahrain.


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Drupal Association members fund grants that make connections all over the world.
From the documentation for jquery.cycle, you are supposed to put functions in with just the function name (onBefore, onAfter in the example below:
fx: 'scrollLeft',
timeout: 5000,
before: onBefore,
after: onAfter
However, when adding the same behavior in the advanced options screen in views slideshow, the functions have to be appended with parenthesis, like so
I believe this boils down to how these functions are being called:
(line 199 of views_slideshow_cycle.js)
case "before":
var beforeValue = advancedOptions[option];
beforeValue = Drupal.viewsSlideshowCycle.advancedOptionCleanup(beforeValue);
// transition callback (scope set to element to be shown): function(currSlideElement, nextSlideElement, options, forwardFlag)
settings.opts[option] = function(currSlideElement, nextSlideElement, options, forwardFlag) {
eval(beforeValue) returns "function()" when called without a parentheses (like eval(onBefore), but it actually invokes the function if you call eval(onBefore()).
Hope this makes sense. took me an hour or so scratching my head as to why this wasn't workign as exppected.


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Late last week, AL.com published an interactive map showing precinct-level results of the GOP primary race for Alabama's 6th Congressional District. It's embedded again below.
It took a little bit of work to build, so I wanted to tell you what tricks we used, in case you plan on building a map of your own.
For starters, we built the map in Tableau. It's not exactly the easiest thing to pick up, and there's not yet a version for Mac. But the support staff is helpful and usually willing to chat about stuff, and there are all kinds of tutorial videos on the web.
Of course, you're not going to get much out of data visualization software without good, clean data with which to work. So how did we get precinct-level data all into one place?
Five of the six counties in the 6th district quickly provided us with precinct-level data to use for our analysis. (We're still waiting to hear from Coosa.) The reports were typically printouts that were scanned and emailed -- not the easiest thing to work with for conducting our own analyses, but the quick turnaround (within 36 hours) made up for it.
The smaller counties were easy enough to enter manually into Excel, but manual entry wasn't going to work for Jefferson County and its 1,000-page report. (Click here to have a look at it.)
Enter Tabula, a tool that's excellent for scraping numbers out of PDFs. It took some patience with this massive file, but the program -- created by journalists -- did a really nice consistent job of getting the numbers into text form. The only real cleaning I had to do was replacing double-spaces with a semi-colon to use as a delimiter, which allowed me to use "Text to Columns" to break out the results. For polling places with multiple voting machines, I combined vote totals into one totaled-up entry using Excel's "SUMIF" formula.
The last big step was locating each individual polling place on a map. For the smaller counties, it was easier to search for individual addresses in Google Maps, and just take the latitude and longitude from there (here's the Bibb County list for example).
But we needed another tool for Jefferson's lengthier list. We used geocommons.com to get those coordinates. One of the nice features of geocommons is that it rates its own accuracy level, so you can see when it is able to recognize a street-level address, versus just finding a Zip code or a city. We filled in the gaps with Google when the latitudes and longitudes weren't specific enough.
Once we had good clean data, we tried mapping it straightaway. But it was hard to glean anything when you were looking at so many pie graphs of various sizes; in some places, five different candidates got substantial numbers of votes. We needed to make one change: Identify the winners for each polling place, and plot them separately.
To do that, we first sorted the results at every polling place by percent of vote won. Then, alongside that, we used Excel's "COUNTIF" function. The thinking was we would only want each polling place to appear once, and only for the candidate who won the most votes. It was kind of a crazy idea, but it ended up working, giving us all the polling-place winners at the top of the spreadsheet.
We fed the winner data into Tableau, put the polling places on the map using latitude and longitude, set the size to reflect total number of votes received, and added a bar graph to let readers see aggregate results at the county level. That gave us the interactive visual we now have.
If you'd like to explore building a map of your own, just let me know, either in the comments or on Twitter. I'd be happy to work with you.


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Ames police are asking for the public's help with a growing graffiti problem in their town.
Police said vandals are mainly targeting downtown and Campustown areas. In the last year, graffiti has been found on more than 95 properties in town, police said.
Rental property owners are required in Ames to remove the markings. Other property owners are sent a notice asking them to remove graffiti.
Police are asking the public to report graffiti to them at 515-239-5133 or the Crime Tip Line at 515-239-5533 or on the city's website at www.cityofames.org.


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Tomás F. Serna
December 12, 2010
My grandfather, who lived to the age of 93, had a scotch every day of the last seventy years of his life. He only allowed himself a second one on saturday nights -he went to dinner out with my grandmother each and every saturday for 50+ years-, and when the United States had some kind of military incident around the world.
Most times it would work like this: News about some incident would break and he would call me and invite me over to his place. There, I would operate the satellite system to tune CNN on, and we would watch the news together. With a glass of scotch.
He had lived over 45 years on the Caribbean and had visited the US many, many times throughout his life, both for business and for leisure.
One thing was clear to him, when some local talking head complained on TV about the US acting as the "Police of the world" he always said that thank God someone was undertaking that role, and that it was good news for the "free world" that the ones taking care of that were the americans.
Just very recently we had a clear example on how very much we are in need of such a "world police". North Korea, anyone?… (more…)
Hans, José & João…
Tomás F. Serna
May 27, 2010
And so was I reading my twitter feed early this morning when I saw a link to an interesting article at the WSJ.
The title was: Who is Europe's Biggest Loser?
The header also sported a catchy line: "And the Oscar for the Hardest Hit From the Greek Bailout Goes to…"
At that stage it was impossible for me but to read the whole piece and within it's first few lines I found this hidden gem: (…) "Hans is being robbed —not given any choice—to pay for carefree Stavros, and may soon be robbed to pay for José's and Joãos" (…)
I enjoyed reading the piece and so I promptly tweeted the following: "WSJ: Hans is being robbed to pay for carefree Stavros, and may soon be robbed to pay for José's and Joãos."
And here is the response from José, our esteemed editor-in-chief… who within seconds e-mailed me the following one line:
Malentendidos, desinformaciones y realidades acerca de la disposición final primera del Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía Sostenible
Tomás F. Serna
10 de diciembre, 2009
El Consejo de Ministros aprobó el pasado 27 de noviembre el Anteproyecto de Ley de Economía Sostenible. El anteproyecto es una ley cajón de sastre del estilo al que se preparó en su momento en torno al conocido de todos 'plan nacional de substitución de aceras en buen estado general por otras más nuevas' (también conocido como "Plan E"), y viene a ser en síntesis una nueva amalgama de modificaciones de normas encaminadas en teoría hacia la reforma del modelo económico de las civilizaciones occidentales. Ahí es nada.
En lo que hoy nos interesa, el anteproyecto prevé una disposición adicional primera que se ha convertido en fuente inagotable de protagonismo mediatico para determinados representantes de la sociedad civil española en Internet.
Yahoo! takes the lead in EU data protection compliance
Tomás F. Serna
December 17, 2008
The on-line privacy arena is getting hotter by the minute… Yahoo! announced today a new global data retention policy which highlight consists in that: (…) "Yahoo! will anonymize user log data within 90 days with limited exceptions for fraud, security and legal obligations. Yahoo! will also expand the policy to apply not only to search log data but also page views, page clicks, ad views and ad clicks."
By taking this step, not only Yahoo! is complying with EU law, but it is most probably setting a new standard that Google and Microsoft -amongst others- will have no other option but to follow.
As recently as last week (Dec. 9th.), Microsoft made the news by stating that they would anonymize and discard data from search queries earlier if 'others' did the same.
As earlier discussed in this forum, Google has been engaged in a year and a half 'disagreement' with EU data protection officials that has taken its privacy and data retention policies to shrink from a very open "for as long as they are useful" to a period in between 18 to 24 months, and more recently to 9 months.
Best privacy policy. Ever.
Tomás F. Serna
December 8, 2008
"Privacy is a hot topic these days, and we want you to feel totally comfortable using our service, so our privacy policy is very simple: when you search with Cuil, we do not collect any personally identifiable information, period. We have no idea who sends queries: not by name, not by IP address, and not by cookies (…). Your search history is your business, not ours." (…)
Now, this is refreshing.
This privacy policy belongs to cuil.com, a somewhat recent initiative in the Internet 'search' business arena.
Founded amongst others by ex-googlers and billed as the "biggest Internet search engine" –it claims to have 120 billion web pages in its index, "3x more than any other search engine"–, Cuil inc. "analyzes de web, not its users". That last one, is another line I love. You'll be able to find it in the site's FAQ.
Ixquick, a EU based search engine that was awarded the first European Privacy Seal (EuroPriSe) earlier this year, comes close to this. They recognize that search history can poise a serious privacy problem and they provide the following approach: They state that the only real solution is to delete user's data and they promise to do so after 48 hours.
This was groundbreaking for me when I discovered Ixquick through EuroPriSe a couple months ago. It still is when compared to policies operated by major search engines out there. But Cuil's way of tackling the issue is a much better one for the privacy conscious user. Or for any kind user for that matter. The first and foremost solution is to not record personal information from users in the first place.
So kudos to Cuil! This is a true breakthrough in the search engine business model. I really hope they can keep it up.
On a final note, I'd like to direct readers to Ixquick's privacy information pages. Some interesting information over privacy and search engines there.
Praise for EuroPriSe
Tomás F. Serna
September 23, 2008
The European Privacy Seal (EuroPrise), project is an interesting initiative lead by the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection Schleswig-Holstein (Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz, ULD). This body is the local data protection authority of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost federal state of Germany.
Funded under the European Commission's eTen Programme, it currently consists in a nine European partner consortium to which Madrid's Data Protection Authority is a party.
At its essence, what this program is aiming to do is to establish a voluntary certification program by which any company or individual could: a) Gain assurance that her product or service is in compliance with EU data protection Laws, and b) Send a message to the marketplace and to consumers (end-users) stating: We take user's privacy seriously. Should you choose to use this product or service, rest assured that nothing funny is taking place regarding your personal information. See, we have this seal to prove it. (more…)


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HealthVault reference
The HealthVault Developer Tools site is an online resource to complement the MSDN Developer Center, the Application Configuration Center, and the partner-developed X-Ray for HealthVault tool. The site contains reference information for data types, methods and vocabularies supported by HealthVault.
Data types
HealthVault supports 80 data types to enable a range of medical and fitness scenarios. This section describes each data type in detail.
The HealthVault platform is exposed as a set of XML service methods. This section provides detailed information about each method.
A vocabulary is a list of values such as procedure codes or diagnostic codes. This section lists each vocabulary supported by HealthVault.


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Editor's Note | Bonus Days
Every once in a while, step outside your busy life and look around. Take notice of others around you. Observe. When you do, you will see some pretty amazing things. And you may feel elated just to be alive.
This month is, of course, breast cancer awareness month. In the process of deter-mining what angle to take this year, I once again came across a simple, yet powerful story of survivorship. Maybe it's because I know Janie James, but her experience with breast cancer deeply touched me, causing me to step back in wonder. I can't stop repeating her words — 'Every day is a bonus day.'
Sometimes it's easy to get our priorities derailed. So much of our daily lives matter, but it can be difficult to ferret out the part of our daily lives that matter less. But just the thought that today is a 'bonus day' can quickly prioritize things. If today is a bonus, then our thought shouldn't be to just get through the day, but rather, what can I do with this day? So many great opportunities are sprinkled amongst the details of daily life, and if we don't pay attention to little events, we end up missing the opportunities.
So, what do we do with today? This question gets at the heart of our ultimate happiness. The focus on our daily activities — at work, at home — shouldn't be so much on what we are getting, but what we are becoming. Getting and becoming are in- iertwined because what we become largely inflences what we get.
Daily 'becoming,' or personal development is the real key to our success, and our station in life rarely exceeds our daily personal development. One of life's great mantras is this:
'To have more than you've got, become more than you are.'
If we don't treat each day like a bonus, focus- ing on our personal development — on what we are becoming, the opposite will come true: 'Unless you change how you are, you'll always have what you've got.'
Each day we are becoming something. Smarter. Smoother. Faster. Funnier. Happier. Healthier. (Hopefully). And yet, there are those darn statistics that keep saying we are not getting healthier. Heart disease, certain cancers, diabetes, and, of course, obesity, are all on the rise. And so many of these rising health indices are behavior based.
Behavior is choice and effort — or lack of effort. We can choose to exercise or choose to be sedentary. We can choose to become more fit or more fat. We can choose to become healthier. We can choose to treat today like a bonus and become more than we are.
Choose to step outside your life for a moment. In fact, choose right now to just step outside. Go ahead. After all, today is a bonus day.


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International Growth Fund
The International Growth Fund was launched in 2007 and seeks to deliver long term (5 or more years) capital growth by investing in a hand-picked portfolio of high quality, growing companies around the world.
Why invest internationally?
Access to a wider range of superior investment opportunities
The global stage offers access to a much larger universe of valuable growing companies. Investing internationally also offers the prospect of participating in important global sectors and themes which are unavailable in New Zealand and Australia. It is a world rich in opportunity!
Diversification benefits
We currently invest in a range of different countries and sectors aiming to spread investor risk across investment alternatives. We only invest through the developed stock exchanges where listing rules require high standards of corporate governance and shareholder protection.
What type of companies are you likely to find in the International Growth Fund?
The International Growth Fund gives New Zealand investors access to a portfolio of 30 to 50 international growth companies through a single tax efficient investment. The mix of companies in the portfolio is designed to maximise returns while providing superior industry, economic and geographic diversity when compared with portfolios limited to Australia and New Zealand.
Company selection and portfolio construction is founded on key investment principles:
- Development of a proprietary investment case through a robust research process
- A focus on the medium term to deliver value through compounding positive returns
- A distinct preference for companies with healthy balance sheets and strong cash flows
- A disciplined approach to entry and exit pricing levels
The Fund focuses on identifying quality companies with sustainable business models, sound growth prospects and a strong track record in delivering value to shareholders. We have an intensive research process which allows us to develop strong insights into industries and companies and we place significant emphasis on building strong relationships with company management. We travel regularly meeting with our portfolio companies and prospective investments - this hands-on research is central to rounding out our investment theses.
Current Unit Price (as at Wed 19/10/16) $1.5709
Fund Inception November 2007
How has the fund performed as at 30 September 2016
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|3 months
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|6 months
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|12 months
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|2 years*
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|3 years*
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WILLIAMS -- Sherrie LaBat, standing by an electric fence that separates her from three wolves, turns to see if the truck she hears is coming her way.
She hopes the tires splashing through mud are heading to the remote Howling Acres Wolf Sanctuary she owns with her husband, Charlie LaBat. Someone called earlier in the day and pledged to deliver a donation of dog food.
The LaBats, who recently put their mom-and-pop sanctuary up for sale, are down to eight weeks' worth of food for their 20 wolves and wolf-dog hybrids.
As the economy crumbles, it's no surprise animal havens and rescue groups are suffering. The first to buckle are small operations run by animal lovers with big hearts and limited funds. In the case of the LaBats, whose southern Oregon sanctuary is 30 miles south of Grants Pass, the situation is trickier because the creatures at stake are among the most notorious in the West.
There are an estimated 40 wolf sanctuaries in the United States, according to Wolf Haven International in Tenino, Wash., one of the oldest. The number is sketchy because no one regulates sanctuaries. Only the U.S. Department of Agriculture licenses them when they open for public viewing, and they can come in all sizes and shapes and with a variety of missions.
Few are like Wolf Haven, large enough and old enough to have built a steady stream of income. Few have broadened their conservation mission like Wolf Haven, which works with Washington and Oregon state agencies to craft wild wolf management plans and with the federal government's endangered species program.
Unlike Wolf Haven, which doesn't take in wolves bred with dogs -- unless they're left chained to the organization's fence -- boutique sanctuaries adopt creatures abused or abandoned by people who mistakenly thought a wild animal would make a good pet.
White Wolf Sanctuary near Waldport, for example, offers a permanent home only to arctic wolves. "Twenty-five years ago, when a boyfriend wanted wolves, I was like everybody else," says sanctuary owner Lois Tulleners. "I thought they attacked you and drug you off into the forest."
White Wolf, like Howling Acres, is running on fumes these days.
"In spite of the whining, it really is a joyful experience," Tulleners says. "Almost every tour we do changes someone's opinion about wolves. When they look into those beautiful yellow eyes, it changes their minds. Right there, it's worth it."
Caring for wolves is not easy.
At Howling Acres, the animals are kept in a zoolike compound of fenced enclosures, where a volunteer feeds them each one large coffee can of dog food a day. Sherrie LaBat dug the trenches for the trail-like stairs around the compound and stripped the poles for the wooden handrails by herself.
Neighbors in the rural area complained about the howling noises and zoning in 2002, but the LaBats fought the complaints and won. A sign by the entrance addresses the danger involved: "Caretakers MUST carry stungun, pepper spray and 2-way radio before entering wolf enclosures."
Wolf sanctuaries are hot in the West -- and a hot topic -- because the creatures are as iconic as buffalo.
"That's why they're so attractive and why so many people want to keep wolves," says David Shepherdson, deputy conservation division manager of the Oregon Zoo.
"On the other hand, many people who live on the land are opposed to wolves and have been traditionally because they see them as a threat to the livelihood. And then there's a modern, holistic way of seeing them as part of the environment, with the understanding we should live with predators instead of separate from them.
"Wolves are a very emotive topic depending on where you come from, the land, or the city, or more of an environmental perspective."
Wolves reintroduced at Yellowstone National Park in 1995 caused elks to change their grazing patterns, which restored riparian habitats. The concept of wolves contributing to an ecosystem is a more complex understanding than what Oregon's early ranchers and farmers brought to the table when they met 150 years ago to figure out what to do about the wolf problem.
Though wolves once roamed the entire state, Russ Morgan, wolf coordinator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, says last summer's discovery of wild pups in northeastern Oregon was the first evidence in decades of a mating pair.
While the number of wild wolves is small in Oregon, the number of wolf hybrids here -- and around the country -- is high, sanctuary owners say. W.O.L.F (Wolves Offered Life and Friendship), a rescue in Bellvue, Colo., says it turned away 1,000 abandoned hybrids last year because it can only keep 30.
W.O.L.F. owner Frank Wendland says perceptions about them are the biggest hurdle groups like his face. "You're dealing with people on both extremes. You've got folks who believe the only good wolf is a dead wolf, and then you've got the tree-hugger mentality of wouldn't it be wonderful to have a piece of the wild in my home. And neither one of those extremes is appropriate. The truth lies in the middle, as is usually the case."
Like most other small sanctuary owners, the LaBats began Howling Acres when they took in an orphaned wolf 18 years ago. Oregon law doesn't prevent anyone from owning a captive wolf or wolf hybrid, though some county ordinances forbid it. Washington state legislators are currently considering a ban, though previous efforts have failed.
The LaBats -- he's 72 and living on Social Security and she's 49 and works as an in-home health care provider for an elderly man -- used to pay the sanctuary bills primarily through $8 tours and donations. Visitor numbers dropped when gas prices climbed and have since plummeted.
A monthly vet bill runs roughly $300, the phone $200, insurance $250, electricity $350, and the cost of 400 pounds of dog food a week varies. Wolf Haven estimates it costs $2,000 a month to give a wolf space to roam, enrichment activities, proper food and health care.
To accommodate the wolves, the LaBats stopped making payments on their home nearby and are watching it slide into foreclosure after a variable-rate mortgage soared to more than $2,000 a month. Today they live in a small house on the sanctuary property, across from the Port-a-John for visitors and the trailer that houses the gift shop. They would like to find a new owner and retire to the coast. Charlie recently suffered a stroke.
But if no one buys the sanctuary and its 13 acres for $575,000, Sherrie says, they will keep it running as long as she has a job. "In my book, and in my husband's book, the wolves come before everything. We'll give up everything for the wolves."
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Every day, we try to do one more thing to prepare for Nika's arrival in February. Now that our tournament schedule has died down for the semester, we are focusing on kicking her room into gear. That includes all her gear too. Its a bit of a baby weekend since we spent Fri evening/Saturday morning focusing on diapers and we have a baby shower for a student on Sunday. (Todd picked out the baby shower gift, and Sarah will wrap it up later today.) But we digress…back to prepping cloth diapers!
For our first big diaper prepping night, we decided to head to the local laundromat instead of the free washers available to us just for the time convenience. We separated the diapers and baby clothes into two piles: 1 wash and 5 wash. In the 1 wash pile, we put all our microfiber inserts, 24 Sunbaby 4.0 pocket diapers, about 10 Green Bees/Alva pockets and covers, and a bundle of new baby clothes (which should be washed before first wearing). In the 5 wash pile, we put all our natural fiber diapers and accessories, including our 12 hemp prefolds, numerous hemp diaper wipes in two sizes, 1 Bagshot Row Bamboo diaper (the rest of these were already prepped), 14 Sunbaby and GreenBees/Alva bamboo inserts, and 5 organic unbleached cotton Cloth-eez workhorse fitted diapers.
We washed the 1 wash load with 1 tbs of Dawn on hot water for a single cycle, then dried on high heat to seal the PUL. In the future, we will only tumble dry low. I double checked all the diapers and it appears the washers/dryers didn't harm the diaper at all during the prepping process. The diapers are fluffy and soft. The clothes didn't bleed even though we stuck brights reds and blues in with white onesies on a hot wash…I expected some bleeding, but was excited to see none! The clothes did shrink a little, which is to be expected.
We washed the 5 wash load with and without Dawn on hot water. For cycles 1 and 2, we added 1 tbs of Dawn. Cycle 3, we used no Dawn (just a hot wash). Cycle 4 we went back to Dawn and Cycle 5 we just ran a hot wash (no Dawn). We then dried them on medium tumble for 16 minutes. They were ever so slightly damp when we took them out. The 1 wash load was completely dry, but not the natural fiber diapers, so we hung them up on the over-the-door diaper drying rack and the edge of the crib when we got home.
Left them there overnight and this morning, they are completely dry and soft to the touch. Did an absorption check on the natural fiber diapers and they are doing excellent. The water absorbed quickly and did not roll off. That means the natural fiber oils were washed away in the wash process. The natural fiber diapers won't reach their full absorbency until about 10 washes, but they are good enough for now!


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Current Vice-President (External) Petros Kusmu emerged victorious over two other contestants and one joke candidate for next year's Students' Union presidency.
Four rounds were ultimately needed to determine the final result after voting closed Thursday evening, with Kusmu winning a narrow 3,102 votes out of 6,286, or 52 per cent.
After the results were announced, an elated Kusmu said his reaction was beyond words — he has been aiming for the SU presidency since his first year at the U of A.
"The only way I can describe it is — and I hate to use this example, but I just felt so lightheaded. I just felt almost tipsy," he said.
"This is something that I've been thinking about for nearly half a decade ... I guess this is what it feels like when your dreams kind of come to reality."
When asked about why he thought voters chose him, Kusmu said although fellow candidate Saadiq Sumar posed a serious challenge, it came down to the overall trust students had in him.
"I feel like people liked what I was saying. I feel like there's a lot of momentum that's been building over the amount of years I've been on Students' Council," he said.
"I feel like a lot of people felt that kind of momentum, a lot of people trusted me — in Kusmu we trust, I guess. I feel like there were new ideas and experiences that I was bringing to the portfolio as well."
Kusmu also emphasized the difficulty of winning over current Vice-President (Student Life) Saadiq Sumar, calling him an "excellent candidate" and a "good friend."
"If there was any other candidate that I would hope to not run against, it would be (Sumar). It was just so unbelievably difficult to run against him," he said.
"It's not the easiest thing running against a really close friend, someone that you absolutely have so much respect for ... Someone who's also experienced, someone who's also passionate about the portfolio."
Kusmu said his plans for his term, which begins May 1, include helping the incoming Students' Council members transition into their new roles.
"Not just any regular transition, but making sure (councillors are) equipped to not only pressure us executives, but to also engage with their constituents," he said.
"But beyond that, it's just making sure that we can follow up on big projects that we're currently working on."
Joke candidate and third runner-up Horse with a Gun said they were saddened by Kusmu's victory, and called it an "affront to democracy."
"Petros Kusmu is a good man, but he is not a great man. I would not go so far as to accuse him of being broken, crippled and pathetic, but he is not the future," they said.
"It is time to crawl out of the womb, wipe off your placenta and realize that you too can grow up and trudge through this university — not as infants, but as grown-ups. As autonomous humans."
When questioned about their future plans, Horse gave an ominous hint that they won't entirely disappear from campus.
"I cannot say that here, but I assure you in a few days you will know," they said.
"And if you shed those tears as they grow into an ocean that splits Canada in twain, yea all North America, but whisper in your sadness of sleep, 'I made a mistake.' "
Runners-up Saadiq Sumar and Anthony Goertz could not be reached for comment immediately following the announcement of the results.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Suzette Endrom, 51, of Fort Wadsworth, a teacher at St. Charles School in Oakwood, died Sunday at Calvary Hospital in Brooklyn following a long illness.
Born Suzette Valdes in the Bronx, she moved to Florida in 1970, then to New Dorp in 1985. She moved to Meiers Corners in 1991 and settled in Fort Wadsworth in 1998.
She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of South Florida as well as a master's degree in religious studies.
Mrs. Endrom had taught fifth grade at St. Charles School in Oakwood since 1994. She previously worked as a teacher at St. John Villa Academy in Arrochar from 1987 to 1993. She was an avid "Star Trek" fan and owned many collectibles.
"She was a wonderful teacher who had a zest for life and an enormous capacity for having fun," said her husband of 21 years, William.
She was a parishioner of St. Charles R.C. Church, Oakwood.
Her daughter, Alyse, died in 1998 and another daughter, Hope, died in 1999.
In addition to her husband, William, surviving are two sons, William Howard and Alexander; a daughter, Samantha; three brothers, Charles Costello, Daniel Valdes and Fred Valdes; a sister, Carol Valdes, and two grandchildren.
The funeral will be Thursday from the Casey Funeral Home, Castleton Corners, with a mass at 9:15 a.m. in St. Charles Church. Arrangements include cremation.


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May 17, 2013
With a limberness that defies his 69 years, Frank Mirarchi heaves himself over the edge of a concrete wharf and steps out onto a slack, downward sloping dock line bouncing 20 feet above the lapping waters near Scituate, Mass. He shimmies laterally along the pylons, steadying himself with a grip on some steel rigging, until he reaches the roof of the pilot house on his boat, a groundfish trawler called the Barbara L. Peters, after his mother-in-law.
He descends to the motor room and rubs a hand along a clean stretch of engine piping. "I'll be done painting in here soon," says Mirarchi, who has been harvesting cod, flounder and other quarry from the Gulf of Maine and, further out, from the lucrative shallows of Georges Bank for the better part of five decades. "Then I'll move outside."
Painting is about all the action Mirarchi's boat has seen lately. Facing massive cuts in government-proscribed limits to the groundfish species at the very heart of New England's commercial fishing economy, the Barbara L. Peters -- like the 30 or so other nominally active boats remaining in this New England sector, and dozens more boats up and down the Northeast coast -- has been locked hard against its pier, rising and falling with the tides but going nowhere.
"We're gonna lose a bunch of boats," Mirarchi says, referring to the high odds that some fishermen, perhaps even himself, will be forced to abandon the livelihood that has sustained them for decades. Mirarchi barely broke even last year, and with official catch allocations for some crucial species down by nearly 80 percent for the season that opened May 1, he expects that he will be forced to put the Barbara L. Peters -- only eight years old -- up for sale. "What else am I going to do? My entire life's résumé is running boats, and they aren't hiring these days.
"It's a beautiful boat," Mirarchi adds. "It just doesn't have any fish to catch."
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Numbers fall, honors delayed - Fewer students, fewer dollars
By Katherine Sather
Fall school enrollment fell short of what Mercer Island School District planners anticipated. The count for September was 23 students short for a total of about 3,947 students.
The shortfall could cause a $100,000 loss in revenue from the state, said Mike Ziara, associate superintendent of business services. The district receives roughly $4,000 from the state to pay for the basic education of each student.
At the Oct. 6 meeting, Ziara told the School Board that the district is also short 44 special education students than it budgeted for, which could cause an additional loss. He said that overall the district has experienced five years of negative growth. Enrollment in the district peaked at about 4,146 in 2000 and has now dropped to about 3,947, the lowest level since 1998.
Most of this year's drop was at the secondary level, Ziara said, but special education enrollment could pick up later in the school year as more students with special needs are identified.
In other business, board members approved district-wide science exams, to be given annually, and discussed the timeline for adopting honors courses to the freshman and sophomore curriculum.
The School Board approved giving district-wide science tests for most grades next year. They will be given in addition to annual math, reading and writing exams to make sure students are meeting standards in each subject. Each exam will take about an hour of class time, said Superintendent Cyndy Simms. Tests may be purchased.
Board Member Lisa Eggers said she was concerned with the amount of tests being added to the curriculum, when students already take the WASL exam and other assessment tests. She said she was ``troubled by the resources being devoted'' to the tests.
Simms said the individual exams give more in-depth results that arrive sooner than the WASL, which allows teachers more time to help students in areas where they do not meet state and district standards for learning.
``That's our first job -- to make sure all kids meet standards,'' she said.
The board agreed to study the issue more.
Finally, the School Board debated the timeline for adopting freshman and sophomore honors classes. It had planned for a five-month study on honors and AP courses to be finished in March, so results could be used to add honors courses to the curriculum by next fall.
Simms asked the board to consider extending the study until the end of the school year so the high school's new principal, John Harrison, could have time to learn about the issue. This would postpone adopting honors courses until the 2007-2008 school year, which troubled some School Board members who have repeatedly supported increasing the availability of advanced classes.
The board will vote at the Oct. 27 meeting whether to approve the study delay.
``John said `I can't do the job well if it has to be done by March,''' Simms said. ``If we really want to do it right, and we really want to resolve the issues, we need time to do it right.''
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TUSCALOOSA -- Wide receiver Duron Carter has verbally committed to Alabama, his father Cris Carter confirmed on his Twitter feed.
Duron Carter, who is the son of former NFL All-Pro receiver Cris Carter, had 44 receptions for 690 yards and 10 touchdowns in nine games.
The former Ohio State and Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College product also considered LSU and Miami. He was in town this weekend, and was expected to attend the Crimson Tide's closed scrimmage Saturday afternoon at Bryant-Denny Stadium.
Carter (6-5, 210 pounds) is a former high school All-American from Ft. Lauderdale (Fla.) St. Thomas Aquinas, who was at Ohio State in 2009 before academic problems forced him to transfer to Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College last season.
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I'm know I'm not the only one who's been pawing through the plant catalogs, lost in a lovely dream of achieving glorious gardens without inglorious bankruptcy or intolerably hard labor.
If we had unlimited funds and unlimited time (or a staff of groundskeepers), making a gorgeous garden would be a snap. That we don't enjoy Bill Gates' household budget makes the prospect more sporting, or so I tell myself. I know I have a kindred soul in reader Dave M., who recently sent me an e-mail full of "Column Ideas," all with a practical bent.
He offered one topic that is timely -- and not so timely:
"As I pored through my spring flower catalogs, I thought it would be great for your readers if you would suggest some ideal spring bulbs and perennials -- easy to grow, squirrel/rabbit-proof, no winter lifting, long blooming and not terribly expensive."
Well, that's no short list, but as a matter of fact, I can help. I've spent many seasons trying to identify which of the early-blooming plants perform reliably and go unmolested by the local wildlife. But first, I have to stress one point about timing that may not be obvious to the new gardener: The bulbs and perennials I'm about to recommend must be planted in the fall.
You won't have them blooming in your yard this spring, but you can check them out, order them in late summer and plant them this year before the ground freezes. Beginning in 2009, spring will be springier forever more. This is what they call planning ahead.
I can think of no more beautiful combination than old-fashioned bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis) with the bulb known as woodland hyacinth or bluebells, Spanish and English (Hyacinthoides hispanica and Hyacinthoides non-scripta, respectively).
Although I do nothing but admire them, these plants perform without fail for three or four weeks. You can be profligate with the hyacinths, since 50 cost about $15.
A really well-drained bed, ideally at the top of a retaining wall or slope, is an ideal place for spring-blooming creepers and cascaders like basket-of-gold and aubretia. The first produces a froth of golden blossoms that entirely covers the low (10-inch) gray foliage beginning in late March and continuing for nearly a month.
Once classified as Aurinia, I'm finding this plant now as Alyssum saxatile. It can suffer a meltdown in summer heat and humidity; cut it back sharply and it will recover when things cool off. Aubretia is a more fickle customer and short-lived, but its saturated blues and purples are so uplifting I forgive it.
Pair either of these perennials with daffodils, yellow for the aubretia and perhaps white with the alyssum. I like the smaller (and less expensive) triandrus, tazetta and cyclamineus daffodils with their multiple flowers and finer leaves, which blend in as neighboring plants grow. Twenty of these junior dafs would set you back about $16.
Sometimes, the perennial partner is there to conceal less than attractive post-bloom bulb foliage. I love the miniature bulbous irises, Iris reticulata and Iris danfordiae. They emerge through the snow if need be and usually bloom in the first week of March. While no more than four or five inches in flower, their foliage afterwards elongates to about 18 or 20 inches and is annoyingly conspicuous.
I plant these irises around my peonies, figuring the latter will spread their deeply lobed leaves over the iris foliage, hiding it from view by May. These tiny irises come cheap, too -- 50 for $9 to $12.
Another spring cutie is the Grecian windflower, Anemone blanda, available in blue, white and rosy pink. It unfolds from a knobby corm into a ground-hugging rosette of ferny leaves topped with large daisy-style flowers so shiny they look enameled.
Standing just three or four inches tall, the plants bloom in April and then disappear quickly and without a trace as temperatures warm. They can self-sow (but not in an excessive way) with offspring popping up in odd corners. You get a lot of bang for your buck with 50 anemones selling for $9 to $12.
I tuck these among plants that will expand over the anemone's spot -- around the base of lavender and coreopsis, for example. The anemones in my entry garden have never been nibbled but I scattered some under the trees last fall to see how they do in wilder ground.
So, Dave, there are a few plants that meet the criteria "easy to grow, squirrel/rabbit-proof, long blooming and not terribly expensive." If you try them you won't be sorry, and if you are sorry, at least you won't be frazzled and broke.
Valerie Sudol's "Garden Diary" column appears every Thursday in The Star-Ledger. To reach Valerie, write to The Star-Ledger, 1 Star Ledger Plaza, Newark, N.J. 07102-1200 or e-mail her here.


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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Wednesday's winter storm dumped more snow on Central New York than any other storm this season: 9.1 inches in Syracuse.
The biggest storm before that brought 7.7 inches on Jan. 2.
The one-two punch that messed up both the morning and evening commutes met forecasters' expectations, hitting the Southern Tier hardest. Waverly, in Tioga County, got 16.5 inches. Binghamton had 13.
Here's a look around Central New York, with selected totals in other parts of the state. These totals were supplied to the National Weather Service. We also built a database with totals from around the state.
Central New York
Constantia: 11
Cooperstown: 10.2
Fayetteville: 10
Rome: 10
Clay: 9.8
Clinton: 9.3
East Syracuse: 9.2
Syracuse: 9.1
Elbridge: 9
Cicero: 9
Chittenango: 8.6
Oneida: 8.2
Solvay: 8.2
Oswego: 7.5
Fairmount: 7.2
Brewerton: 6.8
Ithaca: 5.9
Other areas:
Waverly (Tioga County): 16.5
Bainbridge (Chenango County: 15
Nichols (Tioga County): 14
Chenango Bridge (Broome County): 12.5
Binghamton: 13
Rochester: 12.5
Oneonta: 11.7
Minetto: 9.8
Lowville: 9
Buffalo: 8.8
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