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Tulane drove 75 yards in eight plays to cut Rice's lead to 49-47. Griffin, who passed for a school record 476 yards and four touchdowns, passed to Wilson Van Hooser for a 33-yard touchdown strike to set up the possible game-tying two-point conversion.
The Wave (2-7, 2-3) rallied from a 28-10 halftime deficit and led 38-35 at the end of the third quarter. But Rice (4-6, 2-4) rallied with two fourth quarter touchdown to key the victory. Rice quarterback Taylor McHargue rushed and passed for 319 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Owls.


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On 10th May 2011, the 2011/12 Federal Budget was released with a focus on Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) as it relates to motor vehicles. If you have a Novated Lease (NVL), or you are looking at getting one, then you are probably aware that a few changes have been made in regards to FBT. Our partner sgfleet have offered to answer a few frequently asked questions regarding the recent changes to FBT and how it affects NVL.
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Source: Joint Media Release with The Hon Bill Shorten MP Assistant Treasurer Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation
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A couple of months ago I attended a SABR meeting and the guest speaker was Mel Corbo. Who's That? I didn't know who he was either before I heard him speak.
Mel was drafted by the Dodgers in 1959 and played fro the Albuquerque Dodgers in, 1966, 1967, 1968, and the Albuquerque Dukes in 1964.
In 1964 he hit .339 with 23 homers and 98 RBI in 121 games.
Back then Albuquerque was the Double-A affiliate of the Dodgers and played in the Texas League.
He was roommates with Tommy Lasorda. He spent 12 years in The Dodgers organization.
He told some very entertaining stories about being in the Dodgers organization. He was called up for a bit with the Dodgers but never for a long period of time.
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Exodus. The changing map of the Middle East - Fr Simon - 26-10-2010
From today's The Independant online:
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- Antony-Paul - 27-10-2010
What a dismal view of matters, but no doubt an accurate one. The position of Christians has been one of threat for nearly two millennia, so in one sense one might ask 'so what's new?'. But clearly there is a shift going on with non-Christian pressures upon our brethren, possibly to a greater extent than before.
However, I feel that it would be wrong to lose hope in the situation. There have been numerous diasporae by different factions over the centuries, and that has not seen the overall loss of the various faiths. I see no reason to imagine that Christianity will be irrevocably harmed, let alone die out, because of the present difficulties in the Middle East.
Perhaps a more positive view might be that where there has been persecution and martyrdom there has been a strength of faith among those who remain - one might think back to Tudor England for example, or 20th century Russia. Also, there is liable to be a corresponding increase in strength of faith in those places where the resettlement occurs. This has the potential to become a strong base for generating a resurgence at a later date.
I always hark back to the words of Our Lord and Saviour when He said that His Church will last forever. Clearly He will never allow it to be killed off, but will always ensure that it continues, though maybe with changes from time to time to suit changes in circumstances. So, instead of hand-wringing, it seems to me we should use this as an opportunity to pray ever more for the health of our beloved Church, that we may see and understand what the changes mean, and that we continue to work for the restoration of the Christian message in its homeland.


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COMSTOCK PARK – The third out in the sixth inning of Sunday afternoon's game against in-state rival Lansing proved to be an elusive one for the West Michigan Whitecaps.
The Whitecaps inability to close out the inning was the major difference in a 5-3 defeat to the Lugnuts before 3,543 at Fifth Third Ballpark.
Lansing scored four runs with two outs in the sixth to send West Michigan to its third consecutive loss.
The Whitecaps dropped to 1-4 on their current six-game homestand with a Monday matinee game remaining before a six-game road trip against a pair of Western Division teams.
"It was a tough inning, and a couple things didn't go our way," said Whitecap catcher Pat Leyland, who started behind the plate for the first time since May 30 after a bout with shoulder tendinitis.
"The bullpen came in and tried to limit the damage, and we were close to being out of the inning with a call or two, but we just didn't quite get it done today. We haven't got it done the last three days, but everyone is working hard and it's not because of a lack of effort. We'll get it back going."
After the Whitecaps tied the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth, starter Kyle Ryan gave up back-to-back singles to open the sixth.
He, however, induced a key double play before K.C Hobson singled to score the go-ahead run and reliever Ramon Lebron issued back-to-back walks and surrendered a two-run single to break the game open.
"You hope guys can go out there and pound the strike zone, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't," said Whitecaps manager Ernie Young, who celebrated his 43rd birthday Sunday.
"Anytime you have two-out walks, it is going to come back and haunt you, and it was tough to overcome that."
Lansing kept West Michigan's bats in check for the second straight game and limited the Whitecaps to only seven hits.
Right fielder Jeff McVaney went 2 for 4 and scored two runs after a leadoff triple in the fifth and leadoff double in the seventh.
Leyland trimmed the deficit to two runs in the ninth when he led off with a solo shot over the left field wall.
West Michigan (8-9, 44-43) was 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position and stranded seven on base, including leaving the bases loaded in the eighth.
"We haven't put enough quality at-bats together and we haven't helped out our pitchers too much," Leyland said. "We have to try to pick them up a little bit and get more runs for them."
Ryan, who had won four of his last five starts, took the loss by allowing four runs on nine hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Notes: Sunday was Breast Cancer Awareness Day, and the Whitecaps helped raise $1,685 for the Susan G. Komen Foundation by auctioning off 10 commemorative jerseys...the Whitecaps have combined for only 11 runs in their last five games.


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( Latin collegiatus , from collegium )
An adjective applied to those churches and institutions whose members form a college (see COLLEGE). The origin of cathedral and collegiate chapters, springing from the common life of clerics attached to cathedrals and other important churches, has been treated in the article CHAPTER, where special attention is given to what regards cathedral capitulars (see CHAPTER). Collegiate churches were formed on the model of cathedral churches, and the collegiate canons have rights and duties similar to the capitulars of a cathedral, except that they have no voice in the government of the diocese, even when the see is vacant. Their main object is the solemn celebration of the Divine Office in choir. Already in the time of Charlemagne many wealthy collegiate churches had been founded throughout his empire, especially in Germany and France, of which that at Aachen was the most celebrated. In England there was also a large number of these institutions, and at the Reformation, when they were dissolved, the revenues of some of them were used for founding public schools. The founding of a collegiate church gives the founder no right to nominate its members unless he have received a special papal indult to that effect.
For the erection of collegiate institutions, the authority of the Holy See is necessary. The pope refers the matter to the consideration of the Congregation of the Council, which makes a favourable report if certain conditions are found fulfilled, such as: the dignity of the city, the large number of clergy and people, the size and beauty of the church structure, the splendour of its belongings, and the sufficiency of the income. Although the bishop cannot erect a collegiate church, yet, if the college, owing to the death of canons or other similar cause, should cease as an active corporation but still retain, de jure , its status as a college, the bishop can restore it, for this would not be a canonical erection. As the ordinary cannot erect a collegiate church, so neither can he reduce it to a merely parochial status, and still less has he the power to suppress one. Only the pope can formally dissolve a collegiate foundation. A church loses its collegiate dignity by the will of the members, or the act of the supreme ecclesiastical authority, or the death of all the canons. When the right of an institution which claims the collegiate dignity is disputed, the question is to be decided by certain signs which create a presumption in its favour. These are, among others, an immemorial reputation as a collegiate institution, a common seal proper to a college, capitular meetings of the members under the presidency of a dean, the making of contracts in the name of the college, the right of electing a prelate, the cure of souls dependent on the chapter.
Although collegiate churches are ordinarily under the jurisdiction of the bishop, yet its members are not obliged to render any service to the ordinary outside of their own churches, except in case of necessity or through contrary custom. Neither can the cathedral chapter interfere with the chapter of a collegiate church when the latter remains within its own right and privileges. Collegiate churches are distinguished into insignes (famous) and non insignes . There are, however, no rules given in canon law to discern one from the other. Canonists declare that a church is insignis if it be the mother church of the locality, have right of precedence in solemn functions, be of ancient foundation, and conspicuous by its structure and the number of its dignitaries and members, and likewise be situated in a famous or well-populated city. The canons of a church which is insignis have precedence over the canons of other collegiate institutions at Synods and in public processions. When a parochial church is elevated to collegiate rank, the right to the cure of souls does not necessarily pass to the chapter, but may remain with the parish priest. When the chapter has the right of presentation and its votes are equally divided, the bishop may decide as to which part of the canons has presented a candidate of superior merit to the other. If, however, the merits of the candidates be equal, the decision must be referred to the pope, if the chapter cannot agree after taking two ballots. The chapters of collegiate churches, by common law, have the right of electing or presenting candidates for the dignities and canonries of their chapter. The rights of confirmation and installation belong to the bishop. Many innovations on these rights have been made by special decrees or customs, and, according to the prevailing discipline, account must be taken of the so-called pontifical reservations, or the rights which the pope has reserved to himself, especially as regards the highest dignity of the chapter, and also of the legitimate privileges possessed by patrons in Spain, Austria, Bavaria, etc. of nominating and presenting candidates. These privileges are still in force in many instances.
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You come away with your jaw slightly agape, wondering how the design duo of Luke Sales and Anna Plunkett dream up such crazy, magical stuff.
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Let's get this straight: there is probably not a lot in this latest collection that I would personally wear. It's much too fanciful for my own comparatively minimal style. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate the work that has gone into these outfits, which are by turns whimsical, psychedelic, and just plain nutty - but nutty in a beautiful way.
It's never an easy task to pinpoint just one reference in a Romance show. There are so many, but this doesn't mean the designers are derivative. On the contrary - they fuse all their various inspirations into an impressively original whole.
Last night I detected a bit of Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie (the face glitter, the sparkles on jumpsuits); some late 1960s psychedelia, with digital prints that reminded me of the great late 1960s illustrator Peter Max or the animated film of The Beatles' Yellow Submarine; Japanese manga comics and Harajuku girls; mod dollybirds; Strawberry Shortcake; intergalactic aliens.
If that sounds like a weird and wonderful mix, well - it was.
The models sported a variety of sorbet-coloured bobbed and bowl-cut wigs, giant fake eyelashes that harked back to the days of Twiggy and Peggy Moffitt, stuck-on pouty lips and headpieces that were a cross between alien antennae and a cheerleader's pom-pom. It was all delightfully, outrageously kooky.
So often when you go to a fashion show you make the following sort of mental notes: "What are they thinking? I wouldn't wear that!" And you can't quite follow the designer's train of thought. With Romance Was Born, you just have to give yourself over to the fantasy. Because whether you're personally capable of pulling off a Romance piece or not - multicoloured ruffles, feathered pants, psychedelic capes, babydoll dresses and all - it's difficult not to feel enormous admiration for what this uniquely creative duo do.


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CLEVELAND -- With the Browns getting closer to reaching an agreement with Oregon coach Chip Kelly, they've turned their attention to their GM position. They've asked permission today to talk to Vikings assistant GM George Paton, according to Fox Sports' Jay Glazer, and Chiefs director of pro personnel Ray Farmer, according to Adam Schefter.
As previously reported, they've also sought permission to interview 49ers' personnel executive Tom Gamble, who's a leading candidate to replace Mike Tannenbaum with the Jets.
Paton has worked with the Vikings for six seasons, including his new role in 2012 as the club's assistant GM, where he worked closely with GM Rick Spielman. The two also worked together in Chicago and Miami.
Paton's Vikings will face Green Bay in the NFC Wildcard game tonight. In 2009, a team record 10 Vikings earned Pro Bowl berths. This season, four made the NFC squad: Jaren Allen, Jerome Felton, Adrian Peterson and Blair Walsh.
Farmer, who also satisfies the Rooney Rule for the Browns, was an Eagles linebacker in 1996-1998 and when Browns CEO Joe Banner was an executive vice president there. He worked as a scout with the Falcons before joining the Chiefs in 2006.


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Here is the link to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for vote today on ISA
The schedule shows the vote for 3pm--but that is subject to change
Regular Atlas readers are well aware of the Islamic Saudi Academy's agenda of Islamic supremacism and attempt to expand their school in Fairfax, Virginia. I have been documenting the great patriots fighting against it. The Fairfax County government, in the tank for the Saudis, shows a 3 p.m., Monday, August 3 item for voting on the ISA expansion. Could they have found a more difficult time for working people to attend?
This is not government by the people, it is government against the people.
Jim Lafferty, leading the movement to stop the insanity, wrote,
Fairfax County Supervisors could use a blood transfusion (and perhaps a spine transplant) from Judge Lee in Alexandria as we approach Monday's vote on the massive expansion plan of the Saudi government's Islamic Saudi Academy.
How is it possible for a federal judge in Alexandria to understand a threat and just a few miles away 10 people in Fairfax don't ?
If one single terrorist is a threat, isn't a training facility like the ISA which prepared him to join Al quaeda and consistently turns out numerous terrorists every year a multiple threat to "the safety of the American citizenry?"
Monday afternoon's vote is critical in the fight against the spread of Shariah. Washington's, Jefferson's and Patrick Henry's voices cry out from Virginia's distinguished history – "Don't squander the liberty given to you by God and preserved by brave American men and women who stood their ground from Yorktown to Normandy and Afghanistan. The first generation of Americans ran a brutal king out of our country, don't let this generation be the one to yield quietly and timidly to enslavement by yet another tyrannical sovereign."
I was reviewing tapes of the various hearings related to the Islamic Saudi Academy last night and I was struck by how belligerent the Supervisors were when there were only six of us at the hearing. They called us just about every name they could summon from their limited vocabulary.
That treatment changed dramatically when their switchboards were crowded with thousands of calls from Virginians and from people around the globe who have experienced first-hand the tyranny of shariah rule.
Please revisit your Blackberries (and for those of us older folks – your rolodexes) and call people you haven't called before. Invite them to Monday afternoon's hearing because the Supervisors may commit a crime and there need to be thousands of witnesses, thousands of American eyes and ears.
At your church, synagogue or elsewhere, ask people to come to the hearing. Those cunning Supervisors have scheduled the vote for mid-afternoon when they suspect all us will be at work. Take a vacation day or move your lunch hour back so that you can look in the eye those who will sell out America for a campaign contribution or a handful of votes.
Monday's hearing amounts to an auction and the public's trust is for sale. We need to remind the Supervisors that it may also be the day that their unprincipled and visionless political careers come to an end.
I liveblogged one evening of hearings here. Americans are being sold out by these pimps for the Saudis.
Previously at Atlas: Atlas Shrugs: ACTION ALERT JULY 13: STOP ISLAMIC SAUDI ACADEMY
Atlas Shrugs: Valedictorian of Saudi Islamic Academy Gets Life in Prison
Atlas Shrugs: VIDEO: SAUDI ISLAMIC ACADEMY HEARINGS
Atlas Shrugs: ACADEMIC JIHAD: PRAYERS, CROWD AND NIHAD AWAD BEFORE ...


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"It's quiet. Middle of nowhere.
We did watch some guys playing golf. That's about it."
McDonald and the Ducks were interested to read that Alex Rodriguez tricked Toronto third baseman Howie Clark into misplaying a pop-up the other night.
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POWHATAN POINT -A Powhatan Village police officer who faced a dangerous situation involving an intoxicated man, his boat and the Ohio River on Saturday is being commended for his actions that probably saved others from harm.
Powhatan Point Officer Chase Maffe responded to a call that an intoxicated man was trying to load a boat onto a trailer at the Powhatan Marina. Upon arrival, Maffe found Jeffery Stewart Anderson in his boat at the dock with his truck and trailer on the ramp. The trailer was submerged in the water.
"I approached the dock and began speaking with Anderson," Maffe said. "I asked how he was doing, to which he replied, in a heavily slurred speech, that he was attempting to put his boat on his trailer."
Maffe stated that he could smell alcohol and that Anderson's lower body, below his waist, was wet and his leg was bleeding.
There were two other boats in the water as well.
"I was able to indicate that Anderson was intoxicated, and the boat was tied to the dock," Maffe said.
Maffe asked Anderson to exit his boat, and he would take him to meet his friend who was sober, and he could dock the boat onto the trailer. Anderson agreed but sat in the operator's seat instead.
Maffe told Anderson not to turn on his boat, and he replied, "I can do this, I just need to dock my boat."
At this point, Anderson was advised that he would be tasered if he did not get out of the boat. At one point Anderson turned on his boat and was throttling it, the report stated. Maffe deployed his taser at Anderson's left shoulder and activated it.
Anderson attempted to move his boat, but crashed into the dock since it was still tied up. Maffe activated his taser again, but the taser detached.
Anderson crashed his boat into the dock again.
"I again yelled at Anderson that he was under arrest and (he) was actively resisting arrest. Anderson realized his boat was still tied to the dock," Maffe said.
Maffe stated that Anderson turned off his boat but would not get on the floor of his boat as commanded. The report stated that Anderson commanded that the officer bring him into shore.
A standoff between Maffe and Anderson went on for five minutes.
Anderson exited his boat but fell on two separate occasions. Once on land, he was handcuffed. The boat and truck were towed.
After the scene was cleared, Anderson was taken to the Martins Ferry Police Department for OVI processing and then taken to East Ohio Regional Hospital for medical clearance before being transported to jail.
"I am glad no one was hurt, and it is a shame that someone almost put members in the public in danger because he would not comply," Maffe said.
Anderson, 54, of Moundsville, was charged with obstructing official business, resisting arrest, reckless operation of a vessel, operating under the influence and two counts of failure to comply.
"I am proud of my officer. He did a great job at handling this situation and want to thank the caller who notified us. Without that call, Anderson might have seriously injured himself and someone else," Chief Jason West said.


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A fundamental necessity to effective energy behavior change is to characterize desired behaviors. Does the behavior require much skill? Is it expensive? Must it be performed just once or several times a day? Will energy and economic savings be substantial or small?
Investigators: June Flora, Hilary Boudet, Carrie Armel, Maria Roumpani
Energy actions or behaviors, such as purchasing a refrigerator, turning off lights and cleaning a heating filter, are driven by various factors and can be described along different dimensions. Properly characterized and clustered behaviors can aid scholars, policy makers and energy industry professionals in prioritizing desired behaviors, targeting appropriate consumers and understanding relevant barriers.
This project developed a comprehensive set of 261 residential energy-efficiency behaviors and identified ten different attributes for classifying the behaviors. Next, the investigators developed a rating classification scheme and explored how the behaviors clustered together based on the ratings on these attributes. They also developed a framework for the systematic study of behavior attributes and how they cluster.
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Attributes of Energy Reduction Behaviors
Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference
Roumpani, M., Flora, J.A., Boudet, H., Armel, C. (2011)
The behavior change attribute framework applied to residential energy behavior
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Validation of a public data base of residential energy behaviors
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The Boost is a daily guide to news, living, and entertainment in Birmingham and in Alabama. Here's your boost for Wednesday, March 21, 2013.
Mourners marched to the spot where Walton was shot, lit candles and chanted against violence, according to AL.com reporter Kelsey Stein.
Birminghamians are mourning the senseless violence in the community in the way we know how - with marches and vigils. Last night's vigil was one of several events related to Sunday's violence planned in the park in the next two weeks. A memorial march, inspired in part by Edward Bowser's take on Walton's death, is planned for Saturday. A week later, on Saturday, March 30, more will gather for Lock Arms Against Armed Violence, dubbed the first annual Magic City Family Reunion.
"Join arms with a diverse cross-section of our city to make a stand for unity and continued progress in our shared community," a statement on the Lock Arms event Facebook page reads. "Choose love over fear and move forward with us toward the magic potential for our city that will not be denied."
We're good at marching and rallies, and they are often a useful tactic. But Andre Natta, who blogs at the Terminal, has another suggestion: just keep using the park.
"Enjoying one of our many parks on a weekday evening or a sunny weekend afternoon is a powerful form of silent protests against violence," Natta wrote. "Railroad Park has long been seen as one of the symbols of the new Birmingham, one unified as it attempts to redefine what it means to be a New South city. The best act of defiance in this instance is one of continued optimistic realism, sprinkled with the promise of new developments in the area surrounding the park."
Natta summed it up in a Facebook status he posted Monday from Railroad Park: "Sometimes to be the change, you just have to show up."
In photos: Photographer Mark Almond went to the Trussville carnival last night and came back with some really cool photos.
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What to do in Birmingham today: Tonight... the women gather.
Women (and men!), gather tonight at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute for an evening of poetry and music in celebration of Women's History Month. There will be singing, dancing, poetry, and dramatic performances at this event, called "Women Gather."
Gather at BCRI at 6 p.m. The event is free.
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Apparently that is pretty common. According to urologist Herman Singh Bagga, when guys report to the emergency room with a penile injury (and you know it's got to be pretty bad if you go to the ER), it's most likely because they zipped themselves into their zipper.
It's happened more than 17,000 times in the last ten years, Bagga says.
Why is Bagga researching penile entrapment?
"Bagga wanted to conduct the data analysis because, while there has been a developing body of literature on how to free a trapped penis - using everything from screw drivers to wire cutters -- many emergency department physicians don't expect these cases and so don't familiarize themselves with the techniques."
This man is doing the Lord's work. Read more here.
Watch this: In honor of tonight's expected weather, we should all know not to throw people out in the cold rain and snow, oh woah, oh woah.
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|69o 31.31' West 47o 56.35' North
|IBA criteria
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|4,600 ha
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Site description Marais (marsh) de Gros-Cacouna is on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, about 10 km east of Rivière-du-Loup, Québec. The site encompasses a 10 km stretch of shoreline, that includes mudflats that are up to 1 km wide, and a 2 km wide strip of open water. The site also includes Cacouna Rock, Gros-Cacouna Island and a small bay east of the island. Other habitat types include cultivated fields, dykes and the Cacouna Port.
Key Biodiversity An aquatic bird survey in 1988, recorded 115,000 waterbirds in spring and 45,000 in fall, both globally significant numbers. The difference between seasons is mainly because of the larger number of Greater Snow Geese in spring, and also because of the presence of hunters scaring birds in the fall. Up to 100,000 Greater Snow Geese can be present in spring, representing 15% of the North American population. The majority of possible waterfowl species have been seen here, but two species stand out. As many as 3,000 American Black Ducks (1% of the global population) were recorded in fall 1979, and 50 Barrow's Goldeneyes (2% of the species' eastern population) were recorded in spring 1993. Species that are typically present in numbers exceeding 1,000 individuals include Northern Pintail and American Green-winged Teal. Species present in numbers ranging from 100 to 600 individuals include Brant, Oldsquaw, Gadwall, Blue-winged Teal, American Wigeon, Red-breasted Merganser and all three scoter species.
This site is considered one of the three most important shorebird sites on the river's south shore, between La Pocatière and Matane. An incredible 10,000 Black-bellied Plovers were seen here in 1977, which represents 7% of the present North American population. In 1978, 1,000 each of Semipalmated Plovers and Short-billed Dowitchers were seen, representing 2% and 1% of their global populations, respectively. The numbers of Short-billed Dowitchers represents a high percentage of the population stopping in the St-Lawrence flyway and breeding in the northeastern part of the continent (mainly in Québec).
In spring 1994, 120 Black-crowned Night-Herons were present, which is more than 1% of the Canadian population. The birds were local breeders and used the deciduous forest southwest of Gros-Cacouna Island for roosting.
In the marshy area east of Cacouna port, nine male Yellow Rails were recorded in 1993, making this the third most important breeding site in Québec. Also breeding within the site are several species with restricted numbers or ranges in Québec, such as Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow, Wilson's Phalarope, Le Conte's Sparrow and Marsh Wren. Five species at risk nationally have been reported during migration or summer: Harlequin Duck, Red-shouldered Hawk, Least Bittern, Peregrine Falcon and Short-eared Owl.
The cliffs on the northwest side of Gros-Cacouna Island support a small colony of Black Guillemots (16 birds in 1990). In addition, Herring Gulls (peak number 670 pairs in 1989), Great Black-backed Gulls (peak number 75 pairs in 1990), and Common Eider (peak number 349 pairs in 1990) nest on Cacouna Rock. The number of eiders has dropped significantly in the last decade; only 49 pairs were recorded in 1996.
|Population estimate
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|IBA Criteria
|IUCN Category
|Grey Plover Pluvialis squatarola
|10,000 individuals
|Least Concern
|A4iii Species group - waterbirds
|50,000-99,999 individuals
|Protected area
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|Overlap with IBA (ha)
|Baie Cacouna Sud
|Wildlife Habitat, Waterfowl Gathering Area
|protected area contained by site
|Baie de l'Isle-Verte
|Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar)
|protected area overlaps with site
|Batture a Belanger
|Wildlife Habitat, Waterfowl Gathering Area
|protected area overlaps with site
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|Wetlands (inland)
|Intertidal mud, sand or salt flats
|Open sea
|Sea cliffs and rocky shores
|Artificial - terrestrial
|Arable land
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OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Health officials are urging parents to make sure school-age children have the immunizations required for school.
Children going into kindergarten and sixth grade are required to have certain immunizations. The Ottawa County Health Department encourages parents to beat the back-to-school rush and get their child's vaccines early.
Children receive most of their immunizations before 15 months, but additional shots are needed as a child ages, health officials say. More information is available through the health department at miottawa.org/immunize.
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MANCHESTER -- Richard Paprzycki, 41, of Wenonah, was killed in a crash on Route 70 Thursday morning, according to the Asbury Park Press.
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The premise of NBC's midseason series "Bent"—about a newly divorced mother re-entering the world of relationships—isn't exactly new, its characters don't rise above the level of caricature, and there's not much that's romantic about this show billed as romantic comedy. Romantic slapstick would be more like it. Still, strange things happen in television. Despite all, including the ping pong of mind-numbing repartee passing as dialogue in the first episode or two, it becomes clear in time—it helps that the series is airing in weekly back-to-back installments—that this enterprise has undeniable appeal. It passes the key test—you're interested in watching the next show.
The uncomplicated plot revolves around the aforementioned single mother and busy attorney, Alex (Amanda Peet)—who has just shed her husband, sent off to prison for insider trading—and the seductive womanizer Pete (David Walton), whom she hires, along with his semideranged construction crew, to reconstruct her kitchen. Standing between them is the man Alex is officially dating, if chastely—Ben (Matt Letscher), the heart surgeon. Alex is sternly resistant to Pete's nonstop romantic overtures, at which he spends more time than on the contracting work he's supposed to be doing for her. He needs the work, too. He's messed up his life with a gambling problem, unlike his rival, the successful, slightly dorky Dr. Ben, a character Mr. Letscher imbues with a delectable irony.
The show's strength derives from a skilled cast that includes old hands like Jeffrey Tambor as Pete's father, Walt, a self-infatuated, chronically out-of-work actor who shares his son's house and his interest in women. Also on hand is the hilarious J.B. Smoove ("Curb Your Enthusiasm"), who plays Clem, the electrician from hell in Pete's construction crew. And Jesse Plemons is Gary, the shy crew member badly used by a woman he worships—a reprise of sorts of Mr. Plemon's role in "Friday Night Lights." Down the line, there's an episode in which Marcia Gay Harden pops up in the role of Walt's former wife, an actress Walt would do anything to win back.
There's a lot going on in "Bent." A lot of absurdity, a lot of characters, and that vital thing, a lot of talent.
Bent | Begins Wednesday, March 21, 9 p.m. on NBC
To do justice to the powers of "Only for God: Inside Hasidism" would require more space than a column, but we can begin with the power of surprise. A documentary that addresses this subject without condescension, as this National Geographic film does, is a rarity. To have grasped the fundamentals of the Jewish lives under scrutiny here without any hint of that estranged tone now common in reporting on the profoundly religious is rarer still.
This is, to the contrary, a remarkably intimate look at the Hasidic way of life—a factor that owes much to those speaking for that life interviewed in their communities in Brooklyn and upstate New York. For a people who have chosen to live apart from the secular world as much as possible, they have a lot to say to that world, and they say it with zest. For Hasidim, merely serving God is not enough—that service must be joyful. That joy is given expression in the film's most compelling scenes—in the piercing merriment of the music, in the exuberant dancing, and singing, that takes place in the synagogue.
Not to mention at the weddings, a subject on which the filmmakers have amassed wonderful detail. Matchmakers introduce most Hasidic couples. But as Toby, a still young, clearly happy married woman, recalls it, she wasn't enthusiastic about the arrangement—she'd wondered how these marriages could work. Nevertheless, she attests, within 10 minutes of her meeting with Joel, the young man the matchmaker produced, she got the feeling, "Hey, this is the kind of guy I would want to marry." Joel, now her husband, beams as he helps serve dinner with one hand while holding a toddler with another. They have three children, we learn—not enough as far as Toby is concerned. Hasidim believe in the tenet "Be fruitful and multiply." A common question among her women friends, she notes dryly, runs something like "so when are you having your next?"
Not everyone is happy with the Hasidic life—there are rebels, two of whom tell their stories of the decision to break away. One is a young man who says he couldn't abide the discipline, the refusal of the outside world's learning, to say nothing of its sex—and so he made his break, only to find he can't quite bring himself to do so completely. He says he doesn't have the guts—that's not the word he used—to cut his payes, the sidecurls that mark many ultraorthodox Jews. That's why he has them tucked behind his ears.
There are those, on the other hand, who come as strangers to the Hasidic world and stay there. The most memorable of all the narratives here concerns a young man, product of a Catholic-school education, born to a Catholic father and a nonreligious Jewish mother, who got into trouble at home, made his way to New York and, by some route or other, to the Hasidim in Williamsburg. There he soon decided that he had found his faith as a devout member of the Hasidic community. The film crew follows him home to his Catholic family in his full Hasidic garb, carrying his supply of kosher food. He leads the family, his devout Catholic father included, in a Hanukkah service, in which they happily partake. This Hasid's father, who looks fondly at his baptized son, can't resist noting, wryly, that "once you're Catholic, you're always a Catholic." An extraordinary hour.
Only for God: Inside Hasidism | Friday, March 23, 10 p.m. on National Geographic Channel
Advice for people in need of respite from primary battles, contraception debates and grimmer concerns: Watch "Koala Hospital," a Nat Geo Wild film. An hour packed with koala bears set in Port Macquarie, Australia—home to a hospital dedicated to their care—can't be beat. Look into those faces. Meet Jimmy, Farida, Kaylee and Twinkles—watch them scramble back up a tree after they're rehabilitated. You'll feel rehabilitated too.
Koala Hospital | Saturday, March 17, 7 p.m. on Nat Geo Wild


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Saginaw Township police officers are getting credit for pulling a man from a burning apartment at 3331 Wexford today.
Three officers broke down the door about 11 a.m. today and crawled beneath the smoke to find the man. Mobile Medical Response crews took the man to Covenant HealthCare for medical treatment.
It was not immediately clear who the man was, nor his age or possible injuries.
The police were first to arrive at the burning apartment building where a witness had spotted flames in a third-floor window. Fire crews still were on the scene.


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There is currently a very low-budget documentary on Netflix Instant titled Alive! Is Michael Jackson Really Dead?, and — as you can tell from the title — is is incredible. A conspiracy theory documentary that you put on because you think, "Haha, oh this is crazy, this is going to be fun." And then you think, "Oh my goodness, look at the poor quality! I can't believe they're using comic sans. Where did they even get their information? This is such funny nonsense." And then you think, "Haha, sooo, wait a second, did Michael Jackson really have a bunch of body doubles?" And then you think, "So really, I mean, there is all this evidence that it could have been one of his body doubles who died. It seems possible. I'm not saying I believe it, but just–" and then you think, "HE'S ALIVE!!!!" In that way, this video of a Canadian Christian panel discussing the demonic threats of children's pop culture of the early '90s, compiled by Rich FourFour, is a lot like that Michael Jackson documentary. I CAN'T BELIEVE WE ALLOWED CHILDREN (US) TO MAKE THEIR (OUR) OWN NUNCHUCKS!
If nothing else, this certainly explains a lot of the personality flaws we see in each other. Like why our generation REFUSES to say grace properly. GOD DAMNIT, BART! (Via FourFour.)


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When her family moves to London, 15-year-old Savvy Smith has to make her way in a new school and a new country. She just knows the school newspaper is the right place for her, but she doesn't have the required experience, and the cute editor-in-chief is not looking to train anyone. She has to come up with a way to prove herself and nab the one available position on the newspaper staff at Wexburg Academy.
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Louisiana students are doing a better-than-average job in elementary reading and mathematics, but their achievement levels falter as they move toward high school and college, according to a report released today.
While most Louisiana fourth-graders scored above national norms that measure basic proficiency at reading and math, the report by the Southern Regional Education Board shows that the state's eighth-graders fall behind their peers in those subjects.
From that grade on, the news about Louisiana is mixed.
Only 24 percent of the state's eighth-graders are taking math courses designed to prepare them for college, the report shows.
That is "a great problem," state Education Superintendent Paul Pastorek said. "There are some people who don't believe that kids can be successful with those kinds of (math) courses. I think the problem is that we're not as good as we should be in teaching those subjects to our kids. If students get good teachers, they will succeed."
Louisiana's high-school dropout rate is 36 percent, 14 percentage points above the national average.
Graduation rates for black and white high school students in Louisiana are lower than the averages for the nation and for the 16 states that are members of the Southern Regional Education Board, a nonprofit coalition that advises state leaders on improving education.
The number of Hispanic students who finish high school in Louisiana is slightly above the national average but just below the regional figure.
Seventy percent of Louisiana's high-school graduates enter college, seven points above the national mark, but the report shows that only 20 percent of Louisiana's adults have a bachelor's degree, seven percentage points below the national figure.
In discussing the report's findings, board spokesman Alan Richard cited Louisiana's progress in several areas, including the improved reading and math scores among elementary-school students.
But, he said, "That doesn't mean the state doesn't have plenty of challenges, including the need to continue to raise high-school graduation and college completion rates."
Leslie Jacobs, a former member of the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, acknowledged progress, but expressed reservations about the reading scores among fourth-graders.
Even though the report shows that 51 percent of them had reading skills above the national average last year, Jacobs pointed out that figure represents a two-point drop since 2005.
"We have plateaued," she said. "I think we can do better."
Test results also showed that the achievement gap between white children and those who are poor or in minority groups is narrowing.
Pastorek reiterated that the way to continue that improvement is to get better teachers.
Between 1999 and last year, the number of Louisiana high-schoolers taking the ACT college-entrance examination rose by 12 percentage points, from 77 percent to 89 percent, according to the study. During that period, the average ACT composite score rose half a point, trailing the regional and national averages.
"At the end of the day, it's about college readiness and career readiness," Pastorek said, "and doing better on the ACT is a measure of success."
The Southern Regional Education Board issues 16 reports -- one for each member state -- every other year. It is releasing the most recent batch today during its annual meeting in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
The reports on Louisiana and the other 15 states in the Southern Regional Education Board is at www.sreb.org.
John Pope can be reached at email@example.com or 504.826.3317.


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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — An optimist might call this evolution; a pessimist would opt for decline. Either way, every fifth game Yankees ace CC Sabathia labors through his conversion, a reality reinforced by the radar-guns found at every big-league ballpark.
He was always a craftsman, meticulous with command, deceptive with offspeed pitches. But when his tools were too blunt for precision, when he lacked the crispness necessary to dissect opposing hitters, he possessed a vicious fastball capable of overpowering them.
Now the elite fastball is gone on sabbatical, perhaps never to return. Only the craftsman remains, a pitcher wounded in a 5-1 loss to Tampa Bay Monday night at Tropicana Field. The light-hitting Rays gashed Sabathia for five runs over seven arduous innings. He surrendered three homers in a game for just the third time in his Yankees career.
Afterward Sabathia (3-2, 3.34 ERA) lamented a lack of aggression. He indicated in the early innings, as Tampa Bay pounded him, he felt muddled on the mound, obsessing over the mechanics of his delivery in an attempt to be "nice and fluid." Passivity plagued him, even as his fastball touched 93 mph for the first time this season, according to Pitch f/x data from Brooks Baseball.
"I'm usually aggressive," Sabathia said. "It's just one of those things where I don't know what I was thinking."
The matchup pitted Sabathia against fellow lefty Matt Moore, a pairing of one southpaw entering baseball's middle age and another on the rise. Moore (4-0, 1.04 ERA) silenced the Yankees for eight innings. He struck out nine and yielded just two hits.
The dichotomy between the pair was stark. After three innings, Sabathia had allowed five runs. After three innings, Moore had yet to give up a hit. Robinson Cano snuffed the no-hit bid in the fourth, when he launched a titanic solo home run. But what occurred next was instructive. Moore received a fresh baseball and set about carving up the Yankees lineup once more.
"You can't expect your pitcher to be perfect every time," manager Joe Girardi said. "Sometimes you have to pick them up a little bit. And we weren't able to tonight."
Sabathia turns 33 this summer. He underwent surgery on his left arm for the first time last winter. But in his previous three starts, Sabathia mollified concerns about his fastball. He limited Detroit, Baltimore and Arizona to three earned runs in 23 innings. He struck out 19 and walked four.
Yet he admitted last night he lacked trust in his arsenal. He felt he couldn't "just let the ball go."
"I felt like I was trying to place the ball," Sabathia said. "And be too fluid, and worry about my delivery."
The Rays bloodied his nose in the first inning. A series of egregious errors set the tone, tipping off Sabathia's critical flaws on this night: He could not keep his fastball low in the zone, and he could not locate his off-speed options.
The second problem arose first. Sabathia floated the game's second batter, infielder Ryan Roberts, a meaty slider on an 0-2 pitch. Roberts smashed a solo homer. After Evan Longoria singled, Sean Rodriguez roped a triple. Up came Yunel Escobar, Tampa Bay's new shortstop. He pounced on a pitiable sinker, an 89-mph pitch that Escobar drove for a two-run, opposite-field homer.
"In the first inning," catcher Francisco Cervelli said, "everything was flat."
In the third, Sabathia served Roberts an 89-mph fastball over the middle. Roberts ripped this one into the left-field seats, too. As the game dragged on, with Moore handcuffing his teammates, Sabathia appeared to turn a corner. His velocity ticked upward, with his fastball sitting at 91 mph. He allowed two hits during five innings after Roberts' homer.
This is a process, even if Sabathia insists he is adjusting fine to his new reality. He learned a lesson last night. He'll carry it with him.
"Next start out, I'll just try to be more aggressive," he said. "I'll just come out and let the ball go."


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Guests will enjoy heavy hors d'oeuvres, hosted beer, wine & signature cocktails! Plus, a surprise guest!! Last year the surprise guest was Rojo, the fabulous redheaded therapy llama! Who will it be this year?
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Proceeds from Boutiques Unleashed benefit the DoveLewis Pet Loss Support Program. Launched in 1986 by the same certified grief counselor who runs it today, the program offers five, free drop-in group therapy sessions for grieving pet owners. The program director, Enid Traisman, MSW, is also the author of "Pet Remembrance Journal," available online at dovelewis.org.
DoveLewis is Portland's 24-Hour Emergency and ICU Animal Hospital, offering advanced veterinary care in a state-of-the-art facility in Northwest Portland. DoveLewis also shares several 100% donor-funded programs with the community including one of America's largest volunteer-based animal blood banks, an award-winning animal assisted therapy program, a nationally recognized pet loss support program offering five free group therapy sessions each month, 24-hour stabilizing care for lost, stray and wild animals and financial assistance for low income families and owners
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Better Act Fast: 16GB Nexus 10 Back In Stock Through Google Play
Did you miss your opportunity last week to pick up a Google Nexus 10 tablet? Are you looking to grab a 16GB for a friend, relative or as a gift to yourself? Well, hop on over to the Play Store as the 16GB Nexus 10 is in stock awaiting and awaiting your order. We're sure that quantities are limited so I wouldn't hesitate to make your move. The 32GB model is still listed as out-of-stock but we're hopeful we'll see it reappear in the very near future as well.
This post will be short and sweet so you don't waste any time, head on over to the link below and get your order in.


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Mardi Michels: Making a Difference in the Kitchen
Mardi Michels is a Toronto-based teacher and popular food blogger, who runs a cooking club for boys once a week in the school where she teaches. We caught up with Mardi and asked her to tell us a little bit more about her impressive cooking club, which recently caught the attention of Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution website.
Where do you teach, and what led you to decide to start a cooking club for boys?
I teach French as a second language to Grades 3-6 (ages 7-12) at an all-boys' school in Toronto. Teachers offer clubs once a week after school, and after spending a few years trying to find something that the boys would love to do (and that I can actually instruct them on!) I finally found my groove with Les Petits Chefs cooking club. I've run the cooking club since January 2010, and now there's a wait list!.
Can you walk us through a typical lesson?
We meet once a week in the school science lab - we don't have a kitchen, so we work mainly with hot plates, though we do have access to an oven in the dining hall kitchen from time to time. The boys are with me for only an hour, so whatever I choose to cook or bake must be packed away in Tupperware containers and in their backpacks before they leave that day - and preferably, the lab needs to be tidied and cleaned, and the dishwasher packed and ready to go. It's no easy feat, but the challenge each week reminds me how much one can accomplish in terms of getting a "real food" meal on the table in under an hour. If I can do this with 10 little boys in a science lab, most anyone can!
Why Jamie Oliver?
Right now we are working our way through Jamie Oliver's Meals in Minutes. We've also made most of the recipes in Jamie's Food Revolution cookbook. I like Jamie's recipes because they are not "dumbed down" food for kids, and they are also pretty straightforward. If we can make chicken tikka masala from scratch in 60 minutes (including the curry paste), then that's a testament to a well-written, do-able recipe. Jamie's recipes are not too "out there" in terms of flavours either so it's a great way of introducing little palates to new taste experiences without shocking them so much they might never try something new again.
What are some of the challenges and surprise that come with teaching young boys to cook?
One challenge is that I find especially the younger students tend to have very firm ideas of what they will and won't eat, so it's sometimes hard to sell them on certain dishes (especially ones with a lot of vegetables!) – even just asking them to take one bite to taste. I tell them they have to taste it to be able to tell me they don't like it and many times they actually surprise themselves by liking something when they eat it at home (I know this because the parents tell me!).
The flip side of that is that they are, after all, little boys who are pretty fearless. They attack complex recipes and techniques, and tasks like chopping onions, peeling and mincing garlic, and chopping up raw meat with great gusto and a fabulous "can do" attitude that you only get with kids. We've had our fair share of fingers cut (including mine) and we've had to use the eye bath once or twice (those jalapeños can be deadly(, but nothing drastic.


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CANASTOTA, New York (AP) -- A brief look at the 14 people who will be inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame on June 14, 2009:
ORLANDO CANIZALES -- Born Nov. 25, 1965, Laredo, Texas. Began professional career in August 1984. Won NABF flyweight title from Armando Velasco in 1987 with a fourth-round KO. In 1988, he added USBA super flyweight title with a second-round TKO over Louis Curtis. Moved up in weight and won the IBF bantamweight championship with a 15th-round TKO over Kelvin Seabrooks. Over the next six years, Canizales successfully defended his title a division-record 16 consecutive times. Abdicated title in 1994 to fight as super bantamweight and dropped 12-round split decision to WBA champion Wilfredo Benitez in January 1995. Retired in 1999 with a record of 50-5-1 and 37 KOs.
PAUL GALLICO -- Born July 26, 1897 in New York. Famed novelist ("Poseidon Adventure," ''The Pride of the Yankees"), sports writer for the New York Daily News and creator of the Golden Gloves boxing tournament in 1927. Gallico famously sparred with Jack Dempsey -- and was knocked out in two minutes -- to write a column about what it was like to be hit by the heavyweight champion. Died July 15, 1976.
BILLY GIBSON -- Born in 1876. Manager of Hall of Fame champions (lightweight) Benny Leonard and (heavyweight) Gene Tunney, also served as a matchmaker and promoter at the Fairmont Athletic Club and Madison Square Garden in early 1900s-1920s. Died July 21, 1947.
BOB GOODMAN -- Born June 8, 1939, in New York. Son of Hall of Fame publicist Murray Goodman. With his father, formed Murray Goodman Associates and handled public relations for major bouts involving Ken Norton, Bob Foster, Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali and big events for Top Rank and Don King Productions. Later became matchmaker at Madison Square Garden Boxing.
ABE GREENE -- Born in 1899, credited with revitalizing boxing in New Jersey. Worked as a newspaperman at the Paterson Evening News for 56 years. Served as New Jersey state boxing commissioner from 1937-1953 and from 1971-1983. Was president of National Boxing Association 1941-1948 and in 1970 elected lifetime commissioner by the WBA. Died Sept. 22, 1988.
AKIHIKO HONDA -- Born Sept. 9, 1947. Took over Teiken Promotions at age 17 following untimely death of father and developed it into one of Japan's most influential and successful promotional companies. Among the fights promoted were ones involving Mike Tyson, Tony Tubbs and Buster Douglas. Has guided the careers of more than a half dozen champions, including current fighters Roman Gonzales and Edwin Valero.
TOM HYER -- Born Jan. 1, 1819, is the first recognized heavyweight champion of America. Won the title in 1841 by defeating George McChester in 101 rounds, a fight that took nearly three hours. Died of a heart attack at age 45 on June 26, 1864.
WILLIAM "GORILLA" JONES -- Born in Memphis, Tennessee, May 12, 1906. Turned pro in 1924. Jones stopped Oddone Piazza with a sixth-round TKO to win NBA middleweight title in 1931. After title loss to Marcel Thil, Jones regained the NBA crown in 1933 with a seventh-round KO of Sammy Slaughter. Retired in 1940 with a career mark of 101-24-13 and 52 KOs. In retirement, became chauffeur and bodyguard for Hollywood starlet Mae West. Died Jan. 4, 1982.
LENNOX LEWIS -- Born Sept. 2, 1965, in West Ham, England. Defeated Riddick Bowe for 1988 Olympic super heavyweight gold medal. Turned professional in 1989 and claimed vacant WBC heavyweight title with a second-round TKO of Donovan "Razor" Ruddock in 1992. After losing championship to Oliver McCall in 1994, took it back in 1997 with a fifth-round TKO. Fought to a controversial draw in March 1999 with Evander Holyfield in what was then the highest-grossing fight ever at Madison Square Garden. Defeated Holyfield eight months later to win WBA/IBF belts and unify championship. Reclaimed the title in a 2001 rematch with Hasim Rahman. Knocked out Mike Tyson in the 8th round in 2002. Retired in 2003 with a record of 41-2-1 and 32 KOs.
HUGH MCILVANNEY -- Born in Kilmamock, Scotland, in Feb. 2, 1934. One of the most respected voices in British sports journalism, McIlvanney is an award-winning writer. He currently writes a weekly column for The Sunday Times and has been ringside for boxing greats from Muhammad Ali to Roy Jones Jr.
LARRY MERCHANT -- Born Feb. 11, 1931, in New York City, has been a sports writer for the Philadelphia Daily News, New York Post and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner. In 1978, he joined HBO sports as an expert analyst for boxing.
BRIAN MITCHELL -- Born Aug. 30, 1961 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Turned pro in 1981 and won South African junior lightweight crown in 1983. Won the WBA title in September 1986 with 10th-round TKO of Alfredo Layne and defended the title 12 consecutive times before he was stripped of it in 1991. Won the IBF belt later in 1991 with a 12-round win over Tony "The Tiger" Lopez. Retired in 1995 with a record of 45-1-3 and 21 KOs.
"MYSTERIOUS" BILLY SMITH -- Born May 15, 1871, in Little River, Nova Scotia. Turned professional in 1890. Although he had quick hands, Smith was more known for his often blatant disregard for the rules and became known as "The Dirtiest Fighter Who Ever Lived." Held the world welterweight title 1892-1894 and 1898-1900. Retired in 1915. Died Oct. 15, 1937.
BILLY SOOSE -- Born Aug. 2, 1915 in Farrell, Pennsylvania. Posted 170 wins in 176 amateur bouts. Soose was a three-time Golden Gloves middleweight champion and U.S. amateur champion. Won the 1937 intercollegiate title at Penn State University. Was so dominant that boxing officials passed a law barring Golden Gloves winners from intercollegiate competition, ending his college boxing career. Turned pro in 1938. Won the NYSAC title in 1941. Retired in 1942 with a record of 34-6-1 and 13 KOs. Died Sept. 5, 1998.
Source: International Boxing Hall of Fame