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The Mount Angel Community Foundation has received a $200,000 grant toward construction the planned Mount Angel Community Building. The gift comes from the Portland-based Meyer Memorial Trust, which announced a series of awards Friday.
The Mount Angel grant means the town's community building project has now secured about $1.4 million of its estimated $2 million cost. Several other grant applications related to the project are pending, according to Dave Kohler, chairman of the community foundation's fundraising committee.
Among the project's biggest donors to date are the Slayden Community Fund, the Ford Family Foundation and Mount Angel Oktoberfest.
Mount Angel's award wasn't the largest grant announced by the Meyer Memorial Trust on Friday. Self Enhancement, Inc., of Portland received $450,000 to expand youth programs in North Portland and Northeast Portland. The trust also awarded Linfield College $250,000 for renovations on its campus in McMinnville.
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Foster, Nicholas HD (2010) Making People Behave Properly in Islamic Finance: Some General Thoughts. In: Fourth Harvard-LSE Workshop, 25th February, London School of Economics. (Unpublished)
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This is going to my first of probably 3 reports.
Starting off, we got to the airport rather early so we could attempt to non rev on a NW flight to DTW. After getting on the tram and heading over to Airside A, we waited for our names to be called for the flight. Sadly, we were not called. We then had to race back to the main terminal via the tram and re-check in with DL. Soon, we made our way to Airside E of which we would try for the nonstop DL flight to BOS. We waited and waited as usual and got our names called up to the podium. But, as they were assigning our seats, three DL nonrevs came running up to the gate and said they were stuck in security. So, they bumped us off the flight and asked us if we were willing to connect via LGA. Since this was our last chance, we accepted the offer. We made our way to the other side of the Airside to gate E66. With in minutes of arriving we were boarded.
DL Flight #1897
May 16, 2008
I received seat 23E. After pushing back we made our way to 18R and took off. The flight itself was rather smooth apart from the landing. We descended and landed on runway 4 at LGA. Obviously, if you watch the video, the flight attendant was a rookie. We parked at gate 3. We were booked on a DL Shuttle flight to BOS. So, we had to take a bus to the Marine Air Terminal to catch our next flight.
DL Flight #1926
May 16, 2008
In my opinion the MAT was very nice. We boarded the flight and I got seat 18A. We sat on the tarmac for 45 minutes awaiting a very long line of aircraft to take off. We finally were granted clearance for runway 13. After takeoff we were quickly served drinks and before I knew it we were descending. The landing in BOS was pretty standard. We touched down on runway 4R. We taxied to gate A3 and soon found our self's in afternoon Boston traffic.
Video of the first flight (Takeoff and landing)
Airside A
The first flight we tried for
The view of Airside F from E
Tram station in Airside E
View after push back from E66
Holding short runway 18R
Starting our descent into LGA
First view of LGA
New CR9 at the gate
Shes showing her age isnt she!
Inside the MAT
http://www.jetvideos.net/video/view.php?id=1120 (LGA-BOS)
Shortly after takeoff clearance
After landing I took a quick pic of our plane
A few days later it was time for us to leave Boston. We were aiming for an early morning flight to DTW. So, we had to wake up at 3am for our cab to the airport. After we got through security we made our way to gate E1B. I saw a beautiful sunrise reflection on the Boeing 757-200. According to the gate agents the flight was oversold. Somehow, they were able to squeeze the three of us on. I got seat 34F. We then taxied to runway 33 and took off into the early morning sky.
NW Flight #460
May 19, 2008
We made our descent into DTW and landed on 21L. We taxied to gate A10 and deplaned into the enormous McNamara terminal.While my family waited for our flight back to TPA I explored the airport for the fifth or so time. After 2 hours of walking around I made my way to gate A75 for our flight to TPA. Again, we boarded out of all odds and I received seat 05A (bulkhead).
NW Flight #484
May 19, 2008
The flight itself was rather normal so not much to say about it. Other than, I saw a fire over Georgia. We landed and deplaned on schedule. After a long day I made my way back home to my bed!
http://www.jetvideos.net/video/view.php?id=1138 (First flight BOS-DTW)
Check in at BOS
Our plane at the gate
Taxing to 33
Descent to DTW
Nice view of the McNamara
Parked at A10
View out of the window
The tram is arriving soon!
You see a lot of these pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dWnFJvC-Sc&feature=channel_page (DTW-TPA)
The old terminal
Shortly after takeoff
The fire I was talking about


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Attendees of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2004 show in March (http://rbi.ims.ca/3848-688) had plenty of opportunity to see some of the auto industry's latest and greatest innovations, including powertrain advances that promise increased fuel economy and vision systems designed to heighten driver awareness and help to avoid accidents.
In several panel discussions, engineers described design concepts they are working on that could bring up to 15-percent savings in fuel economy. Among the technologies discussed: hybrids with internal combustion engines (ICE)/electric motors, clean diesels, and hydrogen propulsion, either in fuel cells or as the fuel for an ICE.
In a panel discussion on the future of hybrid vehicles, Walter McManus, executive director of J. D. Powers & Associates, noted the schizophrenic desire for both large vehicles and fuel economy. "Over the past eight years that we have been measuring the data, car buyers have demanded larger and larger vehicles. Likewise, their interest in fuel economy has gone up. So it makes sense for Toyota to make the Prius » a little bit bigger and come out with the RX400h SUV; GM to come out with a hybrid transit bus; and Ford to develop the hybrid Escape."
The 2004 Prius is a four-door hybrid with a 50-kW motor. That's up from the 30-kW motor in the original Prius. The new Prius can accelerate to 40 mph in 4.9 seconds using only the electric motor. The Lexus RX400h, slated for introduction later this year uses a similar drive system.
GM will use technology from its hybrid transit bus for full-size pickups and SUVs in the 2008 model year. Hybrid powertrains promise from 25 to 35 percent better fuel economy in the new vehicles. Ford says that its Escape hybrid SUV will get 35 to 40 mpg in city driving versus 19 mpg for today's V6, and 29-31 mpg versus 25 mpg on the highway.
On the safety front, enhanced vision systems for control and better driver awareness seemed to be everywhere on the exhibit floor. The technology was also the focus of several technical papers. In his keynote presentation, Wolfgang Ziebart, deputy chairman of the executive board, Continental AG noted, "Today, on average, one person is killed every minute in a car crash somewhere in the worldover one million deaths every year. That's more than sufficient justification to be looking into ways to make vehicles smarter and safer."
Continental's Intelligent Power Assisted Steering system provides a Lane Keeping Support (LKS) function made possible by a camera that detects unintentional deviation from the selected lane.
A radar-based Closing Velocity Sensor in an advanced system will detect events near the vehicle to enable precise predictions of the severity and direction of an impending collision. It is also designed to take pre-collision steps, such as proper activation of airbags or closing windows or locking the doors.
Other companies displaying cameras and vision detection systems included Valeo/Iterus, Hella, Denso, Aisin Seiki, and SMal Camera Technologies.
Valeo said that it is developing both camera and radar-based vision systems. The CMOS camera-based system is a cooperative effort with Iteris and is currently in production for heavy-duty trucks. John Hancock, project manager for Iteris, says, "It's very simple. As the occupant is driving down the road, the camera is looking at the road ahead. It tracks the lane markings on both sides of the road. The position of the car within the lanes is calculated. If the driver crosses over a lane mark, he or she gets some kind of warning sound. You can think of it as portable rumble strips."
Hella is developing a lane departure warning system (LDW) that uses a windshield-mounted camera with scatter light suppression for operation over a wide variety of lighting and weather conditions.
Denso's millimeter wave-radar is used in the pre-collision warning system that is now being offered on the Lexus LS 430 in North America. The sensor monitors a wide angle (20 degrees) with a detection accuracy of 0.5 degrees.
Aisin Seiki uses a single camera in its Intelligent Parking Assist/Automatic Steering system that steers the car and automatically parks it. Toyota uses the technology in the 2004 Prius version that is sold in Japan.
SMal Camera Technologies displayed its CMOS image sensors with wide dynamic range for forward, rear and interior vehicle vision applications.
The U.S. Department of Transportation has identified that over 500,000 rear/side crashes occurred every year in the U.S. since 1997. As a result, several companies have recently developed electronic vision products to address this blind area problem. Siemens VDO Automotive announced its Blind Spot Detection system that uses two, dual-beam radar sensors operating at 24 GHz to alert drivers to potential dangers. The sensors are mounted on the rear quarters of the vehicle to detect objects approaching the driver's blind spot. A light on the side mirror warns the driver of the objects. This technology is expected to be in production for the 2007 model year.
Trico Products Electronics Division unveiled its SideEyes side-object warning system, which uses an infrared beam to detect objects. The company says the infrared sensor was chosen over radar, sonar, and microwave sensing techniques for its lower cost. The device is integrated into the vehicle's sideview mirror mounts and provides an illuminated icon to warn the driver of an object in the blind spot. The sensor has a response time of 50 ms, a range of 2 to 25 ft that is adjustable, and a resolution of ±6 inches.
Omron announced an advanced electronic camera with almost three times the dynamic range (170 dB versus 60 dB) of CCD cameras that could be used under light conditions that range from tunnels to blinding sunlight and after dark. The High Dynamic Range CMOS (HDRC®) digital imaging technology has potential vehicle applications in blind spot detection, lane departure, collision warning, and other functions.
Mobileye N.V. announced the production of the EyeQ vision system-on-a-chip. The chip has the equivalent computing power of two Pentium computers at a fraction of the cost. With this chip, engineers claim they can address lane following, lane-change assist, and adaptive cruise control requirements including collision mitigation with a single CMOS camera, which may be supplemented with a radar sensor. Mobileye has agreements with several manufacturers and Tier-1 suppliers for production vehicle applications starting in 2006.


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ORANGE COUNTY, Calif. – Nov. 23, 2011 – Online PC game publisher YNK Interactive today announced the opening of CBT registration on R.O.H.A.N.: La Venganza, the Spanish version of the free to play MMORPG.
"R.O.H.A.N.: La Venganza has the same elements as its global version, but with an added Latin flavor," says Jeff Ee, Project Manager for YNK Interactive. "This version meets the demand of our growing Spanish Speaking community, yet still giving players the PVP, Hitlist, and guild features that has made R.O.H.A.N. one of the best free-to-play MMORPGs in the market."
YNK Interactive's objective for the Spanish version is to create a R.O.H.A.N. dedicated to the needs of their growing Spanish speaking population by bringing the community closer together. R.O.H.A.N.: La Venganza, fully translated in Spanish, is a free-to-play 3D open world MMORPG where players can conquer their enemy territories, forge powerful alliances, and shape their destiny with fame and power.
Registration for Closed Beta Testing opened today from the new PlayRohan Portal. Everyone is invited to register for a chance to join, and urged to come back on Dec. 5, 2011 for the start of Closed Beta. Closed Beta access is guaranteed to players who register with a Closed Beta Key, which is also being distributed through various gaming sites.
In celebration of the launch, several events and contests are scheduled during Close Beta, including free RPs to the players with the most hours, massive item drops, and boss raids. All CBT participants will also receive an exclusive hat and free mount for Open Beta. For more information on the launch, and details on getting a CBT key, registering, and downloading the game for Closed Beta, visit www.JuegaRohan.com.
About YNK Interactive
YNK Interactive is a subsidiary of YNK Korea, one of Korea's largest online game developers and publishers since 1998. Based in Orange County, California, YNK Interactive's mission is to publish localized versions of well-designed and high quality game titles from Korea. YNK Interactive's MMO games include R.O.H.A.N.: Blood Feud, R.O.H.A.N.: La Venganza, Seal Online: Eternal Destiny, and K.O.S.-Secret Operations, along with Hellgate all featured in the PlayRohan portal.


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Look at alternatives for ferry funding | LETTER TO THE EDITOR
To the editor:
Dealing with a long-standing deficit, our state ferry system, WSF, is not able to generate enough revenue to cover operating costs, much less provide funds for future replacement of docks and ferries.
There are only a few possible options open to the state, while simultaneously working on eliminating waste and reducing operating costs:
• Privatize all or part of the system;
• Cut service incrementally until operating costs can be met; this could mean elimination of some routes or drastic schedule reductions;
• Change the rate structure sufficient to at least cover operating costs, hoping that other state funds can be found to cover needed capital expenditures.
From the budget management standpoint, the first is the easiest, since the funding management problem goes away. We could expect rates like those on the Port Angeles-Victoria ferry, $45 one way for car and driver. This fare is similar to others; Catalina Island-Los Angeles is $72 round trip, and fares on two similar routes in Europe that I am familiar with are $41 one way.
While these routes are somewhat longer than Clinton-Mukilteo, more like the Coupeville (Keystone)-Port Townsend route, it gives one an idea of what to expect from privatization.
The second alternative means continuing to cut service until operating costs are met, which may be never; thus forcing complete elimination of service, when operating costs and revenue are finally equal, namely zero. There is a real danger that this alternative will be chosen as the most politically expedient one, since the end result is indeterminate.
The third alternative, changing the rate structure, is the only one that protects Whidbey Island residents from either elimination of service or private rates.
Consequently, while urging the state ferry management to do everything possible to lower operating costs, we need to realize that more realistic rates are necessary to save our ferry. We should be urging our state representatives to install a more realistic rate structure that protects commuters as a priority, and that we realize that getting something for less than it costs is not going to work in the long term.
I for one have met with David Moseley, WSDOT assistant manager of the ferries division, and communicated my concerns. I encourage all Whidbey Island residents to communicate realistic views to their state representatives in order to save our ferry.
Norman Bodine
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PALMER - Shawn R. Fontaine, the teen who got shot twice during a standoff with police, was released to the custody of the state Department of Youth Services after his case was continued without a finding on Monday in Palmer District Court.
Fontaine, 17, who was charged with six counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of carrying a dangerous weapon after he threatened to shoot police officers, admitted to sufficient facts before Judge Patricia T. Poehler, who continued the case until November 2014.
Fontaine must remain drug and alcohol free, take prescribed medication, undergo counseling as required by the probation department, comply with Department of Youth Services and Department of Children and Families requirements, and report to probation within 48 hours of his release from Department of Youth Services, according to his court file.
Fontaine, whose address was listed as 38 Lionel Benoit Road, Springfield, had been held at the Ludlow jail since his release from a Worcester hospital about a week after being shot in the ankle and abdomen by Officer Scott T. Camilleri during the July 4 stand-off at 22 Pinney St.
Camilleri was legally justified in the shooting, Hampden District Attorney Mark Mastroianni has said.
Prosecutor Colleen Martin had asked at Fontaine's pretrial last month that Fontaine serve 2½ years in the House of Correction. She said jail could give Fontaine structure that he has been lacking in his young life.
The stand-off began late July 4 when Fontaine showed up at 22 Pinney St., where he had been staying with his cousin. Fontaine's lawyer, Michael N. Kallock, said at the October pretrial hearing that his client felt a sense of "betrayal" because the cousin and another woman living there were going to relinquish their guardianship of him to the state.
Kallock had said Fontaine has been in and out of foster homes since he was 7 years old, and at times lived with his mother, who battled substance abuse.
One of the female residents at Pinney Street called 911 on July 4, saying a male subject whom she knew was banging on her door, demanding to be let inside and was armed with a gun. Responding officers only discovered that the weapon wasn't a real gun after Fontaine had been shot. The standoff lasted 20 minutes, with Fontaine repeatedly pointing the BB gun at officers and threatening them with it.
According to his court file, he allegedly told the officers, "Shoot me! Shoot me! You better shoot me because I'm going to shoot you and I won't miss."
This disposition means that if Fontaine stays out of trouble for the next three years and abides by the terms of his release, the case against him will be dismissed.


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Instead, the man asked the Tigers' center fielder if he was attending the home opener at Comerica Park that afternoon.
Assured that they were headed to the same destination, the man told Jackson that the chilly early-spring weather and baseball don't mix particularly well, particularly when compounded by an all-morning rain. Jackson agreed.
"He never had any idea," Jackson said.
The Tigers certainly have their share of identifiable faces, even if two of them, Carlos Guillen and Joel Zumaya, have such consistently poor health that they probably belong on milk cartons.
Barring more medical intrusions, staff ace Justin Verlander will do his part, big boppers Magglio Ordonez and Miguel Cabrera will do theirs, and closer Jose Valverde will do his. Brandon Inge should give the Tigers the 15 home runs and 75 RBIs they want from him. Designated hitter Victor Martinez, whose three-run double keyed Friday's 5-2 win against the Kansas City Royals, was a vital offseason acquisition.
Those players could push the Tigers into seasonlong contention.
To push them to something beyond that threshold depends on some less-identifiable faces.
The importance of up-the-middle defense is a baseball cliché.
For the Tigers, their youthful up-the-middle offense -- Jackson, second baseman Will Rhymes and catcher Alex Avila, who are joined by veteran shortstop Jhonny Peralta -- hold the keys to the depth of their offense.
Those four players went 6-for-16 in the home opener. Peralta, the reliable offensive force, had two hits and knocked in two runs. Rhymes also had two hits, scored a run and made one brilliant defensive play. Avila and Jackson each had a hit, and the latter stole a base.
All were promising performances for the Tigers' long-term objectives, even if for just one day.
Jackson needs to reduce strikeouts -- he had one -- but also needs to improve his stolen-base output. Rhymes struggled during the first two road series. Avila, who in addition to his hit scorched another ball to the no-hope territory in Comerica Park's spacious center field, continued to drive the ball after two homers and seven RBIs at New York and Baltimore, which is precisely the kind of production that could keep Martinez, who also catches, in the DH spot.
They are kids, particularly Rhymes, who made the opening day roster for the first time, has played in home openers in all three series so far, and had his best game yet here.
He said he was "disappointed" in the atmosphere around last week's season-opening game at Yankee Stadium. Then again, the cheers from the New York and Baltimore fans carried a different weight from the ones here Friday.
"When you're there, you know they're not cheering for you. So I'll take the Tigers," as his favorite home opener, Rhymes said.
He said a few other things, too. Said he was energized but not antsy. Said that nerves don't really enter into it anymore.
He sounded like a big-leaguer, through and through, rather than just an experiment who might work, might not.
Avila showed something different, too. Everyone knows he has pop. The doubts center on his work behind the plate.
Then, Avila helped coax the most out of Max Scherzer, who suddenly leads the Tigers with two wins. He called sinkers. He called changes. Scherzer threw them all for strikes, which made his fastball that much more effective.
"I tried to mix it up with Max. Since day one, Max and I have pretty much been on the same page," said Avila, who did not catch when Scherzer beat the Yankees despite allowing six runs in five innings last week.
The Tigers virtually are guaranteed production at certain positions.
How their youthful up-the-middle contributions flourish will take time and patience, manager Jim Leyland conceded.
They also could determine whether the Tigers are a contending team, or a championship team.
"Sometimes, the writers don't have the patience, the fans don't have the patience, which is understandable," Leyland said. "It's conversation, and when they see somebody not hitting, that's normal. But from a manager's standpoint, this is my team, and you play the guys you've got, and hope they get going. Better sooner than later, but they'll get going."
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Ms. Miller, the owner and instructor of the dance troupe bearing her name, wields domineering power. She teaches using fear, manipulation, and humiliation. She is an adult bully. We've seen her type closer to home, hopefully to a lesser degree, in the form of teachers and sports coaches who are a part of our children's everyday life. It's hard enough to help our children bob and weave the emotional minefields left by adults like this and protect them from the resulting emotional scars like, diminished confidence or self-respect, or trust in others, and the increase in anxiety and stress. We need to teach them this conduct is wrong, but when we see it on national TV, glorified and celebrated, it condones the very behavior we should be eradicating, not rewarding with Hollywood celebrity.
Children don't have the emotional maturity to know that grown adults can also be bullies, or to recognize it, unless we as parents communicate it, not only through words, but through action, by removing our children (when possible) from these scenarios.
Perhaps the value of a show like Dance Moms, (apart from showcasing the amazing talent of the young dancers) is spotlighting a teaching and leadership style to warn our children about. It serves as an example of the type of treatment our children should learn to recognize as wrong, whether it's coming from an adult or a kid, man or woman.
Abby Lee Miller routinely screams at her dancers, threatening to oust them, relishing the opportunity to sneer "everyone's replaceable." The dancers and their mothers' are often recipients of cruel insults in storms of aggressive nastiness and obscenities, often resulting in tears of anger, fear and humiliation. To this Abby will chide, "Save your tears for the pillow!" She pits the young girls against each other by using a ranking "pyramid" which was created to praise accomplishments, but instead results in demeaning the dancers. She sets them up to compete against each other in dance competitions, ratcheting up jealousy, resentment and division, if not among the dancers, among the moms. Abby manipulates by assigning girls to numbers, then threatens to pull them out, or tells them she hasn't decided if they're in "for real." She taunts them by auditioning new girls to make replacements and if they don't win first place in a competition, she shames them by saying "second place is the first loser" and accuses them of humiliating her and the name Abby Lee Miller, in a finger-pointing verbal assault.
In an interview, Abby Lee Miller demonstrates her hypocrisy by sharing one of her studio rules: don't be disrespectful to your teacher. To me, one sign of someone who's emotionally abusive, is that they don't live by their own rules. She has no respect for her dancers or their mothers. She has no loyalty to them, but expects unconditional loyalty from them.
Looking back on my youth, I thought about teaches/coaches who could elicit greatness from a student or athlete or artist. It wasn't someone who used fear. But someone who took the time to connect with their students and showed them respect. Someone who saw students as individuals, each with something unique to offer the world and who communicated that simple idea to them. Someone who encouraged a kid to raise the bar, then taught her how to get there. And celebrated when she did. And encouraged her to try again when she didn't.
The teachers/coaches our kids will encounter will be a mix of the good, the bad and the ugly. As long as they can recognize the difference between the healthy and unhealthy methods, I suppose it's the best we can do as parents.
Some people say Dance Moms is scripted and not to take it seriously. But it doesn't matter; it illuminates the wrong message. In a recent interview one of Abby's dancers was asked if Abby is truly like that in real life. She said, "Oh no, she's much worse."
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From A British King To Rock 'N' Roll: The Slippery History Of Eel Pie Island
Hide captionF. Cooke's is one of the few remaining shops where you can buy eel pie in London.Davia Nelson/NPR
Hide captionAnjelica Huston as a teen, hanging out at the club on Eel Pie Island in the 1960s.Courtesy of Anjelica Huston
Hide captionAt F. Cooke's Pie and Mash Shop, Robert Cooke still uses the same pans his father cooked in.Davia Nelson/NPR
Hide captionA little band called the Rolling Stones used to play at Eel Pie Island, an eclectic London teen scene in the 1960s.Courtesy of Dan van der Vat
Hide captionA modern map of Eel Pie Island, showing where famous buildings once stood, rendered in an old-timey style by calligrapher Catherine Horton.Courtesy of Dan van der Vat
Hide captionTeens dance at the club on Eel Pie Island in the 1960s.Courtesy of Dan van der Vat
Hide captionA sign on the wall at F. Cooke's shop in London.Davia Nelson/NPR
Hide captionA collection of Eel Pie Island "passports."Courtesy of Dan van der Vat
Hide captionGeorge Kelly of G. Kelly Pie and Mash Shop holds an eel in this undated photo on the wall at F. Cooke's.Davia Nelson/NPR
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We were in London, searching for Hidden Kitchen stories, when we came upon an Eel Pie & Mash shop. It was full of old white marble tables, tile walls, pots of stewed and jellied eels, and piles of pies. These shops are now a dying breed, along with the eels they serve. Our search for the source of these vanishing eels led us to southwest London — to Eel Pie Island, a tiny slice of land with a flamboyant history that stretches from Henry the VIII to the Rolling Stones.
"Eel Pie. Think of an apple pie, with eels in it," says Dan van der Vat, author of the book Eel Pie Island. The pies, when you can find them these days, are round and mounded like apple pies, but they taste meaty and rich. Van der Vat has lived where it all began — on Eel Pie Island — for 30 years. It's the only inhabited island on the tidal Thames, 18 miles upriver from the center of London.
"The traditional eel [pie] is from the Londoners in the early 16th and 17th century, when the Thames was full of eels, and they were cheap," says Ruth Phillips, owner of Cockney's Pie and Mash Shop, one of the few remaining eel pie shops in London.
But the story of how eel pie became a staple of the London diet is legendary — if a bit slippery.
Legend has it that Henry VIII was being rowed up the Thames on the Royal Barge one day, and while passing the island, he was overcome by hunger, says van der Vat. "He said, 'Stop the barge and bring us a pie! Bring us an eel pie!' He sent a minion ashore to buy him one from Mistress Mayo's famous stall, acquired a taste for her pies, and then frequently indulged it." But, as van der Vat says, "the tale is highly suspicious. The hotel was built by the Mayo family, and Mistress Mayo ran it — but in 1830, not 1530."
Regardless of exactly how it began, for the next couple of centuries, Eel Pie Island became a retreat, known for its music and food, and for the clean air upriver from the polluted heart of London. Charles Dickens came by paddle steamer to visit the hotel in the 1830s, immortalizing it in his novel Nicholas Nickleby.
But eventually, people forgot about the island, and the fancy hotel went downhill.
Fast-forward to the mid-20th century, when Eel Pie Island was rediscovered by Arthur Chisnall, an untrained sociologist who wanted to set up a kind of living laboratory to study this new creature of leisure who cropped up after World War II: the teenager. He opened a club there and used music to attract young people.
Word spread, and soon the island and the club became a rock 'n' roll mecca. There was still some eel pie to be found, but times were changing, says actress Anjelica Huston, who grew up in London in the 1960s.
"Eel Pie Island was where they used to fish out the eels through the 1960s. The eels would be sold in the front of fishmonger shops — big, fat, some as thick as your arm," she says. Huston often made the pilgrimage to the island, although, she admits, eel pies were never on the menu for her.
Chisnall's club became a draw. The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, John Mayall, The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart, Cyril Davies and dozens more did some of the earliest gigs there, tromping over the bridge and carrying the "EELPILAND" passports issued like modern-day membership cards.
Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood called it a great melting pot. "You might bump into Mick Jagger in the bar, Pete Townshend, Ray Davies, Keith [Richards] or [David] Bowie." The Stones played 13 dates in the dance hall in 1963.
"The room would just be throbbing, Anjelica Huston tells us. "Hot, humid, full of cigarette smoke. People didn't take a lot of baths in those days in London. There wasn't a lot of shampooing going on. Music would blare. Those who weren't dancing were snogging. Kissing. Necking. It was a ritual thing."
After 11 years, Eelpiland was forced to shut down in 1967 for being a health hazard. At that time, 30,000 young Londoners were members of the club.
Today, Eel Pie Island is a lot quieter. Twenty or so artists and craftspeople maintain studios on the island, keeping the bohemian atmosphere of its past.
But the eels are largely gone, thanks to overfishing and pollution.
Just a handful of the old eel pie shops remain in London. Robert Cooke owns F. Cooke's at Broadway Market in London's East End. His grandfather opened the shop in 1900; his great-grandfather opened his shop in Brick Lane in 1862. "We've been selling pie and mash in the East End for 150 years. Eels were very cheap, caught from the canal or the Thames. Now we get a lot of eels from Holland. They're farmed and very expensive. The new generation wants chocolate, coffee and cheese, not eels."
Still, a generation of people remember both scenes. "Eel Pie Island. It's a very specific little place in space and time," says Huston. "A little point of liberation on the Thames, very alive — just like the eels."
If you're feeling adventurous, here's a traditional recipe for eel pie, likely dating back to the mid-1800s, from the book Eel Pie Island:
Richmond Eel Pie Recipe
Skin, draw and cleanse two good-sized Thames eels; trim off the fins and cut them up in pieces about 3 inches long, and put these in a stew pan with 2 ounces of butter, some chopped mushrooms, parsley and a very little shallot, nutmeg, pepper and salt, 2 glasses of sherry, 1 of Harvey sauce and barely enough water to cover the surface of the eels. Let them on the fire, and as soon as they come to a boil, let them be removed and the pieces of eels placed carefully in a pie dish. Add 2 ounces of butter, kneaded with 2 ounces of flour, to the sauce. And having stirred it on the fire to thicken, add the juice of a lemon and pour it over the pieces of eels in the pie dish. Place some hard yolks of eggs on the top. Cover with puff-paste. Ornament the top. Egg it over, bake for about an hour, and serve either hot or cold.


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Hello! I would like to ask English speaking people if they know why Bishop is called "bishop"? What is the etymology of this word? When I look this word in the English-Russian dictionary it is translated there as something like a "clergyman" or "priest".In Russian this piece is called either "officer" or "elephant" (elephant is more often). So why is this piece called "bishop" in English? What is the connection
between this piece and a "priest"?!
Hello, Eugen! Your question is really very interesting!! I hope you will find this informative & interesting as well.
Actually, questions about the origin of the universe, life on earth, & language are all time asked but never answered scientifically in a very satisfied way-- maybe we are asking the wrong questions or we are just still behind that age, the age of perfect knowledge where everything is cristal-clear. Well, hope we all live to see the truth without looking in a cristal-ball.
In Morocco the chess game is a somewhat new game. It was brought in by the french colonizer-- as you may already know Morocco is a former French colony. We got complete independance in 1957. The colonizer was forced to leave but the chess game was warmly welcomed & embraced, & so it lingered on. And so it goes.
Dear Eugen! If you look carefully to the elements of the chess game you will certainly come out with the following view. Very basically, the elements of the chess represent the world's societies of the mid of last millennium, especially in Europ & Assia--all of which had undergone the very same system.
The king at the top of the hierarchy had the ultimate power if & only if the church(bishops) & the knights(generals) land him such a power, a symbolic power indeed. The bishops, in today terms, were a bench of politicians gathered to dectate the law & set the norms. But, at that time, the bishops were found falling far short from fulfilling any atandard. Frankly speaking, they were two-faced type of men, very manipulative. This is why their movements on the chess board are not horisontal nor vertical, they are diagonal mirroring their snake-like moves. I think it is because of their position on the chess board(next to the king & queen) & because of their diagonal movements(snake-like moves) they are called bishops.
I hope this will contribute in enriching this forum.
I hope this will be an invitation for more input from other memebers of the chess club.
The earliest Indian chesspieces were called shah (king), wazir (counsellor), fil (part bishop move), asp (knight), rukh (rook), and piyade (pawn). The earliest Persian names were shah, farzin, pil, asp, rukh, and piyada. In Arabic they were shah, firzan, fil, faras, rukhkh, and baidaq. Countries of the western world translated the earliest names as closely as possible.
In July 2002, an ivory piece less than 2 inches in size was discovered in Butrint, an ancient Mediterranean city in souther Albania. The piece is dated to 465 AD. If this is really a chess piece, then it is the oldest chess piece found anywhere in the world. It even pushes back the date of chess. The piece has a cross on top of it and was found in an old Byzantine or Roman palace.
The earliest known chesspieces (chatrang) were found at Afrasaib, near Samarkand in Uzbekistan. What was found were seven pieces consisting of a king, chariot, vizier, horse, elephant, and 2 soldiers. made of ivory. It is dated about 760 AD. A coin, dated 761 was found with the chesspieces.
The Mozarab chess pieces, also known as the pieces of Saint Genadio, may be as old as the beginning of the 10th century. The four small pieces were made of ivory and preserved in the Mozarabic monastary in Leon, Spain.
The oldest European chessmen may be some Italian chess pieces made of bone with ivory topping. It was found at Venafro, Italy and is dated about 980 AD. It is displayed in the Museo archeologico di Napoli. The pieces were discovered in a Roman tomb in 1932. The controversy is how to explain how it was possible that chess pieces of Arabic shape were discovered in a tomb of Roman age. Radiocarbon measurements yielded a date of 885 to 1017 AD.
One of the earliest authentic European chesspieces are the Lewis chesspieces, which are now in the British Museum and the National Museum of Antiquites in Edinburgh. 67 Lewis chesspieces are in the British Musueum, the other 11 in the National Musueum. The pieces come from four different chess sets. The set contains the oldest known ecclesiastical bishop.
The Lewis pieces were found in March, 1831 in an underground chamber on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis (Uig Bay) in the Outer Hebrides islands of Scotland. A local peasant, Calum nan Sprot, who was looking for his cow found a small chamber 15 feet below the top of a sandbank that had been partly washed away. The pieces, perhaps made in 1150 by the Norse, were made of walrus tusk and believed to be of Icelandic in origin. The shepherd was terrified by the expressions on the pieces and fled from the spot. He told his minister, Alexander MacLeod, who returned to the sight and exorcised the site, then sold the pieces (67 chessment and 14 plain draughtsmen) to the British Museum for 84 British pounds.
Another early chess set is the so-called Charlemagne chessmen, which is in the Cabinet des Medailles, Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It is a massive elephant ivory carving. Charlemage probably never played chess. The so-called Charlemagne chessmen was at the Saint Denis Abbey near Naples since the end of the 13th century. The pieces are dated around 1100 and were probably made in Salerne, Italy. The pieces may have come to Paris as a gift to French King Philip II or Phillip III. Both kings stopped in Salerne. In 1598 there were 30 pieces. In 1794, after the French Revolution, there were 16 pieces. The set consists of 2 kings, 2 queens, 4 elephants, 4 knights, 3 chariots, and 1 foot soldier.
A piece that is part of the Charlemange set is a King Elephant. It carries an Arab (Kufric) inscription which translates as "made by Yusuf al-Bahilis." Its origin is India and it may not even be a chess piece. It has an Eastern leader being carried by an elephant, surrounded by a row of horsemen acting as supporters.
One of the first chessmen designs came from John Calvert in 1790. The king and queen had openwork crowns, the bishop had a deep clefted mitre, and the rook was a tower on a pedestal. He produced his chess sets from 1790 to 1841.
In the early 19th century the most common chess design was the St. George chessmen.
In early 1849 Nathaniel Cook designed the Staunton set at a time when players were refusing to play with each other's pieces because of the difficulty in distinguishing the various chesspieces. The main patterns prior to the Staunton pattern were the Lund, Merrifield, Calvert, Barleycorn, Selenius and St George patterns. Cook used symbols in their plainest form. The king had a crown, the queen had a coronet, the bishop had a mitre, the knight was a horse's head, the rook was a castle, and the pawn was a ball. The horses' heads were based on the Elgin Marbles. These were designs found in the Parthenon frieze and taken to England by Thoms Bruce, 7th Lord of Elgin, in 1806. The pawns were developed from the freemason's square and compass. Every symbol was supported on a plain stem rising from a heavy, wide base which gave stability. The design impressed John Jaques, leading wood carver, that he immediately suggested making the pieces on a commercial basis.
Nathniel Cook was Staunton's editor at the Illustrated London Times.
Jaques was a friend of the English chess master, Howard Staunton, who sanctioned the request that the design be called the Staunton chessmen. John Jaques was also the brother-in-law of Nathaniel Cook. Jaques obtained a copyright for the design, registering the design under the Ornamental Designs Act of 1842, and began manufacturing the set in London. The wooden pieces were turned from ebony and boxwood and very heavily weighted. Some ivory sets were made from African ivory. King sizes were 3.5 inches or 4.5 inches (for match or tournament play). The first Staunton Pattern chesspieces from Jaques was offered to the public on September 29, 1849.
additionally, just like in Russian, the piece now referred to as the "Bishop" in English, was also called the "Elephant" in about all it's earliest known forms. The Persians called it "Pil" while the Arabs called it the "fil" (or "al-fil" in the Spanish derivative of the word) - and all these names mean the "Elephant."
Now, when chess came to Europe, surprise! there were no elephants! But one of the more common shapes of the piece now we called the Bishop was, as SonofPearl noted, reminiscent of the official hat (the mitre) worn by Christian Bishops. It's no wonder, especially with the influence of the Catholic Church in those days, that the name Bishop would catch on....
Bishop is the English name for that piece. We already know the Russian name is "Elephant" (in Russian, of course). But in Italy it became known as "Alfiere" or the "Standard Bearer" (to me it looks a lot like al-fil); in Germany it became known as the "Läufer" or the "Runner" and in France it took the name the "Fou" or the "Fool."
There was no real rhyme or reason the the adaptation of these names - mostly just what caught on in different areas.
I think that there is very little known history of the bishop. Nobody really knows.
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All of the talk about TIFs fizzled at Wednesday's Baton Rouge Metro Council meeting, as a new contract giving the proposed River Park development a tax rebate passed without a single comment from council members or the public.
The subject of giving TIFs (tax increment financing) or other tax breaks to retail developments has been a hot topic among council members in recent months, particularly after Costco received tax incentives to locate in East Baton Rouge Parish.
The River Park development – a proposed major, 50-acre mixed-use development just north of downtown with a concert venue, retail and residential components – had revived the issue in the days leading up to Wednesday's meeting.
River Park had already been given a TIF contract in 2011 but that agreement expired. The new agreement before the council was similar, and gives the revenue from the 2-cent local sales taxes collected at the property back to the development, to help pay for public elements of the project.
Proponents of TIFs like the one for River Park say major developments sometimes need an extra boost to provide the infrastructure necessary to get it off the ground.
Critics of retail TIFs often say that they just shift money and jobs around, as people only have a limited amount of money to spend. If they start shopping at a new store, they're likely cutting back on spending at another store.
Council Member Ryan Heck questioned the River Park TIF in an email to other council members earlier this month, saying developer Pete Clements should be the one paying for the project's public elements.
"He's the one profiting," Heck said.
Other council members also chimed in in media reports, with varying opinions.
On Wednesday, however, the council was silent. No one representing the development spoke either.
Council members passed the new contract with no discussion and a 7-2 vote. Heck and Council Member Buddy Amoroso voted no.
Heck said after the meeting that he expected more conversation about the contract.
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As interest in green building has exploded, so have the options available to those who are building or renovating houses and want to make them as energy-efficient as possible. In fact, said Jill Davies, whose house in Woodstock will use solar and geothermal energy, "Making the best decision is complicated by the fact that things are changing so rapidly."
Bobbi Dagger, a real estate agent who was one of the first realtors in Vermont to earn the Green Designation through the National Association of Realtors, noted that many local builders are incorporating sustainable, recycled, and energy-efficient materials into their new construction and renovations.
For example, she cited Chris Ambrose of Ambrose Custom Builders, Inc., who is building a new house on College Hill Road. Ambrose, a Certified Green Builder, is using a plethora of new materials and techniques to ensure that the house is as green as possible.
"We used a new type of panel for sheathing. It replaces plywood, it's insulated, and it helps to close up any thermal breaks, helping to keep the building envelope tight and making sure that heat stays inside the house," Ambrose said. Rather than using traditional forms to pour the house's basement, Ambrose used ICFs (insulated concrete forms), which provide a seamless foundation with an insulating value of R30.
Improved cellulose and foam insulation and low-E windows will help to make the house tighter. And an energy-efficient heating system will enable the residents to lower their heating bills: "Rather than heating the water in the radiant floors to 180 F., they will heat it to 130."
Ambrose is utilizing many construction materials made from recycled products. And lumber, beams, and flooring he saved when he razed a 115-year-old house across the road will find their way into the home's interior.
In Woodstock, Jill Davies and Nigel Holmes are nearing completion of the first part of their renovation and building project on North Street. They gutted the original house on the property and, working with Alfonse Sorrentino (ACS Design/Build, Inc.), they are creating a studio, office, guest room, and garage. Next year, they'll build a small house on the property.
Both these structures will be heated by geothermal, powered by solar panels. "We won't be paying anyone for heat," Davies said. Beams, wood flooring, doors and other materials salvaged from the original structure will be used in the renovation. The roof was replaced with a green roof with high R-value using structural insulated panels.
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For the SEC game you can purchase a two-night package at the Westin Peachtree in Atlanta for Dec. 3 and 4 and upper deck end zone game tickets for $849 total for two. This package is offered by Connections, a company located in Decatur.
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Prices for three and four people in a room is available, optional game ticket upgrades are available and land-only prices are available for the BCS Championship game if you feel like taking a scenic drive across the United States.
For those lucky people whose team makes it and who can get tickets themselves, as soon as the teams are announced you need to jump on the Internet and secure air tickets. Last year, people delayed and waited a week or two and then their alternative was the big screen TV.
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I don't understand why $400k can't get you a pretty nice home in Hyde Park. Grant it, it may need a little work but the return is well worth it. There are also great & historic properties in the 8th ward especially from 71st to 79th & South Shore Drive, Congressman Jackson and his family lives there somewhere. Also another appreciating area is from Drexel to St Lawrence 41st to 55th. In no way am I steering you, just wanna make sure you add these areas to your list. If you need any assistance with property type, area information, comparables, etc, etc, feel free to contact me @ (773) 842-6101. By the way, most sellers require that you are preapproved prior to showing their property, this ensures the seriousness of your purchase. Your banker should be able to assist you in this area. GOOD LUCK & I hope I was of some help.
We have been residents for many years in central Hyde Park within walking distance of everything, Metra, grocery stores, pharmacy, and banks and a 15 minute walk to the 57th street beach!
It seems to me that there are many housing opportunities in your price range: include large condos (with parking), newer row houses with parking. Perhaps it would good to contact realtors directly since some owners are currently not listing, but are planning to in the future.
We are very happy that new people are discovering our neighborhood. It is a wonderful place to live with a great sense of community! It is very family oriented with many opportunities for activities with children. (No, I am not a realtor ......... just a happy long term resident)
Jackson Park Highlands and South Shore are also becoming highly desirable in terms of renovations - not only due to the proximity to the lake and Loop but also due to speculation regarding the potential Olympic village location.
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Antiviral Res 92:497-9. 2011..This data suggests that despite the promising results reported for HCV genotype 4 mono-infected patients, NTZ exhibit poor activity as monotherapy in HIV/HCV co-infected patients with genotype 1...
- HCV RNA decline in the first 24 h exhibits high negative predictive value of sustained virologic response in HIV/HCV genotype 1 co-infected patients treated with peginterferon and ribavirinN Laufer
Centro Nacional de Referencia para el SIDA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Paraguay 2155, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Antiviral Res 90:92-7. 2011..Viral kinetics has emerged as one of the best prognostic factors of treatment outcome...
- Abacavir does not influence the rate of virological response in HIV-HCV-coinfected patients treated with pegylated interferon and weight-adjusted ribavirinNatalia Laufer
Infectious Diseases Unit, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain
Antivir Ther 13:953-7. 2008..The aim of our study was to evaluate the effect of ABC on the response rate to HCV therapy...
- Longitudinal analysis of the 5'UTR, E2-PePHD and NS5A-PKRBD genomic regions of hepatitis C virus genotype 1a in association with the response to peginterferon and ribavirin therapy in HIV-coinfected patientsFederico Bolcic
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Retrovirus y Sida, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Antiviral Res 95:72-81. 2012..The proteins appear to block interferon (IFN)-induced RNA-dependent protein kinase (PKR) and the 5'UTR may influence the viral lymphotropism...
- A clustering phenomenon among HCV-1a strains among patients coinfected with HIV from Buenos Aires, ArgentinaFederico Bolcic
Microbiology Department, National Reference Center for AIDS Research, School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Med Virol 84:570-81. 2012..In conclusion, these results suggest the presence of an HCV-1a monophyletic cluster with a potential HIV co-transmission by phylogenetic analyses...
- HCV genotype distribution among HIV co-infected individuals in Argentina: relationship with host and viral factorsJorge F Quarleri
Centro Nacional de Referencia para el SIDA, Dto Microbiologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Argentina
Acta Gastroenterol Latinoam 37:76-83. 2007..Considering the increasing rate of HCV genotypes with lower response rates to treatment among HIV co-infected patients, antiretroviral therapy success might be jeopardized by HCV coinfection...
- Telomerase activity in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from HIV and HIV-HCV coinfected patientsRita Reynoso
Centro Nacional de Referencia para el SIDA, Dto Microbiologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Virus Res 147:284-7. 2010..The lack of an appropriate induction of this enzymatic activity after stimulus could partly account for immunosuppressive conditions observed in such patients...
- Low rate of emergence of nevirapine and lamivudine resistance after post-partum interruption of a triple-drug regimenHector Perez
Fernandes Hospital, Infectious Diseases Unit, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Antivir Ther 13:135-9. 2008..The aim of this study was to evaluate the emergence of strains resistant to NVP and lamivudine (3TC) after discontinuation of antiretroviral therapy (ART) with 3TC/zidovudine (ZDV)/NVP...
- ICOS, SLAM and PD-1 expression and regulation on T lymphocytes reflect the immune dysregulation in patients with HIV-related illness with pulmonary tuberculosisJavier Oscar Jurado
Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Buenos Aires, School of Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Int AIDS Soc 15:17428. 2012....
- Early Gag immunodominance of the HIV-specific T-cell response during acute/early infection is associated with higher CD8+ T-cell antiviral activity and correlates with preservation of the CD4+ T-cell compartmentGabriela Turk
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas en Retrovirus y SIDA INBIRS, Universidad de Buenos Aires CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Virol 87:7445-62. 2013....
- Acute retroviral syndrome and high baseline viral load are predictors of rapid HIV progression among untreated Argentinean seroconvertersM Eugenia Socías
Hospital J A Fernandez, Cerviño 3356, Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Int AIDS Soc 14:40. 2011..Diagnosis of primary HIV infection (PHI) has important clinical and public health implications. HAART initiation at this stage remains controversial...
- Hepatitis B precore/core promoter mutations in isolates from HBV-monoinfected and HBV-HIV coinfected patients: a 3-yr prospective studyLucila Cassino
Centro Nacional de Referencia para el SIDA, Dto Microbiologia, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Clin Virol 46:354-9. 2009..The course of chronic HBV infection is modified by HIV-coexistence...
- Magnitude, breadth, and functional profile of T-cell responses during human immunodeficiency virus primary infection with B and BF viral variantsGabriela Turk
Centro Nacional de Referencia para el SIDA, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Paraguay 2155 Piso 11, C1121ABG Buenos Aires, Argentina
J Virol 82:2853-66. 2008..Screening T-cell responses with multiple sets increased sensitivity. Further support for the notion of polyfunctional CD8(+) T-cell requirement to better control viral replication is also provided...


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The loss -- Alabama's first since the first game of last year's Women's College World Series championship final -- does not count toward its SEC record because it was classified as a non-conference game. The Crimson Tide (22-1) came four wins short of matching last year's 26-0 start to the season.
This was revenge of sorts for the Gators, whom Alabama beat twice during the 2012 regular season and again in the SEC tournament final.
Alabama's Jackie Traina escaped a number of tricky situations throughout the game, but she couldn't get out of the sixth without giving the lead back to Florida for good.
With the bases loaded, leftfielder Briana Little scored on a wild pitch to draw the Gators within a run. After a walk to re-load the bases, catcher Aubree Munro drove in two runs with a double to left field.
The Gators added three more in the seventh, repeatedly hitting Traina hard with sharp singles and doubles. Traina exited with one out, marking the first time this season she did not finish a game she started.
The loss, of course, was her first of the year, as she came into Wednesday's game 10-0 with a 0.64 earned run average.
Florida manufactured a run without putting the ball in the outfield to take a 1-0 lead in the first inning. Second baseman Kelsey Stewart walked, stole second, advance to third on a groundout and scored on a Lauren Haeger infield single.
Alabama punched back with two unearned runs in the third inning. First baseman Jadyn Spencer reached base on an error by Stewart and eventually came around to score the tying run on a wild pitch. Catcher Molly Fichtner drew a bases-loaded walk to put Alabama ahead, 2-1.
The Gators tied it up, 2-2, in the fifth, as Alabama catcher Chaunsey Bell's wayward throw on an attempted steal sailed into the outfield and allowed Taylor Schwarz to score.
Alabama reclaimed the lead in its bottom half of the inning, as freshman centerfielder Haylie McCleney led off the fifth with a slap single to left field. She came around to score on Hunt's opposite-field double to right-center field. Two batters later, shortstop Danae Hays plated Hunt with a single up the middle to give Alabama a 4-2 lead.
Alabama officially opens SEC play Friday when it travels to Tennessee for a three-game series.


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Hoboken Now reader Elissa wrote in to ask: I was at the "Coraline" showing last night at Pier A and there was an announcement of a screening next Tuesday. Can you please provide more detail?
That would be the screening of "On the Waterfront," a special movie presentation the city is doing to commemorate the death of screenwriter Budd Schulberg. The screening will be next Tuesday, Sept. 1, at 7:30 p.m.
The movie will be shown in the east end of Pier A Park, along the river, at First St. & Frank Sinatra Drive.
"On the Waterfront," which was filmed in Hoboken and released in 1954, won eight Academy Awards including Best Picture, best director Elia Kazan, Best Actor Marlon Brando and best screenplay by Schulberg. It is ranked the 8th greatest American film of all time by the American Film Institute.
Schulberg died Aug. 5, 2009 at the age 95.
In addition to movie, the city of Hoboken will also show footage of Schulberg at the 1954 Oscars, receiving his award for Best Screenplay, as well as footage from an upcoming documentary about his life.
The screening is free and open to all. Bring a blanket, lawn chair and a picnic basket and enjoy the show!


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CHARDON - Geauga County Job & Family Services and The Ohio State University Extension are offering a free financial literacy workshop series.
All workshops run from 6-7:30 p.m.
Participants can learn about creating a personalized budget March 7, paying down debt and improving credit scores March 11, and identity theft March 13 at Geauga Job and Family Services.A workshop on teaching children about money will be held March 21 at the OSU Extension.
It is located at 470 Center St. Bldg. 6-B in Chardon.
Register by contacting Sara Shininger at firstname.lastname@example.com or 440-285-9141.


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BERKELEY HEIGHTS — While most of the area was suffering from a lack of power during and after Superstorm Sandy, one spot in the township had power — Yogoccino.
Located at 442 Springfield Ave. next to the now-closed movie theater, the then-frozen yogurt shop had electricity. That simple fact changed the fate of the business and its two owners, Steven Gunstamacchia and Karole Lewis.
Gunstamacchia, who lives in Scotch Plains, said, "The store was open from 6 a.m. to midnight and I slept here for five nights in a row." He set up an electric grill, served hot food and drinks and the store became the neighborhood charging center. Taylor Rental "donated tables that we set up in the basement so people could work," another customer donated a dozen power strips because they had run out of outlets, he said.
It was a crazy time, but people were grateful they could work and "we had stockbrokers giving our waitresses $100 bills as a tip," he said.
Before Sandy, Gunstamacchia said "my intention was to offer a coffee bar, dessert, yogurt establishment." After Sandy, "I decided to open a restaurant," he said.
He opened "Brunches" and served eggs, waffles — the basic breakfast and brunch offerings. Then he and Lewis, whose husband is Pete, decided to expand the restaurant into the other side of the building and opened "Pete's Place". Now they are open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The head chef is Brian McGregory, the sous chef is Paulie Anastasio. If the name seems familiar, it could be because he ran Paulie's Place in Stirling for many years.
Dinner is available from 4 p.m. to closing and features Italian classics, but it's "fun dining, not fine dining," said Gunstamacchia. Don't forget to bring your own adult beverages; Pete's Place is BYOB.
Tuesday and Wednesday they offer eight ounce Angus burgers with chips for $5 — eat in only — all day long. "We want our customers to get to know us," Gunstamacchia said.
Once a month there is live music, usually on a Friday. Reserve in advance; space sells out quickly. Soon there will be opera once a month on Sundays, said Karole Lewis, a Warren resident. She is the general director of the Eastern Opera of New Jersey, which performs at the Brook Theater in Bound Brook.
Pete's Place at Yogoccino's also holds a ladies' night once a month. Each gathering is different — they've held a cooking class and a Tarot Card reader and a psychic. "Basically, the ladies can come in and have fun," she said.
The basement is being renovated and turned into a party room where the music events, meetings and parties will be held.
Lewis said when the store opened initially it was in the middle of the yogurt store boom. "We've diversified. We're doing catering, kids' parties and reaching a broader market" than most stores,she said. The latest addition to the menu is Boardwalk-style soft ice cream.
They are big supporters of the community, with a presence at all the community-wide events and both Gunstamacchia and Lewis want to find new ways to work together with the business community to boost Berkeley Heights businesses.
The store offers delivery, catering both on and off the premises and has a full breakfast and lunch menu, as well as dinner. It opens at 7 a.m. and closes after the dinner service, around 10 p.m. during the week, 11 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays. To order take-out or reserve for a special event, call 908-771-9300.
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Sometimes the numbers behind the final score just don't add up.
A quality girls' basketball team that did not score a point the final 3:51 and turned the ball over 16 times in the second half somehow managed to win against an equally quality foe.
Something has to give, right?
With those numbers, you better be playing some defense.
And Cumberland Valley did play fabulous defense from start to finish against District 1 runner-up Mount St. Joseph Friday night to hold on for a 35-34 PIAA Class AAAA victory at Cheltenham in suburban Philadelphia.
The Eagles (23-6) did some good work on the offensive end the first half. But when the Magic (26-4) turned up the heat defensively after intermission CV struggled big-time.
"We were talking before the game that we all know how to score, but defense will win this game," said CV senior forward Jackie Falconer, who paced the No. 5 seed from District 3 with a game-high 12 points.
"To start states with a win like this against a really good team should help our confidence overall."
Sophomore guard Jennifer Falconer drew the assignment of matching up with Magic leading scorer, talented junior Alex Louin who came in averaging nearly 18 points a night.
Louin still led Mount St. Joseph with 11 points, but it wasn't easy for the 5-11 point guard who is getting plenty of Division I attention.
On a night when the entire Eagles squad played sound team defense, Jennifer Falconer's effort was the clear 1st star of the night in a low-scoring affair.
"The plan was to make her (Louin) work for every point she got," CV coach Bill Wolf said. "We are a good defensive team, and having four days to prepare for a team that certainly helps.
"Still I would say this is still one of our best defensive games of the season. Jen did a great job all night. She's such a good defensive player"
Cumberland Valley knocked off the Magic by five points early in the season. This was only Mount St. Joseph's fourth loss. The other two came at the hands of District 1 champion Spring-Ford.
With just under four minutes to play the Eagles led 35-29 and had the added cushion of being in the bonus.
But with only one senior on the floor down the stretch, the rest of the Eagles looked like a group that had not felt this kind of heat before with the stakes this high.
"You can't replicate that in practice," Wolf said. "The second half we were not coming back to the ball to make those passes shorter. And we were turning it over.
"And they are a quality team and they turned up the pressure defensively."
Luckily, though, the endless stream of turnovers was backed up by enough sound defense by the Eagles to keep the Magic from ever going ahead.
Mount St. Joseph did have to cracks to win it in the final minute, though, down only a single point.
The Magic had the ball with 13.3 seconds to play but Jennifer Falconer's pressure forced a short-hop pass by Louin that eventually led to a scramble and a turnover at mid-court.
CV obliged by giving away with 3.3 to play and the Magic had one last desperate shot, needing to travel the entire length of the floor to steal a victory.
"It was frustrating down the stretch turning the ball over like that. We don't usually turn the ball over like that," Jackie Falconer said. "But everyone stepped up on defense and that bailed us out a little bit."
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While at Purdue University on an NROTC scholarship in 1971, Roland Haas was recruited to become a CIA deep clandestine operative. He underwent intensive training to prepare for insertion into hostile areas, including High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) parachuting and weapons instruction. In the course of his first mission (to East and West Germany, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bulgaria, Romania, and Austria), he assassinated several international drug dealers. On his return, he was thrown into an Iranian prison, where he was physically and psychologically tortured. Over the next thirty years, he served the agency on an as-needed basis, engaging in such activities as hunting down and eliminating members of the Red Army Faction and extracting Soviet Spetsnaz officers from East Germany. His cover jobs included being a part owner of an Oakland health club, which brought him into close contact with steroid abuse in professional athletics, drug abuse in general, and the Hell's Angels, whom he believes tried to have him killed. He also served in Germany as site commander for the Conventional Forces in Europe weapons treaty. His most recent cover was as the deputy director of intelligence in the U.S. Army Reserve Command, which involved him with the Guantanamo detention facility.
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Brash Baylor RB Portends Conference Trend
Let history remember that it was Baylor running back Lache Seastrunk who threw the first punch that may define the direction of the Big 12 in 2013.
"I'm going to win the Heisman," he told the Sporting News in December 2012. "I'm going to win it in 2013."
This the same Seastrunk, the same transfer from the University of Oregon, who had but 29 carries, 181 yards and a touchdown in the first seven games of his sophomore year last season. Oklahoma State's Joseph Randle and West Virginia's Andrew Buie had each more yards and scores against Texas.
Yet Seastrunk was a volcano defenses couldn't contain the rest of the way. He overwhelmed in the final five games and finished with 1,012 yards and seven touchdowns for the season. In the final six games, he had no fewer than 91 yards and topped 100 six times.
And given that he'll be in that prolific, borderline ridiculous Baylor offense, well, why not?
"If I don't, I'm going to get very close," he told the Sporting News. "I'm shooting for that goal. I will gladly say it."
He's as bold as he is fast. The Heisman Trophy hasn't been a running back's award in recent years. In fact, running backs have forfeited as many Heismans (Reggie Bush in 2005) as they have won (Mark Ingram in 2009). Running backs won the trophy in 1998 and 1999, but Bush and Ingram are the only ones since.
We're looking at the likelihood where a defensive player, namely South Carolina defensive end Jadeveon Clowney, wins it before a running back. In each of the last six votes, there has been at least one defensive player in the top 10. In 2006, there were there were two defensive players and two running backs. Last year, there were two defensive players and just one running back — and Oregon's Kenjon Barner was ninth.
Seastrunk's candidacy would seem to be further weakened by playing in the Big 12, which is known for quarterbacks and receivers. Since starting in 1996, the conference's offensive player of the year award has gone to a running back three times and not since Colorado's Chris Brown in 2002.
The tide may be changing, though. Five teams graduated their quarterback and three others have to pick a starter out of a group. Ten of the league's 15 leading receivers from 2012 are gone, as well.
This could be a running back's league in 2013. Fifteen of the 17 leading rushers at the position are back in 2013, led not by Seastrunk, but by Kansas senior James Sims, who missed the first three games of the season and had one more yard than Seastrunk for a 1-11 team.
The Jayhawks are excited about BYU transfer Jake Heaps at quarterback, but there are limited veteran options at receiver, while Sims will be joined again by Tony Pierson (760 yards, 6.5 yards per carry in 2012) and Taylor Cox (464 yards, 5.1 yards per carry).
Oklahoma has Damien Williams, who last year had 946 yards and 11 touchdowns and averaged 5.4 yards per carry in his first season out of junior college. The Sooners graduated quarterback Landry Jones and lost their two leading receivers. Blake Bell may replace Jones as a running quarterback, which would further elevate Williams.
Texas has the greatest depth of talent with its three leading rushers back. Jonathan Gray led the team with 701 yards, Joe Bergeron scored a team-high 16 touchdowns and Malcolm Brown was tops with a 5.3 average per carry. Kansas State lost quarterback Collin Klein, but John Hubert (952 yards, 5 yards per carry, 15 touchdowns) is back as are the five starters on the offensive line.
TCU will have B.J. Catalon, who led the team with 584 yards as a true freshman, but didn't score last season. He was pressed into action after Waymon James, who led the team with 875 yards and 7.2 yards per carry in 2011, was lost early in 2012 with a knee injury. He returns for 2013 and there's also room for Aaron Green, a transfer from Nebraska. Green was a top 25 recruit in 2011 who carried just 24 times as a freshman.
Texas Tech has Kliff Kingsbury as the coach and he figures to install his version of the Air Raid, but despite the name the offense has been friendly to quarterbacks, whether run by Mike Leach, Dana Holgorsen or Kevin Sumlin. The Red Raiders have junior Kenny Williams back (824 yards, 5.76 yards per carry) as well as versatile SaDale Foster (451 yards, 4.96 yards per carry).
Holgorsen's Air Raid will be influenced this season by the leading rushers in 2011 (Dustin Garrison, 743 yards, 5.5 yards per carry) and 2012 (Buie, 851 yards, 4.8 yards per carry). Garrison had a 291-yard game in 2011 and Buie a 207-yard game last season. They'll be pushed by junior college transfer Dreamius Smith, a larger back who ran for 982 yards, averaged 8.2 yards per carry and scored 17 times last season at Butler Community College.
Iowa State welcomes back James White (505 yards, 5.1 yards per carry) and Shontrelle Johnson (504 yards, 4.4 yards per carry). He won't practice during spring football because of a knee injury last season and that's created a chance for Iowa Western Community College transfer Aaron Wimberly, a speedster who combined for more than 2,000 yards in two junior college seasons, including 1,150 yards in 2012.
The only top rusher to leave the conference was Randle, who had more yards than anyone else. He opted against a senior season with Oklahoma State and took his 3,086 yards and 40 career touchdowns to the NFL. That frees up senior Jeremy Smith, who's waited behind Kendall Hunter and Randle, but made the most of his attempts. In 232 career carries, he's scored 25 touchdowns and averaged 6.2 yards per carry.
Only one Cowboys running back has had a better career average and Barry Sanders (6.8) was a pretty good player, good enough to win the Heisman.


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The heavy burden of workers' compensation costs is one of the chief reasons why businesses are fleeing New York in droves.
That's why it is so mind-boggling that the state Workers' Compensation Board is giving them an extra shove out the door by filing judgments against thousands of businesses, many of which don't owe a dime.
As Post-Standard staff writer Marnie Eisenstadt reported Wednesday, the board filed judgments against about 10,000 companies just in the past 10 weeks for failing to have workers' compensation insurance for employees.
Trouble is, some of the companies never had employees. They're small enterprises like hot dog vendors or house painters in which the owner is the only person doing the work. And many of the businesses have been shut down for more than a decade.
The board fails to verify who legally owes money and who doesn't, a stunning display of incompetence. It just sends out thousands of fine notices and hopes some are right.
If a mistake was made, too bad. The burden of proof is on the business owners, who often have to find documentation going back years to make their case.
The board's action is little more than extortion. Faced with paying the fines or incurring hefty fees for lawyers, many businesses just pay up. Others think they've cleared things up with board but get hit with the same fines year after year. That means more time wasted, more money down the drain.
The comp board blames the flood of judgments on a short-staffed office trying to catch up with a backlog of work. The board's automated system spits the cases out.
But if the cases are all on computer, it should be relatively easy to weed out those businesses that don't have employees or those companies that had their cases settled. Was that even done?
A spokesman for the board said that sometimes "things can get lost in the cracks." But this "crack" is more like the Grand Canyon.
The chairman of the Workers' Compensation Board recently announced he will resign next month. Gov. David Paterson, who will select his replacement, would be wise to choose someone who will end the board's irrational harassment of small businesses.
New York state government is struggling financially and needs every penny it can get. And valid judgments are not only a good enforcement tool, they're a good source of money. Judgment money goes to pay claims for injured workers whose employers didn't have insurance.
But shaking down businesses that faithfully follow the law is no way to raise revenue. It just gives them one more reason to close shop and move out of state.


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Matt Plummer might seem to be ahead of the competition at Penn State Harrisburg, but he does not plan to be there very long.
It's a wonder Plummer has any time left for golf. He's taking 20 credits this fall and 21 next spring, with nine wedged into the semester break. He also took 30 over the summer, including three online classes and a three-credit internship at the Nike Golf School in Massachusetts.
"It was a very busy summer," said Plummer, without a hint of irony.
One reason he was able to dedicate so much time to school work was he was not playing any golf. Plummer tore three ligaments in his wrist during the second round of the Pennsylvania Public Links Tournament last spring. He tried to play through the pain, against his doctor's advice, two weeks later, when Penn State Harrisburg competed in the NCAA Championships. His poor showing led him to realize he needed to rest.
"I'd never really been hurt before," Plummer said. "It was kind of a neat feeling to have had the time off."
Longtime Terps coach Tom Hanna recruited Plummer to Maryland, but left the program in the summer of 2011, just before Plummer arrived. Plummer did not play much under new coach Jason Rodenhaver, and did not agree with some of Rodenhaver's methods, including, Plummer said, "waking up at 5:45 every morning to run and work out."
"I was really excited to go down to Maryland. By the time I left, there weren't many spots left with Division I schools."
Former PSU Harrisburg coach Brad Kane knew Plummer. Kane, also a former Patriot-News reporter, knew Plummer from his time covering the high school golf beat. Kane said the two would see one another on the golf course. The coach was happy to have Plummer come to Penn State Harrisburg.
"He's been a great asset for the team," said Kane, now the director of the J. Wood Platt Caddy Scholarship Trust. "He's a Division I talent playing in Division III, which happens a lot in golf. You will find kids who slide through the cracks, and they're just as good.
"He has really prodigious length off the tee. He can really hit it a long way. But there isn't one part of his game I could identify as a weakness. He's got it all. And he has an ability on the golf course to stay in the moment, to stay focused."
Plummer attributes that focus to his work with famed sports psychologist Dr. Bob Winters, with whom he worked in high school. Plummer plans to pursue a career in sports psychology in graduate school.
Plummer's talent and focus were apparent last April, when he shot a 150, including a tournament best first round of 73, to win the individual title at the North Eastern Athletic Conference tournament in New Jersey, earning him the league's top award. He has continued his strong play this season with two NEAC golfer-of-the-week awards in leading the lions to a pair of top-three finishes in September.
The Lions practice on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. Plummer's heavy courseload is concentrated on those days, leaving him little time to make it to practice, so he plays whenever he can. He spoke to the Patriot-News during his round Wednesday in Baltimore as he prepared for the Mid-Atlantic Amateur tournament. This is fine with him. The more time on the course, the happier he is.
"When you go to play, you're going to play golf. You're not going to play 'range.'"


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The Christian Science Monitor business page is reporting that a chicken wing crisis may be looming for the all-important Super Bowl Sunday noshing.
Best line: "If those 1.23 billion chicken wing segments were laid end to end, they would stretch between the San Francisco 49ers Candlestick Park and the Baltimore Ravens M&T Bank Stadium 27 times."
Exception must be taken, however, with the notion that "deep-fried chicken wings have always been popular in the Deep South." This is only partially true. The entire chicken, wings and all, has always been popular.
On a related seasonal note, said fried chicken is one of the most popular foods in New Orleans during Carnival season. Check back here soon for more on Carnival-chicken-love.