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Aboriginal Awareness Week 2012- Waterloo Campus
2013 Aboriginal Awareness Week
All events are FREE and open to the public, unless marked with an * . Please note the craft workshops require email registrations.
Monday, March 4th
10:00am -12:00pm
Presentation: Positive Identification: Online Indigenous Language Reclaimation and Affect MA student, Joanne Lawless | Waterloo Aboriginal Student Centre, 187 Albert Street
2:00pm -4:00pm
Interactive Métis craft making and teachings: The Octopus bag | Waterloo Aboriginal Student Centre, 187 Albert Street |* Spaces are limited and registration is required. Please email Marie-Louise at email@example.com for a spot.
Tuesday , March 5th
10:00am -12:00pm
Presentation: In Search of Culture: My experience in Cree Country | Laurier 3rd year student, Paige Sillaby | Waterloo Aboriginal Student Centre, 187 Albert Street
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Soup and Fry Bread Lunch + MOVIE SCREENING: "More than FRYBREAD" | Paul Martin Centre
Wednesday , March 6th
10:00am -12:00pm
Drumology | Senate and Board Chamber
2:30pm - 4:00pm
Hoop Dancing Workshop | Nicole Shawana | AC Studio 1 *Hoop Dancing: Laurier Campus Community members only- Faculty, staff, students, or AC members
5:30 pm 7:00pm
Drum Circle | Waterloo Aboriginal Student Centre, 187 Albert Street
Thursday , March 7th
Staff/Faculty Workshop: Building Solidarity with Responsible Allyship | Melissa Ireland & Kandice Baptiste | Hawks Nest * Registration Required. Workshop for intended for Laurier faculty and staff only.
Discussion: Sovereign. Strong. Sexy. (re)Visioning Indigenous genders and sexualities | Krysta Williams, Native Youth Sexuality Health Network |Paul Martin Centre
4:00pm 6pm
Creative Native Dreamcatcher Keychains | Waterloo Aboriginal Student Centre, 187 Albert Street | * Spaces are limited and registration is required. Please email email@example.com for a spot.
Movie Night: "Crooked Arrows" | Kitchener: Faculty of Social Work | FSW101 : Community event | ALL WELCOME
Friday, March 8th
10:30am - 12:00pm
Residential School Survivor Speaker | Geronimo Henry | 1E1
12:00pm - 1:30pm
Sharing Circle with Charlene Leon and Geronimo Henry | Waterloo Aboriginal Student Centre, 187 Albert Street *Spaces are limited. Let us know you are coming at the link here
7:00pm 9:00pm
Ryan McMahon: Evening comedic performance | 1E1
Saturday , March 9th
Your Earth, My Earth, Your Water, My Water: A Panel Discussion | Exploring the impacts of BillC45 on the environment and the Indian Act | Presented by Aboriginal Field of Study Masters of Social Work Students | BA201 |
Sunday, March 10th
Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: An Interactive Circle Discussion |Presented by WLUs Aboriginal Student Leadership Team | Student Leadership Centre
Discussing the Aboriginal Student Centre and the services provided, this workshop will explore Aboriginal peoples' culture and the effects of colonialism.


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Jim DeMint is a S Carolina whackjob senator. The Heritage Foundation is a Koch Bros front group.
Are you beginning to understand who really runs the Republican Party? Guess who pays Lobbyist Grover Norquist's $50 million annual revenue? Guess who Grover lobbies for? Who does lower tax rates benefit?
Koch Industries is an corrupt and crooked octopus with its suckers deeply buried into the Republican House. Guess why the Republican House is sandbagging tax rates? Guess why the Tea Party has whacked out views on MMGW? Guess why the Republican House wants to destroy the EPA.?

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Iowa Poll: Mitt Romney 24%, Ron Paul 22%, Rick Santorum 15%, Newt Gingrich 12%
Mitt Romney leads 24% to 22% for Ron Paul and 15% for Rick Santorum in the final Iowa Poll by the Des Moines Register, which reported:
But the four-day results don't reflect just how quickly momentum is shifting in a race that has remained highly fluid for months. If the final two days of polling are considered separately, Santorum rises to second place, with 21 percent, pushing Paul to third, at 18 percent. Romney remains the same, at 24 percent.
Last night I predicted on the Washington Post's Right Turn blog's comment section that Romney will get 30% of Tuesday's votes by Iowa caucuse goers while Santorum will get 20% and Paul 19%.
What the Iowa GOP's presidential caucuses will do is cause voters and the media to put asside any thoughts about nominating Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry, Michele Bachmann or Jon Huntsman.
If Romney wins Iowa Tuesday and New Hampshire's primary a week from Tuesday, he'll go into the S. Carolina primary with a lot of momentum, if not as the favorite. If Santorum wins or places second or third, he'll win some new followers for New Hampshire and beyond, but he doesn't have time to organize a serious campaign or raise Big Money to win the GOP's presidential nomination.
While Paul has the resources and organization needed to continue a long campaign, none of the other likely losers in Tuesday's primary do. He and some of the other losers may stick around to participate in debates and hype their books. Paul seems to be focusing on selling books and hyping his investments in the stocks of gold and silver mining companies. Some 64% of his substantial investments are in those stocks and another 14% are in real estate, according to his Congressional disclosures.
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Waste Reduction with Brenda Rioux
The other day we had a resident call wondering why their green cart wasn't collected. We started with our routine questions; did you have your materials set out on time? Did you have the right materials set out? Was your material sorted properly? Was there a rejection sticker? After talking to the resident for a few minutes, we discovered that they were using their green cart as a garbage container. Although the resident was sorting they did not have their materials placed out for collection properly. The resident asked why their cart can't be used to store garbage. Well there are a few reasons why we don't allow residents to store their garbage in the green cart. First of all green carts are for organic materials only, and secondly no plastics are permitted in the green cart. Garbage in the green cart causes operational problems in our compost facility and as we all know, plastic bags do not break down and the end result is compost with plastic mixed in it.
At the end of the day, we gave the resident the following suggestions:
1) Place your garbage bags on top of the cart's closed lid. This way the garbage is off of the ground and the hauler can clearly see the garbage on top;
2) Purchase or build a garbage can;
3) Cover your garbage with an old blanket.
Now we also receive a lot of questions from residents asking if you can use plastic bags to store your organics and the simple answer is NO. However, we do allow residents and businesses to use either compostable or paper bags to store their organic materials. Compostable bags break down quickly and leave little to no residue. If you are looking to purchase compostable bags for your organic materials make sure the box has "compostable" stamped on it. There are a lot of bags out there that are labelled biodegradable but these bags do not break down nearly as quickly and do not work well in our facility. I will point out that it is not necessary for you to use compostable or paper bags, however some people like using them as they help keep your cart clean. Another option is to use empty cereal boxes to store food waste, or why not use old newspapers and flyers to wrap your food waste; they work great and they are free!
Below are a few tips to help ensure that your green bin at the end of your driveway is collected:
1) Make sure it is out on time- 6:30 a.m. in the County and 7:00 a.m. in Parrsboro, Amherst, & Springhill;
2) Make sure your materials are sorted properly;
3) Make sure that there is no plastic or garbage in your cart;
4) Make sure your pets are tied.
Not sure where something goes? Call us at 667-5141 or check out our website at www.cjsma.ns.ca.
Be Sort Smart! Recycle and Compost.
Brenda Rioux is the waste reduction co-ordinator for the Cumberland Joint Services Management Authority. The CJSMA column appears monthly in the Amherst News.


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Q: Mr. Taffur, a fall here. Wild match, lots of points. You were trailing there near the end, what went through your mind? Obviously you came here on a mission.
A: I knew if it was going to be close that I was going to win it and it was close in the third period. I gave up two back points that were challenged and then they brought it back and called two, coach wasn't happy with the call but I looked over him and told him, 'This is my match.' I knew it. I felt good, I came out here to win this tournament.
Q: Now this guy (Taylor Walsh) is the big pinner, he had all these pins this you and you pinned him. Is that something, you look for the pin or were you just doing whatever it took to win?
A: I was doing whatever it took to win but I knew he was dangerous. If I was in a scramble I keep my hips low and can catch him, that didn't exactly happen we kind of got in a scramble and I caught him. Again, I've been training for this. I was ready for that match. If it was going to be close I was going to do whatever it took to get those last points to win the match. That's exactly what I did. I had those two back points to win it and then the pin was just a sweet ending. I'm here to do big things and take one match at a time.
Q: So you wrestle the whole match regardless?
A: Yeah, the whole match. If it's going to be a close match I'm in good position. I know that's where I want to be. I've trained for this, my conditioning is in good place and my head's in a good place. My support system is strong, my faith is even stronger. I'm excited about this weekend.
Q: Thoughts about the quarterfinals? This is what your plan was but you're here now.
A: Yeah. I have a big match against a kid I wrestled from Oklahoma State. He took third here last year. I wrestled him at the Southern Scuffle last year, took him down with like 12 seconds left and he got out and took me down with like eight seconds. I had a mental block there. But again, if it's going to be a close match I'm going to do whatever it takes to be on tiop. That's what I've trained for. I know it's going to bea close one, it's going to be a fun match. I'm ready for any challenge that comes my way. I'm going to go out there and compete.
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A shocking story from Connecticut.
According to a report from the New Haven (Conn.) Register, a 45-year-old Connecticut man has been charged with second-degree assault and risk of injury to a minor for allegedly chaining his 9-year-old stepdaughter to a radiator and cutting and beating her.
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Consider the color gray:
So calm, so even, so appropriate ... so staid?
Now contemplate yellow:
So cheerful, so lighthearted ... so frivolous?
But the unlikely pairing of these two opposites yields something entirely unexpected: sunny sophistication and urban cool.
"Prints that mix yellow with light gray and white just look very unique and fresh," says Lisa Pikul, co-owner of Girl Next Door in Rocky River. "Yellow is just the happiest color there is ... I don't know why it took so long to see it again."
Perhaps the neutral spirit of gray is enlivened by sunny yellow, or that yellow can be taken more seriously when paired with such a somber tone.
Whatever the reason, yellow and gray are this season's go-to print combination, seen together in everything from jacquard and batik prints, watercolor swirls and Mondrian geometrics.
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"Gray matters because it is the summer version of black -- it's always appropriate and it goes with everything," says Marylou Luther, president of the International Fashion Syndicate. "The fact that it's going with yellow is very positive. As Van Gogh said, 'Yellow is capable of charming God.' It butters up gray."
With the combination coming from designers on high (Prada and Missoni) to contemporary (Nanette Lepore and Trina Turk) to low-firmament cost, fast fashion (H&M and Target), it suggests an unusual alignment in the fashion -- one big crowd-pleasing trend.
"The fact that consumers are loving this pairing is to me a sign that people are looking for positivity and happiness -- a happiness grounded in trustworthiness," says Luther.


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on 10-11-2012 04:14 PM
can't open auctions any more so that results in inability to bid. why change a good thing to something that does not work? i am not going to list items on ebay if potential buyers can't open auction to bid them. this change looks to be not user friendly myself I see no good reason for me to even use ebay when it does not work any more, its senseless to use when you can't bid or a buyer can't buy !! go back to the Webb site that you had a week ago it worked your new one is junk.. IF SOMETHING IS NOT BROKE THEN DON'T 'FIX' IT.
on 10-11-2012 04:53 PM
eBay upgraded its site. If your computer cannot cope, then it and/or your browser need to be upgraded too.
I assume you are already running your IE in compatibility mode?
on 10-11-2012 09:15 PM
I and millions of of other ebayers seem to not be having any trouble opening auction and winning. I just won one and have paid and shipping is on it's way to me.


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With the number of clinical hospitalists still growing, more patients are under HM care, which puts hospitalists at higher risk for lawsuits. The goal for a hospitalist should be to take care of their patients, but at the same point make a defensible medical record. Plaintiffs' attorneys look for potential red flags in the medical record. Potential red flags could be illegibility, omissions of date and time, criticism of other healthcare providers, vague terminology, abbreviations, delayed entries, inconsistencies between healthcare providers, corrections, and opinions about the patient.
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The medical record is a legal document that is required by law and regulatory bodies. It serves as a communication vehicle for healthcare providers; it tells the patient's story as well as the care that has been received. It is used for implementing quality-improvement initiatives, determining appropriate level of care, and research and education. It also is the most credible evidence in a legal proceeding. Inaccurate or incomplete documentation can mean serious trouble.
The most common documentation error is illegible handwriting. It is well known throughout medicine that if it's not documented, it has not been done. At the same time, what is not readable has not been done. Electronic health records (EHR) have minimized this problem; however, EHR is not universally available, and documentation could include both electronic and handwritten entries.
Common sense dictates that all records should be legible, but it is surprising the number of progress notes that are illegible. Physicians are encouraged to write in black ink, so that the notes are capable of being photocopied. Some colored inks can run when they become wet. Also, all entries should include the full date, time, and the name of the physician, as well as their title and designation, which should be printed alongside their signatures.
Correction fluid must not be used in any patient records. Corrections should be made with a single line drawn through them, initialed, dated, and timed, so the error can still be read. All entries should be in a chronological order, with no spaces between the entries. Extra words should not be squeezed onto a line; a line must be drawn through any empty space at the end of an entry. Ditto marks should never be used. Use of glue is not permitted in the medical record, unless some special pages have tabs to allow sheets to be attached to the notes.
No paper should be removed from the clinical file, other than for purposes of photocopying, and those should be returned immediately. Each page of the documentation should be sequentially numbered; if the pages are kept in separate sections, make sure that is clear. Each progress note should have three unique patient identifiers: patient name, date of birth, and a record number. Most hospitals use sticker systems or printable progress notes, which have taken care of this problem.


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it's hard for science to be black and white. humans are basically the same, but we do have our little differences. those differences, of course, are often matters of opinion, and opinion easily guides research. even if unbiased research is done, interpretation of data can be presented in a way that supports a specific opinion.
so what works the best? that's not an easy question to answer. both paleo or vegan will generally make a person lose weight, get healthier, be happier, etc.
the better question to ask is, what works for me? and that's something you need to figure out. if the science of ancestral health makes sense to you, give it a try for a while and see what your results are.
obviously, most or all of the people here are going to support a primal lifestyle. i've done the low fat thing and had some success on the scale, but going primal was what really improved my whole life. plus, even while eating higher fat and lower carb, i still stay in the normal range on all the blood tests and things that generally favor a low-fat diet.


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HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- A house fire on 3212 Yale Circle early Thursday morning caused major damage to the home and displaced a woman, according to Huntsville Fire and Rescue officials.
Huntsville Fire & Rescue responded to the fire at 1:14 a.m. with several units.
The woman was up late doing laundry and smelled smoke. Huntsville Fire & Rescue officials believe the dryer caught on fire and caused major smoke and fire damage.
Red Cross is assisting the woman and the case remains under investigation.
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To provide educational and mental health services that assist people struggling to identify personal barriers, and to obtain the necessary tools to overcome challenges, achieving renewed hope for succeeding in life.
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Counseling: Mental Health Counseling - Provided by Licensed Professional Counselors and Accepting Medicaid and BlueCross/BlueShield and sliding scale fees Faith Based Counseling - Free to individuals as a support who can't afford mental health counseling or are interest in this counseling - It is provided by a counselor who holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Christian Care and Counseling and is not a licensed counselor. Independent Living Program for Youth - Working with Training: Focus Point Career Development Program Individual Career Development - Career Counseling Computer Lab Simple Steps to Money Management Extreme Teen Makeover Parenting Program - Using the "Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens (STEP)" Specialty Program: The Blooming Tree - For severe and persistent mentally ill individuals day program offering support with educational programs, crafting, visiting speakers and lunch Advocacy and Referral Services
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You want to know why we're not drowning in cheap, usable, full-featured digital entertainment yet? The studios are afraid to try it. It's much easier for the entertainment moguls to sleep at night knowing that every digital copy of Alvin and the Chipmunks you can buy comes wrapped in layer upon layer of copy-protection software.
But all Sony (NYSE: SNE ) or Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG ) accomplishes with these ostensibly anti-piracy measures is to drive away honest, paying customers. The pirates always find a way around any obstacle in their way, and you'll never convince some people to pay for entertainment. Meanwhile, the rest of us are suffering under draconian restrictions, and the stuff we already thought we owned is at the mercy of the seller, long after the transaction.
Foolish community member DavisFreeberg is a tech geek like me. He's a well-known media industry blogger who often writes about Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX ) , Blockbuster (NYSE: BBI ) , and Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN ) , with a side of hardware reviews. This week, Davis decided to get a high-definition monitor for his PC, and then tried to watch a streaming video from Netflix on the new setup. And it didn't work.
Netflix tech support told him to reset his computer's DRM store, which would allow Netflix to issue a new certificate for his hardware but would also render his Amazon Unbox videos unplayable. There is a way to back up and restore the licenses you need, but it's tedious even when the customer is a card-carrying technophile like me or Davis.
The music industry is slowly coming to its senses and allowing digital media sellers like Amazon and Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL ) iTunes to sell unprotected files. They're sometimes more expensive than their encumbered equivalents, but that's the price you pay for not living with a sword of Damocles (i.e., revoked privileges) hanging over you. And since many of the same music companies also run movie studios, it's starting to look like we'll get all-around sensible digital media in our lifetime.
I'm willing to bet that the record labels have figured out where their best interests lie already (though they also need to stop the lawsuit jihad against core customers). So who'll be first among the movie/TV studios? Kevin Tsujihara leading the Time Warner charge? Or Anne Sweeney for Disney (NYSE: DIS ) ? The first player to take that leap of faith will find itself richly rewarded, while the rest will rush to follow.
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Langley council eyes tax increase
The Langley City Council is expected to approve an ordinance adopting a 1-percent increase in its property tax levy to help out next year's strapped budget.
The increase is automatically authorized for taxing districts that choose to use it, and the increase would bring an additional $3,773 to the city next year, for a total levy of $381,059. This year's tax levy was $377,286.
The city council will consider the ordinance at its meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 15, at city hall on Second Street.
The council also is expected to give final approval to an ordinance changing the council's regular meeting time to 5:30 p.m., and eliminating the 4 p.m. workshops.
If approved, the new starting time would go into effect at the council's next regular meeting on Dec. 6. The council meets the first and third Mondays of each month.
The council on Monday also is expected to approve its findings for the rejection of Langley Passage, a 20-home subdivision on 8.52 acres in the Edgecliff neighborhood that had been working its way through the planning process since 2006. Although city planning staff endorsed the development, the city's Planning Advisory Board recommended rejection, and at its last meeting, the city council agreed.
Monday, the council will spell out the legal reasons for rejecting the project, setting in motion the time period for any court challenge of the decision.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co. made several attempts to buy Protective Life Corp. before the Birmingham insurance company was presented with the $5.7 billion offer that was too good to refuse.
Johnny Johns, chief executive of Protective, said in an interview that Protective has never been stronger and was itself acquiring other companies when Dai-ichi approached with a buyout offer.
"We did not initiate this transaction," Johns said. "They came to us."
Johns said Dai-ichi's representatives contacted Protective's leadership and wanted to meet for dinner in Atlanta last fall. At that meeting, Dai-ichi officials made it known they were looking to acquire a U.S. company and Protective was at the top of their list.
Johns said he told them Protective was not for sale, but in the interest of its shareholders he would entertain any offers.
The first offer came in March but the price Dai-ichi offered was too low and was turned down.
Another offer was made in Las Vegas during an insurance industry trade show and that, too, was deemed to be too low and was rejected.
It was when Dai-ichi came back with its third offer of $70 per share a few weeks ago that was determined to be too good to pass up.
"As good stewards of our shareholders' capital, we felt we had to consider the offer," Johns said. "We think we've maximized shareholder value."
Dai-ichi and Protective announced Tuesday the Tokyo-based company will buy Protective in a $5.7 billion deal in which Dai-ichi will pay $70 per share for all outstanding shares of Protective, creating one of the world's largest insurance companies with total assets of $424 billion. The companies said they don't expect any significant changes to Protective's current strategy, day-to-day operations, distribution channels, employees, leadership and management team, or its U.S. 280 headquarters.
Beyond the shareholders, Johns said he felt an obligation to Protective's 2,400 employees and the insurance giant's position in the Birmingham community, which is home to half those employees. He said he believes the deal with Dai-ichi not only preserves but will enhance both.
Because Dai-ichi has no major U.S. presence, Protective will be its de facto (if not its formal) U.S. headquarters. As what will be the 13th largest insurance company in the world grows, that growth will be reflected in Birmingham, Johns said.
"We're the growth platform for Dai-ichi in America," Johns said. "The mandate we will have from them is to grow the business. We grow the business, we grow our workforce and we grow our community involvement. Growth is the elixir of the economy."
Brian Hilson, chief executive of the Birmingham Business Alliance, said while Birmingham may be losing a corporate headquarters, it will retain the jobs and adds another global investment to the metro area.
"The way I look at a situation like this is I see it as a potential growth opportunity," Hilson said in an interview. "Protective Life has done very well based in Birmingham and Dai-ichi has obviously recognized that."
Rather than throw up our collective hands and say, "There goes another corporate headquarters!" Hilson said the Birmingham community needs to continue to show the new owners this is the place to grow.
"Japanese companies are very careful and calculating in all that they do with business and it's really important that we continue to make our case," Hilson said. "Relationships are important with any company, but they are especially important with Japanese companies."
Birmingham is home to 10 companies whose parent corporation is based in Japan, Hilson said. Those companies currently employ 1,300 workers. Protective will become the 11th and nearly double the number of those jobs when the deal closes.
With the assistance of the Birmingham-based Japan America Society of Alabama, Hilson said Birmingham and other parts of the state have created a welcoming atmosphere for Japanese executives who have located here.
"I don't know if Dai-ichi will transfer any employees or management here, but that would be a great thing," Hilson said. "It's important that we as a community understand their business objectives and assist them in growing in Birmingham in any way we can."
Johns said he expects to see some Dai-ichi executives from Japan relocate to Birmingham.
"I think they will definitely have some Dai-ichi folks move to Birmingham to help us better operate and communicate with the corporate offices in Japan," Johns said.
He said Dai-ichi has done its homework and is very well versed in what Birmingham has to offer. He said the Dai-ichi officials like what they see in the community and he believes they will be supportive of Protective's efforts here.
The deal could take until early 2015 to close, so there is time to address any organizational moves or any adjustments to the Birmingham office's operations, Johns said.
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"I know when he doesn't have it," McMillan said. "I can see it when he walks in. He's slow. He's sitting down. He's kind of relaxed, not moving around as much. And he will look at me, and I will look at him. And I know. I've been able to recognize it."
Wallace, McMillan reasons, plays so hard, so often that sometimes there is no energy left in his body when he arrives at the arena. The antidote, the Blazers have found, is the Rose Garden crowd. Feeding off the electricity of one of the NBA's best home crowds, Wallace has more easily become rejuvenated at home this season, where he has been a terror, averaging 20.1 points and 6.0 rebounds while shooting 63.2 percent from the field.
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The problem is, the Blazers only play half of their 66-game schedule in the Rose Garden. And when Wallace can't soak in the infectous energy from the home crowd, he has gone from Superman to Clark Kent. In three road games, Wallace is averaging 4.7 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting 16.0 percent from the field (4-for-25). His road woes include a scoreless game at the Clippers and a 1-point game at Phoenix.
Considering how important Wallace is to the Blazers, it's not surprising then that the Blazers have been a drastically different team at home than on the road. They are 6-1 in the Rose Garden and 1-2 on the road as they embark on a six-game trip with the first game Friday in San Antonio, where the Spurs are 7-0.
It's why everyone is so curious to see what happens to the Blazers on their first trip of more than two games. After San Antonio, the Blazers go to Houston then New Orleans, followed by stops in Atlanta, Toronto and Detroit.
Is Wallace going to continue to be the hot-at-home, cold-on-the-road player? Is the team going to continue its trend of looking like it can contend for the division title one night, like it did during consecutive wins at Oklahoma City and at home over the Lakers, only to turn around and get routed in its next game, like it did at Phoenix?
"This is when you really find out about teams, how they play on the road," guard Wesley Matthews said. "We need to bring our own juice, our own crowd. Otherwise, it will be a long trip."
The Blazers say they believe they are equipped to be a good road team. They have three key attributes shown by good road teams of the past: talent, depth and experience. LaMarcus Aldridge said the Blazers also have another quality that goes into road success: Chemistry.
"I feel like this group, more than any team in my life, has the best chemistry," Aldridge said. "We all have the same goal: you don't have guys sulking or mad about their roles. We are not going on the road and looking at it as 'Oh, I'm out of Oregon, let's enjoy life.' We are looking at it as, 'Let's get better as a team.' In the past, we have tried to be good. I feel like we are trying to be the best this year."
But for all of their talent, depth, experience and togetherness, these Blazers so far have also shown one common downfall: Inconsistency.
And nobody illustrates that dichotomy more than Wallace.
And nobody wants to talk less about it than Wallace.
"I don't have any comment on that," Wallace said tersely.
When pressed, Wallace relented.
"I don't see anything to it right now," Wallace said. "It's still early in the season. It's just me adjusting to this season and the schedule. We as a team have to get going on the road, because not only my play has been sluggish, but the whole team has been sluggish on the road compared to at home. But I think this trip will give us a good opportunity to figure out our identity on the road."
It also figures to test McMillan and his substitution patterns. In the first 10 games, McMillan has used primarily seven players – the five starters and Jamal Crawford and Nicolas Batum –with short stints from Kurt Thomas. By Saturday in Houston, the Blazers will be playing their fifth game in seven nights, probably meaning spot duty will be given to Nolan Smith, Craig Smith and possibly Chris Johnson.
One thing is for certain, McMillan said: He will keep a close eye on the fuel tank of Wallace.
"On the back-to-backs, he's the one guy I really try to look at closely," McMillan said. "He puts so much into every game, that in that second game, I may need to get him out quick so that he can get his second wind, then get him back in there. I'm trying to learn how to coach him."
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FLINT, MI -- The Mott Community College baseball team will open the NJCAA Division II regional tournament on Wednesday at Bailey Park in Battle Creek, the first time the Bears have reached regionals since 2007.
Mott is scheduled to open the double-elimination tournament at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 14, against Sinclair (Ohio) Community College at C.O. Brown Stadium.
Should the Bears (18-17, 14-12 Michigan Community College Athletic Association) win, they would advance to play the Jackson College-Delta College winner at 11:30 a.m. Thursday. A loss and Mott plays again on Wednesday against the loser.
Mott squeaked into regionals - the top six of the league qualify - after winning a doubleheader Saturday, May 10, against St. Clair County CC, 11-4 and 6-2. They ended with the same league record as Macomb Community College, with the two schools splitting their regular season games, but posted a higher overall winning percentage (.514 to .512) to get the nod.
Macomb (22-21, 14-12 MCCAA) lost its final two games, 13-3 and 7-6 to Jackson Community College on May 8.
This is the first time Mott has reached the NJCAA regional tournament since 2007. The Bears last won a regional in 1984, with first-year head coach Joe Boulton on the roster.
Mott's opponent, Sinclair CC, is ranked No. 3 in the nation with a 41-9 overall record and has won 17 straight games.
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Texans TE Owen Daniels Placed On Short-Term IR
The Houston Texans will lose TE Owen Daniels for the next 4-8 weeks with a non-displaced fibula fracture, which occurred in Week 6 when they were dominated by the San Francisco 49ers. Tania Ganguli of ESPN first reported the news.
The timing couldn't be worse for Daniels and the Texans. The team is struggling with Matt Schaub turning the ball over on an Eli Manning-like pace, and losing one of his most reliable weapons in the passing game only makes it all the more worse.
To date, Daniels has caught 24 passes for 252 yards and three touchdowns. He leads the team in receptions, and he's tied for the lead in receiving touchdowns, too.
Garrett Graham is the first player on the list to replace Daniels in the lineup, and he's going to play a fairly significant role on the team until Daniels is able to return. He's tied with Daniels in touchdown receptions despite his limited snap counts behind Daniels.
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Pa. girl, 16, at center of child porn ring that nabs 2 former Pa. Turnpike workers
The key to the whole case was a then-16-year-old girl from Fayette County. She appeared in increasingly sexual images, first discovered in Michigan, and then tied to two former Pennsylvania Turnpike employees in western Pennsylvania, one of whom has just pleaded guilty in federal court.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, John S. Longo, 58, faces a mandatory minimum 15-year prison term when he is sentenced Jan. 22. He pleaded guilty this week to federal charges of aiding and abetting the production of child pornography.
The conviction comes after the Pennsylvania State Police and Department of Homeland Security found the girl, interviewed her, and conducted two searches, including one of Longo's residence, the newspaper wrote.
This led investigators to another former Turnpike employee, Lisa A. Renze, 49, of Uniontown, who allegedly took the photos of the girl from 2009 through 2010, when the girl was under the age of 16, and emailed to Longo, the Post-Gazette wrote. Renze pleaded guilty in April and awaits sentencing.
The Post-Gazette wrote that "Longo wept as he was handcuffed by U.S. marshals, and called out "I love you" to four supporters, two of whom were also crying."
Teen mom in Pa. jailed for throwing her newborn against wall; baby in critical condition
By the time police in Pottsville, Pa., arrived at 3:45 a.m. Tuesday, everything was quiet. The 18-year-old mom was holding her baby. But upon closer inspection, the baby wasn't merely sleeping; the newborn was unconscious. And the teen mom is now accused of throwing the newborn against a wall, critically injuring the child.
According to station WPVI, the Schuylkill County teenage mother is accused of critically injuring her newborn son in the incident. Larisa Zimmerman is charged with aggravated assault, simple assault and endangering the welfare of a child.
She was jailed Schuylkill County Prison after being unable to post $50,000 cash bail, WPVI reported.
But of far greater concern is the baby.
WPVI reports that EMTs noticed apparent bruising to the baby's left forearm and left side of his forehead upon their arrival on-scene.
The baby was then flown to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest in in critical condition. Medical testing revealed that the newborn had evidence of new and old fractures, a subdural hematoma, and several bruises, WPVI reported, citing police.
And during a police interview, Zimmerman allegedly told officers she had become 'frustrated' with her child and she had thrown him against a wall of her apartment during the early morning hours Tuesday, WPVI wrote, adding:
"Police say the back of the baby's head hit the wall, he fell to the floor and then 'went limp and made strange noises' causing her to call 911."
Sick Selfie: Couple allegedly poses for pic with body of friend who overdosed
Not only did a man and woman in Missouri allegedly fail to get medical help for a friend who was apparently overdosing on a painkiller. They reportedly posed for a selfie picture with his dead body, before leaving the corpse by the side of a road.
All this, according to the New York Daily News, which reports that Chelsie Berry, 24, and Jared Prier, 28, were charged with manslaughter and abandoning a body.
The story was first reported by the Smoking Gun website, which published the Newtown County Sheriff's affidavit in the case.
The victim, Dennis (Nathan) Meyer, 30, injected himself with the powerful painkiller Dilaudid, according to the newspaper, citing court documents.
Meyer passed out in a car driven by Chelsie Berry. She then called Jared Prier, meeting in a McDonald's parking lot.
According to police, the couple noticed that the victim stopped breathing, but neither wanted to get help because they were allegedly high on meth and Xanax, the Daily News writes.
After Meyer began to "smell bad," the pair eventually dumped his body long a deserted road, but not before first posing for a selfie with the body, the newspaper reports.
Chelsie Berry posted it to Facebook, police said.
The image has since been removed.
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If a bunch of sci-fi flicks have it right, a war pitting humanity against machines will someday destroy civilization. Two popular movie series based on such a "robopocalypse," the "Terminator" and "Matrix" franchises, are among those that suggest granting greater autonomy to artificially intelligent machines will end up dooming our species. (Only temporarily, of course, thanks to John Connor and Neo.)
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To the editor: The other day I noted an article in The Messenger concerning legislation that state Rep. Tom Shaw, R-Laurens, will or has introduced....
This is just another King junior. It must be the water up in that area that creates these off the wall politicians and the people that vote them in.
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That's sad to hear if it's true. It's funny that just days after hearing about Brandstad's new plan to spend money to pay off other's(doctors) school loans as an incentive to get them to actually come to Iowa, it's really members of his own pary like King & this goon that are making it a less desirable state to consider moving to. Oh well.
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ColB: You never responded to my question as to whether Branstad's subsidization of physicians' education for services they render is not a better idea than that of Obama to do precisely the same for those who become bureaucrats? Just can't have too many of those bureaucrats. eh?
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No one ran against Shaw. That is a very sad statement about that district. Shaw is so extreme that he cannot work with other legislators so his constituents do not receive good representation. When he was on the capitol steps screaming for more guns, I thought Shaw looked and sounded a lot like Ted Nugent(crazy).
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Liberals liberals everywhere crying about someone who has obviously read the constitution and actually following it.
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We have many years of case law to help us interpret our constitution. "Shall not be infringed" does not mean unlimited.
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Taxedenough...It's not the water, it's the intolerance and bigotry so prevalant in much of Iowa, especially western Iowa! Sadly, most opposition to common sense gun legislation look upon the blood of the 20 children in Connecticut as nothing more than an unfortunate sacrifice in the name of "liberty"...time will erase their memory of massacre after massacre because, you know, it's all about government tyranny...so sad!
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Shaw is a repulsive little bagger who has been a blight on his district. He's not smart, he's not personable and he's a worthless representative. His big agenda items are more guns and NO to every thing else.
His only contributions so far have been about guns and abortion.
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Common sense gun legislation would include making my child safe at school and not to make law abiding citizens out to be criminals. Funny how these killings seem to happen in gun free zones.
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Cranky's back with the name calling. Why didn't you run against Tom?
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Simple solutions for simple minds, perhaps?
With the draconian ban on hand guns in DC, homicides involving same acturlly rose from 188 in 1976 to 369 in 1988 and to 454 in 1993. Then, they declined steadily until the ban was found unconstitutional in 2007, but thereafter they ALSO continued to decline, to 186 in 2008 and just 88 in 2012, the lowest level since the ban was enacted 32 years earlier. Should it not then have gone up? Clearly, other factors were at work. As former DC criminal prosecutor J. C. Shapiro has surmised, based on that experience, any sense of safety and security based on a simple, knee-jerk restriction of firearms is likely to be a false one.
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So anderson you are always so quick for putdowns and meaningless facts and figures, what pray tell is the real solution from a non-simpleton. Please no simple solutions either...
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Shaw and King are the worst that Iowa can produce.
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Perhaps you could tell me, Brucee, just how something so SIMPLE as a ban on weapons didn't seem to have your predictive effect in DC or, for example, in Norway, where gun controls are very stringent? Observation tells me that diversity, pervasive promotion of a sense of "victimhood" and feelings of entitlement, plus SCOTUS's civil rights restrictions re commitment for mental illness, may have had more to do with Columbine, Aurora and Newtown than SIMPLY availability of the weapons used.
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Access is the killer..."law abiding" shooters angered for some reason or under the influence of alcohol or drugs is just as capable in wiping away human life as the mentally troubled! Another school shooting reported, this time in gun heaven Texas! An entire family in New Mexico blown away yesterday! How much blood is enough before the real problem (access) is addressed?
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anderson thats your non-simple approach ? mental illness. wow. Guns are part of the problem, there are TOO many, mental health is part of the problem, no process in place, background checks are part of the problem, no real follow-up, lots of parts which you dont touch. All would help, as this problem gets worse by the day, but like so much of the process today, your repubs will consume to the lobby power and nothing will get done, meanwhile go out and by some more guns and ammo - the sky is falling again..
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Should have added the absence of fathers in their children' - especially their sons' - lives as a principal cause of violence in society today. We see this particularly in the murder rates in our inner cities but also within the Messenger area it might be noted, and that is certainly not a problem susceptible to a SIMPLE solution either, not least when personal responsibility has been and continues to be constantly eroded through public policy, programs and political pandering to every claim of govt neglect by every cohort of a diverse body politic. Perhaps there maybe some validity to Obama's statement that Americans do not expect govt to solve every problem, which was otherwise lost in his paean to collective vs. individual accomplishment.
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We has Americans have the right to bare arms, but as a citzen in a free state and right to be free and safe find it ridiculous to defend the all out arms supply that some people claim to have and need to defend or hunt or collect or whatever. Like I have said in the past if we all load up on all the weapons we want or need then it will be a disaster waiting to happen - trust me. I do not want to be going out on a given night for a social event and have to carry a weapon just to feel safe, and I do not want such people around me as well, it just isnt civil for people. Fear is not a healthy reason for guns and that is what it is in a nut shell. I dont need a weapon to feel free and safe, and nobody I consider "normal" should either. Now scream all u want.
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And you ain't normal in south Chicago, Brucee - Nice to live in Dodge even if it has had some of the attributes of a "Little Chicago," eh? Or was that not a drive-by shooting I read about down there in the flats? Mind you, Brucee, if you break down on I-195 in DC Northeast, keep the doors locked, the windows up and pray (hope, in your case, I suppose) that the police come by before the car is completely stripped!
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You all would s your pants if you knew how many around you were legally carrying. However, you will never know because people who have gone through the proper legal avenues to carry are likely to be responsible and don't care to advertise(these are the people who are ticked). Criminals don't care. criminals don't obey the law.
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Actually, hbockhoven, it does mean limited. We have a common definition of our laws and constitution that is derived through case law. Otherwise we would all interpret each law differently. You may want to read the Heller case where the Supreme Ct did say that the right is limited.
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"Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself": Think about it - anderson and u gun toting cowboys..We dont need more guns and I dont need your d-m guns to protect myself - trust me..
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Typical "one-size-fits-all" mentality. Brucee! Just trying to point out that what fits Dodge and Iowa may not fit a country as vast and pluralistic as the US. We do not need another giant, overfed and overpaid federal gun control bureaucracy - and neither you nor they will get my d...d guns.
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Always sniping anderson - I dont want your d-m guns and there isnt a place in this country that needs more guns - ur fear mentality is such a poor excuse for this and a lot of problems in this country to do with defense, the world has caught up and we need to go beyond fighting everything with more power, it just isnt going to work anymore O man..
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Hmmm...Was the killer with his killing machine at Aurora a criminal?..NO! How about Virginia Tech?..NO! Connecticut?..NO! Columbine?..NO! New Mexico?..NO! Michigan Sihk temple?..NO! Tucson?..NO! Fort Hood?..NO! Portland Mall?..NO! Were any of the dead robbed or raped?..NO! The killer with his trusty killing machine was just content with killing! Not criminals...just the guy who lived next door who had access...apparently no amount of blood will satisfy some people!
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Watertown, N.Y. - Whipping winds and whiteout conditions were blamed for a series of crashes this afternoon on Interstate 81 in Jefferson County that damaged 20 cars and injured five people, state police said.
A tractor-trailer spun into the interstate's median about 1:45 p.m. and was left sticking out into the southbound lanes, Sgt. Brian McDermott said. Vehicles began crashing into each other two or three at a time in rapid-fire collisions, he said.
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This video of a distracted truck driver in Arizona shows him allegedly looking at pictures on his phone when he crashed into police cars and emergency vehicles, killing one officer.
The driver has pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
It seems epidemic.
Truckers on major U.S. Highways texting or talking on the phone.
On a New York highway, one trucker appears to be more focused on texting than driving. If he had been caught by police, he would have been fined $150 and given five points on his license.
One of the worst cases is when a driver engaged in dual distraction as he talks on two phones, carrying on two conversations.
The camera was set up on highways, and easily caught truckers dialing, texting and talking on their phones.
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Last July, former Red Wings forward Sergei Fedorov sued former business partner Joseph Zada for $43 million in alleged investment losses, and, after he won his lawsuit, he filed a second claim for the $60 million in total money owed against the law firm which simultaneously represented Fedorov and Zada, arguing that the Hyman Lippitt firm helped Zada obtain the money he used to defraud his numerous business partners. The Detroit Free Press, which originally broke this story, posted a report this morning, tagged as an AP story, reporting that Hyman Lippitt wants Fedorov's lawsuit dismissed:
December 3, Detroit Free Press: The former lawyers for ex-Detroit Red Wings star Sergei Fedorov are asking a judge to dismiss his civil lawsuit against them.
Fedorov is blaming the law firm Hyman Lippitt PC for the loss of $60 million. The money was invested with financial adviser Joseph Zada who, like Fedorov, was a client of the Birmingham firm.
In court papers filed Wednesday, Hyman Lippitt says Fedorov already has a multimillion-dollar judgment against Zada and so can't sue the firm.Fedorov alleges that Hyman Lippitt knew that Zada had been sued by others for financial mismanagement but didn't tell him. Fedorov plays hockey in Russia and spent 13 years with the Red Wings.


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Please note this has been replaced with GatherMate2 for Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria.
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Hi, i´m using the german client. I have follow problem. The Addon don´t make a markes for Glassfin Minnow Shool and Deep Sea Monsterbelly Shool.
concave35 Feb 16, 2009 at 09:14 UTC - 0 likes
Confirm redshiftnova's report. Only have problems in Storm Peaks. Be it Lichbloom or Icethorn, they all get overwritten as Frozen Herb.
redshiftnova Feb 10, 2009 at 00:02 UTC - 0 likes
Was out farming today and I noticed that GatherMate is listing all Lichbloom and Icethorn nodes as Frozen Herb (425) instead of their actual type. All other Northrend herbs appear to behave normally other than those two.
Edited to add: Correction, it is ONLY reporting Lichbloom/Icethorn as Frozen Herbs when in Storm Peaks. They display normally in Icecrown.
Mejloc Feb 09, 2009 at 09:51 UTC - 0 likes
german localization: "The Frozen Sea" is called "Die gefrorene See" on german clients, not "Der gefrorene See". GM does not add nodes while fishing in this area because it cannot recognize the zone.
Wizardling Jan 29, 2009 at 20:17 UTC - 0 likes
G'day - gathermate doesn't work on my main map, and it does not show resource nodes at the edge of my minimap. I use Mapster for my main map and SexyMap for my minimap if that matters.
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is it just me thats having problems with cobalt deposits (both normal and rich) not creating a node on the map? cant say if the same problem is for saronite and titanium
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Will Ferrell may not be known for his biting political satire, but he feels strongly enough about the current election to campaign for Barack Obama's second term for president of the United States of America. How strongly? Well, strongly enough that he'll eat garbage,
or take a dump on Mitt Romney's dinner table or do a dance — if you'd only get out there tomorrow and vote for Obama.


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By The Associated Press
In 2005, candidate Eliot Spitzer, on his Web site under the headline "I'm running for governor," announced he would seek to "bring new energy and resolve to the task of transforming state government and turning around the state economy."
"I want to fix what's broken," it read, "It's what I do best. I bring people together whether they like it or not and we tackle complex problems."
Here are some highlights from agreements and disagreements between Spitzer and the Legislature during his sometimes tumultuous first six months as governor:
Jan. 16: Budget reform. The agreement required secretive "member items" to be disclosed before they are put to a vote by the Legislature and created a way to agree on revenues quickly under a more open process.
Jan. 24: Ethics and lobbying reform. The agreement created a far-reaching agency to enforce rules governing lobbyists and employees in the executive branch. It also banned gifts to lawmakers.
Feb. 27: Workers Compensation reform. The long awaited reform will save employers $1 billion over several years while increasing benefits and making New York more inviting to companies.
March 14: Civil confinement. This will keep hundreds of sex offenders deemed most likely to commit more abuse in secure health facilities after their release from prison.
April 1: Budget. A budget agreement eventually was pegged at $123.6 billion with a record $1.8 billion increase in school spending, record cuts in health care spending, and a record $1.3 billion in property tax relief.
April 1: The budget also included a $30 million bailout for 5,100 dairy farmers; doubled the number of charter schools to 200 with $21 million in transition aid to school districts; cut $1 billion from health care spending and reduced the growth in Medicaid cost to 1 percent from 8 percent a year (the Legislature restored $400 million to hospitals from Spitzer's proposal); $150 million in business tax cuts; and $100 million a year for stem cell research.
May 11: Fitch Ratings improved the state's outlook from "stable" to "positive," meaning the state's credit rating is likely to improve over the next two years.
May 16: Human Trafficking. The state strengthened measures against the new slave trade that makes women and children victims of sex rings and forced labor. It also creates health, housing and employment services to help the victims freed from it.
Congestion pricing: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg needs Albany's authorization for his plan to charge tolls to reduce traffic and air pollution under a federal pilot program that could bring $500 million to New York. Negotiations continue.
Campaign finance reform: Spitzer's proposal would dramatically limit campaign contributions to reduce the influence of money in campaigns and on politics.
Pay raises: State judges who haven't had a raise since 1999 would get raises already covered in the state budget, and a commission would be created that would lead to the first raises for lawmakers and state commissioners in nearly a decade.
Wicks Law reform: A public agreement was reached June 14 that would exempt more than half of public construction projects from a decades-old law that protected unions, but drove up the cost of public projects by as much as 30 percent. But the bill wasn't passed by the Senate.
Capital projects: Despite weeks of negotiations, leaders didn't agree on as much as $1 billion in construction for college campuses and other public projects statewide.
Public authorities reform: The measure would have brought strict accountability measures to the entities that handle hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue and borrowing.
DNA data base: The plan would include every person convicted of a misdemeanor or felony in the state's criminal DNA data base to solve crimes and exonerate the innocent.
Article X: The measure would have provided a fast track for companies willing to build cleaner power plants.
Paid family leave: New Yorkers could pay a small insurance premium to get paid leave for several weeks for child care or to take care of a relative.
Healthy schools: The measure would require schools to provide healthier foods and drinks in cafeterias and vending machines.
Brownfields: The measure would improve the law that encourages clean up of old polluted sites for reuse by businesses.
Death penalty for cop killers, legalizing the use of marijuana for medical use and legalizing gay marriage attracted some attention in the Senate or Assembly, but didn't have enough support to become law.
SOURCE: Offices of the governor, Senate majority and Assembly majority.


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Eightieth Academy Awards telecast producer Gil Cates and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Sid Ganis announced the presenters and performers who will participate in the February 24 Oscar telecast.
At a press conference ld at the Academy's headquarters telecast producer Gil Cates and APMAS President Sid Ganis announced the presenters scheduled to date, including all four of last year's winners in the acting categories -- Alan Arkin, Jennifer Hudson, Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker -- as well as Amy Adams, Jessica Alba, Cate Blanchett, Josh Brolin, Steve Carell, George Clooney, Penelope Cruz, Miley Cyrus, Patrick Dempsey, Cameron Diaz, Colin Farrell, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Garner, Tom Hanks, Anne Hathaway, Katherine Heigl, Jonah Hill, Dwayne Johnson, Nicole Kidman, James McAvoy, Queen Latifah, Seth Rogen, Martin Scorsese, Hilary Swank, John Travolta, Denzel Washington and Renee Zellweger.
Cates and Ganis also announced the performers of the nominated songs. Amy Adams will sing "Happy Working Song" from "Enchanted" (music by Alan Menken and lyric by Stephen Schwartz). Also from "Enchanted" (and written by Menken and Schwartz) will be "That's How You Know," sung by Kristin Chenoweth and Marlon Saunders, and "So Close," to be performed by Jon McLaughlin.
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova will perform their nominated song, "Falling Slowly," from the motion picture "Once," and Jamia Simone Nash will perform "Raise It Up," from "August Rush," with the IMPACT Repertory Theatre of Harlem, headed by Jamal Joseph, who shares the song's music and lyric credit with Charles Mack and Tevin Thomas.
Also scheduled to return to the Oscar telecast team will be writers Hal Kanter, Buz Kohan, Jon Macks and Bruce Vilanch.
Second-time Oscar show host Jon Stewart will also bring on several writers to work on the telecast.


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smart, safe & fair: on sustainability strategy
The human support system is failing faster than you can flick a hockey stick. Fact is, all of our system metrics have gone exponential--fuel, money, emissions, population--so the trend lines look like hockey sticks.
This system failure follows from our failure to see the whole system.
Now, our new 'mental map' of this support system shows three 'spheres' that are inter-looped, reciprocal and dynamic.
A series of vicious cycles already flicked on in each sphere is exacerbating the threats in the other spheres.
So, wot's our strategy and how do we resolve all of these challenges together? That's the question.
We look stupid running down the planet with our mindless consumption driven by cheap energy.
We feel unsafe in the changing climate, and we know it's unfair to be greedy.
We want a smarter economy, a safer environment, and a community that is more fair.
We are stuck in a system whose "positive feedback" loops have turned negative.
We are eating oil and dumping the detritus in our dining room as we plop down, surrounded by our servants.
So, what does our new 'mental map' suggest we should do, now?
The smartest thing we can do in our economy is to switch away from fossil fuels.
The safest thing we can do in our ecology is to plan adaptation for the coming climate catastrophe.
The fairest thing we can do in our community is to build from the bottom-up.
As we learn how to use energy more smartly and navigate a safer path through a warming planet, we are best-advised to start at the bottom to rebuild our life support system.
The rich folks (and countries) may come along, yet it is the vast majority of less-well-off Earthlings who need the wholeness of sustainability...like yesterday.
Certainly, most Kauaians want to be able to feed and power ourselves and get around this island in a way that is regenerative, not degenerative.
Imagine ordinary folks, living life with a sustainability ethic, and managing communities that reinforce our smarts, our safety, and our fairness...Yeah! That's the ticket!
We all want to switch away...to change our ways. How are we gonna do that?
Let's talk about this. Mebbe over at Paul Hawken's WiserEarth...
...where you'll find hundreds of groups in each area of focus, including these ten on Kauai: Garden Island RC&D, GMO Free Kaua`i, Hui o Laka, Hui Maka'ainana o Makana, Kaua`i Food Bank, Kaua`i Public Land Trust, Kauai Freecycle Group, NTBG, The Kauaian Institute, and Waipa Foundation


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GLADSTONE - Two area fifth-grade students were recently named this year's Disabled American Veterans Local Chapter 24 essay contest winners.
MacKenna Hanson, Gladstone James T. Jones Elementary, and Danica Maki, Escanaba Middle School, wrote the top essays for the topic, "What is the definition of an American?"
MacKenna placed first in Delta County as well as third in the State of Michigan. She won a $100 prize for the county competition plus an additional $100 bond for the state win as well as $100 for her school. Danica earned $75 for her second place finish in Delta County.
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Winners in Delta County's annual DAV Essay Contest were second-place, Danica Maki (left), an Escanaba Middle School student, and first-place, MacKenna Hanson, a student at Jones Elementary School in Gladstone, MacKenna's essay placed third in the state competition.
MacKenna Hanson is pictured with Jones School's second-place winner, Sidney Herioux. Pictured with the girls are Jones teacher, Laurie Rasmussen, and Morris Cole, DAV?Chapter 24 representative.
MacKenna's parents are Thomas and Nanette Hanson, and her teacher was Laurie Rasmussen. Danica is the daughter of Barbara Norlander and Josh Gaber, and her teacher was Patrick Gannon.
Students from Escanaba, Gladstone, Hannahville, Mid Peninsula, and Rapid River participated in the contest. Local judges were Rick LeMoine, Sandy Sacheret, and Morris Cole.


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Occupation: CEO & Internet Strategist of Good Old
Neighborhood: Johanneshov, Stockholm
Relationship status: Living with my girlfriend
What did you eat today?
I just ate a veggie bagel for breakfast. But yesterday I had so good food that it inspired me to answer this thing – finally. I had an amazing deep fried salmon roll with Chinese mustard (red hot), followed by some amazing noodles with flat iron angus steak on top. Fab!
What do you never eat?
Things in shells, if I can avoid them. Not at all fond of crabs, crayfish, mussels and that stuff. I think the shell is there for a reason – someone's telling us to leave them alone.
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
Mustard – the ultimate condiment that you can have on absolutely anything – including a cheese sandwich.
What is your favorite kitchen item?
An old school pot for making stews and casseroles. Throw something in there, leave it for a few hours, and somehow it always tastes good.
Where do you eat out most frequently?
The local thai place. Surprisingly good for being a local actually. Apart from that, I like Jacobs on Riddargatan that does both Danish smørrebrød and French main courses. Clearly underrated place.
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
Something Asian – probably something fairly simple like proper Kung Pao Chicken with those amazing garlic stirred beans that they have there (in China that is – I've never found them anywhere else). No point making things more complicated than they have to be if you're going to pop your clogs in an hour or two anyway.


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On my way to Omaha. A day early. I will be there late at night, as I am taking the train from Chicago! I can't wait to see you all!
Thanks I found it. She and her partner are in first!!! So excited.
Remember this guy.....Tomoki Hiwatashi...just had a birthday and earned a big birthday present... highlight of the day so far.....tonight, junior ladies! Tomarrow morning, senior ladies practice.....BTW, the schedule of this nats is pretty darned nice....there is time to sleep in mostly and have dinner mostly....
My friend and I had a great time at junior ladies tonight. Wish I could see their free skate. I'm pretty sure I spotted you across the rink in the front row by the kiss and cry, Chris. Our seats tonight were exactly three rows above the seats my mom and I have for the weekend. Very good spot in section 119.
When we were leaving we saw Peter Oppegard and Karen Kwan sitting in the next section, so I spoke to Karen and told her Michelle's wedding looked beautiful. She was very gracious and friendly. I am totally stupidly fan girl excited over having that exchange! I called my mom to tell her about the night and told her about that. She laughed at me; I said, hey, you'd be stupid excited, too. She had to admit she would.
Can't wait until the weekend now!!
Ah, the joys of figure skating competition. A lady behind me says her older lady friend has been sick for two days but will come in today and sit four rows back, wearing a mask. The sick lady, comes in, comes down to her friend, takes off her mask and leans over her friend and starts chatting into her face! Then she puts her mask back on and goes to her seat. But she soon doesnt feel well and leaves. Then my seatmate for the competition, a nice older lady, shows up today, shakes my hand, and tells me she is recovering from the flu!... I wash my hand with hand sanitizer as she coughs into her sleeve and then she sees an old friend, who she gets up for and goes over to and gives him a hug and talks into his face, failing to tell the older gentlemen that she has influenza. No wonder 20,000 old folks die from the flu...I have had the shot but it doesnt work so well on us older folks and it is only 62 percent effective as it is....I think I will wear my HEPA mask tomarrow....you will really be able to see me then!
Chris the old man with COPD as it is who is taking a break from Junior mens long......


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A man was hospitalized after he was shot in the face during a hunting accident in West Milford today, NorthJersey.com reports.
Keith Snowden, of Pompton Lakes, was taken to Morristown Memorial Hospital, where he is being treated for his non-life-threatening injuries, according to the report.
The police found Snowden in a wooded area off Van Orden Road early this morning. He had been struck by several shotgun pellets fired by another hunter, Donald Einreinhofer of Stockholm, apparently accidentally, according to the report.


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Shulamith Lala Ashenberg Straussner
Areas of Expertise
Substance abuse, mass violence and trauma, mental health, international social work, occupational social work/employee assistance programs, women's issues, family dynamics, and social work education
Dr. S. Lala Straussner is a professor who teaches in both the practice and HBSE areas and the doctoral dissertation seminar in the PhD program. She has taught an international study abroad course on trauma for NYU Silver School of Social Work students in Jerusalem, and will be teaching a substance abuse course for Silver School students in Italy in summer 2013. She also directs the School's Post-Master's Certificate Program in the Clinical Approaches to the Addictions. Currently Dr. Straussner serves as the interim chair of the practice area, and previously served three years as chair of that area. Dr. Straussner has been on the faculty at the annual Summer Institute on Addictions Studies, International School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Dr. Straussner is the founding editor of the Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions. During the 2006-07 academic year, Dr. Straussner was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at The Academy of Labour & Social Relations in Kiev, Ukraine, a visiting professor at Warsaw University in Poland, and recipient of the Lady Davis Fellowship to Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Previously, she was a Fulbright Senior Scholar to Israel (2003) and a visiting professor at Omsk State University, Omsk, Siberia, Russia (2000). She was the 2003 recipient of the Individual Distinction in Addictions Education and Training Award given by the Institute of Professional Development in Addictions, and was selected as Social Worker of the Year by the NASW ATOD Section in 2000.
She received the Award for Lifetime Leadership To Addictions Community, from the New York City Chapter of NASW in 2008, and in 2007 Dr. Straussner was inducted as a Distinguished Scholar into The Social Work Academy of The National Academies Of Practice. Dr. Straussner was also nominated as the 2008 Outstanding Teacher from the NYU Silver School of Social Work, was listed in the 2011 edition of Who's Who in America, and has been twice nominated for the CSWE Significant Lifetime Achievement In Social Work Education Award.
Dr. Straussner is a current member of the New York State Office Of Alcoholism And Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Talent Management Committee. From 2008-2010 she was an invited reviewer, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Social Work Peer Review Medical Research Program Panel, US Army Medical Research and Material Command, American Institute of Biological Sciences, and was a consultant/board member on the Expand & Enhance Asian American Substance Abuse Treatment Services (EASTS) Project, Hamilton-Madison House, SAMHSA grant from 2009-2011. She also served on the National Center on Substance Abuse Treatment panel on workforce issues, and was the Northeast regional director for the multi-million dollar federally funded national Project Mainstream, an Interdisciplinary Project to Improve Health Professional Education on Substance Abuse sponsored by AMERSA/HRSA/CSAT. She is a past chair and a founding member of the NASW Section on Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs and has chaired the New York City Women's Issues Committee of the Employee Assistance Professionals Association and been a 2nd vice president of the NYC Chapter of NASW. During 2002, she was a keynote speaker for the Betty Ford/Hazelden Women's Healing conferences throughout the US, and during 2006, she chaired the National Association for Children of Alcoholics' (NACoA) Social Work Initiative to develop social work core competencies for working with children of alcohol and drug abusing parents.
Dr. Straussner conducts research and lectures; serves as a consultant to various agencies, hospitals, and EAPs in the US and abroad; and has a private therapeutic and supervisory practice in New York City. She is also the proud mother of three young adult children; her two daughters attended the NYU Silver School of Social Work for their MSW.
Dr. Straussner has numerous publications on a variety of topics that include 16 books, 19 book chapters, and over 30 peer-reviewed journal publications.


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PERTH AMBOY – Police here are searching for a man who has been missing since last week.
William Gu, a 22-year-old CUNY student who lives in New York and Perth Amboy, was last seen on March 7 in Brooklyn. He was supposed to meet a friend in Staten Island but never showed up, and the car he was driving was found abandoned in Somerset at the Somerset Diner on Easton Avenue.
Gu suffered a traumatic brain injury in a 2011 car crash, and has "depression, paranoia and other psychotic behaviors, so there is increased concern for his safety," police said. He is reportedly afraid of police and hides when he's scared. He has never been violent, police said.
He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a black North Face jacket. He is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs about 145 pounds, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Det. Gilberto Simao of the Perth Amboy Police Department at (732) 324-3813, New Jersey State Police at (800) 709-7090 or the New York Police Department at (718) 946-3311.


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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Gay Seniors Fear Bias
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While I think this sounds accurate, I've found with seniors in general, a disinclination (at least at first) to participate in organized senior activities.ReplyDelete
I'm curious how much of it is entirely based on sexuality, and how much is the way so many seniors are resistant to change - sexuality notwithstanding?
I think Winnie makes a good point, maybe it's a resistance to change in general. People who are set in their ways will frown upon anything new, whether or not they're in a nursing home.ReplyDelete
In any case, I'd like to think that all places should be LGBT-friendly. I know things are looking up, though, and with every batch of seniors, I hope their minds become more open.ReplyDelete
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This article is a real eye opener, I'll definitely share this article about gay seniors. Thanks.ReplyDelete
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This is so unfair because no one deserves to be judged in the first place. I think they deserve equal hospice care when it comes to medical health provisions.ReplyDelete


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Controlling the human genome
The completion, or near completion, of the human genome project was announced with expressions of Promethean awe. The New York Times called the feat "a pinnacle of human self-knowledge." Other commentators referred to the new knowledge as the "Book of Life." President Clinton said mapping the body's sequence of genes was like "learning the language of God." And Dr.
Manipulating the genetic code
When two groups of scientists announced in mid-February that they had finished mapping the human genome, scientists, politicians and journalists paid rapt attention. The human genetic code has been deciphered! We are on our way at last to obeying scientifically the old Delphic oracle: Know thyself!
Does humanity need an upgrade?
"People will be inclined to give their children those skills and traits that align with their own temperaments and lifestyles," writes Gregory Stock, an apostle of human genetic engineering who heads the program on Medicine, Technology and Society at UCLA. "A devout individual may want his child to be even more religious and resistant to temptation."
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The question posed last week was: "Given Regions Bank's issues with its website this week, will you switch banks?" Out of 1,750 votes as of Monday morning, slightly more than half (904 votes) chose the response, "No. This was a highly unusual situation and I don't think it will happen again."
The thinking behind that response may have best been summarized by AL.com reader Donna Bartle. "If it hadn't been for this silly, seemingly pot-stirring article, I would not have even known there was a problem," she said. "I have been with Regions since 2 or 3 names [sic] ago and certainly won't leave over something so trivial." Dale in Alabama agreed: "I didn't even know anything had happened. I've been a customer of Regions for a long, long time. Not switching over something so small."
"Are you kidding?" said AL.com user newshound. "I'm not turning my financial house upside down because a website crashed for one day. I am also holding on to my Regions stock, which has earned me about 10 percent this year. If that's a disaster, give me some more of it."
Another user sees value in supporting the metro area's last major financial institution. "Let's not forget that Regions is the last of the Big 4 banks with headquarters in Birmingham still standing," said masspike. "If they go down how many jobs will be lost?"
Not everyone excused the mistake so easily, however. "I find it amazing that a company like Regions was not on top of renewing their domain," said user xxxx20. "Makes me wonder about their IT people, which makes me worry about my money under these IT people. Renewing a domain is a no brainer - you get alerts from your host company all the way up until the domain expires. I know because I have had to deal with domain renewal. Someone's head should roll, as this task is really a no brainer and should not have caught them off guard."
Regions Bank, a division of Birmingham-based Regions Financial Corp. (symbol: RF), provided an official, straightforward response to last week's issues late Tuesday, when eBusiness head Chris Cox posted a video message to the bank's Facebook page.


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A Christmas Eve crash slowed traffic on Euclid Thursday afternoon.
In the rush of the holiday, a red Dodge Stratus turned right out of Kroger, 945 Euclid, heading south, and clipped the back of a Chevy pickup truck, causing it to flip onto its driver side at about 1:15 p.m.
Michigan State Police officials said no one was hurt in the accident.
Police officials said the Stratus struck the back of the pickup just enough to cause it to fishtail to the left, and eventually flip onto its driver side.
Traffic backed up on Euclid past Kiesel, but moved steadily. Bangor Township Fire Department assisted on scene.
The scene was cleaned up at about 2:10 p.m.


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Europe's got 'em. Now Japan has 'em. When will the U.S. follow suit?
We're talking about follow-on biologics, also known as "biosimilars," depending on the country of origin. Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) said yesterday that it had received approval of the first biosimilar in Japan. The drug, somatropin, is a generic version of Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE ) human growth hormone, Genotropin.
Technically, Japan isn't ahead of the U.S. While the U.S. doesn't have a pathway for approval of follow-on biologics, the Food and Drug Administration has let one through: the same human growth hormone that Japan just approved, which is marketed under the name Omnitrope. But Novartis had to sue the government to finally get the drug approved, and no other company has tried a similar tactic that I know of.
But Japan will surely pass us up since the country has established a pathway for approval. In fact it only took about three months for the country to approve the first biosimilar after the government published guidelines for companies. I expect Amgen (Nasdaq: AMGN ) and Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE: JNJ ) anemia drugs to be the next target, as they were when Europe opened up its process for approvals. And Hospira (NYSE: HSP ) and Teva Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: TEVA ) , among others, are likely to be hot on Novartis' tail.
In the U.S., the main hang-up is how much guaranteed patent protection branded biologics will be given. Biotech companies want 12 to 14 years of protection, the Federal Trade Commission thinks five years is sufficient, and yesterday the White House said seven years was enough. How many years biotech companies will get remains to be seen, but it's clear that the question is when we'll have a pathway for approval, not if.
Investors looking to take advantage of this billion-dollar industry that's about to open up should take a good look at Novartis. The company is clearly at the forefront of the biosimilar development and I expect it'll be at the front of the line when the U.S. opens its doors.
Follow-on Foolishness:
- Pfizer gets a double.
- Bargain stocks are everywhere
- Stop worrying about follow-on biologics.


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DECATUR, Alabama -- Decatur police arrested four people for multiple car break-ins at an apartment complex this morning.
At about 2:30 a.m., Decatur police got a call from a witness who saw two juveniles and two adult males breaking into several cars in the parking lot of Cardinal Apartments, police said. The witness saw the offenders break into his neighbor's car then alerted the neighbor. The neighbor ran out and got into his car and followed the fleeing vehicle and wrote down the tag number, police said.
Police found the vehicle at a nearby apartment apartment complex with the four suspects inside, police said. A search of the car found stolen property from recent break-ins, police said.
The four suspects, Juan Carlos Lopez, Roberto Carlos Hammer and two juveniles, whose names were not released because of their ages, were taken to the Decatur city jail and charged wtih two counts each of breaking and entering a vehicle. Lopez and Hammer will be transferred to the Morgan County jail, where they will be held on $5,000 bond each.


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As MLive.com's own Ansar Khan noted, Marian Hossa fits perfectly with Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Holmstrom on the Wings' #1A line. Hossa scored the Red Wings' only goal in Thursday's loss to San Jose. The man who recorded the only assist on Hossa's "wicked wrister" digs his new linemate, as he told the Free Press's Helene St. James:
October 31, Detroit Free Press: With his sixth goal of the season Thursday in the 4-2 loss to the Sharks at HP Pavilion, Hossa reached a team-high 15 points. Datsyuk is second with 11 points, and Holmstrom is tied for third with 10 points. Entering Thursday, Hossa was third overall in the NHL in points, and Datsyuk was tied for 14th.
"It seems like the more we play together, for sure we find each other much more, especially with those give-and-gos using Hossa's speed," Holmstrom said. "We're starting to feel more and more comfortable with each other, not just in the offensive end but in the neutral zone and in our own end, too, with breaking out."
"I think we're getting better and better," Hossa said. "We know each other more and more, so we're reading each other."
Datsyuk and Holmstrom naturally play well together because they've spent a great deal of time on the same line, but in the past Henrik Zetterberg was their third mate. That Hossa is so strong on the puck and so quick to get back into his own zone, if needed, has made for so seamless a transition that Holmstrom joked that Datsyuk and Hossa are "the new Eurotwins," recalling the moniker teammates put on Datsyuk and Zetterberg when they were younger.
Datsyuk gives Hossa high marks as well:
"He's fast; he's strong; if he needs to take a hit, he takes a hit," Datsyuk said of Hossa. "He has speed and a good, quick shot, and he's always dangerous in the offensive zone, and I try to feed him. The three of us get better and better every game. Now we try to be more dangerous."
Ironically enough, Henrik Zetterberg's doing just fine with a rotating set of linemates thanks to Johan Franzen's sprained knee. Zetterberg leads the team with 7 goals, and he matches Holmstrom's 10 points despite the fact that Zetterberg's only played in nine of the team's 11 games.