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Title: Burlington Streets: Church Street
- McAllister, L. L. (Louis L.), 1877-1963
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View of upper Church Street with street cleaning vehicle spraying water. On the left is the Masonic Temple building, on the right Abernethy Clarkson Wright building. The Unitarian Church center background. Indentations of trolley tracts still seen running down the middle of the road.
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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; When the Saints wrapped up the 2003 season with an 8-8 record, many suspected Haslett and company would go out in the free-agent market and make wholesale changes on defense. Most notably, many thought the area of CB and LB ...
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When the Saints wrapped up the 2003 season with an 8-8 record, many suspected Haslett and company would go out in the free-agent market and make wholesale changes on defense. Most notably, many thought the area of CB and LB would be addressed in the free-agent market.
However, even though Haslett had the cap room to pursue the areas in question, he chose to go another route. According to Haslett, he believes several of the backups are now ready to play a larger role on the field. In addition, Haslett also contends injuries at KEY positions contributed to the lack of success on defense. Last, Haslett says by having several guys back that now have a year under their belt in the same system will provide much needed continuity. So, Haslett gives us 3-reasons why the defense will be improved. Let's review: 1. Backups are ready to contribute. 2. Key players that were injured will return. 3. New guys now familiar with the system. So, that's what Haslett is hanging is hat on this year. But, will it work? We'll get back to that in a minute. But, first let's address how much we believe what Haslett tells us each year. Each year Haslett gives reasons as to why this years team will be improved. But, each year things have not improved on defense and if you ask a lot of folks they will tell you they don't put too much stock in anything Haslett has to say. In fact, many think Haslett is an out-and-out liar!! Perhaps, but I really don't think he's lying, I think things just haven't gone according to plan. Now, back to the topics at hand. 1. Back-ups ready to contribute: a. James Allen b. Fakir Brown c. Keyuo Craver d. Cie Grant Those aren't all of the backups that could make significant contibutions this year, but those are guys that have the chance to win starting jobs or see majority playing time this year. 2. Key players that were injured will return. a. Sedrick Hodge b. Darren Howard c. Mel Mitchell Those aren't all of the injured players but all 3 of those were projected starters who missed all or almost all of the 2003 season. 3. New guys now familiar with the system. a. Tebucky Jones b. Derrick Rodgers Both Jones and Rodgers were starters from day one in their first year with the Saints. I'll be the first one to admit, I thought the Saints did not properly address the defense in the offseason. But, when looking at EVERYTHING, Haslett just might be right. Also, Haslett did gain some new players in free-agency and the draft that should help: 1. Brian Young 2. Jason Craft 3. Courtney Watson 4. Will Smith So, when it comes right down to it, our defense will look as different as just about any team in the league when compared to last year. The good thing about it though, is these are guys that were already here for the most part. I'll take that. I can't wait to see this guys on the field together this season. We've got some serious talent on defense and if it comes together, we could have a very special seaon. Peace!! [Edited on 1/8/2004 by GumboBC] |
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Nice post. Going into the season without key injuries will be the test. What were we missing by the end of game one last year, like 8 players on defense with 3+ of them starters? That can\'t happen again if we want to get out of the gate fast.
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I think LB will be fine this year, but DB i dont see how Haslett or anyone can say they are happy with a duo of Thomas and Ambrose starting. Ambrose was horrible last year and always seemed to be 15 yards off of his man and still couldnt stop them from getting behind him. I like the pickup of Craft but dont feel confident about the state of the corners. The only way they hold up is if they can get a constant and quick pass rush. If the front four cant control the line and get some rush the corners are in for another long season. If the defense cant stop the run and have to bring safety help up look for a lot of big plays in the passing game. Hope im wrong
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You missed one: 4. New coach (Pease) who has proven that he knows how to scheme the DLine. This is critical for both improving the run defense, and for generating a consistent pass rush that this defense so desperately needs to contend. Pease has done both of these both with the Dome Patrol and with DelRio\'s Jaguars last year. And with the talent we have on the DLine this years, there\'s reason to believe that it can be very quickly turned around here too. SFIAH |
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hehehe - so nice to have you back Billy.
I\'ll say that I agree that the defense SHOULD be better. I will go so far as to say that I think they WILL be better this season. Still, you leave out some important facts. For example, in the second half of the year when the \"starters\" return from injury and the defense started playing better, the Saints were playing BAD teams. The Saints had one of the weakest schedules in the league in the second half last season, and they still finished the year averaging 140 yards rushing allowed. That\'s B-A-D. Now, the defense should be better all around this season. I expect it to be. Still, it\'s hard (at least for some of us) not to look at this team top to bottom with some level of skepticism. It\'s not like this is the first year that this team has been overly talented. It\'s not the first time that \"all the right moves\" were made in the offseason. It\'s not the first time we\'ve heard about new players and rookies who were going to wow us. I\'m not calling Haslett a liar, but I am saying that I\'ll believe him when the Saints actually live up to any of his hype. |
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You know, it drives me NUTS to hear someone say we only beat \"weak\" teams. You know, the Panthers only beat ONE team with a winning record last year during the regular season. What does that mean? It means NOTHING. WhoDat, the only thing that matters is a team needs to reach the playoffs. From there anything can happen. Yeah, I\'d love to beat the elite teams. But, it still wouldn\'t mean too much. I hear folks come on here after a game and say we SHOULD have beat this team or that team, but no one is gonna lay down for us. There aren\'t that many BAD teams in the league. A lot depends on when you happen to be playing a particular team. If I know you (and I think I do) I\'m sure you\'ll disagree about only beating \"weak\" teams. But, you\'re gonna have to explain to me how the Panthers went to the Super Bowl by only beating ONE team with a WINNING record. And do you get extra credit for beating teams with winning record? Also, what does it prove if we lose to the Colts and beat Atlanta? As far as I\'m concerned, a win is a win and you have to earn everyone of \'em. |
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Can Union Labor Ever Cost Less?
This paper examines the effect of unions on efficiency by estimating cost function systems over three different sets of construction projects. The results show that union contractors have greater economies of scale. This gives them a cost advantage in large commercial office buildings, but in school and hospital construction, nonunion contractors have lower costs at all output levels. Despite the cost differences, profits for nonunion contractors in school and hospital construction are no higher than those for union contractors because the burden of higher union costs is shifted to buyers.
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Sir Harold Hillier Gardens continues to develop exciting new sculptures for Art in the Garden's 17th year. Amidst a range of high quality sculptures suitable for every size of garden, this year we also have some stimulating new conceptual pieces which will intrigue and engage.
'Moon in a box' by Gemma Hughes explores the interplay of light and surface. Gemma has conjured the moon in an enclosed space in an open landscape, which invites the viewer to explore the illusion and how it is achieved.
Andrew Lee makes a welcome return to Art in the Garden with a new wind sculpture set in our beautiful pond. 'Shoal' seems to hover over the surface of the water and captures all the eddies and vortices of the wind, making the invisible, visible. The sculpture echoes the sinuous shared movement of a shoal of fish creating a mesmerising impression upon the viewer.
Jenny Pickford's impressive giant 'Allium' standing at 3.5 metres tall has undeniable presence and the dusty grey of the forged steel emerges naturally from the grey slate of our scree beds in front of Jermyn's House. Strength and fragility come together in the combination of glass and steel.
This year we are also excited to welcome the well known stone balancing artist Adrian Gray. The seeming impossibility of the stone's balance in 'Revealed in Time' prompts us to question how this is achieved and emphasises the implicit beauty of the stone. A clip of the balancing of the stones is available on vimeo at https://vimeo.com/164383043
Curator, Jo Field, carefully chooses the locations for the sculptures throughout the Gardens, she explains further "siting over 100 sculptures by 47 artists is a real challenge so it is very satisfying when you find a setting which brings the sculpture and the landscape together. Jenny Pickford's large scale sculptures really look at home outside Jermyn's House creating an impressive sight. We have also introduced pieces that create a dialogue with the viewer prompting curiosity about how the sculpture works."
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RMI's whole-system approach has the potential to transform the idea of campus greening from single projects to integrative communities. This leap could provide a model for the next generation of leaders. College campuses have long been hotbeds of social change. The Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, human rights causes, and numerous anti- war and social justice movements can all trace their roots—at least in part—to campuses across the United States and abroad. And the persuasive power of dedicated, idealistic young students can often be harnessed to bring about the greatest social change.
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Today, many college campuses are focusing on a new kind of societal transformation by leading the green movement and doing what they can to address environmental problems. What used to be the occasional recycling program or an inclination toward organic food has become a full-fledged international movement that many observers believe will revitalize communities, introduce new areas of academic study, alter traditional career choices, and revolutionize education itself.
Even a casual scan of educational institutions' green activities shows there are thousands of efforts underway in nearly every state involving schools of every type and size. The University of Monmouth in New Jersey, for example, recently put in the largest solar installation east of the Mississippi, saving the school $150,000 and reducing electricity demand by almost 500,000 kilowatt-hours a year. The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey installed one of the world's largest closed- loop geothermal heating and cooling systems, an 18-kilowatt solar photovoltaic array, and a 200-kilowatt fuel cell. In 2005, students at U.C. Santa Barbara started an educational program that ultimately led to campus-wide lighting retrofits, the use of motion sensors, and the installation of more efficient heating and cooling systems, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 8,100 tons. The list is long and varied, but the green wave is rising.
Henry Ford once observed, "If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself." Rocky Mountain Institute has worked on sustainability as it relates to a variety of communities since 1984, when Senior Consultant Michael Kinsley cofounded a research and consulting practice based on the notion that engaging large subsets of people can be a powerful way to get energy and resource solutions adopted and implemented.
And, not surprisingly, colleges and universities have been prime candidates for the type of work RMI does. In 2002, the Institute assessed ways that Oberlin College could reduce its greenhouse-gas emissions. In 2005, Stanford enlisted RMI to help identify ways to reduce emissions at its two-mile-long Linear Accelerator Center. More recently, RMI has assisted the University of Hawaii, the University of Vermont, and Duke University with environmental sustainability and stewardship goals.
"In the past we've done individual [campus and community] projects oriented toward technical analysis," Kinsley says. "Typically they've been one-offs of buildings or energy systems or something else; excellent projects, but we weren't doing any whole-campus or whole-city jobs."
Over the years, Kinsley has been pushing his practice toward working with the larger subset of a "sustainable human settlements." His goal of larger community-oriented issues was recently given a boost when a foundation contacted RMI and enquired if the Institute could delve into college- and university-wide climate solutions, specifically in terms of campus operations, taking RMI's work, Kinsley says, "to a whole new level."
"Accelerating Campus Climate-Change Initiatives" sounds grandiose, but in reality, RMI's campus climate initiative is—from the outside—rather straightforward. It's about information, a sort of fact-finding and fact-sharing mission. Working with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, RMI will build on foundational research that has already been published by various sustainability professionals at universities and the National Wildlife Federation's growing Low-Carbon Campus Series.
Supported by a grant from an anonymous funder, Kinsley and Sally DeLeon, a Research Fellow on RMI's Built Environment Team, spent the summer gathering stories from colleges and universities across the country on how their climate-change initiatives are unfolding and what obstacles the campuses have encountered. Throughout the fall and winter, they will be in the process of conducting deeper research with ten selected campuses. Next spring, they will publish their generalized findings as a web-based framework for whole-system climate action in campus operations. The stories include everything from wild successes to instructive failures. "To make this project genuinely informative, we need to understand failures as well as successes," Kinsley notes. After visiting the selected schools this fall, Kinsley and DeLeon will conduct an RMI workshop with participants from all ten campuses to tease out the best ways to advance their climate-change initiatives.
The process may sound simple, but the two researchers say the issues are anything but. Colleges and universities can have Byzantine organizational structures that are often much more complex than corporate entities. Financing, split incentives, school culture, stranded assets, and faculty and staff buy-in create unique challenges that can be difficult for a school to overcome.
"For example, often one department is responsible for capital investments, while another runs operations and the two don't necessarily work together," Kinsley notes. "There's no incentive for the capital budget manager to invest in building retrofits that'll help the budget of the operations people. It's just a dumb structural condition that nobody meant to create that becomes an institutional barrier. Those are the kinds of things we want to dig up."
RMI Trustee and Oberlin College professor David Orr is quick to point out that one enormous barrier to change is the notion of changing curricula, which can threaten faculty jobs, budgets, and fundamental school principles.
"The main architecture of the curricula is sacrosanct," he says. "Conversations still don't easily cross back and forth between disciplines. And anything that begins to threaten that structure dies a pretty quick and painful death."
Moving the project forward will also involve a workshop and additional research, followed by the creation of "an overarching framework for accelerating campus climate-change initiatives" and offer it as a web-based report. "This RMI project focuses mainly on operations," notes DeLeon. "But since all of these aspects have a lot of potential for synergy and cross-over, we will also learn about connections between operations and the other aspects and hopefully expose creative, innovative ways to make these connections and create solutions that address multiple aspects at once."
What's truly inspiring about this effort—all green campus initiatives, really—is its vast potential, especially in terms of education.
As a professor of many years, Orr has developed some remarkable notions of just how far the green campus movement could go. In fact, Orr says that if the green campus movement is followed to its logical end, it would change society entirely.
At present, he points out, students and faculty are thinking of the green campus movement in terms of physical flows: for example, how much waste a campus produces and how much energy it needs. "But that's only a means to an end," he says. "The real end is about changing the way people think, not just about resource flows through the places in which we purport to be thinking. I could imagine a university having one subject: carbon. Just follow the carbon. And when you think about it, that's a big doorway. You get into the realm of carbon and it would take you to English literature, it would take you to poetry, certainly to chemistry, it would get you to economics, it would get you really quickly to philosophy."
Changing the way people think about educational topics might "sound flaky as hell," Orr says, but it also could turn education on its head, which in turn could change society by changing what's important in society. The thinking is that by changing what people learn in college (and other educational settings) you change what they do in life and how they respond to the world around them.
Even if Orr thinks his ideas are slightly radical, all indications suggest that they're not far off at all. Sustainability-related efforts are already turning curricula upside-down at many schools. Graduate students at the University of Virginia's business school are studying ways to use waste rice husks to generate power in India. Vermont's Middlebury College recently established a grant program for "sustainable study abroad." And architecture schools across the country are offering "green building" courses of every type. In 2007, Arizona State University created the country's first school of sustainability, and now offers degrees in "sustainability" from the bachelor to Ph.D. level.
Many students are even pledging to take what they've learned out into the real world, as a group of George Washington University students did last May when they pinned green ribbons on their graduation robes and caps and signed a commitment to bring sustainability principles to their careers.
"My personal thought is that the biggest changes are yet to come," says Ken Bagstad, a Ph.D. candidate in ecological economics at the University of Vermont. "As more and more students from all fields, beyond the traditional environmental studies/science majors (e.g., engineering, business, etc.) become leaders in greening their campus, they'll have the opportunity to 'green revolutionize' their professional fields. I envision that just as we're now seeing incoming students use 'greenness' as a criteria to pick a college or university to attend, these same students will become a major force in transforming their professional worlds, using the skills and expectations they gained in their years participating in the green campus movement."
Colleges and universities starting down green paths are already finding huge advantages over their not-so-green competition. Some are experiencing increases in student applications because of their sustainability and climate initiatives.
"We have heard that students make a decision on where to go to school solely based on sustainability," Dave Weil, University of California at San Diego's director of building commissioning and sustainability recently told Climate Wire, a climate-change-oriented news service.
But that draw isn't limited to big-name universities. In fact, DeLeon points out, smaller and lesser-known—even two-year—colleges can be leaders in sustainability-related fields.
Case in point: Butte College, a two-year community college in Northern California. That school recently won the National Wildlife Federation's Chill-Out Award, aimed at celebrating campus-based initiatives, by delving heavily into energy efficiency. It is now on course to be carbon neutral by 2015. Butte College also recycles more than 75 percent of its waste and runs the largest community college transportation system in California. Community College Times, the biweekly newspaper of the American Association of Community Colleges, recently called the school "one of the national leaders in sustainability, and one that can serve as a model for community colleges."
Still others are pulling in more funding from donors, and others are winning funding from government programs that support renewable energy. Some are attracting more promising students, and many are drawing top-level faculty members.
"If I were to give a list of the benefits that came about because of the Lewis Center now, most of them were things I couldn't have fully anticipated at all when we started the project in 1995," says Orr of the Adam Lewis Environmental Center at Oberlin. "I would never have anticipated, for example, that a lot of money would've come in long after we had the thing paid for. I wouldn't have anticipated the bump in enrollments, which continues to this day. We have students come here just because ecological design is part of our curriculum. At the last U.S. Green Building Council meeting we went to, we had 42 alums at that meeting, all of whom were involved in the making of the Lewis Center. I wouldn't have anticipated any of this, but opportunities feed on opportunities."
As this issue of RMI Solutions Journal goes to press, 558 school presidents have signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment, which is a voluntary agreement that their institutions will strive for carbon neutrality. Some schools that haven't signed are actively working toward ambitious greenhouse-gas emissions reduction goals of their own. As Orr is quick to note, there are roughly 3,700 colleges and universities in the country with a buying power of around $20 billion a year.
"That's a lot of clout," he says. "If ecological design and carbon neutrality become the norm, that changes a lot of resource flows right away. And if colleges and universities begin to see themselves as catalytic agents in developing re-localized, self-reliant, solar-powered economies, if they become like the salt in the stew—agents of much larger change—you begin to see the makings of a very serious revolution. And I think that's kind of where we're headed, it's just not as fast nor is it as thorough as it needs to be."
Drawing students and donations is one thing, but changing the rules is something entirely different. RMI's Built Environment Team experienced the power of green campus work in the early 2000s when the Institute helped design the University of Denver College of Law's Frank H. Ricketson, Jr. Building.
The design included waterless urinals and other water conservation features. But when the state's lead plumbing inspector read about the urinals in the newspaper, "He basically got up in arms and said 'you're not installing these on my watch,'" recalls Cara Carmichael, a Senior Consultant on RMI's Built Environment Team. "He had never worked with them, he didn't trust them to hold up, and he had about a dozen other excuses."
But the law school had connections with the governor. The students rallied together and, with the help of several influential professors, got the governor to pressure the plumbing inspector to allow the urinals on a one-year trial basis to see how well they worked and if they would be appropriate for general use.
"So they were installed and they worked great and still work great," Carmichael says. "Now, other buildings in Denver are using them. They were pretty much granted because of that building." Huge environmental benefits, fantastic educational opportunities, green campuses and communities—the benefits are too significant to ignore. Yet the movement is still experiencing fits and starts. Just like many companies, colleges and universities need to understand the full range of benefits—including important business benefits—that can be derived from reducing their carbon footprint. And according to DeLeon, this is one way that RMI's involvement could spur fresh thinking about energy and carbon in campus operations.
That's why we're taking this on," she says. "It's similar to Amory Lovins's old adage about the business sector: schools will either have to follow suit or lose competitive advantage."
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Outside the courthouse, Reynolds' husband, Joel Outlaw, proclaimed her innocence.
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[1.5] Retro Sun Direction Mod Download
This mod makes the sun travel from north to south, to match the direction it went in Minecraft Beta. With this mod, clouds go "north" and the sun goes "west", just like it used to.
- Put the class files in your minecraft.jar. also delete the contents of META-INF folder in the minecraft.jar
- Install Zan's minimap to toggle sun direction
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If you install Zan's Minimap, you can toggle between the old and new direction (see the third image)
Current sun direction, rising in the east, which was the south in beta
Old, Beta sun direction, rising in the Beta east, which is now the north in final (ie this is how it used to be)
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Does "essential tremor" relate to Parkinson disease? Is it reasonably cured? I have it in both hands, mostly in right hand.
Essential tremor(ET) is a distinct entity from Parkinson`s disease(PD). While tremor is a common symptom, the tremor in ET occurs more with posture and activity while the tremor in PD occurs more at rest. Treatment is also entirely different. Propranolol (Inderal), primidone (Mysoline) and gabapentin (Neurontin) are useful in ET while dopamine agonists and levodopa are used in treating PD. For severe ET, deep brain stimulation of the thalamus is a useful option when medications fail to work. There are some families in whom both ET and PD are seen, suggesting a common genetic defect. For the most part, however, ET and PD are not related in terms of a causative factor.
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Manga Debut | Chapter 268 |
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The Nuvola Velociraptor is a Box Weapon used by Kikyo. Once opened, the Box releases an army of Velociraptors toward the enemy. Not only do they come in large numbers, these Velociraptors are extremely agile and highly intelligent. They have claws that can rip through steel and Cloud Flame tipped tails. They are powerful individually, but have also shown the ability to work together fluidly, capable of performing powerful group-based combos. The combination of these forces make the Nuvola Velociraptors more lethal than an entire army division equipped with the latest weapons.
- As stated by Kikyo, Dinosaur Box Weapons are much more powerful than Animal Box Weapons.
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Ginkgo leaf tincture is especially effective when fat deposits or diabetes restrict blood flow, and in men whose blood flow is not improved by papaverine injections, or where potency is diminished by antidepressants. It is considered safe to take 1-2 dropper-fuls of ginkgo tincture, once or twice a day, for as long as 18 months.
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Microsoft Delivers a Plethora of PatchesAfter almost no fixes last month, the company turns out 11 security bulletins, calling six of them "critical." Related Articles
Following its meager security updates in January, Microsoft came back with a huge release for February. The company released 11 security bulletins containing 17 fixes. If there's any good news in this haul of fixes, it's that only six of the 11 bulletins are listed as "critical," and the five other fixes as "important." Of the six critical fixes, Jonathan Bitle, manager of technical accounts for security provider Qualys, said MS08-010 stands out because it addresses four severe HTML issues in Internet Explorer. The vulnerabilities in 010 would allow a specially crafted page to perform remote code execution on the user's system. This vulnerability affects IE from version 5.01 up to 7. "Because it affects so many systems and doesn't require doing anything more than visiting a malicious site, that worries us," Bitle told InternetNews.com. "Most organizations these days have a fairly good security practice about not opening unknown files from unknown users," he added. "But visiting Web sites that can be exploited is still a biggest area of concern. Here you have a remote code execution with no user interaction. Keeping your users from visiting sites like this is especially difficult." Three of the critical fixes, MS08-008, -012 and 013, are in Microsoft Office 2000, XP and 2003, and Office for Mac 2004. The fixes do not affect the recently released Office 2007 and Office for Mac 2008. All can allow for remote code execution. The final critical fix, -007, is critical only to Windows XP and Vista but labeled important for Windows Server 2003. [cob:Related_Articles]Among the important fixes are two vulnerabilities to a denial of service Finally, MS08-011 covers three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Works File Converter, which could allow an attacker to take control of a system.
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anyone have the source to Sandy Alomar Jr. staying in cleveland? is that for sure? someone was asking on a different site
The way I see it is he's had ZERO success in the majors, so it's not like he's bringing a ton of solid experience. An inexperienced guy like Dave Martinez is probably better.
Haha please, who ever said a manager has to be "book" smart? It's all about leadership and people skills, getting the most out of your players. In-game tactics don't do a whole lot. Granted, we don't want a dumb-as-a-rock manager, but the key is having a good leader first-and-foremost. I'm not sure exactly what went down in Cleveland, but their closer Chris Perez called out Acta saying that he was "too passive". It's not exactly the "manager with an edge" vibe that AA and Jays fans are looking for after the Farrell debacle.
I would love Dave Martinez or Ken Macha to be the next manager.
If Dave Martinez or Tony Pena meet AA's qualifications I like them both. Whoever it is I would like someone who will be here long term and not use us as a stepping stone.
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I still want Brad Ausmus. But it seems his name has been burried since Farrell took the Red Sox job.
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Makes sense. I'm not sure how accurate any of those reports about them being close to naming a manager are.Bluejays now focused on picking a new manager. Toronto did not offer the job to Manny Acta
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What's the best way to be told that your child is overweight or obese?
Not at all, of course. But if that bad news must be delivered, a national survey published in the journal Pediatrics this week finds that parents will feel blamed and respond badly to words like "fat," "obese" and "extremely obese," and would feel more motivated if a physician said their child has an "unhealthy weight," a "weight problem," or a "high BMI" (Body Mass Index).
Surprising? Hardly. But it does fly in the face of some pretty authoritative advice given just last year in Britain, where Public Health Minister Anne Milton recommended that National Health Service doctors call their overweight patients "fat" as a means of motivating them to lose weight. (She actually preferred "fat" to "obese," opining that calling patients "fat" would encourage more "personal responsibility.")
(Maybe being called "fat" with a British accent is less stinging.)
It turns out, the words that physicians and healthcare providers use to warn parents that their children are carrying too much weight really do matter: The survey suggests that parents who hear terms they feel are stigmatizing or convey blame may be more motivated to avoid the doctor who uttered those terms than they are to help junior eat and exercise his way to a healthy weight.
Sixty-eight percent of the respondents--all of them parents with at least one child between the ages of 2 and 18 living at home--said that if they perceived their child to be stigmatized by his or her physician because of weight, they would react by encouraging their child to lose weight. More troubling: 37% said they would feel upset and embarrassed, 36% said they would put their child on a strict diet (a strategy that researchers have demonstrated is almost always counterproductive), 35% would seek a new healthcare provider, and 24% would avoid future medical appointments.
Pediatricians' efforts to play a positive role in their patients' health "may be undermined if they use stigmatizing language that can hinder important discussions about children's health," the authors wrote. "The use of weight-based terminology that patients find desirable and motivating, and avoidance of language that patients perceive to be stigmatizing and blaming, is an important first step," they added.
One obstacle many physicians must face in choosing their words carefully is their own prejudice. Many studies have documented physicians' poor view of overweight and obese patients: A 2003 study found that more than 50% found them to be awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant, and 1 in 3 considered them weak-willed, sloppy and lazy.
Make no mistake about it: Numerous studies find that parents of overweight kids are woefully poor judges of their children's problem--especially if they themselves are also overweight. So a physician's objective reporting of a child's weight status is important.
But that sobering shower of cold, hard facts needs to come with a dose of compassion--and diplomacy--if a physician's advice is to lead to positive behavior change. In short, words matter.


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I heard of a scout troop in new england where all they use are hammocks. Guess they wanted to make for certain that where they went they always had a place to call camp, rain, shine, hillside or whatever.
Your back will thank you.
When we crossed over I was using a small 2 man tent. All the other adults had these huge tents and I went with that for a while and a double height blow up bed to make that getting up and down thing easier.
I started hammocking after Summer Camp 2010, and have not gone back to the tent (unless the troop is camping in a location without trees.)
That includes 19 degrees one night. No problems, nice and warm and it sets a good example for the boys that you don't need to bring everything you own out to the field with you.
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Welcome from South Carolina. Scouts got me started with hammocks. Last summer about half the Venture Scouts on a week long canoe trip were a lot more comfortable in their hammocks than I was on the ground in my tent. They kindly let the old lady try a few naps and she was hooked.
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There's a human female NPC in the Undercity who is the mind slave of a Male Forsaken ( http://www.wowpedia.org/Theresa ). Apparently that's less offensive than a flirting panda.
What ever happened to priorities?
anything can be offensive to someone sure, but most things aren't to anyone.
the dialogue was definitely not explicitly sexist. however it can be (and was) associated with a certain kind of sexism. don't get me wrong, even if it was sexism (we don't know the particular intent of the development team) it was a watered down, vague kind of objectification, the kind of attitude that would be absolutely fine in a situation where the parties are on an equal footing. I think it was this association with the wolf-whistling or arse-grabbing that some women are subject too that probably lead the original poster to make her complaint, and rather than have anyone else make this same association Blizzard changed it, because it definitely wasn't a cornerstone of the guys character development.
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I thought the line seemed a little lech-ey, but thats called having character in an npc, sylvanas is full on crazy and as a person i really dislike her for what she does- but that makes her all the more engaging a character. i dont think they should have changed it i think Ji is meant to be a little bit of a dick that way. Not as much as gallywix, but still just kind of off putting self assured with the flaws in his character.
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The "it's just *one* line, get over it" response could have worked just as well in the opposite direction. But instead of the poster of that thread just shrugging it off, we got: "I think it represents a break in Blizzard's ability to make me feel as valued as a female character as much as a male character is."
My reaction to hearing that someone feels their playtime is undervalued or their gender is marginalized because their character is called gorgeous was: "...what?"
I actually think the question though has merit, even if the undercity scene cannot be changed now. How is the undercity scene not as offensive as an npc telling females they are gorgeous? This expansion is going to have some very deep and maybe even disturbing images. Like in wrath of the lich king, when you saw people melting to the forsaken plague in the cinematic. Or in cataclysm, when the school was bombed by the horde. There's going to be war crimes committed by Garrosh. Yet a single "You are some kind of gorgeous huh?" line is offensive?
my feelings exactly.
You're missing the point. Why does no one have a problem with something that is the same thing, only reversed gender ? If it were universal, the levied complaints should have been directed at both, not just one. The point is that for the people who were offended enough to complain, them being offended has more to do with them than with what happened in-game.
And if it were Blizzard deciding of their own accord it was a poorly-worded line, why have they kept in the part where Garrosh calls Sylvanas a bitch ? Use of a derogatory term against women, vs compliment a woman's appearance. Are you trying to tell me no one had a problem with the word bitch appearing in the game as an insult towards a female character ?
Really, think about the differences there. One is directed at an npc, one at a player character. I think the problem here is that folks who felt the line was out of place are confounding the difference between characters and players. Basically I think the original author took it as being a comment from Blizzard, rather than Ji, toward her, rather than her character. Because otherwise, why isn't it offensive that male characters are reduced to being a bag of muscles, as tho they don't have a brain or a face ?
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have been away hanging up washing and thinking about this whole thing, and I have a question
the overriding sentiment here seems to be that:
a) it's not sexist
b) sexism towards men is not given the same level of gravity
c) we don't want bland, homogenised characterisation in the interests of equality
so how do you procede? the problem I see here is that women do suffer from a certain level of institutionalised oppression, I think we can all agree on that (the extent of which we won't agree on, but that's for another thread). in other words, there is not equality in the world. if we can agree on that, then exactly how do we proceed? if we will not accept a clampdown on all forms of gender stereotyping (women; beauty, men; strength) and an overall homogenisation, are we asking for a paradigm in which we stereotype wildly and promote imbalance?
a women objected to this because she found it to be sexist, the argument seems to be that it's not sexist, and even if it was it's okay because there is female chauvanism ingame also. are we asking women to accept all forms of sexism?
Pretty irritated at that chick who got it removed.
She's giving all of us regular dames who are cool with NPCs having a personality a bad name.
Amen to this.
I find people telling me what I SHOULD find offensive and treating me like I'm too goddamn stupid to make that decision myself FAR more offensive than anything a fictional character in a video game could say. I liked Ji the way he was, it gave him a 'spark' that he's missing now.
Some are arguing Ji's line is not sexist, but I think that point is debatable. What I think the original objector is missing is my argument: what is so wrong about depicting characters who have traits you find offensive ? Should Mad Men be taken off the air because of the sexism and lechery ? No, it shouldn't -- because those are characters. Depicting negative traits in a character absolutely does not equate to an endorsement of those traits by the creators. Does Blizzard support the use of weapons of mass destruction ? Genocide ? Demon worship ? Patricide ? Regicide ? Slavery ? These are all things that happen or are referenced in-game.
So, the original objector finds all those things to be acceptable, but does not find her character being called gorgeous by another character acceptable ?
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Who cares if only a relatively small number of people were offended? Offending anyone is to be avoided.
You are all just complaining for the sake of complaining, the new version doesn't offend you, if it had been the original text you wouldn't have been offended by it in any way.
You can be free not to be offended by whatever you like but there is no disadvantage to changing some text if some people find it rude.
There is every disadvantage to changing some text if a few damn people find it rude. They will have to gut the entire damn game to remove any text that anyone complains about.
Garrosh calling Sylvanas a bitch ? Gone. References to Thrall being a slave ? Gone. Most /flirt emotes ? Gone. Many of the /silly emotes. And that's just what came off the top of my head in five seconds.
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Mad Men does a pretty good job of parodying and subverting that particular brand of sexism and lechery though, I think most 'despicable' traits in literature or whatever are contextualised in a critical way. I agree with the poster earlier who said the references to other potentially offensive subject matter in WoW are basically irrelevant, those aren't what offended that particular 'objector'
I don't know about all the other ladies here, but I for one love it when my man tells me I'm beautiful/gorgeous/pretty. I don't see how "gorgeous" is an offensive term. I wouldn't be offended by it at all. I'm sure I'll get some kind of "you must be a brainwashed female controlled by a male society" but whatever, I know me and what I'm like. Just don't understand how "gorgeous" is bad now.


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WASHINGTON, DC, (February 27, 2013) —The American Lung Association applauds the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) release of the final rule that will ensure those in TRICARE, the health insurance program for military personnel, families and retirees, will have access to an evidence-based, comprehensive smoking cessation benefit. This rule will provide millions under TRICARE with the tools and support they need to quit using tobacco, the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. This rule ensures access to FDA approved medications for smoking cessation and all forms of counseling. Reducing tobacco use will save lives, money and increase military readiness.
Tobacco use in the military is a serious problem, resulting in $1.6 billion in health care costs and lost productivity. Currently, the smoking rate for active duty military is 30.5 percent, with smoking rates highest among personnel ages 18 to 25. Tobacco use compromises military readiness and the performance of our men and women in the armed forces. Studies have found that smoking is one of the best predictors of training failure, and increases a soldier's chances of physical injury and hospitalization.
In our "State of Tobacco Control 2013" report, the American Lung Association highlighted the need for DoD to move forward with issuing a final TRICARE rule to ensure increased cessation coverage. The rule was initially proposed in September of 2011. In November 2011, the Lung Association both individually and with our partners filed comments urging the Department of Defense to move forward with implementing the comprehensive cessation benefit it proposed for TRICARE members. The American Lung Association commends the DoD for this new rule as an important step in this direction and looks forward to working with DoD in continuing to expand access to these benefits to all men and women in service.
In 2009, the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM) issued a report titled, Combating Tobacco Use in Military and Veteran Populations. The medical panel found that "tobacco control does not have a high priority in DoD or VA." This report, which was requested by both departments, issued a series of recommendations. The IOM recommendations include commonsense approaches to eliminating the use of tobacco in the U.S. military. The American Lung Association urges the DoD to move forward with all of the IOM's recommendations to reduce the terrible burden caused by tobacco use in the military.
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The new Telsmith T900 Mine Duty cone crusher was selected by the editorial staff of Aggregates Manager magazine as one of the "Top Roll-outs" of 2012.
The new Telsmith T900 Cone Crusher is a true mine-duty machine designed and engineered to deliver maximum uptime, productivity, safety, and ease of maintenance amidst the 24/7 operating demands of the toughest hard rock mining applications. Offering a capacity output range from 550 to 2100 MTPH, with up to a 15-inch feed size, the T900 is rated with the largest in-class clearing stroke, the highest in-class crushing force, and boasts 900-HP performance.
"In designing the new T900, Telsmith places a key emphasis on safety and serviceability," says Albert Van Mullem, director of engineering for Telsmith, Inc. "For example, its large clearing circuit is engineered to safely and quickly allow any uncrushable materials to pass; and its numerous innovative serviceability features differentiate the T900 from conventional units that typically require significantly more time in routine service," he says.
"Telsmith has a rich history of bringing innovative aggregate & mining solutions to the market place," says Matt Haven, Executive Vice President and Managing Director for Telsmith, Inc., "I am extremely proud of the work of our engineering and manufacturing teams in meeting customer demands for maximizing machine uptime and providing for lower maintenance"


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During the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich demo we got to see another use for NFC. Beam, demonstrated sharing of information across devices and it looks like Google has now updated Google Maps to support the feature. You won't find it listed in the change logs though. In fact, the change log only states the update has reduced file sizes for app storage on different devices but the permissions tell the truth. New permissions requested are for NFC and when you put the pieces together, its safe to assume Beam support has been added to Google Maps.
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text: This Tennis Ball Bazooka Is a Weapon of Mass ExhaustionAndrew Liszewski4/12/13 8:49amFiled to: ToysPetsDogsHyper PetK-9 Kannon49EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink As far as pets go, dogs are some of the most playful companions you can find. But, there's an added bonus to that game of fetch. It helps tire them out so back home you don't have to deal with a hyper ball of fur. And with Hyper Pet's K-9 Kannon in your arsenal, a game of fetch won't leave you wiped out as well.AdvertisementThe weapon of mass exhaustion is kind of a cross between a slingshot and a crossbow, with users pulling back a firing mechanism until it locks, and then blasting a tennis ball at the pull of a trigger. It doesn't look like Hyper Pet has settled on a price tag just yet, but how can you put a price tag on the promise of your pup crashing for two hours when you get home?[Hyper Pet via Notcot]


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The music from Shores featured a highly complex approach to rhythm, harmony and form, and was both preoccupied with the jazz tradition and departing from it radically. Clockworks is about scales of time: time within a beat, within a phrase, a movement, a piece, and within an oeuvre, over a span of decades.
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Minor leg injuries are common. Symptoms often develop from everyday wear and tear, overuse, or an injury. Leg injuries are most likely to occur during:
Most leg injuries in children and teens occur during sports or play or from accidental falls. The risk for injury is higher in contact sports, such as wrestling, football, or soccer, and in high-speed sports, such as biking, in-line skating, skiing, snowboarding, and skateboarding. Knees, ankles, and feet are the most affected body areas. Any injury occurring at the end of a long bone near a joint may injure the growth plate and needs to be checked by a doctor.
Older adults have a higher risk for injuries and fractures because they lose muscle mass and bone strength (osteoporosis) as they age. They also have more problems with vision and balance, which increases their risk for accidental injury.
Most minor injuries will heal on their own, and home treatment is usually all that is needed to relieve symptoms and promote healing.
An acute injury may occur from a direct blow, a penetrating injury, a fall, or from twisting, jerking, jamming, or bending a limb abnormally. Pain may be sudden and severe. Bruising and swelling may develop soon after the injury. Acute injuries usually require prompt medical evaluation and may include:
Overuse injuries occur when too much stress is placed on a joint or other tissue, often by "overdoing" an activity or doing the same activity repeatedly. Overuse injuries include:
Treatment for a leg injury may include rest, ice, elevation, and other first aid measures (such as the application of a brace, splint, or cast), or physical therapy. Some leg injuries are treated with medicine or surgery, especially if a bone is broken. Treatment depends on:
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AmBev to Construct Malt Factory in Brazil
With an investment of $132 million, AmBev has said that it will construct a new malt factory in Brazil, reported the Spanish news agency Efe.
To be located in the southern Brazilian town of Passo Fundo, the new plant will produce 110,000 tons of malt per month.
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Timothy Allen Bright, 35, of 2960 Frogtown Road in Loretto was indicted for second-degree burglary, receiving stolen property under $500, violation of a Kentucky EPO/DVO and second-degree persistent felony offender in Marion Circuit Court recently.
According to the indictment, on or about May 7, Bright knowingly entered or remained unlawfully in a dwelling with intent to commit a crime, or he aided, abetted or counseled with another person in said act. The indictment also reads that he was over 21 and stood convicted of at least one felony after his 18th birthday.
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Cranberry Pistachio Truffles
- 1 cup dried, sweetened cranberriesslightly chopped
- 1/4cup orange liqueur(Grand Marnier, Triple Sec)
- 8ounces cream cheesesoftened to room temperature
- 16 ounces fine white chocolate(Callebaut's with cocoa butter & real vanilla suggested)
- 1cup pistachiosshelled and crushed
- Lightly chop dried cranberries. Pour orange liqueur over chopped cranberries and marinate overnight. Allow the cream cheese to soften to warm room temperature.
- Chop the white chocolate into one inch (or smaller) chunks. In a glass bowl, microwave for 30 seconds only. Stir thoroughly. Microwave again for 20 seconds only. Stir thoroughly. Repeat if necessary at 10 seconds only, stirring very thoroughly each time, until only tiny chunks of chocolate remain. Continue stirring until the final chunks have melted from the latent heat in the chocolate.
- Add the white chocolate to the cream cheese and whisk. Blend until smooth. Immediately add the cranberry mixture and blend thoroughly. The ganache will begin to firm as you blend; work quickly. Allow to stand at room temperature for two hours, or refrigerate for later use.
- Spread crushed pistachios on baking sheet. Scoop the ganache mixture with melon baller or teaspoon; form into 1-inch balls and roll in crushed nuts until evenly covered.
- Place nut-covered confections in paper or foil candy cups and store in airtight container in refrigerator. Serve on dessert platter at room temperature.
Recipe Notes
This recipe is from Sweet Inspirations at Zero India Street on Nantucket.
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Hit 80 on my paladin today. As near as I can tell, this is my fastest to 80 ever by a lot - 6 days, 38 minutes played time. (So close to being under 6 days too...)
I'm now debating the next toon to level to 80 - either mage, rogue, or shaman. I did a little poll of my guild, and they're vote seemed to be for the rogue, but I haven't actually leveled a caster since my very first toon, so personally, I'm sort of leaning toward the mage.
Feel free to vote in the comment section!
Everyone keeps telling me how much massive fun Rogues are though, so it's tempting.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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Congrats on your new 80! :)
Go for the mage. It'll give you a deeper understanding of what they can do, plus, they're hella fun to play. You'll probably be told to go Arcane, but try out Frost as a dual spec. Once you get the Water elemental, leveling gets a whole lot easier.
I've been playing my mage like a hunter in a way. I have a macro that does
/cast frostbolt
so I can hit it to have the elemental go to attack Furbolgs in Felwood, round them up, then I go in the middle of them, Arcane Blast, Frost Nova, then hop away and hit Blizzard to kill all of them before they can reach me. Ice Shield also boosts your survivability a ton.
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ALEPPO, Syria: Her fame has spread throughout Aleppo. Her comrades have nicknamed her ''Guevara'', but to many of the city's residents she is known simply as ''the female sniper''.
Standing stock still, her finger suspended over the trigger, she stares through the sight of her Belgium FN rifle. Her view framed by the jagged concrete edges of the fist-sized hole cut into the wall of her hideout on one of the most dangerous front lines in Aleppo, Guevara, named after the Marxist revolutionary, watches the enemy - government soldiers - moving along the other side of the street.
''I like fighting,'' she says. ''When I see that one of my friends in my katiba [rebel brigade] has been killed, I feel that I have to hold a weapon and take my revenge.''
Dressed in green khaki trousers, a grey jumper dress, tight-fitting hijab and a camouflage combat jacket, Guevara, 36, cleans and loads her gun, sitting in a half-demolished building.
Despite the war, her eyebrows are perfectly plucked, and she wears blusher and a little eyeliner, small leather boots with heels, and a gold bracelet. A female fighter in Syria's conservative Muslim society is rare, often considered improper. But Guevara commands the respect of her fellow fighters - some 30 men and boys, some as young as 16.
It is not easy to be a sniper, she explains. ''You have to be quick, careful and smart not to let them shoot you. And you need to be patient. I wait for hours at a time.''
Through her peephole, she sees soldiers less than 200 metres away, mingling among the civilians trying to continue their livelihoods despite the war.
''The civilians go home in the late afternoon. When the streets clear it is a very good chance to shoot the soldiers. I think I have killed soldiers.
''You can never be 100 per cent sure that they are dead, but I have hit them at least four or five times.''
Her tone is dogmatic, almost fanatical: ''It makes you feel good. Whenever I hit one I shout, 'Yes!'''
A former English teacher, she had children, a boy aged seven and a girl aged 10, but they were killed in an air strike that demolished their home months ago.
''My boy used to be frightened of the bombs, and ask me what was happening. I said, 'I promise that I am going to defend your future'. Now, I will not forget my children's blood and I promise to take revenge.''
My boy used to be frightened of the bombs ... Now, I will not forget my children's blood and I promise to take revenge.
A Syrian of Palestinian origin, Guevara learned how to fire a gun in Lebanon, in a military training camp run by the Palestinian militant faction Hamas.
In Syria, she has long fought for her cause: ''When I was a student in Aleppo University - years before the uprising began - we created an underground opposition newspaper.
''We formed a political party for Palestinians and held secret, underground meetings to discuss how to overthrow Bashar al-Assad's regime.''
They took part in the protests that began in March 2011, bought video cameras and filmed the suppression.
She left her first husband for not being sufficiently ''revolutionary''. When her second, the commander of her brigade, refused to let her fight with him on the front line, she threatened to leave him too.
''I said, 'I have the strength to hold a gun, so why can't I fight?'''
He trained her in the art of sniping. The uprising has not been without its nightmares.
At night sometimes, she admitted, she wakes up crying, at her personal loss and the horrors she has witnessed.
''I have seen more than 100 bodies in the last few months.
''So many people were killed in shelling and air strikes. And I have had many near misses. Once a bomb exploded nearby, wounding people who I was with in a car and I thought, 'Oh my God, death is near'.''
Telegraph, London
Correction: The original version of this story said the sniper used a Dragunov rifle. The Telegraph has corrected its story to name it a Belgium FN rifle.


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Ducks are model citizens for fashion show
NEWPORT BEACH – All of the Ducks were there, each accompanied by his significant other.
All the coaches were there, too.
Also present were some of the team's biggest female fans, a group that over the years has done marvelous things for local charities.
Video:Ducks are model citizens for fashion show
But the star of the 2012 Lady Ducks Fashion Show on Thursday was being worn by Jonas Hiller.
Let's just say the Ducks' goaltender modeled some overwhelming red pants. Given his look — which included a multi-colored, striped cardigan — it was a little surprising Hiller didn't insist on wearing his mask, too.
But instead of hiding, Hiller played along, and that's the idea of this annual event, which in the past four years has raised more than $350,000 for CHOC Children's.
"I think the players complain a little when they know the event is coming, but they all understand the importance of it," said Caroline Marchant, one of the show's co-chairs and the wife of Ducks director of player development, Todd Marchant. "This is a day off for them and they could be golfing. But they're willing to come out here and support a great cause."
The sold-out event took place at the Newport Beach Marriott near — fittingly enough — Fashion Island.
Along with Hiller, the other Ducks who modeled included Teemu Selanne, Ryan Getzlaf, Francois Beauchemin, Lubomir Visnovsky, George Parros (nice fanny pack, Georgie), Luca Sbisa and Cam Fowler, whose look could best be described as preppy fisherman.
The players were paired with CHOC patients, who also strolled the catwalk in some of the latest spring fashions.
"This event has grown every year, but we've tried to keep it as intimate as possible," Caroline Marchant said. "We want it to feel special. Plus, with the kids, we don't want them to feel overwhelmed or intimidated."
It appeared that everyone felt comfortable Thursday, even Hiller, who probably had the biggest reason to feel awkward.
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