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Lindsey Vonn left a hospital in Vail, Colo., on Wednesday, two days after being admitted for intestinal pain.
Vonn's publicist Lewis Kay said it's unclear when the four-time overall World Cup champion will return to skiing.
"She is resting comfortably at home," Kay wrote in an email. "Doctors are still working to determine what specifically was the cause of her illness, but thankfully she has responded well to their treatment."
On Tuesday, Kay said Vonn was "awaiting results from diagnostic testing for severe intestinal pain," but his latest statement did not specify the reason for the hospitalization.
Her next scheduled races are the giant slalom and slalom in Aspen on Nov. 24-25, followed by speed events in Lake Louise, Alberta — her most successful stop on the circuit.
Vonn's ski technician, Heinz Haemmerle, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Vonn has visited the hospital two or three times in the past week. Haemmerle said Vonn told him she "has pain all over her body and that her bones are hurting."
He declined to offer an update when contacted by the AP on Wednesday.
Haemmerle, who prepares Vonn's Head skis, said Vonn hasn't trained since going out in the second run of the season-opening giant slalom on Oct. 27 in Soelden, Austria.
Vonn recently requested to compete in a men's downhill race, only to be rejected by the International Ski Federation. She was hoping to enter the men's race Nov. 24 at Lake Louise, Alberta. Had she been allowed to compete against the men, Vonn would have missed the two women's races in Aspen.
Last weekend, Vonn skipped a slalom in Levi, Finland, which Haemmerle said was planned to allow more training for the Aspen races. It's the only women's World Cup event in the United States.


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Autumn has arrived in all its splendor – the perfect excuse to amp up your curb appeal and try some new decorating ideas. Make your neighbors envious of your festive front porch with these five fun ideas:
Turn pumpkins into a house number display! Using metal numbers from your local hardware store, you can create a pumpkin house-number topiary. Click here for instructions.
Start a weekend DIY project and create some reclaimed wood pumpkins! These add a festive touch to your décor using a neutral color palette. View the tutorial here.
Looking for more DIY pumpkins? View this tutorial on making pumpkins out of several other materials.
Create pumpkin planters to make your front porch glow! Learn how to make them here. Need help carving the perfect pumpkin? View tips here.
Use gorgeous gilded pumpkins and gourds to add a glamorous feel to your front porch. View ideas for gilding your own pumpkins here.
Add some fall flair to your porch furniture. If you have a porch swing or other seating, add fall pillows and blankets to create a cozy seating area. Place pumpkins, gourds and mums around the furniture for an added touch. View more here.
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Technology Partnership Will Support the Football Club's Global Sports and Economic Goals
MUNICH — At their first joint press conference in the Allianz Arena in Munich, SAP SE (NYSE: SAP) and FC Bayern Munich AG today announced that SAP has become the club's official partner for sport analytics and enterprise software. For the next three years, the two organizations intend to work together on innovative solutions to support the FC Bayern's goals to expand its global presence, maximize the team's performance and enhance the experience for fans at home in Munich and around the world.
Earlier this year, FC Bayern Munich signed a deal for the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application and a scalable solution for commerce from hybris software, an SAP company. With this technology, the club aims to intensify the interaction with its fans, personalize their experience and reward them for their loyalty. Discussing FC Bayern's internationalization strategy, the two companies agreed very quickly that there was a lot of potential for a broader cooperation, with technology helping the club on and off the pitch. Especially in the area of player performance and health monitoring, SAP is expected to bring in a lot of value add with SAP HANA® platform and the company's expertise in every dimension of data analytics.
"SAP has the technology to support three of our main goals: optimize our business processes to facilitate our global expansion, help our team stay fit and perform at their highest level and give our fans the best possible experience," said Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German former football striker and CEO of FC Bayern Munich. "The FC Bayern Munich is currently one the best performing football clubs of the world. Leveraging innovative technology, we want to permanently secure a global top position for the FC Bayern. Our players' performance and their health are of paramount importance to reach this goal, and so are our fans. Our club has more than 292 million fans worldwide, including 9.4 million in the U.S. We have ambitious goals both in terms of sports and economic success, and we want to inspire people worldwide."
Over the last few years, SAP has increased the company's focus to help transform the media, sports and entertainment industries with innovative technology to improve team and player performance, increase fan engagement and simplify league and venue operations. Today, SAP is successfully collaborating with a number of well-known sports organizations and associations in sailing, golf, Formula 1 racing, cricket, American football, baseball, tennis, basketball and football. Especially in football, SAP has been recently creating quite some noise with the analysis of performance indicators for players and teams.
"The partnership between SAP and FC Bayern Munich is an impressive union," said Gerhard Oswald, member of the Executive Board of SAP SE for Quality, Scale and Support. "By combining the power of FC Bayern Munich with that of SAP HANA we will be able to develop new solutions that will transform the world of football from every angle."
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Did you miss Lollapalooza 2010? Then you may (or may not) be thrilled that some of that fest's biggest acts will return this summer.
As reported Tuesday by the Tribune, headliners at Lolla 2013, Aug. 2-4 in Grant Park, will include recent, undeserved Grammy winners Mumford and Sons, no-longer-huge French pop-rockers Phoenix and acclaimed, moody New Yorkers the National, all of whom appeared at Lolla 2010. (The National also appeared in '08.) They're joined on the top line by the obnoxious Vampire Weekend (who played Lolla '09 and headlined Pitchfork '12) and faded stars the Killers, who headlined Lolla in '05 and '09.
As much as I like re-reruns—sometimes an undemanding episode of "Friends" is exactly what you need—this news elicits the same sound of air seeping out of one of those giant Lolla balloons.
It's not exciting.
Only the Postal Service marks a significant "get" for Lolla. But as much as I like the band's only album, "Give Up," is the group's show marking the record's 10th anniversary really going to enliven Grant Park the way a Radiohead or Rage Against the Machine or Kanye West or Nine Inch Nails did in 2008? That easily was the best year for Lolla headliners since the fest resumed in 2005 with Chicago as its home, and it's unlikely to be repeated.
No, it's not easy to find great, huge acts to headline major music festivals anymore. There are fewer massive rock stars; no one wants Maroon 5 on the Lolla stage and those damn Led Zeppelin blokes just refuse to reunite. (Not that Lolla would be the best place for Zeppelin; I just want that however I can get it.) Plus, the recent supposed lineup leak including Jay-Z was 100 percent discredited once the Jigga Man's show with Justin Timberlake at Soldier Field was announced for July 22—less than two weeks before Lolla.
It's totally fair to feel disappointed that the fest has failed to secure someone with the power of 2011 headliners Foo Fighters or 2012 attraction the Black Keys. The Keys were a repeat band, too, but steadily rose to headliner status on the strength of several solid albums that translate well live.
So far the closest thing this summer's edition offers to that is the National, who headlined the Pitchfork Music Fest in '09. But the National isn't the kind of act that closes out a day on a high note—unless your definition of "high note" is feeling miserable and wanting to revisit good albums by yourself in a dark room. Frightened Rabbit would have been a comparable, wiser pick here.
Acts like Beyonce and Fall Out Boy are doing their own thing tour-wise, so Lolla was out of luck there, but here's hoping the bands yet to be announced for Lolla inspire more enthusiasm.
By the way: The fest's early-bird tickets ($200 for all three days) go on sale 10 a.m. March 26. At an undisclosed time this week the fest's limited amount of $75 three-day passes will go on sale at lollapalooza.com and could be snapped up in approximately three milliseconds.
While the underwhelming acts announced may suggest snagging tickets at a discount will be as important as ever, repeat this to yourself: More than 100 more bands are still to come. It can only get better.
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7 A good name is better than fine perfume,
and the day of death better than the day of birth.
2 It is better to go to a house of mourning
than to go to a house of feasting,
for death is the destiny of everyone;
the living should take this to heart.
3 Frustration is better than laughter,
because a sad face is good for the heart.
4 The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.
5 It is better to heed the rebuke of a wise person
than to listen to the song of fools.
6 Like the crackling of thorns under the pot,
so is the laughter of fools.
This too is meaningless.
7 Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,
and a bribe corrupts the heart.
8 The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
and patience is better than pride.
9 Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit,
for anger resides in the lap of fools.
10 Do not say, "Why were the old days better than these?"
For it is not wise to ask such questions.
11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing
and benefits those who see the sun.
12 Wisdom is a shelter
as money is a shelter,
but the advantage of knowledge is this:
Wisdom preserves those who have it.
13 Consider what God has done:
Who can straighten
what he has made crooked?
14 When times are good, be happy;
but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
as well as the other.
Therefore, no one can discover
anything about their future.
15 In this meaningless life of mine I have seen both of these:
the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
and the wicked living long in their wickedness.
16 Do not be overrighteous,
neither be overwise—
why destroy yourself?
17 Do not be overwicked,
and do not be a fool—
why die before your time?
18 It is good to grasp the one
and not let go of the other.
Whoever fears God will avoid all extremes.[a]
19 Wisdom makes one wise person more powerful
than ten rulers in a city.
20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,
no one who does what is right and never sins.
21 Do not pay attention to every word people say,
or you may hear your servant cursing you—
22 for you know in your heart
that many times you yourself have cursed others.
23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said,
"I am determined to be wise"—
but this was beyond me.
24 Whatever exists is far off and most profound—
who can discover it?
25 So I turned my mind to understand,
to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
and the madness of folly.
26 I find more bitter than death
the woman who is a snare,
whose heart is a trap
and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
but the sinner she will ensnare.
27 "Look," says the Teacher,[b] "this is what I have discovered:
"Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
28 while I was still searching
but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
but not one upright woman among them all.
29 This only have I found:
God created mankind upright,
but they have gone in search of many schemes."
8 Who is like the wise?
Who knows the explanation of things?
A person's wisdom brightens their face
and changes its hard appearance.
2 Obey the king's command, I say, because you took an oath before God. 3 Do not be in a hurry to leave the king's presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases. 4 Since a king's word is supreme, who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
5 Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm,
and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,
though a person may be weighed down by misery.
7 Since no one knows the future,
who can tell someone else what is to come?
8 As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
so[c] no one has power over the time of their death.
As no one is discharged in time of war,
so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
9 All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own[d] hurt. 10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise[e] in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.
11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people's hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. 12 Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. 13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
14 There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. 15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.
16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.
9 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God's hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them. 2 All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[f] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good,
so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.
3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead. 4 Anyone who is among the living has hope[g]—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
5 For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing;
they have no further reward,
and even their name is forgotten.
6 Their love, their hate
and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part
in anything that happens under the sun.
7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you do. 8 Always be clothed in white, and always anoint your head with oil. 9 Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
11 I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:
As fish are caught in a cruel net,
or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times
that fall unexpectedly upon them.
13 I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom that greatly impressed me: 14 There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. 15 Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man. 16 So I said, "Wisdom is better than strength." But the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.
17 The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded
than the shouts of a ruler of fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner destroys much good.
13 This will be my third visit to you. "Every matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses."[a] 2 I already gave you a warning when I was with you the second time. I now repeat it while absent: On my return I will not spare those who sinned earlier or any of the others, 3 since you are demanding proof that Christ is speaking through me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you. 4 For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God's power we will live with him in our dealing with you.
5 Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Christ Jesus is in you—unless, of course, you fail the test? 6 And I trust that you will discover that we have not failed the test. 7 Now we pray to God that you will not do anything wrong—not so that people will see that we have stood the test but so that you will do what is right even though we may seem to have failed. 8 For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth. 9 We are glad whenever we are weak but you are strong; and our prayer is that you may be fully restored. 10 This is why I write these things when I am absent, that when I come I may not have to be harsh in my use of authority—the authority the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.
11 Finally, brothers and sisters, rejoice! Strive for full restoration, encourage one another, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.
12 Greet one another with a holy kiss. 13 All God's people here send their greetings.
14 May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
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EXCLUSIVE: King's Lynn incinerator decision delayed as Eric Pickles continues to consider "complex" case
PUBLISHED: 09:59 11 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:07 11 January 2014
Eric Pickles will miss his own deadline to decide whether or not to give the green light to the King's Lynn incinerator, angering county council leaders who say "the clock is ticking very fast".
The cabinet minister, who has the ultimate decision about whether or not the incinerator will be given planning permission, is said to still be sifting through a "complex" inspector's report into the proposal Saddlebow plant.
There is no new deadline, but the EDP understands it will be longer than the next few weeks as the communities secretary goes through the lengthy dossier.
The planning application was "called in" by the government in August 2012 after a record number of people wrote in. An inquiry was held last spring and the report of the inspector, who headed the probe, reached Mr Pickles desk in the Autumn.
Norfolk County Council leader George Nobbs said that while he understood time was needed to "carefully consider" the inspector's report, clarity was needed because there was "so much at stake" in services, jobs and potentially council tax.
He said: "We hardly have any room for manoeuvre because of the reductions in grant, but we want to avoid painful cuts as far as is possible," he added. "Even at this late stage, we stand ready to offer any clarification, should Mr Pickles seek it. I sincerely hope he will feel himself in a position to give us his decision as quickly as possible for the sake of our residents."
But North-West Norfolk MP Henry Bellingham, a staunch anti-incinerator campaigner, said the decision by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to withdraw credits, since the inspector's report was written, needed to be carefully considered.
The government cancelled the waste credits, which would have been worth £169m to run the plant, in October.
An independent report into the way the controversial contract for the incinerator was entered into was published last month. Jonathan Acton Davis, QC concluded proper processes were followed.
But campaigners against the incinerator say a golden opportunity to pull the plug on the burner was lost when, in October, the county council voted by 40 votes to 38 to agree a revised project plan for the plant.
Mr Bellingham said the secretary of state was "entitled to take as long as he likes to consider it" and he was "not expecting a decision anytime soon."
He added: "Indeed I believe that it is essential he goes through it page by page, as well as carefully analysing the withdrawal of the waste credits by Defra, which is a key new material consideration.
"In the meantime I've requested the Defra secretary urgently review the Environment Agency permit, which should never have been issued as the site is in a category three flood zone."
But David Harrison, cabinet member for environment, transport, development and waste, at Norfolk County Council added: "Nobody can argue that the planning process has been anything less than thorough - On top of that, a number of independent reviews into this issue have answered people's concerns about the contract process.
"Any delay would be most frustrating because we now need a prompt decision on this matter, not just because we need to conclude a budget for the coming year, but also because we need certainty about the long-term future of Norfolk's household waste."


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I'll be spending the rest of my evening mourning over the loss of Testing Grounds -- but I'm happy about the move.
I'm kind of proud I've been here for five of those six years. Good luck with the movie, Wally. I'm sure it'll be a weight off your shoulders when this is done...
Might I inquire what the new host is? I'm sort of in the market myself.
Aaz didn't approve of anywhere I chose, and always promised me I was making a mistake, but oh well.
And now a relevant intermission: nice avatar man.
Nice new layout Walter, your new display picture is a sign for a changing and improving site. However a small thing that I have noticed, I am not sure if you can change this but, before on the main screen it would have in bold black writing any new post since my last visit, now it has them all highlighted in bold as last post. A minor thing I know but wondering if its possible to change this back as it was more convenient to see if there where any new posts this way?
Before the main screen? Not sure what you mean. I don't recall anywhere on SKnet that had that feature. I may have just overlooked it these past few years...
I like the new features on the main board. Especially like some of the features in the PM system, and the recent posts have been added to the main theme (yay).For some reason whenever I first load up the page it thinks I'm a guest but then I click on a link and its back to recognizing me. Its not a major problem but it is wierd. But at least I don't have to log in every time I visit.
For some reason, I haven't been able to access the chat since the upgrade. I tried erasing my cache and using IE and Firefox, but neither worked. Any suggestions would be much appreciated...(I would have placed this in the Chat thread, but it's only happened since the upgrade, so I thought I would place it here).
No, I'm getting that link. Is it possible that some of my privacy settings need to be changed? I just upgraded to Vista, so perhaps that is it... I may try getting in via my laptop which is running XP Pro to see.


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16 U.S. Code § 1826c - Definitions
The term "fish and fish products" means any aquatic species (including marine mammals and plants) and all products thereof exported from a nation, whether or not taken by fishing vessels of that nation or packed, processed, or otherwise prepared for export in that nation or within the jurisdiction thereof.
Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the term "large-scale driftnet fishing" means a method of fishing in which a gillnet composed of a panel or panels of webbing, or a series of such gillnets, with a total length of two and one-half kilometers or more is placed in the water and allowed to drift with the currents and winds for the purpose of entangling fish in the webbing.
Until January 1, 1994, the term "large-scale driftnet fishing" does not include the use in the northeast Atlantic Ocean of gillnets with a total length not to exceed five kilometers if the use is in accordance with regulations adopted by the European Community pursuant to the October 28, 1991, decision by the Council of Fisheries Ministers of the Community.
Sections 1826a to 1826c of this title, referred to in text, was in the original "this title", meaning title I of Pub. L. 102–582, Nov. 2, 1992, 106 Stat. 4901, which enacted sections 1826a to 1826c of this title and amended section 1371 of this title. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.
Section was enacted as part of the High Seas Driftnet Fisheries Enforcement Act, and not as part of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act which comprises this chapter.
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From A Life Term To Life On The Outside: When Aging Felons Are Freed By Robert Siegel • Feb 18, 2016 When Karriem Saleem El-Amin went to prison in 1971 for the murder of Baltimore grocer David Lermer during a robbery, he was an 18-year-old killer named William Collins. In 2013, El-Amin left prison after serving 42 years, 3 months and 3 days. Today, he is 60 years old, back in the city of his youth, converted to Islam, subdued by age and often baffled by the experience of freedom. Little things, like dining in a restaurant, can be disorienting. Tourists Flock To New Hampshire For Front Row Seat To Presidential Politics By Robert Siegel • Feb 5, 2016 Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. KELLY MCEVERS, HOST: Our co-host, Robert Siegel, has been in New Hampshire all week with the other journalists, pundits and campaign staffers who descend on the state every four years, and he's been captivated by some of the other visitors. Heading Into New Hampshire, GOP 'Front-Runners' Are Anything But By Robert Siegel • Feb 4, 2016 For Republicans who aren't named Ted Cruz or Donald Trump, the goal in New Hampshire's upcoming primary is to finish second — at best. That's the best outcome the establishment Republican contenders can hope for following this week's Iowa caucuses, where Cruz and Trump topped the field in a tight three-way race with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. New Hampshire Newspaper Publisher: 'Trump Has Overturned The Table' By Robert Siegel • Feb 3, 2016 With New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation primary less than a week away, the publisher of the state's largest paper, the Union Leader, told NPR's Robert Siegel his assessment of how the Republican presidential race has played out thus far in a single word: "Extraordinary." And the reason he describes the GOP campaign that way boils down to Donald Trump, who, despite coming in second in the Iowa caucuses this week, enjoys a double-digit advantage in most New Hampshire polls. 3 College Seniors Contemplate Their Appointment With The Real World By Robert Siegel • Dec 24, 2015 What do you get from a college education? And, given today's eye-popping costs, is it worth it? Through this academic year, we're following a group of college seniors from Montgomery County, Md., and asking them those questions. Among those students are three women on the verge of real life. Alejandra Gonzalez is an in-state student at the University of Maryland, in College Park. She's one of 27,000 undergraduates. To help pay for college, she works at the admissions office. 2 Students Hope Their Investment In Arts Education Will Pay Off By Robert Siegel • Dec 23, 2015 Throughout this academic year, we're following a group of students who graduated from high school a few years ago in Montgomery County, Md., just outside Washington, D.C. We're asking about the choices they've made and about the cost and value of higher education. What's Next For 2 Seniors Wrapping Up At A Big State University? By Robert Siegel • Dec 22, 2015 Going to college today is a very different experience than it once was. The cost has soared, and the great recession cut into many of the assets that were supposed to pay for it. This week All Things Considered is talking with young people about the value of school and about their choice of college. What do you get from a college education? And, given today's eye-popping costs, is it worth it? We're following a group of college seniors through this academic year and asking them those questions. 'There's A Whole Other Hole': American Filmmaker Reflects On Loss In Paris By Robert Siegel • Nov 19, 2015 Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Amid Mourning, Life In Paris Goes On By Robert Siegel • Nov 16, 2015 Over the weekend, I watched as crowds in the hundreds gathered in Paris' 10th arrondissement at the killing sites: a few neighborhood bistros like Le Carillon, and a Cambodian restaurant, Le Petit Cambodge — Little Cambodia. The crowds moved quietly, like museumgoers, as they observed the memorial bouquets and candles or added to them with a hushed reverence. There are bullet holes in the windows and walls, and the scenes of disorder inside were evidence of the chaos Friday night: beer glasses, still full, on the bar. A single shoe on the floor. Shards of glass. 20 Years Later, The Question Lingers: What If Yitzhak Rabin Had Lived? By Robert Siegel • Nov 3, 2015 Twenty years ago, an Israeli extremist shot dead the country's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and left the country, and people all over the world to wonder: What if? What if Rabin, the general turned cautious peacemaker, had lived? Rabin signed the Oslo Accords with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the White House in September 1993, launching the first full-fledged peace effort after decades of conflict between the two sides. The Perks Of A Private College (Hint: It's Not The Cost) By Robert Siegel • Sep 10, 2015 Imagine you had the option of going to a top state university on a full ride or a prestigious Ivy League for about $20,000 a year. Would it be a hard decision? What would you choose? Four years ago, Becca Arbacher had to make that decision. She chose Columbia in New York City over the University of Michigan. And she's glad she did. "Being at Columbia has offered me some really incredible opportunities that I wouldn't have otherwise," says Arbacher. "It's kind of impossible for me to guess what my experience would have been like at Michigan." Time Versus Debt: Why These Students Chose Community College By Robert Siegel • Sep 9, 2015 Going to college today is a very different experience than it once was. The cost has soared, and the great recession cut into many of the assets that were supposed to pay for it. This week, All Things Considered is talking with young people — and in some cases their parents — about the value of school and about their choice of what kind of college to attend. New York City Mayor Goes All-In On Free Preschool By Robert Siegel • Sep 8, 2015 In New York City, some 65,000 children have enrolled in Mayor Bill de Blasio's new, universal preschool program. To put that number in context, that's more than all the public school students — in all grades — in either Washington, D.C., or Boston. Free pre-K for all 4-year-olds was a key de Blasio campaign promise. The Quintessential College Experience, Without The Big Bills By Robert Siegel • Sep 8, 2015 Going to college today is a very different experience than it once was. The cost has soared, and the great recession cut into many of the assets that were supposed to pay for it. This week All Things Considered is talking with young people — and in some cases their parents — about the value of school and about their choice of what kind of college to attend. Novelist Kamel Daoud, Finding Dignity In The Absurd By Robert Siegel • Aug 21, 2015 The most talked-about novel written in French recently is not by a Frenchman, but by an Algerian, newspaper editor Kamel Daoud. It's called The Meursault Investigation, and it's a response to the most famous novel ever written by a French Algerian, a mainstay of the 20th century canon: The Stranger, by Albert Camus. In Merkel's Uncomfortable Moment, A Glimpse Of Germany's Difficult Decisions By Robert Siegel • Jul 17, 2015 Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/. ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: A moment now of reality colliding with politics. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: At an event called Good Living in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with some schoolchildren. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) Nostalgic Cars: Sour Automotive Fruit Of Cuban Embargo Gets New Life By Robert Siegel • Mar 27, 2015 In Havana, Cuba, the old cars that crowd the streets used to symbolize a stagnant nation. Now enterprising Cubans have begun renting cars out to tourists who are hungry for the cars of their youth. During my reporting trip to Havana, I spoke with Julio Alvarez, the owner of Nostalgicar in Havana. He joked that one thing Cubans should thank Fidel Castro for is all the old, majestic American cars that are now making him money. You can listen to the story using the player above. A Fraying Promise: Exploring Race And Inequality In Havana By Robert Siegel • Mar 26, 2015 Miguel Coyula points at an open door in the middle of Old Havana. The mahogany door looks worn, but still handsome. The concrete facade has lost most of its paint, and time has ripped parts of it open. "That's marble," Coyula says, pointing to the treads of the staircase. "They are the remnants of something that was very glorious." Coyula is an architect and an economist, and as he walks through the streets of Havana, he doesn't just see breathtaking decay. He sees how economic policies and social circumstances have shaped this city. In Havana, A Journey Into The Forbidden With A Provocative Artist By Robert Siegel • Mar 25, 2015 It was still dark when Tania Bruguera hopped into a cab with us on her way to Revolution Square. "All of a sudden it looks quite subversive what we're doing," she said. Her voice revealed a little nervousness, but it translated into a giddy laughter. With Improved Relations, Are The U.S. And Cuba Ready To Play Ball? By Robert Siegel • Mar 24, 2015 It has already been a messy game at Havana's Latin American Stadium, the premier baseball stadium in Cuba. The home team, the Industriales, has given up five runs in the first inning; a shortstop fumbled a ball, an outfielder failed to hustle and an easy out became an extra-base hit. The home crowd isn't deterred. The vuvuzelas, those ear-splitting plastic horns, still swell when an opposing batter reaches two strikes. Remembering NPR's Bill Deputy, A 'Guardian Of Sound' By Robert Siegel • Mar 23, 2015 Bill Deputy was All Things Considered's guardian of sound. An engineer and the show's technical director for many years, Deputy died Sunday of lung cancer in New Orleans at the age of 58. Sound was a serious business for Bill. When he wasn't combining words and sound with music in the All Things Considered control room, he was traveling with us on assignments. 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This is a brilliant idea from Tidbits From The Tremaynes! Make the inside of a cabinet a place to keep your measuring cups and spoons along with a conversion chart written on chalkboard paint. I wish I had the conversion chart memorized, but..... I Don't. Fun and useful! (If you don't follow this blog, you should. Mandi is so funny, and so talented. Her home improvement projects are A.MAZ.ING!!!)
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This is an interactive, real-time display system of space science images and data designed for museums and schools. The program displays hundreds of images and movies from space science research, all documented, with web references of how to find... (View More) out more information. The materials also include a large number of space science educational activities. The software is available for purchase. Full-screen versions without support files are available for download but require a registration number after a 30-day demo period. (View Less)
This series of visual presentations illustrates common physics principles across vastly different scales, using human-scale photographs, earth science and astrophysics imagery. The products look at such topics as shadows, wind, bow waves and... (View More) collisionally-excited gas. The intent is to show how familiar processes on Earth are connected to more exotic and less well-known phenomena across the Universe. These laws apply here (in daily life), there (around Earth and the Solar System), and everywhere (throughout the cosmos). The poster set is part of the Here, There, Everywhere (HTE) collection. (View Less)
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This exhibit uses text and images to portray humanity's views of the universe and how they have evolved over time. It includes six two-sided panels that feature key astronomical discoveries from the past 400 years. The exhibit also highlights the... (View More) technological advancements that made these discoveries possible. Exhibit topics range from celestial objects within our own "cosmic backyard" to those beyond the realm of our solar system. Featured objects include the sun, the moon, Saturn, Mars, comets, stars, nebulae, and galaxies. Images are accompanied by captions that highlight relevant, historical discoveries. Each exhibit panel is supported by supplemental resource materials available online in a downloadable, PDF format. Resource materials include science background information in the form of Q&As, related science misconceptions, a glossary, and links to additional resources on NASA's Amazing Space website. In addition, each exhibit panel is available as a downloadable, poster-size file. (View Less)


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Q: I've heard that the clustered index is "the data," but I don't fully understand what that means. If I drop a clustered index, will I lose the data?
A: I get asked this question a lot, and I find that index structures tend to confuse people; indexes seem mysterious and, as a result, are unintentionally thought of as very complicated. A table can be stored internally with or without a clustered index. If a table doesn't have a clustered index, it's called a heap. If the table has a clustered index, it's often referred to as a clustered table. When a clustered index is created, SQL Server will temporarily duplicate and sort the data from the heap into the clustered index key order (because the key defines the ordering of the data) and remove the original pages associated with the heap. From this point forward, SQL Server will maintain order logically through a doubly-linked list and a B+ tree that's used to navigate to specific points within the data.
Related: Use CREATE INDEX's DROP_EXISTING Clause When Recreating a Clustered Index
In addition, a clustered index helps you quickly navigate to the data when queries make use of nonclustered indexes—the other main type of index that SQL Server allows. A nonclustered index provides a way to efficiently look up data in the table using a different key from the clustered index key. For example, if you create a clustered index on EmployeeID in the Employee table, then the EmployeeID will be duplicated in each nonclustered index record and used for navigation from the nonclustered indexes to retrieve columns from the clustered index data row. (This process is often known as a bookmark lookup or a Key Lookup.)
However, all of these things change if you drop the clustered index on a table. The data isn't removed, just the maintenance of order (i.e., the index/navigational component of the clustered index). However, nonclustered indexes use the clustering key to look up the corresponding row of data, so when a clustered index is dropped, the nonclustered indexes must be modified to use another method to lookup the corresponding data row because the clustering key no longer exists.
The only way to jump directly to a record in the table without a clustered index is to use its physical location in the database (i.e., a particular record number on a particular data page in a particular data file, known as a row identifier—RID), and this physical location must be included in the nonclustered indexes now that the table is no longer clustered. So when a clustered index is dropped, all the nonclustered indexes must be rebuilt to use RIDs to look up the corresponding row within the heap.
Rebuilding all the nonclustered indexes on a table can be very expensive. And, if the clustered index is also enforcing a relational key (primary or unique), it might also have foreign key references. Before you can drop a primary key, you need to first remove all the referencing foreign keys. So although dropping a clustered index doesn't remove data, you still need to think very carefully before dropping it.
I have a huge queue of index-related questions, so I'm sure indexing best practices will be a topic frequently covered in this column. I'll tackle another indexing question next to keep you on the right track.


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Joining a broad settlement into alleged foreclosure abuse, Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) reached a deal on Wednesday to pay $557 million to help mortgage borrowers.
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The agreement is tied to a federal investigation into deficient practices in mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing such as robo-signing.
The Federal Reserve said Goldman and Morgan Stanley agreed to pay $232 million in direct payments to eligible borrowers as well as $325 million in "other assistance," which includes loan modifications and forgiveness of deficiency judgments.
The deal paves the way for compensation for more than 220,000 borrowers whose homes were foreclosed on in 2009 and 2010 with former subsidiaries of Goldman and Morgan Stanley.
Compensation for eligible borrowers is expected to range between hundreds of dollars to $125,000, depending on the servicer error.
Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have since divested the mortgage-servicing businesses in question: Litton Loan Servicing and Saxon Mortgage Services, respectively.
The Fed said eligible borrowers can expect to be contacted by the end of March by a payment agent who will be appointed to administer the process. Borrowers won't be required to sign a waiver of any legal claims they may have against their mortgage servicer in exchange for payment, the government said.
The news comes a week after the Fed and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency reached a similar deal with a range of banks, including Bank of America (NYSE:BAC), Citigroup (NYSE:C), J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE:JPM), PNC (NYSE:PNC), U.S. Bank (NYSE:USB) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC).
Taking into account the agreement announced on Wednesday, the Fed said more than four million borrowers will now receive a total of $3.5 billion in cash compensation and an additional $5.5 billion for mortgage assistance.
The Fed said it is in talks to reach similar agreements with other mortgage servicers.
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Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell go topless for Interview Magazine!
At this point I'd be surprised more if I saw a photo of Kate Moss with her clothes ON! Sidenote: Have many of you checked out Kate Moss' latest Vanity Fair? So darn near every picture (yes, darn near) is of her her naked. I have two boys, 12 and 10, so I feel very convicted about having naked women in magazines. But I soooooooo badly want to read it! For now I just keep it hidden under all the boring Vanity Fair's.
Anyhoo, here's another nudie photo shoot. Dang, these women age beautifully. There ain't no sagging to those boobies!
For her latest au naturale venture, the 38-year-old is joined by fellow '90s supermodel Naomi Campbell on the cover of Interview Russia. The Mert and Marcus-lensed snap features the two gals doe-eyed (those lashes…) and reclining sans clothes. But since it's just another topless day at work for the two ladies, we're going to go out on a limb here and say that approximately nobody is shocked.
In the past year alone we've seen Kate pose for Spanish Vogue, Elle, Another Man, the 2012 Pirelli Calendar and even charity without anything covering her top half. Looks like she's come a long way since the "nervous breakdowns" she suffered during her early topless shoots… As for Naomi, the 42-year-old is probably too busy prepping for the upcoming premiere of her new modeling show "The Face" to be shy about this latest gig.
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Choose a Newtown victim to remember forever, Nashua crowd urged at candlelight vigilBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
Union Leader Correspondent
December 17. 2012 8:37PM
NASHUA - Nearly 170 miles away from a grieving Connecticut community, local residents gathered peacefully on Monday to share their sorrow, heartache and tears.
Twenty-seven candles were placed outside Nashua's City Hall Monday night, each of them representing an innocent life that was lost last Friday during a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
The names of the victims - including 20 young children and six school employees - were read aloud while handmade Christmas ornaments with their individual names were hung on a small tree.
Honoring the brave students and selfless teachers whose lives abruptly ended during a routine school day, silence filled City Hall Plaza last night where a crowd of about 200 people came together to mourn with the community of Newtown, Conn.
"You came here for whatever it is in your hearts," Mayor Donnalee Lozeau told the crowd. "It is hard to get over, and I don't know we should get over it."
Attendees were encouraged to remember the names of the 27 people murdered in that town last week - not to focus on the man responsible for the massacre.
"If you do know that man's name, erase it from your mind," said Jonathan Thyne, organizer of the candlelight vigil.
As the youngest victims of the school gunman are laid to rest this week, New Hampshire residents were asked to pick one of the victims' names and remember it forever.
"Light a candle for that person and let it burn," Thyne said.
Dozens of people signed a banner that will be delivered to Newtown, Conn., later this week. Residents shared heartfelt messages with the community that, according to Thyne, will never be the same.
"Unfortunately, this is a blemish on their history that will never be erased," he said.
As the nation and the world tries to cope with the reality of what happened, so do elementary school children throughout New Hampshire, according to Lozeau, who addressed the issue with a group of third-graders on Monday in Hudson. Several children were unaware of the mass shooting until being told of the tragedy by their peers, said Lozeau, questioning how to tell innocent, young children about such horrific violence.
"The chaos that had to happen in that school - I just can't even imagine, and I pray we never have to," said Lozeau. "Remember that in a school already locked down, this tragedy happened. In a school that was prepared, this tragedy happened."
As tears have been shed across the country this past weekend because of the murders, Joe Klanagan of Litchfield said he was glad to have a venue to come and show his respect. Bringing his two young daughters to the candlelight vigil, Klanagan said the least he could do is stand in the cold to mourn the babies who will never return home to their parents.
"Having children in times like these makes you realize just how precious they really are," he added.
Vicki Skotz of Nashua agreed, saying the candlelight vigil was a great way to unite grieving families who aren't sure how to handle their emotions - even 170-miles away from the tragedy.


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The Prop Light, by Leading Netherlands Lighting Designer Bertjan Pot, is simply out of this world! With many of Pot's designs emerging out of curious and creative experiments with various materials, he has explored the unexplored and pushed many creative boundaries with the Prop Light.
The creative experiment which resulted in this innovative piece being born during 2013 pushed lighting innovation to new levels. Glass bubbles cover each of the bulbs giving the structure a unique and space like appearance, like disks racing towards orbit. A flexible, stylish and standout solution for illuminating any interior, each individual piece is equipped with a warm LED source, which disperses light using a specially developed optic lense and saves on energy consumption too.
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Studies in Writing & Rhetoric (SWR) series. 181 pp. 2009. College. NCTE/CCCC and Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN/ISSN: 978-0-8093-2931-1
In A Taste for Language: Literacy, Class, and English Studies, James Ray Watkins Jr explores the value of college-level education in literature and language. Using a blend of genres (biography, autobiography, history, manifesto), Watkins traces a family past in order to imagine a more democratic future for English studies, both within the academy and in America at large. Watkins' opening analysis of the influence an English composition textbook had on his accountant father's professional writing gives way, in chapters two and three, to a theorization of English studies as inculcation into language for both pragmatic and aesthetic ends. As Watkins argues in chapter four, the late twentieth century has witnessed an internal imbalance within English such that pragmatic writing is both academically and institutionally undervalued and aesthetic writing is only implicitly understood as imparting crucial cultural competencies and skills. In his fifth and final chapter, Watkins imagines a future for English that not only acknowledges American class differences but intercedes in them to advocate for the equal importance of pragmatic and aesthetic languages within student, instructor, and citizen communities. Watkins insists that English studies is central to the professional and cultural worth of a twenty-first century college education.
James Ray Watkins Jr. is an online educator working full time for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. He also teaches for the Center for Talented Youth at Johns Hopkins University. His website, Writing in the Wild includes a blog and resources for writers and teachers.
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In the EU27, there were 41.3 million persons working part-time in 2010, of which three quarters were women.
Among those employed part-time, 8.5 million, or 21%, wished to work more hours, were available to do so and can therefore be considered to be underemployed. The share of part-time workers who are underemployed was higher for men (27%) than for women (19%).
The largest proportions of people wishing to work more hours and available to do so among part-time workers were found in Latvia (65%), Greece (49%), Spain (46%), Bulgaria (39%) and Slovakia (38%), all Member States where the shares of employed persons working part-time are relatively low.
On the other hand, the smallest proportion was found in the Netherlands (3%), where part-time working is most common, followed by Belgium (4%), the Czech Republic and Luxembourg (both 10%).
Among the economically inactive population (those persons neither employed nor unemployed), there were 8.2 million persons aged 15 to 74 available to work, but not seeking and 2.4 million seeking work, but not available in the EU27 in 2010.
While considered to be economically inactive, both groups have a certain attachment to the labour market. Together these two groups constitute a potential additional labour force of 10.6 million people. In the EU27 these two groups were equivalent to 4.5% of the current labour force, a percentage varying between Member States, from 1.4% in the Czech Republic to 11.6% in Italy.
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Five Points, Calif., area diversified farmer John Diener recently was elected president of the Westside Resource Conservation District Board of Directors, replacing Gerald R. Stoltenberg, of Fresno, who retired after serving more than 10 years on the WRCD board.
Coalinga area almond, orange and pistachio producer Bob Viets was elected vice president of the board.
Diener is a third-generation farmer in the Five Points area. He is known for his innovative and progressive approach to agriculture, having been a pioneer in the development of the Integrated On-farm Drainage Management (IFDM) program and for his leadership in the development of on-farm biodiesel and alternative fuel production.
Diener's Red Rock Ranch has become the prototype for on-farm management of saline drainage water. The IFDM Program manages irrigation water on salt-tolerant, high value crops and reuses drainage water to irrigate salt-tolerant crops, trees, and halophyte plants. Salt and selenium are removed from the farming system and can be marketed. There is no disposal of salts and selenium into rivers or evaporation ponds.
Salinity management
Diener has been recognized for his innovative and proactive approach to salinity management, receiving the Governor's Environmental and Economic Leadership Award in 1999, and the California Agricultural Leadership Program's "Profile in Leadership" award in the category of Environment and Natural Resources Stewardship in 2002. He also is a past recipient of the Award of Distinction from the University of California, Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and Irrigator of the Year award by the Center for Irrigation Technology and California Vegetable Journal Magazine.
Viets is the owner/partner of West Hills Farms in the Coalinga area. He has been involved in almond, orange and pistachio production on the west side for more than 10 years. A native of the Bay Area, Viets earned a degree in soils from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
In addition to his eight-plus years of involvement with the WRCD, Viets serves as president of the Pleasant Valley Water District Board of Directors, and is one of the original landowners to establish the Stewards of the Arroyo Pasajero Watershed Coordinated Resource Management and Planning Group, which provides financial and technical assistance to landowners for flood and watershed management in the Arroyo Pasajero area. He also serves on the West Hills Community College Agricultural Advisory Committee and is an active member of the Coalinga Rotary.
Stoltenberg recognized
Outgoing President Stoltenberg, a former landowner in the northern part of the WRCD near Mendota, was recognized at the December meeting for his 10 years of leadership.
The WRCD saw tremendous growth during Stoltenberg's tenure as president. The district has been awarded several public and private grants to assist landowners with resource management needs such as erosion and sediment control, flood water management, irrigation efficiency improvements, on-farm drainage management projects and rangeland management.
"The district has lived up to its purpose in helping downstream landowners protect their properties, and it certainly has become a leader in on-farm drainage water management," said Stoltenberg. "Through the many different programs and projects, it has helped us become better stewards of the land."
In other action, the WRCD board also appointed Sam Johnson, a Coalinga cattle producer, to fill a vacancy on the nine-member board.
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Need help for an attempt with a sports story...
I'm not sure if this the right place to post this, but here's what I noticed from every basketball anime I have ever watched and heard about:
- Most of them are boys' basketball, with only one (that I know of) girls' basketball Ro-Kyu-Bu. But the problem with the latter is that it's elementary girls' ball, so it's kinda hard to take seriously, even though I liked it.
- No main protagonist so far played Center, but Hanamichi Sakuragi is close enough at Power Forward (he was prolly bumped up to C once Akagi graduated), and there's an increasing number of protagonists playing guards.
-- Kazuhiko Aikawa from Dear Boys is a Small Forward.
-- Tomoka Minato of RKB and the MC of the manga Cross Over are Shooting Guards, although both exhibit skill sets of the Combo Guard (Point Guard + Shooting Guard)
-- Tetsuya Kuroko has no officially listed position, but exhibits the passing abilities of a Point Guard.
- Some b-ball anime tend to have hero teams with a weak bench (hell, the hero teams of Dear Boys and RKB started off with ABSOLUTELY NO BENCH), although from what I have heard, some teams from KnB have quite the deep benches.
I may have missed some other b-ball shows out there, so feel free to add if you like.
My basic idea is to make one of the protagonists play Center. I am inclined to make him/her the main lead, but I want to know first:
1. How the game differs between the boys and the girls aside from the fact that the boys' game is far more athletic than the girls';
2. How the middle school game differs from the high school game and the college game;
3. How the story differs for offensive-minded hero teams from that of defensive-oriented hero teams;
4. How the story differs for a strong bench from that of a weak bench;
5. How the story differs for a Center MC from a non-Center MC, and;
6. In the case of girls' ball, how the story differs for a male coach from that of a female coach (as much as possible, I want to limit the coach's age to the point where I can write him/her as a pretty good player in his/her own right who can still keep up with the younger generation).
So from that, I intend to write him/her as somebody who starts off not feeling happy about his/her size, mostly because it hindered him/her from leading a normal life. Until someone from the varsity team, preferably the captain or the coach, discovers his/her potential and offers him/her the chance to join the team. From there, he/she trains the basics, but handles it pretty well, more like Ippo Makunochi with boxing and much unlike Hanamichi Sakuragi (who at first sulked at the idea of having to train the basics).
The first conflict starts when this Center character still struggles on his/her shooting (including free throws), so the coach decides to have her specialize on post shots, rebounding and shot-blocking for the meantime.
I am currently doing research about the average height and weight of anime characters to make sure I don't make serious errors such as a PG who looks too big or a Center who looks too small.
Also, I am currently doing research on basketball in general, because I'm having a problem creating interesting opposing teams without references from the NBA.
Last question: Is it a good or bad idea to base my teams from current or legendary NBA teams? For example, is it good or bad if I base my hero team from the Magic/Bird-era Lakers/Celtics/Pistons, the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls, the Shaq-Kobe Lakers, or from the 2004 Detroit Pistons championship team?
If somebody can help me out on this, I would appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Let me ask this first. Is this thread focused on sport in general or only centered around basketball? Reading between the thread's title and the OP's description seem don't fit each other.
Centered around basketball. Tried to ask anyone from TVTropes about this, but no luck so far.
Another one of my insane ideas is a translation of Prince of Tennis characters into a basketball story, so that the hero team would look like this:
- Ryoma -> Allen Iverson-type SG
- Tezuka/Inui -> Larry Bird-type PG
- Fuji -> Jason Kidd-type PG
- Kaido -> Dennis Rodman-type PF
- Momoshiro -> SF/PF
- Kawamura -> Center
- Oishi -> 3pt shooter
- Eiji -> Derrick Rose-type Combo Guard
The story sounds interesting though I don't know squat about Basketball. All I can do is point at the wikipedia for basketball rules.
Well, I know my share of basketball rules, I just need to research some more of the deep stuff. Like how high the scores should be, for example. My research indicates that U-17 tournament scores for any gender vary like crazy, although but I guess the acceptable average score ranges between 60-70. Defensive teams would hold their opponents to about 40, really fast offense teams would easily score 80+.
I actually thought Shohoku was a high-offense team, they can easily score 80+ in 40 minutes every time, save when they're up against Shoyo which held them to just 62, 22 in the first half.
I am so cautious of asking about this in basketball forums, because everyone there is talking about men's basketball. I do like to consult some details about boys' ball from there, but I don't know where to consult things about girls' ball.
See, if there's one thing I want to avoid while writing this, it would be people telling me I don't know anything about basketball, like they said about Seo Kouji (author of Suzuka and KimIruMachi) once the run of his own basketball manga Cross Over was finished.
If anyone knows some forum where I can consult more about this, I would appreciate it. Thanks.
EDIT: Wait. Maybe I could ask KnB fans about this? Sure, KnB turned me off for its outrageous physics-defying moves, but it's my best shot, considering most SD fans have gone older.
Okay, let's talk about other sports atm.
I was told about Princess Nine, which was all about girls' baseball. What do you guys think of it?
Not heard of Princess Nine but it sounds like something I ought to look up.
I have decided to make this a female sports story because females doing sports need more love and there are a lot of male sports stories anyway.
So I have two questions:
1. How does middle school sports differ from high school sports (in general, not just basketball)?
2. In a region where the average height for females is 5'2" (158 cm), is it beyond the realistic realm to have somebody who is 5'8"-5'10" by middle school age and 6-foot or over by high school age? My only references so far are Risa Koizumi (172 cm or 5'8" at high school age) and some characters from Mahou Sensei Negima (Kaede, Chachamaru, and Mana are known to be over 180 cm, also at around high school age).
1) Other than smaller facilities for smaller people, not much.
2) Its very unusual but then most stories incorporate something unusual to make them interesting. You'd get a lot of natural story elements just from the issues a tall girl in a homogeneous society has to deal with (clothing, boys, teasing, the bit in AzuDa where everyone uses Sakaki as the "home flag" in big crowds).
How do sports story authors make the opposing teams interesting? I already have most members of my hero team built out, but I don't have any references or bases for the opposing teams aside from the old and new NBA teams.
I liked how SD and PoT fleshed out their respective non-opposing teams.
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So yeah, underdog themes are really prevalent in sports shows, huh?
So I have researched Japan's Under-17 and Under-19 Women's teams this morning. I was quite terrified at the U17 team because most them don't look like girls at all (except maybe Japanese-African PF Evelyn Mawuli). Badly needed Brain Bleach after that one.
However, I was glad that it came in the form of the U19 team, which had a lot of cute girls on the roster.
The U17 team had a lot of bigs (tallest is at 6'0 at around 3rd yr HS age), while the U19 team didn't have that many bigs (the tallest one stands at 5'11 at around college age) but they still placed 4th in the 2012 U19 FIBA Women's World Championship.
So this should be a good reference point for my story, right?
Some weird thoughts I had this morning:
- I was thinking of a male character who takes notice of the main character pretty early in the story. Two ways to write him:
-- The childhood friend who's struggling to get into the high school boys' basketball team (he was cut out of basketball teams before because he's too small and doesn't seem to have the required skill level for his position). He's in a different class from the MC, probably in the same class as the Super Rookie to facilitate a little teasing.
-- The sports nerd nice guy who never got the chance to play any sport due to some physical condition. He's in the same class as the MC, and is probably the first guy to look at her beyond her size, and actually admires her for being such a determined person to weather all the odds her size offers, while he's struggling to live with a disease that prevented him from playing any sport forever. So he befriends the MC and tries to help her with anything he might know. The problem I had with this character is that he might come across to some readers as a weak male character.
-- Either way, I don't want him to come off as a serious love interest, because I want to focus the story more on the MC's progress with the team. I just want to write him as someone she can depend on for help, especially about basketball and on how to handle being different from the others.
- Two of MC's friends who may or may not end up with the team. I am more inclined to include them in the team, mainly because I can't think of anyone else to put there. However, they will only get to play very limited time in official games while their friend (the MC) is gaining more playing time. But still, if I am going that route, I want to write them as capable of playing the game when needed, especially when the other members of the team got injured or too tired to continue playing.
tl;dr: So, what do you think?
- Childhood Friend or Nerdy Nice Guy? Or both for a nice Love Triangle sub-plot?
- MC's friends on the team or NOT on the team?
Personally, I like the sports nerd nice guy idea better - he's more just seems more likely to be able to provide real advice. If you write him in the spirit of the protagonist in Katawa Shoujo I don't think he'll come off as weak. It could create some opportunities for her to save his butt and vice versa - creating a solid bond if not romance.
Nothing wrong with the two friends on the team (actually somewhat likely since Japanese tend to isolate themselves to their "club" and "classroom") - You would want to make sure they stand out in their own way (e.g. chaotic on the court, brilliant but undependable, accident-prone, team clown, etc).
Friend A is more of a hyperactive type, while Friend B is more of a reserved type.
Okay, another one: Male or female coach, and how old should the coach be? I am more inclined to have a 30+ year-old female coach with international game experience, as well as being capable of handling even the roughest players as a coach, but is still considered a rookie coach by most HS coaches, who are usually 40+ year-old males.
I like your 30-something femme coach idea simply because she's more likely to have a clue in a room full of teenage girls drowning in estrogen angst. ;)
Hmm... While I was doing an outline for this story (to make things better organized), I suddenly found out that I don't really know what exactly is the MC's goal. I know she wants something to get out of her problems concerning her size and I know she would grow stronger through the plot, but what exactly is her goal?
I guessed that for starters, I should know what problems do tall girls experience. I know they are pretty much ostracized for being different, but I don't exactly know how.
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Any ideas?
P.S. Does Japanese inter-school tourneys follow the same format as Slam Dunk: a modified single-elimination tournament with the Final Four competing in a round-robin tournament? Or is it single-elimination all the way?
Often its just "tall girls have trouble finding dates" and "freak" accusations. Other than that, they live in a world where they have trouble finding clothes/shoes to fit, everything is constructed for someone smaller, people automatically tend to look/stare at them. The "Sakaki" meme in AzuDa is a good starting point. The lead female in Love*Complex also has tall issues.
No idea on the sports angles.
Hmm... I'm thinking of that as well, but I want to make this guy look real smart. It should fit the "knows about sports but can't play it" character I have in mind. However, I think the accident angle has been used quite a lot.
I was browsing through discussions about the height and weight of girls in anime, and then I thought, since I'm writing basketball, these stats are pretty important, and there are different fitness levels between girl idols and athletes. Idols are generally thin, while athletes need to be better stacked, although it's not uncommon for fighting anime to have idol-sized girls, some of them close-range fighters, some ranged fighters and magicians.
I came across the Body Mass Index (BMI) measurement several years back, but some people are not confident with it, because it does not take extra muscle mass into account, so there is a possibility that perfectly fit people (especially athletes) can be considered overweight under this measurement. However, since most anime girls range between 17-19 BMI anyway, I suppose I shouldn't worry too much about how my characters would look.
But anyways, here's my current roster of the hero team. No names yet, I have to research a Japanese name database for those. Please feel free to comment, but I want to know if these stats are good or I have to increase the weights by 1-2 kg or something like that.
# POS cm kg ft-in lb BMI Year Notes
4 SG 168 53 5-6 116 18.8 3 Captain
5 PG 160 48 5-3 105 18.8 3 Vice-Captain
6 SF 170 56 5-7 123 19.4 3 Manager
7 SG 164 47 5-5 103 17.5 3 Prankster
8 SF 172 55 5-8 121 18.6 3 Enforcer
9 SF 174 57 5-9 125 18.8 2 Hot-Blooded
10 PF 178 60 5-10 132 18.9 2 Stoic type
11 PG 158 45 5-2 99 18.0 2 Genius
12 C 183 65 6-0 143 19.4 1 Main Character
13 PG 155 42 5-1 92 17.5 1 Super Rookie
14 PG 162 49 5-4 107 18.7 1 Shy type
15 SG 166 51 5-5 112 18.5 1 Dreamer type
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UC Davis Medical Center awarded for efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care
UC Davis Medical Center's expansive, highly successful collection of race, ethnicity and language data from its patients has received a "Best Overall Project" award in the Disparities Leadership Program class of 2012-13.
The medical center is one of four health-care organizations from around the United States selected for the award. The various criteria on which the award is based include a project's breadth of impact on an organization, the use of Disparities Leadership Program tools and skills, and overall achievements over the course of the year.
"It's gratifying for UC Davis Medical Center to receive recognition for our national leadership role in ensuring that all people have access to the clinical care and opportunities they need to live a healthy and fulfilling life," said Vincent Johnson, chief operating officer of the medical center. "We are particularly pleased to be recognized for our efforts to systematically collect race, ethnicity and language data from our patients. A truly broad, collaborative undertaking has allowed us to be very successful at collecting this information from across our organization."
In November 2010, the medical center launched an initiative to systematically collect race, ethnicity and language (REAL) data from its patients. UC Davis now is successfully retrieving that information from 85.4 percent of its patients. When the medical center's REAL Steering Committee began its initiative, only 32 percent of UC Davis patients were providing REAL data.
Allan Siefkin, chief medical officer of UC Davis Medical Center, chairs the REAL Steering Committee. Its co-chair is Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, director of the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities.
The data-collection initiative encompassed a range of departments, programs and individuals across the medical center, and included extensive education and training of staff.
The Disparities Leadership Program is the first program of its kind in the nation, and is designed for leaders from hospitals, health insurance plans, and other health-care organizations who are seeking to develop practical strategies to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care. The program is led by the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston.
The goal of the Disparities Leadership Program is to create a cadre of health-care leaders who have:
- in-depth knowledge of the research and causes of health-care disparities;
- cutting-edge, quality improvement strategies and skills to address disparities; and
- leadership skills to implement solutions to help transform their organizations.
"This program is about developing new leaders and taking action. It is about helping individuals and their health-care organizations understand the critical connection between improving quality and eliminating disparities in care through a concerted, coordinated effort to change our health-care system," said Joseph R. Betancourt, director of the Disparities Solutions Center at MGH, and a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee, which produced the 2002 landmark report "Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care."
This report revealed striking disparities in the quality of health-care services delivered to minority and white patients — even for patients of the same socioeconomic background and access to care.
"These health-care organizations are clearly distinguishing themselves as national leaders by taking action to identify and address disparities, and their hard work and accomplishments are worthy of recognition," Betancourt said.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a co-sponsor of the Disparities Leadership Program, which is supported by Joint Commission Resources (JCR), an affiliate of the Joint Commission.