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Photojournalist Christian Werner made the following images on two trips to Iraq in 2012.
On a gray day in April 2012, an elderly woman walked out of the Sadr Teaching Hospital in Basra carrying two plastic bags. Once across the road, she crept through hundreds of small piles of concrete, each marking a grave in the children's cemetery, and into a small room. Her daughter had just given birth to two stillborn fetuses and asked her to immediately bury the bodies. The woman gently laid the bags on a stone table, then left. A man untied the bags, poured a bucket of water over the corpses as he hummed a Koranic verse, wrapped them in white linen and placed them in the ground.
German photojournalist Christian Werner witnessed four of those burials during his first trip to Iraq. He was there to document what some believe may be the effects of contamination from metals in munitions fired during the Gulf War and the war in Iraq, namely depleted uranium. Forty percent less radioactive than natural uranium, but just as chemically toxic, it was used by U.S.-led coalition forces in shells to pierce the enemy's armored tanks and as reinforcement in their own against weaker enemy firepower. Depleted uranium can enter the body through the ingestion or inhalation of particles created upon impact, contaminated wounds or shrapnel fragments. Whether anything happens as a result—some studies have looked into links between depleted uranium and higher rates of leukemia or other cancers, as well as spikes in congenital birth defects—is heavily debated.
One study published in 2012 found that the rate of defects at a maternity hospital in Basra increased 17-fold between 1994 and 2003. The team of Iraqi and Iranian researchers, including an environmental toxicologist who used to work at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, concluded that the shelling of Basra and Fallujah "may have exacerbated" pre-natal exposure to metals, "possibly culminating in the current epidemic of birth defects." Higher lead levels were found in the hair of parents in Basra whose children had birth defects than those with normal offspring, and the enamel of a fallen-out tooth from a child with birth defects had nearly three times the lead than the whole tooth of a child from an unaffected area. No official cause was determined.
Another report released in September by Iraq's Ministry of Health and supported by the World Health Organization noted a sharp increase in reported birth defects from 1988 to 1992 (7.6 per 1,000 births) and 2003 to 2007 (26.2 per 1,000 births). Yet, its finding of "no clear evidence to suggest an unusually high rate of congenital birth defects in Iraq" was panned because it relied largely on self-reporting rather than medical data.
Many Western researchers consider evidence that links depleted uranium to negative health circumstantial at best. Something is happening, as Werner documented, but not everyone agrees what it is.
Bernard D. Rostker, a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation and former Special Assistant for Gulf War Illnesses to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, said there is "no science" behind claims of poor health from exposure to depleted uranium. Rostker cited several reports by the Institute of Medicine, an independent nonprofit that provides advice to the government and private sector on public health issues, which couldn't find enough evidence to determine whether exposure caused health problems reported by veterans. "It's bogus," he told TIME.
Werner, 26, a fierce critic of the wars, learned about depleted uranium years ago while browsing conspiracy theory and alternative media websites. But, unable to find many mainstream news reports, and despite having come across the reports suggesting there were no ill effects from exposure to depleted uranium, "I thought someone has to be wrong so I just wanted to see it for myself." Werner set aside $7,000 and planned to stay a month that April, traveling to Baghdad and then Fallujah and Basra.
At the general hospital in Fallujah, Werner saw in front of him the subjects of the pictures he had looked at for years: People with deformities that made it difficult for him not to turn away. Days later, he went to Basra. Doctors there were willing to help him take pictures if it meant bringing attention to their patients' plight and his young driver would later introduce him to a family whose three children each had a deformed eye. Werner's funds ran out after only nine days in Iraq, but he felt he had enough to tell his story and returned home.
Months later, after processing what he had seen, Werner showed the work at a German photojournalism festival. The publication Der Speigel sent him back to Basra with a writer that October to work on a special multimedia report. In March, Werner won a Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund grant, which supports photographers who document under-covered social issues and which he hopes to use to continue the project in other parts of the world.
"I hope the people who are seeing these pictures will open their eyes and will think about how the war isn't finished when troops go home, that people are suffering for decades on," he said, adding that he hopes his work will influence more researchers to look into the matter and eventually form a conclusion. "I want them to rethink, in general, the effect of war."
Christian Werner is a photojournalist based in Nordstemmen, Germany, who recently won a Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund grant.
Andrew Katz is a homepage editor and reporter covering international affairs. Follow him on Twitter @katz.


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US 385 between Fort Stockton and Marathon. Ten miles north of Marathon, there's a paved pullout that provides unobstructed views of grasslands on one side, and the east-facing ridge of the Glass Mountains on the other side influences seasonal weather events from thunderstorms to snow. You'll also be located within the southernmost recognized prairie dog town in the continental United States.
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Microsoft Outlook running slow or locking up? This article can help with some troubleshooting advice
When the Outlook program suffers from performance issues, it can be caused by several issues.
You can try some of the steps below to try and resolve this issue.
To start in Safe Mode, you can hold down the CTRL key when opening Outlook. (Keep holding it until message appears), or Click Start, In the Search or Run box, type outlook.exe /safe and press Enter
If Outlook is slow or locks up whilst in Safe Mode, then it is very likely that an Add In could be causing the issue. In Outlook, click File, Options, then click Add In's. At the bottom, where it says "Manage", click Go and in the next screen, remove the check marks
Disable all your add-ins. After this, you can start Outlook normally again and see if it works now. If so, you can enable them one by one until Outlook fails again. The add-in you last enabled is most likely the cause of your issue. Uninstall or reinstall this add-in
If disabling Add Ins in Outlook while in Safe Mode, does not resolve the performance issues, it is most likely that a corrupted PST file or profile is causing the issue.
The PST or personal storage folder, also known as a .pst file is where Outlook stores messages, contacts, appointments, tasks, notes, and journal entries
Locate your PST file by opening Mail in Windows Control Panel. Click the Data Files button.
If there is more than one PST file, look for the one with the checkmark. This is the default.
Navigate to the path shown in the Data Files window. Eg. C:\Users\johnxxxxx\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
You may need to "Show hidden files, folders and drives" and Untick "Hide extensions for known file types"
See Microsoft Article - Show hidden files for info on how to change these settings.
It is advisable to save a backup copy of the PST file to safe location or removable storage
Rename the .pst extension to .psp
Try and open Outlook again and click OK twice when prompted during start up. This will create a new PST file. If Outlook opens successfully and there are no performance issues, then it suggests a problem with the original PST file.
If however, the new generic PST file hows the same issues, then it is either a corrupt profile or Outlook is damaged. Move onto the next Repair the Outlook Profile section.
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Crowdfunding isn't exactly news anymore. Kickstarter got started almost a decade ago, and by now there are so many lookalikes — Indiegogo, GoFundMe, Crowdrise—that it's easy to lose track.
The fact that crowdfunding has become so common makes it easy to suspect that it's overvalued. After all, hasn't the moment passed? Aren't there better ways to launch a product by now?
Haha, no. Sorry.
While it may not be the shiniest new thing on the tech landscape, crowdfunding is still one of the best, if not the best, ways to launch a product.
Why? I'll give you six reasons.
When we do roadmapping sessions at Rootstrap, the thing we're always, always, always trying to look for is market validation. We want to find out, in as low-risk a way as possible, if people actually want the product we're working on.
Crowdfunding gives you a way to prove validation at an extremely low cost.
If people like your product and fund it, you know for a fact that there's a market for it. If they don't, you know that the product won't fly in its current form—and you've invested very little time and money figuring that out.
This one is obvious, but it's still worth pointing out: crowdfunding, when it works, is literally free money. And unlike taking "free" money from an investor, free money from crowdfunding is actually free money: no strings attached.
Investment capital may seem like free money now, but trust me, it's not all it's cracked up to be. Somewhere down the line, you're going to find out the cost of that money.
And it may just cost you the entire company.
On the one hand, you need money to develop your product. On the other, you need a community of people to actually buy it.
Normally, both of those things cost money to achieve—but crowdfunding actually lets you get both, for free.
A well-executed crowdfunding campaign lets you not only raise the money for development from a community of backers, it also lets you market your product (and any subsequent releases) directly to that community of backers. And their friends. And their friends' friends.
See how this goes?
Ok, that last point was kind of cheating — anybody can build an audience. It's 2017.
The trouble these days is building an audience that actually cares. Crowdfunding solves that.
Anyone who pledges money to your product before they've even seen it believes in what you're doing. And a community of 20,000 that actually cares about the product is far more valuable than 30 million fake likes on Facebook.
Ok, before I say this, let me preface by saying that there are plenty of things you can do to influence the decisions of investors. I'm not saying that other routes to raising seed capital rob you of all agency over the outcome of your fundraising.
What I am saying is that crowdfunding, these days, is as much a science as it is an art. You generally have to have an innovative product that's flashy enough to catch the eyes of a large audience, but beyond that, there are real, concrete steps you can take to orchestrate and market your campaign for success.
With investors, there are things you can do, but ultimately you're relying on some old VC dude's decision. Kinda lame. 🙄
If you study the mechanics of a great crowdfunding campaign, learn them like the back of your hand, and execute them well, it's very possible to control your success with crowdfunding. You're not just throwing paint at a wall. Also, you won't have to buy so many darn lunches for people.
One of the most important and oft-neglected virtues of crowdfunding, though, is that it's still a very open platform.
Building an audience organically on Facebook is certainly still possible, but they've really started to throttle non-paid posts (although, to be fair, this is supposedly not an attempt to make money.). It's also certainly still possible on Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, or any other network you want to name, but these places get more crowded every day. Increasingly, social networks are arenas where the more money you can throw around, the easier it is to rise to the top.
Certainly the same kinds of problems exist in crowdfunding networks, but to a large extent, crowdfunding is inherently built around ideas — and ideas are open to anyone.
If your product solves an important need and you can communicate that effectively, people will be drawn to it. It really doesn't matter if you're a big tech company or just two kids in a garage.
This might be the chief attraction of crowdfunding, particularly for product development. It's one of the few spaces left on the internet where you can put your product idea out there, measure it up against the competition, and have it judged only (or at least mostly) by its merit in the eyes of "the people."
And to tell you the truth, that's worth more money than any VC can throw at you.


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In a town with a profoundly purple concert hall, doesn't it make sense to have a breathtakingly blue bridge?
We think so -- especially when those royal-hued LED lights will save thousands of dollars a year in energy costs.
Sarasota city commissioners agree. On Monday night, they unanimously accepted a proposal to change the Ringling bridge's white underlighting to a dramatic blue.
The LED lights (warrantied for 10 years) and the labor to install them would be donated by two local companies, Evolucia and Roadrunner.
If the plan gains approval from the Florida Department of Transportation (which owns and maintains the bridge), the underlighting would be blue on a permanent basis, due to technical limits that exclude variable color possibilities.
We believe people will love the blue look, but it is not a minor change. It would have a lasting effect on one of the community's signature images: the downtown bayfront. The city's history and identity are intertwined with that view, so it's important to keep the public in the loop on this issue.
Little public discussion
The blue lighting would boost the city's "wow" factor and project a more urbanized, less natural image. Proponents say it raises no safety or wildlife concerns. Still, there's been little public discussion of the idea, and commissioners accepted it before many people knew of the proposal.
That approach has backfired in the past, so commissioners might be well advised to post more details and a photo simulation of what is proposed. That way, residents -- particularly the hundreds of them who live very close to the bridge -- could visualize the change.
Some studies have linked certain types of blue light to eye strain and sleep disturbance, but these tend to be computer-related problems. Evolucia's Craig Hall said they've found no complaints in connection with other bridges that have "gone blue."
The aesthetic effect can be stunning, judging by photos from other cities that have colorized their bridge lighting. (Online, see the bridge at Port of Miami: http://tinyurl. com/c8fxoj9.) Jacksonville's Acosta Bridge is a neon blue at night. (See it here: http://tinyurl.com/bru2bhl).
Lighting options considered before
Color lighting options were advocated and discussed years ago for the Ringling bridge, which is nearing its 10th anniversary. But the idea never came to fruition.
Now, it has resurfaced in blue -- proposed by the Child Protection Center to mark Child Abuse Prevention Month.
Michigan does something similar at the Mackinac Bridge, which in April is strung with blue lights to raise awareness of autism.
The effect can be a visual delight, but a different look -- especially a permanent one -- needs public buy-in. We hope this one gets it.
As the city learned when the Ringling bridge opened after a long and bitter community battle, aesthetic fears can give way to lasting appreciation as people come to know the new structure. That was also true with the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall, sometimes called the purple people-seater.
The Ringling bridge, championed by Gil Waters, has become a popular and important icon as well as recreation trail. It will remain, so no matter what its color, we suspect. But with new, energy-saving lighting, a good thing simply gets better.
Ringling Bridge in blue
In a town with a profoundly purple concert hall, doesn't it make sense to have a breathtakingly blue bridge?


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Here's your look at highlights from the weekly AP photo report, a gallery featuring a mix of front-page photography, the odd image you might have missed and lasting moments our editors think you should see.
This week's collection includes a North Korean man riding a go-cart in Pyongyang, a protest against alleged human rights violations in Pakistan, destruction after a massive explosion in Texas and scenes from the Boston Marathon bombings.
This gallery contains images published April 11-18, 2013.
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The arrival of Fusarium wilt, a serious soilborne disease that invades permanently, in Arizona lettuce fields has the industry on alert, but early results of screening for susceptibility indicate romaine types have resistance to it.
Michael E. Matheron, Extension plant pathologist at the University of Arizona's Yuma Agricultural Center, says a series of three plantings on infected soil will reveal how 41 head lettuce varieties, plus lesser numbers of other types, stand up to the fungal disease.
In the first completed trial, the disease claimed 95 percent of the plants of the head lettuce varieties. Losses were 75 percent for two butterhead types, more than 60 percent for three greenleaf types, 50 percent for four redleaf types, but only 18 percent among 15 romaine cultivars.
"Romaine is the bright spot, and some of the romaine cultivars did better than the average," Matheron said.
Aimed to show susceptibilities at different times of the season, the trials have broad support from a coalition of grower groups, seed companies, and governmental agencies.
Variety rankings
Matheron said susceptibility rankings by variety will be announced in March and April of 2003 and seed company breeders can then proceed to develop resistance.
In an account of the first trial during the recent Desert Crops Workshop in Yuma, Matheron said the disease was discovered in the Yuma area in six fields in 2001 and in another five in 2002.
"The important thing for growers in these sites is to avoid transporting any soil from a diseased field to another where the disease has not yet occurred," he said.
"Once this fungus gets into a field, you can't get rid of it. The only thing you can do is manage it, and that's why we want to minimize the spread of it."
He was one of 20 speakers at the event sponsored by Western Farm Press, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension, and University of California Cooperative Extension.
The subspecies Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Lactucae that attacks lettuce can comprise 40-70 percent of the Fusarium population in a soil, depending on the location.
A very active saprophyte that produces spores that over-season from one crop to the next, it can live either as a pathogenic or a nonpathogenic form on other host plants, and that's why it is so difficult to destroy, he explained.
The distinguishing feature of the disease is darkened tissue seen when an infected lettuce plant is split down the middle. Infected plants show the wilting symptoms soon after thinning, and the disease continues to develop as the crop matures until the infected plants die.
As with Fusarium diseases in general, management of this pathogen depends solely on genetic resistance, Matheron said. "So with this in mind, we set out to evaluate all the lettuce cultivars grown in the Yuma area to see if there are any differences in susceptibility."
Fusarium wilt was first reported in lettuce in Japan in 1960. When it appeared 30 years later at Huron, Calif., it was not regarded as a serious threat, but when it showed up in both Huron and Yuma in 2000, plant pathologists began taking a closer look.
Joining Matheron in observing the trials are Barry Tickes, Yuma County Extension agent, and James McCreight, USDA geneticist, Salinas, Calif.
Workshop participants also heard from John Palumbo, University of Arizona entomology research scientist at Yuma, who found that overhead sprinklers, used two or three times per week, without pesticides, can reduce western flowers thrips populations up to 50 percent.
The sprinklers act to dislodge thrips, repel adults, drown immature forms, and suffocate pupae in the soil.
Season-long use
He concluded that season-long use of sprinklers on romaine can benefit suppression of the major lettuce pest in the area, particularly in organic systems where effective insecticide alternatives are not available.
Palumbo also said insecticide sprays consistently provided more than 80 percent suppression of thrips, along with higher yields and quality.
Another speaker, Tom Turini, plant pathology farm advisor, at Imperial, Calif., said he learned in his research in 2001 and 2002 that a third race of powdery mildew appears be present in muskmelons in the Imperial Valley. That word came after laboratory testing of samples.
"The significance of this is although we have cultivars that resist races I and II, we probably don't have any that resist races III, IV, and V," he said.
Turini said also melon vine decline appeared in his Imperial Valley trials in 2002. "Vines started to collapse about three weeks before commercial harvest. We dug up the roots and found the black reproductive forms that are diagnostic of Monosporascus cannonballus."
In general, he added, honeydews and mixed melons had lower vine decline infection than cantaloupes. The variety with the least vine decline severity was Syngenta Seed's Esteem.


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Floods have drenched much of the United States in recent years, with high water levels that ruined homes and businesses and dealt devastating losses to their owners. A less-publicized casualty of these natural disasters is the number of flood-damaged cars left behind, such as the estimated 500,000 cars that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina [source: Insurance Information Institute].
When subjected to deep flood levels, soaked cars are often classified as totaled and are demolished. Some flooded automobiles, though, end up on used car lots.
Buyers beware: Not all dealers are up front when a car has flood damage, and it can cost you. Even if a car looks good and seems to run fine, expensive problems can appear later as corrosion continues to creep inside critical components. Flood-damaged cars can also cost more than money: These automobiles can be dangerous to drive and the results may even be fatal.
Unfortunately, flood-damaged vehicles can be hard to spot, but knowing the signs can help. Here are 10 ways to determine if a used car is a clean machine or a juicy lemon.


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I Will Survive
By Philip D.
April 12, 2012
I am tattoo free. Saying that, along with having little or no desire to visit Facebook (never say never) can make me feel like the odd man out, at any given San Francisco event. (not an easy thing to do, if you've ever attended the Folsom Street Fair). But recently I have entertained the idea of permanently marking some of my skin with ink. Although you might be sporting full sleeves or a Komodo dragon that envelops your entire back, I'm thinking something a bit more discreet. I'm not completely decided on its placement but it's really just for me and it's really just one word. Not so much a statement but a personal reminder.
The word?
If you've read any of my earlier posts, you may have gathered that I'm sorta big on self exploration and discovery. Since heading West, over twenty years ago, I have had quite a few opportunities to learn from some pretty amazing teachers. Whether it was a workshop, a series of classes or a retreat of some kind; whether it was yoga-based, figure drawing or Creative Writing; whether it had a tangible end result or not; that precious little word comes up again and again.
Don't bother checking the dictionary. Some words are just too big to define. But if you did you might be disappointed. I was. But if ever there was a word that I want to remember it's this one.
In a world that's moving at an accelerating pace, it's easy to forget to ask ourselves before we begin anything: What is my intention? The answer doesn't have to be long or involved but taking 30 seconds to ask myself the question often yields some interesting discoveries. More than a few times. my intended course of action has been rerouted based on my answer. A few times I didn't like the conclusion I arrived at, but I can't think of a single instance when I had wished that I hadn't asked it; especially since getting snagged by HIV.
For the first weeks after first testing positive, many of my decisions were made on auto pilot but my intention was clear. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus was not going to destroy me. Once that was understood, the plan unfolded. I'm not going to tell you there haven't been glitches. God knows I've fallen in a few manholes (that's one word ... look it up, rural folks) but somehow, I find my way out; if I remember ... you guessed it, the "I" word.
I'm still not 100% sure if I'll actually follow through with putting the ink under my skin but it might come in handy as I age, to have those important things "on me" at all times. Sort of a daily reminder.
Maybe we can we keep that part about Facebook, just between you and me.
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After testing HIV positive in 2007, I promised myself that I would make something "good" from all that I was handed. From the very beginning, each time I was presented with an obstacle or challenge, I also received some help. Usually in the form of a person, sometimes an opportunity; but I have grown so much, it has made it impossible for me to call the past few years "bad." Although I've never written much of anything before, I have been so incredibly fortunate, I feel like I must pay it forward somehow. Maybe by sharing my experience, it will help those starting later in the game, on the fast track to HAART, or anyone that's feeling a bit isolated or "stuck" with their diagnosis.
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BAE gets more work on F-35 jet
January 02. 2013 12:14AM
NASHUA - More than $241 million in work on the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet will be added to the workload at BAE Systems in Nashua, as part of three contracts worth $4.8 billion awarded to the project's main contractor, Lockheed-Martin.
As the prime contractor, Lockheed-Martin handles the final assembly and provides many major components. Its key partners are Northrop Grumman for communication systems, Pratt & Whitney for the main engine, and BAE for electronic warfare, flight control and fuel systems.
In announcing the three contracts on Dec. 28, the Naval Air Systems Command identified BAE as eligible for 5 percent of each contract awarded.
The largest is a $3.7 billion contract for 31 of the fighters, with 18 for the Air Force, designed to land on an runway; six for the Marines, designed to take off and land vertically; and seven for the Navy, designed to land on air craft carriers.
Lockheed also received three other contracts worth approximately $1.1 billion for spare parts, software and logistic systems needed to sustain the program.


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The Funniest And Strangest Celeb Quotes Of The Week
K. Michelle taliks experimenting with dating women
Power 105's The Breakfast Club
"I have dipped out. I thought I was gay for three months… I realized what you men go through. The bitch jumped on my car. I had a new car and she jumped on my car, scratched it up with her shoe and it was a wrap. She wanted to be an actress, but she was always sitting on the couch. I was actually taking care of stuff and paying bills. I was like, "Oh no I'm not used to this. I'm not gay no more."
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Hangover Sports Roundup
Fresh and unsung U.S. Olympic medalists
Outside of the wrestling and combat-sports community, Jordan Burroughs was a relative unknown despite his two NCAA titles and All-American status at the University of Nebraska. Burroughs' success in college has caught the attention of the Mixed Martial Arts world to make the crossover. However, he had other plans by beginning his quest to become the greatest American wrestler ever. The 2011 World Championships saw Burroughs win the 74kg championship and made him a favorite to win gold in London. Burroughs embraced his role as the new star of American wrestling by changing his Twitter handle to @alliseeisgold. His confidence and swagger proved to be a valuable asset in defeating a difficult field of Iranian and Russian wrestlers. In the final, Burroughs achieved his destiny by overcoming his 2011 World Championship foe, Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi to claim gold. Along with extending his 38-straight international freestyle match winning streak, the 24-year old got a nice $250,000 bonus from the Living the Dream Medal Fund. When asked what his future held, Burroughs sees more championships and medals on the horizon. If he continues to win gold, he might be in line to replace Phelps as the face of the USA Olympic team.


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My number one all season recommendation is Gucci Pour Homme II. After that, would probably be YSL L'homme. Both are extremely versatile, and could be worn anytime.
If you have a perfumania around you, they have buy one get one for $9.99. I believe Rochas Man and CK One Shock qualify for bogo.


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Nissan-Renault signs more states for electric vehicle schemes
Out to take over 'leccy car world?
'Leccy Tech Renault-Nissan has announced electric vehicle and infrastructure deals with the State of Oregon and the Principality of Monaco.
That brings to eight the number of deals that Renault-Nissan have inked, including those with Israel, Denmark, Portugal – all in partnership with Better Place - the city of Yokohama in Japan, France - with utility company EDF - and the State of Tennessee and the Tennessee Valley Authority in the US.
The Oregon announcement was made by Nissan chairman and Renault SA co-chairman Carlos Ghosn during his keynote speech at the Los Angeles Motor Show.
Under the terms of the partnership between Nissan, the State of Oregon and power supplier Portland General Electric (PGE), a "supply" of leccy vehicles will be made available to the state by Nissan, while the State, in partnership with PGE and the Oregon Department of Transport, will encourage the creation of an EV charging network.
In the past few months, PGE has installed six charging stations - each with the capability to charge several dozen vehicles - across the Portland and Salem areas of Oregon, with an eye to the eventual development of a bi-directional vehicle-to-grid network.
Oregon State Governor Theodore Kulongoski is proposing a $5000 (£3369/€3995) tax credit for anyone buying a zero-emission vehicle.
Details of the Monaco deal are less clear. However, Nissan said the tie-in is intended to formulate ways of enhancing and expanding the existing battery-charging network in the Principality, and to work on ways to promote the use of electric vehicles there.


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After making an upswing, sales tax collections in Phelps County came back down recently compared to the same time last year.
After making an upswing, sales tax collections in Phelps County came back down recently compared to the same time last year.
Phelps County Treasurer Carol Green presented updated sales tax figures to the Phelps County Commissioners Tuesday morning during their meeting.
Sales tax deposited to the county in December represents sales from a month prior, or earlier in some cases, depending on the business.
Phelps County's sales tax deposit this month was down by 5.79 percent compared to December 2011.
Sales tax deposited to the county was up by 6.22 percent in November 2012 compared to that same month in 2011 and was down by 3.07 percent in October 2012 compared to October 2011.
This year so far, county sales tax is up compared to last year by 1.22 percent. County sales tax collections total $2,496,599.67 at this time, the highest amount since 2007.
Sales tax collections in Phelps County fell in 2007, 2008 and 2009, but they have risen in the past two years, with 2012 also appearing to be in the positive.
The county's sales tax deposit in January was up 18.75 percent compared to the deposit received in January 2011 but the deposit in February was down by 28.77 percent compared to February of last year.
In March of this year, the county's deposit was up by 49.9 percent compared to March 2011. This was the highest positive change in a month this year compared to the same month in 2011.
The deposit for April 2012 was up 2.52 percent compared to April 2011 and the deposit for May was down by 32.89 percent when compared to the May 2011 deposit.
The June 2012 deposit was up by 22.31 percent compared to June of last year and the deposit received in July this year was down by 10.54 percent.
The deposit for August of this year was down 2.4 percent compared to August 2011 and September's deposit was up 4.71 percent compared to that same month in 2011.


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More than two years after witnesses claimed Luke Chrisco emerged from a portable toilet at a yoga festival covered in feces, the alleged Boulder "potty peeper" pleaded guilty today to two counts of burglary and attempted unlawful sexual contact.
In exchange for the plea deal, prosecutors dropped six other burglary charges and a misdemeanor count of criminal invasion. Chrisco is scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 30 for the two burglary charges -- Class 4 felonies -- and the unlawful sexual contact charge -- a misdemeanor.
The burglary charges could carry a prison sentence of 2 to 6 years, but Chrisco's attorney Matt Connell said he hopes Chrisco -- who has remained in custody since his arrest in June 2011 on $250,000 bond -- will get either probation or community corrections.
"We're very hopeful for a community-based sentence," Connell said.
The plea ends what has been a long and winding case that has seen Chrisco go through numerous attorneys, plea changes and mental health evaluations.
Chrisco was arrested in June 2011 a few days after a woman using a portable toilet at a Boulder yoga festival noticed something moving in the tank and then saw a feces-stained man emerge from the toilet and run away.
According to police and court records, Chrisco -- who was arrested by Vail police in an unrelated incident -- told Boulder and University of Colorado police that he hid in crawl spaces and bathrooms around Boulder, including at CU, Naropa University, the Department of Motor Vehicles office and a number of businesses, in order to watch women use the toilet.
Police later found physical modifications in many of the locations that matched Chrisco's descriptions of his hiding places.
Chrisco initially asked to represent himself using a "common law," defense, but his first attorney requested he undergo a mental health evaluation to determine if he was competent to stand trial.
Boulder District Judge Thomas Mulvahill ruled Chrisco competent to stand trial, but Chrisco elected not to represent himself.
After the court appointed Curtis Ramsay as his attorney Chrisco initially pleaded not guilty in 2012. After two more changes in representation, Chrisco changed that plea to not guilty by reason of insanity in May under the advisement of Connell, the fourth attorney to represent Chrisco during his case.
He was scheduled to stand trial in August -- his third scheduled trial date -- and had undergone a mental health evaluation in preparation for the trial. Connell said due to privacy laws, he could not divulge the findings of the evaluation.
Had Chrisco gone to trial and been found not guilty by reason of insanity, he would have undergone treatment at the Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. ___


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2012-2013 Lake County Leadership Team
Lauren Sylvia Auster, Lake Zurich High School
Hometown: Kildeer
Class: Senior
Parents: Gordon Auster & Teresa Kocur
Sponsor: Jetta Grano, school counselor
Community service: Girl Scout Gold Award for planning, organizing volunteers and executing three Buffalo Creek Building Murals; organizes and teaches at summer Girl Scout camp; Habitat for Humanity vice president organizing club activities and fundraisers, and responsible for advertising the club to the community; part of PE Leadership group that planned and planted a school garden; member of school's community service Interact Club.
Personal statement: "My Girl Scout Gold Award exemplified that I hope to work with my community in the future so that I can impact others in a positive manner. ... My Girl Scout Award also inspired me to study medicine."
Sponsor's endorsement: "She is truly one of the most philanthropic students I know. In addition to many volunteer hours through Interact Club, she also donates much of her time to Girl Scouts where she was recently awarded the prestigious Gold Award."
Erin Bradley, Lakes Community High
Hometown: Lindenhurst
Class: Senior
Parents: Ann and Patrick Bradley
Sponsor: Sara English, counselor
Community service: As Nicasa Teen Court juror, recruited others and helped teach new jurors; as AHA resale shop volunteer, worked the cash register, interacted with costumers, priced merchandise, took donations, organized fundraisers; traveled to Australia and to Stanford University with the People to People student ambassador program; served as a Lake County Forest Preserves cleanup volunteer; served as a Caboose Park cleanup volunteer with the track team.
Personal statement: "Being involved has helped me reach my goals of becoming a better person as well as being able to leave my mark on the world I live in. As time goes on, I want to continue setting goals that not only better me, but also the people and communities that surround me."
Sponsor's endorsement: "Initiative, dedication, leadership and a strong work ethic come naturally with Erin. ... Erin is one of the kindest, most compassionate individuals I have met."
Ian Fleming, Carmel Catholic High School
Hometown: Mundelein
Class: Senior
Parents: Terry and Jackie Fleming
Sponsor: Lynne Strutzel, principal
Community service: Led religious retreat for 40 classmates; one of three student leaders of Operation Snowball; one of two students in Illinois Boys State chosen for a weeklong leadership conference at Washington, where his bill on distracted driving was among 12 of 148 to be approved; volunteer for Big Brother/Big Sister program to help transition freshmen to high school.
Personal statement: "Going to Boys State and then to Boys Nation ... has changed the course of my future and shaped the student and the man that I am today. As I listened to President Barack Obama refer to us as 'the leaders of tomorrow, the men that will change the world,' it hit me: that is my goal."
Sponsor's endorsement: "Ian is admired by both his teachers and peers. The faculty appreciates his respectful, cooperative attitude and the power of his leadership by example. His drama coach describes Ian as 'the kind of leader who leads with quiet skills and determination. He is always ready for the next challenge and strives for perfection.'"
Amanda Hermsen, Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart
Hometown: Gurnee
Class: Senior
Parents: Greg and Julie Hermsen
Sponsor: Douglas DuBrin
Community service: Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, led a walk team with her sister, raising $400,000 over 15 years; worked on events with the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association; spending a week in San Francisco doing service work; church Bible camp leader; soup kitchen volunteer from age 5.
Personal statement: "Each and every service type is just as rewarding in my eyes because I'm never dreading a service opportunity, but instead I am counting down the days until I get to see the smiles I bring and the love that is thrown back at me. ... Service is a win-win situation meaning not only am I making a difference in the lives of others, but I am receiving a feeling that beats any feeling in the world."
Sponsor's endorsement: "This student is a shining example of what one person can do to move an administration, teachers and her classmates to go out of their comfort zone and really make something wonderful happen."
Michelle Kelrikh, Stevenson High School
Hometown: Buffalo Grove
Class: Senior
Parents: Alexander and Alla Kelrikh
Sponsor: Ted Goergen, student activities director
Community service: Founder and president of 75-member Kiva Club, raising $20,000 to help 500 entrepreneurs in 39 countries through microfinance; volunteer at Center on Wrongful Convictions helping attorneys with their caseloads; freshman mentor; volunteer counselor at camp for children and teens with special needs; organized 1,200-person dance marathon to raise money for the Riverside Foundation, a home for adults with developmental disabilities.
Personal statement: "At the end of the day, I want to know that I have made a difference. I want to unite a group of people from different backgrounds with a common passion for a cause. I want to constantly be gaining new perspectives and applying them to the world."
Sponsor's endorsement: "She tackles each task with confidence and an open mind. ... Through her persistence and a personal passion of helping individuals with disabilities, we were able to raise over $50,000!"
Lexi Miles, Carmel Catholic High School
Hometown: Gurnee
Class: Senior
Parents: Peggy and Tom Miles
Sponsor: Principal Lynne Strutzel
Community service: Worked on the Glenmary Farms mission trip; works a soup kitchen monthly at St. Vincent de Paul; head leader of a youth religion retreat; co-president of Carmel's Social Justice Club; helps with the Bunny and Vern Thelen Family Foundation, created by her family to raise money for the American Cancer Society.
Personal statement: "I want to make a positive impact on as many lives as I can. I want to be a high school teacher so I can make an impact on teenagers when they are trying to figure out who they are and what they want to be. I want to change as many lives as my role model. I will make an impact."
Sponsor's endorsement: "Her maturity is reflected in the humility with which she leads and the innate ability to challenge herself to make a difference in the world. This young woman proves again and again that servant leadership is a key element of her personality. Lexi recognizes that sharing her gifts is the only way to find true fulfillment."
Kathleen Morris, Libertyville High School
Hometown: Libertyville
Class: Senior
Parents: Robert and Moira Morris
Sponsor: Jessica Noga, counselor
Community service: For Passion Outreach in North Chicago, developed an after-school tutoring program for at-risk middle school students with life skills lessons in addition to homework help; worked as summer volunteer at a food pantry in Waukegan; worked as summer volunteer in materials distribution at Advocate Condell Medical Center; volunteer intern for technological tasks and special events at Passion Outreach; helped plan and execute the Interact club's Wildcat Initiative for Sharing During the Holidays dinner, its main event, for two years.
Personal statement: "I feel that I can combine my love of learning, business skills, and passion for serving my community in order to help improve poor-performing schools with financial troubles in underserved communities. "
Sponsor's endorsement: "She is a positive person who believes that her achievements are directly proportionate to the amount of work she puts into her endeavors. ... Her charismatic personality clearly engages people to follow her leadership."
Kenneth Pechtl, Mundelein High School
Hometown: Mundelein
Class: Senior
Parents: Valerie Walker, Bob Pechtl
Sponsor: Lauren Fagel, principal
Community service: Organized almost 50 volunteers for an Eagle Scout project creating a garden in memory of a member of his church; youth leader, assistant coach and referee of the VIP Soccer Program for teens with disabilities; president of STAND-UP Against Underage Drinking Task Force; a leader of the Lake County Underage Drinking Prevention Task Force Youth Advisory Board; sole youth representative on the Central Midwest District Board of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Personal statement: "My life is where I want it to be, and I am grateful for it. "
Sponsor's endorsement: "He maintains a constant, quiet confidence, making others feel at ease around him. Ken has a gift for helping others in a way that makes them feel comfortable. He never talks down to anyone, and he always goes out of his way to make someone feel welcome. I can't think of any student who has led more consistently, productively, and selflessly than Ken."
Leila Sherbini, Grayslake Central High
Hometown: Grayslake
Class: Senior
Parents: Mr. and Mrs. Yasser Sherbini
Sponsor: John Bolger, principal
Community service: For Key Club, helped create an annual Valentine's Day fundraiser, served as president, and takes a large role in planning the Veterans Day Breakfast, its biggest project. First student representative to the Grayslake District 127 school board. Group leader for the student council food drive. Helps out on various events for the National Honor Society.
Personal statement: "Through a lot of hard work, I've managed to get good grades all throughout high school, while balancing an after-school job and leadership positions in many of the clubs I'm involved in. A lot of the personal character traits I value in myself -- persistence, intelligence, determination -- developed because I took on so much responsibility."
Sponsor's endorsement: "While maintaining excellent grades in our most challenging courses, she has truly made a difference in the school by modeling strong character, active participation and multifaceted leadership."
Allison Tran, Vernon Hills High School
Hometown: Vernon Hills
Class: Senior
Parents: Michelle and Jayson Tran
Sponsor: Becki Bellito, counselor
Community service: Helps plan and organize fundraising events for her family's memorial foundation in honor of her brother; also plans outreach events for underprivileged children and families. Was president of the junior class, organizing a week of fundraisers; volunteered at a mission trip to Pittsburgh; worked at vacation Bible school.
Personal statement: "Ever since I can remember, my parents have taught me to apply the golden rule in everyday life: 'Treat others how you want to be treated.' At first, I complied simply because they asked. But now, as a young adult, I have come to love helping others on my own."
Sponsor's endorsement: "Allison's experiences with personal tragedy have given her a superior level of empathy, and her desire to help others is evident in all she does, whether it is the memorial fund, student government, fine arts or athletics. She 'does it all,' by making immense contributions to all of her activities while maintaining her poise."
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I haven't actually fallen off the face of the earth - turns out the thing is technically a GLOBE, plus it has no face except in limited areas like Mount Rushmore (which you probably could fall off of). Additionally, as nearly every school child knows, only the moon has a face. Duh!
In any case, I'm resurfacing here briefly because I thought you'd all like to know that this weekend, I'm checking something off my bucket list - playing in Godspell!
This isn't just any version of Godspell, though, nope! We are doing the same score from the 2001 Tour. This is significant in a number of ways:
- The original was created with the contemporary folk/rock music of 1970.
- It's sounding a little dated.
- Alex Lacamoire re-wrote the score, modernizing the sound while retaining all the classic melodies.
- Stephen Schwartz loves it.
- You can't get the rights for it.
- I really wanted to do this version (hence, BUCKET LIST)
- I wrote to Stephen Schwartz's office asking about it.
- Stephen Schwartz's office put me in contact with the composer and music director (Alex Lacamoire) of the 2001 Tour.
- Alex Lacamoire turns out to be a very personable guy!
- We work out a little deal, lawyers are briefly involved, money changes hands and he grants us the rights to use his score!
- Alex sends me his score in a big box from FedEX.
- This weekend we PERFORM it!
So, you see, it is really quite extraordinary and you really don't want to miss it! We have a great cast, a great crew, and some of my favorite local musicians making up a killer rock band! You may never get another chance to see this. Why miss it?
The performance is for three dates ONLY. When it's gone, it's gone.
Tonight, Friday July 15th, 2011 at 7:30 PM, tomorrow night, Saturday July 16th, 2011 at 7:30 PM, and Sunday afternoon, July 17th, 2011 at 2:00 PM.
The show will be at Christ Memorial Lutheran Church at 5252 S. Lindbergh Blvd. 63126 (the old Target Building in South County next to Ronnie's plaza!) Tickets range from $10-$20 and are available at the door. Tickets will be for sale starting 60 minutes prior to show time.
Complete information is available at www.cmpshows.org. Click on the links for "Godspell."
You can come see me in person, I'm the guy buried up to my neck in instruments, and find out what I've been up to!


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Minyan Mailbag: Deflation, The Fed and Control
What cures a deflation is marking down the previously high valued assets to their new (much lower) market-determined price.
Mr. Practical,
As a gold bug, my ears always perk up when the potential for deflation is discussed. I agree with Profs. Succo and Pomboy that we've had several years of hyperinflation hidden in asset price inflation. I'm aware that gold does poorly in the beginning stages of deflation. That said, I don't believe that deflation can occur until the Fed really panics, runs its printing presses 24/7 and fails to inflate. In my opinion, deflation cannot occur until the Fed takes rates to 0 and fails. It's hard to imagine how the dollar would not collapse before deflation takes hold. It seems to me that talk of deflation is premature. Am I missing something?
Thanks kindly for your insights. Happy holidays to you and yours.
Best regards,
Minyan Dennis
Minyan Dennis,
Your statement assumes that in fact the Fed is "'in control'' here which is manifestly is not. The idea that the Fed directly controls the creation and destruction of credit is termed the potent director's fallacy.
While the Fed certainly does intervene in the market for capital (by adjusting its cost) its effects are largely a function of the prevailing appetite for risk. Where providers (banks) and users (consumers, corporations, investors) of capital (read: credit) are risk seeking like they have been since 2001-2002, the Fed's easy money policies have a multiplier effect through the economy and financial markets.
We have seen this writ large in tech in 2000, housing in 2005-2006, and credit securitization up until August 2007. But when those collective appetites go from risk seeking to risk averting, there is simply nothing the Fed (or administration) can do to stop the process of asset renormalization (which is a fancy term for write-downs). In the US, the economist Nouriel Roubini has been steadfast in his assessment that an insolvency crisis (which is most definitely what we are facing here) cannot be cured with lower Fed Funds rates. I couldn't agree more. What cures a deflation is marking down the previously high valued assets to their new (much lower) market-determined price. Certain ABX indices trade at 20 cents on the dollar – an 80% decline for assets that traded at nearly par early in 2007.
What the above suggests is that we are in a deflation now. The write downs you see by Citigroup (C), HSBC (HBC), Washington Mutual (WM) et. al plus the 30%+ decline in asset back commercial paper volume since August 1 is in fact a deflation of the most serious kind. What you have not yet seen en masse is this credit deflation rolling downhill into the regular economy – into CPI, into PPI, into wages. Having such a massive – unprecedented – destruction of credit that we have seen worldwide not make its way from the financial economy to the 'regular' economy would be unprecedented in any cycle in any country at anytime in the modern financial era.
Lastly, we must differentiate between a currency hyperinflation – which is what is going on now in Zimbabwe and what happened in Germany under the Weimar Republic – from a credit hyperinflation – which is what happened in the US prior to the great depression and in Japan from mid 1980s to 1991.
They are vastly different things for reasons both theoretical and practical. Suffice it to say that a credit deflation – which I think is taking place as I write - is the vastly more probable path after a credit hyperinflation than is another credit hyperinflation or a currency hyperinflation (which is what you are suggesting the Treasury would be doing if they started running the printing presses).
Further, should the Treasury start printing actual greenbacks like the government of Zimbabwe is printing their currency now, the wholesale – and immediate – selling of USD-denominated securities (read: treasuries, agencies, etc) by international investors would immediacy raise domestic US interest rates, thus exacerbating the credit crisis even more by preventing debt holders (of which there are very, very many in the US) from paying off their existing debts as well as forestall any new debt demand since the cost of capital would then be so high. Thus, even if the Treasury (remember the Fed cannot print money – all they can do is create incentives for market participants to take more credit) were to print currency, the effect – immediate effect – would be a devastating increase in domestic interest rates which would exacerbate the very process of credit deflation they are trying to avoid.
Thus, you can see why I say that all roads lead to a devastating deflation in the US (and very likely the rest of the world, which has been equally drunk on credit this decade).
As for your query about the USD; ironically enough, a significant credit deflation increases the demand for (and value of) the USD against almost all goods and services (and other fiat currencies) precisely because a deflation is an attempt to ''get liquid'' – in the form of short term treasuries (see the US yield curve for supportive evidence on this idea) and in the form of cash and cash equivalents. In a credit inflation (2001-2007) the value of the USD fell rapidly. In a credit deflation, the opposite should happen.
Thank you,
Mr. Practical
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MEDINAH, Ill. — What looked like a potential runaway for the Americans turned into a thriller as Europe, playing in memory of Seve Ballesteros, dominated the Sunday singles and won the 39th Ryder Cup at Medinah, 14 ½-13 ½.
With the score tied 13-13, the Cup came down to the final two matches, and four players who had yet to win a point. Martin Kaymer made a clutch, six-foot par putt on 18 to defeat Steve Stricker, 1 up, and give the Europeans a 14-13 lead. That guaranteed them at least a tie, which meant they would retain the Cup because they won the 2010 matches at Celtic Manor in Wales.
"I can't actually believe what's happened," Europe's dynamo Ian Poulter said after running his record to 4-0-0 at Medinah. "It's just unbelievable."
Tiger Woods won the 17th hole with a par against Francesco Molinari, and though it was of no consequence, he missed his short par putt on 18 and conceded Molinari his own short par putt. They halved the anchor match for the final score.
"Seve will always be present with this team," said European captain Jose Maria Olazabal. "He was a big factor for this event, for the European side, and last night when we were having the meeting. I think the boys understood that believing was the most important thing, and I think they did."
(Related Photos: Europe Rallies To Stun U.S.)
With a 10-6 lead going into the final day, its biggest lead heading into the singles since 1981, the U.S. needed only 4 ½ points to win back the Cup, but the team got off to a slow start and struggled from there, earning just 3 ½ of a possible 12 points.
"That's golf," U.S. captain Davis Love III said. "We didn't play well today. We could have laid [the singles lineup] out there in any order today and played like that. It wouldn't have really mattered. These guys had a great week, had a lot of fun and they played well. They played a lot of good golf, and so did the other side. To end up like that is unfortunate. I know these guys put a lot into it."
In the first match of the day, Luke Donald matched Bubba Watson's birdie on the first hole, then won four of the next 11 to take a 4-up lead. Watson tried to fight back with birdies on 14, 15 and 16, but Donald's up-and-down par on 17 gave him a 2-and-1 win. The score was 10-7; counting Saturday, Europe had won three consecutive points.
"Hopefully I gave the guys plenty of inspiration," Donald said.
Paul Lawrie put the finishing touches on his 5-and-3 victory over American Brandt Snedeker, who never quite found his game at this Ryder Cup. It was 10-8.
"I think we don't want to get ahead of ourselves," said Lawrie, who made five birdies and no bogeys, and never trailed, "but right now it's looking pretty good, and we just need to boys to hold on. You never know."
Keegan Bradley came back from 2 down but got stymied behind a tree on the par-5 14th, and Rory McIlroy won the hole to go 1 up. He won 15, too, with a birdie after Bradley hit his tee shot into the gallery, and hung on for a 2-and-1 win despite arriving at the course 10 minutes before the tee time. It was 10-9.
Captain's pick Poulter, the heartbeat of the European team, birdied the 18th hole and held off Webb Simpson, 2 up. All of the sudden, it was anyone's game at 10-10.
It was Poulter, 36, who did the most to alter the momentum of this Ryder Cup. He made five straight closing birdies in his four-ball match with partner McIlroy on Saturday night, and the Euros beat a shell-shocked Jason Dufner and Zach Johnson, 1 up, to breathe life into a moribund side. It made the score 10-6 through the team sessions, a major deficit, but Europe finally had momentum.
(Related: Our expert panel debates the Ryder Cup in PGA Tour Confidential)
"There was a buzz in the team room last night that didn't feel like we had a four-point deficit," said Poulter, who improved to a gaudy 12-3-0 in his Ryder Cup career. "For some reason everyone was calm. Everyone was cracking jokes. We just felt like we had that tiny little chance, and do you know what? The boys have proved it today and made history. It has been unbelievable."
The American captain's picks did not fare as well, as Stricker went 0-4, and Jim Furyk and Snedeker combined to earn just a single point. Dustin Johnson, who won his last two matches, was the only captain's pick who ever looked comfortable at Medinah. It wasn't until he closed out Nicolas Colsaerts, 3 and 2, that the Americans won a point Sunday, getting their noses back out front, 11-10, but by that time crazy things were happening.
Justin Rose was spared from going 2 down with three to play when Phil Mickelson missed his roughly 10-foot birdie try on 15, and after Mickelson made a long par putt on 16, Rose matched the left-hander to stay just 1 down. When Rose birdied 17 with a roughly 40-foot, downhill putt that would've gone screaming past the hole if it hadn't hit it, and 18, he was a 1-up winner. It was 11-11.
"I wouldn't say I've made three bigger putts, back to back, in my career, ever," said Rose, who also beat Mickelson in singles at Valhalla in 2008.
"He played some great golf," said Mickelson, who along with Bradley made up the biggest bright spot for the Americans over the first two days, and who went 3-1-0 at Medinah. "I thought I played pretty good and, you know, shot a decently low round. But the last three holes, you know, I thought I had the match."
He wasn't the only one. Nearly every close match went the Europeans' way as they won the singles 8 ½-3 ½ . Sergio Garcia's 1-up victory over Furyk was damaging for the Americans, as Furyk took a 1-up lead to the 17th tee but bogeyed both of the final two holes to lose and drop to 9-17-4 in eight Ryder Cups.
"I have no doubt in my mind that [Ballesteros] was with me today," Garcia said, "because there's no chance I would have won my match if he wasn't there."
Zach Johnson provided one of the few bright spots for the Americans as he beat Graeme McDowell, 2 and 1, and Jason Dufner built a big lead and held on to beat Peter Hanson, 2 up. Lee Westwood dusted Matt Kuchar, 3 and 2.
And so the Americans are left to try and figure out what exactly happened, the Ryder Cup having been rudely and shockingly wrenched from their grasp.
Was it fate? Mickelson's chip shot from behind the 17th green was so close to going in that he ran after it and began to raise his arms in celebration. Rose's long birdie putt was going almost as fast as Justin Leonard's famous putt that won the Cup for the Americans in 1999. The hole got in the way both times.
Was it timing? Of the matches to reach the 18th hole Sunday, Europe went 4-1-1. Of the matches that ended on 17, Europe went 2-1-0.
Was it age? Although 42-year-old Mickelson played well, he, Furyk (42) and Stricker (45) lost to much younger opponents in Rose, Garcia and Kaymer.
"Martin played well today," Stricker said, "and I just really didn't. I didn't put enough pressure on him, really, to get anything done."
"We're all kind of stunned," Love said. "We know what it feels like now from the [European perspective of the] '99 Ryder Cup. It's a little bit shocking. We were playing so well, everybody on our team was playing so well, we just figured it didn't matter how we sent them out there. But we put who we thought were our hot players up front, and we put who we thought were our steady players at the back that would get us points."
Alas, with the exception of Dufner, who made eagles on both front-nine par-5s; Dustin Johnson, who made six birdies; and Zach Johnson, who pretty much let McDowell beat himself, the Americans were neither particularly hot nor steady.
For them, this one will sting a while, while for Europe, it's one for the storybooks.


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Black Manhattan Cocktail
- Prep: 5 min
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- Total: 5 min
- Serving: 1 Serving
This sleek, sexy and dangerously dark cocktail is every bit as intense as its name. The addition of Averna, an Italian liqueur, gives it a rich and complex flavor.
- 2 ounces bourbon
- 1 ounce Averna
- 1 dash Angostura bitters
- Maraschino cherry to garnish
- Place a martini glass in the freezer for 5 minutes to chill.
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