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NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Two losses, in all likelihood, will knock a
team out of the race for the 2010 Ivy League title. That's
why Saturday's game at Yale Bowl on the Class of 1954 Field
is crucial for the Yale football team (4-2, 2-1 Ivy). The Bulldogs
take on Columbia (3-3, 1-2) at noon on the YES Network (DirecTV
631). The game can also be heard on WELI Radio (AM-960), weli.com
and wybc.com.
Team Averages
OFFENSE Yale Columbia
Rushing Yards 124.3 165.7
Passing Yards 277.7 201.2
Total Offense 402.0 366.8
Scoring 21.8 25.2
DEFENSE Yale Columbia
Rushing Yards 102.3 158.2
Passing Yards 217.8 195.5
Total Defense 320.2 353.7
Scoring 19.7 19.8
Yale has won seven straight and holds a 66-18-2 lead over Columbia, its most commanding advantage over any league team. The Blue is 34-9-2 at home against the Light Blue.
Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas) completed 34 of 54 passes for 331 yards and two scores but the Blue dropped a 27-20 game against No. 20 Penn in a battle of 2-0 Ivy League teams before 22,293 at Yale Bowl last week. Witt led the Elis to a 360-yard offensive day, which included 11 catches (116 yards) by receiver Jordan Forney (Bloomington, Ind.). However, one big interception and untimely penalties (10 for Yale on the day) were part of the reason the home team was unable to win a third straight game. The other reason was a strong Penn showing with a balance of contributions to beat Yale for a third straight season. Two quarterbacks combined to complete 12 passes but TB Brandon Colavita (15-73) may have had the most important, drive-surviving carries. The Bulldogs got on the board first with Philippe Panico's (Boston, Mass.) career-long, 39-yard field goal in the first quarter, but the Quakers (5-1, 3-0) scored 20 straight to put the game out of reach. Brad Blackmon's 53-yard punt return for a TD in the second quarter gave the visitors a 13-3 lead at intermission. Luke DeLuca, who scored twice from a yard out, reached the end zone on the opening drive of the second half to increase the margin to 17. The Elis didn't get on the board again until early in the fourth, after Allen Harris' (Detroit, Mich) first career TD catch, and they still could have gotten back in the game. On the first play after Penn missed a short field goal try, Witt's screen pass was intercepted by Brandon Copeland and returned to the Yale 11. It was the first of Penn's two interceptions. DeLuca then notched his second score and the Bulldogs scrambled to make it close. Penn DB David Twamley led all players with nine solos and three pass breakups, while Yale LB Jordan Haynes (Folsom, Calif.) had a game-high 12 (7-5) overall stops. Bulldog defensive backs Adam Money (Whiteland, Ind.) and Geoff Dunham (Dallas, Texas) each had a pick. "We had our opportunities and didn't capitalize on them," said Tom Williams, Yale's Joel E. Smilow Head Coach of Football. "We made too many mistakes against a good football team."
Four Yale offensive players enjoyed career-best days last Saturday: WR Jordan Forney's 11 catches and 116 yards; PK Philippe Panico had two field goals, including a career-long 39-yarder; RB Deon Randall had 30 rushing yards and 72 on kick returns; WR Allen Harris snared four passes including his first TD.
Sean Brackett completed 17 of 31 passes for 188 yards and a score but his Columbia team fell short of Dartmouth 24-21 in New York last week. The Big Green had better stats in almost every offensive category but needed a Nick Schwieger (122 yards) one-yard TD run with 2:28 left to get the win before 10,904 at Wien Stadium. Lion LB Alex Gross led all tacklers with 10 solos and 16 overall stops.
TE A.J. Haase's 10-yard touchdown catch with 58 seconds to play - Yale's third touchdown of the fourth quarter - capped an improbable Bulldog comeback and finished off a 23-22 win at Columbia last fall. The Elis got turnovers on Columbia's final three drives of the game, plus a touchdown-saving tackle from CB Adam Money, to pull out the victory after trailing by 12 points with just over six minutes left.
Senior SS Adam Money (Whiteland, Ind.) is the active career interception leader for Yale with eight, one shy of the school's career top 10 list. He leads the team with three (tie for Ivy lead) this fall. Money has taken back two (77 vs. Brown '09, 60 vs. Georgetown '08) for scores. Last week he had an interception, three tackles and recovered Yale's fourth quarter on-side kick. Money was a 2009 first-team All-Ivy pick. He has also excelled in the classroom with a 3.46 GPA (biology major) and has been interviewing at medical schools this fall.
There's a lot to know about senior WR Gio Christodoulou (Miami, Fla.). He leads Yale with 30 catches for 476 yards and a 15.9 average per catch. He had eight grabs against Penn for 108 yards. His 11.1 average on punt returns rank first in the Ivy (The top Yale average for a season is 10.8 by Lou Muller in 1959). Christodoulou, second on the team with 93 all-purpose yards, had a career-best nine catches for 124 yards against Georgetown on opening day. He has two career punt returns for TDs and ranks among the top 10 at Yale in career punt (492, 3rd) and kickoff (553, 10th) return yardage. He recently passed Gary Fencik '76 (443) for the No. 3 spot on the Yale career punt return list.
No. 42 has a nose for the football. Junior LB Jordan Haynes (41-23-64) is Yale's leading tackler and is second among Ivy players with better than 10 per game. He has led the Bulldogs in total stops in five of six games this fall. The National Football Foundation High School Scholar-Athlete from Folsom, Calif., also leads Yale in recovered fumbles (2) in his first year as a starter. Haynes scored Yale's first TD of the year on a four-yard fumble return late in the first quarter on Sept. 18.
The Lions did not allow Yale to complete a pass in a 1954 game but still lost 13-7... Columbia blanked a Yale team in 1961 (11-0) that was coming off an undefeated campaign. It was the fourth and last shutout of the Bulldogs by the Lions... Columbia QB Marty Domres, a future NFL QB, threw for 326 yards in 1966 for the Lions in a losing (44-21) effort... Yale QB Pete Doherty '67 connected on a school-record five TD passes in 1966 (44-21 Yale win)... Yale and NFL great Dick Jauron '73 scampered 87 yards for the deciding score in a 28-14 win over Columbia in 1972... Ryan LoProto '02 scored on two interceptions, including one from 67 yards, as Yale won 41-0 in 2000.
One of the most inspiring performances of last week came from senior WR Jordan Forney, who came in banged up and took hit after hit before ending up with a game-high 11 catches. Forney is second on the team with 29 receptions and leads Yale with three TD receptions. He has a TD catch in three of the last four games. His 87 receptions rank eighth at Yale while his 11 career scoring plays are seventh.
Junior QB Patrick Witt (Wylie, Texas), who took as many hits as any Bulldog last week, managed to accumulate 331 passing yards against Penn with a pair of TDs. He has completed better than 60 percent of his passes for 1,439 yards and eight scores this fall. Witt, whose parents are both commercial pilots, started five of the six games this year. He ranks first in the Ivy in passing and total offense (285, which is 10th in FCS). Witt has 16 career TD passes to go along with a pair of rushing TDs this season. Witt was named Ivy League co-Player of the Week (35-55, 407) on Sept. 20 after he threw for 400 yards (6th time it has happened at Yale) and scored the winner against the Hoyas. A backup at Nebraska in 2008, Witt started six Yale games in 2009 and led the team with 1,449 yards and eight TDs.
Senior QB Brook Hart, made his first start of 2010 on Oct. 16 against Fordham and threw for 227 yards. His longest connection was a 47-yard throw to Chris Smith. Hart completed all three passing attempts on the winning drive that ended with his 29-yard scoring play to Jordan Forney in the fourth quarter. He shared (4 games) the starting duties last year with Patrick Witt and then took spring ball off to pitch for the Yale baseball team.
Greg Carlsen (4 punts, 42.0) was a freshman at the University of Florida last year and did not try out for the football team. He began missing the game while attending UF contests. That's when he decided to send his video around to some schools and see if anyone was interested in his services. Carlsen, who was No. 1 out of 702 in his high school class, owns his school's record for most punts (67) and yardage (2,407) in a season. He was a first-team all-county and all-metro punter for a two-time regional champion and a state runner-up squad in the football crazy Sunshine State.
Alex Thomas leads Yale with 302 rushing yards and four TDs and is fourth with 18 catches. The junior RB from Ansonia, Conn., scored three times in an opening day win. His 124 yards (matched career-high vs. Harvard '09) and 6.9 average were game-highs at Cornell. His 47-yard run at Cornell is the longest run by a Bulldog this fall. He is the most prolific (8,279 yards, 114 TDs) runner in Connecticut High School history.
Yale QBs have been sacked five times in six games, a far cry from the 32 sacks given up in 10 games last fall. It's clear the offensive line has improved in 2010. Freshman Wes Gavin (San Diego, Calif., 6-5, 275) and senior Alex Golubiewski (Green Bay, Wis., 6-6, 280) started at tackle the last two weeks. Juniors Colin Kruger (Sarasota, Fla., 6-3, 300) and Gabe Fernandez (Honolulu, HI, 6-0, 273) got the nods at guard last week. Junior Jeff Fell (6-5, 286, Garden City, N.Y.) was the starting center in place of an injured Jake Koury (Dublin, Ohio, 6-2, 270, who came back last week against Penn.
Senior DE Tom McCarthy (Chester, N.J.), the Yale captain, has started three straight games since missing games two and three with an injury. He had a career-high 3-6-9 at Dartmouth in his return. His 15 total tackles rank second among Yale linemen. The second-team All-Ivy pick last fall (4 sacks) was Yale's MVP of the defensive line. He earned a medical hardship from his freshman year and is now the fifth Yale captain since 2001 who has taken a fifth year of eligibility.
San Diego natives OT Wes Gavin and RB Deon Randall, WR Cameron Sandquist (Redmond, Wash.), DT John Oppenheimer (Menlo Park, Calif.), TE Keith Coty, TE/LS Kyle Wittenauer (Richmond, Va.) and DB Nick Okano (Los Angeles, Calif.) are the class of 2014 Elis who have seen varsity action this fall. Gavin and Wittenauer (LS) are the only starters among the newcomers but Randall has seen regular action.
Senior Shane Bannon is Yale's H-back, the guy who can block, catch passes and run with the ball. He had a career-high six catches at Hanover and snared two last week. Bannon now has 10 catches for 78 yards this fall. His first career carry resulted in a TD at Princeton in 2009, his first catch went for a score against Georgetown in 2008. Bannon, who nearly had to rule out playing in 2010 because of an injury, has not missed a practice in two years.
Four different Elis lead the team with two sacks... Yale leads the Ivy in passing and total offense and punt returns… Four different players have led the Blue in rushing in six games this season… The Blue has made two interceptions in each of the last two games… Javi Sosa's 24 carries against Fordham were a team-high for 2010… Yale had six sacks in the first two games but has just four over the last four Saturdays.
Yale has scored game-winning TDs as time expired in the fourth quarter twice this season. Patrick Witt dove into the end zone from a yard out to erase a deficit against Georgetown on the game's last play. Philippe Panico split the uprights at Dartmouth with no time left. The Elis have not won a pair of games in a season on the last play since 1937. In addition to the two wins on the last play, the Blue also has a one-point win over Fordham.
Smith is the most common surname in America, so it's no surprise that Yale has three (Caleb, Chris, McConnell) from different classes on its roster. All three are on offense, two are WRs (Chris, McConnell) and Caleb is an end. Chris and Caleb (West Orange, N.J.) have seen varsity action this fall, McConnell (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) is looking for his first chance.
Two former Bulldogs are coaching in the NFL this season. Dick Jauron '73, who has spent 32 years in the NFL playing and coaching, is the new secondary coach for the 4-3 Philadelphia Eagles. His unit is tied for second in the league with 11 interceptions, they are fourth in sacks with 21. Jauron was the 2001 AP Coach of the Year with the Chicago Bears and his most recent head coaching gig was at Buffalo. Pat Graham '01, a former Yale tight end and defensive lineman, is a defensive assistant coach for the 5-1 New England Patriots, winners of four straight. The Pats' defense is tied for third in the league with two rushing TDs allowed. Graham was a member of Yale's 1999 Ivy title team.
For the 13th consecutive season, all 10 Yale Football games can be heard live on New Haven's News/Talk 960 WELI-AM and free online at 960WELI.com. Ron Vaccaro '04 (play-by-play) and Carm Cozza (color) have the call, which can be heard on AM radio throughout Connecticut and across Long Island Sound, for their sixth season together.
Every third quarter this season, a different former Yale player will join the WELI Radio broadcast. P.J. Collins '04 (Georgetown), Rick Fehling '74 (Cornell), Jay Pilkerton '09 (Albany), Kevin Kelly '78 (Dartmouth), Joe Walland '00 (Fordham), Bobby Fernandez '75 (Columbia), Matt Polhemus '08 (Penn), Chuck Mercein '65 (Princeton) and Bill Primps '71 (Harvard) are the 2010 lineup.
Former Yale Football Head Coach Carm Cozza, the winningest coach in Ivy League history and a member of the College Football Hall of Fame, was honored at Miami University last weekend for being one of the "Cradle of Coaches." Cozza, one of three former Miami players included in that weekend's events, had his statue unveiled in a ceremony at Yager Stadium prior to the Miami-Ohio University football game.
Tom Williams, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Football at Yale, is in his second season at Yale and his second as a head coach overall. Williams is 8-8 overall with the Bulldogs and 1-0 vs. Columbia. He came to New Haven after two seasons as an assistant with the Jacksonville Jaguars and is in his 13th season of college coaching. Williams has worked at his alma mater, Stanford, Hawaii, Washington and San Jose State. He has been part of four Bowl Game appearances and two Bowl victories.
All six home games this season will be video streamed live (pay per view) on yalebulldogs.com through Yale's All Access with Ron Vaccaro and Carm Cozza providing the call.
The Bulldogs, off on Mondays, are on the field at 7:30 a.m. (until approx. 9:30) Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday behind the baseball stadium. Fridays are walk-through days either at Yale Bowl or on the road and times vary. Players and coaches are available for interviews with working media following the practice if there are no class conflicts. All schedules are subject to change.
Broadcasts of Yale football, along with several other sports during the year, are available on the Yale student station, WYBC, and can be heard free on-line at wybc.com. Sports director LeRoy Cole '12 heads each broadcast.
Tom Williams, the Joel E. Smilow '54 Head Coach of Yale Football, and some of his players are at the world famous Mory's (306 York Street) every Tuesday (Sept. 14 through Nov. 16) at 2 p.m. for the Dick Galiette Yale Football Press Conference. This event is limited to media only. Please contact Yale Sports Publicity Director Steve Conn (email@example.com) if you would like to attend.
This Saturday is the third and final game of Yale on YES for 2010. YES can be seen on many cable systems as well as DirecTV, AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS. Chris Shearn handles the play-by-play while former Yale defensive player Jack Ford '72 and Ross Tucker, a former Princeton and NFL offensive lineman, provide the color.
The Yale-Harvard game on Nov. 20 at Boston is the Ivy League Game of the Week on Versus, the national sports cable TV company.
Five Bulldogs recently visited the Boys and Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley's Joel E. Smilow Clubhouse in Ansonia to help kids learn the importance of eating healthy and staying fit… Junior RB Alex Thomas (Ansonia, Conn.) and Ansonia native John Coughlin (Yale Football Office) spoke to 125 fourth graders this fall at John G Prendergast Elementary School in Ansonia... Junior CB Drew Baldwin (Alexandria, Va.), co-chair of the Yale Black Men's Union Community Outreach Committee, is in his third year of outreach work. Baldwin is responsible for creating the lesson plans and the calendar of events, working to promote personal growth and development through educational activities. "We try to do this through exposing the mentees to new ideas and experiences and, most importantly, through building lasting relationships between mentor and mentee. We work toward trying to help these high school kids become young men. In the Black Men's Union we measure success by how many lives we impact. Because our mentoring program puts us in a position to impact lives to a great extent, we take that responsibility very seriously," said Baldwin (31-8-39 last year with two interceptions), who has mentored over 30 kids. Classmate Jordan Haynes works closely with Baldwin on the project.
Jesse Reising (Decatur, Ill.), a senior LB, has been named a semifinalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy, a scholar-athlete award handed out December 7 at the Waldorf Astoria in Manhattan by the National Football Foundation. The finalists will be announced on Oct. 28. Reising, third on the team with 32 tackles after six starts, owns a 3.75 GPA with a focus on economics and political science. He may be locked in on his majors and football right now, but this Eli has his sights set on his country. The Bulldog defensive standout was home last summer taking classes to get his flight license before he completes Marine Corps Officer Candidate School next year. Reising recently spent time in Washington, DC, working closely with veterans' service organizations such as the Wounded Warrior Project, American Legion and Disabled American Veterans. Reising, the class valedictorian at Eisenhower High School, also participated in various community outreach activities through his Yale fraternity, including events to raise money to fight prostate cancer, Relay for Life, and making care packages for Navy SEALs in Afghanistan. Yale players are often selected as semifinalists for the Campbell Trophy, but only 10 have made the final squad picked as NFF Scholar-Athletes since Rick McCarthy became the first in 1967. Casey Gerald, who spoke at the national event representing all the scholar-athletes in 2008, was Yale's last selection.
This season marks the 50th anniversary of Yale's last perfect football squad. The 1960 Elis, who shared the Lambert Trophy with Navy, were Ivy champions and ranked 14th in the final Associated Press poll, went 9-0. They will be honored during the weekend of the Princeton game at the Bowl.
Here are the weekly league or conference awards garnered by Bulldogs:
Ivy League Offensive Player of Week: QB Patrick Witt (9/20)
Ivy League Honor Roll: LB Jordan Haynes & WR Chris Smith (9/20); RB Alex Thomas (9/27); WR Jordan Forney (10/3); QB Patrick Witt & DB Chris Stanley (10/11); LB Jordan Haynes (10/19)
ECAC Offensive Player of Week: QB Patrick Witt (9/20)
High on the facility wish list of Tom Williams was moving his team from multiple rooms at the Smilow Field Center to one large locker area. That wish came to fruition in the form of the Carm Cozza Complex. A dressing area designed by ProZone Lockers and meeting rooms for coaches and players highlight the complex that will also include a shrine to the hall of fame former Yale head coach.
The annual survey of Bulldogs produced the anticipated results; Yale is a team full of leaders who produced as much off the field as they did on it. Here is the 201 breakdown.
81 players were captains of their high school football team
55 players were captains of another sport in high school
57 players were a national honors society member
8 players were class president at their high school
8 players were student body president at their high school
11 players were class valedictorian at their high school
2 players were class salutatorian at their high school
filed by Steve Conn, Yale Sports Publicity Director


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Well, how do you fare compared to the Zeitgeist?
Chat up your fellow wooters and let us know how lame this poll was or what obvious choices we missed.
For example: Was this poll a) STUPID, b) DUMB, c) POINTLESS or d) ALL OF THE ABOVE?
I hate flying thru Atlanta!!!!!
Denver International Airport has a reputation for shredding luggage. This I didn't know when I sent my zipper-laden bags though their machines.
I hate them all .... 12 min two walk or run a 1/2 mile to a cont. flight
Atlanta-Hartsfield. I will happily fly through O'Hare (which is really bad) if I can avoid Atlanta.
They all suck
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flobob wrote:I hate flying thru Atlanta!!!!!
This. So much this.
Minneapolis. Thought I'd have a heart attack between gates and I'm in decent shape.
Phoenix might have the worst layout on the planet. It's like a 30 minute walk to a connecting flight.
SFO was horrid! You had to run from this side to that to do anything. Now SJC (San Jose Airport) was great! There is one entrance, one area to get to all airline desks for check-in, one corridor to take to get to the security station, and one waiting area for all flights. It sounds smaller than it is but it was built very well.
I work at an airport in California (that shall remain nameless), so I've had the opportunity to check out a lot of different places. It's funny, now that I know the inner workings of them, I notice stuff a lot better than I used to as just a casual traveler.
With that said, my least favorite is George Bush Intercontinental Airport (Houston, TX). The layout is atrocious if you have to change planes there. United flights are spread out across several concourses, with no easy way of getting from one end to another. And the last few sections on the end look like their just a series of modular buildings that a lot of schools have for overflow classes.
Beyond that, here are some other thoughts.
LAX is huge and outdated. Every time I go through there, they are perpetually halfway through some major rebuilding project that seems to have no function other than to keep construction workers employed. I prefer to fly in and out of Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, despite the somewhat frightening take-off and landing flight paths.
Orlando International sucks for one primary reason, the layout. They put the TSA checkpoint right in the tightest corridor of the terminal. It's already a bottleneck getting to the trams, but throw those smurfs in the mix and it's often an incredible headache.
Hartsfield-Jackson (Atlanta) is a massive airport. A lot of people don't realize it, but its actually the busiest passenger airport in the entire world. However, it really isn't that difficult to navigate between terminals. For as many people as they process through security, the lines are usually very reasonable.
Detroit! It's like the Bermuda Triangle of airports. Hate that place.
Atlanta, hands down.
Why? Atlanta airport is rockin'
Philadelphia. Always afraid things will 'disappear' from my checked bags.
Philly, hands down.
Hellloooo, excuse me! LaGuardia maybe???????
Guess you don't travel much.
I agree with ECRANK - Philly takes the prize - hands down. Have spent more nights there than anywhere else (and it's an uncomfortable, ugly place) and NEVER get through on time.
Put me down for Philly. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. You either miss your connection or your luggage.
ATL by far!! I can stand the craziness of LAX even ORD. But ATL s-u-c-k-s!
BWI... I have never departed On-Time and have waited 4+ hours on several occasions.
Sabre99 wrote:Newark
I second that. EWR is the worst. And to add insult to injury, just being in New Jersey leaves me with an all over dirty feeling.
Another vote for Atlanta. They tie with O'Hare.
EWR is the worst; that's Newark.
It is the lesser airport in the overcrowded New York airspace. Combine that with the worst TSA in the country and it is a real nightmare.
I drive farther to a different airport to save time and frustration.
BTW- All of you who have voted for Phiily should try any of the New York airports. Philly is a dream compared to them.
Atlanta. Customs in Atlanta was one of the most mind-boggling experiences I've ever had flying... and that was in '06, when you could still take drinks and other things through security. I shudder to imagine flying internationally now.
No doubt. How did this not make the list?
Atlanta is terrible- delays any time of year
tuxbuddy wrote:Another vote for Atlanta. They tie with O'Hare.
I haven't flown anywhere on East coast ezcept Atlanta and Philly. Stripped near naked in terminal in Atlanta, but I would much rather be stuck there than Philly. Stinks a LOT less. They bathe in Atlanta once in a while anyway. Also don't fear for my life in Atlanta. Airport didn't catch fire and delay landing for hour and a half at Atlanta.
It's Houston for me.
Even tho strip searched in Atlanta in terminal, Mayor Daley doesn't control everything from his mob-boss headquarters there like chicago. EVERY fllight delayed long enough for everyone to get hungry and patronize the horrible grub vendors and collect his exhorbitant tax revenue. There are cameras everywhere and NO flight takes off until that one guy buys a twelve dollar dry sandwich and six dollar flat soda.
On the other hand, if BWI sucks half as much as its host, it just may be worse than oh, hair.
Philly is the WORST! I pretty much averaged about 2 hour delays every time I flew out of there. Not to mention you have to walk some serious distances.
Don't really see the Atlanta hate. Sure it is really big, and crowded, but really easy to get around.
I'll give an honorable mention to Newark. It takes like 30 minutes to get from one terminal to another.
bstrohl wrote:EWR is the worst; that's Newark.
It is the lesser airport in the overcrowded New York airspace. Combine that with the worst TSA in the country and it is a real nightmare.
I drive farther to a different airport to save time and frustration.
BTW- All of you who have voted for Phiily should try any of the New York airports. Philly is a dream compared to them.
Absolutely, Newark needs a sinkhole to open under it, and just be removed from the face of the earth. There is no redeeming quality for this airport
kinglowrider wrote:DET Stop of the shoe bomber
Yes, Detroit is the worst. Well, not as bad as Kabul, but the worst in the US.
Definitely Atlanta
NYC: LaGuardia = awful
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GREENVILLE, N.C. (Mar. 4, 2013) — An East Carolina University researcher is studying the effects of microscopic particles that are important parts of products ranging from sunscreens to sailboats but which could pose as-yet-unknown hazards to human lungs.
Dr. Mary Jane Thomassen, a scientist and professor in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at ECU, is looking at the effects of carbon nanotubes with help from a three-year, $368,159 grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Her study is titled "Chronic Granulomatous Lung Inflammation Elicited by Carbon Nanotubes."
Thomassen has been studying carbon nanotubes since 2008. Smaller than 1/1000th of a millimeter, CNTs are tube-shaped fibers that have proved useful in products as varied as cosmetics, sunscreens, bicycle frames, electronics, sailboats, space shuttles and pills. They've even been used to clean up oil spills. But not much is known about any long-term hazards from inhaling nanomaterials during their manufacture or use.
The goal of Thomassen's project is to examine specific pathways in which carbon-based nanomaterials can injure the lungs.
Exposure to carbon-based nanomaterials may be occupational and occur during commercial production processes. Alternatively, people exposed to fires that contain burning diesel fuel, methane, propane or natural gas may be at risk since these fires release CNTs. For example, they were detected in air and human tissues following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, Thomassen said.
CNTs entering the lung are engulfed by immune cells which then send out SOS-type chemical messages that recruit more immune cells and affect other structural cells of the lung. The result can be damage to airways and difficulty breathing. Since CNTs cannot be destroyed by the immune cells, they also can clog up small airways and cause the immune cells to pile up and try to wall off the CNTs. This process causes further damage and can lead to chronic breathing problems.
Thomassen said the next step will be to look for ways to treat CNT lung disease using a mouse model. The goal is to eventually find treatments that would be beneficial in human lung disease.
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Former Penn State students create Living Furniture prototype
Former Penn State students create Living Furniture prototype
GreenTowers LLC originated two years ago as a student research team at Penn State, dedicated towards finding a solution to the growing concern of how to feed 9.5 billion people in the year 2050. After winning numerous entrepreneurship and sustainability competitions, including two sponsorships from Penn State's Sustainability Institute – Dow SISCA and the Reinvention Fund – and one from the College of Agricultural Sciences, the team initially designed and built a mobile greenhouse that uses aquaponic technology.
"During our time at Penn State, we dove head first into aquaponics system design, building the University's first aquaponics education and research facility," said Dustin Betz, GreenTowers co-founder.
"During our time at Penn State, we dove head first into aquaponics system design, building the University's first aquaponics education and research facility."
-- Dustin Betz, GreenTowers co-founder
Since then, the team has continued to innovate within the space of urban agriculture, and by using their experience in horticulture and design, began to focus on creating ways for everyone to grow their own food.
Living Furniture is the beginning of the former students' journey to help feed the world.
Using aquaponics (a combination of fish farming [aquaculture] with soilless plant growth [hydroponics] that has been shown to increase crop yields while using 90 percent less water), the Living Table brings a natural ecosystem into one's home. The aquarium is self-cleaning (the plants act as a natural biofilter) and in return the owner is able to effortlessly maintain a small herb garden.
The team is currently exploring crowd funding to expand the project.
"We envision turning the Living Table into an entire line of Living Furniture products," said Betz. "But we need your help to make this vision a reality."


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This textbook chapter traces the historical development of the modern scientific understanding of light, and reviews the electromagnetic spectrum and the Earth's atmospheric shield. The resource includes links to current news articles, and a suite... (View More) of pre- and post-unit assessments. A teacher's guide supports classroom use. This is the fifth chapter in the unit, Energy Flow, exploring the flow of energy through the atmosphere, oceans, land, and living things over short and long timescales. The resource is part of Global System Science (GSS), an interdisciplinary course for high school students that emphasizes how scientists from a wide variety of fields work together to understand significant problems of global impact. (View Less)
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How effective would solar cells be in any particular area of the United States? In this activity, students answer that question by analyzing graphs of incoming solar radiation. Students will download two solar radiation graphs, one based on latitude... (View More) and one based on cloud cover. After transferring that data to the accompanying worksheet, students will determine the areas in the United States best suited for the use of solar cells. Using both an overlay graph and a difference graph, students will determine the practicality of solar cell power for a home in various U.S. locations. This lesson uses student- and citizen science-friendly microsets of authentic NASA Earth system science data from the MY NASA DATA project. It also includes related links, extensions, an online glossary, and a list of related AP Environmental Science topics. (View Less)
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This is a hands-on lab activity about the chemical composition and conductivity of water. Working in groups, learners will: conduct an experiment involving the process of electrolysis, prepare an experiment to better understand the process of ion... (View More) exchange, discuss and research the "softness" and "hardness" of water, and use the periodic table to identify elements and learn their characteristics. Background information, a glossary and more is included. Materials needed for each student group include a 9-volt battery, two electrodes (e.g. copper strips, or two #2 pencils sharpened at both ends), electrical wire and glass beakers or ceramic saucers. This activity is part of the Aquarius Hands-on Laboratory Activities. (View Less)
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It's not a big ass that guys like, it's just an ass on wide hips. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3650047&forum_id=2#33577058)
Hip to waist ratio is like 60% of female attractiveness.
It's also a tell that a guy is a closeted homo when he likes chicks with a wide waist and/or narrow hips. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3650047&forum_id=2#33577036)
Other studies have identified body shape, or waist-to-hip ratio, as an important feature of female attractiveness for which Caucasian and African-American men may have different preferences. Low WHR, typically defined as .68�.80, has been suggested to be an indicator of reproductive health and fertility (Henss, 1995; Singh, 1993, 1994a,b,c) and also a signal of the absence of major diseases (Bjorntorp, 1988, 1991; Leibel, Edens, & Fried, 1989). Thompson et al. (1996) found African-American males were 1.9 times more likely to select a larger ideal female hip/buttocks size and 1.7 times more likely to choose a larger ideal female thigh size than Caucasian subjects. Evidence from other investigations demonstrated that African-Americans indicated a greater attraction to heavier figures than did Caucasian men, including a higher ideal weight and a preference for larger buttocks (Cunningham, Roberts, Barbee, Druen, & Wu, 1995). Similarly, in a recent study, Freedman, Carter, Sbrocco, and Gray (2004) found that African-American men often preferred WHRs in the range of .55�.65. They found that in addition to being more accepting of larger body sizes for women, African-American men preferred a WHR that was lower than the WHR preferred by Caucasian men. Such findings lend support to the notion that men�s weight and shape preferences constitute cultural variants that may contribute to the maintenance of unhealthy weights among African-American women. However, not all studies have supported these conclusions. Although Singh (1994a,b,c) found that African-American men did not prefer heavier women, the range of WHRs presented to participants was restricted (.70 through 1.0). Additionally, participants were only presented with figures that were Caucasian in appearance.(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3650047&forum_id=2#33577095)


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School propaganda: Transparency is a must
January 14. 2013 6:23PM
In Goffstown, the school district is distributing hundreds of copies of a six-page color brochure touting the district's position that an upcoming $14.5 million school construction bond would benefit public education. The brochure, though, is silent about one important point: Who paid for it.
It was funded by Harvey Construction of Bedford, the contractor hired to do the work if voters approve the borrowing in March. It ought to be obvious to the school board, the administrators and the executives of Harvey Construction that having the company that will benefit from a government spending initiative anonymously propagandizing the public on behalf of that initiative is unseemly and troubling.
Whenever the government is involved in publishing or distributing materials to promote the government's position, those materials should state clearly whose views are presented and who paid for the materials. If the issue involves borrowing or spending, the costs of both and their impact on the tax rate should be included.
This simple bit of transparency provides the public with important information and eliminates the hint of corruption or collusion. It should be standard policy at every level of government.


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ghostly447 wrote:betiko wrote:ghostly447 wrote:jonty125 wrote:I have never heard of Lovecraft but anyhow the town is Arkham, lord voldemort is hosting the Batman game which is held in Arkham, therefore he has knowledge. He hasn't given us that knowledge on the first post of the day so vote lord voldemort for withholding.
Vote Jonty Because obviously we are talking scifi. I havent even read/seen anything about lovecraft before and it is quite apparent after 3-4 pages of talk about it. This seems to be a pathetic attempt at throwing out a vote and hoping someone will take the bait and go too far with it.
unvote vote ghostly because you seem to take seriously a jokevote
How do you not take it seriously? Sarcasm doesnt transfer over the computer, so the only thing I can assume (not knowing Jonty's play too well) is that he was actually serious and was skimming. Nothing in there says sarcasm except that we are in the joke voting stage.
in what way can jonty's post be taken seriously? specially on the first posts of the vote stage..
the fact that the prison in batman's universe and the city in this game have the same name is a pure coincidence and irrelevant, even if they were related why would the mod from another game know more than others because of that? I didn' think i'd have to explain it..


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Cisco polishes ISR and Catalyst nuts and bolts
Energy savin' skoolin'
Cisco has seasoned a stew of integrated-service routers (ISRs) and Catalyst network switch announcements with customer backing.
Featured in the release were a pair of new ISRs, the 880 VDSL2 and 890 series ISRs. Both are aimed at small business, offering VDSL2 broadband, wireless support, and - according to Cisco - improved security. Also serving small business is the upgraded 1861W ISR, a voice router with 802.11g wireless support.
Cisco also reminded us that its 3G wireless wide area network (WWAN) for ISRs now supports HSPA for the 880, 1800, 2800, and 3800 series ISRs, as was discussed in a white paper released last month and recently updated.
Action over on the Catalyst side includes the recently released Supervisor 6L-E card for the Catalyst 4500 Series. The 6L-E provides a 280Gbps switching fabric, IPv6 in hardware, and two-by-10GbE or four-by-1GbE SFP port. Cisco also claims that the Catalyst 4500 is the first modular switch in the industry to support power-over-Ethernet plus (PoEP).
The network giant trotted out examples of customers who are benefitting from its technology. In this example, the most notable was Council Rock, a 12,400-student school district near Philadelphia, Pennsyvania.
According to Cisco, the district's Catalyst-based network deployed a web-based monitoring and control system to keep an eye on the district's heating, ventilation, and air-condition (HVAC) systems. The effort allowed them to better allocate resources and contributed to a reduction of energy use by 42.7 percent since December 2005, resulting in a $5.3m (£3.3m) savings. ®


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What kind of influence has the great Duke Ellington left on the jazz scene in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia? What role did "The King," i.e. Elvis Presley, play in the creation of the music scene there? Check out what members of the jazz quintet Letecki Pekinezeri have to say about that and more!
Our series of cultural events ended in November with author readings at Buch Wien literature fair in Vienna, Austria and dance performances at the Euro-Scene Festival of contemporary European theatre in Leipzig, Germany.
We hope that those of you who joined us there or in one of the earlier events in the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Finland or the United Kingdom enjoyed yourselves and got inspired by the creativity, variety and dynamism of Southeast European culture.
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Zdena Pisker is the only artist in Bosnia and Herzegovina who produces encaustic paintings, i.e. using an iron to produce her paintings. A few years ago, the sixty-year-old Zdena Pisker from Zenica read an article in a magazine claiming that using an iron to paint is a form of stress relief.
In November 2012 the performance of a play by the young Montenegrin playwright Jovana Bojović will be held in London. Her play entitled Peacekeeping Mission won the competition organised by the Theater Epicenter in Zagreb, which is the theatrical centre for central and south-eastern Europe, together with the Company of Angels Theatre from London.
Baklava is always present on Albanian tables on New Year's Day. Its taste adds sweetness to the celebration. Per tradition, Albanian grandmothers begin preparing the dough long before the long-awaited day and maintain that a piece of baklava should be eaten by all in order to have a lucky year ahead.
The phenomenon of youth alternative pop culture in Belgrade during the late 1970s and early 1980s, that of the last generation that spent its youth in socialist Yugoslavia, is the focus of the exhibition entitled The Last Youth in Yugoslavia, the first exhibition of 2012 at the 25. Maj Museum in Belgrade.
Inva Mula, born in Tirana, Albania in 1963, is one of the leading sopranos of her generation. Famous to filmgoers as the voice featured in the Diva Dance in Luc Besson's Fifth Element, she has performed to great acclaim across the world, and is a regular performer at La Scala in Milan. Her album Il bel sogno is performed with the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ivo Lipanović and features famous arias by Puccini, Gounod, Massenet and Verdi.
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The One World Human Rights Festival will take place in Pristina from 12-16 December. Its aim is to promote human rights, freedoms, and democracy, but also to feature meaningful debates on issues like human rights, civil society, foreign policy, environmental policy, etc.
The Tirana International FIlm Festival (TIFF) is the first international cinema festival of its kind in Albania and will be held from 5-10 December
Gibanica is a delicious pastry made with Serbian white cheese and can be made for a festive occasion or as a comforting familiar snack.


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Blumenthal wants background checks for ammunition purchases
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal said Tuesday that in the aftermath of the school shooting in Newtown he will introduce a bill to require background checks on people buying gun ammunition.
The government has a background-check system for gun purchases but not for ammunition, even though it is illegal to sell both firearms and ammunition to felons, fugitives, drug addicts, the mentally ill and perpetrators of domestic violence.
Ammunition is the "black hole of gun violence prevention," said Blumenthal, D-Conn., because under current law there is virtually no way to enforce the prohibition.
"A felon who walks into a store to buy ammunition can load an entire shopping cart, pay and walk out, no questions asked, because there are no background checks," he said in a press conference call.
Blumenthal said that after the Dec. 14 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, he spoke with many people in Newtown and throughout the state about gun violence and devised a set of proposals to introduce in the coming weeks.
The other bills will focus on banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, closing a loophole that allows the private sale of guns without background checks, and addressing the relationship between mental health issues and gun violence, Blumenthal said.
In addition to requiring ammunition buyers to undergo an instant background check in the FBI's national database, the Ammunition Background Check Act of 2013 would require sellers of ammunition to notify law enforcement officials when someone buys more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition at once or within five days, or when a large quantity of ammunition is stolen.
Teflon-coated bullets and incendiary ammunition would be banned by the bill.
Several members of the new Congress have introduced measures to combat gun violence.
Blumenthal was asked during the conference call whether it would make more sense to wait for the administration to come up with a plan and make one concerted push. Blumenthal said his bill does not preclude a unified effort and it could be included as part of a larger initiative.
The system for background checks is in place and most background checks can be done in about 30 seconds, he said.
"I'm incredibly hopeful that a common sense enforcement tool like this one will have traction and success," Blumenthal said. "And maybe, most importantly, I regard it as keeping faith with the people in Newtown and across Connecticut, people who were directly affected by this horrific tragedy."


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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:
American International Group Inc., up $1.17 at $38.45
The insurer posted a $4 billion loss at the end of 2012 on costs from Sandy, but its operating profit topped Wall Street expectations.
Hewlett-Packard Co., up $2.10 at $19.20
The latest quarter showed some progress at the PC maker, which has been struggling with a shift toward smartphones and tablets.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co., down $2.19 at $46.86
The teen clothing retailer's profit rose during the holiday quarter, but sales trends deteriorated. It plans to close up to 50 U.S. stores.
Rackspace Hosting Inc., down 74 cents at $54.59
The website hosting company is cutting prices for its cloud bandwidth by one-third and setting tiered prices for other services.
Zynga Inc., up 23 cents at $3.19
The online games maker could be closer to offering lucrative gambling games in the U.S. after a Nevada law legalized online gambling.
Aruba Networks Inc., up $4.60 at $25.40
The maker of equipment for wireless networks reverted to a profit and posted higher revenue in its latest quarter as demand grew.
WebMD Health Corp., up $4.14 at $20.44
The health website predicted another sales decline for this year, but the drop was not as steep as Wall Street expected.
Charter Communications Inc., up $7.99 at $85.02
New customers and more video and advertising sales helped the cable TV provider narrow its fourth-quarter loss.


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So the trick is to create and maintain a social media presence in as little time as possible, while remaining effective and worthwhile.
Here are three tips to manage your social media presence in as little as 10 minutes per day.


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Tengo Nubs. wrote:mandustries wrote:Cocoa wrote:Hold onto your hats everyone! The Official German release website has A LOT of new movie stills!
Click on the word "Bilder"
So, I'm pretty sure I almost melted out of my chair when looking at the prom pic on the above site.
Gah, can't wait until Nov. 21!
same here!! ah!! the way he is looking at her in that picture....it just literally makes me want to die. i think i'm going to spontaneously combust when i see this movie!! i'm having trouble breathing right now...
right!? i swear i saw that pic and was like *GASSSSPPPPPPP*
hahaha oh Rob and Kristen...making me go insane!
is it just me, or is their chemistry just oozing out of the computer screen in all those pics?


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How far would you go to spare your child from bullying? For parents of 13-year-old Nicolette Taylor, it was allowing their daughter to get a nose job after she was subject to bullying at home and on Facebook, according to ABC News.
Nicolette was a child model (she once graced the cover of Parenting's sister magazine, Babytalk!) who broke her nose twice—at ages two and eight—leaving it disfigured. After getting teased multiple times a week, both in school and online, the family decided to take action and scheduled an appointment with a surgeon this past summer.
Plus: Bullying in the Digital Age
Nicolette's mother, Maria Taylor, defended her decision on Nightline, when correspondent Juju Chang suggested that other parents might find the situation questionable:
"I think it's fine. For a while, we say, 'It gives you character.' But if that's the one thing that makes her so insecure, I don't have a problem with it."
Nicolette became the youngest rhinoplasty patient ever for Dr. Samieh Rizk, who says that 25 percent of the surgeries he does are on teenagers. Dr. Rizk explained that a nose is fully grown on a female at age 14 or when her feet stop growing. According to the Nightline report, nearly 250,000 teens had cosmetic surgery last year, and while there are no official age limits, most doctors recommend that teens be fully grown before having facial plastic surgery.
Plus: Sleep Deprivation May Turn Kids Into Bullies
Nicolette, who was just a few weeks out of 7th grade at the time of her surgery, was so moved by her new nose that she cried upon seeing it.
But the question remains: Does getting surgery ultimately mean "the bullies won," as some detractors claim? Should we teach children to embrace imperfections that cause them significant anguish in the spirit of character building?
Would you allow your tween or teen to get plastic surgery if she were being bullied about her appearance?


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Former cornerback Anthony Henry played for Todd Bowles with the Browns and the Cowboys, and Henry said today that Bowles is just the guy to bring a secondary together.
"With the kind of talent they already have there, he'll make them a better secondary, and they'll have a really successful team next year," Henry said.
Henry, now retired in the Dallas area, said Bowles has a talent for "tapping in on what each player is good at, and bringing that together" into a coherent coverage plan for the secondary. "Guys feel comfortable with their roles and the scheme," Henry said -- not something that was always true for the Eagles last season.
The Eagles announced this afternoon that they are hiring Bowles, ex-Dolphins assistant head coach-defensive backs, as the coach of the Birds' defensive backs. Bowles replaces Johnnie Lynn, but unlike Lynn, he will be in charge of the entire secondary, including safeties coach Mike Zordich. Lynn only coached corners.
Bringing aboard Bowles, 48, a former Temple star and Redskins defensive back, removes the last obstacle to Eagles coach Andy Reid giving his long-awaited season wrapup news conference. Reid now is scheduled to speak to reporters tomorrow at noon.
Bowles began his post-playing career on the Packers' personnel staff, back when Reid was on the Green Bay coaching staff, in 1995-96. He has coached with the Jets, Browns and Cowboys, along with the Dolphins, coming to Miami along with Bill Parcells, when Parcells left the Cowboys. He was the Dolphins' interim head coach after the Dec. 12 firing of Tony Sparano, going 2-1, and was a finalist for the permanent job, which went to Joe Philbin. Bowles also interviewed for the head coaching vacancy in Oakland. It will be interesting to see if he has more of a voice in game-day decisions than an ordinary position coach would.
The Eagles said Bowles' hiring completes their coaching staff, so Juan Castillo offically will remain as defensive coordinator.
Henry said Bowles' voice was respected in Dallas across the defense, not just in the secondary.
Henry said Bowles' style was laid-back enough that players felt free to come in and talk to him about coverages they felt had worked well for them in the past, that he should consider, but he "did get fiery" if a plan wasn't being executed properly. He added that Bowles is not "a big yeller or cuss-out guy."
Bowles is probably the first position coach Reid has brought aboard who was already considered an up-and-coming NFL head coaching candidate; that will be an interesting dynamic, as Reid confronts what might be a do-or-die season.


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Coal, the former king of American energy, is making a comeback after being left for dead in favor of cleaner-burning natural gas.
For years coal has been losing market share as the American fracking boom created a flood of cheap and abundant natural gas. But natural gas prices have edged upward, and the frigid winter created unprecedented energy demands. Power plants have increasingly been turning to coal as the solution.
There's serious doubt whether the resurgence in coal can last in America with stricter environmental rules coming. But the global outlook for coal is bright, and U.S. coal producers hope to take advantage by increasing exports to other countries hungry for cheap energy. The International Energy Agency believes coal will be the No. 1 fuel for meeting the worldwide increase in energy demand.
"Like it or not, coal is here to stay for a long time to come," IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said in the agency's most recent coal market report. "Coal is abundant and geopolitically secure, and coal-fired plants are easily integrated into existing power systems."
Van der Hoeven added, though, that she wanted to emphasize that coal burning in its current form is "simply unsustainable" for the world's climate.
In a blow to President Barack Obama's pledge to be a leader in the fight against global warming, American carbon dioxide emissions rose an estimated 2 percent last year _ after falling by 12 percent over the previous seven years. The federal Energy Information Administration attributes the rise in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions largely to the country using more coal than it used to.
Coal burning increased in the United States nearly 4 percent last year, and this year should see an even bigger spike, according to the Energy Information Administration.
"There is a resurgence, and it is quite a strong one," said James Stevenson, the director of North American coal analysis for the global energy consulting firm IHS.
Coal's renewed popularity is a result of natural gas prices more than doubling over the past two years in response to a tighter market.
Those prices allow cheap coal to compete. The use of natural gas for power generation dropped in 2013 for the first time in five years as a result.
The Arctic blasts of this year's winter also pushed power plants to turn to coal in order to meet the nation's record-setting heating requirements.
"The main benefactor of this extreme cold and extreme low in natural gas inventory is coal," said Bob Yu, an analyst for Bentek Energy.
Coal is set for more growth this year because of the price of natural gas and the ramp-up of coal generation, according to Yu and other analysts.
Coal from western Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana is on the rise, with 50 percent more production than a decade ago, according to the energy pricing and information service Platts. Coal from Montana and Wyoming is also managing to make more inroads in the market.
But the hard times continue in the economically depressed Central Appalachian coal field, which includes the century-old industry in eastern Kentucky. Mines have closed and thousands have lost their jobs. Coal from that region remains at a serious disadvantage because of its high mining costs. Platts' figures show Central Appalachian coal production dropped nearly 40 percent in the past decade.
"Much of the coal from the region is mined from increasingly smaller seams, sometimes only a few feet thick, in mostly deep underground mines," said Andrew Moore, a Platts editor who tracks the coal industry.
The rest of the U.S. coal basins could run into problems soon as well, with federal mercury and air toxics standards scheduled to begin in 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency also is working on greenhouse gas emission rules that are squarely aimed at coal.
IHS analyst Stevenson is skeptical that coal's comeback in America can last, and he expects a slow decline in U.S. consumption to take hold.
Other nations will hunger for American coal, though. Coal use has been growing in Europe, where natural gas prices are far higher than in the United States.
The United States is exporting nearly twice as much coal as it did four years ago, with big costumers in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Germany.
Stevenson said there is also potential for a growth in U.S. coal in South Korea, with its fast-growing economy, and in Japan, which wants to move away from nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 leak of radioactive material from Fukushima. He expects coal terminals to be built in the Pacific Northwest to ship coal mined from the Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming to Asia.


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After months of scrutinizing financial and operational mismanagement at the state agency that oversees the most beautiful and historic places in California, legislators will be looking for answers Tuesday when they grill the new acting director.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — After months of scrutinizing financial and operational mismanagement at the state agency that oversees the most beautiful and historic places in California, legislators will be looking for answers Tuesday when they grill the new acting director.
Last week, another audit described a flawed Department of Parks and Recreation that kept millions of dollars hidden in a secret fund even as the legislature sought to close 70 of the state's 270 parks to save money.
One revelation in the audit was that administrators did not know the operating costs of each park, so it would have been impossible to gauge the savings the targeted closures would have brought.
State Auditor Elaine Howle is scheduled to appear before the Joint Legislative Audit Committee to answer questions about the most recent investigation into $54 million discovered in two special funds kept hidden for years.
Last fall Gov. Jerry Brown appointed a retired Marine Corps major general, Anthony Jackson, to turn around the beleaguered parks department. Jackson pledged then to restore integrity to the department and is expected to appear as well.
California's parks include redwood forests, spectacular beaches and cultural relics from the Gold Rush era. The discovery of the secret $54 million fund came as dozens of volunteer groups were working to raise funds and form partnerships to keep open most of the parks on the closure list.
Many of the nonprofit volunteer groups discovered then that the department did not have a grasp on local parks' operating costs. Howle's audit showed that department administrators were estimating the operating costs for individual parks using decade-old figures based on geographic regions.
"Without updated and complete estimates of the costs to operate each park, it is difficult to accurately estimate the amount the department would save by closing a given park, and to measure the impact of partnership agreements that provide funding to help pay parks' operating costs and offset the effects of budget reductions," the audit said.
The department has a budget of nearly $574 million in the current fiscal year, which comes from the state general fund, various bond funds, user fees and off-highway vehicle registration fees.
The actual amount intentionally hidden in the State Parks and Recreation Fund was $20 million, and the remaining $34 million discrepancy in an off-highway vehicle fund was due to differences in the timing of the fund reports to the state finance department and the controller's office.
The amount of money kept hidden had grown as high as $29 million in 2003, the attorney general's office reported in an earlier investigation.
Parks Director Ruth Coleman resigned and a senior department official was fired last summer.
The Howle audit said several budget officers brought their concerns about discrepancies in the fund balances to top officials. But they were told to continue misreporting the amount of money in the special funds because administrators were afraid the department's budget would be cut if lawmakers and the governor knew the true figure.
The auditor recommended the parks department establish detailed procedures that compare year-end financial statements to ensure that the ending fund balances reported to the governor's budget and state controller's budget are the same.
She also recommended that officials determine how much it costs to fully operate each park.