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The improved Minnesota Vikings will kick off Week 8 of the NFL season by trying to stay perfect at Mall of America Field.
The Vikings, who have a 4-0 record in Minneapolis this season, will host a Tampa Bay Buccaneers team in the midst of a nine-game road losing streak.
The Bucs' woes away from Central Florida date back to their last visit to the Twin Cities on Sept. 18 of last season when LeGarrette Blount rushed for two touchdowns, including the game-winning TD run with 31 seconds remaining, as Tampa Bay rallied from a 17-0 deficit to earn a 24-20 win.
The Vikings defeated Arizona 21-14 in Week 7 behind star running back Adrian Peterson, who rushed for a season-high 153 yards and a touchdown. The six-year veteran, who has made an amazing recovery from a torn ACL suffered on Christmas Eve in 2011, recorded his ninth career game with at least 150 yards, the most among active players. Peterson also matched Robert Smith for the most 100-yard rushing games in Minnesota history with 29.
"We have shown that we can be productive in the run game and the pass game," said Peterson, who has keyed the Vikings early season success.
The Vikings started the 2011 campaign at a dismal 1-6 and finished 3-13, tied for the worst mark in franchise history.
A healthy Peterson along with return of Antoine Winfield from injury and Chris Cook from legal troubles in the defensive backfield coupled with the addition of two stellar first round draft picks, left tackle Matt Kalil and free safety Harrison Smith, has the Vikings thinking big.
Smith returned an interception for a touchdown against the Cardinals and Minnesota registered seven sacks in that game, including a career-high three by Brian Robison.
"That's what we want to pride ourselves on, being the toughest team, the most physical team," said Robison. "We were able to come out today and do that, we just have to keep doing that going forward."
That defensive production helped the Vikings overcome a disappointing performance by quarterback Christian Ponder, who threw for just four yards in the second half. He completed 8-of-17 passes overall on the day with two interceptions.
Meanwhile, Tampa Bay aims to get back on the winning track after a 35-28 loss in Week 7 against New Orleans.
Josh Freeman passed for a career-high 420 yards vs. the Saints, the third- biggest game in franchise history.
"Our quarterback had a tremendous game but we had some missed opportunities," said Tampa Bay head coach Greg Schiano. "Again, we keep saying the same song and dance and that's the way it is until we change it, close but no cigar."
Vincent Jackson was Freeman's favorite target, totaling seven catches for a franchise-record 216 yards and a touchdown.
"The offense is clicking well," rookie back Doug Martin, who ran for 85 yards and a score against New Orleans, told the Buccaneers' website. "That all comes with guys doing their jobs, and consistently doing their jobs. When everybody does that, the offense is very successful."
The Vikings lead the all-time series with their old NFC Central rivals 31-21 but Tampa Bay has won five straight and Minnesota hasn't topped the Bucs since a 20-16 win back in 2001.
This is an interesting matchup because the numbers dictate Minnesota abandoning its strength and putting the game into the hands of Ponder.
Tampa Bay's run defense is stingy, ranked No. 3 in the NFL and allowing just 76.0 yards per game. On the other hand, the Bucs are 31st in passing defense (323.0 ypg) after allowing Drew Brees to go wild last Sunday.
That said, Vikings offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave seems to be losing confidence in Ponder and you can certainly understand why. The second-year signal-caller has now thrown at least two interceptions in three straight games and has been making some head-scratching decisions, particularly when he's out of the pocket, trying to extend plays.
Ponder is extremely athletic but his mechanics seem to fall apart when he's on the move, causing the ball to sail. It's tough to overthrow his 6-foot-6 security blanket, Kyle Rudolph, but Ponder has managed to do it in back-to- back weeks while backed up deep in his own territory, setting up TDs for the opposition.
"You obviously don't want to get worse," Ponder said. "Our objective is to progress every week, and I know I need to make a big progression from Sunday to Thursday. That's what we try to do every week and that's something I definitely need to do this week."
Since Minnesota has Peterson and is 27th in the league in passing with 203.4 yards per game, you would expect the Vikings to rely on their bell cow back but the team has plenty of weapons in the passing game if Ponder can get them the ball.
No matter what the numbers say expect the Vikings to lean on Peterson and the short passing game with the dynamic Percy Harvin.
"You want to be able to throw the ball as well as run the ball effectively, but there are times where something is being taken away you have to be good in other areas," Vikings coach Frazier said. "Fortunately for us, we're at a point as a team where we can make up for deficiencies in other areas. We're definitely relying on our run game, and that's not a bad thing.
Peterson leads the NFL with 7,404 rush yards and 67 TDs since arriving on the scene in 2007 and has helped Minnesota average 132.3 ypg on the ground this season, good for seventh in the NFL. The superstar has proven he can run against any defense.
"Peterson is as good as they get," Schiano said. "He runs with an attitude. We need to play run defense with an attitude. We have and we will."
Freeman comes in hot for Tampa Bay, amassing an NFL-best 748 passing yards and six touchdown passes over his last two games but he faces a defense which is ranked ninth in the NFL and is much more stout than the Saints group he saw less than a week ago.
"This is a league that comes down to execution," said Freeman. "You can have the best scheme in the world, but if you are unable to execute, then it's all for naught"
Cook, who helped shut down Larry Fitzgerald in Week 7, is the kind of lengthy corner who can match up with Jackson, who is third in the league with 21.7 yards per catch.
"We basically have the same type of game plan (for Jackson)," Cook told ESPN Radio. "Just take away the big plays to him and take away the big passes down the field to those guys."
Minnesota, however, rarely lets the opposition dictate its coverage schemes, meaning Tampa Bay should be able to game plan and get Jackson matched up with the 5-foot-9 Winfield or rookie Josh Robinson. Of course Winfield has been overcoming size deficiencies for 14 years and has been playing at a Pro Bowl level this season.
Making things even stickier for the Bucs is the Vikings pass rush. Robison got on track against the Cards and Jared Allen has six sacks in his past games.
"I think Greg Schiano and his staff, they have those guys fighting and they seem to be prepared every week," Frazier said. "They play with a lot of energy across the board, on special teams, offense and defense, and that's been very impressive to see. We'll have to really rise up and match their intensity on Thursday night."
Tampa Bay has had the Vikings number recently and was a major part of Minnesota's historic September collapse a year ago. But this season has gone much differently for the Vikings, who need to improve to 6-2 considering the second half of their schedule features two games with both Chicago and Green Bay and another with AFC powerhouse Houston.
"One of our players who was on the team last year came to me and said, 'I can't believe we lost that game last year,'" said Frazier. "But they're a different team, we're a different team. You only look at personnel if you go back and look at that game. We're two totally different teams."
And Minnesota is now the better one.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Vikings 23 Buccaneers 14


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After 45 years as a dedicated teacher, Edward is looking forward to the imminent celebration to mark his retirement.
But his home is under siege. A mob of angry students have gathered. A brick has been thrown through the window, he and his wife haven't left the house for six days, and now his estranged daughter has arrived with her own questions.
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African Conference on Pharmaceutical Crime
10-12 December 2013, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
With participation from some 20 African countries, this event brought together representatives of law enforcement agencies, drug regulatory authorities, international organizations and private-sector stakeholders. The conference provided a platform for participants to:
- Share experiences, methodologies and approaches to fighting pharmaceutical crime;
- Improve international networking and communication among enforcement authorities of the participating countries;
- Set the basis for establishing a formal information exchange mechanism based on the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) approach among participating countries.
The Conference also saw the launch of the Declaration of Addis Ababa which will reinforce the commitment of countries in the region to develop effective cross-sector strategies to combat pharmaceutical crimes.
Organized by INTERPOL, the event was supported by the International Institute of Research against Counterfeit Medicines (IRACM).


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Seam applications continuously redeploy in AS-5.1.0jaikiran pai Jun 11, 2009 10:44 AM
A couple of users have now reported an issue with Seam applications in AS-5.1.0. The issue causes the applications to continuously redeploy without any changes in the app. The issue is specific to Seam apps.
Here are the 2 threads:
The issue is because of the *.spdia or *.jsfdia files that get added to the metadata locations of a Seam app (.war/WEB-INF). However, the extension of those files doesn't matter as long as the extension is not a .xml. So any files that have a non .xml extension in the metadata location (WEB-INF) of a Seam application causes the app to continuously redeploy.
The piece of code that causes this is:
List<VirtualFile> children = mdpVF.getChildren(filter); String mdpPathName = mdpVF.getPathName(); Set<String> leaves = getCache().getLeaves(mdpPathName); // do we have some new files or some were deleted if (leaves != null && children != null && leaves.size() != children.size()) { if (log.isTraceEnabled()) log.trace("Metadata files number changed, old: " + leaves + ", now: " + children); return true; }
Here's the output from the logs for this piece of code:
2009-06-11 18:54:01,957 TRACE [org.jboss.deployers.vfs.spi.structure.modified.MetaDataStructureModificationChecker] (HDScanner) Metadata files number changed, old: [myapp.ear/myapp.war/WEB-INF/pages.xml.unknownexttype, myapp.ear/myapp.war/WEB-INF/web.xml, myapp.ear/myapp.war/WEB-INF/components.xml], now: [FileHandler@16915265[path=myapp.ear/myapp.war/WEB-INF/components.xml context=file:/home/me/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/ real=file:/home/me/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/myapp.ear/myapp.war/WEB-INF/components.xml], FileHandler@21718173[path=myapp.ear/myapp.war/WEB-INF/web.xml context=file:/home/me/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/ real=file:/home/me/jboss-5.1.0.GA/server/default/deploy/myapp.ear/myapp.war/WEB-INF/web.xml]]
Interesting the presence of such files does not cause the other non-seam app to go crazy. So i am sure it has to do something with the Seam integration deployers or the SeamModificationTypeMatcher. Even after some debugging i haven't understood why this happens.


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President Barack Obama appealed to Congress to honor the nation's financial obligations in his 2013 State of the Union Address, and Suffolk University Law School Professor Alasdair Roberts points out that America has defaulted in the past.
"It's incredible that the leader of an economic superpower should feel obliged to say anything about the need to honor the country's debts," writes Roberts in a guest commentary on The Business Desk, Paul Solman's PBS NewsHour blog. "But there's no doubt that default would cause enormous damage to America's reputation abroad. We already have the evidence, provided by one of the most humiliating moments in America's economic history."
Roberts goes on to discuss the is the default of nine states -- accounting for two-thirds of U.S. government debt -- in the 1840s and how that sparked an international crisis.
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Its great for christian students, and Jewish students, particularly seventh day Adventists, since the school belongs to that organization. If you love have tons of worship services and want to be a pastor or priest its definitely worth checking out.
Tips for prospective students
The dorms are nothing spectacular, they are single sex only, guys dorm at one of the campus, girls dorm at the other, guys are not allowed to go into the girls dorm at all. Girls can go into the guys dorm lobby. Beware of the chapel credits. This school requires you attend so many worship services, if you fail to do so you will pay $20.00 for every worship service you are short of. If you decide to live on campus you will have to attend daily or semi daily worship services. If your a commuter you only need 20 per semester. Also if you are a commuter student or you have some unique circumstance you can go to student services and sign a waiver which will lower the number of worship services you need to attend. The cafeteria there is only 1, its located next to the girls dorm, the food is all vegetarian so if your a strict meat eater you probably should not go here. Also for those of you coming, make sure you register well ahead of the deadline, so many students wait until the last second and it gets unbelievably messy.
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compared to other schools its pretty cheap, tuition is 16,000 per year. most private schools are in 20k+ range. since its cheap don't except a top notch education cause you wont be getting one.
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The atmosphere here is pretty friendly, but there are not a lot of clubs, or activities going on. There are no parties here, its a religious school so there are never any parties. It's also a small school so by the end of the year you will know EVERYONE. if you like the small town vibe you'll love it, if you love the city you'll hate it.
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(Reuters) - Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the massacre of 13 soldiers at a Texas Army base, on Friday began his residency on death row at the military's maximum-security facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, a prison spokeswoman said.
Hasan is being confined in the "death sentence inmate housing unit" that is part of the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks (USDB) at Leavenworth, said Kimberly Lewis, spokeswoman for the prison.
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"In a loving—but not fawning—documentary look at this fascinating figure of 20th-century intellectual life, director Michael Paxton has created an exhaustive and definitive history of a challenging subject."
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Hollywood used to find movies ideas on the New York Times bestsellers list, but lately it seems like studios are handing around an old Toys 'R' Us catalog from the Reagan years. Battleship, Transformers, G.I. Joe, Tonka and Ouija have all made headlines, and any day we're expecting to hear about a visionary producer who thinks that proposed View-Master movie just might click. Surely, though, this ongoing toy story in pop culture can't continue, can it?
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Ah. Right. We almost forgot that DC Comics announced in April that "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" would be launched as a six-issue series in July. Writer James Robinson and artist Phillip Tan are crafting this new interpretation of the muscular Mattel brand that launched in 1981 and became a cartoon series in 1983.
The premise of the new series is that Skeletor has triumphed and lords over Castle Grayskull while the Masters have no memory of their former glory — and He-Man is a simple woodsman haunted by strange dreams. (So if you think ABC's "Once Upon a Time" ripped off "Fables," then you can view this as DC payback.)
This weekend, fans can make an early visit to Eternia with the first in a series of digital comics that zero in on individual characters in the Masters of the Universe mythology. Battle Cat and Man-at-Arms will be in upcoming installments, but the story that goes on sale Saturday features a new name: Sir Laser Lot.
Sir Laser Lot is the creation of none other than Geoff Johns, the star DC writer and the chief creative officer at DC Entertainment, and he put a lot of time in on the project: He was a kid (and a He-Man fan) in Michigan when he first created the noble galactic knight — and he dug out his old childhood drawings so he could show Mattel what he had in mind. Mattel's designers took Johns' new words and old art and created an action figure that will debut in July at Comic-Con International.
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The digital comic that arrives Saturday features art by Howard Porter. The digital series will debut new chapters twice a month on Saturdays. He-Man's most trusted companion, Battle Cat, stars in the July 14 installment (written by Mike Costa with art by Jheremy Raapack) and the captain of the Eternia guard, Man-At-Arms, takes the spotlight in the July 28 release (written by Kyle Higgins with artwork by Pop Mhan).
Even though Johns had a deep affection for the toys and mythology, he didn't buy a ticket to see "Masters of the Universe," the 1987 live-action film — you remember, it had Dolph Lundgren (co-star in upcoming "The Expendables 2") as He-Man, and the nefarious Skeletor was brought to life by Frank Langella (yes, that's right, the "Frost/Nixon" Oscar nominee).
"I never saw it, I never went," Johns said, "so I don't really have an opinion on it."
Funny, that's how we feel about "Battleship."
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The Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department responded to a crash on Interstate 43 that closed all lanes of northbound traffic for about an hour.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation reported that all northbound lanes of the interstate were closed between Foster Road and County V in Sheboygan County after 2 vehicles were involved in an accident.
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The deuterocanonical books are the books that Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Oriental Orthodoxy include in the Old Testament that were not part of the Jewish Tanakh. Their acceptance among at least some early Christians is generally well-testified, and as early as the Council of Rome in 382, an official canon including these books was published.
In the Catholic Church, the following books are considered deuterocanonical: Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), and Baruch; as well as some additions to Esther and Daniel. The various Orthodox churches include a few others, often including 3 Maccabees, Psalm 151, 1 Esdras, Odes, Psalms of Solomon, and occasionally even 4 Maccabees. This last book is often relegated to an appendix, because it has certain tendencies approaching pagan thought.
Most Septuagint manuscripts include the deuterocanonical books and passages. Like the New Testament, the deuterocanonical books were mostly written in Greek. Several appear to have been written originally in Hebrew, but the original text has long been lost. Archeological finds in the last century, however, have provided a text of almost 2/3 of the book of Sirach, and fragments of other books have been found as well. One of these books, 2 Esdras, survives only in an ancient Latin translation dated to the second century AD but was probably composed in Greek. This particular book is not widely accepted by the Orthodox and is rejected by Catholics.
Deuterocanonical Apocrypha is a sacred text of Christianity.


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Doris Axthelm, 91 - April 22, 2011
Doris Ellen Axthelm, 91, of North Platte passed away Friday, April 22, 2011, at Linden Court of North Platte.
Services will take place at 11 a.m. Friday, April 29, at the First United Methodist Church with Dr. Douglas A. Delp officiating. Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. at the Peckham Cemetery south of Gothenburg.
Visitation is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Odean Colonial Chapel at C & Sycamore.
Axthelm was born Feb. 14, 1920, to Gust F. and Ellen C. Gustafson Anderson, north of Gothenburg where she grew up with her sister.
Axthelm was preceded in death by: her husband, Cecil; her parents, Gust and Ellen Anderson; a sister, Jeanette Miller; daughter-in-law, Deborah Barber Axthelm; granddaughter, Donnie Kay Farr.
Survivors include: her three sons—Michael Axthelm of Hillsboro, OR, Timothy (Mary) Axthelm of North Platte, and Mark (Steph) Axthelm of Gothenburg; her daughter, Kylie (David) Young of Jefferson City, MO; nine grandchildren—Fred Farr, Jamie (Jo Ellen) Axthelm, Jason (Sharon) Axthelm, Jenny (Steve) Skupa, Bradley (Sarah) Axthelm, Ian Young, Isaac Axthelm, Carson Young and Aaron Axthelm; 11 great-grandchildren—Shane (Susie) Farr, Chris Farr, Mackenzie Skupa, Alexa Axthelm, Rodger Farr, Sydney Skupa, Case Axthelm, Kate Axthelm, Abbie Skupa, Ander Axthelm and Tristan Axthelm; two nephews—Greg and Steve Miller; special friends—Mike and Sally Ponte and Toni Dutton; numerous other relatives.
For a complete obituary, see the print edition of the Gothenburg Times or purchase an e-subscription for only $25 per year for the complete paper on-line each Wednesday afternoon.
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Donated hand cycle benefits Tilton vetsBy DAN SEUFERT
Union Leader Correspondent
July 04. 2013 10:12PM
TILTON — Ed Walter won't tell how much he paid for a slightly used Invacare three-wheeled hand cycle at a pawn shop. But he got it for a good price, he said.
Walter, the owner of nhcars.net, a used car dealership in Hooksett, bought the machine used for rehabilitation so he could donate it to the New Hampshire Veterans Home.
The machine is worth $3,400.
"I knew it was a good deal," he said. "But the price doesn't matter so much. I thought of the veterans home when I saw it. Anything I can do to help these guys is worth it.
"If it wasn't for the vets, we wouldn't be able to enjoy the freedoms we have."
The three-wheeled machine is propelled by the driver's arms, not his or her legs. A rider propels it by turning the handlebars, which turn the front wheel.
It is therapeutic because it allows the home's residents to get a full workout without the need of their legs, an important feature for many older veterans who have limited or no use of their lower limbs.
"For some of these men who sit at tables all day and use their arms but not their legs, this provides a great cardio workout," said Ray Schwendeman of the Combat Veterans Motorcycle Association, which helped with the donation.
Veterans home officials gladly accepted the machine recently. It's the third gift that the motorcycle association has helped arrange for the home in the past two years.
"Our slogan is, 'Vets helping vets,'" Schwendeman said. "This machine can add a couple of years to a veteran's life."


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Sorry for the late night post. Spent the snowy weekend organizing cabinets and hanging with friends, including interior designer Alison Sheffield and photographer Stephen Sheffield, when I guess I should have been blogging. Then today, had a whole bunch of style stories due to the Boston Globe. I was kinda thinking of skipping out early tonight to bed, but I just got an email from a Boston area company called TurningArt, so here we go.
The Boston-based start-up, founded by 35-year-old seasoned webpreneur Jason Gracilieri, is a sort of Netflix for art. For $10/month, the site will send you a framed print of an original artwork of your choosing, which you can swap as often as you like. Shipping is free and and membership dollars get banked as ArtCredit, which can be used to buy prints or original pieces from the site.
After a quick survey about your taste (literal vs. abstract), your way of life (city vs. suburbs), and how you approach it (conversation starter vs. laugh inducer), TurningArt assigns you a "Personal Curator." Mine's name is Mari. "She" curated ten pieces for me to kickstart my collection. The pieces were a bit more representational and traditional than my actual leanings. Here's a sampling of artwork I found by browsing that I could live with:
The First Encounter, Casey David
Close VHS (Entry Hall Wallpaper), Hollis Brown Thornton
Flamingo, Josh Goehring
Rally Da, Brantner DeAtley
Times Square I, Marietta Leung
Close Land Study no 77, Peter Roux
Flat Broke, Theresa Anderson
Close Dress Display, Abby Murphy
Short Break, Simon Kogan
Kingsford, Tyler Robbins


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What's your Easter oeuf du jour Peeps?
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Oeuf du Jour
What's your Easter oeuf du jour Peeps?
12 comments:
Love the painting.. and the palette Easter goodie..can you believe those felt baskets are many places here also? Even Dollarama I think!ReplyDelete
Love that window reflection of Paris shot! But for originality, my oeuf-du-jour vote goes to Hugo & Victor's painter's egg - brilliant!ReplyDelete
I'm always astonished at the creativity the French display with their Easter treats. In Australia we get eggs and bunnies really, with the occasional easter bilby for those who want to eat chocolate native animals. Those palette eggs are amazing. I really have to make it to Paris for Easter one year....ReplyDelete
Love seeing how you put this together, Carol, since I'm about to post an Easter egg display too. You have the artist's eye - I hadn't even noticed someone walking on the eggs at Fauchon! Trop forte.ReplyDelete
'Mon oeuf du jour' is definitely Hugo et Victors painted palette egg. The French seem to do everything with style.Love them, keep them coming !!ReplyDelete
Eggstra special, Carol! :-)ReplyDelete
Around here, eggs will need to be wrapped in thick layers of hay so as not too freeze during egg hunts. :-(Replies
Sorry for laying an extra "o" with "to".Delete
Love, love, love your sketch! :-)
Cute CAPTCHA, btw. Took me a while to realize they were pictures of American mailboxes.
Carol, what a stylish approach Paris is taking to Easter chocolate. Many thanks to you for giving us a sample of delicious treats.ReplyDelete
As I near the end of my Lenten chocolate fasting, I have been brave enough to allow some Cadbury Creme Eggs into my apartment. Well, of course, they are not elegant, but they do express a certain tradition. Perhaps by Easter Sunday, I might actually find a stylish choc bunny to grace my "waiting room."


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Though negotiations haven't started yet between the Flyers and star center Claude Giroux, look for them to begin in the coming weeks, said a source close to the situation.
Giroux, 25, will make $5 million next season, but his cap hit is $3.75 million because most of the money was back-loaded in a three-year, $11.25 million contract. He can become a restricted free agent after the 2013-14 season, meaning the Flyers can match another team's offer and keep him in the fold.
But they want to lock him up with a long-term deal.
In his last three seasons, Giroux had 76 points, 93 points and 48 points (pro-rated to 82 points in an 82-game season), respectively.
Giroux's agent, Pat Brisson, did not respond to phone calls, but he must have smiled when Pittsburgh's Evgeni Malkin signed an eight-year deal Thursday for $76 million. The deal starts in 2014-15 and carries an average cap hit of $9.5 million.
Giroux doesn't yet have Malkin's pedigree _ the Penguins' star has an MVP award and has won two scoring titles _ but he is considered one of the NHL's premier players.
If a new deal is consummated, it will undoubtedly make Giroux the Flyers' highest-paid player. Based on the market, he probably will average between $7 million and $8 million per season in a long-term deal.
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Frosts aren't on time for the 960 people living in this tiny, remote village, hidden on a chilly, windswept mountain ridge in South America.
A minor problem? Maybe for some. But in the Andean community, 8,800 feet above sea level, frosts – and their impact on crop cycles – are kind of a big deal.
In this agricultural community, crops are planted during the full moon, a tradition meant to help ensure a full harvest. But these days, the harvests aren't as full.
Village residents say it's the mark of climate change descending upon the Ayaloman people.
"In Ecuador, we've really experienced a sudden change in our climate," said Ana Loja, a professor at the University of Cuenca, in the Andes of southern Ecuador. "We cannot say, 'Maybe this is not happening,' but I think everyone is aware it is a real problem."
Ecuador isn't alone. Since the early 20th century, global average temperature has increased by about 1.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The warming is caused by atmospheric heat-trapping emissions, primarily carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
In Latin America and the Caribbean, development experts say climate change is slowly but surely showing its effects. By 2050, the world's expected temperature rise of about 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit will cost the region more than $100 billion annually, according to a recent report by the Inter-American Development Bank, which finances research and development efforts in the region.
Because of its location and dependence on natural resources, Latin America is especially vulnerable to climatic effects, the report said. By 2050, it predicted widespread flooding and coastal damage; the loss of Andean glaciers, Amazon rainforest and much of the Caribbean's coral region; a $32 billion to $54 billion annual decrease in agricultural exports; and increased tropical diseases and severe weather.
Walter Vergara, chief of the Climate Change and Sustainability Division of the development bank, said climatic effects are very real to people in the region.
"We depend on agriculture for a lot of economic activity," Vergara said. "We depend on forests and the services they provide. We're very much aware of the role that corals and glaciers play in our daily lives."
Loja, for instance, said she can see glaciers receding on the Chimborazo volcano, Ecuador's tallest mountain.
"When I was a little girl, I lived in a city where it was very easy to see, every morning, a lot of the top of the mountain covered with ice," she said. "But now, every time, there is less ice." As glaciers melt, growing crops and generating electricity become more difficult, the World Bank reported.
In the past, Ayalomans would grow hard beans all year, said 60-year-old resident Rosa Aurora. Now the plant dries easily and dies. Corn, wheat and barley harvests have also shrunk, and Loja said that intense rains have eroded much of the Ayalomans' land.
"Now some of those lands are sterile," Loja said. "Some leave the field and go to the city and get a job, and even though it's a low-paid job, at least they have a salary."
In Ayaloma, small, adobe houses line the mountaintop ridge, bordered by rugged peaks and grassy, wildflower-lined valleys. Wild dogs, cats, chickens and children travel the dirt road, and oxen till a field nestled between two homes. A roadside stand sells fruit in a rainbow of colors and varieties; a papaya costs 25 cents.
Now, Loja said, instead of growing staple crops like potatoes and corn, community members often have to spend more to buy them from the market. She said they've had to change their diets, buying foods like rice and noodles instead of eating mostly homegrown vegetables.
Temperatures have become more variable, too. In Cuenca, it can be 32 degrees Fahrenheit in the morning, but up to 86 by noon, Loja said. So many crops freeze in the cold mornings or dry out in the hot afternoons.
"In the past years we had all rain in the coming months; we had rain and rain and rain," Loja said. "And now June is different. We've had so much heat, so many sunny days, so now people are thinking, 'How long is this going to last? When are we going to have rain again?'"
Latin America and the Caribbean contribute only 11 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions, the development bank report said. But in some ways, the region is a leader in efforts to curb global warming.
Take Los Andes, a Guatemalan village on the slope of the Atitlan volcano, home to just 311 people. The town, and its coffee- and tea-growing businesses, is run completely on hydropower from a river flowing down the volcano.
The village illustrates a trend in Latin America: hidden pockets of sustainable development.
For instance, in some parts of the Andes experiencing dangerously low winter temperatures, the United Nations University reported indigenous groups' construction of adobe houses for their natural insulation.
In a Bolivian Amazon region, poor farmers have resurrected a 3,000-year-old technique: planting crops on raised platforms to prevent them from being washed away in floods.
And Colombia's Guajira region built electricity-generating windmills to boost the local economy.
About 95 percent of major Latin American cities are planning for climate change, according to a recent survey by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the United States, only 59 percent of major cities are making similar efforts, the survey showed.
"The spotlight tends to shine on the bigger countries, but in our work, some of the best moments happen in unexpected places," said Carter Roberts, president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, an international conservation organization.
But according to Vergara, the region needs to adapt to the problems caused by a changing climate and also help prevent further change. Prevention would include strict power, transport and land-use policies, with two goals to eliminate deforestation by 2020 and emissions from land use by 2030. Adaptive measures would only respond to problems as they occur.
Andrew Steer, the World Bank's special envoy for climate change, urged preventative measures.
"You can do all the adaptation in the world – that's not going to stop the glaciers from melting," he said.
However, the more sustainable solution isn't cheap. According to the Inter-American Development Bank report, by 2050, prevention would cost the region $110 billion and adaptive measures $14.5 billion to $21 billion. For a region dealing with widespread poverty and other severe development issues, that's a huge difference.
"Climate impacts exacerbate the problems of the government, exacerbate the gap between good education, good health, good housing, good transport," Vergara said.
"The intensity of the impacts are growing," he added. "We need all the other countries to act as well, the countries that are very energy intensive."
But he said global climate change discussions are "seriously impaired." In May, during talks in Germany, developed and developing nations fought over who should do the most to combat climate change, said Tove Maria Ryding, Greenpeace International's coordinator for climate policy. And she said June's Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development was "a waste of time" and a "failure of global leadership."
To Vergara, however, such arguments are wasting time.
"If your house is being flooded, if your house is in flames – even if the problem wasn't caused by you – you have to respond to it, because you're the one who's going to suffer," Vergara said.


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