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Could Horses' Neck Postures Indicate Back Pain?
- Oct 26, 2012
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Concave neck postures were associated with high sEMG measurements while round postures were associated with low sEMG measurements.
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A recently published French study suggests a horse's neck posture might indicate correlating back pain.
In their two-part study, the researchers aimed to first validate the use of static electromyography (sEMG) as an alternative to manual evaluation of vertebral disorders, and then to establish a relationship between neck postures and back disorders.
"The use of sEMG measures is fairly new (to veterinary practice) and concerns mostly the study of muscles and back functioning during movement," explained lead researcher Clémence Lesimple, PhD, of the University of Rennes.
The team employed two groups of nine horses in the study: Group 1 consisted of pastured horses used for occasional leisure riding while Group 2 included stalled riding school horses, exercised 4-12 hours per week.
For the first part of the study, both groups of horses underwent chiropractic and sEMG evaluation in order for researchers to compare findings from both methods.
Second, researchers evaluated horses' neck postures. The team placed five self-adhesive markers in specific anatomical locations along the right side of each horse, beginning at withers and ending at the lower point of the facial crest (between eye and nostril).
Horses were then photographed both at rest and during different phases of the walk. Researchers subsequently used the photographs to measure angles between markers.
Key findings included:
- sEMG and chiropractic results were "highly correlated" and indicated that 50% and 55%, respectively, of all horses were "severely affected" by back problems (multiple vertebral sites affected);
- Two neck posture types were identified: concave (more prevalent in the riding school horses) and round (more prevalent in the leisure horses);
- Concave neck postures were associated with high sEMG measurements while round postures were associated with low sEMG measurements; and
- All evaluation methods showed that Group 2 horses were more severely affected than those in Group 1, indicating that riding school horses were more prone to having concave neck postures and back disorders than leisure horses.
The research team concluded that both sEMG and neck postures appeared to be reliable indicators of back pain in horses, with leisure horses having sounder spines. Owners and veterinarians might easily use these measures of neck "roundness" to identify back disorders in field settings.
"If postures are to be a useful tool ... their measure needs to be possible in the home environment of the animal and should lead to few reliable but clearly visible markers," the researchers stressed.
The study, "Towards a Postural Indicator of Back Pain in Horses (Equus cabullus)," appeared in Plos One in September 2012. The entire article can be viewed online.
About the Author
Casie Bazay, NBCAAM
Casie Bazay holds a bachelor of science degree in education from Oklahoma State University. She taught middle school for ten years, but now is a nationally certified equine acupressure practitioner and freelance writer. She has owned Quarter Horses nearly her entire life and has participated in a variety of horse events including Western and English pleasure, trail riding, and speed events. She was a competitive barrel racer for many years and hopes to pursue the sport again soon.
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The Distinguished Alumni Awards are the highest honor bestowed by the New Mexico Tech Alumni Association. They are presented to the most prestigious graduates of New Mexico Tech for their professional achievements, contributions to society, and support of New Mexico Tech. Awards are presented annually at commencement by the president of the Alumni Association, when graduates are welcomed into the Alumni Association.
Who determines who receives these awards?
You, the alumni of New Mexico Tech.
Please send your award nominations to Kathy Hedges at khedges at admin.nmt.edu, or at Office for Advancement, 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801.
Award criteria are as follows:
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He's asking what-ifs
Dear Meredith,
About five years ago I made a move for a specialized, two-year training program. While there, I met a great guy who moved from the other side of the country for the same program. We hit it off and dated for about a year, both realizing our love for our respective coasts, and knowing that our "relationship" probably wouldn't develop too far. Once our training program ended, we parted as friends and kept in contact with occasional phone calls and emails. He told me about girls he's dated since then, and vice versa.
Fast forward to last week. We hadn't spoken in a few months, simply because life was busy for both of us. During our conversation last week he said, "It's too bad we don't live in the same area. I still think we're a good couple." I sort of laughed it off and agreed in a half-hearted manner. Personally, I think that line of conversation doesn't get us anywhere and it leaves me irritated (which I've told him before) knowing his job requires him to live on the West Coast, and I LOVE Boston.
The problem came the next day when he texted me, asking if I would dump my current boyfriend (a term I use lightly since it's only been a couple months) and date him if he moved to the same area. I told him I couldn't answer that question, and it's pointless for me to think about unless he's actually moving (which he's not -- and can't). To that he replied, "I just want to know how you feel about me."
When I told him that line of questioning was irritating me, he got upset, called me a tease, and has refused to talk so we can discuss things. I guess I always assumed that our friendship was just that, a friendship and nothing more. But now I'm getting the feeling that he's held onto feelings all this time. Or maybe he's having "girl-trouble" and wants to know he's wanted by someone? I don't know, but without talking to him I can't figure it out.
My question is: Should I continue trying to talk to him about this? Should I wait for him to contact me? Am I out of line to get irritated by those "what-if" questions? This isn't a lost love I'm trying to hang onto, it's what I thought was a friendship with a person I care about. How hard should I try to hang on?
Thanks for your (and all the readers') help!
– Irritated, Boston
He wants to know how you feel about him, so tell him. And maybe tell me while you're at it, because I can't figure out what's going on here.
Do you have romantic feelings that you compartmentalize because of distance? Or do you really just want him as a friend? There are no wrong answers here. It would just be good to know how you feel so you can make smart decisions about how to move forward.
If your answer is, "We're friends, but if he lived down the street I might want more," maybe this relationship too confusing for him to continue. Maybe having you around -- even just on the phone -- is making it difficult for him to connect with other women.
I don't like that he called you a tease, and I certainly don't enjoy his passive-aggressive method of trying to get answers out of you, but he's struggling and wants to know where he stands.
Take some time and think about your feelings. If he lived here, would you want more? How do you see this friendship evolving if you both find other partners? After you come up with some specific answers, send him an email spelling it all out. Be clear about what you want and ask him if he's up for whatever you can offer.
Instead of getting irritated by the "what-if" questions, try to answer them. It's the only way to keep this relationship honest -- and to figure out whether this is a relationship worth having at all.
Readers? Should she answer the what-ifs? What is causing him to ask these questions? If she knows he's never going to move, should she just drop the friendship? Is there a friendship worth saving here? How does she feel about him? Help.
– Meredith


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Episode 1:
– Daimen Sandow vs Baron Corbin
Sandow won with a straight-jacket side effect.
Backstage segment with Adrian Neville and Bo Dallas talking about their match tonight.
– Paige vs Bailey
Paige won with Page Turner.
Summer jumped Paige after the match.
Big E Langston was interviewed in the back. Sandow interrupted him to issue a formal challenge. Big E tricked him into a match problem ending with Sandow repeating 5 until Langston himself did as well.
– Briley Pierce vs Sakamoto
No Contest. Conor O'Brian ran down right after the start and destroyed them both.
– Camacho vs Kassius Ohno
Ohno won with his submission.
During the match, Ohno wrestled in the role of the face in peril and after the match, on the stage, he cut a promo apologizing to William Regal. He said that the past few months have all been like a blur, to the point where he doesn't even know who he is anymore. The Wyatt Family came out and Wyatt laid him out with the Sister Abigail on the stage.
NXT Tag Team Championship
– Adrian Neville and Bo Dallas vs The Wyatt Family
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Mar 18 2013
Location:Northfield Arts Guild
The Northfield Arts Guild Theater will be holding auditions for the Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night. A much loved and hilarious offering from the Bard, Twelfth Night tells the tale of Viola, a young woman washed up on shore who disguises herself as her twin brother Sebastian. Thought by all to be Sebastian, Viola must ward of the affections of the fair Olivia even while falling head over heels in love with the Duke Orsino.
Auditions are scheduled for Sunday and Monday, March 17-18, 2013. Auditions on the 17th will be from 1-5pm and on the 18th will be from 8-10pm. Auditions will be held at the Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street, Northfield. Teens and adults are invited to audition. We are looking for anyone who has a sense of humor, quirky skills, or musical and dance ability. The auditions will consist of a cold reading. Scripts are available for check out at the Northfield Arts Guild. Those auditioning are asked to read through the script prior to the auditions.
Twelfth Night is being directed by Susan Dunhaupt. There are roles available for 14-16 people, both men and women. This production will be performed outdoors at the Northfield Central Park.
Weekend performances are scheduled for June 21-29, 2013. Check the Arts Guild website for more information: www.northfieldartsguild.org


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The Five-Minute RCS Tutorial - Automating System Administration with Perlby David N. Blank-Edelman
This quick tutorial will teach you everything you need to know to use the Revision Control System (RCS) for system administration. RCS is useful for applying version control to all of your system files. It has considerably more functionality than we'll discuss here, so be sure to take a look at the manual pages and the references at the end of this appendix if you plan to use it heavily. You may also be wondering why we're bothering with RCS when more modern systems, such as Git and Subversion, exist. That's a good question, and I'll address it at the end of the tutorial. In the meantime, though, let's get the RCS basics down; they'll help with the explanation later.
This excerpt is from Automating System Administration with Perl, Second Edition . Thoroughly updated and expanded in its second edition to cover the latest operating systems, technologies, and Perl modules, Automating System Administration with Perl will help you perform your job with less effort. The second edition not only offers you the right tools for your job, but also suggests the best way to approach particular problems and securely automate pressing tasks.
RCS functions like a car rental agency. Only one person at a time can actually rent a particular car and drive it off the lot. The agency can only rent out a new car after adding it to its pool. Customers can browse the list of cars (and their features) at any time, but if two people want to rent the same car, the second person must wait for the car to be returned to the lot. Finally, car rental agencies inspect cars very carefully after they have been returned and record any changes that took place during the rental. All of these properties hold true for RCS as well.
In RCS, a file is like a car. If you wish to keep track of a file using RCS (i.e., add it to the rental lot), you must "check it in" for the first time:
ci -u inetd.conf
ci stands for "check in," and the
tells RCS to leave inetd.conf in place during the
check-in. When a file is checked in (i.e., made available for rental), RCS
does one of two things to remind the user that the file is under RCS's
Deletes the original file, leaving only the RCS archive file behind. It sometimes distresses new users of RCS when the file seems to disappear after being checked in, but in fact the data has just been squirreled away in its archive file. This archive file is usually called filename,v and is kept either in the same directory as the original file or in a subdirectory called RCS (if the user creates it). You must protect the RCS directory and archive file (using filesystem permissions) at least as strongly as the original file.
-uis used (as in our earlier command), it checks the file out again, leaving the permissions on the file set to "read-only."
To modify a file under RCS's control (i.e., rent a car), you first
need to "check out" (
co) that
co -l services
-l switch tells RCS to "strictly lock"
services (i.e., do not allow any other user to check
out services at the same time). This lock is respected
only by RCS; the file is not actually locked using filesystem capabilities
(ACLs, attributes, etc.). Other switches that are commonly used with
co include:
<revision number>to check out an older revision of a file
-pto print a past revision to the screen without actually checking it out
Once you are done modifying a file, you need to check it back in using
the same command you used to put the file under RCS's control (
ci -u
filename). The
check-in process stores any changes made to this file in a space-efficient
Each time a file that has been modified is checked in, it is given a
new revision number. At check-in time, RCS will prompt you for a comment to
be placed in the change log it automatically keeps for each file. This log
and the listing of the current person who has checked out a file can be
viewed using
If someone neglects to check her changes to a particular file back
into RCS (perhaps having gone home for the day) and you have a real need to
change the file yourself, you can break that person's lock using
rcs -u
filename. This command will prompt for a
break-lock message that is mailed to the person who owns the lock.
After breaking the lock, you should check to see how the current copy
differs from the RCS archive revision.
filename will show you this information. If you
wish to preserve these changes, check the file in (with an appropriate
change-log comment), and then check it back out again before working on it.
rcsdiff, like
co example, can also take a
number> flag to allow you to compare two past
Table E.1, "Common RCS operations" lists some common RCS operations and their command lines.
Table E.1. Common RCS operations
RCS operation
Command line
Initial check-in of file (leaving file active in filesystem)
Check out with lock
Check in and unlock (leaving file active in filesystem)
Display version x.y of a file
Undo to version x.y (overwrites file active in filesystem with the specified revision)
Diff file active in filesystem and last revision
Diff versions x.y and x.z
View log of check-ins
Break an RCS lock held by another person on a file
Believe it or not, this is really all you need to get started using RCS. Once you start using it for system administration, you'll find it pays off handsomely.
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/rcs has the latest source code for the RCS package (though it is available through most standard packaging mechanisms if it doesn't ship with your OS).
http://cygwin.com is a source for an RCS package (and many, many other Unix-born programs). If you'd like to install RCS without requiring the entire Cygwin environment, there is a version available at http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS.
Applying RCS and SCCS: From Source Control to Project Control, by Don Bolinger and Tan Bronson (O'Reilly), is an excellent RCS reference.
http://www.nongnu.org/cvs and http://subversion.tigris.org are the places to go if you find you need features not provided in RCS. The next step up is either the Concurrent Versions System (CVS) or Subversion (SVN).
The next step up from CVS and SVN is the crop of relatively new distributed version control systems, such as git, mercurial, bazaar, and darcs. For more info, check out the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Version_Control_System.
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Editor's Note: The Times Record today continues its series of reports on prescription drug abuse. Tuesday: State Addiction treatment available locally.
Editor�s Note: The Times Record today continues its series of reports on prescription drug abuse. Tuesday: State Addiction treatment available locally.
Viewed as a pervading problem on college campuses nationwide, prescription drug abuse is hitting Arkansas students harder than most.
�It�s still very rampant,� said Diane Bynum, program coordinator of Horizon, a local adolescent treatment center. �It�s really scary because they don�t understand how mixing all the drugs together can cause a death. You mix the alcohol and the prescription drugs, and they just don�t wake up.�
A 2011 survey conducted by the Arkansas Division of Behavioral Health Services indicates that by the time Arkansas high school students have reached their senior year, close to one in five has abused prescription drugs.
�We treat here at Horizon ages 13 to 18,� Bynum said. �But we�re seeing it from age 15 on to 25.�
In March, Bynum attended a prescription drug seminar hosted by the National Governors Association in Little Rock. According to the association, Arkansas was reported to have the worst teen prescription pain reliever abuse problem in the United States by 2007.
�We�re still the second in the nation for overdose of prescription drugs,� Bynum said. �I can�t believe we�re second.�
The National Council on Patient Information and Education calls the nonmedical use of prescription drugs, most notably stimulants, sedatives and pain relievers, a �growing, yet unaddressed problem.�
�In fact, about one in four college students has illegally used prescription drugs, and many more have been offered these medications by friends or fellow students,� the council says.
Horizon�s parent organization, Western Arkansas Counseling & Guidance Center, works with local college students who have prescription drug addictions.
�We have a contract to have the counseling clinic at the (University of Arkansas at Fort Smith),� said Joni Padilla, coordinator of marketing and community relations at the guidance center. �Most all the students have access up to eight sessions per year. That�s part of their tuition.�
Last year, UAFS seniors used a pilot leadership class to create a resource for parents and teenagers about prescription-drug abuse.
Tasked with tackling a community issue, seven students used their research to build a brochure, air an anti-drug commercial and create an informational Facebook page.
�I�ve got a lot of old friends from high school where prescription drug abuse has ruined their lives,� Patrick Upchurch said during a class presentation last April. �We went to college, and they stayed back and used pills.�
A study by Partnership for a Drug Free America shows that 73 percent of teens who used prescription drugs said they did so to deal with the pressures and stress of school.
�In Arkansas, we have a lot of health issues, and prescriptions are written for legit reasons,� Bynum said. �There is a lot of prescription medication available that you don�t have to know a drug dealer to get. I think it�s very hard for families to realize kids are getting them from the home and not on the street.�


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Young launching library reading program
By Thomas Harding and Owen Perkins / MLB.com
DENVER -- The Rockies' Eric Young Jr. has seen fewer books in the hands of children and adults, and wants to do something about it.
Young is teaming with Denver Public Libraries and Volunteers of America to present readings through his new "Stealing Some Smarts" literacy program. The first of his free events, taking place one Saturday a month over the next six months, will be Saturday at the Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library at 2401 Welton Street in Denver, from noon to 1 p.m. Young will appear at a different library over the course of the program.
Young's first reading will be from three children's books. Other readings will feature books from adults, as well.
"I enjoy reading, and right now libraries are starting to become obsolete, possibly because of the Internet, and fewer people are reading these days," Young said. "I want to bring more attention to reading actual books, and getting back into libraries."
Young said he realizes that it's possible young people are reading just as much, if not more, electronically, but there's no way of knowing that. Plus, he finds the public library a valuable feature of any community.
"Why not draw more attention back to libraries, plus those provide jobs for people. If you can encourage reading and get them back into the library at the same time, I feel it's good. The main goal is to make sure we get people into reading. I enjoy it. I read all the time on the plane. I want to share my love of it."
Young's passion for reading is leading him to further his education. After turning down a football offer from Villanova out of high school, Young played at Chandler Gilbert (Ariz.) Community College for a season before signing with the Rockies. However, he didn't leave his college dreams behind.
"I took some online classes, but I've come to the realization that I'm a person that needs to be in the classroom," Young said. "This offseason I want to take some courses somewhere in Arizona, where I live in the offseason. Reading is a great way of learning new things, even old things that you want to enhance.
"It's a promise that I made to my parents when they agreed for me to go pro, that I would one day go back and get my degree. I'm going to stay true to that."
Young originally wanted to be a business management major, but he's not as strongly committed. He'll make a decision after taking more liberal arts courses.
Outman called up, Volstad sent down
DENVER -- A lights-out beginning at Triple-A Colorado Springs has earned left-handed relief pitcher Josh Outman a promotion to the Rockies for Friday night's opener of a three-game weekend series against the D-backs.
To make room for Outman, the Rockies optioned right-handed pitcher Chris Volstad to Colorado Springs. Volstad, 0-0, 8.53 ERA in four games, gave up one run in two innings at the end of Thursday's 11-3 victory over the Mets at Coors Field.
Rockies manager Walt Weiss said the number of left-handed hitters carried by the D-backs, whom the Rockies face in seven of the next 10 games, and Braves, who come to Denver Monday, figured in the decision. Outman, 1-0 with an 0.84 ERA in 10 2/3 innings over five games at Triple-A, can pitch in short or extended stints, much the way Volstad was slated to do, but his presence frees Weiss to use lefty Rex Brothers (1-0, 1.23 ERA) earlier in the game against a key lefty hitter.
"Our bullpen isn't necessarily designed for matchups exclusively, but with an extra lefty, that option is in play, as opposed to trying to save Brothers for later in the game, that eighth or ninth," Weiss said.
Outman went 1-0 with a 1.74 ERA in eight Spring Training games, but the Rockies felt Volstad showed excellent downward life on his pitches and Outman needed to improve that aspect. Also, Outman had four walks and six strikeouts in 10 1/3 innings. At Colorado Springs, Outman forced ground balls and had 14 strikeouts against four walks.
It's also a chance for Volstad, a starter until this season, to pitch regularly.
"Chris didn't perform poorly," Weiss said. "He's in a situation where he wasn't getting a lot of consistent work. Hopefully he'll go down there and get that consistent work. I imagine he'll be with again us at some point this year."
Arenado off to fast start at Triple-A
DENVER -- Rockies fans continue to watch third-base prospect Nolan Arenado's work at Triple-A Colorado Springs, and he's giving them plenty of reason to dream -- hitting .417 with three home runs, 11 doubles and 18 RBIs in 13 games.
With Chris Nelson playing well at third for the Rockies, there is no indication that a promotion is coming soon. Rockies player development director Jeff Bridich said the team needed to see Arenado, 22, accept being in Triple-A. That was an issue last year, when he slumped badly at Double-A Tulsa, with one of the reasons being that he was expecting a call-up that didn't come.
"He's doing things this year at this level coming out of Spring Training that he didn't do last year," Bridich said. "Which means he learned the lessons from last year that he needed to learn. He's controlling what he can control, and the results are following.
"As much as it is performance and some maturity in this game, it's the emotional and mental maturity that he is taking to his everyday stuff. That's what's impressive. I don't think there was anybody in this building that stopped believing in his talents."
The blip on Arenado's stat sheet is his four errors, but Bridich said those are happening because of his range.
"It's like last year, when I saw him in Tulsa, he ranges literally 8-10 steps to his left to cut a ball off that that the shortstop is literally ready to [backhand], then he tries to make throws off-balance," Bridich said. "His instincts and athleticism allow him to get to balls that not every third baseman can get to. That at times turns into difficult throws or off-balance stuff, and he's got to learn through experience."
Baylor goes into Colorado Sports Hall of Fame
DENVER -- The D-backs pulled out their extra-innings victory over the Yankees without the presence of hitting coach Don Baylor on Thursday night. Baylor took the day off for his induction ceremony into the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame.
"It was surreal, really," Baylor said of the recognition he earned for managing the Rockies over their first six seasons. "It was kind of like, 'I don't believe they're doing this.' To do it as a manager, you can't do it without good players and coaches that support you, good or bad, on everything that I decide to do as a manager. They might agree with you and sometimes they might not. Guys have to play good for you. They don't put bad coaches in."
Before Baylor's Rockies even took the field, he gave the expansion club some legitimacy, giving big league baseball a foothold behind the most recognizable face in the franchise. Baylor's first managerial gig followed a 19-year career that started with the Orioles and took him to the A's, Angels, Yankees, Red Sox, and Twins. He was a three-time American League Silver Slugger and the American League Most Valuable Player in 1979.
Baylor entered the Hall along with Avalanche defenseman Adam Foote, Broncos safety Steve Atwater and punter Don Cockroft, big league pitcher Stan Williams, and golfer Steve Jones, the last three being native Coloradans. Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and Olympic gold medalist Missy Franklin, another native, were recognized as the 2012 Athletes of the Year, in the professional and amateur categories.
"There are some guys that are in it that are Colorado guys that were born here," Baylor said. "[Major League Baseball Hall of Famer] Goose Gossage, I saw him last night. I went in with Adam Foote, I know him. [NHL Hall-of-Famer] Joe Sakic has been in for a while. Stan Williams was a big league pitcher. Peyton Manning stopped by last night, he was there."
Baylor's not quick to miss a day of work, but the event was obviously important to him, as evidenced by the guests he brought to Denver to help him celebrate the honor.
"It was 900 people, a little gathering," Baylor said. "I had my high school baseball coach there. My junior high, high school, college roommate, he was there. We started out in the seventh grade together. My son was there, and my wife. So it was a good deal, kind of reflecting back to 1992-93."
After two years posting a .414 and .455 winning percentage, Baylor led the Rockies to the postseason in 1995, the quickest a franchise had ever made the playoffs from inception. He won Manager of the Year and put up two more 83-win seasons, having left a lasting legacy in the town he helped transform into a big league city.
The Rockies acknowledged Baylor's induction on the field before Friday's game, presenting him with a team jersey. Baylor is already in the Angels Hall of Fame, but the Rockies have yet to open one of their own. In a season-long celebration of their 20-year anniversary, however, the seeds for a Rockies Hall of Fame are taking root.
"After 20 years, they'll get around to it one of these times," Baylor said. "I asked them if they have Eric Young's first home run ball [from the first at-bat in the first home game]. They don't have that. EY tried to get it, but it went into the stands.
Worth noting
• Rockies outfielder Michael Cuddyer returned to the starting lineup on Friday after missing Thursday's 11-3 victory over the Mets because of a tight right hamstring.
Both of Cuddyer's hamstrings were tight after Tuesday's doubleheader sweep of the Mets in frigid temperatures, although the right was of greater concern. But Cuddyer, who entered Friday hitting .367 with three home runs, 12 RBIs, a double and a triple, said sitting out Thursday afternoon, which tied a Rockies record-low at 28 degrees, was merely a precaution.
• Rockies left-hander Edwar Cabrera, who hoped to compete for a rotation spot but was placed on the 60-day disabled list early in Spring Training with a left shoulder impingement, faced hitters for the first time on Friday. He'll have another session on Tuesday. Cabrera will pitch in extended spring training, with an eye toward going on a 30-day Minor League rehab assignment that will end in time for him to be eligible to be reinstated on May 30. Then the Rockies would have to decide whether to activate him or option him to the Minors.
• The Rockies entered Friday with a 6-3 record in the National League West, with all the wins against the Padres and all the losses to the Giants. Of the next 14 games, 10 will be in the division -- seven against the D-backs, three against the Dodgers.
"It's important, no question about it," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. "The bottom line is we want to click off wins, regardless who we're playing. But within your division you play those guys a lot. It's important to play well in those games. It's a tough division. Particularly at home within our division, there's some importance to those games."
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. Owen Perkins is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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A dark and dinky 500-square-foot cabin is transformed into an airy retreat.
Sheri and Gerry Weber turned a dark and dinky 500-square-foot cabin into an airy retreat, without expanding the New Hampshire home's footprint.More
When Sheri and Gerry Weber went in search of a place to put their boats, the two already owned an 1835 Cape-style house in the New Hampshire community of Elkins. The only problem? Their lake getaway sat a full quarter mile from Pleasant Lake. The Webers—including daughters Lucie, Janie, Ali, Jennifer, and Michelle—had to haul their kayaks and canoes every time they decided to go out on the water.
The family had no intention of buying another house until they lucked into a deal too good to pass up: a 500-square-foot cabin right on the water—one of a group of 1920s vacation rentals being sold off.
In this photo: Sheri furnishes the cabin's living room with outdoor finds that can handle wet swimsuits: a wicker sectional sofa from Restoration Hardware and a weather-resistant rug by Dash & Albert. Built-in cubbies store beach blankets and fishing gear, and the ladder leads to a sleeping loft. The walls are painted Strong White by Farrow & Ball.
Convenient though the location was, the home did have its drawbacks. Dark, dated paneling. Low ceilings. Teeny-tiny rooms. And virtually no view of the lake. To open the house up, the Webers' architect Jeremy Bonin removed the interior walls to create one large living area (seen on previous slide). Down came the wood paneling and dropped ceiling, bringing to light the framework's studs, as well as cathedral-style roof beams.
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Q. HI Oracle :D
Is there any special meaning behind Spies? I love that song and I was just curious.
There isn't a special meaning per se but there was a reason and inspiration behind its conception.
The band very much had John Barry (composer of the best theme songs in film & tv ever!) in mind and there was a Bond film in the pipeline.
They wrote the song in 1999 and for a while considered self- releasing it as a white label promo.


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Rays Number #2 Moment of 2009: " B J Upton takes a Cycle Ride"
They call it one of the hardest and most exciting feats in baseball. It takes concentration and a will of steel to perform such a feat in the game of baseball. And the pure fact that it took over 1,939 Tampa Bay Rays game before we saw the first of its kind, just adds to the mystery and the awe of the spectacle. For on that night of October 2, 2009 in Tropicana Field, B J Upton put his signature on the game forever. But he was not the first of the Rays to face this obstacle in 2009, but he was the first in team history to finally break through and complete the first cycle in Rays history.
It was really only natural for this moment of triumph by Upton to be picked somewhere within the "Top 5 Rays Moments of 2009". Some people might bicker and argue it should be popped somewhere lower on the list, but to me, this is the perfect spot for this moment. Considering that Upton spent the most part of 2009 fighting to prove he is more than just a good centerfielder, but to prove his plate discipline and bat had matured over the last season. And team mates like Jason Bartlett, Carl Crawford and Evan Longoria also had chances this season to add their names to this list, but they fell short.
And the "cycle" proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that time is the element Upton needed this season to correct and get back into the saddle at the plate. That maybe his off season shoulder surgery left pains and discomfort for most of the year before he thrust his average skyward in July. For that month he became the American League Player of the Month after posting a .324 average with 5 HR 22 RBI and 14 stolen bases.
Anyone who knows me knows I would fight to the death over this guy's reputation. I have heard the passion and the will to succeed in his voice this season, and in all of this, most fans just seem to see his faults. Upton went 5 for 5 on the day, to tie the Rays record for most hits in a game with 4 other players, but it was only the second time the act has been reached at Tropicana Field, and the first since ex-RayTomas Perez did it on July 29, 2006 against this same Yankees squad.
And another amazing part of the feat that people tend to forget,he started his quest for the cycle in the first inning of the game batting out of the seventh slot in the Rays order. And he got the hardest hitting element of the cycle out of the way during that first appearance….the Triple. I think it is unfortunately that Upton was now finding his rhythm at the plate in the team's 160th game.
And some of the Yankees faithful might look at that first hit, that went underneath sprawling Yankee rightfielder Nick Swisher as he dove for the ball heading into the right-centerfield gap as a gift, and nothing more. But it was the start of a magical trip that all in attendance got to see, feel and relish for the first time in Rays history. And by getting the double in his second at bat, Upton was putting his own stamp on this game, and making the feat easier for himself.
And let's not forget, the Yankees did have a stellar pitcher on the mound in this game trying to get his 20th win of the season. C C Sabathia was not lobbing the ball up to the plate, but Upton did make solid and great contact on got two of his hits off Sabathia before he left in the bottom of the fourth inning. The other three hits came off the Yankee Bullpen..
Upton is considered the first American League player to get his cycle before the 5th inning of a game since 1954. During that same period, the National League had three players complete the feat by the 5th inning. And he had completed the task the quickest since the Rockies Mike Lansing did it on June 8,2000 against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
What was also so amazing, before that Friday night game, Upton had only 1 HR in his last 31 games, and 2 extra base hits (both doubles) in his last 14 games. Another wild fact is that it was the eighth cycle this season in Major League Baseball, tying the previous record set in 1993. And 6 of the 8 cycles this season have been set in the American League.
But there is another wild statistic that might have missed the Rays fans and the media about Upton. During the month of October, Upton has hit .301 (28 for 93) with 13 extra base hits, 8 HR, 23 runs scored, and 23 RBI. Those statistics cover over 24 career games, including the playoffs. So it might not so far fetched that at this time in the season he also collected 6 RBIs on the same day as his "cycle",but it is a pity we could not have had that offensive power the entire season. I guess it will be one of those "What If" situations.
Hopefully this offensive explosion gave Upton the confidence going into the off season to sweat a bit harder during his off season workouts and come into the 2010 Spring Training on mission. Sometimes it take a moment like this for a player to escalate to that higher level in their career. Lets hope that by Upton producing the first cycle in Rays history it also pedals him towards what we all know he can be……….an elite member of that speedy Rays outfield both in the field and at the plate.
Don't forget, I have links to all of my Rays top moments of the season over in the sidebar to the right of the blog. Just click on the "moment" link and it will bring up an MLB.com webpage and report on the event. Tomorrow I should be wrapping up my Top 5 Rays moments of 2009, and next week will venture into the Top 5 worst adventures during the 2009 season. Until then, I hope you come back and check out the Number #1 moment tomorrow and also celebrate an awesome season by a team that proves it doesn't take millions to succeed in baseball.
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I remember Upton's cycle all too well, since he did it against the Yanks. He's a tremendous athlete with great speed, and when he's "on," he can take the opposition down singlehandedly!
BJ is a great player. He's got a boatload of talent, and he needs to give his brother some tips in the outfield! But BJ's year is definitely next year. He's established his ability and talent, and he's going to utilize it all and take everyone's breath away.
I tell B J sometimes that he is fire under ice. He has such a passion and an urge to be a leader on this team, but stays so cool, calm and collected to the point of looking too content at times.
It is a family trait, because if you watch his brother Justin, he runs and plays the same way, but with more power right now.
He loves to play AL East teams, and his average shows it.
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I'm pretty sure that BJ was my Yesterday's Hitter on that day. What a great game he had. . he needed it too. His brother Justin was having such a great year, yet BJ was on a terrible year. Great post.
That is the reason everytime I hear trade rumors I shudder.
B J might have come up his first time when he was 17, but next season will be the season he throws himself forward and will be mentioned with some of the great centerfielders in the game, both for offense and defense.
We know the Torri Hunters and Vernon Wells will not diminish, but he has shown flashes of excellence the last two years in the field.
If it hits the plate, he might just get some special from Bill James and his group.
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Argument Realization in Syntax
Malka Rappaport Hovav
Words are sensitive to syntactic context. Argument realization is the study of the relation between argument-taking words, the syntactic contexts they appear in and the interpretive properties that constrain the relation between them.
Bare Nominals
Bert Le Bruyn, Henriëtte de Swart, and Joost Zwarts
Bare nominals (also called "bare nouns") are nominal structures without an overt article or other determiner. The distinction between a bare noun and a noun that is part of a larger nominal structure must be made in context: Milk is a bare nominal in I bought milk, but not in I bought the milk. Bare nouns have a limited distribution: In subject or object position, English allows bare mass nouns and bare plurals, but not bare singular count nouns (*I bought table). Bare singular count nouns only appear in special configurations, such as coordination (I bought table and chairs for £182).
From a semantic perspective, it is noteworthy that bare nouns achieve reference without the support of a determiner. A full noun phrase like the cookies refers to the maximal sum of cookies in the context, because of the definite article the. English bare plurals have two main interpretations: In generic sentences they refer to the kind (Cookies are sweet), in episodic sentences they refer to some exemplars of the kind (Cookies are in the cabinet). Bare nouns typically take narrow scope with respect to other scope-bearing operators like negation.
The typology of bare nouns reveals substantial variation, and bare nouns in languages other than English may have different distributions and meanings. But genericity and narrow scope are recurring features in the cross-linguistic study of bare nominals.
Franz Rainer
Blocking can be defined as the non-occurrence of some linguistic form, whose existence could be expected on general grounds, due to the existence of a rival form. *Oxes, for example, is blocked by oxen, *stealer by thief. Although blocking is closely associated with morphology, in reality the competing "forms" can not only be morphemes or words, but can also be syntactic units. In German, for example, the compound Rotwein 'red wine' blocks the phrasal unit *roter Wein (in the relevant sense), just as the phrasal unit rote Rübe 'beetroot; lit. red beet' blocks the compound *Rotrübe. In these examples, one crucial factor determining blocking is synonymy; speakers apparently have a deep-rooted presumption against synonyms. Whether homonymy can also lead to a similar avoidance strategy, is still controversial. But even if homonymy blocking exists, it certainly is much less systematic than synonymy blocking.
In all the examples mentioned above, it is a word stored in the mental lexicon that blocks a rival formation. However, besides such cases of lexical blocking, one can observe blocking among productive patterns. Dutch has three suffixes for deriving agent nouns from verbal bases, -er, -der, and -aar. Of these three suffixes, the first one is the default choice, while -der and -aar are chosen in very specific phonological environments: as Geert Booij describes in The Morphology of Dutch (2002), "the suffix -aar occurs after stems ending in a coronal sonorant consonant preceded by schwa, and -der occurs after stems ending in /r/" (p. 122). Contrary to lexical blocking, the effect of this kind of pattern blocking does not depend on words stored in the mental lexicon and their token frequency but on abstract features (in the case at hand, phonological features).
Blocking was first recognized by the Indian grammarian Pāṇini in the 5th or 4th century
Computational Phonology
Jane Chandlee and Jeffrey Heinz
Computational phonology studies the nature of the computations necessary and sufficient for characterizing phonological knowledge. As a field it is informed by the theories of computation and phonology.
The computational nature of phonological knowledge is important because at a fundamental level it is about the psychological nature of memory as it pertains to phonological knowledge. Different types of phonological knowledge can be characterized as computational problems, and the solutions to these problems reveal their computational nature. In contrast to syntactic knowledge, there is clear evidence that phonological knowledge is computationally bounded to the so-called regular classes of sets and relations. These classes have multiple mathematical characterizations in terms of logic, automata, and algebra with significant implications for the nature of memory. In fact, there is evidence that phonological knowledge is bounded by particular subregular classes, with more restrictive logical, automata-theoretic, and algebraic characterizations, and thus by weaker models of memory.
Copular Constructions in Syntax
Marcel den Dikken and Teresa O'Neill
Copular sentences (sentences of the form A is B) have been prominent on the research agenda for linguists and philosophers of language since classical antiquity, and continue to be shrouded in considerable controversy. Central questions in the linguistic literature on copulas and copular sentences are (a) whether predicational, specificational, identificational, and equative copular sentences have a common underlying source; and, if so, (b) how the various surface types of copular sentences are derived from that underlier; (c) whether there is a typology of copulas; and (d) whether copulas are meaningful or meaningless.
The debate surrounding the postulation of multiple copular sentence types relies on criteria related to both meaning and form. Analyses based on meaning tend to focus on the question of whether or not one of the terms is a predicate of the other, whether or not the copula contributes meaning, and the information-structural properties of the construction. Analyses based on form focus on the flexibility of the linear ordering of the two terms of the construction, the surface distribution of the copular element, the restrictions imposed on the extraction of the two terms, the case and agreement properties of the construction, the omissibility of the copula or one of the two terms, and the connectivity effects exhibited by the construction.
Morphosyntactic variation in the domain of copular elements is an area of research with fruitful intersections between typological and generative approaches. A variety of criteria are presented in the literature to justify the postulation of multiple copulas or underlying representations for copular sentences. Another prolific body of research concerns the semantics of copular sentences. In the assessment of scholarship on copulas and copular sentences, the article critiques the 'multiple copulas' approach and examines ways in which the surface variety of copular sentence types can be accounted for in a 'single copula' analysis. The analysis of copular constructions continues to have far-reaching consequences in the context of linguistic theory construction, particularly the question of how a predicate combines with its subject in syntactic structure.
Cyclicity in Syntax
Robert Freidin
Cyclicity in syntax constitutes a property of derivations in which syntactic operations apply bottom-up in the production of ever larger constituents. The formulation of a principle of grammar that guarantees cyclicity depends on whether structure is built top-down with phrase structure rules or bottom-up with a transformation Merge. Considerations of minimal and efficient computation motivate the latter, as well as the formulation of the cyclic principle as a No Tampering Condition on structure-building operations (Section 3.3) without any reference to special cyclic domains in which operations apply (as in the formulation of the Strict Cycle Condition (Section 2) and its predecessors (Section 1)) or any reference to extending a phrase marker (the Extension Condition (Section 3)). Ultimately, the empirical effects of a No Tampering Condition on structure building, which conform to strict cyclicity, follow from the formulation of the Merge operation as strictly binary. This leaves as open questions whether displacement (movement) must involve covert intermediate steps (successive cyclic movement) and whether derivations of the two separate interface representations (Phonetic Form and Logical Form) occur in parallel as a single cycle.
Displacement in Syntax
Klaus Abels
Displacement is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural languages. Grammarians often speak of displacement in cases where the rules for the canonical word order of a language lead to the expectation of finding a word or phrase in a particular position in the sentence whereas it surfaces instead in a different position and the canonical position remains empty: 'Which book did you buy?' is an example of displacement because the noun phrase 'which book', which acts as the grammatical object in the question, does not occur in the canonical object position, which in English is after the verb. Instead, it surfaces at the beginning of the sentence and the object position remains empty. Displacement is often used as a diagnostic for constituent structure because it affects only (but not all) constituents. In the clear cases, displaced constituents show properties associated with two distinct linear and hierarchical positions. Typically, one of these two positions c-commands the other and the displaced element is pronounced in the c-commanding position. Displacement also shows strong interactions with the path between the empty canonical position and the position where the element is pronounced: one often encounters morphological changes along this path and evidence for structural placement of the displaced constituent, as well as constraints on displacement induced by the path.
The exact scope of displacement as an analytically unified phenomenon varies from theory to theory. If more then one type of syntactic displacement is recognized, the question of the interaction between movement types arises. Displacement phenomena are extensively studied by syntacticians. Their enduring interest derives from the fact that the complex interactions between displacement and other aspects of syntax offer a powerful probe into the inner workings and architecture of the human syntactic faculty.
Distributed Morphology
Jonathan David Bobaljik
Distributed Morphology (DM) is a framework in theoretical morphology, characterized by two core tenets: (i) that the internal hierarchical structure of words is, in the first instance, syntactic (complex words are derived syntactically), and (ii) that the syntax operates on abstract morphemes, defined in terms of morphosyntactic features, and that the spell-out (realization, exponence) of these abstract morphemes occurs after the syntax. Distributing the functions of the classical morpheme in this way allows for analysis of mismatches between the minimal units of grammatical combination and the minimal units of sound. Much work within the framework is nevertheless guided by seeking to understand restrictions on such mismatches, balancing the need for the detailed description of complex morphological data in individual languages against an attempt to explain broad patterns in terms of restrictions imposed by grammatical principles.
Incorporation and Pseudo-Incorporation in Syntax
Diane Massam
Noun incorporation (NI) is a grammatical construction where a nominal, usually bearing the semantic role of an object, has been incorporated into a verb to form a complex verb or predicate. Traditionally, incorporation was considered to be a word formation process, similar to compounding or cliticization. The fact that a syntactic entity (object) was entering into the lexical process of word formation was theoretically problematic, leading to many debates about the true nature of NI as a lexical or syntactic process. The analytic complexity of NI is compounded by the clear connections between NI and other processes such as possessor raising, applicatives, and classification systems and by its relation with case, agreement, and transitivity. In some cases, it was noted that no morpho-phonological incorporation is discernable beyond perhaps adjacency and a reduced left periphery for the noun. Such cases were termed pseudo noun incorporation, as they exhibit many properties of NI, minus any actual morpho-phonological incorporation. On the semantic side, it was noted that NI often correlates with a particular interpretation in which the noun is less referential and the predicate is more general. This led semanticists to group together all phenomena with similar semantics, whether or not they involve morpho-phonological incorporation. The role of cases of morpho-phonological NI that do not exhibit this characteristic semantics, i.e., where the incorporated nominal can be referential and the action is not general, remains a matter of debate. The interplay of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics that is found in NI, as well as its lexical overtones, has resulted in a wide range of analyses at all levels of the grammar. What all NI constructions share is that according to various diagnostics, a thematic element, usually correlating with an internal argument, functions to a lesser extent as an independent argument and instead acts as part of a predicate. In addition to cases of incorporation between verbs and internal arguments, there are also some cases of incorporation of subjects and adverbs, which remain less well understood.
Inflectional Morphology
Gregory Stump
Inflection is the systematic relation between words' morphosyntactic content and their morphological form; as such, the phenomenon of inflection raises fundamental questions about the nature of morphology itself and about its interfaces. Within the domain of morphology proper, it is essential to establish how (or whether) inflection differs from other kinds of morphology and to identify the ways in which morphosyntactic content can be encoded morphologically. A number of different approaches to modeling inflectional morphology have been proposed; these tend to cluster into two main groups, those that are morpheme-based and those that are lexeme-based. Morpheme-based theories tend to treat inflectional morphology as fundamentally concatenative; they tend to represent an inflected word's morphosyntactic content as a compositional summing of its morphemes' content; they tend to attribute an inflected word's internal structure to syntactic principles; and they tend to minimize the theoretical significance of inflectional paradigms. Lexeme-based theories, by contrast, tend to accord concatenative and nonconcatenative morphology essentially equal status as marks of inflection; they tend to represent an inflected word's morphosyntactic content as a property set intrinsically associated with that word's paradigm cell; they tend to assume that an inflected word's internal morphology is neither accessible to nor defined by syntactic principles; and they tend to treat inflection as the morphological realization of a paradigm's cells. Four important issues for approaches of either sort are the nature of nonconcatenative morphology, the incidence of extended exponence, the underdetermination of a word's morphosyntactic content by its inflectional form, and the nature of word forms' internal structure. The structure of a word's inventory of inflected forms—its paradigm—is the locus of considerable cross-linguistic variation. In particular, the canonical relation of content to form in an inflectional paradigm is subject to a wide array of deviations, including inflection-class distinctions, morphomic properties, defectiveness, deponency, metaconjugation, and syncretism; these deviations pose important challenges for understanding the interfaces of inflectional morphology, and a theory's resolution of these challenges depends squarely on whether that theory is morpheme-based or lexeme-based.
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More primary filings for Democratic Party
By Advocate Staff Report
March 12, 2012 at 6:04 p.m.
Updated March 12, 2012 at 10:13 p.m.
Jane Bernal, 53, of Victoria, precinct assistant chief court clerk, is seeking the Democratic Party nomination for Victoria County tax assessor/collector.
Bernal will face incumbent Rena Scherer in the primary.
In DeWitt County, during the extended filing period, two candidates filed for the Democratic nomination for county commissioner in Precinct 1.
James Solis, a 61-year-old supervisor, and David Ruiz, 59, who lists his occupation as independent. The winner will face incumbent Republican Curtis Afflerbach in the November election. He is unopposed in the primary.


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"I thought we battled with them most of the ball game. You can't turn the ball over going in. Those are plays that you've got to have. When you get in the red zone you've got to score. I still think we've got a good football team, but we've got to be able to master some of those plays. I think we'll continue to get better from this game and be ready to play next week."
- North Carolina head coach Everett Withers following his team's 24-21 loss to Virginia Tech Thursday night in Blacksburg
Virginia Tech took a giant step towards once again claiming the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division Thursday night, handing North Carolina its fourth loss in its last five games, 24-21. The Hokies will win the division outright if arch-rival Virginia loses Saturday at Florida State, or they can win it by knocking off the Cavaliers next weekend in Charlottesville.
At this point UNC's best hope is to finish the regular season with a winning record while improving its bowl prospects with a win at home against Duke in the regular season finale over Thanksgiving weekend.
North Carolina came out gangbusters on defense early, as junior Sylvester Williams forced a fumble out of Virginia Tech starting quarterback Logan Thomas on the very first play from scrimmage. UNC promptly marched 20 yards on three plays, with redshirt freshman Giovani Bernard scoring his ACC-tying 13th touchdown of the season to give the Tar Heels an early 7-0 advantage.
Virginia Tech took control of the game in the second half, putting together two unanswered scoring drives in the third quarter to take a commanding 24-7 lead, and then withstood a late UNC rally, as the Tar Heels scored twice in the final quarter and actually had the ball with three seconds with a chance to win. But a pair of costly missed field goals, combined with the key turnover in the first half, were just too much for the visiting Tar Heels to overcome.
QB Bryn RennerClick Here to view this Link.: Coming off his dreadful performance against N.C. State---and the concussion he suffered against the Wolfpack---it would have been somewhat easy to count out Renner against the Hokies. But Renner played a game of mistake-free football that gave his team a chance down the stretch. Renner again completed over half his passes, finding the mark on 14 of 26 throws for 224 yards and a score. He was only sacked once, and he avoided any interceptions. Simply stated, Renner did what he had to do to give UNC a chance to win this game. Nobody can put the finger at Renner as the guy who lost it for the Tar Heels.
Honorable Mention: DB Tre Boston: We wanted to give a shout-out to Boston as a way of recognizing UNC's defense for a respectable effort against one of the best offensive football teams in the ACC. Boston finished the game with 12 tackles, and while he didn't force a fumble or get an interception, he was a vital cog in UNC's ability to hold David Wilson under 100 yards. Along with his double-digit tackles, Boston had 1.5 tackles for loss, driving Virginia Tech back a total of 14 yards. Given Boston's back-and-forth situation this fall, and the discomfort he showed earlier in the season back at safety, this was a very important performance for Boston to have.
North Carolina came out of the gate fired up and ready to play Thursday night, particularly on defense, as the Tar Heels forced a fumble out of Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas on the game's very first play. Defensive tackle Sylvester Williams raced in and stripped the ball away, leading to a UNC possession and a 20-yard march to the end zone for the game's first touchdown less than three minutes in. Gio Bernard scored his ACC-leading 13th touchdown from four yards out, and North Carolina was on the scoreboard.
After the Carolina defense stuffed Virginia Tech on a fourth down in UNC territory the Tar Heels marched again and were in position to score a second time, moving inside the Virginia Tech 5 with a chance to take an early 14-0 lead. But a Ryan Houston fumble was recovered by Derrick Hopkins.
From that moment, the game pretty much belonged to Virginia Tech.
The Hokies promptly embarked on a punishing 18 play, 95-yard possession that ate nearly eight minutes off the block and climaxed with a Thomas 11-yard touchdown throw to Chris Drager, tying the game 7-7 at the 9:18 mark of the second quarter. Virginia Tech then got the ball back after a UNC punt and pushed towards another score, as a 33-yard run by David Wilson set up a field goal that gave the Hokies a 10-7 advantage with just under five minutes left in the first half.
UNC pushed into Hokie territory in the closing minutes of the half, but a 43-yard field goal attempt by Thomas Moore went wide and to the left. But despite trailing at the half, the Tar Heels did what they had to do over the first 30 minutes to give themselves a chance. They forced a turnover, they played solid team defense, and they didn't make any critical mistakes on the offensive side other than failing to convert the second touchdown opportunity. All in all the first half couldn't have gone much better for UNC given the intimidating circumstances and the quality of the opponent they were facing.
UNC played with a great deal of focus and intensity in the first half, only to see the momentum they built withered away by a dominant Virginia Tech third quarter. The Tar Heels surely missed Bernard, who suffered a mild concussion in the first half and was held out of action over the game's final 30 minutes.
Without Bernard UNC leaned heavily on Houston and A.J. Blue, and combined they mustered 75 yards on 18 carries. But it couldn't stop the surge of momentum that Virginia Tech used in the third quarter to take control of the game.
Quarterback Logan Thomas scored on a 23-yard run bootleg right up the gut for one score, culminating a nine-play, 70-yard drive that gave Virginia Tech a 17-7 lead with 9:02 left in the third quarter. Then a few minutes later a 39 yard pass from Thomas to Jarrett Boykin set up an over-the-shoulder 18-yard catch by D.J. Coles for another Virginia Tech score, which made the count 24-7 with 25 seconds left in the quarter. These two scoring drives ultimately were all the Hokies needed in the second half offensively to hang on and get the win.
The game was all but over in the fourth quarter---at least seemingly in the minds of the media members who were already putting work in on postgame articles, and the fans, many of whom started making early exits to beat the crowd. Nobody sent the memo to the UNC offense, as they put together two inspiring scoring drives down the stretch to make the Hokies sweat a little bit in the closing minutes.
Following an Erik Highsmith 5-yard touchdown on a fourth down play, the Tar Heels were able to reclaim possession and pushed 91 yards, aided by Highsmith's long pass gain. By the time Houston tumbled into the end zone, making the score 24-21 with 2:32 to play, those Virginia Tech fans who hadn't already left were hanging onto their seats. Virginia Tech recovered an onsides kick and successfully ran the ball down to three seconds, and a desperation Renner pass fell incomplete as time expired.
Although Carolina's late drive was inspiring from the standpoint that the team didn't give up, the costly missed field goals earlier in the game, combined with the hole UNC dug itself into in the third quarter, were painfully evident. They didn't seem big at the time, but either one of Thomas Moore's missed field goals could have forced overtime. But the swirling wind inside Lane Stadium proved unlucky for Carolina.
With 11 regular season games under their belts, its once again come down to the regular season finale against Duke for the Tar Heels. It's a very important game for UNC not only in terms of finishing the regular season with a winning record at 7-5, but also guaranteeing the Heels earn a bowl berth.
If UNC somehow managed to lose to the Blue Devils, that would make five losses in six games to close out the season, as well as pushing the team's conference record this fall to a dreadful 2-6. Under those circumstances, there's no certainty that the Tar Heels would earn a quality bowl berth with several teams, including Miami, Virginia, Wake Forest, in position to be higher on the pecking order. The team's best chance of a bowl at that point would probably be either the Military Bowl or the Kraft Fight Hunter Bowl.
The Duke game is always for pride, no matter what the records are, and that will clearly be the case this time around on Senior Day in what's going to be an emotional final game in Kenan Stadium for a lot of people presently associated with Tar Heel football.
It's hard to imagine that UNC won't be fired up to play this game given its Senior Day, and the fact that it's essentially a curtain call for the Butch Davis era, most of the staff he brought to Chapel Hill, and many of the players he recruited. It should make for a bittersweet day full of interesting storylines to follow.
Saturday, November 26 vs. Duke in Kenan Stadium, Chapel Hill. 3:30 pm, Raycom Network.


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See photos and experience some of the Discovery Zone activities online.
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Firemen were called Tuesday to the Edith Brown home on Central Avenue where smoke had been detected somewhere in the attic. A smouldering fire was found and taken care of. Firemen believed the sparks may have come from hot wiring that cold have been caused by efforts to thaw out frozen water pipes.
A warning to homeowners was issued this week by Fire Chief Wayne Carrigan concerning various means of seeking to thaw water pipes that may be frozen. The Dolores Volunteer Firemen advise against the use of a welder or other electrical device to thaw pipes.
Mrs. L. V. Hill has been taking care of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Butt while Mrs. Butt has been recuperating. The Butts are parents of a new baby daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Grady Gardner and family were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Johnson on Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cline entertained the Saturday night pinochle club at their home on January 13th. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Jim Porter, Mr. and Mrs. Don McQuaid, Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Lee and Mary Jane McRae. The Lees won high for both men and women.
Bonnie Clemensen called on Myrtle Blaine in Cortez on Monday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Verl McGetrick of San Luis Obispo, Calif. visited with Mrs. McGettrick's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hamilton about two weeks ago.
Mildred Denby substituted last week at the Dolores Schools for Mrs. Florence Daly who was attending her mother's funeral.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hamilton from El Dorado Springs, Missouri were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hamilton about two weeks ago. Lester is Harold's brother.
Mr. and Mrs. Buck Cooper are in the process of moving into the rental apartment on S. 7th Street belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Merwin Akin.
Airman and Mrs. Steve Lente and daughter, Heather, spent the night and visited with the John Sturdevants at Stoner on Tuesday evening. Steve is being stationed in Guam and Melodie will be living in Cortez as soon as she has her things moved down from Mountain Home, Idaho.
All of the Jack Biard family have been down with the chicken pox, including mom and dad.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tibbits of Cortez visited with Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Hill on Sunday afternoon.
Callie Lofquist was pleasantly surprised last Friday with an unexpected visit by her son, Wilbur from Montrose.
Daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Aryol Brumley have been home sick since the end of December with the upper respiratory infection that has been going around the area.
Tammy Boyd has the mumps.
Jimmie Shields was a visitor at the home of Bonnie Clemensen on Tuesday afternoon.
Sherry and Rick Hernandez enjoyed dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Don Clemensen on Sunday evening.


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Residents fear somebody will be killed unless more is done to deal with unrest in a Doncaster community.
Community leaders in Hexthorpe say not enough is being done to deal with community tensions - which boiled over on Sunday night into a street fight in which two people were stabbed.
But police say they have stepped up patrols, and are putting more officers on the streets there.
Tensions have been high in Hexthorpe for months between long-standing residents and new groups of Polish and Slovakian residents.
On Sunday night the situation erupted into violence.
A fight broke out between groups of Polish and Slovakian men, and two were stabbed.
The wounded men are continuing to receive hospital treatment for their injuries, which are not life threatening.
Officers arrested three men on suspicion of affray, and another on suspicion of wounding, and all four men were still in custody last night.
Village resident and member of the Hexthorpe Matters group, Stuart Boardman, says police have not been taking seriously enough crime that occurs in the area, and fears someone could be killed if the situation does not improve.
"We've been saying this is on the cards for months and months," said the 41-year-old, of Crawshaw Road.
"I know of three knife crimes in the area that police haven't investigated. The police are not taking what's happening here seriously. It's disgusting.
"Every group of people here - British, Slovakian, Polish - have been rubbing each other up the wrong way.
"Things were quiet over the summer, but since everyone's come back from holiday things have started again. We knew things might kick off again, but no-one expected it would be as fast as this.
"People here are scared to leave the house because of what it's like here now. I won't let my 14-year-old daughter even walk by herself to the shop, which is 400 yards from our house. If I can't see her from the house she can't go, and a lot of parents around here are the same."
He added: "The landlady of The Star Bar says her pub has been empty of pensioners in the evening because pensioners are too scared to leave the house.
"The police are going for a softly-softly approach but that's not what we need.
"I think we need 24-hour policing in Hexthorpe. Things have got that bad."
Police say they are trying to tackle the disorder by putting on extra patrols, and they have mounted officers patrolling the Hexthorpe area.
Superintendent Natalie Shaw, responsible for policing in Doncaster, said: "Incidents of this nature are relatively rare but we understand they can have a huge impact on the local community.
"We have increased the number of officers patrolling in the Hexthorpe area to offer a visible presence and reassurance to the community.
"I would encourage members of the public to approach officers if they have any information or concerns.
"We will take robust action against anyone who involves themselves in these types of incidents. We are committed to keeping people safe from harm and will work together with other agencies to take positive action against those responsible."
Anyone with information is asked to call South Yorkshire Police on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.


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SACRAMENTO, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- California Gov. Jerry Brown called on authorities to take "whatever steps necessary" to lower gasoline prices in the state.
Motor group AAA reports consumers in San Francisco paid, on average, $4.73 for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline Monday, the highest in the state. The state average for was $4.66, compared to a national average of $3.81.
Brown directed the California Air Resources Board to allow refiners to switch to a winter blend of gasoline early to offset rising gasoline prices.
"Gas prices in California have risen to their highest levels ever, with unacceptable cost impacts on consumers and small businesses," Brown said in a statement. "I am directing the Air Resources Board to immediately take whatever steps are necessary to allow an early transition to winter-blend gasoline."
Switching to winter-blend gasoline, usually available after Oct. 31, could increase state supplies of gasoline as much as 10 percent, the governor's office said.
Refinery issues were blamed for high gasoline prices in the state. Brown's office said a refinery operated by Exxon Mobil was back online Friday and another operated by Tesoro is expected online this week.
"Combined, these actions are expected to stabilize and reduce fuel prices," said Brown's office.


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Beloit College Magazine's spring 2013 issue will be distributed on campus in the coming days—and with its vibrant yellow cover art, it will be hard to miss.
Equally fresh is the content: a cover story on Labs Across the Curriculum looks at how lab-based teaching is spurring innovation at Beloit around teaching and learning in the arts, the humanities, and all subject areas. Among other things, the project, initially funded through a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, rethinks the traditional classroom and makes the college's museum collections and archives more accessible and integral to student learning.
Also in this issue:
- The entertaining back story of Ding Darling, whose antics at Beloit circa the 1890s got him kicked out for a year. He returned to graduate, then went on to become a pioneering conservationist, political pundit, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, and is now the subject of a new documentary film.
- What does Beloit look like on a typical autumn weekday? A photo spread by Associate Director of Admissions Trevor Johnson'08 puts forth an answer.
- A story about the role of Chicago-based alumni in helping current students connect the dots between their education and their future professions.
- And much more, including a look inside quantitative literacy: what it is, how it's being taught, and why it's increasingly important; an exploration of the power of narrative in compassion for others; and the role of interdisciplinary thinking for one young scientist in understanding volcanoes and earthquakes.
Beloit College Magazine publishes three times a year and is mailed and distributed on campus to 22,000-plus alumni, campus and community readers, and prospective students and their families.
The spring 2013 issue arrives on campus on Friday and mails to off-campus residences during the last two weeks of March. You may also read it online (after 7 a.m. Thursday) at www.beloit.edu/belmag.


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Heineken Cup
ERC 'frustrated and dismayed' by threat
ESPN Staff
August 24, 2012
Wasps were the last English club to lift the Heineken Cup © Getty Images
The ERC have reacted with dismay to the threats made by Aviva Premiership and Top 14 Orange clubs that they will withdraw from the Heineken Cup unless the current format is changed.
Premiership Rugby CEO Mark McCafferty has suggested that an Anglo-French competition could be on the cards if the ERC fails to adhere to their demands to alter the qualification process for the Heineken Cup. English and French clubs believe that it is too heavily weighted in favour of the RaboDirect PRO12.
But the ERC has responded stating chairman Jean-Pierre Lux and chief executive Derek McGrath have spent the summer seeking proposals from stakeholders that will be tabled at the next meeting in Dublin on September 18. They stress that the English and French clubs consented to the existing accord, agreed in 2007 and which has two more seasons to run.
The effective deadline for a new agreement is 2014 when the current accord expires, providing a potential two-year window for the posturing and brinkmanship to continue. "We are dismayed and frustrated at the position that has been taken by Premier Rugby," ERC spokesman Mark Jones said. "This is a process that is laid down as part of the accord agreed in 2007. It's not a bolt out of the blue.
"The current qualification process was agreed by ERC's shareholders as part of the 2007 accord. This current process is expected and the way it should be.
"We welcome a full review of the tournament and we believe that at the end of the consultation process, European rugby will emerge stronger. All of our shareholders have said they want to see European rugby thrive and have agreed this consultation process. Our meeting on September 18 in Dublin is the second step in the process."
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text: First of all, Happy New Year to you all! I ended 2012 with ruining a Trek DVD that I had borrowed from my mother :/ I am trying to replace it with one that looks exactly as the one I ruined, so I need your help. The DVD is IV from this 2003 R2 box set: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-M...ef=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1356979337&sr=1-1 The disc is dark blue with a bright star in the middle. It says Star Trek IV The Voyage Home Special Edition UK2 109964 / 1986 / COLOUR / 114 MINS APPROX. Widescreen / STEREO So my question is: Is there any single-disc release that has the movie on a disc that looks exactly the same? If not, how easy/hard is it to buy from someone a disc from that particular box set, just one disc? I'm sure you guys understand how miserable I feel and how important it is for me to find a way to fix this without the box set becoming ruined by a "wrong" disc. Thank you already in advance!


text: The first season of Merlin is out on DVD in North America. I hadn't planned to buy it; I just assumed it would run about the same price as a Doctor Who season set, around eighty or ninety dollars. Both BBC Wales productions, both thirteen episode seasons. I actually thought that [i}Merlin[/i] would be more expensive than Who, because it's not a known quantity, because the audience is much smaller. I paid thirty-five for Merlin. I always knew that BBC Worldwide knew that Who fans would pay through the nose; I didn't think they would make the fact so bloody apparent. If BBC Worldwide can justify a lower price point for Merlin, then clearly they're just gouging the Whovian for similar product with similar specs.


text: "Using somber hues, blunt acting and a stark visual style offset by sweeping camera work, [the film] adapts a popular 1938 Dutch novel about a young man's lifelong struggle with a father whose cruel authority borders on the Kafkaesque.... All roads lead to Dreverhaven, or so it seems. He exerts an almost otherworldly power over his son's life, and the mutual bitterness that this engenders is the film's driving force. It is given a quiet ferocity by Decleir's formidable performance."NYTimes


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March 24, 2013
CBS-11 has learned two state troopers involved in a controversial roadside cavity search of two North Texas women have been indicted on criminal charges by a Dallas County Grand Jury.
CBS-11 has learned that one of the troopers, Kelley Helleson, who left the courthouse after testifying Friday, is charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of official oppression.
She was seen on dashcam video searching the body cavities — front and back — of the two women along an exit ramp of the Bush Turnpike in Irving last summer.


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When John Renna says his mom's a senior, it's not surprising. Rose Renna is 93. But there are two ways to look at it. John, who owns the Coaster Saloon in Mission Beach, went to SDSU more than 40 years ago. Mama Rose is a senior at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she takes classes in politics and government alongside students 75 years younger. It's a joint program with UNLV called Osher Lifelong Learning, for seniors who still have their smarts and a desire to learn. Mama Rose has both, in spades.
Entre news: Former Channel 10 anchorwoman Carol LeBeau, the classiest and most health-conscious of San Diego TV newscasters, was at UCSD Medical Center on Friday, undergoing breast-cancer surgery . . . In a CityBeat blog posted Wednesday, Dave Maass quoted former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham on Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, who served briefly as his district director here nine years ago. The disgraced Cunningham, serving time for accepting bribes while in Congress, says nice things about Fletcher. But mayoral candidate Fletcher isn't looking for Duke's endorsement. The blog's real news is in the last paragraph. Cunningham is scheduled to be released from prison in June of 2013, but he says he'll be out in 8 1/2 months . . . A new poll in the mayor's race, reportedly commissioned by local labor, couldn't make labor very happy. Democrat Bob Filner, the unions' favorite, finishes last in the four-way race at 14 percent. Carl DeMaio, anathema to labor, is on top, with 27 percent. Nathan Fletcher has 17 percent; Bonnie Dumanis, 16 percent.
Slow food: Guy Fieri, the Food Network's culinary rock star, celebrated his 44th birthday this month at home in Santa Rosa, with burgers for 350 catered by Hodad's in San Diego. Owner Mike Hardin delivered the goods, driving the 1,100-mile round-trip himself. But then going the distance to feed folks he cares about is par for Hardin. He's been to Guantánamo twice to deliver Hodad's burgers to the troops there. And he'll make a return trip to the Middle East soon with treats for the troops there.
Life after TV: Tom Lawrence, the former anchorman at Channel 8 and 39, still keeps in touch with San Diego by going to UTSanDiego.com. Not that he's homesick, exactly. His new gig: ski instructor at Beaver Creek, Colo. Says Lawrence: "Remember that AARP commercial with folks saying, 'When I grow up, I'm going to be a…' Well, I'm not sure I'll ever grow up, but this is the only thing I've ever wanted to do as much as TV." His students haven't grown up, either. He's teaching kids 6-14. "It feels great when they thank you, and give you a big hug," Lawrence says. "And it's icing on the cake when Mom or Dad give you a nice tip."
Italian-style: In light of the recent Costa Concordia disaster, Peter Q. Davis forwards an apropos tale about Winston Churchill. In his retirement, Churchill was cruising on the Mediterranean aboard an Italian liner, and journalists asked him why an ex-British Prime Minister should choose an Italian ship. "There are three things I like about Italian cruise ships," Churchill said. "First, their cuisine is unsurpassed. Second, their service is superb. And then, in case of emergency, there is none of this nonsense about women and children first."


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2. Good moral character (arête)
3. Good will towards the audience (eunoia)
1. What was his reputation before the interview?
2. Does he make a good argument?
3. Does he communicate leadership and passion?
4. Does he do a good job of acknowledging the feelings of the listener?
• Since he became CEO in 2008 the share price has halved.
• A #qantasluxury social media experiment backfired.
• There have been many safety incidents and near misses.
• Joyce grounded the entire fleet in 2011, affecting tens of thousands of customers and cancelling 600 flights.
• "But you don't know the route profitability of Qantas."
• "Again, what we're only after is a fair go for Qantas. I think Australians really respect a fair go. We don't have a fair go at the moment."
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#1 Police Car Shot At Near Trayvon Martin's Shooting Scene04-10-2012, 02:00 PM
President Obama, where are your calls for civil discourse? This has Sharpton and Jackson's fingerprints all over it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-...hooting-scene/Deplorably Proud To Be An American
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Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
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The Friends Harvest Festival began in the mid 1960s, when Josephine and Frank Duveneck held a fund-raising pancake breakfast at Hidden Villa. Friends in other countries sent packages with small gifts inside to be sold to benefit the Friends Committee on Legislation of California, a nonpartisan Quaker advocacy group working toward California laws that support peace, nonviolence, health care, the environment, compassionate social agendas and abolishing the death penalty.
The festival is now held at the Palo Alto Friends Meetinghouse, 957 Colorado Ave., where as many as 500 people attend each year. Organizers estimate the festival brings in as much as $10,000, which goes to hire a lobbyist in Sacramento.
But the festival is mostly about having a good time, said Marie Simirenko, co-chair for the harvest festival committee. There is face painting and free music all day, live jazz, blues, folk and world music from the Balkans, and a performance by the Raging Grannies, who sing politically inspired ditties.
Tables will be piled high with homemade cookies, cakes, pies and brownies. Handicrafts from El Salvador and other countries are for sale at the International table.
This year's plant sale includes succulent container gardens from Menlo Park-based succulent-garden specialist Danny Meeham, herbs and houseplants. Another section, the Rummage Extravaganza, will have housewares, tools and toys, among other useful items. A separate used-book area offers new discoveries for children, and all books are priced according to their thickness, she said.
Treasure hunters can also expect to find some unusual glassware, jewelry, art, photographs and crystal at the Attic Treasures section, Simirenko said.
"Over the years now more of our members have been finding things in their attics. They are the things that our older members have inherited and held onto all of their lives," she said. "It's just a fun time to get together."
What: A Day of Fun Family Activities at 46th Annual Harvest Festival
When: Saturday, Sept. 29, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Where: Palo Alto Friends Meetinghouse, 957 Colorado Ave. (between Louis and Greer roads), Palo Alto
Cost: Free admission, entertainment and parking
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