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Andrea Richard of Sulphur, La., says she had never been in a wreck before. But after Friday afternoon, Sept. 28, she and her 7-year-old granddaughter will have their own cautionary tale to tell.
It all started just after 2 p.m. when Beaumont Police dispatch received a call that an 18-wheeler traveling westbound in the 1700 block of Interstate 10 near Babe Zaharias Park had lost a portion of its load. The truck's back doors came open and several large tires fell out. According to police, the driver continued westbound, leaving a mess in his wake.
Traffic began slowing, but Beaumont police responded quickly. Officer Ronald D. Patton, with the help of another officer, were trying to clear the roadway 15 minutes later.
The motorist from Sulphur knew none of this, but she says she did notice the change in traffic flow. "(A) car apparently decided to start slowing down," Richard, 52, would say later in an interview with The Examiner on the scene. "I don't know exactly why, and I was trying to stop from hitting (it), and the black truck behind me hit me"
Richard's Mazda SUV, struck from behind by a 39-year-old male in a Toyota Tundra, surged forward into Officer Patton and his police car, according to a BPD press release.
Patton, in the inside lane trying to move one of the tires, saw it coming. He noticed the vehicle just before it struck him and tried to jump toward the median. Patton was struck and thrown into the air, over the median and into the eastbound lane of traffic, the BPD statement says.
After the chain-reaction wreck, Richard didn't seem to believe she had hit the officer. She was aware, however, of the risk Patton took — and his injuries.
"He was out of the vehicle," Richard said "I know his leg is hurt, and they took him off."
Officer Patton was conscious at the scene, and EMS Med 1 transported him to Baptist Hospital in Beaumont. He was treated for minor bruises and abrasions and released the same day.
Everyone else was treated at the scene and released by EMS.
"We're OK," Richard said. "I've got a burn, I think, on my arm. The lady stopped on the other side and said, 'I thought you were going to come over the median.' Yes, I kinda did. … I went up and when I came down, I realized I was still upright and there was another car in front of me and it was a police car. I said, 'Great.'"
Patton, 28, has been with the Beaumont Police Department for three and a half years.
The 18-wheeler driver returned to the scene to pick up his tires and speak with traffic investigators. Investigators are still investigating the crash.


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Estival Eldorado ResortCambrils 2 km from city centre 464 reviews
This hotel enjoys a peaceful location amidst vast parklands, just 50 metres from the beach. Cambrils centre and the harbour, as well as...
Hotel Best CambrilsCambrils 3.4 km from city centre 1005 reviews
The Best Cambrils hotel is located in Cambrils, in the area of Vilafortuny, just 100 m. of the beach. Partially reformed in 2015. It...
Hotel AugustusCambrils 4.6 km from city centre 540 reviews
The Augustus Hotel is located on the seafront. Among the facilities offered by this establishment we find outdoor pools for adults and...
Hotel César AugustusCambrils 4.7 km from city centre 0 reviews
Cesar Augustus Hotel has a very good location and stands out for its its value. It is located a few meters from the beach and next to the...
Hotel H10 Cambrils PlayaCambrils 2.6 km from city centre 375 reviews
Located in a quiet area of Cambrils and 50 metres from the magnificent beach of l'Esquirol, the H10 Cambrils Playa features a garden area...
Hotel Best MarítimCambrils 4.4 km from city centre 627 reviews
The Best Marítim hotel is located in Cambrils in the area near Vilafortuny, close to the beach Cap de Sant Pere. It has beautiful...
Hotel Estival Centurión PlayaCambrils 2.6 km from city centre 716 reviews
With a stay at Estival Centurion Playa Hotel in Cambrils, you'll be on the beach and convenient to Castle Vilafortuny and Cambrils Beach....
Aparthotel VoramarCambrils 2.7 km from city centre 209 reviews
Aparthotel Voramar is set in a quiet area, 100 metres from Vilafortuny Beach, on the Costa Dorada. It offers a free Wi-Fi zone and lawn...
Hotel Port EugeniCambrils 164 m from city centre 193 reviews
Port Eugeni is located 150 metres from the beach in the town of Cambrils, on the Costa Dorada. It offers a rooftop pool with views, a...
Apartamentos Pins PlatjaCambrils 3.7 km from city centre 396 reviews
The apartment hotel building is 3 storeys high and has a total of 168 apartments. The hotel's facilities include a pleasant lobby, a...
Viviendas Turísticas Vacacionales AugustusCambrils 4.6 km from city centre 236 reviews
The property features two bedroom apartments for up to four people, its located on the sea front (side view) and next to the Hotel...
Hotel Diego'sCambrils 1.4 km from city centre 59 reviews
The Diego's Hotel offers top-class attractions for travelling with children. Of particular note are the panoramic views of the avenue....
Hotel Sol Port CambrilsCambrils 538 m from city centre 879 reviews
Sol Port Cambrils Hotel is located in the seafront area of Cambrils in Tarragona and 300 meters from the beach and the Regueral Yacht...
Hotel The ElementCambrils 3.8 km from city centre 0 reviews
The Element Hotel is situated in the heart of the Costa Dorada, where you can spend the best time during your holidays. The apartments...
Rentalmar Costa VerdeCambrils 4 km from city centre 0 reviews
The resort features one single building boasting apartments for up to 4 people. They are provided with one double room, living-dining...
Apartamentos Port EugeniCambrils 1.3 km from city centre 14 reviews
Located in the Center of Cambrils, in the same building that the Port Eugeni Hotel.
Accommodations in CambrilsCambrils is another of the most popular destinations on the Costa Dorada. A traditional fishing village with a port and an old urban core dating from the eighteenth century, it is growing thanks to tourism.
It is in summer that the visitors increase, but it is a place that can be visited at any time of the year.
The town has many museums, including the Museo Tres Eres where the tours dedicated to ecotourism, usually start. The remodeled marina, the construction of underground parking and the promenade of the port have all increased the comfort for tourists when they are visiting this beautiful place.
In summer, the city becomes reborn. Its typical to enjoy many outdoor events and concerts during the evenings, whether taking in Passeig Miramar, the sunset on the boardwalk at the Yacht Club, or the breakwaters in front of the Parc del Pescador. Among the many other sites the city offers its also worth seeing the old quarter of the city, the Torre de la Ermita Museum, and the itinerant market, which is organized at the most central and ancient point in the town and from where all the typical products of the region are sold.
On its beaches you can enjoy all kind of sports, and it is very common to see tourists horse-riding along the beach at sunset. The most popular highlights include: the beaches El Regueral (which is the largest), El Cavet, and la Llosa, la Horta in Santa Maria, and the Tower of Esquirol. The mild climate it shares with the region of Salou and its proximity to Port Aventura are other attractive reasons to visit Cambrils. It has fine-sand beaches extending along more than 9 kilometers of coastline, marked with two European Union Blue Flags as evidence of their good quality.
The nightlife in Cambrils is calmer and usually focused on the many festivals in summer, which involve celebration parades of giants and big heads in the ancient part of the town. Dances, las sardanas, and other celebrations are more traditional. For the youth in general so-called Summer Nights are organized, involving numerous concerts throughout the summer months and including the Music Festival of Cambrils in August.
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ARLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say 18 people are unaccounted for after a massive mudslide in Washington state killed at least three people and forced evacuations because of fears of flooding.
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One of the most memorable phrases gleaned from the satirical comic strip Pogo was, "We have met the enemy and the enemy is us." Unfortunately, today it seems too many Americans have taken the saying too seriously. From clips on TV and statements of leadership, particularly from the Tea Party group, it seems some Americans view our national government as a foreign power that somehow has invaded us. Those who incessantly attack our national government do major damage to our system.
Only a short history lesson can demonstrate why our government contains greater benefits than pitfalls and greater opportunities than drawbacks to those of us with American citizenship. Our federal government has been the major catalyst in the greatest surges of prosperity in America.
As we emerged from the first Great Depression of 1929, the government put together the jobs program that included the Civil Conservation Corps. Many of us still wonder at the magnitude and beauty of the national parks throughout the United States. Many of those parks were built using CCC labor while providing jobs that enabled many families in America to survive the rigors of the Great Depression.
In all probability, one of the greatest advancements for the middle class and America as a whole was the GI Bill. Fashioned as we emerged from the Great War, Americans invested at a time when our national debt was at an all-time high. We invested in educating those who had served us and given of their time in the Great War. While it benefited veterans, it benefited America far more. It is a prime example of how government investment in a time of need can move us forward as it did in this instance. It moved us forward in education, innovation, investment, entrepreneurship and prosperity. America has enjoyed no greater surge forward than we did at the time we invested in making higher education affordable for a huge segment of our society — not just the rich and privileged.
The next great gigantic investment in America that holds us in great stead today, without which we would be one of the poorest nations on earth, is the interstate highway system. Proposed and pushed by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower during his presidency, we invested billions in creating a transportation system that assured the future of much of our commerce. It also is an example of how government can, in fact, be the stimulus to create jobs. What advocate of making America's national government insignificant would look back and wish for insignificance in our government's role in creating the interstate highway system that serves us so well today.Unfortunately, the anti-science, know-nothing, do-nothing conservatives in America considered our president's aim of putting a man on the moon to simply be a pipe dream. The vision of John Kennedy and the space program, underwritten by our government, has resulted in more inventions that serve us in the form of business opportunities, human comfort and entertainment.
The plethora of patents and scientific advancements directly attributable to the quest to put a man on the moon is unmatched in any nation's history. Advances in medicine, communication, technology and on and on would not have been possible without our government's investment. Unfortunately, if some of the naysayers in politics today had been in control at that time, they would have opted for a greater balanced budget and lower taxes instead of our quest to explore space.
Gov. Rick Perry, who belittles the effort of government to create jobs, conveniently overlooks the fact that a significant portion of the job growth in Texas upon which he bases his quest to lead our nation was fueled by government jobs.
Never in the history of our country has there been a greater need for America to do what is necessary to make an investment — yes, even with borrowed money — in our crumbling infrastructure, such as buildings, bridges, highways and public schools. We also desperately need to invest in giving the next generation access to a reasonably priced higher education, training them for the kinds of jobs which will make America competitive and return manufacturing back to the United States instead of India and China. At a time when we have gone from No. 1 in the training of needed skills to No. 16 in the world, it is absolutely the wrong time to heed the "no tax at any price" voices. It is the time to invest in order to lift ourselves by our bootstraps out of the doldrums of an economy devastated by two wars on credit and an insane desire to have wealth prevail over the needs of ordinary citizens.


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Theatre: Hamlet
Having collaborated on a triumphant Richard II, the same actor-director team of Samuel West and Steven Pimlott now give us a strikingly similar Hamlet : cliche-free, anti-romantic, visually spare and politically vivid. Played on a thrust-forward stage, complete with Japanese-style walkway, it runs for four hours and is totally gripping.
What is startling is Pimlott's ability to create a plausible Elsinore through the simplest means. Alison Chitty's set is a white box that takes on contrasting colours through Peter Mumford's superb lighting. But we instantly know what kind of world we're in - an elective tyranny - when Larry Lamb's glad-handing Claudius is greeted with volleys of sycophantic applause by his name-tagged acolytes. And it's a measure of Pimlott's avid eye for detail that when, four hours later, a bandolier-bedecked Fortinbras claims "I have some rights of memory in this kingdom", he is greeted by the self-same Voltemand earlier despatched as ambassador to Norway.
Defining Elsinore instantly throws Hamlet 's dilemma into sharp relief: you don't just rush off and kill a protected presidential figure like Claudius. And the keynote of West's fine Hamlet is a mordant intelligence and sense of political impotence. This Hamlet has a built-in bullshit detector that enables him to see through his own, and other people's, rhetoric. And if he packs a pistol, he is more likely to use it against himself than Claudius: indeed, he points it at his own temple before invoking the divine injunction against self-slaughter. Effectively marginalised by Claudius, West's Hamlet turns inwards at one point he even shares a spliff with his old mates Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Each actor creates his own Hamlet and West's is sardonic, clever and cruelly aware of his own powerlessness. When the First Player describes the immobilised Pyrrhus confronting Priam, West brilliantly echoes the phrase about the way Pyrrhus "did nothing". If I miss anything in his performance, it is the youthful sexual confusion vividly highlighted by Stephen Dillane but that is partly because Kerry Condon's slight, fey Ophelia seems an unlikely lover for this Hamlet , who would obviously be doing his PhD at Wittenberg.
It is, however, a rare piece of undercasting in an ensemble that bats all the way down. Lamb's Claudius is a brutally charismatic strong-arm politician Marty Cruickshank's Gertrude is a disenchanted sensualist who looks meaningfully at her husband when she makes a coarse joke in the midst of her threnody over Ophelia and Alan David's Polonius is a pompously nasty piece of work.
We have lately had a rash of depoliticised Hamlets. Pimlott puts power back at the play's centre and, with West, makes it enthrallingly clear that Hamlet 's tragedy is that he is the paralysed individual conscience in a world of realpolitik.
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Several dozen protesters gathered outside the Grand Hyatt New York on Sunday night where President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) was hosting a private dinner during a brief stopover in the metropolis while en route to Paraguay.
The dinner was attended by members of the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association, Taiwanese director Ang Lee (李安) and Chinese artist Cai Guoqiang (蔡國強).
Protest convener Lai Hong-tien (賴宏典), a dentist in the Manhattan area, said he had been unaware of Ma's visit until Friday, adding that the rally had been hastily organized by a small number of people.
"We hadn't expected to gather such a crowd," Lai said, adding that he and his fellow organizers had told police that about 15 people would attend.
The protesters held banners and signs bearing messages such as: "Stop selling out Taiwan," "Cease the oppression of human rights," as well as other more politically charged messages such as "Tear Down Dapu [Borough (大埔)] today, we'll overthrow the government tomorrow," "Halt the construction of the Longmen [Fourth] Nuclear Power Plant," "Truth in the Hung Chung-chiu (洪仲丘) incident," and a call for the release of former president Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁).
Lai said that most overseas Taiwanese are unhappy with how Ma is governing the nation, believing him to be deceitful, adding that they are especially worried about the cross-strait trade service agreement, which many see as an acceleration of Ma's attempt to "sell out Taiwan."
Despite the unexpected turnout, the New York Police Department officers monitoring the demonstration did not intervene and allowed the protest to continue.
Lai also criticized the Ma administration's policy of pursuing a diplomatic detente with China.
"I don't know what Ma's is afraid of," Lai said, referring to what he sees as Ma's avoidance of Taiwanese organizations in lieu of close dealings with China-oriented organizations in the US.
Since the Ma administration assumed power, it has never engaged "true Taiwanese," Lai said, adding that in contrast to how the Chen administration helped give Taiwan an international voice and highlight its diplomatic situation, the nation has been silenced under Ma's reign.
Lai also panned Ma's planned visit to the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association branch in New York's Chinatown.
"There are no Taiwanese [in the association]," and it could be said that the entire association has nothing to do with Taiwan, Lai said. "It seems that only Chinese know of Ma's itinerary."
This was yet another example of how Ma only liaises with China-centric organizations and completely failing to contact any "real Taiwanese" compatriots, Lai said.
The association was founded in 1883 and was one of the earliest Chinese groups in the US.
Ma was in New York on a transit stop en route to a five-nation diplomatic tour that will cover Paraguay and Taiwan's four allies in the Caribbean.
He was greeted by American Institute in Taiwan Chairman Raymond Burghardt and Representative to the US King Pu-tsung (金溥聰) at the John F. Kennedy International Airport.
While in New York, Ma will meet US Representative Ed Royce, chairman of the US House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee, and ranking committee member Eliot Engel
He is also scheduled to visit the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the city and New York University, where he once studied.


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In mid-April, Kroenke Sports Enterprises allowed World Wrestling Entertainment to book the Pepsi Center for an event set to take place on the evening of Monday, May 25.
Problem is, with the Nuggets fully engaged in an NBA title run, the Pepsi Center is now scheduled to host Game 4 of the Western Conference finals that night.
WWE chairman Vince McMahon blamed Stan Kroenke for not believing his team was good enough to still be playing in mid-May. After all, the Nuggets hadn't advanced past the first round in more than a decade.
"The fans in Denver had a lot more faith in making the playoffs than the owner," McMahon said in a phone interview from Louisville.
A WWE spokesman said Pepsi Center officials sent the organization a contract for securing the May 25 date on April 15 – the final night of the NBA's regular season and the night the Nuggets secured the No. 2 seed in the West.
WWE says it has already sold more than 10,000 tickets for the event. The organization expects a sellout, with tickets ranging from $20 to $70.
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Have you guys seen this yet? Bornakk just gave an update on Auction House integration with the Armory website.
Today, we wanted to give you a heads-up about a new service now in development that will let players access the Auction House directly through the Armory website or Armory App for iPhone or iPod touch.
Now if I'm reading that right, it means I don't have to log into the game to purchase stuff off the auction house. And thank goodness for that. I don't think I'm the only one for this, but there are some days where I'll forget to purchase stuff like herbs or flask related stuff. I may not be in position to do so either if I'm not at home. Now I can buy the stuff I need as I'm heading home and it'll be in my mail box when I log in to raid.
Of course, you have to realize that there is a catch.
It's important to note here that certain elements of the service will be premium-based, which we'll go into more detail on once the service functionality is finalized.
If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that browsing stuff on the auction house would be free of charge. The actual purchasing would require a bit of extra cash on your part. Not sure if its going to be subscription based or not. It could be a one time fee (which would be cool too). Anyway, I doubt we'll be seeing this in the game anytime soon. I'm going to say somewhere in the neighborhood of a Cataclysm release or in the time frame leading up to it.


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When students show up at college in the fall, they'll have to deal with new classes, new friends and a new environment. In many cases, they will also have new roommates — and an intriguing new research study suggests this can have important mental health consequences.
At the University of Notre Dame, psychologist Gerald Haeffel has recently obtained results from a natural experiment that unfolds every year at the university. In a paper published recently in the journal Clinical Psychological Science, Haeffel and co-author Jennifer Hames report that roommates can have strong effects — both positive and negative — on one another's mental health.
Like many schools, Notre Dame assigns new students their roommates. Haeffel recruited some of the students for a study and measured their psychological predispositions.
One of the things he was interested in was how different students respond to adversity. Take, for example, two hypothetical young scholars who do poorly on a classroom test: "One student fails the exam and thinks to [herself], 'I'm dumb, I'm worthless. I can't believe I failed this exam,'" Haeffel says. The same student may also engage in catastrophic thinking, imagining that because she failed the exam, she's going to fail the class or even flunk out of college.
By contrast, though the other student also tells herself it was disappointing to fail, she puts it down to a lack of preparation. She tells herself, "I'll work harder next time."
"These two reactions to the very same event can have very real implications for depression," Haeffel says. The student who sees the failure in extremely personal terms and then extrapolates from that failure to a host of other problems down the road is at significantly higher risk of depression, he says, than the student who puts the setback down to circumstances and bounces back from it.
Haeffel and Hames measured the way students in their study tended to frame such situations when they first arrived at Notre Dame. The researchers were then able to track pairs of roommates who had similar thinking styles and see whether and how their thought patterns changed, in comparison to roommate pairs who started out with very different thinking styles.
Haeffel says he was surprised to find that within just three months, the roommates with different styles began to "infect" one another.
"These thinking styles were contagious," he says. "If you came to college and your roommate had a very negative thinking style, your own thinking style became more negative."
Haeffel says that it "seems counterintuitive that you can catch someone's style of thinking like you could catch a cold or the flu." But six months after living with a roommate with a negative thinking style, some formerly cheerful students were showing signs of cognitive vulnerability known to put them at risk for depression.
Interestingly, Haeffel found that the reverse could be true as well. Some students with a gloomy disposition who got a cheerful, upbeat roommate were more likely to be cheerful and upbeat six months later. When confronted by a setback, such as a bad grade or a romantic breakup, these students began demonstrating some of the resilience of their cheerful companions.
Haeffel says the study showed that a widely held model about temperament and behavior might need revision. Researchers have long assumed, he says, that the positive and negative traits he spotted in the college students were more or less fixed after adolescence, in part because those traits seem stable in people over subsequent decades.
But instead, he says, those traits may be more like a language than like a physical characteristic such as height. By adolescence, people get very good at speaking a certain psychological language — responding to adversity in a certain, fixed way. But just as people can learn a new tongue if they're suddenly immersed in a new environment where people around them are speaking a different language, the experience of coming to college might have the same effect on the psychological makeup of young adults, Haeffel says. When gloomy people spend lots of time with someone who has a cheerful outlook, it can change their psychological "language." When cheerful people spend time around gloomy roommates, it can darken their outlook.
The point of the findings, Haeffel says, is not that you have to surround yourself with cheery people all the time — at a practical level, that's impossible. Rather, he says, it's good to know that some internal traits are malleable and, with time and effort, people can teach themselves new "languages."
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning, I'm David Greene.
And I'm Renee Montagne.
In Your Health today: The connection between depression and dementia.
GREENE: But first, freshmen are heading to college this fall and about now they might be getting their roommate assignments. Some colleges allow students to pick their roommates, others assign roommates to students. And there is some new information about the effects that college roommates might have on each other.
NPR's social science correspondent Shankar Vedantam regularly comes into to discuss research he finds. And he is in the studios with me. Hey, Shankar.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Hi, David.
GREENE: So I'm thinking about my college roommates and the influences they might have had on me.
GREENE: I mean am I going to like what you're about to tell us?
VEDANTAM: So it turns out that your college roommates actually have a pretty big effect on your mental health. And to understand what that effect is, what you need to know is that researchers have found that the risk of depression is connected to something called your cognitive style.
GREENE: Cognitive style, is that just sort of the way we think about things?
VEDANTAM: Exactly, so bad things happen to all of us but we don't all think about those bad things in exactly the same way. I spoke with psychologist Gerry Haeffel, he's at the University of Notre Dame, and he gave me an example. Here he is.
GERALD HAEFFEL: Two people both lose their jobs. The question is why is it that one person becomes depressed and another one doesn't? Some people are people are going to think that losing their job means that they're a failure and they're going to brood about their negative mood. And that person is at risk for depression.
GREENE: OK, so we have two people who might be responding to the same problem. I'm guessing that the person who kind of just brushes it aside might be less likely to get depressed, the person who kind of broods about it is more likely to get depressed.
VEDANTAM: Yeah exactly, so if you're a student you don't think that failing one exam is the same thing as being a failure. You know, you distract yourself, you go out and you tell yourself I'm going to bounce back. I'll start...
GREENE: You get over it.
VEDANTAM: Yeah, exactly. So here's the last: What happens if you suddenly stop spending time with somebody who has a very different cognitive style than you? Now, when students show up at Notre Dame, they are assigned roommates. The students to get to pick who they are roommates are - it's fairly random. Right? So regularly, people who have a positive attitude are going to get paired up with someone who has a negative attitude.
And what Haeffel found is that in just three months, roommates started to infect one another with their cognitive style. Here he is again.
HAEFFEL: What we found is that these thinking styles were contagious. If you came to college and you had a roommate who had a very negative thinking style, your own thinking style became more negative.
GREENE: OK, I don't want to oversimplify it. But I mean are we saying that if we come to college in a good mood, and we end up kind of feeling depressed a few months later, it's all our roommates' fault?
VEDANTAM: Well, on average that is sort of what Haeffel is saying, that having a negative person around you a lot of the time has an effect on you. But it's also important to remember, David, that this actually works both ways. So it's true that the brooders made cheerful kids more, you know, broody. But it's also true that the cheerful kids made the brooders more cheerful. So now, instead of blaming themselves when something went wrong, the brooders started saying, Well, you know, it's just the circumstances and I'll bounce back - I'll start doing better.
So it's almost as if the thinking styles of the two roommates were converging. Right? Haeffel is a depression researcher. And what he finds is that six months after you start spending lots of time with somebody with a more negative attitude, your risk for depression significantly rises.
GREENE: Let's broaden this out, if we can, and get some perspective. I mean if we take this beyond college, how important is it that we find people who are upbeat...
GREENE: ...you know, to spend time with to make sure that we don't get depressed?
VEDANTAM: This is why I like spending time around you, David, because you're always cheerful.
GREENE: Nice of you.
VEDANTAM: But, you know, the truth is in life we can't always surround ourselves with cheerful people. Right? People are going to come in all shapes and sizes. The big take away for me from Haeffel's study, is that these Cognitive Styles are actually quite malleable. It used to be that we thought that the styles were fairly fixed. You know, once your brooder you're always going to be a brooder. Or once your cheerful person, you always stay at cheerful person.
What this experiment is showing us is that our peers and networks have a really powerful effect in shaping us. When we start spending time with somebody who is of very different temperament, it's the psychological equivalent of essentially landing in a new country. And so, our natural cognitive style - this mental language that we've always spoken - doesn't work anymore in this new country. And you have to start learning this new language.
And so, the take away for me is with effort in time we can all change our cognitive styles.
GREENE: It's an upbeat ending to this chat.
VEDANTAM: I think so.
GREENE: It's been great sharing a room with you you've been a wonderful influence, Shankar.
GREENE: Thanks a lot.
VEDANTAM: Thanks, David.
GREENE: That's NPR's Shankar Vedantam and you can follow him on Twitter @hiddenbrain. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The UNC Pembroke baseball squad completed a three-game Peach Belt Conference sweep of Georgia Southwestern on Monday with a 6-1 victory at Hurricane Field.
GSW (14-24, 6-12 PBC), on the losing end of four straight games, has been swept in two of their last three Peach Belt Conference series.
Pembroke wasted no time getting on the scoreboard. Leadoff hitter Kevin Dietrich homered to dead center field to start the game.
In the second inning, Jason Coker dropped a fly ball between three GSW fielders for a double to right. The next batter, Jordan Pegram reached on a sacrifice bunt attempt after a throwing error by Zack Stanton; Coker advanced to third. Joe Mangum singled to right center to drive in Coker. After a walk to Tom Porricelli, Josh Haley singled to right field to drive in a run. The next two Braves batters popped out. The final run of the inning was brought home when Seth Kivett was hit by pitch.
Southwestern scored their lone run of the game in the bottom of the frame. Francisco Gomez led off the inning with a double down the right field line. After Stanton grounded out to the shortstop, Daniel Lynn grounded out to second and Gomez advanced to third on the play. Jared Allen walked. Daniel Stokes followed with a single up the middle to drive in Gomez.
The Braves (26-13, 8-10 PBC) added a pair of runs in the sixth when Dietrich hit his second home run of the game; a two-run shot to left center field.
UNCP starter Jonathan Rivera (4-1) threw 8.1 innings, allowing one run on five hits. He struck out two and walked two. Rudy Brown picked up the final two outs without surrendering a hit.
RM Cozza (1-5) took the loss for the Hurricanes, giving up nine hits and six runs - four earned - in eight innings, walking three and striking out seven. Brandon Reeder pitched a scoreless ninth.
Dietrich finished the day 3-for-5 with three RBI to lead UNCP, while Coker and Haley collected two hits apiece. GSW did not have a batter with multiple hits. Stokes tallied the lone RBI.
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PUEBLA, Mexico – Herculez Gomez has been a consistent thorn in the side of MLS teams in the CONCACAF Champions League over the last two seasons, logging seven goals in six games against MLS opposition in that time.
And with the first leg of the quarterfinals at BBVA Compass Stadium coming up on Tuesday (8 pm ET, Fox Soccer), the bad news for Houston Dynamo fans is that Gomez and Santos Laguna's appetite to succeed in the continental competition is not on the wane.
"We really want to be a team that competes with the best in the world and the only way of doing that is by winning this tournament," Gomez told MLSsoccer.com by phone over the weekend. "The importance has been expressed, so we're excited."
Clashes against Toronto FC and the Seattle Sounders last season pushed Santos Laguna into prominence in US soccer circles, but this time around the side plays a very different style than they had under former head coach Benjamín Galindo.
His replacement, Portugal native Pedro Caixinha, has come in and slowly started to change the way the team operates, focusing more on the defensive side of the ball. The team has leaked just six goals in nine games this Clausura season.
"I think probably intensity would be the most glaring factor," Gomez said. "The intensity that we go towards the ball on the defensive end and starting from the top is much greater."
Gomez has operated mainly out wide this season but has started every game, scoring three times and providing two assists. He's come around to appreciating what his versatility brings to both Santos and the US national team, and warmed up for Tuesday's clash against Houston Dynamo by banging in a couple of goals last Friday in his team's 3-1 victory over Jaguares.
"Obviously I just want to play," he said. "It doesn't really matter what position. I feel like I can be effective in multiple positions."
READ: Big expectations for Gomez in Mexico in 2013
The Las Vegas native has gone toe-to-toe with the Dynamo on many occasions when he plied his trade in MLS, and has a lot of respect for the franchise.
"I've had plenty of battles with them, with Dom Kinnear, with players on that team like Brad Davis, Brian Ching," he said. "They're a bunch of good players.
"For a long time, they were the standard in MLS of what an MLS team should be. An American built team that evenly distributes their money around. When it comes to foreigners, they are really the standard, so I know them very well."
READ: Patience, persistence pays off for Dynamo in regular season opener
MLS Commissioner Don Garber's comments last week about the necessity of an MLS team winning the CCL to gain international prestige were not lost on Gomez, and he says that in his three years playing in Mexico, the perception is that the northern league is getting stronger.
"The league is 18 years young, but what they've done in those 18 years speaks for itself," he commented. "From an investment point of view, it's sustainable and not many leagues in the world can say that."
But while the US international clearly holds an affinity for MLS, don't expect he or his Guerreros side to be rolling over for the Dynamo. Santos mean business on Tuesday.
"The CCL is important for us, it's important for me," he said, "so I'm going to do everything I can, everything in my ability, in my power to hurt them."
Tom Marshall covers mericans playing in Latin America for MLSsoccer.com. E-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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To highlight local talent by enhancing the fine arts display area with finished display cabinets. Additionally, funds will be used to bring live bluegrass music to the fair.
The Floodwood Four Rivers Legacy Encampment Park will make its debut at the 2012 Southwest St Louis County Fair. Located on the banks of the Floodwood River, the encampment will consist of several live, interactive demonstrations and displays depicting early trades and activities that took place on the area rivers. Fair visitors will enjoy activities such as birch bark canoe building demonstrations, fur trading reenactments, Native American homestead displays, and early logging equipment displays and demonstrations.
This program funded grants to local units of government and other entities to supplement, not supplant existing budgets. Two categories of grants made available: 1) focus on response to invasive forest pest incidents, 2) focus on planning and preparedness for the arrival of invasive forest pests. The program will also update the state's invasive and exotic tree pest plans.
Provide a quality sound system to enhance performances and bring in quality acts on the free stage.
This demonstration sites provides information on the characteristics of agricultural drainage from a typical field in south-central Minnesota. Results will help researchers evaluate the environmental and economic impacts of specific management practices.
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Funding supports an Irrigation Specialist to develop guidance and provide education on irrigation and nitrogen best management practices (BMPs). In this position, Dr. Vasu Sharma provides direct support to irrigators on issues of irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring. She is collaborating on the development of new irrigation scheduling tools that help irrigators manage water and nitrogen resources more precisely. These tools help reduce nitrogen leaching losses in irrigated cropping systems.
To offer new arts and cultural heritage programming at the St. Louis County Fair. Programming will include performances by Irish Dancers, a Native American pow-wow, children's theater, vaudeville, and music featuring a barbershop quartet, gospel, and Americana songs.
To present a three day lumberjack show that will showcase the lumberjack skills of today and yesterday.
To enhance access to artistic, cultural and educational programming by building a shelter for shows and demonstrations. Programming will include cultural music, presentation on the Sioux Uprising, the Tracy Tornado, and a Lyon County Centennial Farm recognition program.
To offer a Minnesota history experience through exhibitions by the Timberworks Lumberjacks. Fairgoers will have an opportunity to learn more about logging history in Minnesota and watch demonstrations of crosscutting, log rolling, chopping, tree climbing, etc.
To add and enhance arts programming in Martin County. Funds will be used to hire art instructors to lead hands-on pottery, painting, and weaving workshops. Supplies will be provided for child and adult participants. Funds will also be used to enhance stage lighting.
To provide an environmentally educational performance to fairgoers. The Martin County Fair will welcome the band "Vocal Trash" to their stage. Vocal Trash is a band that performs using instruments constructed of recycled materials and plays songs emphasizing the importance of recycling, reusing, and upcycling through song and dance.
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The Minnesota Ag Water Quality Certification Program (MAWQCP) is a voluntary opportunity for farmers and agricultural landowners to take the lead on implementing conservation practices that protect water quality. Those who implement and maintain approved conservation practices will be certified and in turn obtain regulatory certainty for a period of ten years. This program will help address concerns about changing regulatory requirements from multiple state and federal agencies.
Native to the western United States and Canada, mountain pine beetle is considered the most devastating forest insect in North America. Trees usually die as a result of infestation and an unprecedented outbreak in the west is currently decimating pine forests there. While mountain pine beetle is not presently believed to reside in Minnesota, there are risks posed by an expanding species range resulting from warming climate and the potential for accidental introduction via lumber imports from infested areas.
The Minnesota Nutrient Management Initiative (NMI) was developed to help farmers and crop advisers evaluate management decisions using the farmer's actual field conditions.Participating farmers work with a crop adviser to set up field trials. After completing plot harvest and submitting the required forms, farmers and crop advisers are reimbursed for their time and will receive a summary and analysis of their results.
The purpose of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture's monitoring activities is to determine the presence and concentration of pesticides in Minnesota's groundwater and surface water. Monitoring information is used to characterize and assess the extent of pesticide impacts to Minnesota's water resources.
Theme of this exhibit: Farmers are combining current conservation practices with new technology to protect the environment.
To purchase a portable stage to increase Dakota County Fair's capacity to host arts and cultural heritage programming.
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The Mayor of Atlantic City spoke publicly on a video allegedly showing a police officer releasing his K-9 on a man who was already face down on the ground.
"The video was horrifying," said Mayor Lorenzo Langford. "I want as many eyes and ears looking at this situation because it's important to the public to believe that we are doing all that we can, must and should do to make sure we get to the bottom of this."
Last month, Langford asked both the State Attorney General's Office as well as the United States Department of Justice to help investigate the incident.
On June 5, 20-year-old David Castellani Jr. exchanged words with three Atlantic City police officers after he was kicked out of a casino for being underage.
A surveillance camera from the casino shows the officers force Castellani Jr. to the ground. It then shows two other officers get involved moments later.
"It was horrifying," said David Castellani, the man's father. "Absolutely horrifying."
But Castellani says the most horrifying part of the recording comes the moment when a K-9 officer, identified as Sterling Wheaten, arrives.
"With his hands behind his back, the K-9 truck pulls up and without any assessment of the situation, the K-9 officer releases the dog on my son's neck," Castellani said.
In the surveillance video, Officer Wheaten appears to release the dog on Castellani Jr. twice. Photos after the incident show wounds to the back of Castellani Jr.'s head and neck.
"As bad as it was, and it was horrible, I thank God that at least he was alive and it didn't get the front of his neck," said Castellani Jr.'s mother Terri.
While Castellani Jr. is alive, his parents tell NBC10 that doctors say their son may never be the same.
"They don't anticipate that it will go away because that was from the lacerations and the doctors explained that some of the nerves get severed on the scalp," Castellani said.
Castellani Jr.'s parents tell NBC10 police charged their son with aggravated assault and accused him of punching an officer and punching the police dog.
"I'm an attorney in the community and I've represented police officers before," Castellani said.
"Never in my life have I seen anything like this before, let alone with my own son."
Castellani is suing the officers involved, accusing them of excessive force. But it's not the first accusation of excessive force against Officer Wheaten.
NBC10 obtained an internal police report which shows that Atlantic City Police internal affairs investigated Wheaten 15 times between 2008 and 2010 for allegations of misconduct, some of those allegations being excessive force. Each time however, the department concluded Wheaten did nothing wrong or that there was not enough evidence to clearly prove he did something wrong. Wheaten's attorney told us she was confident internal affairs performed complete and thorough investigations.
Mayor Langford revealed he also watched the video and found it "quite disturbing." Mayor Langford also said he wants the State's Attorney General's Office and the Department of Justice to get involved.
"In an effort to ensure transparency and to maximize the level of scrutiny regarding the investigation of this matter, I am asking the State Attorney General's Office to oversee this investigative effort," Langford wrote in a released statement. "Moreover, I will be making a formal request to the United States Department of Justice to monitor the investigation regarding this case."
NBC10 reached out to the Atlantic City Police Department for comment and a copy of the police report of the incident. The Department declined to release any information about the incident or the officers involved.
Atlantic City Police Chief Ernest Jubilee confirmed however that internal affairs and the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office are both investigating. Chief Jubilee also claimed he viewed the recording and "saw no reason to suspend or remove the officers from their regular duties." Finally, the chief stated that because of the investigation, the officers involved cannot comment.
A man who claims he was one of the victims of Wheaten's excessive force, came forward after he viewed NBC10's initial report on Friday.
"I was horrified when I saw the video that you guys ran the story on," said Vernon Kelley. "I'm not surprised. I warned everybody back in 2010 about this officer."
Kelley claims Officer Wheaten and another officer roughed him up in an elevator back in 2010 after he got in an altercation with a casino bouncer.
"They hit me in my face, in my head and in my neck," Kelley said. "It was the entire length of the elevator ride down. It seemed like forever. "
Kelley filed a lawsuit in federal court in October of 2011. The case was settled outside of court this past June. NBC10 discovered four other lawsuits filed against Officer Wheaten, dating back to 2010, claiming Officer Wheaten used excessive force while on duty.
While Kelley's case has been settled, the other four lawsuits are still pending. Wheaten's attorney told NBC10 she can't comment on the cases since they're still under litigation.
Kelley tells NBC10 there was never an admission of wrongdoing on anyone's part in the settlement of his case. Kelley says he was later charged after he filed a complaint against the officers but that those charges were eventually dismissed.


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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 1 Issue 32 May 22, 2001
This is not an exercise designed to review the many FBI lapses which have occurred in the last several years, mostly under the leadership of Janet Reno's Department of Justice. There have been many more huge FBI successes, but that is not the point of this editorial. The FBI has its die-hard detractors, as well as its many blind loyalists. I'd like to think this is a time for close examinations.
I was an FBI Agent for 26 years, and while I did not achieve high rank, my assignments kept me in close touch with the FBI management. In fact, I was detailed to FBI Headquarters and served as a manager for some time, and I was also acting manager of a very sensitive squad of 40 agents and staff in the Washington, DC Metropolitan field office.
I retired in 1995 in good stead, and a picture of that occasion is hung on my wall, with a beaming Aldrich family standing with a smiling Louis Freeh. At the moment I stood there with Director Freeh, I both admired him and felt bad, as I knew better than most that the Clinton Administration had "rolled" my agency.
Freeh and senior management had been conned like so many others. Freeh later admitted that the Clinton White House had betrayed a trust with the FBI. But, the betrayal did not happen in a vacuum. There were those at the FBI who knew how corrupt the Clinton White House was proving to be -- and they were some of the managers working directly under Louis Freeh.
That was in 1995. By the end of 1996 it appeared that a badly burned FBI Director had finally understood what he was up against, and was no longer listening to wimpy bureau-crats, or a political siren song coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
But while Director Freeh was busy playing catch up ball, learning what his ignored street agents already knew and reported, much damage to national security was done. Also, some honest FBI agents lost their positions in the White House, some 1000 confidential files were misdirected to political operatives in the Clinton White House, and a criminally minded president was reelected for another awful, disgusting four years, resulting in House Impeachment in 1999.
The single biggest complaint I had about Director Freeh was that the FBI management had not changed for the better under his leadership. Indeed, many of the problems with the Clinton Administration were glossed over by some senior FBI management for reasons they have yet to explain. They have never been called to account for their actions or inaction in this regard. Why not?
I've often wondered about that. Louis Freeh came into the FBI with the best of intentions, and he was well liked and well respected. One of his goals was to fix FBI management problems. What went wrong?
Perhaps it's as simple as expecting a man a very ethical, smart, good man to take over an agency rife with management problems - some obvious and some not so obvious - when the single biggest management challenge he had handled in the recent past had been to supervise about half a dozen hand-picked and highly qualified federal court employees. And, I'm sure he had an excellent chief of staff to help him with that task.
He also went from a budget of perhaps a million dollars, to a multibillion dollar budget; overnight. Imagine a successful manager of a car dealership being expected to come in and run General Motors. Maybe the analogy is a poor one, but perhaps you get my point.
In the last few days, a well-respected member of the former Reagan Justice Department has suggested in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that selecting an FBI Director should have little to do with management skills, proven or imagined.With respect, I do not understand the logic of this position.
The FBI has more than 25,000 employees, with half of those carrying weapons with the license to take human life. The 13,000 plus FBI agents also can cause enormous damage to individuals and businesses with an arrest, a single subpoena, or a single search warrant served, or even a door-to-door inquiry in someone's neighborhood.
Ask Richard Jewell or Billy Dale what can happen to you when the FBI investigative trolley leaves the track.
To suggest that these powerful individuals do not need excellent leadership and close management from the top down, is incomprehensible. It is likewise unwise to believe that the agency can run quite well thank you very much -- without a director, as some have suggested. The implication here is that at all times the agency is run so well that it needs a mere ethical figurehead.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
I don't suggest that a CEO who has proven management skills should be considered for this important post. Any applicant for this job needs significant law enforcement experience in their background. But I do think systemic management flaws in the FBI can only be addressed by someone who understands the bigger picture of massive federal government bureaucracy weaknesses, and failings.
I would not want to see a politician in this important slot. However, anyone needing to take on the White House from time to time, or expected to cross swords with the slippery federal bureaucracy, better have great political instincts.
Choir boy types or those who worship at the altar of law enforcement should not apply, in my opinion. They will just end up doing more harm than good, and they may very well be blinded by the mythology of an "agency that can do no wrong."
The FBI is a tool. Granted, its a finely made tool with excellent trained, superbly selected men and women, and also all the assets to get the job done. But like any other powerful tool, the FBI can be dangerous and destructive if misused or mismanaged.
You would never let the untrained use a chainsaw, would you? Why then would we give the very powerful, very big and growing FBI to an unseasoned, unproven, untrained manager, and expect that he or she will effectively manage 25,000 unique, independent, very active individuals, and at the same time spend billions of dollars efficiently and effectively?
Does rising to the level of the federal bench qualify one to be an FBI Director?
Recent history at the FBI states otherwise, and when you have 46 out of 56 FBI field offices dropping the ball on one of the country's most important investigations, that sir, with all due respect, is a very serious management problem that starts at the top. The former federal judge didn't see it coming, apparently.
I think we should pay attention to Director Freeh when he says he takes full responsibility for the McVeigh case documents snafu. These are not mere words, but good evidence of his excellent character, which is not in dispute.
Maybe nobody can run the FBI anymore - maybe it's too big! Perhaps we'd better find out.
What happened at the FBI in the McVeigh case was not just a mere computer glitch, as some have tried to argue. It's a serious management problem.


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'Challenger Disaster' Movie Captures Gripping History
By Austin O'Connor , November 14, 2013 11:57 AM
The Challenger Disaster is one of those movies - The Social Network and Moneyball are other fairly recent examples - that manage to wring gripping, suspenseful drama from a subject that wouldn't seem to inspire it. The film, which premieres on Science Channel on Saturday night at 9, recounts the true story of the Rogers Commission, the presidentially appointed group that investigated the cause of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion.
As the Discovery-owned cable net's first-ever feature film, it's a triumph, wonderfully paced and smartly written. Anchored by a stirring central performance from William Hurt, it's also a welcome surprise: The solemn inquiry into the cause of a tragic accident turned into a nifty, shifty whodunit. Or, more precisely, a whatdunit.
Oscar winner Hurt plays physicist Richard Feynman, the iconoclastic Nobel Prize-winning Cal Tech professor who ruffled feathers among his fellow commission members. According to the movie, the mission for many in the group, including its chairman, former Secretary of State Bill Rogers ( Brian Dennehy), was to quickly absolve NASA from culpability. Feynman, whose storied career began when as a young scientist he assisted on the Manhattan Project, refused to toe the line.
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"I didn't even want to be on this commission," he tells Rogers at one point, "but now that I'm on it I've got every intention of finding out what went wrong."
Turns out, a few other commissioners, notably astronaut Sally Ride (Eve Best) and Gen. Donald Kutyna (Bruce Greenwood), were of like mind. They push Feynman to examine the now infamous O rings, the plastic barriers in the shuttle's rocket boosters that, his experimentation concludes, likely malfunctioned in the freezing temperatures on the morning of the Challenger launch, leading to the explosion and the deaths of its seven crew members.
The 63-year-old Hurt, who has had a string of memorable TV roles lately, is at his wild-eyed best. He plays Feynman with unkempt hair flying in all directions, wearing loose ties and even looser jackets - a man completely at odds with the buttoned-up politicos and military personnel on the commission. Feynman was in the final stages of cancer as he investigated the accident, and his physical deterioration adds urgency to his search for clues. Also looming is guilt over his role in the creation of the A-bomb - "not a good use of science," he explains regretfully - and there's a sense that his dedication to the Challenger investigation is driven in part by a desire to make up for it.
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When it aired this year on the BBC, the movie was called simply The Challenger. Science Channel says the name was changed to clarify its story for U.S. audiences. I wish it hadn't been, as the former title is more fitting for a film that is as much about the fascinating, feisty Feynman as it is about the accident or the investigation.
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