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Whitehall, Pa. – Playing in the opening round of the PIAA Class AAA state tournament last Tuesday evening, the Mount St. Joseph Academy field hockey team became this year's victim of the infamous District 1 "fifth-seed trap."
By securing the fifth spot coming out of the district tourney in a "pigtail" game between the last two of the six teams to make it to the state tourney, the winner is always rewarded with a match against the District 11 champion, which for the past 24 years running has been Emmaus High School up alongside Allentown.
Emmaus has won 10 state championships and has held many number one rankings in national scholastic polls over the years, and last week the Green Hornets buzzed by the Mount Magic, 3-1. In the match on a neutral field at Whitehall High School (a few miles north of Allentown), the Mount fell behind 2-0 in a little over 13 minutes, but did not allow another goal until eight minutes remained in the game.
Five minutes after the Hornets' second goal, MSJ senior Emilee Ehret (who will sign with Penn State) scored directly off of a penalty corner insertion for a 2-1 count at the interlude. The play was much closer between the teams throughout the second half.
"We may have started off a little scared, but I think after a few minutes that just went away, and we gave it our all," remarked Magic senior co-captain Ann Burgoyne, a Norwood Fontbonne Academy graduate who has committed to play college hockey at Fairfield University. "In my first couple years we played [Emmaus] in the pre-season, and we thought we had a chance to beat them, but they're always very good."
The Mounties sheathed their sticks for the season with an overall record of 19-5, having finished second within their own Athletic Association of Catholic Academies. Emmaus moved on with a mark of 23-1. The Hornets had lost a 1-0 overtime game on the natural grass field at Liberty High School (Bethlehem) back in September, but later they rolled over Liberty, 4-0, to win their ninth straight Lehigh Valley Conference title.
In its early exit from the state tourney, Mount St. Joe had plenty of company right within District 1, as five of the six teams lost in the opening round. The lone survivor, fourth-seeded Wissahickon High School, knocked off another Philly area school, District 12 champ Cardinal O'Hara, but then lost 3-0 in the second round to Lower Dauphin, the fourth seed out of District 3.
Whatever nervousness the Mounties felt last Tuesday evening was probably compounded by what turned out to be quite a long wait to take the field. Scheduled before their game at Whitehall was a Class AA contest between Wyoming Seminary and Southern Lehigh. On hand to scout this affair were the coaches from the Mount's traditional rival Villa Maria Academy, which won the Catholic Academies title this year.
The opening game of the twin bill was tied at the end of regulation play, and the deadlock could not be broken during two 15-minute overtime periods and two best-of-five penalty stroke sessions. Finally, Wyoming Seminary prevailed in the sudden-victory stroke round.
The Class triple-A game would get underway almost 45 minutes late, and conditions were downright cold. By halftime of the second contest, dew had crystalized to form a frosty coating on the scorers' table and on the equipment bags of the players.
From the Hornets' reputation, and from going over a video of the District 11 championship game, second-year Mount coach Christina Post knew Emmaus was very dangerous on corner plays, and that's exactly how the Hornets got on the board first with 3:37 elapsed. Off an assist from Old Dominion recruit Sarah Kazmierski, sophomore sensation Teresa Carotenuto put away the first of her two goals on the night.
"They're very disciplined in their shape," Coach Post observed. "They always have someone on each post and someone at the stroke [line]. They're there with their sticks low and they're ready for a rebound. You given them a rebound and it's coming right back down your throat."
Soon after its first scoring play, Emmaus was awarded another corner when a Mountie inadvertently let her mouthguard slip out and was spotted by an eagle-eyed ref. The Magic survived this play, but Emmaus continued to control much of the action, and a few big hits across midfield by the Mount didn't lead to any serious, coordinated assaults.
As the midpoint of the period approached the Magic managed to get up near the circle, but the Hornets took the ball away and rushed down the field on a counterattack. Emmaus capitalized on the quick reversal to go up 2-0, with Carotenuto setting up a strike by junior Krissy Mikelson with 16:38 left in the first half.
At a point like this, the players on the trailing team have to make a decision to not allow early setbacks to turn the game into a rout.
During a time-out, Post encouraged her team to play more boldly.
"Our offense looked too timid," she said. "They were in a defensive mindset and they weren't getting up the field and stretching the field the way we usually do."
The Magic steadied themselves, and began to attack more effectively.
"We definitely had more confidence as the game went on and we saw that we could play with them," Burgoyne said.
When the Magic earned their first penalty corner, Burgoyne made the insertion from the left endline out to senior classmate Emilee Ehret at the top of the circle. Then, as '90's boy band Hanson might have put it, "In an Em-bop it's gone."
The Penn State recruit pounded the ball back down towards the cage, beating sophomore goalie Tori Laczo on her right side. The Magic would not have a chance to try to repeat this scenario, as this would be their only offensive penalty corner all evening.
Emmaus finished with seven corners, including the one stemming from the Mount mouthguard malfunction. That's actually a respectable total against a team like the Green Hornets; in another Tuesday game, District 1 three-seed Central Bucks West yielded 26 corners in a 5-1 loss to District 3 runner-up Central Dauphin. Central Dauphin bowed to Emmaus in the next round, 2-0.
Emmaus struck the MSJ backboard with a shot that appeared to give the Hornets a 3-1 lead with 6:34 to go in the period, but a foul on the play nullified the apparent score and the half ended with the count still 2-1.
In the second half, the ball spent a roughly equal amount of time in the Emmaus and the Mount halves of the field. The Hornets penetrated into the circle more frequently than the Magic, but only added two more corners to its 5-1 halftime advantage.
Carotenuto's second goal, with 8:23 left to play, tacked the final score on the board and Emmaus, as usual, moved on. Christina Black, the junior goalie for Mount St. Joe, came away with seven saves on the night.
Back on October 1, about midway through the season, the Magic had a 9-3 record that included two league losses to Villa Maria, and one to Gwynedd Mercy. The team had also lost the services of talented freshman defender Taylor Gray, who went out with a stress fracture.
For this and other reasons, the Magic made some position changes that improved their performance. Even with a 3-2 defeat by runner-up Unionville High School in the district tournament and the setback in States last week, the Mounties went 10-2 after the First of October.
Ehret had moved back on the field to play defensive center mid, while fellow senior Julia Mustin was shifted up to the attack.
"When I moved her up into the forward line it changed a lot of things, helped us create more," Post explained. "And defensively, Emilee was a great leader for those young girls in the back."
Mustin finished up with 17 goals and five assists for the season, not that far behind top-scorer Burgoyne (18 goals, 13 assists). Playmaker Ehret had a team-high 17 assists along with 10 goals, and the fourth senior on the squad, Ali Waters (co-captain along with Burgoyne), registered six goals and four assists.
The team's most skilled junior, Millie Stefanowicz, missed a good chunk of the season due to injury, but a strong sophomore class saw a lot of action. All will need to step up and help lead the team going forward, so the Magic can move up in the District 1 tournament and avoid falling back into the fifth-seed trap at States.


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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among weight-loss surgery options, gastric bypass comes with more complications shortly after surgery than gastric banding, but makes up for it with fewer long-term side effects and repeat operations, new research suggests.
People who got bypass surgery also lost weight faster, and more kept it off, in the study of more than 400 obese Swiss patients.
"What we would like with any of the (weight-loss) procedures ideally would be to have the least long-term complications, certainly the least long-term complications requiring (repeat) surgery," said Dr. Michel Suter, a surgeon from the Hopital du Chablais, Aigle, who worked on the study.
"There are drawbacks with bypass, there are side effects, and we have to take them into account," he told Reuters Health. But "overall, if I had to choose between the procedures, I certainly recommend the bypass."
Still, one researcher not involved in the study said that when complications do happen with gastric bypass, they are often more serious than complications after banding.
Suter and his colleagues looked back at records of 442 obese patients who underwent weight-loss surgery at their hospitals between 1998 and 2005.
To qualify for surgery, all patients had to have a body mass index — a measure of weight in relation to height — of at least 40, or at least 35 if they also had an obesity-related illness. That's the equivalent of a five-foot, six-inch person weighing at least 248 pounds or 217 pounds, respectively.
Half of the patients had gastric band procedures, which involve placing a band around the top of the stomach to limit its size to a small pouch. The other half were treated with gastric bypass, when part of the stomach is stapled off and then rerouted to bypass a segment of the small intestine. The two groups were similar in terms of their age and initial weight.
Doctors checked in with those patients at least twice a year for the next six years post-surgery.
Complications in the month after the procedure — which typically include infections — were more common after gastric bypass than after banding: 17 percent of bypass patients had any surgery-related problems, compared to five percent in the banding group.
"The operation itself is a little more complicated and a little more risky," Suter explained.
But after that point, the bypass group lost weight faster, put less of it back on and suffered fewer long-term complications, including those that called for a repeat procedure.
Six years post-surgery, 12 percent of bypass patients had a body mass index above 35, considered severely obese, compared to one-third after gastric banding.
And thirteen percent of patients needed re-operation after complications with gastric bypass, versus close to 27 percent following banding.
The long-term complications of gastric banding were generally related to the band eroding and needing to be removed, food intolerance or stretching of the esophagus, the researchers reported Monday in the Archives of Surgery.
With gastric bypass, patients most often had internal hernias, a type of bowel blockage that can be life-threatening if not treated.
Dr. Christine Ren-Fielding, a weight-loss surgeon at the New York University School of Medicine, said that her research has suggested gastric bypass complications tend to be much more serious than complications related to banding.
"We all know that not all complications are alike," Ren-Fielding, who was not involved in the new study, told Reuters Health by email. "For example a wound infection treated with antibiotics is not the same as a...leak which requires re-operation and extended hospitalization."
While Ren-Fielding said banding has been found to be "a relatively safe procedure," technique and surgeon experience can affect outcomes of any surgery.
Weight-loss surgery typically costs around $20,000. Gastric banding may be cheaper than bypass initially because of a simpler procedure and shorter hospital stay — but Suter said that the need for band adjustments over time may drive up costs.
When it comes to choosing a procedure, Ren-Fielding said, "My philosophy is one of helping the patient be successful and optimizing outcomes, regardless of which operation they have, because all bariatric surgeries have their overwhelming benefits in treating the disease of obesity."
"I'm not at a point when I would say, 'No way' to a patient who asks for a band and has no contraindications to the band," Suter said.
Still, he added, "I discourage them to have a band because I don't want to operate on them two or three times — one time is enough. Bypass is more definitive."
SOURCE: bit.ly/yw13CX Archives of Surgery, online January 16, 2012.

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John Kerry's first task as incoming secretary of state should be to develop a coherent policy for Syria, where U.S. sanctions are proving counterproductive, the fighting around Damascus is deadlocked, the economy is in ruins and the country is headed toward a sectarian breakup.
This grim prognosis for Syria is based on the latest reports provided to the State Department by opposition forces working with the Free Syrian Army.
The military situation in Damascus is described as a stalemate. The regime controls the city center and the northern suburbs, while Free Syrian Army rebels are strong in the eastern, western and southern suburbs. Corruption is spreading in the liberated southern suburbs. As Syrians pass through regime and Free Syrian Army checkpoints, "sometimes you hardly know which is which, and you lose track of what FSA are trying to achieve," notes a summary of the report.
With these fluid battle lines, it's possible to move stealthily throughout the capital. Main streets are guarded by checkpoints manned by troops loyal to President Bashar al-Assad, "but there is always [an] alternative that opposition [forces] can use to reach almost any point in Damascus." I found a similar ease of movement in northern Syria when I traveled there with the Free Syrian Army in October.
As rival Free Syrian Army battalions recruit fighters, they "buy them with money," notes the summary, explaining: "This is what [the extremist Jabhat al-Nusra] is doing to increase their supporters; now people become an open market, you pay, and you can sell your ideology. ... People are easily signing up to something they did not dare to do before."
Doctors who work in military hospitals report that most casualties are from the regular army, "which indicates that the regime is still keeping the 8k to 12k Republicans Guards as last resort," the report says.
U.S.-led economic sanctions appear to have backfired, much as they did in Iraq in the 1990s, hurting poor and middle-class people while allowing regime loyalists to get even richer. The report calls this effort "the epitome of failure," explaining: "The regime is capable of bypassing most sanctions by using non-U.S. and non-Western productions. ... High-ranking regime figures have sophisticated networks to channel and move their large accounts."
"It's the Syrian people who do not have the means and the connections to bypass these sanctions," the report continues. "These conditions have produced the largest transfer of wealth from the people to the government supporters. Under the current shortages and rising prices, the only businessmen who can sustain a profitable business are the ones who have military might at their disposal to protect their convoys. ... The middle class and most of the wealthy have lost their cash flow."
The Assad regime is rationing access to fuel and electricity to reward friends and punish enemies. "The number of hours [of electricity] each neighborhood receives is directly proportional to their level of support for the government. ... Lucky ones get 18 hours of power every day. Not-so-lucky ones get 3 hours of power every day, defiant ones get no power or cellphone coverage at all."
The U.S.-led embargo on imports of diesel fuel is also "very ineffective," the report explains. "Of course the military gets first dibs on it, and the civilians bid up the price of what is left." Desperate for heating fuel, poor people are burning plastic and tree leaves.
U.S. policy to deal with the Syria disaster has been idling for months, as the administration waited out the presidential election and then the appointment of new secretaries of state and defense and a new CIA director. Kerry is seen as the person most likely to galvanize a clearer, tougher U.S. policy, but President Obama is said to be skeptical, asking "can we make a difference?" in a recent interview with The New Republic.
Rebel military sources argue that the most effective step the U.S. could take would be to train hundreds of elite commando forces, which would be well-armed and have the strong command-and-control that has generally been lacking in the Free Syrian Army. These disciplined paramilitary forces, like groups the CIA has trained in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan, could shift the balance on the ground – away from the Assad forces, but also away from the extremist Jabhat al-Nusra.
"Many people now have lost hope with everything," writes one of my Syrian sources. "Many people now hate Assad, but they hate the FSA as well. They just want a way out."


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Burbank has initiated a series of funding deals to keep IKEA — a top sales-tax revenue generator — within city limits.
The Swedish furniture retailer — a retail powerhouse in Burbank for more than two decades — has outgrown its current building has been looking for about a decade to expand its operations, said IKEA spokesman Joseph Roth.
"Parking is challenging, the loading zone is challenging, the store itself is too small," he said.
The retailer already has its eye on a property — located at 805 South San Fernando Boulevard — that is twice the size of its current location, but it's occupied by Western Studio Service and a number of office tenants.
The owners of Crown Realty and Development are willing to sell the property to the retailer provided it can acquire the current IKEA building.
"We are very excited about this opportunity and are optimistic about staying in Burbank for the long term," Roth said, adding, "At this point, we haven't committed to anything yet."
But here's where it gets tricky.
After redevelopment agencies were dissolved statewide, Burbank was left holding the bag for roughly $42.7 million in unpaid redevelopment-related loans and obligations.
In March 2011, the Redevelopment Agency transferred the current IKEA building, along with 20 other agency-owned properties, to the city as part of a debt pay-down plan. The 21 property transfers reduced the agency's debt by $15.6 million.
The transfer of the IKEA building to Burbank would appear to leave city officials in a prime position to make the deal for the larger property happen, but last year the state invalidated all property transfers between redevelopment agencies and their respective cities made after Jan. 1, 2011.
The California Department of Finance isn't slated to determine the validity of the property transfers until mid-2013, leaving the IKEA building deal in flux. But city officials say the potential damage from the loss of IKEA is too great to wait, so they're taking a different approach.
The Burbank City Council this week voted unanimously to transfer the $1.3-million property to the so-called Successor Agency — a sort of middle-man agency set up to wind down redevelopment-related obligations and assets — while also increasing the debt owed to the city by the same amount.
On Monday, the Successor Agency's oversight board will decide on whether to sell the property to another company controlled by Crown Realty owners. But even then, any decision would have to be approved by the state Department of Finance.
"In the end, we think the city will be made whole by the land transfer," Assistant City Manager Joy Forbes said. "In the meantime, we think it's most important to ensure IKEA's success to stay in Burbank and expand in Burbank."
Crown Realty Executive Vice President Jim O'Neil said in addition to the $1.3 million for the land, the company also has to buy out IKEA's 72-year lease — requiring a "very large check" — which will be done privately with the retailer.
The council also unanimously approved an agreement with the Crown Realty-controlled company that gives IKEA at least 10 years to move, buying the company time to rebuild the larger property.
"We would have to build something from the ground up," Roth said.
In addition, should IKEA stay put, the developer could make the city buy back the property for up to $1.69 million at any time over the next decade.
"We hope we never use it," Forbes said of the agreement, calling it a "safety net." "If somehow the deal goes south somewhere, we just want the ability to allow IKEA to remain in their current location."
As for what would happen to the existing IKEA building if the retailer moved out, it likely would be overhauled.
"We're looking to create something new and exciting," O'Neil said. "We hope to be submitting something to the city within the next few months."
Any development project at the site would have to be approved by the City Council.
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text: For its small size, a kiwi can lay a big egg. Likewise, the land of the kiwi (and the Kiwis, as native New Zealanders are called), may be small and relatively unpeopled, but it packs quite a punch as one of the world's top travel destinations. You'll understand why as soon as you glance around: the landscape is breathtaking and diverse, with isolated beaches, bustling cities, dripping rainforests, seas of grasslands, coastal cliffs, and rocky mountains. But, you mustn't just sit pretty: New Zealand is not for the bored, or the boring! A plethora of outdoor activities await you, with adventures at every turn, from gliding in Omarama to heli-hiking at Fox Glacier (quieter and less touristed than Franz Joseph glacier). Abseil down Waitomo cave and watch the grotto light up with glow worms; ski during winters in Queenstown, a short drive away from Mt. Cook, the highest mountain in New Zealand, and during summers, bungee jump and ride jet boats (both invented in Queenstown!). At the center of it all is a distinct Maori culture, the native culture of New Zealand and Eastern Polynesia. Rub noses (literally, as Hongi, or pressing noses, is a traditional Maori greeting) with your local Maori in Whakarewarewa in Roturua, a region colored by not only a strong indigenous culture, but also geothermal activity, such as mudpools, geysers, and craters. New Zealand has been producing fine wines since its colonial era and is gaining much favor with the connosieurs of our time, so make sure to head to the Malborough region for an unforgettable (or forgettable, depending on how much you imbibe!) tour of the area's numerous vineyards. While Pinot Noir has long been the mainstay of New Zealand wine, the past few years have witnessed the rise of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc as one of the top SB's in the world. We'll say it again: big egg.


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The end of last year was a busy one for me, which meant some of the blog commitments I wanted to fulfill had to take a backseat. One of them was a tag from Uma to bake bread to feed Africa.
Well, not really: it's just symbolic :). This is part of a "blog action" campaign started by a charity that seeks to raise awareness about hunger and poverty in Africa, by asking food bloggers to post their bread recipes. It's a wonderful and worthy cause, and you can read more about it here.
Because this is a tag, I am required to tag other bloggers, but I think I'll just leave it up to you: if any of you is interested, just consider yourself tagged and bake away!
It seems a little weird to write about hunger in a blog that celebrates food, and yet, I also think it's rather appropriate. To me, veganism is not just a cause for saving the animals I love, but also a good way to start building a world where we become conscious of waste and needless consumption.
I strongly believe we have to share the resources our Earth provides us, with other people around the world, and with every creature that shares the Earth with us. I believe, as Gandhi once said, "The Earth provides enough for every man's need but not every man's greed."
Now think of this: it takes 16 pounds of grain to produce a single pound of meat. Very simply put, if more people eat a grain-based diet, more people can eat.
So a vegetarian diet can- and this is not an exaggeration by any means- fight world hunger. How cool is that?
Now on to the baking part of this post. I love baking bread and especially experimenting with veganizing versions of bread that use loads of butter or eggs. But baking — while not exactly very time-consuming– does take hours of planning and a few minutes of attention at different times throughout a day.
Not pita bread, though. While it does require two rises, the first is only about a couple of hours, and the second rise is 20 minutes and is not really a rise as much as an opportunity for the dough to kick back and relax before being plunged into a hot oven.
The resulting bread itself is so warm, pillowy, delicious and fragrant, you know it is worth the effort, instead of picking up a packet of days-old, plastic-packed pita bread from the supermarket.
I made my pita mostly whole-wheat, and I used some of the loaves the next day to make pita chips: which I absolutely adore and which are heaven with some guacamole or hummus.
I am going to move on to the recipe now, but don't forget to see pictures of the inauguration of President Barack Obama at the end of this post. It was one of most memorable days of my life.
Whole-wheat Pita Bread
2 cups white whole-wheat flour (can substitute with regular whole wheat flour)
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp salt
4 tsp active dry yeast
Warm water (about 1 1/4 cups)
In a large bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer, mix together all the ingredients.
Knead into a smooth dough, and continue kneading by hand, or on low speed in a stand mixer, for about 10 minutes.
Place in a bowl coated with olive oil, turning over once so that the dough is coated with oil.
Keep in a warm place to rise, about 2 hours, until doubled in volume.
Now punch down the dough and divide into 8 pieces. Roll into balls, cover with a kitchen towel, and allow the balls to rest about 20 minutes.
Roll each ball into a dough around 7 inches in diameter. Try to roll evenly so the pita will rise in the oven, making a perfect pocket.
Place a pizza stone or unglazed ceramic tiles in an oven, and preheat to 450 degrees.
Spritz the pizza stone with water and, after 30 seconds, place as many pitas as you can on the stone without overlapping.
Leave alone for 3 minutes. The pitas should puff up.
Remove from the oven and transfer to a cooling rack. The pita should now deflate. If, for some reason, it doesn't, I find that putting it in a microwave for 30 seconds after it has cooled down softens the pita and does the trick.
Stuff with felafel and fresh veggies and enjoy!
I made some spinach felafel to go with the pita bread, but I baked them instead of frying. I wasn't too happy with the texture of the baked felafel: I should've just fought the healthy urge and gone with frying which is how felafel is usually made. But the felafel were tasty enough, although I'm going to wait until another time, when I've perfected it, to share the recipe.
Pita Chips:
To make pita chips the next day, cut the pita into eight wedges, like a pizza.
Put the wedges on a baking sheet in a single layer and drizzle some olive oil. Toss.
Place in a 350-degree preheated oven and bake about 3-5 minutes, flipping over once if needed.
Remove to a plate and serve with some hummus or guacamole.
I can imagine many of you have by now watched pictures and videos of the inauguration over and over. But since I was there freezing to death, I think I deserve to be able to post some of my own 🙂
I won't wax on about the inauguration itself, except to say it was colder, way colder than it was at the concert Sunday, and much more crowded. It's estimated around 2 million people made it to the inauguration ceremonies, which include the swearing-in, the parade, and the many balls. The National Mall was so packed, it might have been hard to slip a newspaper between two people! Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but only a bit. You can see the pictures for yourself.
And now that all the festivities are over, it's time to get back to real life. Wish you all a wonderful week ahead, and here's hoping the weekend gets here very, very soon!
There I am, all bundled up but not about to let go of a photo op with PETA's mascots who we encountered on the way to the inauguration. Don't miss the "Yes we can go veg" signs!
This was the crowd on just one of the many streets leading out of the National Mall after the swearing-in of President Obama.
People gathered at just one of the jumbotrons that beamed the swearing-in.


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DeWayne L. Fitch, 78, North Manchester, died at 8:31 p.m. Tuesday, April 23, in Parkview Regional Medical Center, Fort Wayne. He was born April, 26, 1934 in Polk Township, Huntington County, to Carl L. and Berneice M. (Garber) Fitch. They are deceased.
He was a 1952 graduate of Andrews High School and was a past member of the I.O.O.F. at Andrews. DeWayne was employed for 27 years at Con-Agri Fertilizer in Huntington, two of those years as manager. Later, he was a salesman with Wible's Shoe Store at North Manchester for four years. He had been a crossing guard for Manchester Community Schools from 1997-2007 and custodian for Congregational Christian Church from 1999-2006.
On June 15, 1979 he married Bette L. (Rosen) Bechtold. She survives. Also surviving are three sons, Timothy L. (Cindy) Fitch, Warren; Edwin J. (Lori) Fitch, Urbana, and Bret J. (Michelle) Bechtold, North Manchester; three daughters, Pamela S. Taylor, Indianapolis; Jane E. (Michael) Clark, North Manchester, and Beth R. (David) Wampler, North Manchester; 12 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren. One brother and one sister are deceased.
DeWayne and Bette enjoyed attending their grandchildren's activities, camping and golfing. He enjoyed collecting antique tractors and was a member of Congregational Christian Church, North Manchester.
Services will be held April 27, at 11 a.m., at the Congregational Christian Church, 310 N. Walnut St., North Manchester. Pastor J.P. Freeman and Pastor Sebrena Cline will officiate and burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery, Servia.
Friends and family may call from 3-8 p.m. on Friday, April 26, at McKee Mortuary 1401 State Road 114, North Manchester.
For those who wish to honor the memory of DeWayne L. Fitch, memorial contributions may be made to Congregational Christian Church, 310 N. Walnut Street, North Manchester, IN 46962 or the American Heart Association, 6100 W. 96th Street, Suite 200, Indianapolis, IN 46278-6005.


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Paving the way for a greener village
A tiny green oasis stands out amidst acres of dry arid land. As many as 12 different crops—including a wide variety of pulses, fruits, vegetables, and flowers—as well as a farm pond constructed through the Employment Guarantee Scheme and a vermicomposting pit are all seen on this one acre farm in the drought-ridden village from Warangal district of Andhra Pradesh. Suhasini, a young Dalit woman who decided to experiment with the only acre (0.4 hectares) of land she owned, asserts confidently "Next year, most of this surrounding land would be green as well—the other farmers will definitely follow me."
Suhasini is one among over 1.2 million farmers across 9000 villages that are practicing a cheaper and more sustainable method of agriculture across 1.2 million hectares in the state, even as more farmers are becoming part of what is termed a farmers' movement for sustainable agriculture in Andhra Pradesh. The program named Community Managed Sustainable Agriculture (CMSA) is essentially an alternative to the conventional-input intensive-agriculture model. It promotes the use of locally available, organic external inputs—including cow dung, chickpea flour, and palm sap—and the use of traditional organic farming methods such as polycropping and systems of rice intensification (SRI).


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NEW YORK, US: Global online consumer confidence fell for the seventh consecutive quarter as confidence in 31 of 56 global markets measured declined, according to from Nielsen, a leading global provider of insights and analytics into what consumers watch and buy.
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NEW YORK, US: Consumer confidence fell in 25 out of 52 countries in Q4 2010 as hope for a global economic recovery evaporated at the end of last year, according to the latest edition of the Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Index, which tracks consumer confidence, major concerns and spending intentions among online consumers.
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NEW YORK, US: After an upbeat start to the year with two consecutive quarters of increases in optimism, global consumer confidence fell three points in September to an Index of 90 as consumers' hopes for a full economic recovery this year fades in most parts of the world, according to the latest edition of the Nielsen Global Consumer Confidence Index.
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text: On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 01:35:06PM -0700, Maurice Hilarius wrote: > Further, all of these lovely benchmarks lack one really important detail: > Comparisons between different interfaces and drivers MUST show CPU usage > while running them. No. If you want to look at that, run a real application and watch the wall time. It's extremely hard to get a good estimate of cpu usage out of a microbenchmark, and running "top" or /bin/time to do it is definitely bogus. > If I have a fantastic device that uses infinitely small time (latency) > and moves huge amounts of data (bandwidth) but in doing so it takes 80% > of a CPU, we do not have a useful solution.. If large cpu usage is a problem, it will show up nicely in real application benchmarks. > What we all need is some form of useful standardized benchmarks that > looks like real world code from a number of different disciplines, that > we can use to test the hardware, so we may compare results in a > meaningful manner. Amen. So use the MM5 t3a benchmark, maybe even SPEC HPC, the canned benchmarks for Amber, Charmm, DL_POLY, etc. The NAS Parallel Benchmarks are also good, they are much closer to real apps than microbenchmarks. -- greg


text: On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 04:11:54PM -0500, Tom A Krewson wrote: > > > Does anyone know what software/hardware/interconnect they are using on the > > linux cluster running at the Google search engine company? > > It's well known: the cheapest intel boxes they can buy, and 100 megabit > ethernet. The rocket science is in the software, not the hardware. they also just use network boot ( pxe ) to install their generic server and google patches on top of redhat ( last i heard )... and its tweeked at the last minute to become a db frontend or webserver frontend when its deployed and if the machines die... they leave it there .... its not fixed ( they've got thousands of dead boxes sitting there and they use high speed dark fiber to transfer data between their datacenters ( say between sf, ny, dalla ... forgot the exact cities its located in ) --- and thought the largest "cluster" was the "seti network" ( search for extraterrestial screeen saver thingie ) and also distributed.net c ya alvin -- startrek ... teraquads ... its late ... - if a byte is 8 bits... - a word is 16... - a quad is 32bits... --> does that mean that 200GB disks is just 50 teraquads ??