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Talk Radio: Media Hate "Democracy In Action"
by L. Brent Bozell III
September 19, 1996
It is the conventional wisdom of the elitist national news
media that talk radio is one of those unfortunate casualties of the democratic
process, wherein freedom of speech allows for demagogic hatemongers to pollute
with nonsense the minds of the poor, uneducated, and easy to command.
As usual, the enlightened press corps is wrong.
The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of
Pennsylvania, headed up by professor Kathleen Hall Jamieson (no conservative,
she), has released a year-long study of talk radio that included listening to
hundreds of hours of talk radio as well as reading 2,647 print stories on talk
radio over a two-year period. Among their findings:
1. "Political talk radio listeners are more likely than
non-listeners to consume all news media other than TV news, to be more
knowledgeable, and to be involved in political activities. This is true
regardless of the ideology of the hosts of the programs to which they
In shorthand: The talk radio listener is smarter than the
average American.
This confounds the snooty liberal cocktail banter that
inevitably becomes the stuff of published establishment thought. In a
Washington Post book review, former CBS newsman Marvin Kalb sniffed: "Cut
off the funding for NPR, or gradually reduce its funding to the point where it
become a mere shadow of its usual robust, sensible self, and the American
people may find themselves left with nothing much more than Rush and his
dozens of mini-clones for information about the world. For Limbaugh's
'ditto-heads,' this may be the most splendid of tomorrows, but for other more
thoughtful listeners, it may be the bleakest of forecasts." NBC's Bob Faw
once put it another way, asking whether "talk radio is not democracy in
action, but democracy run amok."
2. "The mainstream media tend to portray political talk
radio superficially and as powerful, pernicious, and homogeneous." The
study found not only that "the homogeneity of political talk radio is
overstated," but that "By focusing on extreme moments of talk radio
without indicating how typical they are of the most widely heard shows,
mainstream news may invite the inference that political talk is routinely
uncivil at best, dangerous at worst."
In shorthand: critics of talk radio are misleading the
The Annenberg report might have included Time's Richard
Lacayo writing after the Oklahoma City bombing: "In a nation that has
entertained and appalled itself for years with hot talk on the radio and the
campaign trail, the inflamed rhetoric of the '90s is suddenly an unindicted
co-conspirator in the blast."
Or Los Angeles Times reporter Nina Easton: "The
Oklahoma City attack on federal workers and their children also alters the
once-easy dynamic between charismatic talk show and adoring audience. Hosts
who routinely espouse the same anti-government themes as the militia movement
now must walk a fine line between inspiring their audience -- and inciting the
most radical among them."
Or Dan Rather, who defamed talk radio this way: "Even
after Oklahoma City, you can turn on your radio in any city and still dial up
hate talk: extremist, racist, and violent rhetoric from the hosts and those
who call in."
3. "In 61 percent of the cases that the host was
mentioned, the host's program was not mentioned...Articles where talk show
hosts appeared virtually ignored audiences, callers, guests, and
The Annenberg School study found Limbaugh came up in 74
percent of print stories mentioning talk show hosts, more than one in three of
them unfavorable. But the study's authors argue Limbaugh is a different animal
than most of talk radio: "Limbaugh spends more time than other hosts
arguing to his audience that they should assume personal responsibility and
can make a difference...It promotes a fundamental value of personal
responsibility and efficacy in support of political involvement."
Further, "His ongoing attempts to teach his listeners
how to 'interpret' the 'liberal' press are rarely mentioned in the nearly
3,000 articles we read. Yet one can make a case that from the standpoint of
the general press, and perhaps the entire political process, these daily
lessons are one of the most far-reaching consequences of his program."
In shorthand: Limbaugh performs a public service, extolling
his listeners not only to think for themselves, but to practice democracy
through involvement in the political process.
The Annenberg study proves what conservatives have said all
along: far from enlightened, the national news media are ignorant about, and
therefore unqualified to judge, talk radio. Far from objective, their slant is
leftist, arrogant, mean-spirited -- and wrong.
Need more proof? Every network newscast has run stories
getting it wrong about Rush Limbaugh at one point or another; every network
refused to report this study. For the print press, more of the same: with the
exception of The Washington Times and the briefest of mentions in USA Today,
not one national newspaper or news magazine gave the study consideration.
We rest our case.
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WACO, Texas – The Texas Longhorns had a little fight in them against No. 1 Baylor on Saturday. That's mostly what coach Karen Aston wants to see right now.
Brittney Griner scored 30 points and the Lady Bears celebrated a Big 12 title already in hand with dozens of former players in the stands for a 67-47 victory against the feisty but cold-shooting Longhorns on Saturday.
Aston has liked her team's response since a lackluster loss at Kansas State a week and a half ago, even though two of the three games since have been losses to Texas Tech and Baylor.
"We went out Lubbock and performed really well," Aston said. "From a competitive standpoint we were better and we followed that up with a win at home against Kansas and I think again today we were competitive."
Aston knows the standards have to be higher at Texas, but Baylor is in territory the Longhorns used to roam by themselves 25 years ago — domination of women's basketball in Texas.
Not long after cutting the last strand of a net above a throng of Baylor fans on the Ferrell Center court, coach Kim Mulkey decided it was time to say her team was playing for even more than a second straight NCAA championship.
"It's mighty early, but I don't have a problem saying it," said Mulkey, who has two national titles at Baylor and another two as a player at Louisiana Tech. "If you can dig deep within your soul and win another championship, you will secure in my opinion the legacy of one of the greatest teams to ever play this game."
The Big 12 regular season title is the smallest step along the way. Still to come: the Big 12 tournament, a regional final that could secure a third Final Four berth in the past four seasons — and another batch of confetti that will be waiting in New Orleans.
"Now that's a bold statement," Mulkey went on, "but you've got an All-American point guard and you've got an All-American post player. And then you look at the players around them, they're All-Americans in their own right as well."
The Lady Bears (26-1, 15-0 Big 12) looked a little Griner-centric in the first half. She outscored the Longhorns by herself before halftime, scoring 20 of the Lady Bears' 30 points, getting nine of their 22 rebounds and four of their six blocks. She finished with 11 rebounds and five blocks.
But Griner's All-American partner, Odyssey Sims, balanced things out in the second half. She scored 12 of her 15 after halftime and finished with a game-high six assists.
"We didn't start the game off like we should have," Sims said. "We came out in the second half and played better."
Chassidy Fussell was the only Texas player in double figures with 16 points but was just 7 of 20 from the field with six turnovers as the Longhorns were held to 35 percent shooting and had 23 turnovers that led to 14 Baylor points.
The Lady Bears finished the first half with an 11-2 run for a 30-16 lead in their 24th consecutive victory. The Lady Bears extended a pair of record streaks to 54 straight home wins and 37 in a row in conference. All three streaks are currently the longest in the nation.
Texas (10-16, 3-12) scored six straight points to get within 19-14 when Kimetria Hayden hit one of her two 3-pointers — the only long-range buckets for Baylor — to start the half-ending run. Griner scored six of the last eight in the spurt, with Destiny Williams getting the other bucket on a rebound off a miss by Griner on a hook shot.
"I thought we did all we could from a competitive standpoint," Aston said. "We're just young, and a team like that and really any team in the Big 12 makes you pay if you take plays off. We took too many off, but they make you do that. They're good."
The Lady Bears spent most of halftime on the court while about 80 former players were introduced, and all the current and former players gathered for a quick photo. The 6-foot-8 Griner playfully stretched out on the floor in front of the group.
Griner was honored before the game for becoming the eighth Division I woman with 3,000 career points in Monday's win at No. 3 Connecticut. She moved up to No. 5 on the career list Saturday, passing Cindy Blodgett (Maine), Cheryl Miller (Southern California) and Chamique Holdsclaw (Tennessee). She's six points behind UConn's Maya Moore.
Griner also became the first player with 700 career blocks. She broke the NCAA record earlier this season. She has at least one block in 76 straight games.
"Brittney does exactly what Brittney does, and nothing different today," Aston said. "And we didn't do a very good job of doubling in the right places, in the first half in particular."
The Lady Bears thought they'd need a win over Texas to clinch their third straight Big 12 regular season title, but losses by Iowa State and Oklahoma helped secure it last weekend.
The second half was mostly a prelude to a postgame championship celebration, with Texas staying within the halftime deficit most of the way before a 9-0 Baylor run for a 61-39 lead.

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Keene mother, daughter missing
February 07. 2014 12:17PM
KEENE – A mother and her two-year-old daughter are missing from Keene and police are asking the public for help in finding them.
Nichole Reynolds, 33, of 4 Chapman Road and her daughter Gianna Geraghty were last scene on Wednesday night. They may be traveling in a silver Honda CRV.
Lt. Steven M. Stewart said Gianna's father filed a missing person's report with police. He would not say if the father and Reynolds were involved in a custody dispute.
Foul play is not suspected, he said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Keene police at 603-357-9813, or information may be provided anonymously via email on our website at: http://www.ci.keene.nh.us/departments/police/anonymous-crime-tips


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* Ave. INTDEN = Average of ImageJ integrated density values from three Fluorimeter images
Calculation 2: The probability that the sample actually has a non-cancer DNA sequence, given a negative diagnostic signal.
Calculation 3: The probability that the patient will develop cancer, given a cancer DNA sequence.
Calculation 4: The probability that the patient will not develop cancer, given a non-cancer DNA sequence.
New System: Design Strategy
We concluded that a good system Must Have:
- easily determined results: The easier the results are to read accurately, the less likely a misdiagnosis in either direction. It is undesirable both to give a false negative, where a patient is not treated when care is needed, or to give a false positive, wasting time and resources on those who do not need them. This aspect is central to any diagnostic tool.
- Simple OpenPCR Software: Simplicity increases ease and efficiency in lab experiments and hopefully leads to faster diagnoses. It also makes troubleshooting easier should problems arise. The more straightforward the system, the more quickly users can learn to use the machine.
We concluded that we would Want a good system to have:
- Low cost: Currently an OpenPCR machine costs $599 and a Fluorimeter costs $300. An inexpensive material would help reduce cost and increase accessibility, since there is always a limited budget for new equipment. This would not only allow users to increase the amount of tests that can be run at the same time, but also boost sales, which is important for marketing any device.
- integrated camera: phone cameras are easily moveable and vary in size and quality, leading to differing results. Smartphone camera settings can be time consuming or nonexistent. Having a built-in camera increases cost, but it is worth it to increase speed and accuracy. Furthermore, the program is simpler because it does not have to adjust to different cameras and phone sizes and shapes vary enough to make building a cradle to fit them difficult.
- Troublesome USB Connectivity. USB connectivity should function well in order for OpenPCR machine to work.
- Casing = fire hazard. High temperature with PCR can be dangerous.
We concluded that a good system Should Avoid:
- Avoid slow amplification.
- Hard to adjust phone/ fluorimeter. The phone can be easily moved by accident, which requires readjustment between the phone and the fluorimeter.
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Fluorimeter - We chose to include these new features:
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CHEK2 is a gene located at chromosome 22. It provides instructions for making protein called checkpoint kinase 2, a tumor suppressor. This particular protein responds to damage in DNA, preventing the cell from entering mitosis when the cell's DNA deviates from normal. Mutations of CHEK2 gene can lead to breast cancer, Li-Fraumeni syndrome, and other type cancers and diseases.
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New System: Software
As has been seen by the several groups who already have software in development, the need for more efficient PCR and image analysis capabilities are growing. For our particular machine, an app allowing a smartphone to control the integrated fluorimeter camera would be most essential, and ideally this app could also perform image analysis, lessening the complication of transferring large quantities of images that all look very similar to the human eye.


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Hersheypark will add a first-of-its-kind $25-million steel roller coaster in May that will be the tallest, fastest and longest at the Pennsylvania theme park.
> Photos: Skyrush coaster at Hersheypark
After a yearlong viral marketing campaign that teased fans with hints and clues about "Attraction 2012," Hersheypark unveiled plans Tuesday for an Intamin Wing Mega coaster, with winged seats, called Skyrush.
Under construction in the Comet Hollow section of Hersheypark, the 200-foot-tall Skyrush coaster will feature a near-vertical 85-degree first drop followed by four high-speed banking turns and five airtime hills at speeds reaching 75 mph.
The 3,600-foot-long Skyrush track will travel along a creek and cross over the 1947 Comet out-and-back wooden coaster. The coaster's station house will be modeled after historic train stations in the Hershey area.
The 32-passenger cantilevered trains will feature floored seats on the inside and floorless seats on the outside in a custom first-of-its-kind design.


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Like Olympic athletes who spend years training for their big event, poll workers are geared up for their big day today.
Like Olympic athletes who spend years training for their big event, poll workers are geared up for their big day today.
Election Day during a presidential election means a very long day for poll workers, but they like to see the voters out in force.
�It is good (to see people voting). That�s what our guys are over there fighting for, the right to choose they way we live,� said Pat Konarski, chief judge for the Cedar Point/Cape Carteret precinct.
Konarski has been working the polls in Carteret County since 1991, and it�s always the presidential elections that draw the big crowds.
�With the state and municipal races if there�s a hot race we get a lot of people; but, usually, if we�re having a presidential election, that really draws them in,� she said.
Ed Sweeney has been working the polls since the late 1960s. Back then the ballots had to be counted by hand.
�We�ve come a long way since then,� he said. �We have one of the most foolproof systems in the state now.�
Sweeney has seen it all from punch cards to bar codes, and thinks the scan machines the county uses now are the best method.
He expects 1,500 voters at the Jacksonville precinct where he has been chief poll judge for several years.
Ernie Wright, a Jacksonville lawyer who serves as the chairman of the Onslow County Board of Elections, signed up for the job to get a better idea of how the process works.
�I�ve been running for office for 20 years,� he said. �I�ve run for county commissioner five times, but never been on the inside.�
Wright said he joined the Board of Elections to see how things are done from the inside out. He said he has learned a lot about the election process.
Onslow County poll workers have had a lot of training and preparation and will be accommodating and professional with voters, Wright said.
�Some voters may need some instruction and some just need to get in and out, and we are going to meet both needs,� Wright said. �The main thing is that we will have a fair election with no hanging chad situations in Onslow County.�
Wright said poll workers are ready to deal with any glitches, but he doesn�t anticipate any problems.
�We expect a record turnout with everything running smooth,� he said.
Sweeney said it�s harder to read elections than it has been in the past when he could almost always predict winners.
Konarski said she has sensed a difference in voters with this year�s election.
�The way I look at it, they seem very adamant one way or the other, there�s no in-between, and for all different reasons,� she said. But how people vote isn�t what brings her out to work the polls.
She said she strives to keep voters informed and wants them to get through the voting process as smoothly as possible.
Over the past 20 years, Konarski said she has also seen a bit of a transition in the voter population in the precinct. While the Cedar Point/Cape Carteret area has traditionally been an area popular with retirees, more and more younger families have moved into the area as it has grown.
And she is seeing them coming out to vote.
�We need the younger people involved,� Konarski said. �It�s their world next.�
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Fort Collins Club to Increase Variety of Youth Activities in 2013
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Jan. 10, 2013 03:00 AM
FORT COLLINS, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 01/10/13 -- Look to Fort Collins Club as a place to keep your child active and in shape this New Year with their new lineup of youth activities.
The all-encompassing health and fitness center has been a Northern Colorado staple for over 25 years. Fort Collins Club is offering a variety of youth activities for 2013. Some of the most popular are sure to include swimming.
Fort Collins Club will offer youth swim classes from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Those interested in a more team-like setting can take part in the swim team lessons Fort Collins Club will offer Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Lessons are slated to start on January 9, and those interested can fill out a brochure at the health and fitness center's front desk.
"Our swimming program always has been popular with the parents and kids," Fort Collins Club owner Todd Heenan said. "We've got a couple of different programs that combine to run five days a week. You could put your child in one or both of the swim classes. We expect these programs to fill up fast."
Fort Collins Club, of course, offers a lot more for youth activities. The central Fort Collins located health and fitness center has a climbing wall, full-regulation basketball court, racquetball, squash and handball courts, a video arcade, and full-service gallery to grab a snack or meal in.
In addition to all those amenities, Fort Collins Club also has a Kids Club where children ages 6 weeks to 12 years can be dropped off in to play with toys, games, crafts and much more while their parents work out. Children aged 7 to 12 also can be dropped off in the more relaxed Club House. Though unsupervised, parents must sign their kids in and out.
Those interested in taking advantage of swim classes or any of the number of services Fort Collins Club provides, which also includes a full-service salon and outdoor pool, can visit the health and fitness center's website at www.fortcollinsclub.net, call 970-224-2582 or stop by the club itself at 1307 East Prospect Road and get a free on-site tour.
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Surfari time: Sri Lanka's best beaches. Roughly the size of Ireland, Sri Lanka may be diminutive, but it packs an awful lot in between its palm-fringed shores.…
Kandy's ten-day Esala Perahera is the most spectacular of Sri Lanka's festivals, and one of the most colourful religious pageants in Asia. Its origins date back to the arrival of the Tooth Relic in Sri Lanka in the fourth century AD, during the reign of Kirti Siri Meghawanna, who decreed that the relic be carried in procession through the city once a year. This quickly developed into a major religious event – the famous Chinese Buddhist Fa-Hsien, visiting Anuradhapura in 399 AD, described what had already become a splendid festival, with processions of jewel-encrusted elephants.
Occasional literary and artistic references suggest that these celebrations continued in some form throughout the thousand years of upheaval which followed the collapse of Anuradhapura and the Tooth Relic's peripatetic journey around the island. Esala processions continued into the Kandyan era in the seventeenth century, though the Tooth Relic lost its place in the procession, which evolved into a series of lavish parades in honour of the city's four principal deities: Vishnu, Kataragama, Natha and Pattini, each of whom had (and still has) a temple in the city.
The festival took shape in 1775, during the reign of Kirti Sri Rajasinha, when a group of visiting Thai clerics expressed their displeasure at the lack of reverence accorded to the Buddha during the parades. To propitiate them, the king ordered the Tooth Relic to be carried through the city at the head of the four temple processions: a pattern that endures to this day. Sri Rajasinha's own enthusiastic participation in the festivities, and that of his successors, also added a political dimension – the Nayyakar kings of Kandy (who were from South India) probably encouraged the festival in the belief that by associating themselves with one of Buddhism's most sacred relics, they would reinforce their dynasty's shaky legitimacy in the eyes of their Sinhalese subjects. The Tooth Relic itself was last carried in procession in 1848, since when it's been considered unpropitious for it to leave the temple sanctuary – its place is now taken by a replica.
The ten days of the festival begin with the Kap Tree Planting Ceremony, during which cuttings from a tree – traditionally an Esala tree, though nowadays a Jak or Rukkattana are more usually employed – are planted in the four devales, representing a vow (kap) that the festival will be held. The procession (perahera) through the streets of Kandy is held nightly throughout the festival: the first five nights, the so-called Kumbal Perahera, are relatively low-key; during the final five nights, the Randoli Perahera, things become progressively more spectacular, building up to the last night (the Maha Perahera, or "Great Parade"), featuring a massive cast of participants including as many as a hundred brilliantly caparisoned elephants and thousands of drummers, dancers and acrobats walking on stilts, cracking whips, swinging fire pots and carrying banners, while the replica casket of the Tooth Relic itself is carried on the back of the Maligawa Tusker elephant.
Following the last perahera, the water-cutting ceremony is held before the dawn of the next day at a venue near Kandy, during which a priest wades out into the Mahaweli Ganga and "cuts" the waters with a sword. This ceremony symbolically releases a supply of water for the coming year (the Tooth Relic is traditionally believed to protect against drought) and divides the pure from the impure – it might also relate to the exploits of the early Sri Lankan king, Gajabahu (reigned 114–136 AD), who is credited with the Moses-like feat of dividing the waters between Sri Lanka and India in order to march his army across during his campaign against the Cholas.
After the water-cutting ceremony, at 3pm on the same day, there's a final "day" perahera, a slightly scaled-down version of the full perahera. It's not as spectacular as the real thing, though it does offer excellent photo opportunities.
The perahera is a carefully orchestrated, quasi-theatrical event – there is no spectator participation here, although the astonishing number of performers during later nights give the impression that most of Kandy's citizens are involved. The perahera actually comprises five separate processions, which follow one another around the city streets: one from the Temple of the Tooth, and one from each of the four devales – a kind of giant religious conga, with elephants. The exact route changes from day to day, although the procession from the Temple of the Tooth always leads the way, followed (in unchanging order) by the processions from the Natha, Vishnu, Kataragama and Pattini devales (Natha, as a Buddha-to-be, takes precedence over the other divinities). As its centrepiece, each procession has an elephant carrying the insignia of the relevant temple – or, in the case of the Temple of the Tooth, the replica Tooth Relic. Each is accompanied by other elephants, various dignitaries dressed in traditional Kandyan costume and myriad dancers and drummers, who fill the streets with an extraordinary barrage of noise. The processions each follow a broadly similar pattern, although there are slight differences. The Kataragama procession – as befits that rather unruly god – tends to be the wildest and most freeform, with jazzy trumpet playing and dozens of whirling dancers carrying kavadis, the hooped wooden contrivances, studded with peacock feathers, which are one of that god's symbols. The Pattini procession, the only one devoted to a female deity, attracts mainly female dancers. The beginning and end of each perahera is signalled by a deafening cannon shot.
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Formal search process begins for regular appointment of three positionsUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Executive Search Coordinator, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
The UH Manoa Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs has initiated the formal search process for the regular appointment of three executive positions: Director and Publisher of UH Press; Dean of the School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS)/Assistant Vice Chancellor for International and Exchange Programs (OIEP); and University Librarian.
The current Director and Publisher of UH Press is retiring at the end of this year, and the Interim Dean of SPAS/Assistant Vice Chancellor for OIEP is retiring next year. The Library is currently being led by an interim appointment. These three searches reflect Manoa's continuing commitment and efforts in moving the University forward in the hiring of deans and directors.
Said Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Reed Dasenbrock, "I am delighted to announce these searches as part of our effort to create a permanent leadership team at UH Manoa who can continue our progress. At the same time, Bill Hamilton, retiring after serving as Director of the UH Press for 25 years, and Edward "Ned" Shultz, who is retiring after a distinguished faculty career of 39 years at UH Manoa including serving as Interim Dean of SPAS for the past six years and Interim AVC for the past three years, will be missed. I want to take this opportunity to thank them for their distinguished careers at UH Mānoa."
Denise Konan, Dean of the College of Social Sciences, is chairing the SPAS/OIEP Search Advisory Committee. William S. Richardson School of Law Dean Aviam Soifer is chairing the University Librarian Search Advisory Committee. Edward "Ned" Shultz, the current Interim Dean for SPAS, is leading the UH Press Search Advisory Committee. All three committees will recommend finalists to Chancellor Tom Apple and Vice Chancellor Dasenbrock. The committees' members include chairs, faculty, staff and students from the respective units, as well as representatives of the Kualii Council, UH Alumni Association and community.
For all three job announcements, position descriptions, and Search Advisory Committee members, please visit http://www.manoa.hawaii.edu/executivesearch. Review of applications will continue until the positions are filled.


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FA: Oh yeah, its right over there by the uh Cinnamon Bun place.
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FA: Yeah, I remember what you said about power and stuff, like um True power isn't knowing when to attack someone-
Both: But knowing when to help them
Heka: Yeah that right! I'm surprised someone your age listens to speeches, usually college kids are either drinking or just fu- messing around.
FA: You can say fuck, I'm X rated.
Heka: And if you believe some news programs so am I.
FA: *Laughs* Aw man, I probably sound stupid right now I just-
Heka: I work with stupid people all the time and you're not stupid.
FA: Thanks. It's just that, you're such a big inspiration to me and, you're one of the biggest reasons I follow politics.
Heka: Well that's good, I think more young people should get into politics or at least know whats happening in the country.
FA: Yeah... I'm probably taking you away from something important, but it was nice meeting you.
Heka: Oh not at all, and it was nice meeting you too. Take care.
RN: I love flying!
Reagan: WOAHOO!!!!!!!
RN: The wind in my face, the adrenaline surging through my body!
Reagan: *Buzz, Splat* AH GROSS!
RN: The bugs in my teeth... Yeah, somethings kind of turn me off when flying...
Reagan: *Ice whooshing sound* WAOH!
FB: Do not lower your defenses!
RN: Oh yeah, and then theres training. If your confused, let me explain. A little over 4 months ago I had received something called the Pantheon Powers and I have been training with the Egyptian moon god Thoth in, what he calls, simple magic. It's basically a lot of Mediating, learning how to fly, dodging stuff in midair, and fighting, lots of fighting. To make sure I was in a place where no one would be hurt, he found this 100 yard abandoned plot outside of town. Its a good place, well I think it is, no one can really see us and there's no main roads to get here.
FB: Don't get lazy Reagan!
RN: As Father Bradford (or more simply Thoth, since thats his real name and junk, but I've known his as Father Bradford for about a year and a half so screw it) said this, he had made a sword out of ice and lunged at me. I dodged the attack and punched him in the nose. He wiped the blood off and looked at me.
FB: If I where a lesser man that would have probably killed me.
Reagan: Really?
FB: Which is why you need more practice.
Reagan: (A bit confused and angry) What?!
FB: You hit to hard, my body can take more but some random thug on the street... You punch him like that his spine may go through his ass, pardon my french. You need to set limitations for yourself. I'm not teaching you how to kill, I'm teaching you how to defend yourself.
Reagan: Father Bradford, for the past 4 months I've been learning nothing but fighting, and you said you would teach me magic when do we get to that?
FB: I said I would teach you basics.
Reagan: and fighting is basic magic?
FB: It's a form of meditation, a way of homing in skills, reliving stress, and clearing the mind. Plus I'm not going to teach you intermediate magic.
Reagan: Well then who is?
Heka: Me
Reagan: (Freaking out) AH WOAH WHO ARE YOU?!
FB: Reagan, calm down. I invited her here.
Reagan: What?! You said no human visitors.
Heka: Who said anything about that?
Reagan: Who are you?
Heka: You dont recognize?
Reagan: N-No, should I?
Heka: Well yes, I'm one of your state senators.
Reagan: OK, Listen there are like, a million people in the senate. I dont know any of there names. So, I'm sorry if I don't know who you are.
Heka: It's alright, I wouldn't expect a teenager to know who I am. But for the time being, My name is Senator Diana Watts.
FB: You don't have to be so formal Heka.
Heka: Neither do you Thoth
Reagan: Heka?
FB: Yes, she is Heka the goddess of magic.
Heka: And hopefully your new magic teacher.
Reagan: Oh... OK....
FB: Yes, hopefully you will learn more from her than I can tech you. So when did you get here?
Heka: About an hour ago, I traced your energy fields and found you here. Nice plot of land by the way. A hell of a long way from the city though.
FB: I know, it's so far away. I tried to teleport us here originally, but every time I did she would throw up.
Heka: Ah yes, teleporting for the first time can be quite jarring. But you'll get used to it.
Reagan: Hey, sorry for breaking up this little reunion. But are we going to continue training or...?
Heka: Not in these clothes I'm not. I'll comeback tomorrow and train you right after I talk with Aztec about the Police Budget. I'll see what you know so far.
FB: Are you staying long?
Heka: Maybe, we'll see. You get back to what you where doing, don't let me stop you.
FB: Actually, practice is done for today.
Heka: Aw, that's to bad. I really wanted to see what your normal routine was.
FB: Well, maybe I can tell you tonight when we catch up. If you're not busy that is.
Heka: Oh not at all!
FB: Great! Here, let me drop off Reagan at her dorm and then we can chat.
Reagan: Great, let me just get my gear and then we can-
RN: Just then, I felt a force grip me and pull me from the place I was just standing in to another location. I don't know who teleported me, but all I knew then was that Janice was going to be very surprised.
Janice: *We hear some random TV Noises*
Zapping Whoosh noise
Janice: (Frightened Screech)
Reagan: Oh god *Trashcan scraping and vomiting noise*
Janice: REAGAN! What the heck, at least warn me next time will ya! I could have been naked or something.
Reagan: *Heavy post vomit breathing* I'm sorry... One of them... Must have teleported me here...
Janice: What?
RN: As I pulled myself together, I told Janice the events of the last 30 minuets.
Janice: Wow
Reagan: Yeah. *Sigh* Man, learning magic has really gotten to me. I think I'm starting to break out on my forehead. You want a drink?
Janice: Oh, no thanks. You can use my facial scrub if you want to. It's how I keep my face so clear.
Reagan: No thanks, I don't wanna feel like a leech. *Soda opening and drinking noise followed by a sigh* So what are you working on?
Janice: Oh nothing I'm just watching something, I was finished with that math test review Mrs. Dominic assigned us and I thought I would just watch some TV...
Reagan: Oh that's cool... Wait... You're already done with the 6 page test review? In an hour? Where did you find time to do that?
Janice: After I installed the police scanner in my computer, and after I finished making these two way Blue Tooth ear pieces. Here let me show you!
RN: As Janice pulled out the headsets, I looked around and saw that ever since the dean put us together as roommates less than 2 months ago, she had been working on her computer and putting together some stuff, finishing homework in about an hour or less, finishing some tests in about 30 minuets sometimes less. I mean Janice is smart but...
Reagan: Hey Jan, you OK?
Janice: Yeah, why?
Reagan: I mean it just seems like your running yourself a bit to much.
Janice: I dont know what you mean?
Reagan: I mean, your finishing a shit ton of homework in like an hour. Are you OK?
Janice: *Gradually getting faster* I dunno, I mean I just have ideas in my head sometimes and bursts of, of like intelligence and I just, I mean I just, I have, I, I, I dont know I just need to write things down. And like, like, like when I hear equations I just get them before anyone explains them and I just feel like sometimes MY HEAD WILL EXPLODE! *Head hit and silent crying*
Reagan: *Soft and endearing* Hey... Hey Jan... it's OK... It's OK.... can you tell me when this all started?
Janice: *Trying to get herself together and sniffling* I *Sniffle* I don't n- *Sniffle* now... like two m-*sniffle* months ago...
Reagan: Hey listen... when Father Bradford gets back we'll talk to him about this OK?
Janice: OK... *Sniffle* Do you still wanna try out the head sets tonight when you go out?
Reagan: Sure Jan... let me get ready and then I'll go...
Janice: OK...
FB: So how long are you going to be staying in town for?
Heka: About a week, I'm only here on official business because Diana needs to talk with John Aztec.
FB: Well, cant you move here? Doesnt Senate only meet on certain dates?
Heka: Well yes, but wouldn't it look suspicious if a young, single senator where to move to a horrible town? I'd be killed in a millisecond, or worse.
FB: Well when you put it that way...
Heka: Yeah... But enough about my boring old life, tell me about your sudden decision to join the priesthood.
FB: *Nervous chuckle* Well, on paper it says when I was 17 I joined in Ireland and became the local priest in a church in Belfast.
Heka: Uh-Huh. How did you really scam your way into being a priest?
FB: Stole a dead priests name and faked some documents and an accent.
Heka: I thought so.
FB: Yeah... The weird thing is this is my first time teaching children... It's harder than it looks...
Heka: I cant imagine.
FB: Yeah... Well I've probably kept you away from something important...
Heka: Oh, well now that you've mentioned it I do need to get up early in the morning. Big meeting and all.
FB: Yeah I understand...
Heka:..... It was nice meeting you again.
FB: You too... you too....
RN: I flew through the city, patrolling the streets like I've done for the past 3 months now. I've never been on patrol with Janice before, though it might be nice to have some help. I've stopped a few thugs from hurting innocent people, nothing big. I've mostly been putting people away that police either can't stop or don't want to, you'd be amazed at how many dirty cops Ive stopped. I'm really worried about Janice, I don't know whats happening to her. I should probably-
Janice: Reagan, I just got a report of an armed robbery on west 54 street at the West Egg gas station.
Reagan: Alright Janice, I'm on it.
Thug 1: PUT THE MONEY IN THE BAG!!!! PUT THE FUCKING MONEY IN THE BAG!!!!
Owner: OK, Please dont hurt me.
Thug 2: Hey boss, they got Twinkies
Thug 1: Shut it!
Thug 3: Yeah, shut it porker!
Thug 2: Hey, don't call me a porker ya cock hydrant
Thug 3: I'll call ya what ever I want ya fuck ass wipe!
Thug 1: Shut up! This shouldn't be complicated you dick weeds. Now put the money in the fucking bag before the police show up!
Reagan: Wow really? A convenient store? God this is so cliché!
Thug 2: The fuck is this bitch?!
Reagan: I mean what? Is there not a bank you could rob? a train? I mean you had to pick a convenient store?
Thug 3: Well it was our only option and-
Thug 1: Shut up Terry!
Reagan: And take off those fucking panty hoes, for Christ sake I can see your face. Yeah I'm talking to you guy. Yeah your fucking soup strainer mustache, get that ugly son of a bitch shaved.
Thug 2: Is she talking bout me?
Thug 1: Look lady, I dont know who you think you are. But you just made a big mistake.
Reagan: Oh really, and whys that?
RN: Just then he pulled out a small switch blade from his pocket.
Reagan: *Tries to hold back laughter but can't and erupts in laughter*
Thug 1: Whats so funny?
Reagan: *Calms down a little bit* you brought knives to rob a convenient store?
Janice: *Laughing a bit* What?
Reagan: *Laughs harder* And that small too? Well I guess your kind of use to holding small stiff things in your hand. Oh god this is so funny. Hold on a second *begins to regain her composer* Ya know most people bring Guns to rob a convenient store, but you are the only Motherfuckers who brought knives. I don't know if this is funny or sad. Wait, yes I do, it's sad.
Thug 1: Oh you little bitch, you're going down!
Reagan: OK bring it on motherfucker.
RN: He lunged at me with the switchblade aimed at my abdomen. I quickly moved out of the way and grabbed his arm and yanked it behind his back, twisting and yanking. His howls of pain where interrupted when the stupid one tried to lung at me and stab me in the back. I used my quick skills to kick him straight in the jaw and knock him back into a wall of Slim Jim's and other Beef Jerky products. The fat one was in the back stuffing something down his shirt. I'll deal with him later. The brains of the group stood up and speared me into the soda fountain, breaking it getting us both very sticky. I grabbed one of the big plastic big cups and smashed it in his head and he let go. The stupid one tried to charge me but I smacked his square in the jaw with the cup and he dropped like a fly. The brains got up and grabbed his knife off the floor and charged me. I ran and grabbed a mountain dew bottle from the soda fridge and knocked him straight in the eyes. I put both unconscious bodies next to each other and started looking for the fat one. I heard his heavy, scared breathing in the bathroom.
Reagan: *Knocking* Excuse me, is this john occupied?... Es esta Juan ocupado?... Guess not. *We hear her kick in the door*
Thug 3: G-Get away!
Reagan: Oh, I'm sorry this is the Mens room, I didn't see that. But it's nice to know that the both of you are in here.
Thug 3: I-I didnt hurt anyone I swear! *Plastic packages fall out*
Reagan: Really? Twinkies? You where gonna steal Twinkies?
RN: He pulled out his knife shaking and breathing so heavy and so hard. I went up to him and made him put his knife down gently and punched him in the face knocking him out. I dragged the three unconscious bodies out to the middle of the store and ties the up by using some rope the store had in the back. I grabbed a Twinkie from the front and started to eat one.
Reagan: Mmmm~ *Mouth full* You don't know how much you love something till its gone. *Police sirens* Oh good, the cavalry has arrived. *Walks outside* Don't worry officers, I caught the bad guys!
Police: Arrest her for destruction of property!
Reagan: WHAT?! I caught the real criminals there in there!
RN: One cop tried to grab me but I pushed him back and tried to run away.
Police: She's resisting arrest!
Reagan: I'm not resisting I'm *Gunshot* WOAH! Hey guys cant we just work this out? *Gunshot* Guess not.
RN: I started to run as they shot at me. In one swift motion, I jumped in the air and started to fly away from the crazy police. I flew all the way to the top of a tall building. I felt a sharp pain in my back and thought for sure I bruised or even broke a few ribs. I took off my mask and just laid there, trying to take my mind off the pain.
Reagan: Fucking assholes. I was just trying to help... Did more than they would have done that's for sure... Ah Jesus that hurts...
Janice: Sounds like it does. You think you'll be able to go on?
Reagan: Yeah... I think so... I think you need a name
Janice: What?
Reagan: Like, when I'm fighting someone and I need your help. I just can't scream Janice, people may be listening in. If they hear Janice Brooks they may find out who you are and then find out who I am.
Janice: OK um... How about Dark Worm?
Reagan: Nah... Renegade?
Janice: Soul Crusher!
Reagan: Piston Pipe!
Janice:... That sounds dirty...
Reagan: OK Miss Picky... How about something tech based?
Janice: OK... Firewall!
Reagan: Hyperlink!
Janice: Earpiece!
Reagan: Oh god.
Janice: What? You said something tech based.
Reagan: Yeah but not stupidly obvious.
Janice: Alright, alright, alright...Hm... How about Scarlet?
Reagan: What?
Janice: Scarlet! It's my old forum name. I think it sounds pretty cool.
Reagan: Well...
Janice: Well what?
Reagan: Nothing... It's just that I need a name too, I'm sick of everyone calling me Green Hood. That's probably the worst superhero name ever...
Janice: Not as bad as Robin...
Reagan: Yeah... I just need to make myself known, ya know? Green Hood is as generic a name as you can get. I need something that will inspire people. That will make people say Look in the sky! Its.... So and So, and shes here to save us!. With green hood I just can't really do that...
Janice: Yeah , I see where your coming from, but I just dont know what you should be called. I mean, all the good superhero names have been taken Super-girl, Batgirl. I mean, what do we call you? The Incredible Green Magic Super Chick?
Reagan: No... but I think I have an idea...
Janice: What is it?
Reagan: The Mistress of Illusion! I mean think about it! It's catchy, original, and if I stop some creep they'll know exactly who I am!
Janice: Yeah I can see that...
Reagan: I thought you would... Ah damn it's getting late.
Janice: Wanna head back?
Reagan: Yeah... I could use a hot shower...
RN: I started to fly back to the dorm rooms all sweaty, bruised and gross. I knew that my day would soon be over and I would be laying in my soft warm toasty bed.
J.A.Jr: *In a dark menacing intimidating tone* Let me get this straight. I send you three mental midgets to do a simple task, rob a convenient store, hurt no one and make it out... Yet, you come here and tell me that a vigilante, who most witnesses describe as being 5' 3, managed to beat 3 grown men into submission and expect me to be... understanding... I don't know what to say... I expected more from my men...
Thug 1: Boss, don't do what I think your gonna do, please. Y-you can dock our pay for the next 4 jobs, w-we don't like money anyway right?
Thug 2: Yeah we, we don't like money anyway, we want experience.
Thug 3: Yeah experience, hehe.
J.A.Jr: *Sighs* I won't kill you... Thats reserved for higher filth... I want you to leave my office, or are you too stupid for that also?... Go before I change my mind...
Thug 1: Y-yes sir! Come on guys.
Door open and close noise
J.A.Jr: *Sigh* And people wonder why I'm going gray...
telephone ring
J.A.Jr: Hello, this is John Aztec Junior of Aztec Incorperat- oh it's you sir, I'm so sorry... Yes I know we've hit a bump in the road but I assure you that everything has been taken care of... No sir, we still have no word on who this vigilante is, but the media is calling her Green Hood... Yes sir... Yes Sir... I'll find a way sir... Thank you sir... Goodbye sir...
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Hi, your script isn't too bad. I suppose the fact that I could see it recounted in the movies makes it a good script. Weldone for keeping the dialogue flowing, and not distracting us with any extra motion details. I felt that your dialogue had my complete attention.
I like how you have two scenes taking place at the same time. One with the mobsters robbing the store, and the other detailing the conversation between the politician, and aspiring priest. However, I also enjoyed the part where he is looking back on how the events went down.
I'm not too clued up on script, and I know a lot of violence, swearing and insulting takes place in the movies too, so I think it fits the mould.
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There is not a more recognizable sound in music than a steel guitar.
A staple instrument of country-and-western swing, the steel guitar can also be heard in rock, gospel, blues and folk. However, in my years of writing, when rattling off names of musicians and the instruments they play, I cant recall typing a womans name followed by the phrase on steel guitar. Until today.
Thank Cindy Cashdollar, a New York native who has made a name for herself in Austin, Texas, as a regular session musician and performer, backing a range of people, including Bob Dylan, Leon Redbone, Dave Alvin and Ryan Adams. She has also received five Grammys while playing with Asleep at the Wheel. Cashdollar will sit in tomorrow night with headliner Marcia Ball at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College.
Ball cant be pigeonholed solely as a blueswoman, although thats where she gets stuck in record stores, radio stations and iTunes. But the native Texans piano style is more like zydeco, country and honky-tonk. Adding a talented woman like Cashdollar on the steel guitar makes perfect sense. They are old friends, a result of the tight-knit musical family that exists around Austin. Ball has played on Cashdollars releases and vice versa, and this is a prelude to a project both women will be working on in 2013.
Ive known Marcia for quite some time, Cashdollar said. Around here in Austin, everybody gets to play with everybody else.
Cashdollar embraces her unique choice of instrument. While female steel guitarists are rare, the number is growing.
Theres not a lot, Cashdollar said. But theres more and more over the years, and, of course, decades ago during the Hawaiian music craze, there were schools of lap steel. A lot of those old photographs had quite a few women. At that time there werent women visible on the touring circuit, but certainly now theres quite a few players.
Her progression toward what remains a difficult instrument to play began at an early age. Beginning with guitar, she moved onto dobro. A need to be heard guided her next experiment.
I needed something louder because acoustic dobros just werent loud enough, Cashdollar said. So I took up lap steel, six strings. Then I took up steel guitar, which is bigger and heavier with a lot more strings.
Shes into letting the instrument take her in whatever direction she wants it to take her. Free of the constraints of country-and-western, it is found a place in many musical genres.
The instrument has always been associated with country music, but it has taken off in so many different directions over the years, it has covered so much ground, she said.
Steel guitar players are not often headliners, but Cashdollar is happy in the role of session musician and side player. As an Austin musician, she is afforded the opportunity to play with an endless list of great players, including Ball.
Im excited to be doing shows with Marcia. Shes a great person, and her band is phenomenal, she said.
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ChildCare Connection used to operate three daycare centers at CCRI, one at the Flanagan, one at the Liston and one at the Knight Campus. The daycare centers are presently closed. Daycare centers are licensed by the Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth & Families (DCYF). The CCRI centers serviced preschoolers between the ages of three and five. CCRI continues to maintain the daycare centers so they can be recertified and reopened promptly if needed in the future.
The Rhode Island Department of Health requires lead-safe certification of any new daycare facility and yearly re-inspection for it to retain its lead-safe status. All CCRI day care centers were inspected by outside licensed environmental laboratories at the time of opening and have been re-inspected yearly. All have been certified as lead safe and the results reported to the Rhode Island Department of Health Environmental Lead Program.
The Flanagan Campus Day Care Center was first inspected and certified lead-safe in November 1998. The newly outfitted Liston Campus center was first certified lead-free in June 1999 and requires no yearly recertification. The newly-built Knight Campus daycare was inspected and certified lead-free in September 2001 and requires no yearly recertification. CCRI arranges for an independent laboratory to re-inspect the Flanagan Campus daycare center yearly. The latest test was done March 2008. The Rhode Island Department of Health has renewed the lead-safe certification status of the Flanagan daycare center for the standard one year period. The Flanagan center will be re-inspected in March 2009 to maintain its lead-safe status.
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Doubront shines again as Sox top YankeesBy MIKE SHALIN
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July 19. 2013 10:43PM
BOSTON — Fifth starter Felix Doubront, another major factor in the Red Sox surprising 2013 turnaround, did it again Friday night.
The left-hander who hasn't lost since June 8, won his third straight start combining with three relievers on a five-hitter that carried the Boston Red Sox to a 4-2 victory over the depleted New York Yankees in the opener of a post-break three-game series.
Doubront, 7-3 with a 1.56 ERA over his last six starts, had a no-hitter through four innings and left with one out in the seventh after throwing 95 pitches on a steamy night.
Junichi Tazawa, Craig Breslow and Koji Uehara finished up as the Red Sox snapped a two-game losing streak and handed the Yankees, making their first 2013 visit to Fenway, to their third straight loss.
Breslow pitched out of an eighth-inning jam before Uehara worked a perfect ninth for his ninth save.Andy Pettitte (7-7) gave up a leadoff home run to Jacoby Ellsbury and a two-run shot to Jonny Gomes in the second inning before settling down. Jose Iglesias's two-out RBI single off reliever Shane Kelley tacked a fourth run on Pettitte's record in the seventh.Gomes also had a double, Ellsbury a single and David Ortiz two doubles for Boston.
As if the Yankees, who put Derek Jeter back on the disabled list Friday, don't have enough injury problems, rookie left fielder Zoilo Almonte left the game with a left ankle sprain suffered running out a double-play grounder. X-rays were negative.
Pettitte, who has been having all kinds of trouble early in games, saw his second pitch of the game to Ellsbury sail over the Yankee bullpen in right field. Then, he walked Mike Napoli to start the second and Gomes crushed his two-run shot.
In the Yankee fourth, Brett Gardner walked and was picked off by Doubront. But Gardner beat the throw to second and then, on the next pitch took off for third. Jarrod Saltalamacchia's throw went down the left-field line and Garner trotted home.The Yankees made it 3-2 in the fifth, but also lost Gardner, thrown out by home-plate umpire Mike Everitt for throwing his helmet after a called third strike. Earlier in the inning, doubles by Lyle Overbay and Chris Stewart (with two out) broke up a Doubront no-hitter and brought in another run.
Pedroia contract talks progress
Boston second baseman Dustin Pedroia is poised to become the highest paid 5-foot-6, 165-pound player baseman in the history of the game.
The Red Sox and Pedroia made significant progress for a contract extension worth $100 million during the All-Star Break. Talks have been ongoing since the offseason, but Yahoo! Sports said Boston now has incentive to lock up the popular Pedroia.
The Red Sox have the best record in the American League and by shedding big-ticket salaries last year, they have freed up money to sign the popular 29-year-old.There still is a gap in years and dollars, but talks are expected to continue in the second half of the season. Pedroia is in the fourth year of a six-year, $40.5 million deal.NOTES: Red Sox RF Shane Victorino, who has battled back and hamstring problems all season, left the game after grounding into a double play after the third inning with tightness in his left hamstring. ... The Yankees placed Jeter on the disabled list (he can return July 27) and summoned Brent Lillibridge from the minors. Lillibridge started at 3B and then moved to RF Friday night. ... Red Sox RHP Andrew Bailey was placed on the DL and will likely be lost for the season with a right shoulder that figures to require surgery. ... RHP Jose De La Torre was brought up for his fourth stint with the club this season. ... Boston signed veteran RHPs Jose Contreras and Brandon Lyon to minor-league contracts and they headed for Pawtucket.


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Wallabies to be rested ahead of Lions series
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February 28, 2013
Wallabies coach Robbie Deans will gather his players for a three-week camp ahead of their eagerly awaited series against the British & Irish Lions © Getty Images
The Australian Rugby Union has confirmed that the Wallabies will go into camp three weeks before their eagerly-awaited series against the British & Irish Lions this year.
Australia coach Robbie Deans has previously stressed the need for a dedicated window to prepare his players but their Super Rugby employers had hoped their players would be available for their own clashes with the elite tourists in the build-up to the Test series that kicks off at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on June 22.
ARU chief executive Bill Pulver has announced that a squad of 25 players will gather on June 2 to ready themselves for "their once in a lifetime opportunity" but certain players may yet be released for Super Rugby duty with two potentially key all-Australian derbies scheduled to take place during the same period. "If those Super Rugby matches have significant bearing on the competition standings, and finals spots are at stake, ARU will take that under serious consideration," Pulver said in a statement.
The three-week preparation window is a similar approach to 2001 when Wallabies players missed games between the Waratahs and Brumbies against the Lions. All Blacks and Springboks Test players were also unavailable for provincial games during the Lions tours to New Zealand and South Africa in 2005 and 2009 respectively.
"There is no doubt from an Australian Rugby perspective that when the Lions come to Australia for their nine-match tour from 5 June to 6 July the primary objective is for the Qantas Wallabies to win the three-Test series and preparation is crucial," said Pulver.
"The Lions will be battle hardened, make no mistake. Their players are currently involved in the Six Nations Championship in Europe. They will also have a match in Hong Kong en route to Australia and five lead-up games to the first Test.
"A tour of this magnitude, featuring nine matches, provides the opportunity to expose a wide group of players across the country to international Rugby. That is great for the players, and the game in Australia."
The initial 25-man Wallabies squad will have additional players added on June 10, following the Brumbies v Rebels (June 7) and Waratahs v Force (June 9) games.
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Value Line is regarded as the best independent research available. More than just recommendations, Value Line provides the rationale behind its picks for greater understanding.
There have been several noteworthy developments in the drug space recently, which will likely have a material impact on the companies in this sector and the markets they serve. Companies mentioned in this review include Amgen Inc. (AMGN), Onyx Pharmaceuticals (ONXX), AstraZeneca (AZN), Mylan Inc. (MYL), and Astex Pharmaceuticals (ASTX).
Amgen to Acquire Onyx
After several months of negotiations, Onyx Pharmaceuticals has agreed to be acquired by Amgen Inc. in a deal valued at $10.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, Amgen will pay $125 a share in cash for all the outstanding shares of Onyx and in exchange will gain access to a rapidly expanding cancer-drug market. Onyx possesses an attractive portfolio of oncology assets highlighted by its growing Kyprolis franchise, approved last year for a rare blood cancer. Kyprolis is clearly the main prize for Amgen as analysts estimate the drug could generate more than $3 billion in revenue by 2021. At a time when the oncology market is growing increasingly important to an aging U.S. population, we view the transaction favorably for Amgen as it helps fill several holes in its existing cancer business. The deal has been unanimously approved by both boards and is expected to close at the beginning of the fourth quarter, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory clearance.
AstraZeneca to Acquire Amplimmune
Sticking with the theme of consolidation, AstraZeneca announced in late August that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Amplimmune in a deal that could be valued at up to $500 million. Under the terms of the agreement, AstraZeneca will make an upfront payment of $225 million and Amplimmune will also be eligible to receive milestone payments of up to $275 million. In return, AstraZeneca will be strengthening its oncology pipeline as Amplimmune possesses several cancer-related drug candidates currently engaged in late-stage clinical trials. The move comes as part of a broader effort by AstraZeneca to improve its late-stage pipeline. Over the past few months it has entered into a number of acquisition deals including bids for Pearl Therapeutics and Omthera Pharmaceuticals. The purchase of Amplimmune is expected to close sometime in the third quarter of 2013.
India Approves Mylan Acquisition
On September 3rd, India's government approved U.S.-based drug company Mylan's $760 million acquisition of the vaccine and injectable drug unit of India's Strides Arcolab. The deal that was originally announced in February had been delayed for several months over concerns from India's government that it could limit the supply of critical medicines in the country. The transaction would give Mylan a nice boost in capacity for the production of low-cost injectable drugs such as antibiotics and chemotherapy medicines.
Ostuka to Buy Astex
On September 5th, Japan-based Ostuka Holdings agreed to acquire U.S. cancer-drugmaker Astex Pharmaceuticals in an all-cash deal valued at roughly $886 million. Ostuka, which is Japan's fourth-largest drugmaker in terms of sales, has been seeking to strengthen its product pipeline ahead of the patent loss of its blockbuster drug Abilify. By acquiring Astex, Ostuka would significantly enhance its capabilities in oncology by gaining access to a healthy pipeline of leukemia and other cancer-related drugs currently in development. The transaction is expected to close early in the fourth quarter of 2013.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.


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When eBay reports first-quarter earnings today, the media's coverage will no longer come with a suffix: Carl Icahn.
Icahn, the corporate raider, sometime prodder, sometime undercuttter and full-time tweeter, is, for the foreseeable future, disgorged from the company he has haunted of late.
Nothing shapes media perception like a good fight, especially when it gets personal. Icahn famously lobbed accusations of malfeasance at board members. Now, though, as Icahn sits in temporary repose, the public is in for a considerable change in what they read, hear and watch about eBay EBAY, -1.37%
The thrill of the fight will be gone. What will stand in its place?
The media simply declared an end to the vitriol. For their part, Icahn and eBay kissed and made up in the way modern corporate lovers do — all over Twitter and CNBC.
Icahn tweeted that the declared truce was "a win-win for ALL shareholders." (The caps are his — thankfully he spared us emoticons.) Meanwhile, over on CNBC, John Donahoe, the chief executive officer of eBay, echoed Icahn's winning sentiment: "We found a way to make this a win-win instead of a zero-sum game," he cooed.
When those in power trumpet their own good fortune, there is often reason to be wary. But in a certain sense, Icahn and Donahoe just might be right. The hair-pulling nature of the fight helped no one. Icahn, never prone to understatement, at one point even termed eBay one of the worst-run companies he had ever seen. Ouch. Plus, uh, really? Not for nothing, but eBay was all but discarded in the ash bin of Internet history until Donahoe came along. Now profits and revenue are growing again.
In fact, in an era of overrated and overpaid CEO's, Donahoe might be one of the few — along with Howard Schultz from Starbucks SBUX, -0.58% (SBUX), Ford's F, -0.91% Alan Mulally and Reed Hastings of Netflix NFLX, -3.07% (NFLX) — who is worth a decent fraction of what they get paid. Obviously: Donahoe has not yet taken his place in the pantheon with these CEOs quite yet. But with Icahn's ridiculously demeaning public bleating out of the way, perhaps investors can get a clearer sense of Donahoe's impressive set of talents and accomplishments.
About Icahn standing out of the way: Perhaps the high-powered gadfly will simply shuffle off to Apple AAPL, -1.52% where he has already helped manage to get the company to do another massive buyback, pay a bigger dividend and partake in empty financial gestures like stock splits, the likes of which General Electric GE, +0.54% and IBM IBM, -1.64% might embrace. Or maybe he will seek fortune and glory by kicking an altogether new company in the shins. But here's the deal: There are no assurances that he is unhitched from eBay for good. The terms of the truce are vague and wooly, and Icahn is hardly known as the retiring kind. Stay vigilant.
For the time being, though, earnings season in the technology sphere has been convoluted, to say the least. While Google GOOG, -1.30% and IBM disappointed, Microsoft MSFT, -0.98% Apple, Facebook FB, -2.16% and Amazon AMZN, -0.81% all beat earnings estimates, but saw their stocks curdle.
A "beat" at eBay, unburdened with the complicated story line that was Icahn, might give final credence to the fact that technology stocks have, by and large, had a decent quarter. The same story could never be told with Icahn lurking about as a living, breathing addendum to each and every earnings release. A mere three sentences into reporting that eBay beat expectations in their fourth quarter, reported in January, MarketWatch said:
"EBay also said Carl Icahn is demanding that it spin off PayPal into a separate company. Icahn holds a 0.8% interest in eBay."
And never mind the numbers. Often anything about eBay failed to make the headlines, in favor of Icahn.
The numbers will get play this go around. Analysts surveyed by FactSet have forecast eBay to earn 67 cents a share, excluding one-time items, up from 63 cents a year earlier. EBay itself has forecast earnings in a range of 65 cents to 67 cents.
Without any adversarial souls poking each other in the eyes, the stock market just might come to see eBay's numbers as the fine sight they have been for quite some time.
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Merchant marine: total: 11
by type: cargo 9, refrigerated cargo 2
foreign-owned: 11 (Germany 3, Ireland 1, Italy 2, Montenegro 1, Slovenia 1, Turkey 1, Ukraine 2) (2010)
Definition: Merchant marine may be defined as all ships engaged in the carriage of goods; or all commercial vessels (as opposed to all nonmilitary ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc. This entry contains information in four fields - total, ships by type, foreign-owned, and registered in other countries.
Total includes the number of ships (1,000 GRT or over), total DWT for those ships, and total GRT for those ships. DWT or dead weight tonnage is the total weight of cargo, plus bunkers, stores, etc., that a ship can carry when immersed to the appropriate load line. GRT or gross register tonnage is a figure obtained by measuring the entire sheltered volume of a ship available for cargo and passengers and converting it to tons on the basis of 100 cubic feet per ton; there is no stable relationship between GRT and DWT.
Ships by type includes a listing of barge carriers, bulk cargo ships, cargo ships, chemical tankers, combination bulk carriers, combination ore/oil carriers, container ships, liquefied gas tankers, livestock carriers, multifunctional large-load carriers, petroleum tankers, passenger ships, passenger/cargo ships, railcar carriers, refrigerated cargo ships, roll-on/roll-off cargo ships, short-sea passenger ships, specialized tankers, and vehicle carriers.
Foreign-owned are ships that fly the flag of one country but belong to owners in another.
Registered in other countries are ships that belong to owners in one country but fly the flag of another.
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Bail reduced in Dover man's swindling caseBy JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
May 02. 2013 8:57PM
DOVER - A Superior Court judge decided to reduce bail for a prominent real estate investor and former School Board chairman who faces 19 felony charges, even though prosecutors say he is a flight risk.
"This defendant has every reason in the world to avoid a trial," Senior Assistant Attorney General James Boffetti said Thursday of Nickolas Skaltsis, 62, who investigators said used $327,500 in loans from 13 area residents to pay off debts. He also commingled investor funds in a personal account and took some for personal use, according to the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities.
Skaltsis, who had told investors he was using the money to rehabilitate distressed real estate properties for resale, is charged with 15 counts of theft by deception and four counts of theft by misappropriation of property. He was sent to the psychiatric unit at New Hampshire State Hospital after attempting suicide in Wells, Maine, Oct. 12. Skaltsis was arrested in January and is being held at Strafford County jail.
Judge Brian Tucker reduced his bail Thursday from $300,000 to $150,000 cash or corporate surety.
Public defender Carl Swenson argued for $5,000 bail, saying his client has no money.
Swenson said Skaltsis was devastated that he could not repay the "unsecured promissory notes" and loans from his former friends, but wants to make things right.
Bureau of Securities investigators estimate Skaltsis' total debt at $1.2 million.
"By the time he solicited investor funds in 2011, Skaltsis was already heavily in debt to prior secured lenders, prior investors and a $703,504 judgment against him," the bureau investigators wrote. "A review of his bank records shows significant credit card debt and very little disposable cash beginning in 2011."
Judge Tucker said Skaltsis must remain in Dover, live at his home, maintain a current mailing address, be monitored by GPS through the Strafford County Community Corrections Program, have no contact with the victims or witnesses in the case, avoid using alcohol or illegal drugs, submit to random drug testing, surrender his passport to the clerk's office and commit no crimes. He is also prohibited from conducting real estate transactions or soliciting investments.
Indictments in the case are expected to be handed up in June, according to court records.


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This guide will provide you with step-by-step help for removing and replacing the LCD screen on the Pentax Optio WP Digital Camera.
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Orient the camera so you are looking at the bottom and the battery compartment is on the right hand side.
Unlock the battery compartment by sliding the lock switch to the unlock position (away from the arrow).
Firmly push the battery cover to the right and swing open.
The battery will be located in the larger bottom slot. Slide the plastic orange tab to remove the battery.
The SD card will be located in the smaller, top slot. Push the SD card directly in to hear a small clicking sound. Then pull out the SD card.
With the battery cover swung open, use the spudger to remove the DC IN sticker.
Remove the 4.3 mm silver screw revealed.
Reorient the camera so it is upright and you are looking at the back screen.
Remove the rubber covers in the upper and lower right side corners. Insert spudger in between the camera case and the rubber cover and push them out of their sockets. Grab the rubbers with the tweezers and set them aside. Remove both of the 4.3 mm silver screws revealed.
Remove the 4.3 mm silver screw in the lower left corner which resides under the sliding battery cover.
Locate the 5.3mm silver screw on the edge closest to the upper left corner of the LCD screen and remove it.
With the spudger, pry back the cover starting with the outer edge to release.
Detach the copper ribbon from the internals of the camera by placing a finger on top of the terminal and gently pulling on the back casing.
Orient the camera so you are looking at the LCD screen.
Using the forceps, remove the red and white wires out of the terminal in the bottom left corner.
Remove the LCD screen from the camera by inserting the spudger between the screen and the metal hook on the right side of the screen and prying up gently.
Flip open the black gate holding the copper ribbon from the LCD screen.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.
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IUCN and Republic of Korea sign up for best ever Congress
05 March 2010 | News story
IUCN, the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea, and the Self-governing Province of Jeju have signed an agreement to jointly organize the 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress.
The Congress will take place from 6 to 15 September 2012 in Jeju, Republic of Korea. Held every four years, the IUCN Congress is the world's most important international conservation event. The 2012 Congress aims to put nature and conservation at the top of the global agenda.
Korea's Environment Minister Lee Maanee, Jeju Governor Kim Tae Hwan, and IUCN's Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre say they are all looking forward to this important event and promised that all institutions will do their utmost to make the 2012 Congress the best Congress ever.
Julia Marton-Lefèvre and Minister Lee Maanee were also awarded honorary Jeju citizenship by its Governor during the ceremony, attended by almost 1,500 people, including many citizens and students from Jeju.
The Congress will be held in the International Convention Centre (ICC) in the Jungmun Resort Complex in Jeju, an island south of the mainland. This state-of-the-art facility is set in a well-preserved natural environment and has committed to the "Green Convention Practice" by adopting renewable energy, electronic banners and recycled materials.
The Self-governing Province of Jeju and IUCN also signed a memorandum of understanding on the establishment of an international Climate Training Centre in Jeju.
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Sega has confirmed the existance of a number of Sonic titles due for release next year.
Chao garden for the Wii U version? that would rock on the gamepad
I want a GOOOD Sonic adventure 3. I hope Sega doesn't drop the ball, they let one the most famous and recognizable characters in gaming turn into a laughable, buggy franchise.


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Comcast Corp. says Aereo, a company that distributes broadcast programming on the Web, violates its copyrights, but according to often-contrarian analyst Richard Greenfield of BTIG, the cable giant is fighting the tech firm at its own peril.
Comcast has argued that the Web TV company distributes its content without permission, which hurts its broadcaster, NBC Universal. CBS, Fox and ABC have all made similar legal arguments.
But Aereo could help Comcast's pay-TV business, Greenfield said in a note to clients Monday. Pay-TV distributors such as Comcast periodically negotiate retransmission costs with broadcasters, and broadcasters can threaten to "go dark" on Comcast's service.
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With Aereo as a legally sanctioned service, Comcast could offer it as an alternative way for customers to get broadcasters' programming. That would give Comcast an advantage in the negotiations, Greenfield said.
"Comcast should be openly rooting for Aereo's legality," Greenfield wrote, "since the benefit of increased leverage for its cable system business in retransmission consent negotiations far outweighs the risks to the one broadcast network owned by Comcast's NBC division."
Aereo, which uses antennas to capture broadcast signals and deliver them to users, first launched last year in New York and is expanding to 22 markets in the coming months.
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Owners of broadcast companies including Comcast, CBS Corp., News Corp. and Walt Disney Co. have sued Aereo. The legal dispute is ongoing.
In April, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York upheld a lower court's ruling that Aereo's service does not infringe on copyrights.
Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts took to CNBC last month to criticize the decision. "They are going to see a lot of legal challenges because there is certainly a strong belief by a number of companies that it is not legal, that is taking someone's property and redistributing it without their consent," he said.
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I was use to just seeing my Mametchi writing "thank you" notes with his pencil. Now today I just saw him sitting at his desk with paper at hand and writing and ocassionally a blank cartoon bubble would pop out in the upper left hand corner of my screen. I wonder what he's thinking
Mametchi Love Letters?
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Posted 17 September 2004 - 02:08 PM ( #3 )
I saw mine writing thank you but never talking while writing...
Posted 18 September 2004 - 01:57 PM ( #4 )
Yeah, just noticed that too. The 'Thankyou' one is a present you can hey, but I'm guessing the cartoon bubble one is just a random animation. It's cute though.
Posted 18 September 2004 - 08:32 PM ( #6 )
me neither. Are you sure it was mametchi? and not mimitchi? What age were they at?
Never seen either of those


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Do movies look weird on your new TV? Does everything have a hyper-real, ultra-smooth motion to it? Are you sure something is happening with the TV's image you don't like, but you can't figure out what?
Chances are, what you're seeing is called the "Soap Opera Effect," as descriptive a moniker as we get in tech, in that this feature makes everything on your TV look like a cheap soap opera.
Here's what it is, what it does, and how to turn it off.
The Soap Opera Effect, or SOE, is actually a feature of many modern televisions. It's called "motion smoothing," "motion interpolation," or "ME/MC" for motion estimation/motion compensation. Some people don't notice it, some don't mind it, and a few even like it. From e-mails and article comments I've read, it seems most people hate it.
This motion "whatever" was ostensibly developed to help decrease apparent motion blur on LCDs. All LCD TVs have difficulty with motion resolution. Which is to say, any object onscreen that's in motion will be less detailed (slightly blurry) compared with that same object when stationary. High-refresh-rate LCDs (120Hz and 240Hz) were developed to combat this problem. Check out "What is refresh rate" for a more in-depth description of this. The short version: in order for high-refresh-rate TVs to be most effective, they need new, real frames to insert in-between the original frames.
Thanks to speedy processors, TVs can "guess" what's happening between the frames captured by the camera originally. These new frames are a hybrid of the frame before and the frame after. By creating these frames, motion blur is reduced. With 30fps and 60fps content, this is great. Content like sports have better detail with motion, and there are minimal side effects (beyond errors/artifacts possible with cheaper/lesser motion interpolation processing).
However, with 24fps content (namely Hollywood movies and most nonreality, prime-time TV shows like sitcoms and dramas), there's a problem. The cadence of film, and the associated blurring of the slower frame rate's image, is linked to the perception of fiction. Check out the scathing reviews of the high frame rate version of "The Hobbit" for proof of that. Even if this perception seems grandiose -- the look of 24fps is expected with movies and fiction TV shows. Even though the TV and movie industries have been moving away from shooting on actual film, the new digital cameras are set for 24fps because the audience for fictional programming expects that look.
SOE messes with this cadence. By creating new frames between the 24 original frames, it causes it to look like 30fps or 60fps content. In other words, it makes movies (24fps) look like soap operas (30/60fps). And thus, a name is born.
By any other name
Every TV company has a different name for their motion interpolation processing. A sort list: Sony MotionFlow, Samsung Auto Motion Plus, Sharp AquoMotion, Toshiba ClearFrame or ClearScan, Vizio Smooth Motion, and LG TruMotion. I sense a theme.
While reducing motion blur is the main reason this processing exists, the (possibly) beneficial side effect is reducing the 2:3 judder noticeable on fast pans in 24fps content. The process of converting 24fps content for 60fps televisions involves a 2:3 sequence. The first frame is shown twice, the second frame three times, the third twice, and so on. Check out "1080i and 1080p are the same resolution" for a more detailed description. Because this sequence is, well, weird, camera pans can look jerky or juddery. Motion interpolation smooths this out. This is one of the reasons why some people prefer the SOE.
Nearly all companies allow you to disable SOE, and most allow you to adjust its intensity. Some separate out the blur reduction from the judder reduction, though personally I've found SOE at any level to be distracting.
Up until recently SOE has been an LCD-only "issue." In the effort to make plasmas more competitive in a retail store, motion smoothing circuitry has found its way into plasmas. Because plasma TVs don't suffer from the motion blur problems that LCDs have (or at least, not to the extent), motion smoothing is largely superfluous. For that matter, plasmas aren't increasing their refresh rates to insert new frames, so all that's really happening is the TV is creating new frames to insert in-between the film frames, just to make the motion smoother.
Panasonic, for example, calls its version of this Cinema Smoother. On its LCDs, you can find it under "Motion Picture Setting."
Bottom line
The best part about the Soap Opera Effect is if you don't like it, you can turn it off. A few minutes digging though your TV's picture settings (also check out What's the best picture mode? as some modes may have it, others might not), and you should be able to find it. Get to know where this setting is (it's probably on the remote, too). It's possible you'll want it on when you're watching sports, or other "video"-based content (30fps or 60fps). Then, for movies and fictional TV programming, you can turn it off. This will give you the best-of-both worlds approach with minimal motion blur with sports, and no SOE with movies.
With plasma TVs, though, there is little penalty to turning this "feature" off. So go ahead.
Got a question for Geoff? First, check out all the other articles he's written on topics like HDMI cables, LED LCD vs. plasma, Active vs Passive 3D, and more. Still have a question? Send him an e-mail! He won't tell you which TV to buy, but he might use your letter in a future article. You can also send him a message on Twitter @TechWriterGeoff or Google+.


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by Ben Sobieck, online editor
Pennsylvania's deer hunting reputation is being threatened by hunters who "drift" in and out of the sport.
Lancaster Online reports that roughly 150,000 hunters do not hunt consecutive seasons. That's 16 percent of its hunting population. For a state with upwards of 1 million hunters (counting deer and other game), that churning effect is a difficult issue to solve for state wildlife officials.
The Lancaster Online article indicates a primary reason for the exodus: a lack of game which may or may not be deer.
States with similar problems, such as Michigan, passed legislation to make hunting mentorships easier.
Although the focus is often on getting children into the outdoors, D&DH's own observations indicate hunters go in and out of the sport depending on demographics. Even those who grew up in outdoors families, for example, tend to lose interest during the teen years into their 20s. If they return to hunting more aggressively, it's often after settling down – and only if they have access, the perennial thorn in the side of hunting.
These generalizations don't mean the solutions can be painted with just as broad a brush. No state wildlife program has found the magic bullet.
In the Lancaster Online article, Pennsylvania Game Commissioner President Ron Weaner said he had more questions than answers.
"I am still interested in retaining and recruiting hunters, and think it is very important. The simple fact is that some people will not hunt year after year no matter what we do."
It's unlikely deer hunting will go away for good in Pennsylvania. If ranked as a standing army, Pennsylvania's 750,000 deer hunters would outnumber South Korea's active military personnel. That's not an army that likely to hang up the white flag any time soon.