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The update is available now to developers using the CryENGINE 3 software development kit. It's worth noting that it will be some time before we see these improvements make their way to games, but it's certainly exciting to take a look at what the future holds.
A full list of the changes in CryENGINE 3's new update is available on Crytek's site. Earlier today Crytek confirmed the existence of Crysis 3, which will run on a version of CryENGINE.
Andrew Goldfarb is IGN's associate news editor. Keep up with pictures of the latest food he's been eating by following him on Twitter or IGN.


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Jackson County likely will continue to house juvenile offenders from cash-strapped Josephine County, with Jackson County commissioners set to take a look this week at renewing an agreement adopted last year.
The proposed agreement would bring nearly $148,000 in revenue to the county, as Josephine County would continue renting three beds at Jackson County's 40-bed Juvenile Detention Center. As with the original 2012-13 agreement, the money would fund two additional juvenile justice specialist positions.
The proposed extension goes before Jackson County's Board of Commissioners for approval at Wednesday's public meeting at the Courthouse Auditorium, 10 S. Oakdale Ave., Medford.
Josephine County began leasing spaces from Jackson County as it struggled to balance its budget following the loss of federal timber funds. Faced with a $12 million budget shortfall in 2012, the county laid off more than 90 workers and closed its Juvenile Justice Center. Two criminal justice levies have been defeated by Josephine County voters since 2012.
Joe Ferguson, deputy director for Juvenile Justice in Jackson County, said the 2012-13 agreement worked well.
"They've kept those three beds filled," he said. "It's rare we'd have less than three kids from that county."
Josephine County can pay for additional beds beyond the contracted three if there is space, officials said.
"You can see it as kind of a regional model in terms of providing resources to another county," Ferguson said. "It benefits both of us currently."
Shane Hagey, Jackson County Community Justice director, added that several other Oregon counties whose juvenile justice facilities are closed use the same shared, regional methodology.
"I think you're seeing more and more of it as budget times get tighter. You're going to see more and more regionalization of services like that," Hagey said. "Legally, (counties) have to provide the service, but it doesn't mean you have to have it in your own county."
Ferguson said Curry County has an agreement with Del Norte County in California, while Coos County has an agreement with nearby Douglas County. In The Dalles, Northern Oregon Regional Correctional Facilities provides adult and juvenile detention for Gilliam, Hood River, Wasco and Sherman counties.
"That's a true regional model. All of those counties put money in to operate that," Ferguson said.
The number of beds rented by surrounding counties could increase down the line, Hagey said, but that's dependent on available dollars year to year.
"It really depends on their resources," he said. "They're going to learn to probably be a little more creative within their own counties."
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Jackson County likely will continue to house juvenile offenders from cash-strapped Josephine County, with Jackson County commissioners set to take a look this week at renewing an agreement adopted last year.

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Okay, so it's not like I lack initiative, but my follow through certainly leaves a little to be desired. Three out of five thematic days ain't all that shabby though, especially in this ADHD day and age, and the fact the last day showed proof positive, well, that's all anyone will remember anyway, because who really remembers anything nowadays? So here's Spike mid-lunch break while filming for jackass 3 in 2010. He truly was in his all out of his mind glory that day, all the while struggling to keep things together yet crazier than all the other crazies around him. Seriously, there are some sections in downtown LA where we might as well have just gone and tried to prank the residents of a lunatic asylum, but that's exactly what we continued to do with Spike on this rather long, hot LA day with his head encased in a big foam bubble dubbed "Cathy". Oh well, you win some, you lose some, though we probably almost did lose our future Academy Award-winning screenwriter to heat-stroke. Sorry, Spike! But here's one last round of congratulatory applause from the nose-bleed seats at Dickhouse. Cheers!
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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District must slash $2.2 million in spending from its 2013-14 budget to meet a state property-tax levy cap imposed by Governor Cuomo in June 2011. That could mean a wide range of cutbacks, from the elimination of summer school for all students except seniors to reconfiguring the anti-drug Athletes Helping Athletes program to reducing the number of junior-varsity games that are played in a season.
The proposed spending plan, which now stands at $137.7 million, must be reduced to a little over $135.5 million to meet the tax cap. "Each year it gets more difficult to offset the tax levy…," said Cynthia Strait-Regal, the Central District's deputy superintendent for business. "It looks like cuts are going to have to continue going forward."
Staff cuts
At a Board of Education meeting on Feb. 6, Strait-Regal presented a long list of possible program cuts from which the Board of Education could choose to reduce the budget, though none of the cuts would eliminate a program. To date, the list has not been finalized. In addition to program cuts, Central District officials are looking at reducing staff positions, including:
• 11.5 teachers
• One administrator
• One assistant coach
• One full-time and one part-time secretary
• Two Special Education Department assistants
• 11 interns.
And district officials are weighing the possibility of eliminating all Tempo Group social workers. Tempo, with offices in Bellmore-Merrick, the Five Towns and Syosset, provides counseling to teenagers on a host of issues, primarily drug addiction.
As a last resort, officials said, they would cut the nine-period day at the middle schools, returning to an eight-period day, which, they said, would mean the elimination of electives for eighth-graders.
Exceeding the cap
"You can't keep cutting the budget" without eventually eliminating student programs, Strait-Regal said. That led to a discussion among school board trustees members about the possibility of offering a budget that exceeded the cap for a public vote in future years, though all said that they would stick to the cap for 2013-14.
"We have been cutting as closely as we can without impacting program," said Trustee Janet Goller. In the future, she said, programs might be eliminated if the district does not exceed the cap, which is on the property-tax levy –– the total amount in taxes that a district must collect to meet its expenses. The state has capped the levy increase at 2 percent, though most districts exceed that by about 1 percentage point, because they are allowed to exempt a certain amount for contributions to the Teachers Retirement System, the Employees Retirement System and capital costs. When exemptions are factored in, Bellmore-Merrick's total allowable tax-levy increase for 2013-14 is just over 3 percent.
If it exceeds the allowable cap, a district's budget must be approved by at least 60 percent of voters. If it fails, it can be put up for a vote once more as is, or with reductions. If it fails a second time, spending is capped at the current year's budget –– meaning spending can not increase at all. That, said Trustee George Haile, would be "a disaster."
Over the past two years, many school district officials have been reluctant to offer a budget that exceeded the cap for a public vote, fearing that residents would shoot it down and deeper cuts would follow. But, Haile said, further cuts in the future would mean the elimination of "the things we're so proud of" in Bellmore-Merrick.
Regal said that it is tough to make cuts. "It hurts…," she said. "We suffer. We suffer."
Community's viewpoint
Caitlyn O'Hara, a Calhoun High School student-athlete, made an emotional appeal to the Board of Education to preserve the Athletes Helping Athletes program, for which high school athletes make presentations in the elementary schools about the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse. "It's amazing to see how much they enjoy this program," O'Hara said.
The Board of Cooperative Educational Services runs the program. District officials said they are looking at the possibility of instituting a local, less costly Athletes Helping Athletes program in place of the current one.
"We are looking at something so that it will continue in some form…," said Goller. "We, too, recognize the importance of this program."
Michael Graziosi, a Kennedy High School teacher who lives in Merrick, ended the budget discussion by saying that he believes "the community will respond" if the board decides to exceed the tax cap in the future — and support such a measure.


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WEST Mercia Police needs to make a further £22 million of cuts by 2019 – with residents asked to foot some of the bill through council tax rises.
The force is already halfway through a plan to cut £20 million from spending between 2012 and 2016.
A further £21.8m of cuts are needed but a report from police and crime commissioner Bill Longmore added the precise figure is unlikely to be confirmed until after next year's general election.
Mr Longmore also revealed he wants to increase the police element of the council tax precept by two per cent from April in a bid to raise an additional £1.7 million a year.
Because the force only gets around 10 per cent of the bill, it would add about £3.64 a year to the average band D payment.
He said: "Unfortunately the Government's austerity measures mean that we need to save a further £21.8 million over the next five years.
"Income raised through council tax is a vital source of police funding – and, although I understand that times are difficult, asking people to pay more is something I need to consider in order to relieve the pressure on frontline policing."
The bombshell means more job losses are likely, and comes after a cull which saw 140 frontline police officer jobs axed in 2012.
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Ken MacKaill, chairman of the West Mercia Police Federation, said: "Over the last four years 400 police jobs have gone, we've lost so many."
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"This organisation has been through huge change and the staff have responded magnificently, we're doing all we can."
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U.S. stocks advanced, as the Standard & Poor's 500 Index rallied for a third straight week, amid optimism that the U.S. economy is improving amid central-bank monetary stimulus.
Gap Inc. added 5.6%, pacing gains with discretionary stocks after forecasting profit that topped estimates. Nvidia Corp. rose 4.5% as fiscal first-quarter sales and earnings exceeded projections. Priceline.com Inc. increased 3.8% to its highest in 14 years after reporting better-than- forecast results. Apple Inc., the world's most valuable company, lost 0.8%.
The S&P 500 increased 0.4% to a record 1,633.70 at 4 p.m. in New York. The index rallied 1.2% this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 35.87 points, or 0.2%, to 15,118.49, an all-time high. Almost 5.7 billion shares traded hands on U.S. exchanges today, or 9% below the three- month average.
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The U.S. bull market has entered its fifth year. The S&P 500 has surged 141% from a 12-year low in 2009, driven by better-than-estimated corporate earnings and three rounds of bond purchases from the Fed.
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The central bank said May 1 it will maintain its bond buying at a pace of $85 billion a month and is prepared to raise or lower the level of purchases as economic conditions evolve. It also plans to hold its target interest rate near zero as long as unemployment remains above 6.5% and the outlook for inflation doesn't exceed 2.5%.
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The Grand Island Market is enjoying a honeymoon in the first week of operation since the marriage of the store with Marco's Italian Deli.
The first week of business for Marco's Italian Deli was marked Sunday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the market, located at 1441 Ransom Road.
"It's a perfect marriage between both businesses, and we're doing really well with it," said Mark Sciortino, owner of the deli franchise.
The marriage between Sciortino's Marco's Italian Deli and Chuck Rizzo's Grand Island Market blossomed thanks to another Island businessman, Angelo Grande of Rhino-Tees Custom Apparel and the Charging Rhinos Soccer Academy on Whitehaven Road. Grande did apparel work for Rizzo's business, and Sciortino, a soccer coach, trains at Grande's soccer facility. Sciortino said Grande mentioned that Rizzo needed someone to take over the food service at the Grand Island Market.
Grande called himself "a huge fan" of Marco's Italian Deli and played matchmaker between Sciortino and Rizzo when the first food service business at the Grand Island Market didn't work out. Grande said Rizzo was looking at standard national franchises to move into the market, "and I don't think that would have worked well for him. So I set up a meeting."
Grande introduced the two at the Grand Island Market six weeks ago. "And from there, here we are," Grande said. "Oh, I'm thrilled for both of them because they're such great people. The food is fantastic, and Chuck needed something to propel him forward."
At the ribbon-cutting event, Rizzo thanked Grande for introducing them.
"I will owe Angelo for the rest of my life free sangwiches for introducing us," he said. "It's great to have them all here and we're proud to have Marco's Deli as part of the Grand Island Market."
Nick Tollar Jr., Sciortino's business partner and nephew, said the GI location will sell "anything that you can find at one of our other Marco's Italian Delis" located on Hertel Avenue in Buffalo, Maple Road in Amherst and Delaware Avenue in Kenmore. Islanders can now have the distinctive Marco's "sangwiches," as well as paninis and cold cuts, said Tollar Jr. The GI deli will also have pizzas and do catering.
"We're very excited to be part of the Grand Island Market," Sciortino said before his daughters Gabriella and Maria cut the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce's ceremonial red ribbon. "Thank you to my nephew, who's been an absolute rock training the staff. The staff has been amazing. You guys have really done a great job."
"We hope you enjoy this project as much as we have," Sciortino told the dozens of people who packed the market for the ribbon-cutting ceremony. The attendance at the ribbon-cutting event mirrors the early success the deli has enjoyed in its first week of operation, Sciortino said, calling it "Absolutely a reflection of the response that the neighborhood, the community, everybody has put together around us being here, and just embracing it, hugging us, taking it and making us part of their own. This has just been awesome."
Rizzo said an appeal of the Marco's brand is Sciortino's "diverse menu that, while not complicated, gives our customers enough variety to choose from."
Rizzo called the deli "a change for the better."
"The food's good," Rizzo said. "And that's something we sorely needed. I'm not a food service professional. Chef Marco is."


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George Lucas believes his big-budget movie "Red Tails" about the famed Tuskegee Airmen moved the ball forward for films starring or created by African-Americans in Hollywood, but didn't change the game. "It had an affect on a lot of kids and adults. Now it's the one thing that everyone comes up to me and says 'thank you' for. I'm proud of that," he told us at the Fostering a Legacy benefit Saturday evening in East Hampton for singer Ne-Yo's Compound Foundation, which supports kids in foster care. Lucas, who has three adopted children, was honored at the benefit for his positive impact on young adults. The movie, which took Lucas more than 20 years to bring to theaters and was produced with $58 million of his own money, raked in $50 million at theaters, surpassing Hollywood's expectations. "We didn't get to a point when they said, 'Oh let's just do black movies.' But every time you poke 'em, it makes an effect." said Lucas, who attended the benefit with girlfriend Mellody Hobson. The director announced his retirement earlier this year to focus on making smaller "hobby films," but told us it will also leave more time for Hobson. Other attendees at the event included Paula Abdul, Arsenio Hall, and new Brooklyn Net recruit Joe Johnson.
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The jaw-dropping highlight-reel plays don't come with nearly the frequency they once did, back when the long-haired Argentine dynamo was a YouTube staple before YouTube was cool.
Neither do the raw numbers leap off the box score the way they did in 2007-08, when he was the top sub in basketball.
In a 35-year-old Manu Ginobili, however, the Spurs believe they still have what they did in the 26-year-old version — a game-changing guard coming off the bench.
Even if the way Ginobili changes games has, well, changed.
"He's going to make the plays where they are," forward Tim Duncan said. "If they decide to play him for the pass, he's going to score that thing. He wants to score, but he's a very willing passer on this team."
Scoring has not exactly been Ginobili's forte for much of his 11th NBA season. The Spurs have not needed it to be.
Heading into tonight's rematch with Dallas at the American Airlines Center, Ginobili is averaging 12.6 points, his fewest since his rookie season of 2002-03.
His shooting percentage (42.6 percent) is at its lowest mark since his sophomore campaign.:applause
At this point, the season-high 23 points Ginobili notched in Friday's 122-116 home victory over Houston — which included a 5-for-9 conversion rate from 3-point range — appears to be more outlier than trendsetter.
And yet, Ginobili continues to serve as undisputed maestro of a Spurs bench that remains among the league's best, ranking third in scoring (41.6 points per game) and first in assists (11.6).
"I think my role has changed the last couple years," said Ginobili, who averaged 19.7 points during his Sixth Man of the Year campaign of five seasons ago. "I started taking way less shots, and playing less minutes, since we are so deep. I don't mind it."
In an age addicted to ESPN clips and scoring binges, Ginobili's numbers probably won't land him at the top of most Sixth Man of the Year ballots.
Over the past 10 seasons, no player has won the award with a lower scoring average than the 13.6 points per game Corliss Williamson logged for Detroit in 2001-02.
Not that Sixth Man honors have ever been all that important to Ginobili. On the day the 2007-08 balloting was announced, Gregg Popovich joked Ginobili might choose to store the trophy in a part of his coach's anatomy where the sun doesn't shine.
Though his value might not always be reflected on awards day, Ginobili's teammates are hyper-aware of what he still means to the Spurs.
"He's going to do whatever he needs to do to help us win, whether it's score points, get assists or whatever," guard Danny Green said. "He can do all those things at one time. Now he's a little older, he's picking and choosing."
Not coincidentally, Ginobili's scoring contributions have diminished as the quality of the rest of the Spurs' bench has risen.
Once the lone scorer among the team's reserves, Ginobili is now surrounded by players willing and able to put the ball in the basket.
The top scoring night for a Spurs sub this season, for instance, does not belong to Ginobili. It belongs to Gary Neal, who poured in 27 points in a win at Portland on Nov. 10.
With that kind of firepower flanking him, Ginobili is flirting with a career high at 4.7 assists per game, ranking second to Tony Parker on the NBA's top assisting team.
"When all your teammates make shots, it's easy to get assists," Ginobili said. "Nobody feels the pressure to score. It makes the game so much easier."
During the past week, Ginobili's versatility has been cast in sharp relief. Two games before posting his season scoring high against Houston, he logged a season high for assists with nine in a 129-91 thrashing of Dallas.
"That's what he's always done," Popovich said. "With that second unit, he has the ball more than anybody else. Sometimes you give it up, and sometimes you shoot it. It's Manu's team to deal with out there."
As he did in his wild 20s, it is a role Ginobili will gladly accepts in his mid-30s — on one condition.
"I feel like I'm still important to the team and finishing games," Ginobili said. "As long as we keep playing well, having a great record, that makes everything easy."
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With 26 points on 4 of 4 shots from distance in only 20 minutes of PT. Efficient eviceration.
Wolves' fan: ginobili vs. the wolves is like he's just kind of laughing to himself all game...kind of like he thinks it's cute that they're trying to play basketball.
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And he still does create that THRILL rather SCARE in the Heart of opponents because they can never prepare to contain him and they can never know what he will do next....
Danny Green said it best after the Houston game in that interview. Danny said that Manu still does it even if he is not so young any more.... He still does those intangibles that creates so much havoc and they all feel the energy when they see him play!!!!
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I wasn't able to attend this year's Skepticon (or the 3 that preceded it), but I have a very strong suspicion that I'll be at SK5. I do, though, enjoy seeing what I've missed. I've had the great fortune of meeting and spending time with many of the speakers at other events and I love to see friends and acquaintances-I-hope-will-be-lifelong-friends give talks that educate, entertain and inspire.
This year's lineup was pretty damned impressive and I've already watched the talks from JT Eberhard, Greta Christina and Julia Galef – and I highly recommend all of them. You can follow the links to see their talks and you can just drop by and/or subscribe to the HamboneProductions Channel to find the rest. I'm hoping to watch the other talks (from Darrel Ray, Hemant Mehta, Sam Singleton, PZ Myers, Dan Barker, Richard Carrier, David Fitzgerald, Jen McCreight, Spencer Greenberg and more…) in the coming days.
That said, I'm going to embed one of the videos here…so that you can start your journey with an entertaining and important talk from Rebecca Watson, to start your journey. It's called "The Religious Right Vs. Every Woman On Earth" :


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"A shark has to constantly move forward or it dies. And I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark." Woody Allen's description of his failing relationship with Annie Hall is as apt when applied to the euro zone. Tensions within the zone are mounting as we enter a week in which Italy, Belgium, Spain and France plan to tap the markets for some €17 billion ($22 billion) in new loans and, says Goldman Sachs, the European economy slides into recession.
Bankrupt Greece; junk-rated Portugal pleading with Angola for inbound investment; jobless Spain, facing some interest rates that have doubled in the past month; and recovering Ireland have already fallen to the bond vigilantes. Growth-free Italy is fighting a rearguard action, facing unsustainable interest rates despite the stellar reputation of its newly appointed technocrat prime minister, Mario Monti; Belgian debt, now equal to its GDP, has been downgraded, in part because of the inability of this seat of the EU to form a new government. France, consumer confidence dropping, is likely next. Some German IOUs were unsold, and prices of bunds are slipping. No euro-zone country and no euro-zone company can any longer escape the consequences of the structural flaw in the euro-zone architecture.
Nor can countries outside the euro zone. Great Britain, with high deficits, mounting debt, and a deficit-reduction plan that just might not work, retains its triple-A rating because it has its own currency and the rating companies increasingly consider governance when deciding whether to downgrade. Britain is considered governable, but that might change after Wednesday's strike of public service workers shuts down the country.
The failure of the supercommittee to find some trivial deficit reductions means America might also slip into the ungovernable category. And the Federal Reserve Board is imposing new stress tests to determine whether leading banks can withstand a wave of sovereign- debt and bank defaults in Europe.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer is not alone in arguing that the euro-zone disease, unless cured, might well turn slow growth in the U.S. into recession, and scupper any chance President Barack Obama has of avoiding a forced return to Chicago in 2013. Which is why Mr. Obama will do more than present German Chancellor Angela Merkel with the Presidential Medal of Freedom when she arrives in Washington Monday evening. He and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner hope to persuade her to stem the rot. Whether she is prepared to take advice from the team that has driven American deficits and debt to such levels that their nation's debt has been downgraded while Germany's remains triple-A is uncertain.
One thing is certain: The euro cannot survive without a major change in the governance structure of the euro zone. The first prescription for what ails the zone was "austerity", but that has produced recessions and government oustings. Then came the European Financial Stability Facility, but it turns out to be too puny to halt the bond vigilantes' rampage through the euro zone, and anyhow rests in part on France's waning ability to join Germany as a guarantor by retaining its triple-A credit rating.
The European Central Bank, operating within the legal limits imposed on it by the treaties that govern the European Union, is providing some liquidity to the banks and a bit of relief on the interest-rate front for sovereign borrowers, but it cannot do much to prevent the insolvent from being forced to default.
Ms. Merkel, Germany's latest Iron Chancellor, has set her face against any of the measures that might stem the tide that is about to engulf the euro.
She is against allowing the ECB to become the lender of last resort, aka printer of money. She refuses to share her balance sheet with stressed countries by allowing the issuance of euro-bonds, until they reform, even though such reforms cannot be implemented in time to head off sovereign defaults that would take down many under-capitalized European banks, now desperately juggling their books to inflate their capital ratios.
These banks are already suffering from an inability to raise funds as American and other lenders pull their money out, leaving Europe's banks dependent on the ECB for short-term cash. If a credit crunch comes, can recession be far behind?
Cynics say that all of this suits Ms. Merkel. Lenders fleeing from risk put their money in safer bunds, keeping German interest rates low, saving Germany €20 billion between 2009 and 2011, with an additional €20 billion still to come according to a Brussels research institute. The troubles of Greece et a l. are keeping the euro lower than it would otherwise be, fueling Germany's export machine. And German voters heartily approve of Ms. Merkel's insistence on teaching the overly-indebted nations the virtues of German prudence and hard work.
Whatever the reason—voter opposition to more transfers of their wealth to beach-lolling southerners, a desire to force reforms on reluctant profligates, a desire to force several nations to surrender even more sovereignty, or mere self-interest—Ms. Merkel is earning her sobriquet as Madame Nein. And will continue to do so until she has persuaded her colleagues to amend the euro-zone treaty to permit Brussels (spelled B-e-r-l-i-n) to control the tax, spending and fiscal policy of euro-zone members.
Work on that final piece of the still incomplete architecture of a united Europe will begin at the next euro-zone leaders' meeting on Dec. 9.
At that meeting, the shark that is the euro zone will resume its forward motion. Unless, of course, many of the member nations prefer leaving the euro zone to becoming part of what they have taken to calling the Fourth Reich.


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Joey's silky gold hair gleams in the afternoon sun. The big bundle of energy loves to cuddle. He also looks like he could lose a few pounds.
This herding dog is one of the many survival stories here at the Kabul shelter and clinic called Nowzad Dogs. The facility has rescued and treated hundreds of street animals in Afghanistan and has helped reunite hundreds of soldiers and contractors with animals they informally adopted while deployed in the country.
"He's a real contrast to the 10-kilogram [22-pound] skeleton we picked up two year ago," Louise Hastie, the full-time shelter manager at the clinic, says of Joey. Hastie says Joey had no hair and his face was a mass of blood when she found him on the side of the road.
It turned out Joey had leishmaniasis, a treatable parasitic disease. The medication has been working; the only remaining evidence of the disease is the partially missing tip of Joey's nose.
"His feet have healed now, he can walk, he can play, and he's kind of like the daddy of the group here in the garden," says Pen Farthing, an ex-Royal Marine and the founder of Nowzad Dogs.
Farthing, a dog lover, founded the charity after his 2006 deployment as a British commando in the southern province of Helmand.
It all started when he was on patrol and came across a dog used in local dogfights. As he writes in his book, One Dog at a Time, he couldn't just leave the battered animal.
He hatched a plan to get the dog out of Nowzad, the town where he was deployed in Helmand, up to Kabul and then on to Britain.
After returning to the United Kingdom, Farthing established Nowzad Dogs. Since then, the group has shipped about 700 animals out of the country to reunite them with soldiers and contractors in Britain, the U.S. and other countries.
In 2010, the mission expanded when Farthing opened the shelter and clinic in Kabul in hopes of making a dent in the stray animal population in Afghanistan.
"The people of Afghanistan want a dog program," he says. "They are absolutely fed up when the kids walk to school, there might be a dog pack in the way, and the kids then have to go a couple of blocks around to get away from these dogs."
Stray dogs, caked with dirt, are a regular feature of Kabul streets. Farthing says the underlying goal of reducing the stray dog population is controlling rabies, which is an underreported problem in Afghanistan.
"Our dog shelter is home to about 100 dogs," says Farthing, adding that most are street rescues that it has vaccinated and spayed or neutered.
Sandy, a brown mutt lounging in the shade of Nowzad's garden, was just picked up from an Afghan army base where some British soldiers had been looking after her.
"Sandy's come to us while we vaccinate her, get the fundraising in place and the paperwork ready to get her out of Afghanistan and back to the U.K.," Farthing says.
One challenge with animals rescued by soldiers or contractors is getting them from bases in remote parts of the country to Kabul. Farthing has established an informal network involving methods he won't disclose.
Nowzad, a nonprofit organization, relies on donors to fund the operation and cover the roughly $3,500 cost of transporting a soldier's animal out of the country. The organization is raising money for an ambitious five-year plan to trap, neuter and release all of Kabul's street animals.
And it's not just dogs that Nowzad rescues.
Hastie leads us into the cattery, which houses two dozen cats. All but six feral ones are waiting to be adopted.
Cats of all sizes and colors jump about the room, meowing, playing with toys and occasionally hissing at each other. One is a chatty young creamsicle tabby named Lisa, who quickly hops on my shoulder and speaks loudly into my microphone.
There's Spartipus, a beautiful gray tabby who was recently adopted and will soon be headed to Britain.
Hastie says Nowzad tries to find homes outside Afghanistan by advertising the cats on its website. She says it's extremely difficult to find local homes. While some Afghans want pets, many simply don't have enough space.
"Most of the foreigners that are out here have already got cats because they're everywhere in the streets," she says.
Guilty. I plucked a kitten out of my yard when I moved here. Nowzad spayed, vaccinated and chipped her here at the clinic.
One of the other missions of the clinic is to build Afghan capacity. Western vets make periodic visits to the clinic to provide additional training to the local staff. And Nowzad now has the only two female Afghan vets known to be in clinical practice in the country.
"I love animals," says Mariam, who like many Afghans provides only one name. "My dream is to be a good surgeon, vet surgeon. So, I am trying my best."
Mariam is a fifth-year student who's been working at the clinic for two months and is assisting Dr. Abdullah Hadi.
"I have [completed] many surgeries here with Dr. Hadi, and I have [completed] by myself four surgeries. So, it's awesome," she says with a proud chuckle.
The other female vet is Meliha, who graduated from Kabul University last year. She says 120 students started out in her class and only 35 made it to graduation — seven of them women. The other six are looking for work.
Meliha says working on domesticated animals is not a widely respected profession here, for men or women.
"Most of Afghan people, no, they do not think it is a good job," she says. "But my family, they appreciate me, they encourage me."
Afghanistan has a lot of cats and dogs roaming dusty streets. There are no government programs to control the animal population, though foreigners do take in some of the stray and wild animals.
One British marine went quite a bit further. After rescuing a number of dogs during his tour of duty he went back to Afghanistan and established a shelter and clinic. It's been able to transport about 700 cats and dogs out of the country and they've been reunited with the soldiers, aid workers and contractors who had cared for them.
NPR's Sean Carberry has the story from Kabul.
SEAN CARBERRY, BYLINE: Ooh.
CARBERRY: A pack of tail-wagging mutts greet you as you pass through the towering blast walls into the Kabul compound of the organization Nowzad Dogs.
PEN FARTHING: What do you think of our dog pack? Anyone one want to take a dog home? We've got 130 to choose from.
CARBERRY: Pen Farthing served as a Royal Marine Commando in Helmand Province in 2006. It all started when he was on a patrol and came across a dog used in local dog fights. As he writes in his book, "One Dog at a Time," he couldn't just leave the battered animal.
FARTHING: I ended up hatching a plan to get him out of Nowzad, which is the town we were in down in Helmand, up to Kabul and then from Kabul back to the U.K.
CARBERRY: After returning to the U.K., he established the charity Nowzad Dogs to transport dogs out of the country, to the soldiers who had adopted them while deployed, but the mission expanded. And in 2010, Farthing opened the shelter and clinic in Kabul in hopes of making a dent in the stray animal population in Afghanistan.
FARTHING: If we can control the stray dog population, we can then control rabies.
CARBERRY: Rabies is a significant and under reported problem in Afghanistan, making Nowzad's work a matter of public health.
FARTHING: Our dog shelter is home to about a hundred dogs.
CARBERRY: Most are street rescues, some found near death. They are now neutered, vaccinated and ready for adoption. But a number of the dogs are soldier rescues waiting patiently for Nowzad to raise the $3,500 it takes to ship each dog, to a soldier or contractor in the U.K., U.S., or wherever they deployed from.
And cats are a big part of the mission too.
LOUISE HASTIE: Hello, Lisa.
CARBERRY: Louise Hastie is a the full-time shelter manager here, leads us into the cattery, which houses two-dozen cats. All but six feral ones are waiting to be adopted. Hastie says they try to find homes outside Afghanistan by advertising the cats on Nowzad's website.
HASTIE: Most of the foreigners that are out here have already got cats because they're everywhere in the streets, so they're already taking care of them.
CARBERRY: Guilty. I plucked a kitten out of my yard when I moved here. Nowzad spayed, vaccinated and shipped her here at the clinic.
CARBERRY: On this day, the clinic staff are busy operating on a severely wounded orange tabby that was brought in from a nearby base after being attacked by a dog. Dr. Hadi, the chief Afghan vet, is clearing away dead tissue from the gaping wound on the cat's front leg.
DR. HADI: So, a lot of dead tissue inside.
CARBERRY: In addition to Dr Hadi, Nowzad now has the only two female Afghan vets known to be in clinical practice in the country.
MARIAM: I love animals. My dream is to be a good surgeon - vet surgeon.
CARBERRY: Mariam, who like many Afghans just gives one name, is a 5th year vet student who's been working at the clinic for two months and is assisting Dr. Hadi today.
MARIAM: I have passed many surgeries here with Dr Hadi. And I have passed by myself four surgeries. So it's awesome.
CARBERRY: The other female vet is Meliha, one of the few women to graduate from Kabul University's veterinary program last year. She says working on domesticated animals is not a widely respected profession here, for men or women.
DR. MELIHA: Most of Afghan people, no. They do not think it is a good job. OK? But my family, they appreciate me, they encourage me.
CARBERRY: Thanks to her and the other vets here, there are fewer stray and suffering animals on the streets, and there are more families around the world with an Afghan dog or cat.
Sean Carberry, NPR News, Kabul.
MONTAGNE: And for all of you starting your day feeding your dogs and cats - I do - you must know that we're glad to have you with us each morning. There's more ahead so we hope you'll stay with us.
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New Orleans is crawling with celebrities for the Super Bowl, but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie don't appear to be among them.
The windows at the star couple's house in the French Quarter are all closed tight, and there's no sign of their omnipresent security. In fact, the only activity at the house is tourists stopping to take photos.
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AIME (2006-2009), USNCO High Honors (2008), NACLO Invitational Round (2009), US Physics Olympiad Quarterfinalist (2008), USACO, JETS TEAMS, Cum Laude
I was born in San Jose, California on August 3rd, 1992 and live there today. In my childhood, I developed a love for learning that clearly still persists today, as evidenced by my participation in the US Physics Olympiad. My participation in academic competitions began in middle school with MathCounts and has expanded greatly since then; I have taken numerous science Olympiads since entering high school and am pleased to have achieved some degree of success with them.
My love for any type of academic challenge has also manifested itself in the courses I take at school. In math, I took AP Calculus BC freshman year, Multivariable Calculus and Differential Equations last year, and am currently taking AP Statistics. My hefty course load last year also included Chemistry, AP Physics C, and AP Computer Science AB. This year I am taking Biology and Advanced Topics in Computer Science; the former has exposed me to the more practical side of the sciences and the latter, taught by my physics teacher, Dr. Nelson, has allowed me to develop expert systems and neural networks, which I have found to be a very challenging and rewarding task.
My background in physics began in the freshman physics course I took two years ago. Though not a particularly challenging course, I came out of the class with not only a firm conceptual understanding of physics but also a passion for the amazing capacity of the field to explain physical phenomena. The next year, I got my first taste of the real challenges that physics could pose when I took AP Physics C, taught by Dr. Nelson, and discovered the true intricacies and complexities of the subject. Last year I also took the Physics Olympiad for the first time and was rather pleased to make it to the Quarterfinal round. Unfortunately, laziness and a lack of preparation led to less than ideal results, and the Olympiad ended there for me. It was a learning experience for me, and I am quite happy that the preparation I did this time around has resulted in an invitation to the US Physics Team.
I also have various other interests beyond science and math. I do policy debate and have found that the style of argumentation fits well with my intellectual interests in general. My voracious reading habits further attest to these interests, as I will read just about any block of text I come across, from physics papers to analyses of international affairs to science fiction novels. Another one of my interests is Rubik's cubing; I can solve a 3x3x3 cube in about 30 seconds. In the future I would like to learn to solve cubes of other dimensions and memorize more algorithms that would allow me to significantly improve my current times.
I look forward to attending the training camp and meeting all my fellow team members and am sure that camp will be an amazing academic experience.
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Actions taken by employers and employees to help individuals effectively handle the growing pressures and responsibilities of work and personal lives, to live and work up to their full potential, and to maximize the achievement of their life goals while enhancing their contributions and productivity in the workplace. (Brad Harrington, 2008)
SCSU's Perspective on Work - Life Balance:
It is the goal of the SCSU Work Group on Work-Life Balance issues to assist faculty and staff in meeting their personal and professional obligations.
With more households with two working parents and life expectancies increasing, working adults of this generation are facing different tasks than in the past. Whether it is the responsibility of a newborn or adopted child in a home where both parents work, or caring for an elderly parent who can no longer be left alone, employees are pulled in many directions each and every day.
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Weare agrees to pay $15k to settle suit against policeBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 16. 2013 11:34PM
A disabled Weare resident last week dropped his federal lawsuit against the town of Weare and its police department after reaching a settlement with the town.
Selectman Chairman Thomas Clow on Monday confirmed a settlement was reached in the lawsuit brought against the town, police department and five police officers by George Hodgdon and G & E Restaurant & Pub LLC.
Town Administrator Naomi L. Bolton said Hodgdon was awarded $15,000, and the lawsuit will be withdrawn.
Hodgdon, who is permanently disabled, filed the suit in federal court in 2012 alleging the town and its police force violated his constitutional rights by subjecting him to unlawful arrest, initiating a criminal prosecution without probable cause and use of excessive force. He also alleged he was the target of false imprisonment and claimed the town was negligent in training and supervising its police force.
The complaint stems from an April 30, 2010, incident at Palmer's Tavern, a restaurant and pub Hodgdon owned and operated at 525 S. Stark Highway.
Hodgdon said he was washing dishes inside when someone yelled "fight." Police arrived and ordered everyone into the bar and kept them locked inside for four hours, according to Hodgdon's lawsuit. Hodgdon said he refused to provide police with a statement.
He also said police harrassed and intimidated him after he refused to hire police officers for "detail" work at his business. As a result, he said he was forced to sell the tavern, the suit claims.
On July 1, police executed an arrest warrant at the restaurant where Officer Nicholas Nadeau repeatedly asked Hodgdon to make a statement, the suit alleges. Hodgdon said he asserted his right to remain silent even as Nadeau warned Hodgdon he was being video and audio recorded.
After his arrest, Hodgdon said police pushed him into their cruiser, ignoring his request to loosen his leg brace so he could bend his knee and step into the cruiser on his own. Instead, he said police pushed him into the cruiser where he fell face first.
Police charged Hodgdon with hindering apprehension and unsworn falsification. Hodgdon was acquitted of all charges.
Decision to settle
Clow said selectmen turned the suit over to the town's insurance agency, Primex, which decided to settle the matter rather than it bring it to trial. The case was scheduled to go to trial in April.
Hodgdon's attorney, Stephen T. Martin of Concord, notified U.S. District Court in Concord on Dec. 3 the case had been settled.
Neither Hodgdon nor Martin could be reached for comment Monday.
Hodgdon and G&E Restaurant & Pub filed stipulations with the court on Dec. 11 and 12 voluntarily dismissing with prejudice all claims against the town of Weare, its police department and five individually named officers, only two of whom remain on the force.
The named officers are former Police Chief Gregory C. Begin, who retired in May; former Sgt. Joseph Kelly, who was fired last month; and former Sgt. Robert Peterson, who voluntarily left the department for personal reasons, Clow said. Officers Brandon Montplaisir and Nicholas Nadeau are the two officers named in the suit who still are on the force.
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Two Weare police officers are on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation by the state Attorney General's Office of its handling of an undercover drug operation last August. A Manchester man was fatally shot during that operation.
The Attorney General's Office said the investigation is nearing completion and its findings should be released "soon."


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An unused area of the second level was evacuated shortly before noon when films crews set up their lighting too close to the system, leading to the sprinklers being activated, airport officials said.
No flights were impacted, but films crews who were in the second level of the unused portion of the terminal were temporarily evacuated.


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The main objective of this study was to analyse spino-pelvic parameters in a population of 100 patients with a lumbar degenerative disease. We have also determinated the influence of the lumbar lordosis morphology on the type of lumbar degenerative pathology occured.
Four pathologies were considered : disc herniation, discopathy, lumbar stenosis and degenerative spondylolisthesis.
Spino-pelvic parameters were analysed on full spine radiographs. Pelvic parameters measured were: pelvic incidence, sacral slope and pelvic tilt. Spinal parameters measured were: lumbar lordosis, thoracic kyphosis, spino-sacral angle and the C7/SFD ratio. The type of lordosis according Massues classification was also determinated.
The population of 100 patients as each group of degenerative disease were compared with a control population of 160 asymptomatic adults that was the subject of a previous study.
Each pathology was characterised by an antepulsed sagittal C7 plumb line, a loss of lordosis and a increase of the pelvic tilt.
No significant difference was found between the group of disc herniation and the group of discopathy concerning all spino-pelvic parameters. The two groups of patients demonstrated a pelvic incidence slightly decreased with a low sacral slope and flat spine curves, p<0.05.
On the opposite patients with degenerative spondylolisthesis demonstrated a great pelvic incidence (mean : 60°) and the tendency to have a sacrum more vertical with less sacral slope, p<0.05.
We could not conclude concerning the stenosis group regarding to the size of the sample.
The type of lumbar degenerative disease appeared to be well influenced by the spino-pelvic alignment of the patient.


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Here's the wooden boat that will soon be stuffed with a Nissan V8
Last summer, Nissan told us they'd donated a 5.6-liter V8 from an Infiniti QX56 to a boatbuilding project. That engine went to Alabama to be marinized. But what of the boat part? It's a 20-foot, wood-hulled 1962 Chris-Craft Holiday, now being refurbished by grizzled boatbuilders somewhere in Maine.


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No matter the age of the person with dementia, it's vital to keep any existing health care plans that meet care needs in effect. The person with dementia may have Medicare, private insurance, a group employee plan or retiree health coverage to help pay for care.
Government programs
If a person has been diagnosed with younger-onset (also known as early-onset) Alzheimer's, he or she may be eligible for a Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan.
Medicare is a federal health insurance program generally for people age 65 or older who are receiving Social Security retirement benefits or who are younger than 65 and received Social Security disability benefits for at least 24 months. Medicare covers inpatient hospital care, some doctor's fees, some medical items and outpatient prescription drugs. The program also provides some home health care, including skilled nursing care and rehabilitation therapy, under certain conditions. It does not pay for personal aides to assist with daily activities or long-term nursing home care. Sign up for our weekly e-newsletter and be alerted to Medicare changes that may affect a beneficiary diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or dementia, plus get updates on Alzheimer's care, treatments and research.
Medicare Advantage allows you to choose "managed care," such as: Medicare health maintenance organization (HMO), Preferred provider organization (PPO) and Point of service (POS).
Medigap insurance supplements the person's Medicare coverage. It fills gaps in Medicare coverage, such as paying for coinsurance.
Medicaid is a program jointly funded by federal and state governments. It is administered by each state. Medicaid pays for medical care for people with very low income and asset levels, and long-term care for people who have used up most of their own money (in most circumstances). It also is available to people younger than 65 if they are disabled.
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) provides workers younger than age 65 Social Security disability payments. To qualify, the person must meet the Social Security Administration's definition of disability. Meeting the definition of disability generally means proving that the person with dementia is unable to work in any occupation and the condition will last at least a year or is expected to result in death.
Through the Compassionate Allowance Initiative, those with younger-onset (also known as early-onset) Alzheimer's disease are considered eligible for SSDI as long as they meet all other criteria. They also are fast-tracked to a favorable decision, which significantly shortens the time it takes to start receiving benefits.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) guarantees a minimum monthly income for people who are age 65 or older, are disabled or blind, and have very limited income and assets. To qualify for SSI benefits, the person with dementia must meet the Social Security Administration's definition of disability.
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Checklist for Applying for SSDI and SSI Benefits for Younger-Onset
Long-term care insurance
Once an individual is diagnosed with Alzheimer's, he or she will not be able to apply for long-term care insurance coverage.
If long-term care insurance is already in place upon diagnosis, carefully review the policy to find answers to the following questions:
- Is Alzheimer's disease covered? Most policies say they cover it, but take a closer look to be sure.
- When can the person with dementia begin to collect benefits? Most policies require a defined level of physical or cognitive impairment.
- What is the daily benefit, and is it adjusted annually for inflation?
- How long will benefits be paid?
- Is there a maximum lifetime payout?
- What kind of care will the policy cover? Examples include skilled nursing home, assisted living and licensed home care.
- How long after diagnosis will the policy begin to pay? This is often called the elimination period.
- Are there any tax implications involved?
If the person with dementia is younger than age 65 and still working, COBRA may be an option to continue health care coverage. COBRA refers to the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985. COBRA applies to employers with 20 or more employees.
Under COBRA, an employee may continue group plan coverage for up to 18, 29 or 36 months, depending on the circumstances, if he or she:
- Leaves the employer
- Has work hours reduced to the point that he or she no longer qualifies for the health plan
The insured employee must pay the full cost of coverage, plus up to 2 percent to cover administrative costs. COBRA can be especially helpful until the person with dementia:
- Gets new coverage through an employer or spouse
- Becomes eligible for Medicare
- Receives coverage through the Affordable Care Act
COBRA must be activated within 60 days of when the person with dementia receives written notice from his or her insurer that COBRA is an option. Some private health care plans will extend coverage under a disability extension of benefits. That is even though the medical plan may lapse, an insured's disability (in this case, Alzheimer's disease) remains covered.
Disability insurance
Disability insurance provides income for a worker who can no longer work due to illness or injury. The insurance plan must be in place before symptoms of Alzheimer's disease appear.
With an employer-paid disability policy, 60 to 70 percent of a person's gross (total) income may be provided. Employer-paid disability benefits are taxed as income. If the person with dementia bought a personal disability policy, then the benefits paid will be the amount he or she chose. The personal disability policy benefits are not taxed as income. Processes differ across policies so check yours to determine next steps.
Life insurance
Life insurance can be a source of cash. You may be able to borrow from a life insurance policy's cash value. Or the person with dementia may be able to receive a part of the policy's face value as a loan. This is called a viatical loan and is paid off upon the person's death.
Some life insurance policies offer accelerated death benefits. This means that some of the insurance benefits can be paid if the insured person is not expected to live beyond the next six to 12 months because of a terminal illness. The payout may run as high as 90 to 95 percent of the policy's face value and will not be taxed as income.
See if any policies contain a waiver of premium rider. That means that the insured, if disabled, does not have to pay premiums to continue coverage.
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Students whose citizenship is of a Caribbean or Latin American country (including Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean) may apply for a tuition waiver scholarship that grants them "in-state" status, thus reducing their student fees considerably. As part of the award, the Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Comparative Literature grants $500.00 per year scholarships to these students to cover other costs, such as books, etc.
Students interested in this opportunity should write a letter of interest with their general application, confirming their citizenship status with a copy of their passport.
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Tecumseh, Addison, Madison earn victories
The Adrian High School wrestling team went 1-1 in Wednesday's Southeastern Conference quad. The Maples beat Ann Arbor Huron 49-18 and lost to Chelsea 54-30.
Adrian was led by six wrestlers with 2-0 records on the night. Anthony Garcia (125) and Tylor Tenniswood each recorded two pins for the Maples. Joe Garcia (112), Avery Cantu (135), JaQwun Stinson (171) and heavyweight Justin Guerrero each went 2-0 with a pin.
Adrian (2-5) will travel to Napoleon on Saturday for an individual tournament.
Tecumseh at Ypsilanti SEC Quad: Division 2 No. 3-ranked Tecumseh went 2-0 for the night, beating Ypsilanti 54-19 and Ann Arbor Skyline 50-30.
Tecumseh had five wrestlers go 2-0 on the night. Mike Turner (103), Nick Wyatt (112), Austin Zamora (130), Cole Amstutz (171) and Preston Pelham (215) all went undefeated for the Indians.
Tecumseh moves to 9-0 in dual matches. The Indians will compete at the Holland Team Tournament on Saturday.
Addison at Grass Lake Quad: The Division 4 No. 6-ranked Panthers went 2-0 on the night, knocking off Grass Lake 60-15 and Detroit Catholic Central's White team 51-18.
Addison had nine different wrestlers finish 2-0 on the night. Jacob Voss (103), Marcus Richardson (112), Jason Richardson (119), Mason Groenhout (135), Jared Bruner (160), Matt Murphy (171), Dakota Keenoy (189), Josh Betts (215) and Nick Burt (285) all went 2-0 for the Panthers.
Addison (7-2) will travel to face Ypsilanti Lincoln on Saturday.
Madison at Columbia Central Quad: At Brooklyn, Madison went 2-0 on the night, deafeating Grosse Isle 48-19 and Columbia Central 45-34.
Madison (3-1) had five wrestlers go 2-0 on the night. Drake Tovarnek (135), Nick Klemm (140), Isaiah Espinoza (145), Tyler Staup (152) and Marcus McClain (285) each went undefeated.
Madison also got a strong performance from Austin Castaneda at 125 pounds. In the match against Columbia Central, Castaneda managed to pin his opponent, putting away the match for the Trojans and ensureing a big win.
Madison will wrestle again on Saturday at Michigan Center.
Onsted Quad: At Onsted, the Wildcats went 0-2 in their home quad, losing to Leslie 53-28 and Trenton 55-18.
Onsted had two wrestlers go 2-0 on the night and four go 1-1. Michael Lobbestael (125) and Chad Smith (130) went undefeated. Lobbestael had one pin against Trenton, and Smith won both his matches with pins.
Isaac Westgate (135), Tyler Foster (285) and T.J. Ratliff (189) (135) each had one pin during the quad. Ben Pickford (140) also went 1-1 on the night for the Wildcats.
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This just in: Doubt the Skyhawks at your own peril.
It was easy to wonder what would become of the Fort Lewis College womens basketball program as December dawned. Under a new head coach, FLC was 1-5 on the road out of the gate, and after losing its entire starting frontcourt and two key bench players, it was easy to go ahead and attach the r-word rebuilding on the Skyhawks 2012-13 iteration.
But a curious thing happened from there. The Skyhawks won two of three heading into the holiday break, then ripped off five in a row after the break. Players became more comfortable in head coach Jason Flores system and in their individual roles, and down the stretch, FLC was the hottest team in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and South Central Region not named Colorado Mesa.
All that work turned doubters into believers and the Skyhawks (18-10) from a rebuilding team to an NCAA Tournament participant for the sixth consecutive year as FLC finished the season on a 17-5 burst.
Im not going to lie. It was a shaky start, and weve come a really long way since then, FLC senior combo guard Alex Easterbrook said. So we have a lot to be proud of.
For us to be able to start off so rough and come back under a new coach, I think it speaks wonders to the type of girls they bring in here.
Despite a rocky start, the Skyhawks didnt panic. They didnt start massively overhauling their concepts; they didnt go to vastly different bench rotations. They stayed the course, and as Flores often told them they would, the Skyhawks became the good team they expected to be.
Heretofore little used reserves such as Mary Brinton, Erin Curry and Kaile Magazzeni grew in confidence and ability level, and the core group that comprised the starting lineup began clicking as they had in years past.
For Flores, it started to come together when FLC returned after the holiday break looking better than when the break began.
Going into break, I felt like we had started to turn that corner. ... I felt like coming off of break, we came back as a team in a good place, Flores said. They came back, and they were ready to go. Sometimes, you worry that your team comes back, and theyre in a lull. But we came back in a mentally good place, ready to go.
And we got better. We made a jump in practice when we came back from break that, to a coach, it was a noticeable jump. We got better in that week.
The Skyhawks had a little hiccup with back-to-back losses at Metro State and at home against Colorado Christian, but they responded loudly from there, winning nine consecutive games to force their way into the NCAA Tournament conversation. Included in those nine wins were victories over bubble teams CSU-Pueblo and UC-Colorado Springs as well as fellow tournament team Metro State as the Skyhawks avenged earlier losses to all three teams.
When we started making that run, and we started winning, winning and kept winning, our confidence kept going up, Curry said. And we knew that we could do it. And everybody doubted us. And we just wanted to prove everybody wrong.
Selection Sunday was nerve-wracking in its own right. Was that hot finish enough to lift FLC into the big dance? Then, FLC popped up on the Cuckoos Chicken House big screen as the No. 8 seed, and the jubilant cheers among the Skyhawks and their fans were the final sign to doubters that their portion of crow, long since on its way, was ready for consumption.
And for Easterbrook, one of the teams two seniors alongside Katerina Garcia, it provided relief. No longer was there the nervousness of not knowing what would be her final game. Now, which will be the final game of her collegiate career firmly is in her and her teammates hands.
Its nice to know now whether or not were going to be done. ... If we win, we move on. If we lose, were done, Easterbrook said. At least we know. It was really hard to not know, and that was the hardest part.
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When the Obama administration announced in August a plan to grant two-year deportation deferrals to young undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children, it sparked anger among some critics who said it was little more than a free pass.
Hopefully, those critics can rest a bit easier now. As it turns out, the most recent data provided by the Department of Homeland Security indicate far fewer undocumented immigrants have applied for the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, than expected.
In fact, of the estimated 900,000 young immigrants believed to be eligible for deferred action, just over 300,000 have filed requests with the Department of Homeland Security. And as expected, California led the nation in applications. Just over 82,000 were filed by immigrants in the Golden State, followed by Texas, New York and Florida. Only 53,000 of the total applications have been approved by the government.
Why so few takers? One explanation is that the program requires a long paper trail. Only those young immigrants who are enrolled in school or served in the military, who came here before they turned 16 and meet a list of other requirements are eligible. And applicants must provide a smorgasbord of documentation, including school transcripts and other records, to be considered.


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Ask any grade schooler what Angry Birds is and you'll likely be met with excited, highly-animated responses about red birds, slingshots and grunty pigs. What started as a mobile app has now expanded to plush dolls, board games, even a cookbook, and the frenzy is continuing. This time on Facebook. Widely anticipated, Angry Birds is finally available on the social network.
Just what we need, yet another reason to hang out on Facebook, right?
You, your kids, friends, parents, babysitters, and everyone else who is obsessed with this game can now play directly on Facebook. The game features the same strategies, scenes and characters as the mobile version, but the Facebook version comes with social elements, exclusive new levels designed for Facebook users and power-ups (special skills like 'more power' or 'better targeting.')
In addition to playing while checking out friends' status updates, players can also compete with other Facebookers, gloat about the highest level just achieved and also gift Facebook besties Angry Birds treats through the site. Those who join the 1.5 million others who are fans of the Angry Birds page are also privy to free power-ups.
Now that Angry Birds can be played on Facebook, maybe you'll finally get your mobile phone back from your kids.
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For the second year in a row, the victor of the Biltmore Cup golf tournament Sunday won by a hairbreadth. Team BMW, made up of young golfers from Henderson, Haywood and Transylvania counties, clinched the two-day event by just one-and-a-half points.
The final score after a tight series of rounds Sunday at Etowah Valley Country Club was Team BMW, 18, Team Harmony Motors 16.5.
The play was neck-and-neck throughout the WNC Junior Golf Association tournament, which featured 46 of the area's best high school golfers vying to see which of their two sponsors would take home the coveted lead crystal trophy: BMW of Asheville or Harmony Motors.
At the end of Saturday's team match play at Cummings Cove Golf Course, Team Harmony – made up of Buncombe County high school players – was just half a point behind Team BMW.
Early on in Sunday's individual match play at Etowah Valley, it looked as if Team BMW was surging ahead after its players won the first five out of seven matches and the other two were halved. Each match was worth one point.
But then Team Harmony sealed three matches, followed by one BMW win before Buncombe's best high school players seized another five in a row. With just six matches still out on the course around 6:30 p.m., the score was Team Harmony 14.5, Team BMW 14.
When word got out that the final score rested on the shoulders of West Henderson's Stasia McMullen, "everyone high-tailed it to the 17th hole," said WNCJGA President Dave Sciupider. "There was a big gallery there. It came down to her making a long two-putt from the back of the green. She parred the last hole to clinch the cup for BMW."
McMullen received the outstanding female player award of the tournament. Christian Constance, a recent graduate of Tuscola High in Waynesville, won the event's outstanding male player.
Many of the area's best golfers participated in the tournament, including West Henderson's Payton Culler, Chandler Danielson and McMullen – all of whom were part of the Lady Falcons' state champion girls golf team in 2010. Constance and Enka's Nathan Ball were among the top-ranked male juniors.
The tournament was designed to "give them a fun event that'll get them excited about the game going into the summer season," said Sciupider. By all accounts, it did just that, with about 20 percent more players signing up than last year's inaugural run.
Constance, who'll be playing golf at North Greenville University this fall, almost didn't play the tourney because he was leaving the following day for the N.C. Junior Boys' Championship in Cary.
"But then I realized I could just come out and have fun," Constance said, after finishing first among the boys. "It was definitely more relaxing than some of my bigger tournaments."
Constance won his first four holes and birdied three, "plus a pretty good look at a couple more." He won 8 up with 7 holes left. His challenger in Sunday's individual match, McDowell High's Branson Harris, was one of Team Harmony's better players, "but he was struggling a little bit today," Constance said.
Sciupider said the event was a huge success, adding he expects "next year should be even better."
Team BMW takes home Biltmore Cup
For the second year in a row, the victor of the Biltmore Cup golf tournament Sunday won by a hairbreadth. Team BMW, made up of young golfers from Henderson, Haywood and Transylvania counties, clinched the two-day event by just one-and-a-half points.


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The Mercury Grand Marquis has been re-engineered for 2003. The new model comes with a brand-new frame, a new suspension, new steering, a new interior, and new exterior styling. And those are just the highlights.
The Grand Marquis offers almost all the comfort and convenience of the Lincoln Town Car, and it's priced lower than many luxury mid-size cars. That's a big part of the reason why Mercury has sold 2.7 million Grand Marquis since 1975 when the car was first introduced as a premium American sedan.
If performance is your game, step over to the Marauder, a 300-horsepower version with a floor-mounted shifter, extra gauges, sport-tuned suspension and 18-inch high-performance tires.
As a result of a stiff new structure, the 2003 Grand Marquis rides more quietly and offers sharper handling. It's a much better car than last year's model, more poised. The Grand Marquis frame is brand new for 2003, the third frame design since 1990, and the first with hydroformed front and rear extensions and new crossmembers. Also new for 2003: speed-sensitive variable power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering; a redesigned independent short- and long-arm front suspension, optional dual side air bags, new headlamps, side markers, grille, front fascia and decklid applique, new seat styles and materials, new instrument panel woodgrains, new wheels on all models, and a new overhead console design. For 2003, Grand Marquis has standard antilock brakes and traction control; fold-away, power-adjustable and heated outside mirrors, and a storage pouch in the driver's seat. A dual-media radio with AM/FM cassette and single CD player is now available on all models. A trunk cargo organizer is optional on all models as well.
The Grand Marquis' 4.6-liter single overhead-cam V8 is smooth and quiet, yet delivers strong acceleration with plenty of power for quick passing. It's one of the best engines Ford has ever built in terms of quality and durability, and features a coil-on-plug ignition system that is simple and reliable.
The transmission delivers smooth, precise, quick shifts. Like many transmissions on the market today, it requires no maintenance for the life of the car.
Grand Marquis offers a smooth, quiet ride. It is stable at high speeds and in crosswinds. Better yet, with the frame, suspension and steering alterations, this is the best-handling big Mercury we've ever driven. Mercury engineers have produced a car that rides and handles much better than its predecessor. The car does float over undulating pavement, though not at uncomfortable levels. The steering is a bit light at higher speeds, but the power assist makes it easy to maneuver the big car in crowded parking lots.
Technical stuff: For 2003, the rear trailing arms were redesigned and relocated to provide better control of vertical wheel motions. A three-piece Watts link was added; it provides more precise lateral location than would be possible with the single-piece Panhard rod or track bar usually used in live-axle setups.
Braking performance is surprisingly good for such a large car. The brakes were enlarged and upgraded recently, with larger, thicker rotors and dual-piston calipers on the front discs. Those changes improved braking performance and reduced the chance of brake fade when descending steep mountain grades. Steel 16-inch wheels are standard, while aluminum alloy wheels are optional. Standard tires are P225/60R-16 all-season Michelins.
We found our 2003 Grand Marquis Ultimate a pleasure to drive on a winding road. The rear air suspension and 16-inch alloy wheels with Goodyear high-performance tires contributed a fair measure of stability.
With its strong V8, rear-wheel drive, and body-on-frame construction, the Grand Marquis is rated to tow 2000 pounds.
Mercury's Grand Marquis is a wonderful sedan for covering a lot of territory on wide-open North American highways. It also rides well in big cities with beat-up infrastructures, though it takes up more space parking.
The Grand Marquis is the last of the V8-powered, rear-wheel-drive, full-size cars with body-on-frame construction. Its ostensible competitors, the Buick LeSabre, Chrysler Concorde, Pontiac Bonneville, and Toyota Avalon, are all more modern in concept, with front-wheel drive, V6 engines, shorter wheelbases, and frameless, unit-body construction.
The 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis separates you and your companions from noise and intrusions caused by the road surface, but it doesn't totally disengage you from the driving experience. The steering and suspension work well to deliver competent ride quality and handling. There's plenty of room for four adults and it comes with one of the biggest trunks in the industry.


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Aceto Balsamico di Modena IGP: What's in Your Bottle of Vinegar?
Historically, the category of balsamic, balsamico or balsamic vinegar consisted of products with levels of quality all over the map. Some careful producers, employing traditional methods, produced balsamics with beautiful balance and depth of flavor. At the same time, large, industrial producers sold balsamics using inexpensive ingredients and time-saving technologies to maximize profits, capitalizing on the balsamic name.


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Please Help! Dr. Lee? Anyone?
I posted this yesterday. Sam was the same last night and today. I have questions for the vet as to whether the CBC would have shown anything elevated if he received too much roundworm treatment, or it's having an effect on him. Also as to whether if it's FIP he would have a fever, but she hasn't called me back. He doesn't appear to be getting worse, but not getting better either. I don't want to sit around and assume it's just some sort of sprain or something when he needs to be getting treatment. Any help anyone can offer would be appreciated. I love my cats and just had to put one down in April. I don't want to have to go through it again anytime soon!
I am new to this site, but my Sam's issue seems to be a lot like Brianna's.
This started about two days ago that I noticed. Sam is an 8 year old - and very fat - 24lb - cat. A few weeks ago, one of my other cats was coughing - either asthma or acute bronchitis. Treated, but also stool sample revealed roundworms - so all three treated for roundworms. A week ago Monday, they all received their 2nd dose of roundworm treatment. This past Monday, I noticed Sam didn't really want to get up from the couch. Tuesday I noticed the same thing, but when he did get up, his hind legs are wobbly and they just don't seem to be working properly.
Took him to the vet yesterday. Xrays normal, CBC came back normal. No signs of infection, no diabetes. She's instructed me to keep a close eye on him, try to get a urine sample over the next week. Also, if he doesn't get better, more blood work to see if perhaps a clot. (I am assuming at this point he is urinating and defacating normal since I have 3 cats, am gone all day, and have electric litter boxes.)
Can anyone please offer some help with what might be going on with my Sam?
I notice that sugarcatmom has replied to your original thread Cat with Hind Leg Weakness, Etc. Xrays Normal, CBC Normal , so I'll go and post there too........
the more i learn about (some) people, the more i luv my cats
I also replied to the other thread.
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