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Inbox: Is B.J. Upton's slow start cause for alarm?
Beat reporter Mark Bowman answers questions from Braves fans
If B.J. Upton continues to play like this, how much longer will he bat second?
-- Mike J., Auburn, Ala.
The popularity of this question has grown after Upton went 1-for-12 with six strikeouts during this week's Opening Series against the Brewers. If this trend continues, the Braves will obviously have to look at placing Justin Upton, Andrelton Simmons or Chris Johnson in the No. 2 hole.
But making a knee-jerk reaction after three games -- or a span of 12 plate appearances -- would not be wise. Along with manager Fredi Gonzalez giving B.J. the impression that he doesn't believe in his ability to turn things around this year, Gonzalez would also be displaying the kind of indecisiveness that can prove problematic for managers.
Since the Spring Training season began, Atlanta has naturally hoped B.J. would start playing like the B.J. of old -- a player whose speed can prove beneficial near the top of the lineup if he gets on base with the frequency that he did while compiling a .346 on-base percentage with an average of 37 stolen bases from 2007-11.
In other words, the Braves are hoping to see more of what Upton did during Wednesday's ninth inning, when he hit a sharp single to left before swiping second base.
As B.J. progressed through the spring season, he showed some signs he was capable of regaining the consistency he lacked while compiling a .286 on-base percentage and averaging 160 strikeouts the past two seasons.
One thing we all have to remember is that the veteran center fielder is bound to flirt with that 150-strikeout total again. Even when Upton compiled that .346 on-base percentage during his first five full Major League seasons, he was striking out once every four plate appearances.
Over the past two seasons, Upton struck out once every 3.4 plate appearances. If he continues to trend in this direction, there would be reason to move him back down in the lineup. But if you have a manager who is willing to alter his plans after three games -- especially the first three of the season -- then you probably have a bigger issue in the long run.
Do you think the Braves can compete for another National League East title?
-- Tommy M., Roanoke, Va.
Over the past few weeks, I have held the belief that the Braves have to consider themselves fortunate if they exit April with a winning percentage around .500. In order to keep their head above water as they go through this opening month with an injury-depleted starting rotation, they will need some surprising performances -- like the one Aaron Harang provided on Wednesday, in working 6 2/3 stellar innings vs. the Brewers.
The Braves are fortunate in the fact that they are far from the only NL East member that has been plagued by injuries. The Nationals will not see prized offseason acquisition Doug Fister make his first start until May, and underappreciated catcher Wilson Ramos is dealing with a hand injury that will sideline him a month -- and quite possibly burden him throughout the season.
The Marlins are quite capable of becoming the early-season darlings in the NL East. Their starting rotation is loaded with talented young arms, and Giancarlo Stanton is no longer the only asset in the lineup. But if they start to get healthier, the Braves and Nats will once again be the teams battling for the division crown in September.
Last year, Atlanta's pitching staff carried the load for a slumbering, inconsistent offense. This year, Jason Heyward, Freddie Freeman and Co. will likely have to do the same for a pitching staff that will look much more formidable as long as Ervin Santana, Mike Minor and Gavin Floyd stay on schedule to join the rotation over the next couple of weeks.
If this rotation does start to become more whole over the next couple of weeks, there is no doubt the Braves have the ability to defend their NL East crown. But they have to escape April with their heads above water.
Will we see the Braves lock up any more of their core players this year?
-- Jack T., Spartanburg, S.C.
It does not appear anything is imminent. But if the Braves were to lock up another player at some point this season, Minor would be the most likely candidate. Minor, who gained a $3.85 million salary as a Super Two player this year, has three arbitration-eligible seasons remaining. This would not be a bad time for Atlanta to attempt to gain some cost certainty regarding Minor, who ranks fourth among all Major League left-handed pitchers with the 2.90 ERA he has compiled since July 2012.
Minor's decision to recently end his affiliation with Bo McKinnis and hire BB Abbott as his agent certainly doesn't guarantee an extension will be given at some point. But by aligning himself with Abbott (who has represented Chipper Jones and Brian McCann), Minor led some around the industry to believe this was another sign that he wants to stay in Atlanta as long as possible.
Is there a chance Alex Wood will be shut down at some point this year because of an innings limit?
-- Janet P., Griffin, Ga.
The Braves have entered this season knowing that they do not want Wood throwing much more than 170-180 innings. It's not like this figure will sneak up on them. But it remains to be seen whether the club will have enough depth to occasionally skip Wood or push him back a couple of days to moderate his workload and strengthen the possibility that he will have some wiggle room down the stretch.


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Just 4 of 37 Massachusetts compounding pharmacies passed surprise health inspections
Surprise state inspections at 37 specialty pharmacies in Massachusetts show that only four have been fully complying with industry safety standards, health officials announced Tuesday, a finding that underscores concerns about the risk of drug contamination.
All 37 are similar to the Framingham compounding pharmacy blamed for the fatal outbreak of fungal meningitis last year.
Serious violations of state pharmacy regulations were found in 11 compounders, prompting the state to temporarily shut down all or part of their operations, while 21 others were cited for more minor violations. The state previously announced that Infusion Resource of Waltham surrendered its license in October after inspectors found "significant issues'' in the clean rooms where sterile injectable drugs were prepared.
The Department of Public Health began the inspections in October after New England Compounding Center's tainted steroids were linked last fall to meningitis and other infections that have sickened nearly 700 people across the country and been blamed for 45 deaths.
Patient safety specialists, who have long advocated for stricter oversight of the industry nationwide, say they are not surprised that only a fraction of the state's sterile compounding pharmacies, which make injectable and intravenous medications, were obeying all the rules.
"I am sure the same things would be found in other states, not just Massachusetts,'' said Michael Cohen, president of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit.
"If any good can come of this tragedy at all, it is that people have awakened to the risks now.''
Yet, unlike Massachusetts, many states do not require compounding pharmacies to follow nationally accepted safety guidelines, Cohen added.
Compounding pharmacies are supposed to prepare doses and formulations of drugs for individual patients that are not available from drug manufacturers, and sterile compounders make medications that must meet the highest standards of purity.
But state officials have said that New England Compounding Center, the pharmacy that made the contaminated steroids, was mass-producing drugs and making what were supposed to be sterile injections in unsanitary facilities.
New England Compounding shut down in October, and two sister companies with common owners remain closed under temporary orders.
The state did not release reports Tuesday detailing the problems at the more recently cited facilities.
But Madeleine Biondolillo, director of the Health Department's Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality, said there is no evidence that patients have been harmed by the pharmacies' products.
She said the range of problems discovered were not as serious as those uncovered at New England Compounding, where investigators found widespread mold in the clean rooms that produced the supposedly sterile medications.
"It's not rocket science,'' she said in an interview. "You can't say you are a sterile compounder if you are not comporting to the guidelines.''
Biondolillo said many of the latest problems pinpointed by investigators relate to flaws in the design or operation of the companies' clean rooms. The state historically had inspected pharmacies only when they open, expand, or receive a complaint, a process that allowed outdated designs or practices to fester until a major problem was reported.
"We are now going at it proactively,'' Biondolillo said.
She noted that additional money for inspections was included in Governor Deval Patrick's proposed budget. He recommended adding $1 million for the Public Health Department to hire more staff to conduct routine inspections of compounding pharmacies.
The governor has also ordered stricter requirements for inspectors, including that all of them be pharmacists with five years of clinical experience.
Dr. Lauren Smith, interim public health commissioner, called the results of the surprise inspections troubling, but said in a statement that the process "has led to significant corrective measures and increased compliance among sterile compounders in Massachusetts.''
Biondolillo said investigators must approve plans to correct problems, which were submitted by each of the 11 compounders issued cease-and-desist orders, before they are allowed to resume operations.
Todd Brown — executive director of the Massachusetts Independent Pharmacists Association, a group that represents many compounders— said that national standards for the pharmacies are open to interpretation, and he believes state inspectors are now cracking down on minor deficiencies that may have been overlooked in the past.
"I can't fault them for taking the strictest of interpretations,'' Brown said. "I totally understand it. But there could be some interpretations that are too strict.''
No products were recalled as a result of the state inspections, although the state did not conduct its own tests of medications produced in the facilities. A number of the facilities produce medications for nursing homes and other long-term care facilities, which could complicate efforts to trace infections or other health issues if a problem was uncovered, said Cohen, the patient safety specialist.
The four Massachusetts sterile compounding pharmacies that fully met state rules, state regulators say, are: Freedom Fertility Pharmacy in Byfield; Coram Healthcare in Norwood; BioRX in Woburn; and Critical Care Systems in Shrewsbury.
Among the pharmacies ordered to shut down all sterile compounding is Home Infusion Solutions in Falmouth.
Pharmacy manager Jim Hermansen said the Dec. 27 order noted that the pharmacy's clean room was outdated, and that the company needed to replace Formica counters and shelves with more state-of-the-art stainless steel.
He said the state also requires doors that open automatically, to avoid pharmacists having to touch doors while they are preparing sterile medications.
"They may be a little picky in some cases, but the public good is the most important thing,'' Hermansen said. "I think it's a good thing in the long run.''
He said the company has submitted a plan to correct the problems and is awaiting state approval.
Also cited was Baystate Home Infusion and Respiratory Services in Springfield, which is owned by the parent company of Baystate Medical Center, but does not supply compounded drugs for the hospital.
Baystate Health said that the Dec. 12 shutdown of its sterile compounding "was not triggered by any indication of contamination, product-quality issues, or adverse events.''
It said the problems related to "general documentation, standardization of workflow, and infrastructure'' and that state regulators approved its plan for corrections in January.
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Chillingo, the sonorous company name that ringo's in me earo's like so many angels, signals another chorus – this time, to the tune of 'The British are Coming'. The invaders came from an unlikely spot: the notebook sketches of one bored student who now has to do something to stop the creatures s/he created. Evidently, that something is to draw a hero who will fight off the baddies. Invaders is described as a 'wacky shooter' and from the description, it shouldn't disappoint.
But, it might have trouble with its name. Invaders is about as common a name in gaming as Park or Kim are surnames in Korea. Darren McKie's game, Invaders is a game where you play the invading force trying to dominate Earth from above. I rather think the two should team up.


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Nodules Part II - West Wycombe to Hughenden
The whole tribe set off through West Wycombe village towards Cookshall Lane; Mum, Dad, Cathy, Diane, Heidi and Ollie. The village is anything but a tranquil idyll, more like Le Mans on race day, the pavement just wide enough for a pram with zooming high performance automobiles inches away.
A Texaco garage marks the start of our ascent on the corner of Cookshall Lane and Bradenham Road, a junction known as The Pedestal with Daphne's Temple over the wall in West Wycombe Park.
Yards along the lane and quietness descends. Dad spots a Blackie's nest (Blackbird) from last year in the hedgerow and Ollie points at a bee visiting flowers. Chirping birds drown out the distant cars. Under the railway bridge and the turbo charged Chiltern Line whooshes overhead. A large graffitied policeman toking on a Camberwell Carrot spray-painted on the wall. We emerge into a wide vista of tilled earth, horizon almost broad enough to gladden Heidi's Australian heart.
We find the path up to Branch Wood through a gate where someone has left a set of keys marked 'spare shed and garage keys' dangling on the barbed wire fence. From underneath Branch Wood there are clear views back across the grounds of West Wycombe House and its palladian columns; a scene like the one Catherine The Great had decorating her Wedgewood dinner service.
White arrows painted on trees guide the way through the wood. It was our intention to cut across through houses to the bottom of Great Tinker's Wood but the path is pushing us up towards Downley. We ask directions, people seem to think that Hughenden is too far to walk, a jogger finally puts us straight and gives clear directions to the Monument although it involves going up to Downley Common. The maps mean nothing to them, confirming the suspicion that representations of planned space bare little relation to our personal topographies.
By now it's just me and the old chap, the others have returned to West Wycombe for tea. He points to a 'stand of Beech', tall dark masts against the backdrop of hills. Again it calls to mind a foreign, epic landscape this time something Russian, Turgenyev's 'A Month in the Country'.
Past a modern-looking school and round a path with electric fencing along one side and alarmingly over the top of the stile and we are in Downley High Street. This consists of the Bricklayers Arms, where the voice of John Motson commentating on the England v Northern Ireland match escapes through the drawn curtains, the Starlight Stores, and the village hall where a sign gives a potted history the highlight of which is when a relative of Wild Bill Hickock, Colonel Cody, landed his plane on the Common in 1912.
A homemade sign on a lamp-post says "MOBILE PHONE MAST - SAY NO!". There's a rusting brazier for burning beacons and heretics on the common and Dad notices Narrow Lane, which we later discover would have taken us down to the Disraeli Monument.
On Coates Lane we are serenaded by nattering Magpies and Dad is surprised to find a gooseberry bush in a roadside hedge.
Turning up towards Hughenden Manor under a noisy rookery we meet an architect and his family. He tells us about the designs he did for a theatre on the Bridge Street site whilst a student at Oxford Poly in the late sixties; and of meeting Colonel Watson who produced a Masterplan for Wycombe back in the 1930's that included pedestrianisation way ahead of its time. His mother informs us about the medieval bridge that was recently excavated when they were building Morrisons.
In our final stretch a woman with two dogs talks about Roald Dahl who lived not far away and we can see the Compair factory site where they have just filmed 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.
All that's left is the plotting of the final stretch following Coffin Walk back to Castle Hill House.
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What If…..
If every state of the USA declared war against each other, which would win?
A culture war has been stirred up.Divisions are along predictable lines: racism, police abuse, controversial social issues, and plenty of left vs. right, demographics and regional baggage to clash over as well.And by all accounts, differences and distinctions between people have been intensifying, not blurring and fading away.According to the Washington Post, many Americans have been relocating themselves in one of the 11 distinct areas of the country to live with like minded people.The best way to keep us from fighting the real enemy is to keep us fighting amongst ourselves.But could the culture war ever turn into a real war?Some people actually think so, and it seems the military has been planning for the scenario, too. The potential for economic and societal breakdown is real.
After the breakup many wondered which states would come out in control of the power void created by the dissolution of the United States. There were many with little chance against several of the larger more powerful states. The states in possession of a large population, predisposition for military bases and a population open to the idea of warfare fared the best. In the long term we would look to states with self-sufficiency and long term military capabilities.


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Got out from work, and went to a nearby creek that is loaded with Green Sunfish. It was windier than heck out there (honestly, "calm" days are rare here), so I was using my 8wt, with a foam hopper and a Scud about 6" below the hopper.
I caught lots of fish. Aggressive little buggers! Here's my first:
I knew this would happen sooner or later, and is the main reason why I don't really like to use a strike indicator. I prefer a floating fly, as you never know when an aggressive fish will take what's on top.
I also managed to see a White Koi swimming around in this pool. I saw a white one and an orange one in the pool downstream last year. The pools are separated by about 100' of rip-rap that creates a large French Drain. I'm wondering if someone caught the white one and moved it to the upper pool?


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Smallville - January can't come fast enough!
Posted by Joel Rosenberg Categories: Television, DC Comics,
The other night we had Chloe's wedding and it was the disaster that it was projected to be. Doomsday crashed the party and carried off the bride (yes, bride, they did get married before all the hullabaloo). Lana came back after learning Green Arrow's secret and is working with some suspicious character. Lex came back plugged to some weird machine. Jimmy is half-dead. Lois thinks that Clark might be the One. Clark is plain pissed. A typical "Smallville" cliffhanger because they never put one person in peril when they can end a half or full season with just about everyone up the creek. But what do we have to look forward to on January 15, 2009 when the show returns?
Well, how is Clark to deal with Doomsday? Even with Impulse, Cyborg, Aquaman, Black Canary, Martian Manhunter, and Green Arrow, it seems Supes is going to need more help. Even though a lot of shows, including "Smallville," are cutting back to reflect the current economy, we still have room for a slew of guest stars. Well, comic book guest stars as opposed to big name actors.
On January 15, we are going to see the arrival of The Legion of Super Heroes. Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad and Saturn Girl are going to arrive from the 31st century with stock market tips and to help our hero out. No more worrying about corn prices for a certain Kansas farmboy. DC is digging a little deep from the bench, in my humble opinion, because time travel shows, even when fun, makes my hair hurt. Let's face it. Go back in time, fail in your mission, then try it again 10 minutes earlier until you succeed. Surely those Terminators sending guys back in time must realize their guys have failed when John Connor and the resistance is still there. Didn't kill him, try again for Sarah. Fail with her, try the grandmother, etc.
If I have the scenario right, this Doomsday is made from Kryptonese genetic material so he should be superior to Supes. Assuming green kryptonite doesn't kill him, I wonder if magnetism, lightning bolts, and telepathy will do any good. Well, we will find out in January.
A Possible Return to Common Sense?
Posted by Joel Rosenberg Categories: Editorials, Television, DC Comics, Marvel Comics,
Most of the current media bemoans the fact that an increasing amount of movies and TV are based on the comic universe. We geeks and fanboys, of course, love this trend. But most of us are not mindless drones and still have the ability to separate quality from garbage. Spider-Man 1 - good. Spider-Man 2 - not so good. Spider-Man 3 - a waste of good sand. Batman Michael Keaton - good. Batman Val Kilmer - not so good. Batman George Clooney - a waste of good nipples. Heroes season one - good. Heroes season 2 - not so good. Heroes season 3 - a waste of good comic writers.
Recently, DC announced a prospective series entitled "The Flying Graysons". Folks speculated that with an uncertain future for "Smallville", we would need something for our superhero fix. But was Dick Grayson, before he became Robin, solving crimes traveling with the circus the best they could come up with?
So, I printed out the article from Variety and posted it at Phoenix Comics, your favorite neighborhood comic store. Now, remember, these are the same customers who wanted to lynch Marvel for the whole Brand New Day fiasco or put up a statue to Marvel for ending the Peter-Mary Jane marriage. And does anyone remember Birds of Prey? How could anyone mess up a TV show featuring three awesomely good looking girls in spandex. Couldn't be done, could it?
Well, the polling is over and if the U.S. ran like this, we could have saved hundreds of millions of dollars in campaign contributions. Nobody liked this idea. Not one customer. Nobody. And somehow DC must have gotten the message because they have canned the idea. Obviously I am only one store but still… maybe once in awhile they do listen to us.
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"Inside" Smallville
Posted by Joel Rosenberg Categories: Editorials, Television, DC Comics,
One of the subjects my comic shop customers love to discuss, besides "Heroes," is "Smallville". To survive nine seasons on TV is remarkable in itself, but one of the things I most enjoy is picking up the insider references that they toss in. My comic shop partner, Jason, hates every one of them. Here are a few of them.
Just this season, Clark had to change into a suit at the Daily Planet. The only available place was a telephone booth. Clark said that he wouldn't change his clothes in a phone booth and Lois had to push him in. Clark's dog, back at the farm, is named Krypto. When he first met Bart Allen AKA the Flash, Bart was fleeing from Clark when Clark ripped open his backpack. Out flew a bunch of phoney driver's licenses in the names Jay Garrick, Wally West, and Barry Allen. Bart later suggests they form a club or a league. When Clark meets Arthur Curry AKA Aquaman, Arthur suggests to Clark that they fight crime on the land and sea. Clark responds that he isn't ready for the Junior Lifeguards of America.
In the very first season Lois is reading a book and explains to Clark that Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus and asks him " What planet are you from?" John Jones AKA the Martian Manhunter, drops Oreo cookies in his first appearance. Clark now works at a great metropolitan newspaper. Anyone remember others?
Personally, I love watching "Smallville" with my son and every time one of these inside references show up, I have to explain them to him. Father and son bonding - who knew Smallville could help.
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Review of Cartoon Network's Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Posted by David Torres Categories: Reviews, Television, DC Comics,
I watched the premiere episode of the newest Batman television series with my four-year old son, James - he loved it. However, he also likes Caillou and The Backyardigans. If you are a parent with a young child, you know what I'm talking about.
The latest Batman cartoon takes its name and format from the classic original run of the "Brave and the Bold" comic series that featured Batman teaming up with a different super-hero from the DC Universe each month. The premiere episode was entertaining. It's a decent story that saw Batman teaming up with Jamie Reyes the Blue Beetle. It's cool that DC and its parent company, Warner Brothers, are sticking with Jamie and introducing him to an audience outside of the comic book world. I wasn't crazy about the death of the Ted Kord Blue Beetle, especially with the new Blue Beetle's outfit. I hated the outfit when I first saw it, but it's grown on me. I also like the character of Jaime himself in the various appearances he's made in comics over the past two years. That said, what about tonight's episode?
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The Future of Smallville
Posted by Joel Rosenberg Categories: Editorials, Movies, Television, DC Comics,
So what is to become of "Smallville"?
As a comic shop owner, I am in weekly contact with DC. Everytime I ask them for some good gossip I never get any. Advance word of All-Star Batman 10 would have been real nice. So even though the season is not even half over, we certainly can speculate.
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COLUMBUS, Ga. -- As America was sending its sons and daughters into battle a decade ago, the U.S. Army's expertise was based largely on the conventional philosophy of tank versus tank, foot soldier against foot soldier.
That changed in a flash. The invasion of Iraq's capital of Baghdad, led by Fort Benning's 3rd Brigade Heavy Combat Team, would give way to years of war fought often in smaller towns and cities.
Shadowy terrorist figures -- mixing in at times with locals -- replaced the uniformed Warsaw Pact adversaries the military had long trained to fight against in a major conflict. Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), or homemade bombs planted on roadways or worn by suicidal individuals, quickly became a deadly threat aimed at not only killing U.S. soldiers, but also keeping them on edge and damaging morale.
The Army knew it had to adapt -- and fast -- with its ranks swelling with civilians-turned-soldiers, many of whom were deploying within 90 days of completing their basic and advanced combat training.
Naturally, those changes rippled swiftly to the Home of the Infantry at Fort Benning, changes that are entrenched in the way recruits are taught today.
Staff Sgt. Jesse Murray, who entered the military just before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, knows the lessons learned from Iraq -- and subsequently from Afghanistan -- as well as anyone. The Fort Benning Drill Sergeant of the Year deployed to Iraq three times and today is among those training troops how to survive in harm's way.
"When I was a private, a lot of my squad leaders and leadership did not have any combat experience. And I remember during my first deployment to Iraq, there was a certain kind of anxiety," said Murray, who was with the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Lewis, Wash., when the Stryker -- a speedy armored vehicle and troop carrier -- made its appearance in Iraq.
Contrast that to today, when virtually all of the drill sergeants Murray works with have seen action in either Iraq or Afghanistan and have their combat infantryman's badge.
Specifically, Murray said, one station unit training -- which combines basic and advanced combat training into one continuous stream of instruction -- shifted away from trench warfare and firing rifles from foxholes to using various shooting positions from barriers and around building corners.
Less emphasis was placed on the use of nuclear, biological and chemical masks, with more time spent using night-vision goggles and devices. The term "weapons immersion" also entered the Army's terminology.
"When I went through originally, the only time we touched our weapons is when we went out to the range," the drill sergeant said. "Now it's a constant thing. Privates have their weapons on them all the time, and that reflects what they're going to see in Iraq. ... A lot of times they try to overrun the bases and we don't have time to run back to our rooms, grab all of our ammo, get suited up, and run back out to wherever we need to be."
Training on improvised explosion devices also ramped up and easily grabbed the attention of recruits, particularly with news stories from the warfront detailing how a mundane foot patrol or drive from one area to another ended up with soldiers losing an arm or a leg, and for some, their lives.
"Whenever we talk about IEDs, that's generally when I'll talk about the real-life effects where soldiers that I know have gotten hurt or injured permanently," Murray said. "When we talk about (rocket-propelled grenades), I have a story that specifically relates to that. What I think it does is help make it real to them ... They do soak that up because it's something that they know absolutely nothing about."
The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command projects the service will put nearly 85,000 recruits through basic combat training this fiscal year. That number will rise slightly in fiscal year 2014.
One station unit training, which includes both infantry and armor recruits at Fort Benning, will slow from just under 36,000 this year to slightly more than 30,000 in 2014, TRADOC projects.
Just as the infantry has altered its instruction, so has the U.S. Army Armor School, which relocated from Fort Knox, Ky., to Fort Benning in 2011 to create the Maneuver Center of Excellence and combine its heavier power with that of the ground troops.
First Sgt. Anthony Bell deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and did a stint as a drill sergeant just prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. Today, he is a 316th Cavalry Brigade operations noncommissioned officer with a basic officer's course for armor lieutenants at Fort Benning.
"When I was a drill sergeant, it was more about developing the soldier for the conventional Army," he said. "There was an emphasis on identifying all the foreign enemy tanks for that conventional environment, that woodland environment, and maintaining your vehicles."
Just as with the infantry, the armor's training has expanded to include moving through an urban area, clearing buildings, and being able to connect with people in small towns to nurture relations and, hopefully, gather critical intelligence.
"I'm from the scout side of the armor branch, and that was a large part of our job, entering and securing buildings, which is an infantry task," Bell said of the similarities between the two service rivals who now have been brought together at Fort Benning.
Bell said the integration of the armor with the infantry is beginning to gel, with each planning more and more training time together on their schedules. The goal is to create a more efficient, nimble and fighting force beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Just as the U.S. Army did prior to those conflicts, it will continue to study what has worked and what hasn't on the battlefield, then make necessary changes to training that will yield even better warriors, said Col. David Wilcox, chief of staff of the U.S. Army Initial Military Training Center of Excellence at Fort Eustis, Va. The center falls under TRADOC.
"We're constantly looking at what we train and how we train it, based upon those tech-savvy young folks coming in," he said. "I might add, though, they're a little bit out of shape than those of us who came in 15 or 20 years ago. So we're having to get them in shape."
Wilcox commanded a training brigade at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri from 2009-2011, with engineers, military police officers, chemical specialists and medical personnel receiving basic and advanced training there. He also deployed both to Afghanistan and Iraq, and was in the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, when a commercial jet crashed into the building three corridors over from his office.
The need for changes in training became apparent early in the invasion of Iraq, Wilcox said, with the quick turnaround of recruits to the battle front. Aside from the necessity of preparing them for entering a city or dark buildings, the Army's physical fitness program was revamped.
"It is geared more to conditions in a combat environment than it is to going out and running a 10k or a marathon," he said, using the word "agility" to describe the desired goal of determining: "What are the conditions if I had to carry a buddy 50 or 60 meters to safety? Could I do that with a basic combat load on me?"
Wilcox said the Army now is in the middle of a six-month major review of its training program as it moves from an Army at war to a force working to be prepared for a possible new threat or conflict. The review could be complete by September, he said, although there is no concrete timeframe for rolling out any changes and the numbers of troops needed in the coming years.
"It's a balancing act as we draw down the (soldier) numbers," he said. "But I think the quality will get even better as we get stricter on standards coming in, and maintaining the standards throughout your career. With the drawdown in Iraq and Afghanistan, we will be more selective in our recruiting efforts."
The strategy of training agile soldiers who can think fast on their feet and solve complex problems in combat -- or during natural disasters -- is a major positive change that came out of the dual wars on terrorism, said Lt. Gen. Robert Brown, commander of I Corps at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
"We hadn't anticipated our soldiers would have to do that because of the complexity of the world and the environment," said Brown, who commanded Fort Benning as it was blending the infantry and armor together into the Maneuver Center of Excellence.
"It's the same thing businesses face, we all face," he said. "The clerk at a company just can't be the clerk anymore. They've got to be empowered or you're not going to do well in today's world. You're going to be too slow and you can't react fast enough to beat the enemy or anything we're facing."
Brown, whose career included a tour of duty in Bosnia prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operating Enduring Freedom, recalled a brigade commander in the European nation who became extremely frustrated because of the enormous amounts of information flowing into his headquarters.
"He was used to looking out into the desert and saying: Go left, go right, do this, do that. Well, he couldn't do that anymore. We were all over the place, and we had to be independent or you couldn't act fast enough. That picked up speed even more in Iraq and will forever, by the way, in warfare. We're never going back. We have overwhelming amounts of information."
That stream of information from various military and U.S. government sources trumps the days of taking a few scraps of intelligence, feeding it up the command chain, and then waiting for a decision for a battalion or brigade's next move on the battlefield.
"So you retrain completely different with that," the general said. "Instead of telling a soldier: Do these 10 steps. We'd say, here's what we want you to accomplish. You figure it out, and back-brief us. Use your agility, you're empowered, and finish the job. We started training that long before we deployed."
Looking ahead, with federal budget cuts guaranteed, Brown said the good news is the U.S. has the most experienced Army it's ever had. But the challenge will be maintaining that sharp edge amid a downsizing military that's been at such a high tempo for more than a decade. He said it still must remain on guard for other threats in the Asian-Pacific region, such as North Korea, which maintains a belligerent world stance.
"Of course, you've got to cut," he said. "But where's the fine line where you get to the point where you go from the best in the world to -- all of a sudden -- you're not anymore, because you can't maintain."
With his I Corps units, Brown said he's already having to prioritize training. And it's not an easy thing to do.
"My number one priority are those units heading to Afghanistan, of course," he said. "But that means I have some units that will go from a highly trained level to a not-ready level. How long does it take to get them back? What if they're called upon tomorrow? How much time do we have? That's tough."


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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude between 5.7 and 6.1 hit the western Greek island of Kefalonia before dawn Monday, sending frightened residents into the streets just over a week after a similar quake damaged hundreds of buildings, reviving memories of a disaster in the 1950s.
Authorities said about 16 people had been slightly hurt, mainly by falling objects, while roads, homes and shops were damaged and some areas suffered power and water supply cuts. Islanders also had to contend with intense bad weather, with strong rain and low temperatures.
Kefalonia Mayor Alexandros Parisis said the port at the island's second largest town of Lixouri, the closest to the epicenter, had been damaged. Images from the area showed part of the pier breaking off and boats that had been on land for repair toppling over.
Earthquakes have been rattling Kefalonia constantly for the past week, after a 5.9-magnitude temblor struck the area on Jan. 26, damaging homes and slightly injuring seven people. Since then, thousands of residents have been spending nights with relatives or in ships sent to accommodate them.
Schools on the island have been shut for the past week, and had not been scheduled to reopen until Wednesday, said Deputy Mayor Evangelos Kekatos.
Authorities urged the islanders to remain calm and not approach any damaged buildings.
An eight-member rescue team with a sniffer dog was heading to the island as a precaution, the fire department said, while Public Order Minister Nikos Dendias and his ministry's secretary general were also heading to Kefalonia to coordinate the response.
The armed forces was sending two military transport aircraft carrying 30 personnel and three doctors as well as tents and emergency supplies, while a military ship was sailing to the island with digging vehicles, a mobile kitchen and a water tanker among other equipment, the Defense Ministry said.
The Athens Geodynamic Institute registered the pre-dawn quake, which struck just after 5 a.m. local time, with a magnitude of 5.7 and an epicenter 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) northwest of the island's capital of Argostoli. The U.S. Geological Survey registered a 6.1-magnitude. It is common for institutes to register different figures.
The intense seismic activity reawakened memories of the devastating 1953 quakes on Kefalonia and neighboring Zakinthos, when a 7.2-magnitude temblor struck three days after a 6.4 quake, killing hundreds, injuring thousands and destroying nearly all the buildings on the islands.
Seismologists said more aftershocks were to be expected on the island, which lies in a highly seismically active region. Several registered in the initial hours after Monday's quake.
"The whole area has been activated ... we are all on alert," said Maria Sahpazi, head of the Geodynamic Institute, adding that Monday morning's quake appeared to be a strong aftershock of the Jan. 26 temblor.
"We expect more aftershocks, which will be of this size or smaller," she said.
Seismologist Vassilis Papazachos urged caution and said islanders must make plans for shelter over the coming weeks or months if their homes are damaged as the region has produced powerful earthquakes in the past.
"Measures must be mid-term," Papazachos said on Greek television. "We can't know whether there will be a bigger (earthquake)."
Monday's quake was felt across parts of the western Greek mainland and as far away as the Greek capital, Athens, nearly 300 kilometers (186 miles) to the west.


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Let W be a Coxeter group with Coxeter generators S. The corresponding 0-Hecke monoid H(W) has generating set S, the braid relations of W and the relations that each element of S is an idempotent. If one specializes the Hecke algebra associated to W to q=0 one gets the monoid algebra of H(W) (replace generators by their negatives to see this). It is also the monoid generated by foldings across the walls of the fundamental chamber of the Coxeter complex of W. It has been studied by a number of people and is sometimes called the Springer-Richardson monoid.
Margolis and I came across the following construction of it and I wanted to know if it is known. Let P(W) be the power set of W. It is a monoid with usual set product: $AB=\lbrace ab\mid a\in A, b\in B\rbrace$. Let $I(w)$ be the principal Bruhat ideal generated by $w\in W$, e.g., $I(s)=\lbrace 1,s\rbrace$ for $s\in S$. Then the principal Bruhat ideals form a submonoid of P(W) isomorphic to H(W).
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Mayor Bob Filner backed a Chargers stadium-convention center expansion combination Friday as good for the city and a possible money saver.
"I say we're not going to put public money into a private effort," he said. "But that leaves some kind of room to talk to them, and we will be talking."
Filner, who outlined his thoughts at a San Diego Foundation forum on neighborhood revitalization, said the stadium idea opens up the possibility of generating new revenue to replace money no longer available from redevelopment agencies.
The mayor said he is interested in a dual-use facility because it could potentially save 25 percent off a combined $1.6 billion price tag for convention expansion and a downtown football stadium.
"And what if, to be very simple," he said, "you put a roof and a floor on a stadium, neither of which we have now? You could have concert venues with a roof and other things. With a floor, you can play hockey and soccer, basketball. You could be the site of the Final 4 — Go Aztecs! You could do all these things."
He also said such a facility would make Qualcomm Stadium and the Valley View Casino Center obsolete, freeing them up for development and generating money for the city.
"Those are on city lands," the mayor said. "Imagine what we could do from a public perspective with that public space. Imagine what you could do for our community. That kind of stuff could finance things for the city."
The idea of a combined project, several blocks away from the current convention center, is one that has been raised before, most notably by the San Diego Chargers and the U-T San Diego Editorial Board. This alternative plan has been rejected by the backers of the current convention center expansion project as not meeting the need for contiguous space for large meetings.
While the $520 million expansion is moving along, it still needs the approval of the California Coastal Commission, and its financing plan, which relies on a new hotel tax, faces legal hurdles. A Superior Court Judge recently ruled that the tax is legal, but opponents have promised to appeal, which is likely to delay the expansion for a year or more.
Filner's concept resembles the Chargers' plan, but it differs in that it wouldn't use revenue from redeveloping Qualcomm Stadium and the Valley View Casino sports arena sites to finance the stadium. That financing would be up to the Chargers.
Chargers special counsel Mark Fabiani said the team has talked over a variety of concepts with Filner.
"We look forward to continuing to work together with the mayor and City Council as the convention center tax litigation and Coastal Commission review continue to unfold," he said in an email Friday.
City Councilman Kevin Faulconer, who represents the Midway area where the sports arena is located, said he is "open to good stadium ideas that protect taxpayer dollars."
"But it is critical the existing convention center expansion move forward without delay because it will create thousands of jobs San Diegans need and generate tax revenue the city can invest in every neighborhood," Faulconer said.
Joint use was envisioned last year in a U-T San Diego Editorial Board plan that would locate such a facility on the 10th Avenue Marine Terminal (TAMT). The Chargers prefer the East Village city bus yard site at 14th and K streets and adjacent Tailgate Park parking lot that serves Petco Park patrons.
"The (joint-use) concept works," said John Lynch, chief executive officer of U-T San Diego. "The only site that makes sense is TAMT. If not there, a combo in North County is an alternative that has support as well."
A new stadium has been a Chargers' goal for more than a decade because the team sees Qualcomm as inadequate in the age of luxury skyboxes and ideal conditions for spectators. The team has not exercised its option to relocate to Los Angeles or other cities and Filner said that means he has time to work an agreement with the team.
Filner has not considered the stadium a high priority and during his campaign last year repeatedly said he would oppose any deal that is not favorable to the city. His comments Friday were the most extensive on the stadium issue since taking office in December.
Steve Cushman, a member of the Convention Center Corp. board, said he welcomed the mayor's interest in meeting the Chargers' stadium needs.
"His forthright thinking is refreshing," he said.
But adding convention uses to a stadium rather than moving forward with the present expansion plans does not meet the additional and contiguous space needs sought by large-convention planners, said Cushman, former Mayor Jerry Sanders' point person on convention center expansion.
"If we don't do this, we lose Comic-Con and 125,000 room nights," he said, as well any other big conventions that can't fit into the center's present size.
The current center can accommodate 80 percent of all conventions, Cushman said, and the planned expansion would take the capacity up to what's needed by 90 percent of conventions.
"Keeping the present facility and building a joint-use facility, a convention facility across the street, doesn't move you to that level," he said.
The multiuse stadium idea was also backed by former redevelopment chairman Fred Maas, who envisioned a sports and entertainment district along the lines of the LA Live and arena venue in Los Angeles. But without redevelopment property taxes available, his idea is on hold until the Legislature comes up with a new approach to financing public facilities.
Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, who followed Filner at the San Diego Foundation forum, said he hopes a new financing mechanism can be passed in the Legislature this year or next.
While outlining his stadium-convention ideas, Filner also addressed the worry that Comic-Con might leave San Diego if the convention center isn't enlarged. He offered an idea to make San Diego a year-round mecca for Comic-Con enthusiasts.
"As part of the convention center expansion or the stadium, we build a National Museum of Comic Books," he said.
Cleveland has boosted its tourism business with the "incredible" Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Filner said, he suggested a comics museum would be just as popular.
"Who would come here? All the zombies — they'd be here forever, they'd be here all year," Filner said. "I'm not being facetious, by the way. If we had something like that, it would set San Diego apart and allow us to do things we just simply cannot do."
The mayor also took the opportunity to justify a bid with Tijuana for the 2024 Summer Olympics as a way to improve cross-border trade and development. He said he had recently received a letter from U.S. Olympic organizers inviting San Diego to submit a bid and he said he replied positively.
"Whether we win or not, we win," he said, because the effort would identify ways to knit the two sides of the border closer together.
"In and of itself, it will get people excited about the relationship between our two cities and our two nations," he said. "So we're going to use that as a focal point for talking about some of the issues I think we should be talking about."


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GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney rallies in West Allis, Wisconsin criticizing President Obama failed policies.
WEST ALLIS, WI-- Mitt Romney returned to Wisconsin today for the first time since August, delivering his closing argument speech in a state where Republicans hope they can manage a chink in the President Barack Obama's Midwestern armor.
Romney received a raucous welcome from an overflow crowd of 4,000 Wisconsinites chanting "four more days" this morning, welcoming the Republican presidential nominee with some of the loudest support Romney has won since returning to a full campaign schedule in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.
"What a great state. What a great welcome, and by the way this state is going to help me become the next president of the United States," Romney said, taking the stage following an introduction from the state's once-embattled Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
"I want to thank you for all that you've done and all you're going to do in the next four days and I want to tell you how much I appreciate being in the home of the next vice president of the United States," Romney said moments later, referring to his running mate Paul Ryan, who was born and raised in nearby Janesville, Wisc.
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For the Romney campaign, the presence of a native son of the Badger state on the ticket, along with Walker's strong performance in this summer's failed recall effort, highlight an opportunity to solve a vexing problem -- how to break through Obama's Midwestern firewall.
"They woke a sleeping giant here I would say during the recall," Milwaukee business owner Frank Orlando told NBC News, adding that he was volunteering for a political campaign -- Romney's -- for the first time in his life. He added that half the volunteers he works with are also engaging in politics directly for the first time that cycle.
"We love Paul Ryan," said Grace Lococo, another event attendee from Milwaukee. "We grew up following him."
Romney aides say they see that type of familiarity and enthusiasm as emblematic of a blue state ripe for flipping.
"We see Republican gains in Wisconsin for the past few cycles and we believe its an excellent opportunity for a Romney pickup," Romney spokesperson Rick Gorka said.
Related: Obama slams Romney for Jeep ad in Ohio
Recent polling lends some credence to that theory. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll released earlier this week showed Romney cutting Obama's lead in Wisconsin down to three points -- 49 to 46 percent -- half of what it had been a month prior and within the poll's margin of error.
With the president under the 50 percent threshold, Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes could help Romney succeed on Tuesday should he fail to break through in the race's most critical battlefield of Ohio, where he'll campaign the rest of the day Friday, and return later in the weekend.
For the Romney campaign, Wisconsin has already proven decisive once. The state's primary in April, which Romney won handily, was the last truly competitive contest between Romney and Rick Santorum, and helped wrap up the contentious GOP primary race later that month.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 103 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
stretchmarkscream.net is a consumer's resource for comparing and reviewing stretch mark creams and products.
Women ages 20-50 who are either pregnant and looking to prevent stretch marks or already have stretch marks and looking for a product for removal.
I want a Clean, Readable & Professional 2 column layout Homepage and Topic Page Design for a Womens Skincare Review Site. This is not about graphical heavy website. This is about having a clean and good looking design that make reading content easy.
Designer should make the content CLEAR, READABLE, INTERESTING. Also related posts should be easy to understand.
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Deliverable is a PSD Design Layout for Home Page and Post Page for a Wordpress theme.
2 Column Layout. Left Side content. Right side a list or "Stretch Mark Cream Reviews"
Content area must be white background with dark text. Must be wide enough to accommodate hi def video.
Sidebar Area must list out "Stretch Mark Cream Reviews" with a list of products.
Under stretch mark cream reviews each product listed will have star ratings (out of 5 stars) 1out of 5, 2 out of 5 and so on and so forth.
Also List Related Articles, Categories, Links etc.
There should be a background color/image that makes the container which includes content and sidebar to stand out from background.
H1 should include an image to the left and a hr or divider below to separate the headline from the content.
Comments should be clear and readable.
Colors: Blues, Pinks, Greys, White anything else that is clean.


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April Gregory necesitaba un nuevo diseño de impreso o envases y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 19 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
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I'm a business coach-consultant. In February 2000, I launched my coaching business after being downsized from a day trading firm. I had always dreamed of being in business for myself but I didn't know that I'd need more than my work skills to build a thriving coaching practice.
Fast forward five years down the road, I had helped my clients reach over $10 million dollars in revenues (sounds pretty good right) but in my own business, it was either feast or famine. I was still operating from a childhood pattern/paradigm of not enough. It was good enough for my clients to make millions (or hundreds of thousands) but I wasn't good enough.
I had to shift that pattern in order for me to create a sustainable business for myself. Through this inner-shifting a new set of processes were born. I now refer to this as my Spirit Rich approach to life and business
Faith based based audience. Christians and Spiritual. Those looking to live a more fulfilling life and business.
Title: Activate Your Spirit Rich Life
Subtitle: "A Coach Approach To Manifesting the Desires of Your Heart"
If we focused on *two words*. The two powerful words that can stand up huge are:
with the exclamation point.
And in smaller type could say something like: Even if -- right now -- you're dollar poor. A coach approach to help you create a life rich in love, money, meaning and the stuff of dreams [INSTEAD OF THE SUB-TITLE, THIS COULD BE USED]
Author's name: April L. Gregory, CPMC [Creator of Spirit Rich Coaching, A Success System for Entrepreneurs]
A clean but beautiful book design. Make two or three KEY words JUMP OUT: SPIRIT-RICH LIFE? And have a simple large image or shape and color scheme that support the feeling and concept of a spirit rich life.
I like the colors green and blue but I'm open to different colors.
Below, I've attached a sample of what DOES NOT work for me...
Why it doesn't work?
I don't understand what the image is and how it relates to the title. I should get that instantly, without even thinking about it. I'm seeing the gas cap on my back-up-power generator. And I don't know what else it might be.... I want a huge, simple, highly symbolic image that instantly communicates its meaning to almost everyone who sees it.
It seems that the designer wanted (no matter how many times I said how overpowering it was) to highlight "A Coach Approach To Manifesting the Desires of Your Heart"...
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I\'m researching John Noble of Waikato (c. 1870-1910). He married Paeroa Te Koi and they lived at Huarau papakainga, Otaua/Maioro in the Franklin District.
His mother was called Raihahakume, Raiha or Hakume and his father was also called John Noble. His mother\'s tribe was Ngati Mahanga.
John Noble (jnr) was also known as Manuao Nopera.
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Kia ora my name is Edda Phyllis Noble. My Waikato family believes that:-
Rihitoto WETINI/NEWTON was the eldest child of my great grandfather John NOBLE of Waiuku, Waikato.
Rihitoto's mother was Amiria WETINI. We are told that Rihitoto married THOMPSON. They had no children of their own so they whangai Aubrey THOMPSON (nephew of Rihitoto's husband).
We have a family photo of Rihitoto and her father John NOBLE and others.
John Noble married my great grandmother Paeroa TE KOI who also had a daughter (Ihipera) prior to her marriage to John NOBLE. My grandfather Jack NOBLE is Rihitoto's half brother.
I'm doing my father's whakapapa so would like to include Rihitoto's information as well. I am also trying to trace the family of John NOBLE (Rihitoto's father). I have that his whakapapa is:
Mother: Raiharangihakume; Raiha; Rangihakume. Father: John NOBLE (snr - pakeha).
Unsucceeded shares of my grandparents and his siblings exsist in a block called Moerangi and we believe these shares come from John NOBLE mother Raiharangihakume.
Can anyone help me please? Also I would like to talk to those whanau who have posted Rihitoto Wetini whakapapa.
A te wa, Edda
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Updated Aug. 8: Matt "The Tower of Power" Lauer and Al "The Sternum Choker" Roker (as Bob Costas dubbed them) received a lesson in Greco-Roman wrestling — even painfully learning what the "flying squirrel" move entails!
The duo have teamed up three previous times to try out Olympic sports, getting schooled in rhythmic gymnastics, synchronized swimming and the luge.
U.S. wrestlers Dremiel Byers and Ellis Coleman this time showed our co-anchors how to get gold, by lifting them in the air and then slamming them onto the mat.
"That's called a reverse lift," Dremiel told Al. "I call that pain," the weatherman moaned. Dremiel even got Al to yell for "mommy" once, while Matt complained of a ruptured spleen!
The two co-anchors then faced off in "one of the most anticipated" wrestling showdowns of the Olympic Games, according to Costas. NBC Sports' Mary Carillo said the entire match could come down to "breath." "If one of these two mooks had onions or garlic for lunch, that could decide the whole thing," she said.
Who won the duel? Watch the video, and see some amusing photos below.
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Al Roker lies on the floor after a particularly painful-looking move. "I'm seeing a lot of this ceiling," he joked.
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Matt learned a tough lesson: Never ask a wrestler how he got the nickname, "The Flying Squirrel."
Matt and Al face one of their worst nightmares: Wearing more spandex!
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Matt Lauer and Al Roker have gyrated as gymnasts, swam in synch and slid down an icy track — and they're up for more!
Our fearless co-anchors will reveal their fourth Olympic event tomorrow morning.
The particular sport is always a closely guarded secret. TODAY.com pried one hint out of producer Jen Long: "The world's Spandex supply just took another hit."
That fact alone promises it'll be another gold medal-winning effort.
Vote on which sport you'd like Matt and Al to test out, and relive their three previous performances below.
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The Missing Pesach Silver
In the little Lithuanian town of Vabolninkas there lived a saintly woman by the name of Batsheva Shach. Her charitable deeds were legendary. Despite her own limited means she would deliver baskets of food at the doors of poor families in town and quickly depart before anyone became aware of her good deed.
Her charitable activities reached their peak when the need arose to provide funds for the wedding of an orphaned girl. As she racked her brain for some way to help the poor kallah, her eyes fell upon the closed cabinet containing silver vessels that her husband had given her as an outright gift. These were precious vessels that were used only on Pesach and she was sentimentally attached to them. Without even informing her husband she opened the cabinet and delivered the vessels into the hands of the trustees collecting for the wedding.
When Pesach came and her husband opened the cabinet in order to decorate the Seder table, he asked his wife where the vessels were. Her reply was that those vessels helped establish a Jewish home.
This was the woman whose son, Rabbi Eliezer Shach, was destined to become a leader of world Jewry.


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freedee necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 36 diseños de 12 diseñadores freelance.
Edutainment - play and learn
In this project we aim to bring modern creative learning methods into the somewhat conservative way of teaching throughout Europe in lower secondary educations.
Project outcomes will be a pedagogic model comprising:
A teacher training course tested in pilot runs in all partner countries. The course will enable teachers to adapt their present teaching materials into game based/scenario based format
Teaching materials developed for the pilot test runs and subsequent courses demonstrating the used of game based learning materials
Electronic learning platforms in the partner countries through which parts of the courses will be delivered, and which will also function as hotline and resource databases.
A handbook describing exactly how game based learning pedagogy can be included in teaching.
The logo have to be very simple, ideally containing only black or white and a the two colorcodes below.
Graphics/Symbols only. No text. The logo should bring the audience minds to think about how games or interactive medias could add extra value to the teaching process using technologies that students use in their everyday life.
Symbols could be joysticks, gamecontrollers, university hats or the like.
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Dark blue-green Photoshop: 00A1B0
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light blue-green Photoshop: B1D8DF
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- Bahrain Grand Prix
Bahrain Grand Prix threatened by political unrest
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Decision on Bahrain GP next week - Ecclestone
- Article:
GP2 race scrapped as Bahrain protests worsen
- Feature:
The waiting game
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Alternative venue 'impractical' if Bahrain GP scrapped
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- Bernie Ecclestone
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Concerns are growing the season opener in Bahrain may be cancelled as political tensions inside the state continue to spill over. Protests against the monarchy have escalated recently in the light of events in Tunisia and Egypt, and two people have been killed as the authorities attempt to clamp down.
Bernie Ecclestone is concerned the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix could be used by the country's anti-government protestors to gain publicity for their cause after the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights, a campaign group in support of reform, has warned that the grand prix on March 13 could become a target.
"For sure F1 is not going to be peaceful this time," said Nabeel Rajab, vice president of Bahrain Center for Human Rights told Arabian Business. "There'll be lots of journalists, a lot of people looking and [the government] will react in a stupid manner as they did today and yesterday. And that will be bloody but will be more publicised. This will not stop, especially now when people [have] died. I don't think it's going to stop easily."
"We are monitoring the situation very carefully and we know we will have to make a decision very quickly," Ecclestone said. "It is a great shame because Bahrain have worked very hard to get their grand prix, but we have to be aware of what is going on there.
"We will be watching every day so that we can inform the teams as soon as possible when we know whether it is safe to go ahead."
In reality, F1 bosses have less than a fortnight to make a decision as the fourth and final testing session is due to start on March 3 and so teams will start arriving as early as February 28. It is possible the tests could be scrapped and the grand prix still go ahead, but that would only buy Ecclestone another week.
Aside from the possibility of protests, the other issue is security for the teams, media and spectators, although the Bahrain race does not attract the same numbers of tourists as other grands prix.
"There are realities on the ground that we need to accept," an FIA spokesman told Associated Press. "But the FIA is fully confident, with the Bahrain motor federation, that the situation will be resolved amicably."
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner acknowledged the threat but said there was no alarming news about the situation emerging from the venue at present - his GP2 team Arden is competing in Bahrain this weekend. "I spoke to the team yesterday and they didn't mention any concerns and hopefully that race will go ahead as planned," he told Reuters.
A GP2 spokesperson told the Guardian: "The teams at the track have reported nothing shocking. There is no concern and GP2 will be running this weekend."


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Healthcare enterprises are not just creating new products and services; they're beginning to shape new digital industries. From technology standards, to ethical norms, to government mandates, in an ecosystem-driven digital economy, one thing is clear: A wide scope of rules still needs to be defined, especially in a highly regulated industry. To fulfil their digital ambitions, healthcare enterprises must take on a leadership role to help shape the new rules of the game. Those who take the lead will find a place at or near the centre of their new healthcare ecosystems, while those that don't risk being left behind.
The entire future of healthcare's digitally enabled transformation is, in many ways, uncharted. But to set the industry on the right course, healthcare organisations must take responsibility for shaping the future by shifting from market taker to market shaper—defining the rules, establishing the governance and determining how to protect all participants in the ecosystem—to shape the healthcare ecosystem of the future. By working collaboratively with regulators, standards bodies, and other ecosystem stakeholders, successful progress into the uncharted is possible.
Healthcare technology is advancing quickly as cloud, artificial intelligence, mobility, Internet of Health Things and blockchain emerge to transform care delivery and health administration. Consumer and clinician expectations are also changing at a rapid pace alongside technology change, creating a perfect storm of healthcare transformation. However, many regulatory frameworks have not evolved at the same speed.
Standards and policies related to digital technology use in healthcare will need to adapt along with new care and reimbursement models. For instance, virtual care allows clinicians to treat patients regardless of where they are. Yet aspects of licensure limit who can practice medicine in-state versus out of state. In fact, some states require patients to be in a physical clinical setting to conduct a virtual visit versus at home or on the go, minimising the impact of location independence.
Other industries are recognising that the rules need to be reshaped in the digital era. Financial services has long been an industry leader in adapting standards as technology change occurs. Healthcare must do the same. Industry leaders and consortiums will need to create new rules and regulations that strike the right balance between security, privacy and trust amid the high stakes of healthcare. The longer they wait, the more behind the industry will be.
In this ecosystem world, data is traveling across a variety of traditional and non-traditional healthcare players and their platforms. Therefore, data must not only be secure where it is stored, it must be protected as it travels across the ecosystem. Companies participating in the ecosystem must all play a role in ensuring their technology is secure and that sensitive data is protected—wherever it may go.
Trust is also critical to keeping the ecosystem going. To build and maintain trust, healthcare organisations must work collaboratively to solve new challenges related to technology. In an era when technology can be trained to do what people want—good or bad—governance must guard the ecosystem against ill intentions and inappropriate use of resources. By working together, ecosystem participants will create a trusted environment where information is shared and used in the best interest of people.
|68% of health executives believe their organisations are entering entirely new digital industries.
|66% of health executives agree that many innovations their organisations are working on fall into gray regulatory areas.
|42% of health organisations have already joined a consortium to self-regulate.
Industry leaders from finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and technology are coming together at Hyperledger, an open source collaboration developing cross-industry blockchain technologies.
Hyperledger has a working group dedicated to exploring appropriate applications for blockchain technology in the healthcare industry. By having business and technical conversations, this group intends to help the industry realise the full potential of open source blockchain technologies.


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"Bless Me, Ultima" - The book is a widely read and critically acclaimed piece of Chicano literature that also has been quite divisive since its publication in 1972. Some critics and parents have decried Rudolfo Anaya's novel as anti-Catholic or too profane and pushed to have it banned from school districts across the country. The movie is a mostly gentle and tastefully photographed depiction of a young boy's coming of age in rural 1940s New Mexico. His maturation includes a questioning of the Catholic faith of his parents and a curiosity about the Native American mysticism of his elders. But such musings feel more like an inherent part of the progression into adolescence, a fine-tuning of identity, rather than an intentionally subversive force. Besides, Luke Ganalon, who plays the boy at the center of the story, couldn't be a more adorably precocious and optimistic little scamp. What sort of damage could he possibly do? Writer-director Carl Franklin presents the journey of Ganalon's character, the wide-eyed Antonio Marez, in ways that are restrained and sometimes even stiff, despite the magic and violence that co-exist alongside each other. But there is an earnestness and genuine sense of affection here that are appealing. An elderly curandera, or folk healer (the formidable Miriam Colon), has come to spend her final days with Antonio's family in their modest home. Whispers in town that Ultima is a witch add to her mystery, but her inner kindness becomes obvious. PG-13 for some violence and sexual references. 100 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.
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He was 25 in the mid 1960s, meaning that he saw a lot of discrimination. He handled that the way we want people to handle it, from within the system. He was Chief of Staff to Mayor Dinkins, and along with Norman Steisel, basically ran City Hall from 1989 to 1993. No matter what you feel about his politics or how he handled City Hall during the Dinkins years, he approached public policy the right way.
The years that Dinkins was mayor may not go down in history as the city's best. The economy was weak nationally; there was racial strife. Dinkins was still in the shadow of Ed Koch, while trying to develop his own political identity at City Hall.
People like Lynch are important to any city administration. Rudy Giuliani had Peter Powers as his right-hand man. Mike Bloomberg had a few "besties," but I would say Ed Skyler was the most important.
It makes you wonder who the top candidates for mayor this year have as their "go-to" people. These top advisors are pivotal to an administration, as they do a lot of the behind-the-scenes preparation.
Regardless of what history says about any administration, it takes yeoman's work to run City Hall. It is a place where there are so many moving parts to this complex city that success can be allusive. Bill Lynch remained relevant in New York City (and national) politics for a long time, and to that we tip our hats.
Stringer Can Still Win
Although the Republican Party is running an impressive candidate for comptroller in John Burnett, all of the attention so far has been on the Democratic primary.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer was supposed to breeze through this process. He was supposed to win the general election, as well. But enter Eliot Spitzer.
Spitzer is a known quantity throughout the city, Stringer is not. A Manhattan borough president is usually best known in Manhattan. But Stringer should be getting party support from all over the place. He did, after all, take himself out of the mayor's race to be a team player.
Spitzer is outspending him, which should come as no shock since Spitzer has a lot of his own money. The primary voters may see things differently, however.
Stringer can still win this primary next month, but his strategy of "taking off the gloves" and going after Spitzer's dubious past may not be a wise move. He could make Spitzer look sympathetic.
Primaries, unfortunately, are about parties more than they are about the city itself. Party Democrats do not need to be reminded of what Governor Spitzer did. They need to be reminded of the sacrifice Stringer made for his party.
For registered Democrats, all 2.8 million of them, Stringer might be the safer bet. If Stringer can stay relevant in this race for another month and get some visible party support, the money Spitzer is spending may not matter as much.


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The radiation levels in Kyoto and Tokyo have been stable. Kyoto has no influence from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Kyoto 0.041 microsievert/hour (average background radiation level in Kyoto : 0.033 - 0.087 microsievert/hour). No health risk in Kyoto.
Tokyo 0.063 microsievert/hour (average background radiation level is Tokyo: 0.028 - 0.079 microsievert/hour). No health risk in Tokyo.
You can compare with the natural background radiation level in your city or country with the radiation level in Kyoto and Tokyo. Then, you can decide whether you will visit Japan as you planned originally or not.
The radiation levels of some major cities in the world is available on the Japan National Tourism Oganization's website:
More about background radiation on Wikipedia
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Hobson, Jeff - Hobson: Fabulous Mysteries (2 DVD Set)
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- Fifteen commercial routines full of comedy and visuals
- Bonus footage of Hobson's Salt Pour act from 1981
- Featuring 15 commercial effects, our Hobson: Fabulous Mysteries 2-DVD set notably reveals the secrets of Hobson's show-stopping Watch Steal techniques. These are the methods that Hobson has used around the world to floor audiences and generate frequent standing ovations!
The other effects are all solid and practical mysteries encompassing close-up, card tricks, stand-up, comedy, and manipulations. His Signed Silk in Apple and Double Salt Pour are just two of the many visual ingenuities featured in the set.
You also receive lessons in Hobson's personal arsenal of gimmicks like his Logical Match Pull and Simplicity Microphone Holder. As a bonus, Hobson's explanations offer you extensive valuable professional advice on performing in real-world conditions, routining, and showmanship.
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|Working Group I: The Scientific Basis
|Other reports in this collection
Executive Summary
Considerable advances have been made in the understanding of processes and
feedbacks in the climate system. This has led to a better representation of
processes and feedbacks in numerical climate models, which have become much
more comprehensive. Because of the presence of non-linear processes in the climate
system, deterministic projections of changes are potentially subject to uncertainties
arising from sensitivity to initial conditions or to parameter settings. Such
uncertainties can be partially quantified from ensembles of climate change integrations,
made using different models starting from different initial conditions. They
necessarily give rise to probabilistic estimates of climate change. This results
in more quantitative estimates of uncertainties and more reliable projections
of anthropogenic climate change. While improved parametrizations have built
confidence in some areas, recognition of the complexity in other areas has not
indicated an overall reduction or shift in the current range of uncertainty
of model response to changes in atmospheric composition.
Atmospheric feedbacks largely control climate sensitivity. Important progress
has been made in the understanding of those processes, partly by utilising new
data against which models can be compared. Since the Second Assessment Report
(IPCC, 1996) (hereafter SAR), there has been a better appreciation of the complexity
of the mechanisms controlling water vapour distribution. Within the boundary
layer, water vapour increases with increasing temperatures. In the free troposphere
above the boundary layer, where the greenhouse effect of water vapour is most
important, the situation is less amenable to straightforward thermodynamic arguments.
In models, increases in water vapour in this region are the most important reason
for large responses to increased greenhouse gases.
Water vapour feedback, as derived from current models, approximately doubles
the warming from what it would be for fixed water vapour. Since the SAR, major
improvements have occurred in the treatment of water vapour in models, although
detrainment of moisture from clouds remains quite uncertain and discrepancies
exist between model water vapour distributions and those observed. It is likely
that some of the apparent discrepancy is due to observational error and shortcomings
in intercomparison methodology. Models are capable of simulating the moist and
very dry regions observed in the tropics and sub-tropics and how they evolve
with the seasons and from year to year, indicating that the models have successfully
incorporated the basic processes governing water vapour distribution. While
reassuring, this does not provide a definitive check of the feedbacks, though
the balance of evidence favours a positive clear-sky water vapour feedback of
a magnitude comparable to that found in simulations.
Probably the greatest uncertainty in future projections of climate arises
from clouds and their interactions with radiation. Cloud feedbacks depend upon
changes in cloud height, amount, and radiative properties, including short-wave
absorption. The radiative properties depend upon cloud thickness, particle size,
shape, and distribution and on aerosol effects. The evolution of clouds depends
upon a host of processes, mainly those governing the distribution of water vapour.
The physical basis of the cloud parametrizations included into the models has
also been greatly improved. However, this increased physical veracity has not
reduced the uncertainty attached to cloud feedbacks: even the sign of this feedback
remains unknown. A key issue, which also has large implications for changes
in precipitation, is the sensitivity of sub-grid scale dynamical processes,
turbulent and convective, to climate change. It depends on sub-grid features
of surface conditions such as orography. Equally important are microphysical
processes, which have only recently been introduced explicitly in the models,
and carry major uncertainties. The possibility that models underestimate solar
absorption in clouds remains controversial, as does the effect of such an underestimate
on climate sensitivity. The importance of the structure of the stratosphere
and both radiative and dynamical processes have been recognised, and limitations
in representing stratospheric processes add some uncertainty to model results.
Considerable improvements have taken place in modelling ocean processes. In conjunction with an increase in resolution, these improvements have, in some models, allowed a more realistic simulation of the transports and air-sea fluxes of heat and fresh water, thereby reducing the need for flux adjustments in coupled models. These improvements have also contributed to better simulations of natural large-scale circulation patterns such as El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the oceanic response to atmospheric variability associated with the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO). However, significant deficiencies in ocean models remain. Boundary currents in climate simulations are much weaker and wider than in nature, though the consequences of this fact for the global climate sensitivity are not clear. Improved parametrizations of important sub-grid scale processes, such as mesoscale eddies, have increased the realism of simulations but important details are still under debate. Major uncertainties still exist with the representation of small-scale processes, such as overflows and flow through narrow channels (e.g., between Greenland and Iceland), western boundary currents (i.e., large-scale narrow currents along coastlines), convection, and mixing.
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