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Tags: "Building a billion pixel detector for the Large Hadron Collider, Accelerator Science ( 898 ), Basic Research ( 11,467 ), CERN ALICE ( 49 ), HEP ( 1,134 ), Particle Physics ( 1,610 ), QGP-quark-gluon plasma" ( 8 ), STFC - Science and Technology Facilities Council ( 19 ), STFC's Daresbury Laboratory
From Science and Technology Facilities Council: "Building a billion pixel detector for the Large Hadron Collider"
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STFC Daresbury Laboratory-Hub for Pioneering Research
Quark-Gluon Plasma from BNL RHIC
'Perfect liquid' quark-gluon plasma is the most vortical fluid from phys.org
The Daresbury-Liverpool team is building 30 staves of this new generation of sensor, each containing millions of pixels. The staves, which frame and support the sensors, are now being carefully transported to CERN in batches every six weeks until the end of September, where they will be tested before being installed, officially making ALICE a billion pixel detector.
Dr Roy Lemmon, physicist and lead for the ALICE upgrade project at STFC's Daresbury Laboratory, which is located at Sci-Tech Daresbury, said: "This project highlights the skills and significant role of the UK's researchers in the development of new generations of technology for, in this case, ALICE, part of the world's largest science experiment. It's very exciting to be part of something that will not only help solve our science challenges, but which could also impact our lives in a really positive way, such as through improvements in medical imaging, through the development of new technologies."
STFC Hartree Centre
Helping build a globally competitive, knowledge-based UK economy
We are a world-leading multi-disciplinary science organisation, and our goal is to deliver economic, societal, scientific and international benefits to the UK and its people – and more broadly to the world. Our strength comes from our distinct but interrelated functions:
Universities: we support university-based research, innovation and skills development in astronomy, particle physics, nuclear physics, and space science
Scientific Facilities: we provide access to world-leading, large-scale facilities across a range of physical and life sciences, enabling research, innovation and skills training in these areas
National Campuses: we work with partners to build National Science and Innovation Campuses based around our National Laboratories to promote academic and industrial collaboration and translation of our research to market through direct interaction with industry
Inspiring and Involving: we help ensure a future pipeline of skilled and enthusiastic young people by using the excitement of our sciences to encourage wider take-up of STEM subjects in school and future life (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)
We support an academic community of around 1,700 in particle physics, nuclear physics, and astronomy including space science, who work at more than 50 universities and research institutes in the UK, Europe, Japan and the United States, including a rolling cohort of more than 900 PhD students.
STFC-funded universities produce physics postgraduates with outstanding high-end scientific, analytic and technical skills who on graduation enjoy almost full employment. Roughly half of our PhD students continue in research, sustaining national capability and creating the bedrock of the UK's scientific excellence. The remainder – much valued for their numerical, problem solving and project management skills – choose equally important industrial, commercial or government careers.
Our large-scale scientific facilities in the UK and Europe are used by more than 3,500 users each year, carrying out more than 2,000 experiments and generating around 900 publications. The facilities provide a range of research techniques using neutrons, muons, lasers and x-rays, and high performance computing and complex analysis of large data sets.
They are used by scientists across a huge variety of science disciplines ranging from the physical and heritage sciences to medicine, biosciences, the environment, energy, and more. These facilities provide a massive productivity boost for UK science, as well as unique capabilities for UK industry.
Our two Campuses are based around our Rutherford Appleton Laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire, and our Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire – each of which offers a different cluster of technological expertise that underpins and ties together diverse research fields.
The combination of access to world-class research facilities and scientists, office and laboratory space, business support, and an environment which encourages innovation has proven a compelling combination, attracting start-ups, SMEs and large blue chips such as IBM and Unilever.
We think our science is awesome – and we know students, teachers and parents think so too. That's why we run an extensive Public Engagement and science communication programme, ranging from loans to schools of Moon Rocks, funding support for academics to inspire more young people, embedding public engagement in our funded grant programme, and running a series of lectures, travelling exhibitions and visits to our sites across the year.
Ninety per cent of physics undergraduates say that they were attracted to the course by our sciences, and applications for physics courses are up – despite an overall decline in university enrolment.
← From University of Utah: "New phenomenon discovered that fixes a common problem in lasers: Wavelength splitting"
From CERN- "LS2 report: The Proton Synchrotron's magnets prepare for higher energies" →


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Darryl Worley is the third studio album by the American country music singer of the same name, released on November 2, 2004. Like his previous three albums, it was released on the DreamWorks Records Nashville label. The lead-off single, "Awful, Beautiful Life", became Worley's third and final Number One hit on the Hot Country Songs charts. "If Something Should Happen" made Top Ten on the same chart, while "I Love Her, She Hates Me" peaked at #59. After the latter single was released, DreamWorks was closed, and Worley exited for 903 music, a label started by Neal McCoy.

Track listing

Personnel
 Jim "Moose" Brown - Hammond organ, piano
 Melodie Crittenden - choir
 Eric Darken - percussion, vibraphone
 Matt Davich - clarinet
 Kevin "Swine" Grantt - bass guitar
 Aubrey Haynie - fiddle, mandolin
 Wes Hightower - choir, background vocals
 Steve Hinson - dobro, steel guitar
 Sharif Iman - choir
 Greg Morrow - drums, percussion, shaker
 Joe Murphy - tuba
 Kim Parent - choir
 Neal Rosengarden - trumpet
 Brent Rowan - baritone guitar, electric guitar
 Chris Stapleton - background vocals
 Bryan Sutton - banjo, acoustic guitar, hi-string guitar
 Darryl Worley - lead vocals
 Curtis Wright - background vocals

Chart performance

References

2004 albums
Darryl Worley albums
DreamWorks Records albums
Albums produced by Frank Rogers (record producer)

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It's widely accepted now in the clinical research community that bringing a clinical program's processes and systems together in a single platform is a good thing. So why is making this shift towards greater trial efficiency seemingly still out of reach?
On the surface, it's a daunting change: drug development programs are no longer single studies, but expansive umbrella trials testing different combinations of the investigational agent in numerous indication and multiple countries (think: Keynote trials for immunotherapy).Pulling information from the different sites and systems involved in international programs of this scale, and ensuring that it complies with regulatory requirements, is no mean feat.
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Dot watching for September isn't quite over. I don't know that most/any of us have any horses in this race, but I know ARC is a race that is among the more intriguing to me personally.
I'm excited to look at the tracking page and course info more. And pics of course.
I was looking at a photo of the limestone karst section. Such tricky nav!
I'm also taken by all the caves and canyons. It looks like a beautiful course!
The RD says at the end of the film that he's on a five-year development plan with Croatia's Tourism Board and the ARWS, culminating with hosting the ARWC in 2022.
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December 2018 AppDate Alumni Newsletter message
AppDate, the December 2018 Alumni Newsletter
We close the 2018 fall semester with a few striking numbers: More than 1,600 students crossed the stage at commencement last Saturday; more than 15 inches of snow blanketed the campus during Diego; we hosted the very first Sun Belt Conference Championship Game; won our fourth bowl game in so many years; and hired one terrific new head coach!
Congrats to our graduates
Twice each year, I have the privilege of addressing our graduating students. I am mindful of the years of diligence and hard work it has taken for them to reach this point, and of the sacrifices they and their families have made to enroll and succeed here.
I am sure you recall the elation and anticipation of moving on after graduation. I hope you will take a moment to read about some of your fellow alumni and their successes since graduation. You are an impressive group! I am confident the newest graduates of the Class of 2018 will have equally impressive stories to share.
The big snow
As we dug out after Winter Storm Diego, our campus fared well. We made some adjustments for exam week, encouraging faculty to offer online options. Crews worked nonstop to clear roads, sidewalks and parking areas, and students took breaks from studying to play in the snow. You may have seen a group of them waving to family and friends alongside Jim Cantore from The Weather Channel, who was reporting live from Boone over the snowy weekend.
Below you can find links to news stories we published about the record-breaking snow:
In bad weather, how does App State decide what to do?
After the storm — App State digs out
Go Mountaineers!
Four bowls, four wins! It's great to be a Mountaineer! Thanks to our football team and their coaches for an outstanding season and to each of the loyal fans who represented in New Orleans. We can all look forward to a great 2019 season and No. 5 under the leadership of new coach, Eliah Drinkwitz.
I am especially proud of all of our student-athletes — both on the field and off. Appalachian's most recently lauded student-athlete graduation success rate is 85 percent. In fall 2017, Appalachian Athletics posted its 11th consecutive semester with a grade point average above 3.0 for Mountaineer student-athletes. The 2017 fall semester GPA was 3.07 for all of athletics.
Read about one recent student-athlete alumnus — Demetrius McCray — who, after playing in the NFL for four years, returned to Appalachian to graduate last Saturday. Congrats Demetrius and all the fellow student-athlete graduates.
This has been an extraordinary year. Our future looks promising, too. Keep up with all the progress here — we are updating regularly. I also invite you to follow my Twitter and Facebook pages, and stay in touch with what's happening at Appalachian.
My best wishes to you all for a safe, restful and happy holiday.

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EGYPT (CBS Local) – It's believed that ancient Egyptians took their treasured possessions with them when they were mummified. What's treasure to some, of course, may be something else to else. In one case, it looks like one Egyptian took a snack with him after archeologists say they've discovered the world's oldest piece of cheese in an ancient tomb.
According to a study, published in Analytical Chemistry, researchers found a jar containing a "solidified whitish mass" in a 13th century BC tomb. The tomb is believed to belong to Ptahmes, mayor of Memphis in Egypt and first discovered in 1885. The tomb was reportedly lost under drifting sands and wasn't unearthed again until 2010.
Scientists from Italy and Egypt dissolved the white mass, revealing it was made out of proteins which turned out to be cow milk and sheep or goat milk. A canvas fabric the ancient milk was wrapped in led researchers to conclude this was a block of solid cheese left in Ptahmes' tomb.
Although some cheeses increase in flavor with age, no one will be snacking on this rare find. The study added that the ancient cheese was likely contaminated with Brucella melitensis, a potentially deadly bacteria which is spread from animals to people through eating unpasteurized dairy products.
If confirmed, it would be the oldest discovery of the disease brucellosis ever recorded.


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If you've been following our coverage of Ben Coes' forthcoming novel, Trap The Devil, the seventh installment in his bestselling Dewey Andreas franchise, then you know how high we are on this book heading into the new year.
While Trap The Devil won't officially hit bookstore shelves until next June 27th, we managed to get our hands on an early look at the explosive plot details and, well, it's intense!
"A group of some of the most powerful people in the government, the military, and the private sector has begun a brutal plan to quietly take over the reins of the U.S. government. They've begun to remove the people who stand in their way—and replace them with their own sympathizers and puppets. They've already taken out the Speaker of the House—whose death was made to look like an accidental drowning—and the president and vice president are next. Once they have their own people in place, they plan to start a bloody, brutal war on an unimaginable scale.
On restricted duty while he recovers from injuries incurred on a previous mission, Dewey Andreas is sent to Paris by CIA Director Hector Calibrisi. The Secretary of State is going there for secret talks and Dewey is to be an extra layer of security above the State Department team. But what should be an easy mission couldn't go more wrong. The cabal has sent in a hit man to take out the Secretary of State and lay the blame for this murder at the feet of Dewey himself.
Right off the bat, we just gotta say that this artwork looks awesome! It's like a cross between the covers for Coes' First Strike and The Last Refuge, both of which look great on bookshelves.
Also, like with Coup d'Etat and Independence Day, the author's name appears at the top instead of the bottom, where it sat below the title for Power Down, Eye For An Eye, The Last Refuge, and First Strike.
Once again, Trap The Devil doesn't come out until June 27, 2o17, but it is available for pre-order wherever books are sold–just click here to submit your order today. And don't forget to check back in early 2017 for our review of Coes' next highly-anticipated Dewey Andreas thriller!


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Ohio man who held 3 women captive hangs himself
ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
AP Legal Affairs Writer
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Cleveland man serving a life sentence for holding three women captive in his home for a decade hanged himself in his prison cell, officials said Wednesday in another shocking twist in the case that transfixed and appalled the city.
Ariel Castro, 53, was found hanging Tuesday night at the state prison in Orient, said JoEllen Smith, a spokeswoman for the corrections system. Prison medical staff performed CPR before Castro was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
"He took the coward's way out," said Elsie Cintron, a neighbor who lived up the street from the former school bus driver. "We're sad to hear that he's dead, but at the same time, we're happy he's gone, and now we know he can't ask for an appeal or try for one if he's acting like he's crazy."
Through a spokeswoman, his three victims declined to comment.
Castro was sentenced Aug. 1 to life in prison plus 1,000 years after pleading guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping and rape, in a deal to avoid the death penalty. At his sentencing, he told the judge: "I'm not a monster. I'm sick."
In a scornful statement Wednesday, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Tim McGinty said: "This man couldn't take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade."
Castro had been in a cell by himself in protective custody because of his notoriety, meaning he was checked every 30 minutes, but was not on a suicide watch, which entails constant supervision, Smith said.
An autopsy showed the death was suicide by hanging, said Dr. Jan Gorniak, Franklin County coroner. Officials gave no further details on how he killed himself.
Castro's captives — Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight — disappeared separately between 2002 and 2004, when they were 14, 16 and 20 years old. They were rescued from Castro's home on May 6 when Berry broke out a screen door and yelled to neighbors.
Elation over the women's rescue turned to shock as details emerged about their captivity. Castro fathered a child with Berry while she was being held. The girl was 6 when she was freed.
Investigators also disclosed that the women were bound with chains, repeatedly raped and deprived of food and bathroom facilities. Knight told authorities she was beaten and starved to force her to miscarry over and over.
On Castro's old street Wednesday, freshly planted landscaping was in bloom on the site where his house stood before it was demolished by the city a month ago. Satellite TV trucks returned to record the scene.
Castro's suicide "does give a little bit of closure to the families and people that got affected by what he did," resident Jessica Burchett said, "but at the same time he deserved to be in there for his life because of what he did to those girls."
No one answered the door at the home of Castro's mother and brother.
His lawyers tried unsuccessfully to have a psychological examination of Castro done in jail before he was turned over to state authorities following his guilty plea, his attorney, Jaye Schlachet, said Wednesday. Schlachet would not comment further.
Members of the Guardian Angels volunteer patrol group stationed themselves in their red berets outside DeJesus' home and said her family didn't want to be bothered as the community absorbed the news.
"I ask the community to continue to respect the privacy of the survivors so that they can move forward with their lives," Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said in a statement.
The prison where Castro hanged himself, a so-called reception center for newly arrived inmates, is filled with nearly twice the 900 prisoners it was meant to hold, according to state data.
Stress is high and assaults are up at the prison, but Tim Shafer, an official with the guards' union, said: "Just like out in the public, suicides happen, and you just can't prevent every one of them."
Castro was watched closely in the Cuyahoga County Jail in the several weeks between his arrest and his guilty plea, with logs noting his activity every 10 minutes. He was taken off the suicide watch in June after authorities concluded he was not a suicide risk.
In an interview last month, Castro's lawyers said that their client clearly fit the profile of someone with a sociopathic disorder and that they hoped researchers would study him for clues that could be used to stop other predators.
Associated Press writers Thomas J. Sheeran in Cleveland and Kantele Franko in Columbus contributed to this report.
Andrew Welsh-Huggins can be reached on Twitter at https://twitter.com/awhcolumbus.


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UAA occupational therapy: 'I want to be part of that'
by Tracy Kalytiak | November 15, 2016
Jacqueline Solano is a student working toward her occupational therapy doctorate degree through UAA's occupational therapy education partnership with Creighton University. (Photo by Philip Hall / University of Alaska Anchorage)
Finding a career in medicine has always been Jacqueline Solano's goal. Nursing was her original career choice when she started college. As a certified nursing assistant, she spent a summer working at Providence Alaska Medical Center's transitional care unit and met a patient who changed her life-a woman in her late 60s who had just had a stroke.
"I really fell in love with her," Solano said. "She couldn't really do anything with the whole left side of her body. She had adaptive equipment she needed for her hand, her leg, for eating-built-up spoons, a food guard around her plate to assist in getting food onto her utensils. I wanted to cry. Imagine having to be waited on, having someone feed you, dress you, move you-being so vulnerable."
Occupational therapists gradually brought the woman back to having a closer-to-independent life. Then, it was time for her to go home with her supportive family.
"I was like, 'Look at these people! They did that for her! I want to be part of that,'" Solano said. "Physically being able to see the difference, it was really cool."
Forming connections and careers
What exactly is occupational therapy?
"Physical therapy helps you move your body," Solano explained. "Occupational therapy helps you put those motions into meaningful action. How can we make your life easier? Can we give you adaptive equipment, techniques or different ideas? We want you to be able to do all the things you want to do, as independently as possible."
Solano enrolled in the 3.5-year Creighton University/UAA occupational therapy program, a hybrid distance-traditional instruction program that admits about 12 students each fall term.
UAA's partner, Creighton, is a Jesuit Catholic university located in Omaha, Neb. It launched the nation's first entry-level occupational therapy doctorate program in 1999 and has since reached out to form its distance initiative partnership with UAA (2008); a Greater Omaha distance initiative in 2013; and a collaboration with Regis University in Denver in 2015.
Students take full-time course loads each term, using an on-campus "apartment" outfitted with a bed, toilet and living room. The apartment and adjacent classrooms are stocked with wheelchairs, canes, tools and utensils. There are five instructors; labs are held on UAA's campus; and clinical internships take place during the second and third summers.
"The apartment was developed with the mindset that clients are often treated in a home environment, and often in a rehabilitation center with the intentions of returning home," said Diana Steer, Creighton/UAA occupational therapy academic coordinator.
Occupational therapists assist people who have experienced spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, impaired vision, or orthopedic surgical procedures, she said.
"These individuals need to live as independently as possible, and hopefully return to a productive life," Steer said, adding that the apartment will serve as a classroom not only for the occupational therapy doctoral students but also for students of future rehabilitative therapies such as the UA physical therapy assistant program.
Students who complete the program receive an occupational therapy doctorate from Creighton University and are eligible to sit for the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy examination.
Solano is in the midst of her first semester.
"We've gone over basic assessment tools: blood pressure, pulse," she said. "If you went in to see the doctor, what the first person would do."
Solano helped out at a health fair in Girdwood-"Which I love, really getting out with the public, helping out." And, she's preparing to job shadow with an occupational therapist in Mat-Su: "She has her OTD from Creighton as well," Solano said.
Moving back into normal life
OTs can work with the tiniest infants in the neonatal intensive care unit to adults facing the challenges of old age.
"The big emphasis settings are probably pediatrics and physical rehab," she said, "but it encompasses everyone."
In a NICU setting, Solano said, what's important to a baby is eating, perhaps breastfeeding techniques, making sure they don't have a swallowing issue or a problem with their tongue that keeps them from getting food.
Occupational therapists help people who are having difficulties with movement of various kinds.
"In a school setting, that might be if you're having trouble with handwriting, scissor cutting," she said. "I shadowed here at a local elementary and there was a second-grader with cerebral palsy. One of her goals was to be able to put on her snow gear as fast as all the other kids. The therapy session was 30 minutes of toning and strengthening exercises as well as the activity of putting on the snow gear."
That girl progressed to the point where she was able to put on all of her snow gear in about 8-10 minutes.
"Her therapist told me when she originally started coming for therapy, it took her about that time just to put on a jacket and mittens," Solano said.
Occupational therapists help adults conquer a multitude of challenges-from spinal injuries suffered in a car crash to recovering from a stroke to learning how to perform tasks after having an amputation to creating a system of sticky notes, alarm clocks, journaling and list-making to keep Alzheimer's patients on track.
"That's what I love about OT," Solano said. "It's so diverse, so encompassing of everything."
OT students learn creative ways to help their patients access items or substitutes for items they need to learn or enhance physical skills.
"Some people don't have weights," Solano said, "so they'll tell them to use a can of soup. Because you're still having that same hand position and you're still getting the weight there, but it's a can of soup."
The program offers a curriculum that dovetails with training "fieldworks."
"The first one has to be in mental health, so we'll do that at Alaska Psychiatric Institute (API)," she said. "The second one is physical rehabilitation, and the third one has to be at a pediatric clinic, because that's the semester we're learning about [pediatrics]. As you're learning things, you're getting on-site training. You can see things firsthand: 'Oh, I knew this and this is how it gets implemented.' Or, 'I didn't know about that' and you go back to studying and learn more."
Students reach master's level proficiency after two years, and doctorate level after three.
"The big difference between the master's and doctorate is the research component and the inclusion of a doctoral experiential component," Solano said. A doctoral experiential component, she said, is a 16-week experience in which students research a topic or setting of occupational therapy that interests them or that they see a need for OT in.
Solano is most interested in researching hand therapy but she and others in her research group are more likely going to explore strokes, traumatic brain injuries and associated rehabilitation practices.
"Reaching the goal of having an OTD for me means I will possess the didactic necessities as well as practicum skills needed to join a health profession I love," she said. "I'll be able to help people, and change lives for the better."
Written by Tracy Kalytiak, UAA Office of University Advancement
"UAA occupational therapy: 'I want to be part of that'" is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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A kiosk is a separate electronic computer terminal that allows the users to access information service. Traditional kiosks such as Automated Teller Machines (ATM) use software application with graphical user interfaces similar to normal computer system to allow users to accomplish their transaction tasks. However, this interaction mode has been proven to be difficult to use and not user-friendly for almost half of self-service users. A new type of interactive service kiosk which uses remote Video Mediated Communication (VMC) technology is to provide face-to-face talking with a customer servant to achieve the goal. Interactive VMC-based service kiosk is a tool that can be utilized in information technology field, bringing its customer convenience and close care to the virtual network. Differ from previous automated kiosk technologies which were concentrated on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), VMC-based kiosk puts emphasis on human-to-human interface technology. It's not only providing easier user situation for personal services but also bringing benefits for service providers due to the customized service VMC-based service kiosks offered. VMC-based kiosk service utilizes cost-saving goals accomplished meanwhile gives stimulations to achieve a new scale of perspectives and possibilities in the right direction for the company. The target for the thesis is to exploit remote car rental service using VMC-based kiosk solution and analyze its attributions relate to another three service areas, banking, travelling and reception, in order to find out in what kinds of intended future services VMC technology can be beneficial. For the purpose, this case study uses qualitative approach with scenario-based prototyping and user testing. The test results were gathered in a real use environment where nine people used the prototype and were interviewed in situ. The use situations and interviews were video recorded and transcribed for qualitative content analysis. Based on testing participants' experience and feedbacks, the three testing cases indicated that interactive kiosk services using VMC technology in general was considered positive and well accepted. This study also clearly showed that remote VMC-based kiosk service can be successfully transferred to different service areas where similar types of negotiation-based service processes are common. By VMC-based kiosks services, customers can be offered face-to-face talk as a natural communication mode which is an overwhelmed advantage over the traditional kiosk system. Participants in study testing also felt easy and convenient in VMC-based kiosk service use by these features. Meanwhile, more concerns of how to better use of VMC-based kiosk service in other perspectives are still required in the future.
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Ximena Iniguez celebrates with her teammates following her basket Feb. 5 which put her over the 1,000-point mark.
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Bulldogs repeat as Gila Region champions
Alondra Lugo signs scholarship with Eastern Arizona College
Alek Samaniego was honored as Cochise County's top male soccer player of the year
Bulldog football coach James Fitzgerald resigned in January.
DHS softball wins Gila Region championship and hosts first round state playoff game.
Douglas' head football coach Hunter Long wins his first game beating Tanque Verde.
Douglas' Madison Green was named the Gila Region's Player of the Year for the second straight year.
Lady Apaches soccer wins ACCAC championship and hosts a semifinal playoff game.
Francisco Lugo scores a basket in December giving him 1,000 career points at DHS.
Former DHS goalie Brianna Guzman signs scholarship with Cochise College.
Homecoming at DHS. The royalty this year was Damariz Miranda and Trey Rose (queen and king), and Brendy Berthely and Daniel Larez (first attendants).
Jerry Carrillo named ACCAC Coach of the Year.
Laura Hughes named ACCAC Coach of the Year
Alonso Tapia signs scholarship with ACU.
Katie Walker honored as Gila Region's Athletic Director of the Year.
Lady Apaches win third consecutive Region 1 championship and make third straight trip to nationals.
Xinena Iniguez was named the top girls basketball player in Cochise County.
Bulldog kick off football practice in July.
Longtime Douglas Dispatch Editor Bruce Whetten was named the D-Day dedicatee.
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A look back at an action-packed year in sports
Bruce Whetten
Last year was another exciting year on the local sports scene.
We had local athletes signing scholarships, allowing them to take their skills on to the next level.
We had tournament and region champions and, coaches and athletes honored at county and state level.
Cochise College added to the excitement with the success of not only the men's and women's basketball teams, but also the baseball, soccer, and rodeo teams.
The year began with the Lady Bulldogs basketball team winning the San Carlos tournament which was soon followed by the announcement that James Fitzgerald was stepping down as head coach of the Bulldog football team so that he could accept an assistant coaching position at a college in North Carolina.
Former Douglas Bulldog, Alonso Tapia signed a volleyball scholarship to Arizona Christian University. What made this signing so unique was that Douglas has no boys' volleyball team. Tapia had been a volunteer assistant coach for the Lady Bulldogs volleyball team where he picked up the game; went to a tryout at ACU, and came away with a scholarship, allowing him to continue his education.
In late January, the Douglas Bulldog soccer team captured the Gila Region championship for the second straight year. The championship allowed the Bulldogs to host a first-round game in February where they would knock off the Glendale Cardinals, 2-0, advancing on to the second round in Flagstaff where they would lose 2-1.
On Tuesday, Feb. 5, Ximena Iniguez scored eight points in a 48-46 win over Palo Verde on Senior Night at DHS. Those eight points were enough to push her past the 1,000-point mark making her one of the select few Lady Bulldog basketball players to accomplish such a feat.
The Lady Bulldogs soccer team, who finished second in the Gila Region, fell to Salpointe 5-1 in the first round of the 4A state playoffs.
The Cochise College men's and women's basketball teams each won their respective conference championships in February.
Several weeks later, the top-seeded Apaches would end up getting upset by Eastern Arizona College 102-94 in double overtime in the first round of the Region 1 playoffs.
The Lady Apaches hosted their rivals from Central Arizona College on Friday, March 8. At stake was the Region 1 championship and a trip to nationals. Cochise won the game, 64-48, securing the Region 1 title for the third consecutive year. Unfortunately, things did not go so well at nationals as Cochise fell to Florida Southwestern, 78-75, in overtime snapping a 19-game winning streak.
Jerry Carrillo, head coach of the men and Laura Hughes, head coach of the women, were named the Region's Coach of the Year. Meanwhile, Todd Inglehart, baseball coach for the Cochise College baseball team, notched his 700th career win.
Baseball, softball, tennis and track season was underway locally. The Lady Bulldogs softball team won their own tournament in March, beating Flowing Wells 12-1 in the finals.
Douglas' "interim" athletic director Katie Walker was named by her fellow athletic directors as the Gila Region's Athletic Director of the Year. Angel Ortega, who had left Douglas the year before to become the new AD in Nogales, was hired to be Douglas' AD.
April saw the DHS baseball and softball team post winning streaks while the Apache baseball team was also cruising, at one point being ranked as high as fifth in the nation, winning the conference championship later that month earning them the right to host Central Arizona College. Cochise would end up losing two games to fourth seeded Central. What was unknown at that time was just how good this CAC team was. Central would go on later that month to become national champions after winning the Junior College World Series.
The Cochise College women's rodeo team was also crowned champions of the Grand Canyon Region in May and would later compete at the College National Finals Rodeo in Wyoming over the summer.
The Bulldog baseball team would finish second in the Gila Region and qualify for state, only to lose 11-5 to Canyon Del Oro in the first round of the playoffs.
The Lady Bulldogs won the Gila Region championship in softball. Douglas would later defeat Gila Ridge, 2-1, in a thrilling game at DHS and would advance on in the state tournament eventually being eliminated by Vista Grande.
Horse racing returned to the Cochise County Fairgrounds in May and several Douglas High School athletes were honored as the athlete of the year in their respective sport at the Best of Preps ceremony that was sponsored by the Sierra Vista Herald and Wick Communications, in early May. This event recognized the best athletes from all over Cochise County. The athletes that were honored were: Alek Samaniego, boys' soccer; Brianna Guzman, girls' soccer; Ximena Iniguez, girls' basketball; Aliana Gallego, girls wrestling, and Litzy Arevalo, Nayeli Moreno and Elian Villasenor, the cheer/dance athletes of the year.
In softball, Alondra Lugo was named the Gila Region's Player of the Year; Isabel Tanabe, the Gila Region's Defensive Player of the Year, and Lorena Tapia was honored as the Gila region's Coach of the Year.
In baseball, Diego Alan Ochoa was named the Gila Region's Defensive Player of the Year.
The month ended with a major announcement very few saw coming. Former Bulldog Hunter Long had been selected the head football coach at Douglas High School. Long would put his players through conditioning workouts all summer long, with the date of July 29 being circled as the first day of football practice.
Little League baseball as well as summer league softball seasons were in full swing. Both the baseball and softball would send All-Star teams on to their respective tournaments.
In June, it was announced that head basketball coach John Batty was stepping down. Weeks later, his assistant, Abner Cortez, was named the new head coach.
In July, Douglas' 8-10-year-old All-Stars would fall to Nogales, 7-5, in the District 8 finals that were played in Douglas. The Douglas Viper softball team would go on to compete in the Pony Softball World Series in California and finish with a 2-3 record.
July ended with football practice in full swing with the scrimmage, season opener, and the game with Bisbee, were all less than a month away.
The much-anticipated season opener with Tanque Verde scheduled for August 23, was delayed 17 hours as Mother Nature hit Douglas with a vengeance. Lighting in the area delayed the opening from Friday night to Saturday afternoon. The Bulldogs won the game, 49-7, giving Coach Long his first win as head coach while the anxiety grew in anticipation of the upcoming game with Bisbee.
Things did not go as well as fans would have liked against Bisbee as the Bulldogs were defeated 36-21, and would also lose five key players in this game, setting off what would later be deemed a season decimated by injures.
Bosco Selchow began his 30th season as head coach of the DHS golf team.
In a 45-14 loss to Silver City, the Bulldogs lost five more players to injury, starting the game with 19 players and finishing with 14.
Homecoming was scheduled for Oct. 4 against the Pueblo Warriors. Douglas would lose the game 39-14. Bruce Whetten, longtime editor of the Douglas Dispatch was this year's dedicatee. The royalty was, Damariz Miranda and Trey Rose (queen and king), Brendy Berthely and Daniel Larez (first attendants) and Cariela Miramontes and Francisco Lugo (second attendants).
The Cochise College Lady Apaches soccer team won the ACCAC championship in October and would later lose to Arizona Western 1-0 in the semifinals of the Region 1 playoffs, Halloween day. Former Lady Bulldog Brianna Guzman, who was on scholarship, playing goalie for the Lady Apaches, was named the NJCAA National Goalie of the Week once during the season and was the Region 1 Goalie of the Week on two separate occasions. Coach Peters would later be honored as the Region 1 Coach of the Year and Maria Azarias was named the Player of the Year. In December, Azarias was named an honorable mention women's soccer All-American.
The Bulldogs beat Palo Verde, 43-35, on Senior Night at DHS where 12 seniors were playing their last home game. Douglas would end its season a week later with a 48-13 loss at Rio Rico, ending the year 3-7 overall, 1-4 in region play.
Douglas' peewee Chargers won the SAYFL championship Oct. 23, capping off an undefeated season, beating the Sierra Vista Spartans 28-12.
The Chargers midget division team was also unbeaten going into their championship game with Benson, but ended up losing 20-18.
The Douglas Charger flag and midget division cheerleaders would win the Southern Arizona Youth Football and Cheer competition that was held Nov. 2 in Sierra Vista.
Madison Green was selected the Gila Region's Defensive Player of the Year In volleyball for the second straight year. The Lady Bulldogs ended the year on a six-game winning streak giving them a 10-8 overall record and a 6-4 mark in region. Unfortunately, it was not enough to get them into the state playoffs.
In cross country, Jenally Barco and Sophia Rico both qualified for the state meet in Queen Creek, finishing 93rd and 134th respectively, in the field of 178 runners.
DHS softball pitcher Alondra Lugo signed scholarship commitment papers with Eastern Arizona College in Thatcher.
Both the Apache men and women got off to hot starts in basketball in November, but then struggled in December as both teams went into the Christmas break with a 3-3 conference record.
The Bulldog basketball team beat Safford by 10 in the season opener Nov. 26, giving Cortez his first win as head coach. Bulldog Francisco Lugo would etch his name into the record books becoming the second DHS basketball player in less than a year to reach the 1,000-point mark in his career. With 11 games still to play in 2019 Lugo currently has 1,091 points.
The Lady Bulldogs soccer team finished second at their season opening tournament at Amphi; the Bulldog soccer team advanced as far as the quarterfinals of the Brandon Bean Invitational, and the Lady Bulldogs basketball team finished third at the Benson Holiday Classic.
That's a look back at the 2019 year in sports.
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Cautious return for Shanghai market
By Yuxin Yang2020-02-14T06:19:33+00:00
Huizhan market personnel are screened and regstered as they enter
Shanghai Huizhan Fruit and Vegetable Wholesale Market is slowly returning to business under stricter than usual management to combat the coronavirus, with only the main entrance open and retail stalls staying closed.
Huizhan market, which is the most important trading centre in Shanghai and East China, resumed business on 26 January, straight after Chinese New Year – in keeping with previous years.
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, however, the market management has implemented protection measures and tighter controls on operations.
'To better manage personnel entry to the market, Huizhan has currently opened only the main road, with the rest of entrances fully closed. We also closed all the retail stalls in the market, to reduce the flow of people gathering,' a spokesperson for the market management told Asiafruit.
While acknowledging that daily trading in most of the major fruit and vegetable wholesale markets in the country has been affected by the coronavirus, he said e-tail orders were generating business, and trading in market had enjoyed a visible rebound in recent days.
Shanghai and neighbouring regions still have significant demand for fresh fruit, and inside Huizhan market, more than half of the resident fruit companies have gradually resumed business, with the vast majority of wholesale stalls having reopened.
At the same time, there is strict screening in place for personnel entering the market.
'We arrange for each person to come in via a sentry box where we can check and report their temperature," said the official. "No personnel who have been on leave before the Spring Festival are allowed to come back to work before 10 February; personnel who recently returned to Shanghai from other parts of China must provide proof of a 14-day self-quarantine issued by their local residential committee. At the same time, we insist that all businesses wear masks and keep a one to two-metre distance from each other when doing business."
Operational restrictions aside, a slowdown in import clearance at Shanghai port is also having a big impact on the overall trade.
'Clearance since the outbreak has been affected by many aspects: restricted working hours in shipping companies and forwarding companies, and logistics companies delaying documents, which results in goods not getting checked," said a spokesperson for Huizhan International Trade, the customs clearance arm of the market management. "The epidemic has also affected the shipping times and capacity for imported goods coming in. But we believe that once the [coronavirus] situation is stable, things will return to normal.'
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PR's-A-Plenty for Women's Track at WHAC Meet
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The season of success continued Thursday and Friday (April 30-May 1) for Marygrove women's track as head coach Cary Ossiff and the Mustangs took on the field at the 2015 Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) Outdoor Championships. The two-day championships event was held at historic Houseman Field in Grand Rapids, Mich. – the same location as the 2013 title meet when the Mustangs made their WHAC debut.
On Thursday, the Mustangs started the conference meet with a PR in the hammer throw by sophomore Theresa Dray (Davison, Mich./Davison High School). The Davison product heaved the hammer a personal best 39.02m, nearly more than three meters ahead of her last PR performance of 36.11m set at Hillsdale College's Gina Relays on April 25.
Dray's near 40-meter throw, good for 11th place in the conference, was the latest in a long line of improvements for the sophomore in the hammer. With one more scheduled event this season, Dray will look to post another PR day in the hopes of posting an NAIA qualifying throw. To qualify for nationals, Dray would have to heave the hammer 46.94m – a mark that is well within reach for a student-athlete that just entered the event this season.
Amber Staudt, Kassadie Dewdney-Sims and Rachel Staudt also performed Thursday, going against the conference field in the javelin. The aforementioned Mustangs finished 10th, 11th and 12th, respectively, led by Amber Staudt's (Novi, Mich./Schoolcraft College) 20.94m toss.
On Friday, the Mustangs closed out the two-day event with stellar showings in the discus and shot put. The PR's returned in the discus as Rachel Staudt (Novi, Mich./Lawrence Tech) led all Mustangs in the event with a throw of 29.25m. Staudt's 29-meter toss shattered her old mark, leading fellow PR-setter Dray by four spots after placing 16th overall. Dray checked in 20th in the discus after setting a PR with a throw of 27.13m while Dewdney-Sims (Waterford, Mich./Mott High School) followed closely at 27.13m.
Another event, more personal bests as Dewdney-Sims paced a well-rounded effort by the Green and Gold with a heave of 10.53m – good for 14th place. Dray, [Rachel] Staudt and [Amber] Staudt followed with throws of 10.15m, 9.26m and 8.52m, respectively, to round out a solid showing for the young Mustangs at the WHAC meet.
The Mustangs will return to action Thursday (May 7) with a trip to Hillsdale College. The Mustang Sports Network will travel with the squad, posting in-meet videos on Instagram and twitter.
Dray added to her Champion of Character Team award from the women's basketball season after being named to the same squad at the culmination of the conference's outdoor track meet. Teammate [Rachel] Staudt, a senior academically, was named to the WHAC All-Academic Team after far-exceeding the conference's minimum requirements of a 3.25 or above cumulative GPA and junior or above class standing. Staudt currently boasts a 4.0 GPA at Marygrove.
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A solid majority of voters who spoke to exit pollsters said they regarded climate change as a significant matter, but most were on the Democratic side. By a huge margin, Republican voters said the opposite. And in state after hotly contested state, they elected their own to the Senate.
In that chamber, the ascendant Republican leadership, from Kentucky's Mitch McConnell on down, are opposed to President Obama's climate policies—starting with the EPA's clampdown on carbon emissions from coal plants, and extending to his hopes that the U.S. will join Europe in leading the rest of the world to a new climate treaty.
In an election that hinged on broad opposition to Obama and left him to limp through his two lame-duck years, environmentalists did win a few battles—even as they lost the war.
The League of Conservation Voters, which along with other environmental campaigners spent heavily on the contest, noted that it had unseated several members of its "dirty dozen" target list. In Nebraska, a bastion of opposition to the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, the project's best friend in Congress, Rep. Lee Terry, was defeated.
Half of the local anti-fracking measures on the ballots of towns and counties in California, Ohio and Texas passed.
In the heavily fracked North Texas town of Denton, residents voted by nearly 60 percent to ban new drilling within the town's boundaries. In Ohio, four towns voted on whether to adopt a community bill of rights that included restrictions on drilling. Only one, Athens, approved the anti-fracking measure, by a margin of 78 percent. California's San Benito and Mendocino counties both passed measures banning fracking and other forms of drilling; Santa Barbara County did not pass its ban.
Over all, climate campaigners failed to carry to the ballot box the momentum that saw hundreds of thousands of them marching through Manhattan just a few weeks ago. They will have a hard time moving their agenda through Congress, until they can move from walking the walk to voting the vote.
The landscape is now strikingly different from when Obama first took office in 2009, his party controlling both chambers of Congress. Then, he achieved two of the top three items on his agenda: an economic stimulus package and an overhaul of health care. The third—controlling greenhouse gases with a cap-and-trade bill—passed the House in 2009, but died the next year in the Senate.
Now his entire climate change agenda is in danger of being buried there as well.
Most of the new Republicans in the Senate deny the scientific consensus on man-made climate change, and are determined not to allow strong action against its main cause: the burning of fossil fuels.
The Senate's leadership and the gavel-holders of its key committees will comprise defenders of carbon, in every one of its combustible forms. Many are men and women from coal country and oil patch states who built their platforms on promises to encourage the use of fossil fuels. This, at the very moment that climate treaty negotiators are urgently searching for a way to phase them out.
One of the rising power brokers, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, ridiculed the latest consensus report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was published on Sunday. "The idea that our advanced industrialized economy would ever have zero carbon emissions is beyond extreme and further proof that the IPCC is nothing more than a front for the environmental left," he declared. Currently the ranking Republican on the Senate environment committee, he is likely to become its chairman.
Just as strikingly, the newest Republican backbenchers will bolster the chorus of climate denial.
Republican Tom Cotton, who ousted Sen. Mark Pryor in Arkansas, has said he would "unleash" the fossil fuel industries and continue to oppose policies like cap and trade and the EPA power rule. Corey Gardner, who beat Mark Udall in Colorado, has said he does not believe people are causing climate change "to the extent that's been in the news." Joni Ernst, the new senator from Iowa, shrugs that "I don't know the science." Thom Tillis, who won a nail-biter in North Carolina, says liberals are using the issue "as a Trojan horse for their energy policy."
In the House, too, the existing Republican majority is settling in, more muscular than at any time since the days of Calvin Coolidge. They have already made plain their own energy and climate agenda. Approve the Keystone XL pipeline. Reject the EPA's clean power rule. Open up the spigot for the export of crude oil and liquefied natural gas. And never mind the extension of tax credits for wind and solar power.
The incumbent architects of this package fared well.
Republican Rep. Fred Upton (Mich.-06), for example, won his 15th term in office, defeating Democratic challenger Paul Clements handily, 55 percent to 41 percent, despite a recent poll that showed Clements closing the gap in the last month of the race. The race featured rampant last-minute campaign spending by both parties. Environmental groups desperately tried to unseat the chair of the House energy committee, while conservative donors and the fossil fuel industry were determined to keep him in place.
Meanwhile, not all incumbent governors survived.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, lost his reelection bid to Democrat businessman Tom Wolf. Corbett's loss marks the first time a sitting governor has lost reelection since the state began allowing second terms in the 1960s. Wolf campaigned on a platform of instituting a 5 percent extraction tax on oil and gas drilling in Pennsylvania, arguing that the money raised—an estimated $1 billion annually—would help boost state education funding. But Wolf's strategy could falter. The state legislature stayed Republican, and the party has balked at the idea of further taxing the natural gas industry.
In the days leading up to the election, forecasts for who would win the Florida gubernatorial race bounced between Democrat Charlie Crist and Republican incumbent Gov. Rick Scott. The race remained close through the end of the night, with Scott squeaking out a win 48-47 percent.
Voting hiccups in Broward County, a Democrat-leaning and heavily populated climate-conscious area, may have negatively affected Crist's election. The Crist campaign asked for voting hours to be extended in the southeastern county, but was denied the request by the circuit court and the Broward County Supervisor of Elections.
Scott's reelection has significant implications for climate action in Florida. Rising sea levels are already eating away at the low-lying state's coastline and threatening cities and drinking water. Scott spent his first four years in office dismantling the climate change initiatives that his predecessor, Crist, put in place. These included a statewide climate adaptation plan, mandates for renewable energy and programs to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Republican Asa Hutchinson won the governor's race in Arkansas, giving Republicans a statehouse it hasn't held since 2006, and securing another ally in the fight against new federal climate regulations. Hutchinson won 55 percent of the vote to beat Democrat Mike Ross. In January, he will replace current Gov. Mike Beebe, a Democrat who was ineligible to run for reelection because of term limits.
Hutchinson has said Arkansas would join a lawsuit filed by other states in opposition to the U.S. EPA's power plant rules. During four years in Congress, Hutchinson cast pro-environment votes on just 13 percent of key issues, as calculated by the League of Conservation Voters.
In Colorado, a fight for new political leadership saw incumbent Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper clinging to a slim lead ahead of Republican opponent Bob Beauprez, while Sen. Mark Udall lost to his Republican challenger, Gardner. The governor's race remains so close it's uncertain whether a winner will be declared or whether the race will head to a recount.
Colorado was one of few races with such a stark divide between candidates on climate issues.
Incumbents Hickenlooper and Udall stressed clean energy and climate action. Gardner and Beauprez marginalized climate change in favor of championing the oil and gas industry. Beauprez, a former two-term congressman who lost the race for governor in 2006, wrote a 2009 book in which he said that climate change was "at best a grossly overhyped issue and at worst a complete hoax foisted on most of the world."
Among the Senate races, one of the biggest surprises of the night was Georgia's. Democrats viewed the state as one of their last hopes of keeping a GOP majority at bay. But Republican businessman David Perdue won the race with nearly 56 percent of the vote, beating Democrat Michelle Nunn, the CEO of a nonprofit. Nunn was a supporter of the Keystone XL pipeline, but she also acknowledged that climate change is happening, that fossil fuel consumption needs to be curtailed, and renewable energy increased. Perdue, on the other hand, criticized Nunn's pro-climate action policies and said on his website that, "we must unleash our nation's energy potential...Georgians can't afford Barack Obama and Michelle Nunn's failed energy policies."
One of the later Senate races to be called was North Carolina's. Incumbent Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan lost her reelection bid to Tillis, speaker of the state's House of Representatives. The defeat was quite a blow to environmentalists who spent at least $2.4 million trying to get her reelected. Tillis' climate and environmental views are in line with some of the GOP's most conservative policymakers. He was head of North Carolina's state legislature when it voted to forbid state agencies from planning for rising sea levels. He also helped repeal renewable electricity standards, voted to allow oil and gas companies to keep their fracking mixtures secret from the public, and supported coal ash being stored in open-air pits.
On the other coast, voters in California authorized $7.5 billion in bonds for badly needed water projects with the passage of Proposition 1 by more than a 2 to 1 margin. Support for the initiative was driven by the current drought and by fears that unpredictable weather patterns fostered by climate change will continue to strain the state's water system.
The funds will help finance two critical new dams and reservoirs for water storage. It will pay for groundwater cleanup and management, watershed restoration, water recycling projects, and water treatment and seawater desalination projects.
As expected, the fate of Louisiana's hotly contested Senate seat will be decided by a Dec. 6 runoff between Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy. In the state's most expensive Senate race, three-term incumbent Landrieu faced two Republican challengers, and none of them won more than 50 percent of votes as required under state law.
Landrieu, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and a staunch supporter of the oil industry, lacked support from environmental groups and other organizations known to support Democratic candidates. Cassidy got 42 percent of the vote, and Landrieu garnered 41 percent, according to CNN. Since Republicans have already won control of the Senate, the state's runoff election will have less significance. Either way, Alaska's Lisa Murkowski will probably lead the energy committee next year.
What this all means for Obama's stance in defense of his climate agenda remains a mystery.
Take the Keystone XL, for example. The new Senate majority, with presumed Democratic votes added in, has the 60 votes it needs to cut off a filibuster and pass a bill to force the president's hand on the issue. Would he veto it? Would he veto a larger bill, or one he really wanted to pass, if it included a Keystone XL rider?
Obama's problem is that if he caves on one relatively narrow issue, he risks giving an inch and granting a mile.
Keystone XL aside, it's not entirely clear that a president must bow before the energy and climate agenda of an opposition party that controls both houses of Congress.
Bill Clinton faced a similar situation in the 1990s, when Newt Gingrich took over the House of Representatives with his "contract with America" and Bob Dole was the Senate majority leader.
Clinton wasn't able to get consent to the ill-starred Kyoto climate treaty from the Senate, where opposition was so broad that he never tried. But he stood his ground on other issues.
Republicans tried to open up the Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling, attaching a rider to a "must-pass" budget bill. Clinton vetoed it, and 20 years later there is no drilling there.
They tried to pass a sweeping regulatory reform bill, which got through the House and was sponsored by Dole as S.1—his first priority. It died at the hands of a Democratic filibuster.
The House passed amendments, drafted by industry, to the landmark Clean Water Act— ridiculed by opponents as the Dirty Water Act—and that was so unpalatable to Senate Republicans that it went nowhere.
But in those days, the Senate's environment committee was run by a moderate, Rhode Island's John Chafee. There are few birds of that feather in today's new Senate.
By Katherine Bagley and John H. Cushman Jr.


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How to watch The Game Awards, and what to expect from this year's show
By Andy Chalk published 9 December 20
Geoff Keighley's annual festival of trophies and trailers begins at 4 pm PT/7 pm ET on December 10.
The Game Awards, the annual videogame awards show hosted and produced by Geoff Keighley, returns on December 10. The award giving will begin at 4 pm PT/7pm ET, and you can catch the whole thing live on Twitch via the livestream embedded above.
If Twitch isn't your cup of T (get it?), there are plenty of other viewing options—more than 45, in fact, including:
International folks have plenty of homegrown options too, including Toutiao, Douyin, Tencent, and Weibo in China, Voot, JioTV, and Airtel in India, Niconico and Famitsu in Japan, VK in Russia, and KakaoTV in South Korea.
The awards themselves are only half the draw: The Game Awards are also a showcase for new game announcements and trailers, and this year's event is no exception. Host Geoff Keighley said in a recent AMA that there will be "12-15 or so" reveals during the show, which he later clarified to mean brand-new projects that haven't previously been seen.
That presumably excludes the next Dragon Age game, since its existence has been confirmed, but either way we know we'll be getting a closer look at it—BioWare has said so.
Dragon Age fans, we have exciting news! Get an early look at @BioWare's next Dragon Age adventure during #TheGameAwards. Tune in on Dec 10th starting at 4PM PT. https://t.co/VCExq1QsJA pic.twitter.com/AofIXNXOkSDecember 7, 2020
Focus Home Interactive has also teased two new game reveals for the show, Nier Replicant will get some time in the spotlight, we'll get a look at the new map coming to Among Us (along with "more secret things"), and we'll finally get a look at what former Visceral and Sledgehammer Games boss Glen Schofield has been up to at his new Striking Distance Studios.
Big news on Thursday! https://t.co/jXczUcZpJuDecember 8, 2020
Josef Fares, the guy who famously (and repeatedly) yelled "Fuck the Oscars" at The Game Awards in 2017, will return this year to present an award and show off It Takes Two, the next game from Hazelight Studios.
We can't wait to blow your minds🤯 pic.twitter.com/Uy7y03gp7SDecember 9, 2020
Ironically, in light of that Oscars outburst from Fares (which at its heart, I think, was a call for game makers to stop seeking mainstream legitimacy by trying to emulate to the film industry), Oscar-nominated director Christopher Nolan will also show up to present an award, as will streamer Jacksepticeye, voice actor Nolan North, former Nintendo bruiser Reggie Fils-Aime, and this guy:
We welcome KEANU REEVES as the latest #TheGameAwards presenter to celebrate an incredible year for video games.Don't miss the live show tomorrow at https://t.co/i3gkmHsM49 pic.twitter.com/ZxJGwvgO8DDecember 9, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic means The Game Awards 2020 will not be held before a live audience, but there will still be performances from artists including Lyn Inaizumi and Eddie Vedder.
One of The Game Awards has actually already been handed out: Ghost of Tsushima claimed the publicly-chosen Player's Voice award yesterday. The full list of remaining categories is available here.


It is easy to overlook the pipes and boxes carrying water under our roads, but these parts of our transportation infrastructure can have huge impacts on freshwater health and road safety.
Levine was initially hired by The Nature Conservancy, Adirondack Chapter (ANC), with funding from a Switzer Leadership Grant, to develop a pilot program. She quickly learned in the process of redesigning culverts for restored fish passage that flood resilience from extreme weather events got her more traction with local stakeholders and opened the door to more funding opportunities. She also learned that strong communication skills, tact, and thinking strategically are important assets in making connections between diverse groups, like environmentalists, emergency management agency personnel, and local road managers.
"We learned very quickly that the more ways we could approach the issue, the more success we'd have on the ground," she says.
"After Hurricane Irene hit in 2011, I spent many hours meeting with local highway departments about their concerns. I asked, What keeps you up at night? Road managers aren't thinking about fish, they are thinking about how to keep their roads open and safe on a very limited budget. Over time, I developed strong relationships and now they're excited to work with us," says Levine of her process.
The ultimate goal is to make flood-resilient and fish-friendly culverts become "business as usual." This can be a hard sell, since improved culverts almost always cost more at the outset. Our Leadership Grant funded Levine's time as she undertook an economic analysis of improved crossings. The report demonstrated that in the long term, improved culverts can actually save communities money because they last longer and withstand large storms better. These crossings also bring substantial environmental, social, and economic benefits. As part of her project she developed a cost sharing and collaboration model, with funding from sources as diverse as hazard mitigation, fish passage, climate adaptation, community resilience, and transportation enhancement.
Levine is currently working to develop five demonstration projects in the region that will serve as on-the-ground examples of success. The team knows the designs are good for fish, and they will also be tracking them over time to see how well they handle extreme storms. She is also developing outreach and technical materials to share this work across the region.
infrastructure standards could help ensure that replacement culverts are designed to ensure aquatic connectivity and withstand major storm events. She is also working with the state Department of Transportation to develop an economic valuation approach for stream crossings.
Having a sense of humor and perspective is sometimes a challenge when working with such diverse stakeholders, Levine says, but ultimately serving as a mediator between the different groups has been very rewarding.


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