Djokovic the entertainer on lopsided day at Open

Serena Williams returns a shot to Michaella?Krajicek of the Netherlands during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Serena Williams returns a shot to Michaella?Krajicek of the Netherlands during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Serena Williams gestures during an interview after a match against Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands during U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands serves to Serena?Williams during U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Roger Federer of Switzerland serves to Dudi Sela of Israel during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

Roger Federer of Switzerland returns a shot to Dudi Sela of Israel during the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The crowd was standing and the tension built as the rally got longer and longer.

Could Carlos Berlocq really do it? No, not take down top-seeded Novak Djokovic. Just get a game off him.

As it turned out, yes. In fact, he got two.

The kind of night Berlocq would certainly like to forget, but he wasn't alone on a strangely uncompetitive Thursday at the U.S. Open. His 6-0, 6-0, 6-2 loss to Djokovic was very similar to the fate suffered by every underdog who stepped into Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Djokovic, Caroline Wozniacki, Roger Federer, Serena Williams and Francesca Schiavone were the five headliners on the U.S. Open show court.

In five matches, they played 12 sets and lost a grand total of 14 games. All five matches combined took 5 hours, 32 minutes ? only 44 minutes more than it took Juan Carlos Ferrero to win his scintillating five-setter over No. 7 Gael Monfils, next door in Louis Armstrong Stadium.

"One of the guys, on the way out, said, 'Listen, I paid 100 bucks and you're only staying for an hour and a half on the court. Give me something else. Give me a racket or something,'" Djokovic said.

As these blowouts went, Djokovic's steamrolling of the 74th-ranked Berlocq in the nightcap was the most entertaining.

To get to match point, Djokovic ran down a lob and hit a between-the-legs shot low over the net. Berlocq couldn't handle it and Djokovic cupped his hand to his ear to bask in the applause.

Through it all, Berlocq tried to enjoy it. But when the bagels are adding up, it does bring another element to the match. He lost the first 14 games, but did enough to avoid becoming the first person to get beat love, love and love at the U.S. Open since 1987, when Ivan Lendl did it to Barry Moir.

"All I can do is give my best," Berlocq said. "This guy is a player from another planet. So all I can do is try my hardest."

The other mismatches on Ashe included Williams' 6-0, 6-1 win over Michaella Krajicek of the Netherlands on the day after her sister, Venus, withdrew from the tournament with an autoimmune disease. It made for some drama in the Williams household but Serena, the 28th seed, was able to set it aside.

"It really wasn't that difficult, to be honest," she said. "I mean, she wants me to do the best; she wouldn't want me to suffer. So now, if anything, it should motivate me more."

Wozniacki, the top-seeded woman, overcame a lost serve in the first game to win 13 of the next 14 for a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Arantxa Rus.

Seventh-seeded Schiavone beat Mirjana Lucic of Croatia 6-1, 6-1. In the other men's match, No. 3 Federer dispatched Israel's Dudi Sela 6-3, 6-2, 6-2 in one hour, 17 minutes.

"Not much trouble on my serve, and from the baseline I also thought I had the upper hand," Federer said. "When it's like that, obviously it's tough for the opponent, but I just think I was superior today."

The real drama on Day 4 belonged to Ferrero and Monfils ? a 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 6-4 victory for the Spaniard over the seventh-seeded Frenchman. They started in the noonday sun and ended in the shadows, trading long rallies and playing to near exhaustion.

Monfils could barely keep his feet moving as he went through the fifth set, trying to win back a break he gave up in the first game.

When Ferrero came out to serve at 5-4 in the fifth, the crowd gave he and his opponent a prolonged standing ovation.

"I felt very special on the court," Ferrero said. "I mean, when you saw this crowd enjoying all the time during the match. They love this kind of match, so it's great to be in there."

The win was a rare highlight in a season full of disappointments and injuries. This is the first Grand Slam tournament of the season for the 105th-ranked Spaniard, who was ranked No. 1 in 2003, the year he won the French Open champion and was U.S. Open runner-up.

"This match means a lot for me because it was a long time that I didn't enjoy myself inside the court," Ferrero said.

On Friday, another Spaniard, defending champion Rafael Nadal, returns for his second-round match ? against Nicolas Mahut, the Frenchman of 70-68 fifth-set Wimbledon fame.

Third-seeded Maria Sharapova plays in the afternoon, and the night session has a distinctly American flair.

First, 19-year-old Christina McHale plays 25th-seeded Russian Maria Kirlienko. The nightcap is between two generations of U.S. players ? 29-year-old Andy Roddick vs. 18-year-old Jack Sock.

Any drama they provide in Ashe Stadium will certainly be more than what the fans saw Thursday.

Not that the winners were apologizing.

"I felt fantastic on the court," said Djokovic, who improved to 59-2 on the year. "And there is not much I can say when everything seems fun and enjoyable when you're playing such good tennis."

Associated Press

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Reflections on Governance & Economic ... - Democracy and Society

The chance to explore a foreign land for two months free of responsibilities in search of experiences to learn from is a rare opportunity, and one I am not likely to encounter again.? In many ways, the journey of my last few months was as I expected a chance to educate myself outside the classroom on the impacts of governance and economic policy in a rapidly developing nation.? In another way however it was more than I might have ever imagined, bringing me to question my own beliefs and understandings not only of China but my homeland.

Many have written recently on the importance of quality governance in contrast with the political focus on style of governance.? While I am not yet of this school, I do find myself more and more frequently questioning notions that one style of governance is innately more functional than another.? More than anything else, I have come to wonder at the economic realities of development and their impact upon a nation?s culture.? As wealth diffuses throughout a country?s populace, can or should steps be taken to balance growing appreciation of material things with a people?s cultural heritage?

My observations of China were at best anecdotal, casual and the crude interpretations of a foreigner, yet still the disparity between social classes and lust for western goods was evident and stunning.? Dealing with members of differing generational cohorts, I regularly found the abrupt impact of China?s swift development difficult to ignore.? The nation?s government is clearly both aware and deeply concerned about these changes, yet in the face of rapid development and the growth of economic opportunity it is difficult to bemoan the nature of China?s progress.

There is the question of whether or not changes in the nation?s economic policies are feasible at this point, as wealth has grown concentrated in the hands of a few is there any reason to believe the government can address inequality without causing further discontent?? One of the present goals of the latest five-year plan is to address economic inequality.? This goal is an effort to broaden access to China?s prosperity among other sectors of the country?s populace and shift to a more sustainable model for economic growth.? ?Given the progression of inequality and the adoption of capitalist principles, does there still exist the possibility that the nation?s distribution of wealth will grow more equitable or is the present five-year plan toward greater equality purely government rhetoric?

At the core of my uncertainty lies the central question of whether or not economic development must innately be accompanied by rising inequality.? Largely I have come to the conclusion that yes inequality is packaged with development but that this issue can be mitigated by quality governance as a nation transitions.? The question then becomes what method of governance is most conducive to an eventual and preferably equitable shift from the developmental style of economy to a more stable and long-term method of sustained growth.

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'Oldest' woolly rhino discovered

1 September 2011 Last updated at 17:02 ET By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News

A woolly rhino fossil dug up on the Tibetan Plateau is believed to be the oldest specimen of its kind yet found.

The creature lived some 3.6 million years ago - long before similar beasts roamed northern Asia and Europe in the ice ages that gripped those regions.

The discovery team says the existence of this ancient rhino supports the idea that the frosty Tibetan foothills of the Himalayas were the evolutionary cradle for these later animals.

The report appears in Science journal.

"It is the oldest specimen discovered so far," said Xiaoming Wang from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, US.

"It is at least a million years older, or more, than any other woolly rhinos we have known.

"It's quite well preserved - just a little crushed, so not quite in the original shape; but the complete skull and lower jaw are preserved," he told BBC News.

The rhino was found in Tibet's Zanda Basin. The area is rich in fossil beds, and this specimen was unearthed along with examples of extinct horse, antelope, snow leopard, badger and many other kinds of mammals.

It has been put in a new species classification - Coelodonta thibetana.

Dr Wang and colleagues say it displays some very primitive features compared with its counterparts that lived through the later great glaciations of the Pleistocene Epoch.

Judging from marks on the skull, the creature's horn, which has not survived, would likely have been quite flat in construction and leaning forward.

This might have allowed the animal more easily to sweep snow out of the way to get at vegetation, a useful behaviour for survival in the harsh Tibetan climate, the team says.

"We think it would have used its horn like a paddle to sweep the snow away," Dr Wang explained.

Although the extinction of the Pleistocene beasts, such as woolly mammoths and rhinos, great sloths and sabre-tooth cats, has been intensively studied in recent years, much less is known about where these giants came from and how they acquired their adaptations for living in a cold environment.

The argument made in the Science paper is that perhaps they got those adaptations on the Tibetan Plateau.

"When this rhino existed, the global climate was much warmer and the northern continents were free of the massive ice sheets seen in the later ice ages," Dr Wang said.

"Then, about a million years later, when the ice age did hit the world, these Tibetan woolly rhinos were basically pre-adapted to the ice age environment because they had this ability to sweep snows.

"They just happily came down from the high altitude areas and expanded to the rest of Eurasia."

The Los Angeles-based researcher concedes that many more fossil finds will be required to underpin the Tibetan hypothesis.

Andy Currant, an expert on the Pleistocene (1.8 million to about 11,000 years ago) at London's Natural History Museum, says this is not straightforward in the case of woolly rhinos, and good specimens can sometimes be hard to come by.

"Woolly rhino were preyed on by spotted hyenas and they were eaten pretty thoroughly; the hyenas liked the bones," he told BBC News.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/science-environment-14754317

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To jump higher Cheerleading ? This is the best exercise

In the search for the best way to jump higher for cheerleading? There are many programs and tips to help you more height during the jump is what one of them, or do you make that break. Find or contact a program and gives you time to work. If you do not say no advantage in a month, try something else.

Evidence of how high you can be the first to jump was. Find a wall that enough space for the jump is too close. Stand sideways to the wall with a marker orManufacturers in the hand on the wall closest to. Jump as high as possible and mark the wall while the arm extends as far as possible.

You can do this to get three times to an average height. Check to see your progress every few weeks to when you're jumping higher. If your jumps are getting shorter, not resting for a few days of practice before the test, so the legs.

As for the best exercise for use is the squat. If you have images of great power lift huge, this is notThem. You can start squatting with only your body weight. Three sets of 10 to 15 reps would be a good start. As you become stronger, to do more repetitions in the third set to 20.

You can keep some dumbbells in your hands to avoid the extra weight, if you have access to a barbell, this would be the best if you try heavier weights.

While squats shoulder width apart with your feet. How do you try to go even lower, deep enough so that your thighs are parallel toFloor. Allow your knees to your toes forward and move most of your weight on your heels. Keep your back straight and look ahead.

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Obesity not behind kidney stones in kids: study (Reuters)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) ? While heavier adults are more likely to get kidney stones than slimmer ones, that doesn't seem to be the case in kids, according to a new study.

The finding seems "counterintuitive," say researchers who have noticed an increasing number of both adult and kid patients with kidney stones as obesity levels have been on the rise.

"I think everyone would agree that there's an increasing incidence of stone disease," said Dr. Brian Matlaga, a urologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore who was not involved in the new study.

Whether overweight and obesity trends are behind that or not, "I think it's something in the modern American diet, a high-sodium diet that may be associated with this increased risk," he told Reuters Health.

Too much calcium in the urine is known to cause kidney stones, as is dehydration -- both conditions influenced by sodium. Studies of adults have found that those who are obese, or who have high blood pressure or diabetes, are at an increased risk of getting stones.

Nationwide numbers are generally lacking, but the rise in kidney stones among kids can be glimpsed in records from individual hospitals, medical practices and databases. One recent study using a pediatrics database as a sample identified 125 kids admitted to hospitals for kidney stone treatment in 1999, compared to 1,389 kids admitted in 2008. Adjusted for other factors, the change represented a 10 percent annual increase in cases.

But it's been unclear if weight is also driving kidney stone rates in kids. To get at that question, researchers led by Dr. Steve Kim from Children's Hospital Los Angeles consulted electronic health records from kids treated at Philadelphia-area doctors' offices.

Between 2002 and 2009, they found 110 cases of kidney stones in kids and adolescents 21 and younger. For each of those cases, the researchers picked out four kids of the same age and treated at the same practice who didn't have a kidney stone.

According to their health records, two percent of kids with kidney stones were overweight, and about four percent were obese. That compared to four percent of the non-kidney-stone group that was overweight, and close to five percent that was obese.

Girls and boys were equally likely to get kidney stones, whereas white kids were more likely than black kids to have a stone, according to the findings published in The Journal of Urology.

Experts suggest that the diet of adults who are overweight and the metabolic changes in the body caused by extra weight affect the contents and chemistry of the urine -- possibly leading to a higher risk of kidney stones.

Because "children are not little adults," weight might affect them differently, Matlaga said. But diet could still be behind the increase in childhood stones, he added.

Kim agreed. "We know that sodium is associated with calcium metabolism in the urine," he said. "Certainly a higher-salt diet would likely contribute to more kidney stones." But, he cautioned, "we don't have any good proof of that yet."

Kids are also getting fewer dairy products in their diet, he said, and that could be related to urine chemistry and kidney stone risk. Or, dehydration may be to blame. "In general, a lot of kids drink less water than they should, or less fluid in general than they should. They don't stay as well-hydrated," he told Reuters Health.

Clearly, Kim said, more studies are needed to nail down what is behind the "dramatic shift" in kidney stone cases that pediatricians have noticed in the past few years.

Once doctors have the answer to that question, they'll be more prepared to counsel kids at risk and their families about kidney stones and other conditions that might go hand in hand with stones, Matlaga added.

While there aren't any good estimates for how many kids across the U.S. suffer from stones, Kim said it's probably much less than the number of adults -- estimated at 5 to 10 percent of the U.S. population. Still, he said, the increase in cases "is certainly worrisome."

SOURCE: http://bit.ly/qwn3cf The Journal of Urology, online August 19, 2011.

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Alaska Salmon Fishing Overview

The Alaska king salmon or chinook salmon is Alaska's state fish. The largest sport-caught chinook salmon was a 97 lb 4 oz fish taken in the Kenai River in 1986 by Lester Anderson of Soldotna, AK. It is the largest of all the Alaska salmon, with weights of individual fish commonly exceeding 30 pounds. In prime waters, such as the Kenai River, it is not uncommon for anglers to pull in fish of 50 60 lbs. it is arguably the most important sport fish native to the waters of Alaska. Trolling with rigged herring is the most popular method of ocean angling, while lures and salmon eggs are used by anglers in the freshwater streams. The sport fishing harvest of Alaska king salmon is over 76,000 annually.

Generally speaking, because of their size, fishing for kings is usually limited to boat fishing. Their runs occur in the deepest parts of the rivers which are usually not accessible to bank fishermen in the larger rivers. This doesnt mean that it cannot happen, but for the first time angler on a budget, fishing for kings is probably not the best use of your valuable and limited time while in Alaska.
Alaska is such a vast land and there are literally thousands of miles of streams and rivers to fish and it would be impossible to cover them all. For that reason, I focus on the Anchorage area and Kenai Peninsula and surrounding watersheds. Alaska salmon fishing is like none other. Everything grows big in Alaska including the mountains, the vegetables and the fish. There are many reasons why the adventurous migrate north to do Alaska fishing, if only once in a lifetime. They go fishing in Alaska because of the abundance of huge sized fish, for the scenery, the solitude and to feel born again.

A typical day starts with breakfast at 7 a.m. with a make-your-own-lunch deli. Then you're out fishing as late as you want. When you come in for dinner around 7:30 p.m., your fish is cleaned and frozen.

Even for a novice, Alaska salmon fishing proves phenomenal. Its common for a visitor to catch 250 fish in an afternoon. After a one-week visit, guests can expect to send home as much as 130 lbs of filleted, vacuum-packed fish. It doesnt get any better than this. Angling in Alaska and Salmon fishing can be incredible. Salmon runs are strong along our coasts, and there really are some giant halibut in Alaska waters. King salmon over 50 pounds are not at all uncommon. Grayling, rainbow trout and northern pike are easy to catch in many inland streamsAnd you can fish amid some of the most incredible scenery on the continent.

But, before you haul into Alaska salmon Fishing, there are always rules to doing things, yes, I said rules. And without a doubt, the Alaska fishing regulations are more challenging and more numerous than any other place Ive fished. Dont let that statement scare you away though. Perhaps that is because Alaska is so vast and there are so many species to fish for. Regardless, many of the Alaska fishing regulations vary by region and since were only really focusing on one region, you only need to focus on a small subset of those regulations. Sport Fishing regulations are available in five different booklets, each covering a different area of the state. These booklets are available widely in the state.

Source: http://www.articlesnatch.com/Article/Alaska-Salmon-Fishing-Overview/2928814

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Arrests At Rides Park Over Headwear ... - Yeshiva World News

Fifteen visitors at Playland Park in Rye, N.Y., were arrested Tuesday afternoon following what park officials called a ?misunderstanding? over a headwear policy.

The Muslim-American patrons arrived as part of a tour group, and women were wearing traditional hijabs when they entered Playland Park sometime after 4 p.m., according to officials.

The 3,000 visitors were celebrating the end of Ramadan and planned to spend the day at the park.

When the women tried to gain entry on some rides, they were denied based on the park?s policy of prohibiting headwear on rides ? including hats, scarves and flowing material ? for safety reasons.

?It?s my religion, it?s my modesty,? explained one of the women, Ola Salim, to NBC New York, afterward. Salim, who was not involved in the ensuing altercation, said, ?Wearing a scarf is like wearing clothing to me, and to everybody else.?

But Westchester County deputy parks commissioner Peter Tartaglia said it was a safety issue, explaining, ?If somebody wears some sort of scarf, it could be a strangling situation. If something goes on a track on a roller coaster, it could stop that ride and cause injury.?

The visitors were offered refunds at the front of the park, but some of the parkgoers started arguing with each other about the scarf issue. That?s when security back-up was called in, and 100 police officers ended up on the scene.

As police attempted to break up the frustrated crowd, a woman was slammed to the ground, her scarf ripped up by rangers, witnesses said, although Westchester County police chief John Hodges said he was ?not aware of anything like that happening.?

Hodges said two park rangers were injured and were taken to a nearby hospital. The park was suspended for two hours between 4 and 6 p.m. during the incident.

Fifteen patrons in the group were arrested and charged, according to officials.

Officials said the headwear policy was explained to the tour operator, the Muslim American Society of New York, several times before the the trip.

?This misunderstanding was very unfortunate,? Peter Tartaglia, deputy parks commissioner, said in a release. ?Our headgear policy is designed to protect the safety of patrons and safety is our first concern. This policy was repeatedly articulated to the tour operator, but unfortunately the message did not reach some of the members of his group.?

(Source: NBC New York)

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