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But then came a blast from Boyd Rankin and Naqaash Tahir which reduced them to 152 for five.
They closed last night on 206 for six, just eight runs ahead.
Having lost the entire second day to rain, Warwickshire had no time to lose and Carter and Woakes duly bowled excellently in tandem, albeit assisted by some feeble batting – and a slice of luck to trigger the landslide.
Stephen Moore and Vikram Solanki counter-attacked impressively to add 61 in nine overs before the latter, on 27 from 26 balls, was adjudged caught behind off Woakes.
The captain was clearly unhappy and TV replays showed why – he didn’t hit the ball.
No ill-fortune was attached to his team-mates’ demise, though. After Woakes forced Moore to edged into the slips, the rest was a procession. The 20-year-old ended with four for 30 and Carter five for 37, his seventh five-for for the Bears and third against Worcestershire.
Following on, after Darryl Mitchell perished loosely, Moore and Solanki added 121 in 27 overs before the latter cut hard at Rankin and Jim Troughton took a superb catch at point.
Moore (88, 111 balls, 17 fours) edged Tahir into the slips then Rankin, building up genuine pace, castled Ben Smith, and induced a fatal edge from Steven Davies. Alex Kervezee had just ensured Warwickshire must bat again when he edged Carter to Tim Ambrose.
UNDER Soviet ballet's rigid system of typecasting, Mikhail Baryshnikov was never allowed to dance the leading male role of Prince Siegfried in ''Swan Lake'' in the Soviet Union. His New York debut in this role, with Natalia Makarova as Odette-Odile, on Wednesday night at the Metropolitan Opera House, can thus be consid...
Significantly, Mr. Baryshnikov waited until he could restage ''Swan Lake'' before appearing in it in the United States, and our first view of him here - after one Washington performance - comes in the latest version that American Ballet Theater has introduced into its repertory. It differs in many dramatic details, cho...
A clearer idea of the new viewpoint could be gleaned when two novices, Cynthia Harvey and Ross Stretton, made their local debuts in the leading roles at the matinee Wednesday. They were obviously under strict instructions to follow the new staging's guidelines to the letter. Miss Harvey, for example, included the Act I...
Miss Makarova omitted this mime, just as it had been deleted from the Blair version, and her performance in general differed choreographically in some details from the matinee - especially in the Black Swan pas de deux in Act III. She was in fact giving us the version in which she felt most comfortable, and such differ...
Along with Giselle, the dual role of Odette-Odile is Miss Makarova's greatest, and she plumbed its depths with, respectively, natural lyricism and glitter. A reported recurrence of an old knee injury had her technically off in the Act III solo and she reduced the number of fouettes by coming in late, but she was consis...
Mr. Baryshnikov is something of a whiz of a dancer too, and the brief introductory dances of Act I had him sailing through the air with unusual gentleness. The new Act I solo, as he did it, had a questing feeling, full of pregnant pauses. His partnering was fine, and in Act III his solo was controlled while his coda fe...
This leaves the question of rapport between Miss Makarova and Mr. Baryshnikov in this ballet, and one could hardly say it was totally warm. At best, they were correct in the White Acts, each absorbed in projecting the right image of their respective characters but not linking these characters emotionally. The opposite ...
The bouquet is a new touch in the production, and it is one that is frankly out of style with what has been done to the rest of this ''Swan Lake.'' This dramatic realism, exciting in itself, is at odds with the increased formalism given to the choreography in the White Acts. The romantic, emotionally expressive quality...
Within this rigid formalism and dullness, the emotional core of ''Swan Lake'' has disappeared. The burden of conveying its essence then falls too strongly upon the principals. Miss Harvey and Mr. Stretton were too inexperienced to give their roles any depth. But except for some minor lapses in technique, and her decisi...
Robert La Fosse, Rebecca Wright and Lisa de Ribere were very good in the new Act I pas de trois, with Charles Maple, Cheryl Yeager and Hilda Morales even better in the afternoon. Jurgen Schneider's tutor in the evening, through gesture and expression, contributed markedly to explaining Siegfried's fantasies. The Rothba...
Northern Ireland play Israel on September 11.
The IFA has said Northern Ireland's friendly against Israel will go ahead, despite a call for the association to cancel the fixture.
Sinn Fein has again repeated its calls for the game on September 11 to be cancelled.
MLA Sinead Ennis said their opposition was down to Israel's actions against Palestinians and given the decision by the Argentinean football association to cancel it's World Cup warm-up game earlier this year.
She added: "Sinn Fein continue to support the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel under which cultural, academic and sporting links fall.
Northern Ireland and Israel have faced each other nine times in the past. The fixture was scheduled given both are within the same pool of teams for the UEFA Nations League tournament and have no competitive games on the date.
The Irish Football Association said for them the fixture was just another football game.
An IFA spokesman added: "The Association has no intention of cancelling Northern Ireland’s international challenge match against Israel on 11 September."
WASHINGTON -- It could take oil-fire fighters more than a year to extinguish and recap all the 200 oil wells now ablaze in Kuwait, according to one of the world's top oil-fire specialists.
Meanwhile, the gigantic black cloud of toxic smoke billowing from the uncontrolled fires continues to drift over the Persian Gulf, inflicting environmental damage that experts say could be more serious and extensive than the pollution from the estimated 85 million gallons of crude oil released earlier into the gulf.
"There has never been anything approaching the scale of this," said Raymond Henry, executive vice president of Houston-based Red Adair Co. Inc., probably the most famous of a handful of "wild-well control" companies.
"We're looking at over a year at best [to complete the job], I would say, just by the sheer number of fires," he said.
The biggest job he could recall was in the mid-1960s, he said, when an Adair crew spent several weeks putting out five wells in Libya.
He said the Kuwaiti government contracted the Adair group and at least three other wild-well specialists -- two in Houston and one in Canada -- shortly after Iraq invaded the emirate last August, apparently anticipating the torching of the wells.
Mr. Henry said he would be flying to the gulf soon, probably Monday, to assess the extent of the operation. He expected each company would employ at least two teams to kill the fires -- a dangerous and time-consuming job that involves literally blowing out the flames with explosives.
Hazardous chemicals from the fires, meanwhile, could poison crops and imperil communities within hundreds of miles, including those in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, environmentalists said.
"The effects will be around for a long while, incorporated into food chains and water supplies, not to mention in the air," said Peter Montague, who is monitoring the environmental impact of the gulf war for the Greenpeace organization.
"The oil field fires pose just as serious a threat to the people of the Middle East as a Scud missile," said Daniel Weiss, air pollution expert for the Sierra Club.
Kuwait has around 950 oil wells, said Richard Golob, editor of a U.S. oil pollution newsletter. Pentagon officials have said about 200 of the well heads are burning, and another 100 have either burned out or been destroyed.
Iraq has blamed the fires on allied bombing. But Pentagon officers say Iraq started them, either out of spite or in an attempt to hamper allied air operations over Kuwait -- a tactic that appears to have had limited success.
Black banks of smoke containing sulfur, benzene, nitrogen oxide and hydrocarbons are reported rolling across parts of Iran, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Benzene and other organic chemicals released by petroleum combustion can cause permanent lung damage, even cancer if breathed for long periods, noted Mr. Weiss. Hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides can combine to form smog, while sulfur mixes with moisture in the atmosphere to produce acid rain, he added.
Brent Blackwelder, vice president for policy for Friends of the Earth, said that aside from harming crops and people's health, the oil fires amounted to "a massive experiment in global climate change."
Some environmentalists, he said, believed the sooty, oily cloud could carry far enough to delay and reduce the Asian spring monsoons, limiting harvests for millions of people.
Mr. Henry, of the Adair company, said it would take "two to three weeks before anything is even attempted" to douse the flames in Kuwait. Iraqi land mines would have to be cleared and construction crews would have to lay a 30-inch pipeline to carry water from the sea to cool the burning well heads, which could be hot e...
Enormous volumes of cold water are necessary, he said, to drench the burning well heads and keep the explosives from becoming so hot that they exploded before they can be placed at the mouth of the well.
Mr. Henry declined to guess how much the operation would cost. "It will be expensive, but it won't be catastrophic," he said, adding jokingly: "I just hope [the Kuwaitis] don't run out of money."
ST. LOUIS — Lance Berkman had a single, RBI double and walk — reaching base seven straight times over two games — and the St. Louis Cardinals inched closer in the NL wild card race with a 4-3 victory over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night.
Jaime Garcia (12-7) worked six efficient innings, and Rafael Furcal had two hits and his 300th career steal for the Cardinals, who doubled four times and scored four runs in the first three innings against Derek Lowe (9-14). They’ve taken the first two games of a three-game series, both by 4-3 scores, to reduce Atlanta...
Freddie Freeman hit his 19th home run for the Braves, who are 4-7 in September after going 17-9 in August. Michael Bourn singled twice, for a two-day total of six hits, and had a steal but he flied out with the tying run on third for the final out.
Garcia has won his first two starts this month after going 0-2 with a 6.84 ERA in August. He allowed three runs and eight hits with four strikeouts and no walks.
Jason Heyward walked with one out in the ninth, then stole second and went to third on catcher Yadier Molina’s throwing error with two outs before Jason Motte wrapped up his fourth save in seven chances. Motte was the winning pitcher after working a perfect 10th inning Friday.
Berkman had a walk and three singles on Friday and started Saturday with an infield hit, an RBI double and a walk before ending the run with a soft liner to short in the eighth.
Albert Pujols and David Freese had an RBI apiece in the first inning. Matt Holliday and Berkman hit consecutive one-out doubles in the third.
Freeman’s two-run homer in the fourth was only the second by a left-handed batter against Garcia. Bourn singled, stole second and scored on Brian McCann’s single in the fifth to make it a one-run game.
Lowe ended a string of four consecutive rookie starters for the Braves. He was also the first in five games to finish the sixth, topping 2,500 career innings and lessening the load a bit on the Atlanta bullpen. He gave up four runs and nine hits.
Lowe beat the Cardinals in the clinching Game 4 of the 2004 World Series with Boston, but has had little success in the regular season. He’s 1-8 with a 6.79 ERA in 10 career starts against St. Louis, the lone victory coming in 2007 when he was with the Dodgers.
Notes: Tim Hudson (14-9, 3.14) faces Jake Westbrook (11-8, 4.65) in the finale of the Cardinals’ nine-game homestand on Sunday. Hudson is 3-3 with a 5.25 ERA for his career against St. Louis. ... Atlanta 3B Chipper Jones got a day off and will play Sunday. C Brian McCann will get a rest. Jones is 2 for 15 with no RBIs ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump talked over the phone on Friday, China’s state media reported. Xi said that he appreciated Trump’s desire to resolve the outstanding issues with North Korea diplomatically. The Chinese leader urged “all relevant parties” to refrain from any harsh moves wh...
eMastered is a new tool entering an exciting field that has emerged in the past couple of years – cloud-based mastering that makes it easy to give your music a more professional finished sound.
In many ways, eMastered is similar to Landr, a service we’ve written about in the past. With both, you upload your music, wait a minute or two and then you have access to an automatically mastered version.
Where eMastered hopes to set itself apart is that its algorithms are based on the work of Grammy-winning engineer Smith Carlson on hits from artists and producers like Timbaland, Kanye West, Whitney Houston, Pharrell and Max Martin. He was credited in the Grammy win for Taylor Swift’s 1989 this year, and techniques use...
How do eMastered and Landr work in comparison? I tried both on music I’d produced myself and found eMastered to be faster, with songs processed and available for download in under a minute versus Landr’s two minutes or so for a download to be sent by email.
In terms of the quality of the master you get back, the comparison is entirely subjective – they both make your music louder and make tweaks to the sound to boost the bass, emphasise the vocals or whatever else the algorithms determine needs to be done. However, really it’s down to your own ears and tastes as to what y...
Another thing to consider is that Landr is a more mature product, so it has more features and options. While it takes longer to produce a final master, it gives you three different loudness options compared to eMastered’s one. Landr also offers a desktop app for Mac to integrate better with your production workflow, an...
eMastered is currently free to use, whereas Landr can cost up to $25 per month depending on how you want to use it. Even with the top plan, you’ll have to pay extra for high-quality 24-bit audio masters. eMastered currently offers these at no charge, and that alone will be enough to swing some people for now.
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Former AMA president Kerryn Phelps has called for a full parliamentary review of the My Health Record system, rejecting the “minor concessions” announced by Health Minister Greg Hunt this week as “woefully inadequate”.
Dr Phelps said a complete redraft of the legislation was needed to properly enshrine patient privacy and data security, with concerns remaining about the way the My Health Record Act was drafted in 2012 - and the fact that nine data breaches had been recorded by the system in two years.
“If this truly is about the wellbeing of patients, then there is absolutely no need for third party access to be in the legislation,” she said, repeating her earlier warning that doctors who are tasked with uploading patient information to My Health Record may boycott the digital system.
“If GPs don't feel confident in the system, we will protect our patients' privacy,” Dr Phelps said.
Dr Phelps is particularly concerned by Section 98 of the My Health Record Act, which gives the "system operator" - currently the Australian Digital Health Agency - the power to delegate "any function" to “any other person” with consent of the minister.
And she said the fact that nine data breaches had been recorded showed the system could not be trusted to keep people's data safe.
Mr Hunt has denied reports in the Daily Telegraph – based on publicly available Annual Reports from the Office of the Information Commissioner – that the My Health Records system has had nine data breaches in two years.
The Australian Digital Health Agency said in a statement that the breaches did not relate to unauthorised viewing of any individual’s health information but were alleged fraudulent Medicare claims or administrative processing errors.
The minister has promised to ensure that any third party access to medical records, which under the current legislation can be granted to authorities including police, courts and the Australian Taxation Office, may only be granted with a court order.
But Dr Phelps said this was not enough.
Mr Hunt announced plans to tweak the My Health Record Act on Tuesday night after meeting with AMA president Tony Bartone and Royal Australian College of General Practitioners president Harry Nespolon.
The minister also pledged to ensure that any Australian who wished to delete their My Health Record could do so permanently.
But while the leaders of both peak medical bodies welcomed the announcement as a victory for patient welfare, the profession remains fiercely divided.
Dr Phelps told Fairfax Media that the medical and general practicioners associations “appear to be out of line with the sentiments in the medical profession”, after a survey by industry publication Australian Doctor found that three-quarters of doctors planned to opt-out themselves.
Dr Bartone said Dr Phelps' call for a review was “premature”, saying the government had committed to amending the legislation “to cover off privacy concerns about the My Health Record”.
“The AMA believes we should see the government’s changes and safeguards first, and judge them accordingly,” he said.
Any legislative review would be subject to intense political debate, with divisions in the Coalition after Liberal MP Tim Wilson revealed that he was opting out.
“I would be very surprised if there weren't a number of Liberals who were prepared to cross the floor on this,” Dr Phelps said.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has also spoken out against My Health Record, giving her supporters detailed instructions on how to opt out.
Mr Hunt secured the support of his state counterparts at a meeting of state and territory health ministers in Alice Springs on Thursday, after the Queensland Labor government threatened to disrupt the roll-out of the digital health records system.
But the federal opposition wants the My Health Record system to be suspended until GP and patient concerns are adequately addressed.
“We don't believe that anything less than a suspension of the opt-out of the My Health Record, whilst the government rebuilds community trust in the My Health Record, will be sufficient,” opposition health spokeswoman Catherine King said on Wednesday.
BEAVER – Zahn’s Corner Middle School was rocked with tragic news Friday that an 11-year-old student had been killed in a Thursday night crash.
Although Reagan Bloss’ family lived in the Eastern Local School District, an administrator confirmed the girl and other children involved in the crash — 8-year-old Weston Bloss and 12-year-old Emily Little — took part in open enrollment at Piketon Local Schools.
Eastern reported it had sent over a counselor and a couple of other staff members to assist the staff at Zahn’s Corner Middle School in helping the school community cope with the loss.
Reagan was pronounced dead at Adena Pike Medical Center after the crash, which occurred at 8:17 p.m. Thursday.
Weston and Emily were taken by helicopter to Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus. Weston was treated and released, but the hospital did not have permission to release Emily’s condition on Friday.
According to the Ohio Highway Patrol, the children were passengers in a 2001 Jeep Wrangler driven by Amber J. Bloss, 34, of Beaver, that was traveling west on Coal Dock Road.
Troopers say Amber Bloss failed to yield at the intersection of Ohio 32, and her vehicle was struck on the passenger side by an eastbound 2004 GMC Sierra driven by Christopher T. Turner, 43, of Oak Hill.
The patrol noted that, although Ohio 32 is an east-to-west road, it travels north to south at the intersection.
After impact, Bloss’ vehicle slid off the left side of the road and overturned onto its left side while Turner’s vehicle came to rest on Ohio 32, the patrol said.
Amber Bloss was taken to Adena Pike hospital with injuries that were not incapacitating. She was treated and released.
Turner refused treatment at the scene, though troopers say he was later taken by family members to Holzer Medical Center in Jackson for treatment. No further information on Turner’s condition was available.

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