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ET 0011 Engineering Drawing
Covers the basics of engineering drawing utilizing freehand sketching, mechanical drawing, computer-aided drafting, and solid modeling. The fundamental principles of orthographic projection, as well as the topics of dimensioning, sectional views, auxiliary views, descriptive geometry, and assembly drawings are covered.
3 Credits
ET 0023 Introduction to Computer-Aided Engineering
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a variety of computational methods and software tools for engineering problem solving and documentation.
2 Credits
ET 0030 Computer Systems, Programming, and Applications
Introduces the student to the basic structure of a digital computer and several of its programming languages. Use of a programming language as a problem-solving tool is emphasized. The student is exposed to a wide variety of computer applications within the engineering field. Typical application areas include numerical methods, modeling, simulation, computer graphics, linear programming, statistical analysis, and engineering economics. Prerequisites: Math 0221or 0220 and ET 0023.
2 Credits
ET 0031 Computer Systems, Programming, and Applications in "C"
Introduces the student to the basic structure of a digital computer and several of its programming languages. Use of the "C" language as a problem-solving tool is emphasized. The student is exposed to a wide variety of computer applications within the engineering field. Typical application areas include numerical methods, modeling, simulation, computer graphics, linear programming, statictical analysis, and engineering economics. May be taken by students in the Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Math 0221 or 0220 and ET 0023.
3 Credits
ET 0035 Engineering Design
Introduction to the basic concepts involved in good engineering design. Design methodology, analysis, and synthesis techniques are studied. Fundamental engineering concepts and laws studied in prior courses, such as statics and electrical circuits, along with concurrent courses like dynamics and strength of materials are used in completing required design projects. Prerequisites: EET 0110, EET 0010, ET 0051. Corequisites: ET 0052 and (ET 0053 or EET 0111).
3 Credits
ET 0051 Mechanics-Statics
The principal objective of this course is to develop the ability to analyze any problem in a logical manner and to document that analysis in a clear and orderly fashion. Concepts to be studied include equilibrium of two- and three-dimensional force systems acting on rigid bodies as well as particles, plane trusses and frames, centroids and centers of gravity, elementary principles of dry friction, and moments of inertia of both areas and masses. The use of free-body-diagrams is stressed. Prerequisites: Math 0221 or 0220, Physics 0150 or 0174. Prerequisite or Corequisite: Math 0231 or 0230.
3 Credits
ET 0052 Mechanics-Dynamics
This second course in mechanics adds the concept of motion to the principles developed in the first course. Kinematics of rigid bodies as well as particles, including relative motion as well as both simple rectilinear and curvilinear motion are studied. In addition, kinetic analysis using Newton's Second Law, work-energy methods, and impulse-momentum techniques will be applied to those same systems. The free-body-diagram rational analysis of rigid bodies will be emphasized. Prerequisites: Math 0231 or 0230, Physics 0150 or 0174.
ET 0053 Strength of Materials
The study of stress and strain relationships of bodies subjected to loads. Topics studied are axially loaded members; beam anaylsis including shear and moment diagrams, flexural and shearing stresses and beam deflections; torsion; principal stresses including Mohr's circle; combined stresses; temperature effects; statically indeterminate members. Prerequisites: ET 0051, Math 0231 or 0230.
3 Credits
ET 0054 Strength of Materials Lab
Physical tests are conducted and lab reports written on many of the basics learned in the lecture course. Prerequisite: ET 0023. Corequisite: ET 0053.
1 Credit
CAS 0001 University Scholarship
This course is designed to help students maximize their potential for academic success in college by presenting various methods and procedures for successful management of their college learning experience. The course is intended to provide participants an opportunity to learn, adopt, and adapt techniques, strategies, and skills to enhance their college success. The course will center on academic content and readings assigned by the instructor. Registration in this course is restricted to students who have successfully completed fewer than 30 credits. A student who fails this course is required to repeat it prior to progressing beyond 30 credits.
1 Credit
ET 0082 Freshman Engineering Technology Seminar
Presents a detailed description of both the Engineering Technology Program at UPJ and the engineering profession.
Professional engineers currently in practice with industrial, governmental, and/or consulting organizations are invited as guest lecturers.
ET faculty members from each department describe specific UPJ ET Programs.
0 Credit
ET 1103 Engineering Economics
This course involves the integration of engineering and business decision making. It emphasizes analytical investment decision methodologies as they relate to engineering management decisions. It focuses on basic capital project evaluation techniques to include: Interest calculations, present and annual worth comparisons, rate of returns, depreciation, income taxes, benefit/cost ratio analysis, replacement analysis, bonds, breakeven analysis and cash flows before and after taxes. Sophomore/Junior/Senior Status.
3 Credits
ET 1115 Engineering Leadership
A course designed for the individual who wants to learn and develop their leadership and team building skills. Topics include influence, integrity, attitude, vision, change, priorities, self-discipline, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, development of teams and principles of leadership. Junior/Senior Satus.
3 Credits
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The Queen is one of the most well-travelled ladies in the world, having visited over 110 countries during her 60-year reign. To mark her Diamond Jubilee, here are some of Queenie's travel destinations, along with a few top tips to make you feel like royalty during your holiday!
Click here to see the BBC's interactive map of every royal visit the Queen has made.
Rome, Italy
The majestic capital of Italy, Rome is home to a wealth of ancient history, including the Colosseum and the stunning Trevi Fountain. The Vatican City lies at its centre, while modern Rome is a haven of architecture and design. It's also the birthplace of some of the world's top fashion designers, making a Rome city break ideal for culture and art lovers, as well as avid window-shoppers!

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If you're hitting the road for an end-of-summer hurrah this weekend, you're in good company.
Despite record Labor Day gas prices, experts predict a 3.4-percent jump in Labor Day travel in Southern California over last year, with 2.35 million Southland residents expected to take trips over the holiday weekend, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California.
More travelers will take to the road—and to the airport—than in previous years, with a 3.6-percent spike in Southland drivers predicted to motor to their destinations.
An estimated 1.85 million Southern Californians are expected to drive to their destinations, and more than 300,000 holiday travelers are planning to go by plane this year, an increase of 4.1 percent compared to 2011, according to the Auto Club.
The number of travelers using other methods of travel, including bus, train, RV and cruise ship, is expected to stay about the same as last year at 190,000.
Even rising gas prices aren't expected to dampen the enthusiasm for end-of-summer vacationing, the Auto Club predicts.
"Although gas prices are expected to be higher this holiday weekend than during other Labor Day weekends, we anticipate this to have very little impact on holiday travel because most people have planned their trips and made reservations before the dramatic rise in gas prices," said Filomena Andre, the Auto Club's vice president for travel products and services. "And fuel costs typically represent a fairly small percentage of the overall trip budget."
Gas prices will be higher this holiday weekend than during any other Labor Day weekend, trouncing the previous record price for the holiday weekend set in 2008, when Southland travelers were paying $3.80 to $3.90 a gallon on average. Averages this year are well above $4 a gallon. In Orange County, the average price of a gallon of gas rose seven-tenths of a cent Friday to $4.143, its highest in months.
However, Labor Day travelers will pay less for gas than local Memorial Day roadtrippers, who forked over an average of $4.25 a gallon during that holiday weekend.
The top destinations for local Labor Day travelers, according to a survey of Auto Club travel agents, are (in order of popularity): San Diego, Las Vegas, the Central Coast (Santa Barbara to Monterey), San Francisco and the Grand Canyon.
Experts predict 3.79 million travelers statewide will get away this holiday weekend—a 3.4 percent increase over last year's 3.66 million.
More than 33 million Americans are projected to travel at least 50 miles away from home during the holiday period between Thursday and Monday. That's a 2.9 percent increase from last year's 32.1 million travelers.
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WENDELL — Discussion of how Wendell can reach its economic development goals can seem like a chicken-and-egg question. Which comes first new businesses or better schools as Wendell works to fulfill its economic development plan?
Commissioners James Parham and Christie Adams agree economic development and improving the towns schools will have to be a bootstrap effort, even if their ideas about how to reach those economic goals sometimes conflict, as they did at a meeting last month.
While Parham recommends pushing parents and the larger community into the schools to make use of their expertise, Adams wants to see a change in the makeup of the towns demographics to a model that includes people who are more likely to want or be able to invest time and resources into the schools.
Were all on board (with the towns economic development strategy), Parham said in an interview after the meeting. That is the reason we added it to the economic development strategic plan. We all are on board. I dont think its moving fast enough for one or two of us. Its going to happen. But everything right now is happening so slowly.
Parham, who has a Ph.D in education, sees definite needs and possibilities.
If I had a magic wand and could make these things happen, this is what I would want, he said, listing additional resources for eastern Wake County schools so they are equivalent to those in the western part, understanding that parents are teachers, too and better promoting current successes at Wendell schools.
I do realize that our schools in the eastern part of the county need a big push, and we (town leaders) are the ones to do that, he said.
Parham sees engaging community help such as tutors from businesses and encouraging parent involvement in the schools as ways to prepare a stronger future workforce. He said his doctoral research, in which he expected college-age tutors to be most effective, showed any age of tutor student to retiree improved childrens performances.
Adams would also like to see more parent and community involvement but recognizes that parents who commute may not have the time. She sees a different set of challenges, including eastern Wakes lack of accelerated education opportunities.
That is something that folks are looking for when theyre trying to determine where they want to move. Schools are one of those things in the back of your mind, Adams said.
She hopes progress on the economic plan will encourage the Wake County school board to offer more advanced placement classes or a magnet school for Wendell.
Thats an added incentive for me to be proactive and very involved as an elected official, just knowing that in three or four years time my son is going to be starting school, she said.
And she would like to see Wendell be better stewards as far as balancing our housing ratios owner-occupied vs. rented or subsidized while pursuing goals such as attracting more Smart Grid companies to the community.
That will be a great first step, a huge first step, in opening the door to better opportunities in our school district, she said.
While the commissioners support the economic development plan, they see different paths to achieving the goals. From Parhams perspective, Wendell must focus on what it can control.
We cant do anything about affordable housing, he said. The next step is to try and make the best of what we have. Get parents on board, get the teachers on board, get everybody on board.


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A Tahlequah man accused of child sexual abuse has accepted a plea agreement with prosecutors for a 20-year sentence.
William Dean Anson, 48, pleaded guilty and admitted in court documents that he "improperly touched" the victim "in a sexual manner."
Anson's 20-year sentence includes 10 years suspended with supervised probation by the Department of Corrections. He will also be required to register as a sex offender.
Court documents indicate investigators conducted a forensic interview with a 14-year-old girl in December 2011 and were told Anson had touched her private parts and chest and placed his genitals on her.
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'Tis the season to be jolly. Fa la la la love grinning at the sparkles of a big, fat diamond. All year is diamond season but the fourth quarter is traditionally strong in sales around the world due to festivals that include Diwali, Golden Week and Christmas, according to a Rapaport Magazine article citing diamond miner DeBeers' chief executive, Philippe Mellier.
Rapaport is a multinational group, with over 13,000 clients in 95 countries, that provides services supporting the development of free, fair, efficient, competitive, and profitable diamond and jewelry markets.
David Douglas Diamonds sales manager Jen Foster says that "All of our vendors sign an ethics agreement on how the diamonds and other gems and metals are sourced."
Doug Meadows, David Douglas Diamonds co-founder and owner, buys diamonds in Antwerp, Belgium, as part of an independent jewelers' buying group, according to Foster. She also notes that the group enables a single store retailer to buy at competitive prices.
"We offer premium quality jewelry and service, and we don't work on commission," Foster says, "our prices range from a $30,000 diamond engagement ring to $25 sterling silver jewelry."
Custom rings are also available. State-of-the-art Computer Aided Design uses your input to create a 3-D rendering of a ring, then a 3-D wax "print" of the unique piece is made that will become the mold used to cast a selected metal.
Foster says that David Douglas has between 15 and 20 custom projects going at any time. The average turn-around is four weeks and an example of cost is a ring project that the customer is providing all the metal and gems with labor and design cost of $750.
The store celebrated a recent doubling of space from 1,400 to 2,800 square feet. There are eight full-time and two part-time employees; all have earned Gemology Institute of America diamond certificates.
David Douglas sales have grown 20–30 percent annually since opening in 2004, according to Foster, who also buys jewelry for the store.
Q. What's the best thing about your job?
A. Purchasing jewelry, traveling to different jewelry shows. I like that happy spark when I see a piece of jewelry that I know will find a good home, because I know my customers.
Q. What is the best thing about East Cobb?
A. It's home. I'm a class of '97 Lassiter grad. When my husband and I were thinking about where we wanted to live, we were in Florida at the time; we decided that we wanted to be here. All of our friends and most of our family are here and it's a great community.
I have great memories growing up here and want my future children to have a good beginning.
Q. Why did you choose to open your business in East Cobb?
A. Owner Doug Meadows lives across the street and I have a two and-a-half mile commute. We did look at a number of other possibilities when we moved from the Big Lots plaza three years ago. When Doug saw that this space was available, it made sense to be in a plaza that he's shopped at since Publix opened.
Q. Why did you pick this kind of business?
A. My background is in retail, and I met with Doug as a favor for my father-in-law who has been friends with Doug through church for twenty years. I went into the meeting without much expectation and came out excited about Doug's vision and business plans. Ready to start work.
Looking back into my childhood, I've had an interest in gems since my early tumbled rock collection.
Q. What are some of the services you offer that people may not know about?
A. We're a full-service jeweler. We do on-site repairs; we work on jewelry and watches purchased from anywhere. Repairs are typically one week, but, we also offer same day or express service at an extra charge.
We perform appraisals.
We purchase gold and offer great prices. We can do that because we have other means of revenue. When we buy gold, we pay cash or pay more as a store credit.
Today, gold sells at $1,700 an ounce of 24 karat gold which is 100% gold. The metal is very soft. It's rare that pure gold is used to make jewelry because pure gold breaks easy.
Q. When did you start your business?
A. David Douglas started in 2004. Doug's grandfather had a jewelry store in 1926, in Michigan. Doug has been around or involved in the jewelry business all his life.
He opened his first store in 1981, Pure Gold Jewelry, near Cumberland Mall. Right before opening David Douglas, Doug contracted the repair department for Kaminski's Jewelry for 17 years.
Q. How did your business get started?
A. When Doug went out on his own; he put together a store on a short turn-around. It was a matter of working with what you've got. We were at space in the Big Lots plaza and did what we could to offer great service and jewelry.
We started with a number of prototypes of rings. The prototypes stay in store and a new ring is ordered for the customer. It helps get a wider variety of jewelry to display.
Q. Do you have advice for anyone who'd like to start a small business in this area?
A. Try to partner with the community in as many ways as you can. We partner with area schools.
Our Dazzling Diamonds for Mom elementary school essay contest will award prizes for the 10th annual event Mother's Day 2013.
Q. Is there anything else you'd like our readers to know?
A. What sets us apart from other types of jewelry stores is that we really care about what we do. Regardless of how much a person is spending, buying a watch battery or a diamond, we treat each customer like a friend.
Some of our customers come in here and just want to talk. (Smile.) People enjoy connecting.
Jen Foster, sales manager/buyer
David Douglas Diamonds & Jewelry
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Located 7 miles inland on the spectacular Kohala Coast, this resort is adjacent to Waikoloa Village Golf Course and shopping, and offers easy access to the Big Island's northern ranch highlands.
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In addition to a pool, a sundeck, and fitness center, Paniolo Greens houses a recreation center where hula lessons, craft classes, and event facilities are offered.
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Comprising 195 condo units in 12 two-story buildings, Paniolo Greens, located adjacent to Waikoloa Village Golf Course, is a spacious resort with lovely grounds and gardens.
The hotel offers an activities desk for booking luaus, helicopter sightseeing trips, and golf times. Ten gas grills for guest use are scattered around the property. Access to the upper floor of the two-story buildings is by outside staircase, not elevators.
This property does not allow pets.
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- Free self parking
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Free self parking
- Room Amenities
- DVD player
- Balcony
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- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
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- Weekly housekeeping provided
- Cable TV service
- Free Wi-Fi
- Sofa bed
- Dining
Nearby restaurants:
Banjy's Paradise Bar & Grill
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Paniolo Greens is located adjacent to the Waikoloa Village Golf Course.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Parasailing nearby
- Rafting nearby
- Kayaking nearby
- Sailing nearby
- Golfing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
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Paniolo Greens at Waikoloa Village Policies & Fees
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Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
- Check-out
Check-out time is 10 AM
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Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, Discover, JCB International, MasterCard, Visa
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Weekly housekeeping provided; fees apply for additional cleaning
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Tornadoes and wildfires. Droughts and hurricanes. The United States saw almost every sort of calamity this year as 11 billion-dollar natural disasters struck the country.
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Services for Mr. Lonnie Joe "L.J." Horton 86, of Union, MS will be held at First Baptist Church of Union, MS on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 11:00am. Interment will follow in the Union City Cemetery. Visitation will be on Monday, from 5pm-8pm at the Stephens Funeral Home and 30 minutes prior to the service on Tuesday at the church.
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Chances are your son or daughter plays with a foster care child in school without even realizing it. They may simply interact on the playground, or participate on a sports team together, or even be classroom friends, but their home lives are severely different. That's why every parent and child should visit the Aging Out of Foster Care photo exhibit at the Long Island Children's Museum. The struggles and triumphs of 16 heartrending stories come to life in a manner that children can easily grasp.
Take Alex Lonzot. Three years ago Alex spent Christmas Day alone in his room at Leake and Watts Residential Treatment Center in Yonkers, New York. He had lived there since he was 14 and had been shuffled through foster homes since the age of 7. In another week Alex would turn 21, the age limit for living in the residential center. The challenges that lay ahead frightened him, for he was about to age out of New York State's foster care system.
Alex did not have a college education. Nor did he have any job experience. He did not know how to draft a resume or how to conduct himself properly during an interview. But even worse, he did not have a parent or family member to guide him. Worried about his financial prospects, he packed his meager possessions—a bed quilt, a pillow, and some clothing—into a black garbage bag and followed his social worker to an apartment in the Bronx. Alex had no money in the bank and no cash in his pockets. Thrust into an economy already saturated with a high unemployment rate, Alex knew that his chances of earning a decent salary were just as bleak as his subsidized studio, furnished only with a table, two chairs, and a bed.
The Center for an Urban Future states that nearly 1,000 young adults age out of New York City's foster care program every year. Half of these discharges are unable to find jobs, which means that 500 young adults are stranded with no means to support themselves. Without parental support or guidance, the risk of incarceration, homelessness, or need for public assistance is almost inevitable. A number of state agencies offer assistance, but many of these 18- to 21-year-old discharges do not have the developmental maturity essential for the transition to independence even with assistance.
The organization You Gotta Believe, based in Coney Island, Brooklyn, operates on the premise that these young adults require the unwavering and unconditional love that only a parent can provide. Anything less than this permanency for a foster care discharge will most likely lead to homelessness. YGB mentors work to place foster teens in permanent homes before they age out of the system. The process can take years, but for teens like Alex, the outcome is worth the wait.
Alex met Mary Keane, an off-site mentor affiliated with You Gotta Believe, at Leake and Watts when he was 15. She asked him if he was interested in being adopted. Alex says that he was a wise guy back then and at first was not receptive to the idea. After all, he had had a bad experience with his abusive foster mother, and ran away from her when he was only 10. Yet Alex confessed that he longed for a father, since he had never met his own. Mary encouraged Alex to attend a meeting at YGB for teens seeking to be adopted. So Alex participated on a few panels with other foster care teenagers. Six years later, four months after aging out of foster care, Alex found a loving father and family. But it took courage and patience.
Elijah Nealy had heard Alex talk about his foster care experience on YGB's radio broadcast in December 2008. Touched by Alex's story, he decided to undergo a 30-hour parental training session offered by YGB. Elijah eventually met Alex at one of the panels, where he shared his personal struggles along with two other foster care teens. Elijah invited Alex out for a hamburger, accompanied by Mary. The two hit it off, and Elijah paid Alex another visit at his studio in the Bronx. The following week, on the day of Elijah's birthday barbecue, Alex moved into Elijah's Brooklyn home. Today they are close buddies, both claiming that they were meant to find each other.
Before Alex met Elijah, playing by the rules meant he'd go hungry. He had tried to apply for food stamps at the nearest welfare office, like his social worker advised, yet after waiting in line for five hours he advanced to the office just as it closed. So Alex earned money the only way he knew how—by selling drugs. Alex had already experienced the dangers of drug dealing before he left the residential facility. He witnessed a fatal gun slaying right in front of him. After a five-hour grilling at the police station over the incident, Alex swore off street dealing. Yet without a job, peddling drugs was his only means of survival. If Alex hadn't met Elijah, he might have suffered a different fate.
It took Alex 22 years before he was able to enjoy a family Christmas. Unfortunately, other foster care discharges haven't been so lucky. Every day they struggle to pay for food and rent, and with limited educational opportunities, their employment situations are difficult to improve.
Alex is married now. He proposed to his wife, Caroline, on Elijah Nealy's wedding day last September. Caroline also went through the New York foster care system. They have a daughter, Harmony, who will turn two this fall. Although the three of them live with the Nealys in their Yonkers home now, Alex is saving for his family to move to their own apartment.
Alex is working as a cook, training to be a pastry chef. He cherishes his family and appreciates the love the Nealys have given him. "At once it was just me, but now my family has expanded so huge that I could never ask for more."
The show started June 16 and will run until September 2, 2012, seven days a week from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Long Island Children's Museum, 11 Davis Avenue, Garden City, New York, 11530; tel. 516-224-5871; licm.org
Thursday July 19th from 1pm-4pm photographers from the SalaamGarageNYC team will be shooting free family group portraits as part of the Everybody Needs Someone, Aging Out of Foster Care Project. Each family will receive a print of their family portrait and a copy will be added to The Community Gallery, where a giant family scrapbook photo album will celebrate the Long Island Children's Museum community families through September 2.


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Muskogee volleyball coach John Hammer would call the Lady Roughers' appearance in the Westmoore Tournament a success.
But he'd footnote it with this assessment — his team's showing in the championship game against Westmoore was a disappointment.
The Lady Roughers (5-1) overcame a 2-0 deficit before falling to the Lady Jaguars for their first loss of the season in five sets by scores of 17-25, 18-25, 27-25, 25-22, and 8-15.
According to Hammer, the main downfall was errors.
"We had 34 hitting errors for the entire match," Hammer said. "You shouldn't have 34 for the season. We had 10 serving errors and four blocking errors. You add all that up and that's 48 points we just handed to them and we lost by a total of 23. So I couldn't be more disappointed."
Sophomore Claire Farmer, who was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player, led the Lady Roughers with 13 kills but had 14 attack errors. Setter Jensen Martin also earned a spot on the All-Tournament team.
The Lady Roughers (5-1) made it to the final match by downing Putnam City in four sets in the semifinals 25-23, 24-26, 25-23 and 25-22. Farmer led the way with 17 kills while Alexis Rosson registered 14 kills, Leigh Westbrook had eight kills and Karla Jones had seven kills.
"I don't want to take away from the weekend; it was a great success," Hammer said. "We played hard and we played well. We've got to forget about the championship match and come back strong and get ready for Jenks on Tuesday."


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BRILLIANT BASIC CREPES. This is a scrumptious recipe for thin, delicious German style pancakes. I'm a professional musician and recording artist, and I often find myself in the kitchens of recording studios, trying to make something edible from the staple ingredients studios keep in their kitchens. Well, this recipe is it!!! Everyone has milk, eggs, salt, butter, and flour in their kitchen, and these babies whip up like a charm! Even the batter will keep in the fridge for a few days. Personally, I like to throw in about a third cup of granulated sugar and a quarter cup of powdered sugar to make them sweet and a little crispy around the edges. Just be sure to put a fresh dab of butter in the pan before pouring the batter each time. I've tried countless pancake/crepe recipes, and nothing really impressed me until this one. I recommend it most enthusiastically! Christine Anderson
MMM! best crepe recipe ever! one of my favorite breakfast recipes! I often make an apple cinnamon mixture (fry together 1 tbsp butter, 1 apple chopped fine, a pinch of each cinnamon and nutmeg, and 1 tbsp powdered sugar, until apple pieces are soft.) and roll it inside the crepes! Delicious!
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Migrating to Linux, Part 1
Linux? That's just for hackers and computer science students, right? Most experienced Linux users have heard that one a time or two. Over the past year or so, I have discovered that the answer is a resounding "no"—for Linux has something to offer everyone. You see, about one year ago, I took my first experimental plunge into the Linux world. I installed Linux on my home office computer, dual booting with MS Windows 95. Now, I run my home-based freelance business entirely from the Linux OS, using both free software and commercial products to get my work done.
This is the first in a series of three articles about my experiences migrating to Linux. I hope they will shed light on the techniques, methods, benefits and perils of using Linux as the primary OS in a small or home office (SOHO) environment. While these articles are written primarily for the non-technical end user who runs a very small business or works from home, hopefully everyone will have something to gain, regardless of their level of experience. In order to implement some of the specific suggestions contained herein, you should have a working Linux installation and a general understanding of Linux basics. If you are a complete novice interested in how Linux could potentially work for you, read on. Just one year ago, I was in your shoes. Now I'm running my business from Linux.
Just about every SOHO user would appreciate better performance from their OS. Yet switching to a different OS for your work is not a step to take lightly—you can expect a few growing pains. If you are in need of a better OS and are aware of the effort migrating may take, Linux is the first place to turn.
We'll now examine some of the pros and cons of Linux, based on the needs of a SOHO user. Personally, I'm looking for stability, ease of use and administration, low cost and a wide range of available productivity applications. Gaming, Internet and network services (other than dial-up PPP) and other capabilities don't fit into my equation. Your requirements, of course, may differ. Here's a more detailed view of each of these requirements.
What do SOHO users need from their OS? To put it simply, we've got work to do and no time for a flaky OS. We don't have time to reboot every half hour or to retype a document lost due to the failures of an inadequate operating system.
That's why Linux is so attractive. Linux is far less likely to suffer such frustrating failures. The underlying OS is more stable and the Linux development model sees to it that bugs are exterminated rapidly, with extreme prejudice. Commercial OS vendors have already sold you their wares and cashed your check by the time bugs are discovered. This means there is no pressing economic incentive to resolve difficulties on a timely basis.
As far as viruses are concerned, they are not a problem in Linux. The way Linux works, it is difficult, if not impossible, to propagate a virus. So-called "Trojan Horse" programs are still an issue, but viruses are not.
The combination of instability, viruses and bugs can make it impossible to get your work done while working in some of the mainstream commercial operating systems. Have you ever had MS Windows inexplicably freeze in the middle of a budget calculation? Have you ever lost two hours of work when a "General Protection Fault" crashes your word-processing session? I have had bad experiences ranging from mild frustration to major loss of income due to system crashes.
However, I have never—not once—lost data due to an OS failure in Linux. Well, once I completely hosed a perfectly good Linux setup, but that was my own fault. We'll discuss how to avoid and recover from such self-imposed disasters in the next installment.
The first time the login prompt came up after my first Linux install, I was frozen like a deer in headlights. What, no GUI? No little "start here" buttons? Yet in just a matter of hours, I was cruising around the file system with no trouble and had the X Window System up and running. Next came the ISP hookup, and soon I was quite comfortable in Linux, learning more with each login session.
You may be saying, "That's great for you, but I expect quality support for my OS installation." Veteran Linux users—as well as InfoWorld Magazine—know that the Linux community provides the best technical support currently available for any OS. Yes, I have had many problems with my Linux setup, most minor and some major. However, whenever I have posted a message to the Linux newsgroups, 90% of the time I have received several viable solutions and some good suggestions. Sometimes the answers come in just a few hours. This beats my experience with MS Windows NT by far (see sidebar). Even better, free Linux support does not expire, as does the free support under commercial operating systems.
Still, there is a long way to go towards making Linux more user friendly and a lot less scary. Yes, commercial GUI operating systems are prettier at first. Yes, on the surface they are a bit more intuitive. And yes, they are far less daunting in the beginning than Linux. Documentation and help systems for Linux applications are famous for being poor or nonexistent. That's why more and more Linux developers and vendors are rightly focusing their efforts on making Linux more friendly for the new user.
What I have discovered is that along with the very visible support from the Linux community, there is a "hidden" advantage to using Linux. To me, Linux exhibits a unique continuity to its learning curve. For example, I have spent several working hours learning to edit certain configuration files to my liking. Over time, I realized that the same methods often applied to editing files that pertain to a completely different part of the OS. When you first start to pick up on Linux, you may find each new piece of knowledge, each new skill, lends itself to easing the next task. In my experience, MS Windows does not share this continuity. Sure, the MS Windows learning curve is less steep, but there is a less reliable pattern to learning it.
In terms of usability, documentation and the quality of the user interface, Linux does need improvement. Still, the thousands of Linux developers worldwide are making dramatic progress towards putting Linux on par with many commercial operating systems in terms of usability.
Linux has become a key foundation for supporting today's rapidly growing IT environments. Linux is being used to deploy business applications and databases, trading on its reputation as a low-cost operating environment. For many IT organizations, Linux is a mainstay for deploying Web servers and has evolved from handling basic file, print, and utility workloads to running mission-critical applications and databases, physically, virtually, and in the cloud. As Linux grows in importance in terms of value to the business, managing Linux environments to high standards of service quality — availability, security, and performance — becomes an essential requirement for business success.
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Noteworthy: Suffered a broken hand in spring practice, but should be 100 percent when fall camp opens ... Despite playing defense, Bland has four career touchdowns entering his senior year ... Started the 2001 season at free safety, but was later moved to outside linebacker ... Has played in 32 career games and 16 as a starter ... Owns two career blocked kicks.
2001: Saw action in all 11 games and was in the starting rotation six times (5 at free safety, 1 at OLB) ... Was seventh on the team in tackles with 46 stops to go along with a personal-best three tackles for loss of yards and his first career sack ... Was in on a season-high eight tackles at Louisiana-Lafayette, while collecting seven against Idaho ... His first career sack came in the season finale against Connecticut ... Also had two TFL's in the win over the Huskies to go along with a forced fumble ... Bland blocked an extra point attempt against Louisiana-Monroe and a field goal versus Connecticut.
2000: Played in 10 games, including nine as a starter at free safety ... Also played extensively on special teams ... Missed the Mississippi State game due to a high ankle sprain ... Finished third on the team in tackles with 66, while also adding two tackles for lost yardage ... Tallied four pass breakups and recovered one fumble against Florida ... Had an interception against Connecticut that he returned 71 yards for a touchdown ... Registered four double-digit tackle games with a career-high of 13 stops against Louisiana Tech ... Had 11 tackles at Florida and 10 each against Illinois and Louisiana-Monroe ... His seven solo tackles against La. Tech was a personal best.
1999: Played in all 11 games, including one as a starter at Louisiana-Lafayette ... Recorded nine tackles on the season and a team-best three fumble recoveries ... Had a personal-best three tackles against UT Martin and Central Florida ... Scored three touchdowns on the season ... Returned a fumble 80 yards against Louisiana Tech for his first collegiate touchdown ... Against UT Martin he hit paydirt twice with a 61-yard interception return for a touchdown, then collected a fumbled punt and took it four yards in for the score ... The three scores were the most by a defensive player since Mike Caldwell registered three in 1992.
1998: Took a redshirt year.
High School: Played for Ozzie Harrel at Cedar Grove High School ... Voted all-county in football ... Was a three-year letterman in football and four-year letterwinner in track ... Was the state champion in the 400 and 300-meter intermediate hurdles.
Personal: Parents: Murray and Elizabeth Bland ... Born: 3/6/80 ... Major: Physical Education/Teaching.
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1999 5 4 9 0-0 0-0 3-90 1-61 2000 30 36 66 0-0 2-4 1-0 1-71 2001 25 21 46 1-4 3-9 0-0 0-0 Total 60 61 121 1-4 5-13 4-90 2-132


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Kittens at risk for neonatal alloimmune hemolytic anemia can be removed from their dam before nursing and allowed to suckle
a lactating type A queen. Queens produce antibodies in their milk throughout lactation, so passive antibody transfer will
occur. Kittens can continue to be fostered on the type A queen or returned to their dam after 24 to 48 hours.11 For kittens and puppies that do not receive colostrum, passive antibodies can be provided by using serum from healthy, well-vaccinated
donors.11,12 In pups, 16 ml pooled serum can be given subcutaneously, either slowly or in multiple doses over 24 hours.12 To collect serum, obtain blood in a sterile manner from healthy, well-vaccinated donors free of communicable diseases. Once
the blood has clotted and been centrifuged, remove the serum and administer it in a sterile manner. In kittens, appropriately
typed serum given subcutaneously at a dosage of 150 ml/kg divided into three doses and given over a 24-hour period provides
passive antibody concentrations until at least 6 weeks of age that are similar to antibody concentrations of kittens that
receive colostrum.11


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Athens —
The February edition of Texas Monthly dishes up some welcome information about an Athens restaurant that has become a favorite of locals since its opening two years ago.
The Railway Cafe at 210 N. Palestine St. is owned by Justin and Deanne Boswell, who enjoy serving lunch to the downtown crowd, and to those passing through, eager for an unexpected treat. Justin said the Texas Monthly mention, in its recommended section, was unexpected. In fact, he was thumbing through the magazine when he saw the write-up recommending the potato-leek soup, grilled portobello sandwich and roasted-chicken quesadilla.
"I've got a lot of good people here who enjoy what they do," Justin Boswell said. "Everyone puts their heart into it, and tries to do the best they can for the customers. We're very fortunate,"
The Railway Cafe is only open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday, but that doesn't mean the Boswells aren't cooking up delicious dishes the rest of the day.
"We do a lot of catering, whether it's a party for 20 people, or a rehearsal dinner for 60."
Boswell was at the University of Texas in Austin studying psychology when the desire to become a chef bit. It was a long road from there to opening his own eatery.
"I got a job at a little 24-hour diner, and worked there busing tables and hosting," Justin said. "Finally, someone didn't show up, and I got to cook. I started cooking, and realized these people were paying me to do something I really enjoy doing."
After getting his degree at UT, Justin studied culinary arts at a school in San Fransisco. After serving as chef in a couple of restaurants, Justin's desire to open his own spot brought him back to a deserted building in Downtown Athens.
"We were trying to think of a name, and kept hearing trains go by," Justin said. "If you've got the door open, you can hardly hear them, but you hear them real well in here."
The Railway motif is enhanced by the pictures on the wall, showing lonely stretches of track like you might see just a few miles from the restaurant location.
"We try to make everything we can from scratch, with the best ingredients," Justin said. "I have a tiny little freezer for bread and ice cream, and that's it."
Justin Boswell appreciates the regulars who come in to sample something on the varied menu, or order a favorite dish. Now, with the February Texas Monthly in hand, he may be seeing a lot of new faces.


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First, this recipe has all the ingredients that I use when making french toast. However, it did have more sugar (I used Truvia) and MUCH more vanilla, but then, it is "vanilla" french toast. And we loved the additional vanilla. This is an excellent recipe for basic french toast.
REALLY heavy vanilla taste which, surprisingly, bothered us. It made a good Sunday morning breakfast but I probably won't make it again.
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I used light brown sugar in this recipe and increased the cinnamon a bit. I did need a little more butter than called for. I served this with homemade maple-vanilla pancake syrup. The kids inhaled this, they ate every single piece. They asked if I could make this again tomorrow.
Some recipes bring back wonderful childhood memories and this is one of those recipes! My Mom made the most wonderful French Toast and this recipe is spot on...I guess that's why the classics never die! Crisp, light, fluffy and just plain delicious these were perfect for Sunday breakfast topped with REAL maple syrup. I served these with fresh fruit and OJ for a great start to the day!
Super easy and super tastey!!!
This made a nice French toast, but the vanilla was a tad overpowering.
My family and I love this recipe. I've made it a couple of times now and have to double it. I made it according to the recipe the first time and it was great. This time, I tried combining some french vanilla creamer with the milk, and that was really good too. Thanks for this - it's our go to recipe for french toast.
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The Triangle unemployment rate dropped a notch to 5.3 percent in January despite a decline in the number of jobs.
The unemployment rate dropped one-tenth of a percentage point in January, according to local figures released Friday by the N.C. Department of Commerce and seasonally adjusted by Wells Fargo. The Triangle unemployment rate for December previously was reported at 5.3 percent as well but has been revised to 5.4 percent.
The regions unemployment rate hasnt been this low since August 2008, before the global economy went into a tailspin. And its well below the state unemployment rate of 6.7 percent.
However, the number of jobs in the Triangle fell by 4,100 in January.
A discrepancy between the unemployment rate and the jobs numbers isnt unusual, given that they come from different surveys. The unemployment rate is based on a series of household interviews, while job numbers are based on surveys of employers. Both numbers are estimates based on sampling.
Also, jobless workers who are so discouraged that they stop looking for a job arent counted as unemployed when the unemployment rate is calculated.
Mark Vitner, an economist with Wells Fargo, cautioned not to read too much into the decline in jobs in January, which was triggered by the loss of 4,600 retail jobs.
For one thing, he said, seasonally adjusting the job numbers can actually exaggerate movement if it exceeds the norm. That probably happened this year in the retail sector.
Theres no doubt that retail had a difficult holiday season, Vitner said. We had some store closings after the holiday season. And it is very well possible that layoffs were greater than years past.
But that doesnt speak to the overall health of the economy. Its kind of a one-off, Vitner said.
From a longer-term perspective, the Triangle is in really good shape, Vitner said. We are continuing to add jobs in the professional and technical services, were adding jobs in the tech sector, and were seeing a rebound in residential and commercial construction.
But the uptick in construction will make it harder to move the unemployment rate needle going forward, he said.
Previously, some workers in construction who didnt have a lot of viable employment options dropped out of the labor force altogether, which helped reduce the unemployment rate. With the construction market improving theyre likely to start looking for a job once again, so they would be considered unemployed.
Vitner expects the Triangles unemployment rate to fall to between 4.5 percent and 5 percent over the next 12 months.
Meanwhile, the number of jobs created in the Triangle in 2013 was revised upward from the 19,300 reported previously to 21,200. The number of jobs created in 2012 was revised upward as well, from roughly 20,000 to 21,600.
Michael Walden, an economist at N.C. State University, expects that 2014 will be a better year for jobs. He projects that the local economy could add 25,000 jobs this year.
We have the exact kind of economy here in the Triangle that you need to have in the 21st century to succeed, he said.
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Jenn Suhr, Mary Saxer and Janice Keppler, all of whom began pole vaulting at Rick Suhr's facility in Churchville, finished 1-2-3 in the women's vault in the Boston Indoor Games this past Saturday at the Reggie Lewis Community Center.
Suhr, who won the gold medal at the London Olympics, won easily with a vault of 4.76 meters (15-7 1/2). The Fredonia native failed in an attempt to clear 4.90 meters, which would have broken her U.S. record. The 4.76 jump was the highest vault in the world this year.
"I am excited about starting out the international season with a world lead," Suhr said. "Even better was the reception from the fans here in Boston. I always enjoy being here."
Saxer, a Lancaster native who narrowly missed the Olympic team last spring in a tiebreaker, finished second in Boston with a jump of 4.55 meters (14-11). Keppler, a Medina native, was third at 4.45 meters (14-7 1/4). She had one fewer miss at that height than the fourth-place finisher. As of last year, Keppler's career best both indoors and outdoors was 14-6.


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He said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."
— Matthew 22:21 (NKJV)
Next week, we will celebrate the 237th birthday of our country. We will enjoy life, eat too much, and enjoy time away from work. Yet, underneath the celebration is a stirring of the heart as to how much we owe to our country.
A growing reality is mutual distrust between Christians and government. Christians resist the moral onslaught on traditional Judeo-Christian values. Government questions the allegiance of those who do not agree with current direction and philosophy.
During Jesus' ministry a similar conflict was felt. The Lord's answer to those who debated the degree of support for country and faith is an answer for our day as well. "He said to them, 'Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.'"
Let's remind ourselves of how we can stand as dedicated followers of Jesus and patriotic citizens of our land at the same time:
1. We admit that there are two realms in which we are accountable. We are to be faithful to the Lord and to the government of the land at the same time. Jesus did not exclude either in his response. There are things to render to the government and things to render to God.
2. We realize Jesus placed no conditions in which accountability is forfeited. The word, "except," never crossed his lips. There were two groups seeking an answer. The Herodians were relatives of King Herod who had so committed to Rome there was no religious reference to their conduct. The Pharisees were so committed to the Law of Moses there was no reference to secular government. Both groups heard they had an obligation in both the spiritual and civil arenas.
3. Civil government is ordained from God. In Romans 13, Paul will encourage all believers to be subject to all authority because all authority is from God. Regardless of how they perform, it is a commitment to God to be committed to the civil authorities. If they mishandle their responsibility, they will be accountable to God.
4. God has certain areas that civil authority does not supersede. In Acts 5:28-29 Peter informs the Sanhedrin that they cannot stop him from teaching about Jesus. His response was, "We must obey God rather than men."
On July 4th, I will celebrate a great nation that blesses me in so many ways. However, I will remind myself of the Christian heritage upon which this nation was founded and I will rededicate myself to keep that reference point on how I live my life.
As Jesus did, I will talk badly about no one. I will leave judgment to the Lord before whom all leaders will one day stand. Meanwhile, I will accept boundaries on my morals and faith that no one except Jesus can control.
When I compare my government and society to that of Jesus' day, I am in a better situation. Let me make the most of it by simply rendering to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
Dr. John A. Temple is pastor of Poplar Springs Drive Baptist Church, located at 4032 Poplar Springs Drive in Meridian. Visit the church website online at www. psdbc.org.


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At the Ben Atchley State Veterans Home in West Knoxville on a chilly October Saturday, a conference room starts filling up with veterans. A former Marine sits at the head of the long wooden table as veterans representing almost every branch of the military start arriving. When about 20 veterans have found their seats around the table, they start sharing stories of their time in the service. Most are in their 40s—Desert Storm-era vets—but some served during Vietnam and Korea, and a World War II veteran is wheeled in by an employee of the facility.
Jessica King, the dark-haired former Marine at the head of the table, finally speaks up and calls the meeting of the Women Veterans of America (Chapter 44) to order. It's an unusual meeting. King later says the group, which was started this past July, was supposed to start forming committees, but there are guests, and the veterans are eager to listen and share their experiences in the service, and out.
King introduces Melanie Finuf, an Air Force veteran who now works at Volunteers of America. She's there to talk about the new Supportive Services for Veteran Families, which she says will help families in danger of losing their housing, vehicles, or just need some help with financial planning and finding a job.
But Finuf also tells the group she understands being a veteran—and being a female veteran—isn't easy. She says she got lucky when she stumbled into the job she has now, but when her family first moved to Knoxville, it took some time to adjust.
"I was very lonely after moving to Knoxville," she says. "It's a very different culture [here]."
King says her life post-military would've been much different if WVA Chapter 44 had existed when she first arrived in Knoxville as a single mom of two.
"[People] assume you're either an Amazon goddess, or a woman of the night," King says. Some others are always waiting for her to flip a switch and turn into Rambo, she adds. Members of the group agree. Most of them say they consider themselves tomboys who don't easily fit society's idea of a woman. Women veterans not only deal with the same obstacles male veterans face when leaving the military, but they also have to be wives, mothers, and employees in a world that doesn't necessarily understand them.
This year hasn't been short of controversy over the military's treatment of women. Though they make up just about 14 percent of the armed forces, half of all victims of sexual assault in the military are women. The Department of Defense estimates, based on anonymous surveys, that there were about 26,000 sexual assaults in all the branches of the military in 2012, and just 3,374 of those incidents were reported (which was about 200 more reported incidents than in 2011). Those figures emerged amid discussion over what women's roles should be in combat situations (a handful of women are now attempting grueling tests to apply for combat positions).
These women have come face to face with these struggles. They've been singled out for being female, and they've dealt with burdens their male colleagues may never even consider. Here are some of their stories.
King can't say too much about what she did in the Marines. She went in at age 17 in 1989, planning to march for the United States Marine Band. Her half-brother, who was also a Marine, had been killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, which inspired King to sign up.
But King is unique. Her father, who was in the Navy, had family from French-speaking Quebec, Canada, and her Jewish mother sent her to Hebrew school. King's trilingual abilities made her an excellent candidate for intelligence positions, which she took. She was stationed in Little Creek, Va., though she wasn't there all the time.
"I was a listener," she says, "I listened for certain voices."
She mentions she worked in the Middle East—she won't say which country or countries. Though she was part of a regular unit, her job took her around to many other units "kind of like a traveling art or music teacher."
Any branch of the military, she says, offers everyone, but especially women, many more opportunities to learn skills and do work that civilian women might not necessarily learn.
"If you walk into a mechanic's shop and say you want to learn how to work on cars, they'd laugh at you," she says. "But if you say you were in the Marines, they'll be more open."
But King didn't just pick up practical skills during her time in the military.
"I couldn't wait to throw a grenade," she says with a smile. And, "I've been all over the place. They say 'join the Marines and see the world.'"
But her career came to an abrupt end when she was wounded in combat.
"I had shrapnel in my shoulder and my left eye. I'm deaf in my left ear," she says. And her foot bones were shattered. "I had to learn how to walk again."
It took a year and a half to completely recover, and though she was married at the time, she also had two young children at home. Again, she can't say where she was, or what exactly happened when she was injured. Most of her five years of active duty is classified information. And that delayed some of her VA benefits.
But since King didn't leave the military immediately after being injured, she continued to work at Fort Campbell, where she taught a transition assistance program for soldiers preparing to leave the military. Much of what she taught was which forms needed to get filled out so that soldiers could receive benefits. She says some former military members don't realize that all discharged soldiers (except dishonorably discharged members) are eligible for unemployment benefits in any state, no matter where they entered or exited the military.
And those benefits are sometimes very necessary for soldiers heading into the civilian work force. In her experience, King says potential employers are either "totally curious" or completely turned off by her service.
For King, the corporate jobs she took after she left the Marines were uncomfortable. She found herself unable to bond with her "girly" female co-workers. Most of her friends at work have been men. And though she's found a good place to work as a bookkeeper for small businesses, and has surrounded herself with good friends and a supportive boyfriend, life in Knoxville wasn't easy to begin with.
Her uncle, also a military man, had moved to Knoxville, and King moved to be near him and his wife, who took care of her and King's kids during the day. King did take some classes toward a sociology degree at the University of Tennessee (among several other schools), but lined up a job before she graduated.
It worked out, she says. But all the while, King was dealing with PTSD she didn't even realize she had.
Early in her military career, King was raped by a commanding officer. She says she tried to report what had happened to the most senior officer at the Marine Corps Recruits Depot in San Diego. But the only thing that happened was that she was transferred elsewhere, and just went on with her career. She rarely spoke of it. She only told her husband after they were married. King says her rape contributed to her divorce.
It happened when she was 18, and only happened once, she says. But some of the effects of what the VA is now calling Military Sexual Trauma (MST) started showing up in her post-military life. Since coming to Knoxville, she's been through 12 jobs, due to both the recession and because she says she's uncomfortable with relationships.
None of this occurred to her until the VA started screening for MST a few years ago. When they finally asked her, at a routine check up, if she'd ever been sexually assaulted in the military, she said yes. She was already working with a counselor after a period of personal upheaval she prefers not to talk about, and when she finally told her counselor about the rape from years earlier, the counselor said it all made sense.
"She was just astounded, and she said 'When we talked before, you didn't have any [specific] problems.' I can't remember what she called it, but it was one of the terms for PTSD. And she said 'I didn't know where it stemmed from, but you never told me about this situation,'" King says.
King says she never talked about the rape because nobody cared. Had she been surrounded by her friends in the WVA, she says, things would probably be different. Maybe she would've told someone sooner. Maybe she wouldn't have had such a difficult time getting her feet on the ground. Still, she says she wouldn't necessarily change anything in her past.
"I wouldn't have changed much. I really wouldn't. If I did, who knows where I'd be now, and I certainly don't want to be anywhere but here, doing what I'm doing with the people I'm doing it with. I'd be afraid to change too much," she says.
Laura Comas enlisted in the Army at age 23 in 1984, and served during Desert Storm. She was married to a man she says couldn't keep a job, and didn't want to rely on public assistance to feed her growing family. Her father was in the Army when she was a child, and it just seemed like a good option for a steady income. The first time she tried to join the Army, she was pregnant, and was turned down. She tried again when her daughter was 10 months old, and got in.
Comas says she's always been pretty firm in her faith, which is why she applied to become a chaplain's assistant. A chaplain's assistant's main job, she says, is "to kill anyone who tries to kill the chaplain." Though, as she found out, it's usually more of an administrative position.
Now, nearly 30 years after she enlisted, Comas says she loved being in the Army.
"I loved my experience in the military. I loved Germany. I loved the security it provides. I love the camaraderie that it provides. I love the idea of knowing what is expected of me so I can do the best I can. And you always know what's expected of you," she says.
Comas has a vibrant presence. Though her dark hair and fine features are nearly doll-like, she's tall, strong, and projects confidence whether she's showing off her crocheting projects (a lifelong hobby), or recalling the time she, at the age of 43, called out a soldier in a bar for wearing his uniform incorrectly. She knows she's charming, she says, and people usually appreciate her candor.
But her willingness to tell it like it is occasionally made things difficult. After she rebuffed a drill sergeant who came onto her at Basic Training in Fort Jackson, S.C., she did more push-ups and sit-ups, and ran more miles than anyone else. No one asked her about it until everyone she'd been at basic training with was on a bus to Fort Dix, N.J.—a distance they finally considered "safe" from their drill sergeants.
"I told them everything," she says.
Comas was then sent to Fort Campbell. Though the post office is in Kentucky, most of the Army post is on the Tennessee side of the border. She became pregnant with her son there, while working for an Episcopalian, and then an Eastern Orthodox chaplain. She was at Fort Campbell during both the "Gander Incident," in which a plane full of soldiers returning to the post from Egypt crashed in New Foundland, Canada, killing all 256 passengers, and for the 1986 Challenger space shuttle crash (which happened shortly before her son was born).
In February, she got orders to go to Stuttgart Army Base in Germany, which is between Frankfurt and Munich. With her baby, toddler, and civilian husband in tow, she arrived at the base—along with a man who'd eventually force her out of the Army. The man was a Southern Baptist chaplain, she says, who told her, upon landing, that she'd go to hell for being in the military instead of her husband. She says she was glad she wound up assisting a different chaplain, who, along with his family, became a good friend and ally.
However, two years later that chaplain went back to the States, and Comas was reassigned to work with the Southern Baptist chaplain. Comas says she never felt comfortable around the man, who kept a very close eye on her. When she needed to have forms filled out to get a legal separation from her husband, she hid the packet in an unlabeled envelop at the back of one of her desk drawers.
Since, at the time, a chaplain had to sign off on marriage separation forms, Comas had asked the first chaplain she assisted in Germany to help her out, which she did. The Baptist chaplain threatened to not let it happen, though Comas did get the separation she requested.
The Southern Baptist chaplain filed a review form that was very unflattering, and Comas was sent back to the States.
Comas left the Army and went back to the one place her former husband said he'd never live again: Clarksville, Tenn. Luck was on her side, because an apartment in Austin Pea State University's family housing opened up as soon as Comas and her two children arrived. She began pursuing a psychology degree, but missed being in the Army, and joined the Army National Guard. She was promoted to Sergeant, and, soon after, was activated when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
Her unit was split up all over Europe and the Middle East, she says. She was again assigned to Germany.
"Thank goodness, because I don't tan," she says.
But there again, she ran into trouble. Comas says she was denied a job she wanted while serving in Germany because her (married) commanding officer held a torch for her. She was kept at a different base than the private she was in charge of training and the chaplain she worked with at the time.
"He was hoping [we'd get together], and the fact that he was hoping kept me from doing my job as a chaplain's assistant and training my private," Comas says.
After Desert Storm, and after Comas had left the National Guard, she considered joining the Army once more, but just missed the age of enlistment cut-off. Instead, she used her psychology degree to work with emotionally disturbed kids, and earned a masters degree in gerontology. While still in Clarksville, she married her current husband, Jeff, who'd been a friend, and who helped her get on her feet with her children when she returned from Germany the second time. They married in 1992, and moved to Knoxville in 1997, when they opened the Childbloom Guitar Program, which teaches kids ages 6-12 how to play the instrument.
Comas just left the business and is in the process of starting her own travel agency for crocheting vacations similar to one she took a few years ago. But right now, she's working on crocheting as many portraits of female soldiers who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will go hang in a museum in Washington, D.C. once they're all complete. With two completed portraits and one about a quarter of the way finished draped over a couch in her house, Comas says, "I loved being a soldier."
The job security aspect of the military is partly what drew Marie Ehlers, the secretary of the WVA, to the Navy. She hesitated for a while, though, because she was nervous about boot camp. But the opportunity to get out of Cleveland, Ohio, where she spent most of her childhood, is what made her take the plunge.
"I'm not a tough chick," she says frankly, in contrast to King's subtle grit and Comas' vivacious presence. "I am kind of a bookworm."
Her father was in the Navy, and she says he was, in fact, the person who gave her the idea of joining the military. So she enlisted at age 21 in 1989. After boot camp she went to A-School—similar to a trade school, she says, where she learned the administrative aspects of Navy correspondence. (A C-School, she says, would be much more technical and specialized.)
Ehlers served for four years as a yeoman second class in the Navy (which, she says, equates to an administrative position). She never saw any combat, but she did handle some classified message traffic. She says her favorite time of day would be night watches after a full day's work.
"It was a chance to be alone. You're always surrounded by people," she says. At night, "I got time to think about what I was doing."
But she also says the people she lived with, worked with, and played with at each command became like family. She even met the man who would become her husband while serving. But she also got to indulge her adventurous side: She worked in Iceland for nine months, and spent time in Bermuda and Puerto Rico during her four years in the Navy.
Ehlers says because she worked a typically "female" job, she wasn't subjected to harsh treatment. Still, she says there was plenty of sexual harassment at work. "I was intimidated. You want to be careful. You learn to put up with a lot of cussing…[and] tolerate archaic attitudes," she says. And she doesn't think those attitudes are going away anytime soon.
"It's too culturally entrenched. I think there's a lot of bravado, a lot of macho [attitudes], and they need to be confident. But sometimes that means having an out group within the in-group, and sometimes it's the women," she says.
After she left the Navy, she and her husband moved to Rota, Spain, where her husband continued to serve. Life as a military wife was sometimes lonely. Ehlers said she felt left out of a group she'd once belonged to, and she didn't have a job to go to every day to form new connections. That's not to mention she was in a foreign country she'd previously only visited for a couple weeks while on leave from her job in Iceland.
When she and her husband moved to Knoxville in 2008 (her family is from Maryville), getting used to the casual atmospheres of civilian work environments was strange. "When I worked on an admiral's staff, it was much more formal. You're working for an admiral!" she says. But at her job now (she's a nursing assistant), she says there's no ranks to consider, and no uniform to don correctly every day.
Doing things differently is difficult, but Ehlers realizes she's pretty lucky that the biggest hurdles for her were figuring out how to operate outside of the military structure and which records to make copies of (she says entire service and medical records). She says making sure to get complete copies of those records can go a long way in making it much easier to create a resume and to apply to receive veterans' benefits.
And that's one of the reasons she found her way to the WVA. She says the group's interests are aligned and focused on supporting veterans. "Who else is going to be interested in that?" she says.
Back at Ben Atchley, the women veterans are talking about things in the civilian world that were difficult to get used to after being in the military.
"I don't know how many times I've left or lost a purse," King says, since military uniforms have so many pockets for everything one might keep in a purse.
"Walking through a door, and reaching for the cap that's no longer there," Comas says.
But it's not just that. As Comas explains, the world operates by the 80-20 rule. "Eighty percent of the people do 20 percent of the work. The military is mostly made up of 20 percenters," she explains, which makes working in the civilian world, where most people are "80 percenters," can be frustrating for veterans.
"I can't say everything always ran smoothly, but in comparison, you could count on the person you worked with to do their job," King says, who is answered by a chorus of "yes!" from nearly everyone around the table.
"I think that's one of the things I've struggled with personally, is my demeanor. I can't get rid of it. Now people make me feel like I have to say 'I'm sorry' because of the way I am," says Jody Khan, a Marine veteran. "I was an investigator for the state of Georgia, and my boss said 'are you going to be able to put your Marine Corps and your military police in your back pocket when you're out doing your job?' They don't want what they call 'an intimidating presence,'" she says.
"They want a softer touch," King says. "These are qualities of all veterans. But when you're a woman who walks into a job interview, versus a man who walks into a job interview, it's not wanted or expected in women's jobs. There are still very much women's jobs and men's jobs in the civilian world—for the most part."
"They want us to be women, and part of the problem is that we are women, we're just a unique crowd," Comas adds.
The military is something of a paradox. Though it offers women the opportunity to be independent and participate in traditionally-male activities and fields of work that might be intimidating to civilian women, it's also paternalistic. Paychecks come regularly. Housing is provided or easy to find. You can eat in the chow hall. Childcare is cheap and readily available. In the civilian world, the women explain, no one is there to keep you accountable. And that's part of the reason why the transition is difficult.
"You've joined a family and you've left a family. The closeness is not the same as that with your co-workers in the civilian world. It's not the equivalent. Because you live together. You do everything together. You have fun together. Sometimes you have families together. It's definitely a level of connection that's [incomparable]. It's painful [to leave]," Ehlers says.
And that's what brought the group together. It was painful to leave their comfort zones, the structure, the camaraderie, and the sense of purpose. But most of them have stories of being harassed, or single out by drill sergeants, or treated with kid gloves in their post-military lives. At the WVA, they can share the stories that get swept under the rug in public. They can say they were raped, and they'll be believed. They can say they're treated differently just because they're women, and the other members know what they're experiencing. And they can still say despite all the trouble, that they loved being in the military.
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