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September 2009
Welcome to the September 2009 issue of School of Nursing News, an electronic newsletter designed to inform, engage, inspire, and connect with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other constituents of the University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON).
This Month in School of Nursing History
In September 1925, UMSON introduced a five-year program leading to a joint Bachelor of Science and Diploma in Nursing. Under the plan, students took two years of arts and sciences courses at the University of Maryland, College Park, and then spent three years at the School of Nursing. This was an important step in raising academic standards, but the program was not very popular with students. The first class graduated in 1934.
UMSON Goes to Washington
Dean Janet Allan and Hershaw Davis Jr., a Bachelor of Science in Nursing student, were among the 120 participants in President Obama's nationally televised town hall meeting on health care reform held last June at the White House. Davis had an opportunity to ask the President a question during the forum. "Our patient load is increasing due to patients not having a source of primary care," stated Davis. "And, I want to ask, what's the administration going to do to place primary care providers—physicians and nurse practitioners—back in the community so the ER is not America's source of primary care?" Davis said he was humbled by the opportunity to represent his profession and the state of Maryland in addressing the President on such an important issue as health care reform. Dean Allan remarked that it was a tremendous honor to be part of the audience.
Later in the summer, Rebecca Wiseman, PhD, RN, assistant dean for the School of Nursing's program at the Universities of Shady Grove, was chosen by the American Nurses Association to represent nurses at President Obama's press conference on health care reform held in the White House Rose Garden.
News from the Komen Partnership
Sandra Millon Underwood, PhD, RN, FAAN, an internationally known breast cancer researcher and scientist, will be joining the School of Nursing as the Komen Visiting Professor October 26-30, 2009. During this time, Dr. Underwood will be available for classroom presentations, consultations, and meetings with community groups. She is committed to developing strategies and interventions aimed toward improving the access of minority, economically disadvantaged, and medically underserved populations to state-of-the-art breast cancer detection and control programs. If you would like Dr. Underwood to present to one of your classes or community groups, contact Abby Plusen at firstname.lastname@example.com or 410-706-4233.
The 2009 Komen Maryland Race for the Cure is being held Sunday, Oct. 18, in Hunt Valley, Md. Join the University of Maryland School of Nursing team as we race towards a cure for breast cancer. You can sign-up by visiting www.komenmd.org, and clicking on "Race Registration" and then on "Join a Team." Questions can be directed to Abby Plusen, team captain, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 410-706-4233.
Event Recaps
SINI Conference Addresses Informatics at the Point of Care
Is informatics at the point of care a barrier or a bridge to safe, evidence-based, personalized care? Conference participants explored this issue at the School of Nursing's 19th annual Summer Institute in Nursing Informatics (SINI), held at the School July 22-25. More than 500 people from across the U.S. and around the world attended the conference in person or via Web streaming.
The keynote address, "Informatics as a Bridge to Knowledge at the Bedside," was delivered by James J. Cimino, MD, FACMI, chief, Laboratory for Informatics Development, National Institutes of Health. Cimino addressed the needs of clinicians for knowledge and information at the moment of making clinical decisions to carry out evidence-based best practices.
Staff of the Quarter
Dean Janet Allan recently announced the Staff of the Quarter awards for the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first and second quarters of 2009. Kevin So, MS, instructional designer, Instructional and Learning Technologies, was the honoree for the fourth quarter of 2008; Charlotte Weber, project management specialist, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, received the award for the first quarter of 2009; and Jana Stokes, human resources specialist, Office of Administrative Service, received the award for the second quarter of 2009. In addition to framed certificates and canvas bags filled with School of Nursing spirit wear, awardees received Dr. Margaret G. Tyson Dean's Fund for Excellence Awards in the amount of $250 to be used for professional development.
Faculty & Staff Kudos
Brenda Afzal, MS, RN, project manager, Department of Family and Community Health, has been elected as a Governing Councilor for the Environment Section of the American Public Health Association.
Linda Flynn, PhD, RN, associate professor, Department of Family and Community Health, co-authored the following publication:
- Flynn, L., Thomas-Hawkins, C., & Clarke, S.P. (2009). Organizational traits, care processes, and burnout among chronic hemodialysis nurses. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 31(5), 569-582.
Erika Friedmann, PhD, professor, Department of Family and Community Health, delivered the following presentations:
- Friedmann, E. Pets and human health. Presented at American Veterinary Medical Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, July, 2009.
- Friedmann, E. Effectiveness of animal assisted therapy: Part 1 – Introduction to animal assisted therapy; Part 2 – The human-animal bond; Part 3 – Effects of animal therapy on social interactions; Part 4 – Effect of animal therapy on stress and cardiovascular responses; Part 5 – Research design and analysis. Presented at Fooyin University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., July, 2009.
- Friedmann, E. Animal assisted therapy. Presented at Taipei Nurses Association, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. July, 2009.
- Friedmann, E. Case control studies. Presented at Sigma Theta Tau, Research Methodology Conference, Taipei, and at I-Shou University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C., July, 2009.
- Friedmann, E. Cohort studies. Presented at Sigma Theta Tau, Research Methodology Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. July, 2009.
Meg Johantgen, PhD, RN, associate professor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, received the 2009 Mentor Award for Interdisciplinary Research Group for Nursing Issues, which is a special interest group of AcademyHealth. Johantgen received the award last summer at AcademyHealth's annual research conference, where she was acknowledged as a role model and mentor in health services research.
Jane Kapustin, PhD, CRNP, BC-ADM, FAANP, assistant dean for master's studies and associate professor, and Rebecca Wiseman, PhD, RN, FAANP, assistant dean for the School of Nursing's program at the Universities at Shady Grove, completed the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's Fellowship in the Leadership for Academic Nursing Program held recently in Kansas City.
Naomi "Bea" Lamm, EdD(c), RN, clinical instructor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, received the first Area Health Education Center Nursing Caucus in June.
Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, CNAA, FAAN, professor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, co-authored the following publications:
- Lee, T.T., Mills, ME, and Lu, MH. (2009). The multi-method evaluation of a nursing information system in Taiwan. Computers, Informatics, Nursing. 27 (4), 245-253.
- Mills, M.E. & Newbold, S. K. (2009). Creating a governmental policy framework for adoption of an electronic health record. In:Technology and Informatics: Connecting Health and Humans. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on Nursing Informatics. Editors: Saranto, K.; Flatley-Brennan, P; Park, H.A.; Tallberg, M.; and Ensio, A. ISO Press: Amsterdam. 678-682.
- Dr. Mills co-presented the following:
- Mills, M.E. and Newbold, S.K. Creating a Governmental Policy Framework for Adoption of an Electronic Health Record. 10th International Congress on Nursing Informatics. Helsinki, Finland. June 29, 2009.
Robin Newhouse, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC, CNOR, associate professor and assistant dean for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, has two new publications as follows:
- Satterfield, J., Spring, B., Brownson, R.C., Mullen, E., Newhouse, R., Walker, B. Whitlock, E. (2009). Toward a Transdisciplinary Model of Evidence-Based Practice, Milbank Quarterly, 87(2), 368-390.
- Newhouse, R.P. (2009). Economy increases need for EBP-savvy nurses. Reflections on Nursing Leadership, 35(3). Available at: http://www.reflectionsonnursingleadership.com/Pages/Vol35_3_Newhouse.aspx
Lyn Oswald, PhD, RN, assistant professor, Department of Family and Community Health, was the keynote speaker at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Nursing's 2009 Commencement ceremonies held last spring. The title of her address was "Concordance. "
Norma Rawlings, MS, RN, CRNP, assistant professor, Department of Family and Community Health, retired from the UMSON faculty after 41 years of service. She is a practicing women's health nurse practitioner who served as an extraordinary faculty member— teacher, committee member, and advisor and mentor to thousands of nursing students.
Shannon Reedy, MS, CRNP, CCRN, clinical instructor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, co-authored the following publication:
Reedy, S. and Kutten, J. Are you tuned in to your deaf patients? The Nurse Practitioner, August 2009.
Faculty and Staff Appointments and Transitions
Susan Antol, MS, RN, assistant professor, Department of Family and Community Health, has been named director of the Governor's Wellmobile Program, a program that was severely reduced last summer due to state budget cuts. As the program's new director, Antol plans to find creative ways to rebuild the program to its former level and beyond. She joined the UMSON faculty in 1998 and is currently completing her PhD at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Marjorie Fass, MA, has been named Assistant Dean for the Office of Student and Academic Services, after serving in that role on an interim basis for six months. Fass has more than 25 years experience in admissions and recruitment in schools of nursing, and previously served as senior associate director of admissions and student services at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing.
New Faculty and Staff
Department of Family and Community Health:
Christina Calamaro, PhD, CRNP, assistant professor; Clara Connor, MS, CRNP-PMH, BC, clinical instructor; and Anjana Solaiman, MS, RNC, IBCLC, clinical instructor, Shady Grove.
Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health:
Jocelyn Farrar, DNP '08, MS '87, BSN '74, ACNP, CCRN, assistant professor; Lola Massoglia, MSN, RN, clinical instructor and assistant director, clinical simulation labs; Mary Jess Regan, PhD, assistant professor; Suzanne Sherwood, MS '93, BSN '87, RN, assistant professor; Mary Frances Valle, MS, CRNP, clinical instructor; Kelley Wilson, MSN, RN, clinical instructor; and Margaret Watt, MSN, CRNP, SANE-A, clinical instructor.
Irene Amoros, coordinator, Office of Development and Alumni Relations; Stephanie Coates, research assistant; Department of Family and Community Health; Dawn Flair, coordinator, Office of Administrative Services; Betty Goff, academic program specialist; Saithong Lee, accountant, Office of Research; Walter Malecki, director of finance; Kevin Nies, associate director of admissions; Steven Pease, director of contracts and grants, Office of Research; Stephen Peterson, research project coordinator, Department of Family and Community Health; Peter Rhee, laboratory assistant, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health; and Diane Whiteley, coordinator for academic affairs.
Grants and Contracts
Susan G. Dorsey, PhD '01, RN, assistant professor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health, received UMSON's first P30 grant, a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health National Institute of Nursing Research, to develop a Center for Pain Studies to conduct translational research on cancer treatment-related pain, including peripheral neuropathy and oral mucositis. The Center, spearheaded by UMSON, is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Schools of Nursing and Medicine, the Dental School, and the Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
Lou Heindel, DNP, CRNA, assistant professor and director of the UMSON nurse anesthesia specialty, received a three-year, $1,092,511 grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration to further strengthen the UMSON nurse anesthesia graduate specialty. This project will expand and stabilize the state's only nurse anesthesia specialty and assure that graduates have adequate knowledge and skills with emphasis on cultural competency and sensitivity to provide care to medically underserved populations.
Mary Etta Mills, ScD, RN, FAAN, professor, and Linda Hickman, PhD, RN, FACHE, assistant professor, along with Joan Warren, PhD, RN, BC, director, office of professional practice and leadership development at Franklin Square Hospital Center, received a five-year, $1,948,042 grant from the Maryland Higher Education Commission for "Extended Master's Preparation of Staff Nurses to Expand Clinical Capacity" in six hospitals.
Barbara Sattler, DrPH, RN, FAAN, professor and director of the Environmental Health Education Center, received her second grant in the amount of $350,000 from the Kendeda Fund, to help fund efforts in Environmental Health and Nursing. This work supports the implementation of the Institute of Medicine's recommendations to integrate environmental health into nursing education, practice, research, and polity/advocacy.
Sue Thomas, PhD, RN, FAAN, received a three-year, $894,098 grant from the U.S. Department of Education Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN), the second GAANN grant received by UMSON. Funds from the grant pay for tuition, fees, and health insurance, plus a stipend, for fellows in the School's PhD program. To date, the project has funded 11 UMSON fellows.
Student News
Doctoral student D. Paxson Barker, BS, RN, has been elected to serve in a leadership role for the American Public Health Association's Occupational and Safety Section.
Bachelor of Science in Nursing students Priscilla Boateng and Myuiwa Okeyode were among the seven recipients of scholarships from the MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Foundation for the 2009-2010 academic year. Students must demonstrate scholarship, compassion, and potential for success in the practice of nursing to be considered for the awards.
RADM Kerry Nesseler, a Doctor of Nursing Practice student, has been named chief nurse officer, United States Public Health Service, effective Nov. 1, 2009. She succeeds RADM Carol A. Romano, PhD '93, MS '85, BSN '77, RN, BC, NEA, FAAN.
Alumni News and Notes
Caterina E.M. Lasome, PhD '08, MBA, RN, CPHIMS, a Lt. Col. in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, retired after 23 years of military service. She accepted a position as Chief Operating Officer at the National Cancer Institute's Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology.
Lois H. Neuman, PhD, BSN '63, co-authored the following article: Neuman, L.H., Pardue, K.T., Grady, J. L., Gray, M.T., Hobbins, B., Edelstein, J., Herrman, J.W. (2009). What does an innovative teaching assignment strategy mean to nursing students? Nursing Education Research, 30(3), 159-164.
Kathleen Deska Pagana, PhD, BSN '74, RN, had an article, "The Nurse's Etiquette Advantage: How Professional Etiquette Can Advance Your Nursing Career," published by Sigma Theta Tau International. She is the author of more than 75 articles and 22 books, including the best-selling Mosby's Diagnostic and Laboratory Test Reference (9th ed.) and Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests (3rd ed.). Pagana is a national keynote speaker and a Professor Emeritus at Lycoming College in Pennsylvania.
After an extensive career in neurological nursing, Barbara Frassa Smith, MS '61, BSN '60, graduated from the University of Georgia Law School in 1988 and entered the field of criminal prosecution. She worked her way up to Chief Assistant District Attorney in Augusta, Georgia, where she later received the state's Assistant District Attorney of the Year. Smith began her career with prosecutions of narcotics and violent crimes, and was ultimately responsible for capital murder prosecutions. She later joined her daughter's law practice, where she continues to practice today.
Mark Your Calendar!
Visit the UMSON Living History Museum and Earn a Nursing Contact Hour
Nurses can now earn one nursing contact hour and learn about the history of the School of Nursing at the same time! To receive the one nursing contact hour for your museum experience *, you must verify your attendance and complete a questionnaire and evaluation following your museum visit. The museum is open from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Wednesday during the academic semesters. For more information, contact Jennifer Ruffner, 410-706-2822, to arrange a time to visit. An administrative fee of $30 applies.
*The University of Maryland School of Nursing Office of Professional Development and Continuing Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
PhD Program 30th Anniversary Celebration – Oct. 1-2. Featured speakers: Patricia Grady, PhD, MS '68, RN, FAAN, director, National Institute of Nursing Research, and Elizabeth R. Lenz, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean, College of Nursing, Ohio State University. For more information, call 410-706-0674 or e-mail: email@example.com.
Lectures and Conferences
Millicent Geare Edmunds Lecture: "Health Care Reform: What Really Needs to Happen?" Thursday, Oct. 8 – Lecture: 4-5:30 p.m.; reception immediately following – UMSON. Featured speaker: Marla Oros, MS, RN, president, Mosaic Group, and former School of Nursing associate dean. For more information, visit nursing.umaryland.edu/events or e-mail email@example.com.
International Nursing Administration Research Conference: "Research into Practice: Building the Foundation for Tomorrow's Vision from Today's Challenges." Wednesday-Friday, Oct.14-16; Preconference: October 14 – UMSON. Keynote speaker: Colleen Goode, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, professor, University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing. Discounted registration available for UMSON students, faculty, and alumni. For more information, visit nursing.umaryland.edu/events or e-mail email@example.com.
"Environmental Excellence in Health Care: Greening Maryland Hospitals." Friday, Nov. 6 – 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. – UMSON. Featuring Kathy Gerwig, MBA, vice president and Workplace Safety and Environmental Stewardship officer, Kaiser Permanente. Fee: $55. For more information, visit nursing.umaryland.edu/events or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dean's Distinguished Virginia Lee Franklin Lecture: "Nickel and Dimed: On 'Not' Getting by in America," Thursday, Nov. 12 – 4-5:30 p.m.; reception and book signing immediately following – UMSON. Featuring renowned author and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich. Free admission. or more information, visit nursing.umaryland.edu/events or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Research Seminars
"Better Practice Environments—More Evidenced-based Smoking Cessation Counseling," Robin Newhouse, PhD, RN, CNAA, BC, CNOR, associate professor and assistant dean for the Doctor of Nursing Practice program, and Yulan Liang, PhD, associate professor, Department of Organizational Systems and Adult Health – noon to 1 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28 –UMSON, Room 732. For more information or to R.S.V.P., call 410-706-2619 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
"Expanding and Strengthening Nursing Science in Breast Cancer: Identifying and Responding to Unmet Needs, Gaps, and Missed/Unrealized Opportunities," Sandra Millon Underwood, PhD, Komen visiting professor – noon to 1 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30 – UMSON (Room TBD).
There are still a few slots left for research seminar presentations. Faculty members who are interested in presenting should contact Glendora Williams, Office of Research, 410-706-2619 or email@example.com.
School of Nursing "In the News"
SUBJECT: Nursing Programs & Colleges Address Critical Shortages
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun education supplement - Sept. 13
SUMMARY: At the University of Maryland School of Nursing, total enrollment in the school's nurse practitioner programs has literally doubled in the past five years. Nurse practitioners, many of whom work for physicians, are stepping up to the plate and performing admirably in a variety of specialties and settings, says Jane Kapustin, PhD, CRNP, RN, assistant dean for master's studies and associate professor at the School.
SUBJECT: IT Systems Help Facilities Achieve Magnet Recognition
SOURCE: Nurse.com - Sept. 7
SUMMARY: The new Magnet model encompasses transformational leadership, structural empowerment, exemplary professional practice, and new knowledge. "Informatics sits in every one of them," says Marisa Wilson, DNSc, RN, assistant professor, University of Maryland School of Nursing, who teaches a course on how IT can transform health care and maintains clinical hours in acute care.
SUBJECT: Loneliness Will Hurt Your Heart
SOURCE: 24 Medica - Aug. 13
SUMMARY: People who experience interpersonal relationships as threatening may find the nonjudgmental nature of pets especially beneficial. "The nonjudgmental aspect of pets really provides support, more so than the support that would be provided by a person," says Erika Friedmann, PhD, a professor at the University of Maryland School of Nursing who has studied the health benefits of pet ownership.
SUBJECT: Mobile Health Clinics Sidelined by Maryland Budget Cuts
SOURCE: SmartBrief - Aug. 11
SUMMARY: Maryland budget cuts have sidelined three of four mobile health clinics run by nurse practitioners and nurses who care for the poor and uninsured along the Lower Shore. The state Board of Public Works cut the program's budget in half, forcing the University of Maryland School of Nursing to scale back services. http://www.smartbrief.com/news/ana/storyDetails.jsp?issueid=74F59F01-C5EF-46B7-8636-FDAB1305E0B8©id=57F28164-8893-452F-8ADE-D59440C720C4
SUBJECT: Budget Cuts Sideline Wellmobile
SOURCE: DelMarVa Now.com - Aug. 11
SUMMARY: The "Wellmobile," a 33-foot-long RV equipped to function as a mobile health clinic, won't stop at its usual Lower Shore sites anytime soon. Quoted is Susan Antol, MS, RN, assistant professor and director of the Wellmobile program with the School of Nursing.
SUBJECT: Nurse Practitioners Pick Up the Slack
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun - Aug. 9
SUMMARY: Nurse practitioners are increasingly helping deliver primary care amid a national shortage of family doctors. Their days may only get busier if congressional health care reform delivers what it promises. "It's very problematic to make massive health care reform without addressing this issue first," said Shannon Reedy, MS, CRNP, CCRN, who co-directs the adult/gerontological nurse practitioner program at the University of Maryland's School of Nursing.
SUBJECT: Health Care for Uninsured Cut
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun - Aug. 6
SUMMARY: In all, the budget for the School of Nursing's Wellmobile will be cut in half. "We're going to work to design a program that fits within the budget constraints," said Wellmobile's director, Susan Antol, MS, RN, who's still not sure of all the changes.
SUBJECT: Unproven Remedies
SOURCE:The (Racine, Wis.) Journal - Times -Aug. 5
SUMMARY: Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of them do. "You expect scientific thinking" at a federal science agency, said R. Barker Bausell, PhD, author of "Snake Oil Science" and a research methods expert at the School of Nursing. "It's become politically correct to investigate nonsense."
SUBJECT: Wellmobile Cancels Calls
SOURCE: Cumberland Times-News- Aug. 2; Maryland Gazette - July 31
SUMMARY: The University of Maryland School of Nursing's decision to eliminate Wellmobile service in Allegany County will have a direct effect on approximately 1,700 of our residents who seek health care from it each year. "I think it's unfortunate and it's hard because these people are very, very committed to the communities they serve," said Kathryn Montgomery, PhD, RN, an associate dean of the School of Nursing.
SUBJECT: Wellmobile Sites to Close
SOURCE: WBAL-TV, Ch. 11, 11 a.m. - July 30; The Baltimore Business Journal - July 30; WNAV (via AP) - July 30; Examiner.com - July 30; WBAL Radio - July 30; The Cumberland Times - July 30; The Daily Record - July 30
SUMMARY: The University of Maryland School of Nursing said Thursday that state funding for the Wellmobile program has been cut in half for fiscal year 2010.The program has provided primary health care to uninsured and underinsured citizens across the state since 1994. Sites where closures will occur include Glen Burnie, Cumberland, and the Eastern Shore.
SUBJECT: Harford to Accelerate Nursing Studies
SOURCE: The Baltimore Sun - July 28
SUMMARY: The School of Nursing is mentioned in a story about Harford Community College, in partnership with Upper Chesapeake Health, establishing a pilot program to enable studies at its Bel Air campus in the Weekend and Evening Accelerated Nursing Program, which starts in May. Jane Kapustin, PhD, RN, CRNP, assistant dean of graduate programs at the School, is quoted.
SUBJECT: Best and Brightest: Desire to Help Others Set Baltimore Native on Path to Achievement
SOURCE: Diverse: Issues in Higher Education - July 17
SUMMARY: While finishing at the University of Maryland School of Nursing—where he was often the only African-American male in class—Edward Murray Jr. participated in several community service activities, including working in a community health clinic under the direction of his community health instructor. "It was my destiny to be a community health nurse," he says.
SUBJECT: People on the Move
SOURCE: The Daily Record - July 3
SUMMARY:The Mid-Atlantic Cardiovascular Foundation announced the recipients of its 2009-2010 nursing scholarships. This year's seven recipients, receiving a total of $7,000, include Priscilla Boateng and Muyiwa Okeyode of the University of Maryland School of Nursing.
SUBJECT: Coastal Sunbelt: Large Enough for the Chain, Nimble Enough for the Independent
SOURCE: Foodservice Monthly - July 2009
SUMMARY: Coastal Sunbelt President John Corso spoke about hospitals purchasing local foods from their distributors. "This week, I received a newsletter from Maryland Hospitals for a Healthy Environment which is based at the University of Maryland School of Nursing," he said. "Calvert Memorial Hospital recently became the 11th hospital in Maryland to sign the Healthy Food in Health Care Pledge, joining over 250 hospitals in the country."
SUBJECT: Alternative Cures Still in Question
SOURCE: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) - June 30; GoSanAngelo - June 30
SUMMARY: R. Barker Bausell, PhD, author of Snake Oil Science and a professor at the School of Nursing, says, "It's become politically correct to investigate nonsense." Alternative medicine research also is complicated by the subjective nature of many of the things being studied. Take a question like, "Does yoga work for back pain?" says Margaret Chesney, PhD, professor at the School of Medicine and associate director of the federally funded Center for Integrative Medicine. "What kind of yoga? What kind of back pain?" she asks.
SUBJECT: Nursing Representatives Join Obama Town Hall Meeting
SOURCE: Nurse.com - June 26; Advance for Nurses - June 26; Center to Champion Nurses in America - June 25
SUMMARY: The School of Nursing played a role June 24 in President Barack Obama's nationally televised town hall meeting on health care reform. Nursing student Hershaw Davis Jr. asked a question of the President during the forum, which involved more than 100 participants in the audience at the White House. The crowd also included Janet D. Allan, RN, PhD, FAAN, the Baltimore school's nursing dean.
SUBJECT: School of Nursing Dean and Student Attended WH HealthCare Forum
SOURCE: ABC News 6 p.m. - June 24
SUMMARY: Janet D. Allan, PhD, RN, FAAN, dean of the School of Nursing and a nursing student were invited to attend a forum on health care reform at the White House. Allan went intending to ask President Obama about funding for educators, saying that 40,000 potential nursing students were turned away last year due to a shortage of nursing educators.
SUBJECT: School of Nursing Student Attends White House Forum
SOURCE: ABC News - June 24
SUMMARY: Hershaw Davis Jr., a student at the School of Nursing, attended the White House Health Care Forum and posed a question about primary care providers.
SUBJECT: Maryland Nursing Grad Steady As He Goes
SOURCE: Nurse.com - June 15
SUMMARY: Edward Murray Jr.'s life was close to taking the direction of so many other young black males growing up in inner-city housing projects. But he and his family, which includes five children, spent four years in Germany, where he served as an Army hospital administrator until 2007. On May 15, at age 31, Sgt. Murray received a BSN from the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore.
SUBJECT: Geriatric NP Supplements Senior Citizen ED Care
SOURCE: Nurse.com - June 15
SUMMARY: While a handful of hospitals around the country have created separate geriatric EDs to cater to the special needs of the elderly, not many have the space or capital to overhaul their physical space. Barbara Resnick, PhD, CRNP, FAAN, FAANP, a professor at the School of Nursing, is quoted in this story.

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Kids are everywhere--and with good reason. The signpost on each corner reads "Sesame St." and the staff dresses up as Elmo, Grover, and Zoe for daily sing-alongs. Families with young children will find more than enough to keep the kids amused.
The hotel completed a major renovation in 2013, and an expanded activity roster was among the changes. New additions glass bottom boat tours and scuba diving.
The extremely polite staff serves up personalized service.
Everyone is extraordinary helpful. When I had trouble logging onto the hotel's Wi-Fi, the staff immediately called its IT specialist to give me personalized service. Whenever I asked for directions, staff members actually stopped what they were doing and walked me wherever I wanted to go!
It's a 20-minute drive to Ocho Rios, so this resort's not convenient for guests who want to spend lots of time in town.
On Main St., the highway that hugs the coast and wraps around the entire island, Beaches Ocho Rios is a three-minute drive from Moxons, but is 20 minutes from Ocho Rios. It's definitely not the right place for guests who want to travel into town.
Spacious rooms accommodate a slew of people, but some lack a stellar view.
My large room was clean and comfortable. With a pullout couch, it's great for a group of friends. However, my view--of the Beaches gift shop--sucked.
Rooms completed major renovations in 2013, and the rooms now have upgraded decor, making them a better value than they were previously.
A lagoon-shaped pool, water park and Fun Club keep kids occupied. Adults will appreciate the swim-up bar as well as an expansive beach but should steer clear of the disco.
Beaches Ocho Rios is a huge property. Connected by multiple staircases, it requires plenty of legwork just to get around. Immediately outside the main building, the fountain in the courtyard is the central nervous system of the entire hotel. Walk down any of the paths radiating from this point to access the hotel's features.
First up is the main lagoon-shaped pool. Due to its swim-up bar, it's usually filled with folk, and it 2013 it was expanded to include a lazy zone for the kids and new cabanas. At the far end, the amphitheater is where the staff performs its afternoon Muppet shows. Kids love them.
During my visit, a storm closed down the water park, a complex system of slides that seems to be the domain of shrieking kids having a whale of a time! Once they're tired out, parents can take them to the Fun Club, where they get their hair braided and tie-dye T-shirts.
It's a workout getting to the hotel's gym, which is in a separate building far from the main property. It's also unsupervised, so lift those weights with caution.
For adult pampering, the Red Lane Spa is one floor up from the gym. Plus, its products are in every bathroom.
The resort's actual beach is much broader than most resorts in this part of Jamaica. There are plenty of lounge chairs and a separate station for water sports.
Snooping around the property, an "Adults Only" sign outside a building piqued my interest. Sadly, the door led to a tiny, empty, and pungent disco. Lame.
To bring in outside guests, the hotel charges $85 per person for a daily pass, and it only lasts from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. No bargaining here--I tried!
Children are everywhere, but the staff manages to keep this resort immaculate.
For a property this colossal (with a beach, multiple pools and hundreds of kids), it is incredible that I didn't spy a smidgen of dirt anywhere! Enough said.
A magician will fascinate kids at the otherwise mediocre Venetian restaurant. On-site restaurants offer a variety of cuisines (from Italian to Tex-Mex).
A staircase in the lobby leads downstairs to the Venetian, the hotel's only Italian restaurant. The food's not great, but the roving magician on staff is! And the sommelier tried her best to get us to buy a bottle of wine.
Next to the pool, Bayside is the only restaurant open for breakfast, buffet-style. In the evenings the bar at the far end is a popular poolside lounge. To the north, the adjoining BBQ Park has jerk-flavored fast food.
And then there's Eleanor's for Caribbean cuisine; open for dinner six days of the week (not Thursday).
No-hassle weddings, but the family-friendly focus of the resort means you may have Elmo crashing your beach ceremony
Weddings at Beaches are a bit cookie cutter -- you have six stock options, all styled by Martha Stewart, and it's hard to add a personal touch -- but this makes planning the big day easy, and this Sesame-Street-focused resort can be a great option for families. Just note that if any of your guests choose not to stay at the hotel -- or at the nearby Sandals or Royal Plantation sister resorts -- you'll have to pay an extra fee just so that they can access the property.
With Elmo and Grover wandering the beach, dancing, and hosting sing-alongs, Beaches' family focus is clear. Daily Muppet shows, a huge on-site water park, and hair braiding and beading at the Fun Club can ensure happy, sound-sleeping kids. But for adults, there's nothing in particular but a spa, a swim-up bar, and a sad disco. Prepare to play along.


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Many of us "computer geeks†have been complaining about Microsoft's utter domination of the desktop computer world for years. We realize that there are better operating systems (Linux, MacOS & even OS/2 in the old days), better software solutions and more choices for consumers. But, the truth is Microsoft pretty much dominates the market.
Well while I was setting up a client's Vista laptop I discovered two things; Vista is not ready for prime time and Microsoft Office is very expensive! After spending about $1800 on a new laptop my client was forced to buy the upgrade to MS office. He was going to have to shell out a few hundred bucks more just so he can write simple letters and read simple spreadsheets.
So I looked into Sun's open source free office package and I'll tell you, it is pretty impressive. It installed cleanly, had all the productivity applications and is FREE! Keeping in line with the theme of my website, informing people about information that is not common knowledge for one reason or another, I thought I would use today's newsletter to let people know that there is indeed an alternative to MS office…and it' FREE!
To my Mac Friends…yes, there is a Mac version as well as a Linux version.
You can download the package or order a CD on the Openoffice.org web site here: http://www.openoffice.org/ . I was not asked by anybody at this site to write about this. I just happen to be a 20 year computer professional who is asked about things like this all the time…and finally I found a solution to a common issue that can save a lot of people a lot of money!
So before you go and violate copy right licensing by getting bootlegged or cracked versions of MS software…try Open Office. See, there are good people doing good things out there. You just have to know where to find them! Think about it!
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HARRISONBURG, Va. (AP) -- James Madison University's enrollment has soared by nearly 25 percent since 2000. But that dramatic growth isn't expected to continue.
James Madison President Jonathan Alger says some academic areas, such as science and engineering, will continue to see enrollment increases. But overall enrollment is expected to level off.
He says the university plans to focus on growing its reputation and delivery of a strong, accessible, affordable education.
President Alger discussed the university's future Tuesday during an address to the Rotary Club of Rockingham County.
A total 19,927 students are enrolled at James Madison, up from 15,965 in 2000.


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Although only 1% to 2% of people have celiac disease and require a gluten-free diet,
many more people are jumping on the gluten-free bandwagon in hopes it will help
them lose weight or feel better. And many of them assume that a gluten-free diet
is what's best for their pets, too.
Gluten from various grains is a nutritious ingredient that provides a concentrated
source of protein in pet foods. GI problems associated with wheat gluten are rare
in dogs and cats, and corn gluten does not cause problems, even in pets with celiac
1. Case LP, et al., eds. Canine and Feline Nutrition. 3rd ed. St. Louis, MO: Mosby;
2. Lawrence KR, et al. Comparison of wheat gluten and spray-dried animal plasma
in diets for nursery pigs. J Anim Sci. 2004;82(12):3635—3645.
3. Feed Commodity Bulletin. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.
4. Hand MS, et al., eds. Small Animal Clinical Nutrition. 4th ed. Topeka, KS: Mark
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Check out this interview with all-time great Fedor Emelianenko in which the retired fighter gives his prediction on Cain Velasquez vs. Junior Dos Santos, if he would come out of retirement for an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Russia, his most difficult opponents, why Sambo is such a good base for Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and many other topics.
UFC Welterweight Jake Ellenberger breaks down the rematch between current UFC Heavyweight Champion Cain Velasquez and Antonio Silva Happening at UFC 160 May 25, 2013 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
UFC 146: The Heavyweights - SATURDAY, SATURDAY, SATURDAY!
Inside American Kickboxing Academy with founder Javier Mendes, coaches Dave Camarillo and Bob Cook, Jon Fitch, Cain Velasquez, Josh Thomson and more.
UFC Fan Expo 2010 video with Cain Velasquez, Mike Swick
Fan-made video. I used the "Countdown to UFC 110" videos. Lots of the effects and edits from the original video so I just moved some stuff around to fit with the music edits. I was a little sloppy but I really wanted to get it out ASAP. Track is Emancipator's "Shook" (Sigur Ros vs. Mobb Deep Remix)
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Do you use your iPhone, iPod or iPad on the holidays?
It's a holiday weekend for many of us, so here's the question -- are you using your iPhone, iPod, or iPad? For some, this is a deeply religious time and electronics or simply distractions have no place in it. For others, it's just a few extra days off work or school and they'll be spent browsing and gaming even more than usual. Even in religious families, traditionalists might eschew using any gadgets this weekend while modernists might use them to enhance their observances. Even in non-religious families, together time might mean no-gadgets allowed, while for others gadgets might be family entertainment for all. iMore is a technology site and an iOS enthusiast site and we're lucky to have a really rich, really diverse community of users. There are no right or wrong answers here (unless you tell us the iPads are going away so the JooJooPads can come out!). We're just curious to find out how you're spending your Easter, Passover, or long weekend?
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As this was posted during the holidays, you will find a skewed result to your question, as none of those who aren't using tech will see this today (or tomorrow). It would have been better to ask before the weekend or on Monday.
Ha, true true... Plus u either do/don't or don't care... I'm not sure why a "its complicated-see comments" is needed? That just throws off the results in these polls evertime...
This holiday weekend its just myself and my fiancee. I don't think either of us will be disconnecting. For non-religious people like us Easter is just an excuse to cook up a ham and have some jelly beans and chocolate.
I won't be e-mailing anyone about work issues or anything but I'll still play a round or two of Temple Run or check Facebook or Twitter on my iphone periodically. I think during dinner our phones will be away from us but that really isn't anything different than any other weekend or weekday.
My Iphone has the Bible app.
Yep, theres an app for that to.
Self employed....what's a holiday?
I work in security so the "holiday" just means work is slow and I can use my iPad even more.
"Work is slow"
You mean that people stop stealing/breaking in on holidays?
Hell yeah. Posting from a pub right now.
Feeling a little Catholic guilt, but it won't be the first time.
Mmm... Beer.
If I am cooking, need the iPad to get at recipes. Now I have noticed a family trend. After gathering, and eating dinner, everyone will settle down, and grab their various iDevices out. I will let it go on for a little bit, then turn off the WiFi. We then actually start talking to each other. The holidays are for the family to get together, and have fun.
Nope. Xoom and galaxy nexus are used on holidays. There like the fine china. :)
Not a single word about the virus for Mac OS X !
I see no reason to let ridiculous superstitions stop me from using my technology.
Well considering I have been living in Alaska for the last three years and I spent three years stationed in Italy, FaceTime and Skype are the ways my family sees thier grandchildren and the rest of the family.
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Oops, hit send too soon. I'll post a fairly observant Jew's response to this. Passover- yes. Quite a bit of iPhone/iPad usage. But for the major holidays (Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur), no I don't at all.
Yes! I can't go without my phone for a day!!! I don't care what the holiday is!
I used as normal but towards the end of the night all the kids wanted to play with my phone.


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The forefathers of Utah football made this Pac-10 invite possible. Without them, it's unlikely we're even on the national radar, let alone a new member of a BCS conference.
A quick Q & A with a Cal blogger...
Conference expansion will lead to stadium expansion. When will it happen, how large will it be and what will it look like?
A closer look at the Ute fan base.
Colorado and Utah have a history...
Utah is an official member of the Pac-Ten Conference!
Today's press conference is now open to the public.
Utah is going to the Pac-Ten!
Deseret News reporting USC trustees informed of P10 invite to Utah.
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There is a reason why some generic drugs come on the market faster than others and it's a practice the Obama Administration is fighting all the way to the Supreme Court.
The so-called Pay-for-Delay deals between large pharmaceutical companies and generic drug competitors keep the lower priced drugs on the shelf for years sometimes.
Regulators claim the practice denies consumers price declines on many common drugs. Their estimate is that it costs consumers nearly $3 Billion per year.


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I was wondering how many possibilities of private/public keys there are? If a million people for whatever reason tried to generate 5keys each in the same minute (on the same date and time) is there a high chance of collision? I believe GUID would suffer from that problem as many bits are reversed for date/time (, guid version) and isn't meant to be used in that way.
Would RSA get collisions if many were generated in the same moments? Is the amount of possible keys known? I know rsa is based on prime numbers and small numbers are to be rejected. I'm sure values above a certain amount of digits/bits are rejected because software may not be able to support those large values?
How many RSA keys before a collision? and if you tried to make many in the same moment would that give you a high chance of collision?


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---- — TICONDEROGA — A Ticonderoga man was charged with welfare fraud and filing a false instrument.
Shawn Johndrow, 36, of Ticonderoga was charged with first-degree offering a false instrument for filing and fourth-degree welfare fraud, both felonies.
Johndrow allegedly obtained $1,755 in SNAP (food stamp) benefits by failing to report income, according to a press release from the Department of Social Services.
The arrest was the result of an investigation by the Essex County Department of Social Service Fraud Investigation Unit with Ticonderoga Police arresting Johndrow, the release said.
He will be arraigned on Sept. 5 before Elizabethtown Town Justice William Garrison.
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I like to tell the story about the day — well, one of the days — my dad decided to skip school; I have heard it told and have repeated it often. It was spring, around 1940, and my dad, who was skinny and freckled and about 10 years old, walked away from my grandparents' house in the north end of Rosedale to head to school.
His trip toward the south end of town and the old three-storied elementary building there was somehow diverted from Main Street to the railroad tracks a block or so away, and Dad, who always took a keener interest in fishing and telling jokes and smoking the occasional cigarette than he did in his mathematics or English lessons, just didn't quite keep to the course.
My Grandma Blanche, well-trained from previous experience, often watched him meet his buddies in the morning and walk toward school, but decided on that particular day to follow him. As my dad told me himself, he was sure no one was watching him as he tight-roped the rails and tossed rocks in the weeds, but when he turned around and looked back down the tracks, there was my grandmother silently bearing down on him, her housedress flapping in the breeze.
He took off, certain that he could outrun her. He couldn't, but it wasn't without considerable effort; she caught him almost a mile south of town.
I used to think, "How did my old grandma — she couldn't have been much past 30 or so at the time of the marathon race — catch my dad?" But she did, and she whipped his behind all the way back to the school, where she then sat him at his desk before trotting home.
When I am alone in the house, as I am tonight, sitting in the half-light of the small desk lamp of my ever more cramped office, I often think of stories like that one. I see those tales all around me, many coming from the faces that stare back at me from the photos I keep under a plate of glass on my desktop.
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The Off Season: Power of our stories helps us turn page on another year
I like to tell the story about the day — well, one of the days — my dad decided to skip school; I have heard it told and have repeated it often. It was spring, around 1940, and my dad, who was skinny and freckled and about 10 years old, walked away from my grandparents' house in the north end of Rosedale to head to school.
- Mike Lunsford
MIKE LUNSFORD: Lake Michigan's 'Wonderful World of Color'
Despite the beauty around us, Joanie and I thought of television as we sat on a gorgeous Michigan beach one evening last week.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Wet in Wyoming, wandering turtles and other tales of the road
It is an odd thing, after all the miles I drove a few weeks ago — to the mountains of Wyoming and back again — that today I remember most of all stopping along the road in two places nearly 600 miles apart.
THE OFF SEASON: Go West, old man … there's a world to see
I am writing this story in the shadows of the Black Hills, nearly spitting distance from the rocky-pink Badlands through which I'll drive today. My wife and I came here to see things only the American West could show us, and we have not been disappointed in the effort and the miles it took.
MIKE LUNSFORD: It's the true 'face of spring'
I'd be a liar if I said that I miss the yellow carpet of dandelions that dotted my front yard just a few weeks ago.
MIKE LUNSFORD: A face only a mother could love
It is fitting that Mother's Day comes when it does, for spring is a maternal season, one for new beginnings, for birth and rebirth, for flowering and nurturing and caring.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Lasting beauty: Miss Kinsey's forsythia
It always seems like it's Sunday when we notice Miss Kinsey's forsythia. Joanie and I will be driving home from church, most often with our windows down so we can enjoy springtime breezes and smells.
MIKE LUNSFORD: One man's trash is, well, another man's trash
Many people are growing weary of ecological doomsdayers, and if so, they are the folks most likely to tell us that Planet Earth isn't in that bad of a shape, that it can repair itself, that new technologies just around the corner will solve our carbon emissions and greenhouse gases and oil consumption and the ever-growing pile of plastic in which we are drowning.
MIKE LUNSFORD: A book inscribed is surely a book treasured
I don't think it's a secret that I value books as one of life's great joys; "I am, therefore I read," could be a T-shirt-worthy motto of mine.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Something to crow about, as our neighbors return
It is in the spring, I think, that I notice crows the most. They are noisy neighbors year-round, but they come calling (I resisted saying "cawing") in early March in earnest, and they do so before the frogs on our pond and the buds on our trees make the new season official.
Author visits birthplace of Calvin Coolidge
Editor's Note: Today, in this seventh and final installment of Mike Lunsford's "New England Journal," the writer visits a small town in south central Vermont, birthplace of the nation's 30th President, Calvin Coolidge. Be sure to look for Mike's regular column in Monday's edition of the Tribune-Star.
MIKE LUNSFORD: The long goodbye to winter
I have no idea what the weather is to bring to us on the morning this story runs, but on the day I write most of it, the sun is shining, and we have just come off a weekend of pleasant warmth and cloudless skies.
Heaven on Earth: Writer gets lost — both figuratively and literally — at Acadia National Park
Editor's Note: Today, we continue the New England Journal as Mike Lunsford writes of a day hiking the Atlantic shoreline and the trails of Maine's Acadia National Park.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'To sleep, perchance to dream'
I've been thankful this winter for a full propane tank and ample cold cranking amps and school snow-delay days that have kept me off the roads until the sun is up on the most frigid of these mornings.
MIKE LUNSFORD: The night the snow fell
You would think that the cold winds and deep snows that we endured two weeks ago would be old news by now, but as I stood in the checkout line at a grocery store just a few days back, a gallon of milk in one hand and a quart of orange juice in the other, a customer just ahead of me appeared to be stocking up to make a run for the Donner Pass, and all she could talk about was the storm.
THE OFF SEASON: Seeing the miraculousness of the ordinary
It was just a few nights ago that I announced to my wife that I was headed outside to watch the International Space Station pass overhead.
'Afternoon on a Hill': The formal poet who led an informal life — Edna St. Vincent Millay
EDITOR'S NOTE: Today, we continue the New England Journal as Mike Lunsford writes of an afternoon exploring the rural gardens and home of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay near Austerlitz, N.Y. Join Lunsford in February for the sixth installment of this series as he wanders along the wooded shorelines of Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Lying by the warm radioside
I am writing this piece well before Christmas Eve, although you wouldn't think that it can be far away by the look of things out my windows tonight.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'The mind is a dark forest'
If you hadn't noticed by reading this newspaper or hearing me crow about it myself, I have another collection of stories out in print.
Walk of a Lifetime: Writer discovers views fit for a painting while walking the cliffs of Prout's Neck, home to famous artist Winslow Homer's seaside studio
Editor's Note: Today, we continue the New England Journal as Mike Lunsford writes of a day walking the Maine seacoast in search of the great artist, Winslow Homer. Join Mike in January for the fifth installment of this series as he visits Edna St. Vincent Millay's rural New York farm, Steepletop.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Inching on toward a cold winter?
I'm not ready for snow and ice and the daggers of a north wind, but I have finally accepted the fact that winter is nearly here.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'I'm going simply because I've got to … '
Late in the year 1944, the great Hoosier war correspondent Ernie Pyle, mentally and physically exhausted from his months reporting from the battlefields of Europe, came home for the last time. He was scrawny and gray.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Pumpkins: Good for the fork and the (carving) knife
My wife and I are fairly frugal; we are budgeters and planners. In the fall, we set aside what we'll need to heat the house and pay the doctor and buy sensible shoes for school. I think we're going to have to open an account for pumpkins, too.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Déjà vu, courtesy of violinist prodigy
It's been said that the longer married couples stay together, the more they begin to think alike. I can't refute that, although, for my wife's sake, I hope a similar theory — that they begin to look alike, too — is far from true.
MIKE LUNSFORD: The beauty, spirit of a 'lonely' bridge
It was the best kind of day a few Saturdays ago: not quite 70 degrees, a slight breeze from the northwest barely pushed flat-bottomed white clouds around in an otherwise blue sky.
Mike Lunsford: The golden rods of September
The sunflowers that are framed in my cabin's eastside window are soon to become things of the past, for no matter how much I water and weed, the time has come for them to go.
MIKE LUNSFORD: It isn't the end but it is the beginning of the end …
I had every intention of writing about Labor Day today; it has become a tradition of sorts for me because it seems as though my column and the holiday have an annual convergence. But as I thumbed through a number of other stories I'd written on the subject, I felt I had nothing new to say.
MIKE LUNSFORD: A long day's journey into night
We arrived at the sprawling hulk of a motel well after dark, the parking lot pitch black except for a few spots illuminated by flickering blue lights that hummed a monotonous tune.
MIKE LUNSFORD: Searching for Beulah Jane
EDITOR'S NOTE: Today's Mike Lunsford column is the second in a two-part story on his search to solve a family mystery. Part 1 was published in Monday's Tribune-Star. Both are available at www.tribstar.com.
MIKE LUNSFORD: The girl who wasn't my grandmother
EDITOR'S NOTE: We travel this week with Mike Lunsford on a journey across miles and memories, as he seeks answers to a long-ago family mystery. Today's column is the first of a two-part story. Part II will run Tuesday.
MIKE LUNSFORD: 'Once more to the lake…'
We are heading home today after spending a few days on Lake Michigan, and I am a bit sad for the leaving. We have made it a habit to come here every year, dragging weary bones and beach towels and enough breakfast food to last us a week. And, as expected, when I turn my back on the cool blueness of the lake for the last time this afternoon, I'll know that another year has gone by, and there's no getting it back.
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Using the great simulator WhatifSports, we take a look at what MSU's 2010 season could have been with Heisman winner Cam Newton at QB
Chris Relf, QB, Mississippi State: Relf is probably the most athletic quarterback in the SEC. He passed for 1,789 yards and 13 touchdowns, while rushing for 713 yards and five more scores. Relf ended the 2010 season with a lot of passing momentum by throwing for more than 200 yards in each of his last three games, after passing for more than 200 yards just once before that. The Bulldogs are a trendy pick in the West and Relf is the guy who will put a lot of the offense on his shoulders. If he can keep improving as a passer, he'll put up good numbers with the wealth of receiving talent around him.My off-the-radar SEC Heisman candidates - SEC Blog - ESPN
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President Barack Obama on Nov. 20 will present the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Dean Smith and 15 others, the White House announced on Wednesday. The recipients had been announced in August.
Smith is one of 16 individuals who will receive the nation's highest civilian honor, which, according to the White House, is awarded "to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
Smith, who coached the men's basketball team at North Carolina from 1961 through 1997, retired as the most victorious coach in the history of the sport. He has suffered in recent years from a neurological disease that affects his memory, and he hasn't made a public appearance in years.
It's unclear who will represent Smith at the medal ceremony, said Steve Kirschner, a UNC athletic department spokesman.
Georgetown: Georgetown says the NCAA has cleared center Josh Smith to play basketball immediately, starting with the Hoyas' opener against Oregon in Seoul, South Korea.
Georgetown adds Wednesday that Smith was granted a waiver for last season, when he played in six games before transferring from UCLA, meaning he has two years of eligibility remaining.
Coach John Thompson III says Smith, listed at 6-foot-10 and 350 pounds in the Hoyas' media guide, "has to maintain a high level of commitment on and off the court."
Georgetown faces Oregon on Nov. 8.
Shaw: Fans will have a chance to meet the 2013-2014 Shaw men's basketball team Monday night when the school hosts its first Midnight Madness at C.C. Spaulding Gymnasium on the Shaw campus.
The introduction of the men's team will be only part of the event. Doors will open at 10 p.m. with a DJ providing entertainment until activities begin at 11 p.m.
The Shaw cheerleaders – the Chi-Chis – will perform and give away prizes.


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For ALC (12-14, 4-8 KIAC), sophomores Shawn Thompson and Isaac Wilson were the only players to score double figures, accounting for 19 and 13 points apiece. Fellow sophomore Terry Muse (pictured at left) contributed game highs with 14 rebounds and 5 blocks, and he led the Eagles with 3 assists. Asbury (11-14, 5-6 KIAC) was led by Marquel Johnson and Dakota Euton with 19 points each. The stats show how evenly matched the two clubs were. ALC shot 33% (22-68) to AU's 32% (24-72) from the floor and 10-18 from the charity stripe to Asbury's 10-12. However, Asbury made 11 bombs compared to just 4 for Alice Lloyd, and they also won the battle of the glass 55-41.
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by Robert St George on Dec 17, 2013 at 14:31
It has been a good year for the S&P US Dividend Aristocrats strategy, but that success is making some anxious about 2014.
The index, composed of US large caps that have increased their dividends annually for at least 20 consecutive years, has returned 28% over the past year. The S&P 500, in contrast, has risen by 26%.
That run has, of course, inflated valuations. The US Dividend Aristocrats trades on an average price-to-earnings ratio of 18.5 and a typical price-to-book multiple of 2.9. The equivalent figures for S&P 500 constituents are 15.9x and 2.5x.
'Underlying valuations on aristocrat stocks have increased significantly over the past 12 months, and shorter-term, investors may well consider taking profits,' said Jonathan Jackson, head of equities at Killik & Co.
Then there is the question of what impact the tapering of quantitative easing will have on the aristocrats, whenever it occurs next year. When Ben Bernanke first mooted the idea in May, the aristocrats index fell by 5.1% over the following month while the S&P 500 slid 3.7% as investors fled bond proxies.
And for those who view the strategy principally in income terms, rather than as a way to buy high quality blue chips, the index's high prices have depressed its yield to 2.7% compared with 2.1% from the S&P 500.
Despite such concerns, Jackson is nevertheless willing to recommend the approach to US equities for long-term investors, especially those tempted by the higher nominal yields available in exchange for greater risk elsewhere.
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Traffic headaches are about to become a reality for city residents and passers-through.
Road closures, detours and pedestrian detours for the first three stages of work on the downtown portion of the Ohio River Bridges Project were presented to the Jeffersonville Board of Public Works on Wednesday. Preparatory work has begun along Jeffersonville's riverfront, but road closures aren't expected to begin until July 29.
Stage one of construction in Indiana will include building the new ramp off of Interstate 65 to Court Avenue, in addition to revisions to Stansifer Avenue ramps, said Andrew Ledbetter, engineer with Jacobs Engineering Inc.
Planners with the bridges project have said that the existing Court Avenue ramp will remain open during construction until the new ramp is completed and traffic can be switched over to it.
Ledbetter added that sidewalks at Court Avenue are going to be closed as the new access is tied into the surface road.
Stage two of the construction will result in more closures, including permanent closures to existing roadways.
"During stage two, Seventh Street, which currently [goes] under the interstate as an underpass, is going to be permanently closed," he said.
The closure is tentatively set for Aug. 1.
Construction along Sixth Street will result in closures beginning Oct. 1, according to the tentative schedule. Both roads will be closed at Broadway Street and the Sixth Street ramp onto U.S. 31 northbound also will be closed.
A new gateway is slated to be built at Sixth Street, as well as at Court Avenue and 10th Street.
Following the closures at Sixth and Seventh streets, road closures on Riverside Drive and Market Street will go into effect.
"There won't be closures at both locations at the same time," said Gary Fromm, section two technical manager with Jacobs Engineering, Inc. He added the work that will result in the closures won't begin until later this year or early 2014 and will continue into the summer or fall of 2014.
The first portion of that work that will create a closure will be on the overpasses being constructed for the northbound portion of I-65. Work on the I-65 southbound portion, the existing approaches to the Kennedy Bridge, will not start until 2016.
When work does commence and closures are in effect for Riverside Drive, traffic will be diverted at Riverpointe Plaza or Clark Street, to Market Street. When work is ongoing at Market Street, the closures will again be in place at Riverpointe Plaza and Clark Street, with traffic being diverted onto Riverside Drive. Pedestrian detours will follow the traffic detours when the roads are closed.


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Regarding the Oct. 31 news story "GOP complains about teacher protests": Sen. Neal Hunt has a lot of nerve to claim that PTAs and the NCAE are threatening public school students
As a chief budget writer in this past legislative session, Hunt did real harm to schoolchildren across North Carolina. His budget eliminated more than 5,000 teaching positions and nearly 4,000 teaching assistants across the state. It phases out extra pay for teachers who earn master's degrees. It set aside $10 million in public tax dollars for unaccountable private school vouchers. Teacher salaries continued to slide, the worst decline in the nation, losing almost 16 percent in real dollars in 12 years.
Teachers have real reasons for their discontent, and Hunt continues to attack them. In fact, Hunt claims this legislature increased spending, but adjusted for growth, the Republican-led legislature really cut education spending by almost $500 million in the next two years while giving tax breaks to millionaires and yacht buyers. So who exactly is doing harm to our students?
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With its clean, simple design, the Berkeley TV cabinet offers a place to store your home entertainment equipment while adding contemporary elegance to the room. The main cabinet can hold flat screen plasma and LCD televisions up to 55 inches on a motorized lift. Use the included wireless remote control or manual switch to raise your television up from inside the cabinet. When you are done watching, simply press the button to lower the television back into the cabinet. Behind the solid wooden doors there lies plenty of room to store DVDs, video games, and other items. Two side cabinets are also included for storing of DVD players, gaming consoles, receivers, stereos, and other audio/video equipment. Each cabinet features interior shelf lighting and sliding rear panels for easy access to your TV connections.
Once the TV has been installed, simply plug the lift control unit into a nearby wall outlet. The lift will automatically retract to the lowest position and will be ready for you to control the lift with the included remote. The control unit also comes equipped with two switched AC receptacles that you can plug components into. If you choose to use the outlets, please note that each time you raise or lower the lift, any component plugged into the outlets will be powered on or off.
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Now that the new iPad is out the door, Foxconn has started hiring to build the next iPhone. According to fresh reports, Foxconn is short 20,000 pairs of hands to handle Apple's production demands for the iPhone 5 (or whatever it's going to be called). This year alone, Foxconn has held more than 20 job fairs in order to churn out the supposed 57 million iPhone 5 units demanded by Apple.
We've heard lots of rumours about the iPhone 5, including that it will have LTE, keep the small-ish screen size, and have a new micro-dock connector, but everything is up for conjecture for now, including crazy pseudo-textured touchscreens. At the rate Apple's going, it's expected that the next iPhone will do well, but one can hope that the next generation will at least have a slightly different form factor; we've been looking at the same iPhone casing for nearly two years now, so at least a little bit of cosmetic changes are due, if only for variety, right?
As far as the Foxconn employment surge goes, word has it that those signing on will enjoy the recent pay increase. Though I doubt those long hours documented by Nightline are going to change, I don't think the conditions for these new employees are going to be as bad as some people make them out to be.
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They will have those jobs filled before production of final units begin.
Come on, let it be 4 inches. Please.
That's what she said !!!!
I didn't get the 4s simply because of screen size I don't think 4" is the huge of a deal when they can retinze an iPad
Not the best recruiting photo I have seen.
Maybe the millions of unemployed US citizens could help. Apple should build a few US factories instead of hoarding billions of dollars. Just a thought.
Wow. Their is always someone on here ready to explain what the next iPhone will be called. Shut up already shesh just wait for the dang thing to come out. I think it'll just be called iPhone 7 to fool out of all of you guys. ;D
Hmm, let's see....if they make the new iPhone with a rounded back it will be fun to watch all those who place it on a desk to use as a calculator. Then to allow its use on a flat surface the case makers will make a case so the back of the case will flatten and everyone will think you have a iPhone 4S. Am I missing something?
Don't get me wrong. I am a dedicated Apple user. I own 2 iPhones, 2 iPads, an iPod, and a Mac laptop. Just wish we could do something in America to help the jobless.
I would love to have more companies produce products in the states. But it is sooooo much more expensive. Doesn't mean I dont agree with you, but there is a reason why all the factory work is leaving this country.
Totally agree with design change. I think it would be a huge mistake if Apple release a same design as 4 and 4S. 4" is imho a perfect screen size. Doesn't have to be larger, it's a phone.
A bit OT: As for 4G LTE: Hey world, WAKE UP!
Most parts of the world don't have fibre optics or cable to get fast internet, so let us enjoy it as well.
I was spoiled (in Western Europe) with 120MB/sec (approx usd80/month , including phone and digital TV; download a 4,7 Gb DVD movie in 4 minutes max) and now, here in Indonesia....maybe 1 MB/sec (approx usd35, excl TV and phone).
Ok, there is a total lack of infrastructure here (cable/optics, etc), but we don't need much "underground" infrastructure with 4G/LTE. Antennas all over the place so coverage wouldn't be that difficult.
Can't wait for the "next iPhone". Only can hope that I won't be disappointed and 4G LTE will be available asap.
Those antennas have to have some kind of back haul in order to provide those speeds. Cellular infrastructure is not just the towers, it's also (more importantly) the pipes on the back end.
Are people really that superficial?
If a design works well and you cannot change it for the better, you simply don't change it.
The same goes for software too. It's absurd to expect a major revision of iOS every single year.
I'm concerned about the smaller dock ....all new accessories? that will keep me from updating for a while.
if you own a business that makes products such as shoes or what apple makes knowing you can save thousands even millions of dollars making it in another country why would you wanna make it in the US? only an idiot would do that. thats why they wouldn't have a factory in the US so for everyone saying why not open a factory here think before you speak. the design of the iPhone 4 is way better then the old one and the size is perfect theres no need to make it any bigger or round the edges just keep it the way it is. as for making it fast we all saw how ivo was so thirsty to be the first phone to have 4g and towers weren't even up every only in major cities so ppl think before you speak


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Over 100,000 Respiratory Care Practitioners (RCPs) in the United States work to evaluate treat and care for patients with breathing disorders. Some of these disorders include emphysema, asthma, chronic bronchitis, cystic fibrosis and even premature infants. A major aspect of Respiratory Care is working side by side with physicians, nurses and other health care team members managing life-supporting equipment and life-threatening situations. These involve patients ranging in age from newborn to senior citizen.
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Objective 3: Upon completion of the program, students will demonstrate professional behavior consistent with employer expectations as advanced-level Respiratory Therapists (affective domain).
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The employment outlook for Respiratory Therapists is very promising due to an ever increasing aged population, and the profession's continued expansion into various speciality fields. Annual starting salaries for Certified Respiratory Therapists range from $39,411 to $55,935*, Registered Respiratory Therapists range from $47,888 to $63,978.* Most employers offer sign-on incentive bonuses and financial assistance for continuing education.
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