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Officers responded to two reports of guns on campus this week
MADISON, Wis. - Police blame a modern game of tag called "Humans Versus Zombies" for wasting public safety resources this week after two reports of gun calls tied to the competition.
The game pits a zombie team against a human team, which tries to "stun" the zombies with Nerf guns to avoid getting tagged.
About 230 people are participating on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus this week, part of a competition played on campuses across the country.
A passerby reported an automatic weapon on campus Thursday morning, and UW Police responded, only to find out the gun was a toy used in the game. It was the second such call in as many days.
"It is an absolute waste of police resources," said Marc Lovicott, a UW Police spokesman. "Most of our officers went out there because it is a serious incident."
Lovicott said the game's organizers are good about telling police when the game will be played every semester.
But with heightened suspicions after the Boston bombings, poison sent to the White House, and a concerning powder found at a Beloit health clinic, police will consider whether to allow "Humans Versus Zombies" to continue in the future, Lovicott said.
On campus, about a dozen students wearing orange bandannas played outside Sterling Hall on Thursday afternoon.
"I wouldn't think that any of the Nerf blasters would confuse anyone for a real weapon, because most of the new ones are bright yellow or blue," said Steven Brandt, a UW freshman on the zombie team.
"Most school shootings happen from people who are isolated and on their own," he said. "With 'Humans Versus Zombies,' I've made a whole bunch of friends -- it brings people together."
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By the time he stepped away from baseball in 2014 after a historic 20-year career with the New York Yankees, Derek Jeter had established himself as one of the most respected men to ever have played the game. His reputation is that of an unmatched leader both on and off the field, his name synonymous with hard work, dedication and class.
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"Light of Ancient Athens" exhibition, through Oct. 7
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An exhibition in the main gallery of Firestone sheds light on the ruins of ancient Athens -- as well as on a remarkable series of pictures by a famed photographer that recently were discovered in the library's collection and are being displayed for the first time.
"The Light of Ancient Athens: A Photographic Journey by Filix Bonfils, 1868-1875" runs through Oct. 7.
The exhibition is based on a series of 42 large-format photographs of Athens taken by Bonfils, a French photographer who lived from 1831 to 1885. Bonfils established a studio in Beirut in 1867 -- when photography was not yet 30 years old -- to serve the growing commercial market for photographs of the Holy Land, Egypt, Greece and other places attracting travelers.
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The arrival of the touring company of Peter Morgan's Frost/Nixon while the movie version is still in theaters provides an unusual opportunity for audiences to see how a pretty good play made the transition into a superb movie. The show has lost some of its gloss, and the cast surrounding Stacy Keach as Richard Nixon — whose 1977 TV interviews with David Frost are its centerpiece — is unmemorable. But in essence it's the same play, staged by Michael Grandage, that made the journey from London's West End to Broadway.
The stage version (at the Colonial Theatre through February 8) is engaging, with a riveting final third that covers the point at which Nixon, who has thus far succeeded in transforming the interviews into an open-ended opportunity for self-promotion and sentimentality, begins to show cracks in his supremely controlled façade. Morgan is a skillful and sharp-witted writer with a great subject in hand. He knows how to tighten the screws as his two protagonists — the English talk-show host who's risked his career on a venture he's widely considered too soft (in the news sense) to put over and the disgraced ex-president who knows the country wants to see him own up to his guilt in the Watergate scandal — head for the final showdown. (It was wise of Morgan to skip the intermission.)
The problem is structural. The play is framed with a narration by Jim Reston, the professor and political analyst who's obsessed with Nixon — he's working on his fourth book about the president's corruption of his power — and joins Frost's team out of a desire to see him strong-armed on camera into delivering the confession that Gerald Ford's pardon released him from having to make in a court of law. Reston isn't the only character who addresses the audience; Jack Brennan, Nixon's chief of staff, who coaches him through the interview process, does too. But Brennan's far less frequent monologues feel tossed in. Reston is set up to be the voice of the play, and he's not an interesting enough voice; he thins it out. Reconstructing the material for the movie, Morgan, with director Ron Howard's help, built up all the supporting characters (among them Frost's friend and producer John Birt and reporter Bob Zelnick, who brings Reston on board) and made them equal partners in the narrative, so that the story doesn't appear to hang on Reston as the representative of betrayed liberal America cheated of its day in court and seeking restitution.
The play is partly about the ambiguous power of television, but Grandage's decision to place a large screen upstage that duplicates the image of the two men doesn't add any drama; it isn't until the very end of the final interview that the video image conveys any special meaning. Mostly it's a distraction; when Keach's Nixon is fielding questions from Alan Cox's Frost, he's so compelling that you just stop watching the screen. It's unfortunate for Keach that he's competing with Frank Langella's cinematic Nixon, because the match is unfair: Langella gives one of the greatest performances of his career as Nixon (just as he did on stage), and Keach doesn't have his depth or his emotional range. He can't make his moments of anger resonate; you don't see how much he's tamping down. On his own terms, though, he's quite fine — magnetic and very funny and surprisingly elegant. Keach really is a creature of the stage; he's never made the same kind of impression in movies or TV.
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Jam Cruise 13 once again sailed out of Miami on the magnificent MSC Divina. Being our second year on this beautiful ship, we had grown closer and more comfortable with her, allowing us to fully enjoy and appreciate all her features and glory. After sailing for almost two days, we stopped in Roatan, Honduras to spend an afternoon in this beautiful Western Caribbean paradise. The following day, we sailed north to the wonderful country of Mexico, where we stopped in Costa Maya to port. After getting back on the ship, we made our graceful way back to Miami, but not before enjoying another full day at sea with our best friends and favorite bands to wrap up what was yet another unforgettable Jam Cruise experience.
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I think Harbaugh is overcoaching his team.
For example, I don't see that Humperdink kid being a long term upgrade over Alex Smith.
I think BJ wanted out when we went looking for a replacement for Brown. If you think about it. All most everything that happen was around this time. He wanted to get back here.
Just heard this on NFL channel. How is it Bradon jacobs Can't say nothing about his own Team but Drew Bress can say this stuff about the Goodell. Should he be suspended.
Shocking. Jacobs not happy? He was such a happy-go-lucky guy with the Giants. He NEVER complained.
I like Brandon. But to be very honest with you I can't blame Harbaugh and the 49ers for how they are handling this situation. You don't air the teams dirty laundry for the whole world to see. If you have a beef with the coach or anyone, you deal with it behind closed doors with him and keep it there.
BJ has done this before with the media. I remember last year when he made a remark about driving his fat car. The Giants knew how to deal with him. Harbaugh and the 49ers on the other hand doesn't have the patience for that. I know you're not happy about your playing time BJ, but you don't handle it this way.


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thought I'd clue you guys into this if you haven't seen it. Southern Island has the 12" VOTC line up for pre-order (they say it will ship in August), but for $20 instead of $30.
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For me, shipping was only $4, but they charged tax, you might wanna check it out to see what it would cost to ship to you. If you're willing to wait, you might be able to save a few bucks than buying them in stores. The pic of the Fett shows the blue, they said they're not sure which version they'll be getting, and it's pretty much luck of the draw. You could always make a note in the comments if you really want the gray.


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Well, with 2002 I actually managed to surpass 2001 in terms of things I wanted to do but never got done. I can't really think of any reason to expect that 2003 will be a better year but I can always hope. Point one on the new year's resolutions list is to keep a blog going to try and keep my momentum up. If it's June and this is one of the last entries then the prospects look bad.
Had a look at the newdocms project today. It's nice to see a project trying to implement a new and revolutionary idea. Well, like all new and revolutionary ideas its just an amalgamation of some existing good ideas but it's excellent nonetheless. For those interested, the last such project I came across was gpf (no homepage, just a directory in the GNOME CVS repository) and that was well over a year ago.
The concept behind newdocms is very similar to some ideas I've been trying to formulate recently concerning a programming paradigm based around fuzzy sets. Work on it is on hold at the moment waiting for a book I ordered on fuzzy set theory. It's one of those ideas where I have a feeling that much it has already been explored before, it's only the application which is new. I'd like to read up a lot more on the subject to be sure I'm not doing too much wheel reinventing. I've been waiting for a month now. Hmmm.


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This unit aims to introduce students to the theory and practice of language testing and assessment in a range of second and foreign language contexts. It makes links between language curriculum and assessment and develops skills in test design, validation and evaluation appropriate to learning settings.
Topics to be addressed in this unit include: Current theories in language testing and assessment; The purposes of language assessment; Testing of language for specific purposes; Communicative language teaching methodology and its implications for assessment; The ethics in language assessment; Methods and techniques for testing speaking, listening, reading and writing skills; Self and peer assessment; Properties of language tests; and The evaluation of language assessment instruments.
A description and evaluation report on a language assessment instrument (3000 words - 50%); and an essay on a current issue in language assessment (3000 words - 50%).
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McNamara, T.F. (2000). Language Testing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fulcher, G and Davison, F. (2007). Language Testing and Assessment. An advanced resource book. Routledge publications.
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Actor, composer present 'Penelope'
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"Penelope," a music and theater performance written and presented by award-winning actor and playwright Ellen McLaughlin and composed for a string quartet by Sarah Kirkland Snider, will be staged at 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 4-5, in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
The performance is a modern take on the story of Penelope, the patient wife who knitted while she waited for husband Odysseus to return from the Trojan War.
McLaughlin, widely known for originating the role of the Angel in Tony Kushner's "Angels in America," also has appeared in "Homebody/Kabul," "Threepenny Opera," "Ghosts" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream." She has won numerous playwriting awards, including the Great American Play Contest, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and the Writer's Award from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund. McLaughlin teaches playwriting at Barnard College and also has taught at Princeton and Yale universities.
Snider is a composer whose work has been performed internationally both in alternative spaces and in major venues and festivals, including Carnegie Hall, the Aspen Music Festival and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project Chamber Series.
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Awakened around 2 by the wee lad arriving in our bed. Remained awake due to irregular kicks to various bits of anatomy until the wee lad left to watch Dora the Explora around 6:30.
Have spent the last few days wading through all of the important control-centre bugs. What a depressing mess. Things are getting marginally better, but there is still a huge amount of ugliness. Mime types are just a mess. On a less depressing note the printer working groups are moving quickly. The papi interfaces are pretty nice. The current sample implementation is still a cups wrapper (rather than pure ipp) but at least we could fix some of the more egregious aspects of cups under the covers.
My gnumeric tree compiles again, and we're stripped down to only gconf as the only hard depend above gtk. The text exporter is prettier without GnomeDruid, and seth's input on the switch from GtkClist -> TreeView. As a bonus to those of you interested in the charting engine I've had to replace GnomeAbout with something more portable. That was all the instigation necessary to try an exercise the charting engine with a more convential use case, and put some animated plots into the about box. That should help sand off the rough edges to the api.
SamuraiMike's radar plot implementation will go in shortly too, which leaves us with just a few more plot types (surface and some of the stock types) necessary before we have full coverage.
1.2.6 will get announced shortly, it's hard to be motivated with all the recent medical trouble in the family.


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OXFORD – John Howard Strickland, 21, of San Antonio, Texas, is expected to turn himself in Wednesday to Oxford Police after a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Strickland will be charged with two counts of aggravated driving under the influence related to the Oct. 27 deaths of University of Mississippi students John and Sarah Wheat, a brother and sister from Compton, Md. Strickland's eastbound SUV crossed the median of Highway 6 and slammed head-on into the small car in which the Wheats were headed westbound.
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Join the Charleston Symphony Orchestra for a storytelling adventure featuring music by Rossini, Barber, Wolf-Ferrari, and Mozart. Ukranian-born violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is the featured performer on Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5, while soprano Deanna McBroom performs Samuel Barber's "Summer of Knoxville: 1915," a nostalgic piece based on text from prose. Dock Street Theatre, 135 Church St. Friday, 7:30pm. $35-$20. (843)723-7528, www.charlestonsymphony.com


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I give that a very solid 9!!
Looks like it needs some sand space though, maybe be to many shells or deep enough sand? I don't know much about those though.
Overall great job!
Here's mine for a bump of a fantastic thread!! Keep it going guys.
Multifasciatus does not like sand. I see many people adding sand because they like the moving of the sand the multi's do. I had many conversations about this. In the original habitat they live in, they live on a huge bottom of empty Neothauma snail shells. They never get to see sand.
Anyway thanks for the nice words! I actually really like the tank you showed. Not too crowded and a nice layer of green algae, great!


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Social phobia is a persistent and irrational fear of situations that may involve scrutiny or judgment by others, such as parties and other social events.
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People with social phobias fear and avoid situations in which they may be judged by others. It may begin in adolescence and may have to do with overprotective parents or limited social opportunities. Males and females are affected equally with this disorder.
People with social phobia are at high risk for alcohol or other drug dependence, because they may come to rely on drinks or drugs to relax in social situations.
People with social phobia become very anxious and self-conscious in everyday social situations. They have an intense, persistent, and chronic fear of being watched and judged by others, and of doing things that will embarrass them. They can worry for days or weeks before a dreaded situation. This fear may become so severe that it interferes with work, school, and other ordinary activities, and can make it hard to make and keep friends.
Although many people with social phobia realize that their fears about being with people are excessive or unreasonable, they are unable to overcome them on their own.
Social phobia can be limited to one situation (such as talking to people, eating or drinking, or writing on a blackboard in front of others). Or, it may be so broad (such as in generalized social phobia) that the person experiences anxiety around almost everyone other than family members.
Physical symptoms that often occur with social phobia include:
Social phobia is different from shyness. Shy people are able to participate in social functions. Social phobia affects the ability to function in work and relationships.
Some of the most common fears of people with social phobia include:
The health care provider will look at your history of phobia, and will get a description of the behavior from you, your family, and friends.
Signs include:
The goal of treatment is to help you function effectively. The success of the treatment usually depends on the severity of the phobia.
Anti-anxiety and antidepressant medications are sometimes used to help relieve the symptoms of phobias. See: Panic Disorder for more information about medications.
Behavioral treatment appears to have long-lasting benefits.
Lifestyle changes may help reduce how often the attacks occur.
The outcome is generally good with treatment, and antidepressant medications have been shown to be very effective.
Call your health care provider or mental health professional if fear is affecting your work and relationships with others.
Taking measures to improve your self-esteem and getting training in social skills may be helpful.
Stein MB, Stein DJ. Social anxiety disorder. Lancet. 2008;371:1115-1125.
Taylor CT, Pollack MH, LeBeau RT, Simon NM. Anxiety disorders: Panic, social anxiety, and generalized anxiety. In: Stern TA, Rosenbaum JF, Fava M, Biederman J, Rauch SL, eds. Massachusetts General Hospital Comprehensive Clinical Psychiatry. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2008:chap 32.
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First, there was a temperature increase of nearly 20 degrees between the day before, and the day of, the storm. At 19 degrees above zero, Beadle county residents must have considered the day a balmy one, with the weeks of sub-zero temperatures they had previously endured. However, a brutal drop in temperature was yet to come before the day was over. Adding to the danger, wind speed just before noon was 24 mph; in less than two hours, the wind would increase to a roaring 60 mph, with higher gusts.
With the warmer weather, more people were out tending to their business, and more children were sent to school. The timing of the storm's arrival could not have been worse; workers were in the middle of their work day; farmers in the middle of their chores, and school children in the middle of their studies. Had this storm hit in the middle of the night, countless lives would have been spared. In addition, the significantly warmer temperatures of the morning meant that many of these people were not adequately dressed for what was to come.
The storm roared in with such suddenness that people did not have time to protect themselves, nor to make any preparations in advance. The storm came with such ferocity that one three year old, identified only as Timmy, thought "God's thrashin' machine is coming to pieces!" The tiny shards of ice and snow came pelting down with such force that visibility was next to nothing in a very short time. Farmers in their barns were unable to find their way back to their houses. It hit overwhelmingly hard and fast.
Stories of affected Beadle county residents were not hard to come by -
Emil Gilbertson had come to Dakota Territory from Chicago some five years previous, answering the call of free land. His claim was 11 miles southwest of Altoona, and it was there that he was headed as he left town on Wednesday. He was found Friday, about 2 ½ miles west of town, frozen to death.
Another Altoona resident, 60 year old Lewis Merriman and his 18 year old son Hallie, came to Dakota Territory from Whiteside county, Illinois. They were just a mile away from home when the rage of the storm hit Beadle county. They knew they were lost, and conditions so bitter that survival was not likely; Mr. Merriman was exhausted and could not continue; his son took off his overcoat and put it on his father, and attempted to find help. Mr. Merriman's body was found a half mile away, and his son's body just a short distance from their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gilkeson, who came to Dakota Territory from New York, lived on the Caldwell Dairy Farm, three miles south of Huron. On Thursday, he and Otto Gose headed east of the farm in order to get hay. The storm hit just before they started for home. Once they realized that they were lost, they tied the team of horses to the wagon and started out separately. Gose wandered the rest of the day, but eventually made it to the farm, although badly frozen. Searchers went out early Friday morning, but there was no sign of Gilkeson. It was not until the following Monday, when Frank Miller, who lives 12 miles from Huron, was walking to town, and happened to notice a piece of cloth sticking up from the snow. He found the body of a man, arms folded across the breast to keep his coat tight, and his hat pulled down over his ears. He had nothing on his hands. A piece of the man's coat was taken to Mrs. Gilkeson, who confirmed it was her husband's. The body was later taken to the Gilkeson residence. Their daughter came from Wessington, riding on the snow plow.
Meanwhile, Michael Hand, a farmer, took his cattle to a nearby well for water. The coming of the storm was so sudden that he could not see the barn, and wandered for some time before stumbling over a gang plow. Knowing the plow was only about 10 feet from the house, he started in what he thought to be the right direction, but it was not until he came to a harrow which was a half mile from the house that he knew he was lost. He stumbled about all night; by morning, his eyes were frozen shut. Later that morning, William Morse was out doing chores when he found Hand, and took him to shelter. Hand's clothes were frozen to the extent that they had to be cut from him. Hand had wandered more than 10 miles before being found.
Two neighbors, J. A. Scoville and S. W. Campbell, had close calls as well. Scoville had been at Campbell's before the storm. By the time he started for home, it was too late; he became lost, and was wandering on the prairie for more than three hours, finally finding his farm. He warmed up, and then went to his cattle sheds to tend to his livestock, but as soon as he opened the door, the roof collapsed under nine feet of snow, burying Scoville under the mess. One of the farm hands, who luckily was nearby, began shoveling and finally freed Scoville. Scoville recovered fully from the events of the day. Meanwhile, his neighbor Campbell, was forced to shave off his mustache with a pocket knife, when it became so encrusted with ice and snow that it froze to his face, and made it very difficult for him to breathe.
The Nierson brothers, Frank, 22, and Willie, 16, left their family in Chicago to come to Dakota Territory to farm. On Thursday morning, Mr. J. F. Wilson came to their place to "doctor" a sick horse. The storm rolled in while Wilson was there, and the boys, fearful of the storm, decided to accompany Wilson back to his farm, just two miles east. Heading in the right direction, the visibility was so poor that they walked past the Wilson farm, coming within 10 rods of the house. Realizing they were lost, the began to look for some sort of shelter from the fierce wind and biting ice raining from the sky. After several hours, Frank fell to the ground, exhausted, and died within minutes. Wilson and Willie Nierson continued their search for shelter, and eventually Willie collapsed and died as well. Wilson rested for a short while in a deep drift in a cornfield, until his knees gave way, and he had to resort to crawling. About 10 o'clock Friday morning he crawled to a house belonging to John Bremerman, having wandered at least 10 miles. The bodies of the Nierson brothers were retrieved and taken to the mortuary to be prepared for shipping to the family in Chicago. While badly frozen, Wilson recovered.
South of Cavour, Ezra Fuller and his housekeeper, Miss Pearson, were going to Fuller's house to work, when they were caught in the storm. They wandered all Thursday night; when found, they were nearly buried with snow, several rods apart. Mr. Fuller's left arm, face and feet were badly frozen, and Miss Pearson's legs were frozen, as well as her hands and face.
In a touch of irony, Sergeant Glenn, whose duty it was to predict weather for the Huron office, started for home Thursday, but before reaching his street his eyes were nearly frozen shut with snow and ice. He was confused, and became lost. He wandered for some time before being put on the right road to his house. He arrived exhausted, but unhurt, for the most part.
One of the saddest stories is that of Robert Chambers and his two young sons, aged 9 and 11, who left their home on Thursday morning, headed to the Rush place a mile away, to water some cattle. When Mr. Chambers saw the storm approaching, he immediately sent the older boy home, as the child was afflicted with rheumatism and could not be out in the cold weather. The boy reached home safely. Mr. Chambers and the younger boy, Johnny, began driving the cattle home, but soon became confused and lost. Johnny, who survived the ordeal told what happened to the local newspaper, as follows:
… when his father saw that they were lost he made a place in the snow for him, and wrapped him up the best he could. They had no over coats, or extra clothing. Johnny says that he was so covered up that he was warm. His father went out and called, and called, and the St. Bernard dog barked, but no answer came. Then father and the dog got into the snow beside him. While he was warm he knew that his father was getting very cold. He urged father to go on and try to find the trees, and then he could make the house. But the father said, "No, I cannot go and leave you here." The boy urged, but the father would do no more than to call for aid within certain reach of the boy's bed of snow. The dog also kept with the boy. Through the long night they had conversations about perishing, but the father kept assuring the boy that they would get through all right if he would only be sure and lie still! The boy knew that father was freezing, but was quite comfortable himself, and finally fell asleep. When he awoke it was evidently near morning. Father was still alive. Discovering that Johnny was awake the father said to him, "Now, Johnny, you pray, and I will pray, and then I know God will take you through all right." They prayed as proposed, and soon after the father was dead. The boy, entirely covered up, except a little breathing place through the snow, laid still. The dog stood sentry, and afforded the cue by which the bodies were found soon after daylight, by a searching party. Johnny thinks his father had not been dead more than an hour when they were found.
A huge cause for concern once the weather turned bad were the hundreds of school children throughout the county. At the Utah school in Huron, some children insisted on leaving the building, some of whom were retrieved and the building locked for their safety until help arrived. In order to get students to the nearby home of J. W. Campbell, a rope was attached to Mr. Campbell's fence, and carried to the school building. Students were able to make their way to the house, where Joe Bloodgood, with his horse and sleigh, took children home. Ben King and his hired man did the same, until everyone was safely delivered to their families. At the Illinois school, teachers and students stayed together until each child could be taken home.
However, it was the rural school teachers, all alone on the frozen prairie, often without enough fuel to last, who had difficult decisions to make. Miss Hattie Grant, teacher of 12 pupils in the Goodell neighborhood six miles west of Huron, saw the storm approaching as the children were getting ready to eat their lunches. She advised them to save a portion for an evening meal, if needed. She continued on with her teaching, and with the help of three older students, got enough coal to last the night. They sat around the fire, told stories, and talked until the small children fell asleep, and again with the help of the older students, kept watch over the fire. They were all rescued safely about 8 o'clock the next morning.
Miss Hacket taught in the Bloodgood addition; aided by others, she was able to get all the children to the residence of A. Bloodgood and Eli Brockman, and notify parents that their children were safe and being cared for overnight.
There was no shortage of heroes in Beadle county. When it was realized that there were missing school children, a call was made for volunteers to brave the elements and bring the children to safety. A number of railroad boys were the first to answer the call. As written in the Daily Huronite, "They threw on their overcoats, pulled down their sealskin caps and were quickly out in the storm. It was not too severe for them to aid in the search for the little ones. They didn't wait to be asked to go - but went voluntarily. Their eager desire to take part in the search showed the goodness of their hearts, and their promptness in duty as railroad employes. 'By their works ye shall know them.'"
Jud Spaulding, Mr. Ritchlag, W. B. Joy, J. B. Coffin and many others also aided in the search for missing people. Mr. Spaulding came up with the idea of sounding the railroad whistle, and many lost and confused people were able to follow the sound back to town, and numerous lives were saved as a result of his clear thinking.
Reactions of the county residents to the storm were mostly awe and grief, but M. J. Dineen summed up the spirit of the Dakota pioneer: "We survived the big winter. This storm may be a little severe, but we were here first, and are going to stay."


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at least teela was, but she didnt botehr much did she?
One thing that I always found weird in the MOTU movie from way back when was that they basically implied that Eternians are vegetarian (this was during the scene with Gwildor, Teela and Man-At-Arms eating chicken and ribs).
I always found that weird, because I pictured them eating these big dinners in the palace with hams and turkeys and stuff.
Anyways, who here would have guessed that they were vegetarian?
at least teela was, but she didnt botehr much did she?
I remember being a bit surprised about that, too. I think that was just some PC crap (is it OK to say crap here?).
You know how in movies aliens are sometimes portrayed as more advanced in any respect - advanced technology, advanced moral values... well, someone probably thought that not eating meat is "morally advanced" and if Eternians were shocked at maneating humans that would be a great way to show how cool Eternians are and how barbaric us humans are.
I sometimes think that She-Ra is probably vegetarian, due in large part to her ability to talk to animals. I would imagine that it has to be very hard to eat the meat of some animal you were having nice conversations with just a few days ago.
The rest of the cast of MotU shouldn't be vegetarian, in my opinion - it just seems a bit out of place to me.
"I'm not just crying for Hordak. I'm crying for the saddest thing I know - a wasted life. To be given that most precious gift - the gift of living, to do with as we choose. I'm crying, because this man has chosen to throw it away, and when he goes, nobody will care..." - She-Ra ( "My Friend, My Enemy")
One thing I want to add is that the question is meant to apply on a societal level, not to individual characters. The reason it came up is because Teela implied that Eternians don't eat meat, whereas i imagined most would.
Interestingly enough, while Beastman can talk to and control animals, I always pictured him as a meat eater anyways, haha.
Still, Teela is a bit of an animal-lover. I remember her being severely ticked at the Huntsman in one He-Man episode.
Agreed... but then Beastman is evil , and She-Ra is good.
Interestingly enough, while Beastman can talk to and control animals, I always pictured him as a meat eater anyways, haha.
Seriously, if while fishing, I caught a fish, and I could hear him saying "Please don't eat me dude... please throw me back... I'm begging ya'!", I'd have a really hard time not giving in to his mercy requests.
"I'm not just crying for Hordak. I'm crying for the saddest thing I know - a wasted life. To be given that most precious gift - the gift of living, to do with as we choose. I'm crying, because this man has chosen to throw it away, and when he goes, nobody will care..." - She-Ra ( "My Friend, My Enemy")
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" Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elswhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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I'm no vegetarian, but personally, I loved that scene in the movie. The idea that Eternians would consider Earthlings a planet of savages was good for a laugh. I saw nothing "PC" about it, it was just a gag moment of culture shock for an alien race.
People who say certain characters should never be remade is stupid. Throw rocks at them.
I support Filmation characters for MOTUC! Let Mattel know it's worth their while to get the rights to those characters!
I'll go with the "pc" argument. I can see why She-Ra would go vegetarian, but I think it's a matter of personal choice for everyone else.
By the way, what in the world is roast gooble? I know it's a delicacy on Trolla, but I'm assuming that because it's roasted it's some kind of meat dish. Gonna hafta ask Julia Childs about that one...
In the german audio plays, He-Man`s favourite food is roast beef...so "NO"
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I loved how Man At Arms was pretty much enjoying his dead animal and teasing poor teela at the same time .
I cannot imagine how Teela or Gwildor could not know they were eating meat . No biology class on Eternia ? Even if they never eaten meat in their lives , how could they not recognise bones ?
I would have understood if it was processed meat like mince beef or sliced sandwich ham .
I always thought they ate what ever, cringer ordered fish alot, ramman ate all kinds of things and the royal chef made all kinds of great feasts for the palace, and for all kinds of royal gatherings. Not once did I view or notice anything that said or implied they were all vegetarians.


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Shares of Sprint-Nextel (S) are up a penny in late trading at $7.23 after the company announced it has filed suit to block a tender offer by Dish Network (DISH) for the shares of Clearwire (CLWR), whose board last week recommended shareholders tender their shares to Dish.
Sprint, which has its own offer on the table to acquire the 50% of Clearwire it doesn't already own, naming both Dish and Cleawire in its suit, claims Dish's offer "violates the rights of Sprint and other Clearwire stockholders under Clearwire's governing documents and Delaware law."
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This is my first diary entry, but right now I am working on an computer algebra system for c++ and obj-c.
It will most likely be licensed under a 2 clause BSD.
I also have a PPC emulator that was working on it too will be under a 2 clause BSD once I fix up problems with the source code depending on two incompatible licenses, the ASPL and the GPL.
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Leonard Barkan, the Arthur Marks '19 Professor of Comparative Literature, has been selected as one of 14 visiting scholars for 2003-04 by the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Barkan also is director of Princeton's Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts .
The visiting scholars travel to universities that have Phi Beta Kappa chapters, spending two days on each campus. The scholars meet informally with undergraduates, participate in classroom lectures and seminars, and give a major address to the academic community.
Contact: Tom Bartus (609) 258-3601


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These reels don't offer a lot of drag. You just need to add a little pressure with your fingertips or palm to add drag. I much prefer this to a drag with a lot of resistance.
Engaging both pawls will increase your drag some, but don't expect too much additional resistance. Since you have twice as many "clicks" per revolution of your spool from having two pawls engaged instead of one, I'd expect that the components will wear faster. However, this is not an uncommon practice and I've never heard of any problems with drag parts wearing faster so I'd have to believe any increase in wear is negligible. Pawls are readily available and easily replaced if needed, but the gear requires professional servicing.
You could also have a weak spring causing your low drag. These are also readily available and easy to replace. In the US, contact Bill Archuleta in Grants Pass, Oregon for parts and service. He's the best.
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I have a Hardy Marquis Salmon 1 reel and am considering utilizing both pawls at the same time to hopefully increase the drag resistance.Has anyone tried this and does it create a noticable difference?Would it cause any undo wear on the drag parts?----Thanks--Bob
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126.96.36.199 Creating a Standby or a Clone Database using Rman Duplicate From Active Database
By AVargas-Oracle on Jul 24, 2011
There are a few things on 18.104.22.168 that you need to take into account to create a standby database or a clone database from an Active Database using Duplicate database command.
Points 2, 9 and 10 of this document contains the details I've found I needed to change in order to get the clone or duplicate for standby running smoothly on this release:
The steps required to complete the task are:
1) Create a parameter file for the clone or standby
2) add the following 3 parameters to the standby or clone database parameter file, even if the paths are identical on both the source and standby or clone servers:
3) Copy the passwordfile from the source database to the clone or standby Oracle_Home/database folder or $Oracle_Home/dbs on Linux/Uniux.
4) Configure the network on the clone or standby server so that you can connect to the database
5) Startup nomount the clone or standby database
6) Add a tnsnames.ora entry to the clone or standby on your source database server
7) Check that you can connect to the clone or standby database as sysdba
8) On the Primary server connect to the source database and clone or standby database (auxiliary) using RMAN
>rman target / auxiliary sys/
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connected to target database: PROD (DBID=8114723455)
connected to auxiliary database: PRODCL (not mounted)
9) Use the following syntax to duplicate to a clone (use as many channels as CPU's you may dedicate):
run {
allocate channel c1 type disk;
allocate auxiliary channel cr1 type disk;
duplicate target database to 'prodcl' from active database nofilenamecheck;
10) Use the following syntax to duplicate for standby (use as many channels as CPU's you may dedicate):
run {
allocate channel c1 type disk;
allocate auxiliary channel cr1 type disk;
duplicate target database for standby from active database nofilenamecheck;


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Have my package all ready except fpr ont thing she requested,not going to mail till next month,wich she gave more info,not much in her postings either. so she will definitly be surprised.
Hmmmm, I think someone raided my hot chocolate stash last night-be warned-the stash liberators are out there!!!!
I was one of those who did not list much (likes/dislikes is hard for me). So, here goes. I am a fan of things coconut, reese's peanut butter cups and tea (not herbal). I'm newish to quilting, though I trend towards scrappy. When I was little I wanted to be Laura Ingalls Wilder and I still have the sunbonnet my mom made me. If I could pick one thing that I would absolutely love, it would be something personalized with my name for my sewing room-when your name is Marne, personalized items are quite rare. My favorite color is bright pink, and my style is all over the place. I have a Kenmore and am eyeing a Pfaff (the one that is bright pink, of course, though it comes with lots of cool stitches).
Have a wonderful afternoon.
Well, I'm out of the sewing studio for a few days. It is in the basement and I have an injured dog.....again. Last winter the Rottie had his 2nd knee surgery so we slept on the floor for 6 months. Now the Dane jumped off the bed this morning and hurt herself. Turns out she has a herniated disc that is pressing on her sciatic nerve, so she is in a lot of pain. Just hoping the Rymadyl kicks in quickly. She can't climb stairs now and can barely walk; she is a mama's girl, so we will be sleeping in the spare bedroom on the ground floor for a week. Still have to get some more things, or make some more things for my SS, but probably not this week. Sure hope everyone's injuries heal quickly. I had a rotator cuff injury in the spring and know how painful that is, luckily it wasn't bad and didn't need surgery. Hope the broken shoulder heals so you don't need the pin in it.
Oh dear, was out shopping again today, my SS box is never going to leave here. Keep finding items to add to the box. Still have two more items to pick up for furbabies............who has furbabies??? is it you???
I've got furbabies! Maybe it's me!!
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Unfreakinbelievabull!The White House had to fend off questions Tuesday about the Homeland Security Departments decision to sign a $50 million contract for new uniforms for airport screeners, just days before the sequesters.
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Someone very close to me works as an upper level civilian manager on a large Army Post nearby. Prior to the sequester taking place, they had all the plans in place ready to announce to the workforce on how it was going down. All employees got an immediate 20% reduction in work time (pay). But the hit they feel is actually bigger because they still have the deductions for their insurance etc... So take home pay for many folks took a 30% hit that day. The management worked on the implementation of this for over a month non stop. There was never any word that it won't be needed.
They got similar memos and warnings from superiors about talking to the media and not bad outing POTUS.
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there's no good reason to fatten up a retriever.
Yep... Thats true. But not lucky that we have clowns running the country. They do this every time the ding dongs in congress and and POTUS can't agree on a budget too. Continuing Resolutions... They waste tons of manpower hours working on "what-ifs". If govt would just do its job and put out the yearly budget, life would be a little simpler. Same with the "fiscal cliff"... Hours and hours of work for whole depts... For nothing in the end... Just wasted time when the politicians came to an agreement at the last minute.
For all the posturing that Obama, Boehner, Reid et al do on the nightly news... There are many people behind the scenes having to actually clean up the mess they leave behind. It's ridiculous.
Bill Davis
Please correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the house pass a bill that would have given the POTUS authority to decide where the cuts would be made and he said if it landed on his desk he would have Vetoed it?
If he didn't want the hard job why did he take the oath!
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Our roster is set for us to go 4-12 dude.
Out of all of our starting players, less than half are proven legitimate GOOD NFL starters. The rest of them range from unproven to pathetic.
"I'm no longer concerned with the things I don't have, I'm just living for love and laughs."
We went in a stupid direction (Sparano ground and pound) and now we are rebuilding on the fly. I may have blinders on because the previous regime threw draft picks at the likes of Feeley and Lamar Gordon, but I feel like we are on the value end of things with Ireland. And I think that we have to be wise in thinking about some of the moves that he didn't make. The RB position for example is stacked without an albatross-like contract. QB position was looking strong until Garrard's meniscus fail. Now it is comfortable. Depth is an issue, but I don't know enough to make a relative judgement vs other teams benches. I am curious to see what happens at final cuts.
Honestly, these kinds of threads depress me. There are a lot of people here who agree with you. You don't state your point incoherently or anything it just doesn't correlate with reality. This shows you can spin just about anything. Hell, you even spun the safety situation into a strength. It's not just a matter of limiting glaring holes, when most teams try to avoid having any. How high is the ability level at other positions, is there depth, is there established talent and youth. The basic elements of a competitive, complete roster. That roster you posted is not good enough to seriously compete in this league. If the team were as talent rich and perfectly constructed as you seem to think then we would actually win some games. You are what your record says you are and reality has pretty much rejected the idea that Ireland has been good at his job.
The team needs pro bowl talent sprinkled across the roster. Guys that win their battles on the field every week and make big plays.
Ireland has found some solid players, and a couple of good ones, but the number of guys that don't pan out is just to high.
At the rate we are going, in 10 years guys will be retiring and Ireland will still be filling the same holes.
So your rationale is that because the Dolphins have people playing for them at every position they are "solidified?"
Project players like Misi, Clemons, Jones etc guys that you're saying "IF blah blah blah and they're showing signs of blah blah blah" = NOT SOLIDIFIED.
"I told the team 7-9 is mediocre, and mediocrity is not going to be accepted here" - Tony Sparano
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And the fields are full of dancin' Full of singin' and romancin'
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aqua thread. I swear Ireland could trade tanny tomorrow for a 7 th rounder and I can name at least ten people easily who would eventually spin it to being a solid move.


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Volunteer firefighters are missing and reported looting is of "significant concern" today after a deadly fire and chemical explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant leveled buildings and prompted widespread evacuations.
The fire and explosion Wednesday night in a small town north of Waco sent at least 180 people to hospitals and authorities fear that five to 15 people could be dead.
"Homes have been destroyed. Part of that community is gone," Waco Police Department Sgt. William Swanton said at a news conference today.
The initial blast at the West Fertilizer Plant in West, Texas, occurred just before 8 p.m., but officials still were struggling to tally the dead and injured early this morning and searching door-to-door amid the rubble for survivors, police said.
Swanton said the five to 15 deaths is a "rough number" and they are unverified. "There are still firefighters missing," Swanton said.
He said an estimated three or four who are missing are volunteer firefighters, "meaning that they probably have a very large contingent of people that are willing to risk their lives for the neighbors and community."
They are the first responders who were battling the fire when the explosion occurred, he said.
A firefighter and law enforcement officer who was previously mentioned as missing has been found, Swanton said. He is in a hospital with "pretty serious injuries," he added.
LIVE UPDATES: Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion
Swanton said authorities are still in search-and-rescue mode and are not yet in recovery mode.
"I don't have a number of how many they have rescued or how many potential bodies they have found," he said.
Swanton also said that there is a "small amount of looting" that has happened and "that is a significant concern to us."
"The town is secure. There are plenty of law enforcement officials that are stationed around the town," Swanton said. "There is no fire out of control. There is no chemical escape from the fertilizer plant that is out of control."
The Red Cross, mental health agencies and grief counselors are on hand to help the community, in addition to the neighbors who are already assisting each other.
"That is a very tight-knit, very family packed, family-oriented community," Swanton said of the town of about 2,800 people. "They are leaning on each others' shoulders."
PHOTOS: Explosion Rips Through Texas Fertilizer Plant
West EMS Director Dr. George Smith, himself injured and bloody, said he had not personally seen bodies to confirm deaths, but believed the blast killed at least two emergency responders to a fire at the plant before the initial explosion and a person at a nearby apartment complex that suffered serious damage.
In addition, some responders to the fire were believed unaccounted for after the blast, according to Smith, Swanton and West Mayor Tommy Muska.
As they gained access to the explosion site, officials said they were treating it as a crime scene.
"We are not indicating that it is a crime, but we don't know," Swanton said. "What that means to us is that until we know that it is an industrial accident, we will work it as a crime scene. ATF [the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] is conducting the main investigation."
President Obama, in a statement, extended his condolences to the people of West and thanked first responders.
"A tight-knit community has been shaken, and good, hard-working people have lost their lives," he wrote.
"My administration, through FEMA and other agencies, is in close contact with our state and local partners on the ground to make sure there are no unmet needs as search and rescue and response operations continue."
The disaster even drew condolences from Pope Francis, who tweeted, "Please join me in praying for the victims of the explosion in Texas and their families."
Earlier concerns about the possibility of dangerous ammonia fumes and shifting winds subsided by morning as fires died down, Swanton said before 6 a.m. ET.
"Air quality, at this point, is not an issue," Swanton said. "It is not a concern."
Nevertheless, numerous other concerns remained.
Witnesses reported heavy fire or concussive damage to a middle school, homes and an apartment complex near the plant, as well as to a nursing home, where more than 130 residents were evacuated, Mayor Muska said.
Buildings in a radius of about five blocks around the plant -- including at least 60 more homes -- were heavily damaged by the blast, officials said.
"It was almost tornadic in effect," Swanton said. "It looked like to me one home would be fine and next to it there would be extreme devastation."
State Trooper D.L. Wilson of the Texas Department of Public Safety described the initial fertilizer plant blast as "massive -- just like Iraq, just like the Murray Building in Oklahoma City. The same kind of hydrous [ammonia] exploded, so you can imagine what kind of damage we're looking at."
The blast even registered as a 2.1-magnitude seismic event, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
It was felt 20 to 30 miles away, witnesses said, and near the plant it burned buildings, knocked down people, blew out windows and, according to Wilson, left the damaged apartment complex looking like "just a skeleton standing up."
"It's total chaos," West City Councilwoman Cheryl Marak said soon after the blast, according to ABC News Radio. "There's ambulances and fire trucks and police cars from everywhere."
Marak told ABC News that the explosion killed her pet dog and destroyed her house about 2 1/2 blocks from the plant, as well as houses around it.
"With the explosions, the whole street lifted up," she told ABC News. "It was like a massive bomb went off. It demolished both my houses, my mother's and mine."
"I think everything around us is pretty much just gone," she added, according to ABC News Radio.
Keith Williams, a local resident, said his house also was destroyed.
"All the ceilings are out," Williams said, according to ABC News Radio. "The windows are out. The brick's knocked off the house. My big garage out back is half blowed in."
He also saw "people with all their houses tore up across the street from me, on each side of me."
By 5:45 a.m. ET, hospitals near the blast site reported treating 180 people. At least 16 patients at the hospitals were in critical condition and three in serious condition.
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco, Texas, saw more than 100 of the wounded, officials there said. Patients from the blast also were confirmed early Thursday at Providence Healthcare Network in Waco, Parkland Hospital in Dallas, and Scott & White Memorial in Temple, Texas.
The fertilizer plant exploded around 7:50 p.m. local time Wednesday, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Emergency response audio told the story of the chaos among firefighters and others at the scene.
"We need every ambulance we can get this way," one snippet said. "A bomb just went off. It's pretty bad."
"Firefighters down," another said. "There has been an explosion."
"The rest home has been seriously damaged. We have many people down. Please respond."
There were subsequent explosions around 10 p.m., ABC News affiliate WFAA reported. The cause of the explosions was unconfirmed, but a dispatcher was heard warning crews to move away from chemicals in unexploded tanks.
Most fires were contained early this morning, officials said, but they continued to burn.
"It was smoldering still and it still is active," Wilson said around 1 a.m. ET. "You know other ingredients [are] at the facility, so we don't want that to explode again. So right now we can't get firefighters in there. We're worried about people right now, not property.
"We're going to go back in and do another house-to-house search and see if anybody else, victims, are in the houses," Wilson said. "That's going to be going on all night."
The town of West has a population of about 2,800.
ABC News' Leezel Tanglao, Clayton Sandell and Elizabeth Stuart contributed to this report.
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Kotkin awarded ACLS Fellowship
Posted August 12, 2004; 02:40 p.m.
Stephen Kotkin , professor of history and director of the Program in Russian Studies at Princeton, has been awarded a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.
Kotkin was among 79 scholars in the humanities and social sciences to receive ACLS Fellowships for research periods of six months to one year. Kotkin will use the fellowship to help complete "Lost in Siberia: Dreamworlds of Eurasia," his historical study of the Ob River basin, a Siberian water system. He also was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation this year to support the project.
Kotkin's research interests include Eurasia from Japan to Britain in the modern period, and he examines topics such as empire and nation building, governance and political corruption, modernity and modernism, and urbanism.
The American Council of Learned Societies is a nonprofit federation of 68 scholarly associations devoted to the advancement of humanistic studies in all fields of learning.
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By The Associated Press
STARKVILLE — The Starkville board of aldermen has overridden Mayor Parker Wiseman's veto of salary increases for the mayor and city board members.
The Starkville Daily News reports that the board voted 5-1 this week to override the veto.
On Oct. 1, 2014, the mayor's salary will increase from $60,000 to $71,500. Aldermen will receive $15,000 per year — $3,000 more than now.
Wiseman had argued last month that salary raises for elected officials should be delayed until all other city salaries were addressed.
Wiseman said he wanted the salary issue for the board and the mayor addressed after Mississippi State University's John C. Stennis Institute of Government completes a survey of municipal salaries and makes recommendations.


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The Preparedness Guide & Deployment Tips for State, Local, & Tribal Public Health & Medical Personnel offers information on essential actions to ensure proper EMAC implementation by the public health and medical communities.
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EMAC's implementation and capabilities have matured through member-driven action and responsiveness to lessons learned. In the past decade, NEMA has used Federal Emergency Management Agency funding to develop new EMAC capability, and standardize and institutionalize processes, help to transform what began as a concept—namely, neighbors helping neighbors in times of crises—into an effective system for interstate mutual aid.
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