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Just when your credit cards thought it was safe to come out from their hiding spot under your bed, Barneys is here to frighten them back to some dark corner of your bedroom. The Barneys Fall 2013 Designer Sale has launched, and it makes the store's Designer Preview sale last week look absolutely paltry by comparison. The selection is huge and covers a ton of brands that are hard to find on sale, so you best shop quickly.
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In your department, would truck companies ever be expected to perform what is normally considered "engine" company functions? Here are replies to this month's Roundtable question from some Fire Engineering readers; read Skip Coleman's reply HERE.
Thomas Dunne, deputy chief, Fire Department of New York
Response: Our department has eight stations housing nine engines, two aerials, six ambulances, two minipumpers, a CFR, and a tanker. We respond to calls in the unincorporated areas of Glynn County (244 square miles) and provide aid to Brunswick and Jekyll Island Fire Departments. Working 24/48, we staff each engine with two people; a firefighter as a driver/operator and an officer or acting officer supervising the firefighter/driver.
Our two aerials are a 78-foot ladder and a 105-foot ladder-tower, each with a driver/operator only. Incident command is routinely established with assignments generally given by the incident commander to individuals on scene, not by unit, so the aerial operator might be on an attack line when the aerial device is not needed.
Catching a hydrant is sometimes a function of the aerials as well. The greater likelihood is that the ladder truck will remain in quarters unless the call is for an actual fire or a fire alarm in a commercial, multifamily, or multistory structure.
Engine carry extrication tools, further blurring the "traditional" duties of truck and engine companies. There is no distinction.
For our western-most station and southern-most station, backup is four and seven miles away, respectively, from their stations, not to mention that the distance to the scene could be miles farther.
Except for two stations, if a response zone has a particularly bad medical call where the engine operator has to drive the ambulance to the emergency room, the officer has the entire district to himself. Overall job knowledge is paramount.
Jason Whaley, firefighter/engineer/physician assistant/toxicology advisor, Greater Prudhoe Bay (AK) Fire Department
Response: In my department, every firefighter has to do what is necessary when arriving on the scene. Our department is a small-town volunteer fire and EMS organization that has limited daytime personnel on the first responding engine until mutual-aid fire departments respond.
In our area, all of the fire departments depend on each other to assist on fire calls. We work together as one department and do a good job. The incident commander assigns the first engine to the first necessary function and the second-in engine the next function.
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Response: Apparently, we agree, I have been responding since 1997, and it has always been expected that you could be assigned a task not necessarily consistent with the apparatus you arrived on. We have always taken care to train and cross-train for just this sort of contingency.
John Foley, former assistant chief, Center Moriches (NY) Fire Department
Response: As you said, ladder companies could be assigned to engine work, and vice-versa. Yes, it happens in our volunteer department all the time. However, in these days of shrinking staffing and the increased use of quints, it's done in paid departments as well. Europe has been doing it for decades. We need to get out of the mindset that one particular piece of apparatus (or one crew) only does one job. We have to adapt; otherwise, we'll be driving ourselves out of business.
Response: Cross-training has been in place since we lost our second truck company in the last meltdown (in the 80s). At that time, we were running two-person (yes, an officer and a firefighter) engine companies, and firefighters were assigned as the rig arrived.
So, yes, the truck itself brings essential equipment to the scene, but the incident commander can use the personnel as he sees fit and the "truck equipment" may end up being used by other companies if the crew is committed elsewhere.
I am aware that some departments in my county are worse off and are attacking working fires with less than the "recommended" minimum staffing. I fear the repercussions as much as I admire their dedication. I fear this will continue for several years before we see any hint of change for the better.
Ronnie Hicks, deputy chief/shift commander, San Diego (CA) Fire-Rescue
Response: Generally speaking, our Trucks perform truck work. However, due to "brown-outs" we have several districts that are only covered by a Truck company. In these areas we have placed Quints and these units will respond to incidents that normally would be considered "Engine" responses, i.e., vehicle fires, rubbish fires, vegetation fires, etc. In these cases we also respond the closet Engine to assist. On structure responses, Officers on these units have the option of performing fire attack ONLY if they can make a significant impact to the incident, i.e. fire is in the incipient stage, exposures are threatened, live hazard. Otherwise these units perform as trucks.
Ryan Morasch, captain, High River Fire Department, High River, Alberta
Response: We run five-man engines and a six-man, 75-foot quint for fires in town. Engines are first due with the quint next. Our quint crew does what ever is required to support the engine crew. Could be ventilation, exposures, search and rescue, or establishing an initial two-man RIT. Circumstances dictate the quints job but usually they do Ladder company ops as opposed to Engine tasks.


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Memorial WeekendPosted May 27, 2014
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It was a good place not a 5 star but it was very good my family had a great time. We where able to bring our own music and had a great time.
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Good location, great price, but you get what you pay. The door was very old, not safe, the furniture was clean but old, does not have any theme, things were just put together. the pool was clean and nice but did not get to use it.
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the staff was bad, the room was so small for $150.nite, no amenities, clean, go location. be aware of things to not work at the hotel.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171087732014-07-01T22:18:57.420+01:00inuit panda scarlet carwashI like Pandas, but I could never eat a whole one.ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-52838704831502872292014-07-01T22:14:00.002+01:002014-07-01T22:14:58.807+01:00Live blogging the First World WarI had the great idea of doing a few blog posts on the anniversary of events in the First World War. Then I decided to turn this into a dedicated blog. This grew legs and now I am looking at having a blog with lots and lots of posts on the anniversary of things happening a hundred years ago.

You can see this here: World War 1 Live

You can follow it on Twitter here: @ww1liveblog

At the moment it is covering the aftermath of the assassination of Franz Ferdinand and the beginnings of the initially imperceptible slide into war.ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-14563853571451014982014-06-26T11:11:00.000+01:002014-06-26T11:11:00.606+01:0013 The ArmisticeI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

By October 1918 things were looking pretty rough for the Germans. The Allies had launched a series of offensives in France that were driving the German forces ever closer to the border. The German forces were increasingly close to breaking point, though some units were still capable of dogged resistance. Elsewhere, Germany's allies were beginning to collapse. Turkish forces in the Middle East had been shattered in a series of battles that left British forces advancing towards Anatolia. Allied advances against Austria-Hungary were hastening the end of that ancient empire, which opened up the prospect of Germany being invaded from the south.

 When the German fleet was ordered to sea to stage a suicidal attack on the superior British, the sailors mutinied. This triggered an outbreak of strikes and insurrection throughout Germany that overthrew the monarchy and brought a civilian regime to power. Civilian politicians went to sign a ceasefire deal with the allies, though it was the General von Hindenburg who ultimately ordered them to sign, which they did at 5.00 am the 11th of November. Fighting was to end at 11.00 am that day. By this point Germany's allies had all thrown in the towel.

The armistice was notionally just a ceasefire rather than a permanent end to the war, but its terms left the German armed forces in an impossibly weakened position. Germany was to hand over aircraft, submarines and artillery pieces to the allies and the German fleet was to be interred at Scapa Flow in the Orkneys. German soldiers withdrew from France and Belgium; the Allies occupied the west bank or the Rhine and bridgeheads across that mighty river. The allies were now in a position to dictate peace terms to Germany, which they did at Versailles in 1919.

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This is the end of my blitz through some key events of the First World War. If you fancy a more drawn out approach to the Great War, why not check out my live blog of the war's events. You can see it here.ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-71875097665803970442014-06-25T11:14:00.000+01:002014-06-25T11:14:00.621+01:0012 Der KaiserschlachtI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

The Russian revolution and Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with the Bolsheviks meant that the Germans could transfer a huge number of troops from the eastern front to France. Erich  Ludendorff, the German commander, used these to launch a spring offensive, which he hoped would end the war before American forces arrived in strength. Spearheaded by highly trained stormtroopers using infiltration tactics, the offensive was named der Kaiserschlacht - the Kaiser's Battle. German soldiers were promised that this was the offensive that would end the war with German victory.

The attack began on the 21st of March 1918, preceded by a short but intense bombardment. The British defenders were shattered and fell back. The Germans made the kind of gains not seen by either side since 1914 and for a brief moment it looked like they were winning a decisive victory. But the Kaiserschlacht ran out of steam and the offensive ground to a halt.

Ludendorff launched follow-up offensives, capturing more territory but suffering increasing casualties and failing to achieve a decisive victory. With the failure of the last offensive in July, the jig was clearly up for the Germans. Their army was not the force it was and American soldiers were now arriving in increasing numbers. The greater resources of the Allies meant that they could easily replace losses in a way unimaginable for the Germans. At this point Germany should have sued for peace, but the war would continue to November.

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In 1917 the French had a new commander, one Robert Nivelle. He had led counter-attacks at Verdun and now he hoped to end the war in one bold stroke. He had the French army attack the Germans along the Chemin des Dames ridge, beginning on the 16th of April, expecting that his soldiers would smash through the German lines and win a decisive victory.

The Germans however had got wind of Nivelle's plans and were able to inflict heavy casualties on the French attackers. When Nivelle tried to order further attacks, disorder erupted in the French army. French soldiers had given their all in the defence of Verdun, but they were not going to throw away their lives on Nivelle's futile offensive. Units refused to move to the front and there was some circulation of pacifist and socialist anti-war propaganda. The mutiny was nevertheless limited, as soldiers did not assault their officers or desert en masse. Frontline units continued to hold their positions but refused to attack. The mutiny was more like a strike than an insurrection.

The military authorities tried to repress the mutinies by force, arresting and trying ring-leaders and carrying out of summary executions. There were rumours, probably false, of mutinous regiments being shelled by their own artillery. But ultimately the French army turned to the one man the ordinary soldiers trusted to lead them - General Philippe Pétain, the hero of Verdun. He replaced Nivelle as commander in chief and quickly introduced reforms to improve conditions for French soldiers (including an increase in the quantity and quality of the wine ration) and promised an end to large-scale bloodbath offensives.ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-65677558304837246752014-06-23T11:12:00.000+01:002014-06-23T11:12:00.032+01:0010 The USA enters the warI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

The USA declared war on Germany on the 6th of April 1917. America was brought into the war by Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare in January of that year. This meant that German submarines were authorised to sink any ship without warning if they thought it might be carrying goods to one of Germany's enemies (previously the quaint rules of war meant that submarines had to surface and send boarding parties to search ships for war goods); Germany's hope was that unrestricted submarine warfare could knock Britain out of the war. US opinion was also turned against Germany by the revelation that it was attempting to build an anti-American alliance with Mexico.

When America declared war on Germany it had a tiny army and it would clearly be some time before it could raise and train forces that could be sent to fight in Europe. But the German leaders would have known that the USA's declaration of war had set the clock ticking. The Americans had a bottomless reservoir of manpower and it was just a matter of time before the USA was ready to send a vast force to France. If Germany was to have any chance of winning the war, it had to do so before the American armies arrived. And when it became apparent that unrestricted submarine warfare was not bringing Britain to its knees, Germany's leaders realised that they would have to win the war on land.

The declaration of war on Germany also marked the moment when the USA became a world power.ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-80578467727634637222014-06-22T11:11:00.000+01:002014-06-22T11:11:00.407+01:0009 The Russian RevolutionI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

 The Russian Revolution was a long process that began on the 8th of March 1917 when Petrograd, the Russian capital, erupted in strikes, demonstrations and riots. The Czarist regime was overthrown and replaced by a provisional government. That tried to keep Russia in the war against German and Austria but its army began to disintegrate. Domestically the provisional government saw its authority ebb away and in November 1917 it was overthrown by the Bolsheviks, who eventually negotiated a humiliating peace with Germany.

Aside from being an event of world historical significance, the Russian revolution is important in the First World War because it shows the price of defeat on the regimes of the belligerent nations. The Kaiser may have chortled as they watched the Czar being hustled out of power in 1917, but they must have realised that if Germany did not prevail then he would be next. In the short term, thought, the Russian revolution was a godsend for the Germans, as the removal of Russia from the war allowed Germany to transfer huge numbers of troops to France.

image source (Wikipedia)ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-80094984664464212312014-06-21T11:10:00.000+01:002014-06-21T11:10:00.027+01:0008 The SommeI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

If you are an English-speaker and know anything about the First World War you have probably heard of the Battle of the Somme. This began on the 1st of August 1916. It was a huge offensive by British and some French troops against the German army in France. In part it was intended to draw German forces away from Verdun but it was also hoped that the onslaught would smash through the German lines. Unfortunately, the fighting on the first day went disastrously for the British, who suffered 57,470 casualties (of whom 19,240 were killed).

The fighting continued sporadically until November, with the allies giving up on their plan to break through the German lines. Instead the focus was on attrition, trying to fight a bloody battle that would exhaust German manpower before the British and French well of blood would run dry.
ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-6087733201889173072014-06-20T11:08:00.000+01:002014-06-20T11:08:00.069+01:0007 The Brusilov OffensiveI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

 By 1916 the Russians had endured two years of battering at the hand of the Germans (whose Austrian allies were more of a hindrance than a help). But in 1916 the Russians went back on the offensive, with General Alexei Brusilov leading a broad front attack on the Austrians. The attack began on the 4th of June and shattered the Austrians. Brusilov's forces used innovative tactics — short artillery barrages followed up with attacks by shock troops rather than the human wave assaults favoured elsewhere.

The Brusilov Offensive brought the Austrians to the brink of collapse and the front line could only be stabilised by the infusion of German reinforcements. But ultimately the offensive achieved nothing. Brusilov had wanted it to be followed by more offensives elsewhere in the east, to keep the Germans and Austrians reeling, but the Russian commanders instead kept sending more reinforcements to Brusilov after his offensive had run its course. Russian soldiers were left feeling that they had suffered for nothing. Still, the offensive showed that it was possible to stage a successful attack against entrenched defenders, if the right tactics were used.

Despite his impeccably aristocratic and conservative credentials, Brusilov himself would go on to serve in the Bolshevik army during the Russian Civil War.

image source (Wikipedia)ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-71946188601669018912014-06-19T11:07:00.000+01:002014-06-19T11:07:00.174+01:0006 VerdunI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

 In February 1916 the Germans launched an offensive against the fortified French town of Verdun. The aim was not to take the town but to inflict such terrible casualties on the French that they would not be able to continue with the war. The French did come close to cracking, but the Germans themselves also suffered nigh unendurable casualty levels. The battle continued until December 1916. It made the name of Philippe Pétain, the French commander during the battle's most desperate phase; he would go onto become a Marshal of France, though he would end his life in ignominy.

In the anglophone world this battle is less well known than the Somme or Passchendaele, but for the French Verdun is the quintessential meat-grinder battle of the First World War. As a horror that could never be repeated it would haunt the imaginations of French decision-makers in the 1930s, as they faced a resurgent Germany.

image source (Wikipedia)ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-91707399685247759112014-06-18T11:06:00.000+01:002014-06-18T11:06:00.376+01:0005 The Armenian GenocideI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

 People usually think of the First World War as being about soldiers standing in mud filled trenches or being machine-gunned as they advance across French fields. But the war affected civilians too. When Turkey joined in the war on the German side, they launched an offensive against Russia in the Caucasus. This offensive failed badly and soon the Russians were advancing into eastern Anatolia. The Turkish leaders blamed their Armenian minority for these reverses and in 1915 set about dealing with them. Armenian notables in Constantinople were rounded up and killed. Armenians elsewhere in Anatolia were deported to remote desert regions in the south. Many Armenians were murdered on the death marches to Syria while others succumbed to exhaustion. On reaching their destination more were murdered and others left to die of hunger and thirst. The numbers who died have never been definitively established but 1,500,000 is a good ballpark figure.

As far as I know, no one was ever brought to justice for this terrible crime. To this day the Turkish government seeks to downplay these events and deny that they constituted an attempt to exterminate the Armenians of Anatolia.

image source (Wikipedia)ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-12668966527998885402014-06-17T11:05:00.000+01:002014-06-17T11:05:00.317+01:0004 GallipoliI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

The Turkish Ottoman Empire joined in the war on side of the Germans in late 1914. The Turks closed the straits of Constantinople, blocking access to Russia's Russia's Black Sea ports. Allied forces (French and British, and from the colonies of each of these) landed on the Gallipoli peninsula on the 25th of April 1915, intending to march overland to Constantinople and force open the straits so that Russia could be resupplied with the fruits of British and French industry. The Turks had performed badly in the Balkan Wars of 1912 and 1913 and the allies assumed that they would be able to easily defeat them.

The Turks had other ideas. Their army had greatly improved its capacity since 1913 and its soldiers proved resolute defenders of their homeland. The Turks were able to contain the allied beachheads and prevent any march on Constantinople. The straits remained closed and eventually, on the 9th of January 1916, the allies evacuated their expeditionary force. Both sides had suffered enormous casualties, from disease as well as from combat.

The allied failure at Gallipoli contributed to Russia's defeat. The fighting there also made the name of the local Turkish commander, Mustafa Kemal, who would go on to rule his country under the adopted title Ataturk, father of the Turks.ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-45691178259481682392014-06-16T11:04:00.000+01:002014-06-16T11:04:00.670+01:0003 The Battle of the MarneI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

The German commanders concentrated their forces in the west and invaded France by marching through Belgium. Efforts by the French and their British allies to attack or even to stand and fight against the German onslaught were of no avail, and so the allied forces fell back. As the German army romped on, their victory looked in sight.

But the German armies overreached themselves and became separated from each other. At the Battle of the Marne, the allies counterattacked, hoping to surround and destroy the two armies on the German right flank. They failed in this, but the German advance was blocked. The Germans withdrew to the Aisne river and began to dig defensive trenches.

The fighting in France had not yet stalemated, but Germany's best chance of winning a decisive victory in 1914 was gone. Instead of a short victorious war of movement, they now looked doomed to fight a long war against enemies with far more resources to throw into the fray. Germany had lost the war, but it would be four more years before it realised this.

The Marne saw the bloodiest fighting of the war. 500,000 men were killed or wounded in little over a week's fighting, split evenly between both sides.ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-4116057670250125252014-06-15T11:57:00.000+01:002014-06-15T11:57:00.671+01:0002 TannenbergI continue my quick journey through some key events of the First World War.

When the First World War started, the Germans hoped to win a quick victory against the French and then transfer their forces east against the Russians before the latter had fully mobilised. But in August 1914 the Russians mobilised faster than expected. And they launched an early invasion of East Prussia while most of Germany's forces were deployed in the west. For a few weeks it looked like the unstoppable Russian juggernaut would soon roll into Berlin.

But it was not to be. The Russians were advancing too quickly and the two Russian armies were not coordinating their movements. German commanders in the east concentrated their forces against one of the Russian armies and launched a devastating counterattack on the 26th of August. By the 30th that Russian army had been destroyed, with 92,000 soldiers captured, 78,000 killed and only 10,000 Russian soldiers escaping. The Germans were now free to take on the other invading army at their leisure.

The victory was given the name Tannenberg, after the nearby site of a mediaeval battle where Slavic forces had defeated the Teutonic knights. The Germany victory meant that the war did not end in September 1914 with an allied victory.ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-51251213368016498822014-06-13T23:57:00.000+01:002014-06-13T23:57:26.649+01:0001 The July CrisisAs you know, I am working on an Important Project: the creation of a First World War live blog. As an appetiser for this I will over the next few days present here what I consider to be thirteen key episodes in the Great War. If you are already very familiar with that struggle then these might be rather obvious to you, but you might still find it interesting to consider what crucial events I have forgotten to include.

The July Crisis was the period from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on the 28th June 1914 to the outbreak of war at the end of July. Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary and Gavrilo Princip, his assassin, was a Bosnian Serb with links to secret societies in Serbia proper. On the 23rd of July Austria-Hungary issued an unacceptably harsh ultimatum to Serbia. It was only at this point that most people in Europe realised they were on the brink of war. Russia backed Serbia and France backed Russia while Germany backed Austria and the continent slid towards armageddon.

 The July Crisis is interesting because you can observe events and see how they mesh with your ideas of what caused the war and who was responsible for it. Was it a series of miscalculation by various actors that brought about the terrible war? Was it German and Austrian bellicosity that brought about the disaster? Or was Europe in 1914 a powder keg to which Princip merely supplied the spark?

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Franz Ferdinand (Wikipedia)

Gavrilo Princip (Wikipedia)ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-52370172148633908732014-06-09T23:52:00.000+01:002014-06-09T23:52:20.125+01:00Bohemian RhapsodyWhich of these is the best?

ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-47913005852172223122014-05-27T11:00:00.000+01:002014-05-27T21:03:02.648+01:00Men hating womenI was already thinking of posting a link to a recent piece on the BBC news website about people (mainly women) who are murdered by their male partners when recent unfortunate events in the United States of America set me thinking more on the subject of male violence, in particular male violence against women. The following three articles are I think worth looking at.

Domestic violence: One month's death toll (BBC)

In the UK, an average of seven women and two men are killed by their current or former partner each month. To look behind the bald figures, the BBC has examined the cases of the various people so killed in September 2011. The month was picked because the relevant judicial cases are mostly completed.

I am curious as to whether the average of two men killed each month by former or current partners are killed by men or women. I am also curious as to what the comparable figures for Ireland are.

5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women (Cracked)

Cracked has a strange history. My understanding is that its origins lie in the print magazine of that name, which was Marvel's knock-off of Mad. As time went on it escaped from Stan Lee's clutches and made it to the web, where it mutated into a website with interesting and sometimes humorous articles about stuff. This piece on how mass culture teaches men to hate women by giving them unrealistic expectations is written in the jocular Cracked house style, which some may find off-putting, but it raises interesting points.

Joining the dots: From fairy tales to Elliot Rodger (Glosswatch)

[edit: The Glosswatch blog has since been marked as private, so you'll have to take my word for what the linked-to post says about fairytales]

Glosswatch is the blog of VJD Smith, who also posts on Twitter as @Glosswitch. In this post, written just after the Isla Vista shootings, she talks about reading fairy tales to her son (the same fairy tales she read when she was small), but seeing now a disturbing subtext of rapey creepiness in the old tales. Her overall argument is persuasive, though I am not so convinced that the story of The Princess And The Pea is about virginity. With this one, class seems more significant. The story seeks to convince the common folk that the nobility are magically sensitive and so are naturally fitted to rule. However, Ms Smith is bang on the money with the Princess and the Frog. Because I like animals, I always sympathised with the frog (and indeed was disappointed when he turned into a handsome man; see also the ending to Beauty and the Beast), but when the story is read again with the eyes of an adult, the frog comes across as disturbingly similar to a persistent date-rapist, albeit a tiny amphibian one.

 She also mentions Rumpelstiltskin, focussing on the crazy king locking up and threatening to kill the heroine if she does not deliver on her father's outlandish claim that she can spin straw into gold (with the king eventually marrying the girl, presented as a positive outcome for her). Some fairytales have more resonance than others. The Princess and the Pea always struck me as ridiculous, even when I was small, but Rumpelstiltskin has always struck a chord. I think what makes it a great story is how for all there are horrendous characters in it (the King and the heroine's idiot father) there are two with whom it is hard not to sympathise. Anyone who has ever been in a seemingly hopeless situation will sympathise with the heroine when she faces death if she cannot spin straw into gold.

And then there is Rumpelstiltskin himself, the initially nameless sprite who helps the girl but at the promise of her first-born child, a promise she can only escape if she guesses his true name. I have never heard a version of the story that makes clear what the sprite wants with the child - does he plan to eat it, or enslave it? Or does he intend to adopt it or make it his apprentice, teaching it his secrets? Given that the heroine is married to a psychopath, it is easy to think that being brought up by a magical imp would make for a better start in the world than life with the child's natural parents. But of course, Rumpelstiltskin's secret is revealed and he departs empty-handed, leaving the child in the palace. Yet throughout the story he is a fair dealer, honouring his bargains and never promising something he cannot deliver.

image source (a gallery of covers of Ladybird Well-Loved Tales, which reminds me of the dubious sexual politics of so many fairytales, but also of ones like the Little Red Hen, a hymn to female self-reliance). ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-7112115449128846752014-05-26T11:42:00.000+01:002014-05-26T11:42:00.586+01:00Amazing things I have written recently In case you missed them, here are links to posts reprinted from issue 139 of Frank's APA.

My Important Project

[Live] Songs of Lily and Willy: an evening of erotic songs and stories

[film] Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

[Film] Under the Skin (2014)

[film] Inside Llewyn Davis (2014)

[live] The Zurmukhti Music Ensemble play in a church

[live] The Gaudete Singers salute the magic of Carlo Gesualdo

[travel] Greece: signs of the crisis

[Film] Lift to the Scaffold / L'Ascenseur pour l'Échafaud (1958)

[live] Jaki Liebezeit with Drums Off Chaos and Burnt Friedman

[Film] The Wrecking Crew (2008)

[Film] Lawrence of Belgravia (2011)

[film] Family Band: the Cowsills Story (2011)

[film] Bad Brains: a Band in DC (2012)

[film] The Swimmer [1968]

[Live] New Music Dublin

[record review] The Knife Shaking the Habitual (2013)

http://inuitbikini.blogspot.ie/2014/05/record-review-two-records-by-anne-briggs.html

[record review] A Hawk and a Hacksaw Délivrance (2009)

[record review] Alasdair Roberts & Friends "Too Long In This Condition" (2010)

[record review] Bob Dylan "Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue" (1975)

Important:

Image source (Giant Panda Zoo)ianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-1244583636723966492014-05-25T11:57:00.000+01:002014-05-25T11:57:00.542+01:00Important Panda News Gao Gao the Panda lives in San Diego Zoo. He has had a long and eventful life since he was born in the wild in 1992 or thereabouts. After suffering an ear industry, he was taken to Fengtongzhai Nature Reserve in 1993. He was reintroduced into the wild but local villagers reportedly found him disruptive, so he was taken to the Wolong Panda Conservation Centre and then in 2003 he came to live in San Diego Zoo.

Pandas have a reputation for not really being onboard with the perpetuation of their species, but Gao Gao has done his bit, fathering five cubs with the panda Bai Yun. He now has three grandchildren. If anything, Gao Gao's life shows that the real threat to pandas is not their slow rate of reproduction but human encroachment into their habitat.

Gao Gao has had some health problems. Digestive system problems have led to adjustments to his diet and he also has a heart condition. But a more serious issue manifested recently, when a tumour was discovered on one of his testicles. Surgeons operated to remove the testicle earlier this month. He is reported to be recovering well and is getting back to his favourite activity - eating. There are reports that he has also been getting his keepers to scratch the back of his neck.

At this stage it is not known whether the operation will prevent Gao Gao fathering any more offspring. Because of limited exposure to panda cancers, veterinarians are not certain that the operation will have taken him out of the danger zone, but everyone has their fingers crossed.

More:

Surgery for Gao Gao (San Diego Zoo)

Pathologist's Report on Gao Gao's tumour (San Diego Zoo)

Gao Gao (Wikipedia) (image source)
ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-46861703964690037102014-05-24T09:29:00.000+01:002014-05-24T09:29:20.323+01:00My most recent literary endeavours
I took part in that NaNoWriMo thing last November, having a crack at writing a novel over the length of the month. I made it up as I went along but gave it a kind of structure by largely having the characters follow the route I took in September when I travelled to and around Greece. That meant that I could incorporate some local colour and add into the narrative things I saw or that happened to me (as well as things I just made up, obviously).

If you have ever wondered what a novel made up as it was written quickly would be like, you can see chapter 1 here. There is a link from that on to chapter 2 and so on, and links to all of the chapters below. I will not leave them up on my writing blog website indefinitely, so if you think you will want to read them, do so while you can.

I would like to devote myself more seriously to literary endeavours, but I fear that my Important Project will be consuming my free time for the foreseeable future.

Chapter 1 - The Alps. From a Train.

Chapter 2 - Playing Games

Chapter 3 - Milanese Dreams

Chapter 4 - New Friends

Chapter 5 - Divine Intervention

Chapter 6 - Strangers on a Train

Chapter 7 - Friend or Foe?

Chapter 8 - Temptation

Chapter 9 - Continuing Journey

Chapter 10 - Choices

Chapter 11 - Endings and Beginnings

Chapter 12 - Getting to Know You

Chapter 13 - Into Danger

Chapter 14 - Embracing the Evening

Chapter 15 - Et in Argolis Ego

Chapter 16 - Crystallisation

Chapter 17 - On the Road

Chapter 18 - Preparation

Chapter 19 - The Eve of Destruction

Chapter 20 - Strange Journey

Chapter 21 - Not Long Left

Chapter 22 - It Is Time

Chapter 23 - In Conclusionianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-86329936331995178692014-05-22T23:09:00.000+01:002014-05-22T23:09:05.300+01:00A Gothic Book Club?I have been thinking for a while that what I really want to do is read more gothic novels. Two things have convinced me that I really must approach this more seriously. Firstly, there was the engaging piece in the Guardian, How to tell you're reading a gothic novel – in pictures. And then, just the other day, I was at the launch of issue 3 of The Green Book, an Irish journal on the gothic and macabre.

 What I am thinking of doing is picking books and setting myself two months to read each one (two months being a long time, but I am a slow reader and I also have other reading commitments). Some other people have expressed interest in this project so if there are the numbers I will try and turn it into some kind of book club. I may not be able to start this until the autumn, as the immediate future sees me consumed by the horrors of having to find a new place to live and also my Important Project, plus July is a busy time in work and I am going away for some of August etc. etc.

I have put some thought into compiling a list of books to read. There are a lot of gothic novels, but some of them are more key than others. I think the 12 books below constitute a reasonable enough A-list of the gothic over a period of more than a hundred years, presenting the work of authors from a reasonably wide spread of countries.

Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto (1764) - This is usually credited with being the first gothic novel, though there are of course some earlier candidates. The book caused a sensation on its first appearance.

Ann Radcliffe The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) - Mrs Radcliffe was a highly successful imitator of Mr Walpole's work.

Matthew Lewis The Monk (1796) - Behind the pious face of the eponymous monk lurks the soul of a man who has given himself over to every kind of depraved vice.

Jan Potocki The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (AKA The Saragossa Manuscript) (1815) - The Polish Count Potocki's narrative presents a series of nested and interlinked stories supposedly told to the main narrator or read by him as he travels through the Sierra Morena mountains en route to Madrid.

E.T.A. Hoffman The Devil's Elixirs (1815) - I do not know too much about this but Hoffman is an important figure in the development of the gothic (or so I have read). The novel apparently bears some similarities to The Monk.

Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818) - This was the product of the famous night in the Villa Diodati where Shelley, Lord Byron, her future husband and others competed to produce the most original and terrifying horror story.

Charles Maturin Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) - Melmoth has sold his soul to the Devil in return for an unnaturally long life, but he can save himself from damnation if he finds someone to take on the bargain. He travels the world on an increasingly desperate quest for someone who will trade life for salvation.

James Hogg The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) - This strange novel of madness and demonic possession concerns a Scottish gentleman convinced that as one of the Elect he is predestined for salvation, regardless of whatever acts of depravity he might commit.

Edgar Allan Poe [an anthology of short stories] (1832- 1849) - There are lots of anthologies of Poe stories and it would probably be difficult to get everyone in a book club reading the same one, but anything featuring the likes of "Ligeia", "William Wilson", "The Masque of the Red Death", "A Cask of Amontillado", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Premature Burial" etc. would do the job.

Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (1847) - The demonic yet charismatic Heathcliff and the terrible revenge he works on those he feels have wronged him make for one of the greatest of gothic narratives.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu In A Glass Darkly (1872) - This short story collection is most famous for the endlessly fascinating vampire story "Carmilla", but it also includes other noteworthy tales of the macabre, including one that would be of particular interest to anyone familiar with the city of Dublin. [An alternative to this would be Le Fanu's novel Uncle Silas (1864), the dark tale of a teenage heiress on whose fortune various sinister figures have nefarious designs]

Robert Louis Stevenson Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde (1886) - There is probably no one in the world who does not know what is going on here, but try reading it while imagining yourself a late Victorian picking up the book for the first time, aghast at the thought of what could link the apparently saintly Dr Jekyll with the sinister and bestial Mr Hyde.

H. Rider Haggard She (1887) - In a remote and unexplored corner of Africa, a beautiful and immortal but indescribably cruel sorceress rules over the ruins of a lost civilisation and waits.

In picking the above I have been guided by my own sense of what would constitute a representative tour through the gothic canon. I am open to suggestions as to books that could be added or subtracted from the list, but in the mode of a truly obsessive gothic antihero I must insist on making the final decision myself.

The one truly key gothic novel I have left off the above list is Vathek (1786), by William Beckford. Beckford is a fascinating figure and the book was influential and important in the history of the form, but it is also a not particularly impressive work to modern readers.

I suspect that many people with a passing interest in the gothic or in English literature will have read some of the above books already. I have read several, some of them quite recently. But I think for a proper exploration of the gothic we should be willing to read them again, or at least skim the plot summary on their Wikipedia page.

Those 12 books would keep me (and anyone joining me) going for two years. Perhaps by then we would be sick of the fetid swamp of the gothic, or perhaps we would be desperate for more. One possibility would be to read (or re-read) Jane Austen's gothic parody Northanger Abbey and then approach the Seven Horrid Novels mentioned by name in it, before moving on to later gothic or gothic-tinged novels like Great Expectations, Dracula, À Rebours, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Titus Groan, and so on. But these would be questions for the future.

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The Nightmare

The Sleep of Reason brings produces monsters

The Green Bookianhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-58683974470458662212014-05-20T23:24:00.001+01:002014-05-20T23:25:33.007+01:00Cat brings home special present Cats often bring home little presents for their owners - usually dead rodents or birds. An unnamed cat in Dunedin in New Zealand went for something a bit more useful, bringing its owner a bag containing 5 grammes of cannabis. However, instead of sparking the hooter, the cat's owner showed a marked lack of gratitude and instead reported the find to the local police.

Sgt Reece Munro is investigating the case and trying to find out where the bag of cannabis came from. His efforts are being hampered by the cat, who is taking the Fifth on this and refusing to cooperate with the investigation or name its dealer. Sgt Munro will reportedly be letting the cat off with a caution.

IMPORTANT NOTE: photographs of the dope dealing cat have not been released, so the above image is stock image of a completely different cat.

More (BBC)

Even more (Otago Daily Times)ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-8070977174059733902014-05-15T19:50:00.000+01:002014-05-15T19:50:06.713+01:00It's...

"It's Omar Sharif"ianhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-17108773.post-61401144356419482872014-05-13T23:56:00.000+01:002014-05-13T23:56:00.918+01:00Tsunami Cat's Big AdventureIn March 2011 the terrible tsunami devastated much of Japan. Most of the town of Ofunato, in the Iwate Prefecture was destroyed. Kazuko Yamagishi and Takeo Yamagishi were lucky in that their home escaped destruction, though they had to endure the horror of living in a town that had been laid waste and whose neighbours were now homeless. They were also separated from Suika, their cat. In the three months after the tsunami the Yamagishis searched for Suika but then came to the conclusion that they would probably never see their cat again.

However in April this year another couple spotted a cat curled up in a nearby forest - a friendly cat wearing a collar. They brought it to the Ofunato Health Centre, which placed an ad in the local paper when no one came forward to claim it. But then one of the employees in the health centre notice the Yamagishis' name and number written in faded letters on his collar, and was able to reunite him with his owners.

The Yamagishis are overjoyed to have Suika back after all these years. Suika is being more guarded with his opinions.
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And while the audience are less hostile, Dylan himself seems less confrontational. On the 1966 record, Dylan is playing at the audience on the electric tracks, giving them amped up music whether the fuckers want it or not. On this one he seems almost like a showman. These recordings sound like they come from shows that would have been actively fun to have attended. A lot of that must come from the army of extra musicians playing on this (including T-Bone Burnett and Joan Baez and many others), giving the record the feel almost of a live jam party (dude).

But there is still an edge to this collection, the spectral presence of the protest singer of yore. One of the most striking tracks on this for me is 'Hurricane', a song about a man languishing in jail for a crime he did not commit. But instead of being a mournful solo acoustic dirge, the song zips along with en effortless verve and the kind of instrumentation that would have people dancing in the aisles at concerts.The way the lyrics manage to advance the (true) story without falling into ponderous plodding is to me one of the greatest illustrations of Dylan's famous poetic skills.

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Aug. 8, 2011 - An unlucky collection of tiny changes in the genetic code causes most cases of schizophrenia, a game-changing new study finds.
These "de novo" mutations aren't passed on from parents to their children, helping to explain why so many cases of schizophrenia occur in people with no family history of mental illness.
The finding, by Columbia University psychiatrist Maria Karayiorgou, MD, and colleagues, comes from a "deep gene sequencing" study of 53 people with schizophrenia and 22 people without the condition, and their parents.
"I think it is a huge relief for many of the families affected by schizophrenia to know that there is a clear cause for their disease -- which has been doubted many times -- and that the parents did not pass it on to their child," Karayiorgou tells WebMD.
The "fascinating study" is the tipping point toward a new understanding of schizophrenia, says Michael L. Cuccaro, PhD, associate professor at the University of Miami's Hussman Institute for Human Genomics. Cuccaro was not involved in the Karayiorgou study.
"This is evidence that points us in a different direction," Cuccaro tells WebMD. "There has been a real shift from thinking of schizophrenia as having a distinct genetic cause to seeing it as an accumulation of rare genetic events."
In 27 of their 53 schizophrenia patients, Karayiorgou's team found 40 small changes (single nucleotide variants or SNVs) in 40 genes. The patients had more of these mutations than did the people without schizophrenia. But most importantly, virtually all the mutations in the patients affected the function of a gene.
"I am not sure why these point mutations occur. But the fact we find them in the numbers we do in schizophrenia -- and in autism -- suggest they are an important disease-causing mechanism," Karayiorgou says.
None of the schizophrenia patients in the study had the same mutations in the same genes. Yet somehow these very different combinations of genetic changes result in a single disease.
"It shows there are very complicated interrelationships between these genes that give rise to these consequences," Cuccaro says.
"The next step will be to find where all these different changes converge," Karayiorgou says. "The convergence is clearly not in the genes themselves. But since the clinical symptoms are the same, they converge somewhere, probably in the neural circuit."
Neural circuits are made up of brain cells that connect to generate brain functions, including perception and behavior. The science of understanding exactly what neural circuits are and how they function is still in its infancy.
Even so, Karayiorgou is optimistic.
"Things are happening now at the speed of light. Our gene sequencing is done, other studies will take place. And now we will look at regions that don't code for genes, because something may be going on there. I think this is going to move very quickly," she says.
Cuccaro, too, is guardedly optimistic.
"I am amazed by this work," he says. "Schizophrenia seemed like a tangled genetic mess. It was so complicated from a genetics perspective. This complicates things further, but moves things in the right direction. And it gives investigators an opportunity to really fully examine these particular genes."
The Karayiorgou study appears in the Aug. 7 advance online edition of Nature Genetics.
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Lemont High School students and staff members will team up this weekend to support Andrew Podczerwinski, a sophomore fighting to regain his mobility following a tragic accident that left him paralyzed last summer.
Podczerwinski, 16, was injured last June during a trip to a friend's cabin at Bass Lake in Bartlett, IL. The group was tubing and water-skiing on the lake when a severe storm quickly moved into the area. As they rushed to dock their boat and bring in the tubes, a gust of wind caused a tree to collapse on Podczerwinski and one of his friends.
"I don't remember a lot of what happened after the tree fell," Podczerwinski said. "All I know is that it went from being this great day to a storm that changed my whole life."
The tree landed on his friend's foot, causing only a minor fracture. For Podczerwinski, the consequences were far more severe. In addition to multiple broken ribs, he sustained two pelvic fractures and two collapsed lungs.
The most devastating injuries, however, were the fractures sustained to Podczerwinski's T-8 and T-9 vertebrae. The spinal cord injury left him unable to walk, or even feel anything from his belly button down.
Following the accident, Podczerwinski underwent surgery at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, IN, to have two steel rods and multiple screws placed in his spine. His doctors told his family that he would likely never walk again.
Just weeks later, he began a two-month stint at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, where doctors discovered that his spinal cord was not completely severed. With new found hope and motivation, Podczerwinski began his long road back to mobility.
"I was a wrestler and have always been very strong, so my doctors are very hopeful about my prognosis and the possibility of walking again," Podczerwinski said. "I'm just trying to do my part by keeping a positive attitude and working hard when I'm in therapy. I'm determined to get better, and I know that I can."
Since the accident, Podczerwinski has seen an outpouring of support from his friends, family and the entire Lemont community. This Sunday, Lemont High School will join that effort by hosting the "Walk with Andrew" 5K.
The noncompetitive event will begin at 10 a.m. on the high school's football field, 800 Porter St. All proceeds will be given to the Podczerwinski family to use toward Andrew's recovery.
The idea for the 5K was born out of Lemont High School's Wellness Committee, which promotes health and wellness among staff members. As the committee was starting to plan its first big event earlier this year, they had the idea to turn it into a fundraiser to support Podczerwinski and his family.
"It started out as a small, low-key 5K—just something fun for the staff to do this spring," said guidance counselor Denise Dalton, chair of the Wellness Committee. "We started thinking about Andrew and just sort of loved the idea of turning it into a fundraiser, especially to support one of our own."
The 5K borrows its name from the Walk with Andrew organization, which was set up to raise money for Podczerwinski's recovery effort. Medical expenses are expected to be about $200,000, the family said.
The organization, together with Lemont's Hope and Friendship Foundation, hosted its first fundraiser March 16 in Willowbrook. The event attracted more than 1,000 people and raised several thousand dollars.
Dalton said the committee hopes to provide some much-needed support to the organization and—most importantly—Andrew.
"I've been at this school for a long time and one thing I can tell you is that this community always pulls together for people in need, so that's really what we wanted to do for Andrew," Dalton said. "This is a kid who's not sitting around and licking his wounds or feeling sorry for himself. He's the most positive person you'll ever meet and he's working so hard to get better, so I think we need to do everything we can to show that we're behind him every step of the way."
In addition to attending physical therapy several days a week at Next Steps in Willow Springs, Podczerwinski has also been working hard to regain some normalcy at school. Since returning in September, he has earned high honor roll accolades and was tabbed as one of the school's "Students of the Month" in October.
Podczerwinski said he owes his positive attitude to the relentless support of his family and friends.
"They give me a lot of motivation," he said. "I wouldn't be working nearly as hard if they weren't there to encourage me and support me when I'm having a hard time. I'm so grateful."
The Podczerwinski family has chronicled Andrew's journey on the organization's website. In a particularly poignant, yet uplifting post, Renata and Edward Podczerwinski shared their hopes for their son's future.
"We thank God that he spared Andrew's life. We believe Andrew will walk again," they wrote. "When this happens we will take Andrew to Bass Lake, and find the exact spot in the field where he went down. He will lie there for a second, and then he'll get up on his own power and walk away to start a new life."
Walk with Andrew
When: 10 a.m. Sunday, April 28; walk-up registration begins at 9 a.m.
Where: Lemont High School football field, 800 Porter St.
Cost: $20 registration fee; forms available at www.lhs210.net
More details: For more information about Andrew Podczerwinski's story and his recovery, visit www.walkwithandrew.com.
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Hello All -
I'm developing a web-based app using Struts. My first page is a Category selection screen. I have created Action and ActionForm classes for this page and added entries in struts-config.xml. This part is working fine. The next page will be Parameters selection screen. I still need to create Action and ActionForm classes for this page. One thing I'm not able to find out is how do I pass the values from one page to another ? For instance how does Parameters selection screen will get the value selected in Category selection screen ? I'm thinking of using
* another bean class to store all variables
* using session varibale
But not sure what's the best option. Really appreciate any suggestions.
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Why dont you use the same Action form for both screens.
All the form elements that are required in both these screens Category selection screen and Parameters selection screen can be made part of the same ActionForm.
The in the struts-config, define the scope of the bean as "session".
Then when you come to Parameters selection screen, the values selected in the Category selection screen will still be available in the ActionForm.
Let me know if you need more Explaination
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You do not have to use session scoped forms to solve this issue if you do not want to. I would probably code this up to use a single form bean that both pages would use. When you submit the first page, the submitted category selected value will be populated on the form and available to the second page. If you need to maintain this value, then store it as a hidden field on the second jsp. Then when the second page is submitted, you will have both the selected category and parameter.
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Are you ready for college football? Nike seems to be embracing for another great season of hard hits, and the eight schools represented in their "Week Zero" Collection should make plenty of noise on the college gridiron as they strive for Bowl greatness. Oregon, Texas, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Georgia, Florida State, Alabama, and Michigan State get the special treatment in these energetic colorways of the Lunar TR1, with team logos on the tongues and special graphics decorating each individual release. Nike will drop this octet of Trainer heat on August 27th, so get a detailed look at the eight varieties below and let us know which of the bunch you're liking the most.
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OB Hospitalist in Central Maine: Central Maine Medical Center, a 250 bed hospital, seeks OB Hospitalist to join employed group of 5 full-time OBGYN physicians and 3 full-time CNMs. Our department is transitioning to a hospitalist model and we are looking for an energetic person to join our well-established group. We offer a Level 2 NICU, as well as a close relationship with a nearby MFM group. Candidates interested in teaching will enjoy working with our family medicine residents and University of New England medical students.
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