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In fact there has been more fires in the past two weeks than Louisiana has seen in 20- years.
The State Fire Marshal's office says they've investigated fifty fires since the start of the year.
That's the number they usually investigate a month!
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Forever inspired by the arts, Fink studied music when he was young, taking an early shine to Bach. And there is indeed something calm and precise, even lyrical, in the way Fink composes the last shots of the day in the fading light.
The client is now on the phone, his attention shifted to making dinner plans. But Fink is still immersed in making this final shot as beautiful as it can be. He nudges a plate a quarter of an inch, refolds a corner of a napkin, and checks his exposure. He bends over his camera, glances up, and then says softly, "I can't believe I get to do this for a living."
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- 10.) DePaul (2-1), Last Week (10): The Blue Demons very nearly knocked off a Southern Miss team that many expect to be among the top squads in Conference USA, falling to the Golden Eagles, 75-68. Cleveland Melvin and Brandon Young are off to strong starts.
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(CNN) — Following President Barack Obama's announcement of $1 billion in new funding to help prepare for the effects of climate change, Secretary of State John Kerry promised his own actions as part of the administration's push in a keynote speech in Indonesia, warning that climate change will also threaten the world economy.
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Republican Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina, whose state was hit hard as another winter storm hit the mid-Atlantic last week, said climate change is real but was dubious on humans' impact.
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Using GPUs for general-purpose computing is attractive because of the high-compute bandwidth available, yet programming them still is a costly task. This article makes the claim that current GPU-oriented languages, like CUDA or Brook, require programmers to do a lot of busy work and keep track of a lot of details that would be better left to a compiler. I argue that host-based, accelerator-enabled C, C++ and FORTRAN compilers are feasible with current technology and discuss the issues and difficulties with automatic compilation for GPUs and how to address them.
Today's programmable GPUs are the latest instantiation of programmable accelerators. Going back to the 1970s, the Floating Point Systems AP-120 and FPS-164 attached processors provided mainframe computational speeds at minicomputer cost. Many other vendors built similar products until the advent of the full mini-supercomputer. Today, we have the Clearspeed board, selling into much the same market. In the embedded world, music players and digital phones use programmable digital signal processors (DSPs) to encode and decode audio. Typically, they use dedicated hardware blocks to handle the video to minimize power requirements. In each case, the accelerator is designed to improve the performance for a particular family of applications, such as scientific computing or signal processing. GPUs are themselves (obviously) designed to speed up graphic shaders.
Accelerators are made programmable so as to be as flexible as possible. DSPs can be reprogrammed to handle new encoding standards or to use more efficient algorithms, for example. The programming strategy always is a trade-off between performance and convenience, and efficiency and productivity. Designing a language that is close to the hardware allows a user to write as efficient a program as possible, yet such a program likely will have to be rewritten for each such accelerator. It even may need re-tuning for different generations of accelerator from the same vendor and may bear no resemblance to the corresponding CPU program from which it was ported. On the other hand, using a higher-level language puts performance in the hands of a compiler, which may leave a significant fraction of the potential on the table.
Some arguments in favor of a lower-level language are that many programmers want that level of control; compiler development is expensive and time consuming; hardware moves so quickly that compilers are out of date by the time they are tuned properly; and programmers don't trust compilers to deliver good performance.
There are similarities between these arguments and those used 50 years ago during the development of the first high-level languages. When developing the first FORTRAN compiler, the state of the art of programming was machine or assembler language. The developers at IBM realized they had to overcome a very high-acceptance barrier before anyone would be willing to adopt the language. Where would we be today had they not forged ahead? Although FORTRAN is out of favor with most Linux programmers, I submit that all subsequent imperative languages are descendants of, and owe a debt to, that first FORTRAN effort, which formalized named procedures and variables, and introduced the if keyword and the assignment statement (and what languages have no assignment statement?).
Now, having had some years of experience programming GPUs in various ways, we should look at whether we can use less-specific (and less-arcane), more general-purpose languages, open up GPU programming to a wider audience, and still achieve high performance.
Vector computing was first introduced in the 1960s, but was commercially successful only with the introduction of the Cray 1 in 1976. It may be difficult for less-experienced developers to believe, but the Cray 1's 80MHz clock (12.5ns) was the fastest on the planet, and it was the fastest scalar machine available at the time. In addition, the Cray 1 had a vector instruction set that could deliver floating-point results six to ten times faster than the corresponding scalar code. Because the payoff was so high, programmers were quite willing to invest nontrivial effort to make sure their programs ran as fast as possible.
As with GPUs and accelerators today, the parallelism exploited on a Cray covered a wide range of applications, but it was not universal; it tended to self-select the applications that were ported to it. Moving a program to the Cray may have required changing an algorithm to one that was more amenable to vector processing, changing the data layout and, even with appropriate algorithms and data, may have required recoding the program to expose the parallelism. When it first was introduced, many users decried the effort they had to expend. In response, many optimized library kernels (such as the BLAS) were introduced, which could be written in assembly and presumably were highly optimized—programs that used these kernels for computationally intensive regions could expect good performance.
Some of the Cray 1's contemporaries and competitors introduced new languages or language extensions. The Control Data Cyber 205 exposed its vector instruction set in its version of FORTRAN.
Writing a(1;n) meant a vector starting at a(1) with a length of n. Two vectors could be added, as a(1;n) + b(2;n). Nontrivial operations were handled by a large set of Q8 intrinsics, which generated inline code. The expression q8ssum(a(1;n)) would generate the vector instruction to compute the single-precision summation of the vector a(1;n). Such an approach made programming the Cyber 205 costly, and programs optimized for it were not portable.
The Texas Instruments' Advanced Scientific Computer (TI-ASC) came with an aggressive automatic vectorizing compiler, though the machine was not a commercial success. The Cray Fortran Translator (CFT) was the first widely used vectorizing compiler, and it became the dominant method by which the Cray vector instruction set was used. Many tuned libraries still were written in assembly, but the vectorizing compiler was good enough that most programmers could use it effectively.
Although CFT did an effective job of vectorization, the key to its success was something else. It was one of the first compilers that gave performance feedback to the user. The compiler produced a program listing that included a vectorization table. It would tell which loops would run in vector mode and which would not. Moreover, if a loop failed to vectorize, the compiler gave very specific information as to why not, down to which variable or array reference in which statement in the loop prevented vectorization. This had two effects; the first was that programmers knew what to change to make this loop run faster.
The second effect was that programmers became trained to write vector loops: take out procedure calls, don't use conditionals, use stride-1 array references and so on. The next program they wrote was more likely to vectorize from the start. After a few years, programmers were quite comfortable using the "vectorizable subset" of the language, and they could achieve predictable high performance. An important factor in this success was that the style of programming the compiler encouraged was portable, in that it gave predictably good performance across a wide range of vector computers, from Cray, IBM, NEC, Fujitsu, Convex and many others.
More recently, SSE registers with packed arithmetic instructions were added to the X86 architecture with the Pentium III in 1999. When first introduced, compilers were enhanced with a large set of intrinsics that operated on 128-bit wide data; _mm_add_ss(m,n) would do a packed four-wide single-precision floating-point add on two __m128 operands, which presumably would be allocated to XMM registers.
PGI applied classical vectorization technology in its version 3.1 C and FORTRAN compilers to generate the packed arithmetic instructions automatically from loops. The other x86 compilers soon followed, and this is now the dominant method by which the SSE instructions on the x86 are used. Again, there are library routines written in assembly, but the compilers are good enough to be used effectively. As with the Cray compilers, performance feedback is crucial to effective use. If performance is critical, programmers will look at the compiler messages and rewrite loops that don't vectorize.
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From: Food Quality & Safety magazine, August/September 2013
The Produce Industry's 'Barcode' of Approval
by Dan Vaché
The U.S. has a tremendous ability to produce and distribute healthy and nutritious fresh produce in an efficient and safe manner. It is recognized that there is always a risk for a pathogen to slip past the many checks and balances currently in place to ensure food safety. Even with dedicated industry efforts, events do occur. During the last six months of 2012, there were 16 documented recalls of produce involving apples, cantaloupes, mangoes, romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, and bagged salads.
While most companies engaged in the growing, packing, processing, and distribution of our nation's fruits and vegetables have had some sort of internal traceability program in place since the Bio Terrorism Act of 2002 (one step up—one step back with subsequent records), the produce industry realized this was not good enough in the event of a food safety issue impacting its complex supply chain. In 2007, the fruit and vegetable industry took on the task of developing an external traceability program, the Produce Traceability Initiative (PTI), to complement the Bioterrorism Act. The initiative aims to assist governmental agencies in quickly identifying the location of specific implicated products by lot or batch number for removal from the supply chain. Its mission is to create an action plan to adopt an effective whole chain traceability program for the produce industry by incorporating the use of technology and common standards that serve as linkages between internal traceability programs.
As with any initiative involving process change and technology, there are challenges for early adopters. The PTI is no exception. The recommendation to apply a barcode on each case of produce is a whole new adventure for produce growers and shippers. The use of barcode technology is not new to the packaged food industry, it was first introduced to the retail trade in 1974 when a pack of Wrigley's Spearmint chewing gum was the first UPC scanned at Marsh's Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. But for bulk produce, it was indeed an undertaking.
In order to coordinate this produce industry-wide traceability initiative, 53 companies, including grower-shippers, wholesalers, retailers, food service distributors, and technology providers, volunteered to participate in 10 various working groups. Each working group of experts created guidance and best practice documents to pave the way for the use of standards.
The PTI Technology Working Group (one of nine PTI working groups) consists of a broad spectrum of technology companies who provide software, hardware, and technical consulting services. The group worked collectively to develop best practices for the industry, and to date have compiled and vetted best practices for Formatting Case Labels, Private Label/Brand, Direct Print, Product Substitutions, Cross Docking, Labeling Hybrid Pallets, and Best Practices for Repacking/Commingling.
Reading Between the Barcode Lines
The supply side began to pilot the different methods of attaching the Global Trade Idem Number, which includes the brand owner identification and item reference number, and the lot or batch number to each case of produce. The industry's initial reaction centered around the potential disruption of current processes and the cost of labeling, whether it occurred in the field at point of harvest, in the facility on packing lines, or at time of shipment. All of these methods were tested multiple times by various solution providers and their supply side clients. The solution providers were able to successfully limit the impact to the current process efficiencies and keep the cost down.
A huge challenge was labeling at time of harvest for those produce items packaged immediately in the field to be sent down the supply chain, bypassing a packing facility. Should labels be preprinted in the office and delivered to the field, or printed in the field? Would it be feasible to label at the point of shipment, even if it impacted established processes and required additional handling of highly perishable produce? The additional challenge of unpredictable field conditions, including heat, wind, rain, dust, and mud, and factor in the fast pace at which the professional harvest crews work, and the situation becomes even more difficult. However, the best results were found when the harvest crews were asked to help design a solution to meet the objective that would be best integrated with their process. The employees came up with methods to have the PTI-compliant labels accessible on the field harvest equipment for immediate placement on each case. Field managers were surprised by how quickly they were able to train harvest crews, with many being unfamiliar with the technology, and the gains in efficiencies the crews discovered.
To bring the labels to the field, new designs for portable printers rugged enough to withstand field conditions were designed with ease of operation and low maintenance in mind. The ability to print and apply labels in the field was also a benefit to the operations in other ways—it provided real-time harvest information to the cooling facilities and sales teams by providing pack-out information that was not previously available on a real-time basis. And productivity increased by eliminating manual labeling, pen marking, and downstream guesswork.
With the engagement of the harvest crews, field managers and employees alike quickly developed a greater appreciation for the accuracy required for the products they handle in the field. They realized they are at the front end of traceability efforts and became more conscious of the requirements and expectations placed on them daily.
Packing within the four walls of a facility mostly eliminates the challenges of labeling from Mother Nature, but companies using either hand packing or high-speed packing lines face other obstacles. For example, many companies use pen and paper to document and track the movement of product, which can lead to inaccuracy of records and potential
mismarking of cases. Implementing a new system of labeling can be initially disruptive to the process, considering the learning curve and audit period to ensure proper label application is occurring. The industry acknowledges how much easier it is to use technology-driven systems compared to those that are paper-based, but even if an operation is already fully automated, some operations fear that installing new hardware for labeling could decrease efficiency and add functional complexity to the line.
Regardless of the operation's strategy in applying a PTI label, it's all made possible by an integration of software and hardware to maximize control over material handling, box and size recognition, and label application. When controls are put into place, the technology is able to direct cartons that have been labeled to designated pallet stations or mechanical palletizers via electronic carton controls. This enhances the use of previously installed conveyor systems and provides a granular level of product information to route the right carton to the right place for shipping to the right customer. These established processes have proven to reduce labeling errors to nearly zero.
Direct print on cases is also a challenge with many suppliers using corrugated brown, white bleached, and white printed material. These suppliers have found it difficult to establish enough contrast to print an acceptable barcode that will withstand temperature and humidity fluctuations throughout the supply chain. It has been tested and confirmed that suppliers using bleached or white printed areas on brown kraft can provide enough contrast for PTI compliant direct print GS1-128 barcodes, assuming high-resolution, well-maintained, and monitored direct print equipment is used. There is a continuous drive to use direct print to reduce costs by eliminating the use of a label. Methods currently being piloted include Drop on Demand High Resolution Inkjet, Thermal Inkjet, Industrial Laser Coding, and Digital Tissue Stencil Process. The real test of direct print will come when the entire supply chain is engaged and the direct print barcode is scanned multiple times.
Moving Forward
The produce industry has been referred to as the poster child for all other perishable commodities preparing to attain a level of whole chain traceability to meet the needs and demands of government agencies and ultimately the consumer. With millions of cases of fresh produce moving through the supply chain annually, it is imperative to have visibility of the movement of fresh produce should a situation arise where it must be removed from the marketplace. With industry demands and concerned consumers, whole chain traceability is on the near horizon.
Multiple regional retailers and several food service distributors have announced to their suppliers their expectations regarding case labeling compliance. However, their buying power is limited and adoption has been slow without a critical mass in the market requiring PTI compliant labels on each case of produce. The tipping point is near for the wide adoption of the PTI with the recent announcement by WalMart/Sam's Club indicating that on January 1, 2014, product received at their distribution centers without a PTI compliant label will be rejected unless an active exception has been issued prior to delivery.
This move significantly strengthens the momentum for the entire supply chain to implement whole chain traceability. The common goal is to have a system in place that when produce is implicated in a food safety event, the specific product can be contained and removed from the marketplace quickly while safe products continue to be available to the consumer.
Vaché is vice president of supply chain management at United Fresh Produce Association. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Europe's ATV space freighter burns up
Europe's space freighter has destroyed itself over the South Pacific.
The ATV-Johannes Kepler ship took 1.3 tonnes of rubbish from the space station into a controlled dive into the atmosphere just before 2100 GMT on Tuesday.
Most of the vehicle and its waste cargo would have been vaporised in the descent.
Only a few robust pieces of hardware could have survived to the ocean surface, say officials.
The burn-up brings to an end Kepler's four-month mission to the station.
Its purpose had been to deliver more than seven tonnes of fuel, food, air and equipment to the orbiting platform.
Kepler also used its big thrusters to push the International Space Station (ISS) higher into the sky.
The space lab is now flying at an altitude of more than 380km (235 miles) - its furthest ever distance from Earth in its finished configuration.
It means the station will now experience less drag from the wisps of air still present high above the planet that work to pull the platform downwards over time.
- As a partner in the International Space Station (ISS) project, Europe is providing five ATVs - Automated Transfer Vehicles
- Johannes Kepler, named after the great 16th/17th Century German scientist, is the second such ship in the Esa series
- The robotic freighters fly unmanned but can be entered by astronauts once the vehicles are docked at the space station
- ATVs can take up more than seven tonnes of fuel, food, water, air and equipment. They also push the ISS higher in the sky
- For their return into the atmosphere, the ATVs are filled with station rubbish. Almost everything burns up on the fiery descent
- At launch, ATV-Johannes Kepler weighed in excess of 20 tonnes - the heaviest payload Europe has ever put in orbit
The European Space Agency (Esa) has been delighted by the robotic ship's performance since its launch in February.
Its automatic rendezvous and docking systems had no problem finding the ISS; and then, having attached itself to the back of platform, the truck operated in a flawless fashion.
Kepler was the second such freighter flown by Esa; the first, known as Jules Verne, completed its mission to the station in 2008.
The Automated Transfer Vehicles (ATV is their generic name) are the means by which Europe pays its share of the common operating costs of the platform project. It is a barter arrangement in which capability and hardware is provided instead of cash.
Three further freighters are planned, with the first of these - Edoardo Amaldi - due to launch at the end of February next year. The final two will go up in 2013 and 2014.
Beyond them, Esa is looking to take the capabilities and expertise gained on the trucks into a new type of spacecraft - something it has dubbed for the moment simply as the "ATV Derivative".
Its purpose and design are currently being discussed with the US space agency, Nasa.
One possible outcome is some sort of European contribution to the Americans' Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV).
The MPCV is envisaged by Nasa as a manned ship that could take astronauts beyond the space station, to the Moon, asteroids and Mars.
Ideas are far from fully formed, but an ATV-like tug could help assemble in orbit the elements of an expedition that started out from the station. Perhaps the derivative could even provide some propulsive capability to send the MPCV on its way.
Speaking at this week's Paris Air Show, Esa officials said they would report progress on the talks to the agency's member states in October.
"I don't want to beat about the bush - I think it would be fantastic if there would be a mission going beyond low-Earth orbit for this barter. But once again we need to understand the technical details," said Thomas Reiter, the former German astronaut now in charge of Esa's human spaceflight programme.
"It's not in so much detail that I can tell you much about it, other than we've had two interface discussions," he told BBC News.
Esa director general Jean-Jacques Dordain also emphasised the preliminary nature of the dialogue. In addition, he underlined the need for the ATV Derivative to fulfil roles that matched Europe's interests and objectives away from the MPCV. In this context, the derivative could be a robotic vehicle to carry out the in-orbit servicing of other spacecraft.
"We should converge towards the autumn of this year, possibly not on one single vehicle but at least on one module, that would make it possible to have some derivatives in the future, with perhaps one vehicle provided to the US and one that we could use in other circumstances," Mr Dordain told BBC News.


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Also called the flu, seasonal influenza is caused by a virus that easily spreads from person to person by coughing and sneezing, and through nasal secretions. Most people who get the flu are sick for only a few days, but others need medical care. Older adults, children under age 2, and people with weak immune systems or chronic illnesses are more likely to become seriously ill. A fever, headache, fatigue, sore throat, dry cough, chills, and body aches are typical signs and symptoms of the flu, but not everyone with the flu has all of these. Flu season starts as early as October and can last until May.
Antiviral medicine can ease flu symptoms if you start taking it within 2 days of your first symptoms. A healthcare provider must prescribe this medicine, which usually is given to people who are most at risk for serious illness.
Some over-the-counter medicines, such as ibuprofen, can help reduce the discomfort from fever, headache, and chills. Drink plenty of water and juice and eat a balanced diet. You need more fluids than usual when you have the flu, and proper nutrition gives your body energy to recover. Avoid alcohol and tobacco. Vitamin C and herbal supplements haven't been proven to help people recover from the flu.
Almost anyone who wants protection from the flu should get a vaccine every year. But getting the vaccine is especially important if you're at risk for serious illness. If you have a serious illness and need the flu vaccine, anyone who lives with you should also get the vaccine. Talk with your healthcare provider to see if you and your family should get the flu vaccine each year. Children under age 6 months shouldn't get the flu vaccine.
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Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) offer non-profits, faith-based organizations, and churches a dynamic health benefits tool to recruit and retain key employees. This article looks at how organizations can use Health Reimbursement Arrangements with health care ministry sharing programs, commonly referred to as medishare or medi-share programs.
What are Health Care Ministry Sharing Programs?
By definition, a health care sharing ministry is a non-profit organization that facilitates sharing of health care costs between individual members.
There are several faith-based organizations who offer these types of health care sharing ministries, and all programs are set up differently. However, the basic concept is that members donate a monthly amount, and then are able to apply for a grant (or access "shares") when a medical expense is incurred. There is often a threshold to apply for assistance (for example, a medical expense must be more than $300 to apply for assistance).
Individuals that belong to a health sharing ministry are exempt from the individual responsibility requirements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2014. In other words, if an individual belongs to a health sharing ministry, they are not subject to the "individual mandate." According to the federal definition outlined in the PPACA, a health care ministry program:
Must be a 501(c)(3) organization
Members must share common ethical or religious beliefs
Must not discriminate membership based on state of residence or employment
Members cannot lose membership due to development of a medical condition
Must have existed and been in practice continually since December 31, 1999 (a grandfather clause)
Must be subject to an annual audit by an independent CPA which must be publicly available upon request
Can an HRA Reimburse Health Care Ministry Membership Donations?
No. Health Reimbursement Arrangement funds cannot reimburse employees for their membership fees/donations to a health care savings ministry program. Why?
IRC Section 213 governs which types of expenses and health insurance premiums can be reimbursed through a Health Reimbursement Arrangement.
IRC Section 213 specifies in "(D) for insurance (including amounts paid as premiums under part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act, relating to supplementary medical insurance for the aged) covering medical care referred to in subparagraphs (A) and (B) or for any qualified long-term care insurance contract (as defined in section 7702B (b))."
Health care ministry programs are not offered by an insurance company, and the benefit is not insurance. Therefore, the membership fees/donations are not reimbursable through a Health Reimbursement Arrangement according to IRS guidelines. However, there is a way these medi-sharing programs and HRAs work well together (read on...).
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Even though Health Reimbursement Arrangements are not allowed to reimburse employees for the Health Care Ministry membership donations, many organizations pair a Health Reimbursement Arrangement with a Health Care Ministry Program.
For example, an organization could design the Health Reimbursement Arrangement to reimburse employees for expenses up until the Health Care Ministry threshold. If the Health Care Ministry threshold was $1,000, the organization could use the Health Reimbursement to cover employees for first dollar coverage, up to their first $1,000 annually. After the HRA allowance of $1,000 was met, the employee could apply for assistance with the Health Care Ministry Program.
Or, an organization could design their Health Reimbursement Arrangement to reimburse types of medical expenses the health care ministry does not cover, such as smaller medical expenses like co-pays, prescriptions, and preventative care.
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Deuteronomy 3:23-7:11
In this Torah portion, Moses stresses to the Israelites the importance of keeping God's commandments when they enter the Land of Israel.
Moses repeats the Ten Commandments and utters the Sh'ma and V'ahavta.
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A man on a small motorcycle wearing a yellow hazmat suit took me to J.D. Salinger's house when I was 21 years old. Two friends and I had been driving around Salinger's mountain for a full day, and we were exhausted, irritable, and hopeless.
A different man, with a bagpipe on his hip and a black lab at his side, had taunted us for nearly six hours, alternately giving us clues as to which house belonged to Salinger and insulting us. "You think you're the first people to come looking for Mr. Salinger?" He said when we pulled alongside him in his driveway. "Go home." The next time around the bend, "You can't see his house from the road." Then, "If you admire him so much, respect his desire for privacy;" followed by, "I can comfortably walk the distance between our two houses;" and, "Long drive back to Florida. Better get started now."
Eventually, the bagpiper stopped responding to our questions about Salinger. And because we were lost, yet still committed to the hunt, we agreed to talk about other things in between bouts of goose-chasing. The black flies. The weather. The efficiency of the Cornish fire department. But never about Salinger. When we pulled up to the bagpiper's yard for the last time, he simply pointed to the barn across the dirt road. "I raised that barn myself," he said, then put the bagpipe reed back in his mouth and honked his way through his front door.
I had wanted to make the drive up to Cornish, New Hampshire, to see J.D. Salinger since a junior-high teacher scolded me for using curse words in my writing. The assignment was titled, "What Thanksgiving means to me," and in the course of 250 words I managed to employ no fewer than 20 "jesus christs" and half as many "fucks." The powers that were didn't let me off when I explained that I wasn't really taking the Lord's name in vain—hence the lower case lettering—and the "fucks" were art.
I got deep into what little Salinger you can buy, and read everything but Catcher In the Rye several times over (everyone has read Catcher, and I didn't want to be like everyone; a very un-Salingerian attitude considering his love for the sopa opera Dynasty). His stories stuck with me through junior high and high school, and in college, where I added Nine Stories to the syllabus of a first-year English course that I co-taught as an undergraduate.
A few months before graduation, I asked two friends if they'd travel with me to Salinger's house. There was a certain reward for us in simply discussing exciting and unlikely adventures, and I knew that if I changed my mind, or if my friends batted the idea around and then rejected it, the desire to make the trip would still stand for something.
I would like to say that a chill galloped down my spine, and that I was filled with an over-whelming nostalgia for Raise High The Roofbeams, Carpenter when Matt and Brian jumped on board. But my first impulse was negative: the idea of a roadtrip exhausted me. So much driving; uncomfortable sleeping conditions; shitting in public restrooms; hundreds of dollars spent in fastfood establishments; squabbling; road stink. I ran a quick formula in my head: the amount of time that would pass before we could actually embark (two months) multiplied by the likelihood that we would irritate each other sick during the interim (high), divided by our ability to forgive each other (low, likely to decrease with time).
I figured the trip would abort itself in vitro, and that I risked next to nothing by appearing gung ho at the outset. I dismissed the possibility that Brian and Matt expected me to do what I was about to promise, shrugged at the consequences of such carelessness and said, "Sure, I mean it. Let's go."
Due to this indiscretion, I had no one to blame when I found myself in the front passenger seat of a white Toyota Camry, speeding through Jacksonville, FL, on I-95 in the dead of night; a stoned and excited person to my left, a stoned and excited person behind me, a stoned and excited person staring back at me from the rear-view mirror, all convinced that within a few days, we would be in the company of Jerome David Salinger.
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Three days before we left, visiting Salinger mutated suddenly into a sensitive hybrid of business and pleasure. At the trip's end, I learned, there would be a job waiting for me in Washington, D.C., which meant we'd have to stop on our way up so that I could find an apartment. It was a reminder for me that this trip would probably be the last of its kind. Matt and Brian would soon move to other parts of the world, we'd all commit ourselves to work, to new friends and new pursuits.
After a quick tour of some of Northwest D.C.'s most economically depressed neighborhoods, I settled on a spacish one bedroom that my girlfriend despises almost as much as she despises me for choosing it, inked the lease, put down a few hundred bucks to hold the place until I could come up with money for a security deposit, and resumed the drive to New Hampshire.
The rest of the pilgrimage was spent smoking pot, listening to good tunes, and playing a game we created called the Salinger Hypothetical, which one of us would start when the others were feeling like the trip was a waste of time. Working off the trivia we knew about Salinger—the pee-drinking, the refusal to evacuate his home during a massive fire, the regular visits to Friendly's for ice cream, the obsession with young women, the interest in homeopathic medicine—we psyched ourselves out by creating even stranger Salingers. Every sentence began with "What if Salinger" and ended in an absurd theory: What if Salinger hasn't cut his fingernails in 50 years? What if Salinger's home is staffed by Southeast Asian slave labor? What if Salinger answers the door in a dress? What if Salinger has been dead for years, and his wife too, and no one knows because he's a recluse? What if Salinger answers the door in a Marilyn Monroe wig? What if Salinger is a huge pothead? What if Salinger answers the door naked? What if Salinger doesn't remember having been a famous writer?
We played the game through Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New York. We stopped at Milford Reservoir in Connecticut, waded out to a large rock, and played the game while sunning ourselves. We played the game in Massachusetts while wandering high and buzzed through Roxbury, and while waiting in line for tickets to Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull, which made us wonder if Salinger would answer the door with a bullwhip in hand. We played the game high and terrified while waiting in line for a state trooper checkpoint in Vermont, only to be waved through when the troopers saw a car packed to bulging with migrant workers. We probably played the game several times an hour every hour for the three days it took us to drive to New Hampshire.
But there was one hypothetical none of us asked: What if we can't find Salinger?
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We flagged down the man on the small motorcycle wearing the yellow hazmat suit because we thought, for just a second, that he was Salinger. The game had conditioned us to think of Salinger as a spry, delusional—and yes, dangerous—dandy; not an 89-year-old hermit. The three of us were covered in black-fly bites, visibly tense, wet, and muddied from sliding into a creek bed to get high, and we must have inspired some sympathy. "Do you promise not to bother him?" The man asked us. We nodded. "Follow me."
The motorcycle was surprisingly quick. The man took us around some familiar curves and down roads we'd seen 20 times that day. But then he made a sharp right at a fork that we must've missed earlier, and pulled over.
"Last house on the right," he said as we idled beside him. "There's a barn across the road. Can't miss it."
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Bagpipe man was right: We couldn't see Salinger's house from the road, and the distance there was walkable, assuming one had an hour or so to kill. From the row of trees that surrounded Salinger's house, you could look down a grassy slope and see nothing but trees for miles. The mailbox out front had a lock on it, unlike the other homes on the mountain, and the entrance to the driveway was plastered with signs that read "NO TRESPASSING" and "NO LOITERING." From the road, we spotted a SUV with a Cornish Fire Department bumper sticker—had Salinger or his wife put it on the car after the fire in the late 90s that almost destroyed the house? And was that an herb garden near the front door? The tension was so palpable that Brian and Matt broke out the weed and we smoked another joint to steady our nerves.
"Are you going to knock?" Matt asked me after we'd had a few hits.
It was my trip, after all. I tried walking up the driveway a few times, got close to the front door twice. But both times, I turned around. I'd read everything that had ever been written about finding Salinger, including Ron Rosenbaum's Esquire story and message board anecdotes in which fans detailed the lengths to which they'd gone to enter Salinger's home disguised as handymen. I even heard a story second-hand about a group of students our age who had banged on the door while yelling that they'd just been in a car accident. No one had answered them.
"Maybe the bagpiper is right" I suggested to the guys. "We've found the place, maybe we should just leave him alone."
The guys shrugged. "Your trip," Brian said.
We stared at the barn. Walked up and down the driveway a few times. Took pictures. Scribbled an adulatory note to Salinger and wedged it in the gap between his mailboxes. And then we left.
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I still don't know if I was scared of being rejected, or if I wanted to prolong the meeting in order to prolong my youth. Both of these theories crossed my mind as the Friendly's in Lebanon where Matt and Brian and I stopped for dinner before heading back to Florida. While the guys compared notes and drew conclusions from the herb garden and the bumper sticker, I sipped quietly on a cup of coffee. Our waitress overheard their conversation and intervened.
"You were right there," she told us.
"Right where?"
"Right at Mr. Salinger's house. With the barn across the road? On the hill? That's Mr. Salinger's house," she said, beaming. "Most people can't find it."
"How do you know that?" I asked. And internally, Why the fuck weren't you playing the bagpipes earlier?
"I used to babysit Margaret," she said, "and Mr. Salinger sometimes comes here for ice cream."
She paused.
"So close," she said, a sympathetic frown on her face.
"So close," I parroted back to her in a hollow voice.
That night, after convincing one another that Salinger would be there waiting for us when we finally worked up the courage to knock, we left for Florida and our new, more adult lives. The bagpipe man was right. It was a long trip.
Bio: Mike Riggs is an online editor at Tucker Carlson's Daily Caller. He lives in Washington, D.C.


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TUESDAY, Nov. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A small study suggests that stem cells can help repair the damage of a heart attack, and it doesn't matter if the cells originate with the patient or a stranger.
The study, which involved just 30 patients, is the first involving a certain type of cells, called mesenchymal stem cells, that compares outcomes depending on whether the cells came from the patient or a donor.
Across most measures -- including reductions in cardiac scar tissue, patient quality of life and safety -- people got the same benefit regardless of where the stem cells came from, researchers reported Monday at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in Los Angeles. The study is also being published online Nov. 6 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"We believe the basic message of the study is that this procedure is safe and that future, larger studies are warranted," lead study author Dr. Joshua Hare, director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, said at a news briefing.
Millions of people around the world suffer from heart failure, often caused by a heart attack that severely damaged heart muscle at some point in the past. This can cause hearts to become enlarged and weakened, a condition called ischemic cardiomyopathy.
Unfortunately, progress against heart failure has been stalled for decades. But recently, scientists have been introducing stem cells, which can turn into cardiac cells, into the hearts of these patients, to see if they might repair the damage.
In most cases, the cells have been sourced from the patients themselves, but that presents its own problems. Speaking at the news briefing, Stefanie Dimmeler, head of the section of molecular cardiology at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, explained that it takes up to two months to grow the millions of stem cells needed for transplant. If a patient suffers a heart attack and needs them quickly, it is just not feasible to use his or her own cells.
"So," said Dimmeler, who was not involved in the new study, "it might be interesting to have cells 'off-the-shelf'" that were grown earlier, using an outside donor's cells.
But would these donor cells perform as well as the patient's own?
In the new study, Hare and his colleagues investigated that question with 30 patients who all had damaged, enlarged hearts due to a prior heart attack. Half received infusions of their own mesenchymal stem cells, while the other half received cells sourced from young, healthy donors. The patients were then tracked for 13 months.
While the amount of cardiac scar tissue typically does not change for heart failure patients, Hare said that on CT scans "we saw a 33 percent reduction in scar tissue in both [the donor and self-sourced] groups." Swollen, misshapen hearts also began to change back to a healthier, spherical shape, indicating that scar tissue was receding, he said.
According to Hare, all of this "is very important because we think that this is the basis by which this therapy is going to work."
Patient function also seemed to improve, regardless of where the cells were sourced from. In terms of quality-of-life scores, "there was an improvement in both groups that was clinically meaningful," Hare said. Patients from both groups improved at similar rates on a special six-minute-walk test, for example.
Finally, the use of donor stem cells appears to be safe: only one patient out of 30 had any immune reaction to the procedure, and that reaction was "at a very low level," Hare said.
Still, Dimmeler stressed that, though encouraging, more and much larger trials are needed, and those could take years.
"I think it is still early days," she said. "Although we are having [stem] cells in the clinic being tested, it's all so far at very small patient numbers."
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Being organized is a major key to success in life. Though there are plenty of examples, let's take a look at how college students should be organized. A sure step above high school, college courses require more than just attendance and completion of work. Not only are there multiple assignments due during the same day, but the workload is much more intensive.
During the end of the semester, there may also be multiple exams to take on the same day. This is where you need a game plan. First, make sure to keep your folders organized and labeled, as you don't want to lose anything of importance.
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Microsoft Access Form Design Articles Database Solutions for Microsoft Access databasedev.co.uk. Here you will find articles, tips and tutorials relating to Microsoft Access Graphical User Interface Form designs; from adding customised database error messages, including images in your database forms, creating Microsoft Access database start-up screens and adding customised login forms.
Hopefully you will find something of interest, whether you need to add to what you already have in your database application design to including cutomisation to build a user friendly application. Please also download any of the example files that show working examples of some of the articles listed. All example files are Microsoft Access 2000 databases unless otherwise stated. MouseWheelOnOff. New Version 2.2 March 15, 2005 This Page Viewed: times.
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Miles defends reputation against magazine reports of cheating, fraud
Baton Rouge, LA (FOX44) — Les Miles is fighting to protect his reputation.
He denied reports that he committed major NCAA violations when he was the coach at Oklahoma State.
"I had no idea that this would be anything like this," Miles said of the series of articles from Sports Illustrated.
SI is publishing installments each day this week about rules that were allegedly broken at Oklahoma State, some while Les Miles was their coach. The magazine quotes former players who say that they received cash from coaches and boosters; that tutors helped them cheat on coursework, or guided them to classes whose professors favored athletes; that they were paid for no-show jobs; and that female students, acting as hostesses, had sex with recruits to convince them to attend OSU.
At a news conference Wednesday evening, Miles defended his record and his methods.
"We did things correctly," he stated. "And to say that, I have a very strong feeling that this thing was done right, period.
"But I wasn't there at every place, all the time. But that being said, the things we did, we did right."
Even though the claims are serious, Tigers fans packed TJ Ribs to watch his radio show Wednesday night and show their support.
Tom Lusk described the series as a poor attempt to sell magazines.
"Les Miles is too honest and worked too hard to believe any of that garbage," Lusk said.
Even though the NCAA does not have the power to punish Miles, because the alleged infractions occurred so long ago, coaches have been run out of town for lesser crimes. Additionally, LSU fans are not always sure Miles is the right man to lead their team. But on this topic, they are as supportive as can be, in part because of the way he denied taking part in any misdoings.
"It redoubles my belief in him," Lusk said. "I think more of him for what he's done."
Miles said his players have every reason to believe him, too. He has already spoken to them about his tenure at Oklahoma State, which lasted from 2001-2004.
"I said these things: I said that, 'frankly, I've treated you the same, and you guys know me,' Miles recalled. "So if there was any impropriety, they sure as heck would know it.
"I think that they understand it. I think they understand distraction. I think they're ready to get going. I don't think that there's anything that our guys are carrying with them."
Miles said he had a couple of conversations with members of his Oklahoma State staffs, but nothing in depth. He added that he wanted to wait to address any of the specific accusations.
"At some point in time, I'm going to watershed the issues, kinda have my say. But right now, I'm preparing the team, and I'm really kinda focused on that," he said.


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So i know very well that it is better to keep both eyes open while shooting for many differant reasons. My problem is, I simply cant.
I have tried soo many times to do this and have spent lengthy ammounts of time sitting on the bed staring at my sights. I have dont all the usual tests, and i am "right eyed", but i dont think i am by much. see if i close my left eye and line up the sights, as soon as i open or even slightly open my left eye, my view switches to that view (so i pretty much am looking down the left side of the gun and my sights are no where near lines up). the same thing happens if i try using my left eye. So pretty much if i start with one eye closed, if i open the other, my brain switches to that view. if both eyes start open i cant even begin to line up any sights, i can hardly even see them. flicking my eyes doesnt help. scotch tape over safty glasses doesnt help either. its either one eye is closed or i see just a jumble of stuff and i cant make anything out.
And im not just talking about lining my sights up with the target. i cant line up my front sights with the rear at all.
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I do have a laser grip on my carry gun as well and i have tried combining the laser and sights and it doesnt help much.


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This home page presents the story of Hillier families, the root of my paternal family tree; and the Lyon lineage on the maternal side. The Hillier side covers related and unrelated Hillier families of Newfoundland and consists of three geographic groups: a. Hillier families of the Burin Peninsula; b. Hillier families of Trinity Bay; and c. Hillier families of Notre Dame Bay. The Burin Peninsula group originates in Lamaline and includes three branches: descendants of John Hillier 1783;descendants of Charles Hillier 1793; and those of William Hillier 1845. Open the Book for detailed data on the three Hillier branches and, in addition, find entries on the two most frequently related families, the Bonnells and the Footes. The intended objective is to establish, via identity of personal data, potential family relationship between individual geographical locations. A recent addition is a compilation of data on Hillier originating in England. The purpose is to solicit information on any Hillier born in England and eventually establish connection and thus continuity of ancestor data. See Group English Hillier under REPORTs. Evanda Brown 1840 is the earliest ancestor in the Brown family branch. Research efforts are underway to extend the ancestry line to the eighteenth century and beyond. On the maternal side Peter Lyon 1624 is the earliest ancestor leading the Lyon line. Evidence and documentation to substantiate this research finding is currently under way. Peter Morley Perkins abt. 1310 is the oldest direct ancestor in the Perkins line. Some researchers extend this line to Aubri de Burgundy 775 who precedes Peter Morley by nineteen generations. A 35 generation family tree beginning with Aubri de Burgundy is shown in the gedcom section. Peter Morley Perkins was "High Stewart of Shipton Manor, Sir Hugo De Spencer's Estates" in England and "a direct descendant of Henry III", King of England. We appreciate contributions in the form of comments, additions, and corrections from interested researchers. We solicit references to related URL links and are prepared to exchange data via Gedcom, FTM, or text attachments. Hope Hillier Michael, Jerome J. Michael |
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I'll be starting up the Santa Clarita Valley series later today. In the meantime, just had to comment on the Dodgers' loss yesterday to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who are having their worst season since 1890.
I've noticed before that the Dodgers seem to always lose their first game on the road. Is this just a habit that this team experiences, or is this a commonplace occurrence?
It's interesting to note that even Joe Torre seemed to acknowledge that the trip into Pittsburgh yesterday was unduly stressful due to the G-20 summit happening in the city at the same time. Apparently the team was routed through the Washington DC airport, then loaded onto buses and taken on a 2-hour road trip to Pittsburgh. Once in the city they had to go through countless detours and security stops before they reached the stadium. The trip was more stressful than usual, Joe said. Not that this is an excuse, he said. But, the paper said this morning, "Torre acknowledged that this particular trip took its toll on his team, saying, 'I think we all felt it today.'"
Did one out-of-the ordinary bus trip throw the whole team off? I believe it did. It just strengthens the argument that baseball is, more than anything, a mental game. It's an understatement to say that these guys are in great physical shape and that they are used to traveling. But even the slightest distraction can throw a player's mental game off. Superstitions abound in baseball and always have: players who aren't hitting well will change the way they wear their socks. Randy Wolf, Dodgers pitcher, recently changed his number, hoping it would stop his no-decision streak. And we all know about the growing of beards and the shaving of beards. Just like in Bull Durham, when Crash (Kevin Costner) says to Annie (Susan Sarandon) that "If you think that you're playing better because you're wearing women's underwear, then you are!"
All this talk of magic numbers. The race to see who will get home-field advantage. Players who play better on the road (James Loney) vs. those who are NL most valuable players at home but who play like shit on the road (Ethier). What a batter thinks when he's at the plate vs. what the pitchers thinking. These all are part of what make baseball such a fascinating experience for me. And it's a mental game for me too: the more I learn, the more I realize that I know so little.
I think Blake DeWitt is growing a beard now because he hopes it will improve his game and keep him from having to take another flight to Albuquerque. So far it seems to be working - he had two doubles yesterday.
Another distraction: salaries. This in the LA times this morning: At least seven active players this year will be up for salary arbitration in the off season. Right now Matt Kemp (major star this year and only promises to get better) earns $467,000. Chad Billingsley (our on again, off again ace) earns $475,000. James Loney: $465,000. Those three and Jonathan Broxton (our ace closer), Russell Martin (catcher), George Sherrill (reliever with the instincts of a shark) and Hong-Chih Kuo (another ace reliever) will all be eligible for taking our breath away with their salary demands. I wonder how many of them have Scott Boras for an agent.
It'll be interesting to see what happens after this season, especially if the Dodgers make the World Series.
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Lori Lynne Schindler, 49, Wellington, died Monday, April 23, 2012, at her sister's home in Attica.
She was born May 4, 1962, in Plainville to Rita A. (Chard) and Louis G. Schindler.
She was a devoted caregiver at home and work. She was employed at nursing homes and for Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice. She was especially gifted at caring for those with handicaps or disabilities. She later worked for Wellington USD 353 as a para educator.
Her caring and loving nature served her well as a mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend.
Survivors include a son, Colton LeVon Favinger, Wellington; a daughter, Samantha Jo Favinger, Wichita; her father, Hill City; her mother and stepfather, Rita and Ron Monson, Wellington; two brothers, Martin Bell and wife, Amy, Kingman, and Bo Schindler, Cawker City; three sisters, Lisa Inslee and husband, Scott, Attica, LeAnna Bell, Beloit, and Bev Hessefort and husband, Scott, Kansas City, Kans.; a granddaughter, Presley Jo Ricke, Wichita; two special nieces, Sara Favinger, Hays, and Amy Brachtenbach, Hill City; and several other nieces, nephews and extended family members.
She was preceded in death by her stepmother, Julie Schindler; her late husband, Bevan Favinger; and grandparents, Raymond and Vera Schindler and Kimber and Eldred Chard.
Services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at First Free Will Baptist Church, 1219 N. Plum, Wellington; private burial will at a later date in the Attica Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to Lori L. Schindler Memorial Scholarship in care of Day Funeral Home and Crematory, Wellington.
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Side effects of insulin
If your blood sugar levels are high before you start insulin, you might feel a little bit anxious, shaky, and hungry when you first take insulin. These side effects are temporary, and they usually go away on their own within a couple of weeks. Checking your blood sugar frequently is the best way to make sure that your sugar levels don't drop too low.
In the beginning, you might also notice:
- Blurry vision. Usually temporary. In fact, as your blood sugar levels go down, your vision may improve.
- Water retention. Initial swelling in your ankles and other joints usually disappears.
- Disturbed sensations. Numbness, weakness, or pain in your arms or legs normally disappears.
- Contact your diabetes care team if you experience any of these side effects.
Insulin Therapy and Low Blood Sugar
Insulin therapy can cause low blood sugar, so frequent blood sugar monitoring is the best way to find out how insulin is affecting your blood sugar levels. It's easier to spot patterns if you follow the injection instructions, plus stick to your meal plans and activity schedules.
It's also important for friends and family to be able to recognize the signs of low blood sugar and know how to treat it.
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The good news is that modern insulins are more similar to the insulin made by your body than the old insulins of the past. People react better to them and they're less likely to cause low blood sugar. The medical society continues to learn about the cause and treatment of diabetes every day, which makes diabetes a much more manageable condition than it once was.


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