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SNOW HILL — For the past week, Greene County's finance officer, Shawna Wooten, could not be reached for comment about her resignation, having taken vacation time.
A message left for her Monday elicited no return call.
Lisa Johnson, the county's administrative assistant, said Wooten came into the office Monday to remove her belongings and "she said she had no comment for the newspaper."
Wooten had not given written notice of her resignation as of Feb. 4. She told Interim County Manager Richard Hicks in late January she would be resigning Feb. 28. Hicks was away on vacation Friday through Monday.
Her resignation announcement followed two years of bad audits, a visit from Sharon Edmundson of the State Treasurer's Office and a budget shortfall of then $160,000. Hicks said the shortfall will likely be around $200,000 once amendments are made.
Amidst all the up and down swings of the county's budget shortfall, two residents came before the last Greene County Board of Commissioners meeting with some potential solutions.
Susan Blizzard of Hookerton and Matthew Galloway of Walstonburg each presented a list to the board, including their input on commissioners following suit with Chairman Jack Edmondson in giving up their travel and salary pay for the rest of the year.
"I don't mean that with disrespect," Galloway told the board, "but I think, to me, it would be a great gesture of gratitude if you gave up the money that you're using to buy things you want to save them their jobs and their money on the things they need."
Blizzard recommended eliminating meeting and travel pay for the county boards of the Department of Social Services, the heath department and planning. She also suggested the county negotiate for lower rent charges for two buildings it leases and eliminate the Beaver Removal Assistance Program, a signup program with little attention.
Edmondson said he thought the beaver program had been removed from the budget.
Blizzard and Galloway discussed the possibility of confidential annual employee surveys and Galloway added increasing accountability through face-to-face meetings with department heads.
"The county government's almost gotten like the national government lately. It's kind of gotten so big, it's disorganized," he said. "… We're kind of chasing a lot of different rabbits right now and we're catching none of them, so to speak."
Other short-term ideas he mentioned were charging for county services — like fingerprinting and fire inspections — enforcing ordinance violations and implementing a four-day, 40-hour workweek.
"If you give them an extra day off," he said, "a lot of these employees can go out and find them part-time jobs." The board's audience, made up of county employees and other residents, applauded.
He also recommended the county sell surplus vehicles, create a county-owned vehicle maintenance shop — possibly at the bus garage — and sell billboard space at the recreation complex.
Galloway suggested an economic development committee be formed to set up business incentive guidelines to prevent business failures like Vandiford's that left the county attempting to sell foreclosed property used as collateral.
He also suggested more effort be given to selling the county's Walstonburg Industrial Park that has been sitting idle for 10 years and without signage for some time.
Dorothy Taylor of Castoria was one of dozens of residents who attended the last commissioners' meeting. She said she started coming to the meetings to find out where the money has been going.
"If they really want to help solve the problem," she said, "they need to give up their pay, too — all the commissioners."
Natalie Hargrove, a county employee residing in Hookerton, explained to the board her difficulties in making ends meet, particularly without any raises for four years. Her job, requiring a bachelor's degree, pays less than some other county employees who don't have the same educational background, she said.
"I'm not the only one that this is how I have to live," she said after explaining her finances to the board. "This is what we're all doing. We can't afford to cut any more. And you can't afford to keep taking more from us."
Hargrove expressed her concerns about the board possibly cutting employees, and applauds followed her comment.
"I hope I won't be laid off," she said. "But if I do, I'm going to run for county commissioner."
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Draft Status: Bradford will be drafted according to the health of that surgically repaired throwing shoulder, the status of other underclassmen quarterbacks entering the draft, and what he can show in the offseason in terms of his ability to make throws on the move and does he have elite arm strength. He's almost certainly a first round pick regardless but how high or low in the round could vary greatly between now and next April.
Final Analysis: Bradford made a huge mistake by coming back this season. He was almost certainly the number one overall pick last year. Instead he came back to try and get that national title he missed last year(which is admirable) and it all went wrong after that. He was already going to struggle to get no.1 overall in 2010 even with another great season, but now, there's really no shot at it. He doesn't have a huge arm, but is the best decision maker in the draft, and easily the most accurate of the bunch. It'll really depend on his health and is the risk/reward proposition worth it?
Reminds me of: Peyton Manning, QB Indianapolis Colts-No, I don't think Bradford will end up the player Manning is. But their games are very similar. Both excellent in play action, make great reads and decisions with the football, and shows pinpoint accuracy on their throws.
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I'm working on a scene where some characters are getting introduced to each other.
When I first wrote out this script, I had Cherise, the girl who was introducing everyone, gesture to Victoria and say "And this of course is Victoria, but her friends call her Vikki."
Then when I got to the point where I was drawing it, I realized how unnatural that line sounded. She IS one of Victoria's friends, and she DOES call her Vikki.
But I don't quite feel that she should introduce her as Vikki to a stranger. I feel that I need that declaration that "her friends call her Vikki" to separate her being called by two "different" names.
Maybe I'm just over thinking it, but I can't figure out what this character would actually say when giving introductions.
I would appreciate some feedback. Especially from any females with somewhat-bubbly personalities that match my character.
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I'm neither female nor bubbly, but I had a thought.
What can we learn about the characters through the way they handle the situation?
Is the point to characterize Cherise as bubbly?--then she might not be careful to make the distinction, she's just enjoying the situation, and it comes out, say, "and this is Vikki--I mean, Victoria, but we call her Vikki" because she's not the kind of person to carefully plan out her words?
Or on the other hand, is the point that Vikki dislikes being called Vikki by new acquaintances? --then it would be good, from a story-writing perspective, for Cherise to just introduce her as Vikki, allowing this new person to make a faux pas, and call her Vikki...conflict ensues.
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Is the point to characterize Cherise as bubbly?
By all means no, that was just a quick way for me to try to describe her character.
You raise a good point about avoiding a faux pas. I don't have the space for a full conflict, but I suppose I could have Victoria chirp in on her own with "Call me Victoria; my friends call me Vikki."
Although that sounds a bit more stern than I think she should sound, biting the new acquaintance down like that. Hmm...
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"And this is Victoria*."
Although, I expect most readers will make the connection unaided. Vicky is a pretty common shortening of Victoria. If you've been calling her Vikki the whole comic, you just need to make sure there's a clear hand gesture referencing Vikki when she says "Victoria".
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If Cherise is the bubbly sort, she might just assume that everyone will be friends, including the new person she is introducing Vikki to. Thus, "This is Victoria, but we all call her Vikki."
If Vikki is unhappy with the notion of a stranger calling her my the nickname, she could then smile to the newcomer (hold out a hand to shake, whatever) and reiterate, "Victoria." The type of smile you draw on her (pleasant, forced, fixed) could be very revealing.
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Although, I expect most readers will make the connection unaided. Vicky is a pretty common shortening of Victoria.
It's not about confusing the reader over calling the character by multiple names, but I want to establish a separation between characters who call her by what name, so to speak.
Altogether this isn't a major point that is going to make or break my comic, but it is something I want to add. She's already been introduced to the readers as Victoria. We've already seen Cherise call her Vikki and another character call her Victoria. Cherise could introduce her under either name and the story will progress unhindered and I won't confuse the readers, and if anyone bothers to think about it they'll understand the incredibly simple concept that some call her Victoria and some call her Vikki.
Altogether I don't need to make a big deal about this. (I'm definitely not going to redraw any of my panels for this.)
But I do want to declare this distinction if I can make it sound natural. Hence, I have asked for suggestions.
And I do appreciate these suggestions.
The best I had come up with was "And this is of course Victoria, but we her friends call her Vikki." But honestly I don't like it; it would probably be better for her to just introduce her as Victoria. Hell the original line sounds more plausible.
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"And this of course is Victoria."
"Victoria? How formal! You normally call me Vikki."
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Person One: This is Vikki-
Vikki: "Victoria"
Person One: Whatever.
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Sounds less like a phrasing issue and more like your brain's trying to trick you into a minutia loop because it wants to avoid doing the real work of plotting beyond the current conversation. By your own admission, the only way the phrasing could hurt your story is if you went with, "This is Dicksmasher Giantboobs, but I call her Vikki."
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A: This is Victoria. Whatever you do don't call her-
B: Can I call you Vikki?
A: Oh God...you fool you've doomed us all...
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This is too entertaining to stop.
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You couldn't stop the Vikki/Victoria meme if you tried!
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location of the octahedron
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The following arrests were reported by the Kinston Dept. of Public Safety:
Reymond Dones Cobb, 35, 2107 Cecelia Ave., Kinston, Feb. 5, felony possessing/concealing weapons, misdemeanor possessing/concealing weapons. Bond: $40,500. Arresting officer: M. Kivett.
William Kentalle Sutton, 28, 621 Greenmead Drive, Kinston, Feb. 9, felony forgery of instrument, felony uttering forged instrument, misdemeanor obtain property by false pretense. Bond: $10,000. Arresting officer: M. Mooring.
Anthony Duwon Barnes, 34, 517 N. McLewean St., Kinston, Feb. 12, misdemeanor second degree trespassing. Bond: $500. Arresting officer: J. Walker.
Solomon Emanuel Earl Cox, 39, 4105 Fort Barnwell Road, Dover, Feb. 15, three counts felony drug violations. Bond: $25,000. Arresting officer: T. Domer.
Quention Earl Johnson, 23, 3436 Beamon Creek Road, Kinston, Feb. 18, misdemeanor order for arrest/failure to appear. Bond: $4,000. Arresting officer: LoPresti.
Joseph Max Weeks, 34, 3409 Scott St., Kinston, Feb. 15, misdemeanor driving while impaired. Bond: $300. Arresting officer: D. Conner.
Jerry Leo Roberts, 52, 1208 Hicks Ave., Kinston, Feb. 16, misdemeanor simple physical assault, misdemeanor vandalism, misdemeanor driving while impaired.. Bond: $300. Arresting officer: B. Wells.
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Hawkins Scores Twice in Women's Soccer 6-1 Win over Barton
October 6, 2009
MISENHEIMER, N.C. Pfeiffer University scored a half-dozen goals on Tuesday afternoon to defeat the Barton Bulldogs 6-1 in Conference Carolinas womens soccer action at N.E. Lefko Field. Ashley Hawkins (Madison, NC) scored a pair of goals as the Lady Falcons registered their fourth-straight win, unbeaten in their last six and improve to 6-3-3 overall and 3-1-2 in conference play. Barton drops to 2-8-1, 2-4-1.
Barton struck just two minutes into the contest as Dillon Sauls (Wilson, NC) blasted a 25-yard shot that found the top right corner to put the Bulldogs up 1-0. Pfeiffer fought back with a pair of unanswered goals to take a 2-1 lead into the half. Kirsten Bartsch (Leesburg, VA) took a pass from midfielder Alyssa Wombwell (Grand Blanc, MI) to even the contest at one in the 35th minute. Five minutes later, Hawkins found the back of the cage, off a rebound, for her first of the day. The initial shot by Megan Reaves (Mims, FL) was turned away by Barton keeper Angelina Lovett (Lillington, NC).
Wombwell started the second half off with her team-leading seventh goal of the season in the 65th minute, with a corner kick that found the back of the cage, to put the Lady Falcons up two. Vanessa Gallegos (Cheyenne, WY) picked up her first tally of the season in the 72nd minute on an assist from Sheena Regan (Chesapeake, VA).
The final goals for Pfeiffer came in the 85th and 90th minutes. Hawkins put home her second of the day from Sam Brown (Linthicum, MD) and Megan Reaves (Mims, FL). Regan then deposited her second goal of the year to round out scoring with 50 seconds left to play.
Pfeiffer will get back to action on Saturday in a Conference Carolinas matchup at Converse. The Lady Falcons and the Valkyries will begin the action at 2:00 p.m.


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As of this writing, we don't know the "who" or the "why" or even some part of the "how," regarding the Boston Marathon Bombing.
We do have a pretty good idea of about the damage – at least 3 dead, including an 8-year-old boy, and more than 100 injured. Of the injured, there are at least a dozen amputations.
What happened is incredibly serious. It is traumatic to watch. It causes our emotions to surge. It is something we never want to see happen again.
And, from a public policy standpoint, we should do absolutely NOTHING about it.
We shouldn't change public security measures. We shouldn't spend more money. We shouldn't enact new laws.
We are inspired to write these provocative words after reading a Washington Post interview with Bruce Schneier, a security expert and cryptographer.
Schneier makes arguments that spring from one of our favorite philosophies -- "rational risk assessment," which essentially is the process of taking a detached view of any situation to determine the ACTUAL risk of some sort of event occurring.
Often rational risk assessment is paired with the "law of unintended consequences" to illustrate the inanity of certain public policies. One that comes to mind is the "safety" policy of requiring infants to have their own seat and child restraint in airplanes. Despite a low "risk" of injury, the law was passed. The "intended consequence" was that more parents, who couldn't afford to buy a separate plane ticket, DROVE to their destination, which (you guessed it) caused more children to die since auto travel is much more dangerous.
A rational risk assessment of terrorism in the United States reveals it is still incredibly rare. A Cato Institute study in 2005 revealed that: "Even with the September 11 attacks included in the count, the number of Americans killed by international terrorism since the late 1960s (when the State Department began counting) is about the same as the number of Americans killed over the same period by lightning, accident-causing deer or severe allergic reactions to peanuts."
Yet, so far as we know, very little money has been spent on keep deer out of roadways, etc. Unfortunately, untold billions have been spent on fighting terrorism. Schneier: "Almost everything we've done post-9/11 is mere security theater. The stuff that did work was interdicting terrorist funding and rolling up terrorist networks."
Which brings us back to Boston. Mr. Schneier, who said, when asked why terrorism "hits the fear button" more than other threats said: "It's rare and spectacular. It's random … It's immediate. It's graphic."
He went on to talk about what people SHOULD be afraid of: "Car crashes … What people should worry about are the things so common that they're not longer news. That's what kills people. Terrorism is so rare, it's hardly a risk worth spending a lot of time worrying about."
But, of course, the aim of terrorism is the exact opposite of what Schneier is talking about. Terrorists want "irrational" risk assessment.
They want public policy driven by fear, not logic.
Schneier goes on: "The damage from terrorism is primarily emotional … We must refuse to be terrorized. If you are scared, they win. If you refuse to be scared, they lose …"
About 40,000 people die in car crashes each year in the United States. That's more than 100 per day. And who knows how many are injured.
But since those 40,000 deaths are spread out across the nation and aren't national news as individual events, we are anesthetized to the impacts. Few of us head off to work each day gripped by fear that a fatal car crash could happen any minute. In fact, that's probably a fear many of us haven't experienced while driving in quite some time.
Yet, rational risk assessment tells us that the thousands of folks who drive to next year's Boston Marathon will be far more likely to be injured or killed while in their vehicles as opposed to while on the marathon course.
So, our view is this: Mourn the dead and injured. Pray for them.
Let the intelligence experts work on finding terrorists.
But don't let the horrific images and absolutely real horror the victims endured cause you to advocate wide-ranging policy changes that will almost certainly be overreaching and ineffective.
We can recognize this as the senseless cowardly act that it is without giving its perpetrators even more power and glory by succumbing to fear in this tragedy's aftermath and demanding our political leaders "do something" in the vain attempt at preventing it from happening again.
Instead, let's do the one thing that will cause terrorists the most angst: Nothing.


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Groovy Monkey is a dynamic scripting tool for the Eclipse Platform that enables you to automate tasks, explore the Eclipse API and engage in rapid prototyping. In fact, I think that if you are working on automating tasks in Eclipse or doing Plugin development in general, this tool is one for you. Groovy Monkey can allow you to try out code and do rapid prototyping without the overhead of deploying a plugin or creating a seperate runtime instance.
Groovy Monkey is based on the Eclipse Jobs API, which enables you to monitor the progress in the platform seemlessly and allows you to write your scripts so that users can cancel them midway. Groovy Monkey is also based on the Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) so that you can write your Groovy Monkey scripts in a number of languages ( particularly Groovy ). In fact you can write in Groovy, Beanshell, Ruby or Python. The project update site is located at the Groovy-Monkey SourceForge site ( update sites: Eclipse v3.2 or Eclipse v3.1.2 ). Direct download of Groovy Monkey directly goto http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=168501
Eclipse Version compatibility
Eclipse 3.1 : working update site
Eclipse 3.2 : working update site
Java Version compatibility
Addition one: metadata keywords
LANG metadata keyword
First, there is a new metadata keyword called LANG, which as is implied, determines what scripting language you wish to use. Here is an example of an Groovy Monkey base example ported to Groovy:
Notice the LANG tag, that is all there is to that. There is also a New Groovy Monkey Script wizard available that has the
legal values in pulldown menus.
Job metadata keyword
The Job metadata tag allows you to specify what kind of Eclipse Job that your Groovy Monkey script will be run in. By default it is set to Job, but UIJob and WorkspaceJob are also available. In Eclipse it is best to run almost all of your code from outside the UI Thread so UIJob is not recommended. To enable you to access UI elements from within your script there is a Runner DOM that enables your script to pass a Runnable object that can be called from the asyncExec() or syncExec() methods. For Groovy the JFace DOM allows you to pass a Closure directly to be invoked from either asyncExec() or syncExec().
Exec-Mode metadata keyword
The Exec-Mode metadata keyword allows you to specify whether the script should be run in the background (default ) or foreground. The foreground mode has Eclipse directly pop up a modal dialog box that shows the user the progress of the script, the background node does not.
Include metadata keyword
The Include metadata keyword allows you to specify a resource in your workspace and to directly add it to the classloader of your Groovy Monkey script. Examples would obviously include jar files or directories.
Include-Bundle metadata keyword
The Include-Bundle metadata keyword allows you to have an installed bundle be directly added to the classloader of your Groovy Monkey script.
Addition two: Outline view
Secondly, the outline view is populated showing the binding variable names and types with their publicly available methods and fields. This can be useful since the DOMs are loaded on your eclipse ide as plugins and not in your workspace view. Even if you were to load in the DOMs into your workspace, there is still a great deal of switching that must be done.
You can double click on a type in the outline view and have it open the source directly in your editor, if you have included external plugins in your Java search path.
There is also an "Installed DOMs" view that shows the installed DOM plugins currently in your Eclipse workbench. The editor also includes a right click command to display a dialog that lists the and will install available DOMs to your script.
Addition three: Groovy SWT and Launch Manager DOMs
Thirdly, there are new DOMs that are located on the update site that include direct access to a console for output, enable you to script your launch configurations together and a wrapper for the Groovy SWT project as a DOM.
Here is an example of a script, copied from the examples given in Groovy-SWT, ported into Groovy Monkey. The Groovy-SWT DOM is now included by default when you have the net.sf.groovyMonkey.groovy fragment installed. The net.sf.groovyMonkey.groovy fragment contains Groovy Monkey's support for the Groovy language.
Here is an example of a script that uses the Launch Configuration Manager DOM along with the JFace/SWT DOM and the Console output DOM. It prints out the list of all your available launch configurations and allows you to select which ones you wish to string together.
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|US 103.5 Cares for Kids Radiothon Raises $179,961 for All Children's Hospital
Dec. 9, 2011 (St. Petersburg, FL) Tampa Bay's best country radio station once again has stepped up for the region's premier children's hospital.
The fourth annual US 103.5 Cares for Kids Radiothon raised $179,961 for All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL, a 27% increase over last year's total.
The two-day on-air event on Thursday, Dec. 9 & Fri. Dec. 10 featured families and patients from all across the region and the state - places like Plant City, Dunedin, Melbourne, Trinity, Tampa and St. Petersburg. They shared their stories of expert and compassionate care they received at All Children's Hospital.
The success of the 2011 Radiothon began with a commitment from its Title Sponsor, Foresters - a life insurance provider committed to the wellbeing of families. In addition to presenting the hospital with a $10,000 check on-air, Foresters volunteers manned phones to take callers' pledges.
"This tremendous outpouring of community support truly reflects the spirit of the holiday season - it is greatly appreciated and much needed," says Gary Carnes, President and CEO of All Children's Health System. "In these continued tough economic times, it's amazing to think that US 103.5's Radiothon total could climb 27% over last year's record. And it's heartening to see so many individuals and companies come together to help ensure that All Children's will be able to continuing serving children as it faces the pressures of a still-weakened economy and tough state funding challenges that lie ahead."
"Clear Channel Tampa is very committed to providing support in as many ways as we can to our local communities," says Sam Nein, Market President for Clear Channel Radio/Tampa Bay FL. "While there are many worthwhile charities and causes in the Bay Area, helping to provide support to All Children's Hospital is one of the annual endeavors that everyone associated with US 103.5/WFUS looks forward to the most! Having the capability to provide a platform for our listeners to offer tangible and heartfelt support for the Children and the Families that will count on All Children's is truly an honor and a delight for everyone involved from our station. We look forward to being here for many years to come!"
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All Children's Hospital is a proud member of Johns Hopkins Medicine. All Children's is the only US hospital outside of the Baltimore/Washington D.C. metroplex to achieve that distinction. It is also the only hospital on Florida's West Coast totally devoted to children's care - a leader in pediatric treatment, education, research and advocacy. As a regional referral center for children with some of the most challenging medical problems, All Children's draws patients from throughout Florida, all 50 states and 36 foreign countries. The mission of this private, not-for-profit hospital is rooted in its beginnings in 1926 as Florida's first Crippled Children's Hospital for polio victims. All Children's understands that it's not enough to treat disease -- that true progress comes from teaching and research to cure disease. All Children's shares its pediatric expertise through research & education affiliations with 70 different institutions including Johns Hopkins Medicine, the University of South Florida (USF Health) as well as Moffitt Cancer Center, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center.


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A common chronic, debilitating condition in which excess fluid called lymph collects in tissues and causes swelling (edema) in them.
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Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, is a U.S. board-certified Anatomic Pathologist with subspecialty training in the fields of Experimental and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Stöppler's educational background includes a BA with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia and an MD from the University of North Carolina. She completed residency training in Anatomic Pathology at Georgetown University followed by subspecialty fellowship training in molecular diagnostics and experimental pathology.
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William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR
Dr. Shiel received a Bachelor of Science degree with honors from the University of Notre Dame. There he was involved in research in radiation biology and received the Huisking Scholarship. After graduating from St. Louis University School of Medicine, he completed his Internal Medicine residency and Rheumatology fellowship at the University of California, Irvine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.
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Lymphedema is swelling in one or more extremities that results from impaired flow of the lymphatic system.
The lymphatic system is a network of specialized vessels (lymph vessels) throughout the body whose purpose is to collect excess lymph fluid with proteins, lipids, and waste products from the tissues. This fluid is then carried to the lymph nodes, which filter waste products and contain infection-fighting cells called lymphocytes. The excess fluid in the lymph vessels is eventually returned to the bloodstream. When the lymph vessels are blocked or unable to carry lymph fluid away from the tissues, localized swelling (lymphedema) is the result.
Lymphedema most often affects a single arm or leg, but in uncommon situations both limbs are affected.
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I'm not at my best in the morning. Actually, I'm not at my best until at least 2pm. (Although actually, some might argue it's even a little later.) To me, breakfast is meant to be enjoyed in monk-like solitude. It's a time where questions are prohibited and talking should be kept to an absolute minimum.
Travel, of course, is fraught with all sorts of ways designed to thwart my precious few moments of quietude in the morning. There's waking up in hotel rooms and stumbling toward the breakfast room, where unfamiliar people await, sometimes wanting to actually engage with you. What's up with that?


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Freshman Brae Buster had an outstanding week for the women's soccer team and led the way in a 2-1 double overtime win at Limestone on Sept. 25. With Pfeiffer down 1-0, Buster tied the match in the 57th minute with a perfect touch shot through the right side. The match advanced to double overtime and looked to be ending in a draw when Buster made a great one-on-one move and beat the goalie for the game-winner with only 33 seconds left on the clock In only her seventh career game, Buster's two goals moved her into second place in the conference. Buster leads the team with five goals scored and 11 points on the year.


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(1) Rudolf Herz's Zugzwang was installed at the Ruhr Kunstverein in 1995. Kuspit's remarks were made in a discussion that followed a session on Art and the Holocaust that was part of the Annual Conference of the College Art Association held in February 2000 at the Hilton Hotel in New York; for a transcription of his comments, see Elliot Barowitz, Tout Fait. I am grateful to Mr. Barowitz for having drawn these comments to my attention.
(2) Donald Kuspit, "The End of Creative Imagination," New Art Examiner, vol. 20, no. 4 [May 1993], pp. 16-19, it is from this article that the quotations contained in this paragraph were taken).
(3) "Letters," New Art Examiner, vol. 21, no. 1 (September 1993), p. 3. Kuspit's letter came in response to a criticism of his article on Duchamp (see previous note).
(4) "A Complete Reversal of Art Opinions by Marcel Duchamp, Iconoclast," Arts and Decoration, vol. 5 (September 1915), p. 442.
(5) Francis M. Naumann, Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, (Ghent: Ludion Press; distributed by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1999), p. 42. When Duchamp was asked why he stopped painting, he explained that it was only because he was no longer interested in "rubbing elbows with artists," but because of a specific incident: the withdrawal of his Nude, an event, he said, that "gave me a turn." He found the actions of his cubist colleagues "naively foolish..." and he was basically reacting "against such behavior coming from artists whom I had believed to be free" (Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, trans. by Ron Padgett [New York: Viking Press, 1967], p. 17).
(6) "The Art of Assemblage," symposium moderated by William C. Seitz, Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1961; see Joseph Ruzicka, ed., "Transcript of the Symposium," in John Elderfield, ed., Essays on Assemblage, Studies in Modern Art, vol. 2 (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1992), p. 150.
(7) Beatrice Wood, "Marcel M. Naumann and Rudolf E. Kuenzli, eds., Marcel Duchamp: Artist of the Century (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1989), p. 13. Years later, however, Duchamp did establish a theory about an artist was only a "mediumistic being," that the work of art was only "completed" by a spectator (see "The Creative Act," Artnews, vol. 56, no. 4 [June 1957], pp. 28-29).
(8) Steinberg has been quoted as having said something similar in his classes and lectures for years, but only recently has he published the comment under his own name, see Leo Steinberg, Encounters with Rauschenberg (A Lavishly Illustrated Lecture), (Houston: The Menil Collection/Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000), p. 15.
(9) Donald Kuspit, "Report from New York: New York Dada in Retrospect," Art New England (April/May 1997), p. 11.
(10) Donald Kuspit, The Rebirth of Painting in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 224-25, n6.


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In a SA Rugby magazine exclusive, former Bok fullback Andre Joubert pays tribute to Percy Montgomery.
Playing for your country can be a lonely business at times. It's not just about adoration and the bright lights. Sometimes, when it is going against you, and the crowds who normally support you are suddenly hypersensitive to your every false move, it feels like the world is against you.
It was for this reason that a couple of years ago, when Percy was going through one of those troughs that all top sportsmen do, I wrote him a letter of support. It was after a game at Newlands against Australia. He actually didn't play badly at all, but it seemed that the crowd thought he was going through a nightmare, and the media were quite critical the next day.
I told him in the note to back himself, to believe in himself, not to listen to the well-meaning advice of others. I reminded him that only he knew what he was tasked to do for the team, what his job was, and whether he was succeeding or failing. Supporters can be fickle, but you have to remain true to yourself, and true to the team goal.
I think that generally Percy has been true to that. There have been a few hesitant moments, of course there have. He wouldn't be human if there hadn't been, but then that happens to everyone. For the most part though he has done everything the team could possibly expect of him, and he has been the consummate professional.
Our careers did not overlap that much. There were only two times that we shared a dressing room, one of which was in the final Test that I played at Loftus in 1997. It was that famous match against Australia, where we thumped them 61-22 in the final game of the Tri-Nations, running all over them in the second half.
I can't remember too much about Percy. I had just come back from a spell out of the team, and I think we were all too concerned about playing for our own places to really think too much about what other players were doing. Percy was just one of several young guys in the dressing room.
He had played against the British & Irish Lions, and in that year's Tri-Nations matches at outside centre. From what I recall, he kept very much to himself. He was a quiet member of the team, but then that tends to be the case when you are young. I wasn't present later on, when he became a senior statesman, but I do know from watching him play on the field that he was a guy who appeared to exude a calmness which was transmitted to those around him.
One of my abiding memories of that Loftus Test, which also turned out to be Carel du Plessis's last as coach, was setting up Percy for one of his first tries at international level. It came when a ball was kicked into touch near the halfway line. I summed up the situation, saw that the Wallabies didn't have a lot of guys back, and I threw out a long throw to Percy who used his pace to score the try.
His unbelievable pace is what I remember about Percy's play in those days. Those who had played against him spoke about how quick he was. He had started out for Western Province at flyhalf, but then moved to centre, which was where he played when we were team-mates.
As it turned out, it was me who gave him his first opportunity to move to fullback when I injured my knee and was unavailable for Nick Mallett's first tour as coach to Italy, France and Britain. Justin Swart may have played in the first Test against Italy in Bologna, but then he was injured, and Percy took his chance of filling the last line of defence with both hands.
It was a great tour for the Boks, and Percy, both with his general play and with his goal kicking, was one of the shining lights. That set up his career, and from there it was hard for me to grab back the No 15 jersey. Nick had a winning team, they had momentum, and there was no need to change the winning combination.
If there is one thing that has disappointed me about Percy it is that I am not sure he has ever really done full justice to his potential as an attacking fullback. With his pace, he could have been devastating joining the line. He had the potential to rip defences to shreds in the same way that Christian Cullen used to when he was playing for the All Blacks.
The fullback orientation has changed quite a bit in the modern game. It has become much more of a defensive position than it used to be. It started changing towards the end of my career, and I got around it by setting myself up as a second flyhalf in the team.
Percy, with his early experience of playing flyhalf, was ideally suited to do that, to have an impact on the game by helping set up plays, but it is not something that he often did. Had he done so, I think he could have been even more effective. Apart from his pace and his distribution skills, he also has an excellent tactical brain and tactical kicking boot.
I don't know why, but under Jake White the Springboks tended to neglect the fullback as an attacking option. I think Percy could have done more earlier in his career to turn matches in his team's favour by getting involved from first phase. The Boks tended to shovel the ball back to the flyhalf, but if they could split the line more often – perhaps use Percy as a decoy on the blindside – I think it could have made the Boks so much more potent on attack.
But there again, so much depends on what game the coach wants you to play, and maybe Percy was just fitting into the game plan that the situation demanded. Generally you could not fault his catching and his field kicking, while his goal kicking is one of his biggest attributes.
I found it quite strange that he lost his place in the Bok team in 2001 through a perception that his goal kicking was inconsistent. I have always seen it as one of his biggest attributes and I don't think enough of a fuss was made of this aspect of the successful Springbok World Cup campaign last year.
Percy was unbelievable during the tournament in France, and I think the Boks drew a huge amount of confidence from the calm way he went about striking the ball over from all angles and distances. Having a guy in the team who can kick like that makes a huge difference to the all-round confidence of the players.
They know that if the situation is set up, the kicker will make sure. It is quite different when your place kicker is less reliable and you aren't quite sure if he is going to be able to capitalise properly on the pressure you exert on the opposition.
This is particularly important in a World Cup, and in a World Cup final even more so. It was the make-or-break game that comes around only once in a while, and yet if Percy felt any nerves, he did not show it. Every time the opportunity was created for him, he made sure, and by keeping the scoreboard ticking over, the Boks ensured that England were always playing catch-up, and thus always the team under pressure.
I watched the game on television and was amazed to learn from people who were there that Percy was actually carrying an injury from an early stage of that game. He did not look injured to me, but it is a tribute to his commitment and his bravery that he was able to play through an injury and produce such a match-winning performance.
Then again, it is probably a product of having played overseas for so many years. Jannie de Beer is a player who I played against often and never really rated that highly, but then he went overseas for a few years, and after his return, he was just a completely different player. His improvement was astounding.
Percy will probably be the first to admit that he was one of those guys who had several different careers. There was the time before he went overseas, when maybe he was still impressionable and vulnerable in the sense that he would still produce the odd scatty moment. But when he came back from Wales in 2004 to play for the Boks, you could tell that here was a professional, finished product.
I think we have seen something similar just recently from Butch James, who also underwent a major growth process as an international rugby player when he worked under Eddie Jones. There is a lot to be said for exposure to the professional approach of the northern hemisphere clubs. Percy's approach is very professional and he appears to have his head in the right place.
He also quite clearly looks after his body very well too. He went something like 80 Tests without being injured, and you can't do that without being supremely fit. To me that is another one of his big strengths as a player – he has done the hard work to ensure that he is physically up to the challenges that get thrown his way.
But even if you are physically fit, the nature of South African rugby is such that longevity is only really reserved for special players. When I say this I am referring to the chopping and changing that South African rugby tends to do, not just between players used in the team, but coaches as well.
Every new coach has a new idea and a different view on the merits of the individuals who are available to him. For instance, my last Test was also Carel's last, but he had only been coach for eight matches. In that time, he had used a lot of different players, and then he made way for Nick.
Percy survived this transition between coaches, and then several other similar situations later on. It was a masterstroke on Jake White's part to bring him back when he did, and the experience he built up through his career was crucial to the success of the Boks at the 2007 World Cup.
He is a bit like a good wine in that I don't think I ever saw Percy play as well as he did at that World Cup. It was not just his goal kicking that was invaluable, but the way he kept things together at the back. As I mentioned earlier, he has a calmness about him that rubs off on the players around him, and it was clear that the youngsters in the team responded to him.
Given the chopping and changing that goes on in South African rugby, it is an incredible achievement on Percy's part to be on the threshold of playing 100 Tests for the Springboks. It is a testament to the way he cares for his body and the overall professionalism of his approach – he has bounced back from setbacks, and he hasn't allowed them to beat him.
I think that is an important lesson for all young players coming through who dream of being like Percy and following in his footsteps. As I wrote to him in that letter, it is important to believe in yourself and what you are doing. He came through that ordeal by playing good rugby and doing his talking on the field. That has always been his way, and I salute him for it.
– This article first appeared in the August issue of SA Rugby magazine.


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February 3, 2014
MISENHEIMER, N.C. - When former Falcon pitcher Jeff Barkley graduated from Pfeiffer University in May of 2013, he wasn't exactly sure what he wanted to do with his life. One thing he was sure of though was that he wasn't ready to give up playing America's game. Going undrafted following graduation, Jeff decided in June of 2013 that he would settle for nothing less than carrying on the family legacy. During the summer of 2013 Jeff was able to wrangle a few tryouts. He traveled to Myrtle Beach and threw for the Atlanta Braves, and then west to Kentucky to toss a few for the Major League Baseball Bureau. With Jeff's baseball future uncertain, he decided to return to what he knew best, fundamentals.
Over the next several months, Jeff would keep up a rigorous workout and throwing program with the goal of maintaining his current arm and body strength. Never losing sight of his ultimate goal, to get noticed by a pro team or scout and make it to the Majors. While practicing and maintaining a high level of fitness, Jeff leaned on his mentor and old coach, Dusty Blake for advice and encouragement. "Dusty was one of my biggest supporters and mentors," Barkley said. "We kept in touch after my senior year, and we both knew what I had to do if I wanted to play pro ball. Work hard, and never give up." And work hard was exactly what Jeff would do. Jeff continued his conditioning and throwing program throughout the summer, and eventually it paid off.
The second-to-last week in January Jeff got a call from the St. Louis Cardinals organization. The call was a formal invitation to attend Cardinals' Spring Training in Jupiter, FL on April 3rd. That call, the one Jeff had been waiting for, the one he knew deep down was coming the whole time, now makes Jeff the third generation of professional baseball players in his family. Jeff's dad, Jeff Barkley Sr., also a pitcher, was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 13th round of the 1982 Major League Baseball Draft. He played in his first Major League game in 1984 and pitched four innings over the course of three games that season. In 1985 he saw action in 21 games, pitched 41 innings, and struck out 30 batters. His two-year Major League pitching career ended on July 26, 1985, before Jeff Jr. had even been born. Jeff's father wasn't the only Major League ball player in the family though. Jeff's grandfather, Bill Barkley played professional baseball with the Washington Senators organization.
It wasn't a complete surprise when the Cardinals came calling. Jeff had initially thrown for two scouts from the Cardinals' organization, one of which kept track of him during his senior season at Pfeiffer and one who had started scouting Jeff as early as his junior year. It all started to become real about three weeks ago when Jeff had an opportunity to throw for the Cardinals' AA Manager. The rest as they say is history. Jeff plans to continue working hard so he can report to Spring Training in the best shape possible. He intends to spend part of his time at Pfeiffer training with his old team, conditioning his throwing arm and preparing for April.
Ever humble, Jeff knows that this journey is not one he makes alone. "I thank my family and all my coaches in the past and present at Pfeiffer along with my teammates that have supported and helped me get to where I am today. But mostly I thank God for this opportunity."


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If the base/radix isn't between Character.MIN_RADIX and Character.MAX_RADIX, base 10 is used instead:
The common bases have similar methods which always return an unsigned integer:
We can convert a string representation to an integer, using a specified base/radix:
A NumberFormatException may be thrown:
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We can convert a string to a fixed-size integer, similar to parseInt() etc, but with the radix instead indicated inside the string:
We can return an integer representing the sign:
We can compare fixed-size integers with each other:
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We can perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, exponents, modulos, and negations on Integers and Longs, using both an operator syntax and a method syntax:
Not all calculations have a special operator symbol:
We can increment and decrement variables, using operators, either before and after evaluation:
Rules of parentheses and precedence apply to these operators. The operators have the same precedence irrespective of what type of values they operate on.
Integers often convert their types during math operations. For + - *, a Long with an Integer converts the Integer to a Long:
Because the fixed-sized integers have fixed width, they might overflow their boundaries during math operations, so we need to be aware of the range of values we'll use a fixed-size integer for:
We can compare fixed-size integers using < <= > >= operators, of lower precedence than addition/etc:
The operators == != <=> are of lower precedence than the other comparison operators:
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We can examine and manipulate the individual bits on the fixed-sized integers.
To return an int or long with a single 1-bit in the position of the highest-order 1-bit in the argument:
To return the number of zero bits preceding the highest-order 1-bit:
We can perform a bitwise complement of the bits in a fixed-size integer using the ~ operator:
We can shift the bits of a fixed-size integer to the left or right. This is of lower precedence than addition/etc, but higher than the comparison operators.
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We can reverse the bits or bytes of the binary representation of an int or long:
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When using an integer with boolean operators !, &&, and ||, 0 evaluates to false, while every other integer evaluates to true:
The boolean operators && and || only have their operands evaluated until the final result is known. This affects operands with side effects, such as increment or decrement operators:
We can use the conditional operator ?:, of lower precedence than the boolean operators, to choose between two values:
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Of equal precedence as the plain assignment operator = are the quick assignment *= += -= %= **= <<= >>= >>>= &= ^= |= operators:
The BigInteger has arbitrary precision, growing as large as necessary to accommodate the results of an operation.
We can explicitly convert fixed-sized integers to a BigInteger, and vice versa:
A method and some fields that give a little more efficiency:
We can construct a BigInteger using an array of bytes:
We can convert a BigInteger back to an array of bytes:
We can pass in a string in a certain base/radix:
We can convert the BigInteger back to a string:
We can construct a randomly-generated BigInteger:
Arithmetic with BigIntegers
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For + - *, a BigInteger causes any fixed-width integers in the calculation to be converted to a BigInteger:
We can introduce a BigInteger into an expression with Integers or Longs if overflow may occur. But make sure the BigInteger is introduced before an intermediate value that may overflow, for example, the first-used value in a calculation:
We can also increment and decrement BigIntegers:
We can find out the quotient and remainder:
Other methods for arithmetic:
We can construct a randomly generated positive BigInteger with a specified bit length (at least 2 bits), that is probably prime to a specific certainty. The probability the BigInteger is prime is >(1 - (1/2)**certainty). If the certainty <=0, true always returned. The execution time is proportional to the value of this parameter. We must pass in a new Random object:
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All operations behave as if BigIntegers were represented in two's-complement notation.
Bit operations operate on a single bit of the two's-complement representation of their operand/s. The infinite word size ensures that there are infinitely many virtual sign bits preceding each BigInteger. None of the single-bit operations can produce a BigInteger with a different sign from the BigInteger being operated on, as they affect only a single bit.
Unlike with fixed-width integers, BigIntegers don't have a method to show the hex, octal, or binary representation of a negative number. We can use this code instead to look at the first 16 lowest-order virtual bits:
More bit-manip methods:
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We can perform bit-shifting on BigIntegers. The shortcut operators >> and << can't be used, only the method names can be (they're also spelt differently to the fixed-size integer versions of the names, eg, "shiftLeft" instead of "leftShift"). There's no shift-right-unsigned method because this doesn't make sense for BigIntegers with virtual infinite-length sign bits.
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There are currently 42 Tree Cities in Maryland, with participating jurisdictions spending an average of $3.90 per capita.
Purpose: This awards program, offered by the National Arbor Day Foundation, is designed to recognize communities that effectively manage their public tree resources, and to encourage the implementation of community tree management based on four TREE CITY USA standards.
Scope: This national award is offered to political subdivisions annually.
Description: For the basic award and recertification, applicants must have a Tree Board or Department, have a community tree ordinance, have an annual Community Forestry program budget of at least $2 per capita, and hold an Arbor Day event with formal proclamation. Growth awards are given to applicants earning at least 10 points per the programs eligible activities in categories. Eligible activities include educational and public relations, partnerships, planning and management, and tree planting and maintenance. Annual recertification is required to obtain a growth award. Applications must be submitted to Maryland DNR Forest Service by December 31 for review. Upon approval, they are forwarded to the National Arbor Day Foundation for final processing and awards distribution.
The Tree Line USA program is sponsored by The National Arbor Day Foundation in cooperation with the National Association of State Foresters and recognizes public and private utilities across the nation that demonstrate practices that protect and enhance America's urban forests.
Relations Among Tree Canopy Quantity, Community Demographics, and Tree City USA Program Participation in Maryland, U.S.
Annual Accomplishments/Year-to-Date Performance: In Maryland, 39 recertifications 3 new applications and 8 Growth Awards were given for 2002. This same year 2,883 Tree City USAs were recognized nationally.
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Members of the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine-Bradenton Emergency Room Club (ERC) gave high school students a sobering reminder about the dangers of drinking and driving.
On May 8, two wrecked vehicles were hauled onto the football field at Braden River High School. LECOM ERC students played the role of motorists who had just been severely injured in an alcohol-related accident.
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FT. LAUDERDALE, FL – The Pfeiffer University women's volleyball team (0-2) dropped a pair of matches to kick off its 2013 season. Pfeiffer competed in the Nova Southeastern Tournament, hosted by Nova Southeastern University.
In the opening match, the Lady Falcons fell to Lynn University by scores of 11-25, 19-25, and 16-25. Pfeiffer's offense was led by Brianna Jones who posted seven kills, while Emily Wall dished out a team-high 11 assists. Kelly Lancellot and Milana Mervosh added seven and six kills respectively. The Lady Falcons couldn't overcome 20 hitting errors in the match. Lynn hit .297 as a team and had 12 blocks to go along with 11 service aces.
In the afternoon's second contest, Pfeiffer took on Sioux Falls and dropped the first two matches 18-25 and 14-25. The Lady Falcons refused to go down without a fight, grabbing a third set victory 25-21. However, Sioux Falls was too strong in the fourth set, winning 25-13. Shelby Younger paced Pfeiffer with eight kills, while Lancellot and Mervosh each added seven kills. Setter Meghan Davis dished out 17 assists and Merovsh had a team-high 11 digs. Nicole Nitu was solid, serving four aces in the match.
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An interrupted aortic arch is a rare heart defect. The aortic arch is part of the major blood vessel that helps move blood from the heart to the rest of the body. With this defect, the aortic arch is interrupted or incomplete. Blood cannot flow through it normally. This makes blood flow to the body less efficient. Children with this defect may also have a hole in the wall between the right and left chambers in the heart.
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