text: Bookmarks Pectus excavatum - dischargePrint-Friendly NavigatorI Would Like to Learn About:Expand All Collapse AllWhen Your Child Was in the HospitalYour child had surgery to correct pectus excavatum. This is a deformity of the front of the chest wall that causes a sunken breastbone (sternum) and ribs.There is now a metal bar or strut that goes across the front of your child's chest cavity. It will stay in place for about 2 to 3 years.Home CareYour child should walk often during the day to build up strength. You may need to help your child get in and out of bed during the first 1 to 2 weeks after surgery.During the first month at home, your child should:Always bend over at the hips. Sit up straight to help keep the bar in place. Do not let your child slouch. Do no let your child roll onto either side.Your child should not use a backpack or carry more than about 5 pounds for at least the first 2 months.Your child should avoid vigorous activity and contact sports for 6 weeks to 3 months. After that, activity is good because it improves growth of the chest and strengthens the chest muscles. Ask your child's doctor when your child can be more active again.Your child can return to school after 2 to 3 weeks.It may be more comfortable for your child to sleep partly sitting up in a recliner for the first 2 to 4 weeks after surgery.It is okay for your child to have baths. Most dressings (bandages) will be removed by the time your child leaves the hospital. There may still be strips of tape on the incisions. Leave these in place. They will fall off on their own. You may see a small amount of drainage on the strips. This is normal.Your child should have a follow-up appointment with the surgeon about 2 weeks after surgery. Other doctor visits will be needed while the metal bar or strut is still in place. Your child will have another surgery to remove the bar or strut. This surgery is usually done on an outpatient basis.Your child should wear a medical alert bracelet or necklace while the metal bar or strut is in place. The surgeon can give you more information about this.When to Call the DoctorCall the doctor or nurse if your child has:A fever over 101.0°F (38.3°C) Increased swelling, pain, drainage, or bleeding from the wounds Severe chest pain Shortness of breath Nausea or vomiting Change in the way the chest looks since the surgeryRelated InformationPectus excavatum r...Pectus excavatum...Open ReferencesReferencesBoas SR. Skeletal diseases influencing pulmonary function. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW III, et al., eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 411. Putnam JB Jr. Lung, chest wall, and pleura. In: Townsend CM Jr., Beauchamp RD, Evers BM, Mattox KL. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery. 19th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier Saunders; 2012:chap 58.BACK TO TOP Review Date: 2/7/2013 Reviewed By: Matthew M. Cooper, MD, FACS, Medical Director, Cardiovascular Surgery, HealthEast Care System, St. Paul, MN. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network.Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, Bethanne Black, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang. The information provided herein should not be used during any medical emergency or for the diagnosis or treatment of any medical condition. A licensed medical professional should be consulted for diagnosis and treatment of any and all medical conditions. Call 911 for all medical emergencies. Links to other sites are provided for information only -- they do not constitute endorsements of those other sites. © 1997- A.D.A.M. content is best viewed in IE9 or above, Firefox and Google Chrome browser.Content is best viewed in IE9 or above, Firefox and Google Chrome browser.


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San Diego power bills may spike
Customers could pay $723M over a four-year period if regulators OK plan
Profit for shareholders
Every three or four years, California's investor-owned, state-regulated gas and electric monopolies make their case for how much money they need to operate safely and reliably, with the opportunity to earn a fair profit for shareholders.
The natural gas portion of the rate case provides for the operation and maintenance of SDG&E's 14,640 miles of gas-main lines and service lines. On the electrical side, SDG&E caters to 1.4 million metered customers — over a geographic area with 3.5 million residents.
The largest portion of customer bills — the cost of actual gas and electricity — is not addressed in the current rate case. Those commodity costs are passed on directly to customers, based on state regulations devised in the early 1980s to eliminate financial incentives for greater energy use.
Electrical transmission rates, meanwhile, are determined separately by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
While safety and reliability are major factors in the rate increase, state-mandated pipeline safety enhancements in response to the 2010 gas-line explosion at San Bruno will be factored in later under separate proceedings.
Steeper rate sought
The $140.2 million revenue increase for 2012 would serve as a benchmark for annual revenue adjustments in 2013-15.
The current proposed decision would peg the adjustment to the Urban Consumer Price Index, a measure of inflation published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics currently hovering around 2 percent.
SDG&E has been lobbying the commission to consider a steeper cost-escalation rate tailored to the utility industry, coupled with a California-specific health care cost index.
"We're saying we've got to look at a utility like a utility," SDG&E's Donovan said. "If you don't really compare apples to apples, it's not going to really be a fair adjustment."
The state Division of Ratepayer Advocates estimates the SDG&E approach would add an additional $103 million to rates over three years. SDG&E estimates the difference at $41 million.
Finkelstein, of The Utility Action Network, described the CPI adjustment as a good deal under current economic circumstances.
"The notion that the utility gets a 2 percent increase automatically," he said, "I think that's a deal that many households in the area would jump at."


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HOUSTON - OCTOBER 26: Running back Cedric Benson #32 of the Cincinnati Bengals carries the ball against the Houston Texans on October 26, 2008 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas. The Texans won 35-6. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)
GREEN BAY, Wis. Green Bay Packers running back Cedric Benson will remain on injured reserve for the rest of this season after undergoing surgery Wednesday. Benson initially was placed on Green Bay's injured reserve Oct. 10 after a Lisfranc foot injury, but the team designated him for return under the NFL's new rule. Under this rule, Benson had to sit out six weeks of practice, a period of time which ended this week. With Benson not healing as expected, however, he had a follow-up appointment this week that determined surgery was necessary. The Packers signed Benson on Aug. 12, and the 29-year-old veteran immediately took over the starting running back role. In five regular-season starts, Benson accumulated 248 rushing yards on 71 attempts (3.5 yards per carry on average). Benson will be a free agent after the season. Follow Paul Imig on Twitter
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Cracking Windows passwords in seconds
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If your passwords consist of letters and numbers, beware.
Swiss researchers released a paper on Tuesday outlining a way to speed the cracking of alphanumeric Windows passwords, reducing the time to break such codes to an average of 13.6 seconds, from 1 minute 41 seconds.
The method involves using large lookup tables to match encoded passwords to the original text entered by a person, thus speeding the calculations required to break the codes. Called a time-memory trade-off, the situation means that an attacker with an abundance of computer memory can reduce the time it takes to break a secret code.
The results highlight a fact about which many security researchers have worried: Microsoft's manner for encoding passwords has certain weaknesses that make such techniques particularly effective, Philippe Oechslin, a senior research assistant and lecturer at the Cryptography and Security Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), wrote in an e-mail to CNET News.com.
"Windows passwords are not very good," he wrote. "The problem with Windows passwords is that they do not include any random information."
Oechslin outlined a way to take advantage of that lack of randomness on Tuesday when he published a paper and a Web demonstration of the technique. The research builds on previous work showing that encryption algorithms can be sped up with the help of large lookup tables. Increasing the size of the lookup tables reduces the amount of time, on average, that it takes to search for a password.
The researcher used a 1.4GB lookup table and a single computer with an Advanced Micro Devices 2500+ processor and 1.5GB of RAM to offer people a way to test the process online.
Oechslin said he hadn't notified Microsoft of the issue before publishing his paper. He said his research has been more about creating efficient time-memory trade-offs, not about breaking Microsoft passwords.
"This is not a new vulnerability," he said. "It is only the first time that it has been worked in so much detail. Microsoft passwords are just a nice example to demonstrate the theoretical results."
Two methods of encryption
Microsoft has used two encoding schemes, also known as hashing functions, to encrypt passwords. The first, known as LANManager or LANMan, was used by Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Me and early NT systems to secure passwords that were used to connect to early Windows networks.
The LANMan scheme has several weaknesses, including converting all characters to uppercase, splitting passwords into 7-byte chunks, and
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Passwords: The weakest link?
Most are feeble attempts at deception
and are no match for today's computers.
The result: The same password encoded on two Windows machines will always be the same. That means that a password cracker can create a large lookup table and break passwords on any Windows computer. Unix, Linux and the Mac OS X, however, add a 12-bit salt to the calculation, making any brute force attempt to break the encryption take 4,096 times longer or require 4,096 times more memory.
While an attacker would need administrator rights to a system to grab the file that contains the password hashes, the file is still valuable, said David Dittrich, a senior security researcher at University of Washington.
"The object is to use rights you have gained on one resource to break into other systems," he said. "If you have broken into a server and you have a hash, you can escalate your privilege and slowly move your way through the network. If you can get your hands on the hash, then game over."
Users can protect themselves against the attack by adding nonalphanumeric characters to a password. The inclusion of symbols other than alphanumeric characters adds complexity to the process of breaking passwords--and that means the code cracker needs more time or more memory or both.
Oechslin, for example, has created a new version of his program using 20GB of lookup tables that can break passwords made of numbers, letters and 16 other characters in an average of 30 seconds for large batches of passwords.
"To make things more complex, we could have generated a set of data half as big (10GB), which would (have broken) the same passwords faster, but we would have spent multiple times the amount of work calculating this data," he wrote. "So there is another trade-off, namely between precalculation time and memory or cracking time."
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Dior – Vernis in Poison Blue (comparison to Chanel's Blue Satin)
Move over Blue Satin, I'm ready to rock Dior's Poison Blue ($19.00). Chanel's Blue Satin catches the light of camera flash well, because it manages to pick up on a touch of shimmer that you cannot see whatsoever in real life. Poison Blue is this gorgeous dark blue-black shade that adds drama to nails, and it has a definite duo-nature to them. Indoors, the color is nearly black with blue undertones, while in sunlight, the blue tones stand out more.
There is no shimmer to this polish, it is more of a high glossy finish. I wore my Dior manicure for a week through moving apartments, and it held up amazingly. This stuff just would not chip, and it was really hard to even try and chip it myself (hey, I like to test polish durability). Despite packing boxes, unpacking them, assembling/disassembling, etc., I hardly had any tip wear either (say what?!). This is reason enough to opt for Dior Poison Blue over Blue Satin!
While Blue Satin has a thicker consistency than Poison Blue (thinner), Poison Blue is also glossier in its finish than Blue Satin. Personally, I preferred the consistency of Poison Blue, because it allowed me to do my dutiful two coats of polish without feeling like I might be wasting some (at $19 a pop, I don't want to waste a drop), whereas Chanel's was thicker to the point where one coat was almost enough, but I prefer two coats to maximize durability and lasting power. The picture above shows half a nail swatched with Chanel's Blue Satin with the right half in Dior's Poison Blue–just remember, the shimmer in Blue Satin is not visible with indoor light, and it better be a bright, sunny day if you want to see it at all!
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Q103′s Grand Prize Winner Of The VIP Contest
Even if you didn't enter this contest, you should definitely check to see if it's someone you know so you can try and get first dibs on some great rock shows.
Congrats to Shannon Brooks of Gloversville, NY for being the Q103 VIP! I gave her a call at home today, and man was she psyched. When I asked her how many times she entered the VIP password at 9am, 2pm and 5pm she said almost every single one. Shannon has been going to concerts since she was 12 years old. Between then and now (age 25) she's been to almost 40 shows. I'm willing to bet that she will probably double that this upcoming year.
When I asked what were the best shows she's been to so far she said "Avenged Sevenfold and Q-Ruption". I laughed and said… "Nice answer." When asked who she's still dying to see but hasn't had a chance to yet her answer was Metallica. Rumor has it that Metallica and Lou Reed plan on doing somewhere between 1-20 shows to support "Lulu". Hopefully for Shannon one of those stops will be in the Capital Region and we can hook her up.
Being the Q103 VIP means that Shannon is getting a pair of tickets to every Q103 sponsored concert in 2012. Shannon is single so she won't have to bring a boyfriend or husband to all these concerts, but if you're looking get a free ride with her you better watch out for her friend Stacy who is expected to be her guest (or "Plus one") for most of those shows.
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Britney Spears' tunes used to blast away Somali pirates
The U.S. military uses Britney Spears' music to deter Somali pirates.
Navy officer Rachel Owens recently revealed to Metro the military uses the Grammy-winning pop star's music to scare off pirates along the African coast.
"Her songs were chosen by the security team because they thought the pirates would hate them most," Owens said.
Don't take offense, Brit. It's not you, it's them.
"These guys can't stand Western culture or music, making Britney's hits perfect," she said.
Owens said "Oops!... I Did It Again" and "Baby One More Time" are most effective. Let's not forget "You Drive Me Crazy" -- heck, it's in the title.
Somali pirate attacks are common off the shores of Africa. In 2011, there were 176 reported attacks on ships. The Royal Navy patrols the waters daily with 1,500 sailors on 14 warships.
The vessels are equipped with large speakers -- probably similar to those from "Back to the Future" -- that blast away the rebels. Owens said the pirates quickly disperse once hearing the "Toxic" singer's voice.
The great thing about this tactic: There are no cannons fired, and the U.S. will never run out of weaponry -- as long as Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber and the girl who sang about Chinese food continue making music.


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The Literary Way
a newsletter for Xavier University of Louisiana's English majors, minors, and honors students
Javon's Busy Year
English major Javon Bracy has had an active year in 2013. Besides serving as the newly elected Student Government Association (SGA) president, she helped the Xavier team advance to the HBCU National Quiz Championship, and she was inducted into Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honors Society. This summer, Javon interned in Washington, D.C. at the headquarters of the UNCF. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is among the VIPs that Javon met during her stay in the nation's capital.
Everyone in the English Department, faculty and students, is proud to count Javon as one of our own!
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Where Are They Now?
Joi Michelle Martin (2013 English Grad.) is teaching English III and IV at West St. John High School in Edgard, Louisiana. Nearing the end of her first semester at her new job, she writes:
In the beginning, the kids gave me a hard time because I graduated from East St. John High, the parish rival school that's located on the other side of the river. The animosity died down after I attended a WSJ vs. ESJ game wearing blue and white—WSJ school colors. The students appreciated my support, and that occasion actually made this semester a smoother ride. I've grown close to many of the kids and fellow co-workers. Adminstration has also trusted me to lead or participate in multiple activities such as tutoring the 8th graders for LEAP after school twice a week, coordinating the Student of the Year event, being on the board of the homecoming committee, and critiquing essays the students needed to submit for college scholarships. It was hard to believe I did so much during my first semester as a new teacher, but I'm beyond grateful that I was chosen as someone trusted to do the projects. It was unbelievably challenging but fun. While this semester is winding down, I'm anticipating the future memories of next semester.
R. Flowers Rivera talks with freshman student Atiya Muhammed after her reading.
Charles Fort signs a copy of his book for James Shade.
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Dominca Radulescu.
This fall semester Xavier students were treated to literary readings by R. Flowers Rivera, Charles Fort, Erna Brodber, and Dominca Radulescu.
R. Flowers Rivera, a native of Mississippi who now resides in Texas, in September gave a lively reading from her new book of poetry, Troubling Accents (already a bestseller published by Xavier Review Press with nearly 800 copies sold!). Her short story, "The Iron Bars," won the 1999 Peregrine Prize, and she has been a finalist for many literary awards.
Charles Fort, who taught at Xavier in the early 1980s, returned to a much-changed campus in October to read some of his award-winning poetry, gleaned from books such as We Did Not Fear the Father, Mrs. Belladonnas Supper Club Waltz, and The Town Clock Burning. A MacDowell fellow, Fort is currently at work on Sorrow Road, One Hundred Villanelles, and a novel, The Last Black Hippie in Connecticut.
Erna Brodber, a celebrated Jamaican novelist, gave a reading in November in the context of her lecture, "Why Louisiana?: Blackspace and Cultural Production." Brodber has spent a career involved with community work in the village in which she was born and lives, Woodside (St Mary), and she has published two monographs on the history of this village. She is the author of four novels: Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home, Myal, Louisiana, and The Rainmaker's Mistake, a collection of short stories, The World Is a High Hill, and several monographs and historical and ethnographic studies. In her lecture, she described her commitment to facilitating linkages between descendants of Africans enslaved in the New World and the peoples of Africa.
Domnica Radulescu, last but not least, paid a visit to campus late in the semester to read from her poetry. Radulscu is the Edwin A. Morris Professor of French and Italian literature at Washington and Lee University, and the author of two best-selling novels: Black Sea Twilight and Train to Trieste, for which she won the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. She is a Fulbright scholar, presently hard at work on her fourth novel, My Fathers Orchards and new play, Exile is My Home.
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In this massive update to IGN's 2012 game of the year, the Bad Piggies are on the move, and they've managed to hang on to the eggs so far! But watch out – you need to sneak past the napping Angry Birds, and they're sleeping with one eye open! Navigate through 30 new Flight in the Night Levels but don't make too much noise, or you'll wake up some seriously furious birds! Also make sure to check out the new "Road Hogs" time trials: can you beat the clock (and your friends) with your crazy contraption?
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WAKE, TEXAS. Wake is on Farm Road 28 forty-five miles east-northeast of Lubbock in Crosby County. It was named for Wake Island and was founded in 1902, when William Andrew Jackson Jones donated land and lumber for a post office. This office remained open until 1917, when a change in the mail route forced its closure. In 1901 the first school classes in the area were conducted in a storage crib owned by Jones. The first school building was erected in 1902. A new schoolhouse was built in 1910 but was twice damaged by fire and was replaced with a new building in 1916. Children attended classes here until Wake was consolidated with Crosbyton in 1941. Jess Norris built a store and cotton gin at Wake in 1916. The store remained in operation until 1960, and the gin continued to function until April 18, 1973. Wake had a population of sixty in 1940 and fifty-five in 1980.
Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum, A History of Crosby County, 1876–1977 (Dallas: Taylor, 1978).
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We like you are disappointed that the rivalry between the Thunder and Bulls is no more, but that doesn't mean you have to not watch hockey!
The Thunder would like to invite Bulls fans to Stockton Arena for a special "SF Bulls Fan Appreciation Night" as well as offer an exclusive deal to get you back in an Arena watching the sport you love (and hopefully the team you'll learn to love!)
First for Bulls fans the Thunder will be hosting a "Remember the Bulls" game on Sunday, March 2nd which includes a pregame meal at the University Plaza Waterfront Hotel (located next to the Arena) with your fellow SF Bulls fans, SF Bulls Front Office Staff, Game Day Staff, and the Cow Belles. Tickets start at $20 and you can purchase those online.
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One of the highest priorities of the 111th Congress will be passing legislation to curb global warming by placing a cap on heat-trapping carbon emissions. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has announced that a bill is being developed and a vote in the House of Representatives will take place this year.
To ensure that habitat conservation is enhanced by the legislation, American Bird Conservancy has been working with the Forest Climate Working Group, a coalition of 30 forest conservation organizations, forest landowners, and timber companies, to develop consensus on the need to include measures supporting forest conservation and sustainable management. The coalition is seeking to include private forests in the global warming bill by creating incentives for projects that sequester carbon, and providing adaptation funding to mitigate impacts to forests caused by rapidly shifting climate zones.
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California, Illinois, and Wisconsin recently reached agreements to include forest protection projects in Brazil and Indonesia as part of each state's carbon reduction program. Bird conservation advocates are calling for forest-protection carbon credits created by the federal global warming bill to include international projects as these three leading states have done.
"This is an opportunity of a lifetime," said Mike Parr, Vice President of American Bird Conservancy, which recently began its own carbon finance program. "Storing carbon by protecting forests reduces emissions caused by deforestation, and has the added benefit of conserving essential wildlife habitat – we can help solve our climate crisis and the biodiversity crisis at the same time."
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Originally from Glasgow and a graduate of Edinburgh University, with a PhD from the University of Durham, Iain's original area of specialisation was Astrophysics before developing strong interests and a research profile in Teaching & Learning in Higher Education. He has worked as a member of staff in a number of universities in the UK (both old and new) and has collaborated with institutions in the US and across Europe.
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Aligned with her work in modern languages, video, and learning technologies, Labhaoise has specific responsibilities for various internal and external projects and collaborations. These include pedagogic and technical support of the institutional Virtual Learning Environment (Blackboard) and Web 2.0 technologies for teaching and learning. In addition to a Masters of Education and BA in languages, Labhaoise has postgraduate qualifications in video and audio production, ICT/systems analysis, and professional education studies.
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Fiona Concannon is a graduate of the University of Limerick, where she obtained her doctorate in 2005. Her research to date has included involvement on various projects examining Open Source Software for Education, Open Distance Learning and Virtual Learning Environments, along with carrying out evaluative work on the use of laptops for Primary School Teachers in New Zealand, and exploring asynchronous teaching and learning dialogues. Her interests lie in the area of Technology-Enhanced Learning, the Learning Sciences, HCI, Activity Theory and the student learning experience in Higher Education. She previously studied for a BA in psychology, and a Masters in IT, both at NUI Galway and began work CELT in September of 2006.
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Gráinne is a Learning Technology Support Officer who works primarily with the Modern Language departments in NUI Galway to support language teaching and learning in addition to providing language staff with technical support. Gráinne supports various activities within CELT including An Teanglann, Blackboard and the development of multimedia resources for teaching and learning. Gráinne also supports the production and development of multimedia learning materials, including audio, video, and computer-based materials. She also works in the CELT Recording Studio where she is involved in recording, editing, and publishing of multimedia resources for all University departments and staff. Gráinne has a BSc in Computing, Computer Services Management which she obtained in 2004 and joined CELT in January 2007.
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Paul is responsible for the development, deployment and evaluation of learning technologies staff development programmes at NUI Galway, and their subsequent rollout to partner institutions in Ireland, as part of the SIF-funded 'Learning Technologies: From Pilot to Mainstream' project.
Paul holds a Masters of Education degree from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Information Technology degree from NUI Galway, and has taught Economics, Business Studies and ICT at second and third level institutions in the UK, Ireland and Australia. His research interests include the application of knowledge management strategies to support the learning organisation. Paul was the Coordinator of the NDLR Modern Languages Community of Practice (2005-6) and is the Chair of the Irish Learning Technology Association (ILTA).
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Margaret Forde is a graduate of NUI Galway where she obtained her Masters in Information Systems in 2006. Her research investigated the use of Voice Over IP(VoIP) technology using NUI Galway and GMIT as case studies. She previously completed a Higher Diploma in Education and a Bachelor Degree in Mathematics. She has worked in the university since 2006 teaching Business Information Technology related subjects in both the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies and in the J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics. She worked in the Institutional Research Office carrying out extensive research on university trends within NUI Galway and other institutions in Ireland. She began working in CELT in May 2013.
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Lorraine McIlrath has been appointed to coordinate the CKI and is an Academic Staff Developer (Service Learning) based at the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching at the National University of Ireland Galway. She is responsible for developing and supporting the introduction of the service learning component of the Community Knowledge Initiative and management of the overall project. Prior to her present position she worked at the UNESCO Centre at the University of Ulster. Her research interests include the role of education in contested societies, civic engagement and higher education, the process and process of internships, conflict transformation and democratic participation.
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Each College of the University has nominated a Vice Dean for Teaching and Learning, or equivalent, who has responsibility for overseeing and advising on aspects related to undergraduate teaching. Specific remits vary across discipline areas, but there is also considerable overlap in responsibility including, for example, the implementation of the Learning, Teaching & Assessment Strategy.
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Letters to the Editor: 10.02.12
Laurie Balke
Fed up with increases
Something has to be done! The city of Corpus Christi is out of control. Our last water bill was $443 for a household of two. We were on vacation for most of that time.
That is more than a $200 increase from the month before. When your water bill is consistently higher than your electric bill, there is a serious problem and NO, there is no leaking pipe or any other type of leak. All of our friends' bills also increased dramatically.
How is anyone on a fixed income supposed to pay their bill? Add to that the proposal to add a street usage fee, and it is just unbelievable.
For the last year, I have been crossing my fingers and hoping things would turn around in this city.
I have tried to remain positive and have defended this city to many, but at this point and time, it looks hopeless. Corpus Christi has lost its sparkle, has taken its toll on our vehicles and pillaged our wallets.
Congratulations, you have just lost another resident. We will be relocating as soon as possible. The love affair is over.
Claudia Sheblak, Victoria
Baldwin best choice for Congress
Like Pope John Paul II wrote — "As the family goes, so the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live." Bret Baldwin is a strong family man, an Independent candidate for U.S. Congress that we need to elect for real change in Washington. I have known Bret and his family since 1976, and I consider myself his second mom.
As a retired schoolteacher, I know that Bret is also a man who is passionate about education. Bret believes that we need to rebuild our nation through education at all levels to better compete internationally, and make this nation strong again.
Bret is middle class, used his education to earn him a successful international business career living abroad for more than 10 years in Asia and Europe; and has used those experiences with his consulting practice to help small businesses and community organizations develop. Bret will do the same for us in Washington.
Bret is honest, hardworking, with high energy, and a passion for serving, that make him well-positioned to be our next Congressman. Please join me in giving your support and your vote to Bret Baldwin, Independent for U.S. Congressman.
Dolores Oliveira
Christus Spohn takes the initiative
I wholeheartedly applaud Christus Spohn for its initiative in solving the problem of prescription drug shortages by simply making the products themselves and providing a service for itself and area hospitals ("Christus Spohn fills lack of drugs," Sept. 29).
In this day and age of seemingly complete reliance on computers and larger corporate entities for our day-to-day business affairs, it's refreshing to see that this business had an alternative to go to when shortages occur or even when the cost of securing a product is unaffordable.
All of us should always have a Plan B to go to when our first method isn't working. Good for you, Christus Spohn!
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Pentagon's DARPA researchers learn to control rat's brain over Internet
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Going from transmitting "frantic behavior" to "Go kill kids at a school" is a big stretch. I know our gov is the worst on the planet, but you all constantly give them too much credit in these articles just to get people to click on any one of DOZENS of crappy ads at a web site like this. Just like the "Tracking implants." They only work when you walk through a certain scanner (just for ID) and can't "Transmit" data because not enough electricity. But I still see stupid articles about it. Take a basic electronics class or course before you believe any of this crap is less than 100 years away.
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Hey retard, the article is written by RT and the date is in to the URL. Someone isn't very observant.
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Much much better man, well done .
The only real problem I have with the review is you just run through the album describing all the songs and it gets pretty monotonous. I generally find it more interesting when the reviewer makes a point, then gives examples like 'her singing is bad, for example on...' Just worded better.
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Hi, my name is Win and I'm from Vietnam and my question is does my country have accents?
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Props to Bubba Jenkins for have a very good season and a great tourney.
That said, I do want to see Metcalf wrestle Caldwell again. Metcalf focuses more on ways to improve than any National Champ I've seen for a while, so I would expect him to improve in the "off-season" as much as anyone out there. Wanting it and making the necessary efforts to achieve it are a bit different. Caldwell and Palmer will not let up either. If all the top 149lbers make big improvements, it should be a helluva weight class next year.
caldwell sprints up to 157 next year to avoid metcalf...in all likelihood they never wrestle again..
Caldwell may very well be at 157 next year, I don't know, but if he is I seriously don't think he is running from Metcalf.
Yeah please don't bring in the "he's running from him" arguments that turn into nasty 38 page threads on the other board. Jenkins has faced top competition all year and if he was afraid of top notch competition he wouldn't have went to junior worlds with very little freestyle experience...
Yeah..maybe that was unfair of me..I don't think Caldwell is afraid of anyone..But i don't see him being at 149 again..
Caldwell was a 52 pounder as a senior in high school. So I imagine the weight cut the last two years, to 41 last year, and 49 this past year may have been kind of tough on him.
last summer there was info coming from the NC State sports info department that he was going to be 157 this year (07-08) ...
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'Glee's' Chris Colfer: Every time I enter a room 'Single Ladies' comes on
While I was on the red carpet at FOX's winter press event this week, my right hand (wo)man Marisa Roffman was inside the party informing "Glee"'s Chris Colfer of what's happening with his show.
Chris was already aware that it's been picked up for a second season. But the fact that they're doing an upcoming episode with all original songs was news to him. And he didn't really know about the upcoming "reality special" -- during which FOX will find a few fresh-faced kids to add to the cast -- either.
But why should he? The boy is busy... especially now that he and his co-stars are finally back to work, shooting the second half of "Glee" season one.
"We didn't have much down time with touring and Australia and all the press things I went to," says Colfer in the video below. "But the little down time that we did have drove us insane because we're so used to being busy, so [we're] very glad to be back."
We caught all of the above on tape, so you can watch it go down... though the best part of the clip is that "Single Ladies" -- the anthem of his character Kurt -- starts playing just seconds after we turn the camera on and essentially acts as the soundtrack to our chat with him.
Chris/Kurt, if we had your McKinley High yearbook right now, we'd totally write "Stay sweet!"
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Good for him, but I hate to see him go.
Even though he lost his last fight, it was such an amazing performance that it seems like he is going out on a win.
I wish him well.
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Great Dane
| Origin: Despite the name this dog originated in Germany and not in Denmark.
Breed Purpose: To hunt wild boar, guard castles and pull carts.
Kennel Club Dog Group: Working
Height: Bitch 71-81cm., Dog 76-86cm.
Weight: Bitch 45-59kg., Dog 54-90kg.
Lifespan: 10-15 years
Exercise Needs: The Great Dane is relatively inactive indoors but outside they love to run and frolic about. This dog needs regular long daily walks. They do well in any of the canine sports which can be an excellent form of both physical and mental exercise. Care should be taken when exercising puppies and young dogs that they do not jump or run around too much to prevent bone and joint problems as an adult. Take care not to let the dog exercise or even play for up to thirty minutes before and an hour after eating.
Feeding Needs: The Great Dane puppy needs a special diet with protein, calcium and fat proportions being carefully balanced. Too much protein causes rapid growth rates and results in bone and joint problems later in life. Normal commercial puppy food should not be fed to the Great Dane puppy as they contain high percentages of protein. Puppies should also not be fed supplements as not only will this upset the balanced diet but may cause nutrition related diseases. Supplements containing calcium and minerals may contribute to conditions such as Wobblers Syndrome. An exception to this is the vitamins A and E which can help the skin and coat. Studies have shown that puppies fed on a low protein diet still achieve their full expected growth potential with fewer health issues. Seek guidance as to the feeding requirements from the breeder or a veterinarian. The adult Great Dane's diet must also be well-balanced. Too much protein puts a strain on the kidneys and it is thought that high protein diets cause gas to build up which may lead to Gastric Torsion (bloat). Food and water bowls must be raised to help prevent bloat occurring. The adult Great Dane thrives on a natural home prepared diet as long as it is well balanced. They can have lean meat, fruit and vegetables, such as apples, grapes, berries, carrots and yoghurt but never feed onions or chocolate. Soy should not be included in the diet as this too causes a build up of gas. Avoid feeding any sugary foods or too many treats to avoid obesity. Again seek advice as to the correct quantities to be given. It is important to feed little and often rather than two big meals, again to avoid Bloat.
Common Ailments: The Great Dane carries the greatest risk of developing Gastric Dilatation Volvulus (bloat), more than any other dog. So great is the risk that many owners opt for surgery to tack the stomach to the abdominal walls to prevent it twisting and causing GDV. This is a major concern for Great Dane owners and can occur at any time or at any age from reaching adulthood. Great Danes also suffer from Hip dysplasia, Wobblers, Osteochondrosis dessicans and other bone and joint problems. They are also prone to Hypothyroidism which is a disorder of the immune system caused by the thyroid not producing enough hormones to maintain the metabolism. They can also suffer with cataracts. Many of the health issues affecting Great Danes can be avoided by only purchasing puppies from breeders whose stock has been tested for these problems.
Physical Description: The overall appearance of this dog is one of immense size and stunning beauty. The Great Dane combines strength with elegance in its muscular, robust frame. The head is elongated and well-chiselled with the length of the skull and muzzle approximately equal. The eyes are round and are deep set with a gentle expression. The ears are set high and fold forwards. In some countries the ears are still cropped. The neck is long and lean and is held proudly being visibly muscular and tight skinned. The body has a wide chest and well-sprung ribs. The loins are slightly arched and the belly is well drawn up. The shoulders are well angled and muscular and the legs are straight and well boned. The tail is of medium length and is set high but never carried over the back. The coat is short and dense and lies flat to the body. There are five recognised colours:
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Moss was 19 years old when he met his wife, Lorena, in Georgia. After their first daughter was born, Channing quit college and joined the Army to support his new family.
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Moss on graduation day from Basic Combat Training with his daughter, Yuliana. He was sent to Afghanistan 10 months after she was born.
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Moss, second to right, before the ambush with some of his team members from 3rd Brigade, Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry, 10th Mountain Division. He says for him, "it was very hard," to leave his family and that he kept a photo of his daughter in his helmet at all times when he was at war. He and Lorena had another baby on the way.
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33-year old Sergeant Wynn was on his second deployment in Afghanistan. He was in the front passenger seat of Moss' humvee and was also wounded. This picture was taken months before the ambush.
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23-year old Jared Angell was the medic who was sitting in the back of Moss' humvee. The men call him "Doc." He describes the attack and says that he "saw the glass go into a circle or shape because it got hit. I was definitely scared."
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An RPG or rocket-propelled grenade is a grenade warhead about the size of a baseball bat, mounted on a shaft filled with rocket propellant fired from a launcher. If the grenade on the end of the rocket exploded, right photo, everyone involved in Moss' ordeal would have died. But even without this warhead, the grenade is still lethal.
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Oh and Kirk often operated together in the rustic operating room in Orgun-E, with limited medical resources. This is the hospital closest to the battlefield. Patients are stabilized here before they're flown to more advanced medical facilities.
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Oh, standing in front of the scenic mountains of eastern Afghanistan. Oh had never seen an RPG before Moss was brought in for his wound, but he "knew that it was some kind of rocket or unexploded ordinance." Though they violated procedure by taking in Moss for surgery, Kirk says "it's very different when you see an American soldier come in who's in … .jeopardy and he has the same uniform as you do."
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Kirk, far left, Sgt. First Class Dan Brown, middle, and Oh, far right, in front of the aid station where they operated on Moss.
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It took three attempts to get a clear X-ray of what was inside Moss. Miraculously, it revealed that the grenade part of the RPG was not inside Moss but the detonator was. Brown was reassured by the fact that they "wouldn't be blown up completely," but they would all lose their hands. It was the worst thing he could have said to the surgeons, but they were all determined to stay and operate. "Whether it took fingers off or not, we had to get this thing out," said Oh.
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Moss was transferred soon after the ambush to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C.
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This photo was taken four months after the ambush. Moss is holding his second daughter, Ariana, who was born soon after he came home. He thought he was not going to see her birth. Moss says that he depended on his family to take care of him, especially Lorena, for about six months. He says, "My mothers, her mom, my wife, my children … all the women in my life have been my father figures, have been everything. I love them."
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This past Memorial Day, Moss was awarded the Medal of Valor by the Hall County Sherriff's Department for his heroism in Afghanistan. Moss still has one final surgery remaining and every day is an uphill battle for him. "I know I got to fight. I know it'll get better in time."
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The surgeons Oh and Kirk paid a visit to Channing Moss and his family, shortly after both of them returned from Afghanistan. They were both very happy and proud to see him. "I didn't want him to feel like he owed me anything," says Oh. "I didn't want to intrude on his life. I know he had a long recovery, but in this case, we all needed some kind of closure."
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'Star Trek's' Damon Lindelof on 'Star Wars' Influences and His 'Fatal Flaw' (Q&A)
The writer of summer's "Star Trek Into Darkness" and "World War Z" reveals how Matthew Broderick inspired him to attend film school, why he has no plans to direct and the "Lost" question he tires of answering.
THR: Looking back, are there any Lost stories left in you?
Lindelof: No. Because of the way that the show ended, one of the things that we talked about for years was, "Is there a way that we can end this show that will literally make it impossible to do Lost stories with these characters in any meaningful way?" And the answer that we kept coming to was, "Well, if we kill everybody off, we can do that." It started as a joke. Then we began to embrace that idea. The more that we talked about it, the more that we loved it. The wrinkle is, if I heard that somebody else was doing Lost, would I be OK with that? Or would I say that I'm so terrified that they're going to screw it up that I have to come in and screw it up myself? That is a question I do not know the answer to. That'll be the test because sooner or later that is going to happen. There shouldn't more Lost because it was successful, and it'll make more money. There should be more Lost because somebody has a f---ing awesome idea. Someone comes forward and says, "I just figured out a really killer way to do some more Lost." I haven't had that idea, so it shouldn't be me.
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THR: Some days it feels like Twitter was invented so that people could shout at you about the Lost ending even now, three years later.
Lindelof: I love the Lost ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it. I want those people to know that I can see that they hate it, and I want people who love it to know that there are people out there who hate it. The conventional thinking is that it's universally hated, and that's not necessarily true. The loudest people are the haters. I've never taken a formal poll, but it's divisive, to say the least. I feel like when I'm getting heckled, you cannot ignore the heckling. I cannot live in a world where I pretend not to hear those voices. When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go. To say, "I read this, I can't keep this inside so I have to throw it back into the water from whence it came." I got a lot of tweets; amazing personal tweets about people who loved the show and were changed by the show. I will never retweet those tweets because they're just for me, and I want to keep them.
THR: You seem drawn to work that deals with faith. Is TV the last place you can tell those kind of stories?
Lindelof: There are multiple canvases in which you can have those conversations, but they are literary canvases. But it does feel like TV is more suited towards going deep because you don't have to hammer the audience with thematic intent in the way you do in a two-hour-long movie; where it becomes very clear what it's about. You can Trojan-horse those ideas a little more indirectly. … There was an episode of Lost called "Man of Science, Man of Faith"; there had already been 25 hours of Lost. What's interesting about TV and writing, from my vantage point, is that I try not to be too conscious of what I want to be talking about. I didn't realize that that was one of the big deals in the show until we got to that point in the show. If you had asked me, very early on, what Lost was about, I would've said, "It's about redemption." Because all the characters were supersecretive about their pasts, it gave them an opportunity to reinvent themselves. That was the interesting idea driving the show. But it very quickly got either put aside or complemented by the other thematic ideas -- the most pervasive of which was the science and faith idea.
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THR: Was faith a big part of your childhood?
Lindelof: It was a part of it. My father was an atheist by the time I was born. He was raised Lutheran, in the Midwest, in Indiana. His folks were both religious, and he bounced on it. And a very interesting atheist , because he believed in the supernatural. Not that he was a cultist, but he believed in ghosts, aliens and all sorts of things. My mom is still practicing Jewish, and I was raised Jewish. The arrangement was that when I was bar mitzvahed, I'd never have to go to temple again; as long as I could go through my bar mitzvah. I think my mom felt like, 'Just get [Damon] in the door, and of course [he'll] want to be Jewish.' That bar mitzvah was the last time I set foot in a temple for many, many, many years. I still have the positive association, culturally, with my Jewish identity; religiously, it was a complete and utter disconnect. As I went through college, I think it was cool to say, 'I don't believe in God.' But I wasn't ever comfortable enough to say I was an atheist, so I embraced agnosticism, which just sounded like a cooler thing to call myself. Then, when I got married, my wife was/is a practicing Catholic. I went to church with her a couple times [and] liked it a lot -- the sense of community there and the devotional energies applied. For some reason, because it wasn't my religion, I was able to embrace it without taking it literally. My wife had been pushing me to reconnect with Judaism and expose our son to it. All that felt good. I always wanted to have a good relationship with religion; but I've always also been in search of what my own belief system was. The pivotal thing that happened, right before Lost got created, was my dad died -- an atheist. And it's true, what they say, that there are no atheists in foxholes because although he didn't verbalize this sentiment to me, I was there in the moment that he died, and it was very clear to me that he would've been more comforted if he had a belief system. When he died, it was a profound spiritual experience for me. Not just emotionally. Then, I created Lost a year later and, still reeling from the loss of my dad, had to cope with that. When you don't have the religious institution to fall back on, you don't get to sit shiva, you don't get the funeral at the church. … Every time someone would say to me, "He's in a better place, now," I would have to say, "Well, he didn't think so." In the spirit of my dad, I must debate. I wanted to believe that he was in a better place, so I channeled a lot of those feelings into the Jack Shepherd character on Lost who was basically flying back to Australia with the casket of his dead father and was struggling with the same idea of wanting to embrace a system by which he could find comfort but was unable to do so for a variety of reasons. If you had asked me in 2004, was I grieving my father? I would've said, "He died a year-and-a-half ago; I'm bummed and I miss him, but no I'm not grieving him." But I was.
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THR: What's the first thing you wrote, post-Lost?
Lindelof: It was Prometheus. Lost ended in May 2010, [and] I went to Italy for a month with my wife and son. We left on June 1 and came back right before July 4. A day or two after July 4th, I got a call from my agent at CAA, who said: "Ridley Scott is about to call you. Are you free?" I was driving on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, and I slammed on my breaks -- because that's what you do. So I pulled over -- he called in like five minutes. Ridley Scott doesn't introduce himself when he calls. He's like, "Hey dude." That's what he always called me -- not sure if he knows my name. He goes, "I'm sending you a script, will you read it tonight?" and I'm like, "Sure, Ridley." He didn't tell me what it was, but we all had an inkling that it was the Alien prequel.
THR: You ended up doing a massive amount of press for that movie; odd for the writer, of all people, to be one of the most visible faces.
Lindelof: Me being out in front of the movie was because Fox was getting a shitload of press requests, constantly. And Ridley just didn't want to do all that stuff. I wasn't necessarily comfortable being thrust into the spotlight, in that regard. I just wanted to make an alien movie with Ridley Scott. More importantly, it's not my vision; it's Ridley's vision. This isn't to shirk any responsibility that I had for Prometheus. I shared screenwriting credit, and I earned it. I have an executive producer credit, and I feel that I've earned it. But at the same time, a director, particularly a director like Ridley Scott -- it's called a Ridley Scott film for a reason. So, suddenly I'm part of the stage show. I'm not going to lie to you, that feels awesome. It feels awesome standing next to Ridley Scott and being a part of this story. Independent of how people feel about the movie, that part of it was great. Any time they want to give the writer credit … the downside of it is: You'll also get the blame. But I think it was worth it.
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Although advertised as an easy way to dispose of an old car, donors need to fulfill certain post-donation requirements to qualify for the tax deduction such as obtaining a written acknowledgment of the car's subsequent sale by the charity, and itemizing instead of taking the standard deduction. Ideally, donors should also investigate how much money from the sale of the car goes to the auction processor and how much actually benefits the charity's programs, as opposed to its administrative overhead.