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ERWIN — As Judy King removed caged feral cats from the Margaret B. Mitchell Spay/Neuter Clinic in Bristol and loaded them into her car Friday morning to return them to their home in Rogersville, she did her best to comfort their cries, offering assurance that everything would be all right.
And King spoke with calm yet complete confidence, knowing she had a played a role in looking after the cats' well-being.
King is the founder of Appalachian Feral Cat Allies, a local group that aims to reduce regional feline euthanasia figures and ensure feral cats receive the care necessary for them to live long, healthy lives in their territories.
King was born and raised in Alabama, though she moved away while in her 20s. Although she contemplated joining the Peace Corps, King opted to move to New Orleans, where she worked in the city's school system as an occupational therapist. In 1980, King again packed her bags and ventured north, moving to Maryland, close to the Washington, D.C., area, where she continued her career as an occupational therapist.
When it was time for another move, King and her husband, Ken Kisiel, filled out a questionnaire to find the ideal location. The first recommended destination from the questionnaire was Johnson City. King and Kisiel made the move to the town of Unicoi in 2003 and have resided in the area since.
After the move to the area, King quickly set up an art shop on Union Street in Erwin, where she painted murals and taught art classes. After this venture, she began teaching art classes at the Clinchfield Senior Adult Center. She also served on the board of the Unicoi County Humane Society and hospice. But it was her work with the Unicoi County Animal Shelter that led King to her current undertaking.
King worked with the photography team at the shelter. The team is responsible for taking pictures of adoptable pets, with these pictures later posted to the Petfinder website. King said it was there that she came to the realization that a high number of cats, particularly feral and unsocialized cats that were deemed unadoptable, were being euthanized.
"It gets sickening after a while, the number of cats that are put down," King said.
King felt compelled to take action to prevent the euthanasia of as many cats as possible. She began researching the work of Alley Cat Allies, a national organization that advocates the trapping of feral cats followed by spaying or neutering of the animals then returning them to the location where they were trapped.
King founded Unicoi Alley Cat Allies to carry out this mission locally. She, along with several other group members, held their first meeting in January 2011 to discuss the issue and what could be done. And it wouldn't be long before they'd get their first crack at helping out.
King said she learned of a feral cat colony at a home along Nolichucky Avenue. The homeowner there had been feeding the cats, and when King, who was still working with the animal shelter at the time, called the homeowner, she said the homeowner began crying, expecting that the shelter was coming to take the cats away.
"I said 'no, no, I want to help you,' " King said.
Following this and some other successful roundups in the Unicoi County area, King learned of an elderly couple who had a feral cat colony on their property in Carter County. King admitted there was some initial hesitation on her part to take on an assignment outside Unicoi County.
"But then I started to think 'cats don't know about boundary lines,' " King said.
That's when the Unicoi Alley Cat Allies name was scrapped and King's organization became known as the Appalachian Feral Cat Allies. While the group's name may have changed, King said its mission had not — to cut down on the number of cats put down. King said the group now makes the efforts to assist anyone in the region who needs it.
Like Alley Cat Allies, the Appalachian Feral Cat Allies follows the "trap, neuter, return" mantra. Whenever contacted for assistance, King said she asks property owners several questions, such as the cats' feeding schedule, if they know where the cats came from, and if the homeowner is willing to manage the cat colony.
"Our mission is to humanely trap, neuter, and return them and manage the colony," King said.
The group sets out baited traps to snare members of the colony. When the cats are caught, they are taken to the Mitchell Spay/Neuter Clinic where the cats are "fixed." After this, members of the Appalachian Feral Cat Allies return to the clinic, pick up the felines, and return and release them to where they were trapped. The ears of feral cats going through this process are "tipped" to signify the animals have been spayed or neutered.
Returning cats to the locations where they are snared is important, King said. She also said the common thought that feral cats are homeless is inaccurate, as cats tend to bond with their environment. She said return is also important due to what is known as the "vacuum effect." When cats are moved away from an area that they have made home, other cats will move into this area to take advantage of the now-available resources and will mate to form a new colony.
"If I just take them and drop them off at some place, they're in a state of shock and panic," King said. "It's just cruel."
It is also because of this that King said the "capture and kill" method is ineffective and is less cost-effective than the "trap, neuter, return" method. She also said people feeding cats is not the problem, as they may leave a territory to search for food, but will return for shelter.
Male feral cats are capable of traveling up to five miles from their territory when picking up the scent of female cats "in season" and can impregnate several cats in a day including companion, or domesticated, pets, King said. The typical feral cat colony is around 12-15 cats.
Since Appalachian Feral Cat Allies formed in January 2011, the group has worked with more than 30 cat colonies and has helped more than 450 cats. King estimates there are around 10,000 feral cats in Unicoi County alone. The group receives some financial assistance from the Holly Help Spay and Neuter Fund and the Humane Society. The group is registered as a nonprofit organization, is incorporated in Tennessee, and is working to acquire tax-exempt status. But when it comes to helping out feline friends, King said cost is not an issue.
"When I hear about a colony, I don't look at the bank account," King said.
The group's work is as much as about helping people as it is the cats. King said it is "humbling" to have people express their gratitude for the group's work to help with cat colonies on their property.
"You realize what an emotional strain it is to them," she said. " ... You're glad to be helping people."
For more information, visit Appalachian Feral Cat Allies' Facebook page.


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'CLEAR CUT AND OBVIOUS' is possibly not always as clear cut and obvious as I believe it is... I agree.
I am debating purely from a point of view that eludes most music fans. Sorry, but I cannot look at it any other way.
I believe that Deep Purple is a great band...and millions agree. I believe they are more influential than KISS and Guns'N'Roses.....but all are Rock bands. This is true.
You are debating from your point of view and I am debating from mine. What makes yours more accurate than mine or vice versa? What qualifies as rock music in your view is only your view. It is not an objective fact. The rock music from the 50's is not the same as what followed it. It changed and evolved and branched out in many different ways. There is no one type of music called rock music. Buddy Holly's music is not equal to Metallica's. Both fall under the rock 'n' roll umbrella. Same with Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix. And Elvis Presley and Marilyn Manson; Rick Nelson and the Ramones; Jerry Lee Lewis and Bob Dylan. Get the picture? How do you know where to draw the line? Is everything The Beatles recorded rock 'n' roll by your definition? Their recordings run the gamut from basic 50's style rock to complex studio created rock. That's the beauty of rock music. It defies a strict and narrow definition. It branches out into seemingly countless variations. It knocks down walls and breaks through barriers. Just because one may not enjoy one of rock's variations does not mean it is not rock music.


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for me when i did the ios update it installed 32 wads instead of 25.. is that fine?
Plus I have installed and done everything and I want to use wiiflow but what do I do now? I went to the souce link and I understand nothing.
When I use wiiflow will it install the games I put on my usb on my wii so i can play the games with out the flash or no? If no then if I used an external harddrive would that even work? And last question.. How do I even get the games onto the drive/external harddrive? I use demonoid to download torrents but idk what scrubbing is and all that stuff. >.< Sorry that I don't know anything... I don't even know how you people figure these things out lol. Sorry for asking so many questions :L I'm just very confused.
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2) You don't need to see Wiiflow's source. You'll get it in the App Pack.
3) No piracy. Use USB loader GX to rip your games (just put in your ORIGINAL disc and press OK to rip), not sure if Wiiflow has that function, and CFG looks too complicated.
Red Wii SysMenuX, Priiloader 0.7, Bootmii as IOS 254, USB Loader GX, uLoader 5.1E with external DVD drive, MauiFrog softmod. HBC 1.1, Backup HBC 1.0.3.
Is there a installation method specially for Wii Family Edition? I mean a video or an other simple way to know how to hack it.
Hello, I am stuck on attempting to install the priiloader after having successfully gone through part 1 - Wad installs. I load back into HBC and click on the "Priiloader 236 Mod" icon and then launch in the following window. When I get to the Warning Screen where it prompts to press +/A to install, I do this and nothing happens. I've tried pressing each button individually as well as both at the same time. Nothing on the screen changes and there are no indications that anything is happening.
I have one of the newer black Wii's without the Game cube support/controller ports. Running version 4.3U (known as the family edition Wii??)
I have two controller, the Nintendo branded one that came with the Wii and an aftermarket/ non branded one.
The offical branded controller is synces as controller #1 and woks fine and stays sysnce up until the point where I loaded BootMii or the Priiloader app. once these programs load, the branded controller will not sync or connect back to the Wii.
However, the non branded controller will sync back to the Wii with BootMii or Priloader running with the player #2 indicator lit. (This functonality is what allowed me to navigate through BootMii / MMM and install the Wads. However, now when attempting to install the Priiloader, nothing happens when pressing the +/A buttons (with the second controller connected as noted above)
Any advise on what to do here? Any additional information needed that I haven't provided?
Is there any possibility this works with SDHC card? Wondering if anyone tried using SDHC instead of SD cards?
is there a possibility this works with SDHC card? has anyone tried modding using SDHC card instead of SD card?
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I used this, now my wii won't load any games, it just goes to a black screen with no writing. None of my channels load either, although I can gain a way to load HBC and that's it.
I'm not very good with this stuff, so any help to resolve my problem would be appreciated.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- University of New Mexico junior golfer Gavin Green is one of 21 2012-13 All-Americans selected to play in the Western Refining Sun Bowl College All-America Classic that takes place Monday-Tuesday in El Paso.
Green, who won the William H. Tucker Intercollegiate at the UNM Championship Course in September, was a third-team All-America selection last season. He has finished in the top 20 in all five fall events he has entered and is ranked No. 18 among collegiate golfers in the nation by Golfweek.com.
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I wonder how much taxpayers are shelling out to have Councilman Phil Vellela represent them, but instead of getting honest answers I would need to file an OPRA request. OPRA was born as a cure for secretive government and it is being used as an excuse to batter those among the public who want to know how their tax dollars are being spent. OPRA is not the problem, politicians like Vellela are the problem.
Calling this monstrosity ' the American Dream' is an insult to our values. It is a giant shopping mall that will entice people to engage in irresponsible consumerism while clogging up the roads and polluting the air and making things a mess. And it looks like Hell.
NJ taxpayers have been cheated again and again on this deal. Encap, Xanadu and the new 'privately owned' stadium have consumed more public money than the state has spent on caring for endangered kids. And yet, the politicians will all be out having pictures taken when it is time to cut the ribbon instead of going to jail for stealing from taxpayers.
Shameful behavior needs to be punished... and voters like YOU are responsible. So what are you going to do about it? Who is willing to run in legislative primaries in 2013? Who is willing to volunteer to 'throw the bums out' next June? Who is willing to donate to a reform ticket?
Voters did this, through neglect, apathy & ignorance. By 'voters' I mean YOU. I will share the blame and do my part to help, but you did this too and YOU should step up to fix it.
There is no difference between OWS & the Tea Party except political alliances. We are all angry Americans disgusted with bailouts and corruption. Anyone from either side who degrades the other is doing the nation a disservice, because we should identify points of agreement and demand real action. If you want to repeal 'Obamacare' then give me this: allow every American the choice to enroll in Medicare. Win-Win. Go USA.
Why does anyone report what Sarah Palin does? The former Alaska governor deserves nothing in the way of our attention because she contributes nothing to the national debate.
It is shameful that serious leaders such as Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich and former Republican New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson are virtually unknown to the American public while Palin is a household name.
If we want to live in a real democracy, we have to take responsibility for our government and the Fourth Estate shares an important part in that. Let's tune out the noise and concentrate some attention on worthwhile issues and real leaders instead of gawking at the sideshow.
Moving will not help because you must be a resident and citizen of the district for at least a year before running. If you move into a different district then you did not live there a year.
Cranford should be able to have a choice in the Democratic primary election instead of the regular political organization's lineup of candidates chosen by corrupt party bosses.
Visit http://democratsforchange.net/recruiting/ if you are interested in running for Cranford township committee
First off, I am probably the live-in boyfriend since it is Lisa's house; but I think the description seems a little disrespectful in this day and age.
Second, the fact that there is an announced candidate for state senator seems a little more newsworthy than gossip about someone inadvertently allowing a test pattern to go live rather than leaving it in draft mode. The larger issue here, however, is that the state's greatest newspaper has been delinquent in reporting on Union County generally over recent years. Before he left the newspaper, Gabe Gluck gave politicians in power a free ride without disclosing that his wife was employed by the county. Now, Gabe is also employed as Director of Public Policy & Community Outreach at County of Union!
Lisa McCormick got 47percent of the primary vote last year running against the incumbent county clerk -- who is given nearly universal praise for her performance in office. Now, McCormick has declared herself a candidate for state senator where no incumbent is likely to have a record worthy of much praise.
Why is she running? What is her platform? Why do Union County's current senators want to destroy public education, deprive citizens of their right to vote and rob the taxpayers through double-dipping and no-bid contracts? Had the Star-Ledger considered asking questions like these, it might have had something substantive to publish instead of making note that we are revising our website.
Democrats for Change proved itself an effective movement last year and this time there will be even better results. I wonder if anyone will learn about it by reading the Star-Ledger.


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Rowing | Saturday, May 5, 2007
Women's Varsity Four Battles Strong Competition at Windermere Cup
SEATTLE, WASH. -- Willamette University's women's varsity four took on quality competition on Saturday, May 5 at the Windermere Cup Opening Day Regatta, hosted by the University of Washington at the Montlake Cut. Willamette took fifth place out of five teams in the WV4+ race, but finished just six seconds behind Western Washington University and about 32 seconds behind the winning crew from the highly-regarded University of Washington rowing team. UW also took second and third place, as the Huskies entered three crews in the race.
Washington's winning time was 7:31.70. The UW "B" team took second in 7:36.88, while the UW "C" team completed the race in 7:41.88. Western Washington took fourth at 7:57.92, with Willamette close behind at 8:03.92.
Competing for Willamette were senior coxswain Rebecca Ralston, along with stoke Laura Jones (Jr.), three seat Hilary Andrus (Fr.), two seat Kimber Grady (Sr.) and bow Julie Vernarsky (Fr.). The Windermere Cup Opening Day Regatta concluded Willamette's 2006-07 season. With a solid group of talented young rowers, including a highly-successful women's novice eight, the Bearcats look forward to the 2007-08 season, which will be Head Coach Susan Parkman's third year leading the Willamette men's and women's rowing teams.
Windermere Cup Opening Day Regatta
Women's Varsity Four+
Place, Team, Time
1st, University of Washington "A", 7:31.70
2nd, University of Washington "B", 7:36.88
3rd, University of Washington "C", 7:41.88
4th, Western Washington University, 7:57.92
5th, Willamette University, 8:03.92


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Sophomore Jarvis Jones leads the SEC with eight sacks through eight games.
Nov. 1, 2011
ATHENS, Ga. --- Georgia redshirt sophomore Jarvis Jones was named the FWAA/Bronko Nagurski National Player of the Week on Tuesday, adding to his accolades following his performance in the victory over Florida.
Jones will be added to the 2011 Bronko Nagurski Trophy Watch List. The Nagurski Trophy will be presented to the best defensive player in college football on Dec. 12 by the FWAA and the Charlotte Touchdown Club at the Westin Hotel in Charlotte, N.C. The keynote address will be given by Bulldog head coach Mark Richt. Five finalists for the Nagurski Trophy will be announced on Nov. 17.
Each week during the 2011 season the FWAA All-American Committee has selected a national defensive player of the week from nominations made by the 11 Division I Bowl Subdivision Conferences and major independents.
Jones, an outside linebacker, had already been named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week, the Southeastern Conference Co-Defensive Player of the Week, Rivals.com SEC Player of the Week and the College Football Performance Awards National Player of the Week earlier in the week.
A 6-3, 241-pound native of Columbus, Ga., Jones finished with four sacks for minus 27 yards and five total tackles to go along with a forced fumble during his team's six consecutive win. His four sacks rank in a tie for second most in a game in school history, and the most since Charles Grant had four versus Auburn in 2001. Jones is only the fifth Bulldog in school history to record at least four sacks in a contest.
Jones leads the SEC with eight sacks in eight games and is ranked fifth nationally. He helped anchor a defense that held the Gators to minus 19 yards rushing and only a single offensive touchdown. In fact, Georgia's defense has allowed just six touchdowns in the past 24 quarters.
Georgia (6-2, 5-1 SEC) hosts New Mexico State (3-5, 1-3 WAC) in Sanford Stadium on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. ET. CSS is televising the game. This marks the first of three straight home games for the Bulldogs.


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Friday, September 3, 2010
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COVINGTON -- The cost for the city of Covington to establish a strategic plan and for leadership training for staff and officials totals more than $40,000 thus far.
To date, the city has paid consultants with the Centre for Strategic Management in Conyers $34,125, not including $5,000 that will be paid for a recent three-day strategic planning retreat at The Oaks golf course. In addition, the cost for renting facilities for the retreat and another three-day retreat held in March total $1,604.68.
The majority of the cost has been for leadership training, according to City Manager Steve Horton.
"This training was scheduled by our Human Resources Department and such training coordination is a function of the HR Department as it relates to career development," Horton said. "We believe that well-trained employees translate into more professional and more competent employees. Each department budgets money annually for training and in some cases for college tuition. Given that everyone does not desire to go to college does not mean that we should not, as an employer, set up and require various forms of training throughout the year. Again the belief here being that better trained employees will be able to perform at a more competent level and thereby provide better service to the citizens and customers of the city of Covington. Likewise, we believe that well-trained employees are more productive and make fewer mistakes."
The strategic plan that consultants are assisting with was the focus of the two retreats. The plan will set a long-range vision for the city as well as define a three-year mission statement and action plan for the city as a whole and individual departments. Following the council's work toward that end at the retreats, a planning and implementation team consisting of city staffers will develop the plan during the course of the next few months.
According to Finance Director Leigh Anne Knight, of the $34,125 paid to consultants, $3,000 has been specifically for strategic planning. All other invoices have been related to training for supervisors, the mayor and council, she said. At the retreats, council members have discussed their working relationships, reevaluated duties of the council, mayor, city manager and staff and set goals for better communication and teamwork.
"The strategic plan itself equates to direction setting by the mayor and council. It is their job to chart a course for the staff to follow that they, the elected officials, believe to best serve the wants and needs of the citizens and customers of the city of Covington," Horton said. "To not have a strategic plan is like someone deciding to go somewhere that they have never been without formulating plans and directions to get there. They may ultimately reach their direction or intended goal after much circling and fumbling around, but how much wasted time and money was spent on the aimless wanderings? The strategic plan and the process for creating it is, therefore, sort of like the saying in the common Master Card commercials 'It is priceless.' However, in real terms, the costs spent to date on training using the ... consultants is far less than 1/10th of 1 percent of the current city expense budget."
Horton said he will be inquiring with consultants on any expected future costs to complete the strategic plan. The council and consultants will have a half day follow up meeting, following work by the implementation team, in November, at no additional charge, he said.
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FARGO, N.D. – Steven Thames (Fort Washington, Md.) recorded his second pick-six of the season, but the top-seeded North Dakota State University football team scored 52 consecutive points to defeat No. 15 University of New Hampshire, 52-14, in Friday night's FCS semifinal game at Fargodome.
UNH, which entered the game with a six-game win streak, ends the season at 10-5 following the program's first appearance in the FCS semifinals. NDSU, the two-time defending national champion, extended its win streak to 23 to improve to 14-0 this season and advance to the Jan. 4 national championship game in Frisco, Texas.
UNH quarterback Sean Goldrich (West Haven, Conn.) completed 13 of 26 passes for 117 yards. He also had a team-high 21 carries for 20 yards. R.J. Harris (Odenton, Md.) led the 'Cats in receptions (five) and receiving yards (33). Dalton Crossan (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) led the Wildcats' ground game with 26 yards on three carries.
Harris became the second UNH receiver with multiple seasons of 1,000 receiving yards as his 33 yards increased his total to 1,004. Goldrich eclipsed 2,000 passing yards this season and finished with 2,076.
NDSU quarterback Brock Jensen was 11-for-21 for 146 yards and three TDs and rushed four times for 30 yards and a touchdown. John Crockett finished with 13 carries for 195 yards while Sam Ojuri compiled 75 yards on his 13 rushes, which included a 9-yard TD run. Zach Vraa was Jenen's top target with five catches for 76 yards and that included a 50-yard scoring play.
Manny Asam (Bloomfield, N.J.) and Akil Anderson (Morristown, N.J.) led UNH's defense with 11 and 10 tackles, respectively.
The Wildcats took an early 7-0 lead at 13:37 of the first quarter on Thames' 38-yard interception return down the left sideline. It marked the third consecutive game with an interception and fourth of the season for Thames, who also had a pick-six Oct. 12 vs. the University of Rhode Island.
On the Bison's next possession, Rashid Armand (Brooklyn, N.Y.) stripped Ojuri of the ball and Casey DeAndrade (East Bridgewater, Mass.) recovered the fumble to give the 'Cats possession on the NDSU 29 -- the home team committed two turnovers in just five plays from scrimmage.
UNH attempted to convert a 4th-and-5 from the 24, but Goldrich was flushed from the pocket and stopped for a two-yard gain to give the ball back to NDSU. UNH's defense once again stopped the Bison as DeAndrade's pass breakup forced a punt.
New Hampshire advanced the ball 26 yards to the UNH 45, but then did not convert a 3rd-and-11. NDSU then needed just three plays, including a John Crockett 26-yard run and 50-yard TD pass from Jensen to Vraa, to tie the score, 7-7, at 5:21 of the first quarter.
The 'Cats were held to a 3-and-out, and the Bison took a lead they would not relinquish, 10-7, when Adam Keller's 32-yard field goal capped a 12-play, 51-yard drive at 14:06 of the second quarter.
A 45-yard punt by Brad Prasky (Groton, Mass.) pinned NDSU at its 13-yard line, but Crockett's 24-yard gallop advanced the ball to the 44 and a 40-yard ground gain by Crockett moved the ball to the UNH 7. Two plays later – and immediately following a Bison timeout – Jensen's play action and rollout to the right set up a throw back to Derrick Lang at the front-left pylon to extend the lead to 17-7 at 7:40.
On New Hampshire's next possession, the 'Cats faced 3rd-and-5 from its 24. With Goldrich in the shotgun formation and the play clock about to expire, the snap was mishandled, NDSU's Leevon Perry picked up the loose ball at the six-yard line and ran into the end zone to extend the advantage to 24-7 at 6:14.
UNH's offense went 3-and-out for the third time in the first half and Jensen orchestrated a six-play, 79-yard drive that ended with a 20-yard TD pass over the middle to Kevin Vaadeland to make the score 31-7 with 2:04 remaining in the first half.
The Bison recorded the edge in yards (319-61) and first downs (14-5) in the first half against a UNH defense that entered the game ranked No. 14 in the nation in scoring defense (20.9 points per game). The 24-point halftime deficit marked the largest of the season for the Wildcats.
New Hampshire received the opening kickoff of the third quarter and had its drive extended by a roughing the kicker penalty by NDSU. Two plays later, however, Goldrich's long pass downfield intended for Harris was intercepted by Christian Dudzik at the Bison 22. On the next play, Crockett ran down the right sideline for a 71-yard gain and Jensen's one-yard keeper on 2nd-and-goal gave NDSU a 38-7 lead at 11:25.
Goldrich was intercepted on UNH's next possession when his pass was deflected in the air and Bryan Shepherd returned the ball 36 yards to give NDSU 1st-and-goal and on the next play, Ojuri's 9-yard TD run pushed the margin to 45-7 at 9:32.
Chase Morlock's one-yard TD run capped a 15-play, 61-yard drive that consumed 9:10 and gave the Bison a 52-7 lead with 5:34 remaining in the game.
Chris Setian (East Longmeadow, Mass.) ran the ball up the middle for a one-yard touchdown run to close the scoring with 29 seconds to play. The 12 play drive covered 61 yards and took 5:01 off the clock.


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|Dr. Thomas Willis, frontispiece portrait, drawn and engraved by D. Loggan, 1679.
This summer, as you sit down to your refreshing gin and tonic, consider that your drink is the vestige of a major international political-religious conflict dating from the seventeenth century and focusing on medical treatment.
Legend says that the Countess of Cinchon, wife of the Spanish Viceroy of Peru, fell ill to a serious malarial fever in 1638. Native Incan herbalists knew of the healing properties of the "fever tree" but it was not widely known, even in the New World. Upon receiving treatment of the ground bark of what would become known as the Cinchona tree, the Countess recovered and became the philanthropic promoter of the eponymous drug which combated fevers in both hemispheres for the next 300 years.
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|Cinchona, from Medical Botany, R. Egglesfeld Griffith, MD, Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia, 1847.
More recent scholarship of the discovery of cinchona (or quinine) eliminates the story of the Countess, as evidence points only to the Count's return to Madrid with a large cargo of fever tree bark in his ships' holds.
Although physicians published analyses of various herbs and natural products from the Spanish colonies, cinchona bark was not among them. The medical profession dismissed the anti-fever remedy, preferring to bleed their patients. The missionaries of the religious order, the Society of Jesus, studied the wonder drug's properties from a pragmatic viewpoint. The Jesuits wanted to keep newly-made Christians alive in the malarial tropics. With the Pope's endorsement, the bark was exported and by the 1650s was a common treatment in Rome, and later in most Catholic nations. "Jesuit's powder," although effective for many types of agues, faced stiff resistance. (The bark did relieve fever but only killed some of the malaria parasites in the body, subjecting the patient to "remitting" or recurring fever.) Protestant countries such as England had a deep suspicion of all popish plots and Catholic cabals. The first English author to write on cinchona was Thomas Willis, who in 1679 asserted that it did not cure the fever but was a highly effective palliative.
Dr. Willis (1621-1675) was a leading researcher in the new science of medicine and has numerous discoveries named after him (Willis' Disease I and II, Willis' Glands, Willis' Nerve, Willis' Cord, etc.). A prodigious author, he was the first to describe nervous diseases, noting that hysteria was not a disease originating in the uterus, as believed by the ancients, but was cerebral. The first great English work on pharmacology, his Pharmaceutice rationalis is also one of the great books of medicine. The Archives and Special Collections at Thomas Jefferson University holds two first editions of this work. On the flyleaves of one copy are handwritten poems in what an expert from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. identifies as early 18th century script. Although the scholar could not find citations for the several manuscript poems in compiled printed sources, one of them is appropriate to the book's text and is titled: "An Enigma of Jesuit's Powder/ January [16]94"
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|Quinine and Quinidine Formulary, Cinchona Products Institute, Inc., New York, [1950?]
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|Willis' Pharmaceutice rationalis title page and verso manuscript, London, 1679.
A heretofore unpublished transcription appears below:
Tho by noble Atchievm'ts I've purchas'd Renown
Yet my Birth is obscurd, & my true Name scarce known
To relieve the afflicted I left my owne home
Yet am lov'd but by few & even hated by some
I was 1st entertain'd when to Europe I came
By an infamous Crew who gave me theire Name
Which to my Misfortune does stick by me still
Tho my worke is to save, as theirs is to kill
By nature I'm rough, & more gratifi'd since
Yet e'vn to ffo's my kind Aide I dispence
With [?] Broils when the State is opprest
And [?] with a Poysonous form possest,
Disdaining the Curb of legitimate sway
By fitts overturnd all that com's in theire Way
When the wisest heads rant & the stout'st Hearts ake
The whole fabrick appeareing to totter & shake
While its firmest supports most dreadfully quake
I finish the War w/out strikeing a Blow
And establish soft peace, tho none can tell how
Tho I seldom am foil'd, & not often withstood
Ere I fight, I am beaten, & wallow in Blood:/
This brings us back to gin and tonics. In 1820, French chemists isolated quinine from the bark and production coincided with the European age of colonial expansion. By the beginning of the 19th century the tree, on the verge of extinction, was being over-harvested and protected by the Peruvian government as a unique revenue source. The Dutch smuggled a bag of cinchona tree seeds from Peru in 1865 and planted 12,000 trees in their colony in Java. This saved the species and supplied the commercial health needs of a shifting world. Quinine was added to carbonated water and was called "tonic water." To make the bitter taste of quinine palatable, the British "raj" in colonial India mixed it with plenty of gin and a bit of lime. To this day, tonic water has a vestige of quinine in it (20mg per 6 fl. oz,), but not enough to save you from malaria or ague.
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MXC Cagefighting returns to Monroe for a show April 12 at the St. George Cultural Center, 2342 N. Monroe St.
Between 12 and 15 matches will be held with half of the fighters from the Monroe area.
Mike Sindone, James Salisbury, Mark Maulding, Nate Ellison, Russell Campbell, Dylan Fanshaw, Mickey Marsack, Will Frost, Darrell Humphrey and Dominque Crayton are all on the card.
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Advance tickets are $ 15 general admission or $ 25 cageside and are available by calling 819-0086. Tickets also will be available the day of the fight for $20 and $30.


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May 19, 1959 E. SOVINSKY ET AL 2,887,104
MASK T0 MASK RESUSCITATOR Filed March 12, 1958 INVEIQTORS Eugene Savinsky Allan I. as!
1 r a) z E E 2 ATTORNEY United States Patent MASK 'ro MASK RESUSCITATOR Euge'neSovinsky, Baltimore, and Allan L. West,"Bel Air,
Md., assignors to the United States of America as rep- This invention herein described may be manufactured and used by or for the Government of the United States of America for governmental purposes without the paymentto us of any royalty thereon.
This invention relates to a resuscitator particularly adapted for use in a contaminated atmosphere; It constitutes an improvement on that described and claimed in application Serial No. 721,073 filed March '12, 1958 by Elwyn S. Brown et al. for. Mask-.to-Mask Resuscitator.
In the treatment of victims of poison gases, particularly the so-called nerve gases, it is frequently necessary to resort to some type of artificial respiration or resuscitation. Since the resuscitation must be, carried out promptly, the method must be such that it can be carried out in a contaminated atmosphere while both the casualty and the operator are protected. The apparatus employed should be light, simple, and easily transported.
One previously known method is termed mouth-tomouth resuscitation. It consists in the operator blowing exhaled air into the mouth of the casualty. Our apparatus makes possible a variation of this method, which weterm fmask-to-mask resuscitation. The operator in- ;hales through a canister and gas mask. He then exhales into the lungs of the patient.
Finally, the patient exhales to the atmosphere. Our apparatus makes possible for the operator to carry out this cycle for extended periods of time and insure that the casualty receives air of adequate oxygen content. In common with the apparatus of the Brown et a1. application, our arrangement provides for re-breathing by the operator of part of his exhaled air to maintain the carbon dioxide concentration in his lungs sufliciently high to prevent difficulty due to hyperventilation.
Our apparatus includes refinements which render it more efiective in actual use in the field than shown in the Brown et al. application referred to above.
In the drawings:
Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus as a whole.
Figure 2 is a perspective view from the inside showing the mouthpiece in relation to the nosecup of the operators mask.
Figure 3 is a sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 2.
Figure 4 is an enlarged section on line 44, Fig. 1, showing the valve structure.
Our resuscitator comprises essentially an operators gas mask 1 having a canister 3, a casualtys oronasal mask 5, a three-way valve 7 and a separate canister 9. Flexible tubes 11 and 13 connect valve 7 to mask 1 and canister 9, respectively. A flexible hood 15, preferably of transparent plastic, covers the head and neck of the casualty and the outlet ports of valve 7.
The operators mask 1 is a conventional gas mask from which the usual outlet valve has been removed. It includes facepiece 17 and canister 3, having inlet opening 19. Within facepiece 17 is the conventional nosecup 'ice . 2 21, which is provided with inlet valves 23 and which communicates with outlet tube 25. I One of the important features of our device is the mouthpiece 27. This mouthpiece includes a .stitfened tubular shank 29 and aflexible rubber hollow body 31 having. a blowing opening 33. The mouthpiece body 31 is provided with an air inlet valve which comprises, a thin rubber disk 35 held in place by a resilient rubber plug 37 and covering perforations 39. Associated with canister 3 is a conventional one-way inlet valve (not shown) which is mounted on the facepiece 17. t p
Oronasal mask 5 is formed of rigid material, preferably a transparent plastic and carries on its lower edge an inflatable flexible rubber tube 41 to insure a good seal with the face of the patient. Hood 15 is provided with a drawstring 43 which is drawnabout the neck of the casualty.
The valve 7 is shown in detail in Fig. 4. It includes an outer housing 45 having a Y-connection 47. The two free ends of the Y are connected to flexible tubes 11 and 13. 1
The lower end of housing 45 is covered by a cap 49 which is pierced by air outlet perforations 51.
An inner housing formed of an outer ring 53 and an inner ring 55 is joined to outer housing 45 by threads 57. These rings are joined by a flange pierced by outlet openings 59. Outer ring 53 terminates at its lower end in an outer valve seat 61 while inner ring 55 terminates at its upper end in inner valve seat 63. Inner ring 55 terminates at its lower end in shank 65 which is tightly joined to oronasal mask 5.
An outer valve is mounted on inner ring 55 and engages outer valve seat 61, thus covering airoutlet open ings 59. The outer valve is formed of a heavy elastic rubber ring 67 which embraces inner ring 55 and, integral therewith, a, thin resilient rubber valve disk- 69 which engages outer valve seat 61. 7
Within housing 45 is an inner valve. This valvecomprises a valve disk 71 of thin, resilient rubber clamped at its periphery between outer housing 45 and outer ring 53, and, integral therewith, a thickened central portion 73 pierced by holes 75. Inner valve disk 71 engages inner valve seat 63, while the thickened central portion 73 forms a central valve seat.
A central valve is carried on the under side of thickened central portion 73. It comprises a resilient rubber plug 77 which fits tightly in an opening in thickened central portion 73 and an integral resilient valve disk 79 which engages the central valve seat and covers holes 75.
Operation The casualty is placed on his back and his mouth is held open by any suitable means. A throat tube may be inserted to insure patency. Hood 15 is placed over his head and drawstring 43 is drawn about the neck to about the same tightness as a necktie. The operator then places oronasal mask 5 over the mouth and nose of the casualty. The following cycle of steps then begins.
a. The operator inhales through his mouth and nose. A negative pressure is created in mask 1, flexible tubes 11 and 13, Y-connection 45, and canisters 3 and 9. The central valve disk 79 is held in the position shown in Fig. 4, closing holes and preventing air flow into Y- connection 45 from oronasal mask 5 or the exterior. Air flows into the mask 1 through canister 3 and also through canister 9, tube 13, Y-connection 45, flexible tube 11, outlet tube 25 and mouthpiece 27. Air from canister 3 enters nosecup 21 through inlet valves 23. If the pressure is less inside than outside of mouthpiece 27, air enters through perforations 39, preventing collapse.
b. The operator exhales by blowing into mouthpiece from theoperators face with resultant leakage.
27. Valve disk 35 closes perforations 3 in the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece is distended, forming a tight-seal against the operators lips. Inner valve disk 71 seats on inner valve seat 63 and central valve disk 79 is forced away from its seat, opening holes 75. Air then flows into oronasal mask 5 and thence to the' casualtys lung's, distending them.
At the beginning of step (b) the entire system is filled with fresh purified air. That in tube 11 is first'forced into the casualtys lungs, followed by the operators exhaled air. I
I c. The operator stops exhaling and the casualty exhales due to the elasticity of the lungs. Centralvalve disk 79 closes while inner valve disk 71 and outer valve disk 69 are moved away from their valve seats 63 and 61, respectively, allowing the casualtys exhaled air to enter hood '15, where it creates a slight 'sup'eratmospheric pressure "and eventually escapes around the casualtys neck. Step (6) may occur simultaneously with step (a) of the next cycle. At the end of step (b) tubes 11 and 13 are filled with'the operators exhaled air. When step- ((1) is repeated, this exhaled air mingles with the freshair drawn in through canister 3. Breathing this mixture of exhaled and fresh air produces a carbon dioxide concentration in the lungs sufficient to prevent excessive symptoms of hyperventilation, while the simultaneous use of canisters 3 and 9 gives a lower breathing re'sist'ance'than would be the case if all the-air were inhaled through canister 9 Moreover, mask 1 is constructed in such a manner that air drawn in thru canister 3 flows overthe inner surfaces of the eyepieces, preventing fog'ging. The resistance to flow of canister 3 is adjusted, e.g., by inser- -tion of apertured plugs or disks in inlet opening 19, to
'secu're the' desired distribution of flow between canisters Sand 9. The major flow should be through canister 9.
The mouthpiece 27 has been found to be a highly deand the attempt to do so may cause separation of the mask The hollow form of the mouthpiece is highly desirable'si'nce internal pressure causes it 'to seat tightly against the operators lips.
The hood 15 adds to the protection of the casualty. Since a slight superatmospheric pressure of uncontaminated air is maintained, the possibility of leakage of contaminated air into oronasal mask 5 is greatly lessened.
Due to the provision of tube 13, the canister 9 may be positioned in any convenient location. For example, it can be attached to the operators belt.
While we have described oneembodiment of our invention in detail, it will be obvious that various changes are possible. We therefore'wish our invention to be limited solely by the scope of the appended claims.
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1. A mask-to-mask resuscitator comprising: an'operators mask, said mask comprising a facepiece, an air purifying canister on said facepiece, an outlet tube on said facepiece, and a mouthpiece saidfacepiece in cem munication with said outlet tube, said mouthpiece being so constructed and positioned as to press against the lips 'of'the wearer of said mask; an oronasal casualtys a valve mounted on said casualtys mask, a flexible tube "connecting said outlet tube and said valveysaid valve being so constructed as to admit -ai r fromsaid flexibl e tube to' said oronasal mask when the pressure is higher in said flexible tube than in said oronasal n'iaskandfto discharge air from saidoronasal mask to thefexterio'r when the pressure 'is higher in said'or'onasal mask than in said flexible'tube; and asecond canisterin communication with said flexible tube adjacent said valve. ZQA "re'suscitator as defined in claim 1" and further comprising a hood covering said valve andadapted to surround the head and neck of the. casualty. I
v 13. A resuscitator as defined in claim 1, wherein "said mouthpiece comprises a hollow body of resilient material having a blowing opening in positionto engage thelips "offthe' wearer and a one-way valve so constructedas to admit air to the interior of said hollow body.
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If there was one universal theme of this week's episode of Single Ladies, it's "Don't know what you've got till it's gone." Because these ladies said goodbye to all their relationships (at least, I think they have).
Val's still trying to find Mr. Right, but one thing's certain, he's not Sebastian. After Sebastian asks for an invite into her apartment and Val explains her 90-day rule, Sebastian tells her he's paid his dues and gone on dates, paid for meals, and, you know, sat through all the boring stuff, and now he wants his. When she doesn't give it up, he calls her a tease and that's exactly not what a girl wants to hear, so Val sends his good-looking but dimwitted ass home.
But that means that good old KC is back in the picture because, once you ride a mechanical bull in front of someone the way Val did earlier this season, you can't cut ties forever. So they go out as friends, which is hard for KC, who explains "As long as you've got a body like that, it's going to be hard to be friends."
So Val allows him to sleep over and spoon her which accounts for that thing in his shorts poking her leg in the middle of the night.
Wait. Can we discuss two things for a second? First of all, Val is a tease letting KC sleep in her bed, there's no getting around that. It;s hard not to sympathize with KC here. But can we address KC's abs, please?
Good. Now that that's out of the way.
All the sex that Val's not having is being made up for by Christina the Intern, who manages to get caught by the police twice for public doin' it. The first time was in Val's shop
which Val reprimands her for. But Omar, who is nothing if not honest, tells Val "You kinda set the tone when you did KC in the dressing room." He's got a point! The second time that Christina gets caught, she's in the midst of some side of the road action
en route to Val and Malcolm's big jewelry party with all of Val's model's clothing. Oh, Christina. But as she explain-o-gizes later, "I know right from wrong, but it's hard to choose right when wrong is just do fun." And you know who else learned that lesson the hard way this week? Everyone! But mostly Keisha.
Keisha has been ignoring Malcom's calls ever since he tried to set her up to look like a high-priced call girl, which he denies. But these two can't stay mad at each other, especially not when Malcolm tells her "You cannot come in to my house with all that ass clinging to that dress." So they end up ditching their dates at his jewelry party to go at it in the bathroom.
You know a great way to ruin a hookup though, don't you? To tell the woman you just hooked up with that it's great that you can still be friends after having sex. Once again, not what anyone wants to hear, ever. Keisha's not really happy about that.
And finally, April. April thought she was on the right track with Darryl, who agreed to re-start marriage counseling with her, but he was secretly scheming to wring information out of April during their sessions to use against her in divorce court. When she shows up to their house, he's changed the locks and tells her "You're gonna pay for what you did to me, April, starting with half of what your grandma left you. I guess this is war, babe."
and she gets the girls to help her move out. She should feel free to take the fridge too, since Darryl doesn't need it on account of his being so COLD.
As they pack, they try to sort out Val's love life.
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"We are fun, interesting, young and single!" she tells her girls as they gear up for a night on the town. And as she closes up shop for the night, she closes the KC chapter in her life for now.
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The other day I came in on the tail end of a conversation involving PSTs. The thought was to archive some former employees' email into PST files, store them on the network, and let HR access them as needed. I waited for my turn to contribute to the discussion, and led in with "sure, and then we can roast marsh mallows over the burning server." To say the reaction was underwhelming just doesn't quite paint the picture. The silence was deafening. It seems that not everyone understands that PSTs are evil. Today, I hope to help fix that.
In a post earlier this year, my colleague Paul Cunningham discussed some options for "What to do With Those PST Files." His article gives you some great alternatives to storing mail in PSTs. What I would like to do in this article is build upon that by giving you some of the reasons why you want to move away from PSTs.
I have encountered many situations where a company seems to have adopted a policy of network stored PSTs as the alternative to larger mailboxes. Whether it was to reduce the size of the information store, or simply because Exchange was deployed with smaller mailboxes in mind, the PST seems to be the logical place to store email that doesn't have to be available online. And since storing a PST on a local hard drive puts that data at risk, most folks tend to move those PSTs over to a network share, like their home directory, so that they get backed up each night. This is a case of "good idea, bad reality." To understand why, let's consider the humble little PST.
The PST has been around, largely unchanged, since Exchange 4. It was designed as a short term storage solution, or for mail pulled from an Exchange server by "Internet Mail Only" mode users. The PST file is accessed by Outlook using a file-access-driven method built for local storage. This loosely parallels some virtual disk formats, where the single file holds a significant number of discrete binaries that may need to be accessed randomly. Outlook's file-access-driven I/O does not work across network connections, so when a PST file is stored on a network drive, the access requests must be encapsulated in serial RPC calls, sent across the network, and then processed by the file server.
There are some significant challenges to performance when doing this. First, these RPC calls are serial, meaning they are processed one at a time, and one must complete before the next can commence. Secondly, the fileserver can exhaust both paged and non-paged pool memory to handle these requests, and may become unresponsive to other requests, recording events 2021 and 2022. These two limitations can lead to significant network performance issues as more and more users begin to store PSTs on the same fileserver. First, the server's NPP will start to become exhausted. Second, response times will increase to the point where the server appears to be non-responsive for noticeable periods of time.
The performance impact of this is so severe, that Microsoft has published a knowledge base article specifically stating that Personal folder files are unsupported over a LAN or over a WAN link. Consider the significance of that. You cannot find a KB that states running a Quake server on your SQL server is not supported. You cannot find a KB that states running a public facing website on your domain controller is not supported. You can't even find a KB article stating that defenestrating your Vista machine is not supported (no matter how good an idea that might seem to be,) but there is a KB telling you directly NOT to use PSTs over the network; it's that big a problem. If you consult that KB, you will see that it has been updated and applies to every version of operating system through 2008.
If you are already in the situation of having PSTs on the network, what can you do? With Exchange 2010, the initial performance limitations from earlier versions of Exchange are gone, so as Paul mentioned in his article, moving the data back to the Inbox is a good way to go. In addition to the indexing, archiving, and discovery benefits he mentioned, my favourite plus is that the email will be available to users when they use OWA. I've gotten several calls in years past from remote users who need to get to an email stored in some archive. Additionally, Microsoft opened up the format of the PST file last year, and the market is starting to see third party tools to migrate data. If you have no choice but to keep data on PSTs for now, consider moving them back to the client for real time access, and replicating them to a file share strictly for backup. As long as the access remains local to the client, the adverse impact to the fileserver is not there. This is still not a recommended approach for long term use, but it is far better than accessing PSTs over the network.


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First-grade students from the Beaumont Independent School District (BISD) packed the Montagne Center on the Lamar campus for the Cardinal Connection. A combined effort between the BISD, ExxonMobil and Lamar athletics, the Cardinal Connection is a "stay in school" initiative that promotes the importance of reading.
"Our athletes have a great time doing this, and look forward to it every year," said director of athletics Jason Henderson. "It is a way for them to give back to our community that supports us so much throughout the season. Our athletes use skits and games to help teach these children the importance of reading."
Lamar student-athletes had spent the previous two days traveling around to all of the BISD schools meeting the students, as well as reading their favorite stories. On Friday, the roles were reversed as the BISD students came to the Lamar campus.
Approximately 130 student-athletes representing all of Lamar's varsity sports, and the LU spirit squads showed up to spend time with the kids. Even Big Red made a special appearance at the event. As the children entered the Montagne Center, Cardinal and Lady Cardinal athletes went into the stands to greet the children and give high fives. Senior quarterback Caleb Berry took a football and began playing toss with kids while waiting for the program to begin, an idea that quickly caught on with the LU baseball and basketball teams.
The athletes used skits illustrating the importance of practice to get better in their respective sports to draw parallels to reading and staying in school. The program ended with Lamar mascot Big Red reading a book to those in attendance.