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Why did Jim Brown retire so early in his career after only 9 seasons in the NFL?
Jim Brown announced his retirement on July 14, 1966 to pursue an acting career. Brown's retirement happened while he was part of the cast filming "The Dirty Dozen." Cleveland owner Art Modell demanded Brown leave the movie set and report to training camp. The running back instead chose to walk away from the game.
Born on St. Simons Island in Georgia, on February 17, 1936, Jim Brown was an All-American athlete who went on to play for the Cleveland Browns as a star running back, setting records and being elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
When Brown retired, he had already established all of the NFL career rushing records, so there were no major individual records left for him to pursue. Brown was healthy and wanted to leave football on his own terms, which he did. One reason that Brown's endeavors were so amazing was that the NFL regular season was only 12 games long when Brown entered the league. In 1961 the league expanded to a 14-game regular season.
Brown was named to the Pro Bowl every year of his career. He was the MVP three times, NFL First-Team All-Pro eight times, he was on the NFL 75th Anniversary All-Time Team and member of the NFL 1960's All-Decade team.
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U.S. senator returns to alma mater for school dedication
CENTRAL - U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham said he watched more football than he played on the field at D.W. Daniel High School.
On Sunday, he stood before a crowd of about 200 at the dedication of his alma mater's new building and told them that they do not have to be the smartest or most athletic to accomplish great things.
The 1973 graduate said he might have never considered applying to the University of South Carolina had his high school friends not assumed they were going to college as well.
"I would not have done many of the things I've done had I not attended this school," he said.
The original Daniel opened in fall 1955, the year Graham was born, a merging of high schools in Six Mile, Central and Clemson. On Aug. 21, it opened again, a $34.6 million three-story brick structure, still surrounded by a few bulldozers and piles of red clay. Principal Danny Merck said that by Dec. 1 a baseball and softball field, a tennis court and landscaping would be completed.
He beamed as he stood on the front steps of the school after the ribbon cutting.
"It means we are finished," he said. "I am happy we're here."
Spencer and Vicky Bryan walked the halls with their daughter, Chloe, a student and member of the school's string orchestra. She played viola with the orchestra during the dedication ceremony. She learned the instrument while a student at Edwards Middle School in Central.
"It's so clean, and I feel safe drinking out of the water fountain," Spencer Bryan joked.
He and his wife said Graham's "humble" speech impressed them.
"I appreciate that no one takes the credit for themselves," Vicky Bryan said.
Music filled the school Sunday as the jazz band played in the cafeteria as students and parents roamed.
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|David Kawānanakoa
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|Abigail Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Campbell
|David Kalākaua Kawānanakoa
Abigail Kapiʻolani Kawānanakoa
Lydia Liliʻuokalani Kawānanakoa
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King Kalākaua (hānai)
|Victoria Kinoiki Kekaulike
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February 19, 1868
Kaʻalaʻa, Honolulu, Oʻahu
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David Laʻamea Kahalepouli Kinoiki Kawānanakoa (1868–1908) was a prince of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi and founder of the House of Kawānanakoa. He was in the line of succession to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi around the time of the kingdom's overthrow. Kawānanakoa translates as "fearless prophecy" in Hawaiian.[3]
Kawānanakoa was born February 19, 1868 at Kaʻalaʻa at the mouth of the Pauoa Valley, in Honolulu, on the old homestead of his aunt Queen Kapiʻolani.[2] David was the first child of his father High Chief David Kahalepouli Piʻikoi from Kauaʻi island, and his mother Victoria Kūhiō Kinoiki Kekaulike, a noble from the district of Hilo who was later the royal governor of the island of Hawaiiʻi. His younger brothers were Edward Abnel Keliʻiahonui (1869–1887) and Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole (1871–1922). David's family name Kawānanakoa was developed personally for him, and his own descendants have taken it for their family and name of their monarchical Royal house.
He was granted the title of Prince and style of His Royal Highness in 1883 by King Kalākaua. He was declared the third heir (after then princess Liliʻuokalani and princess Kaʻiulani) to the throne of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi to avoid problematic royal elections. His mother was the sister of Queen Kapiʻolani, consort to Kalākaua. He was also King Kalākaua's first cousin; these relations gave prince Kawānanakoa his position in the succession order. In 1885 he was sent by the Hawaiian government to attend Saint Matthew's School, a private Episcopal military school in San Mateo, California. His two brothers would also attend.[4]
On August 31, 1891, Queen Liliʻuokalani appointed him a member of her Privy Council.[5] In 1893 the Hawaiian Kingdom was overthrown, Kawānanakoa became a supporter of the Royalist resistance and after the failed 1895 Counter-Revolution he was arrested for treason but due to lack of evidence he was released. In 1898 he announced his engagement to Kaʻiulani,[6] but she died in 1899 before the wedding could take place.
Kawānanakoa was one of five founders of the Democratic Party of Hawaii. He attended the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri and was the first royal to attend a national presidential nominating convention, where he was successful in gaining affiliation between his party and the Democratic Party in a party vote at the convention to incorporate Hawaii. He voted to break a tie about importing a plank into the convention platform regarding free silver.
In 1902, Kawānanakoa married Abigail Wahiʻikaʻahuʻula Campbell who assumed the title of princess. Their children were Princess Abigail Kapiʻolani (1903–1961), Prince Edward David Kalākaua (1904–1953), and Princess Lydia Liliʻuokalani (1905–1969).
Kawānanakoa converted to Roman Catholicism in 1907, no doubt through the urging of his wife.[7]:166 He died of pneumonia June 2, 1908 in San Francisco.[2] After an elaborate funeral and parade, he was buried in the Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii.[8]
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- ^ a b c "Death of Prince David Kawananakoa Yesterday: was Heir Presumptive of the Throne of Hawaii". The Hawaiian Gazette. June 5, 1908. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
- ^ Pukui, Mary Kawena; Elbert, Samuel H.; Mookini, Esther T. (1974). Place Names of Hawaii. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-0-8248-0524-1.
- ^ Agnes Quigg (1988). "Kalākaua's Hawaiian Studies Abroad Program". Hawaiian Journal of History 22 (Hawaii Historical Society). pp. 170–208. hdl:10524/103.
- ^ "Kawananakoa , David, Prince office record". state archives digital collections. state of Hawaii. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
- ^ "Princess Kaiulani Engaged; To Wed Prince David Kawananakoa of Hawaiian Royal Blood" (PDF). New York Times. February 12, 1898. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
- ^ Hawkins, Richard A. (2003). "Princess Abigail Kawananakoa: the Forgotten Territorial Native Hawaiian Leader". Hawaiian Journal of History (Honolulu: Hawaii Historical Society) 37: 163–177. hdl:10524/354.
- ^ "Pomp and Ceremony, the Church's Stately Office for the Dead, a Forest of Kahilis, Military and Civic Organizations, Combine to Create a great Pageant.". The Hawaiian Gazette. June 23, 1908. p. 3. Retrieved June 14, 2010.
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At last night's Los Angeles premiere for her new movie, "A-Team," Jessica Biel stepped out on the red carpet in a white, peek-a-boo, Grecian-style gown. But what was almost weirder than whatever twist tie business was happening up top, is that the solid column was made by none other than purveyor of all things loud, swirly and psychedelic: Emilio Pucci. Somewhere Rachel Zoe is dyyying. Pardon us for being passe, but here we thought the cultish brand — known for its private jet-set friendly range — stuck to kaftans, smock dresses and wear befitting befitting summer trips (be them actual or manufactured).
But a quick flip to yesterday's Wall Street Journal reveals that the six-decade-old fashion house has been on a quest of Madonna-esque proportions to reinvent itself as an "It brand" — read: shill themselves out to celebs — and Biel's flank-revealing number is proof positive that their modern-day makeover is working.
"I hate the stereotypes of Pucci, the psychedelic pop," said Laudomia Pucci, the daughter of Emilio Pucci, who founded the brand. "[Designer Peter Dundas] has shaken that up."
Guess when your well of well-off Palm Beachers dries up, one must either adapt or perish. And the succession of starlets who've been snapped in Peter's Pucci lately — Zoe Saldana, Kate Hudson and Biel — seem a good omen for the brand's transition into the mainstream… or is that mainland? But as a post-nip tuck Kenny Rogers can probably attest, there is a point at which an attempt at youth becomes an unrecognizable disaster. "I want to make people think of Pucci as a woman, not just as a print," Dundas said. But wasn't the Pucci woman a woman who wore print?
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Officials say two men were hurt when a four-story parking garage collapsed on the west side of the Broward County Courthouse.
Fort Lauderdale Fire-Rescue officials say the garage collapse about 4:15 p.m. Wednesday during an ongoing demolition process.
A contractor received minor injuries and a security guard was taken to the hospital after being hit by a piece of debris.
Broward Chief Judge Peter Weinstein told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that he heard a very loud boom and felt a vibration inside his courthouse office.
Weinstein says he's concerned about the courthouse, which is adjacent to the parking structure and is "not in very great shape."
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NORTH KITSAP - Deputies arrested a California man Tuesday for allegedly stealing a woman's purse from her home, in broad daylight, while she was there.
Deputies were dispatched to the 21500 block of Miller Bay Road just after 4 p.m. The 61-year-old resident told them she was in a backroom at a computer when she saw a strange man outside. She opened the door and yelled at him that he was trespassing and to get off her property.
She went to the front of the house and found the door ajar and her purse, which had been sitting near it, gone. A police dog tracked the man into a steep ravine, across a creek and up the other side, where the purse was found with most of the contents dumped out. A neighbor reported a suspicious man walking on nearby Falcon Ridge Road. Another detective detained the man, who was wet, muddy and matched the woman's description. The dog tracked right to him.
The man, a 44-year-old from Long Beach, was arrested on suspicion of residential burglary and taken to the Kitsap County jail. His bail is $50,000.
The purse was returned. Some smaller bills were gone, but a $50 bill the woman had stashed was still there.
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Two priests who knew Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, the foundress of the Missionaries of the Charity, reflected on her spirituality and example in separate interviews with Vatican Radio.
Father Brian Kolodiejchiuk, the postulator of her canonization cause, spoke about the dark night of the soul that she experienced, while Msgr. Leo Maasburg, a spiritual advisor, recounted an anecdote related to her travels.
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The Volvo C70 is a hardtop convertible. The C70 converts from coupe to roadster with the press of a button. Its folding steel roof deploys from the trunk and converts from open car to hard top in just 30 seconds. The top is made of steel, so when the top up is up, it's quiet and feels like a coupe, and it offers the security of a coupe. Press the button, and the joy of top-down motoring is yours.
The sporty C70 is based on the S40 sedan, but it has more luscious lines. The engine, suspension and transmission are proven Volvo components, while the rigid chassis was designed to meet Volvo's industry-leading safety standards.
We found the C70 to be an excellent highway cruiser, smooth and steady at high speeds. The C70 drives like a sports car. It has a solid feel and strikes an appropriate balance of responsive handling with a smooth, well-controlled ride quality and fade-resistant brakes. We found the 5-speed automatic crisp and responsive.
The styling is brilliant, with elegant coupe lines, and the retractable hardtop is an engineering masterpiece. The cabin features comfortable seats, the latest in Volvo interior styling and fabrics, and a clever cubby behind the center dash. The stereo sounds superb. Everything operates as it should, and it's a beautiful piece of work.
The C70 helped launch a trend toward true hard-top convertibles when it debuted as a 2006 model. The 2011 C70 comes as one model, the C70 T5.
The 2011 C70 comes with more standard equipment than before. The 5-speed Geartronic automatic transmission is standard, the 6-speed manual is no longer available. Sovereign Hide leather comes standard with Cranberry leather optional. Sirius Satellite Radio is standard on the 2011 Volvo C70.
Bodywork details such as the front fenders have also been redesigned for 2011, contributing to the new look. The nose is more wedge-shaped and has been given added three-dimensional depth by moving some elements of the front both longitudinally and vertically. The new headlights and the decor around the fog lights, for instance, have been angled upward and toward the rear while the detailing of the lower grille and new, larger air intake reinforce the self-assured stance.
The high-tech LED taillights, similar in function to those found on the XC60, are the most noticeable update at the rear for 2011. The entire light unit is clearly integrated with the oval that frames the enhanced C70's rear fascia.
The Volvo C70 roofline, developed in Italy by Pininfarina, is that of a coupe, and it's a very handsome coupe, with solid upward sweeping A-pillars and delicately thin and downward sweeping C-pillars. Stand close enough, and you can spot the two seams that enable the roof to stack into thirds and drop into the trunk, but otherwise there's not a hint of compromise in the graceful roofline.
Because of the C70's strong wedge profile, the roof lands on the rear deck at a point higher than it takes off from the hood. A soft ridge at the beltline sweeps all the way from headlight to taillight, accentuating the wedge, which is conspicuous but not bulky. In short, the C70 was not given a bulbous rear end in order to fit the convertible steel roof under its cover. The trunk lid is aluminum for reduced weight.
When viewed from the front three-quarter angle, it's clear how short and smooth the hood and nose are, and how aerodynamic the package truly is. Unlike most Audi models, which seem to be following the Dodge Ram in-your-face school of design, the grille of the C70 is small and quiet. The headlamps gently lean inward toward the grille, as the foglamps under the headlamps surround the opening in the smooth fascia/bumper. The hoodline tapers elegantly down to the bottom of the fascia, inches above the road. The effect of the lower three openings is like a reflection of the headlamps and grille.
As the roof retracts, it first elevates, and then slides back and stacks itself in its three sections before quietly submerging into the rear deck. Presto: With one button on the console, it's gone in 30 seconds. Up or down, it takes the same time.
The structural safety features of the C70 take thousands of words to describe in detail. From top to bottom, front to rear, side to side, the chassis has been strengthened, tweaked, and made crushable where possible to dissipate energy in a crash. The C70 convertible more than compensates for the loss of the rigidity of a fixed roof; it's stiffer than the previous C70 coupe. The reinforced B pillars, normally connected by a roof, are connected on the C70 by one of five transverse frame members. This dissipates crash forces. The door sills are laser welded, and raised behind the B pillars. The doors have diagonal steel beams. The A-pillars use extra high-strength steel, and extend all the way down to the frame rails.
Leather upholstery is standard on the 2011 C70. Standard is Sovereign Hide, but it's also available in Off-Black, Calcite, Cacao, or Cranberry.
The instrument panel has been redesigned for 2011, giving it a wider, sleeker look. The surface of the panel has a new texture that enhances the feeling of quality. The instruments are new, and the gauges and graphics are specific to the C70.
Volvo's flat-panel center stack fits in a world of flat panel computer monitors and television screens. It features a horizontal information screen over a column of buttons for radio and climate controls. Four big knobs dot each corner.
As with many Volvos, interior storage space is in short supply. There are storage compartments in the cabin, some of which are lockable, useful when the car is parked with the roof down. Other compartments can be locked with a separate key, when leaving the car with a parking attendant, for example.
The trunk is small with the top down. The trunk has 12.8 cubic feet of cargo space with the roof up, and about half that when it's retracted: enough room for two sets of golf clubs, says Volvo. Golf club bags have to slide under the roof, so there's an electric mechanism called Load-Aid, which lifts the roof sections and window glass eight inches. There's also a hatch between the rear seats that allows long things like skis to be carried in the trunk, extending into the passenger compartment.
The Dynaudio system delivers vivid sound, so we recommend the Multimedia Package. A nice feature: With the top down, as the speed of the car climbs, the volume automatically increases, then decreases when you slow down. The standard system includes an auxiliary input for iPods and other MP3 players, a USB port, and MP3 playback capability from the in-dash CD player. Sirius satellite radio is standard.
The Blind Spot Information System, or BLIS, includes cameras mounted in the side mirrors that detect vehicles approaching from behind, in daylight or darkness. When an approaching vehicle closes from behind and to either the left or right of the C70, the system activates one of two small amber lights mounted just inboard of the mirrors, calling the driver's attention to the situation. The BLIS option adds a power-retractable feature to protect these intelligent outside mirrors.
The C70 uses front-wheel drive and Volvo's well-proven 2.5-liter turbocharged five-cylinder engine, rated at 227 horsepower at 5,000 rpm and 236 pound-feet of torque from 1500 to 4800 rpm. The flat torque curve puts the power to the front wheels evenly and makes the car highly responsive. Volvo estimates 0 to 60 mph in 7.0 seconds with the six-speed manual gearbox and 7.4 seconds with the five-speed automatic. That's not the performance of a hot rod, but it is certainly more than respectable.
Fuel economy is an EPA-estimated 19/28 mpg City/Highway.
We found the 5-speed automatic shifts crisply. Called Geartronic, the automatic features a satisfying and obedient manual-shift mode for those times when you want a little extra control for shifting or holding a gear.
The brakes work very well. We found them to be resistant to fade on a winding road that overheated the brakes on some lesser cars.
The C70 doesn't feel heavy when you flick it around in the curves. The rack-and-pinion steering is power-assisted and electro-hydraulic, and provides a solid feel. We wouldn't call it light or nimble, but turning the C70 doesn't require a lot of effort. It simply gives good feedback through the healthy leather-wrapped steering wheel.
The same could be said of the ride. The chassis is stiff, a key to crisp handling and a smooth ride. The current C70 doesn't shake like many convertibles do, another benefit of the rigid chassis.
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Developing the Family Map: Looking at Communal Coping
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- Knowing one s family medical history is a part of staying healthy. Some health risks run in families, and knowing these risks can promote more healthy behavior. Different social and cultural factors may affect how family members share this information. Genetic risk information that is shared in one family may not be shared in the same way in another. This information may also be shared differently between spouses, siblings, or parents and children. It may even be shared with more distant relatives. Knowing the information that family members share and how they share it may help researchers improve genetic disease treatment and support plans. Family surveys of people who have genetic health risks may help provide this information.
- To study how family members affected by genetic-related diseases share health information with each other.
- Individuals at least 18 years of age who can read English or Spanish.
- Participants affected by a genetic disease or be related or married to someone who has the disease.
- Participants will be screened with an initial questionnaire. They will identify their genetic disease and provide a basic health history.
- Participants who have the disease will complete an online survey or participate in a personal interview. The questions will take about 45 minutes to 1 hour to answer. The survey will ask about family health history and family support. Participants will also provide referrals to a spouse or relatives who will participate in the study.
- The spouse or relative will answer a similar survey. The survey will ask about health history and support for the spouse/relative with the disease.
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|Development of the Family Map: Examination of Communal Coping Across Disease Context
- The primary outcome of the current protocol is the development of a methodology to obtain an accurate representation of familial social structure in advance of intervention based on the responses of a few key informants
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Facilitating the dissemination of disease risk information and promoting engagement in healthful behaviors within families may be enhanced by using network-based interventions. Network based interventions are innovative in that they are tailored to the structure of the social system within which individuals are embedded. Understanding the social and relational factors associated with processes of family risk information dissemination, family encouragement, and support is essential to developing network-based intervention tools targeting the family. The first objective of the current project is to ascertain those key social pathways that can be used in a family-centered network-based intervention that promotes disease prevention. To this end, efforts will be focused on assessing whether there is a consistent, small set of relational characteristics associated with the dissemination of family risk information and processes of both behavioral and emotional adaptation to disease risk across various disease and cultural contexts. The second objective is to examine the feasibility of using cognitive network approaches to assess social interactions among family members as a means to enhance the implementation of a network-based intervention. A cognitive network is an individual s perception of the relationships among their family (or network) members. Thus, cognitive network approaches can be used to capture an accurate representation of family social structure based on the information provided by a small subset of optimally-situated family members. Those key social pathways identified within the first objective of this research will be used to address the second objective. Families affected by diseases and disorders that span the spectrum of genetic penetrance, ranging from highly penetrant, monogenetic disease to less penetrant, common complex conditions, will be recruited for the study. Further, the current effort will seek to engage samples from diverse cultural backgrounds to address our limited knowledge regarding risk communication and adaptation in such families and to facilitate generalization of results. Study participants will be recruited from established cohorts or ongoing studies, both at the NIH and at extramural institutions. Family members will be recruited using a snowball sampling approach and will be asked to complete an in-person, web-based and/or telephone survey/interview. Interviews will have a semi-structured format to allow for slight deviations in prompts and probes to address patient questions. The research addressed in this protocol will lead to the development of an innovative methodology with the potential to improve the design and implementation of family-based interventions that promote disease prevention.
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- Aged 18 years or older
- Ability to complete web-based survey or telephone interview
- Ability to read English or Spanish
Affected by or have at least one first- or second-degree relative affected by or have a spouse/partner affected by the disease(s) of interest OR Biological or non-biological (e.g. adopted or step) relative of the primary participant or spouse/partner of the primary
participant or biological relative of primary participant.
- Have at least two family members (biological or non-biological (e.g. adopted or step) relative or a spouse/partner) who are eligible for the study
Individuals with cognitive difficulties will be excluded from the study, as participants will be required to comprehend and legally consent to participation in this study and complete the survey/interview(s).
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01633021
|Contact: Laura M. Koehly, Ph.D.
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|Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60612
|United States, Maryland
|National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|United States, Ohio
|Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, 45229-3039
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|National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)
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Shelters open in Anderson, Georgia to help people stay warm
Two shelters opened in Anderson Wednesday and will stay open until the danger of prolonged power outages has passed, officials said.
Trinity Baptist Church in Williamston and the Anderson Civic Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Anderson opened at noon. A shelter was also opened up at the First Baptist Church in Cornelia, Ga.
Within the first hour of opening, several people were taking shelter at the two Anderson County locations. Both shelters are open indefinitely as public safety officials monitor the need and the power outages in the area.
As of 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, there were no major power outages reported in Anderson.
Officials want to avoid the kind of problems that occurred when a major ice storm hit the Anderson area in 2005, leaving 240,000 people without power. A couple from Honea Path and an Anderson man died and one Anderson woman was seriously injured as they tried to stay warm during the power outage.
As people reported being without heat Wednesday, Anderson officials decided to open up two shelters, Anderson County emergency services director Taylor Jones said.
Jones said he is also concerned about people becoming stranded and trying to walk home.
"Because of the snow accumulation, you will fatigue easy," Jones said. "It is easy to walk home in an inch of snow. It is a lot more dangerous in eight or nine inches."
He said if people become stranded in the snow, or in their vehicles, they can call 211 and ask for someone to come get them.
"If they will just call into the 911 center, we will come and get them and take them to an emergency shelter," Jones said.
A volunteer at the Williamston shelter said one woman came to the shelter early, just in case of a power outage later. "She was afraid of not being able to get out later," the volunteer said.
American Red Cross volunteers are staffing both shelters in Anderson County.
Red Cross and Salvation Army volunteers brought in food at the Civic Center and county employees were putting up tables and chairs.
"They called us in early so we wouldn't have the problems that could come later," said Red Cross shelter manager Bill Griffith. "We're set up so, if the need arises, we'll be ready to go. We may be here a while."
Barbara Barnham, another Red Cross veteran, gave first-time volunteer Judy Kane a quick orientation at the Civic Center shelter as it readied to open Wednesday.
Kane, a Minnesota transplant, said a television story about Red Cross volunteers led her to contact the Anderson County chapter just last week.
Kane moved south two years ago to escape the harsh northern winters.
"This will be my first ice storm," Kane said. "We always get snow in Minnesota."
Just how much business they get at the Civic Center depends on whether and when the lights go out around the county.
"It's so variable," Griffith said. "There's no way to predict what the need will be, but I would imagine we'll get people if there are widespread power outages ... for something like this, that's going to be the biggest issue."
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PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Highmark says they're willing to work with UPMC, but UPMC says no way.
Where does that leave you? KDKA-AM's Larry and John talk to Dr Kevin Wong, a local family physician and president of the PA Academy of Family Physicians, about how he is stuck in the middle.
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The Store is a 1932 novel by Thomas Sigismund Stribling. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1933. It is the second book of the Vaidan trilogy, comprising The Forge, The Store, and Unfinished Cathedral.[1] All three books in the trilogy have been kept in print since the mid-1980s by the University of Alabama Press.[2][3][4]
Where The Forge opened up at the beginning of the American Civil War and ended with the abolition of slavery, The Store picks up with the South establishing a new economic order.....
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Colonel Miltiades Vaiden, a decorated Civil War Confederate officer, former overseer of Crowninshield plantation and head of local KKK chapter, personal and economic trials and tribulations during the Reconstruction period. The title, "The Store", is symbolic of Col. Milt's ethical and economic transition from post war poverty to economic independence, set against the "old plantation" culture. The novel describes in blunt language, the cultural stress the old plantation society and former slaves have in adjusting to the post war reconstruction.
- ^ "T. S. Stribling: Southern Literary Maverick" short biography by William E. Smith, Jr. at the University of North Alabama Collier Library website.
- ^ "University of Alabama Press page for The Store" retrieved 5-19-2014.
- ^ "University of Alabama Press page for The Forge" retrieved 5-19-2014.
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MUTARE: The ZANU PF secretary of Administration Cde Didymus Mutasa stirred a hornet's nest a few days ago as he went on a campaign trail addressing disgruntled Mutare City Council employees who have gone unpaid for four months as the Council has run out of cash. To date, there is no hope that the past due salaries will ever be delivered to the suffering workforce.
Comrade Mutasa went on, "This is all because of sanctions which were asked for by Welshman Ncube from America and Britain. That's why the council has failed to pay its employees. Let's find a way of countering that." He stated as he tried to find ways to assuage the flaring tempers among the angry work force who seem not to get plausible explanations, let alone fixed dates of payment, after going with non payment for this long.
According to a Mutare City Council employee who spoke to ZimEye on condition of anonymity for fear of victimization, the Mutare City Council employees have remained unpaid due to maladministration on the part of the City fathers who conducted certain contracts in a reckless fashion.
According to him, "At one time the city "bought" water pipes to the tune of $500 000.00 but the pipes were never delivered by the contracted seller and no action has been implemented to recover the prejudiced figure. Most senior councilors are ZANU PF members as the other half are affiliated with MDC-T."
"One then wonders where and how Ncube fits into this broken picture as he is yanked into a silly blame game. I am sure they have realized the impact that the MDC under Ncube is bringing to the Manicaland Province and they have started this barbaric smear campaign. The fact that the Council now has a bad credit record should not be used by Honorable Mutasa to attack others and falsely accuse them to gain ground. Banks are shunning the City Council on lending issues because the City will not pay back loans. They are broke and have not been careful in their financial operations."
"Such a political message is sheer poisonous propaganda meant to stir hostility against the Ncube-led MDC but is not called for because Ncube
has no council members on the City of Mutare and in any case he never knocked on the USA or America to beg for sanctions. These sanctions were a reaction by the West to stop human rights abuses, way before Mutare City Council became imprudent to buy non-existent goods and lost money. This message sounds ill-timed, malicious and misplaced because it is sent out at a wrong time and to the wrong audience when Europe has just relaxed the very sanctions that Mutasa wants to use to justify local government inefficiency. This is also a time when the Ncube MD is gaining ground in Manicaland at the expense of other political players. In any case let us wait and see how things will change with the
relaxed travel conditions."
At the time of going to Press, Honorable Mutasa could not be reachable for comment on how Ncube's name was pulled into the vortex of unpaid wages and salaries.


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In a restaurant family, you're never just hungry — you're starving to death. And you're never full — you're stuffed.
Patricia Volk's family is as American (background: Austrian-Jewish) as "Rhapsody in Blue." They came to these shores determined to make their mark; each of them is a piquant morsel of history. Great-grandfather Sussman Volk brought pastrami to the New World. Grandfather Jacob was known as "the Most Destructive Force on Wall Street" and was memorialized by E. B. White as "the greatest wrecker of all time" for his innovative method of demolition. Uncle Albert was the first man to stir scallions into cream cheese. The last of Grandfather Herman Morgen's fourteen restaurants was a famous garment center hangout. One grandmother won the 1916 trophy for "Best Legs in Atlantic City." The other was a three-hundred-pound calendar girl. Ms. Volk's handsome, demanding restaurateur father invented the Six-color Retractable Pen and Pencil Set and the Double-sided Cigarette Lighter (so you never have to worry which end is up). For three generations, just about every Volk and Morgen (with the exception of Uncle Al, who had an eleven-year affair with Aunt Lil and then refused to marry her because she wasn't a virgin) has, no matter what the circumstances, exhibited a terrifyingly positive attitude. With a cosmic disdain for the status quo, all of them — the tyrants, do-gooders, lovers, martyrs, and fakes — lived at full tilt.
Stuffed is a wildly funny yet unsparing look at how families work.
"Novelist/essayist Volk pens a stylishly written memoir that's really a series of portraits of the memorable characters who make up her extended family...one beguiling vignette after another, and a good number of welcome reprises. Volk's classy prose, as smooth on its wheels as a Bentley, makes it work like a wonder....Emotionally luxurious and heart-gladdening." Kirkus Reviews
"Toward the end of Stuffed, my reading slowed to a crawl. I hated to let go of a single vivid, funny, occasionally misguided but always big-hearted member of this great New York family. Like the best novelists, Patricia Volk gives us an entire world." Frances Kiernan, author of Seeing Mary Plain : A Life of Mary McCarthy
"This remarkable memoir is more than just the food flavors of Patricia Volk's childhood growing up in a restaurant family in New York. It is chock full of the flavors of growing up in Middle Class America — I laughed, I cried, it is a treat!" Joan Nathan, author of The Foods of Israel Today
"This funny, heartbreaking book is good enough to eat. A whole lost world is conjured up here, with a vitality and love of daily life that has no time for sentimentality." Phillip Lopate
"What Marcel Proust did for the madeleine, Patricia Volk has achieved for Mattie's chocolate cake. This inspired journey through family history, like Proust's masterpiece, treats the reader to the re-creation of an era, with brilliantly observed details of dress, menu, manners, commerce and psychological mishigas. Cheers for Stuffed, a four star memoir." Sidney Offit, author of Memoir of the Bookie's Son
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"Patricia Volk's family of restaurateurs are what they serve — too much and delicious. Stuffed with life themselves, they bustle around their own story as if they're perpetually late with the soup. We, in turn, could devour them forever. This book will become your favorite place to eat." Roger Rosenblatt
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Why Domestic Violence Victims Don't Always Leave. {Video} ~ Jennifer Spesia
"When I am asked why a man/woman doesn't leave their abuser I say: They stay because the fear of leaving is greater than the fear of staying. They will leave when the fear of staying is greater than the fear of leaving." ~ Rebecca J. Burns, "The Last Straw"
I was once involved in an abusive relationship and have faced insensitive judgment and criticism from people who say things like, "I would never have stayed," as if staying was indicative of their strength and wisdom, and my subsequent weakness and stupidity.
Domestic violence is perpetrated against both men and women, however, one in three American women will be involved in an abusive relationship at some point in their lives, so it is important to understand why they (we) do not walk out the door after the first incident of violence.
Instead of subjecting the victim to further injury by asking them why they did not leave, ask them what you can do to support them in their healing. Compassion goes much further than judgment, and until you walk in someone else's shoes, please don't assume you know anything about them or their motivations for staying.
Jennifer Spesia is a yoga teacher, world traveler, psychotherapist, philosopher, seeker, practitioner of Eastern spiritual traditions, Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa), human companion to three amazing dogs and eternal student. She will complete her PhD in Psychology in 2013 and is looking forward to having the time to read books for pleasure again soon. You can connect with Jennifer via her Bhadra Yoga Facebook page or her blog.
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Heartfelt appreciation for your courage in narrating some of your journey and for providing an exceptional presentation link.
In the video, she provides a much needed nudge towards a perceptual shift which is absolutely required, if we'll commence healing this collective phenomenon. I used the term commence intentionally, since while some recipients of abuse have, thankfully, escaped and rebuilt their lives, from my experience, they are the exceptions (and their progression is often an arduous and long term endeavor). Taking that critical step away is a start, individually, yet we must break the chains of abuse across the generations, to accomplish the family and cultural healing aspects.
Many of my relationships have been with appreciably abused souls, and for us, all facets of our relationships were impacted by past experiences. So, mothers and fathers, wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters and sons, all must work through the shadows holding these patterns in place (&, sadly, the phenomenon is increasing). I'd write more, except this is your story and I don't want to detract from it (& this topic often results in my excess expressions).
My final comment is that while I deeply respected her wonderful presentation, she does suggest some absolutes which differ from my experiences, so a few of her statements, and even some of her statistics, *seem* slightly biased (not in a negative or embellishing way, just skewed).
Deep appreciation to you, and may your journey exceed your most blissful imaginative dreams!
Thank you very much for this video.
Thank you for posting this and for sharing your personal experience. However, I wish it was not accompanied by that fashion-y, made-up pic of the half-dead-looking model. It is triggering, gratuitous, and disrespectful to survivors who can't walk way and wash their "bruises" off after the photo shoot is over. I realize it must be difficult to find images to illustrate this subject matter, but I think this was a really poor choice.
Thank you again for sharing your journey and this resource for help & healing! Peace.
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The photo is an incredibly poor judgement…it contributes to the glamorization of the abuse of women.
The question should never be "why did they stay?" Instead it should be, "why did they abuse?"
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[…] the all too familiar case of someone who has been in abusive relationships. They vow, "Never again." They find someone new and this one is different from the […]
[…] He seemed relieved that I chose not to confront him. […]
[…] course, it is necessary to be aware of abusive relationships. These are absolutely necessary to sever and the ability to do so will foster another facet of […]
[…] I stay with him? Will it ever get better? What will everyone think? Why am I so stupid? If only I had done things […]
This very tough subject of wanting to support but not knowing how to support someone in an abusive relationship is really valuable. Taking the position that people make judgements about the victim of abuse is very accurate, and something I've experienced is those judgements come from cognitive dissonance. People want to feel safe, and those things that threaten the sense of safety-like the disturbing knowledge of violence in intimate relationships, has people create a distance between themselves and the victim. She asked for it, why doesn't she leave, what is she doing that causes his behavior are all ways of saying "it wouldn't happen to me because I would do differently than she in the same situation. The illusion of safety and a sane world live in this line of thinking. But the isolated victim who does speak up is the start of the way out and back, and if we-any one of us-has someone tell us of their being a victim of violence with an intimate partner, we as caring human beings must do what we can. Offer what might help, stay on with the person showing support and trust that they will do the right thing. Really good to be talking about this tough subject.


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ACC Rewind: SDPI
If you want the meat of the article, skip this next paragraph as it just gives an example of how the SDPI is calculated. The mean points scored and allowed for all ACC teams in conference play (championship game not included) was 162 points. The standard deviation for points scored was 35.97. The standard deviation for points allowed was 51.18. Coastal Division champ Georgia Tech scored 213 and allowed 155 points. Georgia Tech's offensive SDPI was 1.42 = ([213-162]/35.97). Their defensive SDPI was .14 = ([162-155]/51.18). Their total SDPI was 1.55 (not 1.56 because the other two were rounded). In the 2006 ACC, that was good for third best.
First here's the link to the 2006 ACC Standings to refresh your memory.
Now here are the 2006 SDPI Standings.
Virginia Tech 2.02
Clemson 1.81
Georgia Tech 1.55
Boston College 1.32
Wake Forest 0.69
Florida State 0.42
Virginia -0.15
Miami -0.29
Maryland -0.45
NC State -0.93
North Carolina -2.63
Duke -3.36
If you thought Wake Forest was doing it with smoke and mirrors, well you were probably right. SDPI has Wake Forest as an above average, but middling team (5th place in the league). The league's best team, according to SDPI, did not get to participate in the title game thanks to their mid-season struggles. Although 3 of the 4 Tobacco Road schools finished with at least 6 losses, its clear North Carolina and Duke were in a league of their own in terms of ineptitude.
Best Offense: Georgia Tech 1.42
Despite the best efforts of Reggie Ball the Yellow Jackets did post the league's best offensive SDPI.
Worst Offense: North Carolina -1.47
Yes they were worse than Duke.
Best Defense: Virginia Tech 1.35
In their last 4 conference games, the Hokies gave up 23 points.
Worst Defense: Duke -2.31
Held only one team to under 20 points (Wake Forest) and still lost thanks to a blocked field goal. Interestingly, the best and worst from each category all came from the Coastal Division.
Best Team that Didn't Go to a Bowl: Virginia -0.15
The Cavs were 4-4 in the ACC (about what you would expect given the almost average ranking), but failed to go bowling thanks to a 1-3 mark in non-conference play.
Worst Team that Went to a Bowl: Maryland -0.45
All 5 of their conference wins came by 6 points or less, including two by a single point, one by two, and one by three.
Toughest Schedule (ranked by sum of opponent's SDPI): Maryland 4.42
Maybe that's why they played so many close games. No Hokies, but also no Heels or Devils on the schedule.
Easiest Schedule (ranked by sum of opponent's SDPI): Georgia Tech -3.98
Jackets had the easiest schedule and won their division. Coincidence? Played the Atlantic's best (Clemson), but also the two worst (Maryland and NC State).
Entire Schedule Strength (hardest to easiest)
Maryland 4.42
Duke 2.93
NC State 2.56
Clemson 1.99
North Carolina 1.34
Boston College -0.09
Virginia Tech -1.06
Miami -1.28
Florida State -1.36
Wake Forest -1.80
Virginia -3.67
Georgia Tech -3.98
Team(s) Likely to Decline: Wake Forest and Maryland
The Deacs are not going to win the ACC again next year obviously, but should be competitive and go to a mid-level bowl game. Maryland's unbelievable luck in close games will not continue and don't be shocked to see The Fridge's boys in the Atlantic basement next season.
Team(s) Likely to Improve: Virginia and NC State
The Cavs were a very young team in 2006, but were still actually about average. Expect 2007 to be Groh's best in Charlottesville. NC State finished 2-6, but they were much closer to Maryland in terms of SDPI than either of their basement brethren on Tobacco Road. Tom O'Brien was a great hire and NC State will contend for a bowl game in 2007.


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Sumter, SC (WLTX) - Sumter police have charged a woman they say stabbed her husband in the neck with a knife.
Brittany Elaine Odom, 22, was booked at the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center.
Officers say back on October 23, the victim came into Tuomey Hospital's emergency room with a neck wound. The man told them that he was stabbed by a man with a kitchen knife.
Investigators, though, began interviewing the man's family, including his wife Brittany, and got a different story. An incident report states Odom told police the two had gotten into a fight and he had hit her. The officers reported seeing bruising on the woman.
Police concluded that at some point during the argument, she stabbed her husband.