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Rome - Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti on Tuesday won the first two of four confidence votes called to accelerate the passage of his labour reform that has been criticised by both by labour unions and the business establishment.
The final two votes, and definitive approval of the reform, are due on Wednesday.
If the government lost one of the votes Monti would have to resign. But the prime minister is considered certain to win, as the main parties backing his technocrat government have already promised their support, albeit often grudgingly.
Monti's right-left coalition has grown increasingly uneasy with the prime minister as his popularity has dropped to 33 percent, less than half the 71 percent he had when he took office in November, according to an SWG poll.
Monti's predecessor Silvio Berlusconi, after meeting the prime minister for lunch on Tuesday, complained that three-quarters of the supporters of his People of Liberty (PDL) party do not approve of the government.
But Berlusconi said his party would continue to support Monti because out of a sense of responsibility amid the ongoing euro zone debt crisis.
Monti's labour reform was formally sent to parliament three months ago after weeks of negotiations with labour unions and employers, but it quickly ran aground as political parties sought to modify it.
The result is a watered down reform that trade unions criticise fearing an increase in lay-offs, that employers say will raise labour costs, and that many economists view as timid for a labour market that needs a major shake-up.
The difficulties of the labour reform marked the beginning of Monti's political troubles and accelerated his slide in the polls that had started when the tough austerity measures he passed last year began to take hold.
Monti last week asked his political supporters to pass the reform to bolster his political credibility before negotiations on the future of the single currency at the European Union summit on Thursday.
The legislation aims to ease firing procedures, broaden unemployment benefits from 2017 and end abuses to temporary hiring schemes that allowed employers to avoid taking on full-time workers.
In order to get the law passed before the summit, Monti told parties he would introduce some corrective measures separately in coming months. - Reuters
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Jun 23, 2005 10:00:00
Hi everyone!
I'm looking for a way to include another
page in a jsp page without passing in all this page's parameters.
I know you can include a page with <jsp:include page="nextpage.jsp"> or <%@ include file="nextpage.jsp" %>, but the problem is that in nextpage.jsp if you call request.getParameter(...), it will have all the parameters that the original page has.
Is there some way to not pass in all the parameters automatically?
Thanks for your ideas.
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By definition an include happens within the scope of the same request, so, yes, the parameters will be available.
Why is this an issue?
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Jun 23, 2005 10:39:00
OK Let's say I want to display some information on a side bar of every page on my site, and this side bar is an include to a search page (called search.jsp) that returns the latest however many things you want. Let's say it returns a list of cars for sale.
I can override the parameters like this:
<jsp:include page="search.jsp"> <jsp :-P aram name="resultLength" value="5" /> <jsp :-P aram name="vehicleMake" value="Ford" /> </jsp:include>
Now let's say this search.jsp can also take a parameter called "new". If "new" is not null, search.jsp only returns new cars. This would be usefull if search.jsp was being called from a form and the form contained a checkbox called "new". If it wasn't checked, there would be no "new" parameter being passed in to search.jsp.
But if any page on my web site contains a parameter "new", it will be passed in to searc.jsp and it will only return new cars.
So my question is now: Is there a way to null out or remove certain parameters from being passed into an include page?
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Jun 23, 2005 11:01:00
I tend to use a richer namespace such that parameter names within a web app are unique (in that a name like 'new' would never be used to mean different things in different places thus eliminating the possibility of such confusion).
Or, you could be explicit in your include params, always being sure to explicitly set the value of any params that could be confusing to the included page.
Under JSP 2.0, I tend not to use include files at all, but favor creating tag files where the inputs to the tags are not implicitly passed request parameters or scoped variables, but explicitly specified tag attributes. If you're on JSP 2.0, this is an avenue you could explore.
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Jun 23, 2005 13:33:00
OK So I've concluded that it's impossible to restrict the parameters that are going into an included page, at least not without a bit of programming. If you really need this and you're not afraid of a bit of programming, do this:
Make yourself a class called CustomRequest that implements HttpServletRequest. In the constructor, pass in your request object and the new parameters you want as a Hashtable. In all the many many methods that you have to implement, simply call the request object's method on that method, except for the getParameter... methods where you should return values from your own hashtable. Make one more public static method called "include" that takes as parameters: request, response, out, the filename to include, an array of new parameter names, and an array of parameter values.
Then in this "include" method, do this:
1. flush out
2. pack your parameters from the arrays into a hashtable called params.
3. construct the uri of the include file, based on request.getRequestURI() and the filename passed in. Call it uri.
4. run the following lines of code
HttpServletRequest customRequest = new CustomRequest(request, params);
request.getRequestDispatcher(uri).include(customRequest, response);
In your jsp, call it like this:
<% your.package.CustomRequest.include("include.jsp", new String[] {"fruit", "colour"}, new String[] {"orange", "pink"}, request, response, out); %>
Please don't ask me for the code; it's copywrited out of my control. And I'm going to stop monitoring this thread, so have a nice day.
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And I'm going to stop monitoring this thread, so have a nice day.
You're welcome. I'm so glad that I spent my time on this.
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You're probably thinking that I've lost track of what day it is because it's only Thursday and here I am posting about weekend DIYs already. But I promise, I know what day it is. I'm just a little behind after my trip and need to take this extra day to catch up behind the scenes.
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›› High school girls basketball: Eastwood vs. Franklin
In a tight, low-scoring ballgame in the first half against Eastwood, Franklin girls basketball coach Marlee Webb told her players they needed to get some intensity going in the second half.
Holding just a 17-13 lead over the Troopers at halftime, the Cougars did that, and picked up their defensive pressure, to outscore Eastwood 32-11 in the second half and rout the Troopers 49-24 Tuesday night at Eastwood High School. With the win, the Cougars stayed undefeated (6-0) in District 1-5A play.
"We kind of had a slow start," Cougar senior post Carlie Akina said. "But we got into the locker room (at halftime), coach kind of picked us up. We all came together as a team, pushed each other and that's what helped us out.
"We executed really well tonight."
The 24 points is the second fewest given up in a game this season by Franklin. The Cougars only gave up 20 points in a win over Albuquerque West Mesa on Dec. 27 and have given up 25 on two occasions earlier in the year.
Franklin (13-3 overall) trailed 8-3 early and 8-7 at the end of the first quarter before taking the four-point lead at halftime. After that, the Cougars went on a 16-2 run in the third quarter to lead 33-15 heading into the fourth quarter.
The Cougars kept that momentum up, going on a 10-3 run to start the final eight minutes and led 44-18 with just over three minutes left in the ballgame.
Franklin forced 14 second-half turnovers from the Troopers and 23 for the game.
"We just started pressuring more and that got our energy going," Cougars coach Marlee Webb said. "I thought that's what we really needed was the energy. Once we did that, we started executing better and it feel into place after that.
"Defensively, if we can be solid, those days where we're not shooting well or things aren't going our way, that will at least win us games."
Franklin point guard Laneah Bryan, who's averaging 20.5 points per game, had another stelar performance with 24 points on the night with 17 in the second half after she was in foul trouble in the second quarter.
Akina also had a solid game in the post with 11 points and seven rebounds while junior Jenessa Taylor also brought down eight rebounds for the Cougars.
Akina (10.5 points, 9.1 rebounds) and Taylor (10.1 points, 9.4 boards per game) are averaging nearly a double-double every game.
Eastwood (10-9 overall) had been competitive against other top District 1-5A teams, losing 46-40 to Bel Air and 47-42 to Coronado. However, the Troopers fall to 2-4 in District 1-5A play and went through a few scoring lulls Tuesday night.
Eastwood only scored two points in the third quarter and went about seven minutes without scoring a basket in the first half. Senior guard Sarah Skov led the Troopers with 10 points and five rebounds.


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I've become infatuated of late with the tapered waist diner coffee mug. Why? Because I'm a geek. But wait! There's more.
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2. Aesthetics: the tapered waist mug is a beautiful thing. Evocative of Art Deco, the retro look just mewls cool. You know it.
3. Function: The diner mug is curved so as to conform properly to the lips. Very nice. It's also a thick enough ceramic to keep the heat of the joe from scorching the lips.
4. The wave effect: diner mugs eschew the wave effect, meaning there is less sloshing. Like baffles in a supertanker. Right?
Anyway, I love the diner mug, the tapered waist cup. Iffen you ever visit Velociman that is what ye shall partake mudda, by God.
Here's my latest acquisition, by the way. I was going to steal it, and was in fact out the door, until my best friend stepped up to the plate and forked the bastards $4 to save my soul. Oh, well. Behold the IHOP mug:
My next acquisition? The Waffle House mug, naturally:
A wink and a nod to Mel Blanc. Voice of America.
Now, about the next paradigm...
I'll be posting video of Tommy Lee getting his knob scobbed by Pammy in a few days. I can't get enough of that, you know?
I'm not too up on copyright laws, so perhaps my new meme, the Pr0n Meme, should focus on home-made videos.
Thoughts, ladies?
Rules are made to be broken, eh? Especially one's own. Hell, I'm in the doghouse now because I keep breaking my own rules. Which is strange, because they're my rules.
Anyway, the moratorium on rocka rolla videos is temporarily lifted (here, anyway), because I found this Nils Lofgren video.
Tex Be Thy Name.
Sorry. I just realized we hadn't set the dogma on this yet.
Hubris and starvation drive this classic tale. I present:
Woody Woodpecker in 1941's Pantry Panic. Sure, Woody lost the Best Actor Oscar to Gary Cooper for Sergeant York in 1941, but we know he wuz robbed. Hell, Orson Welles lost out for Citizen Kane that year, too. It's not who you know, it's who you blow, right?
I'm not saying this writer has issues. I'm merely suggesting he's totally fucked up.
I wonder when the female edition comes out?
By the way, it's hell being a trendsetter. You're only as good as your last failure. Therefore, as humbled as I am by everyone else's glomming onto the fact I am lazy as hell and posted old rock videos as a result, I must declare that meme daid.
No, the new paradigm is old cartoon videos from our collective childhoods. Even worse for you non-boomers than old Lennon videos. But I grew up watching the fuzzy black & white from 6 AM to 7 AM with no one watching me. How I met the Stooges. It marked me.
Anyway, I begin the new thang with a classic Merry Melodies cartoon:
Let's just say my ex-host was holding my domain hostage in a nasty man thong, and it took me a while to find a
Mutant volunteer to go fetch it. And leave it at that.
Rest In Popov, Boris.
I'll miss him. The dude could bust a move.
Whosomever can fixeth my comments shall receive a prize, as yet undetermined, predicated upon my whim.
I'll entertain offers for compensation as well. Unfortunately, the lack of comments seriously kills the laugh quotient on that idea.
That true, for sure. The quote is oft attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman. The fiend who burned my homeland to the ground, and set himself up in a bilious satrapie in my very own church rectory in Savannah once he'd scorched Georgia unto submssion. Not really true, that quote, but he must wear it now, don't he?
Eh, fuck it. In his shoes, I'd a done the same thing. The burn thing. That's what you do with insurgents, rebellious hammerheads. You bring it home. Make them feel the pain. War is Hell. Properly applied, of course.
I told someone today: there ain't no winners in a war. Only survivors. And I hope I am one, at the end of the day. All wars are wars of attrition, unfortunately.
Last fool standing. There's your glory.
So after the milestone birfday I find out that as of 5 PM today I am the preening father of an official NFL cheerleader. A Jacksonville Jaguars Roar girl.
I'm proud of my daughter, my Emmy. I surely am. Brutal, brutal competition.
She's da Bomb.
I just want to know where I have to go to get my youth back!
Ain't happening, is it? That's okay. I'm very proud of my girl.
Here's a picture of Rosie's canned strawberries, from her aunt's recipe:
Wow! Those look scrumptious! Unfortunately, the only things my mom ever canned included the bacteriterrorist botulinium. She was a horrid canner, and her product was woeful unto the intestines.
I can share my own favorite canned good, however:
Rasputin's cock!
He may have been full of shit in the hemophilia curing gig, but he had game going on summaires! And, yes, GV has crawled back into his shell to hide. But I must say Mr. Ed did, too, after seeing that. And Trigger.
Break left!
I bow before no man in my admiration of Burton Cummings as one of the greatest fucking rock and rollers of all time. Here American Woman, 1970:
That's sweet shit. Now here's Burton in 2003, purloining his own legacy:
I'm a jaundiced old boomer. I don't need to see this tired shit. He was beating a damned cow bell, for God's sake. Iffen I wanted to see somebody burn out that bad, why, I'd just go to a Swingin' Medallions concert. Not hard to find one. They play every city every fucking day, it seems.
What did De Niro say in The Deer Hunter? Oh, yeah.
One shot.
I don't post about my birthday on my birthday, you know. Going linkwhoring, and all. Especially on them milestoners. At least not recently. It's unseemly business, and I've been striving to be very seemly lately.
However, since so many loyal and dedicated readers of my bile saw fit to honor the occasion, I must at least acknowledge that fact. Elisson, Rosie, Leslie, Key, Denny, Erica, Richard, Marci, Jessica... I'm tetched by your thoughtfulness. And also to the many commenters, who were too fucking lazy to gimme a post or a call. Ye shall be haunted, verily, by midjits and sideshow freaks in your dreams. Preferably the ones borned without bones.
For what it's worth, because I know ya'll are dying not to know, I had dinner with two beautiful young ladies. My fustust and lastust born. The twin apples of mine eye. I had the bloody ribeye, they dined more delicately upon salad, and chicken stroppings.
Oh, how those chickens must cry when flayed into slender strips like that. I should have had veal, to compleat the Feast of Agonized Creatures.
A calm night for me, as I am apparently eligible for all manner of discounts, and excrudations (and you know what those are).
As a newly-minted Senior Citizen I suppose it is incumbent upon me to pack the thrill hammer away, and take up a nice hobby like whittling. I must work unfortunately, a bit longer. Those four years in Bhutan, pleasure-milking the yaks for a criminally cheap 30 ngultrums a day was exciting stuff, but got me off my retirement plan.
I do like those North Georgia mountains, though. And settling up there with a boffo yak-milking scheme might not be so bad. A dollar a picture, $20 for a reacharound video? Easy retirement money, iffen the ngultrum holds up against the dollar.
I'll need a photographer, of course. And a large animal veterinarian. Any takers?
P.S. Simone owed me reciprocal birthday tidings, since hers was last week, yet I await, saddened. Abiding, but saddened.
Those who know me (and ye are few) know how I despise the Jitterbug phones. Stupidified cell phones for, let's face it, our decrepitly aged parents. Their slogan should be "Even you can operate it, you fucking moron."
My fave is the Jitterbug One Touch. It's really a three touch, of course. 3 big, BIG buttons:
Hep! Hep! Fix my broken wing! My colon's twisted, too!
I'm broked down! Canne givva lift? I doned run the Caddylac aground agin!
Heart attack! Going down! Myocardial infarctixxsnxzz... Never mind.
Man, I wish I could pare my life down to three buttons. Actually, I probably could.
NO SMOKES! button
NO BOOZE! button
NO TWAT! button
Of course, all that would fall by the wayside when I looked imploringly at my taxicab delivered prostitute, Saran-wrapped with Winstons and minibottles, and gasped, JJJJJItterbug! Face it. No game there.
Anyway, these phones give me the creeps. Should my parents even be alive I would counsel against them. "No good!" I would say. "I always thought of you as more organic. Don't you fucking hit that TOW button!". I have a reputation to uphold, you know.
I have a new business model in mind. Based on the rampant STD's the old folk are sharing at The Villages, and other active retirement homes: Jitbug. One button. A shot of intense antibiotics in the bum bum. All done.
I like it.
And because there ain't no Biafra to bitch about anymore. And I just do this to piss off Steve H.
Meet REQUIP! The medication proven to cure my Restless Leg Syndrome.
I'm happy about that. But, truth be told, I hope they don't come up with a cure for Restless Dick Syndrome.
When we moved to the farm in 1966 we effectively went from two television channels (three when you were lucky and could pick up ABC from Charleston) to zero. Signals were weak. What you could get, even with an antenna, were fuzzy ghost images, a bit of audio. Black and white, of course.
Then the Senator came home with a fancy antenna with remote direction. You could turn the antenna hither and thus, via remote control, and hone in on a signal. This was huge bidness. It was only connected to his television upstairs in the master bedroom, of course, where resided, by the way, the only color television in the house. In his magnaminity the Senator had decided that the family deserved color TV, and a state-of-the-art rotating antenna. But only in his room. We scrubs could settle for the black and white ghost images downstairs. He was generous like that.
It didn't work out that way, of course. As the parents had a king-size bed, we would all get our baths and sprawl all over my parents' bed, and watch TV up there. With 3 channel options we were pretty much in accord most of the time, too. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Time Tunnel. The Invaders. Seven people in that bed, and my mother was probably in hoggie heaven.
The Senator was there, of course, but whether he was awake or not was a throw of the die. He generally dined early, and burrowed himself into a mountain of blanketed, snoring content. He thought television was bullshit. Personally I think he was disgusted by the fact there was no pornography. He was an avid aficionado of the naked female form, and likely thought TV was a brilliant medium, wasted. Just a theory.
So anyway, here's how I remember this story. I believe we were all ensconced on the bed, watching The Smothers Brothers or some such. Recollection and legend are uncomfortable roommates, to say the least, but legend wins out, usually. Seems at the climactic point of a show the Senator roused from the fever swamps of his slumbers, addlepated from an earlier bout with John Barleycorn. He stared blankly around, attempting to focus, and blurted out
"Well, Little Miss Earlymouth! What pig are you riding?!?!"
I've tried, over the years, through suasion and necromancy, to enter that dream. It still exists somewhere, a bit of subconscious ephemera, floating like gossamer in the space-time continuum, but to no avail. For that had to be one kinghell dream. Parse it as I might, it could only have been pig races of some sort. Was the Senator racing a pig? Little Miss Earlymouth certainly was. Were the pigs saddled? Who won?
The Senator professed no recollection of that dream later, of course. Naifs that we were, we thought nothing of querying him incessantly over the thing, and precisely who Little Miss Earlymouth was. But the Senator hadn't fallen off a turnip truck. He wasn't budging, especially in front of our mother.
The old man had probably been flogging Miss Earlymouth with a riding crop in his dreams for years, for all I know. But if one of us was indelicate enough to broach the subject, he would merely stare down the dinner table and aver "I have no idea what you're talking about". With threats of retribution both express and implied in that statement. We eventually let it drop.
So there's a Senator story for you. Triple-X dream sequences, busted. Racing swine. A young lass with (apparently favorable) oral issues. I just may try to channel that dream again tonight.
And so it goes...
Not a bad video for 1966. Maybe I'll just post Beatles videos from YouTube until my tail grows back.
Thar my sitemeter.
Man, it's like the roller coaster that never went back up. It's like thrombosis, whatever the hell that is. Sounds painful, so I'm in.
Could have something to do with the fact I quit posting a while back, but I would submit Hemingway sold better the year after his meeting with Dick Cheney (oh, you didn't know that?) than the year before, so who knows?
The Shadow Knows.
Maybe onlyElisson and Denny gets that. Which fact I appreciate.
Man, I'm too old for this gig.
Lookit: this is my my favorite pinko puppet, you bastards. Fuck with him, you fuck with Jack Straw.
Or something like that... him being dead and all.
Enjoy the video, as Che admonished us.
And it's uncanny how much Lennon looks like Puddyhead there. But that is a thread of a different color, as they say.
And I AM a gentleman. I never even mentioned the fact that his wife was knitting some kind of Workers' Party lobster bib onstage, whilst she was blindfolded like an Iranian hostage.
They had it all wrong. Woman isn't the Nigger of the World. Yoko is.


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|Mortality among UK Gulf War veterans.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 10892759 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|BACKGROUND: Armed forces personnel who served in the Gulf War report more current ill-health than those who were not deployed. There has been concern expressed that they may also experience higher mortality rates. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study was done including all 53462 UK Gulf War veterans (Gulf cohort) and a comparison group equivalent in size of personnel who were not deployed but matched for age, sex, rank, service, and level of fitness (Era cohort). Individuals were identified on central registers of the Office for National Statistics and information on death among cohort subjects, including cause of death, obtained. Follow-up extended from April 1, 1991 (the end of the Gulf War) until March 31, 1999. FINDINGS: There were 395 deaths among the Gulf cohort and 378 deaths amongst the Era cohort (mortality rate ratio [MRR] 1.05, 95% CI 0.91-1.21). Mortality from "external" causes was higher in the Gulf cohort (Gulf 254, Era 216; MRR 1.18 [0.98-1.42] while mortality from "disease-related" causes was lower (Gulf 122, Era 141; 0.87 [0.67-1.11]). The higher mortality rate from "external" causes in the Gulf cohort was principally due to higher mortality rates from accidents. There was, however, no excess of deaths recorded as suicide in the Gulf cohort. INTERPRETATION: This follow-up of veterans of the Gulf war has shown, 8 years after the end of the conflict, that although they have experienced higher mortality rates than a comparison cohort, the excess mortality rate is very small and does not approach statistical significance. The excess is related mainly to accidents rather than disease, a pattern that is consistent both with US veterans of the Gulf war and veterans from other conflicts.
|G J Macfarlane; E Thomas; N Cherry
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SPARKS, NV - The Sparks Police Department has identified the two drivers involved in Monday's road rage incident that led to one man being shot.
Devin Larry Churchill, 46, was shot in the chest Monday morning when he stepped out of his Mustang to confront the driver of an SUV that according to police was tailgating behind him.
The alleged shooter, 40-year-old Kristian Francis Rodgers of Fernley,
and the victim were stopped at a red-light just off the Vista Blvd exit on I-80 around 9 a.m. According to police, Churchill got out of his car to confront Rodgers when he was shot.
Detectives are hoping to identify the driver of an 18-wheel truck that might have been a witness to the incident.
Any witnesses to any part of the road rage or shooting incidents are encouraged to contact Sparks P.D.
The shooting closed I-80 westbound exit at Vista Blvd for about four hours Monday.
If you have any information regarding this incident please contact Sparks Detectives at 775-353-2225, Sparks Dispatch at 775-353-2231 or Secret Witness at 775-322-4900.


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Monday January 11, 2010Dunlap to Declare for NFL Draft
Gainesville, Fla.
Gainesville, Fla.
Florida junior defensive end Carlos Dunlap (North Charleston, S.C.) will declare for the 2010 NFL Draft.
The 6-foot-6, 290-pound defender led the Gators with nine sacks in 2009 and finishes his collegiate career tied for No. 10 on Floridas all-time sack list with 19.5.
This took a lot of thought and prayer between me and my family, and we decided that this was the best direction for me to take, Dunlap said. I've loved having the chance to play at Florida for Coach [Urban] Meyer, and playing for Coach Charlie Strong. I wouldn't be the person or the player I am today without them and the other coaches who have helped me along the way.
Dunlap tallied 38 tackles in 13 games this season and was a force at the line of scrimmage, recording 10.5 tackles for loss and six pass breakups. He was named All-SEC by the SEC coaches, the Associated Press and Sporting News and was a semifinalist for the Lombardi Award.
Carlos has all of the physical tools to be successful at the next level, said Meyer. I believe if he continues to grow and mature he will have a very long career in the NFL. He provided matchup problems for opposing teams and was a big part of our success during the last several years. We wish him the best of luck.
In his three years at UF, Dunlap was part of two SEC Eastern Division-winning teams, including the 2008 National and SEC Champions. He was the Defensive MVP of the Gators 24-14 victory over Oklahoma in the BCS National Championship Game following the 2008 season. In 2007, Dunlap was selected to the SEC Freshman Academic Honor Roll.
Following his performance at the BCS National Championship Game, Dunlap was named Mayor for the Day in his hometown of North Charleston, S.C., on March 13, 2009, which was proclaimed Carlos Dunlap Day. As part of the festivities, Dunlap was presented a key to the city during a pep rally.
The NFL Draft will be held April 22-24 at Radio City Music Hall in New York.
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November 29, 2015
The Newport and New Matamoras food pantries have something to celebrate this holiday season. 392 cans from Frontier High School were collected through a food drive organized by four ambitious sophomores.
Jessi Crosby, CJ Cunningham, Christen Canter ,and Emily Lemasters recently attended a leadership conference at Wright State University where they were inspired by Patrick Klein of PB&J Consultants and the iBelieve Foundation. They were challenged by Klein and then set the goal for themselves of 300 cans school wide.
A proud school principal, Jack Mental, said he was very excited they were able to have such a positive impact on the community, "I am very proud of the kids who organized and grateful to all who participated in making this a success."
Pizza parties were held for the homerooms with the greatest participation, which included Mr. Murphy, Ms. Alden, and Ms. Kincaid's classes.
(Student Shown - From Left to Right - Emily Lemasters, Jessi Crosby, Christen Canter, and CJ Cunningham.)
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The garage ranks as one the most disorganized rooms in the house, according to several highly rated professional organizers on Angie's List. It can become a dumping ground for toys, sports equipment and tools. But that disorganized garage may be costing you more than just space.
Here's how clutter could be costing you: How much time have you wasted looking for things you know you have, but can't find? Have you ever bought a duplicate item just because you couldn't find it? And are you parking your vehicles outdoors because there's no room in the garage? If so, that's wear and tear on your vehicles.
Angie's List asked highly rated organizers how to keep the clutter from crowding out the family car.
Angie's List Tips: Reclaiming your garage space
- Ceiling Storage: Overhead storage is a great way to instantly gain space in your garage. These storage devices consist of a wire rack that hangs from your garage ceiling. Different sizes are available based on your needs, and most are rated to hold hundreds of pounds.
- Wall Storage: Wall storage is great to store tools and loose items that would be lost on the garage floor. You can find kits that are specifically designed for tool storage, or you could even invest in wall-bolted cabinets or wire basket storage. When organizing, group like items together. If using boxes, be sure to label the outside so you won't have to dig through all of them while looking for one specific item.
- Epoxy flooring: Provides a clean, finished look to your floor. The hardened, high-gloss polish resists scuffing and abrasions. Epoxy flooring comes in a variety of colors.
"If you don't have time to get your garage organized yourself it might be worth investing in a professional organizer," said Angie Hicks, founder of Angie's List. "You need to talk to the organizer to determine what they can bring to the table and make sure the outcome is going to be something you're going to be able to live with."
Professional organizers help homeowners sort, purge, categorize and put items back in a way that makes the most sense to the individual. They will often discard unwanted items, either by donating them to a charity or consignment shop or posting items for sale online. Some organizers sell storage products and install them, while others handle the de-cluttering and bring in help to install cabinets and perform other tasks.
Angie's List Tips: Hiring an organizer
- Do your research: Typically a license is not required for a professional organizer so essentially anyone can say they can organize your home. Do your research to be sure you're hiring someone with experience and a good local reputation. Angie's List and professional organizations like the National Association of Professional Organizers can help guide you to the right local person. Ask if they specialize in garages.
- Meet up: Many professional organizers offer a no-charge, no-obligations consultation, which allows you to meet the person who will be in your home going through your space. Ask questions about their experience and their ideas for how best to organize your home. If you don't feel comfortable with them, hire someone else.
- Payment: Find out how they charge if it's by the hour or by the project and if there are additional charges for things like storage products, epoxy floors, custom workplaces or disposal/donation fees. Is there anything you should buy before the job begins?
- What tools do they use? Some organizers used 3D design software that can give you an idea of what your space will look like.
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Suffolk County's Oldest No-kill Animal Shelter
Suffers Sandy's Wrath.
Suffolk County's Little Shelter no-kill animal shelter has suffered severe damage due to Hurricane Sandy and is asking for the public's help to get back on their feet again as volunteers, staff, and supporters have been working around the clock in an effort to repair the damage.
"With this devastation our kennel 2 building is out of commission," says Maryann Chernovsky, president of Little Shelter. "We are limited in our ability to rescue more animals in danger and that is what we are here for.
In the first two hours of the storm Little Shelter's second kennel building, which houses dogs, was crushed by a large nearby oak tree. Later, two more trees pierced through the roof of the cattery.
The building was immediately evacuated and every animal was safely relocated.
If you'd like to help, Little Shelter will certainly need funding for repairs and is in dire need for foster and permanent homes for the loving cats and dogs.
To donate please visit www.littleshelter.com, call 631-368-8770, or visit Little Shelter at 33 Warner Road, Huntington, NY 11743.


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November 28, 2015
HERKIMER, N.Y. (March 14, 2013)—A man wanted in the shooting deaths of four men in neighboring upstate New York villages died in a shootout early Thursday with police SWAT teams at the abandoned bar where he was holed up in a small, cluttered room.
Kurt Myers, 64, fired through a first-floor door after troopers and FBI agents entered the bar at around 8 a.m. Thursday, killing an FBI dog that had been sent into the room, State police Superintendent Joseph D'Amico said.
D'Amico says police returned fire, killing Myers.
The death ended a nearly 19-hour standoff that began after police say Myers killed four men and wounded two others at a barber shop in Mohawk and a car care business in Herkimer.
D'Amico says police still don't know why Myers went on the shooting rampage.
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Personality Test: Pirates announcer Greg Brown
Greg Brown is in his 18th season as a radio and television play-by-play announcer with the Pirates. He started in 1979 as an intern in the promotions department while attending Point Park College. He was the clubhouse manager during the Instructional League program in Bradenton, Fla., and worked in sales, public relations and broadcasting departments for the Pirates front office.
Prior to joining the broadcast team in 1994, he spent five seasons doing play-by-play and color commentary for the Buffalo Bisons of the American Association (now International League) and hosting a sports-talk show on WGR Radio. Brown worked as a color analyst and a pre-and post-game show host for the Buffalo Bills of the NFL for five seasons.
With the Pirates, he spearheaded the "Gloves for Kids" program which raised money for much-needed equipment and gloves for youth baseball and softball organizations in underserved areas around Pittsburgh.
A native of Washington, D.C., Brown resides in Leet Township with his wife Kim and son Ryan.
The star who would play me in the movie version of my life and why:
Kurt Russell. I like him, and think he is the best and most underrated actor.
Childhood hero and why:
Walter Payton. I was a huge Chicago Bears fan growing up, and I loved the way he ran the football.
The piece of memorabilia from my childhood I wish I still had.
Chicago Bears mini-helmet radio.
I can't live without my: iPod, cell phone, DVR, or laptop•
My Blackberry. The bad thing is people can reach you anytime.
Best game I've ever broadcast and why:
The final game at Three Rivers Stadium. Carrick native John Wehner hit an impressive go-ahead home run. And the 1993 Buffalo Bills wildcard playoff game where they came back from a 32-point halftime deficit.
Pick one:
A. Pirates
B. Penguins
C. Steelers
D. Other
E. I hate sports
A. Seriously• Pirates. That's an easy one.
My favorite thing about Pittsburgh is:
The skyline. From my vantage point in the press box, it is a most beautiful scene that I get to see on a nightly basis. This city to me is my "OZ." When you drive through the tunnel and see it, it takes your breath away.
Three people I'd love to have dinner with:
George W. Bush, Ann Coulter and Steve Blass
Celebrity crush:
Sharon Corr. She is part of an Irish folk rock band. She plays the violin and sings.
When I was 10, I wanted to be:
A major league baseball player. I wasn't the best athlete, but when I was a kid, I would announce the games we played while we were playing them. That was where I discovered my love of broadcasting.
The best concert I've ever seen:
I might be showing my age, but Michael Jackson at the Civic Arena in 1988. He put on an incredible show. He was a great entertainer.
The person I'm most often mistaken for:
My brother Charlie. He is an attorney Downtown and he often walks the street and people call him by my name, and some people see me and call me Charlie.
In high school, I was:
A nerd ... and I still am to this day!
The movie that always makes me cry:
"It's a Wonderful Life," which is about friendship and helping a person in need. And "Brian's Song." That is a real tearjerker.
What you'll always find in my glove compartment:
Napkins, because I spill things everywhere!
If I wasn't a Pirates broadcaster, I'd be:
Unhappy. I love what I do!
The last book I read:
"Sins of the Fathers," by James Scott Bell
Movie I could watch every time it appears on cable:
My favorite website:
My childhood nickname was:
Point Head. My father shaved my head, and I had a point on my head that you could see.
My favorite "bad" movie is:
My first job:
Cleaning out horse stalls in Mechanicsburg
My worst job:
Cleaning out horse stalls in Mechanicsburg
My favorite cable channel:
ROOT Sports, MLB package, C-Span and Discovery
Life would be better without:
People who think they are better than others just because of the jobs they have or the money they make.
I never travel without my:
Scorebook. I don't know what I would do without it. It's my security blanket.
People would be surprised to know that I:
Was a high school classmate of John Fedko and a college classmate of Bob Pompeani.
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2012, Oceanography 25(1):256–268, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2012.24
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Diane K. Adams | Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Woods Hole, MA, USA
Shawn M. Arellano | Biology Department, WHOI, Woods Hole, MA, USA
Breea Govenar | Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, USA
Visually striking faunal communities of high abundance and biomass cluster around hydrothermal vents, but these animals don't spend all of their lives on the seafloor. Instead, they spend a portion of their lives as tiny larvae in the overlying water column. Dispersal of larvae among vent sites is critical for population maintenance, colonization of new vents, and recolonization of disturbed vents. Historically, studying larvae has been challenging, especially in the deep sea. Advances in the last decade in larval culturing technologies and more integrated, interdisciplinary time-series observations are providing new insights into how hydrothermal vent animals use the water column to maintain their populations across ephemeral and disjunct habitats. Larval physiology and development are often constrained by evolutionary history, resulting in larvae using a diverse set of dispersal strategies to interact with the surrounding currents at different depths. These complex biological and oceanographic interactions translate the reproductive output of adults in vent communities into a dynamic supply of settling larvae from sources near and far.
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The Vietnam War generated a wealth of outstanding memoirs. A Rumor of War, Chickenhawk, Fortunate Son, Dispatches, Everything We Had, Born on the Fourth of July and Nam top the list.
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Entire libraries have been written on the Vietnam War – the American version waged from 1959-75. Here are ten outstanding memoirs from that controversial war written or told by the men who experienced it first hand.
A Rumor of War (1977) by Philip J. Caputo
Philip "P.J." Caputo served as a Marine infantry lieutenant in Vietnam from 1965-66. His account of his days in 'Nam are both humorous and harrowing, with his story ending in 1975 when he covered the fall of Saigon for the Chicago Tribune. One of the more gruesome aspects comes in the book's second section, "The Officer in Charge of the Dead," where Lt. Caputo is kept extremely busy as a casualty reporting officer. "The interesting thing was how the dead looked so much alike," he writes. "Black men, white men, yellow men, they all looked remarkably the same…The pupils of their eyes were a washed-out gray, and their mouths were opened wide, as if death had caught them in the middle of a scream."
Chickenhawk (1983) by Robert Mason
Bob Mason presents a riveting tale of his days as an Army helicopter pilot, flying combat missions and hauling "ass and trash" in the deadly jungles of Vietnam in 1965-66. As a member of the First Cavalry Division (Airmobile), Mason experiences the Vietnam War up close and personal. One of the more humorous aspects of the book comes in the form of enemy propaganda, with the North Vietnamese jamming American radios with a hilarious staccato rendition of "f-you GI, f-you GI…" Back in "the world," Mason later did a stretch in federal prison for marijuana smuggling.
Fortunate Son (1991) by Lewis Puller Jr.
Lewis B. Puller Jr. was the son of General Lewis "Chesty" Puller, one of the most decorated marines in the history of the Corps. A graduate of William and Mary, the younger Puller went to Vietnam as a Marine infantry lieutenant, tripping a Viet Cong booby-trap in 1968 which claimed both his legs, a hand and part of his stomach and buttocks. Fortunate Son, which won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for biography, recounts Puller's short time in Vietnam and his subsequent struggle to regain the high ground in the face of horrific war injuries and alcoholism. Puller unfortunately lost his battle, committing suicide on May 11, 1994.
Dispatches (1977) by Michael Herr
Michael Herr covered the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine from 1967-69 where he had virtually unlimited access while in country. Following the marines and army grunts into various operations in the 'Nam, Herr paints a vivid portrait of the war in a deft, pop, literary style. "'Quakin' and shakin,' they called it, great balls of fire. Contact," Herr writes on meeting the enemy. "Then it was you and the ground: kiss it, eat it, f… it, plough it with your whole body, get as close to it as you can without being in it or of it, guess who's flying an inch above your head?"
Everything We Had (1981) by Al Santoli
Al Santoli, who had served as an Army rifleman in Vietnam, presents an oral history of the war as told by 33 American soldiers who fought it. Their stories are, for the most part, spellbinding with both the consequential and the trivial taking on a whole new meaning in the context of the war in Southeast Asia. "To see your friends killed, hear about them being killed, it was…A little piece of you gets killed each time," Santoli writes.
Born on the Fourth of July (1976) by Ron Kovic
Ron Kovic, born on July 4, 1946, served two tours of duty with the Marines in Vietnam. He came home from the second tour a paraplegic, struggling to piece his life together while recuperating in less-than-stellar VA hospitals. Kovic undergoes a radical transformation, from gung ho patriot to anti-war activist. Kovic was later played by Tom Cruise in Oliver Stone's 1989 movie of the same name.
Nam (1981) by Mark Baker
Mark Baker, who did not serve in Vietnam, presents a compelling memoir as told by a select band of men and women who participated in the war and lived to tell about it. Particularly wrenching are the homecoming stories, with one soldier arriving home in Chicago straight from Vietnam. "At 8:30 when my father left for work," the ex-serviceman reported, "he woke me up to say, 'Listen, now that you're home, when are you going to get a job?' I packed up and left. I haven't been home since."
The Killing Zone (1978) by Frederick Downs Jr.
Frederick Downs Jr. arrived in Vietnam in 1967 as a young Army infantry lieutenant fresh out of Officer Candidate School. Downs paints a horrific portrait of life and death in the jungle with the U.S. Army's Fourth Division, complete with Viet Cong booby-traps, friendly fire incidents, deadly ambushes and unmotivated South Vietnamese troops. Downs himself is gravely wounded in the fighting, stepping on a Bouncing Betty landmine in 1968 that blows off most of his left arm and sends deadly shrapnel into the rest of his body. Downs later spent a year recovering from his wounds at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital in Denver.
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans (1984) by Wallace Terry
Wallace Terry covered the Vietnam War as deputy bureau chief in Saigon for Time magazine. One of the first black war correspondents in Vietnam, Terry witnessed the 1968 Tet Offensive and the savage battle at Hamburger Hill. Twenty black veterans relate their unique experiences, recounting the racism, confusion and heroism that marked their days in 'Nam. One interesting aspect of the book are the recounted fighting techniques of some black soldiers, who adapted their own survival instincts learned in the ghetto and applied them to jungle fighting.
Warriors: An Infantryman's Memoir of Vietnam (2004) by Robert Tonsetic
Robert Tonsetic served as an Army rifle company commander in Vietnam. During his 365-day tour of duty Captain Tonsetic and his grunts participated in the savage fighting of the Tet Offensive and beyond, battling a determined enemy in the steamy jungles of Southeast Asia. It's all here, the blood and guts along with the pathos, including unauthorized joyrides in Army helicopters and fishing rodeos using live hand grenades. "In retrospect, I believe that my generation was programmed for war during our most impressionable years," Tonsetic writes. "My earliest childhood recollections are related to World War II."
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|Pneumatosis intestinalis: a clinical classification.
MedLine Citation:
|PMID: 421649 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Review of our experience with pneumatosis intestinalis has allowed identification of three major clinical groups of patients. In each of these groups, the etiology of pneumatosis intestinalis usually can be identified, and it frequently has an ominous prognosis. Treatment should be directed to the underlying condition when possible, and hence must be individualized. Those patients who would be categorized as Group I can simply be kept under observation. Patients in Group II might obtain relief from breathing increased concentrations of oxygen. For patients in Group III vigorous therapeutic measures generally are necessary to ensure survival. The increasing use of mechanically controlled ventilation and positive end-expiratory pressure may be contributing to the incidence of pneumatosis intestinalis. The ileus sometimes observed in these patients may accompany or precede the development of intramural air, a condition identifiable on roentgenographic examination. Awareness of the possible presence of intramural air may help in identifying patients who may not need operation. But even when roentgenographic examination has confirmed the presence of intramural air, abdominal exploration still may be necessary to rule out a diagnosis of perforated viscus. We hope that these concepts and our emphasis upon individualization of treatment may improve the prognosis for patients who have pneumatosis intestinalis.
|J C Gruenberg; C Grodsinsky; J L Ponka
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|Type: Journal Article
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|Title: Diseases of the colon and rectum Volume: 22 ISSN: 0012-3706 ISO Abbreviation: Dis. Colon Rectum Publication Date: 1979 Jan-Feb
Date Detail:
|Created Date: 1979-05-23 Completed Date: 1979-05-23 Revised Date: 2004-11-17
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|Nlm Unique ID: 0372764 Medline TA: Dis Colon Rectum Country: UNITED STATES
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|Languages: eng Pagination: 5-9 Citation Subset: IM
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|MeSH Terms
Child, Preschool
Infant, Newborn
Middle Aged
Pneumatosis Cystoides Intestinalis / classification*, etiology, therapy
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