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A violent antipathy to Sparta in the Greek world at large was created after the Spartans had destroyed the power of Athens in 404. Sparta, under the command of Lysander, had established oligarchies and installed garrisons in several cities. They even raised taxes to afford combined taxes, so they claimed. This way they repeated the huge mistakes Athens had made with her Delian League in the previous century. The only difference had been that Athens had installed democratic puppet governments while Sparta had installed oligarchic ones.
Sparta made another big mistake when it suddenly seized the Theban citadel in 383 and installed yet another puppet government. They now installed a government after the Athenian model as they knew that Thebes would not accept an oligarchy, but this attempt was so clumsy that it soon had turned against Sparta. The citadel was liberated again in 379 with the help of Athens, but Thebes was determined to get revenge while the rest of Hellas had even more reasons to doubt Sparta's role as guarantor of the King's peace. Thebes was even more humiliated by this peace as it had to give up its dominance over the other cities in Boeotia just to please Sparta.
Athens founded her second Athenian Naval Confedarcy in 378. The official goal of this second Delian League was a democratic freedom-fight against the Spartan oppressor. It was more likely that Athens simply used the anti-Sparta attitude in the hope of reviving her once formidable empire. The democratic coalition seemed to have lost all its justification when Thebes reclaimed its leadership of Boeotia by reviving the Boeotian League.
Thebes also started to rebuild its army after the Spartan government had been liquidated, and the Spartan garrisson had been defeated. Remarkable was that the Theban army only consisted of citizens at the first stage of the Theban hegemony, while the rest of the ancient world became more and more dependant of mercenaries. This was also the time that the famous elite corps of Thebes was founded by Gorgidas: the devoted brothers in arms. Traditionally this corps consisted of 150 homosexual male couples. You should realise that there was nothing perverse about homosexuality in the Greek world, unlike as in many other ancient civilizations. Homer had already mentioned in the Illiad that such a unit could be very useful, and Plato mentions it also as the men would try to compete with their partners in bravery, but they would also be determined to protect their partners.
The commanders.
In Thebes two strong men had come to the front: Pelopidas and Epaminondas. Especially Epaminondas was a brilliant leader and general who was a very flexible person in a rapidly changing world of warfare. The Spartan army was commandd by one of its two kings: Cleombrotos.
The battle.
The Spartans marched into Boeotia under the command of their king Cleombrotos and stopped at Leuctra, not far from Thebes. Epaminondas knew that his army was severly outnumbered, but realised that he had to face the Spartans nevertheless. He managed to convince his men that an open battle was their only hope and together with their elite unit 'the Devoted Brothers in Arms', under the leadership of Pelopidas, they entered the plains. Cleombrotos placed his army in a half-moon 12 men deep phalanx , with peltasts covering both sides of the phalanx. Epaminondas had completly different ideas. His strategy was based on two principles.
The first principle that a direct fight between two phalanxes could end up in two different ways of fighting. The hoplites could attack eachother with their spears, or they could end up with their shields pressed against eachother. Two completly different ways with the same result: the phalanx that would loose its formation would become an easy target and would most likely loose the battle. When the hoplites ended up with their shields against eachother the battle looked a bit like a rugby match: the side who could press the hardest would break the enemy formation. Epaminondas realised that he could gain an advantage with a deeper phalanx. For the Spartans this tactic was new as they always relied on their spears, but the Thebans had already defeated Athens at Delium with a phalanx of 25 men deep.
The second principle was that one of the main problems of the phalanx had been to keep it going straight forward. It always tended to curl to the right, as the hoplite instinctive moved to the right to gain more protection from the shield of the hoplite beside them. Epimondas used a sloped phalanx with the strong left wing moved forwards. The left wing would destroy the right wing of the enemy, which traditionally consisted of the strongest and most experienced fighters, creating confusion among the enemy and breaking open the right wing. Now the left wing could break through the formation and attack the rest of the hostile phalanx in the side or in the back while the rest of the friendly phalanx got close enough to attack the enemy.
Epaminondas thus placed his army in the formation of a sloped phalanx. The left side of his phalanx was 50 men deep, but because of this he did not have enough men left to form a right wing. Peltasts would cover the right side of his phalanx, while the cavalry and the 'Devoted Brothers in Arms' would protect the left side.
Cleombrotos finally realises Epaminondas' plans when the Theban phalanx moves in for the kill. He attempts to reinforce his right wing but the well timed charge of the 'Devoted Brothers in Arms', who form the front of the Theban left wing, leaves him no time for this. Confusion sets in among the Spartans when the Theban shields clashes onto theirs. Cleombrotos is killed in the first stage of the struggle and the confusion among Sparta and its allies becomes even bigger when the weight of the Theban phalanx pushes the Sparta phalanx back.
The results of the battle.
With the destruction of the Spartan power at the battle of Leuctra the decade of Theban hegemony had begun. Leuctra was a defeat for Sparta, but it was not this military defeat which resulted in the end of Sparta. Thebes undertook several offensive actions in the Peloponese during its leadership of Hellas. This resulted in the founding of an Arcadian League under the leadership of the new found city of Megalopolis. Most important however was that Thebes refounded Messenia as an independent state in 369 after many years of helotage. Sparta sank to second-class among the Greek Poleis, and this allowed Thebes and Athens to pursue their rivalry in the vacuum created by the sudden disappearance of Sparta.


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Here you will find contact details, updates, photos of all our Local and Regional groups in the UK.
We hope to create many more such patient led groups throughout the country.
Please help and get in touch if you feel you could contribute a bit of time to your Local MDS Support Group:
Email: email@example.com
Tel: 020 7733 7558
We need volunteers willing to help maintain existing groups as well as those willing to set up new groups in their local areas.
For further details of what's involved in creating a new MDS Patient Support Group – please follow the link below to read our detailed guidelines:
Patient Support Group Guidelines
Oxford and Thames Valley Regional Group
This group meets every 4 months for 2-3 hours in the afternoon. Led by the Advanced Nurse Practitioner Kirsty Crozier and assisted by patients Claudia Richards and Gwyneth Brown-Lowe.
- Location: The Maggie's Centre, Churchill Hospital, Old Road, Oxford, OX3 7LE
- Contact: For more information and dates of meetings, please call Kirsty Crozier, on Tel: 01865 572023 – or check our Events page
Additional Contact: Gwyneth Brown-Lowe and Claudia Richards, two MDS patients who attend meetings of the Oxford Patient Support Group, help Kirsty with the co-ordination of the Group and its meetings.
They feel some people may value the opportunity to have contact with other members of the Group between meetings.
If you are interested please email Claudia on email@example.com with your full name, contact telephone number, preferred email address and the name of the hospital at which you (or your family member) are being treated.
These details will be circulated to members of the Group who have opted for direct contact with others.
If you would be willing to act as a point of contact at your local hospital (for instance, taking in posters/leaflets, being a contact for any MDS patients who have not previously come to the Support Group meetings), please also mention this in your email.
Gwyneth and Claudia also welcome any suggestions for future meeting topics/speakers and for any other type of event (Coffee Morning, Fundraiser etc.) which you feel the Group should consider.
Exeter Area Patient Group
Bringing all the conditions together, a new general haematology group at Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital was set up by Rachel Stewart. All MDS patients treated Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital are invited to come to the meetings which take place on the first Thursday of every month between 4:30 pm – 6 pm. Please contact Rachel to further information, to register your attendance or to make suggestions for discussion topics at future meetings.
- Location: Seminar room on Yarty Ward in the Haematology Centre, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital (Wonford), Barrack Road, Exeter, EX2 5DW
- Contact: Rachel Stewart, Support Specialist at RD&E Hospital on 01392 402879 or by email: email@example.com
Please contact our main office on 020 7733 7558 or by email email@example.com, if you'd like to attend MDS specific meetings in Exeter. Provided there is sufficient interest in the region, we'll facilitate such meeting in Exeter in future.
Essex Patient Group
Patient Chris Dugmore has started a group in Chelmsford.
Meetings take place every 3-4 months
Includes informal talks by local physicians or nurses
Opportunity for patient to patient exchange and support.
Check our Events page for meeting dates and details of speakers
- Location: Central Baptist Church – Chelmsford, Seminar Room 1, Central Baptist Church, Chelmsford, CM1 1LN
- Contact: Please contact Chris on 01702 478244/ email@example.com if you wish to join, meet or help contribute to this group.
Anglia Patient Group – Cambridge
Several volunteers run this regional group – and have set themselves up as a committee. All members are MDS patients. Activities alternate between presentations and general get together opportunities. This group also gets involved in raising MDS awareness regionally.
- Location: Cambridge Cancer Help Centre, Scotsdales Centre, Great Shelford, CB22 5JT
- Contact: Further info, call our main office on Tel: 0207 733 7558 – or check our Events page.
Main contacts are Chris and Richard Cunnell and John Heywood.
Very sadly – one of the committee members – Vicki Wall – passed away on the 9th February 2013, after many weeks in hospital – due to a severe infection.
As one of the very active Cambridge committee member – we wanted to place a few words on our site to remember Vicki, mark her fantastic contribution to the group and let her fellow members say a few words about her.
Please click here for Vicki Wall tribute – Oct 2013
Update Oct 2013 – we have just learnt that Vicki had made a will – and very generously left £500 to MDS UK. We are so grateful to her for this – not only for the funds, but also for having the courage to make a formal will. This is often a difficult topic for all patients and families.
Vicky was a very talented lady and one of her friends – Sheila Walker – donated a lovely quilt she had made, which the Anglia group offered as a prize in a raffle. Here is the photo of the quilt. Thank you to both Sheila for donating the quilt – and Chris for the raffle.
London and King's College Hospital Group KCH
Group led by the Haematology Clinical Nurse Specialist at KCH. Meetings every 3-4 months – 3pm to 6pm
Nurses are Nana Benson- Quarm, Janet Hayden and Geke Ong
Current meetings are combined with the Aplastic Anaemia Trust (AAT), with both AA and MDS patients invited to attend. Feedback, ideas for future meetings and comments from the meeting on 19.07.12 can be seen here.
- Location: Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College Hospital, Bessemer Road, London, SE5 9PJ
- Contact: Further info, call our main office on Tel: 0207 733 7558 – or check our Events page.
Brighton and Sussex Group
A regional group started meeting at the BSUH in Brighton on 6th February 2013.
This group is co-led by both patients Lynn Hale and Alison Parker – as well as nurses and haematologists at the hospital.
Meetings every 3-4 months – regular times and days to be determined.
Meetings will alternate between talks by staff and patient to patient support and exchange.
Please let us know what else you'd like to discuss at the meetings.
- Location: BSUH – Audrey Emerton Building – Lecture Hall
- Contact: Further info, call our main office on Tel: 0207 733 7558 – or check our Events page.
An official MDS Ireland group was formed over 2013 – 2014 led by Sinead Mahon, whose Mum Brenda has MDS.
MDS UK is offering advice, guidance and financial support to this emerging group.
Dr Helen Enright of the Centre of Excellence in Dublin is supporting the group as well.
More news available soon – do get in touch with us if you would like to be informed and/or added to their distribution list.
Check our Events page on the website, and the Online Forum page dedicated to Irish area meetings.
For more details also visit their website.
Kent Group
This regional group started on 14th March 2014 thanks to the help from our member Frank Richard Stoodley and his wife Barbara. Unfortunately the meetings are currently put on hold, as we are looking for a new venue and few volunteers who are happy to help meet and greet new patients.
For more information: Please contact MDS UK main office – 0207 733 7558
Bournemouth Group
Our latest Group. First meeting which took place on 12th Novemeber 2014 was a great success with the support from Dr Sally Killick and fantastic contribution from all the attendees. Meetings will be scheduled on Wednesdays between 10.30 am – 1 pm every 4 months.
- Location: The Grove Hotel, 2 Grove Road, East Cliff, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH1 3AU
- Contact: Further info, call our main office on Tel: 0207 733 7558 – or check our Events page.
Other emerging local groups
Yorkshire/Leeds area: several patients interested in meeting regularly. Meeting place required is being organised.
Cardiff/Bristol/Weston-Super-Mare area: we need more patient interest to establish a regular local group.
As well as a meeting place.
Midlands: strong interest from many patients – not been able to hold a forum in the area in 2012 – due to main office being short staffed – but please register your interest in joining such a group.
We need a meeting place there – if anyone knows of a convenient place?
Either free or not too costly?
Please contact us if you would like to start another regional group

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Friday, July 26, 2013
I read my previous blog a few days ago, and It sounded so strange to me. I was saying that all my life I've wanted to lose weight and be a success story like all the stories I see. I chose to be on this journey, and making that choice is a huge deal for someone who lived most their lives being sedentary and eating whatever the hell they wanted. I've been on this journey for god knows how long and to keep failing in it, made me so depressed.
But since I decided to let go of everything I've heard or seen, everything people have tried to be successful and fit and healthy, and make my own path, I've realized how much more happier I am.
I can't believe how active I've been since I posted that blog. It's kind of ridiculous how easy it has been to get up every morning and make myself a healthy meal. It's so easy to exercise almost every day, without having to go to the gym. (I cancelled my gym membership about 6 months ago because I hated going to the gym for some reason and as hard as it was to give that up, I see now that it was the best decision for me). I have a treadmill at home, an elliptical and a bike. I have a stepper and some weights. I have a yoga mat and a jump ropes. My brother has a pull up bar and some heavy weights too. Every day I get in about 10k steps, easily on some days, if not more. like today, I walked/moved 12k steps and it's only 5pm out here.
I have never been so happy being on this journey, as I am right now. Every time I complete a workout, I start smiling like an idiot because I accomplished something without having to follow a plan or MAKE myself exercise when I didn't feel like it. Every morning I walked my mirror and I see the fat shrink and melt away, I notice how my body feel strange when am in the shower because it's smaller that it was yesterday.
If you're wondering what happens on days that I don't feel like working out, well, I get on the treadmill and walk for half an hour on very low speed. If I really don't want to workout, I mark the day as rest day. I only have one or two rest days a week because I know what my body needs. Hell some days I exercise for 2 to 3 hours just for the fun of it.
I eat when am hungry, and I eat what I want. mostly homemade food. I eat clean and healthy food most of the time, and I indulge.
This is the epitome of Balance for me. A Stress-free fit life, something I've always strived for.
I have enough stress at work and Uni to last me a life time, and I've needed this part of my life to be simpler and easier, and it is now. And I just wanted to share this with you guys.
I am proud to say that I am a happy fit person who loves working out at home. I've been doing this for about 5 weeks and my body keeps changing every single week and I am losing weight steadily. I will post a before and after in about 5 to 6 weeks or maybe after am back from my holiday.
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The Rwanda government and International Organisation for Migration (IOM), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at assessing the study to identify the feasibility of reparations for the victims and survivors of the 1994 genocide.
Signed on May 28, 2014 in Kigali, the agreement will describe in concrete and operational terms how these options could be developed, established and implemented in the Rwandan context, including how they could be funded.
The study will also suggest strategies to operationalize the proposed options and the principle deliverable of the exercise will be a comprehensive report.
After the 1994 genocide the Government's priority with regard to those who miraculously survived it, was to ensure that they don't need to have another miracle to get education, health care, shelter and some social economic lift up.
It was, and still is impossible to restore all that was lost and nothing really can.
However, the Government has annually committed specific funds, upwards of 132 billion francs to date to ensure the realization of this priority.
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General Busingye Johnston who signed on behalf of the government said that the support to social protection, compensation or reparation was not a priority rather the priority was education, health care, shelter and socio-economic lift up for a section of population who were at a high risk of post genocide extinction.
"Today we stand tall and proud as a country, that within meagre means was able to provide a shoulder to lean on. We are proud as well that child survivors of the genocide, many of them orphaned, are today fine young men and women, educated intellectually and maturely able to engage in issues concerning them, including reparations, "Busingye said.
This assessment study will be carried out as a professional research project. The Ministry will provide leadership, but it will involve a broad array of stakeholders to ensure ownership at the end.
"We will await the recommendations of the study with a lot of interest. The respondents will be from all segments of our society. It is our hope that at the end it will be a study that all Rwandans can identify themselves with," added Busingye.
The International Organization for Migration, first signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of Rwanda to support genocide survivors in 1995, although the organization first provided humanitarian assistance in the months after the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda


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Big Ten Geeks: What's up with Wisconsin?
In the wake of Wisconsin's lopsided loss at the hands of Florida, I urged caution. It was early. Florida is really good, and they were playing at home. Surely, it wouldn't be long before Bo Ryan had his team playing well enough to put any fears about the Badgers missing the NCAA Tournament to rest.


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Texas Stadium Implosion Represents God's Frustration with Dallas Cowboys
The Dallas Cowboy's used to be the greatest football team on Earth. They were blessed with the fourth-greatest quarterback of all time, Troy Aikman. Aikman's arm always found a way to make the football catch a divine drift as it landed into the hands of an awaiting receiver. This is because Aikman was favored by God and the Christians down in Texas, who know how to proper judge and punish a criminals if you get my drift.
They even had a running back named Emmet Smith, a believe his nickname was "Chocolate Lightning". That young man could run like the wind and Dallas prospered! Super Bowls and they were called America's team. They said Texas Stadium had a whole in its dome so God could 'smile down upon his Dallas Cowboys'.
Then, disaster. They let go their coach Jimmy Johnson go and then the athletes slowly let Satan take over. Many of them did drugs. "Neon Deon" Sanders started getting to flashy and interested in being a 'jive turkey' and dancing like a hoodlum on the field. This brought a sour taste to God's mouth and the prayers of Cowboys fans started to fall on deaf ears.
No more did they get miracle field goals or their prayers answered for a magnificent Hail Mary. Instead, they started getting beat by lowly teams such as the Browns and Bengals. What shame.
Now today we see the Cowboys have finally symbolically confessed they are no longer God's team and they are ashamed. They have caused their Texas Stadium Implosion and only took care of the inevitable. It was only a matter of team until God perhaps snapped his fingers or sneezed on this former place of glory, now the hallowed grounds of Satan. It is better to be put out but what a sad way to go. At least we still have memories.
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great move for the knicks....now alan houston is gone
great move for the knicks....now alan houston is gone
Good move trading KT. Good Move getting Q only if you have plans to trade Jcraw and or TT.
Bad move giving up a #1 pick and taking on another 21 mill in long term salary
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I know I'll get killed for this one! However, it is now time for Marbury to be traded. It is evident to me that his teammates don't like him. Also, non-role players has ever excelled with him. He disappointed me in the Olympics. He dissappointed me against the Nets in the play-offs. He was delusional in thinking that he was the best PG in the league. You don't say you are the best PG in the league. Your teammates should say that you are the best PG. You can't win with Doleac and Van Horn because they can't play defense just like him. I'd rather see Isiah trade Marbury for Shaun Livingston from the Clippers. He's 6'8" point/forward that is a true point guard. Bottom line he passes the ball and sets up teammates. He can get scorers involved. I'm hearing too many notions that perhaps now Marbury can move to shooting guard now with Richardson here. We have some scorers here now it's time to draft a young big-man and get a point-guard. Stop this love affair with Marbury.
You shouldnt get bashed. When we have a team with a 100 million dollar payroll that wins 30 games nobody on this team shoudl be untouchable. NOBODY!
you know what im not sure this was the best trade. its not a bad one. the knicks are a short team as is and now we are even shorter. the offseason is not over yet but i say we have enough shooters we need size and a inside presences for this team be good. Q is not a bad player hes a good player but i think shooters are the least of our worries
kurt was not an inside presence. yea he rebounds and plays d but he doesnt block shots or intimidate drivers. thats wat we need and we really dont have that many shooters - marbury isnt always. crawford is. houston may not be playing and if so a limited role. as i said before, q also has a post game. more than can be said for tim....at least til teh end of last season
Neither KT nor q will be a starter on a knicks championship team. To me this trade is a good one though because we traded a 32 year old Kt for a #1 draft choice.
We need to rebuild for the future. we are getting younger while stock piling draft picks. KT was not our future.
Keep in mind also that Isiah is not dumb, this trade was a good move. Only the first one of the off season, we still have to see who he is drafting with the two first round picks we have and I almost guarantee we are getting one of those free agent centers out there by trading either Tim or Penny in a sign and trade.
whoa whoa....the trade isnt official yet. i think isiah timed it during the finals to get attention away from the finals. did the trade get a lot of coverage on espn?


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This is a beautiful dress. I wore it once to my friends wedding Jun 2013. It is a single-strapped dress (left side). The photo is cropped because I was having issues uploading it – the dress continues all the way to the floor. I'll gladly e-mail the full photo upon request.
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Trinity Episcopal Cathedral is open for tours this spring. The Cathedral, located at 1100 Sumter Street, across from the State House,will be open for tours from 9 a.m-2 p.m. Monday-Friday. After Easter, tours will be available from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. It will be open for tours through the middle of May.
Trinity reopened in October, 2010 after a 2 1/2 year restoration. The restoration was part of the Cathedral's preparations for its bicentennial in 2012. The Cathedral building itself dates from 1846.
Visitors will be able to see the fruits of that restoration including the red dome over the Cathedral's high altar. Other points of interest include the baptismal font; a gift from the Hampton family that was designed by sculptor Hiram Powers and the stained glass windows from England, Germany and this country.
A tour of the Cathedral graveyard is also included. One of the oldest in Columbia, the graveyard is the final resting place of many prominent South Carolinians including James F. Byrnes who was Secretary of State under President Harry Truman and Governor of South Carolina from 1951-1955. Also buried here is General Wade Hampton III,veteran of the Civil War and the first post-reconstruction Governor of South Carolina.
Tours are offered by Cathedral docents at no charge but donations are accepted.Tours begin at the main Cathedral entrance on Sumter Street.
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The Harrington Police Department arrested 26-year-old Harrington resident Robert Bosley, after a road rage complaint resulted in a vehicle search that revealed 17 bags of heroin and drug paraphernalia.
Police responded to an incident in the Felton area on Jan. 28 after reports of a driver possibly wielding a gun and heading toward Harrington, said police spokesman Deputy Chief Keith Shyers.
Police were given updates on the suspect's location and finally observed the vehicle in the 100 block of Reese Avenue. After the vehicle stopped, Bosley, the driver, exited the driver's side.
As an officer contacted Bosley and attempted to handcuff him, Bosley attempted to pull away, but was then taken into custody, Shyers said.
After the officer explained the reason for the stop, he was given consent to search the vehicle, Shyers said.
A vehicle search revealed 17 bags of heroin, a box of hypodermic needles and other drug paraphernalia, Shyers said.
Bosley was transported to the Harrington Police Department for processing and was arraigned via videophone through Justice of the Peace Court 2.
Bosley was charged with possession of a controlled or counterfeit substance (heroin), resisting arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving while suspended.
He was released on a $2,000 unsecured bond.
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A WWII bomb exploded at a construction site in Germany Friday afternoon, killing one worker at the scene and injuring at least 13 other individuals, reports CNN on Friday. The bomb was triggered by a digger using a piece of heavy equipment while working at the excavation site.
The blast occurred at a rubble storage site in Euskirchen, about 20 miles southeast of Cologne and one of Germany's most populous states. The site was being used to store construction rubble and was being cleared for recycling.
Hundreds of wartime bombs are still recovered every year in Germany, though most are successfully detonated at secure facilities. The unearthing of unexploded ordnances in Germany still remains a threat however, even though the devices, most of which are Allied bombs, are more than 50 years old.
The blast damaged homes in a 400-meter radius around the explosion, blowing out windows and causing damage to nearby buildings.
"During earth works an excavator hit a World War II bomb which exploded," said a local police spokesman. "There was a huge blast wave. In the vicinity of the accident site and surrounding streets, home windows shattered and garage doors were pushed in."
Buried bombs and mines are common enough in Germany that before any digging is done, most contractors require the land to be surveyed for sleeper bombs.
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"My budget has been cut, and I've got to find ways to keep my costs down. Can you suggest operational changes I can make to cut or at least control costs without having to purchase anything or cause a major upheaval in my laundry?"Long-Term Care Laundering: Albert J. Raymond, Healthcare Services Group, Bensalem, Pa.
There comes a time in all industries when we're asked to do more with less. A truly experienced manager will be able to guide his or her department through this time and produce a highly efficient organization. There are a few ways this can be accomplished.
Administrators and managers often look at your monthly linen budget as an area where they can save money. There seems to be the idea that if you don't order your budget for several months, you're actually saving your company that dollar amount. Not true. You can save money over several months if you order your entire budget each month. Build up your inventory and your monthly costs will decrease.
Another area to study is your hand-folding operation. How are the items being folded and who is folding them? Maybe you're using two employees to fold one sheet, when one person could do it. If you're folding a reusable underpad three to six times, consider reducing this to two folds per pad.
Analyze the number of times that a piece of linen is handled from the soiled side to the clean side. Making some changes could reduce time and dollars spent.
For example, folding a bin full of towels in which each towel receives four folds takes 45 minutes, but folding the same bin's contents with just two folds per towel takes only 35 minutes. So, that's 10 minutes per bin, three bins a day, seven days a week. You'd be saving 210 minutes — or 3½ hours — each week. If your average pay rate is $8.50 an hour, that's a savings of $29.75 per week or $1,547 per year. The numbers really add up, and all you did was change the way the linen is folded.
Finally, look at linen distribution. Piece count is vital to long-term care laundering. Establish a solid par-level system with all units to alleviate any linen hoarding.
The laundry is our factory. Every piece that comes into our factory (down) vs. every piece that leaves our factory (up) needs to be counted every day. Comparing the variance between linen up and linen down will signal any needs for the monthly order.
When you receive the new linen, put it into service immediately. The units' staffs, upon seeing that the delivery carts are full, won't hoard linen and will actually use less.Chemicals Supply: Rhonda Amendt, U.N.X. Inc., Greenville, N.C.
Any part of your laundry process that can be made more efficient will keep your costs down. Here are a few areas of focus (my thanks to David Barbe, U.N.X. engineer equipment designer, for his input) that may help. Note that all are low-cost practices!Chemistry
- Discuss with your vendor all chemical options. Keep your mind open to product innovations. Sometimes using less of a more expensive product will actually save you money. It costs just as much to package and ship a less-concentrated product.
- Ask about low-temperature washing options available to your account.
- Discuss linen life and concerns of excessive bleaching, along with the sources/causes of ragout linen.
- Verify reasons for linen rejects and devise a plan to minimize them.
- Remove any nonessential drains and flushes from your washer to save water and wash-cycle time.
- Ask your chemical vendor to verify the accuracy of your chemical-injection system.
- Discuss your chemical supplier's system options, which may include cost reports and proof of chemical delivery.
- Review your chemical vendor's laundry room report. Ask about ways to improve.
Equipment: Washers and Dryers
- Preventive maintenance is the key. Implement a maintenance schedule and be aggressive! Follow the recommended schedules from each manufacturer.
- Check washer drains and repair if needed.
- Confirm that wash temperatures are being met and maintained.
- Respect recommended load weights and avoid excessive overloading, which will cause poor performance and rewashing.
- Check dryer temperature and efficiency.
- Be vigilant about lint removal.
- Correctly identify and sort rejected linen, including stains sent to rewash, and misfeeds and wrinkles returned to ironer or just rinsed and extracted.
- Implement a linen security program.
- Admit that rewashing a ragged-out item costs more than taking it out of circulation.
- Repair any air leaks. Listen after hours with only the air on!
- Eliminate "energy vampires" — electronic equipment that is turned off is still using electricity. If it will not harm your equipment, unplug any that are not in use.
- Examine your heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) equipment, and make sure air handlers are properly set and maintained.
- Check with publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) for any additional credits available, including evaporation credits. The Textile Rental Services Association (TRSA) is exploring this energy cost-saving method. Many utility companies will do energy audits for free!
Textiles: Elizabeth Easter, Ph.D., University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.
To extend the life of textile products, there are several factors one should take into consideration:
Purchase products of the highest quality your facility can afford.
Towels are constructed of low-twisted yarns, therefore, the longer the fiber, the better the towel's quality. Most terry towels have 100% cotton loops for functionality, i.e. absorbency and dryability. If polyester is added, it is in the background of the loops. Polyester enhances product durability and strength, and reduces costs because the product will dry faster.
The total number of threads in a sheet helps to determine overall product quality. In general, the higher the thread count, the higher the quality and durability. Sheets with a high thread count (200-400) have a tighter weave than sheets with a low thread count (130-180). Low-thread-count sheets will be significantly less expensive, but high-thread-count sheets will last much longer.
Cotton vs. cotton/polyester also applies to sheets. Blended fabrics last longer and are less expensive to maintain, thereby reducing replacement costs.
Construction is important, too. Look for lock-stitched hems, so that if the stitch breaks, it won't fully unravel. Inspect the selvage edge of towels for added durability features such as higher thread counts. The life of flat sheets can be extended when the sheets have uniform hem widths at the top and bottom and are reversed from top to bottom as well as face to back during use. Fitted sheets don't provide the serviceability of flat sheets since they're restricted to one layer of the sheet ensemble.Consider Laundry CareCare guidelines — Check the care guidelines (washing temperatures, chemical restrictions and drying temperatures) each time you purchase new textile products. Don't assume that the care instructions will be the same as that for other linen.
Be aware that an increasing percentage of linen-care guidelines warn against the use of bleach. Some also specify the use of a mild detergent for washing. These restrictions are an effort by the manufacturer to help extend linen life.Wash temperature — "Wash in warm water only" or "Wash temperature not to exceed 120 degrees F" are common restrictions on today's new linens. Shrinkage, color loss and/or wrinkling may occur if wash temperatures are too high.Overdrying — Utilize the minimum time, temperature and cooldown cycle to remove the moisture, but not to the point of being bone-dry. Do not overdry. Cotton strength and durability are reduced by 15-20% when overdried.Facility issues — If the linen-care guidelines cause issues in your facility, contact your supplier to see if there are alternatives. Guidelines that specify no bleach usually refer to chlorine. Contact the manufacturer to see if that restriction also includes oxygen bleach.Consider the Par Level
Par levels in your facility can greatly impact the life of your textiles. Insufficient circulation levels impact the life and hand of the product when they are washed too frequently. Stock rotation — allowing the textiles to "take a break" — will keep your textiles in the system longer.Secure Your Linens
Assign a linen manager to track linens for use, storage and security. Laundry managers can save a lot by locking carts and closets so linens can't be pilfered. Since theft is always an issue with linens, don't overstock the guestrooms.
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Fire Kissed
Erin Kellison
July 2012, Paranormal Romance
Zebra, $6.99, 352 pages, Amazon ASIN 1420118978Part of a series
Ah, a good paranormal. Its not that theyre hard to find, per se, or even that they seem overshadowed by mediocrity (which you can say about all fiction and its subgenres in general. I think its more that the degree of fantasy (or outrageousness) inherent to paranormals makes mediocrity more apparent. But it also makes the good stand out, and Ms. Kellisons Shadow series, if this book is any indication, is definitely good.
Fire Kissed opens with a bang, one that sucked me in right away. Fifteen-year-old Kaye Brand is the last scion of the Brand mage house, and shes about to married off to Ferrol Grey. This is her fathers and the mages chance to rebuild their houses to a strength able to combat the humans, fae, angels, or all three combined. In a moment of desperation, her father slaps her, Kaye runs away, and just as a wraith is sucking out her soul (think Dementors), her latent fire power is released. Brand House is destroyed, and Kaye is scarred for life.
Ten years later, the various species are involved in a complex hierarchy and relationship that is budding into war. The most important organization is the Segue Institute, an organization composed of fae and angels who seem to be devoted to peace (of a sort) rather than the agendas of their own kind. Jack Bastion, an angel, has arrived in Las Vegas to offer Kaye Brand a job to infiltrate the magekind and find out what theyre planning with the wraiths. At this point, Kaye is a self-branded mage whore, selling her fire power to the highest bidder who wants a glimpse of their potential future, but Bastion makes her an offer she cant refuse.
This is kind of where the book left me for a while. Kaye and Bastion dont seem to do anything except react to events, and the book is very plot heavy. Its interesting plot, to be sure, but light on the characters nonetheless. Mostly Kaye is prickly and has a shell of cast iron after her past; Bastion is just bland. And they both have random spurts of hots for the other, but I didnt know where it came from.
All of this changes halfway through the book. Up until now the political manoeuvrings read like an interesting snippet on the History channel intellectually arousing but rather passionless. The only person who caught my attention was Ferrol Grey, an ambiguous villain aping Dorian Gray. But then Kaye makes a decision that turns everything on its head, and injects events, characters, relationships with urgency and heart. Yes, I have to be vague. And yes, I guaran-effing-tee that some people wont like it. But for me, it made Kaye, Bastion, Segue, and Ferrol (who has come back with a vengeance) ten times more interesting, and I sped through the rest. (Note that the sensuality is warm, but a very hot warm.)
Id be hard pressed to identify how, if it were even possible, Ms. Kellison could have changed the first half to my liking. Perhaps it just comes down to the old series routine coming into Fire Kissed as a series newbie, I wasnt completely confused, but maybe I missed something. Or maybe the book needed to be twenty pages longer. In any case, Im not coming down too hard on it because for all the character faults at the beginning, Ms.Kellison writes a clear story with compelling world-building, and when she kicks things into high gear the story takes off. So yeah, Ill look up her other books, and I think you should too.
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Pregnancy Category D
Use of drugs that act on the renin-angiotensin system during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy reduces renal function and increases fetal and neonatal morbidity and death. Resulting oligohydramnios can be associated with fetal lung hypoplasia and skeletal deformations. Potential neonatal adverse effects include skull hypoplasia, anuria, hypotension, renal failure, and death. W hen pregnancy is detected, discontinue COZAAR as soon as possible. These adverse outcomes are usually associated with the use of these drugs in the second and third trimester of pregnancy. Most epidemiologic studies examining fetal abnormalities after exposure to antihypertensive use in the first trimester have not distinguished drugs affecting the renin-angiotensin system from other antihypertensive agents. Appropriate management of maternal hypertension during pregnancy is important to optimize outcomes for both mother and fetus.
In the unusual case that there is no appropriate alternative to therapy with drugs affecting the renin-angiotensin system for a particular patient, apprise the mother of the potential risk to the fetus. Perform serial ultrasound examinations to assess the intra-amniotic environment.
If oligohydramnios is observed, discontinue COZAAR, unless it is considered life-saving for the mother. Fetal testing may be appropriate, based on the week of pregnancy. Patients and physicians should be aware, however, that oligohydramnios may not appear until after the fetus has sustained irreversible injury.
Closely observe infants with histories of in utero exposure to COZAAR for hypotension, oliguria, and hyperkalemia (see PRECAUTIONS, Pediatric Use).
Losartan potassium has been shown to produce adverse effects in rat fetuses and neonates, including decreased body weight, delayed physical and behavioral development, mortality and renal toxicity. W ith the exception of neonatal weight gain (which was affected at doses as low as 10 mg/kg/day), doses associated with these effects exceeded 25 mg/kg/day (approximately three times the maximum recommended human dose of 100 mg on a mg/m² basis). These findings are attributed to drug exposure in late gestation and during lactation. Significant levels of losartan and its active metabolite were shown to be present in rat fetal plasma during late gestation and in rat milk.
Hypotension — Volume-Depleted Patients
In patients who are intravascularly volume-depleted (e.g., those treated with diuretics), symptomatic hypotension may occur after initiation of therapy with COZAAR. These conditions should be corrected prior to administration of COZAAR, or a lower starting dose should be used (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Hypersensitivity: Angioedema. See ADVERSE REACTIONS, Postmarketing Experience.
Impaired Hepatic Function
Based on pharmacokinetic data which demonstrate significantly increased plasma concentrations of losartan in cirrhotic patients, a lower dose should be considered for patients with impaired liver function (see DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION and CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Pharmacokinetics).
Impaired Renal Function
As a consequence of inhibiting the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, changes in renal function have been reported in susceptible individuals treated with COZAAR; in some patients, these changes in renal function were reversible upon discontinuation of therapy.
In patients whose renal function may depend on the activity of the renin-angiotensinaldosterone system (e.g., patients with severe congestive heart failure), treatment with angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors has been associated with oliguria and/or progressive azotemia and (rarely) with acute renal failure and/or death. Similar outcomes have been reported with COZAAR.
In studies of ACE inhibitors in patients with unilateral or bilateral renal artery stenosis, increases in serum creatinine or blood urea nitrogen (BUN) have been reported. Similar effects have been reported with COZAAR; in some patients, these effects were reversible upon discontinuation of therapy.
Electrolyte Imbalance
Electrolyte imbalances are common in patients with renal impairment, with or without diabetes, and should be addressed. In a clinical study conducted in type 2 diabetic patients with proteinuria, the incidence of hyperkalemia was higher in the group treated with COZAAR as compared to the placebo group; however, few patients discontinued therapy due to hyperkalemia (see ADVERSE REACTIONS).
Information for Patients
Female patients of childbearing age should be told about the consequences of exposure to COZAAR during pregnancy. Discuss treatment options with women planning to become pregnant. Patients should be asked to report pregnancies to their physicians as soon as possible.
Potassium Supplements
A patient receiving COZAAR should be told not to use potassium supplements or salt substitutes containing potassium without consulting the prescribing physician (see PRECAUTIONS: DRUG INTERACTIONS).
Carcinogenesis, Mutagenesis, Impairment Of Fertility
Losartan potassium was not carcinogenic when administered at maximally tolerated dosages to rats and mice for 105 and 92 weeks, respectively. Female rats given the highest dose (270 mg/kg/day) had a slightly higher incidence of pancreatic acinar adenoma. The maximally tolerated dosages (270 mg/kg/day in rats, 200 mg/kg/day in mice) provided systemic exposures for losartan and its pharmacologically active metabolite that were approximately 160-and 90-times (rats) and 30-and 15-times (mice) the exposure of a 50 kg human given 100 mg per day.
Losartan potassium was negative in the microbial mutagenesis and V-79 mammalian cell mutagenesis assays and in the in vitro alkaline elution and in vitro and in vivo chromosomal aberration assays. In addition, the active metabolite showed no evidence of genotoxicity in the microbial mutagenesis, in vitro alkaline elution, and in vitro chromosomal aberration assays.
Fertility and reproductive performance were not affected in studies with male rats given oral doses of losartan potassium up to approximately 150 mg/kg/day. The administration of toxic dosage levels in females (300/200 mg/kg/day) was associated with a significant (p < 0.05) decrease in the number of corpora lutea/female, implants/female, and live fetuses/female at C-section. At 100 mg/kg/day only a decrease in the number of corpora lutea/female was observed. The relationship of these findings to drug-treatment is uncertain since there was no effect at these dosage levels on implants/pregnant female, percent post-implantation loss, or live animals/litter at parturition. In nonpregnant rats dosed at 135 mg/kg/day for 7 days, systemic exposure (AUCs) for losartan and its active metabolite were approximately 66 and 26 times the exposure achieved in man at the maximum recommended human daily dosage (100 mg).
Nursing Mothers
It is not known whether losartan is excreted in human milk, but significant levels of losartan and its active metabolite were shown to be present in rat milk. Because of the potential for adverse effects on the nursing infant, a decision should be made whether to discontinue nursing or discontinue the drug, taking into account the importance of the drug to the mother.
Pediatric Use
Neonates with a history of in utero exposure to COZAAR
If oliguria or hypotension occurs, direct attention toward support of blood pressure and renal perfusion. Exchange transfusions or dialysis may be required as a means of reversing hypotension and/or substituting for disordered renal function.
Antihypertensive effects of COZAAR have been established in hypertensive pediatric patients aged 6 to 16 years. There are no data on the effect of COZAAR on blood pressure in pediatric patients under the age of 6 or in pediatric patients with glomerular filtration rate < 30 mL/min/1.73 m² (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Pharmacokinetics, Special Populations and Pharmacodynamics and Clinical Effects, and DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION).
Geriatric Use
Of the total number of patients receiving COZAAR in controlled clinical studies for hypertension, 391 patients (19%) were 65 years and over, while 37 patients (2%) were 75 years and over. In a controlled clinical study for renal protection in type 2 diabetic patients with proteinuria, 248 patients (33%) were 65 years and over. In a controlled clinical study for the reduction in the combined risk of cardiovascular death, stroke and myocardial infarction in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy, 2857 patients (62%) were 65 years and over, while 808 patients (18%) were 75 years and over. No overall differences in effectiveness or safety were observed between these patients and younger patients, but greater sensitivity of some older individuals cannot be ruled out.
In the LIFE study, Black patients with hypertension and left ventricular hypertrophy had a lower risk of stroke on atenolol than on COZAAR. Given the difficulty in interpreting subset differences in large trials, it cannot be known whether the observed difference is the result of chance. However, the LIFE study does not provide evidence that the benefits of COZAAR on reducing the risk of cardiovascular events in hypertensive patients with left ventricular hypertrophy apply to Black patients. (See CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Pharmacodynamics and Clinical Effects; Reduction in the Risk of Stroke.)This monograph has been modified to include the generic and brand name in many instances.
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For 36 years, James Patterson has written unputdownable, pulse-racing novels. Now, he has written a book that surpasses all of them. ZOO is the thriller he was born to write.
All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling entire cities. Jackson Oz, a young biologist, watches the escalating events with an increasing sense of dread. When he witnesses a coordinated lion ambush in Africa, the enormity of the violence to come becomes terrifyingly clear.
With the help of ecologist Chloe Tousignant, Oz races to warn world leaders before it's too late. The attacks are growing in ferocity, cunning, and planning, and soon there will be no place left for humans to hide. With wildly inventive imagination and white-knuckle suspense that rivals Stephen King at his very best, James Patterson's ZOO is an epic, non-stop thrill-ride from "One of the best of the best." (TIME)
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400 pages
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Book One | THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Chapter 4
I SAT BENT over in my chair for a few minutes of therapeutic seething. I listened to an uptown train blasting by my window, then a downtown one. Then I crossed the room, picked up the pad again, and went back to work.
HAC: Human-Animal Conflict. This was the theory I was working on.
Basically, it was my belief that all throughout the world, animal behavior was changing. Not for the better, either. Not even a little. On every continent, species after species was suddenly displaying hyperaggressive behavior toward one particular animal.
The enemy was us. You and me. People. Man, man.
The facts were undeniable. From Romania to Colombia, from the Pyrenees to the Rockies, from St. Louis to Sri Lanka, there'd been an exponential increase in animal attacks on humans—by wild leopards, bears, wolves, boar, all kinds of different animals, you name it. In fact, the worldwide rate of wild animal attacks in the last four years was double the average of the previous fifty. For emphasis, I repeat: double.
It wasn't just wild animals, either. In Australia, injuries from cats and dogs had swelled by 20 percent. In Beijing, it was 34 percent. In Britain, nearly four thousand people had needed hospital treatment for dog bites in the previous year.
For some reason I hadn't pinned down yet, some kind of concerted transspecies evolutionary backlash against Homo sapiens was underway. Or, to put it in other terms, something was driving animals to go haywire, and the time to do something about it was running out quicker than the plastic wand supply at a Harry Potter convention.
I know how it sounds—wing-nut city. Different species of nonhuman animals working in some sort of collusion against humans. It's absurd. Insane, impossible. I used to think it was a big, strange coincidence, too. Just lots and lots of totally unrelated, isolated incidents. Initially, it was just a goof among my colleagues that I'd started to track the phenomenon on my tongue-in-cheek blog, Man Against Nature.
I stopped laughing when I started looking at the evidence more closely. Nature, actually, was at war with man. And our side wasn't even noticing.
The expression "between the devil and the deep blue sea" is a nautical one. The devil is what old sailors used to call the seam between two hard-to-reach planks on a ship. In order to caulk it, one had to be suspended from a plank held over the water. If you fell into the ocean, it was certain death. If you didn't caulk the plank, the ship might sink. Either way was dangerous. Either way, you were screwed.
That's exactly where I was now, out on a line, suspended between bad and worse. I felt like I was out there caulking the devil, hanging above the deep blue sea.
If I was wrong, I was crazy. If I was right, the world was doomed.
I'd been doing my best to get the word out, but was getting nowhere. I'd maxed out all my credit cards and those of several sympathetic relatives, speaking to anyone who would listen. My trip to Paris was for the purpose of attending an animal rights conference that I'd fibbed my way into in order to get some speaking time. I only got about halfway through before I was laughed off the stage.
No, people weren't getting on board in the slightest. You'd be shocked and dismayed at the amount of intellectual intolerance directed at people who favor red lumberjack hats and wrinkled pajamas.
The L.A. zoo thing I'd just seen was the topper. The report had said that the cats had been born in captivity. Why would a pair of zoo lions one day just decide to start killing people and rampage through a city? Because there are two hundred channels and nothing is on? It didn't make sense. Zoo lions don't just go out berserking. There's simply no reason for them to. Until now.
I speed-dialed my press agent to try to get on Fox. As usual, I got kicked immediately into voice mail. Even she thought I was nuts, and I paid her. Not a good sign.
After I recorded my latest plea to her, I decided to do the only thing I could think of. I plugged myself into my iPod and blasted some Motörhead to get some much-needed mental juices flowing. Help me, Lemmy. I slurped more Red Bull and tried to think while watching some more of the world's unfunniest videos.
I sat up when Attila yanked my earbuds out.
"Yo, Attila," I said. My roommate held out his hand for a low five. I gave it to him. "Look at this craziness. Every time I think things are going to calm down, the activity doubles. Sarah won't call me back. Boy Who Cried Wolf, I feel your pain, you know?"
"Heeaagh! Heeaagh! Heeaagh!" said Attila.
Then he made a few panting hoots and scrambled into my lap and gave me a sloppy kiss and hairy-armed hug.
Attila, by the way, is a chimpanzee.
Copyright © 2012 by James Patterson
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Jay Snyder has performed on Broadway and off Broadway, regional theater, television, film, and more recently has been working in the Voice Over industry. Having provided many voices for animation, video games, commercials, documentaries, and audio books, he has also greatly enjoyed directing audio for Hachette, Marvel, Disney, and ABC World News.
ZOO airs on Tuesday, 9/8c on CBS
Kristen Connolly (Jamie Campbell)
Billy Burke (Mitch Morgan)
Nonso Anozie (Abraham Kenyatta)
Nora Arnezeder (Chloe Tousignant)
ZOO, based on the #1 bestselling novel by James Patterson, is a global thriller about a wave of violent animal attacks against humans sweeping the planet. Jackson Oz is a young renegade American zoologist who spends his days running safaris in the wilds of Africa with his best friend Abraham, who has a deep understanding of wildlife. Shortly after the attacks begin, Oz begins to see a link between the strange animal attacks and his late father's controversial theories about impending threats to the human race. In Los Angeles, news reporter Jamie Campbell is intent on being the first to break the story behind the mysterious animal behavior, and seeks the expertise of Mitch Morgan, an off-kilter veterinarian, who prefers the company of animals over people. Nora Arnezeder stars as Chloe Tousignant, a French investigator Oz meets in Africa. As the assaults occurring worldwide become more cunning, coordinated and ferocious, Oz and the others are thrust into the race to unlock the mystery of the pandemic before there's no place left for people to hide.
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A Bowling Green family has a new house, just in time for the New Year.
On Dec. 22, Western Kentucky University and Habitat for Humanity presented Ava Barber and her family with a new home on West Main Street in Bowling Green.
Western raised all the funds for the home, which in the end will total $50,000.
The University also provided around 300 volunteers for building the home.
"It has been fifteen months since the beginning of this house, and it was a tremendous learning curve, and we have poured ourselves into it heart and soul, and to see it happen and to see them move in is a glorious thing," said WKU Professor Laura Leach.
Volunteers worked once a week on the house and finished on Dec. 19, when eight students put on the final coat of paint.


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The Sand Gnats pitchers stifled the Suns for a second straight night, shutting them out 2-0 to take the South Atlantic League Championship, three games to one.
Hagerstown actually outhit Savannah 6-2, but the difference was the walks. Losing pitcher Dakota Bacus gave up three in the space of four batters in the Savannah 4th to load the bases, then Savannah's Stefan Sabol doubled to left to score the game's only runs.
Bacus would finish with a line of two runs on two hits and three walks over four innings while striking out four. Ronald Pena followed him on the mound and delivered four perfect innings of relief: 12 up, 12 down with one strikeout.
Hagerstown's best threat came in the third as Stephen Perez led off with a single to left and two infield hits loaded the bases with nobody out. Sand Gnat starter Stephen Matz escaped the jam by striking out Shawn Pleffner and "Help Me" Wander Ramos and inducing a popup from Mike McQuillan. The Suns 3-4-5 hitters would combine to go 0-for-11 with one walk and nine strikeouts.
Despite the Pena lockdown, Hagerstown would not get another runner into scoring position until the 9th, when
Estarlin Martinez pinch-hitter Bryan Lippincott doubled with one out. The 21-y.o. outfielder 23-y.o. infielder would go no farther as Khayyan Norfork became the 13th Sun to whiff for the second out and Pedro Severino popped out in foul territory to end the game.
Savannah's title is its first as an affiliate of the New York Mets. The Sand Gnats previous title was in 1996. Hagerstown has never won a championship since it joined the Sally League in 1993.
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The good news is all 3 affiliates won their 1st round games; too bad none could break through all the way.
Still think it's a good year for the system considering how many prospects they traded away for a couple of years there.
On to the instructional league.
The radio broadcast in the Internet announced Bryan Lippincott as a pinch hitter for Martinez in the 9th inning.
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Target Corporation made a bold on Tuesday. The company has become one of a growing number of high-profile businesses to take a position on the issue of same-sex marriage by publicly taking a stand against state marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana. Target joins companies such as Starbucks, Apple and Intel as big name corporations that have sided with same-sex marriage advocates in court cases or ballot initiatives.
The company revealed that it signed a court brief backing marriage equality in a pending court case to be heard on Aug. 26. The move backing gay marriage has put Target back in the good graces of same-sex marriage advocates as well as the LGBT community since the company was one of the few who didn't sign a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn ta federal gay marriage ban in a case heard in 2014.
Gay rights activists also boycotted the company for donating money in support of Republican Tom Emmer in the 2010 governor's race. Emmer was very vocal in his opposition of gay marriage. The hot and cold relationship with the LGBT community didn't end there. In 2014, Target scored a perfect 100 in the Human Rights Campaign 2014 Corporate Equality Index and has long offered benefits to same-sex partners of employees. Their endorsement of same-sex marriage rights in the upcoming hearing in the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals further demonstrates the retailer's commitment to equality.
In a posting on the company's blog, Target's human resource chief, Jodee Kozlak, said, "It is our belief that everyone should be treated equally under the law, and that includes rights we believe individuals should have related to marriage." The company also stated they signed a brief scheduled to be filed Tuesday afternoon.
Kozlak continued, "Current laws – in places like Wisconsin and Indiana that are addressed in this brief – make it difficult to attract and retain talent. These disparate laws also create confusing and complicated benefits challenges across multiple states."
The Human Rights Campaign applauded the move. President Chad Griffin said, "Today Target joins a growing chorus of Americans and businesses that know these bans on marriage equality serve no purpose other than to harm families. Discrimination should have no place in our society, much less our laws." It is a risky business move by Target, but one that is making a much more important statement in favor of the rights of all people.


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Politically, Mitt Romney represents the Right but that doesn't make him wrong in every situation. In keeping with their practice to never compliment any of his actions, the team at MSNBC went too far down the wrong road Sunday. In pursuit of humor they found disgust.
For those of us who take family holiday photos, then send them out with apprehension over how they will be received, the response on MSNBC to the release of a professional family photo taken of Mitt Romney and his clan is worse than any ridicule anyone could have imagined.
In the classic setting, there is the extensive Romney family all together in the photo. On his lap, Mitt Romney is holding his adopted grandson, Kieran Romney, who is a black baby boy. From this photo, unbridled ridicule and distasteful criticism is spewed from the broadcast team at MSNBC.
Where is the sensitivity training for this team who made jokes about this innocent baby not belonging in the Romney family? Who needs to be suspended or fired from MSNBC for disrespecting the generous Romney choice to adopt and love a black baby?
The host, Melissa Harris-Perry, an American Collaborative who identifies herself as a black woman should have been offended when Pia Glenn began singing: 'one of these things doesn't belong here…' instead, Harris-Perry joined in the insulting banter based on the race of the baby. She made an absurd comment about the humor in North West marrying the adopted Romney in the future.
It could possibly be joked of Melissa Harris-Perry that she does not belong in a photo of her multi-racial family or does her fair skin give her a pass and diminish her as the object of ridicule? Being Left, is she right?
The team tried to defend their insensitive, offensive and crude comments by saying the baby was not the issue. Harris-Perry said the baby was 'cute', it was the Romney Mormon family adopting this child that was considered hilarious. Why? The Romney family must not have had the same ugly ideas about the race of the baby.
Mitt Romney has a target on his back where MSNBC is concerned. These are people who will never see Romney as anything but a punch line for their self described witty satire. Now, this ridicule is at the expense of an infant child who, because of his color, has already been thrown into a battle to prove he belongs to the family that chose him. Should they have adopted a white baby?
The trend of white families adopting black children has the potential of creating an advanced society that accepts diversity and values all humankind. Using the race of an innocent baby to ridicule the loving gesture by the Romney family is unconscionable. To ridicule this adoption is an act of bigotry and racism that should not go unchecked.
Maybe Beyonce and Jay Z should adopt a needy little white baby to grow up alongside Blue Ivy.How would that play out?
In their determination to never say a positive word on MSNBC about a republican and especially about Mitt Romney, the team has gone too far. Think about the words recently uttered by Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty or comments attributed to Paula Deen this summer.These are white people making unflattering comments about black people. Neither one of them made fun of an innocent black child for their own amusement.
No amount of explaining their intent to ridicule Romney will mitigate the result of saying that this child doesn't belong there. Harris-Perry and the crew have virtually said that this child is not entitled to the be included in such an affluent family because he is black. That is very offensive.
Anyone concerned with race relations in Denver and throughout the United States should be in an uproar. What value has MSNBC added to the effort to promote racial equality and develop racial unity in America? The liberal left should know better than this!


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Chico Police were busy early Monday responding to several Labor Day disturbances.
Officers arrested a suspect around 3 a.m. Monday after they said he slashed the tires on at least four vehicles on Cherry Street.
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College Hockey:2002-03 New Hampshire Season Preview
If you're a college hockey coach and your only significant question mark is your backup goaltender, then life is good. For UNH coach Dick Umile, life is indeed very good. In this writer's eyes, New Hampshire enters the season as the number one team in the country.
Depth and skill abound on the roster. It'll be a shocker if the Wildcats aren't one of the league's top offensive and defensive teams.
The only position without established depth is between the pipes. Michael Ayers earned second-team All-Hockey East honors last year, setting a Hockey East record with a .938 save percentage in league games. Other than a poor outing to begin and another to end the season — the latter, regrettably for UNH, in the Frozen Four — Ayers was astonishingly consistent, going 12-1-1 and posting shutouts or allowing only one goal in nine of the contests.
The only question is how much freshman Jeff Pietrasiak will contribute as Ayers' backup following Matt Carney's graduation.
"We're thrilled to have Michael Ayers back," says Umile. "He proved he's a top goaltender in Division I college hockey. I expect Michael to play the majority of the games. We expect Jeff Pietrasiak to get a start here and there. We'll try to do that early on and see how he does. That will determine how many games he'll play."
If not for the loss of Garrett Stafford for the first semester due to academic ineligibility, UNH would return its entire blue line, not to mention add a couple freshmen for a little more depth and competition. Stafford will certainly be missed, but the defense will survive in his absence, barring a rash of injuries.
"We feel that we're going to be as solid back there on defense as anyone even with the semester loss of Stafford," says Umile. "That was disappointing and he brings a lot to our defense, especially offensively, but we do have six defensemen who we can put out there who got a lot of experience last season."
Stafford's quarterbacking role on the power play could be assumed by either another blueliner or a forward. Umile's man-advantage units have often employed forwards at the point.
As for the scoring, Darren Haydar, David Busch and Ed Caron must be replaced up front, but the Wildcats still would have finished third in league scoring last year even without that trio. Colin Hemingway (33-33–66) leads a strong group of senior forwards along with last year's Hockey East Rookie of the Year, Sean Collins (20-25–45).
"We're excited about the returning forwards," says Umile. "We have to replace Darren Haydar, obviously, and I don't think people realize everything he did. He not only put up points, but he made great plays at great times. He was a terrific player.
"What we have is a couple sophomores who were freshmen last year who I feel can pick up those numbers. It may take two of them, but who knows? Maybe one of them can come close to putting up the numbers that Darren put up when he was a sophomore. I think Justin Aikins and Preston Callander are two players who weren't in the lineup regularly who can do that.
"I think we can put up the numbers but it may take a couple of guys. But I'm very confident that we've got a couple of guys that can do that."
Putting it all together, you have a team that, at least on paper, looks like one of the best in the country.
"I believe us to be a top three team in Hockey East, wherever we fall [there]," says Umile. "If you can be a top tier team in our league, you're going to be a solid team in the country."
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Salma El Sayed, Asma El Husseini and Basma El Bittar are the brains behind 3al Canvas – an up and coming creative brand with an original name. These three art majors and friends introduced Cairo to the brand with a collection of beach bags, but this is only the beginning. After talking to Asma, one of the founders, she shared with me their interesting ideas moving forward from creating beach mats to pillows in fun prints to t-shirts with artistic slogans and illustrations.
The collection of beach bags already launched, are not your ordinary plastic beach bags that your mother used to carry Banana Boat sunscreen in or that you see all over the place in floral prints, but canvas bags printed with different fashion illustrations drawn by each of the founders. From the varied collection one can detect a sense of youthfulness while maintaining an air of femininity. They are approximately 40cmx40cm with colorful trims and bright inside linings. The one feature in particular that makes these bags even more to die for, are the chunky ropes handles. Manufactured locally at Masna3 Lotfy, the quality is unmatched and carries the proud 100% made in Egypt.
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