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As a GNU/Linux user and developer I rarely get to see how the other half lives. That is, Windows users. So, during my week off work, I had two goals: complete the recording of a music project I'd been working on, and finish as many outstanding (non-Linux-centric) projects as possible... using only Windows. I managed the first without too many problems (now to find a record deal ;) but had some issues on the second. This entry documents those problems, and the lessons to be learnt from it. I'm writing this part as therapy, and part talking point, in the hope someone will comment and explain why these things are the way they are. There is a companion piece, A Week With Technology, covering the other problems I had that week.
Disclaimer: what follows are the trials and tribulations of two Windows machines. One is an IBM Thinkpad laptop, the other a self-build desktop. So there are twice as many problems as normal.
My first task was getting Windows installed on the desktop. I'd got a disc (legitimate, too!) of Windows 2000 and thought that it'd be up-to-date enough for my needs. Alas no. The on-board network card is not recognized by W2K. No problem, I'll just logon to the Microsoft site and download... Oh... Wait... Perhaps I'll use the Windows laptop to grab some_random_driver.zip from their server. I tried and failed. As did the installation CD I'd been given with the motherboard. Various random, seemingly unrelated, error boxes appeared with cryptic messages so I gave up, found a PCI network card, and installed that instead. Perfect! (I later used it to find updated drivers for the on-board network card, but still no joy.) Rhetorical note to self: never install or configure a machine without a second machine with Internet access. Borrow a laptop if necessary.
The next task was to format a partition. That should be easy! Since I wanted to re-use it in my NSLU2, I selected FAT32 and walked away. Only to find an error popping up almost instantly saying Windows couldn't format it. Thinking I'd got a broken drive, I started worrying. But it didn't work on another disc I tried. It turns out that Windows is intentionally crippled to stop you formatting "large" discs with FAT32, because Microsoft want to promote NTFS, and would rather you didn't use FAT32. I half agree with them—I don't want to use FAT32 on the drive either, I want to use ext3. But there's no facility for that. So FAT32 it is. But since Windows won't format the drive for, er, Windows usage, it's over to Partition Magic to do the dirty. Rhetorical note to self: if you need anything that isn't an OS-default, find a specialist package to do the job.
While formatting, I thought I'd backup a few files onto DVD-R on the laptop. I have an external Lacie DVD-RW that hadn't caused me any problems. Until now. For some reason the program refused to work, and the only suggestion was "reinstall the software". Which I did. This time the DVD burner wasn't even in the device list. And neither was the internal DVD drive from which I'd just installed the software. So I re-installed the drivers from the laptop's rescue partition. But to no avail. I searched for, and downloaded, patches from the IBM website, but still nothing. After much time wasted, I copied cdrom.sys and some related files (as listed in the "Device Manager" within the control panel) from the Windows desktop machine and it started working. Alas, the DVD re-writer still doesn't work, two weeks hence, despite repeated reinstalls.
Oh, and I'd accidentally installed the Nero index server. It doesn't have anything to do with the burning process, but it does contain NMIndexStoreSvr, which crashes periodically for no good reason. So I removed that.
Another annoying productivity delay occurred when the laptop told me to change my password upon logon. I have no problem with this; every user should change their password regularly, and I don't mind the OS reminding me. When I did, however, the boot process stopped, and the machine refused to log me on with the new password. I had to hard reset (suffering the patronizing "If you'd shutdown properly you wouldn't see this" message) and logon again. Rhetorical note to self: only change the password once Windows has fully booted.
I can't remember the day I had graphics card problems, but I'll assume it was a Sunday, to space the problems out a bit. Basically, I couldn't install a second graphics card into my PC despite managing it with the same card about ten years ago. Yes, really! It was used for the second monitor of my old music PC. I fear the "new and improved" drivers don't work properly under W2K, so I'm working at half capacity. Plus, the existing driver for the working graphics card is so slow/buggy/broken that every time there's a large screen update, noise is produced on the sound card. Since this is my music PC, and I'm trying to produce a demo of my new album on it, this was causing me a problem. The solution was to minimize all the windows and then start recording, which avoided any screen updates. Rhetorical note to self: latest doesn't necessarily mean best.
One of the simpler problems to overcome was with the Windows command shell not having a backtick facility, or any sensible way of providing the date in a custom format. It would have been simple enough to install bash and solve my "backup to a newly created directory with today's date" problem in that manner, but in attempt to mimic what a traditional Windows user would do I searched for suitable software and solutions on the Internet. I found no decent solutions, so I wrote Backtick for Windows and a neat little replacement date utility for Windows to accomplish the task. Typing
backtick md `ndate`
Feels icky, but it rocks! Although I've since discovered
md %DATE:~-4,4%%DATE:~-10,2%%DATE:~-7,2%
does the same job, I like the brevity of my solution better. Rhetorical note to self: the simplest solutions are often the hardest to find. If you're not a developer, some solutions are just impenetrable.
Monday was my "get the NetGear SC101 NAS working", day. NAS stands for Network Address Storage. Or, if you're like me, Not work. The NetGear fell over after just 30 seconds of use. In this case I determined "use" as copying one 5 meg file to it. This happened from both Windows clients. Hardly a heavy load, though. Both NetGear and the company from which I bought it refuse to accept the problem existed. Pah!
Tuesday was pain free, I'd written a short piece for string quartet, and a demo for the first part of my avant-garde symphony was complete. I thought I was cooking! Rhetorical note to self: savor these moments, they don't last.
My Wednesday was mostly occupied with web design for a friend of mine. Both Windows machines handled the task admirably. Alas, my Linksys WRK54G router did not. Instead of requiring a reboot every 3-4 days (which is pretty pants, to be honest, but better than nothing), we were lucky to get 20 minutes of net access before the frustrations began. The only change to the network configuration was the addition of a third Windows machine; my mates Windows XP laptop. Once he'd left, all the problems went away. Sorry, David!
On Thursday my new mobile phone arrived! Hooray. Their next day delivery service had only taken 6 days. Plus a phone call. But this seemed like a minor problem. I duly plugged in the USB cable to download some music (it appears as a standard memory device, so no drivers are necessary) only to find I couldn't un-mount it! It looks like W2K lets you plug in and access the device as a normal user, but not un plug it without shutting down the computer. It claims admin rights are to blame, but logging in as Administrator didn't help. And the Windows equivalent of
su, Run As, is only available as an explicit invocation on executable files. Run As will additionally work on
.cpl (control panel) files, but not (alas)
.msi files. MSI files are the installation bundles used with some Windows applications, and if there's one time you need to run as Administrator, it's when installing software. Ho hum. I'd better reboot then. Rhetorical note to self: use Bluetooth if available. I did try it in this case, but the Bluetooth driver wouldn't work. I'm glad I only borrowed the device to experiment.
It was Saturday, and I'd very little holiday time left with which to capture some material from my (fast degrading) video cassettes. My TV card supplies a simple, but useable, video capture tool so I started it up. Fully aware of the 4 gig limit under FAT32 I moved all the temporary, working, and resultant files onto the NTFS partition. I also invoked the DivX codec to ensure the video got nowhere near that size, and started recording. It stopped, unceremoniously, after 20 minutes. Checking the settings, I could find nothing wrong, so I tried again. Again nothing. It appeared that the tool has a hard-wired 4 gig limit, completely ignoring the underlying file-system, and disregarded the compressions settings by saving all the temporary data as a raw stream in its own file, thereby ignoring the configuration until you saved the data from within this file. It took 8 hours to capture 3 hours of material.
Finally, on Sunday evening, I wanted to relax with my working media server, a can of beer, and take-out pizza. I actually ended up fixing PCs, as the Windows MediaMVP server refused to deliver my recently-captured video clips. The problem was a bad FAT table on one of the drives attached to the NSLU2. This introduced timeouts on the Windows machine. Bad timeouts. Freezing the machine for 10 minutes at a time. So I connected the machine locally, and started to fix the disk. While doing so I did something I wouldn't normally consider a problem—copying a file from one disc to another. Neither was the disc being checked, but one did have an undiagnosed FAT problem. The price I paid for copying from a broken FAT disc was high—it rebooted my Windows machine, corrupted the boot block, and destroyed the data on my boot partition. And all because I copied a file! I can not believe how stupid this is. I have yet to run low-level recovery tools on the disc, but I'm quietly hopeful I'll get the data from it. The biggest time sink was in the Windows settings, which I'll have to redo. Or learn Ghost. Rhetorical note to self: fix any and all problems as soon as they arise. Not everything will self-test effectively.
I can not believe I had so many problems in one week. Have my Windows skills been reduced to that of a stillborn newbie? Is the quality of hardware and software now so low as to be useless? Where are the Windows forums that don't popup advertising windows, and require site registration and login? How do normal people cope?
I've never had these problems with my Debian box, so free software is doing something right. Be proud of it!
Rant over.
It would have been more fair
It would have been more fair to try Windows XP, not 2000.
Other than that I totally understand your pain ... FAT32 is such a piece of crap file system that I feel sick just hearing about it.
But unfortunately it is a standard used by lots of devices.
BTW ... you can install in windows a driver to make windows recognize ext3 partitions.
From a quick search I found this: http://www.fs-driver.org
You are right, Debian is a stable and mature system, and it deserves some credits.
Don't give up on it :)
Why 2000 over XP?
Since this has come up a couple of times I feel I'd better clarify.
I have a legal copy of 2000. I do not own a copy of XP, legal or otherwise. I will not purchase something for the sake of a blog article (sorry, I'm not that rich!), nor will I purchase something that doesn't fit my needs. In the case of XP, this is due to restrictions placed through DRM. If Bill Gates wants a follow-up article putting XP on trial, then I'm willing to accept a copy!
I should also clarify that I'm not comparing W2K with my up-to-date Debian box, per se. (I've had many problems with Debian over the years, but none that seemed as braindead as the ones I noted above.) This is merely to reference the issues I had while using W2K. No truth distortion is present, or should be inferred.
Why weren't you using
Why weren't you using Windows XP? You wouldn't have had so many problems if you would just gone with the Windows OS that has the most driver support and larger userbase.
Shame on you for distorting the truth.
A Week With Windows
My first OS ever--in fact, my first computer ever-- had the pre-installed nightmare called Windows XP. Four years later,the cd player still won't let go of whatever it read before,--reboot--then it screws up Nero--I put that in trying to end the control of the clutching monster-- I constantly have to "re-install" bits of MS Word that mysteriously vanish--always when I need to use it--when else? and having been forced by the DSL IP to install some spyware program--an adware trojan, fortunately picked up by ZA-- that only registers the router and service using IE and active X, I have to boot the piece of MicroSwiss so I can reboot--this time to a sane piece of software, Ubuntu 6.06-- with the connection made. This leaves out all the horrors of backdoor trojans let in by their crappy firewall, two solid days of not being able to work on an important project deadline, trying to recover from the effects of the "Genuine Windows Advantage" that overrode MY Admin rights, disengaged Zone Alarm firewall,(the MS "tech support" dutifully warned me about "third party software" while they put me through the standard MS pablum "fixes") and brought up that ugly blue E browser, which somehow felt it should run no matter how many times I disabled it. Have you ever tried to follow a Microsoft bulletin to anywhere it makes an enlightening,informative,definitive statement? Try doing it as a new computer user. They're so helpful within the system as well--"XML files are of type XML" One enlightening thing XP did for me: It made me look for something else--and in so doing, I realized Microsoft for what they really are.
Oh dear
My first OS ever--in fact, my first computer ever-- had the pre-installed nightmare called Windows XP.
Boy do I feel old now!
"Boy do I feel old now".
Don't sweat it Ryan--would you believe my 20 year old daughter had to first show me the intricate operations of how to use a mouse? What's a mouse?", said I. I resisted learning anything about these diabolical machines until I HAD TO get an email address. Now the hardest thing for me is to admit I was so stubborn. Bet I'm older than you.
welcome to the world of windows...
My friend, I would love you to tell you that you just had an unlucky week, but I'd be lying to you if I told you that. :)
How do normal people cope? They don't. If they are lucky, they call a friend/family who is computer literate and let them try to handle the mess. If they are unlucky they do one of three things.
1. They take the machine to a shop to be 'fixed'. It doesn't matter that the machine may or may not be broken, it needs to be 'fixed'. For this privilege they end up spending a few hundred dollars. By the time the machine is returned to them they could have a great down payment on a new machine.
2. Those few smart one's who realize that getting the machine 'fixed' is a waste of time just go out and get a new machine. Then the process starts all over. :)
3. They just give up and do NOTHING with the computer. They live in a world of fear. They know the computer is hopelessly broken but they are too afraid of losing 'valuable' data (like the solitare game that came with that copy of windows) to actually let anyone fix it.
Normal people hate computers. They don't find the same joy in computing that 'geeks' do. It's all to complicated and confusing for them. Every task is a monumental challenge. There is real fear to do anything new. Once past email, word processing, internet, and solitaire the computer world is a truly frightening place. And this is BEFORE trying to get them to run adware/virus protection.
I teach computers for a living. I'm amazed there is a computer industry sometimes. I've been lucky enough to convince a handful of people to try linux and NONE of them have moved back to windows once they have made the full switch. People truly want an alternative to the current computer world but they are to afraid of changing.
Your article points out exaclty why.
I agree to the extent that I can say nothing else. Except... cheers!
First just for the records, I'd like to point out that while writing this I am actually removing my remaining Windows partition (in fact I removed the complete drive) - I don't like Microsoft and I like their politics even less.
However, comparing a Windows 2000 system with a (presumably) rather recent Debian (or $FAVOURIT*ix) is simply comparing apples and beans.
Even WinXP is now >6 years (oct-2001 in germany) old and 2000 (sep-1997) is even older.
Most of the hardware I used worked fine with Windows XP and in general I had more trouble getting it to work under Linux.
The big advantage is, that - once you HAVE GPL (or other truely FOSS) drivers you are no longer in the vendor trap.
In our laboratory we have e.g. a HPLC-system which runs under Windows NT. It has two proprietary ISA-cards required for comunication with the HPLC. Now, the PC is about to die.
Getting a PC with ISA-slots is already difficult. But unfortunately, the (you guessed it - proprietary) software does not run under Windows XP and only with difficulties under 2000. More recent mainboards do, however, not often work together with Windows NT. Windows NT is not an option as security updates are no longer provided. I was thinking about a virtual machine - but the ISA-cards prevent that. I was thinking about an ISA2USB-converter (which I found), but NT doesn't support USB. So in the end we had to buy a new network box to connect the HPLC via TCP/IP for "only" 2000 Euro. Note that we do not get *any* improvement from a users perspective (if not a deterioration: a network problem is far more difficult to track down) - it is all about updates (software -> security, hardware -> replace brolen parts).
If all the stuff was written as OS we could have adapted the driver to the new machine simply by recompiling ....
M$: Software's Trabant
I recently had a similar reaction after using XP for a few weeks. The wry laughter begins to take on the hard edge of hysteria, as images of M$ executives, hanging from lamp posts, begin to blot out the endless error messages displayed on the screen.
M$ aspires to being a world monopoly, and like every other monopoly it fails all attempts at innovation and treats its customers with complete contempt, by selling them overpriced garbage.
Compare M$ operating systems with the state monopoly Soviet Union's attempts to produce cars.
For years, the non-innovative Soviet Union monopoly simply made poor copies of ancient Italian designs, before inflicting on its long-suffering customers its final overpriced masterpiece; the Trabant.
Non-monopoly Italy, meanwhile, was producing the Ferrari.
For years now, the non-innovative M$ monopoly has been making poor copies of other people's software and selling it as an overpriced, unreliable OS. Now it has inflicted its overpriced masterpiece on its long-suffering customers, that Trabant of operating systems, with the grand title of Vista.
Wrong title?
"A week with an obsolete OS, even more obsolete fs and buggy hardware" would maybe have been a more fair title.
A year 2000 Linux distro with ext2 would be a more or less comparable choice, still good for working on stable and aged hardware, but neither good to deal with big files nor to have good chances with problemathic hardware.
You should have used a 2006/2007 Linux distro on ext3 or ReiserFS as you should have used XP SP2 on NTFS, both OSes with latest patches and drivers.
Fair, unfair...
Using Windows 2000 as a comparison piece is unfair compared with using Windows XP SP2 on a few points:
- XP SP2's kernel makes better use of virtual IRQs; for sound hardware, that's actually much better
- Windows 2000 doesn't deal well with recent ACPI revisions (see above problem).
However, on the whole, the two OSes are pretty much equivalent except there's no DRM crap in Windows 2000. As such, you'd have gotten pretty much as many problems with an XP machine, if not more.
You may have solved your burner troubles by installing the Adaptec SCSI drivers. Yes, you gotta know about that trick.
You may have solved your sound problems with disabling ACPI: setting the kernel as 'Standard PC' disables the use of virtual IRQs, most often source of sound/graphics problems and BSODs with IRQ_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.
The ext3 win32 driver works better with NT5 (Win2k) than NT5.1 (WinXP); it doesn't however work as well as under Linux (no journaling, fragmentation appears faster).
Several softwares use 32-bit addressing to size their output; the file system as such doesn't matter much, as you've seen.
NTFS isn't terra incognita for Linux anymore: a working, final, read/write driver came out a few months ago.
Nero has gotten huge and bloated; get CDburnerXP instead. It looks a lot like k3b.
However, if you can do all your stuff on GNU/Linux, stay there. I did.
A computer is like air conditioning: it becomes useless when you open windows.
Some people don't seem to read
You guys are all bleating about XP, the writer has re-iterated that he does not have alegally paid for copy of XP, and will not pay to do so, just for the hell of it.BTW windows 2000 is not circa 97, it is circa '99. As for windows XP being the b all and end all of woes, I am a PC tech, who even has enough hell with my wife's machine running XP adn just for no apparent reason not finding the wireless network after a reboot. Requiring another reboot and more downtime.
I feel your pain, but then, there is no perfect OS. I will say though, that Linux gives awesome log files, so that you generally know what is going wrong. Whereas windows likes to pretend that there is no problem whatsoever.
My only question to our intrepid writer is - did you install service pack 4 for windows 2000?
My only question to our
My only question to our intrepid writer is - did you install service pack 4 for windows 2000?
Yep. SP4 is running on both Windows machines.
As for Windows pretending there is no problem - agreed 100% I wish I'd mentioned that in the article!
"You guys are all bleating
"You guys are all bleating about XP..."
"BTW windows 2000 is not circa 97, it is circa '99"
"I will say though, that Linux gives awesome log files, so that you generally know what is going wrong."
So, to be fair, please install a 1999 Linux distro, using with EXT2 to be comparable with FAT32, and try to accomplish the same tasks on the same hardware, and if you manage to get it better in that week, spend the rest of the time tracking the marvellous error logs to know exactly what went wrong and why...
Or else, install an up to date Linux or BSD or Solaris or OSX or Windows system, place the data on a decent FS (ReiserFS, EXT3 or even NTFS), spend some bucks to replace buggy hardware, and do the same job in a douple of day, with the remaining day spent to do some other job which will full payback the bucks spent for decent hardware and for a well supported distro (even Suse and RedHat developers eat!)
Linux was pretty usable in 99
Actually, I was using Debian Linux in late 1999 and early 2000. It was pretty usable.
More to the point, however, seeing as it is 2007, I can legally install the very latest Debian Etch system, whereas the last Windows I have legal title to is Windows 98SE (and that only because it was a gift -- I switched to Linux as soon as I saw Windows 95).
I don't think it's "unfair" to notice this difference, since the organic way in which Linux grows and is supported is one of its many advantages. Part of the problem with Windows is that, unless you are quite wealthy and/or lucky, you are always installing an out-of-date version of it.
Not just Windoze problems
My Linksys WRK54G router doesnt hold a connection for more than a day when I have a Windoze machine plugged into it, so think yourself lucky! It's probably more Linksys fault than Windoze, but I don't know. PLus the Netgear SC101 *IS* crap - everyone knows it. why did you buy one?
I run have windows at work
I run have windows at work but Ubuntu & PCLinuxOS at home. Give me Linux any day. I have actually just had to use a live Knoppix disc to rescue the XP machine as it is a Dell & doesn't come with the intsall disc that has the 'recovery console' (what a joke that is after a Linux command prompt!).
BTW knoppix worked beautifully on the NTFS file system :0)
It was a fair test
Whenever there is a poll of "What was the best version of Windows", Win 2000 always comes out on top; with people citing its stability, comparative lack of troubles, etc.
Windows 2000 is still supported by the vast majority of software and hardware, and XP is really just some extensions to 2000; so this is really a fair test.
I support tens of thousands of Windows systems for a living. I run a mix of Solaris/BSD/Linux and Mac OS X at home because I simply don't want to have to deal with Windows problems at home! I've got one PC running Vista Ultimate merely because I have to learn it and become familiar with it. Personal opinion? Vista is horrid... You're gonna need top of the line hardware just to run it efficiently. Seriously, 1GB of RAM is no longer enough, better to have 3GB's of RAM. There are a few things I like, for example changing "\Documents and Settings" to "\Users" which only makes it more Unix like. The file search is a rip off of Mac OS X Spotlight but is a welcome addition. There are enough serious compatibility problems that Circuit City & FireDog in conjunction with Microsoft are now giving out VirtualPC with a WinXP MSIE6 or WinXP MISE7 virtual image to allow users to run the virtual machine for those applications and websites that do not work with Vista yet.
Your experience is far from unusual even with using the very old Win2k "legal" installation. i.e. I've seen it all. I have to jump through virtual flaming hoops of fire every single day just to accomplish basic tasks. Murphy's Law is enhanced by adding ""Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time"! I eat, live, and breath Murphy's Law! It rules Windows like a dark shadowy overlord of evil.
If I could obtain a job paying similar rates to work on Unix/Linux/MacOSX instead of Windows I would jump in a heartbeat! Trouble is, Windows is so very horrible people are willing to pay me enormous amounts of money to fix their broken systems. So I swallow my pride and fix the systems, get paid and laugh all the way to the bank and subsequently the Mercedes dealership.
I have found a variety of open source tools to actually make life much easier.
1. GPartEd - Gnome Partition Editor - Bootable ISO CD image. Supports NTFS, FAT32, EXT3, HFS+, etc., etc., etc. - Does 90% of what Partition Magic can do for free. Create and Resize partitions. Latest build even has Intel Mac support.
2. BartPE - Bootable CD mini-WinXP on a RAM disk. Fantastic for booting a dead system or to get access to the hard disk and have a network connection for backup, etc. . BartPE is a clone of WinPE on steroids. It's much better then WinPE and is free. It comes with a utility to customize your boot cd with the tools of choice. Ton's of plugin tools available, some free some not. It does require having a legal copy of WinXP.
3. DBAN - Derrick's Boot & Nuke - Fantastic secure disk wipe tool. Available as a bootable CD ISO or even a floppy image. Supports DoD 7 Pass wipe and greater.
I wish there were more tools of this caliber that were either free or completely open source. I've got my little bag of tricks which contains a whole lot more but much of it is neither free nor cheap.
No reinstall?
One week with Windows and you didn't have to reinstall the operating system, or MS Office for that matter? Nice one!
Please don't talk to me about Windows. My nightmares (BSOD's and Fisher Price looks all over the place) were just about over...
BTW: Microsoft still issues patches for Win2000, it's still officially supported and has all the latest software. So how is that not fair comparing it to a Debian system?
BSOD in Win2K
Clearly Win2K gave you a lot of problems with your hardware. But what I'd be more interested to know is whether you consider it to be an unstable system. I used Win98 and WinME before I tried out Win2K, and I found Win2K to be incredibly stable, at any rate when compared to those other two disasters. I never once experienced the BSOD in Win2K (though some people claim that it exists) whereas this was a twice or thrice-daily occurrence in Win98 and WinME. I have no desire or reason to go back to Windows, but in the interests of fairness, I think it should be admitted that Win2K and WinXP are actually quite stable systems (or else, the 3 billion that Microsoft claims it puts in R&D every year would have to be some kind of tax dodge).


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September 22, 2005
As Hurricane Rita prepares to come ashore, hurricane relief efforts are continuing on the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. So far, 138,000 Red Cross workers from all fifty states have responded and more are signing on each day. The Red Cross is sending volunteers as fast as they can train them.
American Red Cross training videos are seeing overtime. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many people want to volunteer. Our local area has seen 300 new volunteers since Katrina. Military retiree Susan Dykes is one of them.
"Because of the catastrophe, some of the training they are trying to get it completed as fast as possible," Dykes said.
Days after watching coverage of Hurricane Katrina, Susan Dykes signed up to make a difference. After a quick crash course in disaster assistance, she's now headed for the Gulf Coast for three weeks. She understands it will be quite different.
"The woman we were talking to yesterday she said you sort of loose all your dignity for a while you just do what you have to do," Dykes said.
Dr. Greg Smith, psychiatrist and medical director at Aiken-Barnwell Mental Health, just returned from the Gulf Coast volunteering.
"Some of the other areas where the eye actually hit it was like a bomb had dropped," Smith said.
"I've tired my darndest to prepare myself for the worst and I've talked to some people who have been there," Dykes said.
Dr. Smith has experienced the devastation and sleeping on cots, no electricity, and no running water.
"Cars were stacked up 20-30 on the side of the road where the storm surge had pushed them," Smith said.
"From what I understand, it's something you can't imagine," Dykes said.
But these images continue to draw volunteers.
"God's bless me with many things. He's given me a house and he's given me a car, but those people lost everything," Dykes said.
There is a Red Cross training course going on at Augusta State University this Saturday from 9-4. Training will be in three courses. If you would like to know more about it, call the Augusta Red Cross at 724-8481.

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If You Threw Cookie Dough at the Sun, How Long Would it Take to Bake?
First, let's assume you are in orbit around the Earth's atmosphere, and you threw the cookie sunward at 25 mph. The most delicious of speeds.
First, let's assume you are in orbit around the Earth's atmosphere, and you threw the cookie sunward at 25 mph. The most delicious of speeds.
All of them? If you're talking about a commercial airliner, then there're hundreds and hundreds. There are also big, fat manuals describing what they all do. But since you asked, buckle up.
A classic debate! Good or Evil? Chocolate or Strawberry? Star Trek or Star Wars (excluding the Death Star)?
What 'genius' decided that hacking the neck off a glass bottle of expensive highly pressurised liquid was a good idea?
If you know what to look for, you can see how high places, walls, and other fortifications had a major effect in shaping our cities.
In our current digital age, the hashtag identifies movements, events, happenings, brands—topics of all kinds. The "#" didn't always have this meaning, though.
It is delightful to have my masters degree in Mechanical Engineering put to use in resolving age-old fairy tale conundrums.
In the spirit of making problems go away, sometimes you want to just launch a particular person/problem into the sun. So—could you? And just how big would the canon need to be?
R.S. Owens & Company has been making the Oscars in Chicago since 1983. It's a bona fide trophy factory, one of the last in the U.S.
These things can be one major waste of space. Friends, it's time to redesign the lift. Here's how.
For the first time in history, a theory of what doesn't exist is successfully predicting what does.
It may be a fictitious device, and has no official practical explanation in the canon, but there's no reason we can't at least try to crack its science.
Public health saviour or smoking's second wave? It's time to get informed about e-cigs.
An exhaustive look at which devices give you the best representations of those all-important colour gamuts.
There is a light that never goes out…
The ISS is used to conduct experiments that, for a variety of reasons, could not be done on Earth. It's all because of weightlessness you see.


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Rob Liefeld in the spotlight for Extreme Studios revival! U.K. critic Les Coleman passes away. Rick Remender delves into "Uncanny Avengers" plans! Ape's David Hedgecock on return of "Poison Elves"! Plus much more!
Incoming "Uncanny X-Force" writer Sam Humphries makes his X-POSITION debut, answering your questions about his new mutant ninja noir squad premiering later this month.
With the first volume of "Uncanny X-Force" concluded, CBR spoke with incoming writer Sam Humphries about how Rick Remender's run will impact his run this January as part of Marvel NOW!
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BMW Unveils Electric i3 Coupe in Los Angeles (Slideshow)
Luxury car maker BMW AG unveiled a new electric concept car called the i3 Concept Coupe at the Los Angeles International Auto Show.
The car signals the company plans to eventually expand its coming lineup of i-Series cars, which includes the boxy, electric powered i3 city car and the sleek, high-performance i8 plug-in hybrid.
The coupe is meant to be a stronger reflection than the i3 of the company's reputation for building fun-to-drive cars. Its expected range of 100 miles is meant to make it useful for longer journeys, not just urban errands.
BMW said it built the i3 Coupe with technology specific to electric cars. The navigation system, for example, is designed to give the driver "realistic" updated estimates of the vehicle current range. It considers a number of factors, including the battery's charge status, driving style, use of electric accessories and route topography when making the calculation.
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The annual Tammy Walker Cancer Center free prostate cancer screening clinic will be held from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Tammy Walker Cancer Center, 511 Santa Fe, Salina.
The screening is open to all men between the ages of 50 and 75. Men age 40 and older at a heightened risk, such as African-Americans and those with a family history of the disease, are also welcome to participate in the clinic.
Patients will receive a prostate-specific antigen blood test and prostate physical performed by a physician free of charge. Results from the blood test will be mailed to patients and their primary care physicians.
Appointments are required and can be made by calling Linda Hinnenkamp at the Tammy Walker Cancer Center at (785) 452-4848. While the clinic is free, space is limited.
The special clinic is underwritten by a generous donation from Mark and Jane Berkley. Sponsors for the event include the Tammy Walker Cancer Center, Salina Regional Health Center, Midwest Cancer Alliance, Salina Urology Associates and Salina Masonic Lodge No. 60.
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Robert Kee – A Television History of Ireland – Episode 3 `Two Nations 1700-1845`
February 12, 2013
Nora Connolly
Tis the most distressful country that ever yet was seen (John McCormack)
In a broad sweep Kee examines Irish nationalist development up to the Act of Union (1801) the episode concludes with the famine. The two nations described are identifiable by religious affiliation, the largest Catholic and by virtue of the Penal Laws a discriminated group. While religious observance for Catholics was difficult, it was grudgingly accepted by the authorities (though in reduced circumstances). The quid pro quo at the heart of this tacit arrangement was recognition that Catholic civil rights were completely curtailed. Catholics were not permitted to hold political office, disqualified from voting and as episode three illustrates, severe limitations were imposed on land ownership including the transfer of land through inheritance. The Presbyterian Protestant dissenter`s in the North (not identified as a separate group by Kee), were also penalised, e.g. the requirement of paying tithes to the Anglican Church. These grievances would be a unifying factor, in the formation of an embryonic Irish Republican movement. Read more of this post


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Shocker of the day: Al Gore blames Hurricane Sandy on man made climate change
**Written by Doug Powers
The only question I have is what took him so long?
Former Vice President Al Gore warned in a blog post today that Hurricane Sandy is a "disturbing sign of things to come" if the world doesn't quit "dirty energy."
At 1:21 p.m. ET, with large swaths of the Northeast still swimming in the storm's mess, the Current TV founder and environmental activist published a statement asking the public to "heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis."
"Sandy was also affected by other symptoms of the climate crisis," Gore wrote. "As the hurricane approached the East Coast, it gathered strength from abnormally warm coastal waters. At the same time, Sandy's storm surge was worsened by a century of sea level rise. Scientists tell us that if we do not reduce our emissions, these problems will only grow worse."
And if you're the type that demands confirmation from a more credible scientific source before you'll believe a claim from Gore, Meghan McCain is backing Al up on this all the way. As a matter of fact, Van Jones thinks the right owes Gore an apology.
Here's where it gets confusing: About a year ago, Al Gore announced his support for Occupy Wall Street. Today, this from Occupy Wall Street's Twitter account:
The Gore-endorsed group is calling for more hurricanes? Maybe the Goracle and OWS have teamed up for an enviro-scare version of "good cop, bad cop" to help sell carbon credits or something.
Ed Driscoll at Instapundit points out that OWS might want to re-think a world without power — how would they Tweet their approval?
**Written by Doug Powers
Twitter @ThePowersThatBe
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We all get them in the mail -- credit card offers that are pre-approved, some even have checks inside.
Those offers can be dangerous if they get into the wrong hands.
Thieves can dig them out of the garbage and use the information listed to get a credit card in "your" name.
Creditors say people need to make sure they destroy any personal information before throwing those offers in the trash.
Creditors say many times people won't even know someone is using their credit until they look at a credit report.
That's why it's important to check your credit on a regular basis.
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Saturday, March 30, 2013
MONTEVALLO, Ala. – In a battle of top-30 teams, the nationally 28th-ranked Montevallo Falcons claimed a 6-1 game three Peach Belt Conference victory over No. 6 USC Aiken at Kermit A. Johnson Field on Saturday afternoon.
Montevallo (23-12, 13-8 PBC) plated the first six runs of the game with USC Aiken (27-7, 13-5 PBC) obtaining its lone run of the game in the top of the ninth inning.
Montevallo out-hit USC Aiken, 12-4, in the game.
Falcon starter Josh Clemen pitched a complete game for Montevallo, striking out seven in his nine innings on the hill. Clemen is now 4-2 on the year.
USC Aiken starter Wyatt Brown (Suwanee, Ga./Middle Georgia) took the loss on the hill for the Pacers. Brown dealt 6.1 innings, striking out five.
No Pacer finished with multiple hits in the game with Bryce Baur (Moncks Corner, S.C./Florence-Darlington Tech), Ryan Metzler (Glen Burnie, Md./Siena), Grayson Smith (Aiken, S.C./Mercer) and Sean Miller (Crofton, Md./Archbishop Spalding HS) each recording a hit. Miller, who doubled in the game, has now hit in 14 straight games.
USC Aiken's Bill Gerstenslager (Solon, Ohio/Mercyhurst) was held hitless in the game, ending his 20-game hitting streak.
Austin Dubberly led the Falcons with three hits.
The Pacers will next travel to Gaffney, S.C. for a 3 p.m. non-conference game against Limestone on Wednesday, April 3. It will be the second meeting between the two teams this season with USC Aiken taking a 10-6 victory over Limestone at Roberto Hernandez Stadium on Wednesday, March 13.
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Favorite DU Photos: January 2013
Member photos of the day from the month of January
My two boys anxiously looking for ducks while hunting in Northern California. (photo by Michael Sawyer)
Our MOJO during a South Dakota sunrise. (photo by Spencer Neuharth)
4-month-old Cooper. Enjoying a nice rock during the spring Steelhead Season. He is a dog for all seasons. (photo by Michael Kavros)
Taken from my hunting blind at Sacramento refuge as the sun is setting. It don't get no better then this! (photo by Theo Wooley)
Find the collars??? (photo by Matthew Bielski)
Wylie posing after a super morning hunt. (photo by Jack White)
Nikki, on one of those slow days when the geese weren't flying and the photographer has too much time to fool around. (photo by Mark Kellner)
(photo by David Herndon)
My friend was wading in the water and took this picture with his iPhone. It is a picture of my goose decoys stacked on my duck boat with a sweet view of the snow, ice, and sky. I told him that was the best picture I have seen in a while. (photo by Eric Williams)
Logan Utah. On Cutler as the sun comes up over Mt. Logan. (photo by Cody Sheppard)
0 My dog Kota... she loves her ducks! (photo by Emily Albright)
1 Great Salt Lake, January 19, 2013. (photo by Jamie Shaw)
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Dixie Union, a Rolla area bluegrass band, placed second at the annual bluegrass competition at this year's Missouri State Fair.
Bands from several states were invited to compete during Bluegrass Day Wednesday, Aug 14.
Members of Dixie Union include band leader Dave Richardson on mandolin, tenor harmony and lead vocals, Carol Richardson on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Peter Price on upright bass and baritone harmony, and John Francis on banjo and baritone/bass harmony.
The band plays a blend of traditional and innovative bluegrass, including gospel, blues and crossover country.
Dixie Union performs at a variety of bluegrass festivals, fairs, church events, trail rides, picnics, parties, benefits, on radio and has produced several CDs.
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As autumn draws to a close, some nature lovers have their minds on feeding winter birds. November 1st marks the "safe date" for some in the region to put their feeders back out - hungry black bears will be on their way into a deep sleep and less likely to visit feeders for food. Conservation Correspondent Bridget Butler gets some tips from Guy's Farm and Yard and the Birds of Vermont Museum on how to choose feeders and how to pay it forward for bird conservation.


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Moral Instruction
Published: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 12:07 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 12:07 a.m.
In response to Ruth Kern's letter ["Moral Compass," Jan. 19], I take exception to the last statement: "Why are schools so afraid of the teachings of Jesus?" As a teacher, I am not afraid of the teachings of Jesus. I try to follow them. However, there is a "separation of church and state," which prohibits us teachers from teaching them in the classroom. Many readings allude to the Bible and mythology. I cannot impose on students my religious beliefs, nor should I, and if they believe or not is the student's issue.
Not all students are Christian in belief, and many are nonbelievers. Please do not place at education's already overburdened feet something else that mandates another impossibility. We do the best we can with what we are given.
All this goes back to the adage "you can bring the horse to the trough, but you cannot make it drink." You can use the same adage on our legislators, both state and national. Some go in with good intentions, but the complexity of the machine makes it nearly impossible.
Our society makes this difficult as well. Have you seen what is on TV or out on the Internet? Being mean for many today is in. We do not reward kindness or sincerity. In fact, those traits are considered weaknesses. It is difficult to find a happy medium. We are either overly strict or excessively loose.
In addition, if you are poor, you are treated differently than if you are wealthy. Look at Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan and the ilk of Hollywood, sports and politics. These are the idols that today's youth try to emulate.
Do we as a nation need a moral compass? Certainly. Moreover, it should begin at home and continue with those who are in the spotlight.
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Houma's first bagel café to open
Published: Sunday, November 4, 2012 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 3, 2012 at 11:34 p.m.
Houma's first bagel shop will open next month.
Tracey Hebert of Houma and Sonya Ohlmeyer of Schriever are pairing up to open New York Bagel Café and Deli.
"We really didn't have anything like it down here, so that's what we decided," Hebert said.
New York Bagel Café and Deli is a franchise chain that was started in 1994 by Joe Smith, an upstate New Yorker. It has locations in North Carolina, Delaware, Idaho, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Florida and Colorado.
After a year of planning, they are getting ready to open at 520 Barrow St.
"What took the longest was finding a location. We really wanted it downtown for the clientele we were going after," Ohlmeyer said.
The café will offer customers diverse breakfast and lunch menus with a lounging space.
"For breakfast, we'll have bagels and different breakfast foods. During lunch, we serve paninis, different sandwiches, wraps, smoothies and salads. They've just added bagel burgers to the menu, so we might do well with that," Hebert said.
Hebert said she's sure they will serve some homemade baked goods as well.
The café will offer free Wi-Fi and feature two large-screen TVs. The partners also hope as time goes on, they will be able to add deliveries.
The café plans to be open Monday through Saturday.
In response to a Facebook post about the café, locals sounded off on their excitement.
"I am super excited. Bagels are the perfect on-the-go breakfast food, and having a location downtown is a fantastic addition to our already diverse community. I intend on visiting the bagel shop quite often since I live a few blocks from downtown anyway," John Gautreaux, 25, of Houma said.
Houma resident Natalie Miller Falgout, 26, also shared her delight.
"Assuming it's the same New York Bagel that is in Baton Rouge, it is delicious. Not just breakfast food, delicious sandwiches, salads, and yummy bagel chips. I'm hoping it's the same; I loved it when I lived in Baton Rouge."
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North Carolina fire investigators say gasoline or some other fuel used to burn wood in an outdoor stove caused the explosion that killed one and injured four others clustered nearby.
The funeral for 28-year-old Martin Antoine Blossom is Saturday. He was killed by flying metal when the cast-iron stove exploded last weekend.
Fayetteville Fire Department Battalion Chief Ron Lewis says investigators determined that someone poured a gas or gas mixture onto a log inside the front-yard fire pit to accelerate the burning. Lewis says combustible vapors built up in the belly of the stove and ignited after someone stuck a piece of paper inside.
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Over the past few days a video of a father beating his daughter has gone viral. One of the captions reads, "Father Whoops On His 13-Year-Old Daughter Dressed Like Beyonce After Missing For 3 Days Off With boys….Thought She Was Off In The Woods Dead Somewhere!
The video is too lewd for us to post here but you can google it. Is Dad Wrong Or Right for Whooping His 13 Year Old Daughter
The video shows a man beating a young woman with a belt while pulling her hair and calling her a whore and the B-word. It was a horrific display of violence and brutal humiliation. A debate has followed on social media about the posting and whether or not this form of punishment is appropriate.
Is this child abuse? Many people say yes. But there are still others who support this type of old school discipline.
Do the old school rules still apply today?…..especially when this type of treatment can be posted on line and lead to arrests of the parent or guardian.
Some people are quick to say, "Spare the rod, spoil the child." But, shouldn't African Americans be just as critical of anyone that seeks to use scripture as an excuse for maltreatment and abuse? Self selective religious interpretation for the purposes of supporting physical violence and abuse was used during our own enslavement and colonization.
We've all heard, "If I don't do it, the court system will do it one day." Black parents have been whipping their children for decades and it hasn't stopped millions of our young Black boys and girls from going to prison. Beatings don't solve that. Addressing overall societal issues is the leading way to prevent prison time.
What if you were asked this as a parent, "What would you do if this was your daughter missing for three days?…."You have to show tough love to kids today." If this is what parental love looks like in her home, would you blame her for staying away? If this brutality was so easily displayed for public viewing, one can only imagine what goes on behind closed doors. (Forty-three percent of runaway youth (girls and boys) reported physical abuse before leaving home. – National Runaway Hotline Stats.)
Finally, what if we are to assume for just one impossible second that this really is a father that "cares?" Is this young girl now supposed to connect physical violence and verbal abuse with love?
Let's just think about it for a second. If this is love, what is hate?
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Miss Pearlie Mae Cheeks
Published: Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 8:05 a.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 8:05 a.m.
SPARTANBURG, SC-- Miss Pearlie Mae Cheeks passed Saturday, March 29, 2013, at her home.
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AVON, Colorado - When a friend asked Jake Wolf to teach elementary school music, he thought he was being punked.
He was a drummer in a few different rock bands, and as he was walking through the music room during the job interview, he kept waiting for the cameras to pop out.
He said the guys in the bands had asked, "Do you think someone in their right mind is going to have you teach children?"
"No," Wolf replied. "I'm being punked."
He wasn't being punked.
Turns out, a drummer from a couple of Grateful Dead tribute bands with very little teaching experience was exactly who Avon Elementary School principal Melissa Rewold-Thuon wanted.
"I wanted a real musician to inspire kids to play music," she said.
Wolf told her, "If you're looking for Mr. Holland's Opus, that's not me. But if you want Jack Black's 'School of Rock' - that I can do."
Now, five years later, Wolf has been nominated for a Grammy Award for excellence in music education. In fact, so many people submitted nominations that the Grammy people stopped taking them.
The Grammy committee selects 10 finalists around May 1 and one winning teacher after that.
Wolf teaches from his heart and head, not from some standardized curriculum that insists singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" in rounds is a good idea. Honest. It's right there in the curriculum.
Wolf's students know the Circle of Fifths. Do you know the Circle of Fifths? It's a visual representation of the relationships among the 12 tones of the chromatic scale, so now you do. But Wolf's kindergartners knew it before you.
"They're little sponges. They get it," Wolf said.
Still, he said he can't count the times a kid has stormed up to him and growled, "Mr. Wolf, I can't play this!"
He's heard it the same number of times he has replied, "No, you can't play this ... yet!"
Teaching is not Wolf's fall-back gig. He said he's in it for keeps. After five years he still makes about $13 an hour and is considered a part-time sub, so he's not in it for the money.
"I'm here because I want to be," he said.
He said he figured he'd do it for a year. That was 2006; his year isn't up yet.
"Something special was happening, and I couldn't leave," Wolf said.
Like the time Yo Yo Ma showed up to work with his second-graders.
Yo Yo Ma told him that formal music education aims at the note. It's not about that, he said. It's about the opportunity to play the note.
"Playing something perfectly is impossible given the time we have in our lives," Wolf said.
He's a teacher to his very marrow but still looks the part of a rock musician. Wolf's long hair hangs down from under his cowboy hat. The bandanna he wears always matches his shirt - very stylish. When we caught up with him, his matching bandanna and T-shirt were orange.
Wolf's working musician friends swing by his classroom to play with students. The Shook Twins were there before their Vilar Center show. A singer from a local reggae band, the pianist from Leftover Salmon, a Polynesian drummer from Hawaii - they keep coming by. Meanwhile, Wolf creates lessons in advance and on the fly, and the kids keep learning.
It wasn't always that way. For years, Avon Elementary's instruments collected dust in a closet.
Wolf walked in, and school of rock was in session.
Kids are a tough audience, and he was nervous that first day, especially when the older kids were being, well ... older kids with a new teacher.
Later that same day, 18 kindergartners started screaming and no one could get them to stop. Finally a Spanish-speaking teacher came in (most of the kids were native Spanish speakers). The kids thought Wolf's classroom mascot, the Muppet drummer Animal, was the Mexican boogie man Chupacabra.
And that was Day 1.
On Day 2, he and those same kindergartners tried a call and response. Wolf clapped out a rhythm and sang verses of Bob Marley's "Three Little Birds." The kids clapped and sang back - 18 adorable young faces soaking up everything as fast as they could.
"It was so powerful. That was the moment I thought, 'I can do a lot of good with this,'" he said.
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International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
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The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship publishes significant research and scholarship in the broad field of nursing education. The mandate of the journal is to present high quality papers to advance nursing education through research, description of innovative methods, or introduction of novel approaches about all aspects of nursing education in a timely manner. The specific aims of IJNES are to:
- Promote worldwide scholarship in nursing education
- Enhance and advance nursing education globally
- Provide a forum for the dissemination of international perspectives and scholarship in nursing education
Research, expository, and short exemplar articles as well as critical literature reviews about diploma, degree, post-graduate and continuing education are invited from colleagues around the world. Topics suitable for inclusion in the IJNES include:
- Student, faculty, curriculum, and program development and evaluation
- Theoretically-based teaching and learning strategies in classroom, clinical, and flexible learning contexts
- Issues and trends in nursing education
- Administration and leadership of nursing education programs
To ensure that only articles which contribute meaningfully to the scholarship of nursing education will be published, accepted submissions must meet the following criteria:
• Be relevant and important to the field of nursing education
• Be of interest to an international audience
• Contribute original, thought-provoking ideas, and sound argument
• Be applicable beyond the local context
• Present ideas in a succinct, coherent manner with logical flow and conclusions
• Include a description of the theoretical or conceptual base for the work being described
• Describe the relationship between the educational strategy or innovation and its theoretical or conceptual foundation (if a description of a strategy or innovation)
• Report well-designed studies (if research), with the theoretical or conceptual base evident in the design
• Report research studies that add to nursing education knowledge, and do not simply replicate, in a different setting, what is already known through a substantial body of evidence
• Present logical organization and reasonable critique of literature with conclusions appropriate for either a critical or integrative literature review (if a literature review)
• Include current references and accurate citations
• Conform to accepted usage of the English language
• Contribute meaningfully to the evidence or theory base of nursing education
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A leading journal in its field, International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship publishes significant peer-reviewed scholarship in the broad field of nursing education. The journal's mission is to present high quality papers that advance nursing education, to enhance and advance nursing education globally, and to provide a forum for the dissemination of international perspectives and scholarship in nursing education. Timely articles describe innovative methods and introduce novel approaches to all aspects of nursing education. The journal is edited by faculty at leading North American universities; authors include notable professors from Johns Hopkins University, UCLA, and the University of Alberta.
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One issue/year, updated continuously
Content available since 2004 (Volume 1, Issue 1)
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Original, not previously published research and expository articles about nursing education will be considered. Submissions can focus on a number of perspectives such as learners, faculty, curriculum development and evaluation, administration of nursing education programs, teaching strategies in all media, as well as issues and innovations. Manuscripts must be submitted in English. British, Canadian, or U.S. English is acceptable. Manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship for review (or substantially similar manuscripts) should not be under simultaneous consideration for publication by another journal.
Although some institutions may not require ethical approval for evaluation of programs, courses, or learner experiences, it is the policy of this journal that the publication of evaluative data obtained from learners, faculty members, and other stakeholders, requires approval or endorsement from an institutional review board. If an institutional review board does not exist within the organization, this must be stated and the processes used to protect participants must be fully explained. Full disclosure about the intended use of the data to those providing it and voluntary participation in data collection are essential.
Cover Letter
For the manuscript to be reviewed, a cover letter to the editor is required, which should include the following statement: The manuscript entitled [insert title], or a substantially similar version of it, is not under consideration by another journal, nor has it been accepted or published elsewhere. Indicate whether the manuscript is research-based or expository. For research articles, provide a statement specifying that the study was approved by the institutional ethics review board. Additionally, briefly state how the manuscript contributes to knowledge development in nursing education. The manuscript will not be reviewed without this letter. If resubmitting a previously rejected manuscript, please indicate this in your cover letter.
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When preparing an article for The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship, create your manuscript exactly as you wish it to appear in IJNES. The initial submission should be double-spaced. Follow the 6th edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA) for article organization, editorial style, referencing, and citations. Only English-language manuscripts will be reviewed. Canadian, U.K., or U.S. English is acceptable.
Your manuscript will need to include the following elements:
• Article Title (separate from the article body)
• An abstract of a maximum of 200 words (separate from the article body)
• Four keywords for your article (optional)
• Article created in Microsoft Word
Adhere to the following formatting requirements when preparing your manuscript:
• Omit page numbers, headers, or footers.
• Omit the names of all authors and co-authors on the submitted manuscript file, figure files, tables, etc.
• Margins: at least 1 inch (2.5 cm) top and bottom.
• Page Size: 8.5 x 11 inches; (21.25 x 27.5 cm)
• Single column layout.
• Double-space the paper.
• Font: Times New Roman
• Size: 12 point.
• Embed all figures, tables, and illustrations in the text of the article. The Scholar One system will also ask you to append them.
• Limit the manuscript to 20, double-spaced pages, inclusive of figures and tables. The reference list is additional to the 20 pages.
The editors of the International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship are full-time academics, with responsibilities for teaching, research, graduate student supervision, and community service. The International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship has no paid support staff, therefore, authors wishing to publish in this journal must assume responsibility for formatting their manuscripts. Accordingly, manuscripts that do not conform to preparation guidelines or editorial standards will be withdrawn by the editors, and authors will be required to resubmit. Please note that editors will normally make changes to manuscripts to enhance readability. If manuscripts require significant editorial work, they will be returned to authors. It is up to authors to seek editorial assistance.
Follow the instructions below to submit a manuscript to the International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship. Shortly afterward, you will receive an email confirming your submission.
The submission process consists of the following steps:
- Read and accept the Manuscript Submission Agreement
- Provide information about yourself
- Provide information about any authors
- Upload your manuscript and related items
Before you begin, please be sure you have the following items:
- Manuscript Title
- An abstract of 200 words or less (separate from the manuscript body)
- Keywords for your manuscript (optional)
- Manuscript in one of the following formats: Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or RTF.
- Manuscripts must be submitted without a title page, abstract, or page numbers. These will be provided by the system.
- This is especially important so that you do not include any identifying information about the authors, as the manuscript you submit will be sent to reviewers.
- Additional Information for Submissions.
- Submit your manuscript exactly as you wish it to appear in IJNES. The initial submission should be double-spaced with 1.0 inch margins
- Upload the body of your article beginning with the introduction (inclusive of tables, figures, references, etc.) in Microsoft Word, format as prompted by the ScholarOne system.
- Submit cover letter to editors. (If resubmitting a previously rejected manuscript, please indicate this in your cover letter.)
- Letters to the editor are also accepted via this submission form. No part of the submission is final until all steps have been completed and you click the final Submit button. The review process begins as soon as International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship receives a readable manuscript, along with the abstract and manuscript title.
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Kristen Lethbridge, MScN, PhD Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Western Ontario, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, London, Ontario, Canada email@example.com
Robyn Plunkett MScN, PhD student University of Western Ontario, Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, London, Ontario, Canada firstname.lastname@example.com
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Nomthandaso Gwele, RN,PhD Durban Institute of Technology, Natal, South Africa firstname.lastname@example.com
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I registered at www.degruyter.com/page/flavor , as instructed below, and this journal is not among those with free access. Quite disappointing to go through the whole process of registering then find the one journal that interested me was not available.
We apologize for the inconvenience. We have already tried to find out why you are not able to access the content - but so far everything seems to be ok with the journal. Have you already activated the access token FLAVOR after the registration? Could you please send us the error message? Thank you for your understanding and your patience!
I would like to submit a manuscript to this article but I cannot find the online link. Please advise.
I would like to submit a manuscript. I read that you would be accepting manuscripts June 1st, but I don't see a link that allows me to do this.
To whom it may concern I wish to submit a manuscript for publication to the International Journal of Nursing Education but I cannot find the online submission area on the website. Please advise Thank you
The instructions to authors are incorrect and confusing. APA 6th does NOT require 1.5" margins. It specifies at least 1". Also, the instructions for adding extra spaces and extra double spaces are impossible to decipher.
Why is there only one choice "Research" when one tries to submit a paper to the IJNES?


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Thirty years ago, ecstasy and torment took hold of John Rivers, shocking him out of "half-baked imbecility into something more nearly resembling the human form." He had an affair with the wife of his mentor, Henry Maartens—a pathbreaking physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize, and a figure of blinding brilliance—bringing the couple to ruin. Now, on Christmas Eve while a small grandson sleeps upstairs, John Rivers is moved to set the record straight about the great man and the radiant, elemental creature he married, who viewed the renowned genius through undazzled eyes.
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Investors understand the need for Japanese companies to pay up for growth overseas. But Kirin Holdingseholders, remembering the bitter taste of an earlier acquisition, don't like the sound of an imminent deal in Singapore.
Kirin said Friday that it has decided to tender its 15% stake in Singapore's Fraser & Neave after a company owned by Indonesia's Riady family lobbed a higher bid for F&N at S$9.08 each, compared to an earlier S$8.88 bid from Thai billion Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi. It would then buy Fraser & Neave's food and beverage business for about S$2.7 billion.
The news drove Kirin's shares more than 4% lower at the open in Tokyo on Friday morning against a higher Nikkei Stock Average, as investors digested the implications of yet another acquisition by the deal-thirsty drinks maker.
The acquisition of Brazillian brewer Schincariol in August last year, was a particular concern. Kirin completed the Schincariol deal in November 2011 for $3.9 billion, buying the rest of the company it didn't already own. Analysts thought the price was high, at about 16 times EV/Ebitda compared to around 11 to 12 times for brewery deals on average, Credit Suisse calculated.
Kirin Managing Director Hirotake Kobayashi assuaged shareholders at the time of the Schincariol deal, and said that the company would not issue more stock to pay for the deal, adding debt-financed deals were also unlikely, amid concerns over the company's debt-to-equity ratio. Mr. Kobayashi also said that the company's huge investment outlay "has run its course," but did not rule out investments that could create synergies.
The jury is still out on the success of the Schincariol deal, although Kirin said it is confident that its aggressive M&A activities are finally starting to crystallize in its top-line figures. It expects the overseas business to generate an operating profit of Y27.5 billion this year, up 80% from the year before. It's also signaling greater intent on supporting its overseas businesses, announcing in October that it would create an advisory board to its president that would include directors from Australia's Lion, which it bought in 2009, and Schincariol.
This time, Kirin is planning to cash out of its stake in F&N, which it bought in 2010 for $970 million, potentially netting the company about S$1.9 billion ($1.6 billion). It would then make an offer for the food and beverage business of F&N, whose brands include isotonic drink 100 Plus, Seasons and Fruit Tree in Malaysia.
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A serving is a small handful (1.5 ounces) of whole nuts or 2 tablespoons of nut butter. But again, do this as part of a heart-healthy diet. Just eating nuts and not cutting back on saturated fats found in many dairy and meat products won't do your heart any good.
Possibly. Most nuts appear to be generally healthy, though some more so than others. Walnuts are one of the best-studied nuts, and it's been shown they contain high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids. Almonds, macadamia nuts, hazelnuts and pecans are other nuts that appear to be quite heart healthy. And peanuts — which are technically not a nut, but a legume, like beans — seem to be relatively healthy.
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