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WALNUT CREEK -- To a man, the members of the Las Lomas High School football team would admit that their season has not lived up to expectations.
But so far, the Knights are making the most of second chances.
Las Lomas picked a good time to put together perhaps its most complete game of the season on Friday night, methodically grinding down visiting Washington-Fremont for a 31-14 victory in the first round of the North Coast Section Division II playoffs.
The No. 7-seeded Knights (5-6) advance to take on No. 2 seed Rancho Cotate (10-0) next Friday.
"We're starting to play like we've been capable of all year," said Las Lomas coach Doug Longero, who was presented as the 2012 NCS Honor Coach at halftime. "We've got a lot of football left in us."
If what the Knights have left in the tank is anything like what they put on display against No. 10 Washington (6-5), the rest of the Division II field might want to re-examine the game tape.
Las Lomas had only two possessions in the first half. The first lasted nine plays, spanned 95 yards, and took 4:10 off the clock.
The second lasted 12 plays, spanned 66 yards, and took 4:47. Each ended in a Las Lomas touchdown, and the Knights led the Huskies 14-7 heading to the break, despite attempting and completing just two passes.
Washington's first drive stalled on the Knights' 5-yard line, and Las Lomas went 95 yards after forcing a turnover on downs, capping the drive with quarterback Adam Wood's 4-yard scoring run.
The next Huskies possession ended in a punt, and Las Lomas again marched efficiently down the field, scoring on wideout Robby Ow's fly-sweep.
Running back Kyle Hill was the workhorse for the Knights, amassing 104 yards on 24 carries, including a crucial 4-yard fourth-quarter scoring plunge to put Las Lomas up 28-14 after the Huskies seemed to have stolen the momentum.
"We all had the will to win," Hill said. "We haven't had the season we wanted. But this is a new season. Everybody starts 0-0. We get a second chance. We've got to take advantage of it."


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|2008 Inductee ( Athletic Director 1997-2006)
Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has named former Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Athletic Director, Dan Viola, as a 2008 inductee into the Athletic Hall of Honor.
Viola grew up in Studio City, California and was a two sport standout athlete at North Hollywood High School. He was named to the All-City football team during his senior year of 1969. Prior to heading to Weber State in Ogden, Utah, Viola spent two years at Pearce Junior College. Viola played his final two football seasons at Weber State graduating in 1975.
His profession career began in Ogden as a High School teacher and assistant football coach. The next step in his career was a stop in El Paso, Texas. Viola began a ten year stint at the University of Texas El Paso (UTEP) in 1977. During his time at UTEP he held a wide variety of positions from graduate assistant football coach to director of athletic dorm and assistant football coach. In 1980, Viola was assigned to oversee the UTEP Miners strength training program as well as football academic affairs. In 1986 he was named Athletic Student Services Coordinator, where he acted as the liaison between the athletic department, admissions, registrar, and financial aid offices for all student-athletes.
Prior to moving to Corpus Christi, Viola spent ten years at the University of Wyoming in various Assistant/Associate Athletic Director positions. During his tenure at the University of Wyoming, Viola was at different times involved with most aspects of running an NCAA Division I athletic program. This included directing Wyoming's departmental compliance with the NCAA and Western Athletic Conference rules and regulations; supervising the athletic business office, the academic affairs unit, the Cowboy Joe Booster Club, sports information, and marketing areas. He also served as the primary aide to the Athletic Director in budget preparations and allocations, in hiring decisions for the department as well as Project Coordinator during the NCAA Division I Athletics Certification process. Viola oversaw the implementation of two new women's programs (soccer and tennis) from the hiring of head coaches to the start of competition.
Viola hit the pavement running after being named the first Athletic Director of Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi on May 19, 1997. Viola had a five year plan in place and began the process of assembling an administrative and coaching staffs while building up the NCAA required 14 intercollegiate programs. In July of 2002, the department was informed that it was accepted for active NCAA Division I status. Viola was instrumental in initiating a wide variety of community outreach programs, most notably bringing the National Youth Sports Program (NYSP) to the "Island University", which involves bringing over 175 local youth from the surrounding area to campus as well as a summer basketball outreach program geared for underprivileged youth in Corpus Christi. Both of theses summer programs are running strong today.
During his tenure here in Corpus Christi, Viola served as a board member on the Corpus Christi Convention and Visitors Bureau, Metro Ministries, as well as a board member for the Volunteer Services Council of the Corpus Christi State School. He was also a catalyst in several citywide projects to aid in the advancement of the city of Corpus Christi. Viola was a member of Forward Corpus Christi, a group that turned out in force to pass bond elections for the construction of the American Bank Center and Whataburger Field as well as numerous other beneficial community wide projects.
In addition to the vast amount of community outreach during his time, Viola work diligently along with former Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi president Dr. Robert Furgason and current president Dr. Flavius Killebrew to secure Conference affiliation, which was celebrated in the fall of 2005 when Islander Athletics was officially invited into the Southland Conference. Viola and his wife Chris work tirelessly during his tenure as Athletic Director to lay the foundation and begin the building process of Islander Athletics.
Viola lost his father, Al Viola, who played guitar in Frank Sinatra's band in February of 2007. He has recently relocated to California to live closer to his mother and his wife Chris is in the process of relocating to Arizona where her parents live.

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ALBANY, N.Y. - Somewhere on the bottom of Italy's largest lake lie the remains of two dozen American soldiers who died when their amphibious vehicle sank in 1945 in the waning days of the fighting in Europe during World War II.
A volunteer group's discovery of what could be the wreckage 900 feet down in Lake Garda has given aging veterans hope that, after nearly seven decades, the remains of their comrades can finally come home.
"If you talk to the World War II guys, they're looking for closure and they haven't got it," said retired Army Col. Michael Plummer, president of the National Association of the 10th Mountain Division, the Army unit that battled the Germans in northern Italy until the last week of the war.
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Brothers Dallas, left, and Bob Reynolds look at pictures of their uncle, Xwell Yon Reynolds, who died in 1945 while serving in the Army in Italy during World War II.
Of the association's nearly 1,200 members, about a third served during World War II.
"We seem to save any single soldier or find anybody in the wilds of Borneo or the mountains, and we thought it was very bad that the United States wasn't doing anything for these guys," said 89-year-old Jerry Nash, of Hudson, N.H.
Nash was laying communication wire as the 10th Mountain pursued German forces into northern Italy's rugged alpine region, home to the 50-mile-long Lake Garda. When the enemy blew up tunnels through the mountains ringing the lake's northern end, the division's commanders sent soldiers across the lake in amphibious six-wheeled trucks, known by their military designation DUKW and known to GIs as ducks.
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BARLOW TWP. - Although they were notified of his death by the U.S. Army, some siblings of Pfc. Xwell Yon Reynolds still held out hope that he was alive because his body was never found.
"For years, there's been talk in the family that they thought he was still alive," said Barlow Township resident Bob Reynolds, 58, born 10 years after his uncle died with 23 other soldiers when their amphibious vehicle sank on April 30, 1945. "I think that's how some families try and deal with it."
Bob Reynolds said he doesn't think his father, the late George Reynolds, believed as some of his sisters did there was a chance his younger brother, who went by Yon, was still alive. Still, he thinks his father would take some amount of comfort if his brother's body was finally located all these years later beneath the surface of Italy's Lake Garda.
"I can see where it would be a nice resolution to things," he said.
All of Yon's seven brothers and sisters have passed away, but Bob's older brother, Dallas Reynolds, 78, of Vincent, still recalls his uncle, who he visited at the family farm in Dunham Township.
"He loved kids, 'cause me and my brother would be there and we (were) always hanging with him," Dallas said.
Dallas recalled Yon as someone who was very quiet but had a sense of humor - that sometimes got him into trouble. Once, he set off a loud noisemaker or firecracker under the rocking chair in which his father, Addison K. Reynolds, was seated.
"He jumped out and took off outside," Dallas said. "Pretty soon he came back inside and said, 'You shouldn't do that to an old man like me.'"
Bob remembers stories told about Yon that described him as an athletic young man who enjoyed the outdoors.
"It always seemed like he would outdo his older brother," Bob said. "He could do (pull-ups and chin-ups) with just one hand."
Yon, who attended Barlow Rural High School, enlisted in the Army on Jan. 25, 1943, according to data compiled by local historian Scott Britton. The May 18, 1945, edition of The Marietta Times, in reporting his death, says Yon went overseas in January of that year and was stationed with the 10th Mountain Division of the 5th Army.
In a May 8, 1945, letter, 1st Lt. Lee Snyder of the division's 605th Field Artillery, of which Yon was a member, wrote to Yon's father about his son's death. Bob Reynolds now has the letter.
"I can not find words to fully express my feelings nor the feelings of the men," Snyder writes. "Xwell was always most willing to aid in any duty, regardless of the danger involved. His loyalty and honesty won him the friendship and respect of all."
Snyder says he was in one of three of the DUKWs, or "ducks," crossing the lake. The motor on one of the ducks stalled and it had to be towed by another. That duck was damaged when it landed on the other side and unable to go back out and search for the vehicle carrying Yon and 24 other soldiers.
"When the wind calmed a little, a chief of the (section) and I went out in a small motor boat and searched all along both sides of the lake, but to no avail," Snyder writes. "We then formed two searching parties; the chief of section took one along the West shore and was unable to find anything. I took a party along the East shore and found evidence that one man might have made it to safety."
That was Cpl. Thomas E. Hough, whose address Synder sent to Addison Reynolds in case he wanted to contact the last person who saw his son alive.
Although his body was never returned to Washington County, Bob Reynolds said there is a marker in his uncle's memory in the Gravel Bank Cemetery off Ohio 7 in Warren Township.
On the night of April 30, 1945, three DUKWs left the lake's east side carrying members of the division's 605th Field Artillery. One of the vehicles, jammed with 25 soldiers and a 75 mm cannon, stalled during the journey and soon began taking on water.
According to Cpl. Thomas Hough, the lone survivor, the soldiers desperately tossed their equipment and ammunition overboard in an attempt to keep the vessel from sinking. But the DUKW went down anyway, plunging the men into the frigid waters of the glacier-fed lake.
Soon all had drowned but Hough, a former lifeguard from Dayton, Ohio, who was rescued by two 10th Mountain soldiers on shore who heard the cries for help. Hough died in 2005.
Brett Phaneuf, a researcher from the Chester, Conn.-based nonprofit underwater archaeology organization ProMare, led an effort 10 years ago to find the sunken DUKW. Hampered by equipment issues, Phaneuf found no sign of the vehicle.
But in late 2011, a local Italian group of volunteer divers started their own search. Using sonar and a remotely operated vehicle equipped with a video camera, they announced last December the discovery of a WWII DUKW sitting upright on the lake bottom.
Gruppo Volontari del Garda said it hasn't been able to positively confirm that it's the same DUKW that sank, killing the 24 soldiers, or one of the other two known to have sunk in the same area of the lake. The group said it plans to resume efforts to locate remains and recover the DUKW, possibly later this year or in early 2014.
"Seems to us only right to do everything possible in order to restore at least someone to their land," the group's spokesman, Luca Turrini, said in an email to The Associated Press.
Officials at the Joint POW-MIA Accounting Command, the Hawaii-based unit that searches for remains of Americans from foreign battlefields, said they're aware of the group's claims but don't plan to investigate unless there's firm evidence that remains have been located.
"If JPAC were to be provided with additional information, we would gladly look into it more," Lee Tucker, a spokesman at JPAC's Pearl Harbor headquarters, said in an email to the AP.
The family of Pvt. James Hilley would like to see his remains recovered and returned to his hometown of Calhoun Falls, S.C.
When his great-nephew, Matthew Hilley, learned of the Italian group's discovery in December, he showed his aging relatives the video of the DUKW on his smartphone. It was a particularly emotional moment for 86-year-old Jewell Scott, James Hilley's sister.
"She said, 'I prayed over and over and over again that we would find James before I passed away,'" Matthew Hilley said.
For Nash and the division's dwindling number of World War II veterans, the determination to recover the lost soldiers' remains hasn't diminished with the passage of time.
"It's the old story," he said. "You never leave any man behind."


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EAGLE COUNTY, Colorado - Two local middle schools are in the state's top 10 percent, according to an independent analysis of state data.
Gypsum Creek Middle School earned an A and Eagle Valley Middle School earned an A- from Colorado School Grades, a group of 18 Colorado industries and foundations.
"We're proud of the continuing improvements at Gypsum Creek and Eagle Valley middle schools," said Sandra Smyser, superintendent of Eagle County schools. "Both received Governor's Awards for improvement, so to also receive A's by coloradoschoolgrades.org is very gratifying. They have even tougher cut scores than the Colorado Department of Education."
Colorado School Grades uses the Colorado Department of Education's testing data to evaluate and rank all the state's schools on a standard bell curve.
The difference is how it's interpreted, said Scott Laband, with Colorado Succeeds, one of the 18 organizations that came up with more than $1 million in private money to evaluate the data.
The Center for Education Policy Analysis at the University of Colorado Denver came up with the Colorado School Grades formula. Their school rankings shake out like this:
• 10 percent get A's.
• 25 percent get B's.
• 50 percent get C's.
• 10 percent get D's.
• 5 percent get F's.
Conversely, the Colorado Department of Education ranks schools in four categories:
1. Performance.
2. Improvement.
3. Priority improvement.
4. Turnaround.
More than 70 percent of Colorado public schools are "top performers."
That's the worst kind of grade inflation, said Tim Taylor, president of Colorado Succeeds.
"Parents would never accept rampant grade inflation in a classroom that gives 70 percent of the students an A grade. We don't think they should have to accept a state ranking system that does the same thing with schools," Taylor said. "The Colorado School Grades tool is much easier to understand and offers more clarity about how every public school in the state is actually performing."
At the very least, it lacks clarity, Laband said.
"When we ask parents what it means when their children are attending a 'priority improvement' school, they think that's a good thing," Laband said.
Colorado School Grades is based on four criteria: academic performance, academic growth, the gap between high and low academic achievers and, in high schools, college and career readiness, Laband said.
The Colorado Department of Education could not be reached for comment.
The goal is to put easily accessible information into the hands of parents and community members, so they can understand the performance of their local schools, Laband said.
"Before this tool was created, it was easier to go online and pick a vacuum cleaner based on rankings than it was to get school information," Taylor said.
More than half of the Colorado School Grades website is dedicated to helping parents decide, "Now what?" Laband said.
"We hope to raise awareness around school performance," Laband said.
"We believe that information is powerful, and we want them to use that information to get engaged in their schools.
"If we make this information easy to access, people will do exactly that: access it and take action."
They sent banners to every A school in the state and encouraged them to share what helped them achieve their lofty rankings. They have a website and a Facebook page and constantly hear from grateful parents, Laband said.
Colorado School Grades has more than 450,000 unique page views on its website, Laband said. This is the second year it's released its rankings.
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I stream using avisynth/mencoder, I use Coreavc because I have a CUDA gtx260 graphics card and it appears to be working because the tray icon turns green.
My problem is when I come back to my PC after watching one or two videos streamed to my TV there about 10-15 duplicate tray icons for CoreAVC and about the same for Hallispliter. This rings alarms bells cause I automatically think that for some reason my PC has started multiple processes, however all I have to do to get rid of them is to run my mouse over the top of the icons and they disapear.
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New York Man Arrested in Lakeland Electric Lineman Beating
Man says fight ensued after lineman was urinating in parking lot.
Published: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 1:51 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 1:51 p.m.
LAKELAND | A New York man was arrested Tuesday for beating a Lakeland Electric lineman in a restaurant parking lot on Long Island.
Thomas Libretto, 34, of Levittown, faces charges of third-degree assault after he was arrested at his home. Police were able to find Libretto through statements from witnesses who were outside the restaurant and saw a man drive away.
Libretto told Nassau County police a different story than John Applewhite reported.
Applewhite said a man in a BMW yelled at him and fellow lineman John Barefoot. Applewhite said he walked toward the man and when he reached him, was punched in the face. Barefoot was bitten on the finger before the man drove away in the BMW, Applewhite said.
Applewhite said he didn't know why he was attacked.
The incident occurred about 7:15 p.m. Friday as Applewhite and Barefoot walked into a Texas Roadhouse in East Hempstead, N.Y., police reported.
Libretto told police he yelled because Applewhite was urinating in a parking lot next to a Lakeland Electric truck, said Nassau County Police Detective Vincent Garcia.
Applewhite walked toward Libretto, an argument started and Libretto punched Applewhite in the face, Garcia said Libretto told detectives.
A scuffle ensued after the first punch, Garcia said.
Libretto, a carpenter, told reporters in New York that he and his girlfriend were celebrating having their power turned on. When Texas Roadhouse was too crowded and couldn't seat them, they left and saw Applewhite urinating in the parking lot, Fox News reported.
Libretto told the news station that he got out of his BMW after Applewhite kicked his car. Applewhite shoved him then Libretto hit him, he said.
Garcia said detectives are still sorting out the details of what occurred.
"You have the lineman's story and you have the arrestee's story and somewhere in the middle is the truth," Garcia said. "It's still an assault regardless of what provoked it."
Applewhite said he thought he may have been hit with an object in addition to being punched in the face.
If that's true, charges against Libretto will be upgraded, Garcia said.
Applewhite, 34, underwent four hours of surgery at Lakeland Regional Medical Center Tuesday to install three metal plates in his face, two in his cheekbone and one in his jaw.
His father, Morris Applewhite, said late Wednesday that his son was asleep and could not talk.
"John was the one with the injuries," Morris Applewhite said. "If they were peeing in the parking lot that's none of his business.
"I don't care what my son did, he (Libretto) didn't have the right to assault him."
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As an American citizen of eight years I have taken great interest in the subject of gun laws, being a subject I knew nothing about before coming to live in the U.S. I wanted to comment on all the recent letters regarding gun laws. I have read a lot of very controversial letters recently, for and against this issue, but would just like to refer everyone back to Biff America's editorial on the subject, back on July 29 of last year. This was written following the Aurora shooting but it is just as relevant today. In it he gives us statistics regarding gun use throughout the world and points out that "what is not subject for debate is that, in America, the gun-murder rate is almost 20 times higher than the next 22 richest nations." Following that he goes on to say "the gun violence in this nation is an embarrassment. Of those 23 richest nations I mentioned earlier (this nation being one of them) 80 percent of all gun deaths are American deaths and 87 percent of all kids killed by guns are American kids." Isn't this enough evidence to try to do something about these appalling statistics? Isn't it time to try to save some of the innocent children and adults who end up being killed by guns that are in the wrong hands?
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09 February 2012
Finely Aged Novelists
Thus, I was interested in Rick Gekoski's post at The Guardian titled, "When novelists reach the end of their stories", which I hoped would explode the myth that novels are best left to the young.
Alas, it is youth-worshipping claptrap, built on a vastly incomplete set of examples used to prove an imaginary rule.
Luckily, though, the Guardian readers are not buying into the premise, and the comments section is full of great examples that disprove Gekoski's supposed rule, that question his basic premise, and that highlight the narrowness of his example set. Commenters have listed writers who have done great work throughout their careers, writers who have had long apprentice periods before doing great work, and writers who haven't even started work until the age of retirement.
One of the many problems with Gekoski's assumptions is that he blames everything on age and nothing on the myriad other elements of life. For instance, you can't write about creativity and age without noting the effect of a youth-worshipping culture and the hype machines that feed it. So much of the public perception of writers is not based on their actual texts, but the social texts constructed around them. Gekoski seems particularly hype-addled — look at the list he uses as the core of his argument: "Julian Barnes, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift – that excellent generation of novelists whose best work is now, pretty clearly, behind them."
Dude, you need to read around more. Women have written stuff, too, you know. Some of them have written quite wonderful work, in fact, late in life — from Penelope Fitzgerald to Ursula Le Guin to Carol Emshwiller, just to name three who immediately come to mind. (Also, I'd argue Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is easily among his top work, and a perfection of some of the techiques he was working toward in some of his earliest books. You just have to read it right.)
There are other factors that affect novelists in age — consider Faulkner, whose best work was obviously done when he was in his 30s. He wasn't particularly well known, and he was a chronic alcoholic. By the time he was broadly famous, his best work was well behind him and his body was destroyed by booze. (Tom Dardis's The Thirsty Muse does a good job of showing how well alcohol eventually destroys creativity.)
For some writers, age brings change to their style and interests, and perception of their early work as "great" and their later work as something less than great may have as much to do with our early perception of the writer as it does the actual texts. J.M. Coetzee is a great example. His novels Waiting for the Barbarians and Life & Times of Michael K are masterworks, absolutely (published when he was in his early 40s), but so is Disgrace, published in his late 50s, and the work he's published since becoming a bestseller and a Nobel laureate is a fascinating exploration of self-perception, fame, language, age, memory etc. — work he probably couldn't have even conceived before gaining the experience of age and of his own particular circumstances in life. The work since Disgrace is not likely ever to be as popular or revered as the earlier novels because it isn't as generally accessible, but in that sense Coetzee is following in the footsteps of one of the his greatest influences, Samuel Beckett, whose late work explored the limits of language, compressing it to diaphanous beauty — a project quite different from the early work, and especially the work that made him famous, but nonetheless full of genius and power, indispensible. (True, Beckett's later concerns made novel-writing an impossible paradox; the last work he wrote that could be called a novel is How It Is from 1961, so he fits into Gekoski's "rule", but in a similar way to Thomas Hardy, who stopped writing novels and turned to poetry.) Or consider David Markson, who did all sorts of writing throughout his life, but who really discovered his own form and subject matter after his 50th birthday.
Novelists have published brilliant work at all different ages, including well into the supposedly twilight years. If we were to somehow create a universal survey of when people published novels, it would probably graph as a bell curve with the 30s and 40s as the most productive decades of life — there are all sorts of reasons for those being most people's most productive years in many fields. But to extrapolate a rule from it, and to think such extrapolation produces valuable and insightful data, seems to me folly. Genius, especially, pops up unpredictably. Literary culture would be much poorer without writers of all different ages.
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Yes. Late bloomers know things.ReplyDelete
I might suggest that Gekoski simply doesn't care for the sort of thoughtful, questioning novels writers might write as they age and gain in self-awareness. The older I get (50 this year! Who'd a thunk it?), the less patience I have with novels that are full of youthful self-assurance, making bold claims about life. I now find myself attached to novels that are full of questions and contradiction. Finally, aged novelists.ReplyDelete
At the risk of sounding like I'm self-promoting, but I'm publishing ebooks by an author who is 86 years old (Jack Matthews) who is just as productive as he was earlier in life and writing stuff even more brilliant than ever. Last year he published a Civil War historical work (Gambler's Nephew-- from another publisher) which is a masterpiece and the best thing I'd read in years; he's recently finished a lot of other stuff recently and is still tackling new projects. I don't think his writer's gift has waned at all -- though perhaps he may be writing slower or more carefully.ReplyDelete
Another example suffices. I am currently writing a book review of Jade: Outlaw by my college writing teacher Robert Flynn. He is now 79 years old. I've read about half of his novels, and I have to say that Jade: The Outlaw is by far my favorite of his novels, and just recently he wrote a sequel.
both these people have sharp minds, exceedingly high standards and great literary gifts. Alas, neither gained the recognition they probably deserved. Frankly, they have reached the stage in their literary career where they are easily overlooked and where they don't have time or energy or even the desire to promote themselves. Contrast that with authors who have been become household names (such as Oates, Roth, Updike, etc) who probably have higher expectations thrust onto them and encounter more public disappointment when something they write is only semi-brilliant.
With Matthews' latest works, they are different from his earlier stuff in subject and style -- that is why they are fascinating. With Flynn's later works, they seem to be a return to familiar themes, but with more gravity and more attention to historical detail.
To conclude: these two examples are great examples of writers who are writing great things late in life. by the way, both were university writing teachers --. Most of the characters in these books are young -- though both novels have historical themes; one takes place before the Civil War; another takes place in 19th century Texas. Stylistically, not a lot of experimentation, although both authors write very carefully and with panache. Both are happily married and have fewer distractions than they might have had during the primary part of their writing career.
Funny you mentioned Penelope Fitzgerald. I loved Blue Flower (published when she was 79) but am currently reading her Booker-winning Offshore written in her fifties and am finding it a bore).


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No question setting aside a day or even a long weekend to honor veterans is a nice and decent thing to do.
But how about setting aside a career or a way for a veteran to build a career after years of serving his or her country? It's something that Tom Wolzien has thought about -- a lot. He's a Vietnam vet who also happens to be on TiVo's board of directors.
But Wolzien couldn't quite figure out how to help veterans returning from war until he turned to a group of experts.
"As a lowly director and as board members, we meet with employee groups once in awhile," he says. "I had learned that there is an informal vets group at TiVo and I said, 'Shoot, sometime when I'm around, why don't I get together with them?'"
And when he did, the question that came up was: What was TiVo doing for the post-9/11 vets, those who have served in wartime, sometimes on multiple tours, who leave the service with little or no nonmilitary experience? The unanimous answer: Not enough.
Most everyone at the table knew the problem if not the exact statistics. The unemployment rate for post-9/11 vets is 10 percent, well above the nation's 7.9 percent figure. For women veterans the number stands at 15.5 percent. The 15 or so veterans, reservists and national guardsmen who met with Wolzien kicked around ideas to deal with the job seeker's old conundrum: If a vet can't get hired without experience, how does a vet ever get experience? And someone said: Hey, we have college internships. Why not have military internships? What better way to show hiring managers that the discipline, training, persistence and calm under pressure required of service members translate into valuable skills for the corporate world?
That was April. In June TiVo hired 10 veterans as summer interns. Managers connected them with two mentors, including one veteran, and also introduced them to the company's college interns. It was a way to integrate the veterans into the corporate culture while integrating employees and interns into the world of a military veteran.
OK, so it's not a huge program. Ten paid internships. But it is something and Wolzien says it is something other companies can do to help veterans find a way into the civilian job market.
"What it does is, it provides a start," he says, "and it provides a start that any company can do."
I asked Wolzien if his experience returning from Vietnam was driving his interest in all this. And what he said surprised me. Sure, Vietnam vets received a horrible reception when they returned from that unpopular war. There were no parades. They were called baby-killers. He never heard the words "thank you" until about 10 years ago.
But his job was waiting for him. And, Wolzien says, that was generally true for vets returning from Vietnam. Besides, in the days of conscription everybody had either served in the military or they knew somebody who had.
Hiring managers understood the value of skills learned and character developed in the military. They knew that combat left veterans with searing, terrifying and disturbing images. But they also knew that most veterans manage that trauma; that they don't one day just snap or turn violent.
It's different today, Wolzien tells me. With the all-volunteer military, the nation lives in two different worlds.
"To a great extent, the people who are the line managers or in HR, even most executives today, haven't had any military contact," he says. It can be hard for nonmilitary people to grasp the value of learning to make split-second, life-and-death decisions. It can be hard for them to see that someone who oversees massive convoys might just be a logistical genius. Or that someone who protects high-value computer networks, just might know something about keeping corporate systems safe from cyberattack.
Jordan Cummings, 28, a former Navy cryptology technician, says after leaving the service and taking some college courses, he struggled to find a job that met his potential. Job interviews were almost painful at times.
"If they don't have a connection to the military," says Cummings, a petty officer 3d class who served from 2002 to 2006, "their first thoughts are what they've seen in the movies. 'Oh, you've been in the military. You know how to shoot people.'"
Cummings says he didn't get that sense at TiVo, where he monitors and troubleshoots the company's digital delivery of video and music to familiar TiVo boxes deployed around the world.
"If I wanted to take a project and run with it, it's 'Go ahead,'" he says. "I've been able to have a tangible impact."
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Analogue camera specialist Lomography has expanded its classic LC-A range with the introduction of the LC-Wide, featuring a new wide angle lens as well as a choice of picture formats. We were invited down to the Lomography Gallery Store in central London for a close-up look.
The new camera looks and feels similar to its older sibling - the LC-A+ but it has a few aces up its sleeve. Firstly, it sports a new wideangle 17mm lens (compared to the LC-A+'s 32mm) which is about as wide as a lens can get without becoming a fisheye.
Secondly, the LC-Wide gives you the option of taking square photos (24 x 24mm) or half-frame shots, which will give you up to 72 snaps on a 36 exposure roll - the first time that either option has been available on an LC-A model. Of course, you can also use the LC-A's original full frame if you prefer. If you want to stick to one format for an entire roll, then you can use one of the supplied masks for square or half-frame prints. These can be slipped inside the body of the camera at the same time as loading the film, although obviously if you choose to use one, you won't be able to take it out until you switch rolls.
If you prefer, you can do away with the masks and switch between square, half-frame and full frame by manually using the controls on the camera body. You won't get the clear, defined edges at the end of the each frame that the masks offer, but you will get a cool effect where each photo blends into the next one. This means that you can easily stitch together shots to make a panoramic picture. We saw some of the results from the new camera taken by some of the Lomo staff, and they looked great - sporting the telltale vignetted finish that's associated with LC-A snaps.
The LC-Wide also includes the usual switch for multiple exposures and features a standard tripod mount and a hotshoe for adding a flash.
The camera weighs in at 220g, but that's before you've added the battery and the film. We thought that it felt a tad heavier than the original LC-A+, although it's still a compact and perfectly manageable snapper. It also feels a fair bit more robust than its predecessor.
The LC-Wide has a maximum shutter speed of 1/500 sec and the max aperture is a 1:4.5. ISO settings range from 100 to 1600, but of course you can really use any speed film you want, depending on the lighting conditions available and the effect you want to get.
Although we haven't had a chance to try the camera out properly yet (the sample in the Gallery Store was attached to a chain so that it didn't go walkabout) the LC-Wide certainly looks like a sturdy piece of kit at first glance and we look forward to taking it out for an in-depth review.
The LC-Wide is available now with a price tag of £349. It's a bit steep compared to the LC-A+, but the addition of a wide angle lens and the shooting format flexibility should help to sweeten the pill.
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If there was ever a stereotype on four wheels, the Volkswagen Microbus might be it. Earning its iconic status during the counter-cultural revolution in the 1960's, hippies may have made it famous, but families like Ed Wilson's loved it too.
"On long road trips I would curl up in the back, be right above the motor, you're listening to the hum of the motor so it would put you right to sleep," Wilson said.
The fond memories and the practicality of the VW have led Wilson to own eight of them.
"Nostalgia of having one of these, there's nobody that ever walks by and gives me the finger, they're always happy and smiling…probably in their lifetime they've been around one," Wilson said.
Even if you haven't owned one, you've probably passed one. Small engines mean they weren't built for speed.
"You're not doing more than about 55 or 60 miles per hour so a lot of people are passing you, but you still get there," Wilson said.
With over 10 million built since production started 63-years ago, it appears to be the end of the road for the bus.
Produced solely in Brazil, new safety laws beginning next year new cars will be required to have anti-lock braking systems (ABS) and airbags, features that aren't compatible with the camper van.
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After having graced the debut issue in 1972, Wonder Woman returns to "Ms." magazine for her fourth cover with the 40th anniversary edition of the periodical. The Mike Allred illustration is also available as a poster.
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Marvel has provided CBR with an exclusive first look at upcoming Marvel NOW! "Fantastic Four" artist Mark Bagley's connecting variant covers for "FF" #1 and "Fantastic Four" #1 hitting in November.
The latest Marvel NOW! creative switch up sees writer Matt Fraction brings a new twist to "The Fantastic Four" with Mark Bagley while a second team consisting of Ant-Man, She-Hulk, Medussa and Miss Thing star in "FF" with Mike Allred.
Continuing the 100th issue saga that started with Robert Kirkman's Invincible, writer Benito Cereno welcomes Mike Allred's Madman to "The Tick" while investigating the death of Arthur and musing on Ben Edlund's original comics.
Courtesy of Image Comics, CBR presents an exclusive preview of Mike Allred, Jamie S. Rich and Mike Norton's "It Girl & the Atomics" #1! The series debuts August 8.
Today's Marvel teasers indicate that Matt Fraction and Mark Bagley will be taking over "Fantastic Four" while Fraction and artist Mike Allred will handle the relaunched "FF" title. UPDATED with the second teaser.
Marvel has released a first look at Mike Allred's return to Marvel Comics with "Daredevil" #17 written by Mark Waid with colors by Laura Allred. "The Great Divide" begins August 15.
Matt Murdock escaped from Latveria in "Daredevil" #15, but he did not emerge unscathed. CBR News spoke with writer Mark Waid about the issue and his plans for the Eisner-winning series.
Longtime "Madman" editor Jamie S. Rich expounds on the new Image Comics series "It Girl and the Atomics" and talks about further developing Mike Allred's "Madman" universe with series artist Mike Norton.
The creative minds behind Marvel's critically acclaimed "Daredevil" ongoing series including Mark Waid, Mike Allred, Chris Samnee and Paolo Rivera sat down for a discussion of all things the Man Without Fear.
Chris Roberson spoke with CBR News about his public departure from DC Comics based in part on its treatment of Alan Moore, the cancellation of "iZombie," his creator-owned book "Memorial" and the ethics of comics.
At Emerald City Comicon, Vertigo creators Bill Willingham, Mike Allred, Dustin Nguyen, and more discussed the end of "iZombie", "Fables'" 10th anniversary and upcoming projects including "Shooters."
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Dandy Warhols' frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor discusses the upcoming reprint of "One Model Nation" from Titan Books and the process of revisiting the historical period of the Baader-Meinhof Gang.
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Creator Mike Allred scares up an all-star cast of talent to help celebrate two decades of his most famous creation in the "Madman: 20th Anniversary Monster" hardcover. Plus, an exclusive look at Allred's story!
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St. James High School senior Cheyanne Bowers has signed a national letter of intent to run cross country for the South Dakota State University Jackrabbits.
Cheyanne signed this letter on Feb. 1, 2012, which was the national signing day for many college sports.
SDSU is a member of the Division 1 Summit League conference. The Summit League has ten universities in seven states.
St. James High School Cross Coach Kyle Blomgren said Cheyanne is the first cross country athlete from St. James High School to ever sign with a D-1 college program.
Cheyanne has been running cross country since 7th grade, and made to the Minnesota state high school meet three times.
Coach Blomgren said, "Cheyanne will have an immediate impact at SDSU. Cheyanne is more about making the team first and not herself."
Coach Bloomgren thinks Cheyanne will have even more success because the distances are even greater in college, and he thinks Cheyanne is stronger over longer distances.
Right now Cheyanne is finishing up the basketball season as a starting guard for the Saints.
This spring Cheyanne will run track for the Saints. She runs the 2 mile, pole vaults, and runs on the 4x800 team.
This fall Cheyanne will be running cross country for the Jackrabbits - how apropos.
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A central element of the immune system has remained constant through more than 400 million years of evolution, according to new research at National Jewish Health. In the September 29, 2011, online version of the journal Immunity, the researchers report that T-cell receptors from mice continue to function even when pieces of shark, frog and trout receptors are substituted in. The function of the chimeric receptors depends on a few crucial amino acids, found also in humans, that help the T-cell receptor bind to MHC molecules presenting antigens.
"These findings prove a hypothesis first proposed 40 years ago," said senior author Laurent Gapin, PhD, associate professor of immunology in the Integrated Department of Immunology at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado Denver. "Even though mammals, amphibians and cartilaginous fish last shared a common ancestor more than 400 million years ago, they continue to share an element of their T-cell receptors, indicating that the T cell-MHC interaction arose early in the evolution of the immune system, and is central to its function."
The T cell serves as the sentinel, manager and enforcer of the adaptive immune response. It relies on its receptor, the T-cell receptor, to recognize foreign material and identify the target of the immune-system attack. When the receptor binds to small fragments of foreign organisms, called antigens, the T cell becomes activated, proliferates and initiates an attack against any molecule or organism containing that antigen.
T cells, however, cannot recognize free-floating antigens. They recognize antigens only when they are held by MHC molecules on the surfaces of other cells, much as a hotdog bun (MHC molecule) holds a hotdog (antigen). This interaction between the T cell and MHC molecules is crucial for immune defense and organ transplants. Compatibility of transplanted organs is determined by the similarity of different people's MHC molecules. Nonetheless, this interaction has long mystified scientists and is poorly understood.
In 1971 future Nobel Laureate Niels K. Jerne proposed that evolution might have selected for genes that specifically recognize MHC molecules. Evidence discovered later suggested T cells' affinity for MHC molecules might instead be the product of development that occurs as T cells mature in the thymus. The question remained unanswered for 40 years.
The T-cell receptor is constructed by piecing together several peptides among dozens that are available, plus a few random amino acid sequences. This combination is what allows the immune system to generate an almost infinite variety of receptors capable of recognizing almost any potential invader. The receptor has six loops that are the primary binding points for the antigen-MHC complex. One of those loops, known as CDR2, frequently binds the MHC molecule.
Searching for possible similarities in T-cell receptors of different animals, the researchers compared the amino acid sequences of one segment of the T-cell receptor containing the CDR2 loop. Although the segments contained less than 30 percent of the same amino acids, two specific amino acids were the same in human, mouse, frog, trout and shark T-cell receptors. Those appeared to be amino acids specifically involved in binding to the MHC molecule.
"The evolutionary inheritance of this pattern goes all the way from sharks to humans, which last shared a common ancestor 450 million years ago," said co-author Philippa Marrack, PhD.
The researchers then inserted segments containing the CDR2 loop from frog, trout and shark T-cell receptors into mouse cells. These chimeric T-cell receptors recognized antigen bound to a mouse MHC molecule.
Since sections of frog, trout and shark T-cell receptors functioned perfectly well in mice T-cell receptors, the experiments suggested that the T-cell's ability to see an antigen only when complexed with an MHC molecule first arose more than 400 million years ago, when all four animals shared a common ancestor.
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Suspect indicted in Lockport triple slaying
Published: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 2:59 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, January 31, 2013 at 2:59 p.m.
A grand jury has indicted David Brown, 35, of Houma and Texas, on multiple charges tied to the stabbing death of a mother and her two children in Lockport.
Lafourche Parish sheriff's deputies said they believe Brown killed Jacquelin Nieves, 29, and her two daughters, 6-year-old Gabriela and 20-month-old Izabela on Nov. 4. He raped two of the females before killing them, deputies said.
Their bodies were found during an apartment fire in the Elliott Drive complex. Lafourche Parish sheriff's officials said the fire was set to cover up the murders.
Brown was indicted on three counts of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, two counts of sexual battery and one count of aggravated arson.
He is being held in the Lafourche Parish jail on a $3.2 million bond. Arraignment is scheduled for Feb. 19.
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Published: Monday, March 11, 2013 at 12:48 p.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 11, 2013 at 4:03 p.m.
MANATEE COUNTY - A hearing officer will likely approve a sporting clay range currently being developed by Schroeder-Manatee Ranch.
The Ancient Oak Gun Club, 16800 State Road 64, had been criticized over noise by a church and a school, which uses nearby wooded land several times each year.
Manatee County hearing officer Lori M. Dorman held an additional public hearing last month about noise before deciding whether to approve a special use permit.
Monday morning Dorman sent a letter stating she intends to approve the sporting clay range.
Parties now have five days to respond to Dorman's report. She then has 10 days to issue her final order.
In her draft final order, Dorman points out the findings of a sound engineer hired by SMR to test the noise levels: decibel readings ranging from 43.2 to 47.7 around the 80-acre site, well under the 60 decibel limit imposed by county ordinance.
"The noise anticipated to be generated by the proposed complex does not exceed the county's noise ordinance," Dorman wrote. "In making the foregoing findings of fact and law, the hearing officer has carefully considered the testimony offered by members of the public and, in particular, those of the students and teachers of the Center Montessori School.
"The hearing officer acknowledges and understand their concerns regarding the impact that gunshot noise may have on the public's use of the adjacent properties," Dorman wrote. "Nonetheless, under applicable law, this is a permitted use of this property."
Wayne Evans, a competitive sporting clay shooter who was selected by Schroeder-Manatee Ranch to develop and manage the gun club, said he is confident the club will open since any appeal has to be based upon a point of law.
"There are criteria set forth for the range. All were met," he said. "Therefore, by statute, the club has to be approved."
Once the final order is signed and the permits issued, the club could be open within six to eight weeks, he said.
"SMR will announce a grand opening," he said. "We'll have a website up soon with a calendar of all the events."
Evans has already been contacted by Duck Unlimited, Boy Scout and Future Farmers of America groups.
"We're talking about a lot of charity shoots," he said. "These were put on hold."
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A recent study found that nearly two-thirds of Americans do not adhere to their medicines as prescribed. How do we address this challenge?
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Joel White
Executive Director, CAHC
This is a serious problem that requires a thoughtful and sustained response by Congress, the Administration and the private sector.
According to the national survey we commissioned, two-thirds of Americans are not adhering to their prescribed medication regimen. This results in higher health care costs and greater prevalence of conditions such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension. Unfortunately tens of thousands of Americans die annually due to poor medication adherence and a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine estimates that hospital admissions resulting strictly from poor medication adherence costs the United States $100 billion per year.
Because the reasons patients fail to take their medications are multi-faceted, solutions must also be multi-faceted to have maximum impact. Medication non-adherence occurs too often due to a combination of social, financial, and behavioral factors. While one intervention may increase adherence for some patients, it may be ineffective for others.
What we do know is that there are many demonstrations, pilot program and reams of research that have or are being conducted that shows the payoff for focused strategies can be immense. Broadly, the opportunity is about $300 billion in annual waste. $100 billion might be saved in avoided hospitalizations, fewer ER visits and reduced hospital stays. Research shows outcomes also improve with improved adherence.
As we began our work on this issue with our diverse and growing partners, it became readily apparent that federal and state programs are not focused on improving adherence, despite the clear return on investment. Likewise, the host of pilots and demonstrations lack coordination, and are ad hoc at best.
The partnership is engaged in developing a coordinated, focused and robust response to the medication adherence challenge. Through our consensus process, we have come to agreement on several changes that will reduce non-adherence.
First, we need to break down the data and payment silos between Medicare's drug benefit and its physician and hospital benefits. Because these programs are siloed, there are few incentives for Part D plans to invest in robust interventions because they don't share in any savings from keeping people out of hospitals. One change may be to rework the current Medicare Part D medication therapy management benefit to a more comprehensive approach that would share savings across silos.
Second, we must address communication issues. What our poll found was that simple communication between prescribers, patients and pharmacists may overcome many of the adherence barriers. New models of care coordination, such as a pharmacist-engaged medical home, that leverages information technology, can address communications as they arise.
Practical patient barriers also exist, so we should, third, make things as simple and easy for patients as possible. One way that shows promise is by synchronizing medication fills and refills at the pharmacy once a month. This simple change may improve adherence rates. Initial research has found that adherence and persistence is significantly higher with synchronized patients compared to control patients for all chronic medication classes. In fact, patients enrolled in the program had 3.4 to 6.1 times greater odds of adherence compared to patients not enrolled in the program who had a 52% to 73% greater likelihood of becoming non-persistent.
Finally, we need a better picture of adherence rates across federal programs. The Federal Government finances almost half of all health expenses, but we have little information on adherence rates, particularly in Medicare fee-for-service. CMS, AHRQ and other agencies should start tracking how we are doing so we can do better.
Our diverse partnership continues to work on these issues, and we've issued a call to all interested stakeholders to join us in our work. In 25 years in Washington, I haven't encountered another issue that Members of Congress from both parties have responded to in such a positive way.
We need to capitalize on the growing political support and good ideas for addressing medication non-adherence.
Sally Greenberg
Executive Director
Medical non-adherence is not only a threat to the health of Americans, it is a threat to their economic well-being, and scientific evidence has shown that adherence rates vary among different classes, races and ethnicities. As I have previously mentioned, the relationship between a physician and patient is critical to achieving appropriate, high-quality care. While there are many factors that can steer patients away from taking their medications properly, improved access to treatments, combined with improved education for both the patient and their physician, will play an integral role in resolving this dangerous and costly issue among the African American communities we serve.
Studies show that nonwhite patients are 53 percent more likely to be medically non-adherent to statin therapy, used to improve cholesterol levels, compared to white patients. While this number has improved, down from 75 percent before 2008, more than half of nonwhite patients are currently at risk for becoming non-adherent, which can lead to an increase in non-drug medical spending such as emergency room visits, hospital stays and other related costs. Patients with Chronic Heart Failure (CHF), who stick to their medication regimen, save between $3 and $8 in non-drug spending for each additional dollar spent on medicines.
In the African American community, it's important to look at the socioeconomic status, insurance status, and other relative factors that may lead patients to take their medications improperly or stop taking them all together. Programs such as Medicare Part D and Medicaid play a critical role in providing patients with the quality health care coverage and access to treatments they need. As CHF is a leading reason for hospitalization among seniors, (one-fifth of all admissions), access to appropriate treatment is critical to improving patient health and increasing adherence rates. Removing barriers to access, such as prior authorization and step therapy, will allow physicians and patients to determine the best paths for treatment.
Additionally, our organization is working to educate both patients and physicians to improve overall patient health and reduce associated short- and long-term costs of non-adherence. Physicians who understand the culture of their patients' community can better individualize treatments, while increasing patient understanding. Patients who take a more engaged role in following their medical regimen, and are comfortable doing so, are more likely to achieve better treatment results.
Increased access to treatments as well as improved education for both patients and their physicians are two examples of how we can work toward increasing medical adherence rates among our African American communities. We will continue to strive to improve patient health and reduce the health and economic burden of cardiovascular disease within these communities.
Jon Easter, BSPharm, RPh
Senior Director, GSK
Taking medication correctly may seem like a simple or personal matter, but non-adherence (or not taking medication as directed) is a complicated, complex and all too common problem.
Patients often have understandable reasons for not taking their medicine as directed. They face some very real barriers. The barriers can vary for any patient over time, with the type of medication, and often a patient experiences not just one barrier, but numerous ones.
These barriers include:
- Concerns about side effects. Patients have either heard about or experienced side effects first hand, such as sleepiness and nausea, and will sometimes not fill the first prescription, or stop taking the medication without telling their doctor.
- Unconvinced of the need to take medication. Patients may not be convinced of the medication's effectiveness or be unsure that it is working. Some people taking high blood pressure medication are asymptomatic and may not feel the physical benefits of taking their medications.
- Forgetfulness. It is hard to remember to do something every day, several times a day; especially if you are on 2,3, or more medications. How many of us can honestly say we never forget to floss, take a vitamin, or refill every single prescription on time?
- Out-of-pocket costs. We know for some patients the cost can be a barrier, and people split their pills to make their prescriptions last longer.
- Time - difficulty finding time to call or visit the doctor to get a prescription renewed.
The National Consumers League's campaign to raise awareness of the importance of medication adherence, Script Your Future, is designed to help patients with chronic conditions, such as diabetes, COPD, asthma, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol, overcome these barriers and take their medications as prescribed. This patient-centered campaign is focused on opening the dialogue between health care professionals and patients about the health consequences of non-adherence. The campaign emphasizes that health care professionals need to ask patients the right questions, not simply hand them prescriptions and expect the patient to understand why she is taking them and the consequences of non-adherence. The campaign also recognizes that some patients may be reluctant to ask questions of the nurse, doctor, or pharmacist so these professionals need to learn how to probe about a patient's medication taking behavior.
As we have worked on this campaign and talked to patients across the country,
NCL has learned that the more patients understand the impact medication has on their health and the consequences of their own poor adherence, the more likely their adherence will improve.
By encouraging patients to talk to their health care professionals (doctors, pharmacist, nurses) about their medications, they can determine their barriers to adherence and work together to overcome them so they can live a longer, healthier life, and be more in control of their future. Whatever their personal goal may be (lowering blood pressure by 20 points or attending a granddaughter's high school graduation) it can be used as a motivator to manage medications and health.
Script Your Future is working in communities across the country (with targeted outreach efforts in Baltimore, Birmingham, Cincinnati, Providence, Raleigh, and Sacramento) to encourage more conversations about the health consequences of non-adherence and to provide patients and their health care professionals with tools and resources to help improve adherence among patients with chronic conditions. The integrated media campaign includes an interactive Web site (www.scriptyourfuture.org), public service announcements, material dissemination, social media presence, text message medication alert services, health professions student outreach activities and more.
We're also teaming up with pharmacy and medical schools, and health professional students across the country to ensure that the next generation of health care providers are aware of the challenges of adherence and are personally committed to do their part as professionals to help patients adhere.
Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop once famously said that "drugs don't work in patients who don't take them." Script Your Future is working together with patients to change the paradigm from one of blaming or shaming patients for not taking their medications, to breaking down barriers that keep patients from talking to their doctors, pharmacists and nurses and ensuring that the causes of non-adherence are understood on both sides. That, we believe, will go a long way toward solving the problems related to non-adherence.


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Definition of export in English:
verb[with object]
1Send (goods or services) to another country for sale: we exported $16 million worth of mussels to Japan
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- While it exports pricey services, Britain is importing capital since the rising pound is a magnet for global bond investors.
- These rules can make it impossible to export your goods into the third country market.
- At the time, Britain exported industrial goods and imported agricultural ones.
sell overseas/abroad, send overseas/abroad, ship overseas/abroad, market overseas/abroad, trade internationally
1.1Spread or introduce (ideas and beliefs) to another country: the Greeks exported Hellenic culture around the Mediterranean basin
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- This European belief was exported to the new world, America, without any criticism.
- Cultural tourism is a vital part of how we export New Zealand ideas and get New Zealand jobs.
- Hasn't the Hollywood fantasy factory been generating and exporting the ideas for these spectacular attacks through action and disaster movies for years?
transmit, spread, disseminate, circulate, communicate, pass on
literary bruit about/abroad
1.2 Computing Transfer (data) in a format that can be used by other programs.
Example sentences
- The data from tt can be exported in several formats into a MySQL database, an ASCII file, etc.
- Once the aforementioned data is gathered into the database, one can simply choose to export data into EAD format.
- Efforts are being made to export the database to a more robust data management system like Oracle or MySQL.
1A commodity, article, or service sold abroad: wool and mohair were the principal exports
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- The country grows 70% of the world's supply of jute, and jute products are an important export, despite falling world demand.
- The impact of these requirements was immediately felt in developing countries for which fishery products are an important export.
- This is because exports can now be sold or imports bought more cheaply or more easily inside the trading area.
1.1 (exports) Sales of goods or services to other countries, or the revenue from such sales: meat exports
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- The latest data, from industrial activity to retail sales to exports, show the economy is growing at a healthy pace this quarter and will continue to do so.
- At their present paces, capital-goods sales and exports in the third quarter could post their best quarterly advances since the late 1990s.
- We controlled for exposure to foreign markets with a measure of exports divided by sales for the previous year.
1.2The selling and sending out of goods or services to other countries: the export of Western technology
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- The future development of the private sector in Russia is now at risk as a result of the wholesale export of capital.
- The bananas grown for export are suitable for being picked when only two-thirds ripe, and continue to ripen during shipment.
- Deeply unpopular with merchants, traders, seamen, and farmers growing crops for export, the Embargo Act was repealed in 1809.
1.3 [as modifier] Of a high standard suitable for export: high-grade export coal
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- An interesting issue concerns the charges for transporting Hunter Valley export coal.
- As the end of 1999 approached, consistently dismal domestic and export coal loadings gave the nation's ports little reason to cheer.
- Train drivers refused to cross the miners' picket, stopping the movement of all export coal to the port of Lyttelton.
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- The country continues to degenerate into chaos, rendering any forecasts about future exportability highly suspect, especially in light of the still dangerous condition of the fields.
- Denmark became something of a cause célèbre for those who believed that the increased exportability of regional cinemas was the only way forward.
- One perennial issue in the classes has been the exportability of human rights claims from EuroAmerican sources to the rest of the world.
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- Chilli pepper is one of the exportable crops that has tremendous potential on the international export market.
- The Hall has been filled to full capacity, with a mixture of old and new companies who have come with a variety of exportable products.
- In recent years, owing to the Government's deliberate policy to promote the non-traditional exports, the range of exportable products has widened even further.
- Example sentences
- In practice, all international money transfers, except the very limited importation and exportation of currency notes, are effected through banking channels.
- He calls the episode 'perhaps the most tragic example of the exportation of conflict.'
- Never before have we seen the outsourcing, the exportation of high-value jobs at the rate that we have seen it over the course of the past three years.
Late 15th century (in the sense 'take away'): from Latin exportare, from ex- 'out' + portare 'carry'. Current senses date from the 17th century.
transport from Late Middle English:
Transport is from Latin transportare, from trans- 'across' and portare 'carry'. The word's use to denote 'a means of transportation' arose in the use of transport ships to carry soldiers or convicts, and later army supplies. Import (Late Middle English) and export (Late Middle English) are the carrying of goods in and out of the country.
Words that rhyme with exportabort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, cavort, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought
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When St. John's Middle School Principal Adel DiOrio wants to know something, she admits she's not looking to anything printed on paper.
"As an adult, if I need information, do I actually go to a hardcopy encyclopedia Britannica?" she said. "No, I grab my phone and I Google it."
And with kids already more familiar with cell phones than she is, DiOrio says the new influx of classroom technology can only benefit students.
"When you think of the level of development of these kids where they already are technologically, it's a perfect opportunity to put these devices in their hands," she said. "When you picture what it's going to look like in the classroom, it's not just a gadget. It's not a shiny new toy, it's a tool teachers are going to use to impact student learning, to impact their own teaching and that part gets me very excited."
A $5.1 million grant is giving the district nearly 1,400 Dell laptops and more than 400 Samsung tablets. The middle school of more than 700 students will have 18 portable carts containing 18 laptops each, plus two carts of 18 tablets.
"It is the new frontier," said DiOrio. "Just like before we have the legal obligation and the moral obligation to provide these kids with a high quality education to provide them the preparation they need to be successful in their lives. But now we have additional tools to do that."
Those tools also include refurbished computer labs, and carts in every classroom containing a system of two projectors, a document cam and a variety of plug-ins and adapters.
I think the students are in for an awesome opportunity and experience and the teachers are ready for it," said Superintendent Dedrick Martin. "When our kids get to interact with technology and updated technology they're really able to communicate to the rest of the world their thinking, their feeling, their whole way of interacting.."
Martin sees the technology as a stepping stone for students to a place in the increasingly global economy, providing more mediums for expression and outlets fro creativity.
And with kids already familiar with how most technology works, the focus will be on teaching them to use it the right way.
"We really have to teach them to use it in a responsible way to get information to access information and to get them to demonstrate and express their understanding using technological devices," Martin said.
DiOrio agreed.
"It's not a matter of using technology for technology's sake," she said. "It's a matter of using technology to impact student learning. And that's a really important distinction."
At St. John's Middle School, students will have to return their devices to their teacher following each class, though they are encouraged to bring their own devices from home if they have them.


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