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Dustin Tokarski had no problem sharing a special evening with one of his teammates on Tuesday night.
Tokarski made 29 saves to notch his first career NHL win and even recorded an assist, a feat that was perhaps overshadowed by Steven Stamkos' 50th goal of the season that capped a 6-1 victory over the defending Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins at the Tampa Bay Times Forum.
"It's pretty unbelievable and it feels awesome," Tokarski said of the victory. "And Steven, he's just so explosive and he has a sniper shot, so it was an honor to be on the ice with him when he got number 50 and it was fun to watch."
Stamkos beat goaltender Marty Turco at 11:43 of the final period as he wristed one from the right hash marks past the net minder's outstretched pad to record his second and final goal of the game.
In doing so, he joined Mike Bossy, Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky, Alex Ovechkin and Joe Nieuwendyk as the only players in NHL history to record two 50-goal seasons before the age of 23.
Stamkos also scored in the second period for the Lightning, with Brian Lee earning assists on both goals.
"It was definitely in the back of my mind," Stamkos said of scoring 50 goals. "It was nice the last time I did it to get 49 and 50 in the same game, so it was definitely running through my mind after that first one."
Tom Pyatt, Nate Thompson, Ryan Shannon and Victor Hedman also had first-period goals for Tampa Bay, and gave their club a 4-0 lead heading into the second frame that the Bruins were never able to climb out of.
The first three goals were in the Boston net within the opening 4:31 of the game, and chased Turco to the bench. He then returned after Tim Thomas allowed two goals on four shots, and finished the night with eight saves on 12 shots against.
"When you give those teams those leads, all of a sudden guys get frustrated and get away from the game plan," Bruins head coach Claude Julien said. "Instead of playing the way we should, we started to cheat and it really snowballed on us tonight."
The first period ended with the Lightning holding a 10-2 advantage in shots. Boston, however, returned the favor in the middle frame and outshot Tampa Bay 15-3.
"The second period, we played good," Tampa Bay Head Coach Guy Boucher said. "We just missed the net."
Jordan Caron scored the lone goal for the Bruins, which have now lost three straight.
The win helped the Lightning stay within seven points of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference behind division-rival Washington, which overcame a three-goal deficit on Tuesday night to earn a 5-4 win in the shootout over the New York Islanders.
Pyatt opened the scoring after redirecting a puck with his skate in the crease at 1:56 to grab the Lightning a quick 1-0 lead.
After Thompson's ninth of the season doubled the score just 30 seconds later, Shannon made it 3-0 just 4:31 in while on the power play by deking Turco to the far post before coming back across and firing one into an open cage.
The sequence marked the second-fastest three-goal span to open a game in Lightning franchise history, falling short of the record set on Apr. 10, 1994 when the team scored three times in a span of 3:58 against the Hartford Whalers.
Tampa Bay then went up 4-0 when Hedman fired a slap shot from the point that looked to change direction in front before sneaking past Thomas to close out the first period.
Caron cut the deficit to four when he beat Tokarski 1:55 into the third, wedging Boston's only goal between Stamkos' pair of tallies to spoil the 22-year-old net minder's first career shutout bid.
The setback didn't seem to faze Tokarski, however, as he came up with a spectacular poke check in the crease to deny Milan Lucic from in close, then turned back a shot from point-blank range by Brian Rolston to keep the Bruins at bay.
"Dustin was great," Stamkos said of his goaltender. "He made some big saves and looked so calm in there. It gave confidence to our team."
Tokarski became the first goaltender since Jason LaBarbera on Mar. 5, 2004 to record his first point and get his first win in the same game.
"It's great for him," Boucher added. "It's a relief for him to get that first win for his team. It was real important for our players and it was great. We have an incredible team spirit in here and these guys care about each other deeply. They never waver."


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General Motors: Maybe We Can Live With California Emission Rules
Stephen Power reports:
Detroit may still be struggling to figure out exactly how to match green rhetoric with an economic turnaround. But the auto industry's near-death experience appears to have softened resistance to government fuel-economy standards.
General Motors signalled in its latest viability plan that it aims to comply with "or exceed" tougher fuel standards enshrined in the 2007 energy act. GM also hinted it might be open to California regulating auto emissions after all—long a contentious battle between the state and the industry.
The auto maker says compliance with California's regulations "will be addressed as any such programs are finalized," and that the company "will work with the administration and others to develop any changes needed to the company's product and financial plans to meet such additional requirements."
California's push for tougher emissions standards—and by extension, tougher fuel-economy standards—has been endorsed by House speaker Nancy Pelosi, who hails from San Francisco, and President Obama. The White House has already announced tougher new federal fuel-economy standards and hinted it will let California set its own limits.
Which just shows that the government is getting some payback for the multi-billion investment in the auto industry, after fears that taxpayer money was being used to underwrite automakers' lawsuits over fuel-economy standards.
"If you have your hand out for federal dollars, it is harder to thumb your nose at these requirements as they used to," said David Doniger, a spokesman for the Natural Resources Defense Council.

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AVON PARK — South Florida State College's Take Stock in Children program recently awarded 22 new scholarships to students in Highlands County.
Students who received scholarships were Amy Albandoz, Brianna Nobles, Brooklyn Simmons, Caylee Demeere, Chanah Bobo, James Frith, Earlson Nabor, Jameka Fields, Javier Gonzalez, Jonathan Psaras, Juliana Gervais, Kaytlynn Nobles, Kristen Knust, Krystal Rivera, Lauren Eubanks, Maria Martinez- Hernandez, Neaychma Fogle, Preya Manraj, Shaneria Williams, Terrance Butler, Tristen Orr and Victor Salinas.
Take Stock in Children is a statewide program that provides at-risk children with a mentor and a college scholarship. In return, TSIC scholars sign contracts in which they promise to remain drug-free, avoid behavior that would get them into trouble with law enforcement, attend school regularly and earn satisfactory grades. The students' parents also sign the contracts and agree to provide home environments conducive to education and to participate in.
"When we awarded these 33 scholarships throughout DeSoto, Hardee and Highlands school districts, it was phenomenal," said Irene Castanon, TSIC program coordinator. "There were so many students who were really nervous and excited at this year's contract signings. More importantly, their hope of going to college has now become a reality."
The South Florida State College Foundation is the lead agency for Take Stock in Children within the college's service district of DeSoto, Hardee and Highlands counties. The program has been in place for 19 years and has awarded scholarships to over 400 local students.
For information, call Castanon at 453-3133 or visit http://www.southflorida.edu/foundation/takestock/.


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The overall goal of the Uganda ICEMR will be to perform comprehensive surveillance studies to improve understanding of malaria and measure the impact of population-level control interventions.
Studies will be conducted in six sentinel sites, ranging from areas of relatively low transmission intensity to areas with some of the highest transmission intensities recorded in the world.
Uganda provides an ideal environment for this program as malaria covers a wide range of epidemiological settings in the country. Researchers hope to use the varied settings to evaluate intervention strategies and assess optimal control methods.
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What the kids hear is Baras' grandmotherly voice, in a recording that reassures them that things are going to be all right, that children are the greatest resource in the world, and that their families really care for them. Then she urges her listeners—who range in age from 3 to 15—to smile and hug their parents. Tapes with cheerful variations on those themes are changed twice daily and played round the clock, 365 days a year. There are now two telephone message machines whirring in a corner of her office, but even so, the lines are so overloaded that thousands of little callers are frustrated by busy signals.
Carol's tot-line is doing for the kids what she and her husband, Bill, 54, have been doing for adults for 12 years. Their Bill Baras Seminars are the largest self-development program on the West Coast, and more than 10,000 have taken their intensive, 18-hour courses in confidence-building. The evening after her curbside pep talk with the unhappy little boy, Carol told a seminar about it, and the idea was implemented on the spot. The class donated money to help buy the first $750 telephone machine; a San Diego businessman donated the second. Carol tracked down a writer alumnus of Baras training and asked him to help her draft "a positive message for kids." "But I don't even like the little bastards," he protested. Two days later, though, he mailed four scripts to her, and has assisted her in grinding out the present rotating inventory of 100. Pacific Telephone in San Diego obligingly issued a number children could remember—291-KIDS—and within weeks "the Story Lady" was famous among small fry in Southern California's 714 area code.
Story Lady Carol Rose met Bill Baras in 1961 when both were working on a rehabilitation program for alcoholics at La Jolla Veterans Hospital. They were an odd match: She was a petite (5'3") divorcee with three children; he was a strapping (6'2") divorce father of a small son. Some years later they decided to pool their talents and their families and get married. Neither claims to remember the date or year, since they resolutely ignore all birthdays and anniversaries.
Bill had held a variety of jobs, from door-to-door bakery salesman to the entrepreneur behind Universal Jet, which manufactures a plumbing device that unblocks drains. Carol became the first female deejay in San Diego while still a precocious 16-year-old San Diego State College freshman, and she too zipped through many jobs while raising her kids. "I've always been an achiever," she says of her careers as bookkeeper, decorator, copywriter, PR executive and lecturer. Now, in addition to the seminars, the Barases mind a bewildering number of businesses, from Mother Earth Enterprises, a manufacturer of tortilla chips, to Mom's Saloon, a disco. Their latest venture is Jacumba Hot Springs, a run-down resort town near San Diego that was a favorite hideaway for Hollywood stars in the 1920s. Bill and nine other investors bought it for almost $2 million, and restoration is under way. Three of the four Baras children work for the family's various enterprises and nonprofit sidelines.
Since the youngest is now 20, Carol's abiding interest has become the tot-line. She is working on another, targeted for teenagers and their problems. Then, if she has her way, she will add a computerized switchboard programmed with hundreds of inspirational messages and "40 lines with toll-free numbers for kids all over the country." Of course, Carol Baras is a lady who usually has her way.
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School administrators respond to LePage's military recruiting claims
Gov. LePage claims high schools limisted recruiter appearancesUPDATED 11:29 PM EDT Jul 15, 2013
A school board member and a superintendent say they are willing to meet with Gov. Paul LePage to clear up misunderstandings about military recruiters at their schools, News 8's Aly Myles reports.Video Transcript
"TROUBLING AND INACCURATE." SOUTHERN MAINE SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAY-GOVERNOR LEPAGE IS BLAMING THEM-- FOR SOMETHING THAT'S SIMPLY NOT TRUE. GOOD EVENING, I'M TRACY SABOL. LAST WEEK, A BILL CREATED BY GOVERNOR LEPAGE THAT WOULD GIVE UNIFORMED MILITARY RECRUITERS UNLIMITED ACCESS TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS.. FAILED IN THE HOUSE. THIS-- AFTER A RECRUITER TOLD THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION-SEVEN SOUTHERN MAINE SCHOOLS WERE GIVING THEM MINIMAL ACCESS. WMTW NEWS 8'S ALY MYLES-HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THIS STORY. AND SHE JOINS US NOW LIVE WITH THE LATEST. ALY? A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE MILITARY RECRUITER WHO INITIALLY MADE THESE CLAIMS SAYS HE DID SO IN A RESPONSE TO A QUESTION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. "MINIMAL ACCESS AND INEFFECTIVE VISITS." COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR RICHARD HANNIBAL WROTE THE LETTER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BACK IN MAY. HIS SPOKESMAN SAYS-THESE AREN'T QUOTE-HUGE PROBLEMS-BUT THE MILITARY HOPES TO HAVE THEM ADDRESSED. THE GOVERNOR DID JUST THAT- HANDWRITING 45 LETTERS TO LEGISLATORS WHO VOTED AGAINST HIS BILL AND IN HIS WEEKLY ADDRESS-SAID THE FAILED BILL WAS QUOTE-ONE OF THE MOST APPALLING MOVES OF THE SESSION." 1:58-2:11 "One Democrat even said he's "more inclined to believe our local superintendents than a military recruiter." I'd bet my life on the word of a recruiter over a superintendent any day of the week and twice on Sunday." THE SEVEN SCHOOLS THE STATEMENT SAYS-- ARE ONLY ALLOWING MINIMAL ACCESS-ARE KENNEBUNK, NOBLE, OAK HILL, WELLS, YORK, GORHAM AND YARMOUTH. THE STATEMENT AND THE GOVERNOR ALSO SAID-PORTLAND AND YARMOUTH HAVE DENIED UNIFORMED RECRUITERS-FROM STEPPING ON CAMPUS. YARMOUTH'S SCHOOL BOARD CHAIRMAN SAYS-THAT IS A LIE. 59:25 whats troubling to us in yarmouth is our school was singled out and singled out wrongly so id like everyone to know what the governor said about yarmouth is not accurate. RAY AND KENNEBUNK SUPERINTENDENT ANDREW DOLLOFF SAY-- THEY'RE WILLING TO REACH OUT TO THE GOVERNOR OR RECRUITERS-TO FIGURE OUT HOW THESE CLAIMS STARTED IN THE FIRST PLACE. 59:35 We'd invite the governor or his spokesperson to come on down and see how we handle military recruiters in our schools and they would see that they just got it wrong. 1:46 what we're going to do is actually reach out to the recruiters tomorrow and see if we can set up a meeting and make sure we're addressing their concerns. IT IS ALREADY A FEDERAL MANDATE TO ALLOW RECRUITERS UNLIMITED ACCESS TO SECONDARY SCHOOLS. BUT LEPAGE ALSO SAYS IN HIS WEEKLY ADDRESS-THAT HE ENCOURAGES MAINERS TO FIND OUT WHERE THEIR POLITICANS STAND ON THIS ISSUE BECAUSE QUOTE "THIS WILL NOT BE THE LAST TIME THIS BILL IS INTRODUCED. REPORTING LIVE IN
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Research Update: KAR Holdings Inc. Outlook Revised To Stable From Positive; Ratings Affirmed Jul 08
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On July 1, 2008, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its outlook on KAR Holdings Inc. to stable from positive. At the same time, we affirmed the 'B-' long-term corporate credit rating and all debt issue ratings on KAR. The outlook change reflects our view that the company's performance over the next year, including the effect of weaker economic conditions in North America, will limit improvement in KAR's earnings and cash flow expansion in the year ahead. Thus, we no longer expect the company's credit measures to improve sufficiently in 2008 and into 2009 to warrant a potential upgrade. However, we do expect the company's financial performance and resulting credit measures to remain adequate for the existing rating. The ratings...
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** new pics! 8 weeks post op with double bubble...new pics up now!**
Pw has changed due to the idiot who was on here a few weeks back.....if any of you can remember my surgeon, then its his surname... if not PM me!
I had a re op two months ago due to double bubble if you need to talk pm me...
managed to get in for a look, i cant see a difference in size but you could always mention it..... they are a nice size, are you gonna go bigger next time?
Hi Do you mind if I take apeep? Also I am going to upload my piccys after my op on the 8th Sept and am worried now that their are weirdos on here...I haven't uploaded any yet so not aware of setting passwords etc..any tips would be useful Thanks Lucie x
Hiya! Can i hav a peek at ur pics please??... Having ba on friday!! Over excited
Thanks for letting me have a look. So how does this double bubble happen then? At least ur getting it sorted and without that DB ur boobies will look amazing!
Linz x
can see what you mean missy.....it is a little bigger but if you hadnt of pointed it out i would never have noticed. Its a slight difference which we all have i think. My left is a little bigger then my right but my surgeon said the tiny bit of difference wasnt enough at all to warrent different size implants. You only notice it so much coz you own them and look at them every day lol. They look very soft tho chick - given me some confidence that mine will soften eventually!!!!!!!
How exciting though - op number two - woo hoo
why does it say "waiting to be validated" when i try click on 8 wks???
means it has to be validated by this website...should be up in a few ours then xx
could i have a look please i have same problm
you can still see em...scroll over her pic on this thread and then press view photos....list of albums will come up click on her 8 weeks on and you can put the password in xxx
hi... im pretty new, dont think we have met?
would love a peek if thats ok?
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This is my favorite line: Shop for perishables — eggs, milk, hope.
You were just going to share MeMo's Hungry Man Dinner anyway, weren't you? Don't even pretend otherwise.
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Here is Mark Cuban getting all brilliant in Esquire. He gets to be brilliant in Esquire because he's rich. It's a loop thing. I'd have Mark Cuban with chestnut stuffing.
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> Hello,
> To be able to utilize 128 GiB of memory on a host, does one need to enable
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> As far as machine name/motherboard type, I do not have this information
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> Is there something special you need to do to utilize all 128 GiB of
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by Gregory P. Kennedy.
Greg Kennedy is the author of Touching Space.
The definitive history of Project Manhigh.
Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Stapp, MD, headed the AMFL. Major David G. Simons was the project officer for the balloon flights. Simons wanted to see what effects cosmic radiation had on living tissue. After several years of research and more than 80 flights, Stapp asked Simons if he thought he was ready to try a manned flight and if he would be willing to make that flight. Simons responded that he was, on both counts.
These flights were made with large balloons made from thin films of polyethylene plastic. Otto Winzen developed the plastic balloon under contract to the Office of Naval Research while he worked at General Mills. Winzen left General Mills in 1948 and started his own company, Winzen Research, Inc. (WRI.) Because of their light weight, these balloons, which the Navy named "Skyhook," could reach altitudes in excess of 100,000 feet.
Scientists soon began flying packets of photographic emulsion to capture cosmic radiation particles on Skyhook balloons. By 1948, researchers determined that 99% of cosmic radiation particles comprised hydrogen and helium nuclei. The remaining 1%, however, were made up of heavier atoms like carbon and iron. Traveling at tremendous velocities, the heavy particles were particularly troubling from a biological perspective.
Most of the early Air Force balloon flights were made from Holloman Air Force Base. Simons soon discovered that the specimens did not receive any appreciable radiation exposure. Because the earth's magnetic field deflects most cosmic radiation particles away from equatorial regions, the biological flights had to be conducted from northern latitudes to receive any significant exposure.
One factor affecting Simons' decision was that he quickly calculated building a capsule large enough to sustain a human pilot would be a relatively straightforward task. Life support capacity in the biological capsules, which comprised 27-inch diameter spheres, was expressed in terms of the smallest animal flown, which was a mouse. Simons had already flown capsules with life support capacities of 200 "mouse units." A human worked out to about 500 mouse units, so they only had to increase the life support capacity by a factor of two and a half.
Simons, Stapp, and Winzen agreed on an approach and forwarded the idea to the Air Research and Development Command (ARDC). At first the ARDC turned down the project because they did not feel cosmic radiation research warranted such an effort. Then, Simons justified the work as contributing to the design of a manned space vehicle, and it was approved. This became known as Project Manhigh. The goal of Manhigh was to place a pilot in a sealed capsule above 100,000 feet for a 24-hour flight. At such an altitude, the pilot would be above 99% of the atmosphere, and would be in the functional equivalent of an outer space environment.
The Manhigh capsule was eight feet high and three feet in diameter. Made from aluminum, the shell comprised three separate sections: the upper dome, turret and lower shell. Most of the major systems were suspended from the turret. Six portholes, including one the pilot could open, were built into the turret. A tubular aluminum frame attached to the outside of the lower shell supported the capsule in an upright position before launch. This structure also doubled as a shock-absorbing system for landing. Lead acid aircraft batteries mounted on the external frame powered the capsule's systems. Equipped with individual parachutes, these batteries (which weighed 50 pounds each) could be dropped as ballast when expended.
Manhigh needed an active thermal control system because it would remain aloft for more than 24 hours. Since the electronic equipment inside the cabin and the pilot himself produced heat, Winzen concluded no heating system was needed.
Rather, the problem became one of trying to cool the capsule. An elegantly simple system that relied on boiling water had been developed for the animal capsules some years earlier. As atmospheric pressure decreases, so does the boiling point of water. Manhigh carried a container of water that boiled when vented to the outside atmosphere. The steam carried excess cabin heat with it. The major disadvantage of this system was that it only worked at high altitudes. To keep the cabin (and pilot) cool prior to launch and during the initial ascent, a cap of dry ice was placed on top of the upper dome.
The pilot breathed a mixture of 60% oxygen, 20% nitrogen and 20% helium. Pure oxygen was rejected because of the fire hazard. Nitrogen, which normally comprises about two-thirds of the atmosphere at sea level, presented hazards of another sort. If there were a sudden decompression, nitrogen dissolved in the pilot's blood stream could bubble out, causing the "bends." Adding helium to the capsule atmosphere reduced the risks of fire and the bends. The pilot wore a standard Air Force MC-3 partial pressure suit in case of sudden pressure loss.
A 5-liter capacity bottle carried enough liquid oxygen to last 48 hours. There was an emergency oxygen supply in a cylinder under the pilot's seat and a bailout supply in a small bottle attached to the pilot's parachute harness. A three-step chemical "air-regeneration unit" removed carbon dioxide and water vapor from the cabin air. The three chemicals were packed in layers, in fabric bags. Air first passed through lithium chloride to remove moisture before it reached layers of lithium hydroxide, which absorbed carbon dioxide. The final step in the process was to circulate the air through magnesium perchlorate to remove any remaining moisture. A single regulator controlled pressure and oxygen content. In case the automatic system failed, the pilot had a manually operated valve that admitted a constant flow of oxygen.
The pilot had two communications systems. The primary system was a VHF transceiver for voice communications. If the voice system failed, he could use the telemetry transmitter to communicate via Morse code. Normally, this transmitter broadcast biotelemetry data from the pilot.
Manhigh began with six unmanned and animal flights to test launch techniques, life support system performance, balloon performance and recovery methods. Colonies of small animals in the capsule placed the same demands on the life support system as a human pilot.
While the engineers tested the capsule, the first two Manhigh pilots underwent training. Major Simons, as chief scientist, intended to make the ascent. Captain Joseph W. Kittinger, a pilot from Holloman's Flight Test Division, trained as his back up. Kittinger had flown for Colonel Stapp on earlier experiments and, after hearing of the project in 1955, volunteered.
Stapp and Simons listed the skills that could be necessary on a flight and structured the program accordingly. Their training included at least one parachute jump; balloon training leading to a balloonist's license; 24-hour claustrophobia tests in the capsule; a low-pressure, low temperature simulated flight in a test chamber; and a battery of physiological examinations.
Manhigh was never generously funded and, knowing the limited nature of the budget, Simons intended to perform the 24-hour scientific mission after the test flights. Stapp did not feel that was prudent. He told Simons: "Animal tests are fine, Dave, but I don't think that's enough. The animals did nothing up there but breathe, eat, and defecate. They didn't talk on the radio or shift around in a 180-pound mass or fidget in a pressure suit or try to grab scientific observations out of those saucer-sized portholes, or do any of the things you will have to do when you go up. To put the Manhigh system up now for a full-scale flight without at least one manned test flight first would be like trying to send a new fighter plane into combat without wringing the bugs out of it." Since the capsule was still untested in an actual manned flight, Stapp did not want to risk the project's chief scientist, so he directed that Kittinger pilot Manhigh I.
Kittinger took off at 6:23 a.m. on June 2, 1957. About two hours into the mission, he reached 97,000 feet and reported his oxygen tank was only half full. Since this was supposed to be a 12-hour test flight, ground controllers ordered him to descend immediately. Manhigh I landed in Indian Creek near Weaver, Minnesota, a little past noon. The oxygen tank, which was supposed to contain enough oxygen to last 48 hours, was empty because of an improperly installed pressure controller.
By the summer of 1957, the national debt reached its legal ceiling and federal agencies were instructed to curtail their spending. Within the Air Force, research programs were particularly hard hit. Kittinger's flight exhausted Manhigh's funds, so it looked like Simons would have to mothball the project and hope for additional funding the following year. Stapp wanted a full-scale simulation of the 24-hour flight in a test chamber at Wright Patterson Air Force Base before Simons left the ground to make sure there weren't any problems like the one that brought Manhigh I to an end. The test and flight would cost $14,000 more than was available. Then, Otto Winzen proposed that his company underwrite the test and flight. He felt the good will and publicity generated by the flight would be a worthwhile investment.
Major Simons piloted the second Manhigh flight on August 19 - 20, 1957. He climbed 101,516 feet above the Earth using a 3-million cubic foot balloon. Simons was the first person to see a sunset and a sunrise from the edge of space. During the night, a thunderstorm developed beneath him. At one point, the balloon cooled enough for him to descend into the upper fringes of the thunderhead! Dropping ballast, he rose to a safe altitude.
After dawn, the storm stalled and remained between his aerostat and the ground. In those early morning hours, carbon dioxide began to build up in the cabin and Simons had to breathe oxygen through his pressure suit. The storm finally cleared in the afternoon and Simons began the long journey back. He landed at 5:32 that evening. His flight had lasted 32 hours and 10 minutes.
Simons was immediately catapulted into the limelight. He appeared on the cover of the September 2, 1957, issue of Life magazine and his personal account of Manhigh II was the lead story. Manhigh II was hailed as an amazing adventure on the road to space. Just six weeks after Simons' flight, an even more stunning achievement overshadowed Manhigh. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite. Named Sputnik, the satellite circled the earth every 96 minutes. A month later, the Soviets launched a second Sputnik, this one carrying a dog!
American reaction to the Sputnik successes included the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Defense Education Act, which provided federal funding for science and mathematics education. As part of the Air Force response, Brigadier General Don Flickinger of the Air Research and Development Command (ARDC) told Simons to prepare for a third Manhigh flight. By that time, Stapp had been promoted and transferred to Wright Patterson Air Force Base as head of the Aero Medical Laboratory; Lieutenant Colonel Rufus Hessberg took his place at Holloman.
Winzen Research built a new capsule for Manhigh III that incorporated many changes. The air regeneration system was completely redesigned. Instead of having three separate chemicals to remove moisture and carbon dioxide from the cabin atmosphere, Manhigh III used a single chemical system. A blower circulated cabin air through a canister filled with potassium hydroxide, which absorbed both moisture and carbon dioxide.
Like its predecessor, Manhigh III was covered with Mylar, but it was painted white. Manhigh's designers believed this passive technique would keep the capsule cool and they removed the water core heat exchanger. Another major departure from previous Manhigh protocols was that this capsule was not test flown with animals; the first time it left the ground it carried a human pilot.
Selecting a pilot for the third flight proved problematical. Anticipating that Manhigh might serve as a template for future manned space missions, General Flickinger suggested that candidates be screened to meet the qualifications expected for future space pilots. The screening process included an interview to determine motivation and scientific background; a four-day medical evaluation at the Lovelace Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico; a 24-hour test to observe each candidate's response to confinement in the Manhigh capsule; a full day of tests by a clinical psychologist; a session in a soundproof, unlighted chamber; and stress testing. This latter battery included centrifuge runs, one hour in a "hot box" (155o F. and 85% humidity) and a "cold presser" test that comprised immersion of the subject's feet in ice water while his pulse and blood pressure were monitored. Despite the focus on space flight screening, each candidate still had to complete one parachute jump and balloon training like Kittinger and Simons.
Initially, Otto Winzen and one of the project officers from the AMFL were considered. Winzen was eliminated from consideration in June, so Captain Grover Schock was nominated for the flight. With the further elimination of the unnamed AMFL officer, Schock became primary pilot; Captain Harry Collins, an Air Force parachutist, became backup. First Lieutenant Clifton McClure also underwent the grueling series of physical and psychological tests for Manhigh and passed, so he was kept in the program.
In August 1958, Schock and Winzen were critically injured during a training flight. Collins became the primary pilot and McClure became his backup. By the time McClure finished his balloon training, Collins had also been eliminated due to high cholesterol levels, so the 25-year old Lieutenant was the primary pilot. McClure had a master's degree in ceramics engineering.
Time was critical for the flight because the ARDC instructed the AMFL to finish Manhigh as soon as possible. By the autumn of 1958, President Eisenhower had assigned piloted space flights to the brand new civilian space agency, so there were no compelling reasons for the Air Force to continue Manhigh. With the hardware already paid for, the ARDC allowed the program to proceed, as long as it could be concluded quickly.
McClure qualified for a balloonist's license on September 28. Project meteorologist Duke Gildenberg predicted there was only a negligible chance they would have satisfactory weather any time during the entire next month. Rather than risk having the ARDC cancel Manhigh III, Hessberg and Simons moved it to Holloman. New Mexico was too far south to gather any significant cosmic ray data, but the flight could still serve as a control to judge the effects of the other flights. It could also serve as a model for future space flights because McClure was to be guided in his observations by a panel of experts on the ground.
Early on the morning of October 7, McClure sat in the capsule, ready for flight. By the time launch preparations were finished, the morning winds had started. Just ten minutes before launch, the three-million cubic foot balloon began whipping around, finally careening into the ground. There was a gentle, almost imperceptible "pop" as the bag tore. Winzen had only manufactured two balloons to manned flight specifications for the project -- now only one was left.
Everyone agreed to try again the next day. That night, McClure boarded the capsule a little past midnight. Just like Kittinger and Simons, he had a personal parachute in the cabin. This parachute hung from the capsule support structure. With all the handling and jostling the parachute had received during the past few days, the closing pins worked themselves loose. About three hours after he boarded the capsule, McClure brushed against the parachute and it popped open "with a muffled flump." Finding his lap full of fabric, he faced a serious dilemma.
McClure did not know if the balloon had already been laid out for inflation. The balloons were so fragile they couldn't be repacked once they were unrolled. If they opened the capsule and had an Air Force Rigger repack the parachute, it would delay the flight for several hours by which time the winds would have picked up like the day before. Rather than risk aborting the mission by reporting the open parachute, he remained silent and repacked it inside the capsule.
It was difficult, tedious work in the three-foot diameter capsule, but McClure finally closed the parachute container. Pausing to examine his handiwork, he discovered he had inserted the pins backwards. Before repacking the canopy, he'd vowed that he'd only make the flight if it were properly packed. McClure pulled the ripcord and repeated the task. This time he secured the container properly. The process had been very taxing and he was perspiring heavily.
Normal flight preparations included placing a cap of dry ice on top of the capsule before launch to keep the pilot cool. On this day, someone forgot to bring the dry ice. During the previous day's launch attempt, McClure reported feeling cold, so the feeling was it probably wasn't necessary so preparations continued. Without the added cooling of the dry ice, he continued to perspire.
Potassium hydroxide reacts with moisture to produce heat, and McClure was perspiring so heavily he saturated the air that was blown through the regeneration unit. The unit soon began blowing hot, moist air into the cabin. Compounding the problem, without the water core cooling system that had been present in the earlier capsule, there was no way to dissipate the heat at altitude.
McClure took off at 6:51, about six hours after he boarded the capsule. As he climbed past 24,000 feet, he reported the temperature in the capsule was 89o Fahrenheit. At 55,000 feet, the cabin temperature gauge read 94o. Everyone agreed something was wrong with the gauge; the capsule temperature couldn't possibly be that high so the flight proceeded. About 10:00, he reached the ceiling altitude of 99,700 feet.
Around 1:00, it became evident that something was seriously wrong. McClure's speech was sluggish and his pulse rate was up to 140 beats per minute. There was no telemetry for the pilot's body temperature; he had to report that verbally to the ground. Asked about his temperature, McClure replied it was 101o. A half-hour later, it was up to 102.3o. Measuring the cabin temperature with a mercury thermometer, he reported it was 96o!
An hour later, McClure reported his temperature was 103.4o. Hessberg ordered him to descend immediately. By 3:00, McClure had only descended a few thousand feet and had not yet established a steady descent rate. His temperature was up to 104.1o. Another hour passed, by which time McClure had established a descent rate of 500 feet per minute but he was still at 87,000 feet.
Hessberg considered cutting the capsule away from the balloon and bringing it down with the parachute, but there was a strong chance it would land in the rugged San Andres Mountains. For the time being, Hessberg let McClure retain control of the descent, although his pulse was approaching 180 beats per minute. McClure began seeing shimmering green splotches, even when his eyes were closed.
During the descent, McClure dropped an instrument that jammed the foot switch that controlled his voice communications. Unable to reach it, McClure could no longer transmit to the ground. After that, the command group couldn't know for sure if McClure was even conscious, but the descent proceeded smoothly and his pulse rate remained steady, so they refrained from cutting the capsule away from the balloon.
A little past sunset, Manhigh III landed on a level area of desert only a few miles from the takeoff point. With perfect timing, McClure released the balloon just as the capsule touched down. The capsule remained upright, the only one of the three flights to do so. McClure released the upper dome and began to climb out on his own. His pulse rate was 180 beats per minute; his temperature an incredible 108.5o! Although most of the original scientific objectives for Manhigh III were unmet, the flight stands as a testament to the power of human motivation and will.
Consideration was briefly given to adapting the Manhigh capsule for space flight. This was the Army's Project Adam proposal. Adam would have used a Redstone missile to propel a modified Manhigh capsule 150 miles above the earth. Adam came from the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The concept emerged in late 1957, shortly after Simons' Manhigh II flight. The ABMA submitted a formal proposal to the Pentagon in April 1958.
Simons, an Air Force officer, even traveled to Redstone Arsenal to discuss the project. However, the Air Force officially decided not to support Adam because they feared it might divert resources from the X-15 program. Adam didn't survive long: the Pentagon rejected the idea in July 1958 when responsibility for manned space flight was given to NASA. In testimony before the Congressional House Space Committee NACA (one of NASA's predecessor agencies) Chairman Hugh Dryden compared "tossing a man up in the air and letting him come back... [to] ...the circus stunt of shooting a young lady from a cannon."
Winzen also submitted a proposal for a 5-day Manhigh IV flight, but it never progressed beyond the proposal stage. Manhigh IV would have used a 5-million cubic foot balloon and a larger capsule than the first missions. Again, NASA's effort, Project Mercury, made such a flight superfluous. Initial planning for Project Mercury called for a test flight of the capsule using a balloon, but NASA managers soon realized there were too many environmental conditions - namely launch, acceleration, weightlessness, and reentry - that would not be tested during a balloon flight. Therefore, the test was deleted from the schedule.
So, what was the impact of Project Manhigh on space flight? The Manhigh flights demonstrated the reliability of cabin life support systems. Overall, the systems performed as planned. The closest to a life support system failure occurred during the first Manhigh flight when the oxygen pressure controller was installed incorrectly. Physical and psychological screening procedures used for America's first space pilots were first used to select the Manhigh III pilot. Medical personnel who supported Manhigh also supported Project Mercury.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, there was the knowledge that it was possible to build a sealed cabin with a life support system that could sustain a human pilot in an alien, inhospitable environment. This knowledge helped pave the way for subsequent space flights.
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Check you in-box. J.C. Penney emailed a 20-percent off friends and family coupon early this morning that's good through Monday.
Plano-based Penney may be acknowledging that it's too hard for some of its customers to wean themselves off of coupons. The discount is good in stores with a printed coupon and online with a code. It doesn't list any exclusions.
This week, analysts lowered their sales forecasts for Penney after competitors Macy's, Kohl's and others reported November sales were washed away in the densely populated northeast by superstorm Sandy.
That means retailers need a stronger than previously anticipated December to get to their desired sales results. For the first time that anyone can remember, Target mimicked department stores with two $10 off coupons on purchases of $75 or more, one good through Dec. 14 and another through Dec. 24.
Penney CEO Ron Johnson has said in recent months that he would be tweaking pricing along the way and has taken steps to clarify Penney's everyday low prices.
A Penney spokeswoman said the friends and family offer is "a planned event as part of our holiday marketing."
"The distribution is much more limited than in the years past," but it was also emailed to Penney's loyalty program members, said spokeswoman Kristin Hays.
Each employee received 8-10 friends and family post cards to hand out or mail, she said. "We also had an email version to share electronically."
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I was not yet born when Walt Disney died. To live in an era when one could anticipate his next movie must have been magical. Luckily, I live in the time of Hayao Miyazaki. So I can feel that magic with the announcement of each of his new films. The fact that the man is in his twilight years weighs on me every he finishes a film. Will it be his last? Thankfully, not yet. He's finishing up work on his latest film, a biography about Jirō Horikoshi, designer of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane. Miyazaki's love of flight is legendary, with most of his films featuring some sort of spectacular air scene, if not the whole film. That's what we seem to be getting this time around.
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"The film tells a fictionalised account about the two lions that attacked and killed workers at Tsavo, Kenya during the building of the African Uganda-Mombasa Railway in 1898.
"In 1898, Sir Robert Beaumont (Tom Wilkinson), the primary financier of a railroad project in Tsavo, Kenya, is furious because the project is running behind schedule. He seeks out the expertise of John Henry Patterson (Val Kilmer), a military engineer, to get the project back on track. Patterson travels by train to Tsavo, where he meets ...the doctor, David Hawthorne (Bernard Hill). Hawthorne tells Patterson of a recent lion attack. That night, Patterson kills an approaching lion with one shot, earning the respect of the workmen. The project gets back on schedule. However, not long afterwards Mahina (Henry Cele), the construction foreman, is dragged from his tent in the middle of the night. His half-eaten body is found the next morning. Patterson then attempts a second night-time lion hunt, but the next morning another worker is found dead at the opposite end of the camp from Patterson's position.
"Soon, two lions attack the camp in the middle of the day and kill Starling. Patterson attempts to kill them, but they both escape. Samuel explains that there has never been a pair of man-eaters before because they are always alone...
"The men dub the lions 'the Ghost and the Darkness' because of their notorious methods of attack. Work is stopped on the bridge to fight the lions. Beaumont visits the camp and tells Patterson he will ruin his reputation should the bridge not be built on time. He tells Patterson he will contact the famous hunter Charles Remington (Michael Douglas) to help. All of Patterson's attempts to kill the lions have failed at this point...
"Remington builds a new hospital for all the lion victims, and attempts to draw the lions to the old one by covering it with animal parts. The lions, however, outsmart Remington and attack the new hospital, killing all the patients and Hawthorne. Abdullah and the rest of the men soon leave, leaving Patterson, Remington, and Samuel alone with the lions. That night, Remington kills one of the lions by using Patterson and a baboon as bait. The next morning, Patterson finds the remaining lion has dragged Remington from his tent and killed him...
"Patterson and Samuel are soon attacked by the beast on the partially constructed bridge. After a long fight, Patterson kills the lion outside of camp. Abdullah and the men return, and the bridge is completed on time. The film ends with a narration by Samuel, where he says the lions are now on display at the Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, and that even today 'if you dare lock eyes with them, you will be afraid.'"
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Posted: Apr 14 2010, 11:19 AM
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Once there was a young man who didn't like authority figures.
Tristan Mustafa had been a lot of things in his short life: a resentful son, a bully, a bad student, a vampire, even dead for a while. And now, thanks to the miracle of modern magic, he was a living, breathing student at Bard college. And, hot chicks and beer keggers aside, he hated it. If he was still a vampire he'd let those idiotic professors know just what he thought of their long-winded lectures and condescending attitudes. He still could have, but his dad had made it clear that he was to toe the line. So, punching teachers was definitely out, now that his dad was a cop. That's another thing he could have lived without: the old man. But Tristan, despite his dislike of school, was anything but stupid. So he toed the line, for now. He got straight As without even trying, and he was street smart as well. No one got the drop on him, and woe betide the person who tried to make him look stupid. People respected him, feared him a little even, and he liked it that way.
But the more Tristan lived in the living, breathing world the more he came to despise it, until finally, one day, he decided he'd had enough. His sister Hayden was the leader of a gang of vampires now. He'd find her, ask to join them, and regain his true identity. Then he'd really be someone to fear.
But on the morning he had chosen to leave the university life behind forever he woke to an unpleasant surprise.
"Dude, I can't see Veronaville," his roommate said, looking out the window.
"Is it foggy?"
"No, dude, there're mountains."
"Mountains? What have you been smoking?" Tristan got up and went to the window.
Well, what did you know. Mountains.
"Hey," the RA said, knocking on the doorframe, "the prime minister's here. Everyone's supposed to meet up in the quad for an announcement."
"It may have come to your attention that the landscape has changed somewhat," Richard Capp said once the student body had assembled. "The mountain range you see completely surrounds both Veronaville and Stratford, and appears to have made a small valley out of this campus. We are working on a way to get you home at the end of term. We ask that you be patient and sit tight until then.
"In addition, your cell phones will work OK on this campus but you may not be able to call your families on them. Use a landline if this occurs. We are also working on solutions to that little problem.
"If you can teleport, do so with care and make sure to choose a landmark in Stratford that you know. It is not safe to teleport into Veronaville. If you must go home between now and the end of term may I suggest hitching a ride on a broomstick. We have a helicopter for any emergencies, but as it is expensive to run there may be a charge. Walking may be possible as well, but it's a long trek and I do not advise it. There are vampires about and you would not make it home before dark, even if you started out first thing.
"I'll take your questions now."
Tristan didn't stick around to hear the question and answer. He could get his information elsewhere and had no patience for the hysteria that was bound to ensue. He went to his dorm room and packed up his stuff. He didn't have much, a habit left over from his tenure as a vamp: the less you had, the easier it was to vacate in a hurry. He slung his backpack over his shoulder and stopped to buy a supply of water and snacks from the campus grocery.
Vampires in the mountains, huh.
Looked like he was walking.
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We've all seen the P90X workout infomercials, loaded with impossibly fit folks singing the praises of the program. The before-and-after shots are crazy inspiring -- but come on. It's an ad. And one more Ding Dong isn't going to kill you, right?
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It wasn't my best day as a mother.
Let me set the scene: me, five years ago, sitting on a bench in the Target pharmacy, nursing my squalling newborn. I try to cover my belly without smothering the baby, ducking behind my grocery-laden cart. Antsy four-year-old climbs on the cart, dismantles product displays, plays with the blood pressure machine... and my own blood pressure rises as I eye the kooky-looking guy in the condom aisle.
What I really needed back then was our new…Continue
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When you grow up surrounded by cornfields, what is the statistical likelihood that you'll one day be a marine biologist? I'm no math genius, but I'm guessing it's pretty low.
Somehow, our new SocialMom of the Month is beating those odds.
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As a mom who's recently gone back to work, part of my cherished morning routine -- after risking life and limb to wake up the crabbier of my two offspring -- takes place in my closet. My stuffed-full-but-containing-nothing-to-wear closet. This is where I go to be alone and... no, not meditate, but agonize. Over what to wear.
What I really, really want more than anything -- more, even, than world peace on the bad days when my laundry pile is taller than me -- is for someone to…Continue
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"OMG." My oldest daughter turned 9 this week. Oddly enough, for once I'm not freaking out about the passage of time. Instead, I'm preparing myself.
In the past year, I've purchased "Queen Bees & Wannabes" by Rosalind Wiseman (the book "Mean Girls" was based on). I've even downloaded a free guide designed to help parents talk to kids about sex. (When is the right time, anyway??) I know I should probably just relax and let the poor girl grow up, right?…Continue
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One of the more important dates on the UNT football calender has arrived. The Mean Green's Friday Night Lights camp is tongiht.
UNT's football staff travels the state and sees a host of the best players in Texas high school football at its satellite camps. The best of the best are often invited to Denton for the final camp in the series — Friday Night Lights.
The concept is pretty common in college football. Schools often have select camps for their top prospects.
The format UNT follows is a bit different. Friday Night Lights is open to any high school player who wants to come. Players can register for the event that begins at 5 p.m. before the camp.
In the end, UNT ends up with a mix of high school players from the region and several of its top recruiting targets.
We ran a preview of the event in today's paper.
There were 417 players who showed up last year, including a few key recruiting targets. Elkhart running back Jeffery Wilson, Rosenberg Terry defenisve back Kishawn McClain, Northeastern Oklahoma A&M linebacker Akii Smith and Flower Mound offensive lineman Christopher Miles all committed to UNT after attending last year's Friday Night Lights event.
Tyler JC offensive lineman Drew Sarvary (Florida), Tyler JC defensive end William Coleman (Mississippi State) and Garrett Davis (Houston) were among the other top prospects at least year's camp who went on to sign with other schools. Davis committed to UNT before changing his mind.
So who are the top targets who will be at this year's camp?
Converse Judson guard Abdul Beecham is scheduled to attend, according to his father. We wrote about Beecham in our on-going UNT recruiting target series. Beecham is a heavy UNT lean. I would be surprised if he doesn't officially commit to UNT tonight.
Trinity Valley wide receiver Jarvis Baxter, who committed to SMU out of high school, is also supposed to be at UNT tonight. We talked to Baxter after he visited UNT.
Greenville wide receiver D'erren Wilson is also supposed to be at the camp. Indiana, BYU and Arkansas State are considered the favorites to land Wilson, who said late this summer when we talked to him that he is waiting to consider his options before committing.
UNT has commitments from eight players at this point, including three who committed in the last week or so. Here's the full list and a look at where UNT stands.
That list could soon have a couple of additions after tonight's camp. I will be there.
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- foster collaborative demographic research and data sharing
- translate basic population research for public policy decision-makers
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The APC is open to any organization with a primary interest in population research and training.
- President: Dr. Lisa Berkman, Harvard University
- Vice President: Dr. Pamela Smock, University of Michigan.
- Secretary: Dr. Eric Reither, Utah State University.
- Treasurer: Dr. Jennifer Van Hook, Pennsylvania State University.
- Director of Government and Public Affairs: Mary Jo Hoeksema.
- Deputy Director of Government and Public Affairs: Suzanne Stokes Vieth.
For more detail on individual APC members, please visit the following links:
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The debate over walk-in clinics based in retail stores, such as Wal-Mart and CVS, has largely been framed as Big Business versus the doctor or hospital around the corner.
But in some quarters, the medical establishment is piling into retail clinics as fast as the big-box retailers. In the last few days, the Health Blog has spoken with a couple of large, physician-led health groups that have opened their own retail clinics in the same towns where their doctors have offices.
"We certainly had a healthy debate over retail clinics," Mark Briesacher, a pediatrician with Intermountain Health told us. Intermountain, which runs more than 150 hospitals and clinics spread throughout Utah and Southeastern Idaho, has opened its first five retail clinics in the past year. The clinics are in grocery stores and staffed by nurse practitioners; fees start at $35, and most patients pay out of pocket. Briesacher is on the committee that oversees the clinics.
Many family doctors and internists fear the clinics will "makes care more fragmented and makes it more difficult for an individual to have a medical home, where a physician knows a person or a family very well and treats them throughout their lifetime," Briesacher says.
On the other hand, he says, medicine is far more complicated than it was 50 years ago. "You no longer have Doc Jones taking care of a town of 10,000 people where he delivers the babies and holds their hand at the end of life," he says. "Doc Jones took call seven days a week, 365 days a year. That doesn't happen anymore. Everyone shares call, everyone shares specialists that they refer to."
In the end, Intermountain decided it was worthwhile to try retail clinics as a more convenient alternative for those seeking treatment for simple problems such as sore throats, and as an option for the uninsured who might not otherwise seek any care at all.
Back East, Dean Lin runs the retail-clinics group for Geisinger Health System, which employs more than 600 doctors and runs several major medical centers in central Pennsylvania. He cites similar reasons for getting into retail clinics, and added another: "MinuteClinic [owned by CVS] and Wal-Mart are building these clinics. We thought if we didn't do it someone else would." The group has opened two clinics so far, and plans to have five within the next few months. Lin says Geisinger hasn't decided how many clinics it plans to open beyond that. But, he says, "Hundreds is not out of the question."


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Maniac Magee
by Jerry Spinelli
Maniac Magee Chapter 35 Summary
- Things are a little confused at first, and Piper and Russell enjoy the fact that Maniac is the Maniac who got an inside the park homerun off of McNab's frogball a little too much, but eventually Maniac saves the day by showing Giant John how to throw a stopball.
- So, here Maniac is at home with the McNab brothers. And he immediately wishes he weren't.
- Turns out the McNab house isn't a nice place to be. It's filthy (and not the kind of filthy that your mom always accused your room of being—there's actual dog poop on the floor!)
- It's also falling apart: you can actually jump from the second to the first floor through a hole in the floor.
- As bad as the house is, it gets a lot worse when Papa McNab comes home. He throws his Burger King bags on the table and that's the most fatherly thing he does all evening.
- Oh, except for when he drunkenly slurs at the boys to do their homework (did he even notice that they were missing?).
- While Maniac attempts to clean the place up a bit, Giant John's gang of Cobras comes in, drinks beers, and lights up cigarettes. So do Piper and Russell.
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When the Densho staff opened our Monday morning email, we found multiple messages from Japan. People were writing to thank us for our work, register for the Digital Archive, and sign up for the eNews. All this interest was generated by a television program broadcast over the weekend on NHK, the Japanese public television station.
Densho came to the broadcaster's attention in March 2008, when our executive director, Tom Ikeda, visited Japan as a member of the Japanese American Leadership Delegation. In the April 2008 eNews, Tom shared stories and pictures of the delegation's VIP meetings and evenings out.
An NHK television crew arrived at Densho's Seattle office in late June. They interviewed Tom (representing the Sansei generation) and our Interview Coordinator, Megan Asaka (speaking for Yonsei). The questions were all about Japanese American identity. The crew also interviewed Tom's parents and other Japanese Americans in California.
For Japanese readers, the NHK webpage describes the September 28 program.
And here's an English translation, courtesy of staff member Naoko Magasis:
The Japanese government, with its international status lowered among fast-growing Asian countries, is seeking ways to strengthen its relationship with the United States. The government is counting on the Japanese American community to play the role of bridge builder.
To date, Japanese Americans have been distanced from Japan and the Japanese because of their past experiences, such as the internment camps during the World War II. In an effort to build interest in Japan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs invited thirteen noted Japanese Americans to visit Japan, and meet with Prime Minister Fukuda.
Some Japanese Americans have started to recognize their roots and consider their relationship with the county in a positive light. At a national Japanese American conference held in July, 700 Japanese Americans attended. On the other hand, younger generations are beginning to identify themselves more as "Asian Americans." After considering the 60 years since World War II, we take a look at contemporary Japanese American who are searching for their identity and trying to measure their distance from Japan.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Densho on Japanese TV
1 comment:
- Shaw said...
Hello. My name is Shaw Funami, a Japanese born in Tokyo. Now I am living in the States near San Francisco. I also watched the TV Program about "Densho". It was summer 2 years ago, I blogged about "Tanforan Camp". Since then I have been interested in Japanese American community. Unfortunately, TV Japan broadcasted the program this late. But lucky still could watch it. I do believe that Japanese Americans and Japanese living in US hold keys to bridge between US and Japan tighter. I was happy to find this blog and "Densho" website.
- January 4, 2009 at 6:57 PM
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