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Alphonso Brown always liked to show his friends and family the downtown Charleston sites with connections to former slaves and black history his ancestors and elderly churchgoers talked about when he was growing up.
At a glance
COMPANY: Gullah Tours
OWNER: Alphonso Brown
RESIDENCE: West Ashley
FAMILY: Late wife, LaQuines; three sons, Howard, Terrence and Joel
EDUCATION: South Carolina State University, degree in music, 1966; Southern Illinois University, 1982, master's degree in music.
WORK EXPERIENCE: Music teacher at the former Rivers High School, retired 1996; started Gullah Tours in 1985.
WEBSITE: www.gullahtours.com
One day in the mid-1980s, a tour operator near Marion Square asked him if he was a tour guide. "No," Brown said. "Is there such a thing?"
Learning there was, he went to city hall, bought a Charleston history book for $25, studied it and after three tries passed the test to earn his license to become a tour guide.
"It's a very difficult test," he said. "And it should be. Charleston has some of the finest history in the world."
Brown, a music teacher at what was then Rivers High School, started out taking people around in his car after school on what became Gullah Tours, a name he took from the language his ancestors spoke that tied directly into the places around Charleston with black history.
After a while, interest grew a little and he borrowed a van from his church, Mount Zion AME, in downtown Charleston to carry a few more people around.
"Word hadn't gotten out then, and there wasn't much interest," said Brown, a graduate of South Carolina State University who later earned a master's degree in music from Southern Illinois University.
In 1994, he bought his own 14-passenger van. Then, the next year, Southern Living magazine did a feature on Gullah Tours. Interest soared as he fielded calls and emails from across the nation.
"That's why I had to get this bus," he said of the 21-seat touring vehicle he still uses around Charleston.
Soon afterward, Brown retired from teaching to dedicate his full devotion to his new career.
By the turn of the century, tourists consistently filled his tour bus.
Today, he averages about 450 passengers a month during the warm weather season and about 300 during the winter months.
Starting the tour
Brown always begins his tours with a little bit of the language he grew up speaking at home in Rantowles, just south of Charleston.
"Weh unnah deh fum?" he asks his passengers, some local, many from across the U.S. and others from around the globe.
While some look befuddled, others pick up on key sounds to respond from whatever part of the country or globe they hail.
Brown translates for those who can't understand what he said: "Where are you from?" and quickly kicks into his tour.
In school, English was a foreign language to him even though he was born and raised in the Lowcountry. He grew up around family members and friends speaking Gullah, a coastal dialect handed down by former slaves from Africa.
"English was always my worst subject — in high school and college," he said. "Thank God a 'D' was passing. I did make a 'C' one time."
On the tour, Brown talks about a lot of the things his white counterparts sometimes glossed over in years past.
He remembers being on a plantation tour near Charleston several years ago, and the tour guide mentioned the word "servant" twice during her presentation.
"You just can't continue to evade that issue," Brown said of slavery.
Today, plantations not only incorporate their slave-holding pasts into their tours but embrace them with restored slave quarters and other offerings, he said.
Brown's knowledge comes from the black history he picked up while studying to be a Charleston tour guide, but a lot of it came from sitting around with senior citizens after their early morning church service and listening to the stories that were passed down to them from their ancestors, the sons and daughters of slaves.
He talks about the free black man, Richard E. DeReef, who owned a wharf and warehouse on the Cooper River before the Civil War, near where the S.C. Aquarium is today. DeReef owned 16 slaves, and Brown believes he might have dabbled in slave sales as well.
He talks about the graveyard at Bethel United Methodist Church, where whites were buried in one section and free blacks and slaves in another, an instance he called unusual because blacks usually were not buried in white cemeteries.
He talks about the Underground Railroad and the role Emmanuel AME Church played in helping slaves to escape. "The congregation was a major force in contributing to the Underground Railroad," Brown said.
He always takes visitors by the East Side home of Philip Simmons, the late blacksmith renowned for his ornate artwork on gates and ironwork around Charleston.
He also dispels the commonly held misconception that the City Market, a bustling retail strip of renovated buildings in the heart of the city, was the trading post for slaves.
Slaves were first transported to Sullivan's Island, where they were quarantined until they were determined to be free of pests. They then were brought to the warehouses on the Charleston waterfront, where they were sold to plantation owners, Brown said.
Brown points to the towering statue in Marion Square of former U.S. Vice President John C. Calhoun and explains it originally was erected much lower, but blacks desecrated the early monument to an ardent advocate of slavery, and it was later raised.
Brown takes visitors to The Battery and points out Fort Sumter, where the Civil War started, an event that led to eventual freedom for those enslaved. He also discusses the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, an armed black unit of Union soldiers that made an ill-fated charge on Morris Island during the war. The 1990s movie "Glory" chronicled the infantry unit and climaxed with the unsuccessful attack.
"Sometimes, people pull me aside and ask what racism was like," he said. "I encourage them to ask those questions. I call my tour, 'All the things you wanted to know about black history but were afraid to ask.' "
Reach Warren L. Wise at 937-5524 or twitter.com/warrenlancewise.
Gullah Tours owner Alphonso Brown has been offering tours about Charleston's black history since the mid 1980s. Here he stands at the front of his 21-seat touring bus talking about the sites he shows tourists around the Holy City. 6/18/13×
Gullah Tours owner Alphonso Brown has been offering tours on Charleston's black history since the mid-1980s.×


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The Meriden Daffodil Festival began as a community event 38 years ago and has grown into one of Connecticut's premier celebrations. With food, crafts, music, fireworks, amusements and a parade that has to be seen to be believed, the Daffodil Festival is a springtime funfest for old and young, couples and singles, families and friends.
Held each year the last week in April, this Meriden, Connecticut, festival will celebrate its 38th year in 2016 with "food, flowers, fireworks and fun." The staging of the festival each year involves 300 volunteers, and 3,000 people march in its "Daffodils on Parade," including local residents and school children. Amidst the 650,000 blooming daffodils in Hubbard Park, the visitor can enjoy an an; arts and crafts sale; the crowning of Little Miss Daffodil; a carnival with Ferris wheel, merry-go-round, giant slide, pony rides, miniature train; and "Meriden's Silver Fork," the food tent that houses 50 food vendors all from community non-profit agencies, each selling at least one unique food item. Saturday night is capped by a spectacular fireworks display, said to be one of the best in New England. The event attracts over 100,000 spectators annually.


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Four years ago Sharon decided that she needed to go to her gynecologist and ask about a procedure called an ablation. For several years prior to this she had experienced irregular periods that produced heavy bleeding. She had seen her gynecologist for this issue but had been told by the doctor that she just needed to find the right dosage and type of oral birth control pills. There were no other outward signs that Sharon was sick in anyway - none. Up to this point she was a very active 45 year old female who worked full time taking care of babies at a day care center. The ablation procedure we were told would stop the periods and thus eliminate the problem of excessive bleeding, so Sharon decided to have the procedure.
The procedure was done at a local hospital. Upon completion of the procedure, the doctor told her that everything went well though he did see some tiny "cysts" that he took samples of. She waited several days until she received a phone call from the nurse asking Sharon to come in to talk to the doctor. Nothing was said at this time about "cancer" or the results of the procedure. Sharon went by herself to see the doctor. She was told at the doctor's office that there was some type of cancer and that she would no longer be able to see her gynecologist but would be referred to a specialist for further information. Devastated Sharon drove home by herself.
A couple of weeks later she saw Doctor Tedjarati, who would do further tests and then schedule a "surgical procedure" to assess the situation. The surgery took about six hours before he returned to tell the family that he discovered that Sharon had stage four endometrial cancer - later redefined later to be ovarian cancer. It had spread to her liver, ovaries, colon and lymph nodes. The doctor did a complete hysterectomy and removed as much of the cancer as possible. Recovery was slow from this surgery but eventually Sharon went back to work.
For the next three and a half years Sharon battled cancer. She had numerous rounds of chemotherapy and/or radiation during this time period. Throughout the ordeal, she remained optimistic and upbeat - she never gave up hope that she would one day beat the cancer. She continued to work - sometimes full time, sometimes part time for the next three years.
The cancer spread throughout her body including to her bladder and spine. She went through one short period of remission of only seven months before the cancer came back again. They finally exhausted all treatments available to her and switched to a quality of life phase. Sharon passed away on September 23, 2012.
I hope that somehow this story is able to be told. It shows how tough it is to detect this type of cancer early without someone knowing the "symptoms" of what to look for and see this early enough to give the patient a better chance of survival. It also shows the courage of someone who never got down about the illness or gave up.
The toll it takes on family is so huge, I don't think I can describe the feelings. The best thing a person can have is a caring family, friends who will help out anytime and an employer that stands by that individual all the way. We were very blessed to have all three.
Thanks for letting me tell Sharon's story.


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First Congregational Church of Westfield continues its adult studies series this Lent with two courses focusing on the Lord's Prayer and the film "God in America." All evenings are free and open to the public.
Beginning Monday, March 4, "Reflections on the Lord's Prayer" will analyze the simple yet profound prayer that Jesus taught us to pray. Over four weeks, participants will examine the prayer's major themes and look at it through the eyes of figures as diverse as Walter Brueggeman, Robert Lewis Stevenson, Martin Luther and JK Rowling. The series will continue on consecutive Monday evenings through March 25, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., in the church's Chapel Lounge.
The annual Lenten film study returns on Tuesday, March 5, with an examination of the 2010 PBS documentary, "God in America: How Religious Liberty Shaped America." The series examines the complex interaction between religion and democracy, the origins of the American concept of religious liberty and the evaluation of that ideal in our political arena. These themes are explored through stories of the nation's religious history, and the political and spiritual journey of notable figures. The series continues on consecutive Tuesday evenings through March 26, from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., in the church's Chapel Lounge.
First Congregational Church, a member of the United Church of Christ, is located at 125 Elmer St. in Westfield. For additional information, contact the church office at 908-233-2494 or their website at fccofwestfield.org.


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Most of the devices we use today can capably perform a number of functions. This, of course, was not always the case. Cell phones were just that….phones. Even placing calls on them was often challenging and sending a text was more of an annoyance than traveling to see the individual and delivering the message in person. There was no such thing as a USB flash drive or portable HDD. Backups were often done on tape for extreme reliability (unless, of course said tape happened to get to close to a magnet), but was slower than the aforementioned dial up modem, or the acclaimed Zip Disk which could back up a whopping 100MB in a blazing time of around five minutes. Thankfully, that has changed. It has become quite common to see USB 3.0 portable HDD with speeds that rival installed disks, are reliable and can offer data encryption for greater security.
Transcend's Storejet 25A3 offers up high capacity portability combined with top flight performance using a Superspeed USB 3.0 interface. The Storejet 25A3 uses a 2.5" HDD, available in 500GB and 1TB, in an attractive slim shell complete with shock resistant internal suspension system. The StoreJet 25A3 uses a single USB connection thanks to low power intake, and cable is included. Transcend's included software is powerful and flexible, featuring auto and one-touch backup capabilities. Users carrying sensitive data will enjoy easy and convenient AES 256-bit encryption with the included utilities, and all of the 25A3 software is completely portable. Transcend backs the StoreJet 25A3 with a 3-year warranty.
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A Maui dressmaker got the chance to bring movie history back to life when she painstakingly re-created a white gown from the classic film "My Fair Lady" for a Texas bride.
Working from the downstairs studio in her Haiku home, Jennifer Oberg used more than 20,000 beads, as well as custom-made silk flowers and vintage trims, to achieve the iconic look. More than 300 hours of labor went into the dress.
"This is the most intense project I've ever worked on in my career, and the most fun," she said Tuesday as she prepared to leave Maui that night to hand-deliver the gown to Austin.
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Master dressmaker Jennifer Oberg puts the finishing touches on a gown modeled after a dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film "My Fair Lady."
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Jennifer Oberg displays some of the detailing on the gown. More than 20,000 beads were used to replicate the original dress.
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Jennifer Oberg spent hours studying images from the film before painstakingly re-creating the Embassy Ballgown.
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After spending years working as a costume workroom supervisor in the film and television industry in Los Angeles, Oberg, a master dressmaker, moved to Maui to raise her family 11 years ago and started her own business creating custom-made wedding gowns. All of her gowns had been for Maui brides, until she was contacted by Texas resident Lorri Michel last year. Michel had been looking for someone to re-create the dress known as the Embassy Ballgown for her wedding in Italy this June and had found Oberg's website, theperfectfitmaui.com.
The intricately beaded, sheer white column gown with cap sleeves and gathering at the back was worn by Audrey Hepburn in a scene where, posing as an aristocratic lady, she attends a glamorous ball and dances with a prince. Cecil Beaton won the Academy Award for best costume design for the classic 1964 musical.
"(The bride) has been infatuated with this gown since she was a kid," Oberg said.
Although she was initially skeptical about working with a Mainland client - a stickler for the proper fit, Oberg typically requires at least five to 10 fittings for each gown she creates - she figured out a way to make it work. Michel flew to Maui twice for fittings, turning the trips into vacations with her fiance.
But that was just the beginning of the project's challenges. Since the original gown worn by Hepburn could not be found - studio officials contacted by Oberg said they didn't know where it was, and it's not held by any public museum, leading Oberg to guess it may be in a private collection - it had to be replicated using only images from the nine-minute scene in which it appeared in the film.
"I watched it over and over and over again," Oberg said. "Freeze frame, that sort of thing."
Using her industry contacts, Oberg was able to get an archival, high-resolution image from the film, offering a clearer - but still not perfect - view of the beading and other detail work on the intricate gown.
"I had to try to re-create it from the image, and I think we've done a pretty good job," she said.
When she was unable to find specialty materials on Maui, Oberg, who retains her membership in the Motion Picture Costumers union and Association of Sewing and Design Professionals, once again tapped her contact list. She was able to find specialists on the Mainland to source the high-end beads and crystals, and create custom-made beaded fringe for the gown's sleeves and collar.
The finished dress is built upon three layers, made of silk tulle, silk crepe and silk charmeuse.
Speaking generally, Oberg said that a dress requiring this much intense work would cost between $10,000 and $15,000.
"It's definitely an investment," she said.
After years of working in Hollywood, where projects were often limited by time and budget, Oberg said it was a joy to work on such an exquisitely crafted gown.
"I think the reason I enjoyed it so much was because I was given the freedom to take it to a very high level," she said. "This was like doing fine art."
Oberg started her career working in the costume shops of opera and Shakespeare companies, which she says was a great way to learn her craft, since the costumes are so elaborate and challenging. She later moved to Los Angeles to work in film and television, honing her skills at dressmaking, tailoring and more specialized crafts as she worked her way up the ladder to the position of workroom supervisor.
Since moving to Maui, she has also become involved in Haiku Elementary School, first as a parent volunteer and now as the coordinator of the Parent Community Networking Center. She also serves as president of the Haiku Elementary School Foundation, which raises funds to improve the school's facilities. She and husband Craig Mullins, a concept artist for films and games, have two children.
Oberg said that if there is one thing she'd like people to know about her work, it's that her dresses aren't just handicrafts but works of art. She daydreams about one day displaying her creations at an exhibition at a venue like the Maui Arts & Cultural Center.
"It's haute couture," she said, "only on Maui, not in Paris."
* Ilima Loomis is a Maui-based writer and editor. Do you have an interesting neighbor? Tell us about them at firstname.lastname@example.com. "Neighbors" and "The State of Aloha," written by Ben Lowenthal, alternate Fridays.


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THE CIA may have had the chance to kill or capture Osama bin Laden a year before the 11 September attacks on the United States, it emerged last night.
Secret spy footage taken from an unmanned drone over Afghanistan in autumn 2000 shows what some intelligence analysts believe was bin Laden, the head of the al-Qaeda terror network behind the New York attacks.
The tall figure, dressed in white robes, appears to be surrounded by guards at a known al-Qaeda training camp.
Although the footage was taken before 11 September, bin Laden was already wanted over the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing, which killed six people, and the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in Africa, which killed 224.
Some claim the footage, beamed live to CIA agents in the US, represented a missed opportunity by the administration of Bill Clinton, then president, to kill or capture bin Laden.
But the quality of the images make it impossible to be certain whether the figure dressed in white is the Saudi-born terrorist leader.
"It's dynamite. It's putting together all of the pieces, and that doesn't happen every day," said William Arkin, a former intelligence officer and now a military analyst.
The figure certainly could be bin Laden. He is 6ft 5in tall and the man on the film towers over those around him. The footage was shot over Tarnak Farm, the walled compound where bin Laden was known to live. He is also dressed in flowing white robes, while the body language of those around him suggests they are subordinate.
The existence of the footage proves the CIA was aggressively tracking bin Laden in the year before 11 September.
That has led to questions about why he able to escape after being spotted.
"We were not prepared to take the military action necessary," a retired general, Wayne Downing, told NBC. "We should have had strike forces prepared to go in and react to this intelligence, certainly cruise missiles, either air or sea-launched."
Gary Schroen, a former CIA station chief in Pakistan, added that the White House told the agency to capture rather than kill bin Laden.
That halved the odds "that we were going to be able to get him", he said.
Former Clinton administration officials defended their actions and said al-Qaeda was a top national security issue.
But one unnamed cabinet official told the network: "We did a lot, but we did not see the gathering storm that was out there."
Coalition troops and Pakistan forces have been reportedly closing in on bin Laden in recent weeks.


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3020 Laguna St. In Exitum launches on-line
Were please to announce that 3020 Laguna St. In Exitum is now available for viewing on-line. The creator Project wrote a lovely piece about our film.
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Official Selection at the Palm Springs International Shorts Fest
We are excited to announce that we have been selected to screen at the Palm Springs International Shorts Fest. I (Ashley) grew up in the area an attended the shorts fest in... Read more
Best Bay Area Short
We are please to announce that 3020 Lagunawon The Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Short at the SF International Film Festival. It's an amazing honor! Thank you everyone for... Read more
"3020 Laguna St. In Exitum" accepted to the SF Film Festival!
We are excited to announce acceptance into our first festival, the San Francisco International Film Festival!!! This will be our first public premiere and we are thrilled and deeply honored that it is here in... Read more
Big day for 3020 Laguna
It was a productive and exciting day for our film. We sent the poster and postcard to the printer, booked a theater for the screening, and finished the evening off... Read more
Color Session
At Spy Post with the talent Carey Burens coloring our film. It's great to see it on am big screen.
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Final Score and Color Correction
Hello Everyone!
We are prepping for our color session this weekend and our final score should be ready on Monday. We are nearing completion and it's really exciting. Also, we... Read more
limited edition PRINT by Chris Fraser from his work "In Outline" exhibited in 3020 Laguna.
Backers of $500 or more will receive one of these 8x12 limited edition prints by Chris Fraser from his work "In Outline" exhibited in 3020 Laguna.
SF Weekly Article about "3020 Laguna St. In Exitum"
SF Weekly interviewed us about our film and process. It's on the front page of the Arts section. Check it out!


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Out of the Dark: A Trish Maguire Mysteryby Natasha Cooper
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An eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire one wet Sunday night. Just before he can reach her, he's knocked over by a skidding car. Fighting to save his life, the rescue team finds Trish's name and address sewn into the boy's clothes. The police are convinced that he must be her son-but Trish knows he can't be. Is he
An eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire one wet Sunday night. Just before he can reach her, he's knocked over by a skidding car. Fighting to save his life, the rescue team finds Trish's name and address sewn into the boy's clothes. The police are convinced that he must be her son-but Trish knows he can't be. Is he connected with one of her clients? Could he be a blood relation? And who has sent him to Trish?
Recovering from a miscarriage, about to go to court with a career-changing commercial case, and missing her partner, George, who is 5,000 miles away, the last thing Trish wants is responsibility for a lost boy. But there is no one else. Her search for the boy's identity takes her to a brutal inner-city housing project, where she has to confront not only the reality of life for the poor and destitute, but also many of her own fears. News of a particularly brutal murder reaches her, and within hours she learns that her erratic father is the chief suspect. It will take all her resolution and integrity to pick her way through this maze.
The gulfs between rich and poor-and between the heroically honest and those for whom life and the law are always negotiable-rip off the last of Trish's self-protective blinders. There are choices to be made and lives to be saved.
Out of the Dark is a touching and gripping novel that looks unflinchingly at crime's most devastating consequences.
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Out of the Dark
Chapter 1
'I didn't kill him.'
This was the twelfth time Trish had said it that night, lying huddled under an old tartan rug on one of the sofas opposite her empty fireplace. Unlike everything else in the huge, sleek flat, the shabby rug had been part of her childhood. She hadn't used it for years, but tonight she'd hoped the familiar smell and reassuring roughness of the Shetland wool would take her back to a more innocent world.
She'd hardly known she was pregnant long enough for much more than one violent burst of impatience. Not now, for God's sake! I'm busy, she'd thought. But that had been enough. She'd miscarried the next day. The physical pain was over now, but her mind still felt raw.
Experienced advocate that she was, she could find all sorts of arguments in mitigation. The phone call confirming the result she'd already got from her pregnancy-testing kit had come to chambers at a particularly bad moment. All morning she'd been trying to concentrate on a fiendishly complicated piece of mathematical evidence in a fraud case. For years she'd specialised in family law, submerging herself in the agonising detail of brutalised childhoods and unhappy marriages, and now she wanted out. With this new brief she'd have a chance to prove that she could hack it in a wider, much less personal, world.
But the evidence was even more complicated than she'dexpected, and that morning she'd begun to doubt that she would ever get to grips with it. Her head had been aching, her eyes dry and burning hot, and she'd felt sick and stupid. Already there had been six interruptions and each time she'd had to go back to the beginning of the file. Then had come the seventh interruption and the news that she was pregnant. The case was due to start in four weeks' time and was likely to last for months. She'd never be able to cope unless she were on top form throughout. Pregnancy would have screwed everything up completely.
'But I didn't kill him,' she said aloud to the empty spaces all round her.
If only she could pretend the whole miserable episode had been a medical mishap, nothing to do with a real child. But all she could think of now was the person the child might have become.
She and George hadn't been actively trying for a baby, although they'd agreed that she should come off the pill ages ago. In fact, it was so long ago that she'd almost forgotten about it. They were nearly always too tired to make love anyway. But there had been one night, soon after his father had died nine weeks ago, when tiredness hadn't seemed important any more. Trish still had no idea whether George had had some kind of subconscious urge to create a new life to compensate for the old; all she'd been thinking about was how to stop him hurting.
Now he was in San Francisco, unaware of the disaster as he tried to help his mother through her first weeks of loneliness by fulfilling her lifetime's dream of seeing the city. He'd been reluctant to leave London just then, but the trip had been the only thing either he or Trish had been able to think of that might help. His emails had already told her that he wasn't sure he was doing any good. In the last one he had written:
Talking seems very difficult for her and I've got no idea what she's thinking. That may be my fault or it may just be that we don't know each other very well. I realise I've hardly spent any time alone with her since I was eight and went away to school.
Would he have to know about the miscarriage, too, Trish wondered. On top of everything else? Should she tell him about the one, never-to-be-forgotten moment when fury had convulsed her whole body and their child had died? Trying to decide whether to confess adultery must be a bit like this. Only not quite so hard.
The gibbous moon blurred against the black sky outside her windows. There hadn't been a single occasion since she'd met George when she'd been even tempted by the idea of infidelity. Not that they were married. They didn't even live together, although they had each other's keys and the freedom to let themselves in whenever they wanted, but they were absolutely committed to each other.
A shrieking squeal of rubber ripped into Trish's thoughts. Then a bang, shocking as an explosion, forced her to her feet. Showers of broken glass rang against metal and concrete. Running feet squelched in the rain.
'Oh, Christ! No. No!' cried a woman's voice as Trish moved towards the windows. 'Can you hear me? Can you hear me? Oh, help. Please help!'
Trish dragged open one of the five huge windows. Despite her slenderness, she was wirily strong, but now all her joints ached with the effort of holding in her feelings and every movement was laborious.
'Can I do anything?' she called down, only just stopping herself from the silliness of asking if everything was all right. It obviously wasn't.
A woman was beating her fists on the crumpled bonnet of a long white hatchback. Yellow light from the streetlamps caught in the drops of rain falling from herdark hair. She turned to look up towards the sound of Trish's voice.
'There's a child. I didn't see him in time. I couldn't help it. But I think he's dead.'
Oh, God. 'I'll come down. Are you hurt, too?'
'No. But he's under the car. That's why I skidded. I saw him in the headlights. I can't get him to answer. He must be dead. But I wasn't going fast.'
'I'll phone for an ambulance. Hang on.'
Trish punched 999 into the mobile handset of her phone. She tucked it between her ear and shoulder while she grabbed a long coat to pull over the outsize T-shirt she'd put on after her shower, then picked up her keys in case the door blew shut behind her. She didn't want to be locked out on a night like this. Her narrow feet were bare, so she stuffed them into a pair of gumboots and clumped down the iron staircase to the street. Ambulance control answered as she reached the ground. She gave them the bare facts, relieved that she had a human being on the line and not an answering machine.
'We'll be there in about eight minutes,' the voice assured her. 'Don't touch the child.'
'Of course not,' she said, shoving the handset in her pocket with the keys and wading across the road in her loose boots. Her bare skin rubbed against the fabric lining and she kept stubbing her toes as her feet moved faster than the boots.
The driver's face was pale grey and her hair was draggled across her thin cheeks. Her mascara had run and she'd chewed off most of her lipstick. She was shaking.
'You poor thing,' Trish said in the professionally soothing voice she used for frightened clients. 'Are you hurt?'
'No. I told you. It's him. He's bleeding and hasn't moved. He won't answer me.' Retching, she grabbed Trish's arm, but she didn't throw up. 'I couldn't help it. He ran under the wheels. I couldn't help it.'
Trish freed herself to look, quickly straightening up again after one gut-punching glimpse of the small body.
'If he's bleeding that much he's not likely to be dead.'
They hadn't shown her the foetus in hospital, but her imagination had given her plenty of pictures to work on. She tried to think of something else.
'I'm a fool, I should have brought an umbrella. You'll be soaked. You haven't even got a coat.'
'It doesn't matter.' A train rattled over the railway bridge two streets away, and the woman flinched. 'Where's the ambulance? Even if he isn't dead yet, he will be soon if they don't come.'
'They're coming now,' Trish said, shocked to hear her own voice shaking. 'Listen.'
A siren was whooping in the wet air. The faint sound intensified until the familiar boxy white shape of the ambulance itself emerged from the gloom at the end of the road. Two minutes later the paramedics in green overalls jumped down, asking questions even before their feet had hit the ground.
Trish left the driver to answer them, and forced herself to squat down again to see whether there was any movement from the child. The surprisingly sharp edge of the gumboots cut into her bare calves, and her coat trailed in the wet road. She bunched the skirts up around her knees and bent down to peer under the car. There wasn't much light, but she could see that the child was not pinned against the wall; he'd slipped into the road, and one of his legs was bent at an impossible angle. The pool of blood was spreading steadily.
She felt a hand on her shoulder and heard a voice urging her out of the way. Standing up, she swayed. Her hands reached out for something to hold her up and met the slippery, wet metal of the car's roof. Waves of dizziness intensified then gradually sank back. At last she could stand unsupported.
'Were you driving?' asked the second paramedic while the first lay prone on the wet road, shining a torch under the chassis.
'No. I wasn't even in the car.' Trish pointed to the open window at the top of her building. 'I live up there. I heard the crash, phoned you and came out to see what I could do. That's the driver. I think she's badly shocked.'
'Probably. We'll get to her in a minute. How is he, Sean?'
'Alive. Broken leg. Multiple cuts and abrasions,' came a muffled voice from under the car. The paramedic inched back into the street and stood up. 'Can't see what else. We'll have to get this car moved.'
Another siren heralded the arrival of the police. The first paramedic nodded to the two officers who emerged from their small white car. 'I think it's drivable. Shirl, you'd better reverse it. Not far, mind.'
'Hold on a minute,' said one of the uniformed police officers. 'What's going on here?'
A quick explanation had him taking the driver by one arm and moving her to the shelter of Trish's building, while Shirley clambered over the gear lever into the driver's seat of the crumpled car, fiddled with the mirror, then inched the car back from the blank wall opposite.
'Bit further,' called Sean, holding out his right hand, palm down. Then he whipped it up, yelling, 'OK. Stop. Stop!'
'Who are you?'
At the sound of the policeman's voice, Trish looked quickly away from the body, lying in a heap at the foot of the wall. With the car out of the way, there had been plenty of light to show her the astonishingly bright redness of the blood.
'My name's Maguire. I didn't see anything,' she said over her shoulder as she forced herself across the road to make sure no more harm was done to the child.
After a moment, the paramedic fetched a neck collar. He seemed careful - and skilful - as he moved around the boy and fitted the collar, before dealing with the terrifying pumping injury in his leg. Trish relaxed a little as the bleeding turned sluggish and then stopped, but when she saw Sean open his medical kit again, she touched his shoulder.
'Dowting's Hospital is so close,' she said, fighting to keep all judgment out of her tense voice. 'Mightn't it be worth taking him straight there? In all this rain, I mean.'
She'd read about the damage that could be done to trauma victims by invasive treatment at the roadside. The paramedic didn't protest, but she thought he looked reluctant as he clicked down the lid of his rigid box of supplies. He called his colleague, who had been talking to the driver and her attendant police officer. Together they got the child on to a stretcher and into the ambulance.
'Now, I'd just like you to blow into this bag,' said a voice behind Trish. She turned at once, and saw the driver weeping in front of a burly police officer.
'Look,' Trish said, conscious of the driver's sweat and tears and the tremors that kept shaking her body, 'she's in shock and she may well have whiplash injuries. She should be taken to hospital, not interrogated in the road.'
She felt the woman's wet, icy hand gripping her wrist.
'Don't leave me alone with them.'
'What's your connection with each other?' asked the big officer.
'We've never met,' Trish said brusquely. She did not want to get involved. 'But I live here and I heard the crash. I was the only person who even looked out.'
'I'm not surprised, in a neighbourhood like this.'
Trish was outraged. Parts of Southwark might be among the most deprived in the city, but lots of the old disused light-industrial buildings were being turned into lofts like hers or taken over by architects and designers. And justacross Southwark Street, near Tate Modern and the river, there were flats that cost a fortune.
'After what I've seen at the nick every Saturday night, I wouldn't want to be out alone on the streets round here after dark,' he said.
Trish thought of all the evenings when she'd walked back from work over Blackfriars Bridge or picked her way home through the dark streets from the expensive parking space she rented under the furthest of the railway arches. She'd never been molested in all the years she'd lived here, and she'd never been afraid of the area or of anyone else who belonged in it. George didn't like it, of course. He much preferred the cosy, domesticated streets of Fulham, but they made Trish feel like an eagle crammed into a budgie's cage.
The thinner officer was demanding the driver's documents. She looked terrified now, as well as shivering and ill, and hardly seemed to understand what he wanted.
'Oh, come on,' Trish said, impatience adding a rasp to her voice. 'You know perfectly well that hardly anyone carries insurance details, or even a driving licence. The law requires a driver to present her documents to a police station within seven days of being asked to do so. She's got plenty of time. You have breathalysed her and found her clear of alcohol. She can't have been driving anywhere near the speed limit or there would have been a lot more damage to the car as well as the child. You haven't any reason to detain or bully her like this. And she should be in hospital.'
The officer's face looked as though all the life had been washed out of it. Trish knew she'd blown her cover and could have sworn in irritation. She'd been so careful to avoid telling these two that she was a barrister, knowing how much most of them loathed 'briefs' for the way they were assumed to use legal technicalities to protect the guilty.
'I wouldn't dream of trying to bully anyone, Ms ... What's your name?'
'Maguire. I told you that before. Trish Maguire.'
'OK.' He turned back to the driver to give her instructions about taking her documents to the police station, before reminding her that they had her name and address and would be contacting her when a decision had been taken on whether to charge her. He hoped for her sake that the victim survived. Penalties for killing by means of dangerous driving were increasing with every case. Then he and his colleague exchanged glances and moved towards their car.
'Are you just going to leave her here?' Trish demanded, following them.
It appeared they were. They were not going to arrest her at this moment. Her smashed car was not causing an obstruction, and the wall had not been damaged. In due course, after their investigation was finished, she would be able to get the car towed to a garage. She wasn't injured. She wasn't their responsibility.
'But she needs medical care.'
'There's no sign of injury. If you think she should be in hospital, I'm sure you can make the arrangements for her.'
Trish wished she'd kept her mouth shut. This, she was sure, was punishment for her profession and her intervention on the driver's behalf. But she was too worried about the woman's condition to play games now. The rigors were shaking the driver so violently that Trish was afraid she might break her teeth.
The officers drove away. Trish felt panicky and powerless and quite unlike herself. All she could think of was the sight of the bloody, broken body that had been huddled at the foot of the wall. Hearing the sound of deep gulping sobs, she turned. The driver was bent double over the bonnet of her car, howling.
'He's going to die. I know he is.'
'Come on,' Trish said, trying not to join in. 'I'll drive you to hospital. Get you checked over. You'll be all right then. And don't worry too much about the child. He was still alive when they put him in the ambulance.'
'Oh, God!'
Trish was still conscious of her own lack of clothes and the clumsy great boots, but the need to get her protégée into someone else's hands was too urgent to waste time dressing. The T-shirt and coat would have to do. And she could probably drive such a short distance in the ridiculous boots. She helped the driver fetch her handbag from the car and lock the doors before they set off towards the car park that preserved Trish's soft-top Audi from the attentions of the local car thieves and graffiti artists.
She kept thinking about them as she urged the woman on towards the car park. It could have been no more than a reaction to the police officer's prejudice about her neigh-bourhood, but for the first time Trish felt uncomfortably aware of loitering figures at each road junction. Some were black, some white, but they were all youngish men. Most of them looked either shifty or aggressive. She kept her eyes down and walked as quickly as her boots and companion would let her.
Later, driving to the hospital, she thought the grim streets had never looked more desolate; high, flat-fronted buildings with blank windows made them seem like chasms. Under one of the railway bridges, splattered with pigeon shit and strewn with rubbish, she saw the sad lumps of two rough sleepers. They were guarded by a scrawny mongrel, whose eyes flashed as the headlights hit home.
By the time she was helping the driver through the puddles towards the Accident and Emergency entrance to the hospital, Trish could feel a huge blister on her right heel. She delivered her burden to the receptionist, who took the few details the driver could provide, includingher name: Sarah Middlewich. The receptionist told her she'd be seen by the triage nurse as soon as possible. Trish couldn't stop herself asking for news of the boy.
'Are you a relative?'
Trish explained.
'Well, I can't tell you anything, but if you'd just wait there, next to your friend, I'll find someone who can.'
Sarah Middlewich clutched Trish's arm as she sat down, gasping that she'd left her mobile in her car.
'That's OK. You're not allowed to use them in hospitals anyway. There are payphones over there. Have you got any change?'
Tears poured out of the woman's eyes again. 'I need to ring Charles. He'll be worrying.'
'Your husband?'
'Yes. Look at the time. He'll be so worried.'
She looked so out of it that Trish tried to be gentle as she pointed to the bank of public phones about six feet away. When Sarah reached them, Trish let herself slump back in her chair, shutting her eyes.
'This is the lady who was asking about the boy,' said the receptionist, making Trish pay attention. There was yet another angry-looking police officer in front of her.
'I'm Constable Hill,' he said. 'And you are?'
'Trish Maguire.'
His eyes sparkled and his unsmiling lips stretched into a tight band across his teeth. She couldn't imagine what he was thinking to make him look so accusing, or why he was peering so beadily into her face. She leaned back. 'I think you'd better come along with me,' he told her.
'Just come. You wanted to know about the boy. I'll show you.'
Feeling as though she might be about to wake up in her chair with her mind buzzing after a nightmare, Trish accompanied Constable Hill to a large, dimly lit room fullof machines, people in pale-blue scrubs, and an atmosphere of pumping excitement.
Between the blue backs, Trish saw the boy lying flat. His head was taped down and tubes sprouted from various parts of his body.
'Get her out of here,' said a tall man with a stethoscope around his neck.
'This is Trish Maguire,' said her policeman with an extraordinary mixture of satisfaction and portentousness in his voice.
They all stopped what they were doing for a moment and there was absolute stillness. Then two of them turned to stare at Trish. They had blood down the front of their scrubs and on their gloved hands. She was conscious of a row of gaping faces before everyone went back to work.
'What?' she asked. A hand on her back pushed her towards the bed. Two nurses moved a little way apart to clear her view of the boy's face. She couldn't see anything to justify all this drama, so she glanced at the doctor, then at Constable Hill, then at each of the nurses. All those who caught her eye had the same expectant look on their faces.
'What?' Trish asked again.
'Don't you recognise him?' said the policeman.
Trish peered between the tapes and bandages and tubes. 'No. Who is he?'
'That's what we want you to tell us,' he said, pulling her back, out of the way of the medical team. His gripping hand hurt her.
Patiently Trish explained yet again about her role in the accident's aftermath.
'You're really telling us you've never seen him before in your life? That you don't know who he is?'
'How many more times? Yes, that is what I'm telling you.'
'Even though he was coming to find you? And he looks just like you?'
'Don't be ridiculous. You can hardly see his face with all those scrapes and bruises, let alone the dressings. And what makes you think he was coming to me?'
'Well, he had your name and address sewn into the seam of his fleece, didn't he? What other explanation could there be?'
With the walls closing in on her and the floor bursting up to meet her face, Trish tried to protest. As she was losing consciousness, she heard the voice say:
'I bet you anything he's her son.'
OUT OF THE DARK. Copyright © 2002 by Daphne Wright. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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12 Helpful Resources for Blog Design and DevelopmentMolly Thornberg
I started a career in web design 15 years ago. As the web design world shifted, my work shifted as well. 6-ish years ago, I bellyflopped into the world of blog design and development, specifically with WordPress. Since then, I've compiled a list of resources that I frequently share with clients and friends who are new to the blog design game.
Whether you are looking for CSS help, or to find out how your blog looks on various devices — some of these you may be familiar with, but hopefully there is something new here that you can learn from as you build from scratch or tweak your blog and its design.
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Check out these 12 helpful resources to use when designing or developing a blog.
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The Israel Defense Forces and the U.S. military launched a major joint air defense exercise on Wednesday that the IDF said was not related to the regional situation. Nevertheless the exercise is intended to simulate various threats that Israel could encounter.
"The exercise will include various scenarios fitting the threats Israel faces," Brig.-Gen. Doron Gavish, head of the Israel Air Force's Air Defense Division, was quoted as saying.
This is the fifth in a series of biennial exercises dubbed Juniper Cobra. It will include both computer-simulated and real target practice exercises against missiles.
It is taking place as discussions between the world powers and Iran could produce a deal that would delay Iran's capability to produce nuclear weapons.
But the IDF said in a statement that the exercise "is not in response to any world events." Planning for the military exercise began a year and a half ago.
Some 1000 U.S. servicemen from the U.S. European Command , headed by Admiral John Richardson and a similar number of IDF soldiers will participate in the exercise.
Richardson said that the exercise was not directly related to recent announcements about ballistic missile defense in Europe "but the lessons and the insights that we gain from this exercise will certainly relate to developing that capability."
Gavish said that the IDF could defend Israel by itself but that it is "good to know that U.S. capabilities are available."
Sources: YNet, Ha'aretz, IDF
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Behrend women drop non-conference game to Thiel
Thiel 80, Penn State Behrend 70: At the Junker Center, Ally Burke was 10-for-21 from the floor for a team-high 27 points, but the Lions fell in a non-conference matchup with the Bobcats.
Thiel scored the game's first eight points and led by as much as 19 points in the first half. Julia Myers had a double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds for the Lions (1-2). The Bobcats outrebounded Penn State Behrend 55-35 and had three players post double-doubles. Kelly Muffley had a game-high 29 points for Thiel (1-2).
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The Morrisville Borough Zoning Board has granted a variance allowing a car repossession and processing business to operate in an existing vacant building on Harrison Street.
The business, to be owned by David Hermes of Levittown, will process about 40 repossessed cars a month, bringing the cars to the facility to repair locks and clean cars when needed, Hermes said. The cars would then be shipped to other locations to be sold.
Hermes needed a variance because there is only room on the lot for seven parking spaces.


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I-1000: Let us die with dignity
In November, Washington voters will have the opportunity to vote for or against Booth Gardner's I-1000 Initiative. Also referred to as the Death with Dignity initiative or the Assisted Suicide initiative, I-1000 has been written to closely parallel Oregon's Death with Dignity Act enacted in October of 1997.
In early June, I stood for several hours intercepting busy grocery shoppers in an effort to gather signatures to put I-1000 on the November ballot. Many voters eagerly signed. Some told brief stories of their experience with the death of a loved one. Some were elderly and seeking to support an initiative that would give them more choice and control over how to end their lives should they become terminally ill. Two spoke of a present terminal illness and their impending deaths.
And then there were those who were eager to tell me (some angrily) why they would not, not then, not ever, support such an initiative. It became clear to me we would garner few votes from those with faith-based objections. That makes sense to me in light of the fact that I, myself, would not support an initiative that flew in the face of my values and beliefs.
As a passionate supporter of I-1000, however, I am compelled to write to those who are sitting on the fence with this issue. There is reliable information available on the web to help one learn more about the initiative.
One can download the 20 pages of I-1000 on the Secretary of State''s website at www.secstate.wa.gov. At www.oregon.gov you can access a great deal of information about Oregon's Death with Dignity Act. The Oregon Department of Human Services is required to annually collect information about the patients and doctors who participate in the act and to then publish an annual statistical report. All reports are available on this website. The FAQ section is also very informative.
According to the website, since the Oregon act was enacted in 1997, 341 patients have died under the terms of the law. Most (80 percent) were between the ages of 55 and 84, and 86 percent had terminal cancer.
The most current Oregon report states that in 2007, 85 prescriptions were written under the provisions of the Oregon DWDA. Of the 85, 46 patients self-administered the medication, 26 died from their underlying disease, and 13 were alive at the end of 2007. The death total is reported at 49, not 46, however, because three patients took prescriptions written earlier than 2007.
It is important to know that the application steps terminally ill patients must complete in order to finally be given a prescription of a lethal dose of medication are numerous and require the patient be competent to make decisions and to be able to take the medication. There is no Kevorkian-style physician involvement that some people imagine. It is not a process that involves euthanasia, either passive or active. Instead, it is the patient who voluntarily self-administers a lethal dose of medication at a time of his choosing.
If you research it, I believe you will find the Death with Dignity Act in Oregon has been implemented for over ten years with no scandal and few problems.
It is not unusual for a patient to obtain the prescription and never use it. Resources I have read indicate that, for many, just having the medication in their possession helps them to die without using it. In having the option, they have autonomy.
I support I-1000 because I am a firm believer in the right to choose. One angry gentleman said to me as a statement of refusal to sign the petition, "I don't need a law. I have a gun!"
Yes, and there is always Deception Pass Bridge. However, those of us who support Death with Dignity are seeking a legal option that offers more than a gun or a bridge. We seek an option that provides autonomy and choice.
One woman, after signing the petition and putting the pen down in a firm, decisive manner, turned and said, "I hope this passes. I have cancer, and I plan to go live with my daughter and her two cats in Oregon. Now maybe I won't have to. I hate cats!"
True. Maybe she won't have to. Maybe Washington voters will do for her what Oregon voters did for their citizens.
Society asks us to take responsibility for our lives. Many terminally ill patients are just as committed about taking the responsibility, whatever their reasons might be, to end their lives before their disease does. The summary of Oregon's 2007 report states that 100 percent of patients who applied indicated that "loss of autonomy" was a major concern as they faced their death.
For me, loss of autonomy would be my number one fear. If I were to become terminally ill, I would want to have the option to take control of my death in as dignified and peaceful a manner as possible. No gun. No bridge. No bottle of pills plucked from the medicine cabinet; just a guided and controlled application process and a prescription.
It's not an unreasonable thing to ask of our state government. I hope voters will support those of us who wish to have the right to make a personal choice.
Barbara Sheffield
lives in Oak Harbor.
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man ap
on old/live box:
ap -dgv >users.ap
on new box:
ap -rvf users.ap
ap doesn't copy or create new home directories so you have to collect them
manually, but even so you don't have to do it manually manually
there are any number of ways to go about copying the home dirs.
on osr 505 it's an interesting little challenge because the users homes are
in /usr, mixed right in with the entire rest of the os. (vs
linux/freebsd/others where user homes are all by themselves in /home and
it's trivial to just tar up or rsync the entire /home in one command)
Here's one way, use find to look for .profile files under /usr, filter
through cut to clip out just the directory names, let tar process the
resulting list.
On the old box:
cd /usr
find ./ -name '.profile' -level 1 |cut -d/ -f2 >/tmp/users.txt
tar cvfF /tmp/homes.tar /tmp/users.txt
Or, if you migt have users with home directories in odd places, another
approach is just read the definitive /etc/passwd and archiive them by full
absolute path. Less flexable since you can't easily move everyone from /usr
to /home this way. Also this won't handle any chroot jail users whereas
above doesn't care as long as they were in /usr.
awk -F: '($3>=200){print $7}' >/tmp/homes.txt
tar cvfF /tmp/homes.tar /tmp/homes.txt
now copy /tmp/homes.tar to the new box
On the new box, :
cd /home # (*)
tar xvf /tmp/homes.tar
(*) or /usr, or /u, or /home, as appropriate.
I always edit /etc/default/accounts and make it /home
And I suggest you do that too, unless you think you might have legacy
application code that is hard coded to look for things in /usr/username
It's probably less greif to keep using /usr than to change the app in that
case even if you have access to the authors.
If you are moving from sco to linux I just recenmtly made a handy little
script to read the passwd and shadow files from a sco box, and from them
generate useradd commands on linux that will create new home dirs and
preserve the passwords and uid's from the sco box.
It might be necessary for the linux box to be configured to use DES for the
My linux boxes mostly are because FacetWin (the vtpd part) needs it, and I
havent tried this on a linux box that was using blowfish or md5 for
passwords yet. The man page for useradd just says the -p option takes "the
output of the crypt() command)" so if linux man pages adhered to the
standards of sco man pages, this works anywhere. but often linux man pages
frankly suck and I'd only say it will work in the exact contexts i've
actually tried it.
Won''t hurt to try, merely the users created won't have working passwords
until you reset them.
It's only the first version so among it's weaknesses, it captures the list
of names to process into a variable and uses the variable on a shell command
line, which means very large passwd files may possibly blow it up.
Until I improve the script you could probably get around that like this:
cut -d: -f1 < passwd |xargs aap passwd shadow |less
and if that looks ok:
cut -d: -f1 < passwd |xargs aap passwd shadow |sh
But note, linux and bash both allow for very large command lines so I don't
thing even "hundreds" of names will be a problem. And this is only meant to
run on linux anyways.
a quick test that emulates the questionable parts...
NAMES=`echo /*/*`
for i in $NAMES ; do echo $i ; done |wc
4644 4644 75384
Since it didn't blow up on those numbers, you're fine.
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Subject: copy users from one server to another
> Hello,
> I have a production SCO server that contains hundreds of users. We are
> creating a backup server for disaster recovery. We have been able to
> transfer all the data and code over no problem. This happens on a
> nightly script.
> The programmer says we would have to re enter all the users into the
> backup system manually and continute to manually add/delete users to
> the backup system as we make changes to the production server.
> Is that true? Can't anything be done to copy the users (including
> passwords, etc) file over in some kind of automated fashion. I have
> been working with these guys for 20 years and they are excellent, but I
> find it hard to believe it cannot be done.
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FORT DRUM, N.Y. (Jan. 24, 2013) -- Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 85th Infantry Regiment (Warrior Transition Unit), at Fort Drum, N.Y., recently participated in the third round of the U.S. Army Warrior Transition Command Warrior Games assessment and selection clinic held in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The intent of the assessment clinic is to find the best Army athletic representative to compete in the annual Warrior Games, which is set to take place May 11-17, in the Olympic Center, Colorado Springs, Colo.
This was the third of three separate selection clinics, each focusing on various adaptive reconditioning sports, and each taking place at separate duty locations. The first clinic, held in Fort Belvoir, Va., was a multi-sport event emphasizing archery and sitting volleyball training, while the second clinic, held in Fort Bliss, Texas, focused on cycling and swimming activities.
Before a Soldier attends any clinic, a physical therapist assigned to the warrior-athlete's home unit assesses the individual and creates a tailored physical regimen, enabling wounded warriors to adapt to their current physical and mental state while successfully reconditioning and transitioning either back to duty or civilian life.
Once this process is complete and Warrior Games selections are done at the unit level, athletes throughout the U.S. travel to the clinics and get to compete in a wide array of sports, while maintaining a positive profile.
"The clinics provided me an opportunity to get out there and be active again, especially in something I enjoy doing in my off time," said Spc. Derek Reimer, one of three participants currently assigned to 3-85 Infantry (WTU).
According to Lt. Col. Keith Williams, Adaptive Reconditioning Branch chief for Warrior Transition Command, the primary focus of the assessment clinics and Adaptive Reconditioning sports program is to provide an opportunity for Soldiers to try something different, while holistically reconditioning them in each of the six Comprehensive Transition Plan domains -- career, physical, emotional, social, family and spiritual.
The Department of Defense, in partnership with the U.S. Olympic Committee Paralympic Military Program, has provided wounded, ill, and injured service members and veterans an opportunity to compete annually at the Warrior Games.
Upon completion of the Warrior Games, participants or team members who place first, second and third in their respective events earn either gold, silver or bronze medals.
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===Story=== It's 1933 in Winnipeg and the Great Depression is in full bloom. Beer Baroness Lady Port-Huntly (Isabella Rossellini) announces a global competition to determine the saddest music in the world, and musicians from across the globe pour into town to vie for the whopping $25,000 prize. Sobbing Mexican Mariachis, dour Scottish Bagpipers, woeful West African drummers and numerous other grief-stricken ensembles give it their all. Down-on-his-luck Broadway producer Chester Kent (Mark McKinney) and his amnesiac girlfriend Narcissa (Maria de Medeiros) return home to his native Winnipeg as the United States entry in the contest. He soon finds himself embroiled in a family reunion as treacherous and twisted as the competition itself. Ultimately, a cataclysmic fire and the machinations of fate sort matters out for the sad characters and the denizens of the saddest city on earth. Part musical melodrama, part tongue-in-cheek social satire, Guy Maddin's expressionistic film achieves a level of lunacy rarely seen since the Marx Brothers...
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The Nuggets received Arron Afflalo, who last played for the team during the 2011-2012 season, in exchange for one of their two second round draft picks, the 56th overall selection, and 21-year-old guard Evan Fournier.
Though the 28-year-old Afflalo was not much more than a bench player the last time he played for the Nuggets, he had a career year for the Magic last season, averaging 18.2 points per game and 3.6 assists — both career highs. However, Afflalo was also playing for a Magic team that had the third-worst record in the NBA at 23-59.
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Sulfur Dioxide Additions for Wine Making
Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is added to both must and wine for protection from oxidation and microbial spoilage. Sulfur dioxide is highly reactive and a large portion (roughly half) of the compound is bound up immediately after addition. The remainder of the sulfur dioxide is called free SO2 with a very small portion remaining as molecular SO2. It is the molecular SO2 that gives protection from microbes. Molecular SO2 levels should be maintained between 0.5 and 0.8 ppm for proper protection. The quantity of sulfur dioxide added depends on many factors. The most important factors to consider are:
- pH of must or wine
- temperature of must or wine
- condition of fruit at crush
- type of wine being produced
The pH of the solution that the sulfur dioxide is added to is a major determining factor in the quantity of sulfur dioxide needed to provide adequate protection from microbes and oxidation. A lower pH solution will require less sulfur dioxide in order to maintain the proper level of molecular SO2. There is a very large difference in quantity of SO2 needed between a pH of 3.0 and 4.0.
As temperatures increase, less stable compounds that bind SO2 release those bonds, which in turn, increases the level of free SO2 in the solution.
Condition of Fruit at Crush:
The condition of the fruit when it is crushed is an important factor in the amount of necessary SO2 additions. When fruit is rotten or moldy or is suspected of having high levels of microorganisms present, more SO2 must be added (50-100%). Fruit that is in poor condition contains higher levels of aldehydes which bind to added SO2.
Fruit that is in exemplary condition at crushing may not even need to be sulfited before fermentation.
Type of Wine Being Produced:
The type of fruit and the style of wine being produced will have an impact on sulfiting decisions. Typically white grapes are sulfited at crushing to protect against browning due to oxidation as well as for protection against microbial infection. Red grapes are also sometimes sulfited at crushing to help with color extraction and for protection against microbial infection.
Timing of Additions:
Quantity of sulfite added and the timing of sulfite additions are dependent on many factors including those listed above. The following is a rough estimate of typical sulfiting quantities and schedules which should be modified to fit each winemaker's individual situation.
Red Wine:
- At crushing, add 50 ppm sulfite. Let stand overnight and inoculate with yeast.
- After ML fermentation is complete, dose with 50 ppm sulfite.
- Monitor and adjust aging red wine to 20 ppm free SO2.
- Adjust SO2 level to 25 ppm before bottling.
White Wine:
- Must not intended to undergo ML fermentation should have 80 ppm sulfite added at crushing.
- Must intended to undergo ML fermentation should have 50 ppm sulfite added at crushing.
- For wine not undergoing ML fermentation, 50 ppm SO2 should be added at dryness.
- For wine undergoing ML fermentation, 50 ppm SO2 should be added when ML fermentation is complete.
- Wine held before bottling should be monitored and maintained at 20 ppm free SO2.
- Wine should be adjusted to 25 ppm free SO2 at bottling.


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