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Thinking that the grass might be greener across county lines, some residents of Daniel Island are considering a tactic South Carolinians are known for using: Secession.
Who: Daniel Island Neighborhood Association, Daniel Island Property Owners Association, Berkeley County officials
What: Community announcement and Q&A session
When: 7 p.m. Sept. 12
Where: Bishop England High School auditorium
Why: To discuss issues affecting Daniel Island residents
There is a citizen-driven effort on the island, which is in the city of Charleston, to move from Berkeley County to Charleston County, after a controversy over a new school.
The process
This would be the process for Daniel Island to move from Berkeley County to Charleston County, according to state law:
1. Ten percent of Daniel Island's registered voters sign a petition.
2. Gov. Nikki Haley appoints a commission of two Daniel Island residents and two Berkeley County residents to investigate the possibility.
3. The commission provides a written report to the governor.
4. The governor orders an election.
5. The election has to pass by a two-thirds vote.
6. A majority of Charleston County voters must vote for the annexation.
7. If it fails to garner enough support, the issue cannot be brought up again for four years.
South Carolina Code of Laws
The Daniel Island Neighborhood Association and the Daniel Island Property Owners Association recently met with a legal team "to determine if Berkeley County is representing our interests to the best of their ability," neighborhood association president Dave Williams wrote in a letter to residents Tuesday.
Who provides what
Daniel Island is in the city of Charleston and in Berkeley County. The Daniel Island Property Owners Association maintains common areas on the island. Other services are provided as follows:
City of Charleston
Trash/debris pickup
Road maintenance
Berkeley County
Recycling (residents can pay $30 annually for curbside pickup)
Charleston City District 1 Councilman F. Gary White Jr.
Berkeley County Supervisor Dan Davis
Berkeley County District 2 Councilman Tim Callanan
Berkeley County Schools Superintendent Rodney Thompson
District 2 Board member Doug Cooper
On Sept. 12, the two associations and the lawyers will hold a "community announcement and Q&A session" that "will be a very defining moment for the residents and future of Daniel Island," Williams wrote in the letter.
He declined further comment until after the meeting.
Although Williams does not specifically mention seceding, several others did.
"All I know is they have hired a legal firm to drive the move from Berkeley to Charleston," Berkeley County School Board member and Daniel Island resident Doug Cooper said.
Berkeley County Councilman Tim Callanan, also a Daniel Island resident, agreed that he has also heard about a movement to change counties.
"People have asked me for information on that and I've forwarded them the information that they need," he said. "It's their right, obviously, to pursue this under state law."
Callanan says that the owner of a $250,000 house could save more than $500 in property taxes per year by joining Charleston County. Exact figures were unavailable Wednesday, but estimates are that Daniel Island's 9,000 residents make up 4 percent of Berkeley County's population but provide as much as 20 percent of the county's tax base, he said.
"I agree with the sentiment that Daniel Island residents are being ripped off," Callanan said. "But I don't know if this is the right way to do it or the right time to do it, and that's the only thing that concerns me."
The Charleston County Auditor's Office and a Charleston County spokesman did not return calls seeking comment.
While many residents might wonder if they are getting their money's worth for their tax dollars, the bigger issue recently has been residents' dissatisfaction with the school board.
"They were misled," Callanan said, "and they have every right to be aggravated at their school system."
Last year's $198 million school improvement bond referendum, which island voters passed by a 70 percent to 30 percent margin, included money to build a new school to ease overcrowding at Daniel Island School, which houses students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Residents are now concerned that the district will build the new school on Clements Ferry Road, taking away islanders' ability to walk or bike to school.
If the island joined Charleston County, the school's population would be reduced because some of its students live off the island.
Berkeley County School Superintendent Rodney Thompson has said a location has not been determined for the new school, and promised that residents will be invited to meetings when the district has something to share.
On Wednesday, he said he will not attend the meeting Sept. 12 and declined further comment.
Rindy Ryan, a mother of three, has twice pleaded with the school board to involve residents in the decision-making. She also created a Facebook page called "Keep K-8 on DI!" that has attracted 329 members since Aug. 13.
"I am not privy to the (Sept. 12) agenda, but I think that enough people have gotten frustrated with the responses that we've gotten from the Berkeley County School Board that we are going to talk about what our options are," she said. "I really just feel like we are hitting a brick wall there and this gives me reason to be encouraged."
Reach Brenda Rindge at 937-5713 or www.twitter.com/brindge.


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I liked this book so much I put it on my Amazon.com wish list. (Use Amazon's "Look Inside" feature for a peek at the book.)
It's always a challenge to come up with new and interesting recipes that are quick, easy, and healthy. So Easy: Luscious, Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week by Ellie Krieger is a great resource for fast, nutritious meals, and I can see myself going back again and again to try new recipes or make a favorite. In this clip, featuring some of the recipes from her book, Ellie explains how a pantry stocked with some of her favorite basic ingredients can make a healthy, delicious, quick meal "so easy."
I'm familiar with Ellie Krieger through her "The Good Life" column which appears in each issue of Fine Cooking. I've never seen her Food Network show called "Healthy Appetite," but I'm sure it's good. I love that Ellie embraces the "lusciousness" of food and the enjoyment of eating foremost while gracefully incorporating a nutritonal approach to cooking.
Paintings by Hsi-Mei Yates and her students are on display in the Headquarters Atrium Gallery through June.
Hsi-Mei lives in Stafford and has a studio at LibertyTown Arts Workshop.
Visit her web site to find out more:
Hsi-Mei Yates - "Blue Chain (Crabs)"
This is Week 3 of a 12-Week series of blog posts reviewing new young adult books. Check back each Monday for a new review.
"Where they burn books, they will end by burning human beings." - Heinrich Heine
This is the opening quote in Ashes, the story of thirteen-year-old Gabrielle Schramm who is living in Berlin in 1932 during the turbulent days of Hitler's rise to power.
Hitler has not yet seized control when the story begins, but there are signs of what's to come. Sightings of Hitler's private army and his personal guard, the "SA" and the "SS," are becoming more frequent, as are attacks on Jewish neighborhoods, businesses and synagogues.
For the most part, Garbrielle is a typical thirteen-year-old girl. She goes to school, talks about movies and movie stars with her best friend Rosa, and occasionally gets in trouble at school for having her nose stuck in a book during math class. Gabrielle is a serious book lover. Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Helen Keller, Mark Twain ... she devours them all. She's already lost two of her treasured books to her math teacher Herr Doktor Berg.
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In June we added 33 adult titles, 29 of which are are available in MP3 format (suitable for iPods, iPhones, iPads, etc.). We also received 7 new children's/young adult titles (4 available in MP3). Check out our most recent additions!
Browse our newest downloadable audiobooks in the library catalog, or go directly to the NetLibrary web site (free account needed) or Media Center (install required) to download. If you don't have a NetLibrary account, follow these simple instructions to create one.
Music on the Steps, CRRL's popular summer concert series, starts on Monday, June 7, with Blues woman Ann Rabson.
All Music on the Steps concerts are held on Mondays at 7pm, on the steps of the Headquarters Library in downtown Fredericksburg. The Free Lance-Star recently published an article on the series.
Other performers include:
June 14 - Laurie Rose Griffith and Pete Mealy
June 21 - Dixie Power Trio
June 28- Trent Wagler & the Steel Wheels
July 12 - The Company Store Band
July 19 - Homegrown String Band
Find out more about Music on the Steps and this year's performers.
Check out our Flickr slideshow for the latest England Run pictures. Our newest branch, located in Stafford county, will be opening in fall 2010!
Each month we receive new downloadable audiobook titles. In May we added 31 adult titles, 25 of which are are available in MP3 format (suitable for iPods, iPhones, iPads, etc.). We also received 7 new children's/young adult titles (4 available in MP3). Check out our most recent additions!
Browse our newest downloadable audiobooks in the library catalog, or go directly to the NetLibrary web site (free account needed) or Media Center (install required) to download. If you don't have a NetLibrary account, follow these simple instructions to create one.
If you love to try out new iPhone apps (and who doesn't, when they're free?), you'll want to download two new apps that now include CRRL's results. Called pic2shop and Book Bazaar, the apps are free and help you find library books when you're out shopping. For example, if you're at a bookstore and wondering if we have a title, scan the barcode with your phone and pic2shop will tell you if we have it. (Pic2shop is also great for comparison shopping for other items.) With Book Bazaar you can type in the title, author, keyword or ISBN. Either way, both apps are free and downloadable through Apple's iTunes App Store.
This short video shows Pic2shop in action at a Border's book store.
If you've already purchased the RedLaser app ($0.99 in iTunes App Store) you can also get results from our library.
If you're in a book group (or want to start one) we've got a great new service for you called "Book Group in a Bag."
With "Book Group in a Bag" you can check out a library tote bag filled with ten copies of your selected title for 6 weeks. That's right - 6 weeks!
We currently have over 80 adult titles (you can filter by Fiction or Non-Fiction). We're adding more adult titles, and young adult and children's titles will soon be available.

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Our monthly specials feature locally grown or produced ingredients and sometimes quantities are limited. Get 'em while they are available!
April's Special: The HULA Burger!
This month we are bringing back our first ever monthly special! It was a huge hit, and then of course won the 1st Annual Burger of the Year contest, so we ran it again, to rave reviews. We top one of our hand-spanked patties, and top it with a slice of fresh grilled pineapple that's brushed with our housemade teriyaki style glaze, add a little goat cheese for creamy cool and top it with some crunchy alfalfa sprouts and a drizzle of the sauce, to make it extra juicy and messy. We'll be sure to leave an extra napkin for this one!
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One-on-One AGS Mentoring Program
The One-on-One AGS Mentoring Program matches students, residents and junior faculty with senior geriatrics faculty from across the country. The program mentees the opportunity to meet with mentors during the AGS Annual Meeting and discuss such topics as: starting an academic career, locating research funding, learning more about geriatric practice and administration, and balancing career demands with a successful family life.
At the AGS Annual Meeting in 2013, there were over 75 mentees who participated in the program, including medical students interested in the field of geriatrics, residents interested in geriatric fellowships, geriatric fellows contemplating specific research questions and also career advice and junior faculty members interested in mentorship in further career development and advice. Mentors who have participated included experienced geriatric practitioners, administrators, faculty members in divisions of geriatrics who are clinician educators, researchers and experts in specific areas in the field of geriatrics.
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OP-ED: Emotional Games Require Time and Expertise, Not Photorealism
They may help in some cases, but real emotions can be evoked without photorealistic graphics.
Technological advances are slowly but surely making it possible for game developers to get closer and closer to graphics which are indistinguishable from the real world -- just look at the recent Unreal Engine 4 or Agni's Philosophy demos to see where we're headed. Setting aside the issue of rising development costs, providing developers with the hardware to handle the games they want to make is undoubtedly a good thing, knowing that even with something like Crysis 3 in the works, we can still have games that look like Dyad or Penny Arcade Episode 3.
But are these strides in visual quality a step that is needed to open up new genres and allow certain emotions to be evoked? That's the position taken by 2K Games President Christoph Hartmann who, when asked about veteran game designer Warren Spector's position on games being too centered around violence, told GamesIndustry.biz that he believes the interactivity in games makes it difficult to evoke the same emotions that movies do.
"That limits you already in what you can do, as certain emotions can't be recreated," he said. "Recreating a Mission Impossible experience in gaming is easy; recreating emotions in Brokeback Mountain is going to be tough, or at least very sensitive in this country. It's limiting. Comedy is already very hard in video games. You can't have a game simply built around comedy. It has to be part of an overall vibe. So there is only a certain area that you can use [to create games] and then you look at technology, you can kind of maybe make people look right, but it will be very hard to create very deep emotions like sadness or love, things that drive the movies."
"Until games are photorealistic, it'll be very hard to open up to new genres. We can really only focus on action and shooter titles; those are suitable for consoles now. If someone comes up with a video game where it's all about you falling in love, where you have the emotions and you don't need a lot of interaction from your device, that's great but what happened to those interactive movies from the '90s? They were boring. It was like a movie that gave you three endings."
Games are still a very young medium, and their perceived inferiority when it comes to telling stories (and evoking emotions) as compared with film -- whether true or not -- is an unfair comparison to make as a result. Hartmann said it would be difficult to recreate the emotions of Brokeback Mountain in a game; if we accept that as being true, does it really matter? Do we need to duplicate everything that film did, but with a game? Games have their own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to storytelling; take the comedy in The Secret of Monkey Island for instance, and the process of writing jokes that don't require the punchline to immediately trail the setup. This doesn't make comedy in an adventure game worse than in films, it only makes it different.
There are many examples of games that have been able to elicit emotions from players. Whatever emotion it is you want to want to experience, there's probably a videogame that's provided it: Ico, Portal, Final Fantasy VII, Journey -- even Heavy Rain, maligned as it has been in many ways, had its infamous, but nonetheless dread-inducing Jason scene that many parents can identify with. Even for those who have not experienced this sort of situation firsthand, playing through it in a videogame could prove to be a more effective way of understanding the situation than watching it in play out in a movie.
None of these games, or the many others that could be cited as an example, had photorealistic graphics with which to achieve their goals. If your aim as a developer is merely to replicate what's been seen in the movies, as is the case with Hartmann's example, that level of visuals may be necessary, although the purpose in doing this strikes me as questionable. Games are capable of more than copying movies because of their interactive nature and the amount of time players can spend with them. By the end of Mass Effect 3, I had invested a huge amount of time into the series and my Shepard, roughly the equivalent of an nine-season, hour-long TV show. I felt a flurry of emotions when ME3's story came to an end and I saw how my decisions over the course of 125-plus hours had impacted the other inhabitants of this galaxy, and this was accomplished by a game running on a piece of hardware first released in 2005. Games like Journey and Flower, meanwhile, manage to evoke emotions over the course of much shorter experiences that are also far more abstract.
It's worth noting that just because your average game isn't seeking an emotional reaction, it doesn't mean games are incapable of doing so. Publishers tending to focus on games, shooters especially, which place less emphasis on being an emotional experience is not a reflection of developers' ability to produce that sort of thing with the current level of technology. It has more to do with chasing after what's proven to be successful, and the biggest, mass-market titles have not made those elements key points. That is part of what made Spec Ops: The Line's surprisingly poignant story so noteworthy. But just because shooters tend to have the biggest budgets doesn't mean games like Braid or Flower are any less "suitable" for consoles, and neither of those falls under the header of "action and shooter titles."
Not all developers are necessarily seeking to create emotional games, mind you; there is even some debate over whether games should even be used for storytelling. David Jaffe has said those trying to tell a story would be better off writing a book or making a movie, while Hideo Kojima thinks developers shouldn't bother trying to tell a story in their games.
I disagree with both of those assertions, and as the medium evolves I think we'll see more and more developers becoming more adept at crafting better stories and controlling players' emotions. Advancements in technology enabling developers to create more photorealistic graphics could be a boon for some; Quantic Dream's Kara demo from earlier this year demonstrates what could be accomplished with new tech, though of course what we saw was a video, not a playable videogame. Simply because photorealism could prove to be useful does not make it the be-all and end-all element for creating truly emotional experiences, however.
Despite what Hartmann suggested, photorealism is not the only way to generate emotions. That's true not just of videogames, but of movies too, as evidenced by any number of heart-wrenching animated movies. The fact that it is very hard to elicit emotions is due not to the current quality of visuals, but because doing so is simply a challenging thing to do. Films and novels have a long head start on games, and while there are tricks to playing with people's emotions, creating a meaningful, emotional story requires strong writing and performances. In videogames there is even more to it than that, but knowing that the comments of this story could easily end up filled with a long list of games that have evoked one emotion or another -- many of which could have 8- or 16-bit graphics, and none of which have photorealistic graphics -- is more than enough evidence that photorealism is not a necessary element in creating emotional videogames.
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EmotionPosted: Aug 10, 2012 12:00AM PST by Magnus_Artanis
I know you already mentioned ICO, but I truly felt deep sorrow back in The Shadow of the Colossus, when Argo goes down... that´s emotive...
This topic shouldn't have a "yes" or "no" responsePosted: Aug 06, 2012 12:00AM PST by thealpacalypse
This is something that should be addressed on a game-by-game basis. Developers should pursue photorealism in their engines and games, however their use of it must address how they want the audience to relate to the game.
Take most FPS war games. They rely on the highest amout of realism to convey the idea of immersion into realistic battle scenarios. e.g. Crysis 2. However, genrally these games lack strong characters and focus more on multiplayer gameplay, rather than heavy emotional attachment. In fact they discourage emotional attachment to a character (especially in multiplayer modes) to keep a fast, exciting gameplay.
However in a game like Heavy Rain photorealism is used to encourage emotional attachment. The realism is focused on developing beieveable characters. to emphasize this connection between the player and the character QuanticDream developed a gameplay system that, in a sense, handed the reigns of the narrative over to the player. Whether or not they actually succeeded is up for debate.
A thought experiment: If the game Bioshock had been designed according to strict photorealistic rules, would it have been quite as moving?
I argue no, it would not. The world of Rapture is such an intriguing part of the game because it has personality. If it were photorealistic some of the games major themes (regarding economy especially) might become much more trivial. The warped mid-twentieth century style reinforces to the player just how warped the people of the city of Rapture are. If it were a cut and dry underwater city (I know that sounds rediculous but think of a large underwater sea dwelling, like in The Abyss) I think a lot of the immersion would be lost. Much of the depth of the city would be lost, it would become a far less interesting narrative conflict, and the alteration of the atmosphere would directly impact the tone of the themes.
Furthermore, lack of photorealism tends to breed better overall game design. Okami was originally meant have realistic graphics, instead we got one of the most beautiful games ever.
All games are affected by this how closely they observe photorealism. Think: would silent hill be as gripping if it were styled differently? Would Mario be as endearing? Could you tell the same story in Heavy Rain? Could Crysis be as stunning?
One dosen't effect the other.Posted: Aug 05, 2012 12:00AM PST by DragonMageDrake
Games don't need to be photorealistic to portray emotion convincingly. Games like Journey and Braid are small games that portray alot of emotion. Mass Effect and Spec Ops are beautiful high budget games that also do a wonderful job of emotional storytelling. Both will continue into the next generation. They are not at war, they are just different ways to tell story's for different amounts of money.
A Cool Medium and a Hot Response.Posted: Aug 03, 2012 12:00AM PST by @RA_Whipple
I will call bullshit on this statement:
"That limits you already in what you can do, as certain emotions can't be recreated," he said. "Recreating a Mission Impossible experience in gaming is easy; recreating emotions in Brokeback Mountain is going to be tough, or at least very sensitive in this country. It's limiting. Comedy is already very hard in video games. You can't have a game simply built around comedy. It has to be part of an overall vibe. So there is only a certain area that you can use [to create games] and then you look at technology, you can kind of maybe make people look right, but it will be very hard to create very deep emotions like sadness or love, things that drive the movies."
If you provide the reinforcers in game, the incentives, you can have a Seinfeld game with all the mundane comedy built on an architecture of player choices to responses and built in response as consequences of prior made decisions. I think the guy who made this statement, he really has a job, needs to put down the console. Rest that thumb.
If you want engagement, or engrossment, you need to allow the audience to fill in the blanks and connect the dots. If you over realise the medium, you paint out the player. If the game is a passive buttom masher, so will be the players.
admit it....we are getting spoiled with photo realismPosted: Aug 03, 2012 12:00AM PST by invidcyborg
We can find an emotional attachment with sprites and anime looking toons as much as we can with the full 3d models equipped with sophisticated artifical intellegence. It depends on the game. I can't see the Witcher being abstract. I can't see Tales of Grace realistic. Thank goodness we have a range of games like we have now. The problem is there are so many of them!
Pixar Proves Hartmann WrongPosted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by JonathanDrake
I have read reviews that praised Toy Story 3 as the best movie of 2010, and someone went as far as to name the trilogy as one of the best in movie history. No photorealism needed.
AgreedPosted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by Metroidvaniac
The final moments of Bastion are the sort of thing that brings one to tears, and that game (with its "chromatic data overflow") is pretty far from photo-realistic.
It is coming ... maybe?Posted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by kscripter
I think it is coming with the next gen consoles. A couple of studios will have mind blowing emotional stories coupled with intense graphics. Just have to give it time ... maybe.
Go to an Art MuseumPosted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by Zenoe
Look around and you'll find photo-realism is very niche and seldom portrays emotional themes. It's the content and context of a work that might pull it off but you need to know that background. Movies manipulate you with music more than image. In any event it's not a story you as an individual are involved in. You are tricked into involvement by a process many people collaborate on. Ronald Reagan was the first pick for Rick in Casablanca. Lucky us he had other things to do. A good piece of work happens when it all comes together. You don't watch a movie for 100+ hours. How can you compare them with games? It's movies that morons compare 'realism' to. So what happened to all those full-motion-video games that used film to replace graphics? You can do anything digitally so why limit yourself to this reality. It's much better to be ambushed in a game with a sudden event than to go to a movie knowing you're going to need tissues.
fuck photorealismPosted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by Iamsmartyouarenot
photorealism is only used when people lack the talent to do something really interesting
Photorealism is Entirely UnnecessaryPosted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by Mjsk
I don't feel like writing an actual response right now, but photorealism is not necessary to create emotional games. It simply requires good writing and complex characters (as opposed to characterization and storytelling like was featured in Diablo 3).
Photo realism is nicePosted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by PaulMC
But I don't see good developers having any problem putting any real emotion into their work. It takes more than a realistic facial expression to represent the over all feelings of a person.
Some of my most memorable and touching memories of video games come from older series. From the top of my head I can think of a few. The ending to FF6 if you get all the characters. Shadow stays behind and dies, chrono sacrificing himself to save his friends, the death of Aeris. Oh oh oh!!!! and Super Metroid, at the very end when the metroid drains mother brain and dies saving you, sad stuff right there.
anywho, it takes a good narrative and story arc to make me feel emotions. adding a photo realistic scared face onto a video game character is only one part of a whole when it comes to connecting to a character and feeling what they feel.
Lastly, this comment also feels like a copout as to why so many shooters are being made. It's a business and they make money, that's the bottom line.
Emotion requires empathy, and other problems with FlowerPosted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by rdm24
You have to be able to empathize with your protagonist in order to feel emotion. For this reason, I don't really consider Flower to be an emotional game (also, because I find it rather boring). Of course, maybe other people can empathize with a breeze better than I can. Additionally, Flower attempted to convey emotion through moody scenery. And if your emotional worldview aligns with their bucoloic/industrial gradient, then Flower may have evoked strong feelings in some people, and eye-rolls in me.
Journey, in contrast, excels in creating empathy for your character, particularly because of the ways you interact with other players, and the amazing way they convey the struggle to reach the mountaintop. Of course, they unfortunately rely on the same hamfisted use of urban scenery, and I wish they'd let go of this cliche, and stop using man-made environnments as a stand-in for negative emotions.
i agreePosted: Aug 02, 2012 12:00AM PST by Iamsmartyouarenot
but thats the trend these days, man = bad. -1 for humanity! we only have twice the life expectancy and live much more comfortably than our ancestors. apparently that makes us evil


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But can we at least end this barbaric practice of dragging your wife before the cameras while you confess your shameful guilt? If she wasn't there in the hotel room when you did your crime, don't ask her to do your time.
The practice began relatively innocently as something an accused man might do when he denied the allegations . A man's wife at his side showed that she, at least, believed the guy when he said he did not do it.
It was former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, I believe, who began the modern practice (Can we ban it along with waterboarding?) of parading the little wife before the cameras to hold your hand as you confess your guilt. The goal is to get the shell-shocked wife to demonstrate to the public that the offense is forgiveable. If his wife forgives him, how mad can you be?
But the practice requires a man to turn the best instinct of his wife -- to unite behind the family in crisis -- into an instrument of her own public humiliation.
And another thing: Can we end the public practice of trying to shame these wives into divorcing their husbands?
There's a reason we feel impelled to do this these days. Adultery has been redefined as a "private matter," as Spitzer put it in his vain, Clintonian attempt to redirect attention from his crimes to his sin. Because we no longer have any public punishments for adultery, we have turned wives into instruments of the public morality: If she doesn't punish him by divorcing him, he will go unpunished, which is intolerable. (Without some punishment, won't all husbands stray?)
I'm tired of this transference of the sins of the husband onto the wife. Leave the wives alone. Let's forget about standing by the man, but can't we at least agree to stand by the woman?
Look, I'm not a moron. I understand that men will use prostitutes for their own purposes without caring what happens to them, but can't we expect a little higher standard of behavior from an outrageously guilty husband toward the wife he has just embarrassed and betrayed?
Eliot, you are famously one big, tough dude from the Bronx. An "f-ing steamroller." Can't you go out in front of the cameras and face it like a man?
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Not everyone wants to know the answers to such questions as "What Happens When Good Canonists Go Bad" or "Was Grendel a Big Foot?"
But that wasn't the case recently when the ninth annual conference of the Texas Medieval Association was held at West Texas A&M University. Speakers from universities all over Texas and the nation attended the conference to deliver papers on medieval drama, law, politics and religion as well as other issues.
Papers were as varied as "The International Joan of Arc Society and Other On-line Teaching Initiatives," by Bonnie Wheeler of Southern Methodist University, to "Was Grendel a Big Foot?" by Edwin Duncan of Towson State University.
At a session on Law and Medieval Society, WT associate professor of history Bruce Brasington delivered papers along with Donald J. Kagay, professor of history at Albany State University, and Gilbert Prud'homme, a graduate student at Princeton University.
Events from the Medieval period have direct applications to modern life, visiting speakers said.
Kagay talked about "The Treason of Center and Periphery: The Uncertain Contest of Government and Individual in the Medieval Crown of Aragon" and said people in modern and medieval times have at least one commonality: dealing with uncertainty.
"What happens when Y2K hits?" Kagay said. "We always think these (problematic) things are in the past."
Prud'homme said Texas takes many of its laws straight from medieval precepts.
He delivered a paper on "Echoes of Papal Monarchy in Modern Political Thought," and Brasington's topic was "When Good Canonists Go Bad: The Strange Career of Johannes Molinaeus, Editor of Ivo of Chartres' Decretum."
Brasington discussed the significance of the panormia, a collection of church law in the 12th century that was widely used throughout Western Europe. Bishops used these laws to make decisions, he said. Molinaeus was a professor of Canon Law at the University of Louvain (Belgium), and he used Church law to defend the church against Protestants, Brasington said.
Giles Constable of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University gave the plenary speech on how Christians honored their dead - in funeral practices and services - in the early Middle Ages.
The three-day conference also included a TEMA business meeting, a reception and a luncheon.
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Brasington said the conference sought to give specialists an opportunity to share their discoveries, build community within the group and allow participants to have fun.
"People want to come back (to WT); they were impressed with how friendly and helpful everyone was," said Brasington, who belongs to a national organization on teaching the Middle Ages.
Shearle Furnish, professor of English at WT, talked about agricultural themes in a large collection of plays called the Wakefield Plays.
One of those plays is "The Slaying of Abel" by an anonymous author known as the Wakefield Master, Furnish said.
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A Little Girl's Dream on Martin Luther King Day Will Break Your HeartSabrina James
When Heather picked her 8-year-old daughter up from school last week, Adeline was all smiles. Her second grade class spent the week preparing for Martin Luther King Day, and she was beaming as she handed her mom the mobile she made in his honor.
"Oh, Adeline, I love this," Heather exclaimed, admiring the rainbow cloud and crayon-colored portrait of Dr. King. Then she read Adeline's art-rendered version of his iconic speech, and her heart sank:
I have a dream that one day there will be flying cars, I will be a famous gymnastics star, and bullies will stop bullying.
"As soon as I read the bully one, I started to cry right there in my car," said Heather, "I know our insecurities and fears often come out in art, and the last few months have been really hard for Adeline."
Adeline always loved school. She would bounce out of bed each morning, eager to start the day. "She would choose one of her signature outfits," Heather remembers, "Lots of bright colors and crazy patterns, and ask me to do her hair in some fun version of a side ponytail. She was completely confident and it was amazing to watch." Other moms would tell Heather how much they adored Adeline's spirit, her individuality, how they wished their own children were more like her. But in November, something changed.
"She just stopped wanting to get up in the morning, she didn't want to go to school, or try anything new at all. Her attitude was completely different. It was like someone took a light switch and turned off our carefree, confident daughter and replaced her with someone much more sad." After many casual conversations failed to uncover the problem, Heather finally sat her daughter down and forced her to talk.
"Mommy, the kids at school tell me I am ugly every day," Adeline said, tears streaming down her beautiful face. "They call me stupid when we work on math problems. They make fun of the clothes I wear. They yell at me on the bus. I don't have a single friend in my whole class. I feel so alone."
Through her own tears Heather asked if Adeline told the teacher what was going on. It turns out she had, many times. "She just tells me not to tattle," Adeline explained, "I don't want to get in trouble." Infuriated, Heather contacted the teacher. "I was very professional, but I told her how much this was affecting Adeline. I wanted answers. I wanted to know what she was going to do to fix this situation."
After several back-and-forth emails, the teacher assured Heather that she would would separate Adeline from the children who were tormenting her the most, but it seemed the damage had already been done.
The bullying didn't stop, months went by and Adeline was still a target. Heather tried to build her daughter up at home, but her self esteem was torn down repeatedly at school. At gymnastics, Adeline asked her mom to stop putting her hair into the stylish bun she was known for, she wanted a ponytail "just like everyone else." When she started taking violin lessons, she would shut down whenever she made a mistake. She couldn't handle disappointment. When Heather told her she was beautiful, she shook her head. "No, I'm not. I'm ugly."
"Trying to validate her didn't have an impact because what the kids said mattered more to her than the truth. The bullies were winning. I felt like I was watching her slip away."
As Heather stared at the "I Have a Dream" mobile, she realized there were still two other dreams listed on the art project. One, about the flying car, exemplified Adeline's creativity, and the other, about gymnastics, showed her drive and desire to succeed. Maybe her daughter was still there after all.
On Tuesday, the day after the Martin Luther King holiday, Adeline will start a new school. Heather was done watching her daughter disappear into herself. Something needed to change.
"People say that kids need to toughen up, that they should work out these problems themselves, that kids will be kids. Well, I disagree. Children aren't as emotionally mature as adults. It's our job to protect them until they are strong enough to handle this kind of torment. I want her to grow into the person she's supposed to be, and this is damaging her."
When asked what will happen if the bullying starts again in the new school, Heather said, "I will definitely keep moving her if I have to, I will be in the parking lot every day, I will talk to the parents. It starts there and it can stop there. I'll do whatever it takes."
"My husband and I aren't like everyone else," Heather explains. "Our living room has more music equipment than furniture. My kitchen table isn't perfectly arranged, it's a mess with art supplies strewn everywhere. My kids are going to be more weird, so to speak, because we are unconventional. We may live in a conservative neighborhood, but we don't necessarily fit in. We are city people in suburbia. I know that we're different, and I'm proud of that. People who try their whole lives to be like everyone else miss out on what's really important. I don't want that for Adeline. Protecting who she is at her core is as important as keeping her physically safe. It's my job."
"For Christmas I bought her these rainbow sequined suspenders she asked for. She wore them to school one day, but when she came home, I found them hidden in her backpack. She never wore them again. I hope she wears them on the first day at her new school. I want her to go in as herself. Keep being different and weird, little girl. I think 'weird' is a good word. You're perfect just the way you are."
When I asked Adeline how she felt about her mom sticking up for her and pulling her out of that school, she simply said, "It makes me so happy. My mom loves me very much."
In the iconic words of Martin Luther King, Jr., "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." All parents have dreams for their children, some big, some small, and love might be the best weapon we have as we fight to make those dreams a reality.
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How can we improve performance in pediatric practice? How can we identify situations in which we can enhance quality while reducing costs to maximize the value of our services? How can we best refocus care processes to be more efficient and patient centered? The answers to these questions will be critical to the redesign of 21st-century pediatric practice. However, the answers are likely to emerge from a series of small steps that together form a larger roadmap. These small steps will have a common theme: ways of better educating and empowering parents through shared decision making. Just as the pharmaceutical companies have shifted much of their attention to direct consumer marketing from physician marketing, we must rebalance our approach and shift more of our attention from physician guidelines to parent education and shared decision making. Targeting ear pain and acute otitis media (AOM) for this shift in emphasis seems reasonable because this condition is such a frequent cause of pediatric visits during early childhood and so often results in an antibiotic prescription. We can enhance quality by reducing excessive antibiotic use that contributes to rising rates of bacterial antibiotic resistance in the community. More judicious antibiotic use may also reduce the frequency of AOM episodes as studies suggest that antibiotic treatment alters nasopharyngeal colonization that predisposes to an earlier subsequent episode.1,2 We can also reduce costs by avoiding unnecessary visits for ear pain and otitis to primary care offices during normal hours and to emergency departments and urgent care centers after hours. These visits are very common and are the largest component of well over $5 billion spent annually on otitis media.3 Children between the ages of 1 and 3 years account for more than 40% of otitis-related expenditures in children younger than 14 years.3
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SALEM - The House of Hair, "a family hair salon," opened June 7 at 1488 Franklin Ave. Owner Jane Vietmeier said she had always wanted to be in business for herself.
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New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan recently called on religious leaders work towards lowering the city's abortion rate.
According to a 2009 New York City Health Department report, 41 percent of all pregnancies there end in abortion --twice the national average.
Dolan said he realizes it's unlikely they will be able to end the practice all together. Instead, he said his current goal is to make the practice a rarity in the Big Apple.
"I re-affirm Cardinal John O'Connor's promise of a quarter-century ago that every woman facing a difficult pregnancy will be provided with free, confidential help of the highest quality from the Archdiocese of New York," Archbishop Dolan said.
"We are prepared to do everything in our power to help you and your unborn baby to make absolutely certain that you need never feel that you have no choice but an abortion," he vowed.
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Meanwhile, Erk's found a new athletic passion. Two years ago, she learned how to skate and started to play ice hockey. That's brought back her inner competitor. "For my level, I'm pretty fast," Erk says. "And it's all because I have the stamina for it."
Fighting back against the irritants that caused her such grief has altered Erk's life both mentally and physically. "My life is completely different," she says. "Tackling my allergens head on made a total difference for me. I'm in the best shape of my life."
Fred Coe: Keeping Allergies Off the Court
Fred Coe spent part of the fifth grade encased in plastic. Having had asthma from the time he was very young, Coe developed double pneumonia. It was so severe that he was placed in an oxygen tent. He didn't return to school until his sixth grade class had already begun.
Coe's list of allergic substances – both indoors and out -- contains all the typical culprits: dander, dust, pollen, and other airborne allergens. Sauerkraut is another trigger, but he admits it's one that isn't quite as challenging to avoid.
Despite spending an entire winter of his life without leaving his home, Coe is now determined to make his allergies an annoyance rather than a crippling condition.
"I've always been real active -- hyperactive, actually," says Coe, who is now 61 and living in Knoxville, Tenn. But, he says, as a youth growing up in Chattanooga, without the allergy medications and types of treatment available now, it was a struggle. Add to the mix of challenges two parents who each smoked three packs of Lucky Strikes per day and the chances for drawing an easy breath got slimmer and slimmer.
But Coe, whose desire to be active couldn't be quelled, has embraced modern medical perspectives on how to face down his allergies. He says he often wakes up sneezing. When he does, he immediately takes his over-the-counter allergy medication. He has an inhaler in case breathing becomes too difficult. For more than a decade, he received injections each month to combat allergens.
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SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain — John Boorman's "A Tiger's Tale" didn't disappoint. And "El camino de San Diego" has been judged a worthy addition to the oeuvre of Carlos Sorin, now one of Argentina's foremost helmers.
Lacking a dominant film figure — such as Woody Allen, whose "Melinda and Melinda" opened San Sebastian in 2004 — most of the action and talk over the first four days of the 54th San Sebastian Film Festival has centered on its preem-studded main Official Section competition.
And "Tale" and "Camino," for critics at least, have proved the standouts so far.
One of the most awaited pics world-preeming at San Sebastian, Boorman's "Tale," a prince-and-the-pauper-style yarn set in contempo Ireland, was judged by some scribes to be one of Boorman's most successful films since 1998's "The General," also starring Brendan Gleeson.
"Camino," a near-mockumentary about a man obsessed with soccer star Diego Maradona, lacks the sentimentality of Sorin's last pic, "Bombon, el Perro." But it may be all the better for that.
Other early fest hits include Heddy Honigmann's docu "Forever" and, in the main Zabaltegi sidebar, "Proibido Proibir," from Brazil's Jorge Duran, as well as docu "La silla de Fernando," from Spaniards Luis Alegre and David Trueba.
As ever, companies and institutions from Spain, and increasingly abroad, have used San Sebastian's first weekend, its busiest for announcements, to tubthump their latest activities:
- Fernando Sulichin's new Paris-based company, Central Films Prods., will produce the next films by up-and-coming Argentine helmer Adrian Caetano, whose "Cronica de una fuga" played in competition at Cannes, and "I Come With the Rain," from Tran Anh Hung ("The Scent of Green Papaya"). Pics are part of an attempt to move into higher-end auteur pics, with commercial punch budgeted at $9 million-$20 million, Sulichin said at San Sebastian.
Caetano's next, as-yet-untitled-pic will be co-financed by Wild Bunch, he added.
- Confirming its status as one of Spain's biggest producers, Mediapro presented an 11-pic slate of films awaiting release, shooting or in development, including Jean-Jacques Annaud's "His Majesty Minor" and Woody Allen's summer 2007 project.
- Spain's FAPAE producers association has submitted a 16-point wish list — including risk capital incentives and a Unifrance-style agency — to the Spanish government, which aims to pass a new Spanish film law by 2008, FAPAE prexy Pedro Perez announced.
- Jorge Algora's "The Mud Boy," Paula de Luque's "El vestido" and Fernando Nogeira's "Algo habran hecho" have been granted E150,000 ($191,940) apiece from the Raices co-production fund, backed by the film authorities of Galicia, Catalonia and Argentina. Andalusia has entered the fund, pumping its total budget up to a yearly $767,000.
- Fest sponsor RTVE, Spain's giant public broadcaster, will plough some $47.3 million into pre-buying around 80 Spanish films this year, RTVE director general Carmen Caffarel said at a press conference Friday.


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The release date rumble is now officially over before any real damage was done, just as we knew it would be. Warner Bros. has moved BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE off of May 6, 2016, where Marvel Studios already has CAPTAIN AMERICA 3, and onto March 25, 2016 (Source: Box Office Mojo). Warner Bros. has also set a number of proposed DC movie release dates that are a safe distance from Marvel's many upcoming releases.
Why Warner Bros. moved BATMAN V SUPERMAN to May 6, 2016 in the first place is still not known, but perhaps the studio hoped Marvel would back down since, at the time, Marvel had not yet announced which film would fill that date. The latter studio held its ground, however, with President of Production Kevin Feige repeatedly stating over the past few months that Marvel would not deviate from its plan. Marvel reaffirmed its commitment to the first weekend in May by booking untitled releases for 2017 (before the BvS switch), 2018, and 2019.
It is easy to say that Marvel "won" this battle since Warner Bros. ultimately moved its film, but that only matters on message boards and Facebook/Twitter feeds for the next day or so. Long-term, this is the best thing for theater owners, movie fans, and the superhero genre. As you can see in the DC movie release schedule below, there is now a healthy amount of space between DC and Marvel films so that neither studio is stepping on the other's toes or forcing audiences to choose (less the films slated for November 2017 and 2018). These dates come via Box Office Mojo.
It is very possible and even likely that the "WB Event" films are not DC-related, but there is still a DC film set just two weeks after a Marvel film in November 2017. Since most of the DC and Marvel movies are adequately spaced out, this should not be too much of a problem for anything beyond those two specific releases. With Disney setting its STAR WARS films in December thus far, it's not as though there is ample room for Warner Bros. to move further back.
The mainstream audience's annual appetite for superhero films is sure to be stretched and may even find its limit within a few years. Warner Bros. and Marvel Studios will combine for four superhero movies in 2016, five in 2017, and five in 2018. Fox and Sony will add two more movies to 2016's sum with their respective X-MEN: APOCALYPSE and SINISTER SIX. Sony's third film from THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN series would make for six superhero movies in 2018.
As long as the movies are good and the "Big Two" cinematic universes can be distinguished from one another, all will be well, especially since superhero cinema will now regularly span from March through November instead of May through July. Consistently making good movies is no easy task, but Marvel has done so for six years now and Warner Bros. is more than capable. The most difficult challenges beyond quality filmmaking lie with the other (but less) major players, Fox and Sony. The character licenses those studios hold will not support shared universes on a scale anywhere near those that Marvel already offers and Warner Bros. can offer with DC.
If this really is the moment that Warner Bros. enters the cinematic universe game, it would be nice to see it done with a little more oomph. The studio has confirmed the DC lineup to various outlets, but no press release has been sent out, nor is there a massive announcement on any official DC or Warner Bros. website. JUSTICE LEAGUE, a film already announced by Warner Bros. President of Worldwide Production Greg Silverman back in April, was not even listed with any of the nine open release dates.
Comparisons are inevitable, so permit me to point out Marvel's method of announcing its new release dates on the company's official website. Doing so shows both confidence and commitment. Hopefully, Warner Bros.' approach of allowing information to trickle out rather than boldly stating its intentions is not a sign that the studio lacks those qualities with regard to this proposed DC film schedule.
Regardless of how the information arrived, it is great to see a plan for DC on film has finally formed. It is even better to know that while the coming years will be jam-packed with superhero movies (which is fantastic for this website), the studios involved recognize that there is enough room in the calendar for everyone and are acting accordingly. The "Marvel vs. DC" rivalry should play out in friendly social media debates and maybe even a little light-hearted jabbing between the participants, but never on opening weekend.


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Making rational decisions about screening requires information about its harms, but high-quality evidence is often either not available or not used. One reason may be that we lack a coherent framework, a taxonomy, for conceptualizing and studying these harms.
To create a taxonomy, we categorized harms from several sources: systematic reviews of screening, other published literature, and informal discussions with clinicians and patients. We used this information to develop an initial taxonomy and vetted it with local and national experts, making revisions as needed.
We propose a taxonomy with 4 domains of harm from screening: physical effects, psychological effects, financial strain, and opportunity costs. Harms can occur at any step of the screening cascade. We provide definitions for each harm domain and illustrate the taxonomy using the example of screening for lung cancer.
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Steve Michael Egoavil
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At 5-foot-3, he completed a big assignment: rescuing a fellow soldier after a bomb exploded
Pfc. Steve Egoavil stops his search through the rubble of the bombed mess hall.
Did he hear something? He listens again.
Another soldier hears it, too.
The voice is faint and desperate: "I'm here. I'm here. Help me."
Beneath the rubble, coated in dust, an unknown soldier is trapped, his foot beneath a toppled rock pillar. A half-hour earlier the pinned soldier was eating supper with two friends when a bomb-laden vehicle stopped outside the building at Sabari, a forward operating base in the Khost province of southeastern Afghanistan.
About that time, Egoavil and fellow soldiers from the Fifth Battalion of the 101st Aviation Combat Brigade were finishing up a fast roping exercise, rappelling from a hovering helicopter.
For two months since members of the unit had deployed from Fort Campbell, Ky., they had continued to train at Forward Operating Base Camp Salerno. Egoavil and his buddies wondered if they would ever get a mission.
That day, March 3, 2007, it would come at Sabari, a 20-minute chopper ride away.
"Our faces changed completely from having fun doing the fast roping exercise to everyone jumping in the vehicle to go back to the arms room to get our equipment and get suited up," recalls Egoavil, then 25.
Dusk settled in as three Black Hawks took off for Sabari. Upon landing, the unit's medic called for Egoavil, who also had received training as a medic.
In the devastated mess hall, bodies were everywhere. Everyone fervently pulled rubble away, Egoavil remembers: "Everyone was so frantic at it."
That's when he heard the pinned soldier's faint, plaintive cry. Using the lights from a forklift to illuminate the surreal scene, Egoavil and others began widening a hole to pull the soldier out.
But the toppled pillar proved too heavy. They rushed to get jacks from several Humvees. Wedging broken two-by-fours under the jacks inched the pillar off the soldier's leg.
Egoavil, 5-foot-3 and 150 pounds with his combat boots on, surveyed the hole in the rubble the men had cleared. He could squeeze through, he told his platoon sergeant, if he took off his body armor.
"I didn't hear any 'No's,' so I did it and went in," Egoavil says.
After wriggling into the rubble, he pivoted the injured soldier 180 degrees so outside rescuers could pull him out by his shoulders instead of his injured leg. All the while, a crane held the swaying ceiling of the building aloft.
"That was probably the scariest part right there because the ceiling was swinging over my head," Egoavil says. "Oh, this is not good. But I didn't even think of that until after the fact."
Egoavil never learned the name of the man he saved. When they exited the small rescue hole, both men were covered in dust.
"I mean everything was covered, even his name tapes," he says. "At the time I didn't even think to ask. The whole thing was to get him out and look for others."
Rescuers worked through the rubble for more than two hours. Unfortunately, the injured soldier's two friends from the 82nd Airborne Division did not survive the blast. Their bodies were found in another fallen section.
And the soldier Egoavil saved?
He's not sure, "but from what they've told me … he did all right."
To Egoavil, the actions that earned him a Soldier's Medal for saving the life of another solder weren't that special.
Not for a soldier.
"That's what we do," he says. "That's what we're trained for. I knew had that happened to me, I knew a soldier, given the opportunity, would save my life."
S.L. Alligood covered the U.S. Army 101st Airborne Division as an embedded reporter in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is an assistant professor of journalism at Middle Tennessee State University.
Steve Michael Egoavil
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Born Aug. 23, 1983 in Torrance, Calif.
Joined the Army on May 10, 2006. Deployed to Afghanistan on Jan. 12, 2007.
Now a specialist, was a private first class at the time of the incident, when he was assigned to Pathfinders, Fifth Battalion of the 101st Aviation Combat Brigade.
Rescued a fellow soldier who was trapped under a concrete pillar while a crane held the swaying ceiling of the building over him.
Assigned to headquarters of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division.
"I joined the military to make a difference. How I lived my life and how I had gone day to day, I felt I could be something more. Making money and living day to day for myself just kind of seemed to be a waste. I felt that if I joined the military I'd have good training, have the opportunity to make a difference in this world."
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lighting is another good way to highlight the most important elements of
your landscape. It's flexible enough to allow plants to grow freely and safe
enough not to harm children or unsuspecting landscapers. Even if the low-voltage
cable is cut by mistake, the 12 volts of electricity flowing through the lines wouldn't
cause any damage. These systems rely on a transformer that reduces the amount
of electricity moving through the cable. If normal electrical flow is 120
volts, the transformer will knock that down to a harmless 12 volts. Okay, with
that in mind, let's think about planning a landscape.
To design the lighting system properly,
determine what you want to highlight. It sounds simple enough, right? Take a
walk through the yard and find the areas of focus. Low-voltage lights work
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- The best method is a Straight line; this prevents dimming and electrical drop-off. The cable is buried in straight line and can highlight a driveway, sidewalk, or entryway.
- Loop installation is very good for flower beds and highlighting trees; some voltage drop-off may occur in this design.
- Split loads make the shape of an arrow and come close to using the maximum amount of cable.
- The "I" installation runs cable parallel to each other or away from each other.
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American Airlines Recalls Additional Flight Attendants
American Airlines today announced that it is sending recall notices to 460 furloughed flight attendants to address staffing needs and projected attrition through the balance of 2007. This recall is comprised of former TWA flight attendants and is in addition to the approximately 200 American Airlines and former TWA furloughed flight attendants contacted earlier this year.
"Recalling a total of 660 flight attendants this year will help to ensure that American provides the best possible onboard experience for our customers," said Lauri Curtis, American's Vice President - Onboard Service. "We are pleased to welcome our former TWA flight attendants back and are looking forward to their return to service."
Those flight attendants who accept the recall and meet all requirements will be eligible to return to service in either November or December 2007. Since 2003, American has conducted a total of five flight attendant recalls, contacting more than 1,900 AA and former TWA furloughed flight attendants.
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ENFIELD, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 05: Clint Dempsey wraps up warm in the cold conditions during the Tottenham Hotspur training session at the Spurs Training Centre on December 5, 2012 in Enfield, England. Tottenham will play Panathinaikos in the UEFA Europa League on December 6th. (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)


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