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MINDINAO, Philippines -- This summer, flash floods in the southern Philippines left hundreds of families homeless. This disaster came amidst the ongoing war between the Philippine government and Muslim rebels that has forced thousands more into evacuation centers.
CBN's Operation Blessing has been helping alleviate the suffering of many of those families - both Christian and Muslim.
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For three weeks this summer, many towns in the southern Philippines were submerged in floodwaters, with more than 3,000 residents losing their homes.
Felix Alcala was going through the debris of his house, gathering materials he could use to build a new one.
In the meantime, he and his family of 13 children are staying in a makeshift tent beside the road.
"Now that we lost our house, it's really a big problem because my children don't have a place to sleep," Alcala said. "And because they are exposed to the changing weather, they become sick with fever and cough."
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Another problem is a shortage of food. The floods destroyed not only the crops, but also the roads and bridges used to transport the products.
Along with the houses, the middle part of the bridge was also swept away by surging floodwaters.
But on top of this natural disaster, the people here have no choice but to live with serious problems such as kidnappings, bombings and attacks of Muslim rebels.
In addition to the natural calamities, manmade disasters like the armed conflict between Muslim rebels and government troops add to the suffering.
Noraisa Kalim still mourns the death of her younger brother who was killed when Muslim rebels attacked their village a year ago.
"It's been more than a year, but I still can't accept the death of my brother," Kalim said. "We cannot go back to our village because it is not safe and they already destroyed our house. Our life has become miserable."
The fighting has displaced thousands of residents like Kalim who now live in congested evacuation centers. Unson Demaguil is Muslim and the town's municipal secretary.
"The people here have nothing to go back to because their houses have been burned," Demaguil explained. "The people are economically depressed and they are dependent on the NGO's for their food."
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Operation Blessing visited the different evacuation centers to provide medical assistance and distribute food and other relief to the victims.
Noraisa is happy she had her baby examined by an Operation Blessing volunteer doctor.
She is also thankful for the rice, beans and canned goods the ministry gave away to refugees, because she can now feed her children.
Felix Alcala is thankful for the medicines that will help his children fight infection and fever. However, he said what touched him more was the prayer of the counselor for him.
"I felt joy and a sense of hope when the counselor prayed for me," Alcala said. "Most of us have forgotten about God and maybe that is why we got the flood. It's a reminder for us to turn back to God."
Operation Blessing's Pastor Albino Mercado Jr., believes that the disaster relief efforts sow peace and hope to the region.
"This is our way of showing the Muslims that we Christians care for them," Mercado said. "We share the love of Jesus to them."
"Operation Blessing, they are Christian and we welcome them and we are optimistic that it will build a stronger relationship between the Christian and the Muslim," Demaguil said.
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It's tough to argue with the job Tom Telesco has done in the offseason.
With cap space limited, the second-year GM of the San Diego Chargers stretched every dollar in free agency. His most recent pickup of Pro Bowl corner Brandon Flowers should have put San Diego way over budget, but the inner workings of the incentive-laden deal allowed for some breathing room.
As Michael Gehlken of U-T San Diego explained, Flowers' contract is worth an estimated $5 million, but the $2 million in incentives does not affect the team's cap space. The Chargers reportedly had $3 million before signing Flowers.
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|Cathy Wilcox
|Catherine Morville Wilcox
Sydney, Australia - 1963
New South Wales
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|Notable work
|A Proper Little Lady
|Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism – Cartooning, 2007 / Australian Book Council of Australia Award.
Cathy Wilcox (born 1963) is an Australian cartoonist and children's book illustrator, best known for her work as a cartoonist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers. She has also twice won the Australian Children's Book Council's 'Picture Book of the Year' award. In 2007 she won the Walkley Award in Cartooning for a cartoon about Sheikh Taj el-Din al Hilaly's infamous 'uncovered meat' remarks on Australian women.[1]
- Interview with Cathy Wilcox, cartoonist and illustrator (1998 sound recording) – interviewed by Ann Turner
- The bad guys are winning cartoons / Cathy Wilcox with foreword by James Valentine (2005, ISBN 0-7344-0823-4)
- Enzo the Wonderfish / written and illustrated by Cathy Wilcox (1993, ISBN 0-207-18357-0 pbk and ISBN 0-207-17650-7 hbk)
- Throw away lines: cartoons / Cathy Wilcox with an introduction by Patrick Cook (1991, ISBN 0-207-17348-6)
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- Cathy Wilcox – 27 June 2004 article from The Age
- www.cathywilcox.com.au – Cathy Wilcox's website
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A 22-year-old Seattle man and a 15-year-old Seattle boy are in custody as burglary suspects in Bellevue and are also believed to be linked to the four burglaries committed in the Woodinville area last Wednesday.
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Is this trope a duplicate of Villains Act, Heroes React or a subtrope of The Dragon? I have used it in the latter sense: The Dragon is not more dangerous than the Big Bad but yet does more of direct plot relevance.
edited 23rd Jul '12 2:38:44 PM by Lophotrochozoa
I use The Heavy to refer to the villain that gets the most face-time and development (and the top-billed villain in a film or play). This can be the Big Bad or The Dragon, or even someone else. It's mostly about how the work presents the characters, rather than who's in charge. For Dragons who are more dangerous than their bosses, that's Dragon-in-Chief, who is likely to also be The Heavy, but isn't the same concept.
That is what I have in mind. The reason why I wrote that it's a subtrope of The Dragon is that I thought the Big Bad would be The Heavy by default.
It can only be a subtrope of The Dragon if every example is also an example of The Dragon.
Big Bads are shadowy manipulatorsat least as oftn as they are direct threats. Some Big Bads are The Heavy, some aren't. For example, Emperor Palpatine is the Big Bad of Star Wars, but is only The Heavy in Revenge of the Sith and Return of the Jedi. On the other hand, the Joker is both Big Bad and The Heavy of The Dark Knight. So the Big Bad is not The Heavy by default, though some certainly are. The Heavy can be any villain, so long as they're the most featured, top-billed villain. It's not a subtrope of another villain archetype.
6 Xtifr23rd Jul 2012 03:11:47 PM , Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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Outside the wiki, I think the term is most commonly used to refer to someone who "throws his weight around"—that is, someone who tries to pressure or intimidate people. It's not about being the big boss or not—The Heavy is the person who most naturally issues the threats. It might be the boss, the dragon, or simply the big guy. Or even, the small, fast, heavily armed guy. Or the Amoral Attorney. Being The Heavy (as the rest of the world uses the term) is about using your (figurative, not literal) weight to get what you want. It's not even necessarily limited to villains. It could be your superior trying to get you to shape up, or to forget about the one that got away and focus on your current case.
"Existential Despair" is an oxymoron.
7 lu12712th Sep 2012 10:30:39 AM from 空蝉 , Relationship Status: Loves me...loves me not
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8 Spark912th Sep 2012 10:56:00 AM from Castle Wulfenbach , Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Gentleman Troper!
I Thought It Meant either some guy who is fat, or that explosives dude from Team Fortress...
Special trousers. Very heroic.
9 Xtifr12th Sep 2012 08:24:34 PM , Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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Here's what the dictionary has to say, under noun, which is the category that concerns us: n. pl. heav·ies
1. a. A serious or tragic role in a play. b. An actor playing such a role.
2. Slang A villain in a story or play.
3. Slang A mobster.
4. Slang One that is very important or influential: a media heavy. I suspect they may be overlooking some nuance in the slang meanings (not uncommon), but even so, the name seems like it may just be too ambiguous, especially in a media context like TV Tropes.
1. a. A serious or tragic role in a play. b. An actor playing such a role.
2. Slang A villain in a story or play.
3. Slang A mobster.
4. Slang One that is very important or influential: a media heavy. I suspect they may be overlooking some nuance in the slang meanings (not uncommon), but even so, the name seems like it may just be too ambiguous, especially in a media context like TV Tropes.
edited 12th Sep '12 8:26:29 PM by Xtifr
"Existential Despair" is an oxymoron.
The explosives guy is the Demoman. The Heavy is the huge russian with the minigun.
So it's a pre-existing term. How about Heavy Role? Heavy Antagonist? Heavy Villain? Or a combination of the first or latter two.
edited 13th Sep '12 7:52:22 AM by KingZeal
People using the term the same way we're using it: in a bestselling book on screen-writing. in a book by Paul Mooney (less authoratative, but he is a writer) and more. That was just a few minutes of searching. Can we treat renaming this as a last resort? They're are other things to be fixed before it comes to that.
edited 13th Sep '12 8:50:19 AM by abk0100
13 Spark913th Sep 2012 08:56:35 AM from Castle Wulfenbach , Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
Gentleman Troper!
And I can also post numerous links to people using the term in another way than we do. What exactly does that prove, either way?
Special trousers. Very heroic.
14 AnotherDuck13th Sep 2012 09:33:41 AM from Stockholm , Relationship Status: In season
No, the other one.
I still think a pre-existing term is far better than one we make up. Is there another pre-existing term that doesn't cause any confusion?
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16 Xtifr13th Sep 2012 02:10:48 PM , Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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The problem is that this is an adjective which has been "nouned" in a variety of ways over the centuries, so there is no single "pre-existing use" we can point to. As I pointed out, the dictionary has four definitions of it as a noun. And it's pretty vague. The OED would probably give us a lot more, with a lot more detail on each one. I'm most used to seeing it in Hardboiled Detective fiction (a genre I like so much that I ended up writing the trope), where it's generally used as I described above. But other genres and other eras may use it differently, and therein lies the problem.
"Existential Despair" is an oxymoron.
17 WaxingName10th Nov 2012 10:29:24 PM from Everywhere
I suggest the names Active Villain, Most Active Villain as possible substitutes. And I agree that The Heavy is way too ambiguous to be effective since the word "heavy" is used in a variety of ways today that have little to do with the trope's definition, which is definitely not helped by the presence of Team Fortress 2.
18 WaxingName30th Nov 2012 01:49:17 PM from Everywhere
19 Pig_catapult30th Nov 2012 09:11:35 PM , Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Agreeing that the current name has way too many possible meanings. The adjective "heavy" has many different meanings and connotations that could be hypothetically nouned. I've personally never heard the term used for the trope, for what it's worth, and never would have guessed that "The Heavy" meant "the main mover-and-shaker in the work (who is always a villain because Villains Act, Heroes React)".
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20 AnotherDuck1st Dec 2012 03:51:38 PM from Stockholm , Relationship Status: In season
No, the other one.
Is it misused or underused?
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21 Noaqiyeum1st Dec 2012 03:55:55 PM from empty rooms and silent halls , Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The it-thingy
...so this is supposed to be something like the Advertised Antagonist? :P
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22 Xtifr1st Dec 2012 05:34:12 PM , Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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Unclear description (which is something we should fix in any case), combined with a possibly misleading name. We'd need a wick-check to declare actual misuse and really justify a rename, but I think there's a good case for saying that a wick check should be done.
"Existential Despair" is an oxymoron.
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Just going by a scan of the links, I notice that two Team Fortress 2 pages link to "The Heavy" — I hope that isn't representative of a good sample.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.
@Noaqiyeum: The Heavy has nothing to do with advertising.
25 WaxingName7th Dec 2012 09:06:33 PM from Everywhere
Well, so are there any other names we could potentially use to replace The Heavy?
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Kate Hudson has asked her lawyers to throw their legal weight against several publications for running pictures and text that The Skeleton Key star says falsely suggests she suffers from an eating order, reports Reuters.
According to legal papers filed in London's High Court on Monday, Hudson, 26, claims the photos "suggested that she had an eating disorder that was so grave and serious that she was wasting away, to the extreme concern of her mother and family." Hudson is the daughter of actress Goldie Hawn and wife of musician Chris Robinson, with whom she has a son, Ryder, born in January 2004.
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Author Affiliations: Department of Ophthalmology, University of South Florida College of Medicine, James Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa (Drs Margo and Harman); and Department of Neurology, University of Colorado Health Science Center, Denver (Dr Smith).
Generations of disabled persons were inspired by the miraculous recovery Charles Fletcher Lummis made following a series of devastating strokes that began at the age of 28. The famed author, editor, and social activist was struck by misfortune again at 51 when he went bilaterally blind. At the height of his career, Lummis never let the loss of vision interfere with his many professional responsibilities or his personal life. The cause of Lummis's stroke and blindness has been the subject of speculation for nearly a century and involves one of the most sensitive and perplexing diagnoses in medicine.
On August 1, 1911, the Los Angeles Tribune reported that Charles Fletcher Lummis, the celebrated editor of Land of Sunshine, poet, photographer, amateur archeologist, and Indian rights advocate, had gone blind.1 Lummis, a friend and confidant of President Theodore Roosevelt, had written in his personal journal just 7 days earlier of having to shave for the first time in utter darkness.2 The first hint of any visual problem surfaced in May of that year, several weeks after Lummis returned from an expedition to Guatemala.3,4
An obsessive diarist, Lummis wrote from 50 000 to 55 000 words each year in a personal journal from 1888 to 1928, documenting the most trivial aspects of his daily routine. During the months that preceded blindness, Lummis made only casual reference to his vision. In June 1911, he purchased new glasses at the department store and found them somewhat helpful.5
From the earliest onset of visual symptoms, Lummis attributed his eye condition to "jungle fever," contracted while on a 6-week expedition to the Mayan ruins of Quirigua. During the excursion, every member of the expeditionary party developed the "breakbone" fever characteristic of the disease except for Lummis and his youngest son Quimu, who accompanied him on the trip.6(pp142-144) No one other than Lummis, however, ever manifested the latent complication of vision loss.
For approximately 15 months he remained completely blind, unable to recognize faces or to tell night from day.7(pp188-290) Despite the enormity of the disability, Lummis never sought the input of an eye specialist, although a friend, Otto Benz, recommended that he consult Professor Otto Haab of the Zurich Eye Hospital for an opinion.8
Usually introspective and prolific, he wrote next to nothing of substance about the tribulations of going blind or the ways he physically coped with darkness. Between July 1911 and late 1912, he was seldom seen in public without a bandanna covering his eyes, suggesting—perhaps—some element of photophobia. When he was outdoors, Quimu acted as his guide.
Lummis adjusted immediately to blindness. Outwardly, the disability had no substantial effect on his work or social life (Figure 1). He continued to supervise the construction of the Southwest Museum, his major preoccupation at the time. Tracing his fingers over the floor plans, Lummis could imagine the 3-dimensional relief of the building well enough to engage in heated arguments with the architect about changes in design. He continued to hike, cook, practice the guitar, trim hedges, and perform sundry manual labor (Figure 2). Unwilling to abandon photography, Lummis taught young Quimu how to use the camera and directed him on what scenes to capture.6
Lummis wearing bandanna and posing under parasol with family members of Adolph Bandelier, mentor archeologist and friend, circa 1912, New Mexico. Gray scale of original cyanotype. Courtesy of the Braun Research Library, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California; P.33783.
Lummis hiking in New Mexico approximately 1 month after he lost vision. Frank Springer, noted authority in Paleozoic archeology, is guiding him uphill while Quimu is leading the procession.6(p143) Gray scale of original cyanotype. Courtesy of the Braun Research Library, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California; P.58132.
Details about Lummis's visual recovery are sketchy. On the last day of August 1912, he wrote: "lifted the big black bandage [bandanna] and pried the bad eye open and got dim but recognizable glimpse of my Bertha [daughter], my Quimu . . . first human faces I had looked on in 14 months."6(p151) Nothing following that journal entry indicates visual recovery was imminent.
In November, Lummis received a letter from attorney George Crothers expressing delight over having heard (secondhand) that he could see again.9 That same month, rumor of his recovery reached another friend, George Frey, who wrote Lummis asking what might have led to his cure.10 His question was personal, for Frey had also gone mysteriously blind himself. As in the case with Lummis, the process was painless and left no visible signs of inflammation.10
As 1912 came to an end, he continued to appear blindfolded in public, although amber goggles periodically replaced the bandanna (Figure 3). Lummis downplayed his miraculous recovery, waiting until March 1913 to announce at a dinner reception his good fortune; the news was greeted with a round of applause.7(p290)
Lummis at the groundbreaking of the Southwest Museum, November 16, 1912. After hoisting the American flag, he addressed about 300 citizens while wearing a white bandanna.6(p147) Courtesy of the Braun Research Library, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California; S1.6.
After 1913, there were no new revelations about vision until Lummis began having difficulty focusing on photographs in the 1920s. This time he sought the opinion of an eye specialist who diagnosed cataracts in 1927.4 Lummis, now 68, was dissuaded from surgery because extraction of the worse cataract would "prejudice and bungle the sight in the left eye."4 Lummis complained periodically about his vision, but more pressing medical problems kept him from having the cataract removed. On November 25, 1928, he died from presumed intracranial spread of cancer of the maxillary sinus.
The curious blindness of Lummis has remained the subject of speculation for nearly a century. The subject has avoided medical scrutiny, possibly because it deals with one of the profession's most unsettling diagnoses—factitious disease.
At the age of 2 years, Lummis lost his mother to tuberculosis and was cared for by maternal grandparents until he was old enough for school. His father, Henry, a Methodist clergyman and disciplinarian, brought him back to Lynn, Massachusetts, where he taught at a girls' academy. Henry actively participated in his son's religious and secular education, providing the majority of instruction at home. Despite the cloistered atmosphere, the personal attention he received gave Lummis a decided advantage in Latin, Greek, and French by the time he entered Harvard in 1877.
A capable college student, he made extra money tutoring classmates in language and philosophy. Now free of paternal oversight, Lummis lacked direction and rejected authority. Known for his brazen pranks, he was lucky to not have been expelled during his first years at Harvard.7(pp10-12) At Cambridge, Lummis developed an interest in physical conditioning and participated in a variety of sports. Although slender, he took pride in his muscular build and athletic ability. A self-confessed cutup, he also displayed a serious side, publishing a book of verse in 1879 titled Birch Bark Poems,11 which received encouraging reviews from the literary community.
Living without parental guidance had other perils. Lummis was secretly married to medical student Dorothea Rhodes his junior year, at about the same time he fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman. And although his academic performance up until this time never seemed to suffer, Lummis dropped out of Harvard 3 days before commencement, attributing the incapacitation to "brain fever."12(p6) Details surrounding the sudden illness remain murky. Brain fever loosely translates to encephalitis or meningitis, but there is no evidence he suffered from any neurologic disorder at the end of his senior year. Later investigation into the incident showed Lummis had failed examinations in trigonometry and analytical geometry.6(p14)
After dropping out of Harvard, he moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, to work on his father-in-law's farm, while Dorothea remained in Boston to complete her studies. In Ohio, he boxed, wrestled, played baseball, and developed an interest in archeology. Never seriously intent on becoming a farmer, Lummis tried his hand at editing a small newspaper in the Scioto Valley and enjoyed it.
At some point in 1884, he decided to explore the West. He contacted Harrison Gray Otis, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and persuaded the newspaper owner to underwrite a promotional stunt to subsidize his move to California. Lummis promised to walk across the country writing weekly dispatches about the journey in exchange for $5 per epistle and a chance to work at the newspaper once he arrived in Los Angeles.7(pp17-21)
At the age of 26 and in top physical condition, Lummis began the 112-day journey in Cincinnati on September 12. His trek across the Southwest was vividly recorded in weekly stories he wired to the Los Angeles Times. By the time he reached southern California, Lummis was already a minor celebrity. The long hike was later embellished in a book, in which Lummis recounts the origins of his infatuation with the Southwest and his love of Indian culture.13
Despite differences in personality, Lummis got along with Otis, who appreciated his spunk and initiative. Lummis let his new job consume him, often working 7 days a week and seldom getting more than 4 hours' sleep a night. After working for nearly 3 years to the point of exhaustion, he began to experience numbness of his left index finger. The symptoms lasted a week and were associated with nonlateralizing sensations in his legs, head, and trunk.14(pp25-29) One afternoon a "creeping numbness close to the heart" preceded his collapse. Awakening on a couch, Lummis discovered he could not get up. After 20 minutes he was able to stand, but "couldn't move a muscle" in his left arm.14(pp25-29)
Rather than seek medical attention, he decided to treat himself by immersion in the New Mexico wilderness, even though he was "barely able to waddle."14(pp25-29) Although commenting that his speech was "more or less affected," there was no documented problem with language or verbal communication. Once in New Mexico, Lummis bathed in ice water, learned to roll cigarettes with one hand, shot a rifle like a revolver, and drove a wagon. He learned photography, recorded more than 800 songs on an Edison device, and broke more than 20 wild broncos. Although his left arm remained useless, he became a "contented hermit," living independently off the land.14
To further recuperate, Lummis moved to the Indian pueblo of Isleta, where he enjoyed traditional hacienda life. The prolonged separation from Dorothea, however, strained their already tenuous marriage. Still without improvement in motor function of his left arm, Lummis sustained 2 more paralytic attacks, one following a letter from Dorothea presumably asking for a divorce.12(p12)
Hospitalized in Santa Fe, he lay helpless and mute but was able to use the time to prepare humorous vignettes for Life and Time magazines.12(p12) Once discharged, his ability to speak reappeared unexpectedly one afternoon, when he caught himself humming a Spanish tune aloud.7(p140) Function of the left arm appeared to catch Lummis off guard in much the same manner as his voice. Not long after divorcing Dorothea and marrying Eva Douglas, whom he met during convalescence in New Mexico, Lummis found himself stroking the hair of his new wife with his left hand.7(p140) It was the first documented use of the limb in 3 years 7 months, and a special unexpected gift for the newlyweds. Strength and dexterity returned rapidly to its preapoplectic baseline.
Lummis described his experience overcoming paralysis in the 1891 book My Friend Will.14 Written in the third person, the book had the express purpose of giving hope to persons with a disability and of demonstrating the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity.
From a purely neurologic standpoint, it is difficult to identify a clinical disorder that adequately explains migratory, bilateral paresthesias, absolute paralysis of the left arm, weakness in the left leg and then in both legs, well-preserved strength in the right arm, and mutism without aphasia. This presumably multifocal process followed an unusual temporal course, with profound motor impairment localized to the left arm and then total, rapid recovery after 3½ years. The clinical features and courses of cerebrovascular and demyelinating disease do not fit this picture.
Remarried and physically whole again, Lummis behaved as if he had a new lease on life. In 1893, he returned to Los Angeles, where for the next 17 years he threw himself into a host of ambitious projects, including archeological excavations, restoration of the California missions, and editing the widely popular Western literary magazine Land of Sunshine.
Lummis seemed to enjoy defying convention. The offbeat names of his children and the eccentric clothing he wore begged for attention. A gray Stetson sombrero, green wrinkled corduroy suit, and red Navajo sash were his trademark attire. He spent more than 10 years building a house of boulders, rocks, and adobe—a stone castle along the Arroyo Seco to showcase the legacy of Spanish colonial America, a culture he thought Californians were foolishly rejecting. The atmosphere of dinner parties at his house resembled a European salon; his home became a regular gathering place for members of California's art and literary circles.15
As Lummis got older, he engaged in salacious affairs with dozens of younger women. These affairs destroyed his second marriage and family.7(pp278-286)
The year Lummis went blind was as stressful as any time in his life. He lost his only source of regular income after resigning as chief librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, a job he had held since June 1905. Although his resignation was not forced, Lummis received considerable criticism about the way he ran the library. He rationalized his departure as giving him more time to pursue his dream of building a museum. Having worked tirelessly since 1904 to get the Southwest Museum off the ground, Lummis was ready to supervise construction of the main building atop Mount Washington, several miles north of downtown Los Angeles, when he lost his sight. All this occurred as Lummis was engaged in a very public and very bitter divorce with Eva, who could no longer tolerate his extramarital affairs.
Although Eva seemed to have limited interest in her husband's tangible assets, she rejected completely his right to raise their children. By many accounts, Lummis was a devoted father; he was particularly fond of 10-year-old Quimu, who he insisted live with him in Los Angeles to serve as his second eyes.16 Eva moved in with Phoebe Hearst, the mother of William Randolph Hearst, and then decided she must forsake her pride to win custody of her children by exposing every detail of her husband's infidelities.
Eva learned to turn Lummis's obsession as a diarist against him. With some patience, she was able to decipher the cryptic entries that for years cataloged his sexual exploits.7(pp278-286) Once the scandalous stories got out, they made great fodder for newspapers, but it was questionable whether they would shame Lummis into giving up the children. As the domestic battle raged into its second year, Lummis turned the tables on Eva—accusing her of extramarital liaisons.
When the divorce was eventually finalized in June 1912, Quimu was 12 years old and tired of leading his father about and running errands. By the fall, Lummis's sight had improved enough so he could walk unaided with goggles.
Lummis was always content with his self-diagnosis of jungle fever, while later in life almost relishing its exotic appeal.4 Having traveled for months as a young man in South and Central America, Lummis had firsthand experience with diseases that fell under the 19th century rubric of jungle fever (malaria and yellow fever being the most obvious examples). He was also likely familiar with river blindness, when few physicians in the United States would have had any knowledge of the condition now known as onchocerciasis. The type of jungle fever he brought home with him in 1911, however, was highly unusual for any infectious disorder. It was not associated with any febrile illness, and visual symptoms developed weeks after returning from the jungles of Guatemala.
Much of our current understanding of river blindness originally came from a Guatemalan physician named Rodolfo Robles, who, 6 years after Lummis went blind, discovered the pathogenic role of the filarial parasite Onchocherca volvulos and its transmission to humans by insects of the genus Simulium.17 River blindness has an incubation period and can be carried into nonendemic areas asymptomatically, but it is a notoriously itchy, chronic inflammatory skin disease. Lummis never had any documented feature of onchocerchiasis. Although exotic disorders like malaria or yellow fever were implied causes of vision loss, no tropical disease can adequately explain his clinical course of isolated blindness.
The simultaneous and bilateral loss of vision points to conditions that affect the occipital lobes or visual cortex. However, diseases known to injure this part of the visual pathway to the extent that they extinguish all light perception, whether they be vascular, demyelinating, neoplastic, or neurodegenerative, do not spontaneously remit after 15 months. The clinical course also is atypical for the posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
Several persons, including 2 of his children, have debated whether Lummis's paralysis at age 28 and blindness at age 51 were related and whether they were organic or functional in origin. In compiling a biographical memoir of their father years after he died, Turbesé Lummis Fisk and Keith Lummis questioned whether the Lummis family strain of migraine could produce neurologic symptoms suggesting paralysis or blindness.6(p151) Concluding it unlikely, they mused whether the contemporary term psychosomatic illness might be a more appropriate diagnosis for their father's affliction.6(p151)
Edwin Bingham, an historian and student of Land of Sunshine and its famous editor, confessed that there is no way of knowing where organic disease ends and psychosomatic illness begins, yet he acknowledged that there was suspicion that Lummis's paralysis and blindness were "largely delusory."12(p33) Others privately doubted Lummis ever went blind. Among them was John Muir, who politely told him so in a letter and then encouraged him to get more rest.18
Lummis seemed to have savored the challenge that darkness presented him to the point of denying an authentic human response to the challenges blindness inflicts. Apparently nostalgic for the adversity of blindness, he continued to shave for years with his eyes shut.19
The phenomenology of nonorganic visual loss is incompletely understood, encompassing aberrant behaviors both involuntary and deliberate. Usually subdivided into psychogenic or the result of malingering, functional vision loss is a diagnosis of exclusion. Strategies to test the validity of alleged vision loss are now part of every ophthalmologist's training, but they are difficult, if not impossible, to apply historically.20,21
Evidence suggesting Lummis may have been faking his blindness comes from his handwritten journals, the corpus his wife used to disgrace him during their divorce proceeding. In general, the quality of one's penmanship is relatively unaffected by severe vision loss, although a common gaffe of the unsophisticated imposter is intentionally exaggerated careless handwriting. Lummis's cursive script appears entirely unaltered by blindness; however, there are other features of his writing that are difficult, if not impossible, to reconcile with the notion that a blind man could have written such text.
Late at night, from July 1911 through 1913, Lummis crammed his journal with notes recounting the activities of the day, just as he had done for decades. He wrote in a bound ledger on narrowly spaced, preprinted lines, squeezing hundreds of words onto the single page allotted for the day (Figure 4). He wrote neatly, never dropping below a line or veering upward. Ink is seldom dripped or smeared. He began each line at the designated margin. He blanketed the sheet with tiny script yet avoided the preprinted header atop the page. Selected words and phrases were underlined for emphasis, parentheses were wrapped around words—never through them or over them— and afterthoughts were occasionally inserted between lines in different color ink. He also maintained a financial ledger during the period of total blindness. Written in his hand, each entry is neat and perfectly fitted to row and column (Figure 5).
Lummis's handwritten diary the day he went totally blind (July 25, 1911) and the first time he performed a "blind shave." Roughly 37 lines of written text respect the preprinted lines on the page. Words avoid headers, and the left margin is exact. Personal diary, 1911. Courtesy of the Charles F. Lummis Manuscript Collection, Braun Research Library, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California; MS.1.
Financial ledger showing cash expenditures from January through August 1912. Unassisted, Lummis placed entries within rows and columns. Twice on this page, he inserted entries between lines. Personal diary, 1912. Courtesy of the Charles F. Lummis Manuscript Collection, Braun Research Library, Autry National Center of the American West, Los Angeles, California; MS.1.
Although we will never know for sure whether Lummis's blindness was real or feigned, his description of the ordeal in November 1912 offers another potential clue: "I intend to get all my eyes back in time. . . . The dark is another world and I had fun exploring it."6(p151) This degree of self-confidence contradicts the humility that people typically face at the hands of a cruel and capricious disease. One wonders whether it also reflects the psychological improvisation of a complex man.
Correspondence: Curtis E. Margo, MD, MPH, University of South Florida, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd, MDC Box 21, Tampa, FL 33612 (email@example.com).
Submitted for Publication: August 20, 2010; final revision received August 22, 2010; accepted August 31, 2010.
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This collection showcases the books, journal articles, posters, and other publications and presentations written by staff of the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Publications from 2011
Developing a Strategic Plan for Transitioning to Healthcare Knowledge Services Centers (HKSCs), H. Mark Goldstein and Margaret H. Coletti
Knowledge Management: A Regional Initiative (Presentation), H. Mark Goldstein and Margaret H. Coletti
Shaping up: Boot camp and other programs addressing professional development needs of science librarians, Sally A. Gore
e-Science and Data Management Resources on the Web., Sally A. Gore
Mitosis and the Life Cycle: A Metaphor for the Transformation of the Research Librarian, Sally A. Gore and Lisa A. Palmer
Knowledge Pyramid, Hospital Library Subcommittee of the Regional Advisory Council (RAC) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region (NN/LM NER)
Template for a Healthcare Knowledge Services Center, Hospital Library Subcommittee of the Regional Advisory Council (RAC) of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region (NN/LM NER)
Teaching Data Management to Health Science, Science & Engineering Students, Donna Kafel
Building an e-Science Portal for Librarians: A Model of Collaboration, Donna Kafel, Myrna E. Morales, Robert Vander Hart, Sally A. Gore, Andrew Creamer, Javier Crespo, and Elaine R. Martin
Challenges and Opportunities for Medical Institutional Repositories, Dan Kipnis, Ann E. Koopman, and Lisa A. Palmer
The Utilization Of An Emergency Medicine Specific Library Website In The Clinical Setting, Doron Korinow, Susanne Griffin, Nancy E. Harger, and Jeffrey Cukor
Focused Outreach Evaluation Report: Providence RI, and Western Maine Health District, Sabrina Kurtz-Rossi and National Network of Libraries of Medicine New England Region
Being there, there and there: using research methodology to evaluate the effectiveness of librarians embedded in chart rounds within a multi-center Family Medicine residency program, Len L. Levin, Judith M. Nordberg, and Heather-Lyn Haley
HKSC Field Guide for Developing a Healthcare Knowledge Services Center, Lynda Moulton, Margaret H. Coletti, and H. Mark Goldstein
Psychiatry Issue Briefs: A Librarian/Faculty Publishing Collaboration, Lisa A. Palmer and Kathleen Biebel
A Meeting of the Minds: Enhancing Collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry through the Institutional Repository, Lisa A. Palmer and Len L. Levin
Evaluation of Strategic Plans in Academic Medical Libraries, Mary E. Piorun
Teaching Research Data Management, Mary E. Piorun
Research Data in Libraries, Rebecca C. Reznik-Zellen and Donna Kafel
Public Health Information Access Project: Providing Information Access through a Digital Library, E. Hatheway Simpson
Public Health Information Access -- Research and Services, E. Hatheway Simpson
Academic Library Information-Seeking Ecosystem, Robert J. Vander Hart and Anita Crescenzi
Publications from 2010
Assessment of Biomedical and Science Librarian E-science Learner and User Needs to Develop an E-science Web Portal and Support Library and Institutional E-science Initiatives and Collaborations, Andrew Creamer, Myrna Morales, Javier Crespo, Donna Kafel, and Elaine Russo Martin
Value of Hospital Libraries Study, H. Mark Goldstein and Elaine Russo Martin
Mitosis and the Life Cycle: A Metaphor for the Transformation of the Research Librarian, Sally A. Gore and Lisa A. Palmer
Embedded in the IRB, Nancy E. Harger and Judith M. Nordberg
Developing an e-Science Portal for Librarians to Support Learning and Collaboration, Donna Kafel
Developing and Testing a Grading Rubric to Assess Students' Evidence-Based Practice Search Skills: the Experience of a Cross-Institutional Collaborative Instruction Team, Len L. Levin, Irena Bond, Alice Gardner, and Monina Lahoz
Multi-Disciplinary Experts Supporting Graduate Medical Education through Participation in COMPLETE Chart Rounds, Len L. Levin, Suzanne B. Cashman, Heather-Lyn Haley, Marie Caggiano, Konstantinos Deligiannidis, Judith M. Nordberg, Stacy E. Potts, and Warren J. Ferguson
Response to Neil Rambo's editorial: "E-science and Biomedical Libraries", Elaine Russo Martin and Donna Kafel
The Outreach Continuum: Expanding the Medical Librarian's Role, Mary E. Piorun, Jane Fama, Elaine Russo Martin, and Nancy R. LaPelle
Book Review: "When Search Meets Web Usability", Robert J. Vander Hart
Upgrading a ColdFusion-Based Academic Medical Library Staff Intranet, Robert J. Vander Hart, Barbara Ingrassia, Kerry F. Mayotte, Lisa A. Palmer, and Julia Powell
Publications from 2009
Collaborative Cross-Institutional Model for Faculty and Librarians Teaching Evidence-Based Practice: A Future Fusion Recipe?, Irena Bond, Len L. Levin, Alice Gardner, and Monina Lahoz
Empowering Health Information Outreach in New England, Michelle L. Eberle and Javier Crespo
Training Library Assistants for New Roles, Jane Fama and Barbara Ingrassia
One Model for Creating a Career Ladder for Library Support Staff, Jane Fama and Elaine Russo Martin
Trends in health sciences library and information science research: an analysis of research publications in the Bulletin of the Medical Library Association and Journal of the Medical Library Association from 1991 to 2007, Sally A. Gore, Judy M. Nordberg, Lisa A. Palmer, and Mary E. Piorun
Evidence-Based Medicine Instruction in Integrative Medical School Curricula: A Tale of Two Libraries, Len L. Levin and Julia S. Whelan
Building the Next Generation of Leaders: The NLM/AAHSL Leadership Fellows Program, Carolyn E. Lipscomb, Elaine Russo Martin, and Wayne J. Peay
Hospital Administrator Perceptions of the Library, Elaine Russo Martin
Teaching Web 2.0 Technologies Using Web 2.0 Technologies, Melissa L. Rethlefsen, Mary E. Piorun, and Dale Prince
Public Health Resources and Outreach: National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region, E. Hatheway Simpson
Book Review: "Designing the Digital Experience: How to Use Experience Design Tools & Techniques to Build Websites Customers Love", Robert J. Vander Hart
Publications from 2008
Medical Librarians' Uses and Perceptions of Social Tagging, Cecile Bianco
Medical Librarians' Uses and Perceptions of Social Tagging (poster), Cecile Bianco
Levels Program: A Career Ladder for Support Staff, Jane Fama, James F. Comes, Vivian (Frempong) Okyere, Barbara Ingrassia, Kerry Mayotte, Lisa A. Palmer, and Mary E. Piorun
Trends in Health Sciences Library and Information Science Research, Sally A. Gore, Judy Nordberg, Lisa A. Palmer, and Mary E. Piorun
Teaching Evidence-Based Literature Retrieval to Medical Students and Residents, Len L. Levin, Megan Bresnahan, Lauren Maggio, Kerry A. O'Rourke, and Donna O'Malley
Using the Apreso™ Lecture Capture System to Orient Students and Faculty to the University of Massachusetts Medical School Learning Management System, Len L. Levin, Lyn Riza, Andrea Lydon, Andrea Barrett, and Laurie Theriault
Women Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine, Ellen S. More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry
Digitizing Dissertations for an Institutional Repository: A Process and Cost Analysis, Mary E. Piorun and Lisa A. Palmer
Digitizing Dissertations for the eScholarship@UMMS Institutional Repository, Mary E. Piorun and Lisa A. Palmer
Publications from 2007
Capturing Students' International Experiences: eScholarship@UMMS and International Medical Education, James F. Comes, Cecile Bianco, Sally A. Gore, Lisa A. Palmer, and Mary E. Piorun
Bibliotherapy: Patient Libraries and Reading Programs, One Component of the Moral Treatment Revolution, Ruthann Gildea and Len L. Levin
Sex Differences in Central and Peripheral Factors of Skeletal Muscle Fatigue, Sally A. Gore
New Partnerships for a New Generation, Sally A. Gore, Barbara C. Ingrassia, Judy Nordberg, and Mary E. Piorun
The CATCH Project: Central Mass Access to Child Health Information, Nancy E. Harger and Elaine R. Martin
Libraries in Medical Education (LIME): A Special Interest Group of NEGEA, Lauren Maggio, Len L. Levin, Nancy Tannery, Lora L. Thompson, and Julia Whelan
Team Effectiveness and Members as Leaders, Elaine Russo Martin
An Umbrella of Integrated Services for Hospital Librarians, NN/LM NER Regional Advisory Council, Hospital Library Subcommittee
Hospital Librarian Orientation Toolkit, NN/LM NER Regional Advisory Council, Hospital Library Subcommittee
Hospital Library Promotion Toolkit, NN/LM NER Regional Advisory Council, Hospital Library Subcommittee
Anatomy of an Institutional Repository: Dissecting the Metadata Process, Lisa A. Palmer
The Role of the Institutional Repository in Preserving the Scholarly Record of the University of Massachusetts, Mary E. Piorun, James F. Comes, and Marilyn S. Billings
Choosing the International Standards Organization's Interlibrary Loan Protocol (ISO) or Preserving the Status Quo?, Mary E. Piorun and Jane Fama
Anatomy of a Digitization Project: Dissecting the Process, Mary E. Piorun and Lisa A. Palmer
Challenges and Lessons Learned: Moving From Image Database to Institutional Repository, Mary E. Piorun, Lisa A. Palmer, and James F. Comes
Developing a WebCT Support Program to Take Teaching to a Higher Level , Lyn Riza, Susan J Pasquale, Andrea Lydon, Andrea Barrett, and Len L. Levin
Publications from 2006
Staying alert: The wild new world of current awareness services, Dorothy Barr
Working in a funnel at the Name Authority Cooperative, Cecile Bianco
Utilization of the medical librarian in a state Medicaid program to provide information services geared to health policy and health disparities, Peter Droese and Nancy L. Peterson
Changing the Face of an Institution: Creative Partnerships for Women's Professional Development , Patricia D. Franklin, Heather-Lyn A. Haley, Barbara C. Ingrassia, Ellen S. More, Mary E. Piorun, Phyllis Pollack, and Elaine Russo Martin
All Health is Local: Go Local Massachusetts Helps Consumers Locate Health Care Services Close to Home, Sally A. Gore
e-Mental Health: Providing Quality Mental Health Information to Practitioners and the Public, Sally A. Gore and Elaine Russo Martin
Identifying strategies to improve access to credible and relevant information for public health professionals: a qualitative study, Nancy R. LaPelle, Roger S. Luckmann, E. Hatheway Simpson, and Elaine Russo Martin
Dancing Between the Purist and the Practical: Teaching Evidence- Based Medicine in the 3rd Year Family Medicine Clerkship, Len L. Levin and James F. Comes
Team Effectiveness in Academic Medical Libraries: A Multiple Case Study, Elaine Russo Martin
Changing the Face of Medicine: One Historian's Experience as a Curator, Ellen S. More
Anatomy of a Digitization Project: Dissecting the Process, Mary E. Piorun and Lisa A. Palmer
Evidence-Based Public Health: Findings from a Research Project and Resources for Practice, E. Hatheway Simpson
Improving Access to Public Health Information: A Study of Information Needs in a State Health Department, E. Hatheway Simpson, Nancy R. LaPelle, and Elaine Russo Martin
Publications from 2005
Electronic Keepers: How to Keep Up With Online Resources in the 21st Century, Dorothy Barr
Online Tutorials: Tips from the Literature , Cecile Bianco
The Design of the Wilson's Library Literature Online Tutorial, Cecile Bianco
Pathways to nursing: a guide to library and online research for nursing and allied health (Book Review), Janet L. Dadoly
Dr. Samuel B. Woodward: A 19th Century Pioneer in American Psychiatric Care, Janet L. Dadoly, Len Levin, and Lisa A. Palmer
Librarians' Perceptions of the Reference Interview, Michelle Eberle
Prescription for Progress: NN/LM New England Region Subcontractor Outreach Activities, Michelle Eberle, Penny Glassman, Javier Crespo, Donna Berryman, and Mark Goldstein
Inside outreach: a challenge for health sciences librarians, Jane Fama, Donna Berryman, Nancy E. Harger, Paul Julian, Nancy L. Peterson, Margaret Spinner, and Jennifer Varney
Enhancing evidence-based information access to inform public health practice, Nancy R. LaPelle, E. Hatheway Simpson, Roger S. Luckmann, and Elaine Russo Martin
Managing a Library Renovation Project: A Team Approach, Deanna Lucia and Mary E. Piorun
e-Mental Health in Central Massachusetts, Elaine Russo Martin, Nancy E. Harger, and Sally A. Gore
Coming Out of the Back Room: Technical Services Breaks Loose, Lisa A. Palmer and Barbara C. Ingrassia
Utilizing the Power of Continuous Process Improvement in Technical Services, Lisa A. Palmer and Barbara C. Ingrassia
Journals, Journals Everywhere and Not a Shelf to Spare, Mary E. Piorun, Barbara C. Ingrassia, and Jane Fama
Providing Evidence-Based Public Health Resources: The Librarian's Role, E. Hatheway Simpson
Evidence-Based Practice for Public Health Project: Final Report, E. Hatheway Simpson and Elaine R. Martin
Overcoming Challenges: Lamar Soutter, M.D. (1909-1996), Robert Vander Hart, Judy Nordberg, and Gael Evans
Publications from 2004
Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Library (Website review), Nancy E. Harger


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With sport being intimately connected to nature and a healthy environment necessary for healthy sport, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) aims to ensure that the impact on the environment of sports facilities, events, activities and the manufacture of sporting goods is minimized. Energy and water consumption, air pollution, emissions of greenhouse gases and ozone-depleting substances, waste management and impacts on biological diversity are all issues for the sporting world to address. UNEP uses the popularity of sports to promote environmental awareness and respect for the environment among the public, especially young people.
UNEP, Sport and the Environment
Partnership with the International Olympic Committee
UNEP and PUMA: "Play for Life" Campaign
UNEP Sports and Peace Initiative, Kenya
2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa
UNEP and the Indian Premier League
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi , India
2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games
World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
World Conference on Sport and the Environment
The Global Forum for Sport and Environment (G-ForSE)
The International Association of Athletics Federations
Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM)
The Global Sports Alliance Sports Summit for the Environment 2005
UNEP (2009), Independent Environmental Assessment: Beijing Olympic Games, Nairobi, Kenya.
UNEP (2007), Beijing Olympics 2008 - An Environmental Review, Nairobi, Kenya.
German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2007), Green Champions in Sport and Environment, Berlin, Germany.
Environment Department of the Organising Committee for XX Winter Olympic Games Torino 2006 (2006), Sustainability Report 2006, TOROC, Torino, Italy
Lo Sze Ping (2004), UNEP Environmental Assessment, Expo 2010, Shanghai, China: Full Report, UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya.
5th World Conference on Sport and Environment, Turin 2-3 December 2003, Climate Change and Winter Sports: Environmental and Economic Threats
UNEP (2001), Sustainable Sport Management, Nairobi, Kenya.
UNEP and GSA: Vital Messages
Yao Ming
Status: UNEP Environmental Champion
Date of birth: 12 September 1980
Nationality: Chinese
Sport: Basketball
Date of appointment: 9 August 2008
Personal website: yaomingfanclub.com, theyaomingfoundation.org
Quote: "In my role as an environmental champion, I will work with governments, the private sector and the public to promote good and effective management of our environment so we can preserve the planet for future generations."
Theodore Oben
Chief, Outreach
E-mail: theodore.oben(at)unep.org


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On Friday 11 April 2008 15:05:59 Justin Mason wrote:[color=blue]
> Mark Martinec writes:[color=green]
> > It would also block some messages which you may or may not want to block,
> > such as:
> > - some automatic notifications such as calendar/meeting reminders,
> > notifications from ticketing/PR systems (OTRS), status reports,
> > job completion reports and similar automatic notifications;[/color]
> samples of these FPs would be welcome.[/color]
Ok, opening the:
providing a couple of samples.
> > - messages with NOTIFY=NEVER in DSN options, which some upstream MTA
> > converted to a null return path when the next MTA in chain does not
> > support DSN;[/color]
> yeah, that's true. have you seen this happening?[/color]
Not frequently enough to warrant worrying about it.
> > - mail from senders which happen to have a word 'postmaster' in the
> > author's name: From: "ICSOFT Secretariat" <firstname.lastname@example.com>;[/color]
> urgh, that's bad. now fixed[/color]
> > - message disposition notifications (MDN, RFC 3798);[/color]
> fixed already[/color]
I'm not sure if attachment #5 to the above bug 5882 is one of them.
I see log entries (subject, from, message-id) which lets me believe
there are more of these, but it is hard for me to get the actual
received samples from our users.
> > Also, the parsing of Received by VBounce.pm is rather simpleminded.
> > Typically it only sees a HELO name in the Received 'from' subfield,
> > as it does not examine continuation lines of Received header fields,
> > and is distracted by parenthesis in a tcp-info field.[/color]
> it doesn't? feel free to open a bug.[/color]
It doesn't. Still, the HELO from a well behaved MTA usually does
contain the fqdn of the MTA host, so the simpleminded regexp match
on the first line is lucky more often than not. To do a proper
parsing of Received subfields would involve substantial code.
I'll let it pass for the time being, unless someone feels otherwise.


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Snowboarding Forum - Snowboard Enthusiast Forums (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/forum.php)
- General Travel Forum (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/general-travel-forum/)
- - ski resort finder (http://www.snowboardingforum.com/general-travel-forum/86921-ski-resort-finder.html)
ski resort finder
Hey guys, this question may seem ridiculous, but is there a website which tells all the ski resorts in each state and there location? I have already looked but came up empty handed. Any help would be appreciated
GOOGLE is your friend...!!!
Best Ski Resorts | Compare Ratings, Snowfall, Skiable Acres and More
And there is a little section on the left that filters YOUR choices... So type in the state, and hey presto...
Nothing even a foreigner couldn't cope with... ;)
Don't know about this particular case, but in general I'm starting to find that google is no longer your friend so much. Any inquiry seems to return hundreds if not thousands of links, most of them crap.
"On The Snow" They've even got a smart phone app. It has customized POW alerts, favorite resorts, even gives (semi) accurate base info etc.!
I understand the whole asking a sensible question, but there are so many ridiculous questions asked here that are simple searches for yourself and probably quicker to do yourself as well...
Just makes me laugh at peoples ability to use a search engine...
I actually like using duckduckgo.com for searches now... ;) And no privacy issues as it doesn't retain any info from you... ;)
My problem with google is that most of my searches are I.T. related, so the drivel-to-info ratio is very high. Not to mention that a lot of I.T. sites automatically quote other sites (or the posters reference other postings) so you can see the same useless entry half a dozen times in different links.
'fraid I'm getting kind of cynical.
My search is normally related to finding stuff to BUY or NEWS to read, i don't actually search for that much otherwise... Maybe the odd phone number or address as it is cheaper than picking up a phone and ringing someone to ask.. Haha
Other than that, searching is for wasting time... ;)
Maybe this helps: http://www.powderhounds.com/USA.aspx
If you want to compare resorts (even the small one I ride mostly is listed) http://ski-resorts.findthebest.com/m. And if you ever look for resorts in Canada, I found this site helpful: http://www.skiingincanada.ca/skican/home.html
They have a lot of resorts listed for each state but not all.
In addition to On The Snow that chomps mentioned, I also like SkiMap.org. It has a fairly extensive list, and maps the locations, even including abandoned/closed resorts (as indicated). They also have a lot of trail maps going back years in some cases.
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Meadville museum to host Civil War weekend
MEADVILLE -- Civil War re-enactors will drill new recruits at the Baldwin-Reynolds House Museum, 639 Terrace St., May 18 and 19.
Members of the 150th Pennsylvania Bucktail Regiment will also demonstrate open-fire cooking during the weekend.
Ladies of the regiment will host a Civil War tea and fashion show May 18 at 1 p.m.
Museum hours for the weekend will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 18 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 19. Admission is $5 for adults, $3 for children.
Cost for the tea and fashion show is $20. Reservations are required. Call the Crawford County Convention and Visitors Bureau, (814) 333-1258, for tickets.
See Thursday's Erie Times-News for more coverage.


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Friends of boy who died at zoo set up charity
PITTSBURGH -- The family and friends of a 2-year-old boy who was fatally mauled by wild African dogs at the Pittsburgh Zoo have set up a Christmas charity to honor his memory.
Organizers of the Trucks for Maddox charity hope to make it an annual event. The parents of Maddox Derkosh requested the trucks instead of flowers because the boy loved to play with trucks and share them with his friends.
More than 4,000 trucks have already been donated. They'll be given to Christmas charities for needy children.


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Montreal's new mayor Michael Applebaum has named his executive committee, and it contains quite a mix of people from the different parties at city hall.
Applebaum is promising a new era of cooperation and bipartisanship, naming people from all parties at city hall, and a couple of independents.
All newly appointed members had to agree they will not run to be the next mayor of Montreal.
The new members of the executive committee are:
Laurent Blanchard, chair (Formerly Vision Montreal, now an independent)
Benoit Doré, vice-chair, major projects (Vision Montreal)
Émilie Thuillier, second-vice-chair (Projet Montreal)
Richard Deschamps, sports and recreation (Union Montreal)
Mary Deros, ethnic communities (Union Montreal)
Michel Bissonet, intergovernmental relations and 375th birthday festivities (Union Montreal)
Réal Ménard, transport (Vision Montreal)
Éliane Ayotte, culture, heritage and design (Vision Montreal)
Josée Duplessis, sustainable, development, environment and green space (Projet Montreal)
Alain Tassé, economic development and urban planning (independent)
Christian Dubois, public security and citizen services (independent)
The previous executive committee, chaired by Applebaum, was entirely composed of Union Montreal councillors. People like Alan DeSousa and Helen Fotopoulos were not named this time around.
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After takin' a swig o' grog, Chris Ahlstrom belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> From Peter:
> What was "grandiose" about them? I have the sources to prove them,
> and you can still read the entries in Jim Browns Interrupt List There
> is nothing "grandiose". It is a simple fact, and you again can't deal
> with it. After all, *again* something you could not pull off, but
> someone else did.
It's actually Ralf Brown and Jim Kyle.
Where do you appear, Peter, there's a lot of files, including zips
within zips.
"Consider a spherical bear, in simple harmonic motion..."
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bullet lube missing?
Ammunition, Gear, and Firearm Help
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> bullet lube missing?
poor man
March 12, 2013, 01:49 PM
i bought some cast bullets and the lube is partly gone off a few of them. what will happen if they are shot only have half the lube on them?
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March 12, 2013, 01:56 PM
Probably nothing. If you are worried, get some Lee Liquid Alox (also sold by quite a few other companies for less money) and lube them again. I like LLA and use it regularly to lube my bullets, even ones with all the lube in the grooves, just seems to cut back on leading.
March 12, 2013, 09:47 PM
gone off a few of themNo worries. Shoot them.
March 12, 2013, 10:09 PM
As walkalong said, it will be no problems at all. I know some people that will dump out the bullets and salvage the lube that broke off, but its a waste of time. Cast bullets leave copious amounts of lube behind in the barrel. You could just about shoot every third bullet unlubed and not have problems, no joke.
In fact, what many people post thinking is bad leading is no more than lube with unburned or burned powder particulate matter stuck to it. BDS had some pics I think of bullet lube left behind in a barrel.
poor man
March 12, 2013, 10:20 PM
thanks guys :)
March 12, 2013, 11:11 PM
thanks guys
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