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Public and private organizations would do well to develop, implement, and maintain an Environmental Management System (EMS) as a front-line tool to support their solid waste management system. The EMS incorporates five basic principles: management commitment, compliance assurance/pollution prevention, enabling systems, performance/accountability, and measurement/improvements. These principles are the foundation that can help a solid waste management system continuously improve and move beyond compliance to meet the needs of a shifting and growing public that demands exceptional value for their dollar.
The establishment of an EMS is a critical part of a trend for managing solid and hazardous wastes in both the private and public sectors. While it may seem difficult to get started with the development and implementation of an EMS—because of perceived limitations of time, cost, or commitment—the EMS does not have to be capital- and time-intensive. As managers currently address environmental compliance assurance and effective waste management practices at their facility, the data and information gathered during normal operations can be readily integrated into the implementation of an EMS.
EMSs are already being applied to solid waste facilities and systems. Several municipalities are even trying to achieve International Organization for Standardization (ISO) certification for their municipal solid waste EMS. ISO certification can be applied to landfills, transfer stations, and other solid waste management operations, and EMS is an excellent complementary tool for reducing the generation of wastes and reducing impacts on human health and the environment.
The most important, and often the most difficult, part of establishing an EMS is the assessment of the internal operations and requirements. Documentation of the critical information for each of these elements may be difficult to gather from the records, and individual interviews may be required to determine standard operating procedures. Solid waste managers may be surprised to learn that operations are not being performed as they had thought.
Many organizations may already have in place a quality management system (QMS) as part of an ISO 9000 effort. A QMS and an EMS share many common elements and can be successfully integrated to realize significant benefits, such as streamlined operations and decision-making, simplified employee training, more efficient use of resources, and reduction in audit costs.
Organizations that have a QMS in place have a head start when implementing an EMS. Foremost is the requirement of ISO 9000 to have a documented control system in place. This greatly simplifies and reduces the effort of installing an ISO 14000 system. In addition, with an ISO 9000 system in place, top management has committed to the use of management systems to meet pre-established goals, and employees already are familiar with management system concepts, some procedures may already be in place, and some critical data and information may already be available.
Once the EMS manual is in place, implementation and continual improvement begin. Often, there is a great deal of interest and internal investment in developing the EMS, and while it is satisfying to see this effort, the real benefits and satisfaction come with implementation.
Implementation has challenges that must be recognized and approaches must be developed up front to address them. The first challenge is to keep management and employee interest high after the completion of the manual—avoiding a let-down. A related challenge is to include all employees in the implementation. Continuous employee feedback will lead to continuous improvement and will bolster continuing commitment. A third challenge is to put in place mechanisms to quantify the benefits and the costs of potential implementation projects, so as to provide definable measures for the success (or needed improvements) of the EMS and each of its elements.
To achieve the last challenge, an environmental decision-making model can be used to combine the external and internal constraints with the management process to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of the EMS. Environmental management is in each part of the model and will provide the solid waste professional with a better understanding of the decision-making process.
To provide guidance to the solid waste manager, we have developed a project checklist to help identify and quantify environmental costs. The checklist is divided into three major cost sections. To some degree, these are ordered in ease of quantification. By using this checklist, a solid waste professional can consider all of the costs incurred, thereby comparing projects that reduce or eliminate costs with those projects that generate costs. This total-cost analysis is critical to developing, implementing, and improving an EMS.
An EMS can provide solid waste managers with an organized approach to make cost-effective and informed management choices. By looking at the total picture in an organized and consistent manner—using readily available data—the manager will have the ability to determine:
The manager can then establish the most appropriate approaches to managing the entire operation. By incorporating everyone into the process, private and public solid waste managers will be able to improve overall environmental performance and compliance, establish a framework for pollution prevention opportunities, increase efficiency and economic vitality, and enhance the organization's image. In addition, due to recent events, emergency preparedness is being encouraged for many EMSs to increase environmental security and facility vulnerability.
— James S. Bridges is principal and Paul D. Koch is senior vice president and chief engineer at MACTEC Federal Programs Inc., Cincinnati.


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Boycotting the Oscars Is No Solution, Iran
Mahsa Alimardani | Posted 12.09.2012 | Canada
Read More: Asghar Farhadi, Iran, A Separation, Cinema, Innocence of Muslims, Oscars, Iran Media Coverage, A Cube of Sugar, Oscars Boycott, Boycott Oscars, Boycott Oscars Iran, Iran Boycott Oscars, Canada News
Innocence of Muslims aspired and failed to be a film, which was then dubbed, cut, and turned into a hybrid trailer-clip of a YouTube video. The poor production value, and the ignorance put into the creation of this project are far from worthy of the protests, bloodshed, or lives lost. Despite this, the Iranian government has decided to take a stand against the Academy Awards, for not taking a stand against a YouTube video and is boycotting the awards. This reasoning is untenable, and thus it merits some analysis.

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Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the New York Giants would "probably not" use the franchise tag on any player, according to owner John Mara.
Ian Rapoport of NFL.com tweeted Tuesday afternoon that the New York Giants would "probably not" use the franchise tag on any player, according to owner John Mara.
Last edited by Broadway Blue; 02-19-2013 at 12:55 PM.
I agree with the article's statement that the salaries attached to franchising Beatty, Bennett and Phillips are too rich.
They will all need to be re-signed at lower numbers or move on.
No one remembers who came in second.
i brought up this topic a couple days ago, but can never find my old posts when i log back in here. kind of not a fan of this board, but that's another topic.
i truly wonder if the franchise tag actually helps in negotiations with a player. i believe the giants are often reluctant to use it because it basically tells the player that the team does view him as top five in his position, meriting that he deserves a long term deal that is in correlation with an annual salary of the top five players. if you are willing to pay the man once that much, then the player and agent has a serious case in asking why you can't do it repeatedly every year over the duration of his contract.
Lots of teams use the tag as way to just keep the guy on the team for another year (San Diego Chargers, ie: Darren Sproles, Vincent Jackson). I believe the Giants only use it when they truly believe that player is warranted top five pay in relation to his position. Otherwise, if they slap it on them, there is no way to lower the asking price for the guy. They already let it be known that their services, and role on the team, is worthy of a certain amount of money. I believe this is why we see the Giants actually end up signing the players they franchise. Jacobs was franchised and signed to a 4 year/25 million dollar contract. And most recently, Weatherford signed his five year/13 million contract days after being slapped with the tag last year (which I believe is the biggest contract for a punter?).
I don't see how a player such as Cliff Avril can be warranted a top-five salary at the defensive end position. This only gives the player false ambitions as to how much he should be paid on the open market. If any team is willing to pay that guy a top five salary over the duration of a long term contract, than they are morons. If the Giants don't use the franchise tag on one of their players, than they do not view him as a top five player at his position and are more willing to just draft or sign his heir-apparent and get on with the team, rather than pay him an undeserving amount of money to just be a stop gap.
greenca190, you will see My Profile nearby, click that and then click Find Posts, its on the left under your avatar.
It's my understanding that if the use a "non-exclusive" franchise tag, they can resign the guy for one year at 120% of his current salary. If Bennett looks ready to bolt, or they can't agree to a contract yet, why wouldn't they use that? I'd prefer Bennett; but the same goes for anyone of the Bennett, Beatty, Phillips group, maybe even Boothe. Just seems like a cheap way to buy time for one position. It might give Robinson time to develop at TE for instance, or let you have longer to negotiate with a player for a long term deal. Seems like a slam dunk that you'd do that to keep somebody around you'd otherwise lose.
I prefer tendering a player rather than franchising them... it gives the team the option to match any offer they receive and retain them or receive compensation should they choose not to match. That's a much better option than being forced to pay someone top 5 money, IMO.
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I`d go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I`m now resigned to the fact that this won`t happen. -- Michael Strahan, just when you think you're down...
According to the actual CBA document itself, under Article 10 Section 2 Part (a) subsection (i), it's "whichever is greater" like the exclusive tag.
Page 44, http://nfllabor.files.wordpress.com/...-2011-2020.pdf
It's not going to be 120% of his previous salary. It's going to be the $5-$6 million price tag. The 120% only applies if the player was franchised the previous season or his previous season's salary is greater than the franchise tag price. There's no lowballing.


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Video: Preview of Univision's "bombshell" report on Fast & Furious
posted at 5:31 pm on September 29, 2012 by Ed Morrissey
The Obama administration clearly hoped that the Department of Justice's Inspector General report on Operation Fast and Furious would be the last word on the scandal. which has been tied to hundreds of deaths in Mexico and the murders of two American law-enforcement officials. However, a new report from Univision to be broadcast tomorrow, previewed here by ABC News, may put the issue back on the front pages. One source called Univision's findings the "holy grail" that Congressional investigators have been seeking:
Often lost amid the rancor in Washington are the stories of dozens of people killed by guns that flowed south as part of the undercover operation, and later slipped out of view from U.S. officials. Univision's Investigative Unit (Univision Investiga) has identified massacres committed using guns from the ATF operation, including the killing of 16 young people attending a party in a residential area of Ciudad Juárez in January of 2010.
The guns didn't stop in Mexico, either:
Additional guns, previously unreported by congressional investigators, found their way into the hands of drug traffickers across Latin America in countries such as, Honduras and Colombia, as well as the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. A person familiar with the recent congressional hearings called Univision's findings "the holy grail" that Congress had been searching for.
The Daily Caller also reports on Univision's findings and the impact they may have on the scandal:
"The consequences of the controversial 'Fast and Furious' undercover operation put in place by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in 2009 have been deadlier than what has been made public to date," the network said. "The exclusive, in-depth investigation by Univision News' award-winning Investigative Unit — Univision Investiga — has found that the guns that crossed the border as part of Operation Fast and Furious caused dozens of deaths inside Mexico."
Among other groups of Fast and Furious victim stories Univision says it will tell in the special to air Sunday evening at 7 p.m., is one about how "16 young people attending a party in a residential area of Ciudad Juárez in January of 2010″ were gunned down with weapons the Obama administration gave to drug cartel criminals through Fast and Furious.
"Univision News' Investigative Unit was also able to identify additional guns that escaped the control of ATF agents and were used in different types of crimes throughout Mexico," the network added. "Furthermore, some of these guns — none of which were reported by congressional investigators — were put in the hands of drug traffickers in Honduras, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. A person familiar with the recent congressional hearings called Univision's findings 'the holy grail' that Congress had been searching for."
Sharyl Attkisson at CBS News reminds us that the Obama administration is still hiding Kevin O'Reilly, a key figure in Operation Fast and Furious:
O'Reilly, then a White House National Security staffer, had phone and email exchanges about Fast and Furious from July 2010 to Feb. 2011 with the lead ATF official on the case: ATF Special Agent in Charge Bill Newell. Just days after Newell testified to Congress on July 26, 2011 that he'd shared information with O'Reilly, whom he described as a long time friend, O'Reilly was transferred to Iraq and not available for questioning. Thereafter, he declined interviews with congressional investigators and the IG.
In a letter sent to O'Reilly's attorney Thursday, Issa and Grassley state that O'Reilly's "sudden transfer" to Iraq took him out of pocket in their investigation, and placed him in a position that had already been given to somebody else, raising "serious questions about O'Reilly's assignment in Baghdad (and) the motivation for his transfer there." …
"Given that O'Reilly was the link connecting the White House to the scandal, and that the President subsequently asserted executive privilege over the documents pertaining to Fast and Furious, it is imperative that the American people get to the bottom of O'Reilly's involvement with Fast and Furious," says the letter to O'Reilly's attorney.
It goes on to say that if O'Reilly does not agree to an interview within 30 days, congressional Republicans will have no choice but to "use compulsory process" or subpoena power to require his testimony.
The Univision report will air at 7 pm ET tomorrow night, with English-language subtitles.
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I HAVE said that your best friends stand in the ranks of those you would approach as foes. You demur to this: you disbelieve it. I would reason the point, as with men willing to hear both sides, but whose misfortune it is that only one side addresses you. By whom have the measures of improvement, already undertaken in behalf of the people, been urged and carried? By the aristocracy. They do not always suggest those measures; they do not always agree upon them. Matters are disputed among them, as they are disputed among you; but, as a class, they are haters of oppression, and honest pioneers of progress. They are workmen of intelligence, as you are the workmen of production. In opposing them, you break the machinery, and burn the factories, where only the work can be done which you yourselves want executed. Why should page: 16 you think you are capable of doing their work in addition to your own? Why should politics be the one trade that requires neither study nor apprenticeship? Men cheerfully acknowledge their incapacity in other matters, but no one will acknowledge his incapacity in this. A man knows he cannot make buttons, but he will not believe he cannot make laws. You are deluded by perpetual reference to France. "France has its Provisional Government! France has its sovereign people! France has its 'Albert, ouvrier!' France has its Government of workmen, instead of a Government of aristocrats!" Here is your mistake. France has not a Government of workmen: even "Albert, ouvrier," does not belong to that class. You might as well say, PEEL ouvrier—making allowance for gradations of talent. Albert was educated as a lawyer, was a master manufacturer, editor of the Atelier newspaper. I do not say the gentlemen composing the French Provisional Government are not as fit for the task as any others: time will shew. A stately ruin lies cumbering the soil of France: we have yet to see what will be built in its stead; we have yet to see whether these fallible men will merely substitute their own mistakes for the mistakes of other fallible men. But I say it is not a Government of practical working men, any more than your being represented by Alfred Tennyson, Mr. M'Culloch, Mr. Senior, Sir James South, and Jackson, ouvrier, would be a Government of working men. It is a theatrical pretence; it is an page: 17 oligarchy, an aristocracy on a different model from that to which you are accustomed—an old friend (or, if you please, an old enemy) with a new face. "Rise! shake off tyranny, and govern yourselves!" is the phrase: "Let us govern you," is the translation. I did not think that any words of John Mitchell's could be of use to lovers of order, but I find these:—"If ever it behoved men to look facts in the face, and neglect words which have no facts under them, it behoves us now." The somewhat Irish proposal to "look facts in the face," is what I also cordially advise. At this moment, in England, the advocacy of "the rights of the people" is the favourite enthusiasm of our young nobility. Their heads, their hearts, and their speeches are full of it. It is not too much to say of the great families of this country, as of the deaths of the first‐born of Egypt, that "there is not a house in which you have not one friend." A few certainly, of our aristocracy are licentious, idle, useless;—their women, insolent, overbearing, capricious. How would you yourselves like to be judged by, as a class, the bad drunken characters among you? The majority live in the earnest and religious performance of the active duties of life. But you say they are your foes. Who tells you so? Your leaders—those men who desire to supersede them in their natural position, with you, of superiors. As dependants, you have a right to claim them as benefactors; as opponents, you can only struggle with them to your ruin. In Richard the Second's time, when thousands page: 18 rose to avenge one man's wrong, one man's undeniable, undoubted wrong—after man was slain, the young King spurred his horse forward among his rebellious subjects, exclaiming, "Do you want a leader? I myself will be your leader." Friends, do you think you could find no leaders in the class above you? leaders who would not waver in the hour of difficulty, or abandon you in the time of danger? I think you might. "Look facts in the face," as Mr. Mitchell advises. This very metropolis, into whose armed and shielded heart you entered yesterday as a hostile demonstration—this very London, where angry delegates and excited workmen were to meet at all points to murmur and to threaten, is at present under survey. For what? That the aristocracy may be provided with fair gardens and noble buildings? That new palaces may be constructed for royalty? No. But that the poor may have a more equal share of life's common comforts; that they may breathe pure air; that they may be more securely sheltered; that fever and sickness may sweep fewer of their numbers into a premature grave.
Was this done as a concession to you? Did you insist upon it? Did you even propose it? No. It is one small fraction of a general plan "for bettering the condition of the people," which occupies the minds of those classes your leaders would teach you to view with abhorrence—those who, I repeat, are the only workmen to do your work. You may sneer at the comparison: but it is a true one. As there are dyes which cannot be made fast colours without certain ingredients, as there are productions incomplete till finished by the hand of a cunning and skilful artisan, so there is world‐work to be done which requires that upper class you view with so much jealousy. They work with a tool you have not got. That tool is leisure. They do what, even if you had the will, the power, and the education necessary, you could not do for want of time. I live amongst this class. I see these men working at their trade of politics. A cotton mill is not more fatiguing, nor, in some instances, more destructive to health. I have seen as much hard work and mental anxiety in this as in the conduct of any other business; and I have seen as honest men working at it as any boaster among you. What you need is, not the rising of class against class, but to grow strong by the union of classes. What would benefit you is not the overthrow or intimidation of a particular Government, but that whatever men are "in power," as it is called, should really have the power to carry out such measures for you as the exigencies of the time require. Generation after generation grows grey, and we are still learning the fables of the "Belly and Members," the "Dog and the Shadow," the value of the withe that binds the fagot so that it may not break! You are workmen, and they are lords and gentlemen: their sons go out in the ships some of you build, and protect your commerce in manufactures which others of you produce. The disunion of classes, whose interests are as the warp and page: 20 woof which form the texture of one web, cannot be ruin to one class only. The intelligent middle class read a lesson to turbulence yesterday which many morrows will not banish from the minds of Englishmen. It was read calmly though sternly to the mob and to their leaders. Let us hope it will not be forgotten. "Come to us as friends to claim a service: come to us as petitioners to explain a grievance: but do not come to us as highwaymen with mortal terror as an inducement to aid: WE are THE PEOPLE, and we will not suffer the People's Charter to be brought to our doors."
If you must needs cast wistful looks to France, cast them for warning, and not for example. The Démocratie calculates that, by the time the Convention meets, there will be in Paris alone 800,000 persons out of work and starving. Meanwhile another of Ledru‐Rollin's proclamations shews how that preacher of equality would fain be dictator of France. His style, indeed, is altered; his new proclamation forcibly recalls O'Connor's "moral force" orations. He is for marching troops from "Birnam Wood to Dunsinane," masked by a whole grove of olive boughs. But the mask is vain. With more cunning than caution, with more insolence than boldness, enough is evident to prove the determination to coerce that "universal suffrage" which the French enjoy. Let it be a timely warning to you. Watch these men and their impracticable plans. Wait. Did you ever yet give an order for goods without seeing at least a sample in a finished page: 21 state, so as to judge of its design, its probable durability, its value in the general market? Do not be ashamed to own yourselves in error. Claim help from your Government and aristocracy, instead of from those who forsake you "in the time of trouble." The shaking of public credit, the frequency of private bankruptcy, re‐act on each other in times of popular commotion. Let disturbances begin how they will, they end by being a question of finance. The heaviest, the most unequal, the most oppressive taxes that can fall on a people, are the taxes on Revolution. The triumph of mobs, in many foreign cities, you have read in our newspapers. Their ruin as individuals you will not read there. No one will be at the pains of recording it. Be warned: when you urge your rights, or when you would enforce them, be sure that you are bartering value for true liberty and not paying forfeit for empty rebellion.


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I didn't have anything against the Jets until Rex came into town. It has nothing to do with the stupid big brother little brother thing that he made a big deal out of. There were plenty of years where the Jets were good and the Giants were struggling.
Entire Team Let Eli down today - NYG4l
It's hilarious that he feels compelled to state that the Jets have never given him a dime.
I submit it would be significantly more unusual if they ever did.
The Jets used to be like the Mets... You couldn't really hate them... just feel sorry for them (I as a Mets fan see no reason why any fanbase other than the Phillies would hate the Mets...)


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Increasing Viral Testing in the Emergency Department (InVITED)
This study has been completed.
Rhode Island Hospital
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Roland C. Merchant, MD. MPH, ScD, Rhode Island Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: July 6, 2011
Last updated: August 5, 2013
Last verified: August 2013
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The purpose of this study is to determine if a brief intervention delivered to emergency department patients increases the uptake of rapid HIV and hepatitis C testing in comparison to no brief intervention.
Drug Use
Hepatitis C
Behavioral: Brief motivational intervention
Phase 2
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Prevention
|Official Title:
|Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial of the Effect of a Brief Intervention on Uptake of Rapid Testing for HIV and Hepatitis C Among Emergency Department Patients
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS Hepatitis Hepatitis A Hepatitis CU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Rhode Island Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- The agreement of the participant to be tested for HIV and hepatitis C [ Time Frame: Within four hours of being consented into the study ]We will measure the acceptance of free rapid testing for HIV and hepatitis C among the intervention and control groups
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Identifying risky sexual behaviors of study participants [ Time Frame: Within four hours of being consented into the study ]Identify factors that influence the relationship of BI and risk assessment vs. risk assessment alone on uptake of combined HIV and hepatitis C screening in the ED.
|Study Start Date:
|January 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|January 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Brief Intervention
This arm of the study will receive an assessments survey followed by a brief intervention concerning the relationship between the participants use of drugs and/or sexual risk and rik for HIV and hepatitis C infections. Following the intervention the participants will be offered free rapid testing for HIV and hepatitis C.
Behavioral: Brief motivational intervention
A 20-30 minute motivational based discussion
No Intervention: Standard Care
This arm of the study will receive an assessments survey. Following the assessment the participants will be offered free rapid testing for HIV and hepatitis C.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 64 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Emergency department patient.
- Does not know HIV or hepatitis C status.
- Has an ASSIST V3 score that indicates recent illicit and/or prescription drug use.
- Fluency in English or Spanish.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Critically ill or injured.
- Homicidal and/or suicidal intention.
- Age < 18 years or > 64 years.
- Does not speak English or Spanish.
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01419899
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01419899
|United States, Rhode Island
|Rhode Island Hospital Emergency Department
|Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02903
Sponsors and Collaborators
Rhode Island Hospital
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
|Principal Investigator:
|Roland C Merchant, MD, ScD
|Brown University
|Principal Investigator:
|Ted D Nirenberg, PhD
|Brown University
More Information
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 25, 2017
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Merchant RC, Baird JR, Liu T, Taylor LE, Montague BT, Nirenberg TD. Brief intervention to increase emergency department uptake of combined rapid human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C screening among a drug misusing population. Acad Emerg Med. 2014 Jul;21(7):752-67. doi: 10.1111/acem.12419.
Merchant RC, Baird JR, Liu T, Taylor LE. HCV among The Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital Adult ED Patients. R I Med J (2013). 2014 Jul 1;97(7):35-9.
|Responsible Party:
|Roland C. Merchant, MD. MPH, ScD, Associate Professor, Rhode Island Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01419899 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|July 6, 2011
|Last Updated:
|August 5, 2013
Keywords provided by Rhode Island Hospital:
Brief intervention
Rapid testing
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hepatitis C
Liver Diseases
Digestive System Diseases
Hepatitis, Viral, Human
Virus Diseases
Flaviviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Disease Attributes
Pathologic Processes
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 25, 2017


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April 12, 1977
Bloomington, MN US
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Setlists during this tour include: The Song Remains The Same, (The Rover intro) Sick Again, Nobody's Fault But Mine, In My Time of Dying, Since I've Been Loving You, No Quarter, Ten Years Gone, Battle of Evermore, Going to California, Black Country Woman, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, White Summer ~ Black Mountainside, Kashmir, (Out On the Tiles intro) Moby Dick, Jimmy Page solo, Achilles Last Stand, Stairway to Heaven, Rock and Roll.
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Press Review: The Zep was a test for the ears and they'll be at here tonight
WARNING: Mad Dogs may be hazardous to your health… Mad Dogs? Well, wasn't Led Zeppelin's original name? After "The New Yardbirds" and before Jimmy Page settled on Led Zep? I dunno.
After Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Sports Center, my ear drums are so fractured I may avoid music for the rest of the week.
LED ZEPPELIN IS one of the most celebrated bands in the world. And the Zep, like it always does, sold out the Met Tuesday night. But what is surprising is the same band will do the same thing tonight at the Civic Center here in St. Paul.
That is, if the Zep ever finished sometime this morning. Because of lightning, thunder and fear of flying, the band didn't arrive in the Twin Cities Tuesday until a half hour after the 8 o'clock' scheduled concert time.
And it didn't hit the stage until 9:11. Sometime nearing midnight I crashed — dazed by three hours of crunching Jimmy Page guitar, soaring Robert Plant vocals, buzzing John Paul Jones' bass and keyboard work and bruising, crashing and thrashing on the drums by John Bonham.
Zep did a job on me — but then again, I expected it. Listening to Zep for an hour on the phonograph is enough to create ear buzz for a week. Which is too bad because Led Zeppelin is a group of superior talent.
"SKINNY JIMMY" Page is probably one of the best three guitarists ever to attempt rock 'n roll. The former poet from Heston in Middlesex, England, has a range exceeded by none and the clarity of wind chimes when he wants to play it that way.
Jones, a former Rolling Stones' session man, is a wonder of a keyboard player and Bonham, like Plant, emerged from Band of Joy to pound away with some of the best.
Plant, himself, has the most distinctive voice in metallic music, a piercing, diving, anvil which thunders from under his delicately-curled reddish locks. It was nice to see him healthy again after a lengthy recovery from a near-fatal car crash in Greece two years ago.
BUT EVEN THOUGH Zep had a beautiful sound system Tuesday, the guttural roar from Page's shrieking guitar was enough to craze even the best of us.
Except the middle segment of the concert, which was an acoustic joy.
The Zep put away the hammers, the pliers, the saws and unveiled the quartet sitting four in a row, acoustics in hand, doing three songs including "Black Country Woman" and "California." At least I think those are the titles — I was a bit deaf by then and am unfamiliar with a couple of their albums but I think it's a mood first captured in "Houses of the
Page showered us with his versatility during the trio of songs, Jones did also and Plant actually revealed a brush of a voice rather than a sledgehammer.
SOMEWHERE IN THE wee hours, I expect they got into the "Stairway to Heaven" and "Whole Lotta Love" stuff — the music which earned them a place in the Rock Hail of Fame. Me, I fazed out with "Mag Dogs."
And Bonham's madness of a solo that did criminal work, abrasive damage, to my eardrums.
So if you're headed up to the Civic tonight, beware and don't get too close. And yes, thanks Bob - by Plant for wishing our Kicks well this season and we'll give Mike Bailey your best.
And Jimmy Page, can you see if you can find James Patrick Page the poet sometime soon? The guy who used to play lead for the Yardbirds? The best session guitarist in England? I loved him madly, as the Duke might have said. By CHARLEY HALLMAN, Staff Writer, St. Paul Dispatch, April 1977.
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Three senior members of the Hope men's soccer team have received Division III Great Lakes All-Region honors from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America.
Forward Jack Abe of Naperville, Ill. (Naperville North HS) and midfielder Kevin McMahon of Grand Rapids, Mich. (Forest Hills Central HS) were named to the All-Region second team while senior defender James Trebilcock of Haslett, Mich. (Haslett HS) is a third team honoree.
The All-Region team honors players from NCAA Division III colleges in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Hope's honorees are among five MIAA players to be honored.
All three Hope players were also named to the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) all-conference first team this fall.
Kevin McMahon's older brother, Pat, was an All-Region first team honoree in 2006.
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Movie Review: The Help
The film adaption of the best-selling book is led by award-worthy performances from actresses Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.
Director: Tate Taylor Rating: PG-13 Studio: DreamWorks SKG
Plenty of moviegoers will be willing to overlook the Hallmark Channel, civics lesson quality of The Help, writer-director Tate Taylor's scren version of his friend Kathryn Stockett's best-seller about the lives of black servants of wealthy white people in a 1960s Southern town. Despite the syrup and the controversy that surround the film, the two main reasons to see it—and to be powerfully stirred and affected by it—are the transcendent performances of Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer as maids whose lives and struggles are, unlike many of the movie's female characters, multi-dimensional, relatable and believable.
The usually impressive Emma Stone, for instance, gets stuck playing an idea—a device rather than a character. She's a bookish college grad and budding writer who can't land a beau (are they kidding?) but is able to see beyond the ultra conservative, tightly-corseted world inhabited by nasty, petty Junior League Southern belles the likes of the one played by Bryce Dallas Howard, one of several of the movie's one-dimensional villains. Also thrown into the pot are the great Sissy Spacek, throwing shade and hurling zingers as Howard's plainspoken mother, and Allison Janney as Stone's screechy, ailing mother who gets a juicy moment when she pretty much hurls racism on its keester.
A cast this wonderful shouldn't be confined to playing shrewish bigots, whiners and hysterics patched together from half-digested Tennessee Williams and Steel Magnolias. But things are on much firmer ground when the quietly powerful, watchful and intense Davis and the sour, hilarious Spencer mostly take over the movie and expose the painful consequences of the racism that to this day plagues and demeans us. Both actresses are so complex, vivid, award-worthy really, that they not only walk off the movie but also make you wish the rest of The Help cut as deeply as they do.
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The workshop for educators, nonprofit professionals, graduate students, administrators and researchers in the sciences and social sciences presents the basics of grant writing with a comprehensive overview of effective grant development techniques including finding best-fit funding sources, creating innovative programs and planning for funding sustainability. The workshop will feature three sessions: Strategic Proposal Writing, Strategic Program Planning and Strategic Grant Research.
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Inland Revenue is threatening to bankrupt former students living in Australia who are refusing to repay loans.
Tax staff have cracked down on hundreds of student-loan borrowers in New Zealand and are moving their enforcement across the Tasman.
The plan is revealed in IRD documents released to the Herald under the Official Information Act.
Katrina Williams, an IRD section director, said in the documents: "In Australia, we are taking legal action and when this fails, issue bankruptcy proceedings when overseas-based borrowers have not paid."
That would mean that the IRD could get a New Zealand court judgment transferred to Australia, where it would then be enforced.
Measures could involve charging orders on a property, deducting money from a person's salary, seizing assets such as vehicles and even bankruptcy.
The same system is being planned for borrowers living in Britain. The documents show IRD has taken legal action against 360 people in New Zealand and 38 borrowers who live overseas, most of them in Australia.
IRD collections manager Richard Owen said yesterday that no one had yet had bankruptcy proceedings issued against them.
However, IRD was looking at doing so, as a small group of borrowers - particularly in Australia - were knowingly avoiding making payments.
"This is for borrowers who we've had regular contact with. They know they've got a loan, they know they are in default and we know that they are in a position to pay but simply not wanting to do anything about it."
Mr Owen acknowledged that taking legal action, let alone issuing bankruptcy proceedings, was rare. But it had reached the point that it was necessary to try to recover debts.
"We're in the final stages of getting the judgments now put across to Australia. We're just going through that process. From there, that means we can start taking one of the range of legal activities.
"Bankruptcy generally wouldn't be the first choice. We'd want to give people the opportunity, with legal action, still to do the right thing.
"It's quite severe and major and it affects people's lifestyles, so we would take that only as a last resort."
The president of the New Zealand Union of Students Associations, Pete Hodkinson, said the "extreme measures about to be taken to chase down New Zealand graduates who are gaining overseas experience are symptomatic of a Government that is prepared to treat graduates as if they were in the same category as tax-evading criminals or worse".
Inland Revenue started campaigns in 2010 to get overseas-based Kiwis to pay off loans.
By the end of June this year, just over 5000 borrowers had repaid nearly $27.5 million.


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Amazing, with alot of talent the person with this name shines brighter then that bright star in the sky. this person can make you feel like your the only person in the room. never one to miss a beat always keeping the crowd alive no matter what the tone is. whoever owns this name lives up to it as well. Loyalty does not stray far from this person. An amazing bestfriend alwasy putting your needs before their own. not one to let you down. stands out in a crowd. attractive and beautiful in their own right. sense of humor that matches your own. witty with comebacks. but sensitive when the time comes to be sensitive. if you ever meet a chancy dont let the chance escape you to be there friend or something more, because later you'll regret ever letting them go. strong in ever aspect of the word. they keep you feeling alive. they embrace you when you first meet. completely honest which youll love in the long run. no fakeness about this person. youll love without even realizing it. unfortunately this person is too much of a free spirit to be caged but if you managed to count your lucky stars and throw away the key. their a keep sake not a souvenir.
by noname23 October 26, 2012
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by Sensasion July 15, 2012
Dogg hook it up with that chancy sauce.
Yo nig you wanna go chancy it up?
I was so chancied last night that I shit myself.
Josh Chancies everyday, at least five times.
Yo nig you wanna go chancy it up?
I was so chancied last night that I shit myself.
Josh Chancies everyday, at least five times.
by TWhip August 28, 2006
A complete whore. She will fuck anyone, especially her boyfriend's friends. Unattractive, easy lay. It doesn't matter how good you treat her, she'll still cheat on you, and sometimes, even in your own house. Of you have a Chancy, just know, everyone else has had her too.
Guy 1: You see that girl over there? I fucked her once and a week later she had fucked my best friend, my brother, and my dad!!
Guy 2: DAMN! That chick is a total Chancy!
Guy 2: DAMN! That chick is a total Chancy!
by RavenCrowNeverSmiles July 06, 2014


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America's Best Neighborhood Bars

No matter where you go, home is where the bar is.

In the rush to accommodate the rapidly diversifying tastes of today's yupster cocktail crowd, bar culture seems to have lost something of itself. Amidst the bevy of craft microbrews and mixologists serving up custom concoctions to a clientele seeking status over all else, what's become of the local pub? A place where—forgive us, but this is important!—everybody knows your name and you can settle in for a few pints without worrying about your tab, the label on your blazer or who you know. A place where comfort is king, the music is good and conversation is easy. Though the focus has shifted away from the local toward a hipper type of establishment, we've a penchant for something, well, a little less trendy and a little more established. We're talking about the classic American neighborhood bar, and this is a list of some of this country's best.
The 5 Point Café – Seattle, Washington
Is it a diner, or is it a dive? Not sure it matters, so long as you make it out alive. With a slogan like theirs—"Alcoholics serving alcoholics since 1929"—two things are for certain: they take booze very seriously, and their patrons are a mixed bag of characters young and old. A quick scan of their well-used Facebook page reveals an ongoing dialogue that spills over from public forum to comments section and back again, and a much-publicized ban on Google Glass makes it clear: when it comes to the business of the bar, it's personal. Politics aside, the bar has a reputation you can't mess with, and the lighthearted and inviting approach makes the 5 Point a prime destination for travelers from all directions. (Photograph courtesy of Lester Public Library on Flickr.)
Zeitgeist – San Francisco, California
If you boiled down the patronage of your typical urban watering hole to its essence and turned that into a bar, you'd have Zeitgeist. With a good sense of humor, a slightly grim point of view and a love of partying, this place exudes a personality of its own that is just shy enough of depressing to be, well, awesome. Known for its raucous atmosphere, socializing (not to mention socialist) ways and enormous patio lined wall to wall with picnic tables, Zeitgeist is a California commune done right, complete with a huge roster of local and regional brews on tap. We're all in. (Photograph courtesy of Thomas Hawk on Flickr.)
White Water Tavern – Little Rock, Arkansas
There's a place we all dream of finding while passing through Middle America that, in our experience, only really exists in our minds. And then we found it in Little Rock. White Water Tavern has a holiness about it that can only be derived from its devotion to the rock and the roll of the live music it plays host to on an almost nightly basis; from deep blues to hipster jam bands, they love it all. Beer is cheap, almost painfully cold and they show films like The Outsiders on off nights, which means anyone's welcome. Pure gold. (Photograph courtesy of White Water Tavern.)
Jimmy's Corner – Times Square, New York
On the edge of the trap that is Times Square exists a hole-in-the-wall shrine to boxing that is virtually free of tourists (proudly), the type of place that fuels New York legends. Stepping in, it's easy to imagine a time when Rocky-esque characters or inconspicuous Beat poets took a breather from the hard knock life here. It's a simple, unaltered relic that is less about what it offers than what it accepts, which is all walks. So long as you follow suit, enjoy your glass of beer and the jukebox serenade. Otherwise, forget about it. (Photograph courtesy of Dan Nguyen on Flickr.)
The Druid – Boston, Massachusetts
You can't talk about neighborhood bars and leave out the Irish pub. But you can't talk about Irish pubs without dealing with authenticity. The Druid, a Cambridge mainstay, does it right, acting as a cozy spot for a pint by day and a standing-room-only party room by night. But the real highlights are the Sunday Irish brunch, complete with a pint of Guinness, and the beer-battered fish and chips served up in newspaper. Simple and unfancy but steeped in the type of earth-bound atmosphere that lets you know it's real. (Photography courtesy of The Druid Irish Pub.)
Header photo courtesy of Dan Nguyen on Flickr.


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text: I recently put on a super and queen excluder (QE) on two full deep brood boxes. Following the advice of some threads on this forum, I put wooden strips(approx .75") between the QE and the supper to create an upper entrance above the QE. I put the wooden strips on all side, but left approx 6" out of the front side for the bees to use as the upper entrance (see picture ion below link). I also added an entrance reducer to the bottom entrance, so the bees would not have two large entrances to guard. The bees really hadn't been using the upper entrance at all for the past few days,however there has been a lot more activity in the hive the past two days (I think goldenrod flow started).. While watching the hive today I noticed several bees trying to enter through the upper entrance but there are a few bees hanging out in the upper entrance, chasing off any bee that comes close. I'm fairly certain that all the bees are from my hive and I'm not getting robbed, as I know of no other nearby hives and I never saw any honeybees before I got my hive. Is this normal behavior (bees to be guarding entrances from their own sisters)? Thanks for your help.


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IT was a warm night: the stars shone down through the thick soft air of the Northern Transvaal into the dark earth, where a little daub‐and‐wattle house of two rooms lay among the long, grassy slopes.
A light shone through the small window of the house, though it was past midnight. Presently the upper half of the door opened and then the lower, and the tall figure of a woman stepped out into the darkness. She closed the door behind her and walked towards the back of the house where a large round hut stood; beside it lay a pile of stumps and branches quite visible when once the eyes grew accustomed to the darkness. The woman stooped and broke off twigs till she had her apron full, and then returned slowly, and went into the house.
The room to which she returned was a small, bare room, with brown earthen walls and a mud floor; a naked deal table stood in the centre, and a few dark page: 12 wooden chairs, home‐made, with seats of undressed leather, stood round the walls. In the corner opposite the door was an open fireplace, and on the earthen hearth stood an iron three‐foot, on which stood a large black kettle, under which coals were smouldering, though the night was hot and close. Against the wall on the left side of the room hung a gun‐rack with three guns upon it, and below it a large hunting‐watch hung from two nails by its silver chain.
In the corner by the fireplace was a little table with a coffee‐pot upon it and a dish containing cups and saucers covered with water, and above it were a few shelves with crockery and a large Bible; but the dim light of the tallow candle which burnt on the table, with its wick of twisted rag, hardly made the corners visible. Beside the table sat a young woman, her head resting on her folded arms, the light of the tallow candle falling full on her head of pale flaxen hair, a little tumbled, and drawn behind into a large knot. The arms crossed on the table, from which the cotton sleeves had fallen back, were the full, rounded arms of one very young.
The older woman, who had just entered, walked to the fireplace, and kneeling down before it took from her apron the twigs and sticks she had gathered and heaped them under the kettle till a blaze sprang up which illumined the whole room. Then she rose up and sat down on a chair before the fire, but facing page: 13 the table, with her hands crossed on her brown apron.
She was a woman of fifty, spare and broad‐shouldered, with black hair, already slightly streaked with grey; from below high, arched eyebrows, and a high forehead, full dark eyes looked keenly, and a sharply cut aquiline nose gave strength to the face; but the mouth below was somewhat sensitive, and not over‐ full. She crossed and recrossed her knotted hands on her brown apron.
The woman at the table moaned and moved her head from side to side.
"What time is it?" she asked.
The older woman crossed the room to where the hunting‐watch hung on the wall.
It showed a quarter‐past one, she said, and went back to her seat before the fire, and sat watching the figure beside the table, the firelight bathing her strong upright form and sharp aquiline profile.
Nearly fifty years before her parents had left the Cape Colony, and had set out on the long trek north‐ward, and she, a young child, had been brought with them. She had no remembrance of the colonial home. Her first dim memories were of travelling in an ox‐wagon; of dark nights when a fire was lighted in the open air, and people sat round it on the ground, and some faces seemed to stand out more than others in her memory which she thought must be those of page: 14 her father and mother and of an old grandmother; she could remember lying awake in the back of the wagon while it was moving on, and the stars were shining down on her; and she had a vague memory of great wide plains with buck on them, which she thought must have been in the Free State. But the first thing which sprang out sharp and clear from the past was a day when she and another child, a little boy cousin of her own age, were playing among the bushes on the bank of a stream; she remembered how, suddenly, as they looked through the bushes, they saw black men leap out, and mount the ox‐wagon outspanned under the trees; she remembered how they shouted and dragged people along, and stabbed them; she remembered how the blood gushed, and how they, the two young children among the bushes, lay flat on their stomachs and did not move or breathe, with that strange self‐preserving instinct found in the young of animals or men who grow up in the open.
She remembered how black smoke came out at the back of the wagon and then red tongues of flame through the top; and even that some of the branches of the tree under which the wagon stood caught fire. She remembered later, when the black men had gone, and it was dark, that they were very hungry, and crept out to where the wagon had stood, and that they looked about on the ground for any scraps of food they might pick up, and that when they could not page: 15 find any they cried. She remembered nothing clearly after that till some men with large beards and large hats rode up on horseback: it might have been next day or the day after. She remembered how they jumped off their horses and took them up in their arms, and how they cried; but that they, the children, did not cry, they only asked for food. She remembered how one man took a bit of thick, cold roaster‐cake out of his pocket, and gave it to her, and how nice it tasted. And she remembered that the men took them up before them on their horses, and that one man tied her close to him with a large red handkerchief.
In the years that came she learnt to know that that which she remembered so clearly was the great and terrible day when, at Weenen, and in the country round, hundreds of women and children and youths and old men fell before the Zulus, and the assegais of Dingaan's braves drank blood.
She learnt that on that day all of her house and name, from the grandmother to the baby in arms, fell, and that she only and the boy cousin, who had hidden with her among the bushes, were left of all her kin in that Northern world. She learnt, too, that the man who tied her to him with the red hand‐kerchief took them back to his wagon, and that he and his wife adopted them, and brought them up among their own children.page: 16
She remembered, though less clearly than the day of the fire, how a few years later they trekked away from Natal, and went through great mountain ranges, ranges in and near which lay those places the world was to know later as Laings Nek, and Amajuba, and Ingogo; Elands‐laagte, Nicholson Nek, and Spion Kop. She remembered how at last after many wanderings they settled down near the Witwaters Rand¹, where game was plentiful and wild beasts were dangerous, but there were no natives, and they were far from the English rule.
There the two children grew up among the children of those who had adopted them, and were kindly treated by them as though they were their own; it yet was but natural that these two of the same name and blood should grow up with a peculiar tenderness for each other. And so it came to pass that when they were both eighteen years old they asked consent of the old people, who gave it gladly, that they should marry. For a time the young couple lived on in the house with the old, but after three years they gathered together all their few goods and in their wagon, with their guns and ammunition and a few sheep and cattle, they moved away northwards to found their own home.
For a time they travelled here and travelled there,
¹"Witwaters Rand"—"White water's ridge," now known as the Rand, where Johannesburg and the great mines are situated.
page: 17 but at last they settled on a spot where game was plentiful and the soil good, and there among the low undulating slopes, near the bank of a dry sloot, the young man built at last, with his own hands, a little house of two rooms.
On the long slope across the sloot before the house, he ploughed a piece of land and enclosed it, and he built kraals for his stock and so struck root in the land and wandered no more. Those were brave, glad, free days to the young couple. They lived largely on the game which the gun brought down, antelope and wildebeest that wandered even past the doors at night; and now and again a lion was killed: one no farther than the door of the round hut behind the house where the meat and the milk were stored, and two were killed at the kraals. Sometimes, too, traders came with their wagons and in exchange for skins and fine horns sold sugar and coffee and print and tan‐cord, and such things as the little household had need of. The lands yielded richly to them, in maize, and pumpkins, and sweet‐cane, and melons; and they had nothing to wish for. Then in time three little sons were born to them, who grew as strong and vigorous in the free life of the open veld as the young lions in the long grass and scrub near the river four miles away. Those were joyous, free years for the man and woman, in which disease, and carking care, and anxiety played no part.page: 18
Then came a day when their eldest son was ten years old, and the father went out a‐hunting with his Kaffir servants: in the evening they brought him home with a wound eight inches long in his side where a lioness had torn him; they brought back her skin also, as he had shot her at last in the hand‐to‐throat struggle. He lingered for three days and then died. His wife buried him on the low slope to the left of the house; she and her Kaffir servants alone made the grave and put him in it, for there were no white men near. Then she and her sons lived on there; a new root driven deep into the soil and binding them to it through the grave on the hill‐side. She hung her husband's large hunting‐watch up on the wall, and put three of his guns over it on the rack, and the gun he had in his hand when he met his death she took down and polished up every day; but one gun she always kept loaded at the head of her bed in the inner room. She counted the stock every night and saw that the Kaffirs ploughed the lands, and she saw to the planting and watering of them herself.
Often as the years passed men of the country‐side, and even from far off, heard of the young handsome widow who lived alone with her children and saw to her own stock and lands; and they came a‐courting. But many of them were afraid to say anything when once they had come, and those who had spoken to her, when once she had answered them, never came again. page: 19 About this time too the country‐side began to fill in; and people came and settled as near as eight and ten miles away; and as people increased the game began to vanish, and with the game the lions, so that the one her husband killed was almost the last ever seen there. But there was still game enough for food, and when her eldest son was twelve years old, and she gave him his father's smallest gun to go out hunting with, he returned home almost every day with meat enough for the household tied behind his saddle. And as time passed she came also to be known through the country‐side as a "wise woman." People came to her to ask advice about their illnesses, or to ask her to dress old wounds that would not heal; and when they questioned her whether she thought the rains would be early, or the game plentiful that year, she was nearly always right. So they called her a "wise woman" because neither she nor they knew any word in that up‐country speech of theirs for the thing called "genius." So all things went well till the eldest son was eighteen, and the dark beard was beginning to sprout on his face, and his mother began to think that soon there might be a daughter in the house; for on Saturday evenings, when his work was done, he put on his best clothes and rode off to the next farm eight miles away, where was a young daughter. His mother always saw that he had a freshly ironed shirt waiting for him on his page: 20 bed, when he came home from the kraals on Saturday nights, and she made plans as to how they would build on two rooms for the new daughter. At this time he was training young horses to have them ready to sell when the traders came round: he was a fine rider and it was always his work. One afternoon he mounted a young horse before the door and it bucked and threw him. He had often fallen before, but this time his neck was broken. He lay dead with his head two feet from his mother's doorstep. They took up his tall, strong body and the next day the neighbours came from the next farm and they buried him beside his father, on the hill‐side, and another root was struck into the soil. Then the three who were left in the little farm‐house lived and worked on as before, for a year and more.
Then a small native war broke out, and the young burghers of the district were called out to help. The second son was very young, but he was the best shot in the district, so he went away with the others. Three months after the men came back, but among the few who did not return was her son. On a hot sunny afternoon, walking through a mealie field which they thought was deserted and where the dried yellow stalks stood thick, an assegai thrown from an unseen hand found him, and he fell there. His comrades took him and buried him under a large thorn tree, and scraped the earth smooth over him, that his grave page: 21 might not be found by others. So he was not laid on the rise to the left of the house with his kindred, but his mother's heart went often to that thorn tree in the far north. And now again there were only two in the little mud‐house; as there had been years before when the young man and wife first settled there. She and her young lad were always together night and day, and did an that they aid together, as though they were mother and daughter. He was a fair lad, tall and gentle as his father had been before him, not huge and dark as his two elder brothers; but he seemed to ripen towards manhood early. When he was only sixteen the thick white down was already gathering heavy on his upper lip; his mother watched him narrowly, and had many thoughts in her heart. One evening as they sat twisting wicks for the candles together, she said to him, "You will be eighteen on your next birthday, my son, that was your father's age when he married me." He said, "Yes," and they spoke no more then. But later in the evening when they sat before the door she said to him: "We are very lonely here. I often long to hear the feet of a little child about the house, and to see one with your father's blood in it play before the door as you and your brothers played. Have you ever thought that you are the last of your father's name and blood left here in the north; that if you died there would be none left?" He said he had thought of it. Then page: 22 she told him she thought it would be well if he went away, to the part of the country where the people lived who had brought her up: several of the sons and daughters who had grown up with her had now grown up children. He might go down and from among them seek out a young girl whom he liked and who liked him; and if he found her, bring her back as a wife. The lad thought very well of his mother's plan. And when three months were passed, and the ploughing season was over, he rode away one day, on the best blackhorse they had, his Kaffir boy riding behind him on another, and his mother stood at the gable watching them ride away. For three months she heard nothing of him, for trains were not in those days, and letters came rarely and by chance, and neither he nor she could read or write. One afternoon she stood at the gable end as she always stood when her work was done, looking out along the road that came over the rise, and she saw a large tent‐wagon coming along it, and her son walking beside it. She walked to meet it. When she had greeted her son and climbed into the wagon she found there a girl of fifteen with pale flaxen hair and large blue eyes whom he had brought home as his wife. Her father had given her the wagon and oxen as her wedding portion. The older woman's heart wrapt itself about the girl as though she had been the daughter she had dreamed to bear of her own body, and had never borne.page: 23
The three lived joyfully at the little house as though they were one person. The young wife had been accustomed to live in a larger house, and down south, where they had things they had not here. She had been to school, and learned to read and write, and she could even talk a little English; but she longed for none of the things which she had had; the little brown house was home enough for her.
After a year a child came, but, whether it were that the mother was too young, it only opened its eyes for an hour on the world and closed them again. The young mother wept bitterly, but her husband folded his arms about her, and the mother comforted both. "You are young, my children, but we shall yet hear the sound of children's voices in the house," she said; and after a little while the young mother was well again and things went on peacefully as before in the little home.
But in the land things were not going on peacefully. That was the time that the flag to escape from which the people had left their old homes in the Colony, and had again left Natal when it followed them there, and had chosen to face the spear of the savage, and the conflict with wild beasts, and death by hunger and thirst in the wilderness rather than live under, had by force and fraud unfurled itself over them again. For the moment a great sullen silence brooded over the land. The people, slow of thought, slow of page: 24 speech, determined in action, and unforgetting; sat still and waited. It was like the silence that rests over the land before an up‐country thunderstorm breaks.
Then words came, "They have not even given us the free government they promised"—then acts—the people rose. Even in that remote country‐side the men began to mount their horses, and with their guns ride away to help. In the little mud‐house the young wife wept much when he said that he too was going. But when his mother helped him pack his saddle‐bags she helped too; and on the day when the men from the next farm went, he rode away also with his gun by his side.
No direct news of the one they had sent away came to the waiting women at the farm‐house; then came fleet reports of the victories of Ingogo and Amajuba. Then came an afternoon after he had been gone two months. They had both been to the gable end to look out at the road, as they did continually amid their work, and they had just come in to drink their afternoon coffee when the Kaffir maid ran in to say she saw someone coming along the road who looked like her master. The women ran out. It was the white horse on which he had ridden away, but they almost doubted if it were he. He rode bending on his saddle, with his chin on his breast and his arm hanging at his side. At first they thought he had page: 25 been wounded, but when they had helped him from his horse and brought him into the house they found it was only a deadly fever which was upon him. He had crept home to them by small stages. Hardly had he any spirit left to tell them of Ingogo, Laings Nek, and Amajuba. For fourteen days he grew worse and on the fifteenth day he died. And the two women buried him where the rest of his kin lay on the hill‐side.
And so it came to pass that on that warm star‐light night the two women were alone in the little mud‐house with the stillness of the veld about them; even their Kaffir servants asleep in their huts beyond the kraals; and the very sheep lying silent in the starlight. They two were alone in the little house, but they knew that before morning they would not be alone, they were awaiting the coming of the dead man's child.
The young woman with her head on the table groaned. "If only my husband were here still," she wailed. The old woman rose and stood beside her, passing her hard, work‐worn hand gently over her shoulder as if she were a little child. At last she induced her to go and lie down in the inner room. When she had grown quieter and seemed to have fallen into a light sleep the old woman came to the front room again. It was almost two o'clock and the fire had burned low under the large kettle. She scraped the page: 26 coals together and went out of the front door to fetch more wood, and closed the door behind her. The night air struck cool and fresh upon her face after the close air of the house, the stars seemed to be growing lighter as the night advanced, they shot down their light as from a million polished steel points. She walked to the back of the house where, beyond the round hut that served as a store‐room, the wood‐pile lay. She bent down gathering sticks and chips till her apron was full, then slowly she raised herself and stood still. She looked upwards. It was a wonderful night. The white band of the Milky Way crossed the sky overhead, and from every side stars threw down their light, sharp as barbed spears, from the velvety blue‐black of the sky. The woman raised her hand to her forehead as if pushing the hair farther off it, and stood motionless, looking up. After a long time she dropped her hand and began walking slowly towards the house. Yet once or twice on the way she paused and stood looking up. When she went into the house the woman in the inner room was again moving and moaning. She laid the sticks down before the fire and went into the next room. She bent down over the bed where the younger woman lay, and put her hand upon her. "My daughter," she said slowly, "be comforted. A wonderful thing has happened to me. As I stood out in the starlight it was as though a voice came down page: 27 to me and spoke. The child which will be born of you to‐night will be a man‐child and he will live to do great things for his land and for his people."
Before morning there was the sound of a little wail in the mud‐house: and the child who was to do great things for his land and for his people was born.