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I transcribe a lot of 19th centruy documentation and come across this letter quite a lot
Is there anything in the ACSII character list which I have missed which will enable a more realistic transcription on a web page.
At present I am using ƒs (#4202) :which is a hooked f followed by s
Any thoughts ?
I think I found what you are looking for here.....
& #383; (remove the space between & and #) will get you ſ
Hope this helps.....
Perfect !
I couldn't spot that one anywhere by googling
Where did you find it ?
Basically every known character is available in Unicode, so if you ever need the code for such a character, add "unicode" to your Google search. E.g. "unicode long s".
19th centruy documentation and come across this letter quite a lot
Surprised you find it in 19th C literature ... unless this literature is referencing older texts.[/ot]
It's handwriting in census returns which I transcribe,
Lots of double s in place and surnames
I'm quite amazed to hear people were still using it in handwriting at that stage.
The wiki article scout1idf referred to states that it was still used in handwriting until approximately 1860.
@certificates #3:This seems a rather complete list of all characters (1-100000): brucejohnson.ca/SpecialCharacters.html
I use Wikipedia for about everything. I figured they would have something on the subject....
If you know the full English name of the character, you can always get all the codes in DuckDuckGo in the zero-click info box.
The problem is knowing the full English name


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Harlequins wing Ollie Lindsay-Hague will have to be patient again this year despite impressing during pre-season.
The 21-year-old spent much of last season on loan at Championship outfit Esher having cut his teeth at Rosslyn Park the season befiore.
Lindsay-Hague, who scored one try in two LV= Cup appearances last season, was a try scorer in Quins' opening pre-season friendly in Castres and much is expected from him by academy head coach Howard Graham.
With Quins going into the new season as defending champions, this could be the year the youngster, one of the brightest stars at the club, finally makes his mark.
Conor O'Shea's men got their title defence off to a shakey start, as a stunning late fightback saw them defeat Wasps in their Premiership opener at Twickenham last weekend.
O'Shea has spoken of his admiration for Lindsay-Hague and insists he will be given time to make a name for himself.
He said: "We will be loaning the likes of Ollie out to other clubs but they know they are going to have a part to play.
"Everyone develops at different paces and Ollie is no different.
"You have to remember these players have been around the club for a long time but are still very young.
"He'll be looking to improve and we need to make sure they are doing the right things before they are exposed to the Premiership.
"There is big competition for places in the back three, though, when you think of Tom Williams, Sam Smith, Ugo Monye, Ross Chisholm and Mike Brown.
"So it is going to be tough."
The defending Premiership champions were 40-13 down early in the second half in the opening day clash against Wasps, but rallied to win 42-40.
Fly-half Nick Evans marked his 100th appearance for the club with a superb display, kicking three penalties and four conversions while also scoring a try to seal the comeback victory.
Mike Brown (two), Tom Guest and Tom Williams also touched down.
Quins are next in action tonight when they host London Welsh at 7.45pm.
Meanwhile, Ross Chisholm has signed a two-year extension to his contract at Quins, keeping him at the club until the summer of 2015.

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Outeniqua yellowwood trees can grow to more than 30m high, and live for hundreds of years.
There you are, at the top of a very tall Outeniqua yellowwood tree, one of the giants of the forest, part of the Tsitsikamma Canopy Tour along the Garden Route.
You are standing on a wraparound wooden platform with your friends and two guides from Stormsriver Adventures. Far below is the forest floor. Your harness jingles as you make your way to the shiny cable leading to another stately yellowwood. The speed-freak in you does another tiny victory dance.
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Your triumphant grin hides an urge to make noises like Tarzan.
Your guide identifies a raucous cry: 'Kow-kow-kow!' It's a Knysna turaco, and a few seconds later you see the green and red flash as it flies ahead of you, dodging a forest buzzard.
This notion of whizzing through the forest canopy on cable slides was 1st devised in Costa Rica by biologists who tired of climbing up and down incredibly tall trees while studying the rainforest canopy.
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One of the same adventurous engineers from Costa Rica came and created the Tsitsikamma Canopy Tour. One of the first things that will strike you is how well safeguarded the trees are from any harm. The cables and platforms are cushioned with rubber and other materials.
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Around the area
This is adventure-central. Just up the road is the highest bungee jump in the world. The spectacular Tsitsikamma section of the Garden Route National Park is nearby. You could opt for the Woodcutter's Journey into the indigenous forest or you could hire a bicycle and explore the old forestry roads.
Tours to do
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Length of stay
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A KEEN Blackburn Rovers fan who suffers from cerebral palsy and leukemia got the birthday surprise of a lifetime — a VIP day out at Ewood Park and a meeting with one of his idols.
Donnie Wilson's family managed to keep his 40th birthday treat a surprise, and he couldn't believe it when he was whisked into the Legend's Lounge by his brother, Sean, where all of his family were waiting.
Rovers midfielder David Dunn was on hand to wish Mr Wilson a 'happy birthday', and the day was topped off when his beloved Rovers won 2-0 against Bristol City.
Brother Sean said the day went very well, despite the cat nearly being let out of the bag a couple of times.
He said: "It was magic. It really couldn't have gone any better.
"We managed to keep it as a total surprise to Donnie as well, despite a few close shaves.
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"He thought it was just the two of us going in the Blackburn End so when we got to the Legend's Lounge and everyone was there he was made up."
Mr Wilson was joined at the game by his partner Yvonne Court and 10-year-old daughter Katie, brother Sean, his partner Sheena McKenzie and daughter Asher, four, uncles, aunties, cousins and friends.
He was also made up to see dad Roy had come all the way from North Wales to the game.
Mr Wilson, of Birch Hall Avenue, Darwen, had complications during his birth and was starved of oxygen, leading to him having cerebral palsy. In 2011, he was diagnosed with leukemia — a cancer of the blood — and had to undergo chemotherapy.
Sean said: "He has had it rough but our Donnie being our Donnie has just got in with life.
"It has been an absolute nightmare but he is a fighter.
"He is getting better now. He looked fitter than Dunny!"
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Energy efficiency is not necessarily everything it's chalked up to be
By WILLIAM M. BOWEN
William M. Bowen is professor of public administration and urban studies at the Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. He's also associate editor of the
International Journal of Energy Technology and Policy
In much of what I read, energy efficiency gets touted as a component of sustainable energy practices, a way to curb greenhouse gasses, a font of energy savings, a source of energy security, a way to bridge gaps in energy production and consumption, or otherwise a panacea for all problems that renewable energy technologies cannot reach.
I frankly think people oversell it.
In the abstract, energy efficiency is hard to argue with. The concept of energy efficiency is that the energy efficiency of any production, transmission or utilization process is increased if either usable energy output from the process remains constant while amounts of energy input resources decrease or, alternatively, usable energy output increases while energy input resources remain constant. What could ever possibly be wrong with this?
The counter-intuitive answer is that in reality an increase in the efficiency of energy conversion in any production, transmission, or utilization process may lead to an increase (not a decrease) in total energy consumed.
Here is more-or-less how this can happen: New innovations and technologies improve the conversion of an energy resource input to a useable energy output from the process. This improvement drives down the relative cost of the useable energy output, thereby increasing the levels at which it is consumed.
This increase in consumption, in turn, increases demand for the energy input resource. If and when demand for the energy input resource increases to a level that exceeds the rate of energy savings enabled by the improvements in conversion, the net consumption of the particular energy input resource used in the process increases rather than decreases.
This is known as Jevons' paradox. In 1865 Stanley Jevons wrote a book called "The Coal Question: An Inquiry Concerning the Progress of the Nation, and the Probable Exhaustion of Our Coal Mines." In it, Jevons hypothesized that increases in the efficiency of the conversion of coal to usable energy might actually increase overall demand for British coal. Technological innovations that increased the efficiency with which coal inputs were converted to usable energy outputs, such as Watt's steam engine, could drive the price of coal down relative to the price of the other factors of production, such as labor, and this could broaden its usage and result in a net increase in the demand for it.
Today, Vinola Vincent-Munyon, one of the remarkable students in Cleveland State University's Ph.D. Program in Urban Studies and Public Affairs, is researching Jevon's paradox for her doctoral dissertation. Jevon's paradox would indicate that all else equal the technological advancements which enable improved automobile fuel efficiency will lead to a net increase in the amount of gasoline consumed. Ms. Vincent-Munyon has a large data set that provides the characteristics of individuals' automobiles, and their usage, and she is statistically analyzing it to determine whether individuals tend to overcompensate for improved automobile fuel efficiency by driving disproportionately more miles, thereby driving up demand for gasoline.
If Ms. Vincent Munyon's findings confirm Jevon's paradox, it may among other things be time to think seriously about whether we as a society want to increase our Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFÉ) standards.
Energy efficiency is undoubtedly a good thing, but it is not equivalent to decreased consumption. It is not a panacea for energy problems; nor it is necessarily, a way to reduce total energy consumed. It is almost certainly no substitute for practices and public policies that promote energy conservation.
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Pearce, Cruz and Jones go deep; lefty works 7 1/3 for 13th win
CHICAGO -- Are the Orioles allowed to think about the possibility of the postseason yet?
"I hope so," said reliever Darren O'Day, who arguably got the two biggest outs in Wednesday night's 4-3 win over the White Sox. "That's our goal from the beginning is to be there, and that's what you play the game for, to play in the playoffs."
The first-place Orioles aren't just inching there, they're in a downright sprint. Baltimore, already with wins in nine of its last 10 series, has been a baseball-best 31-13 since June 30 and extended its commanding lead in the American League East to 9 1/2 games with a three-game sweep over Chicago.
"We're really good as a team," said Nelson Cruz, who hit his league-leading 33rd homer as part of a trio of blasts. "We're doing the little things that that matter in the end. The pitching, the bullpen, it's amazing to see everybody do their job and go about their business.
The victory marked the O's first sweep in Chicago since taking a four-game set over the White Sox in 1995, and featured another fantastic outing -- this time by lefty Wei-Yin Chen -- which has become a trademark of the club's hot stretch.
"There were some things we weren't perfect with tonight, but when you pitch well, it can cover some things," manager Buck Showalter said of his staff, which has posted a 2.87 ERA since June 30. "When you catch the baseball, we played three good defensive games here."
And a a result, the Orioles, who have a league-leading 39 road wins, are a season-high 21 games over .500 and playing their best baseball of the season. What makes them such tough road team?
"Maybe we like coming to the ballpark later, sleeping in. I don't know," O'Day said. "Maybe it's the early wake-up call at home. Maybe it's our wives. Just kidding! No, I don't know. I really don't. But it's a good quality to have because when we get down the stretch, we're going to play some important road games, and in the playoffs, you obviously have to play on the road."
Chen, who has pitched better at home this season, turned in an impressive 7 1/3 innings, allowing three runs on six hits for his career-high 13th win.
"I would say everyone else is pitching better than me," Chen said, through his interpreter, of a rotation that has posted a 2.82 ERA over the last 17 road games. "But I think it's a really good competition out there. We all try to pitch better than each other."
After putting the Orioles in an early two-run hole on Avisail Garcia's first-inning homer, Chen watched his offense go to work as the O's raised their season total to 161 home runs.
Steve Pearce got things going, cutting the two-run deficit in half with a leadoff shot in the fourth inning. Pearce, who has heated back up on this road trip, extended his career high in homers to 13.
Adam Jones followed with a single and Cruz homered for the second time in three games on a line drive to left field to give the Orioles the lead. Jones added a solo shot, his 24th, to start the sixth inning.
"When we were coming in here, they were swinging the bats pretty good, so we sort of got fortunate and caught them on the other side," Showalter said of a White Sox lineup bolstered by Garcia's return. "It's hard to continue at that pace, but we scored just enough runs to win. That was tight tonight. There wasn't much margin for error."
Things got dicey when Chen, who needed just 80 pitches to get through seven innings, allowed a pair of one-out singles to end his night in favor of O'Day. The sidearmer struck out Jose Abreu and Garcia to keep the one-run lead intact and lower his season ERA to an astonishing 0.95.
"He's pretty amazing," Garcia said of O'Day. "He throws the ball really good, especially the slider because you see it in and he goes away. His pitches are really good. He made very good pitches."
Closer Zach Britton followed O'Day, recording his 27th save in 30 tries to put the finishing touches on the sweep.
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter @britt_ghiroli. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Liberty, Texas, Student Wins Top Honors in State-Fish Art Contest
ATHENS—Anh Thu Do of Liberty is the 2010 winner of the Art of Conservation Stamp Award in the 12th annual Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Contest, it was announced Saturday at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center in Athens, site of this year's contest expo.
Do, a graduating senior from Liberty High School, was a student of Marsha Rader, art teacher at the school. Do's painting of a steelhead trout also took first place for grades 10—12 in the Texas division of the contest.
"Wildlife Forever is pleased to honor the talented Texas artist, Anh Thu Do, with the 2010 Art of Conservation Stamp Award," said Douglas H. Grann, Wildlife Forever president and CEO. "This honor is awarded to the student whose winning design becomes part of the State-Fish Art stamp collection. By recognizing the work of students today, we hope to inspire the conservationists of tomorrow."
"Anh Thu is really the art teacher's dream student," said Rader. "I didn't have to teach her anything—I just encouraged her to get out of the box and try different media and techniques." Do's winning entry was her first-ever drawing of a fish.
"I chose to paint a steelhead because I used to live in Washington State," said Do, who has lived in Texas about a year.
Do's painting is available as a collector's stamp. Proceeds from sales of the stamp help fund Wildlife Forever conservation projects. For information how to purchase the stamp and other related items, visit www.statefishart.com.
"Americans nationwide will learn about fisheries conservation and local aquatic species by experiencing the beautiful artwork of our country's youth," Grann said. "Through the Art of Conservation stamps, the State-Fish Art Contest spreads the good news about our outdoor heritage while generating funds for fisheries conservation."
Winners from 18 states and their families converged on Athens July 16 and 17. Brooklynn Selby of Henryetta, Oklahloma, took the People's Choice award. Voting took place both online and at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center.
Best of Show awards were given in each of three grade-level divisions. Winner of the grades 4—6 division was Monna Dong of Michigan. Best of Show for grades 7—9 went to Riley Nelson of Minnesota. For Grades 10—12, Best of Show winner was Abraham Hunter of Illinois.
All the artwork can be viewed at www.statefishart.com.
The Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Contest seeks to involve students in the outdoors through art. Texas annually produces about 600 entries in the contest, one-fourth of the national total. Students compete in three grade-level divisions: 4—6, 7—9 and 10—12. Texas entrants all receive a fishing lure from Strike King Lure Company, and Texas winners receive cash prizes and travel expenses to the national expo through support from the Toyota Texas Bass Classic.
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The South African Museum records some 400 000 annual visitors and is one of Cape Town's leading tourist attractions
Befitting its position as the oldest museum in Africa, the Iziko Museums of Cape Town South African Museum is found in the Company's Garden in inner city Cape Town, a precinct of stately and historical buildings, not least of which is the Cape home of the president, Tuynhuys.
Founded in 1825, the grande dame of South African historical museums hosts thousands of visitors each year, is a leading research and education institution, and constantly adds to its natural and social history collections.
Here you will encounter the massive skeleton of the sauropod dinosaur Jobaria, cast from a fossil discovered in northern Niger. You can view the huge head of Carcharodontosaurus, a close relative of Tyrannosaurus. You are introduced to extinct creatures such as Diictodon, a small plant-eating reptile once common to the local landscape, as well as the a prehistoric coelacanth, a fish still found on very rare occasions.
There's a whale and dolphin exhibit to explore and a world of sharks where you can marvel at a 2m-high model of the jaws of a megatooth shark, possibly the largest predator the world has ever seen.
The museum delves deeply into African cultures, and its exhibitions of San rock art are a particular source of pride.
Also housed in the South African Museum in Cape Town is a 'celestial theatre in the round', the Planetarium. High-tech projectors transport visitors on a journey through the night skies, affording close-up sightings of constellations. Details of the Planetarium's schedule of shows can be found on the museum's website.
Visitors are offered the opportunity to visit the South African Museum's behind-the-scenes storerooms and laboratories on guided tours led by scientists, viewing some of the thousands of objects that are not on display.
The museum has parking facilities, access for the physically disabled and a café.
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The Planetarium
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Best time to visit
Cape Town is generally glorious in the spring and summer.
Around the area
The museum is in an avenue of South Africa's most stately institutions, such as the Houses of Parliament, the South African National Gallery, the South African Library, St George's Cathedral and De Tuynhuys, the Cape residence of the president.
Get around
The Company Gardens are often a stop on a city tour of Cape Town, and the museum is also one of the stops on the Red Route of CitySightseeing Cape Town, the city's hop-on/hop-off bus. Alternatively, ask your hotel to book a taxi for you.
What will it cost
Museum: 19 years and older R20; under 18 years free; students and South African pensioners R10. Free entrance on selected commemorative days.
Planetarium: 19 years and older R25; children, students and South African pensioners R10
Length of stay
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Huddle Note, as the new application is called, is designed for quick, ad-hoc taking and sharing of notes within the cloud suite's interface, a more convenient option, the company hopes, to using third-party word processors and note-taking apps.
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"We wanted to let users create lightweight content within Huddle, and not have to go elsewhere to do it, and share the documents right from there," said Alastair Mitchell, Huddle's CEO. "It's very natural for us to build a tool like this."
Huddle's suite, which is cloud-based, competes against Microsoft's SharePoint server in areas like file sharing, document management, building intranets and extranets, and content collaboration. Thus, cutting into its customers' use of Word and OneNote is right in line with Huddle's overall strategy to position itself as an alternative to SharePoint.
Huddle is the latest enterprise collaboration vendor to prep a native content creation application. Box, the file-sharing and cloud storage phenom, plans to release next year a similar app called Notes, while Tibbr, Tibco's ESN (enterprise social networking) suite, recently released one called Pages.
"Simple note taking/sharing is quickly becoming table stakes for cloud content collaboration services where the focus is around delivering a more 'engaging' experience," IDC analyst Vanessa Thompson said via email. "Building this capability into the platform means that users don't need to leave in order to make notes in another application or service. Targeting an in-application experience helps users stay productive inside one environment."
Huddle Note is available now at no extra charge for customers. It works via the main desktop interface and also on Huddle's iOS and Android apps. "Wherever you're using Huddle, you can use Note," Huddle's Mitchell said. It will also be on Huddle's upcoming Windows Phone app.
Mitchell cautions that the goal for Note isn't to be a head-to-head rival for full-featured word processing applications, in particular because Huddle doesn't want Note to become "bloated" with features and thus cumbersome to use.
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In addition to creating, editing and sharing documents, Note also lets users track changes made to files via a version control feature, as well as review usage logs that display who has viewed the document.
Users will be able to post comments in documents, and those comments will be date and time-stamped. Document creators can request that others approve and sign off on their files by a specific date.
As a native component of the Huddle suite, Note will be governed by the suite's security features, access control mechanisms and IT administration capabilities.
"This gives us a good head-start on Box," Mitchell said, alluding to Box Notes, which is in private beta testing and due to ship early next year.
Right now, users can create Huddle Note documents that contain text and photos, but later they will be able to embed videos as well.
Huddle has a close partnership with Tibco's Tibbr, which Mitchell compares to the competing tandems of enterprise document collaboration and ESN suites formed by Box and Jive Software, and by SharePoint and Yammer, which Microsoft acquired last year.
Huddle also released on Tuesday a new version of its iOS application that has been redesigned for iOS 7, in particular Huddle's activity stream, files section and task management area.
Huddle is primarily sold as a public cloud service, although the company offers private cloud deployments for government clients in the U.S. and the U.K., according to a spokesman. The Workgroup Edition, for at least 25 users, starts at US$20 per user, per month. There are also the more sophisticated Enterprise Edition, for at least 50 users, and the Unlimited Edition, which has no user maximum.
End users access the Huddle software via browsers, its iOS and Android mobile applications and desktop software on Windows and Mac OS computers. Huddle can be integrated and used in conjunction with third-party applications like Tibbr, Zimbra, Salesforce.com, and Photoshop, and with Microsoft's Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
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Richard Leakey, who discovered the fossils, presented the skull—which he estimated to be 2.8 million years old and which was given the official designation of KNM-ER 1470, as the greatest discovery in the history of anthropology—and thus aroused an immense reaction. According to Leakey, this creature, with a small skull volume like that of Australopithecus and with a human-type face, was the missing link between Australopithecus and man.
However, it was later realized that the human facial features of KNM-ER 1470, which had appeared on the covers of various scientific journals, were errors, made perhaps even deliberately in assembling the skull fragments. Professor Tim Bromage, who conducted research into the anatomy of the human face, summarized his findings produced with the aid of computer simulations in 1992:
When it [KNM-ER 1470] was first reconstructed, the face was fitted to the cranium in an almost vertical position, much like the flat faces of modern humans. But recent studies of anatomical relationships show that in life the face must have jutted out considerably, creating an ape-like aspect, rather like the faces of Australopithecus.205
... its relatively robustly constructed face, flattish naso-alveolar clivus, (recalling australopithecine dished faces), low maximum cranial width (on the temporals), strong canine juga and large molars (as indicated by remaining roots) are all relatively primitive traits which ally the specimen with members of the taxon A. africanus..... KNM-ER 1470, like other early Homo specimens, shows many morphological characteristics in common with gracile australopithecines that are not shared with later specimens of the genus Homo.206
C. Loring Brace from Michigan University arrived at the following conclusion regarding the KNM-ER 1470 skull, based on analyses of its jaw and teeth structure:
. . . from the size of the palate and the expansion of the area allotted to molar roots, it would appear that ER 1470 retained a fully Australopithecus -sized face and dentition.207
John Hopkins University Professor of paleoanthropology Alan Walker, who has examined the KNM-ER 1470 skull at least as much as Leakey, maintains that like Homo habilis or H. rudolfensis, the creature should not be classified as Homo but should be included in the classification Australopithecus. 208
205 Tim Bromage, New Scientist, Vol. 133, 1992, pp. 38-41.
206 J. E. Cronin, N. T. Boaz, C. B. Stringer, Y. Rak, "Tempo and Mode in Hominid Evolution," Nature, vol. 292, 1981, pp. 117.
207 C. L. Brace, H. Nelson, N. Korn, M. L. Brace, Atlas of Human Evolution, 2nd Edition, New York: Rinehart and Wilson, 1979.
208 Alan Walker, Scientific American, Vol. 239 (2), 1978, p. 54.


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PHILADELPHIA – It was a tough weekend for Penn (3-4, 0-2 Ivy) as they lost to an Ivy opponent for the second consecutive day. No. 8 Dartmouth (4-3, 1-2) topped the Quakers, 8-1 on Sunday at the Ringe Squash Courts, with Penn's lone victory coming by way of Tyler Odell (5-2, 1-1) at No. 8.
Rotation one started with the ninth position between Daniel Judd (5-2, 0-2) and James Fisch, with Judd falling in straight games. Following Judd was Michael Mutscheller (1-6, 0-2) at No. 6 against Fletcher Pease. Mutscheller put up a strong fight in game one, but came up short, and dropped the second and third games as well, falling in straight games. John Dudzik (2-5, 0-2) faced Kyle Martino at No. 3 on the main court, and won Penn's first game of the weekend. Dudzik dropped the next three games, though, and fell to Martino, whose plan of using his superior stamina was obvious from the start.
Derek Chilvers (2-5, 0-2) started off the second rotation at the second position against Robert Maycock on the main court, but was simply outmatched, as he fell in straight games, winning a combined five points in three games. The next match to finish was at No. 8 for the Red and Blue's only win of the day from Odell. The freshman defeated Mark Funk in five games, winning two of three 12-10. Liam Quinn (4-3, 0-2) was inches away at No. 5 from following up Odell's win with another, but ultimately fell in five games to Michael Mistras. Quinn won the first two games, but Mistras outmuscled the Penn freshman in the final three.
The final rotation started with captain Danny Greenberg (3-4, 0-2) against Christopher Hanson at No. 1 – Greenberg fell in straight games, 11-1, 11-4, 11-6. Despite trailing Dartmouth, 6-1, Penn still had two more matches to play. The first to finish was at No. 7 between Jack Maine (4-3, 0-2) and Alex Kurth. Maine won the first game with ease, 11-4, but dropped the next three. The final match of the day was between Augie Frank (2-5, 0-2) and Christopher Jung at the fourth position. Frank started off slow, losing the first two games without much pushback, but put up a strong fight in the final game, unfortunately losing, 10-12.
The Quakers will be back in action on Jan. 16 for a 6:00 p.m. match in Lancaster, Pa. at seventh-ranked Franklin & Marshall.
Full Results
Dartmouth 8, Penn 1
No. 1: Christopher Hanson (D) def. Danny Greenberg (P) 3-0, (11-1, 11-4, 11-6)
No. 2: Robert Maycock (D) def. Derek Chilvers (P) 3-0, (11-1, 11-2, 11-2)
No. 3: Kyler Martino (D) def. John Dudzik (P) 3-1, (9-11, 11-8, 11-5, 11-5)
No. 4: Christopher Jung (D) def. Augie Frank (P) 3-0, (11-6, 11-2, 12-10)
No. 5: Michael Mistras (D) def. Liam Quinn (P) 3-2, (10-12, 8-11, 11-7, 11-9, 11-7)
No. 6: Fletcher Pease (D) def. Michael Mutscheller (P) 3-0, (12-10, 11-6, 11-7)
No. 7: Alex Kurth (D) def. Jack Maine (P) 3-1, (4-11, 11-9, 13-11, 11-7)
No. 8: Tyler Odell (P) def. Mark Funk (D) 3-2, (4-11, 12-10, 7-11, 11-7, 12-10)
No. 9: James Fisch (D) def. Daniel Judd (P) 3-0, (11-9, 11-7, 11-5)


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Have you tried downloading and installing the ATI Radeon drivers from ati.amd.com? If not, then you might want to start there. It fixed my driver issues for my ATI Radeon X1400 card on my PC.
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I have a 2 year old MacBook Pro that has the ATI Radeon X1600 in it. If I boot off a BT3 live CD and choose VESA mode X11 starts up fine and everything works.
I installed BT3 on a disk partition using the information posted in the howto's and it boots up fine and I'm able to run various utilities from the console, however I've been unable to get X11 to work at all in this case. I've tried running xconfig, I've tried manually copying /etc/X11/xorg.conf-vesa to xorg.conf and using that, I've even gone so far as to boot off the live CD and copy its xorg.conf that I know works onto a usb stick then reboot to the hard drive, install that xorg.conf, and try that.
If I use the vesa version of xorg.conf I get the error "(EE) AIGLX: DRI module not loaded". If I add the DRI module to the xorg.conf I get "(EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable".
I've also tried using different vga=lines in my lilo.conf but if I use values other than 791 then each time I try to run startx and it bounces me back to the command line then the screen gets fainter & fainter until I can't see anything, and I have to reboot to be able to see anything again...
Any suggestions on how to get this to work? Thanks in advance!
Have you tried downloading and installing the ATI Radeon drivers from ati.amd.com? If not, then you might want to start there. It fixed my driver issues for my ATI Radeon X1400 card on my PC.
I did try downloading ati-driver-installer-8-6-x86.x86_64.run from the ati website. I did choose the 32-bit linux driver for my ATI card so I don't know why it prompted me to download an x86_64 file but it did... Anyway, it would run but it failed with the following error:
[Error] Kernel Module : No kernel module build environment - please consult readme.
I'm not surprised that BT3 doesn't contain all the module build stuff and I really don't want to try installing it all myself...
I just decided to try wiping out my BT3 hard drive installation and re-install it and this time X seems to have started up without any problems. I'm going to bang on it some more to make sure everything is working properly and also make sure to back up my xorg.conf but for now it appears to be working again... Go figure.


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Social justice. Everyone has a different idea of what this term means, and no single definition can fully express its meaning. Helping those in need, pursuing equality, seeking fairness, and working to make the world a better place can all be considered aspects of social justice. During our orientation for the Fellowship in Jewish Social Entrepreneurship, Dean Aliyah Vinikoor presented this definition, from the Social Justice Symposium at the University of California, Berkeley:
Social Justice is a process, not an outcome, which (1) seeks fair (re)distribution of resources, opportunities, and responsibilities; (2) challenges the roots of oppression and injustice; (3) empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential; (4) and builds social solidarity and community capacity for collaborative action.
This semester, all of us in the Fellowship are interning at organizations that do some form of social justice work, and I'm hoping that we all learn and grow from contributing to this process.
I am interning at Helpsusadopt.org, whose mission statement reads:
HelpUsAdopt.org is a national non-profit 501(c)(3) financial assistance grant program providing qualified couples and individuals -regardless of race, ethnicity, marital status, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or disability- with grants of up to $15,000 towards their domestic, international, foster, or special needs adoption expenses.
The costs of adoption are staggering, ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 if not more, including but not limited to the costs of a home study, travel fees, legal fees, agency fees, and placement fees. HelpUsAdopt.org raises the funds for grants from donations, events, and the sale of jewelry and tote bags; all of the profits from the sale of merchandise go to HelpUsAdopt.org. This organization's work creates families, helping children in need find homes and helping adults who long to become parents, and they are the only organization that provides grants without discrimination and does not charge a fee to apply. Providing families with the resources to adopt without discrimination, advocating for adoption reform, and promoting awareness of the problems and needs of potential adoptive parents are some of the ways that HelpUsAdopt.org is a part of the social justice process, as defined above.
Adoption is an issue personally important to me. My little brother is adopted, and now I cannot imagine life without him. He's four, and I love spending time with him. His sense of humor, his love of sports and superheroes, and his love of Harry Potter (my personal favorite) are some of his special characteristics but I still cannot explain what he means to me. Although my family was fortunate enough to be able to afford adoption, others are not, and it saddens me that they cannot experience the joy that I do simply because of financial obstacles.
HelpUsAdopt.org represents a way for these families to get something like what I have. And it represents a way to provide a better life for children in need. To date, HelpUsAdopt.org has helped 81 families adopt. I am so grateful to have this opportunity to work with an organization that makes such a difference in people's lives.
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Second, Short, and Catcher for 8/27/12
Like his batting average, Ruben Tejada's (Yahoo! 16%, ESPN 21%, CBS 33%) spot in the lineup has dropped recently. On August 9, his average sat at .323. Today, it rests just below .300. That slide is bad news for a player who is completely reliant on hitting for average to have fantasy relevance. As I alluded to above, he was also moved down to sixth in the Mets order for Sunday's game. He still makes frequent contact and has a line drive rate in the upper-20 percent area, so he should hit for more average than he has been of late, but he's a fringy enough option to cut bait with and turn elsewhere for middle infield help, even in large mixed leagues.
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He didn't hit a home run this past week, but Chris Iannetta (Yahoo! 5%, ESPN 1%, CBS 16%) did help fantasy owners by going 9-for-21 at the dish since last Sunday. Don't expect him to continue to hit for average, and don't expect him to go homer-less much longer.
Even with a healthy lineup, Jeff Keppinger (Yahoo! 8%, ESPN 20%, CBS 19%) is getting regular playing time and making the most of it. He hit his sixth dinger of the year last Monday and recorded a couple of hits in Wednesday's and Thursday's games. Kepp doesn't seem to be slowing down, so continue to enjoy his stellar play.
It wasn't a banner week for Wilin Rosario (Yahoo! 30%, ESPN 17%, CBS 63%), but he did hit his 20th home run of the year on Wednesday and remains a viable starting catcher in single-catcher mixed leagues.
He failed to record a hit in his first 12 at-bats after being activated from the disabled list, but Yasmani Grandal (Yahoo! 8%, ESPN 1%, CBS 33%) got a hit in his 13th at-bat and has one in each of the last three games. He's healthy, receiving regular playing time, and is an above average hitter for the catching position. Grandal isn't going to continue to post a HR/FB rate of roughly 18 percent, but he can still rake and his improving walk rate falls in line with his minor league track record. The Padres' lineup is no great shakes, but hitting behind Chase Headley and Carlos Quentin should provide Grandal some ducks on the pond to drive in. Fantasy owners can comfortably deploy Grandal as a second catcher in two-catcher mixed leagues and as a starting catcher in NL-only leagues.
There is only one reasonable explanation for John Jaso (Yahoo! 13%, ESPN 6%, CBS 32%) having a down week; I jinxed him. After weeks of ignoring his outstanding play, I highlighted him last week, and he goes 3-for-16 with just two runs and two RBI in the last seven days. In all seriousness, Jaso is fine. He was bound to cool down, but that doesn't mean it's time to ditch him. His line drive rate is excellent, he's walking a bunch, and he doesn't strike out much, which should help him continue to hit for a high average. Temper power expectations, though; he won't be able to maintain his current home run pace with a fly ball rate below 30 percent.
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Topic: PET scan denails?
Hi everyone,
My mom was just informed at my Dad's last chemo treatment that their insurance company (I believe they have a Cigna PPO) now refuses to pay for PET scans unless they are for initial diagnosis. The nurse/receptionist said that this is a new thing that many insurance companies have implemented as of January 1st, 2011 in the US.
Has anyone else heard of this? Or is is just their certain insurance? I'm afraid they don't have many other options for insurance since its through my Dad's company and he is currently on Long Term Disability.
On a side note: his Dr is going to try to bargain with the insurance to approve it anyways once he needs another one, but I'm just so surprised that they would do this when clearly a PET scan is so much more effective than an MRI or CT scan with this type of cancer. (Well, no, im not surprised. Insurance companies are you-know-whats).
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El Cajon born and bred racing champion Jimmie Johnson landed his second Daytona 500 victory Sunday, putting the East County community back on top of the NASCAR world.
For Mike Highhouse, 35, who grew up in El Cajon and watched the race from his Santee home Sunday, nothing beats having a homegrown champion.
"I'm always happy to see him win," Highhouse said. "Jimmie Johnson put El Cajon on the map."
Or, as racing champion Ivan Stewart — once Johnson's hero, and now his mutual fan — put it: "He's a true champion. I'm really proud of him. ... I'm really thrilled for him being from El Cajon and being from San Diego."
Johnson first won the race in 2006 but had not finished above 27th in the last six years of the premier event of stock car racing. He led for the final 10 laps. Danica Patrick placed eighth, the best-ever finish for a woman.
Even if this isn't exactly NASCAR country, East County is home to plenty of fans who are as passionate about Jimmie Johnson as many other San Diegans are about the Chargers — or fish tacos.
That pride doesn't diminish between races, fans say, because Johnson is generous with his community and hasn't forgotten his roots. A few months ago, Johnson and his wife, Chandra, donated funds to three local schools through their foundation.
At Chico Club, a bar on El Cajon Boulevard in La Mesa, a motley crew of NASCAR fans got together to watch the race in good company. Everyone had a take when it was over.
One man knew in his gut Johnson would win. Literally. "Before the race started yesterday, I had a weird feeling Jimmie Johnson was going to win," said Jerry Henson, 36. "My gut gets really tight, and I know Jimmie's gonna win." Henson added that it happens every time Johnson wins, so maybe his stomach is good at predictions. Or maybe Johnson is just good at winning.
There was talk of Johnson's strategy. "Fuel management. Not running out of gas," said Lee Holley, 45, of San Diego. Holley added that the race's finish was "probably in your top 20 percent of finishes."
There was talk of the competition. Holley admitted he was rooting for Patrick, but "I'll take Jimmie."
Highhouse preferred watching alone, at home. Because this is how he likes his NASCAR races: No friends. No distractions. Nothing between him and the cars hurtling left on his 32-inch TV.
Before the race, he kicked his roommates out of their Santee house. "It was made clear that the TV doesn't get touched today. It's gonna be on full blast," he said. He grabbed his cellphone so he could check stats during the race, turned on the TV and watched from start to finish.
Over the years, Highhouse has built up a collection of memorabilia from Johnson, Dale Earnhardt and other racing greats. He's been trying to sell it on Craigslist, since his interests have recently shifted.
"The price might go up after today," he said.


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I decided to come to Grove City College because of the amazing value that the school provides. When I was being recruited for different football programs in the area, Grove City College always stood out to me as an institution that placed academics first.
The reason that I chose to major in accounting is because I have always had an interest in helping businesses and the individuals running them succeed. Accounting is the "language of business" and I wanted to learn that language to assist businesses in becoming more efficient in their operations.
Already, I am starting to see my passion for helping people and businesses come to life. I just finished an internship with Light of Life Rescue Mission in Pittsburgh. Light of Life Rescue Mission provides services to men, women and children facing extreme adversities. As an intern, I updated the organization's accounting software and posted monthly journal entries to their respective accounts and general ledger.
I felt well prepared to immediately contribute to Light of Life's business operations because of what I have learned from my professors. Dr. Baglia, Dr. Adels, Dr. McFeaters, and Professor Trimpey are some of the most intelligent people I know. The best thing about studying under these professors is that they apply their real world experience along with their academic knowledge to prepare you for the real world.
After graduation, I plan on becoming a licensed CPA so that I can continue to help small businesses and individuals become more efficient and financially stable.


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Rise, Power!, performed by Jeremy Sweet and Ian Nickus, is the first and second opening, and the instrumental version is the ending in the English dub version of Part I of the Naruto series.
We …Will …Rise! Tsuyosa!.(3x)
- This song has the least amount of lyrics of all the Naruto songs.
- "Tsuyosa" means power.


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THE family of celebrated English sculptor Lyn Chadwick are opening Lypiatt Park estate for a one-off public event to mark 100 years since his birth.
Lynn, who was born on November 24, 1914 and passed away on April 25, 2003 aged 88, was an English sculptor and artist best known for his semi-abstract bronze and steel sculptures.
Chadwick's work is in most major collections around the world, including MoMA, New York, the Tate Gallery, London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Lypiatt Park near Stroud, is now owned by Lyn's son and fellow artist Dan.
The park will be open to the public for a special event between 2pm and 6pm on Sunday, September 14.
The park, now acts as a setting for 32 pieces of his work, is in an area of outstanding natural beauty and is also a nature reserve.
Admission is by pre-booked tickets only. The tickets are free of charge and an application form can be collected from Stroud Tourist Information office from Monday, September 1.
Tickets will be posted out on a first-come-first served basis.
For more information call Juliet Shipman at 01452 770263.


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Among emerging technologies, 3D printing is very en vogue, but researchers at North Carolina State have seen the future, and it looks like an even cooler -- not to mention real -- James Cameron special effect: liquid metal.
No, you can't print up your own T-1000 (yet), but the technology still is quite impressive. As the above video shows, the metal is pushed out of a syringe needle and forms a ball with a solid skin upon extrusion. Those balls can then be stacked or otherwise arranged -- think of them as building blocks for 3D printing. Even more exciting are the possibilities raised by the fact that the metal can also be made into a string, which can then be used to complete an electrical circuit. Technologists and inventors everywhere are no doubt feverishly imagining all sorts of applications for for that capability as we speak.
This story, "The next big thing in 3D printing: Liquid metal," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Keep up with the latest tech videos with the InfoTube blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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When we started the work on my house, I cooked some steaks on the Egg on the second day to show my appreciation to the workers. They liked it so much and were willing to be guinea pigs for whatever I made that I have been cooking for them now for the last 3 weeks. I haven't posted much of it, because it has been things I'd just posted from the BGE cookbook. I've also been using the sessions to get more familiar with my new grill. It has been win win for everyone.
So for Wednesday I made something I've never made before or posted. It was a recipe from Weber's Charcoal Grilling called Tripp's Chicken with White BBQ Sauce. The white BBQ sauce was a variation on the Big Bob Gibson's version, but everything else about the cook was different for me. I'd never made drumsticks on the grill and never cooked chicken on high (550 degrees). I'll let the pictures take over from here and at the end are a couple pictures showing the progress on my grill gazebo at the end of the day on Wednesday.
The ingredients were similar, but different from the original Big Bob Gibson's version of this sauce. It used mayonnaise, chopped fresh tarragon, lemon juice, minced garlic, minced onions, butter, apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, Texas Pete's hot sauce, white wine, sugar, sea salt & pepper.
The prep was different from the Big Bob Gibson's sauce too. First you melted some butter.
Then you added the minced onions and garlic & simmered them for 3 minutes. Then the white wine was added and the mixture was reduced down to 1/2 the volume.
When the sauce was reduced by 50 percent the pan was pulled off the stove and the other ingredients for the sauce were added.
The drumsticks have been sprayed with canola oil and seasoned with salt & black pepper. As you can see they are out at the Egg, which has been set up with the Plate Setter for indirect grilling at 550 degrees.
The drumsticks have been brushed with some reserved white sauce and will come off the grill shortly.
Dinner is served. Some country fries complete the bill of fare for today.
The drumsticks & white sauce. This was my first time grilling drumsticks, it certainly won't be my last.
The chicken was tasty and moist on the inside & I really do love the white barbecue sauce. A mayo based sauce never sounded good to me, but once I tried it I can see it's perfect for poultry.
Here is what the grill gazebo on my computer looks like. I was glad I knew an architect when it was time to draw this up. And the price for the plans was right too.


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Staff Sgt. Jason Ostberg watched the birth of his son over FaceTime from an iPhone in Afghanistan. It would be 3½ more months before father and son could finally meet.
Ostberg, who has been deployed about as much as he's been home over the past five years, says it's just part of being an explosive ordnance disposal, tech, one of the Air Force's busiest airmen.
"My wife and I came to an understanding. We've talked about it before, when I'd be home and when I wouldn't be," said Ostberg, who is assigned to the 355th Civil Engineer Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz.
EOD techs, contracting officers, and enlisted airmen in medical specialties were among the most deployed airmen in fiscal 2013 — they were away from home for contingency operations and exercises an average of 170 days or more. Pilots, maintainers, nurses and financial management officers also led the pack, according to fiscal 2013 deployment averages provided by the Air Force Personnel Center.
The Air Force, in line with the Defense Department's objective, has been trying since 2010 to alleviate the stresses that come with deployments. Leaders look not just at the number of days deployed, but the number of days airmen are back home, called the deploy-dwell rate.
The current goal is for all airmen to have a 1:2 deploy-dwell ratio, Air Force spokeswoman Lt. Col. Laurel Tingley said. That means airmen who deploy six months would be home for a year before deploying again.
And a new DoD policy guidance, issued Nov. 1, calls for all of the services to reach the 1:2 deploy-dwell rate. It calls for commanders "at every level to ensure individual service members, regardless of unit or assignment, are not repeatedly exposed to combat, do not experience disproportionate deployments and do not spend extended periods away from" their homes or station unless necessary.
Career field managers have been working to increase the number of airmen in the busiest specialties and offer incentives to keep airmen already in those jobs from leaving, and those efforts may give the airmen more time at home, said Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody, in a Nov. 6 interview.
But it's never easy.
"There is an insatiable demand for some of these 'high demand, low density' skill sets," Cody said. "If you bring in more [airmen] and you are able to retain more, that solves a lot of the 'low density' issue," he said. "To be honest, today we're not able to meet all the combatant commanders' requirements."
How often, how many daysOf the airmen who deployed in fiscal 2013, 90 percent of them met the deploy-to-dwell goal of 1:2, or better, Tingley said.
The reasons the other 10 percent did not meet that expected rotation goal depends on individual circumstances.
"In some cases, airmen volunteer to deploy prior to achieving a 1:2 ratio," Tingley said. "In other cases, home station operational commitments reduce the rotationally available pool, which may require some airmen — but not the entire career field — to deploy prior to achieving 1:2 ratio," she said.
A major challenge has been recruiting and retaining these skilled and highly trained airmen, said retired Maj. Gen. James Poss, former assistant deputy chief of staff for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.
"It takes a unique airman to be able to even pass initial technical training, let alone pass the security clearance, let alone qualify to fly in an aircraft, and be brave enough to engage in direct combat," Poss said in an interview.
Deployed and stressedNot surprisingly, the most frequently deployed airmen are often in the most-stressed fields in the Air Force. Those AFSCs whose operational demand has been deemed problematic are either on a 1:1 deployment ratio or are combat enablers, who are critical non-combat troops specializing in areas such as intelligence and explosive ordnance disposal.
All career fields have some stress, Jerry Diaz, chief of the Air Force's force management analysis division, said in a statement to Air Force Times. But to determine which are facing troubling levels of stress — and may need help — the Air Force measures career fields' manning levels, frequency of temporary duty and deployment, retention, and deploy-dwell ratio. For example, career fields that are on a 1:1 deployment ratio will end up on the stressed list if their manning levels, retention and frequency of TDY and deployment are deemed "moderately healthy" or "unhealthy."
The Air Force uses a variety of tools to try to relieve the stress on those fields, such as approving enlistment, re-enlistment or retention bonuses; increasing promotion rates; increasing non prior-service accessions; allowing prior-service accessions; or increasing retraining quotas.
The Air Force has struggled for years to turn around some stressed career fields. In an email, Chief Master Sgt. Adam Watson, the Air Force's intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance career field manager, said the operations intelligence career field has been the most stressed ISR career field "for over a decade."
"It is the most deployed of our enlisted AFSCs, and a very marketable skill in the civilian community," Watson said. "It drove retention down for several years. Our airmen, at a 1:1 dwell, were tired and could not see an end in sight. These airmen were eager to serve, but deploying for six months, home for four, training for two months then off to another six-month deployment was too high an operations tempo for some."
Operations intelligence specialists are enlisted airmen who help analyze intel and evaluate its accuracy to find key information that will help plan and execute combat missions.
But last October, the operations intelligence field finally came off the stressed list. Watson said the Air Force increased its enlistment of new operations intelligence airmen and increased retraining of other airmen over the past several years, and promoted those airmen above the Air Force average.
The end of the war in Iraq and reduction of forces in Afghanistan also helped take the pressure off of operations intelligence airmen, Watson said. That career field has seen "a marked reduction in ... deployment requirements" recently. And the Air Force has been using airmen in other ISR career fields to take over some jobs that had been filled by operations intelligence airmen, further relieving their burden.
There are incentivesAn incentive for some airmen in the busiest career fields is a faster promotion rate. For example, enlisted airmen in intelligence or medical careers who were selected for promotion consistently had some of the lowest average times-in-grade in the Air Force, according to an analysis conducted by Air Force Times in August. It's whether or not they're willing to be retrained into a challenging and in-demand job.
Hefty re-enlistment bonuses often go hand in hand with high deploy rates, though the list of jobs eligible for the bonuses is getting smaller. EOD Explosive ordnance disposal airmen, for example, can get bonus multiples of up to 7 if they re-enlist. The same goes for the frequently deployed special operations weather and pararescue airmen.
And in June, the Air Force announced massive $225,000 retention bonuses for fighter pilots who agree to stay on for nine more years. The Air Force in April added fighter pilots to the list of stressed officer fields, partly due to their high op tempos.
But other changes also are putting a strain on the ranks of fighter pilots. Col. Doug Nikolai, director of operations force management, said in an email that force structure reductions over the past decade have eroded the Air Force's ability to train new fighter pilots and get them necessary experience.
Nikolai said the Air Force has increased its fighter training unit production capacity over the past two years to try to fix this problem, which he said is starting to show results. He also said the active-duty Air Force will work more closely with reserve-component fighter squadrons to increase its capabilities.
Remotely piloted aircraft pilots were also added to the stressed list in fiscal 2013. Nikolai said that is largely due to the relative newness of that career field. The Air Force is experiencing the "typical growing pains" that come with refining a brand-new training program, he said. He also said the Air Force is trying to improve recruitment and screening to get the most motivated and qualified people into the career field.
"The [Air Force] stood up the formal training pipeline for this new career field only three years ago, so it will take time to produce the numbers necessary to meet requirements," Nikolai said. "Currently, pilots from manned aircraft are filling some of these positions until the new career field is healthy."
And the military's growing demand for special operations forces during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars helped land special operations combat systems officers on the stressed list in January.
"These overseas contingency operations demands outstripped the ability of the [Air Force] to produce enough CSOs for the special ops career field," Nikolai said. "We have increased the number of CSOs we track to the special ops field and improved training efficiency" to try to relieve the strain on that career field.
Demands of warIt is impossible to say exactly which AFSCs will be in the most demand after 2014 because the demand for airmen will be based on "what takes place around the world and what our nation asks us to get engaged in," Cody said.
Airborne ISR operators and airborne crypto language analysts, for example, will more than likely always have jobs that take place overseas, even as the nation winds down in its war efforts, Poss said. These career fields have almost 2,000 airmen.
"I would hope that when we pull out of Afghanistan in 2014 or 2015 even, that we'll see a big drop off in deployment requirements for these airmen," Poss said. "On the other hand, they're just so valuable to the overall war effort that you could see them going to another theater."
Pilots may see a drop in combat requirements after 2014, but it's too early to say whether their operational tempo will change, said Master Sgt. Randy Redman, spokesman for Air Combat Command, in an email.
"In general, drawdowns in combat operations will decrease demand for combat airpower, although air assets often remain operating in theater well after the departure of the majority of ground forces," Redman said.
The demand for ISR aircraft and aircrew remains high, he said.
"Additionally, combat operations over the past decade have come at the expense of other operational commitments such as coalition exercises, partnership building, deterrence operations, etc.," Redman said. "Depending on other COCOM requirements, it may not be that pilots deploy less, but rather, that they deploy for other missions, and for different durations."
What's nextIt will be up to unit leaders to keep an eye on airmen to make sure they are not being called upon too often, Tingley said.
"Commanders review deploy-dwell ratios before selecting airmen to deploy and they give airmen as much time off between deployments as possible," she said.
Airmen in these units, however, are subject to frequent deployments until they are re-assigned to a new unit, Tingley said.
Poss suggested if the service cannot reach a goal to deploy fewer combat forces, a possibility would be to promote some of these positions to send fewer of the same airmen forward.
"It sets off alarm bells for personnel folks if we go over a 1:1 dwell. In other words, six months preparing to deploy or deployed versus six months staying at home," he said.
For Ostberg, who has deployed twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan in his nine years as an EOD tech, the time away is part of a job he loves. He's gotten used to being home eight to 10 months between deployments since the tempo picked up in 2007.
He's just back from Afghanistan, but while he's at home, he will be sent on routine TDYs with the Secret Service.
"I'm going to stay for 20 [years] no matter what," Ostberg said. "I just love what I do ... the camaraderie in the EOD career field is awesome. I just [knew I] never wanted to sit behind a desk."
As far as his next deployment, "they just kind of tell us when we're leaving, either three months before or a couple days before," Ostberg said.
But his deployments have never been pushed back.
"When they tell you you're going, you're going," he said.
He expects another deployment. It's just a question of when and where.