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Congressman Nick Joe Rahall (D-WV) was one of a host of special guests in Logan on Friday, May 3 with words of advice and congratulations for three young people who had successfully completed the Logan County Juvenile Drug Court program.
Congressman Rahall thanked the staff of the Logan County Drug Court and Day Report programs and the Logan Circuit Court for their hard work and support in helping their clients get off drugs and back into the mainstream of life. Rahall noted that substance abuse is one of life's greatest challenges for many people.
"We know how severe and crippling drug abuse is," he said, adding that there was no easy solution for the problem. "You cannot wave a magic wand and expect it to go away."
"We know what drug abuse does to our economy and our workforce," he said. "It takes a tremendous toll on our state and our nation."
Rahall and other speakers spoke about how West Virginia was "Ground Zero" in terms of the devastating effect of Opoid pain pills such as Oxycontin and Oxycodone, which had created a modern substance abuse epidemic that affected families across the country.
"This happened because of a unique set of circumstances," Rahall said of an issue that came about when many doctors wound up overprescribing powerful pain medication to patients (often injured coal miners) who wound up addicted to them. Rahall noted that neighboring Kentucky, another rural coal mining state, had the same problem.
Rahall said that only by everybody working together, from families and communities to law enforcement, court officials and elected officials could the problem be addressed successfully. He noted it is a challenge that faces everybody in the modern world.
"God bless you for the work you have done," Rahall said.
Logan Circuit Judge Eric O'Briant was the master of ceremonies for the event, and noted that the Drug Court programs could not exist without the support of the Federal Government as well as local government. Two young men and one young lady were this term's graduates, having completed a host of requirements, including frequent drug screenings, counseling and improved academic performance. O'Briant pointed out that everybody has a close friend or family member who has been affected by substance abuse and he noted the Drug Court program was just one tool that could be used to help deal with the drug addiction problem faced by so many people.
Representatives were present from Senator Joe Manchin's office and Senator Jay Rockefeller. Mike Browning, a representative from Manchin read a note from the Senator congratulating the graduates for their hard work and success and pointing out that their experience in the Drug Court program had provided them with an exciting opportunity at obtaining a brighter future.
Local senators and delegates from the West Virginia Legislature were also on hand.
Dr. Ron Stollings went into detail about the beginnings of the pain pill epidemic and the struggles it has made for so many Mountaineers.
Stollings noted that several years ago at the cusp of the problem some doctors had been sued for not treating pain symptoms adequately. When many injured miners started taking more of the pain pills to cope with workplace injuries they wound up getting hooked on them, and inevitably the popularity of the pills hit the streets making them become more in demand than many common "street drugs."
"We did not know how addictive Oxycontin and Hydrocodone were," he said. "Now, we have a lot of backtracking to do."
Stollings noted that Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and the Legislature were adressing this problem through many ways, including recent legislation to crack down on "pill mills" which are clinics operated by shady doctors who cash in on the demand for such pills by addicts. One recent bust took place outside the town of West Logan a few months ago when an out-of-state doctor was caught allegedly dispensing pills on Sundays to local addicts.
"This is something we have to tackle," Dr. Stollings said, adding that he had heard figures that as much as 80 percent of the cost of operating the regional jails is substance abuse related.
Stollings also congratulated the trio of graduates noting that by successfully completing the program, "this can be your chance at having an ordinary life." and he urged them to be role models for other young people in their community. Stollings pointed out that addiction is an illness similar to diabetes in that it cannot be cured, but has to be monitored and dealt with on a daily basis.
Delegates Ted Tomblin and Rupie Phillips also encouraged the graduates to stay sober and continue to work towards a better life through education and the world of work. "You are young and have much to look forward to," Phillips said noting that bad intentions seldom lead to good results. "Stay in a positive frame of mind- you know what is right in your heart," he added.
Tomblin congratulated the graduates and thanked the staff of the Logan Drug Court and Day Report programs for their work in helping people combat their substance abuse problems.
WV State Senator Art Kirkendoll said the trio of graduates had a unique opportunity to build better lives for themselves and to show others it can be done. Kirkendoll said the people in the treatment programs did not need people to tell them how easy it was, because they knew better than that. Kirkendoll noted that as the son of a coal miner himself he knew how easy it was to stumble in life and get started down the wrong path due to alcohol and drugs. Kirkendoll said about two decades ago the pain pill problem started becoming prevalent in the coalfields. He noted that along with the new powerful pain medications that were originally meant for terminal illness patients opportunities for people to get hooked on them came with improvements in transportation. He noted that drug dealers from other areas were now able to come to the mountains and exploit local people suffering from addiction.
Many people struggle in life and many people struggle with addiction, he said, adding, "I understand those struggles."
However, with enough hard work and enough support from programs such as those available in Logan and other counties, Kirkendoll said the people who had been hit hard by addiction could turn things around for themselves, "pick themselves up, and go on and take the next step and become the person they want to be- lucky proud and effective."
Kirkendoll noted that many addicts had hurt their families worse than they had harmed themselves and urged all people in the drug treatment programs to remember that and keep their families in mind when struggling with their addictions. Kirkendoll said it took hard work and strength to combat substance abuse and life's other challenges effectively and noted that it was relatively easy for people to abuse drugs in comparison.
Kirkendoll also spoke of the nexus of the pain pill problem, noting that Oxycontin and oxycodone were developed for treatment of terminal patients and they had been tremendously successful- especially in sales at pharmacies. "Then it hit the streets."
"You take one, you feel better. You take two, you feel even better…You take three, sooner or later you develop a problem…" he said.
Kirkendoll said it was important for the people who were working on their own drug abuse problems in the treatment programs to remember, "nobody is better than you. You can determine what you want to do and go do it…Life will never get better until you determine to make it so."
He said that when new programs became available, such as Home Confinement, then Day Report, then Juvenile Drug Court followed by Drug Court for adults, some people were skeptical, but he, County Commissioners Willie Akers, Danny Godby and other county officials like Rocky Adkins felt they were important in helping get people back on track in life.
"You cannot put a dollar value on people's lives," he said. "It is our job to find the money for these programs. It is your job to prove them effective and show that it is worth the effort."
Kirkendoll noted that he cared because he had friends and family members himself who struggled with the same problems and noted "nobody is free from it."


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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer issued a rare personal apology on Friday for an email outage that's affected roughly 1 million Yahoo users. She issued the mea culpa on Wednesday, during a week of complaints, keeping the apology short and tweet.
"An Important Update for Our Users - yahoomail: We are very sorry for recent difficulties with Yahoo Mail...." Mayer tweeted, with a link to a longer blog post by Jeffrey Bonforte, senior vice president of communication products at Yahoo, explaining the problem more fully. "We have dozens of people working around the clock to bring it to a resolution," he wrote. On Friday, after access for most users was restored, she followed up with a tweet linking to an apology of her own.
By apologizing on Twitter, Mayer opened the company up to snarky comments. "Maybe just tell everyone about Gmail," was the first comment received on Mayer's Twitter account. The outage also comes at a delicate time for Mayer, who took over as CEO in June 2012 and is embarking on a high-profile campaign to make Yahoo cool again. Another commenter tweeted: "No worries. We had All shifted 2 Gmail long back."
An apology should make no excuses and should have plenty of explanation, says Toronto-based marketing consultant Evan Carmichael. No. 1: "Make it personal, and recognize your role," he says. "Show that you take this seriously and that the buck stops at the top. It's not just your company's problem, it's your problem." No. 2: Be sincere, and demonstrate that you really care about the impact that this problem has had on your customers. "If it's not genuine, people won't come back," he says. No. 3: Implement procedures to ensure it doesn't happen again, Carmichael says. "Explain what you're going to do to make sure the problem gets fixed and never comes up in the future."
Apologizing doesn't always make a bad situation better, however. If not done right, it can even make matters worse, experts say. File Mayer's Twitter mea culpa under "The 140-Character Apology." On the following pages are 7 more CEO apologies of varying styles — and success.Slide 1 of 2
The Painful Apology: Barilla CEO Guido Barilla, 2013
Italian food company Barilla became known last week for a new kind of noodle –– "Bigotoni." Shortly after CEO Guido Barilla said in a radio interview that the company would never use gay families in its advertisements, images of a box of pasta with the logo doctored to read "Bigotoni" went viral, and a social media protest began. (Italian speakers can listen to the interview here. Find a translation on AmericaBlog. )
Later that day, Barilla issued a hasty "sorry you feel that way" apology, which only added insult to injury: "I apologize if my words have generated controversy or misunderstanding. If they have hurt the sensibilities of some people. In the interview I simply wanted to highlight the central role of the woman in the family," according to AmericaBlog. On Friday, management tried again, issuing a formal apology and posting a statement on Barilla's U.S. Facebook page. "At Barilla, we consider it our mission to treat our consumers and partners as our neighbors — with love and respect — and to deliver the very best products possible." It added, "While we can't undo recent remarks, we can apologize. To all of our friends, family, employees, and partners that we have hurt or offended, we are deeply sorry." In a follow-up video also posted Friday, Guido Barilla personally apologized, vowing to meet with offended groups.Slide 1 of 2
The Humble Apology: Apple CEO Tim Cook, 2012
Apple CEO Tim Cook has had his every move compared with that of the company's visionary founder Steve Jobs. Last year, he proved that he is more capable in at least one respect, experts say: apologizing. In a letter to users, Cook conceded that Apple's AAPL, -2.36% Maps had fallen short of the company's standards. "We are extremely sorry for the frustration this has caused our customers," Cook wrote, "and we are doing everything we can to make Maps better." See text of Tim Cook's letter
It was more sincere than a similar mea culpa Jobs issued five years earlier, experts say. In 2007, Jobs apologized to customers for dropping the price of the iPhone to $399 from $599 just two months after its release. Unlike Cook, however, Jobs insisted Apple had done nothing wrong: "I am sure that we are making the correct decision." Cook's statement was structured more effectively, "with the apology front and center," says Ben Zimmer, a language expert and executive producer of VisualThesaurus.com.Slide 1 of 2
The Magnum Mea Culpa: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, 2009
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos threw the book at himself in 2009, when copies of George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm" mysteriously vanished from people's Kindle e-readers. Customers were shocked and confused, and the online retailer was accused of banning books. It was, perhaps, unfortunate that the books dealt with themes like censorship and totalitarianism. The truth was less dramatic than that: The books were removed because Amazon didn't have authorization from the publishers to sell them.
CEO Jeff Bezos posted a message on Amazon's AMZN, -0.21% public forum — as if he were just another customer: "Our 'solution' to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, and painfully out of line with our principles. It is wholly self-inflicted, and we deserve the criticism we've received. We will use the scar tissue from this painful mistake to help make better decisions going forward, ones that match our mission." See Jeff Bezos's apology.
Both repentant and humorous, "this apology is clearly the cream of the crop," Zimmer says. Also see: Why Amazon's new ad is a game changer.
The Friend-to-Friend Apology: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, 2006
Back when Facebook only had a few hundred million members, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced the "news feed." Intended to compete with just-launched Twitter's endless stream of updates, the feature infuriated users, who found it too busy and cluttered. Zuckerberg responded with a lengthy open letter on his blog, admitting full responsibility in his opening sentence: "We really messed this one up." See Zuckerberg's apology.
But Zuckerberg's statement read like an email to a close friend: Self-deprecating and casual, it even applauded his most vociferous detractors. "This may sound silly, but I want to thank all of you who have written in and created groups and protested." He organized an online chat to discuss Facebook's FB, +0.14% new privacy policies and thanked people for taking the time to read his letter. Not everyone was impressed. Christopher Elliott, author of consumer-advice book "Scammed," says it was "rambling."Slide 2 of 2
The Unsigned Apology: Sony Online Entertainment, 2011
Some apologies are not signed by a human being at all. In 2011, Sony SNE, -2.08% blocked users from playing online games and accessing Netflix and Hulu after hackers compromised more than 100 million records, including 12 million unencrypted credit-card numbers. The breach impacted PlayStation, Sony Online Entertainment and its Qriocity music service. Sony's May 2 statement began" Dear Valued Sony Online Customer." And ended: "Sincerely, Sony Online Entertainment LLC." See Sony's statement.
Howard Stringer, the company's CEO, didn't make a public comment for three days. When he finally did issue a statement, his tone was warmer. "Dear Friends," he wrote, "I know this has been a frustrating time for all of you. Let me assure you that the resources of this company have been focused on investigating the entire nature and impact of the cyber-attack we've all experienced and on fixing it." See Stringer's statement.
What the company didn't acknowledge is that it had failed to protect customers from such an attack, Zimmer says.Slide 2 of 2
The Serial Apology: Research In Motion founder Mike Lazaridis, 2011, and CEO Thorsten Heins, 2012
The BlackBerry maker US:RIMM has repeatedly apologized in the past year. In October 2011, founder and former co-CEO Mike Lazaridis issued a mea culpa to the millions of customers hit with three days of global services outages. In a video clip, he said, "We've let many of you down. But let me assure you we are working around the clock to fix this. You expect better from us, and I expect better from us." See Lazaridis statement.
Lazaridis recognized his role and made it personal, says marketing consultant Evan Carmichael; however, the problems continued.
Fast-forward to 2012: Another apology for problems with BlackBerry service in Europe and Africa on Sept. 21. This time, CEO Thorsten Heins posted a short, dispassionate statement: "We are conducting a full technical analysis of this quality-of-service issue and will report as soon as it concludes. I again want to apologize to those customers who were impacted today." See Heins's statement.
Heins didn't explicitly take responsibility for the problems with the service, Zimmer points out.Slide 2 of 2
The Half-Apology: Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, 2011
In July 2011, Netflix increased the price of its video-streaming and DVD-rental services. The company NFLX, -1.53% apologized for not properly communicating its strategy to customers and, in September 2011, announced that it would spin off its DVD-by-mail service under the name Qwikster. Around a million subscribers canceled their accounts in the months after the price hike and split — causing the company to abandon its plan to split the services. (Since then, Netflix has gradually been regaining many of those lost customers.)
CEO Reed Hastings went into damage-control mode. In a 1,160-word blog post on Sept. 18, 2011, titled "An Explanation and Some Reflections," he apologized for the missteps. "I messed up," he wrote. "In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success." Oddly, he didn't apologize for pricing increases, which experts say was the big reason customers were upset. Carmichael says Hastings failed to follow one key rule: "Explain what you're going to do to make sure the problem gets fixed."
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TOWSON, Md. – Veronique Archambault-Leger (Verdun, Quebec) and Sean McNamara (Honeoye Falls, N.Y.) of the University of New Hampshire ski team were voted to a 2009 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District at-large team, CoSIDA announced Thursday afternoon.
Archambault-Leger, a junior alpine skier with a 3.93 grade-point-average in chemical engineering, is a District 1 University Division First Team honoree and will now be on the national ballot. McNamara, a senior alpine skier with a 3.66 GPA in kinesiology: exercise science, was named to the Second Team.
Archambault-Leger garnered All-America honors in both the slalom and giant slalom at the 2009 NCAA championship, where she placed seventh in slalom and 10th in the giant slalom. She finished in the top-5 six times during the '09 carnival season and was the top 'Cat in all six of those races. In the opener at Bates, Archambault-Leger took fourth place in the slalom and fifth place in the giant slalom. The following week at UNH, she placed third overall in the slalom. That was her highest placing of the season; she also took third in the giant slalom at UVM.
Archambault-Leger's other accolades this season included NCAA All-Academic Team and All-East Second Team.
McNamara finished fifth in the slalom at the NCAA championship to garner All-America status; he also placed 16th in the giant slalom at the NCAAs. He capped the Eastern carnivals by winning the giant slalom and finishing second in the slalom at the EISA Regional Championships. He finished in the top 10 in all 12 Eastern races this season with 10 top-5 finishes overall. McNamara was the top 'Cat in six of 12 races and that included both Middlebury Carnival events in which he was second overall in the SL and third in the GS. He also earned second place in the UVM slalom and UNH giant slalom.
McNamara's other 2009 accolades included NCAA All-Academic Team and All-East First Team, as well as team MVP (men's alpine).
To be nominated, a student-athlete must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.30 cumulative GPA.
The 13 eligible sports for the women's at-large team are: bowling, crew, fencing, field hockey, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming & diving, tennis and water polo.
The 12 eligible sports for the men's at-large team are fencing, golf, gymnastics, ice hockey, lacrosse, rifle, skiing, swimming & diving, tennis, volleyball, water polo and wrestling.
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Austin Ando, a 14-year-old member of Hobcaw Yacht Club, Prime Race Team and Lake Ontario Optimist Team finished fifth in the U.S. Optimist Dinghy Association (USODA) National Championships in Grosse Point, Mich. The championships were completed over four days.
Ando also finished in fourth place in the red fleet out of 294 optimist sailboats. Because of his strong showing, he qualified for the USODA Team Trials in April 2014.
Annika Bovender, a rising junior standout golfer at Academic Magnet High School, finished in second place in the S.C. Junior Girls Match Play Championship last week. Bovender went into a playoff with Cayla Smith, of Easley, before losing on the second extra hole.
Bovender trailed by three holes after No. 11, but won the final three to force extras. Smith won with a par score on a par four.
Bovender won three matches to advance to the championship.
Smith's road to the final included knocking off another Mount Pleasant player, Savannah Hallman, in the first round.
The Park West Pirates youth swim team won the East Cooper Swim League Championships, held this past Saturday at Park West Recreation Center. Park West scored 581.50 points, edging second place Rivertowne Country Club, which totaled 556 points.
Rivertowne Wando grabbed third, the Hamlin Hammerheads secured fourth and the Hobcaw Creek Dolphins came in fifth. Wild Dunes Dolphins, Mount Pleasant Kingfish and Creekside Crocodiles finished the field, coming in sixth through eighth places, respectively.
The Alzheimer's Association finished its fifth annual "Ride to Remember" cycling event across South Carolina on Sunday in Mount Pleasant. A group of more than 100 cyclists started the 252-mile ride in Simpsonville on Friday and made stops in Newberry and Orangeburg to raise money and awareness for Alzheimer's disease, according to an Associated Press report.
Almost 80,000 South Carolinians are living with the disease or have a related dementia, according to statistics from the Alzheimer's Association.
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In the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, do you remember Veruca Salt, the girl who kept screaming, "I want it NOW, daddy!" Well, that's pretty much how I feel about searching the web on my mobile phone. It takes longer for pages to load, and it's not easy entering text in the first place - so I want the answer NOW, Google!
For all you Verucas out there, we engineers have been working on three new Google search features for mobile phones. Starting today, if you type [movies] or [weather] and a location, or enter a stock ticker symbol, we'll show, predictably enough, movie showtimes, weather forecasts, or live stock quotes above the Google web search results that display on your phone.
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So I've been using various programs such as VGrep (result window is not clear enough for me), Windows Grep (crashes on my system - not freeware), ReplaceEm(unweildy interface and by default makes backups of files even if they're not changed) etc. Textcrawler is the best I found so far.
Textcrawler is freeware, has a usable but powerful interface, the results window shows the line and highlighted query inside the file as well as the filelist itself, and allows you to select which files to replace (so you could find all .htm files but only replace the term in certain files). It can also make backups of changed files. It has a few tools for Regexes too.
But it has a splash dialogue on load (guess that's fair).
There is similar functionality in programs like Notepad++ but that requires more clicks, plus even notepad's search and replace dialog is not the most usable either. (and not as good as TextCrawler).
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2011 Season Review: The senior-less Hilbert College softball program, under the leadership of a first-year head coach, took an early non-conference victory but then struggled to find the next win the rest of the season. The Hawks lost an AMCC All-Conference player (due to injury) thirteen games into the season and finished 1-26 and 0-18 in Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference.
With limited outdoor practice opportunities, Hilbert traveled to Myrtle Beach, SC to participate in the Fast Pitch Dreams spring tournament. Taking the field for the first time live, the Hawks faced mainly Division III teams also from the northern states looking for sunshine and productive field conditions. Hilbert opened the season with three losses (Morrisville State, Baptist Bible and Pikeville) the first day, then rebounded in game two 24-hours later when they captured their first win (Becker: 11-1) after an early morning loss to Keystone State. Morrisville, the University of Cumberlands and Becker outscored the Hawks 41-8 over their final four games of the southern swing sending the royal and white back north 1-8.
Once the team returned to campus, they waited for Mother Nature to give in and allow them to play a college softball game back up in Western New York. Nine game dates were rescheduled, and four double headers were cancelled. Of the 9 AMCC regular season double-header games, only three games were played as originally scheduled. Rain or snow, and poor field conditions kept the Hawks from taking their home field which meant that, for the first time in the program's history, the women's softball team at Hilbert College did not play one single HOME softball game on their own field during the 2011 season. Of the four home games on the schedule, two were switched to the opponent's fields (La Roche and Penn State Behrend) and the other two were played at Erie Community College's north campus (Medaille and Mount Aloysius).
Scoring runs and crossing home plate was challenging for the young Hawks in AMCC games. In the first game against Behrend, the Hawks surrendered 11 runs in the first two innings but battled back to 11-9 deficit at the bottom of the 6th inning. Behrend scored 5 runs in the top of the 7th putting the game out of reach grabbing a 16-10 win.
On April 27th, Hilbert held a 9-8 lead by the middle of 6th inning against D'Youville College, before giving up 4 unanswered runs at the bottom of the 6th. D'Youville captured the 12-9 victory and continued on by the end of the season to become eventual AMCC champions.
Then, in the game played in Erie, PA, against Franciscan University, the Hawks held a 9-6 lead after their 7th at bat. Franciscan scored 3 runs in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings with both teams searching for their first AMCC win. After placing a runner on second base, Hilbert's first two batters flew out, before the third batter earned a base on balls. Then the next batter finished the inning with another fly-out, keeping the score knotted at 9. Franciscan inserted a designated runner on second base who moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. Hilbert intentionally walked the next two batters loading the bases. The last batter singled, which sent the winning run home, giving Hilbert a 10-9 loss.
Unfortunately, due to the terrible 2011 spring weather, the Hawks played three fewer games than the 2010 season which impacted team statistics as well as individual stats. Junior Jill Martucci (Hamburg, NY/Hamburg) lead the Hawks hitting with (.361) average, scored 20 runs off 30 hits (with 5 doubles and two home runs) earning 11 RBI. She also held the team high slugging percentage of (.494). Sophomore Amber Grosch (Depew, NY/Depew) broke her wrist 13 games into the season but still led the team with 10 stolen bases (out of 11 attempts) and had the team high (.412) batting average. Sophomore pitcher Emili Ripley (Batavia, NY/Notre Dame) hit a team high-9 doubles for the Hawks, improving her batting average (.329) and slugging percentage (.378). Her 10.14 era contributed to her 0-16 record on the mound. Seeing a marked improvement in hitting percentage from her freshman season was Devan Jonathan (Basom, NY/Akron) who improved from (.172) to (.339).
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Mignolet has enjoyed a fine season for the Black Cats despite their struggles at the wrong end of the table and N'Diaye can understand why the Belgian international is attracting interest from other clubs.
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Sophomore Reindell Cole's 11th-place finish in the men's long jump at the 2009 USA Track & Field National Championships on June 27 concluded yet another tremendously successful season for the Cal State Northridge men's and women's track & field teams.
"I think the entire year was a great success," said Director of Track & Field Don Strametz. "Any time you win conference on both the men's and women's side, that's our primary goal each season."
The Matador women nailed down their fourth consecutive Big West Championship in May when they posted 198 team points over 21 events to easily out-distance second-place Cal Poly by 83.5 points. The 198 team points scored by the Northridge women was the most by a Matador team since totaling 207 points at the 2006 conference meet.
The Northridge men scored 176.50 points to get back on top after a second place finish in 2008. The Matadors have now won four of the last six Big West men's team titles.
"We had a lot of people step up at the conference meet and perform at a level beyond expectations," said Strametz.
The Matadors dominated the conference's postseason awards as Northridge claimed five of the eight postseason awards which were handed out by the conference office.
Strametz added to his impressive list of accolades by being named Big West Men's and Women's Coach of the Year in 2009. He, along with assistant coaches Avery Anderson, Bridget Pearson and Seilala Sua, was instrumental in Northridge winning 13 individual championships at the outdoor championships. In addition, the Matadors posted nine NCAA Regional qualifying marks during the meet.
The pair of coaching honors make 10 Big West Coach of the Year honors for Strametz since Northridge began competing in the conference in 2002.
Junior De'Shawn Waters earned the Men's Track Athlete of the Year and senior Rolando Felizola was named Men's Field Athlete of the Year marking the first time in Big West Conference history that one school has swept both awards. Precious Watkins completed the Matador accolades as she earned Women's Freshman of the Year
Waters, a junior from Hercules, Calif., won 100 and 200 meters in his first season at Northridge. He also ran the second leg of the Matadors' 4x100 relay team that also captured a Big West title in a time of 40.55. Felizola, a two-time runner-up in the triple jump at the Big West Championships (2006, 2007), claimed his first-ever conference championships by winning both the long jump and triple jump. Watkins, a redshirt freshman from Moreno Valley, Calif., placed second in the 100 meters, fourth in the 200 meters and ran the opening leg of the Big West Champion 4x100 relay.
Not to be overshawdowed was the performance of junior Sherrina Lofton. Lofton not only won both the 100 and 200 meters as well as being a part of the conference champion 4x100 relay squad, but she earned the title of top all-around athlete after winning her first Big West heptathlon title.
"I think if you look at the emergence of Sherrina Lofton continuing to improve and have the most unbelievable year that she had both in sprinting and her multi-event talent," said Strametz. "The fact that she scored 34 points at the conference meet, this is someone who has really developed."
Other event winners at the Big West included: Shelese Ruffin (400 meters, long jump), Lilyana Morejon (10,000 meters), women's 4x400 relay (Jackie Harrison, Tara Prier, Jasmine Cox, Ruffin), Derek Cooper (discus) and Lance Gonzales (Javelin).
"I think the turning point of the men's meet was when we were seventh and eighth in the discus going into the fifth round and Cooper, who was throwing with a torn pectoral muscle, came back to win it." said Strametz. "He could just have easily called it a day because of the pain he was in but instead showed the heart of a champion."
Northridge then sent 24 student-athletes to the NCAA West Region Championships at Oregon's historic Hayward Field. Sophomore Reindell Cole highlighted day one after finishing second in the men's long jump. Cole, who came in with the second best long jump mark in the region at 25-9.50 (7.86), jumped 25-8.25 (7.83) on his first jump of the competition to claim second place. Lofton and Waters both earned a trip to the NCAA Outdoor Championships on the final day as Lofton finished fifth while Waters finished in the top-five in both the 100 and 200 meters.
Two weeks later at the NCAA Championships at John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville, Ark., Cole posted the best long jump of the day as he broke his own Northridge record in the event with a leap of 26-11.25 (8.21) in qualifying.
Cole easily posted the best mark of the day among the 27 jumpers in the men's field. After fouling on his first attempt the sophomore from Las Vegas, Nev., jumped 7.74 meters on his second attempt before breaking his school record with the 8.21 meter leap. Cole's previous best and Matador record was 26-9.75 (8.17) which he set as a freshman in 2008.
Also, the women's 4x100 meter relay team of Watkins, Lofton, Dominique Calvin and Ruffin finished fourth in heat four and 11th overall in a season-best time of 44.59. Northridge finished just two spots out of qualifying for the event final.
"This year was the first time we qualified a relay team to Nationals and hopefully next year we can have possibly two or maybe three teams to Nationals," said Strametz. "We were basically a junior and sophomore-laden team this past year so we look forward to next year and hopefully we can be even better that we were this year. The future is bright and we're very excited."


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A holder for receiving a sampling tube of a blood sampling system is disclosed. The holder has an interior pocket which can be conformed from a closed position to an open position for receiving the sampling tube.
1. A container for receiving a blood sample including:
a proximal end portion and a distal end portion and a pair of peripherally sealed oppositely facing walls wherein a peripheral seal defines an interior chamber;
a single plastic tube communicating with and extending into said interior chamber from the proximal end portion of said container, said single tube defining an uninterrupted flow path terminating in an open distal end, said single tube and flow path therein extending substantially across the entire distance of the interior chamber from the peripheral seal at the proximal end portion and between said walls such that the open distal end of said tube terminates adjacent to but spaced from the peripheral seal at the distal end portion of the container,
said single plastic tube providing the only path for blood flow into and out from said chamber.
2. The container of
This application is a divisional of co-pending application Ser. No. 10/957,016 filed on Oct. 1, 2004, which is a divisional of prior U.S. application Ser. No. 10/304,299 filed Nov. 26, 2002 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,044,941, which is a divisional of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/492,060 filed Jan. 27, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,520,948, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/364,628 filed on Jul. 29, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,387,086, and incorporates by reference each of the above identified patents and/or applications.
The administration of blood or blood components often plays a critical role in the emergency and/or long term treatment of patients. Blood or the individual components of blood (such as platelets, plasma, red blood cells, etc.) may be administered or transfused to patients to treat a variety of conditions. For example, blood may be administered to a patient to replace blood lost as a result of trauma, while individual blood components may be administered as part of a longer term treatment of patients suffering from cancer or certain blood related diseases. The blood or blood components administered to the patient come from blood previously collected from donors.
One of the most common blood collection techniques, and perhaps the most well-known, is the "manual" collection of whole blood from healthy donors. As commonly understood and as used herein, "manual" collection refers to a collection method where whole blood is allowed to drain from the donor and into a collection container without the use of external pumps or similar devices. This is in contrast to the so-called "automated" procedures where blood is withdrawn from a donor and further processed by an instrument that typically includes a processing or separation device and pumps for moving blood or blood components into and out of the device.
Regardless of whether the blood collection technique is manual or automated, withdrawing blood from the donor typically includes inserting a vein access device, such as a needle, into the donor's arm (and, more specifically, the donor's vein) and withdrawing blood from the donor through the needle. The "venipuncture" needle typically has attached to it, one end of a plastic tube that provides a flow path for the blood. The other end of the plastic tube terminates in one or more preattached plastic blood containers or bags for collecting the blood. The needle, tubing and containers make up a blood processing set which is pre-sterilized and disposed of after a single use.
In the manual technique, the collection container and plastic tubing may also include a volume of a liquid anticoagulant, while in the automated technique, a separate container of anticoagulant may be provided from which the anticoagulant is metered into the flow path and mixed with the incoming whole blood. In any event, anticoagulant is required because of the tendency of blood to clot and adhere to the walls of the plastic surfaces which it contacts.
An important consideration in any blood collection technique or system is ensuring that the system or set does not become contaminated by airborne bacteria or other foreign substances that may compromise the sterility of the system. Thus, the sterility of the above-described disposable blood processing set or system is maintained by minimizing exposure of the flow paths and interiors of the blood containers to the outside environment. Such systems are commonly referred to as "closed" systems.
After collection but prior to transfusion to a patient, the blood is typically tested for determining blood type and the presence of pathogens such as virus, bacteria and/or other foreign substances in the donor's blood. Typically, testing of the collected blood requires obtaining a sample of the blood from the blood donor at or near the time of collection.
One well-known technique of obtaining a blood sample is to simply withdraw or collect the blood remaining in the flow path of the disposable set after donation. This involves removing the needle from the donor, inserting the needle into a vacuum sealed sampling tube or tube and allowing the blood from the flow path to drain into the tube. However, because there is a limited supply of blood remaining in the flow path, there may not be enough blood to provide enough of a sample to perform all of the required or desired testing. Accordingly, if a larger volume or numerous samples of blood are required, the technician obtaining the sample may continue draining the blood from the tubing, eventually withdrawing the collected anticoagulated blood from the collection container. Withdrawing blood from the collection container, however, may be less desirable in that it may expose the collected blood in the collection container to the outside environment. Withdrawing blood from the collection container for sampling also reduces the volume of available blood for later processing and transfusion.
An alternative to collecting anticoagulated blood from the collection container is to clamp off the flow path near the collection container and divert the blood being withdrawn from the donor to a collection (sampling) tube or tube of the type described above. This procedure typically employs a particular type of disposable tubing set having a preattached sampling site on the main flow path. Blood at or near the sampling site may be obtained by piercing the sampling site with a separately provided needle or other piercing device, and attaching a sampling tube thereto. To minimize the risk that the incoming blood (which is intended for later processing and transfusion) will be exposed to the outside environment, the sample is typically collected after completion of the blood donation.
Still another example of a blood sampling system is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,167,656, which is assigned to the assignee of the present application. That patent describes a disposable tubing set wherein the flow path includes an enlarged sample collection portion. Blood for sampling is collected in the enlarged portion by clamping off the flow path near the collection container and allowing the enlarged tubing portion to fill with blood. Once the desired volume of blood for sampling is collected in the enlarged tubing portion, the needle is removed from the donor and the blood is transferred to a tube by piercing the cap of the tube with the needle and allowing the blood to drain into the sampling tube.
While these known techniques have generally worked satisfactorily, efforts continue to provide further improvements in the area of blood sampling. For example, as set forth above, the sample is typically obtained after the blood product (intended for further processing and transfusion) has been collected so as to preserve the sterility of the closed system. However, if the donation procedure must be terminated before completion, there may not be an opportunity to obtain a sample directly from the donor. Thus, it would be desirable to provide a sampling system in which blood samples can be obtained either before or after donation, but without the risk of compromising the sterility of the system and/or the collected blood product.
In addition, as discussed above, the use of vacuum-filled tubes or tubes is common in blood sampling processes. When such vacuum-filled tubes are used, there is the possibility that the suction may cause the tubing of the blood processing set to collapse and restrict blood flow. Of even greater concern, particularly in small-veined donors, is the possibility that the suction may cause the donor's vein to collapse. Thus, it would also be desirable to provide a sampling system where the risk of donor vein or tubing collapse is minimized.
It would also be desirable to provide a sampling system which is integrated with the blood collection set and requires few separate or external components.
Finally, where the sampling system includes a holder (with a piercing member) for receiving a sampling tube, it would also be desirable to provide a holder that is compact in size, easily sterilized and reduces the risk that the user will inadvertently come into contact with the sharpened tip of the piercing member within the holder.
In accordance with one aspect of the subject matter of the application, a container for receiving a blood sample is disclosed. The container comprises a proximal end portion and a distal end portion and a pair of peripherally sealed oppositely facing walls, wherein a peripheral seal defines an interior chamber. A single plastic tube communicates with and extends into the interior chamber from the proximal end portion of the container, the single tube defining an uninterrupted flow path terminating in an open distal end. The single tube and flow path therein extends substantially across the entire distance of the interior chamber from the peripheral seal at the proximal end portion and between the walls such that the open distal end of the tube terminates adjacent to but spaced from the peripheral seal at the distal end portion of the container. The single plastic tube provides the only path for blood flow into and out from the chamber.
Turning now to
The blood processing set 10 may include a single blood collection container 16 or, more preferably, as shown in
As set forth above, blood processing set 10 may include a primary container 16 and one or more integrally attached transfer containers 20 and 24. During use, primary container 16 (sometimes referred to as the donor bag) receives whole blood from the donor through integrally attached donor tubings 14 and 15 and venipuncture needle 12. Container 16 typically includes a suitable anticoagulant such as citrate phosphate dextrose (CPD), citrate phosphate dextrose adenine (CPDA) or acid citrate dextrose (ACD).
Containers 20 and 24 may be attached to primary container 16 by integrally attached transfer tubing 30 and 32. Containers 20 and 24 are provided to receive blood components such as, but not limited to, red blood cells and plasma that have been separated from whole blood. For example, collected whole blood in container 16 may be centrifuged to separate the blood into layers of such components. The heavier cellular components, such as red blood cells, settle to the bottom of the container 16 and the lighter, less dense components, such as plasma (with or without platelets), remain in the top layer. The components may then be separated by expressing the lighter components through transfer tubing 30 and into container 20. Likewise, the heavier components may be expressed through transfer tubing 32 to container 24. Such "top and bottom" separation techniques and disposable processing sets are well known and are available from Baxter Healthcare Corporation of Deerfield, Ill. under the name OptipacÛ.
Of course, it will be understood that the present invention is not limited to the processing sets shown in the figures and that processing sets having different container and tubing configurations are also within the scope of the present invention. For example, a multiple container system wherein tubing segments 30 and 32 are both attached to container 16 at or near the top of container 16 may also be used. Container 24 may include a volume of a preservative or storage solution which is introduced into container 16 and combined with separated red cells after plasma has been expressed to container 20. Such blood processing sets are also available from Baxter Healthcare Corporation.
Containers 16, 20 and 24 and associated tubing segments of processing set 10 are typically made from conventional and approved medical grade plastic materials. One such material may be polyvinyl chloride that includes a plasticizer such as, but not limited to, plasticizers selected from the family of citrate esters, which are described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,167,657, 5,100,401 and 5,026,347, all of which are incorporated by reference herein. Containers made from polyvinyl chloride plasticized with citrate ester or other plasticizers are available from Baxter Healthcare Corporation of Deerfield, Ill. Alternatively, and depending in part on the blood components to be stored, containers may be made from other materials such as polyolefin materials with or without plasticizer.
Turning now to the sampling system, as shown in
Container 42 (or the walls 56 and 58) may typically be made of any conventional medical grade plastic material that is sterilizable by known sterilization techniques including autoclaving. One such preferred material is polyvinyl chloride with a plasticizer, such as a citrate ester (e.g. n-butyryltri-n-hexyl citrate), as substantially described above. Of course, other known plasticizers such as TEHTM and DEHP may also be used. In one example, the material used to make walls 56 and 58 may include approximately 70%, by weight, polyvinyl chloride and approximately 30%, by weight, plasticizer.
Container 42 may also include drain tube 43. As shown in
As further shown in
Sampling device 18 may further include a receptacle or holder 68 as shown in
In one embodiment (shown in
Holder 68 may include a piercing member 74 as generally shown in
In an alternative embodiment, holder 68 may be provided with an interior pocket which may be conformed to receive the sampling tube, as generally shown in
In a preferred embodiment, walls 78 a and 78 b may include pinching tabs 82 and 83 for compression by the technician to conform and flex open interior pocket 81 as generally shown in
Holder 68 shown in
In addition, holder 68 shown in
As shown in
As shown in
As described above, piercing member assembly 74 and, more particularly, the proximal portion of piercing member, may be made of any material of sufficient strength such as metal or plastic. In addition, end 76 of piercing member 74 may be enclosed within a protective sheath 80 (
The holder 68 described above and shown in
Holder 68 may also serve as a receptacle for holding a needle protector (with retracted venipuncture needle therein) after completion of the blood donation. Use of the holder in this manner is described in pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/442,210, filed Nov. 17, 1999, which is incorporated by reference herein.
The holder shown in
Holder 68 of
During a collection procedure, a sampling tube 70, as shown in
The method of collecting a blood sample from a donor during a blood donation using the blood processing system generally described above will now be described. In one embodiment, at the outset of the donation procedure, disposable processing set 10 may be provided with clamps 65 and 66 in a closed position, as shown in
Once a sufficient volume of blood for sampling has been collected, sampling system 18 may be isolated from the remainder of the processing set 10 by heat sealing tubing segment 62 in ways that are known to those of skill in the art. One device that may be used for sealing is the tubing sealing device known as the HematronÛ, sold by Baxter Healthcare Corporation. Alternatively, line 62 may be sealed by a metal retaining clip or other means known to those of skill in the art. After isolation by seal 67, clamp 65 is closed and the clamp 66 is opened to allow blood flow into container 16 as shown in
In any event, once sampling system 18 has been isolated from the remainder of the blood processing set 10, blood collected in container 42 may be transferred to a sampling tube 70 as shown in
Finally, turning briefly to FIGS. 1A and 2A-2D, the blood processing sets shown therein are variants of the processing set 10 of
In another embodiment, shown in
The disposable processing set and sampling system of the present invention provide many benefits. One benefit is that a blood sample may be obtained prior to the donation while still preserving the sterility of flow path between the donor and collection container. Specifically, as described above, a blood sample may be collected in container 42, which container may then be isolated from the remainder of the system (by, for example, sealing or clipping). Once container 42 has been isolated, a sampling tube may be introduced into the holder of the sampling system without the risk that bacteria or other foreign substances on the tube will contaminate the rest of the blood processing set, including flow path 14.
An advantage of pre-donation sampling is that bacteria or foreign substances that may be present on the donor's skin will not be transmitted to collection container 16, but will be diverted to sampling container 42.
Another advantage of pre-donation sampling is that it allows for collection of sample for testing, even if the donation is not completed.
Another advantage of pre-donation sampling is that it may provide a more accurate profile of the donor's blood, particularly regarding the hemoglobin level of the donor. For example, during donation, the loss of blood volume in the donor is compensated by plasma. This compensation by plasma typically lowers the hematocrit of the donor's blood. If the sample is taken after donation, the donor hematocrit may be lower (by possibly as much as 0.5 g/dL) than it otherwise would be if the sample is collected prior to donation.
The present invention provides additional advantages, whether used for pre-donation or post-donation sampling. One advantage is the reduced risk of tubing or donor vein collapse as described above. Container 42 acts as a buffer between the sampling tube and tube or vein. Thus, any suction forces generated by introduction of the vacuum sealed tube will be absorbed by the container 42 and not tube or donor vein.
Of course, there may be other advantages of the present system not discussed herein which will be apparent to those of skill in the art.
The present invention has been described in accordance with the preferred embodiments. However, it will be understood that minor variations to the embodiments shown herein may be made without departing from the present invention which is specifically set forth in the appended claims.
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Properties of atoms and molecules, stoichiometry, acid-base equilibria, thermochemistry, and kinetics as the foundation for future work in chemistry. One of the sections is designed for students with limited or no exposure to high school Chemistry courses; it is limited to placement by the department and consists of five lectures and one laboratory period. Two other sections do not have enrollment limits and consist of three lectures, one required recitation, and one laboratory period. Placement of students into the three sections of the course will be determined by the Chemistry Department based on an on-line placement questionnaire, secondary school records, and scores from standardized and advanced placement tests. Students must be free to attand one afternoon of lab.
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Haverford, Kosh E309
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Anti-Obama Revolution Fizzles As Only About 100 People Attend
Wes Williams
Addicting Info
November 19, 2013
Radical Obama-hater Larry Klayman called for a revolution to remove the president. That revolution started today, and drew about 100 people. From Right Wing Watch
What if you gave a revolution and (almost) nobody showed up? Thats the question that deranged Obama opponent Larry Klayman has to answer now.
In October, Klayman called upon millions of Americans to march on Washington, D.C. The goal? To remove usurper President Obama from office. Today, November 19, 2013, is the date Larry Klayman picked for his revolution. Did the millions he forecast to descend upon the city arrive in planes, trains, and automobiles? Are the Obamas hastily packing and preparing to sneak out of the White House under cover of darkness? Hardly. Larry Klaymans revolution was not quite what he predicted it would be. Right Wing Watch estimates that no more than a hundred people attended todays event.
So, who is Larry Klayman?
In case his total lack of relevance has caused you to forget, Larry Klayman is a lawyer and founder of the groups Freedom Watch, and Judicial Watch. He is also a columnist at the unhinged anti-Obama site World Net Daily. Klayman has been on a personal anti-Obama jihad for some time. In 2012 he claimed that the president had been indicted by a citizens grand jury. It seems to be of little concern to Klayman that his citizens grand jury was not approved by the courts, and therefore is a total sham.
The revolution starts now?
The right wing site BizPac Review proclaims Over 40 groups converge on WH to Reclaim America; MSM ignores. Over 40 groups? Lets see 100 divided by 40 is Apparently those groups didnt get the memo that they were supposed to bring more than just their officers. And regarding the mainstream media ignoring the event? A few years ago I stood on the steps of the Capitol and watched a similar sized group protesting infant circumcision. The media didnt cover that one, either.
Another site sympathetic to Klayman, FreedomOutpost.com, offers a list of 32 speakers who were scheduled for the event. The list includes former Congressman Bob Barr, Alan Keyes the man who was beaten by President Obama for the U.S. Senate, anti-Muslim fanatic Pamela Geller, and singer Pat Boone. The site also offers a live video feed of the event. As of 2:30 PM EST the feed says off air. Instead of a live broadcast we are treated to a replay of 13:27 seconds of the event, which may have actually been the sum total of the whole affair.
Larry Klayman revolutionaries prepared to wait it out.
Larry Klayman originally said that his intent was to stay in Washington until the president resigns or is forced from power by the military. Those plans may have changed following the turnout in the high two figures. If Klayman and his group still plan on camping out until the president leaves office, they need to be settled in for the long haul, since that will occur on January 20, 2017. One word of advice to this tiny band of revolutionaries: there are squirrels in Washington, and this time of year, they are looking for nuts.
There are some images from the revolution you can see on Right Wing Watch.


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We're excited about the upcoming season at Lamar. The return of football is the big news, but there are plenty of other things going on in Lamar athletics. The men's cross country team, the women's basketball team and the baseball team will all look to defend their Southland Conference championships.
We'll have a returning All-American in men's track, as Joonas Harjamaki recently earned that status in the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Men's basketball should be entertaining as the Cards look to return to the Southland Conference Tournament. Women's soccer and volleyball will challenge for spots in the conference tournament. The men's and women's golf teams are always competitive and women's tennis boasts of the SLC Player of the Year in Mariaryeni Gutierrez.
There will be plenty of ways to follow the Cardinals this season. We've upgraded the Web site and we'll also be posting updates on Twitter (LamarCards), Facebook (Lamar Athletics) and MySpace (Lamar Athletics).
Thanks for reading. And Go Cards!]]>


text: Here we go again. I just received my "Official Sample Ballot" in the mail. I open it and scan each page. I see the list of candidates running for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, controller, treasurer, and so on. I know, without any doubt who I will be casting my vote for in all of the races except one. Which one?. . . You guessed it. THE JUDGES!!!!


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August 2008
High-Dose Olanzapine in Treatment-Resistant Schizophrenia
For some treatment-resistant patients with schizophrenia, high-dose olanzapine might be a better option than clozapine.
Increased Stroke Risk in Schizophrenia Patients
Patients with schizophrenia appear to have an increased risk of stroke, and the risk may be higher for women than for men.
Tamoxifen for Mania?
Through inhibition of protein kinase C, tamoxifen may benefit patients with mania and merits further study.
In Brief
Genetic Variations in Patients with Schizophrenia; Zonisamide for Weight Loss in Bipolar Disorder; Music Therapy for Stroke Recovery
NMS in Children and Adolescents
The neuroleptic malignant syndrome is a risk in children and adolescents treated with second-generation antipsychotics.
Options for SSRI-Resistant Depression in Adolescents
In a study by Brent et al, depressed adolescents who did not respond sufficiently to an SSRI benefited from switching to a different antidepressant and cognitive behavioral therapy.
Options for SSRI-Resistant Depression in Adolescents
August 2008
Only a minority of depressed patients will achieve remission with a first antidepressant. This appears at least as true for adolescents as for adults. A trial sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health addressed the question of what to do with a depressed adolescent who has not improved…


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My husband e-mailed his father to find out more about some things that effect our medical history as we needed it to tell doctors as we learn about our risks in getting pregnant again - this is a ways down the line but I want to be informed now.
Well, thankfully he wrote back giving the information that we needed but he also added: "Be advised, each child birth and situation is different. There is no causal relationship between my children at birth and Isaiah. I'm sorry, there is nothing of a genetic nature to hang your hat on. All of my children are normal. . . I hope you and Anika would focus on getting back to normal or as close to it as possible."
Now I know he made these statements out of ignorance and not intending to hurt - but it hurt! My son died just under two weeks ago and I am hearing this from my father-in-law! Am I crazy to be this upset? Has anyone else had any experience with this type of misunderstanding from loved ones? It just makes me want to educate people even more. I wrote him back a long e-mail explaining more about pre-eclampsia. I also told him that I was hurt by what he said, which was big for me.
I don't know, it just really hurt.
Mommy to Isaiah (angel) 1/20/04 - 2/17/04
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Explore the state of Delaware
The Parson Thorne Mansion Highlights Milford's History. If you enjoy touring historic places, studying architecture, or you simply want to learn more about the history of Milford, Delaware, you'll appreciate a visit to the Parson Thorne Mansion. This spacious red brick mansion has an interesting history that dates to Milford's earliest years.


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Last Thursday's news that French company Paymium and their exchange division, Bitcoin-Central, partnered with a licensed and regulated Payment Services Provider (PSP) ignited a heated debate within the bitcoin community. Eventually, Bitcoin-Central tempered their overly-enthusiastic initial announcement.
"It feels like these French dudes are bringing saltpeter to a rave," declared Daniel Stuckey, a writer at Motherboard ridiculing the company for dismissing the founding concepts of bitcoin.
Not singling out the Paymium effort, there is a powerful undercurrent rejecting the notion that bitcoin exchange companies should seek approval to operate within the existing regulatory framework at all. That undercurrent has some validity. That is if larger forces at work don't settle the issue before then. However, it is the jurisdictions that they elect to operate within plus the specific exchange types that determine the level of required compliance. Legal counsel willing to challenge the status quo is sorely needed for the days ahead.
Floating-rate, rather than fixed-rate, exchanges are going to require the holding of customer funds in national currencies. Exchanges for actual delivery, rather than cash-settled futures exchanges quoted only in bitcoin, will also require holding customer funds in national currencies. Customers with large balances simply aren't going to use exchanges that don't identify their legal jurisdiction, delineate funds, and adhere to some type of recourse for insolvency and stolen funds. So, certain jurisdictions and their financial regulators tend to get involved. This is also the case with Mt.Gox being based in Japan.
Here's the real issue — regulation in this context is only a bad thing if it leads to crony capitalism or if it suggests that "still-in-beta cryptographic play money" bitcoin requires regulation similar to a national political currency.
While an individual's bitcoin transactions may still be semi-private, the auditable address links on the block chain and identity requirements for entering or exiting the exchange will remove any doubt as to how much bitcoin was spent or earned. Also, the case can be made that, despite bitcoin's basis in mathematics and being devoid of ideology, graph theory analysis of the block chain can be significantly improved by having more 'regulated' data points thus cumulatively degrading the privacy of all bitcoin transactions. Bitcoin address logs for a bitcoin exchange are like IP logs for a VPN.
Yes, debit cards with a bitcoin logo are cool and they can facilitate easy movement of funds associated with bitcoin balances. But legacy debit cards are institutionalized vehicles of identity and they promote half-way measures. Any role for current financial institutions in the societal wealth transfer to cryptocurrency will come from embracing bitcoin on its terms. If banks want to participate in a meaningful way, they will have to adapt to Tor exit nodes, coin mixing services, escrow provisioning without identity, and underwriting private insurance on balances.
Bitcoin's great promise lies in its potential ability for both income and consumption anonymity. It is this feature alone that allows users to maintain the same financial privacy as physical cash today and it is this feature that will also lead to liberating advancements such as a thriving and interconnected System D, unhampered and undiluted freedom of speech, and superior asset management that can truly be said to be off-the-grid.
Those who support the antithetical overlay of bitcoin on the current financial system ensure us that it will only be temporary and that we must build bridges. That would be nice but it's a fairy tale. It reminds me of the Marxist theory of historical materialism and the Marx-Engels ideology that if we only tolerate the bourgeois state during the transitional advancement to a higher phase, we will see the complete "withering away of the state."
True revolutionary transformations just don't evolve that way. Linux didn't first co-exist within the Microsoft DOS and Windows environment and then decide to spin-off into a competing operating system. File sharing under the BitTorrent protocol didn't conduct a Hollywood outreach program and explain what the technology would mean for the film and recording studios.
One doesn't request freedom, one claims freedom. As Bitcoin Forum member btcbug stated about bitcoin's acquiescence to legality, "It's kind of like a bunch of slaves breaking out and then running straight back because they were so brainwashed they didn't even recognize freedom." However, the sad reality is that most of the slaves don't really want to be free which is exemplified by voting for ever-increasing State services that have to be funded through confiscatory levels of taxation and inevitably that means diminishing financial privacy.
Get real people! This is about more than just "agreeing to disagree" when it comes to stricter regulation being a good thing. Bitcoin without user-defined anonymous transactions is a neutered bitcoin. Paper cash comes with more financial privacy. In circular logic fashion, the pro-regulation adherents must then answer to their success, "what have we really accomplished?"
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I'd be curious to see a 9mm conversion with a broken barrel pin! Sounds interesting, because I can't figure out why a pin would break. I agree a higher-up pin would be the best solution, and it would be more like a pin setup in a G3 or VZ-58 that way. A smaller pin would then be usable.
I have ordered a Shilen barrel blank and will use that instead of the Marlin barrel on my first build. It is HEAVY too. I'll soon be shipping it off to the smith with a big lathe


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Helio Gracie rolled over in his grave after watching them work on the ground. Both their chins were up and hands down. I didn't see little man winning either, over all I was embarrassed to watch this fight with my roommate. Maybe they were both too tired from training though.
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Fighters on TUF always gas out quick due to the whole short notice thing. This is going to be doubly so for heavyweights. We're gonna have more of the same to look forward to.
As for Kimbo and Nelson: I don't know what much about Nelson's stand-up other than he got knocked out by Arlovski, but Big Country's big gut is gonna suck the life out of him if the fight goes past a minute or two. If Kimbo can keep it standing, I see him taking it. If the fight goes to the ground at any point, Kimbo's gonna get raped.
Style: Regretfully, TKD.--
The fight was really bad.
At this point I do not remember their names, just that the shorter of the two seemed to have suffered from spasm attacks within the first round while standing. It was quite a scene to watch. Not to mention his haymakers which would miss by what literally seemed like a mile.
The man needs to seriously work on his stand up. First lesson, keep a good stance while attacking. Then he can go on to more advanced techniques, like the jab. *rolls eyes*
The football player needs to learn at least some basics of the stand up game. Like going on the offensive, or hell, learn some defensive tactics. As for his ground game, learn how to perform a proper takedown. Followed by lessons on how to perform a proper mount.
They both need A LOT of work on their cardio.
The fight was simply awful. Fortunately, it looks as though next weeks episode will feature a better fight.
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He got knocked out by Arlovski but that was because he got caught... It happens. His stand up has improved since then.
I see Kimbo getting choked out in the second round because Roy is going to stand the whole first round just to show everyone that he can.


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The Sheepshead Bay Occupy Sandy distribution point—housed in the stripped main room in a storm-damaged restaurant—was a jumble of tools, bottled water, donated kids' books and clothing. Paid workers were polishing up the newly-restored bar to my right. They were cordoned off by a rope, from which hung a hand-lettered sign: No Volunteers Beyond This Point.
Which meant me. At 10 a.m., I was the only volunteer in the place.
Occupy Sandy sprang from Occupy Wall Street. They've been working with victims of Sandy since the storm hit in late October; in fact, they seem to be one of the few volunteer organizations around here still doing clean-up. Sheepshead is not far from Brighton Beach and Coney Island in Brooklyn, and it's still struggling. I had tried to sign up on-line to help, but the link on Occupy Sandy's email update was faulty, so I hoped that the clean-up was still on, even though nobody seemed to be here.
The glass door swung open. A young man with a Brooklyn Hipster look that I'd come to associate with OS—spare body, tight plaid shirt, shaggy hair in a watch cap, lots of piercings—swept in. He introduced himself as Alex. I explained about the faulty link, and he waved his hand. "I don't know anything about techie stuff."
He plopped onto a folding chair and punched a number into his cell phone. He spoke, nodded, snapped it shut.
There would indeed be a team of us, and we would do demolition.
I helped Alex drag tables out onto the sidewalk, and was stacking donated goods on them when the rest of my team straggled in—a young Brooklyn couple, Farid and Sherlein, and a Canadian woman named Catherine. We grabbed goggles, disposable masks and coveralls, crowbars and a couple of hammers.
I also took a hard hat. I'd pulled down a ceiling on my last OS adventure, in Rockaway, and the first big piece of drywall had come down on my head. I have a learning curve.
Alex led us around the block, to a neighborhood of small homes.
On the brief walk, I learned that Sherlein was from Ireland, but lived here in Greenpoint, the Polish section of Williamsburg. She worked as a bartender.
Catherine, a drug company rep, came from Ottowa specifically to volunteer her vacation days. "We're neighbors, after all," she said. A number of non-residents volunteer; I've cleaned yards with southerners, passed out meals with New Englanders, and torn down the aforementioned ceiling with a visitor from Wisconsin.
Farid worked in Human Rights. It turned out that he lived near me. "Oh—you're Kym's mom," he said.
I sighed. I thought I'd regain my own identity when the kids grew up and moved away. But here in Brooklyn, I am once again "Kym's mom."
Our assigned house was tiny, 90 years old, three blocks from the water. It was one of many in a neighborhood where the "street" separating house rows was a paved sidewalk; all of them had flooded nearly to the ceilings of the ground floor. For our house, that was the only floor, except for an unfinished attic. It was already gutted to the walls for mold abatement and we were to rip up the floorboards and break out the remains of a cement knee-wall in the front room. Once this was done, the state's Rapid Repairs program would do the rest.
The knee-wall, backed with wire mesh, had to go before the floor in that room.
My three teammates began on the floorboards in the rest of the house, which had been partially stripped. There was no cellar; I could see a stretch of sand through the joists.
I took my crowbar to the front room and set about smashing cement. The neighbor across the sidewalk had given me wire-cutters for the backing, but they were frozen with rust; ultimately, I snapped the wire mesh with the end of the bar or pried up the nail brackets that held it.
It was all daunting work. By 2:30, they'd levered up most of the floor in the rest of the house, and I was down to one nasty corner.
A fresh volunteer arrived; she gamely took over my hard hat and crowbar, and I walked back to the OS distribution point with Farid, Sherlein and Catherine for lunch.
Catherine had spent the day before at the OS Bay Ridge headquarters, cooking meals for volunteers and community members. They had made the tasty vegetarian kale with garlic that we found in one of two foil casseroles on the outside table (outside, both because the workers inside were refinishing the floor on the OS side, and because OS serves its meals to anybody who might need them, volunteer or not). The other dish was ravioli that was, Catherine confided, canned Chef Boy-Ar-Dee.
Catherine had enjoyed working at the headquarters, but had found OS somewhat baffling. The organization prided itself, as Occupy Wall Street had, in having no set leadership; it was the ultimate democracy. "I asked who was in charge, and they told me nobody," she said. "Luckily, they had people they called floor coordinators who seemed to know more than others, so I tagged after them and asked them what I could do."
Farid had gone to a distribution point in Rockaway early in the clean-up process, and found himself alone, manning the place. "It was crazy at first," he said, "but I admit, I found it very empowering in the end."
We grabbed water, and hiked back to our assigned house.
I found the new volunteer prying womanfully at the remains of my wall, and a strange woman in disposable coveralls and a respirator mask on the pull-down stairs that led up to the attic from my little room. She descended and introduced herself as an inspector for the EPA.
I had, in my earlier ceiling-demolition gig, met FEMA personnel signing up homeowners. I'd met a pair of wandering OSHA inspectors, who inspected my protective gear and asked me if I'd been coerced into the job. But I'd never met an EPA inspector.
She looked less intimidating than her title: in her 30s, dark-skinned, tiny. "I'm afraid I have to close you down," she told me. Her voice had a Caribbean lilt. "We have had a complaint. I was just inspecting the attic, and there is a pipe wrapped in asbestos there."
She launched into a lecture about the dangers of asbestos.
"We're pulling up the floor," I said. "The asbestos is in the attic."
She said there were pipes in the floor. I looked through the joists, and yes: there they were. All quite bare.
Those pipes probably had asbestos somewhere, too, she insisted. "So you cannot work on this house anymore. This is your house, yes?"
I told her I was a volunteer. We were all volunteers. Perhaps she should speak with Occupy Sandy (I mentally wished her Good Luck).
She apologized; the young woman prying cement off the wall had told her I was the homeowner.
"A natural mistake," I said, "since I'm old."
The inspector didn't crack a smile behind her respirator mask. "Well, you cannot work here anymore. You must leave this for the men from Rapid Repairs."
After the inspector left, the new volunteer said, somewhat sheepishly, "I thought you were the homeowner, so I told her to talk to you."
"A natural mistake, since I'm old."
She looked distressed. "Oh, no! I didn't say—"
I laughed. She smiled, obviously relieved.
We trooped back to OS. There, I told a zaftig young tattooed woman who had replaced Alex at the non-existent helm about the inspector. "She said we should leave it for Rapid Repairs," I concluded.
The young woman took a puff on her cigarette. "Rapid Repair, my ass! They'll be here in two, three months. And by then, the mold will be worse." She blew a long stream of smoke. "You can go back. Just wear a respirator mask this time. The kind she was wearing."
It was 3:30. I glanced back at my team and the new volunteer. They were preparing to leave. "I think we're done for the day," I said. "You should probably warn whoever goes there tomorrow about the mask."
She waved her hand and sucked on the cigarette. And we left.


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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Two Johnsonville men have been arrested, charged with a burglary at Deep Grocery Convenience Store near the Six Mile Crossing.
Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Carrie Cuthbertson said 22-year-old Raquon Bileek Gilliyard and John Dee Linen, 23 are charged with the burglary that occurred at about 1:45 a.m. Monday.
Deputies were conducting routine patrol in the Six Mile area when they saw a green
Jeep Grand Cherokee parked in a wooded area near the store, Cuthbertson said.
The officers saw a man enter the vehicle and pull onto the highway heading west in the direction of Andrews.
"Simultaneously, a call from a concerned citizen alerted dispatch to a broken glass door at Deep Grocery..and the possibility of a Jeep Grand Cherokee being involved. Deputies activated their blue lights on the suspect vehicle. A vehicle pursuit ensued into the city limits of Hemingway where the pursuit was discontinued due to weather conditions," said Cuthbertson.
She said after reviewing the evidence, investigators arrested Gilliyard and Linen and charged each of them with one count of Second Degree Burglary.
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