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I am confused about my lovebird's droppings. In many books, there are descriptions of normal parakeet droppings and that a change in the droppings can signify disease. Is the same true for lovebird (and other species of bird) droppings, as well? Sometimes, my lovebird's droppings are more watery than usual, and a friend who raised birds has told me that when that happens I should stop giving greens, which cause diarrhea. Please help me to understand more about my bird's health. Thank you.
Yours is a good question! Every bird owner should have a thorough understanding of what constitutes normal droppings. Plus, it is important that owners closely observe their own birds' droppings in order to get a good idea of what is normal for their own individual birds. You are correct in stating that changes in droppings can be serious, but that depends on the kinds of changes that are observed.
A normal bird dropping has three separate components. However, since the bird passes a dropping out of one orifice, the vent, all three portions of the dropping are mixed in the cloaca before being evacuated from the body. The first portion is called the feces, which is solid and worm-like, and may be dark green in color (usually in seed-eaters), or brown (usually in pellet-consuming birds.) Feces may be other colors, as well, depending on what the bird has recently consumed. For example, certain berries will cause the feces to take on the color of the fruits ingested. It can be alarming if droppings suddenly appear reddish in color, as this may be interpreted as blood, so it is important that owners keep track of what their bird is consuming, so that color changes can be correctly evaluated. If a bird doesn't eat any solid food for about 24 hours, the fecal portion of the droppings will become dark, dark green (that is almost black) and very sticky and tarry. This is often mistaken for digested blood in the droppings, but it is actually a type of bile (biliverdin) from the liver.
If the feces portion is not formed, this is called diarrhea. Often, a dropping may have an increase in the urine portion, resulting in a very wet dropping, but the fecal portion will still be formed. This situation is often mistakenly called diarrhea, but it is not. If the feces portion is still solid, no matter how much urine there is in the dropping, then this is not diarrhea. Free water (urine) around the feces is evidence of increased urine in the dropping, not diarrhea. Be sure to check fresh droppings, as with time, the feces may absorb some urine, giving the false impression of diarrhea. If the brown or green solid fecal portion is not formed, or is very watery, then this is correctly called diarrhea. In some cases of diarrhea, there may be gas bubbles in the feces.
The next portion of the droppings is called the urates. Urates are off-white, cream colored or slightly yellowish, and are opaque. Urates are the result of digestion and metabolism of proteins in the bird's system. They are removed through the kidneys. Green or yellow stained urates may be found in the clinically ill avian patient with liver disease. Green urates can also be found in birds that are actively suffering from infection with Chlamydophila. If you notice a change in the color of a bird's urates, you should bring this to your avian vet's attention.
The third portion of a bird's dropping is the urine. This is the watery waste from the kidneys. There will be varying amounts of liquid urine in a dropping depending on the amount of water ingested. For example, a bird that is consuming a lot of fruits and vegetables (with high water content) will urinate more than a bird that is just eating dry pellets. Of course, a bird should always have access to fresh, clean drinking water, and it is best delivered by the use of a water bottle to prevent bacterial contamination from fecal matter and foods dunked in the water bowl.
Many people falsely conclude that feeding small birds (such as budgies, lovebirds and cockatiels) greens or fruits will cause diarrhea. The higher water content in the fruits and vegetables will cause a bird to urinate more, which is often mistaken for diarrhea. Many birds, when nervous (such as during a trip to the veterinary office) will urinate more, due to higher than normal blood pressure. This is to be expected. So, for an avian veterinarian to best assess normal droppings, on the day of your office visit, it is better to place fresh, clean papers in the bottom of the cage first thing in the morning, and do not change them prior to the visit. It is possible for a bird to urinate without passing the other portions of a dropping at the same time. A bird may also pass urates and urine independent of feces.
To best evaluate your bird's droppings, I recommend using paper towels, brown butcher paper or newspaper on the bottom of the cage. This makes it simple to view droppings. While other types of cage lining material are available, they may make viewing droppings more difficult.
There can be many changes in the volume, size, color, consistency or frequency of droppings. Any changes that persist should be reported to your avian veterinarian. Blood in the urine can indicate lead poisoning, especially in Amazon parrots, or may rarely indicate a kidney infection. Diarrhea can be caused by pathogenic bacteria in the intestinal tract, certain viruses, toxins or protozoal infections. Roundworms can also cause diarrhea or impaction, and eggs are infrequently passed in droppings, making diagnosis difficult by routine testing methods. Increased urine can be caused by increased thirst, consuming more fruits and vegetables, certain infections, certain metabolic diseases or stress.
Depending on what abnormalities are found in a dropping, an avian veterinarian will perform appropriate diagnostic tests. It is possible to perform a urinalysis on bird urine, which can be collected from droppings passed on wax paper under the cage. While the dipstick information is not as valuable, since the urine is mixed in the cloaca with urates and fecal material, microscopic examination of the urine sediment can be very helpful diagnostically. Fecal Gram's stains can be performed, and cultures may be helpful, as well. Special tests for protozoal infections can be sent to specialty labs. Blood tests, radiographs, serology, DNA PCR tests, toxicology, special stains and other tests may be necessary.
As a pet bird owner, one of the best ways that you can help your bird is by frequently evaluating droppings. Changes in droppings can often be the first, subtle sign that something is amiss. By catching any illness early before the bird becomes clinically ill, you'll have the best chance in correcting a problem before it becomes life-threatening. It is also a very good idea to purchase a good quality scale that can weigh your bird in grams (not ounces) and to utilize that scale to monitor your bird's weight weekly. Any changes of more than a few grams should be an indication that it is time to contact your avian veterinarian. These two simple steps can provide you with valuable information about your bird's general health.
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School and work combine to bring future into focus
Engineering science major Sarah Lightbody made the most of the summer before her senior year. It began with a mission to help people in Ilheus, Brazil, and finished with a coveted internship at AREVA Inc., a nuclear engineering firm and contractor in Lynchburg.
Lightbody went to Brazil with faculty and other students in last spring's Technology and Society course to test assistive devices they had designed during the semester for clients in an occupational therapy clinic. They worked directly with their clients to refine designs on everything from prosthetic limbs, which Lightbody's group worked on, to an eye-blink communication device.
Lightbody returned from Brazil in mid-June to work as a process, methods and engineering tools intern in AREVA's PME-A group, which supports its nuclear business groups. She says her involvement in projects like Brazil, which was a team effort with students at St. Ambrose University in Iowa, helped her land the paid position.
"AREVA was very impressed with the number of projects I had worked on in and out of the classroom," she said, noting she learned from them the sorts of things you cannot glean from a textbook: "Collaborating with co-students in a different time zone, collaborating with an organization in another language and working toward a deliverable."
At AREVA, Lightbody's responsibilities included verifying software errors via an Engineering Application Software Index, developing a user manual for the index, and developing data management procedures and software configuration management processes.
The experience helped her understand what engineers in the nuclear industry actually do, she said. "That may sound obvious, but it is hard to imagine what your future job might be like while you are still in undergraduate school."
Lightbody says observing her co-workers' day-to-day tasks solidified her interest in project management, but at the moment, her heart isn't steering her toward the nuclear industry. Instead, she is applying to graduate programs in biomedical engineering and hopes to specialize in prosthetics.
The Brazil project wasn't her first experience working with the devices. Last year she was part of a team designing a low-cost but fully functional and cosmetically lifelike hand for her Summer Honors Research Project. It's a complex challenge, however, and making a state-of-the-art hand accessible to amputees in developing countries is a long-term goal that won't be accomplished before she graduates.
So she and fellow engineering students Kellner Pruett and Caroline Sorensen found another way to help people who can't afford the latest technology. They are working with prosthesis manufacturers to develop and deliver a custom arm and hand device to their client in Ilheus by next summer.
"He is such an inspiring individual — he is just grateful to be alive," Lightbody said of the recipient. "He and others like him deserve to live a more normal life, and that's what we're trying to do. Our hope is that this project will be continued for others like him after we graduate.
"I just can't wait to see him put on a prosthetic for the first time; he's been waiting for this for over nine years."
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When a Canadian power company proposed a dam along a branch of the nearby Macal River, officials here welcomed the investment. They hoped the project would wean Belize from electricity bought from Mexico, and provide a new water source for an existing dam and power plant that struggle during the dry season.
But the plan has unleashed a barrage of criticism from environmentalists, who have also decided to look beyond Belize's borders for support, taking their cues from the flows of global capital.
If local developers and government officials are wooing foreign investors with environmentally sensitive projects, they say, then environmental activists must respond by bringing in help from abroad.
The environmental groups fear the project would flood a sensitive jungle habitat whose thick riverbank vegetation offers a bountiful green feast for tapirs -- Belize's noodle-nosed national animal -- which share the remote area with jaguars and scarlet macaws.
They have also questioned the dam as unnecessary and uneconomical, and say it will enrich only a small clique while not cutting electricity rates for residents.Continue reading the main story
But their campaign was kicked up a notch when they brought in the Natural Resources Defense Council, an international group that has placed the Macal River on a list of 12 ''biogems'' -- environmentally important areas threatened by development.
The support of international groups has emboldened local conservationists, who have bucked the nation's typically quiescent political culture and demanded greater openness in the public debate.
''In this globalized world, we are saying that governments and companies have to be accountable for the actions no matter where in the world they take place,'' said Jacob Scherr, director of international programs at the Natural Resources Defense Council. ''Globalization is a reality; you are seeing it in Belize. So we are using the tools of globalization to give concerned citizens a voice here and around the world.''
In turn, the council and other international groups have been vilified in the local press, called lawbreakers and terrorists (though no evidence is offered). A few leading citizens have called the environmental groups enemies of the nation that are trying to impose racist schemes to keep Belize undeveloped.
More restrained voices have said the environmental groups are denying this country the kinds of modern conveniences that others take for granted.
''We don't think it is fair for these environmental groups to be beating up Belize over this little dam when their own countries have so many of them,'' said Prime Minister Said Musa. ''Now they are trying to tell us we can't have one.''
The Chalillo Dam has been proposed since the early 1990's. An initial feasibility study warned against it because of a potentially harmful environmental impact. More recent studies supported the project, though local environmental officials said those studies were inadequate.
Supporters of the project say it is necessary to resolve capacity problems with the country's current dam and generator at Mollejón. The new dam at Chalillo, they said, would give them enough water to power the Mollejón generators through several months of the dry season.
In addition to the dam and generator at Mollejón, which was recently bought by Fortis Inc., the Canadian company that proposes building the new dam, Belize depends on pollution-prone diesel-powered generators for about a third of its power. Another third is supplied by a Mexican power grid.
''We need to find ways to remove our dependence on oil or Mexico,'' said John Briceño, the deputy prime minister and minister of natural resources. ''Yes, we get Mexican electricity sold to us at a subsidized rate, but even that is tied to the price of oil. And our agreement with Mexico ends in 2008, and what guarantees do we have that Mexico will give us the same agreement?''
But environmentalists say that in the near term, the cost of building a new dam would outweigh any possible savings in power generation. They add that Mexican power is still cheaper during off-peak hours, regardless of whether a new dam were built. They also accuse the government of overlooking alternative energy sources, like generators powered by burning waste.
One diplomat in Belize expressed doubt that the dam would bring down electric rates and said he suspected the project would enrich a few local business executives.
''You need to ask who will benefit from this,'' the diplomat said. ''Dams are a past way of doing things. The United States is rethinking its dam system in the Northwest, where it has ravaged the salmon population. In China they found dams to be an environmental nightmare, but a few people involved became incredibly wealthy.''
Environmentalists do not see it as a fair trade. The area where the dam is proposed is part of a biological corridor that Central American nations are trying to preserve against broader encroachment.
''This is the center of biodiversity, not only for Belize,'' said Sharon Matola, the director of the Belize Zoo and one of the dam's most outspoken opponents. ''This is the cradle for biodiversity for Central America. Look at the scarlet macaw; they breed in that river valley. This is the only place in Central America where they live unmolested.''
Environmentalists are also warning of an impending disaster from an infestation of bark beetles, which has reduced the pine forests and hillsides near the river to thousands of acres of leafless, dead trees. Within a couple of years, they fear, those dead trees could be consumed by forest fires, leading to erosion that would silt up the river and the dam.
But H. Stanley Marshall, the president and chief executive of Fortis, which also holds a majority stake in Belize Electricity Ltd., said the critics were ''talking without the facts.''
''Our position has been and continues to be that we will develop it if it is economically feasible and environmentally acceptable,'' he said. ''We are going through an environmental assessment process to determine if there is significant impact on wildlife. Until it is completed, we are not in a position to comment, and neither are they.''
Lynn Young, the president of Belize Electricity, faulted the environmental groups for refusing to budge.
''The trouble is, whatever we do as an electric company will impact the environment,'' he said. ''We thought getting away from diesel was the right thing to do. Whatever we do, you have to face the fact that it is not a question of not affecting the environment, but how well we can manage our activities.''
While the public response to the dam plan has been muted, the standoff between environmentalists and developers and government officials has become so heated that some local opponents of the dam say they have become targets for retaliation.
Kimo Jolly, a teacher and environmentalist, said he had been dismissed from his teaching job recently after holding a seminar that touched on the dam as well as the proposed sale of Belize's water authority to overseas investors.
For much of the last year Ms. Matola has been fighting the government's proposal to put a regional waste landfill near her zoo and its environmental education center, both of which she said would be devastated.
''They're angry at me,'' Ms. Matola said. ''Somebody in government said to me, 'Look, Sharon, you have to understand that this is a very complex issue and complex financial arrangements have already been made.' Yes, I might lose, but at least I can look in the mirror and say I tried to do everything I could to do the right thing.''Continue reading the main story


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Construction was halted December 18 on a trench for a new water main on Pine Island Road in Davies, Florida when a perfectly preserved burial was uncovered. The woman was thought to be in her 20s or 30s and around 5 feet tall.
"To find a complete burial like this is pretty rare," Ryan Franklin, of the Florida Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, told the New York Daily News.
"Everyone was fully aware that there was this possibility," Franklin said. "Remains were found nearby in the late 1980s, so this is basically from the same site."
The area did not look the same 2,000 years ago Bob Carr, director of the Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, pointed out.
"Pine Island ridge was actually the Pine Islands," Carr told WPLG-TV. "There was a group of islands surrounded by the Everglades."
The woman most likely weaved baskets and smoked fish on an open fire. She may have also hunted and fished from a wooden canoe.
Out of respect to local tribes, carbon dating was not used. Archaeologists dated the remains using artifacts surrounding the bones, including a tool made from deer bone.
"There was no carbon 14 dating or DNA testing, as the Florida tribes don't want any physical destruction of the bones," Carr told the Sun Sentinel.
Construction at the site resumed January 9. The remains were reinterred at an undisclosed location donated by the local Miccosukee and Seminole Indian tribes, WPLG-TV reported.


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I really want to try to adapt this to a toddler sized pair for her…maybe a project for this year.
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At this point I'm not sure what I'll recommend (to the full parole board), quite frankly. —Parole hearing officer Kathy Crawford
UTAH STATE PRISON — If he wouldn't have had a gun with him, Reggie Campos said he doubts he would have confronted David Serbeck on the night of July 22, 2009.
"It gave me a sense of security," he said Thursday during a parole hearing at the Utah State Prison.
But while Campos admitted to the parole hearing officer that "I did not need to put myself in that position" and that there were "several points along the line I could have made different choices" that night, he wanted it known that not everything happened the way police and prosecutors wrote in their reports.
The complicated case of Campos and Serbeck began when Campos confronted Serbeck, who he believed had been chasing his frightened daughter. Campos shot Serbeck, who is now permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Campos also pointed his gun at another man who was with Serbeck.
In 2010, Campos, 44, was sentenced to three years to life in prison for attempted murder with injury, a first-degree felony. The judge ordered the sentence be served consecutively with his sentence for his conviction of aggravated assault.
Just last month, the Utah Court of Appeals overturned Campos' attempted murder conviction and said he was eligible for a new trial, agreeing that he was deprived of his constitutional right to effective legal counsel. However, his conviction on aggravated assault — for pointing the gun at the second man — was upheld.
Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said Thursday his office had not yet had a chance to review the appeals court ruling and could not say whether it will retry Campos on the attempted murder charge.
Serbeck is also in prison, serving time for an unrelated case involving sexual contact with a teenage girl. He was sentenced in 2012 to up to 10 years in prison after he was found guilty of three counts of unlawful sexual activity with a 16- or 17-year-old, a third-degree felony.
He has also filed a civil lawsuit against Campos.
Thursday's parole hearing for Campos was for his aggravated assault conviction. Although parole hearing officer Kathy Crawford reminded him at one point that she wasn't there to hold another trial, Campos said he "wanted to give a better picture of what occurred."
Campos told her that after his daughter and her friends came home in hysterics, he started driving her around just to calm her down. "I didn't go looking for Serbeck," he said.
But just 30 seconds later, he said he saw two headlights and "at that point made the decision to check it out." He said he felt a sense of security because he grabbed his gun before he left the house.
"I didn't know what was going on," he told Crawford as to why he took his gun with him. "I didn't know what to expect."
Campos denied that he has had no remorse over the shooting, calling Serbeck's paralysis a horrible situation that he wouldn't wish upon anyone.
Campos has completed a number of courses while in prison, and he noted he had even learned to crochet and was learning how to play guitar. But Crawford also pointed out that he has had four "write-ups" for minor violations of prison rules. Even though they were small violations, she said it spoke to a bigger issue.
"It's a matter of following laws and rules," she said. "Your lack of following what should have been common sense resulted in a tragedy.
"At this point I'm not sure what I'll recommend (to the full parole board), quite frankly," Crawford told Campos. The full board will make a decision about his parole in a few weeks.
After the hearing, Campos was allowed to speak to his 18 family members and friends who attended the hearing to show support. Campos became very emotional when he was allowed to turn his chair around and face the large gathering. More tears were shed than words spoken during the brief conversation.
"It's going to work out," one family member said in encouragement.
"We're getting things ready for you," another said, anticipating his release.
"We know who you are. It only matters what we think," said a supporter.
"It's almost over," said another.
No one from Serbeck's family was present during the hearing.
Outside the parole hearing gates, Campos' wife, Kathy, said she could tell her husband was "really nervous" at the hearing. She also said the family was encouraged by the recent appeals court ruling.
"We just want him home. He needs to be home. He's a great guy, and we miss him and he just needs to be home," she said.
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The International Earth & Sky Photo Contest Winners Have Been Announced
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Noctilucent clouds are some of the most poorly understood meteorological phenomena on Earth. High-hanging and electric-blue in hue, the ethereal, night-shining formations feature prominently in this beautiful film by photographer P-M Hedén.


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Calvin celebrates Refor-ween
October 30, 2009
Goblins, godzillas and ghouls: step aside as October 31 approaches on Calvin's campus this year—John Calvin and Martin Luther would like to outdo you.
Calvin's calendar is filled with the usual Halloween events this year: Light in the Night, a trick-or-treat fest for community kids, a masquerade dance and countless residence hall floor activities. But alongside these events are others celebrating Reformation Day: two special chapel services, an open house at the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies (complete with a quiz and prizes), an art gallery showing, two lectures and a performance by the Boston Camerata.
60+ years of hymnsings
Given this line-up of events, this year will be the biggest celebration of Reformation Day the Calvin campus has ever seen. Typically, the college celebrates the holiday on a smaller scale.
A headline in the October 27, 1949 issue of Calvin's student newspaper Chimes reads "Student Hymn Sing Marks Reformation Day." The news announcement details a "singspiration" in which "special musical numbers" were arranged for chapelgoers.
An item in the October 29, 2009 edition of the daily e-bulletin, "Student News" invites the Calvin community to a Reformation Day hymnsing not altogether unlike the 1949 chapel service held on Calvin's Franklin campus.
In the years between the two announcements, Calvin College has, with varying degrees of consistency, celebrated Reformation Day with a Reformation-themed chapel service.
Reformation Day amnesia
Still, no one seems to remember these special services, or any other Reformation Day celebrations at Calvin.
When a room full of white-haired emeritus professors is asked to recall significant Reformation Day celebrations at Calvin over the years, talk quickly turns to various Halloween goings-ons.
"What's Reformation Day?" quips current professor of religion Ken Pomykala.
Some emeriti recall a Reformation Day prank students pulled in 1962 involving sweatshirts printed with a picture of 16th-century heretic Servetus standing over flames. Below the flames were the words "Servetus: Warmed by the Calvin Spark." Students broke into the Calvin bookstore one night and posed wearing the shirts. They then superimposed heads of famous figures—JFK, Howdy Doody, Fidel Castro, John Calvin and even the late President William Spoelhof—on the figures wearing the shirts and printed the picture in Chimes (see picture below). The prank generated laughs—and then controversy—when the Detroit Free Press and other state media picked up on the story.
"Then we [Calvin professors] had to put out the fire," said Professor Emeritus of English Steve Vander Weele, laughing heartily.
Sweatshirts "worn" by famous figures like JFK, Howdy Doody and John Calvin bear a picture of the 16th-century heretic Servetus held over flames. The shirts say "Servetus: Warmed by the Calvin Spark."
And spiritual amnesia too
Chaplain Emeritus Dale Cooper doesn't recall celebrating the holiday during his 28-year tenure as the college's spiritual leader. He regards the omission as a symptom of a sort of "spiritual amnesia."
"As I look back over the years, I have a few regrets and this is one of them. … It was pretty thin stuff if we celebrated it at all," Cooper said.
Cooper encourages the Calvin community to do more with Reformation Day than it has done in the past.
"In the Christian tradition, never has the future needed a past in the way it does today. To remember and be grateful for our ancestors in the faith is important from the point of view of gratitude, but it's also important as we try to shape our heirs in the faith," he said.
Meeter Center director Karin Maag agrees.
"Especially in this era when more and more of our students consider themselves non-denominational, it's important to consider what our Reformed heritage is all about and what its legacy is for today," she said.
Maag and her Meeter Center colleagues have organized or publicized the many activities Calvin will hold to celebrate Reformation Day this year. The special events are a part of a yearlong celebration of John Calvin, who was born 500 years ago, in 1509.
Reformation = reaffirmation
For Paul Ryan, coordinator of worship for campus ministries, Reformation Day is more than a celebration of Calvin College's namesake.
"I see it as an opportunity to reaffirm some of the basic truths that came out of the Reformation, to affirm sola Scriptura (by Scripture alone), solus Christus (Christ alone), sola gratia (by grace alone), sola fide (by faith alone), soli Deo gloria (glory of God alone)," Ryan said.
Ryan sent Friday chapelgoers out of Reformation Day chapel with Martin Luther's famous hymn "A Mighty Fortress is our God."
"The inclusion of 'A Mighty Fortress' is a way to say, 'Yeah, we like Martin Luther, he's a good guy!'" he said.
And lest anyone worries that Reformation Day is a triumphalistic holiday celebrated at the expense of other traditions, as Chaplain Emeritus Cooper worries it may have been when he was growing up, Ryan mentions another song that was a part of the Reformation Day hymnsing: "Your Grace is Enough," by Matt Maher.
Maher, according to his Wikipedia entry, is a Roman Catholic singer/songwriter/worship leader.
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Upland's My Delight Cupcakery, 1520 Mountain Ave., is promising eats, beats, liquid treats and sweets during its seventh Sunday Social from noon to 5 p.m. on Sunday (March 20).
My Delight is providing the sweets; the White Rabbit Truck is providing the eats; the Boba Truck is providing the liquid treats; and DJ Mike Styles will provide the beats.
The first 25 customers will get a special giveaway, and customers who RSVP via Facebook or Twitter will get a 10% discount.
The cupcake menu hasn't yet been announced, but they are planning to have the L.A. Cupcake Challenge-winning Late Night Breakfast cupcake available.
The event will happen rain or shine, and unfortunately, it appears the former is likely.
I went to their last event and had a great time. I'm planning to go to this month's event as well.
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SANTA DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — When I traveled in the Dominican Republic just a few weeks ago, I met Daniela. She is a 17-year-old who has lived her entire life in a Dominican batey — a remote, poor town originally developed for Haitian immigrants who came to the Dominican Republic to work as low-wage laborers on sugar plantations.
The Dominican government discriminates against Dominicans of Haitian descent by denying services — like schools — that it provides to other citizens. There was no public school near Daniela's batey, so she walked long distances to attend a school run by a local nonprofit organization, Movement of Dominican-Haitian Women.
Daniela persevered, earning a high school diploma, and she aspired to go to college. But this is now a dream deferred, because the Dominican Republic's top court recently revoked Dominican citizenship from more than 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent. All, including Daniela, are at risk of being deported from the only country that has been their home.
This cruel ruling is motivated by racial prejudice and ethnic discrimination dating back centuries, and it has dashed Daniela's hopes. She is gripped by the fear that if she applies to college in the Dominican Republic, she will be asked for identification.
If an authority sees that Daniela is a Dominican of Haitian descent — or chooses to categorize her as a Haitian migrant — she could have her identity cards revoked and be deported to a country where she has never lived and where she doesn't speak the language, placing enormous barriers to her chances of ever attending college.
The Dominican government no longer considers Daniela a citizen, simply because of her family's Haitian heritage.
The ruling of the court clearly violates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which establishes a right to equal protection against discrimination and a right to nationality and identity. It also means that newly declared "former citizens" must worry whether they can stay in the Dominican Republic — let alone vote, get a driver's license or access basic services that the government provides, like public school or health care.
Discrimination is not new for Dominicans of Haitian ancestry. The police routinely arrest or harass them. Even before the court ruling was announced, young women like Daniela feared Dominican military officials and police. Stories are told of young women picked up by soldiers for no other reason than their dark skin; women who suddenly found themselves deported to Haiti, unable to speak the French language or reach their families back home.
News coverage has focused on the international community's alarm at the new ruling, but less attention has been given to people who are working to do something about it. Grassroots organizations are at the center of this citizenship battle, organizing hundreds of activists to protest outside the constitutional court.
Some of the groups are also providing services to people who are now trapped by the decision. They're providing legal assistance to affected families, representing them in court to challenge the deportation process. One group has filed 42 cases with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, a judicial body that serves to uphold human rights in the Americas.
For now, Daniela's college plans remain on hold. She's volunteering as a health educator, trying to help her community however she can. There are innumerable needs to fill.
In the batey, I saw a volunteer walk up to a teenage girl whose baby was visibly ill, with a distended belly and skin marked by a pronounced rash. The volunteer learned that the girl would not take the infant to a government-run clinic out of a deep fear that her baby would be deported to Haiti.
For decades, the US government has focused on abuses of human rights in Cuba and other countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. For Daniela's sake, and for the sake of the more than 200,000 Dominicans of Haitian descent just like her, we must express our outrage. Let's not let another human rights calamity be abetted through our indifference.
Ruth Messinger is president of American Jewish World Service, a human rights organization that funds grassroots groups in the Dominican Republic and in Haiti.


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"The Truck Series is more competitive now than what it's ever been, and it means a lot to myself to win a Truck Series race, especially running just one a year," said Hamlin in victory lane. "It's a big deal for me, more than what people probably think."
Hamlin's victory means that he is one of 23 drivers to have won a race in each of NASCAR's top three series. He's the seventh Truck Series driver to have his maiden win at Martinsville - more than any other track - and coincidentally also delivered the first win at the circuit for Kyle Busch Motorsports when he crossed the finish line in the #18.
Earlier, Matt Crafton had claimed pole position and Hornaday joined him on the front row for the start of the race, after NASCAR managed to squeeze the qualifying session into a rain-affected Saturday schedule. Hamlin and Johnny Sauter had lined up on the second row of the grid.
Crafton then led the first 11 laps of the race, and then the remainder of the first two thirds of the 200 lap race were dominated by long stints in the lead by Sauter (34 laps), Hornaday (29 laps) and Hamlin (53 laps), which saw five of the race's nine caution - an accident put Ricky Carmichael out of the race on lap 39, Cole Whitt and Nelson Piquet Jr. had separate spins on lap 50, Matt Lofton had a spin on lap 87, and Justin Lofton and Max Gresham on lap 105 before a debris caution lap 115.
After a sixth caution for an accident on the backstretch on lap 132 between Germain Racing teammates Todd Bodine and Max Papis, Austin Dillon took the lead for the next 43 laps save for a single lap when Hornaday nipped in front at a restart on lap 178 following a spin for Ryan Sieg in turn 2.
Denny Hamlin had been running behind Dillon and Hornaday on fresher tyres than the leader after pitting on lap 134, and he got another chance to make a run on them after an accident in turn 4 for Johanna Long and Tyler Tanner: Dillon got loose at the green flag and drifted up into Hornaday, giving Hamlin the chance he needed to take to the front and then pull away for the win.
"Just couldn't make the first turn and ran into Ron," said Dillon, admitting that he'd handed the victory to Hamlin in the process. "If I could have made it through the first turn, it would have been me [or] Ron in Victory Lane, I'm pretty sure."
Hornaday didn't blame Dillon - in fact, he'd been expecting the Richard Childress Racing driver to slide up. "The lap before the [penultimate] restart, I cleaned my tires off pretty good, and I still shoved my nose pretty good," he said. "When I saw Austin not weaving his truck as much as I did on the [previous] restart, I knew he was coming up into me.
"It worked out for both of us, other than Denny Hamlin snuck through the middle of both of us and stole the win," he added. "But we'll take it!"
Hornaday still claimed second place, which was enough to boost him up to third place in the Truck Series championship, equal in points with Johnny Sauter who finished in fourth position. They are four points behind James Buescher in second place, who in turn is 11pts off the lead held by Dillon who finished just behind Hornaday at Martinsville.
Unlike their Cup counterparts, at least the Truck regulars got to spend some time on track on the Friday, during which Hornaday had topped the practice timesheets despite a spin that saw him collect team mate Nelson Piquet Jr.
"It was one of those things where I was trying to get a good lap in there, got in the gas and got loose," explained Hornaday about the accident, caused by pushing a little too hard on cold tyres on a cold track.
"Everything was white in front of me," said Piquet, who couldn't see through the tyre smoke from Hornaday's truck. "I just braked and was very slow, and suddenly I touched him." Both trucks were subsequently repaired and able to get back out on track, with Piquet finishing in 13th place in the race.
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Kick off the festival on Thursday night with Wolf Parade, a band out of Montreal on their reunion tour. The band went on a hiatus in 2011, but released a highly anticipated new album in January. Concert-goers say the five-year break has done nothing to damper their performance or lessen the band's chemistry. Playing in City Plaza should gather a large audience and create a good energy.
For a smaller venue, check out the last show of the night at Slim's, A Giant Dog. This band will get you amped up with their energetic harmonies that dominate every single song.
Start in City Plaza on Friday night and check out Beach House, a pop duo with a keyboard-heavy sound. Then, make the extremely tough decision between 90s fun or pure funk as two local favorites are playing in the same time slot. Check out Kooley High at Kings for a flashback to old school hip-hop. If you want go even further back in time, but stay fresh and modern in the process, check out Boulevards, a local artist bringing back funk. He released a new album a few months back, so his show should pack in a ton of songs, plus lots of fun.
Kick off the last night of the festival with Vince Staples in City Plaza. Staples just released a new album, and his new music delivers insane lyrics and beats worthy of a headliner.
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DAD Chris Taylor, 24, had to deliver his twin boys after an ambulance for his partner, Rachel Biston, 26, took almost 24 minutes to arrive.
Miss Biston suffers with cyclical vomiting and was in bed ill when she went into labour, two weeks premature, in Chipping Norton on January 21.
Mr Taylor was talked through delivering the twins, Alfie and Archie, by the ambulance service but one son was not breathing when he was born.
He said: "Archie was blue in the face when he was born. He was as good as dead.
"I didn't know what to do, but I was talking to the paramedics and rubbing his back and then the mucus came up and he was awake and alive.
"The ambulance should have been here, but it wasn't. It was a nightmare. Archie could have died.
"They have no response around here because they do not have any ambulances based in Chipping Norton."
The ambulance service said it was called at 1.04am and dispatched the nearest ambulance, which was in Banbury, but snow and ice meant the journey took 23 minutes and 47 seconds.
The emergency was categorised as serious but not life-threatening and requiring a 19-minute response. It was not recategorised.
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131 Independent Commando Squadron Royal Engineers
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131 Independent Commando Squadron Royal Engineers, is a reserve unit of the British Territorial Army, affiliated to 24 Commando Regiment Royal Engineers. It provides general engineering support to 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines[1] and is the largest Territorial Army Commando unit. The squadron has deployed worldwide to provide combat engineer support to 3 Commando Brigade, often deploying in small sub-units.
The Squadron
The 131 Independent Commando Squadron was first raised in 1947 as an airborne engineer regiment, with a strength of over 1000 trained parachute engineers. Since 1978 the unit has been an independent squadron of Commandos providing engineering support to the Royal Marines.
As a Commando unit the majority of personnel have completed the Territorial Army All Arms Commando Course, run by the Royal Marines at Lympstone. This demanding course is the foundation for all further training.
As an engineer unit the Squadron trains for a variety of tasks from demolitions to construction. The unit has its own chefs, clerks and mechanics to sustain personnel and equipment.
The unit frequently deploys on tasks with, or to support, the Regular Forces in both the UK and abroad. In recent years the Squadron has deployed personnel to Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman, the USA, Norway, France, Malawi, the Falkland Islands, Romania and Egypt on exercises and training with 3 Commando Brigade units.
131 Squadron has sent teams to the annual Exercise Cambrian Patrol competition held at the Sennybridge Training Area and has won the Courage Trophy competition a record five times (1977, 1978, 1992, 1993 and 1994). Over the last 15 years the unit has also built up a strong cross-country skiing pedigree, winning several races in the UK Land Command and TA Ski Championships.
The Squadron consists of four troops in the following locations around the UK:
- Headquarters and Support Troop (Kingsbury in North West London)
- 300 Troop (Plymouth)
- 301 Troop (Sheldon in Birmingham)
- 302 Troop (Bath)
Hull-based 299 Troop, who used to be a part of 131 until 2006, have now gone on to become part of a new Air Assault Engineer Squadron (299 Parachute Squadron, RE(V)).
1940s: Airborne Forces Role
With the reformation of the Territorial Army in 1947, the unit was raised as 131 Airborne Engineer Regiment in support of 16 Airborne Division. The division, taking its number from the wartime 1st and 6th Airborne Divisions, was commanded by Major-General Roy Urquhart and consisted of three TA parachute brigades, (44, 45 and 46 Parachute Brigades) each containing three parachute battalions. With all volunteers going through 'P Company' to gain their Red Berets and earning their Parachute Wings at RAF Abingdon, the Regiment provided a squadron of parachute engineers to support each Brigade: 299 Airborne Field Squadron in Hull; 300 Airborne Field Squadron in Liverpool, later Glasgow; and 301 Airborne Field Squadron in Croydon. The regimental headquarters was in Pont Street in Knightsbridge, with 302 Airborne Field Park Squadron based in Hendon. Manning a Regiment of this size presented no problems, with many recently demobilised World War II soldiers, including many former paratroopers, willing to join the regiment. Experienced leadership was in no short supply either - for example, 299 Squadron was raised by Major George Widdowson, previously of the Green Howards, who had fought at Arnhem as Second-in-Command of the decimated 10th Battalion The Parachute Regiment.
Territorial Army reorganistions took place in 1956, with 16 Airborne Division disbanded and replaced by a single TA Parachute Brigade, 44 Independent Parachute Brigade Group. 131 Regiment was sufficiently well established to ensure that it was retained in size but changed to 131 Parachute Engineer Regiment, with all squadron titles replacing the term 'Airborne' with 'Parachute'. RHQ moved half a mile down the road to the Duke of Yorks' Headquarters in the Kings' Road, co-located with Brigade HQ. Troop locations evolved through the 1950s too, with 301 Squadron moving to Guildford and gaining a Birmingham based troop as a result of the demise of 18 Para. The Liverpool-based troop also went on to become part of 299 Squadron, whilst 300 Squadron, gained troops in Edinburgh and Falkirk to become wholly Scottish. One final change saw 302 Squadron move from Hendon to nearby Kingsbury, with its Luton-based Plant Troop also relocating to Kingsbury, in 1959.
In the early 1960s, 131 was the biggest unit in the British Army[citation needed]. It fielded over 1,000 trained parachute engineers and was believed to have the largest amount of men earning their annual bounty in the whole of the Territorial Army. Many of the unit's members were also members of the Emergency Reserve, giving them a higher call-out obligation. Basic training was only beginning to be introduced because, up until this time, all unit members were either ex-regulars, ex-WW2 volunteers or ex-National Servicemen. Throughout the period of the Regiment's existence, squadron-sized detachments served their annual camps in many overseas theatres, carrying out close support and construction engineer tasks as well as parachuting with United States, Canadian, French and Italian forces. A popular event on the Regimental calendar was Exercise Sea Splash, where its soldiers would parachute into the harbour in St Peter Port in Guernsey, awaited by a fleet of small boats and cheering islanders. 131's first Honorary Colonel, Lt General Sir Philip Neame VC, KBE, CB, DSO, had initiated the Regiment's involvement with the island when he served as its governor after the War, and the parachute foray was always treated as a celebration of the liberation from German control in 1945.
In 1964, the bulk of the Regiment carried out its Annual Camp in Aden Protectorate and in 1965 and 1966 elements of the Regiment deployed to the country again. During the 1965 camp, on the night of 12 April, 300 Parachute Squadron was attacked by guerrillas whilst working with 24 Field Squadron on the construction of the Dhala Road at Al-Milah near the Yemen frontier. Squadron Sergeant Major John Lonergan of 300 Squadron and Sgt Atfield, the Pay Sgt of 24 Field Squadron, were both killed during the action and are buried at the Ma-Allah Cemetery, now within the Republic of Yemen. The Regimental Medical Officer, who risked his life to attend to those who had been wounded and to rescue two badly injured men caught out in the open, was awarded the MBE for gallantry. He was recommended for the award of the Military Cross but that award could not be made, as the Regiment had not been mobilised for active service.
The second major post-war reorganisation of the TA in 1967 saw the Regiment reduced to a single independent squadron in 1967. 131 Independent Parachute Squadron Royal Engineers (Volunteers) maintained its role in support of the three parachute battalions of 44 Independent Parachute Brigade Group (Volunteers). Squadron Headquarters and the Support Troop was based in Kingsbury in London, with Troops in Birmingham, Hull and Grangemouth. Troops took the names of the Squadrons they had replaced, with 299 Troop in Hull, 300 Troop in Grangemouth, 301 Troop in Birmingham and 302 Troop (Support Troop to the whole Sqn) in Kingsbury. The remaining locations, ranging from Guildford to Glasgow, were lost along with a significant portion of the unit's manpower.
The three field troops continued to support a TA parachute battalion each, with 299 Troop linked to the 4th (Volunteer) Battalion The Parachute Regiment, 300 Troop to the 15th (Scottish Volunteer) Battalion and 301 Troop to the 10th (Volunteer) Battalion. Travel far and wide, with associated opportunities for engineer support, construction and parachuting continued as ever. At times Troops would carry out annual camps in direct support of their battalions, such as 299's 1972 camp with 4 Para in Jamaica, whilst on other occasions the Squadron would exercise as a whole. Probably the most ambitious camp of this period was the 1973 Exercise Sacristan in the United Arab Emirates, which saw 180 members of the Squadron deploy for between 2 and 6 weeks, carrying out a variety of construction tasks and desert training exercises. Close ties with 9 Independent Parachute Squadron RE, then based at Church Crookham, also continued throughout the period.
The Squadron's saddest day occurred on 28 September 1975 during Exercise Trent Chase, its annual watermanship-based section competition on the River Trent in Nottinghamshire. During a freak storm on the Saturday night, and with low-light levels made worse by downed power lines, an assault boat containing eleven Sappers of 300 Troop was swept over the Cromwell Weir near Newark. Ten of the eleven men were drowned, including two brothers, Sprs Stuart and Peter Evenden. After the military funerals, which took place in various parishes around Scotland, a memorial service was held at the site of the accident, and a stone of Scottish granite bearing the names of those killed was laid in a small commemorative garden close to the lock. Another memorial was established near Grangemouth, at Falkirk Cemetery, and the men are also commemorated at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.
1978: Commando Role
In 1977 drastic reductions in regular and TA Airborne Forces were announced and on 31 March 1978 44 Independent Parachute Brigade Group (Volunteers) was disbanded in a parade at Altcar Ranges, near Liverpool. Though the three parachute battalions were retained, support arms and services were to be slashed. The volunteer traditions of 131, forged through its arduous selection procedure, were such that the only cap badge its members would wear was that of the Royal Engineers, and this on a beret which had to be 'earned'. It was a great honour for the Squadron that the Royal Marines accepted it into the order of battle of 3 Commando Brigade on 1 April 1978. Following the Airborne Engineers Commando Conversion Course in July 1978, the Squadron, now in Green Berets but retaining a significant parachute capability, did not have to move from its four locations.
1980s and 1990s
In 1982 it was decided to raise a Troop in Plymouth to capitalise on the significant amount of ex-regular Commandos living in the area and the fact that 131's new sister-Squadron, 59 Independent Commando Squadron RE, was based within the town at Crownhill Fort. This sub-unit was to become the new 300 Troop, but whilst Grangemouth and Plymouth were both on the Squadron's order of battle, Plymouth temporarily used the old Support Troop number, 302. Recruiting at Plymouth was buoyant, and the then-PSI, SSgt Dave Quinn, was awarded the BEM for his efforts in helping to establish the new Troop. Finally, in 1983 at a ceremony in Grangemouth, the Scottish 300 Troop was re-roled as a Royal Marines Reserve Assault Engineer Troop, and Plymouth took on the 300 Troop title. 36 years of the Scottish sub-unit had seen it as consistently the best recruited and the best attending and, whilst all were happy to see the birth of a new Troop in the South West, the loss of those North of the Border, with their idiosyncrasies such as 'Para-Grog', was a keen blow.
The 1980s and 1990s saw 131 more and more closely involved with 3 Commando Brigade Royal Marines and with its regular sister-Squadron. Many members of the unit had been ex-regular Commandos, the majority of them with 59, but always with a smattering of former Royal Marines and Commando Gunners (from 29 Commando Regiment Royal Artillery), plus the odd Commando 'Loggie' or Craftsman, within its ranks. Arctic Warfare Training in Norway and amphibious training were added to the skills which had to be absorbed by the Commando Engineer volunteers of the Squadron, whilst parachute training, now taught at RAF Brize Norton, was still open to those suitably qualified. In the mid-nineties, diving was added to the Squadron's capabilities and LCpl Arnold from 131 became the first TA soldier to attend and pass the Army's basic diving course for many years in 1995.
21st Century: Front Line Operations
In January 2003 the Squadron was compulsorily mobilised and deployed in Iraq as part of Operation TELIC 1. Returning to the UK in May 2003, the Squadron was mobilised for a second time in Autumn 2006 for service in Helmand Province in Afghanistan. This deployment ended in Spring 2007. Smaller-scale deployments have seen sub-units and individuals deploy to Cyprus (UN) and the Balkans during the 1990s, to Afghanistan on Operation JACANA in 2002, to Iraq on Operation TELIC 4 in 2004/5, to Pakistan during earthquake-relief operations in 2005 and, once again to Helmand, in Autumn 2008.
See also
External links
- ^ 131 Independent Commando Squadron official webpage http://www.army.mod.uk/royalengineers/units/853.aspx
- Royal Engineers Museum - Military Engineering Histories (Commando)


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Miriam Wright Kiser: ObituaryObituaries August 13, 2014
Miriam Wright Kiser, a 5th generation native of Atlanta and for the past 27 years a resident of Tate Mountain in Pickens County, died from a brain tumor at home August 9, 2014. Miriam lived a full, creative life. She had a deep appreciation for the natural world, an exquisite sense of humor and was remarkably accepting of others. Life with her as wife, mother, grandmother, relative or friend was fun.
She grew up in Atlanta, the 5th child of Douglas Berry and Gertrude Whittier Wright. She attended E. Rivers School and Washington Seminary there, St. Genevieve-of-the-Pines in Asheville N.C., Wesleyan Conservatory in Macon and Atlanta's High Museum of Art.
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In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Holy Family Episcopal Church, 202 Griffith Rd., Jasper, GA 30143, or Mountain Conservation Trust, 104 N Main St., Jasper, GA 30143 or Georgia Mountain Hospice, 70 Caring Way, Jasper GA. 30143.
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Port Gibson- State Senator Mike Nozzolio recently recognized Doug Wilcox and Pauline DeCook as recipients of the Port Gibson Fire Department's 2008 Firefighter of the Year Award.
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have you ever read a poem
that pressed fingers, oh so lightly, to the roll of your rib
that left behind its prints in your blind clay?
and have you ever felt the touch
of another's written words
cool and steady upon the tremble of your heart
or the thin, electric probe
eliciting sensation
from deep within that grey and secret mass?
have tears welled, unguessed, from unknown springs
to slide the landscape of your face
to find your lips, your tongue, with their new taste?
and have you found you step in their footsteps
following half-hidden trails, uncertain but
rewarded for your faith?
for all the bright and stirring words
the burnished poets pen
i far prefer the quiet ones
that make me feel, again.
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Coker carries the load, while McCall remains a maybe
IOWA CITY -- Marcus Coker seemed fine this week. After the Michigan State game, however, he was a little wobbly.
He shuffled to a corner of the postgame interview room. One eyewitness account of Coker leaving Kinnick Stadium wondered if the Iowa running back didn't need some sort of assistance.
As the carries pile up, the call for a No. 2 echoes through out Hawk-dom. More to the point, the call for Mika'il McCall revs up.
During the last three weeks, it's become louder and louder. And yet, McCall sits, just as he has since suffering a broken ankle week one against Tennessee Tech.
All the while, Coker's carries have entered Iowa's top 10 attempts for a season.
"I'm beat up a little bit, but nothing too serious," said Coker, whose 232 carries are sixth in the nation. At this pace, Coker should clock in for the season at or around 300 carries. He's already tied with Ladell Betts for No. 7 in attempts for a season.
Sedrick Shaw's 316 carries in 1995 is the Iowa record. Shonn Greene came close to that in 2008 with 307. Fred Russell is No. 3 on the list with 282 in 2003.
"I would call myself selfish, I'm not going to lie," Coker said. "During a game, I want to get in there and get all the reps I can. But whatever the coaches feel we need to do, I'm down to do."
As far as running backs go, redshirt freshman De'Andre Johnson is No. 2 on the Hawkeyes in attempts with 18. He hasn't carried the ball in two weeks after rushing two times for 3 yards at Minnesota. The fewest carries for Iowa's No. 2 running back the last five seasons was Jewel Hampton's 91 in 2008.
Initially, coach Kirk Ferentz said McCall was out for the season. But then, McCall participated in warm-ups against Northwestern on Oct. 15. Then, the week of the Minnesota game, Ferentz said the 6-foot, 220-pounder would play against the Gophers.
And now, with Iowa's percentages for a Legend Division title and spot in the inaugural Big Ten title game down to single digits, McCall's status is solidly wait-and-see.
"We plan to play him this week," Ferentz said on his radio show Wednesday night. "We think if he plays these next two games, he'll be that much farther ahead next season."
The question has changed as time has passed. It's not where is McCall, it's why play McCall?
If McCall doesn't play, he would be eligible for a medical hardship waiver. The baseline rule says that if a player suffers an incapacitating injury or illness in the first half of the playing season and hasn't played in 30 percent of the scheduled contests, the school can request a medical hardship from the Big Ten.
That's not cut-and-dry, however.
Iowa would file the medical�hardship waivers request with the Big Ten�conference office. The Big Ten would then�determine whether the student-athlete�should be granted an�additional year of competition as a�result of his/her incapacitating injury�or illness.
The key is that the institution provides "contemporaneous" medical documentation. The school must provide�a diagnosis�or description of the student-athlete�s�injury or illness at the�time of the injury or illness and a�demonstration that the injury�or illness is incapacitating.
When Iowa scored an extra year for offensive tackle David Porter in 2002, it had to provide game video that showed Porter didn't play after the sixth game of the season.
The documentation falls to the training staff. The terms that could derail a request for medical hardship waiver are "full participation" or "full clearance." These terms imply that the player has healed and is ready for competition.
Here's a quote from an article Dr. Bryan W. Smith,�medical consultant for the�Atlantic Coast Conference, wrote for a publication called "Physician Forte" that appeared in a section for team doctors.
"Just because the�coach doesn�t play the student-athlete [doesn't] mean he or she is still�incapacitated if the student-athlete�is fully cleared by the medical staff."
Ferentz said he's been looking for the right opportunity to use McCall. He also said he believes the medical hardship waiver is an option.
"He's been out a ton," Ferentz said. "He's got an X-ray that would prove a pretty legitimate injury. The real surprise is that he has a chance to come back, and we'll just see how things go."
Meanwhile, the carries pile up for Coker, who suffered a shoulder injury during August camp and last season suffered a broken collarbone in camp and was limited to seven games as a true freshman. When he was fully healthy, Iowa still had 10 weeks of football in front of it.
McCall is looking at two road games and a bowl.
Is it worth it?
"I think he's a team-first guy," Ferentz said. "I think that's how he looks at it."
1. Sedrick Shaw (1995) 316 carries, 1,477 yards, 15 TDs
2. Shonn Greene (2008) 307 carries, 1,850 yards, 20 TDs
3. Fred Russell (2003) 282 carries, 1,355 yards, 7 TDs
4. Dennis Mosley (1979) 270 carries, 1,267 yards, 12 TDs
5. Tavian Banks (1997) 260 carries, 1,691 yards, 17 TDs
6. Albert Young (2005) 249 carries, 1,334 yards, 8 TDs
7. (tie) �Ladell Betts (2000) 232 carries, 1,090 yards, 5 TDs
9. Shaw (1996) 224 carries, 1,116 yards, 9 TDs
10. Ronnie Harmon (1985) 223 carries, 9 TDs
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Candidates for RI Treasurer square off at last TV debate
With just days left until the Sept. 9th primary election the democratic candidates for treasurer squared off in a debate on NBC 10.
The candidates for Rhode Island General Treasurer debated for 30 minutes.
Frank Caprio, once held the position before running unsuccessfully for governor.{} "I worked hard, I had a lot of people supporting me, but I didn't run a good campaign and at the end I said things I shouldn't have said about President Barack Obama. And I'm here now in a fresh way."
Also here now is Seth Magaziner who is in the race hoping for a first term. Both went back and forth on job performance, records and roles.
Capri criticizing Magaziner's role in managing money, to which Magaziner fired back, "What we've seen here is classic Frank Caprio nasty politics; he's throwing out names and accusations."
"I'm not surprised to see Mr. Caprio doing this, he's getting desperate he knows his campaign is failing and there's a reason for that. The reason is when you hear us talk about why we're running for treasurer, he's asking Rhode Island for a second chance, and it's all about him."
With regard to the topic of pension reform; Caprio promised lower fees to investment firms.
"I've said when I get in office the first thing I'll do is get those hedge funds contracts, we'll send out notices that we no longer need your services and we'll put that money in funds with lower fees."
Seth Magaziner noted that while Caprio served as treasurer, while he did invest the state's money in funds with lower fees, the performance of those funds was not good.
"He's trying to misrepresent the good work we did during office," said Caprio.
To which Magaziner comes back with, "If we had just been in the middle of the pack, there'd be hundreds of millions more in that system and the folks hurting now because of this pension reform would be hurting less," said Magaziner.
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I saw a boot int he middle of the road recently....
Some sort of a large appliance. I think it was a clothes dryer, but I'm not certain.
This is all **** that's been in the roadway.
I've actually seen a pillow fall out of a truck in front of me. It was in a plastic bag, and it caught some wind. People are retards for thinking that the wind won't move stuff around in their trucks
on my way to school this morning, there was a washing machine in the middle of the merge lane...
I was on the motorway a while ago and the car i was overtaking hit a pothole (british roads eh), now this car had a spare wheel up under the back of the car, the frame carrying the wheel gave way, the next thing i see is sparks coming from this frame and i pass a spare wheel thats sliding at quite a pace complete with jack and tools in the centre.
I have no idea of the damage this probably caused to cars behind but the silly cow kept on going so i reported her to the police, i hope she got a bollocking.
This is a horror story.
Those of you who drive I-95 in florida know what I mean, and those on the east coast who have driven 95 ever, know what I mean...
I95 has lots trash on it, and its boxed in (in south florida) on both sides by concrete guards, so trash just piles up on the sides of the road. ANd when I say trash I dont be home refuse, I mean **** that falls off of cars, trucks etc.
Anyway few years back, a guy was driving in the HOV lane and heard a metal clank sound and felt something hot on his leg. He looked down and in horror he saw a rebar sticking into his leg thru the floor boards.
I dont remember anymore details but this was just a footnote in the papers because no one ever cleans up 95 and even after this story, no one cared.(All done)
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October 2 2013
Day, DeLaet earn early trophy
By Brian Wacker, PGATOUR.COM
DUBLIN, Ohio -- The start of the Presidents Cup is still a day away, but Jason Day and Graham DeLaet already have a win this week at Murifield Village.
The two had the low score, an 8-under 64, in the International Team's practice round foursomes on Tuesday, and Captain Nick Price awarded them with a special trophy at the team dinner later that evening.
Though Price told players to keep score during the first practice session of the week, they weren't aware what they were playing for.
Given the International Team's abysmal record in foursomes -- 58-105-26 -- Price wanted to add a little something extra to the otherwise casual day.
The plaque features part of Price's putter that he famously snapped after losing to Kenny Perry in the 2003 Presidents Cup at Fancourt, where Price missed an 8-foot putt on the final hole.
Price hopes to continue the trophy tradition at future Presidents Cups.


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A penny for your thoughts? We've got that and then some as we reveal the secret thoughts that, for various reasons, men and women keep to themselves.
"Am I being shallow?"
Deserved or not, guys have the reputation of sometimes (often? always?) being shallow when it comes to a woman's appearance, putting a priority on outer beauty, or lack thereof, over inner beauty. The secret a single woman may not readily voice is that looks matter to her too. She might not be obsessing over small stuff like the shape of a nose or the set of a jaw, but she is noticing how a potential partner dresses, how he smells, how he presents himself, and especially how he takes care of things like, well . . . teeth. Believe it or not, that's a common secret complaint among women. Advice to guys: Take grooming seriously, and start with your pearly whites.
"I feel a little uncovered."
Whether or not it's "politically correct" in this era of gender equality, many women want the loving, caring "protection" that a man can provide. This doesn't mean women aren't capable of taking care of themselves—most are and do. But even secure, self-sufficient women want a man who will "have their back," offering strong emotional, physical, and spiritual support. An ancient Hebrew wedding custom involved the groom symbolically placing a shawl around the shoulders of his bride. In one of the most beautiful love stories in the Bible, Ruth asked Boaz to spread a portion of his clothing over her as a tangible sign of his future care and protection. Single women—and married women too—recognize the feeling of belonging to a man who would die to protect her, and can feel the void when that man—and that covering—is missing from their lives.
"I want to feel special and pursued."
Single women can't figure out why single men don't know this. Ah, but here's the challenge—figuring out which of your actions communicate "pursued" and "treasured" to her. This is where it doesn't hurt to ask (which is a good strategy for nearly every situation). If you're far enough along in a relationship, men ought to inquire: "What can I do to make you feel special and valued? What 'speaks love' most clearly to you?" Asking questions and listening—really listening—to her answers is actually one of the ways she feels cherished.
"What exactly does the world expect me to be?"
Many men ask themselves this question at some point. From the moment he steps on the playground in kindergarten, a male in our society is like the rope in a tug-of-war of mixed messages: play nice, but don't let anyone push you around; be gentle, but toughen up; share your feelings, but don't be a wimp. Ladies, if your man sometimes freezes like a deer in the headlights during tricky emotional situations, it may be that he's desperately trying to figure out which of the polar-opposite roles he's supposed to adopt.
"Does a woman even know what she wants from me?"
It doesn't help matters that female expectations sometimes present an even tighter tangle of paradox and contradiction. A woman who asks for a little space on Monday can be upset by Wednesday because he hasn't called. She simultaneously signals a desire for independence and protection. She wants both passionate pursuit and platonic respect. Men sometimes feel like they've wandered into a maze of hidden tests and trick questions when starting a new relationship. As always, the key to untying the knot is—you guessed it—communication. Stating expectations clearly and directly can avoid a multitude of misunderstandings.
"How much is this relationship going to cost me?"
While many women calculate romantic potential by imagining what they stand to gain, men often wonder what they'll be giving up—mainly the freedom to live as they please and do what they want. Men have been hardwired over the ages with a nomadic gene. In past eras and cultures, that served them well. Now that settling down is called for, men still hear the call of the open road from time to time. That's not a measurement of his commitment to the woman in his life, just a facet of his masculine nature he needs to figure out when starting a new relationship. This doesn't mean, of course, that men aren't willing to make the trade-offs. They surely are—when they encounter an irresistible woman they can't live without.
"Why does sex have to be so complicated?"
When asking what goes on in a man's head, many women are really seeking insight into his seemingly single-minded views on sex. Much as they try to see things differently, many men simply don't understand the fine print on the emotional contract two people enter into when becoming physically intimate. In our sophisticated, enlightened age, we explore cues, signals, and secret messages. But again, in the not-so-distant past, sex was far less nuanced and more straightforward than it is today.
"Am I good enough?"
The most surprising of a man's secret thoughts is his sense of vulnerability and inadequacy. For all their bluster and bravado, men desperately want to be what their woman desires. They worry about how their "maleness" is perceived and whether they are able to please the woman they love. Advice to women: Look beyond the gruff exterior many men have learned to project and you'll find a partner who is much closer to your "dream man" than you imagined.
"Does this decade make me look fat?"
Oh yes, it's onto the women's secret thoughts now. What lots of single ladies think but may not share is the enormous pressure to look young and thin. (Even women already young and thin often feel pressure to look younger and thinner.) What's more, a woman frequently fears and dreads the havoc the passage of time may be wreaking on her body and appearance. If she catches a man she's with shooting glances at a gorgeous young waitress or passerby, well, let's just say her secret thoughts may take a different turn—like vengeance. Wise men know to tread very lightly and carefully when it comes to a woman's appearance. Rule number one: Compliment often and criticize never.
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Hubert von Pantz. Late Austrian bon vivant,
husband of Avon Products Terry McConnell, creator (in the
1930s) of Schloss Mittersill, charter member of the international
jet set.
Toni Peebler. New York, Sun
Valley, Palm Springs, wife of retired advertising tycoon Chuck Peebler,
active on certain
New York philanthropies such as the Central Park Conservancy.
Peter Pennoyer. Prominent New
York architect, author (with Anne Walker) of a book on the architecture
of Delano and
Aldrich; married to designer Katie Ridder.
Ruth Perelman. Wife of Philadelphia
businessman, Ray Perelman, mother of tycoon Ron Perelman, former Philadelplhia
who now resides much of the time in Palm Beach.
Emilia Fanjul Pfeifler. Daughter
of New York/Palm Beach's Emilia and Pepe Fanjul, the sugar magnate
who also owns, with his brothers, Casa del Campo in the Dominican Republic.
Mrs. Pfeifler runs
a successful public relations firm here in New York and is active in charity
benefits and social life on the New York/Palm Beach axis.
Nick Pileggi. Prolific author, screenwriter
for both TV and film, producer; long successful marriage to writer/director
Nora Ephron;
popular couple on the social scene.
Pincus. Wall Street banker, CEO of Warburg Pincus, another
white haired gentleman who looks every inch the patrician that he is, the soft-spoken
but powerful Mr. Pincus merged his venture capital, investment and financial
consulting firm with the venerable E.M.Warburg Company in 1966 and changed
the named to E.M. Warburg Pincus & Co. Since establishing a London office
in 1987, the firm expanded to Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Mumbai, and Beijing.
Since 1971 the firm has sponsored ten private equity investments funds with
committed capital in excess of $19 billion.
On meeting, Mr. Pincus is a family man who had a long marriage that ended with
his wife's death more than ten years ago. In the last several years he
has been the companion of Princess Firyal of Jordan, a Palestinian born former
wife of the brother of the late King Hussein. Princess Firyal is one of the
most glamorous and interesting women on the international social scene, long
a hostess in London and Paris (where she maintains homes) and here in New York,
and her presence in Mr. Pincus' life has added a touch of glamour that
he neither previously possessed nor seemed interested in. They are a very popular
couple on the social scene.
Pitt. A member of the George Baker banking
(First National City/now Citibank) family, Mrs. Pitt is mother
of Serena Boardman and Samantha Boardman Rosen, two of the
most popular members of the younger social set here and in
Palm Beach. Married for years to Dixon Boardman, she's
resided all her life in Manhattan, Locust Valley, and in
Palm Beach. After her divorce from Boardman several years
ago she married businessman Bill Pitt who was many years
her senior and died after less than two years of marriage.
Anna Lu Ponti. New York
based, Italian born jewelry designer.
Dan Ponton. Palm Beach club
owner and restaurateur, Mr. Ponton owns Club Colette, one of the most
popular private clubs
used for dinner dances, wedding receptions, and charity benefits in
Palm Beach.
Pyne. New York/old Southampton; novelist/interior designer;
daughter of Betty Sherrill, head of the old line decorating firm of McMillen
and Company.
Eben Pyne. Handsome debonair New York
businessman, corporate board member and philanthropist, the white-haired,
Mr. Pyne looks every inch
the patrician that he is, a literary descendent of the worlds of Edith Wharton
in yesteryear and Louis Auchincloss today. Member of one of New York society's
oldest families, he grew up in the famous house still standing on the southwest
corner of Park Avenue and 69th Street.
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