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Ok, I admit, I was among the early adopters of the late nineties to get hooked on VMWare. In fact, as an open source advocate I remember playing with "freemware", qemu, bochs, openVZ, and several other x86 virtualization technologies. Likewise, I was among the first to start using Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). I've been hooked by x86 commodity hardware virtualization for a long time, and I thank VMWare and Ed Bugnion in particular for that. But why choose VMWare now?
Ten years ago when the CPUs made it hard to virtualize efficiently, VMWare was great. After 2003 if you were mostly interested in linux (king of the cloud) Xen was an excellent open source alternative to virtualize x86 commodity servers. In 2006 Amazon launched their EC2 service which would become the defacto cloud standard. EC2 is built on Xen and is probably the single biggest x86 virtualization environment in the world. Several hundred thousand of my closest friends have found EC2 to be a fantastic compute platform that goes beyond server virtualization, all without a trace of VMWare. So why choose VMWare now?
Today modern CPUs include specific support for virtualization making it easier to deliver efficient virtulaization without Xen's paravirt trick or VMWare's innovative code patching. Current linux kernels include support for KVM and I believe upstream kernels will again support Xen natively. I remember when RedHat bought Qumranet, developer of KVM, SPICE, and SolidICE (a desktop virtualization technology) in 2008. Back then KVM didn't compare to VMWare. It certainly was not "good enough" back then. Three years later, KVM has matured extremely well. I think it really is "good enough" for commodity OS virtualization. In my cloud development efforts I've run hundreds of thousands of VMs on Xen and KVM during the past 2 1/2 years. While I really respect Xen, I've come to like and appreciate KVM on modern CPUs since it's just so simple and easy to use. Today there are so many "good enough" choices for x86 virtualization from Xen, KVM, and VirtualBox to Hyper-V, which Microsoft is practically giving away just to keep Windows relevant in the datacenter. So why choose VMWare now?
Is low end disruption a threat for VMWare? Linux and Apache are certainly well established in the datacenter preventing Microsoft's dominance over the desktop to spill into the datacenter. Ten years ago when Windows had 90-something percent market share of desktop computers, I myself considered Microsoft an untouchable giant. Today, however, I think they're doomed because Apple is cooler, all the kids have 'em along with iphones and and ipads. By analogy, VMWare should be very concerned. IMHO, they can and will lose their dominance and I think they'll do so by the classic Innovator's Dilemma. VMWare continues to cater to their traditional high end customers. Meanwhile, nearly three quarters of a million developers are using Amazon's cloud as their platform for new software applications and services. And the best part is Amazon's cloud doesn't even need or use VMWare. In fact, neither does Google's AppEngine or Microsoft's Azure. Sense a pattern? If you believe, as I do, that we're on the cusp of a new platform war to deliver the next generation of applications and services, then the key to success is the application development community. VMWare may have operations teams sold, but developers love the cloud. Interestingly, they may not even have the ops guys sold after all. Here's a forum thread titled "VMWare, a falling giant".
"According to Ars Technica, 'A new survey seems to show that VMware's iron grip on the enterprise virtualization market is loosening, with 38 percent of businesses planning to switch vendors within the next year due to licensing models and the robustness of competing hypervisors.' What do IT-savvy Slashdotters have to say about moving away from one of the more stable and feature rich VM architectures available?"
The survey found that VMware is the primary hypervisor for server virtualization in 67.6 percent of shops, followed by Microsoft's Hyper-V with 16.4 percent and Citrix with 14.4 percent. Wow, this doesn't even compare to Microsoft's former dominance for which I recall seeing numbers as high as 98% market share!
So why choose VMWare now? Maybe the question should be, "Have you tried an open source hypervisor lately?" Or better yet, "have you tried a public cloud yet"? Frankly, I don't even like using hypervisors directly anymore as I find clouds much more powerful and easier to use. Why don't you give ISAAC a try? You can see what a real cloud is like while also trying out open source hypervisors.
So why choose VMWare now? Maybe the question should be, "Have you tried an open source hypervisor lately?" Or better yet, "have you tried a public cloud yet"? Frankly, I don't even like using hypervisors directly anymore as I find clouds much more powerful and easier to use. Why don't you give ISAAC a try? You can see what a real cloud is like while also trying out open source hypervisors.


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Man who stabbed cop and fled court caught
Derrick White will face 11 additional charges related to his alleged attack and escape
By Ed White
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DETROIT — A convict accused of fleeing a Detroit courthouse after stabbing an unarmed deputy and stealing his uniform faces a slew of additional charges that likely will put him behind bars for a long time, authorities said.
Abraham Pearson, 25, was captured Monday night following a daylong manhunt, Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon said.
Pearson, also known as Derreck White, was being escorted to the seventh floor of the courthouse to be sentenced for armed robbery, carjacking and other crimes. He attacked after his handcuffs were removed, using a sharpened plastic comb to repeatedly stab sheriff's deputy Harrison Tolliver in the neck, Napoleon said.
"The part of the comb that he was stabbed with broke. It did not inflict any life-threatening injuries," Napoleon said.
Pearson stole Tolliver's uniform and ran from the courthouse, stopping only to force a woman from her minivan and drive the vehicle from the scene, police said. He abandoned the minivan blocks away from the courthouse, on the city's east side.
Dozens of officers fanned out across Detroit to search for Pearson. He was discovered and returned to police custody Monday night, about 14 hours later. Pearson will face 11 additional charges related to his alleged attack and escape, Napoleon said.
"He's looking at a considerable amount of time," he said.
Patricia Banford, whose van was stolen during the escape, said the suspect threatened her.
"He snatched the door open and said, `Get out or I'll kill you!'" Banford told TV station WDIV.
The sheriff, who oversees security at the courthouse, said he would prefer to have more than one deputy escorting inmates but that the county can't afford it. Tolliver, 63, joined the sheriff's department after retiring as a Detroit police officer.
"It's a dangerous job," Napoleon said. "We're streamlined as much as we can."
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Half of the business of professional wrestling is the wrestling itself – the other half is the drama that exists outside the ring. Internet "dirt sheets" report the news, including any rumors and speculations that exists, and wrestling fans everywhere clamor for any bit of new information they can find. 2013 was full of surprises – including an openly gay wrestler in WWE, one of the founding members of TNA jumping ship, and a house show debacle that had many scratching their heads. And unfortunately, a number of people in the biz lost their jobs, but one in particular was perhaps more shocking than all the rest combined.
2013 Biggest News Story of the Year
Brian Fritz: Bruno Sammartino returns to the WWE and inducted into the Hall of Fame
Sammartino had been gone for the WWE for over two decades and said for many years he had no interest in being part of their plans despite plenty of overtures. But with the PG programming, Triple H felt that he could persuade him to come back. Vince McMahon was highly skeptical but told Hunter he could try if he wanted. And he did. After some prodding and convincing, the almost unthinkable happened and Bruno was coming back home. Even better, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame at Madison Square Garden which he sold out numerous times over the years.
Michael A. Wiseman: Save Olympic Wrestling Campaign
This story is really a two-parter. In early February, the International Olympic Committee made the recommendation that Olympic Wrestling NOT be included as one of the core sports. Cue chaos. When you look at it from certain perspectives, maybe… maybe… it makes sense to drop one of the worlds oldest sports. It has a rule list that's confusing, its popularity is (probably) at an all-time low, and the flashier MMA has even conquered Boxing in the combat-sports arena. Luckily, the cavalry raced in (including one notable Olympian Kurt Angle, and his paycheck-writer TNA), and by September 2013 the decision was reversed.
It's easy to forget in this day of "sports-entertainment" how vital traditional Freestyle/Grecco-Roman wrestling is to our modern professional wrestling circuit. Superstars like Brock Lesnar, Dolph Ziggler, Jack Swagger, and countless others used the amateur sport as their own launching pads. And, unfortunately, WWE seems more set on capturing "athletes" and putting them through its own training regiment, rather than recruiting traditional mat technicians. But at least one of the world's toughest sports has a temporary stay of execution…
Steven Muehlhausen: Disappointing Wrestlemania 29
Wrestlemania is almost always the event of the year for the WWE. This year though was very disappointing. It felt like a glorified version of Monday Night Raw. The show had a serious of rematches with Brock Lesnar vs Triple H and the headlining bout between John Cena vs The Rock.
Both matches were underwhelming with really no crowd support. The undercard matches were nothing to write home about.Not even the epic match between CM Punk vs The Undertaker couldn't event save WM 29 from being passable.
Do you agree or disagree with Brian, Michael, and Steven? Make your voice heard in the comments below. And while you're at it, check our Between the Ropes entire look back at 2013 with The Best of 2013: Professional Wrestling.


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Sweet potatoes
When was America discovered (by humans)?
Not 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue. First there were the people from eastern Asia, of course, who arrived many thousands of years ago. Lately there's some renewed debate about exactly how many thousands: the arrival date seems to keep getting pushed backward in time.
Then there were the Norse, whose arrival had been considered legendary - literally, as at least two sagas tell about it - until the rediscovery of the L'Anse aux Meadows site in Newfoundland sealed the matter. That was in 1960 but it took so long for scholarly acceptance to trickle down into textbooks that I never learned about it in school.
South Pacific islanders also discovered America long before Columbus. The proof? That all-Peruivan tuberous root, the sweet potato.
For some time, the sweet potato has been viewed as "the most convincing example of putative pre-Columbian connections between human occupants of Polynesia and South America." Linguists, for example, noticed that its Native American name is dispersed across South Pacific islands as widely as the sweet potato itself.
Then, too, "the oldest carbonized sample of the crop found by archaeologists in the Pacific dates to about 1000 C.E.—nearly 500 years before Columbus's first voyage."
That sounds pretty convincing. Still, would you be entirely comfortable resting a grand theory of human exploration - which is to say, your scientific reputation - on a carbonized sweet potato?
Enter researchers from Montpellier, France, who came up with an ingenious idea for testing the theory. They conducted DNA tests on samples of sweet potatoes collected in the South Pacific by the earliest European explorers, many of whom were quite keen on botanizing.
Seeds from centuries ago have been carefully stored since the ships came sailing home, and comparing them allowed the researchers to calculate how long the strains from various islands had been growing - that is, randomly mutating - in isolation from others.
Read the article from Science via Wired, which reproduces a cool-looking graph, or from Science directly, which doesn't. Or, if you possess some method for penetrating the PNAS paywall, read the actual paper.
The bottom line: Polynesians obtained sweet potatoes from Peru centuries before Columbus.
But that understates the matter, because the Polynesians can have learned about edible roots only through contact with Peruvian Indians, and I have a hard time imagining how the contact could have been anything but non-hostile.
I mean, you wouldn't just show up on somebody's continent and start randomly munching the roots of their crops, would you? Somebody would need to show you it's food, and then convince you they're not pulling your leg. As with a shared meal.
Far from discovering the Americas, then, Columbus was late to the party, at least fourth in line.
Columbus and his men fully deserve to be remembered and celebrated. They were unimaginably brave. Like astronauts and cosmonauts, they allowed themselves to be launched into the unknown, and they did it with far less assurance of return than Yuri Gagarin or Alan Shepard. But we shouldn't forget why it was "the unknown": they were sailing from ignorance.
Western Europeans and their New World cousins like to believe they're the inheritors of the Roman Empire. But the European explorers of the late Middle Ages were the products of an entirely different culture: the triumphant one. The one that condemned itself to many centuries of ignorant barbarism by sacking Rome and cutting itself off from Byzantium.
With the technology of their ocean-going vessels and gunpowder, and their immense ignorance of the world - and their unwitting hosting of various weapons of mass destruction - Columbus's brave men were tyrannosaurs in F-14s.


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Azul Dance Theatre Presents New Works by Yuki Hasegawa and More at Peridance, 2/2-3
Yuki Hasegawa presents her Azul Dance Theatre in a program of new works by Ms. Hasegawa and guest choreographers Kanako Yokoto and Taiwanese twin dancer/choreographers Hsiao-Ting and Hsiao-Wei Shieh, tonight, February 2 and the 3rd at the Capezio Theater at Peridance, 126 East 13th Street.
New works include Hasegawa's "Mugen," a dance for nine based on folk and traditional Japanese dance, elaborately costumed and utilizing swordplay, fans, and umbrellas. Also featured is the premiere of "Elements" and a repeat of the recently premiered "Return to the River," all set to music by contemporary Asian composers, including Tan Dun. Taiwenese twin sisters Hsiao-Ting Hsieh and Hsiao-Wei Hsieh will perform their new duet, danced to music played live by cellist Nan-Cheng Chen.
Visuals play an important part in Azul's presentations, with attractive, theatrical costuming. There will be a pre-show, interactive multimedia performance by Aaron Sherwood and Kiori Kawai starting fifteen minutes before each show, in which audience members are invited to appear before the camera as part of the visuals.
Yuki's works are informed by her extensive training in different styles of dance, starting with traditional Japanese and including jazz, modern, and tap. A native of Kobe, Japan, Yuki was a busy musical theater actress and dancer at home, also earning at BA in psychology from Kobe College. She moved to NYC in 1998 and continued her dance studies, receiving an MA from NYU. She currently teaches Pilates classes at Peridance.
The performances will take place tonight, February 2 at 8:30 PM and Sunday February 3 at 2:30 PM in the Salvatore Capezio Theater at Peridance, 126 East 13th Street (bet. 3rd & 4th Avenues). Tickets: $15 in advance; $20 at the door; $15 for students/seniors. Reservations: 212.505.0886 or http://elementsazulbpt.me.
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TALLAHASSEE - Joe Coleman scored 16 points, Rodney Williams added 14 and No. 21 Minnesota beat defending Atlantic Coast Conference champion Florida State 77-68 on Tuesday night in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
A 6-foot-4 sophomore guard, Coleman made 8 of 13 field goals and had 12 points in the second half while helping the Gophers build a 58-37 lead midway through.
Austin Hollins added 13 points and Andre Hollins had 12 for the Gophers, who never trailed. Elliott Eliason had 10 rebounds.
Minnesota (7-1) led 38-25 at halftime and by as many as 21 points in the second half. The Gophers' lone loss was to No. 2 Duke in the Battle 4 Atlantis.
Reserve Terrance Shannon led Florida State (4-2) with 14 points and 11 rebounds. Michael Snaer finished with 12 points for Florida State despite making only 3 of 9 from the field. Terry Whisnant and Okaro White both had 10 points for the Seminoles.
The Gophers were playing their fourth game in six days, but showed no signs of being the least bit weary.
Minnesota jumped to a 7-0 lead and built its biggest lead in the half at 35-20 on Austin Hollins' 3-pointer with 2:56 left in the half. Andre Hollins' 3 made it 30-19 with 6:22 remaining and the Gophers held a double-digit lead for most of the game.
Minnesota shot 47.3 percent in the first half while Florida State finished with a chilly 37.9 percent.
Florida State, which won its first ACC title last season, has lost five straight games in the annual ACC/Big Ten challenge dating to a 75-61 victory over the Gophers in Tubby Smith's first season at Minnesota in 2007.


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A moment of reflection…
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I sit here today, in this small, windowless call room with its low twin bed that is covered in untouched hospital blankets and sheets. Tonight is one of my last nights on a 30-hour call shift in the medical intensive care unit. Yet another mile-marker on this long journey of residency. My day began at the break of dawn, when I and another resident passed each other in the parking lot at 7AM – the only souls trudging to our cars at such an ungodly hour on a Sunday morning. But this is the life we chose.
The day passed as many days have passed in the intensive care unit – extubating one patient, intubating another, placing one or two central lines, and being present with families in a time of crisis and even in the face of death. It is a charged atmosphere. At one point, our hospital raised the Donate Life flag in honor of a young gentleman who had died and donated his organs to patients in need across the country. At another point, we gathered round in a patient's room with family and chaplain to offer the only piece of caring we still could offer her – empathy, compassion, and prayers.
The families and patients in this unit have reminded me, over the past few weeks, of the primary reason I chose to become a doctor: to care for my patients. Patients roll into this unit on stretchers, many with breathing tubes in place, many so confused or sedated that their memories of this visit will merely be a vague sense – blurred brush strokes across canvas, lacking definition or purpose. But perhaps it is better that they do not remember – it serves as a survival mechanism, if they ever make it out of here.
All too soon, however, reality will hit. Some of these patients will be paralyzed for the rest of their lives. Others will never be able to eat or lie flat again, because they are at such a high risk for aspiration . Still others may never speak again because of malignant masses occluding their vocal cords. Hard to imagine, really, but it happens here every day.
Even with these tragedies, though, some patients will make it out of the ICU in good health, at least in a medical sense. But even they must struggle to overcome the effects of their prolonged hospital stay – weakness, anxiety, fear. Many of them will need rehabilitation, both mental and physical, for extended periods of time.
In an attempt to prevent this, there is a new movement in critical care units to sedate patients less, to exercise them more, and to allow them to return functioning, mobilizing human beings as quickly as possible and even in the setting of the grave illnesses which brought them here. An article in the New York Times published in 2009, Get Patients Up, introduces some of the new and relatively radical approaches that physicians are using at Johns Hopkins, including mobilizing patients on ventilators. The idea is to allow patients to maintain their strength, to minimize muscle wasting, and to prevent long-term neuromuscular weakness that ultimately requires patients to participate in months of physical therapy to return to their baseline.


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More Doctors Steer Clear of Medicare
Fewer American doctors are treating patients enrolled in the Medicare health program for seniors, reflecting frustration with its payment rates and pushback against mounting rules, according to health experts. Stefanie Ilgenfritz reports. Photo: Ben Sklar for The Wall Street Journal.
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... I ... opting out of Nick and frustrated by a low interest rates new government involvement in patient care joining me right now to walk through the ... ramifications of this statistic health and science dear Chief ... Stephanie killed in France to me thank so much for being here ... of high it's a complicated topic but let's try and break this down ... serve with white this is happening to begin with the number of reasons a big one is reimbursement ... on the docket of course always complain the reimbursement isn't enough to complain about government parents well into private hands ... but there's been no uptick in fear about cuts that area Parma budgetary formula posting them from fraying ... then there's the threat of these cuts over the last several years Congress has periodic becoming kick the can down the road will will put off those cuts again and again ... but on that to come up again for ... the person to begin next year and there are some doctors are concerned that it's that it's up to get back to Nelson to the going tough to keep about twenty five percent cut in when we talk about so that no one example in the reporting each in law found was that fifty eight dollars or fifteen minute office visit that sort of bottom barrel reimbursement Greylock doctor say ... they can't possibly see enough patience to make it work ... I'd during the day that there's also no move toward ... on us to ... Medicare and insisting that the government have more access to patient information that ... doctors filed digitally had diesel records Western doctors pushing back against that and some doctors I mention stress that this is still ... a minority of of all the doctors that a Medicare but it has it's it's growing but is of it is still a minority most doctors ... are embracing some of these changes that require more digital health records in reporting on quality measures ... but some doctors are finding that when the patient record is is digitized ... that this this sharing with other entities to China for Poly makes them uncomfortable because of that doctors can see aspects of their patients ... it's an let's put this in perspective to what you were saying of course family doctors who accepting new Medicare patients last year eighty one percent ... down from eighteen percent two thousand ten ... more striking to me was on the number of people opting out of the Medicare from in two thousand twelve now that was up thirty seven hundred and two thousandnine so ... that sort of an odd number to be looking at it this is this is the memo Eckman makes a significant difference when you go see a doctor this about thirty seven hundred ... didn't accept the completely opted out of Medicare in two thousand I it's now up to about ninety five hundredth league and ... this is out of ... six hundred and eighty thousand doctors in Medicare entirely so it's still a minority but it is growing ... once your doctor upsell entirely ... you can get reimbursed for ... care through Medicaid I cannot people don't realize they cannot into Medicare age yet so it's not like we keep you have an insurance company but if we do with Archer's company would pay up front to a doctor weaken and submit it to our insurance companies are saying you cannot do that make it up to opt out and this would be good to be the new contract it signed a contract to making sure that you wonder stand is when your doctor opts out ... case file an affidavit with Medicare and they cannot mean ... that they cannot file claims to Medicare for two years if once they opt out ... and they can charge whatever they like and then on necessarily going to charge a lot more but they often now ... but you can then take that into Medicaid and take ... one important question before you go what is due to the Affordable Care Act if people think this is the new potential to achieve real bargain need of that Stephanie ... probably not because that is still again very small but I think it will be pockets of different communities with us to be felt good we had some peace advocates say that in some communities ... their doctors it's hard to find a doctor taking the Medicare patients again it's small but it's been felt in some quarters to convene communities ... we are ... doctors can afford to do this with this patient population that can pay ... out of pocket in other communities ... Medicare's P much the only game in town they don't have the option to opt out and held it wouldn't get paid in some communities ... people able to pay out of pocket aren't interesting supporting the law that on the front page of The Wall Street Journal today on the beest dot com thank you for


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|Oct 31, 2013
Nanotechnology researchers take atomic-level peek at unexpected behavior in multilayered structures
|(Nanowerk News) A new class of materials developed at the University of Arkansas may influence the next generation of nano-devices, in which integrated circuits are composed of many layers of dissimilar materials, such as ferromagnetic and superconducting oxides.
|The researchers used innovative cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at the U.S. Department of Energys Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials to develop the first direct view of the physical and chemical behavior of electrons and atoms at boundary regions within the dissimilar materials.
|The fundamental issue here is that conventional modern day electronics based on silicon is very problematic to operate on a nanometer scale, said Jak Chakhalian, professor of physics in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas. Integrated circuits have many, many layers of functional material. As layers get thinner, the materials start behaving strangely and often unreliably. Now the question of the size of the interface, where two materials talk to each other or influence each other, becomes critical.
|An article detailing the finding, Visualizing short-range charter transfer at the interfaces between ferromagnetic and superconducting oxides was published Aug. 13 in the online journal Nature Communications.
|Cross-sectional image of the multilayer structure on nanoscale.
|Te Yu Chien, a former postdoctoral research associate at the university, developed a technique at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne to help Chakhalians research group with an easy way of looking directly at the interfaces between two dissimilar oxides.
|That was the breakthrough, Chakhalian said. He found the knife that would cut through the multilayered sandwich. Previously, it was extremely difficult, if not impossible, to look inside the layered complex oxide nanomaterial that we had developed here in our lab because they fractured when they were cut.
|Chiens technique provided the researchers with crucial information: Not only do the atomic layers talk to each other, but they also deeply influence each other on a one- to two-nanometer scale.
|We learned that in our materials, the layers strongly influence each other, Chakhalian said. For the first time, we showed how electrons and ions interact on the atomic scale in those complex multilayered structures, and it was not what a lot of people expected. This is fantastic. So now we can have beautiful control of these materials on the atomic scale obtained right at the interface, which defines the properties of those materials.
|Chakhalian holds the Charles E. and Clydene Scharlau Endowed Professorship and directs the Laboratory for Artificial Quantum Materials at the University of Arkansas.
|The results were obtained by a collaborative effort with John W. Freeland of the Advanced Photon Source and Nathan P. Guisinger of the Center for Nanoscale Materials, both at Argonne National Lab outside Chicago; and Lena F. Kourkoutis and David A. Muller at the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science in Ithaca, N.Y.
|Source: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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|Battlefield of The Wilderness
My Dear Mother—
Our Heavenly Father has again saved your son Lucius safely through another battle and one of the worst kinds of a battle too. It was a night fight. Yesterday morning about 5 o'clock we were routed out of our beds with the orders to pack up and fall in. We took up our line of march for the River Rapidan at about nine o'clock in the morning and reached the river about an hour after. We crossed the Rapidan by fording it about noon. We had to ford it, it was up to our breasts and it was a very rapid stream, so much so that if we had accidentally slipped, we would have been carried down stream, and stood a very good chance of finding our graves at the bottom thereof. But as far as I know there was no accident of the kind happened, only now and then one would slip as he was crawling up the opposite bank, which was very steep, but no serious harm was done to my knowledge, but givng them a good dunking, and wetting their cartridges.
The water was very cold--it makes a fellow's feet and legs ache, I tell you! But go it, we must follow our leader through fire and water. The regiment known as the Garbaldi's Guards, a New York Regiment composed of Dutch, Irish, and Italians refused to wade because they said it was too deep. But General Hays, knowing of it, jumped from his horse without saying a word, and left his horse this side of the river and waded across to the other side, picking out good footing, and then waded back after his horse. They saw that he got over safe, so they finally plunged in, and arrived safely on the other side. I tell you what he is - a regular tiger! I suppose you have heard of him before. He is in command of our Division, and goes by the name of 'Fighting Ellick'. He rides along the line of skirmishers with his hat in his hand, cheering the men on, crying, 'Give them hell boys give them hell.' He is an old tiger, he is most always a little tight when there is fighting going on and then he is in his glory.
He thinks the Old 14th is about right he is always pressing us up. He was with us in the thickest of the fight crying out 'give 'em hell, 14th--Bully for you! Bully for you, go in, boys, go in 14th!' and so on--the balls flying around his head like hailstones without flinching in the least. He is a regular dare devil!
We marched to a hollow facing the rebels breast works, and remained there until about 5 o'clock within rifle shot of their rifle-pits. They sent a few shells over to us, but most of them passed over harmless. But two or three took effect, killing three or four and wounding several. They had only fired several shots when it was ascertained that the Rebs had ...a solid line of battle advancing on us. We were ordered to advance. The bully 14th taking the load, and charged at the double quick time. They met us half way and poured an everlasting fire into us which caused us to waiver for a moment, and with a deafening yell we made a rush, pouring a volley of blue pills into them which they won't soon forget and put them to flight, and drove them to their rifle pits.
By this time it was dark as pitch, we could not see our foes until we met them face to face, some shot at one another and knocked each others brains out with the butt of the musket. We were fighting in squads most of the night, each man for himself.
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Diabetes in Pregnancy
Gestational diabetes is a disorder that affects a small but significant percentage of women during their pregnancies. It is defined as abnormally high blood sugar levels after a meal, and is associated with changes in hormonal levels during the second trimester on of pregnancy. These physical changes, as well as a family history, body weight above 115 % of ideal, and poor dietary patterns may predispose women to GDM.
Approximately 3-5% of women will encounter GDM during their pregnancy. It rate is higher in low socioeconomic status women, and in Hispanics. The results of uncontrolled GDM throughout pregnancy may result in fetal macrosomia (baby birth weight above nine pounds), and increases the risk for neonatal morbidity, compensatory low blood sugar reactions in the neo-nate, and cesarean section. It is the major cause of still births in the United States.
GDM is associated with fetal macrosomia because of high levels of insulin secretion by the fetus in response to high levels of maternal sugar that cross the placenta. The mother's own insulin is too large of a molecule to pass through the membrane, so the fetus must "overproduce" its own to compensate for the flood of sugar. Insulin is a growth hormone, and this is the cause of fetal macrosomia.
Screening for GDM
The usual diagnosis of GDM is by a 3 hour glucose tolerance test, whereby the mother drinks a 100 gram sugar solution, hoping to keep glucose levels from elevating too high over this time. The standard criteria is: Fasting levels < 105 mg/dl, 1 hour > 190, 2 hours > 165, 3 hours > 145 mg/dl. If a women is higher at any two time points, she is diagnosed with GDM.
Standard treatment of GDM is usually diet modification, staying with a meal plan higher in protein and fat to blunt the post-prandial (after meal) response. Women are encouraged to measure their own blood sugar levels at various times during the day with a home glucose monitor, which will record the results of a small drop of blood on a reflectance strip, and gives blood sugar results in a short time period.
If a standard diet is not successful in keeping blood sugar levels under control after meals, or during the fasting state, then insulin therapy is usually ordered by the doctor. It is done so because oral agents (used with many older adults with diabetes), is contraindicated in gestational diabetes, because of suspected risks to the fetus.
Insulin is administered around meal time on what is known as a "split routine"; or trying to match insulin amounts to types and amounts of foods eaten. If it is successful, then blood sugar levels will be in good control most of the time. Many women are not happy with the idea of taking insulin injections over the last two months of their pregnancy, and many are looking for other alternatives to this type of medical treatment.
Exercise and Diabetes
Exercise is one of the cornerstones of diabetic treatment. It has been used in type I (insulin-dependent), and type II (non insulin-dependent) diabetes for years. Exercise has an "insulin-like effect" on the muscle, causing blood sugar levels to drop, independently of insulin in most cases. It has been studied in many adults with diabetes, but until recently, not much in pregnant women.


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By JEAN GARDNER, Beacon Correspondent
Cedar Key Canvas was started in 1986 by Carmen and Reed Proctor. It was first opened on Second Street in downtown Cedar Key. It has been in business for 31 years.
The store is now located at 4051 D Street where Cedar Key Canvas offers variety of unique products that include purses, duffel bags and a bag for jumper cables.
In his 40 years of scuba diving, John Edwards has ran across some unbelievable finds.
But he's never found anything as strange as what he and his wife Rosa discovered in late January, washed up on one of their private islands on the mouth of the Withlacoochee River near Yankeetown.
The pair were cleaning up the damage wrought by Hurricane Hermine when, among all of the unremarkable items and driftwood littered along the shore of their coastal retreat, an old bottle caught Mr. Edwards' eye.
On Saturday, Jan. 14, the Levy County Historical Society will present the first of three presentations which tell about the invasion of the Civil War into Florida. Everyone with an interest in the history and heritage of Florida is invited to join us at this free event to learn more about this time in our history.
By Samantha Grenrock
The Cedar Key Artist-in-Residence Program has selected painter Daniel Gottsegen as artist in residence for 2017. Known for his meditative renderings of the natural world, Gottsegen will live and work at the University of Florida Seahorse Key facilities Feb. 12 to 18.
Lions Club President Elaine Bower was busy handing out ears of corn to the hungry crowds that showed up the past weekend for the group's 47th Annual Seafood Festival.
Blessing the event that celebrates the islands rich variety of seafood was a bright sun, a mild breeze and crowds that came from as fsr away as The Villages and Orlando. While most visitors were from the North Central Florida area, they turned out to see a comunity that has worked hard to recover from Hurricane Hermine.
The first meeting of the Cedar Key Woman's Club's 2016-2017 service season started off with a bang! Leading the charge was First Vice-President Eileen Senecal, standing in for President Jane Moore and heading up a new roster of Woman's Club officers.
There will be some changes to the invasion due to Hermine, however the invasion is still on. Check www.facebook.com/CedarKeyPirateInvasion for updates.
Volunteers are needed to help with the 4th Annual Cedar Key Pirate Invasion weekend Sept. 16-18.
Plans for the event calls for a historical reenactment where visitors can check out an authentic pirate encampment in the City Park and see how real pirates lived and worked on land.
Volunteers are needed to help with the 4th Annual Cedar Key Pirate Invasion weekend Sept. 16-18.
There will be a Thieves' Row of pirate-themed vendors at the park and historical encampment, and a live auction where bidders can purchase treasures while helping to raise funds for local causes.
The Cedar Key Woman's Club Annual Fashion Show & Luncheon will be Wednesday, March 16 at the Cedar Key Community Center. Doors open at 10:30 a.m. for shopping from vendors.
The luncheon is at noon. Tickets are $15 each and can be purchased from any Woman's Club member or at the Cedar Key Chamber Welcome Center.
The Birds of a Feather 2016 Open Art Show will run until Sunday, March 27.
Cedar Key is uniquely situated in the middle of the Lower Suwannee and Cedar Key National Wildlife Refuge and is bisected by Florida's Birding Trail and home to nationally recognized shore bird habitats. What better location to highlight the artists that create art focused on our feathered friends. Come share a little time with the art community of Cedar Key as we enjoy the art produced by regional artist that reflect this month's theme, Birds of a Feather.
Nothing says Cedar Key more than a group of canines, and the Cedar Key Woman's Club Canine Companions Parade said it all! Raising awareness for the Wounded Veterans Initiative, the event in the Cedar Key Park last Thursday brought together pooches and people and also raised funds towards new Canine Companions.
There will be an opening reception on Saturday, Jan. 9, from 5 to 7 p.m. for sculptor Leland Williams at the Cedar Key Arts Center.
All are invited. Appetizers, drinks and conversation will be available to all.
Come share a little time with the art community of Cedar Key as we enjoy the art produced by the Florida sculptor and miniature painter Leland Williams and quilter Gayle Wolfe.
The Cedar Key Woman's Club hosted a reception Thursday, Dec. 10, at The Island Hotel, to honor the photographic contributors for the 2016 Cedar Key Calendar. Pictured left to right are Coordinator Vicky Crumpley, Ann Kamzelski, Wanda Davis, Joan Selby, Frank Morgan, Hans Henning Bunge, Henry Coulter, Rita Baker, Heath Davis, Carol Sakellarios, and Jeffrey Schleede in front. Other photographers included Rory Brennan, Laia Gore, Christine Ford, Debbie Tsimpedes, Steven Deam, J.D. McCormick, Jim Wilcox, Jackie Lambert, Galina Binkley, and Donna Bushnell.
Cedar Key is going to have a Community Garden, work has already been started, on the site.
At the Garden Club meeting on Nov. 9, the membership overwhelmingly showed support, for a suggestion that was made to establish a Community Garden.
This was due to the fact that a parcel of land, which is 50' x 100', was offered, on a long term basis, to establish a Community Garden. The lot is located on 2nd Street in the same block as the Island Hotel and goes to 3rd Street.
Mystery author Parker Francis targets Florida's Gulf Coast in his latest mystery/thriller, Hurricane Island. Francis sends his private investigator to the fishing village of Cedar Key in the third installment of the Quint Mitchell Mystery series, where a relaxing visit with an old friend turns deadly.
Maybe you've thought about doing it, maybe you've done it, maybe you just don't know how it works or maybe you just haven't given it a try.
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• Noon, Friday, March 27 – Cars should be removed from parking areas adjacent to the park on 2nd Street
• 3 p.m., Friday, March 27 – Cars should be removed from parking areas adjacent to the park on A St.
Second Street Venue
• 6:30 p.m. Friday, March 27 – Cars should be removed from 2nd Street (Hwy. 24 to A) by 6:30 p.m. No parking on the section of B Street adjacent to the Island Hotel (access for Island Hotel guests only).
With the 51st Annual Spring Arts Festival just around the corner, Cedar Key businesses and residents are reminded of the following restrictions and road closures.
One of the big social events on the island during the winter months is the Cedar Key Woman's Club spaghetti dinner held annually at the Community Center. Folks turn out in droves for a down home meal of spaghetti, marinara sauce, salad, garlic toast and dessert provided by the island's finest bakers.
But it is much more than a meal that brings them in the door, it's the social atmosphere as folks linger beyond the meal to catch up on what has been happening in the lives of the snowbird (winter) residents and locals' lives.
Cedar Key went to the dogs Thursday, Feb. 26, and everyone was just delighted about it because the pups were doing their community service raising money for the Canine Companions for Wounded Warriors, which provides trained service animals at no charge to recovering veterans.
The pups, many dressed in creative costumes, brought their owners to City Park at 4 p.m. to line up for a parade. Some dogs, whose humans knew better, did not dress up their canine companions.
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IDB announces the finalists for the Superheroes of Development Award
Thursday, July 11, 2019 - 18:59
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) today announced the eight finalists for the second edition of its Superheroes of Development Award, which recognizes the innovative solutions devised and valuable lessons learned by executing agencies while implementing development projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Members of international community discuss collaboration in support of Venezuela
Monday, July 8, 2019 - 16:13
Representatives of cooperation agencies, along with directors and counselors of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB) member countries, met this morning with the Bank's administration at the institution's headquarters to discuss possible areas of collaboration in support of Venezuela. During the meeting, IDB specialists presented an analysis of the macroeconomic outlook and the main development challenges facing Venezuela.
IDB-FEMSA Award to innovation on water & sanitation opens call for 2019
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 00:28
The IDB-FEMSA Awards to innovation on water and sanitation are reaching their tenth anniversary in 2019 and will be celebrating the occasion with a special edition that calls on those who have innovative solutions to compete for a special prize. First, second, and third place winners of the IDB-FEMSA Awards will receive $15,000, $10,000 and $5,000 in cash, respectively. This year will also feature a special category called "All stars," where prior editions finalists will compete for a one-time cash prize of $15,000.
IDB approves grant funds for countries receiving migrants in Latin America and Caribbean
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - 13:22
Grant resources will support inclusive national development investments, regional projects, research, training on critical issues, and innovative solutions impacting development in region The Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank has approved the use of its special grant facility to support operations that help countries integrate migrants into local communities and contribute to their development.
IDB study estimates big GDP impacts from low infrastructure investments in Latin America
Monday, April 15, 2019 - 15:35
Growth in Latin American and Caribbean is sharply impacted by the failure to invest in infrastructure and the cost rises over time, according to a new report by the Inter-American Development Bank. The study looks at energy, transportation, telecommunications, and water and sanitation sectors in six countries indicative of the reality for the entire region: Argentina, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Chile, Jamaica and Peru.
Weaker global outlook trims Latin America and Caribbean growth prospects
Monday, April 15, 2019 - 12:49
Infrastructure investments seen as critical to help region overcome global headwinds A combination of economic shocks could lower growth in Latin America and the Caribbean by an annual average of up to 1.7 percent in 2019-2021 of GDP, according to the Inter-American Development Bank's Macroeconomic Report, bringing the baseline growth rate from 2.5 percent to just 0.8 percent.
Experts discuss new sanitation paradigm at Latinosan Conference
Monday, April 1, 2019 - 11:43
The Inter-American Development Bank is coordinating a series of discussions during the Fifth Latin American Sanitation Conference in Costa Rica, where representatives from various social sectors in Latin America and the Caribbean discuss the challenges of ensuring universal access to proper sanitation services for all. SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Reaching the goal of providing safe and quality sanitation services for everyone in Latin America and the Caribbean requires a change of paradigm, focusing on service supply rather than on building infrastructure.
Ecuador to improve drinking water and sanitation services with IDB support
Thursday, March 21, 2019 - 10:40
US$87.1 million loan will benefit Quito Metropolitan District's 2.6 million residents Ecuador will improve continuity, operational management and reliability of the drinking water system and boost wastewater treatment capacity, bringing direct benefits to more than 200,000 people and indirect benefits to Quito's 2.6 million metropolitan district dwellers, with help from a US$87.1 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank.
IDB launches Superheroes of Development contest to recognize executing agencies
Monday, March 4, 2019 - 18:41
In its second edition, the call for proposals will be open from March 4th to May 17th, 2019. The Superheroes of Development Award will recognize executing agencies of IDB-financed projects that have successfully addressed challenges during its implementation. The contest will identify eight finalists from across Latin America and the Caribbean who will travel to IDB's Headquarters in Washington, D.C. to present their solutions.
Quality expenditure and digitalization, priorities for Central America, Dominican Republic
Friday, February 15, 2019 - 23:41
The IDB brings regional Governors to its Washington, D.C. headquarters to consider policy options to speed up growth and reduce poverty The Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank's (IDB), Central American Isthmus and the Dominican Republic held their 33rd Annual Meeting to discuss options to achieve higher growth rates and foster productive activities in the years to come. The region grew 3.8 percent in 2018, way above the 1.1 percent average for Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole. In addition, it is expected to grow 4.2 percent in 2019.


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Zurich/Basel, 3 July 2013 – Over the next few years a course will be set for key aspects of economic policy at the ballot box in Switzerland, in core areas such as the labor market, immigration policy and tax matters. In UBS outlook Switzerland, UBS economists analyze the possible economic impact of the political proposals which could affect the favorable conditions in Switzerland that have developed over time. "In the coming months, the Swiss electorate will decide at the ballot box whether Switzerland will remain an attractive location for small and medium-sized enterprises and major companies. What's at stake here is entrepreneurial freedom and consequently growth and prosperity over the medium and long term," said Lukas Gähwiler, CEO UBS Switzerland, at a media event in Zurich.
With regard to the current economic situation, UBS expects the economy to grow by 0.9% this year and 1.3% next year. The UBS's forecast is slightly below the expectations of most other research institutes, due to a somewhat more pessimistic assessment of the European economy and a slight deterioration in service sector activities observed in recent months. In addition, a sustainable recovery is not in sight for industrial companies. The recession in Europe, the strong Swiss franc and high immigration are speeding up structural change, away from an export-driven industrial nation toward a consumption-oriented service-based economy.
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Interesting idea raised by Jimmy in another thread - if an advanced race fully understood their DNA they could recreate themselves as they saw fit. Topic for discussion: What would be the ultimate modifications?
I'm imagining almost all brain, living in an almost indestructible metal shell connected to robotic limbs that could be changed out as necessary. What do YOU think?
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Here's a quote from that article about Hawking:
"I think the brain is like a programme in the mind, which is like a computer, so it's theoretically possible to copy the brain onto a computer and so provide a form of life after death.
"However, this is way beyond out present capabilities. I think the conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark."
It appears that either Hawking was misquoted or he misspoke (mistyped?) It makes more sense to compare brain to hardware (computer) and mind to software (program).
I was carried away with the idea, and got it. As for the terminology, it doesn't matter to me which word is used. I guess it would be important in a thesis, if your grade depended on it. I tend to see the brain analogy to hardware also, and the mind analogy to software.
I liked this part also:
"I think the conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark."
I enjoyed that quip as well. :D
Extending your life through consciousness transfer - copy/paste doesn't do this, but there is a way.
If we were to augment your current brain with technology that could speed up numerous processes and add more memory, perhaps even more accurate memory, and we were to improve and improve these augmentations until they became so much more efficient than your current wetware that, well, your thoughts ended up bypassing your old brain, even for mind/body interface because we provided augmented interfaces for that as well - well then you might not even notice if your old brain just switched off one day.
That would truly be an extension of your own consciousness, with complete continuity, into a new vessel.
I've heard this called trans-humanism. I think it is really the only way we'll evolve to anything better.
This has been a theam for many SF stories also, from intentional GMH's, to accidental variations induced by space exploration and mutation. I think I even wrote a short story in HS about this idea, suggesting that over time, given space exploration, that needed adaptations to new plantery environments would put pressure on human genetics.
The Book 'DUNE', rather quietly discusses the decision between biological and technical adaptations, with some cultures choosing biological over technical.
Our culture seems to have placed emphasis on technical over biological, in part due to rather old religious questions about being 'human'.
In the end, I expect we will come to the same place asking 'what is human'? So far even our most modified citizens show little outward signs of overt modications. I expect as our population ages, and health technology 'improves', our concern for heavy divergence from the common human frame will soften.
In the early 1990's there were a few very early websites dealing with 'cyberpunk'. At that time folks were writing web-based stories with this as a common theam, I think as an attempt to simulate what would happen to culture, as a 'worst case' as this technology become practical. After reading some of these stories, I noticed that the technology could be used as a platform for personal power and competion. With this technology a decay into a 'war of all against all' might develope for fear that the least modified might fall victum to the other real 'monsters', in short a new 'arms race' now personalized. I expect in that alternative future, something like the UN might demand international law and treaties to control the proliferation of this technology.
Maybe as the planet's ecology continues to diverge from 'normal' parameters, there might be a push for technical/biological adaptations. Sadly I expect that Obamacare will not cover such 'modifications by choice'.
Maybe that next 3 to 5 administrations out, will be very different than the more recent. With the focus of wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer, such a personal jump into extream modifications could show up, which could seal all attempts to reversal of some ugly trends. 'Why change a damn thing, when all we need to do is adapt?' Maybe in the end, 'aliens are us/them' will become the new activist chant.....
I think, "EWWW!"
I can imagine human beings having been modified to fit in to different niches in the environment (see Jack Chalker's Rings of the Master series), or manipulated to be better suited to different tasks, such as underwater exploration. I also believe that changing ourselves too much would be grotesque. Maybe that's just my aversions to the idea of massive manipulations.
I hope to see 'rentalable Avatars' in time. I would love to visit the Moon for a nice walk, and just sit on that very dry beach watching the Earth rise.
Have you read The Holy Machine, by Chris Beckett. It is thought provoking.
On a lighter side, I think it would be cool if they could develop gene therapy to alter the colour of your hair. :D
What's wrong with the color of my hair?


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ROCKFORD - In December 2012 Rockford Art Deli was three months old, and its owners hoped sales from T-shirts they printed and artwork they displayed on their walls would help expand both their business and downtown's art scene..
Jarrod Hennis and Britney Lindgren say after thousands of shirt sales and a dozen art shows, they've accomplished their goals.
"Oh yeah," said Hennis, 31, who with Lindgren, 28, opened their store at 402 E. State St. in September 2012.
Hennis said sales are up compared with September-December of last year and noted that the Stroll on State holiday event Nov. 30 "helped us a lot."
Now they're focused on growth. They're buying new equipment for shirt printing "so we'll be able to keep up with demand." And they'll sell shirts online in 2014.
As for the art scene, Hennis said sales of artwork were good. He hopes that artists see that there's demand for their work here, too.
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PITTSBURGH — Call it addition by omission.
As Steelers coach Mike Tomlin rattled off the status of injured players on Tuesday, three names were noticeably absent: Rashard Mendenhall, James Harrison and Troy Polamalu.
It wasn't an oversight by Tomlin. It's just that he doesn't think three of his team's most vital contributors are hurt anymore. Barring a setback, Tomlin expects all three to be in uniform on Sunday when the Steelers (1-2) host Philadelphia (3-1).
"I think that's a safe assessment," Tomlin said.
The unusually emphatic endorsement by the typically cautious Tomlin is perhaps the closest thing to a sure thing for the Steelers, who are looking to avoid their first ever 1-3 start since Tomlin took over in 2007. Under Tomlin the Steelers have started every season 6-2. They already have the "2" down this season. Ripping off the next five to keep that streak alive will be daunting.
Having a couple of former Defensive Players of the Year back won't hurt. Harrison hasn't played at all this season while nursing a lingering left knee problem. Polamalu missed the last two games with a strained right calf while Mendenhall is at the very end of a lengthy rehab after tearing the ACL in his right knee on New Years Day.
"When we have those guys, we'll appreciate it," Tomlin said. "When we don't have them, we'll remain steadfast in our goals and our objectives."
Even if they haven't been met through the season's first month. While the offense has been remarkably consistent under new coordinator Todd Haley, the defense has looked toothless in the second half in losses to Denver and Oakland. The Broncos and Raiders had the ball a combined eight times in the second half against the Steelers and ended up scoring on seven possessions.
Polamalu and Harrison's presence won't hurt, but there's no guarantee they will be a cure-all for a team in danger of losing serious ground to AFC North front-runners Baltimore and Cincinnati, both 3-1. Yet the Steelers have been one of the most resilient teams in the NFL under Tomlin. Pittsburgh is one of only three teams to avoid back-to-back losses since the beginning of the 2010 season.
"There's no panic in here," quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said. "It's still a marathon, but we need to get a win."
A couple of defensive stops might be enough to get the job done. Getting some pressure on the quarterback might help. The Steelers have just five sacks through three games, which would put them on pace for less than 30 over the course of a season. Youngsters Chris Carter and Jason Worilds have done little in that department while filling in for Harrison, allowing teams to focus their attention on stopping LaMarr Woodley coming from the right edge.
Pittsburgh hardly made Oakland quarterback Carson Palmer break a sweat while throwing for three touchdowns in a 34-31 comeback victory on Sept. 23. Palmer led the Raiders to scores on all four of their second-half possessions, and he hit four straight passes on the drive that set up Sebastian Janikowski's game-winning field goal.
The defensive veterans rallied around longtime coordinator Dick LeBeau last week, brushing off criticism that the Steelers had become too predictable. Safety Ryan Clark pointed out opponents' familiarity with Pittsburgh's 3-4 scheme didn't matter because the Steelers simply outworked the guys across from them on the line of scrimmage. It's a point Polamalu reiterated on Monday.
"We are not going to change," Polamalu said. "It's about how we execute and win our one-on-one matchups. If we don't, it has nothing to do with the scheme of things. It's just that we are underperforming."
There are few players in the league who work more tenaciously than Harrison, who underwent a full workout last Tuesday but was not on the field when the team practiced on Wednesday. His left knee has been bothering him since minicamp to the extent he underwent a minor procedure on Aug. 15. He anticipated being ready for the season opener, but a month later is still waiting to take the field.
Harrison joked on Monday he's more concerned about a charity fashion show the team is putting on Friday than making a guess on whether he'll be available. Still, the sight of Harrison and Polamalu on the field Monday was enough to pump up cornerback Ike Taylor.
"You're talking about two defensive league MVPs," Taylor said.
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Sierra Freeman: "I had myself doubting my ability to produce. So from then on, I pro-pared myself. I had business cards in hand at every event, castings, and so on. I even started wearing suits to meeting with casting directors and agents. I also kept business-talk business, sticking to the script at all time.�
Where She's From: Lovely Sierra Freeman, whose Zodiac sign is Scorpio, was born in Brozeville (Hyde Park), Chicago, a.k.a, "the South Sideâ€? on October 26, 1985.Â
"My mom was a Flight attendant so we traveled a lot,� she tells The Black Star News. "When I was six we moved to sunny South Florida where we settled down so I was basically raised in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. What I learned from my mother is no matter what you do in life, put God first because without him what you touch will not prosper,� she says.
Freeman went to Boyd Anderson High school, and graduated 2004 then headed to Keisar University, majoring in Criminal Justice. "While in school I worked for several attorneys and ranging from civil, personal injury to immigration,� she tells The Black Star. "Then early 2006 I started The Glam Concept, a public relations and management company with fellow model Tracie Mallard. Later on, we went on to add G Note Entertainment Group.� This entrepreneurial model is
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Ronald Keith Williamson's early life appeared charmed. A successful school and college baseball player, he seemed to have a world of opportunity at his feet. But, after injury put paid to his sporting career, he slowly began to show signs of mental illness, and drifted into a life of petty crime and misdemeanour. When in 1982 a local girl was found raped and murdered, he was in prison serving time for kiting cheques. Whilst there, another prisoner, looking for release, alleged he had overheard him confessing to the killing, and Williamson was arrested for the crime. What followed was one of the most appalling cases of a miscarriage of justice America has ever seen. From the point of his arrest, Williamson was taunted by prison guards who held back the medicines he was prescribed to control his psychiatric problems, meaning that when it came to trial he was distressed and not lucid. At the trial itself he was never given fair representation – his lawyer was not only blind, but had also never handled a criminal case before, and never entered a plea on Williamson's behalf, that he was not fit to stand trial. Williamson was found guilty, and sentenced to death. Despite many appeals, he was final given a date for his execution – Sept 24th 1994. It was only due to the last minute intervention by a group of appellate lawyers working on his behalf, who sought a writ from the district court judge, that he was given a stay of execution of five days. Here, for the first time, Grisham delves into this story, tracing the man, the case and the trial, and showing how, thanks to this team of dedicated legal professionals, the real truth about the case came to light. Evidence surfaced to completely exonerate Williamson, and he was freed in April 1999. He later won a settlement in court for his conviction, but sadly passed away last year.


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