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Dr. Carlin Senter, UCSF Primary Care Sports Medicine physician, discusses the rising concern about sports related concussion. Learn the definition and symptoms of concussion and review the evaluation of sports concussion used by athletic trainers and physicians on the sideline in local high schools and professional teams. Senter explores the management of sports related concussion and discusses long term implications of concussion, pondering the question: how many concussions is too many? (#27887)
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MINOOKA – Laura Dominick's original vision for "A Plan for Joy in the Home: A Workbook for Organizing Your Day for Homeschooling Mothers" wasn't a book. It was a workshop, based on Dominick finally achieving order in her home and home-school.
"I never felt like I was getting anything done," Dominick, of Minooka, said. "I felt like I was going from one child to the next and answering questions and never in any organized fashion."
It took years for Dominick to create a system that worked for her.
Then, instead of teaching a formal method to other home-schooling moms who felt overwhelmed, Dominick began offering workshops that showed them how to structure their days.
Only when Dominick decided she wanted home-schoolers outside the Chicago area to have access to her work did she decide to publish her materials.
What makes her book effective, Dominick said, is its adaptability, especially for home-schooling parents teaching multiple grades and juggling competing responsibilities.
"How do you spread yourself so that you teach each of your children in the way they need to be taught?" Dominick said.
"How do you keep your house livable and everyone dressed and fed while still nourishing yourself and actually having time to spend with my husband? Throw in a cranky toddler and special needs or learning disabilities, and you're compounding the issue."
Dominick's book addresses five core areas: prayer time, chore time, school time, meal time and husband/family/personal time. Because Dominick is Catholic, she admits the first section has a decidedly Catholic slant.
"With a few minor changes, it could apply to anyone of any faith who wants a prayer life," Dominick said. "Without that prayer life, I think you're missing an important foundation of your entire day and your entire home-schooling experience. ... It's not an easy lifestyle to be around your family 24/7."
One way for tackling chores, Dominick said, is to decide what jobs need to be done and who is available to complete them.
The same goes for handling schoolwork, she added. For instance, can an older child assist a younger child? Will each child have one-on-one time with mom?
"Or is it simpler to say, 'From 9 to noon and from 1 to 3 we're going to do school,' and leave it at that?" Dominick said.
Dominick recommends meal planning, but that view partly comes from not living close to a grocery store.
It's inconvenient for Dominick to drive 30 minutes into town for two cans of soup she forgot on shopping day, she said.
The last section, Dominick said, helps busy home-schooling parents map out times with their spouses, families, themselves and even general errands. Some parents, Dominick said, might need refining only in certain sections. If so, skip the irrelevant parts, she said.
"It doesn't have to be rigid," Dominick said, knowing some people dislike formal schedules. "It's meant to make you think."
Now in her 16th year of home schooling, Dominick understands no schedule goes according to plan. A fussy baby means spelling words are drilled by yelling louder.
Some parents stress academics; others see value in sports, too. On challenging days, a skeleton plan means the basics can get covered.
"I know I can always make it up the next day," Dominick said.
Having graduated three children from high school and still teaching her youngest four children, Dominick said she once thought home-schoolers were "crazy" and that she didn't have enough patience to home-school.
She suddenly changed her mind the spring before her oldest started kindergarten.
"And we never looked back," Dominick said.
"A Plan for Joy in the Home: A Workbook for Organizing Your Day for Homeschooling Mothers" can be purchased through Dominick's website: www.aplanforjoyinthehome.com.


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It is our goal here at Born on Third to educate Cubs fans on the talent that sits at the minor league level. With the way that Theo Epstein has molded this franchise it's clear that the goal is to have as much talent as possible come from the draft and the farm system. Wouldn't you hate to be that one person that has no idea who just got called up to the Cubs? It makes you look stupid, so don't look stupid, and learn about the future of the Chicago Cubs here. Today we feature Dustin Geiger.
Dustin Geiger is 20-year-old third baseman from Merritt Island, Florida. Geiger was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 24th round (730 overall) of the 2010 MLB first year player draft out of Merritt Island High School (Merritt Island, FL). After getting drafted by the Cubs Geiger signed a deal to start his professional career, in doing so he earned a $150,000 signing bonus.
Geiger jumped right into action making his professional debut on July 10, 2010 with the Cubs Arizona Rookie League team. Dustin struggled out of the gates hitting only .214 in July, in only 12 games however. Not a surprise as most young players coming right out of high school need to take a step back and realize that belong at this level. Geiger started to figure it out the longer he was in Arizona. During a nine game stretch in August Geiger hit safely in seven of those games with a home run and seven RBI's. It was a glimpse into what Geiger could do with the bat, he finished off August hitting .259 with a home run and 11 RBI's. It was a solid 2010 for Geiger as he was able to get his feet wet before entering his first off-season as a professional.
2011 began with Geiger in a familiar spot, playing third base for the Cubs AZL team. The results however were much different and that is a good thing. Geiger went nuts in Arizona for the Cubs, he played in 19 games, he hit .342 with two home runs and 20 RBI's. He also added nine double and two triples for good measure which brought his SLG to .582 and his OPS to .948 on the season. That was all the Cubs organization needed to see as they promoted Geiger to the Peoria Chiefs and Geiger made his single A debut on July 18, 2011. Much like 2010, Geiger struggled with the jump in talent level. Again, not something that is out of the ordinary, especially for a 19-year-old at A ball already. Dustin played the final 43 games for the Chiefs, hitting .227 with a home run and 13 RBI's.
Solid progress was stunted at the beginning of 2012 as Geiger was sidelined with an injury to start the season. Something that drove Dustin crazy as he missed the first two months of the Peoria Chief's season. Geiger went through rehab and worked extremely hard to get back into game shape and back to the Chiefs as quickly as possible. From the looks of it, the extra work he got has paid off. Geiger made his 2012 debut with the Chiefs on June 7, 2012, and has spent the entire year with the club. He is starting to make a name for himself, as 2012 featured a 13 game hitting streak in June where he hit .311 with 3 home runs and 14 RBI's. Geiger struggled in July, but something clicked, the power. Geiger only hit .206 in July, but he hit 8 home runs and drove in 16 runs. All of this led up to Geiger busting out here in August the last couple of days. Over the last two days Geiger is 6-for-9 with three home runs and nine RBI's including an 8 RBI GAME on August 1st. To date, Geiger is hitting .268 with Peoria, he has 14 home runs and 39 RBI's, not bad in just 47 games.
The reason I'm excited about Geiger is his ability to adjust and grow within the Cubs system. At every level he has been at he as struggled early, but then adjusted and turned it on. If he can continue to do those things moving forward eventually the struggles will be less and less and the production could be through the roof, like the last two days. I would expect Geiger to finish off 2012 in Peoria and then get a chance to start off 2013 in Daytona. If you want to interact with Dustin follow this link to Dustin's twitter account. He is a very active user, and talks with fans on a regular basis, so give him a follow. Best of luck the rest of the way Dustin!
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Returning to where I left off (my September 4, 2010/fifth installment of D.H. Strother's "Recollections")…
April 19. – On going down into the town this morning I found that there had been considerable accessions to the State forces, seven or eight hundred having arrived during the night and morning, while as many more were reported on the way.
Confusion reigned supreme, ably seconded by whisky. The newly-arrived troops having nothing to eat, consoled themselves as usual by getting something to drink. Parties were detailed to search the houses for the arms and public property which had been carried off the evening before. This search was stoutly resisted by the women, who skirmished after their fashion with the guard, with tongue and broomstick, holding them at bay while their husbands endeavored to conceal the spoils they had acquired.
A rough estimate of the night's work showed that about sixteen thousand muskets had perished by the burning of the arsenals, and that one building (the carpenter shop) of the Potomac Armory had also been destroyed.
On the other hand, several thousand new rifles and muskets complete, with all the costly material and machinery of the National Armory, had passed into the power of the revolution without a blow.
Such were the visible and material results, but the social and political consequences who could estimate?
I must confess that I felt this morning like a man wandering in a maze. The future exhibited but a dim and changing vista, Was the experiment of popular government indeed a failure, as our conservatives had been predicting from the commencement? Was Macaulay right when he said that our system would crumble into anarchy upon the first serious trial?
If the present Government of the United States, as many maintain, and as its own attitude of late seems to admit, has neither the right to punish privy conspiracy, nor the power to defend itself against factious aggression, then why should we regret its overthrow? Let the impotent imposture perish, and the American people will speedily establish a more respectable and manly system on its ruins.
While indulging in these speculations my attention was directed to the flag-staff which stood in the yard of the old Arsenal. The national standard had been lowered, and in its place floated the State flag of Virginia.
It would be difficult to describe the mingled emotions excited in my mind by this simple incident.
Once in my early youth I visited the crater of Vesuvius, and, venturing down the interior slope for some distance, I found myself upon a slope for some distance, I found myself upon a projecting cliff of lava. Here I stood for a time looking curiously down upon the sea of smoke that concealed every thing around and beneath, when a sudden breeze rolled the clouds away and for a moment my eyes beheld the hideous gulf that yawned below. A put whose sulphurous horrors and immeasurable depth were revealed only by the glare of lurid flames and boiling lava – whose appalling aspect paralyzed the senses like the grasp of a nightmare. A sight which memory never recalls without the shudder that accompanied its first revelation.
So it seemed that the sudden gust of emotion, excited by the lowering of our starry flag, had swept away the mists of speculation and revealed in its depth and breadth the abyss of degradation opened by secession.
Yesterday I was a citizen of the great American republic. My country spanned a continent. Her northern border neared the frigid zone while her southern limit touched the tropics. Her eastern and her western shores were washed by the two great oceans of the globe. Her commerce covering the most remote seas, her flag honored in every land. The strongest nation acknowledged her power, and the most enlightened honored her attainments in art, science, and literature.
Her political system, the cherished ideal toward whose realization the noblest aspirations and efforts of mankind have been directed for ages. The great experiment which the pure and wise of all nations are watching with trembling solicitude and imperishable hope. It was something to belong to such a nationality. Something to be able, in following one's business or pleasure, to travel to and fro without question or hindrance, to take red-fish in the Mexican Gulf or trout in the great lakes, to chase deer in the Alleghanies or adventure among grizzly bears in the Rocky Mountains, and every where to remember, as you inflated your lungs with the free air, "This is my country!"
It was something, when questioned of one's nationality in foreign lands, perhaps by the subject of a petty monarchy or obscure principality, the impoverished and degraded fraction of a once powerful empire, ruined by the madness of faction, local ignorance, and secession. It was something, in replying to such inquiry, to feel one's heart swelling with imperial pride such as moved the ancient Roman in the days when he could quell the insolence of barbaric kings with the simple announcement, "Civis Romannus sum."
This was yesterday. To-day, what am I? A citizen of Virginia. Virginia, a petty commonwealth with scarcely a million of white inhabitants. What could she ever hope to be but a worthless fragment of the broken vase? A fallen and splintered column of the once glorious temple.
But I will not dwell longer on the humiliating contrast. Come harness up the buggy and let us get out of this or I shall suffocate.
On our way to Charlestown we met great numbers of persons afoot, on horseback, and on wheels, hurrying to the scene of excitement. Some attracted simply by curiosity, others armed and demonstrative, eager to claim a share of the glory after the danger was over. My friend and I discoursed mournfully of the prospect before us and the country. Indeed there was nothing in the subject calculated to promote cheerfulness. He hoped that the great change might be accomplished without war. I neither believed in the possibility of such a result, nor did I wish it. Of the great twin governing powers in human society – Fraud and Force – I decidedly preferred the latter. I was wearied and disgusted with the reign of subtle phrasemongers and empty babblers, and hailed the dawn of an era which promised to develop the latent manhood of the nation, and sweep away the cobwebs of tricky and compromising politicians with sword and fire.
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By Kai Chua
North Lake News-Register Contributing Writer
A brilliant photography student, Julia Cartwright was recently featured in North Lake College's Spotlight show, an art show that showcases the work of advanced students.
It was Julia's first Gallery appearance. She was one of five students chosen, and the only photographer to be featured in the show. (Nine of her pieces were showcased.)
Her body of work focuses on people that utilize the West End DART station.
In her presentation, Julia wanted to capture the moments between major life events and interactions between people at West End station.
"It is known for being an eclectic station," Julia said.
She also mentioned that she doesn't have a car, so her main mode of transportation is public transportation. Because of this, she decided to take advantage of her situation and took the photographs.
Julia's interest in photography began as a child. She always admired the photographs found in
National Geographic and
Sports Illustrated magazines and had been inspired by them. Unfortunately, she never had the opportunity to explore photography as a child.
Julia served as an Avionics Technician for the United States Marine Corps from 2009 to 2014. While stationed in Little Rock, Ark., in 2010, she bought her first Sony point-and-shoot camera. After returning from her first deployment in Afghanistan in 2012, she bought her first DSLR camera, a Nikon D7000, which she still uses to this day.
She first started photographing people in her military unit and people in Okinawa, Japan. After this experience, she developed an interest in street photography. Julia considers street photography her "niche," since she spends four-six hours riding public transportation every day. She uses her time on trains and buses to practice and gain experience in street photography.
It took more than four years for Julia to develop her niche. She practiced photography by herself from 2012 to 2014, then in 2014, she left the Marines and began taking classes at NLC. She decided to take the classes because she heard that the college had an amazing photography program.
"I believe that I've grown exponentially after taking my photography classes here at North Lake," she said.
Currently, Julia is taking more photography classes and working as a photography lab assistant at NLC to help students understand all aspects of digital photography. Julia also started volunteering at the
News-Register as a photojournalist this semester.
Julia is also working on a couple more photography projects and hopes to showcase them soon. One of them is called "Hands with Color," which incorporates hand gestures with different colors to give meaning to the photograph.
Julia endeavors to obtain a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and start professional work in commercial photography and Fine Art photography.
"I also want to be the best disco dancer the 1980s has ever seen," she joked.


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"Bethlehem" won the top prize at Israel's Ophir Awards and will be the country's entry in the foreign language film race for an Academy Award, officials said.
The film won an array of prizes in Haifa Saturday night at the Ophir Awards, Israel's version of the Oscar awards, including best picture, best director, best screenplay and actor Tzahi Halevy was named best supporting actor, The Jerusalem Post said.
The film directed by Yuval Adler has won prizes at film festivals around the world including the Venice Film Festival, the newspaper said.
The screenplay written by Yuval Adler and Palestinian co-writer Ali Waked depicts the relationship between an Israeli Shin Bet security officer and a Palestinian informant, who is the younger brother of a Fatah al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade commander in Bethlehem during the second intifada.
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text: Thursday, March 31, 2011 Long-awaited ACO Rule Released The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today released its much anticipated proposed rule for Accountable Care Organizations (ACO). The proposed rule defines eligibility requirements of ACOs, the types of providers that may be included in an ACO, how providers can participate in this new model of care, and criteria that will be used to reward ACOs that lower growth in health care costs while meeting delineated performance standards. Under the proposed rule, an ACO refers to a group of providers and suppliers of services that coordinate care for the patients they serve under Medicare parts A and B. According to the proposed rule, ACOs and the incentives offered to them will encourage health care providers to work together to treat an individual patient across care settings. In turn, the Medicare Shared Savings Program will reward ACOs that lower growth in health care costs and that meet delineated performance standards on quality of care incentives measures and patient centeredness criteria. According to HHS, ACOs will develop in various innovative ways, according to the unique needs of each community. Patient and provider participation in an ACO is purely voluntary. Beneficiaries would not enroll in a specific ACO. Instead, the proposed rule calls for Medicare to take a retrospective look at the beneficiary's use of services to determine whether a particular ACO should be credited with improving care and reducing expenditures. Additionally, patients assigned to an ACO also have the option of receiving services from providers who are not ACO providers. Providers participating in an ACO would be required to notify the beneficiary that they are participating in an ACO, and that the provider will be eligible for additional Medicare payments for improving the quality of care delivered to the beneficiary. As a companion to the proposed rule, CMS and the Office of Inspector General have also released a notice with comment period that addresses how certain waivers will allow ACOs to provide care while not violating the physician self-referral law, anti-kickback statutes, or the civil monetary penalties law. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission has released a proposed statement of its anti-trust policy as it relates to ACOs. Upon the release of the proposed rule, CMS Administrator Donald M. Berwick, MD, participated in a public forum in which he provided an example of a patient receiving cardiac rehabilitation services from a physical therapist within the ACO model. APTA is carefully reviewing the proposed rule and will provide members a comprehensive analysis and summary of the rules shortly. The association also will submit its recommendations on the rules via the public comment period. Comments You never cease to amaze me. We have supposed to be coordinating care since the beginning of time. Working with CMS is a death sentence. They have no idea of what they are doing. I have been licensed since 1969. Quality of care improved up to the early 1980's and has gone downhill since;m because of CMS; hospital greed and Pt's ignorance and the APTA foolishness. Posted by Don Mormile on 4/1/2011 2:15 PM It seems like hospital systems are the big winners here. If you are not an outpatient clinic or home health agency associated with the hospital, you are locked out in all practical terms. Do I see this wrong? Posted by John Baker on 4/1/2011 5:14 PM Here at the other end of the country (FL) we have been dealing with CMS more intensively than most, primarily because we are viewed as operating in Fraud-Central. I think the APTA has done yeoman service in practice and reimbursement. The quality of services has not gone down, just the reimbursement and autonomy....same for all the heatlh professions. PPS, Pay-4-Performance, HMO-type arrangements are inevitable and we need to be up to date and involved as these inexorably develop. That or be on the outside looking in as unqualified semi-professionals offer what look like our services for lower prices. I'd rather know up-front what I can expect in reimbursement and have the ability to control utilization and quality myself, rather than the current haphazard, post-payment, review-by-nontherapists, oversight. Just spent 19 months getting paid for legitimate services because we had to go all the way to Admin. Law Judge to get a favorable finding! I'm ready to follow the Assoc's lead and accept all the help they can offer. Posted by Ken Amsler on 4/1/2011 9:04 PM How is this rule going to do anything other then be the death of independent practitioners. I am for finding models of care that decrease cost and improve outcomes, but this idea seems to drive all care to large organizations that have been cost increase engines and often just average care. I have seen more interest in innovative high quality care from the independent practice providers then in large organizations. I hope the APTA fights for the independent practice and it's ability to be an efficient care provider. Centralization leads to less choice, less innovation, poorer competition, and ultimately a degraded health care marketplace. Posted by Paul Abler on 4/2/2011 11:45 AM I agree with Paul. It worries me that everything is being pushed toward large organizations and that self-referral and anti-kickback statutes will be waived in this arrangement. I feel that will inevitably open up more fraud and increased utilization as these organizations will find ways to adjust their practice models so that they appear to improve outcomes, but really with the main goal of maximizing profit. Truly, the private practitioner is at a disadvantage. In all my 12 years of experience as a physical therapist, I've seen the highest quality of care come from private practice. Everything in these times is being consolidated into hospital systems not because of better outcomes, but because of survival. Reimbursement is on a steady decline forcing more patients to come through in less time to maintain a profitable business. It inevitably leads to decreased quality and I dont see how creating ACOs will change that. Posted by Dino Bolos on 4/3/2011 2:04 AM Dino nails it when he says "I feel that will inevitably open up more fraud and increased utilization as these organizations will find ways to adjust their practice models so that they APPEAR to improve outcomes." The ACO model reeks with opportunity for fraud. Policing every aspect of this plan will raise healthcare costs and decrease quality; and fraud will still raise its ugly head. Posted by Edie Watson on 4/4/2011 12:32 AM There needs to be a system with less governmental oversight. More oversight means more expense. Rather than creating a whole new system, we should police our current system first to get rid of fraud and abuse. This goes for governmental waste and abuse as well. Also, there needs to be tort reform to reduce frivolous lawsuits. Quality care comes from every single healthcare provider that has been trained to provide the care. There needs to be an increased trust among ourselves to do what is right in all situations and when someone is creating a fraudulent situation, they need to be held accountable for their actions. Finally, after the previously discussed issues have been addressed, then it would be appropriate to look at additional ways to control healthcare costs while providing the highest standard of care. Posted by Scott Gibson on 4/4/2011 7:34 AM Solo practice and smaller practice with low overhead can only give quality care..there is no incentive to see good outcomes with large practices where volume is all that matters quality is not a criteria.I have seen locally a CVA patient seen for 5 months by such a big Clinic with patient still in the wheelchair..how was the treatment justified?say after 2 months..this same patient who I happened to get as a Home health patient was able to ambulate in less then 2 weeks..The ignorant patient here is taken fully advantage off..With Medicare not requiring any documentation..the system is milked to the max! Posted by SHYAM ULLAL,PT on 4/5/2011 12:31 AM Big organizations usually concentrate decision making and healthcare organizations are especially susceptible to this threat because they already concentrate medical decisions at the top of the medical hierarchy - the physician. I think ACOs can succeed if they distribute decision making to mid-level providers like physical therapists, nurses and physicians' assistants. One barrier to successful ACO implementation will be physicians' organizations lobbying against expanded scope-of-practice legislation at the state level. Tim Posted by tim richardson on 5/3/2011 3:25 PM


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FreeStufflab avait besoin d'un nouveau design de page web et a lancé un concours sur 99designs.
Un gagnant a été sélectionné de 35 designs proposés par 17 designers freelance.
Our Website is called Free Stuff Lab and we are looking for a professional single page template design for our site. We do not need a logo or any coding for this site.
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Our website is called Free Stuff Lab and is a UK based website which offers information about free deals available on the Web. We ran a contest last month for the logo for our website.
This is the winning logo -
We are now looking for a template design for the website -
Look and Feel - We like the style of Web 2.0 websites and we are going to use CSS for the design and layout. We would like all entrants to keep this in mind when designing your entries. We don't mind the colors you use as long as they work well with the logo.
Logo - This is the psd file for the logo: fsl.psd - Feel free to change the background to fit in with your design.
Navigation - We will be using CSS for the navigation, we like the idea of having a little rollover icon (use the same icon for each button) next to the text links.
These are the categories which we will be using:
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Content Area - At the top of the content area we would like a heading, call it "Free Stuff". Then we will have a list of offers below, please make the top offer a featured offer. We would like to have a little icon (use the same icon for each offer) next to each offer just to give them some character.
This is the text we want you to include for the categories:
"40 Free Photo Prints at Pixum"
"When you have made your first purchase Pixum will give you 40 free prints. Pixum is a high quality online photo service. They have a brilliant gifts section where you can get your pics printed onto T-shirts, Mugs, Greetings Cards, etc. You can store all your photos online and share them with your friends and family. Then if you refer a friend then Pixum will give you 15 free prints."
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Sometimes when I don't have anything better to do (which isn't very often), I wonder what the American Civil War might have been like in the era of 24-hour cable news. (No doubt Fox News would have had pro-Confederate coverage, but that is a post for another time and a different blog). Occasionally though, I come across a primary document with that "live-from-the-scene" feel to it. The New York Times published such an article on November 14, 1861, written by an unnamed correspondent who had rushed back north from Port Royal, South Carolina, aboard a U.S. Navy ship carrying dispatches. His article, although somewhat racist, captures the tumultuous atmosphere in the town of Beaufort following its fall to Union forces, especially the slaves' excitement at their liberation. The relevant section of the piece reads:
The town of Beaufort, I am told, is a private watering-place. That is, the wealthy planters, for miles around, have erected commodious Summer residences there, and in the heighth of the season the town accommodates from 3,000 to 4,000 inhabitants. The remainder of the year the white and colored population together does not exceed 500. When the reconnoitering party landed they found that extreme terror of an attack, consequent upon the defeat of their countrymen at the mouth of the bay, had prompted a stampede of all the white people, with one solitary exception, the day before. The exception was a man who doubtless would have gone also, but he was too drunk to move. He was taken on board the Pembina and questioned, but he was too stupid to give a coherent story. The negroes were then flocking in from the plantations and pillaging the houses. They told dreadful stories of how their owners had attempted to deter them from coming in by shooting a few-down; but they had heard that the "Yankees" would give them liberty, and for such a boon they took the risk of a bullet.
Before I left Hilton Head, I saw as many as one hundred negroes, who had come into our camps, and they were constantly arriving. At Bay Point I was informed there were as many more. As soon as they made their appearance they were huddled into a dilapidated building which was strongly guarded. All ages were represented, but only the male sex. Until I saw and conversed with the greater number of these persons I believed that the appearance and intelligence of Southern field hands were greatly libeled by the delineators of negro character at the concert saloons. Now I cannot but acknowledge that instead of gross exaggerations the "minstrels" give representations which are faithful to nature. There were the same grotesque dresses, awkward figures, and immense brogans which are to be seen every night at BRYANT's or CHRISTYS. Some of them told me that they had heard the "Yankees" were coming down to set them free, as early as last July, and they appeared very happy at their prospects. One old man said he was willing to work at anything "Massa Yankees" gave him to do, but he never would go back to "dat ar rice fiel' agin." I asked him to whom he belonged. He replied that he once belonged to the widow PINCKNEY, who had four hundred "head o' niggers," but he was free now. The chief anxiety of most of them was to get their familes to join them. There was no difficulty in learning from these people that our arrival had been anxiously looked for with pleasant anticipations.
Some how, if a CNN reporter with a satellite link up had been in Beaufort, South Carolina, in November 1861 as Union troops entered the town, I cannot help but think they would have captured the atmosphere of the place something like this article.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/1861/11/14/news/visit-beaufort-town-hands-negroes-whites-stampeded-panic-slaves-pouring-into.html?pagewanted=all.


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"We are engaged in discussions with the ministers of mineral resources and energy to secure the security of supply [of coal]," he said at Eskom's annual results in Cape Town, shown to media in Johannesburg via video link.
"We need the right volumes and the right quality of coal, at the right prices."
Eskom had traditionally bought low-grade coal for its power stations from suppliers, leaving high-quality coal to the export market.
Demand from Asian countries, particularly India, had increased in recent years. This had pushed prices up, affecting Eskom's coal stockpiles.
In the year to March 2012, Eskom had seen coal prices increasing by 17%, the results showed.
In addition, to sustain the increased load on its power stations, a higher grade of coal was needed.
South Africa, as a coal-intensive economy, needed to respond to this challenge. Quotas could be implemented, prescribing the quantity and quality of coal which could be available for domestic use.
"Electricity is regulated, but coal is not," he said. "Our top priority is the security of supply for South Africa." Brian Dames, Eskom's CEO, agreed.
"Coal is our biggest input cost, and filters directly into the tariff," he said. "Our expectation for the following year is that coal goes up by a single digit. It is very important that we achieve that."
Financial director Paul O'Flaherty said Eskom had been forced to buy coal at an additional cost from other mines as the quality of coal offered by its suppliers deteriorated.
"We will have to address this with the mining industry," he said.
Despite the increased coal price, Eskom nevertheless declared a 60% increase in net profit for the year. Net profit was R13.2-billion, from R8.4-billion for the previous year.
This was only slightly above the R12.8-billion reported for the first half of its financial year to September.
Winter months
Most of Eskom's profit is earned in the winter months, in the first half of its year. This is when tariffs for large customers are higher and maintenance costs are lower.
Gigaba said the results were pleasing.
"Eskom must continue to improve its financial health so that it can invest to support economic growth and job creation and improve the quality of life," he said.
But he warned even more difficulties lay ahead for the utility, as the capital expansion programme still had to be completed.
There were significant achievements during the year under review – Eskom's third year of "healthy" financial performance.
Over 70% of the funding had been secured for the R340-billion programme by the end of March.
There had been no load-shedding since April 2008, and Eskom had exceeded the targets government had set.
The government, as the shareholder, had waived its dividend to allow the surplus to be reinvested in Eskom's build programme, said Gigaba. This had enabled electricity tariff increases to be reduced from 25% to 16%, putting R8-billion back in the economy.
Dames said electricity from independent power producers (IPPs) was bought by Eskom for more than it could sell electricity to the consumer.
Power from IPPs cost 70 cents per kilowatt hour, but Eskom sold electricity at 50 cents per kilowatt hour.
"Electricity prices are still not cost-reflective in South Africa," he said, as this was the cheapest alternative power supply available to the utility.
"We need IPPs in the system. The choice we have to make is how much to introduce."
Eskom had made safety a top priority at the company, after 25 fatalities were recorded in the year. These were mainly due to vehicle accidents and electrical incidents, he said.
O'Flaherty said two previously mothballed stations, Camden and Grootvlei, had been returned to service. The commissioning of a third station, Komati, was two-thirds complete.
Generating capacity
A total of 5.8 GW of new generating capacity, 3899km of high voltage transmission lines, and 20 195 MVA of new transformer capacity had been installed since 2005. Construction of the two new coal-fired power stations Medupi and Kusile, was continuing.
Together with a pump storage scheme, Ingula, and new transmission infrastructure, these would add 17 GW to the grid in 2019.
"We are doing everything in our power to make sure we bring [the new capacity] online and within budget," he said.
"We are making sure that we can bring some of that forward."
The Democratic Alliance condemned Eskom's increase in profit.
"This is almost entirely due to the massive tariff increases that South Africans have had to endure in the recent past," said spokesperson Natasha Michaels.
"An additional tariff increase for next year cannot be justified." – Sapa


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Iran detains senior diplomat for unknown reasons
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran's foreign minister says authorities have detained a veteran Iranian diplomat, but describes the incident as a potential "misunderstanding."
No other details were given in Thursday's report by the semi-official ISNA news agency. It also remains unclear why authorities targeted the liberal-minded diplomat, Bagher Asadi, and whether it could be related to next month's presidential election.
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi is quoted as defending the integrity of Asadi, who previously held a senior position at Iran's U.N. mission. Asadi also is a close ally of former pro-reform President Mohammad Khatami.
The report did not say when Asadi was detained.
Elections are planned June 14 to pick a successor for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


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Coping Methods 101
As I've been QQing a lot about lately, my summer job has taken over my life and 12 hours away from home every day means I usually don't get back in time for the raid. You know how bloggers left and right are talking about end of expansion burnout and how they're desperately looking for motivation to play? Well, that's not me.
These days, I hate anyone who's unemployed, anyone who's ever bored (whatever that word means!) and, most especially, anyone who takes their raid spot for granted.
I've been going through all the coping methods imaginable. I've been listening in on vent when I'm able to catch the tail of raids (I actually bawled my eyes out when they killed H Putricide 25 for the first time without me). World of Logs has taken over as my bedside novel. I check the guild forums obsessively when I'm home and awake (which is a whole hour a day, usually).
Then last Tuesday, a miracle happened and I got a day off. I was thrilled. Until I logged on to find out that the raid was already full. Must…not…rage…disconnect…must…not…rage…disconnect…
But some people got shuffled around so I could get spot. I sighed with relief. I know the mature, altruistic thing to do would be to bow out since I'm not a regular raider anymore, but to hell with being mature and altruistic. I rarely complain over loot, I try hard to keep my arguing to a minimum and I'm relatively polite, most of the time. When it comes to my raid spot, though, I'm as selfish as it gets. So I happily zone in.
Then my computer proceeded to vomit all over me.
And when I managed to get back into the game, my computer proceeded to vomit all over me again.
And again.
I accepted to leave the raid. I couldn't contain my furor so I did what I always do at times like that:
I went and spent a lot of money.
Yeah, that's right.
I dug through my collection of ret gear and got a set together. My bags, I swear, could be featured on that TLC show, Buried Alive. My set is actually pretty decent for someone who hasn't played retribution since Naxx.
I plugged in some strength gems, slapped on a few enchants and I was good to go.
I figured I'd start with something easy… There was a Mount Hyjal pug in trade chat…
I'm proud to say that I outdpsed the level 70s! Don't rain on my parade, friends. And no, I didn't screenshot the recount to prove it.
You'd think that having a decent tanking background would help with melee dps, but let me tell, it doesn't. When you're tanking, the mobs kinda stand on top of you. If you move, they follow you around. Not so much when you're dpsing.
And I kept getting these weird error messages "Out of range" and "Target must be in front of you". What is THAT supposed to mean?
Still, I stuck in there and moved my way up to level 80 heroics.
That's me on top there. And I'm happy to announce that my retribution dps is slightly above my tank dps.
Now if only I could get over the knee-jerk reflex of hitting my healing buttons whenever I take damage…Explore posts in the same categories: General WoW
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15 Comments on "Coping Methods 101"
August 12, 2010 at 11:10 am
I know exactly how you feel about your bags. I did a post a while back about that. I just recently swapped my tank spec for Ret, and going through my bags to find my gear took nearly 15 minutes… *sigh* Anyway, I know how it feels to not be part of the raiding scene anymore. With 2 kids, one of them being only 5mos old, your time is a precious commodity. Especially since my wife works too.
August 12, 2010 at 11:37 am
I hear your frustration. At least you're making the best summer investment for your resume– you work at a pharmacy don't you?
August 12, 2010 at 11:52 am
I, too, have issues with 25m raiding. My internet connection isn't stable enough to keep me connected during the raids so I tend to sit on the sidelines and listen in whilst the rest of the guild proceeds to oneshot most of the instance.
Thankfully, I discovered Ret. Being primarily a healer, it is fun to actually go and kill things quickly! So, if I'd not taken the time to learn how to faceroll, I'd probably be among the others feeling the burnout, too.
Dare I say that Ret is fun?
August 12, 2010 at 1:12 pm
"Now if only I could get over the knee-jerk reflex of hitting my healing buttons whenever I take damage…"
That's really not that unreasonable. If I don't really trust a healer, or if the entire group is taking tons and tons of damage, I on occasion use my Art of War proc for *gasp* a Flash of Light.
Holy Light, on the other hand… no, bad Ophelie! You cast three of those and your mana is gone!
August 12, 2010 at 3:55 pm
Can you not have kids or do you not want to have kids?
August 12, 2010 at 6:47 pm
I get exactly how you feel with going Ret. I used to run two Prot builds untill I finally went Ret a short while back and started building my set for that up. Its weird how something so similar can be so different. It has taken me a while to get to where I am, used to be doing 2k DPS in ICC10/25 gear when I first switched now manage 5-6k still few k short of where I should be in my gear but getting there.
The hardest part to get used to was the different rotation, remembering to use Art of War and to not stand in front of the boss with RF up and taunt:).
Hopefully with the new Cataclysm rotation for Prot it won't be such a differance in styles should someone swap.
GL with your work and trying to fit raiding in.


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We all know that Halloween is celebrated with plenty of candy and sweets. It can be fun to indulge in caramel apples, candy bars and suckers, but you may feel sluggish afterwards. As your kids continue to sort through their loot, you can create a Halloween detox plan (unbeknownst to them) to help pump them up with nutrition after all of those sweet, empty calories.
The following tips are not meant to be a serious detox diet for your family; rather these steps will help rebuild and replenish the body after all those sweets.
1. Serve and eat plenty of protein. If you experienced sugar highs and lows after eating candy, protein will help stabilize your system. Protein also helps your mood, partly by giving your body the building blocks (amino acids) it needs to rebuild. Plan on eating high-quality protein three times a day.
2. Eat healthy fats. Yes, some fats are healthy! I eat traditional healthy fats, like coconut oil, grassfed butter and extra virgin olive oil. Fats help make you feel satisfied, so you don't feel the need to reach for the candy jar. Fats also help stabilize your blood sugar.
3. Eat lots of vegetables and some fruit. All of those refined sweets are hard on your blood sugar, and they also use up minerals in your body to process them, according to Sally Fallon in her book, "Nourishing Traditions." Eating plenty of produce will get your mineral intake back on track. Fruits are delicious as well as nutritious, but after all of those sweets, concentrate on vegetables, which have very little natural sugar in them.
When I feel especially behind, I love drinking vegetable juice because I own a juicer. It helps me regain my energy when I have the sugar "blahs." As nice as it is to use a juicer, you could certainly use this method of juicing with a blender.
4. Try soup. Healthy soups are a great way to get a lot of vegetables and mineral-rich broth into your family. Popular ones in my family include Simple Chicken Noodle Soup and Creamless Creamy Zucchini Soup.
So how does that translate into a daily menu? Here is one example of a simple sample menu using traditional ingredients.
Sample menu
Soups are a great way to get a lot of vegetables and mineral-rich broth into your body. (Photo: Matthew Ennis/Shutterstock)
Upon rising: Drink a big glass of filtered water with fresh lemon juice to help get hydrated. You can also start the day with a freshly made vegetable juice. Wait 30 minutes before eating breakfast.
Breakfast: Oatmeal served with grassfed butter and real maple syrup. Serve Apple Chicken Sausage on the side.
Lunch: Simple Chicken Noodle Soup with toast and a green side salad.
Dinner: Roasted chicken served with brown rice, steamed broccoli and Avocado, Bacon and Egg salad.
Snack ideas: An afternoon vegetable juice, carrot and celery sticks, hard boiled eggs, or fresh fruit.


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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economic recovery remains precarious, data on Tuesday showed, with construction activity falling and retail sales weaker than expected - a blow to the government the day before a budget statement.
The weak data was accompanied by a report from the British Chambers of Commerce that said economic growth in the next two years will be slower than previously thought.
"The data support the evidence we've had that the fourth quarter is shaping up to be pretty weak, supporting the idea the Q3 rebound was entirely due to temporary factors," said Vicky Redwood at Capital Economics.
"It's not a particularly good backdrop for Osborne to be presenting against. He remains hemmed in."
Finance minister George Osborne is due to deliver a half-yearly budget statement to parliament on Wednesday.
He said on Sunday that closing the budget gap was taking longer than forecast, while weak growth means public borrowing is not falling as planned, endangering Britain's triple-A credit rating, which Osborne has pledged to defend.
The Conservative-led coalition government's failure to deliver a strong recovery is its biggest political problem and polls show the opposition Labour party would regain power if an election were held now.
The Bank of England launched a flagship scheme to boost lending in August, adding more stimulus on top of its 375 billion pounds of quantitative easing, but initial figures on Monday suggested any benefit to growth is several months away.
In its report, the BCC said the government needed to do more to support growth, job creation, exports and investment. But Osborne has insisted he will stick with the thrust of his deficit-reduction program.
After suffering two recessions in four years, Britain bounced back to growth last quarter after receiving a huge boost from extra working days and London's hosting of the Olympic Games. But the economy is forecast to expand at a tepid 0.1 percent in the last three months of 2012, with little pick-up seen in the year ahead.
The BCC revised down its growth forecasts for 2013 and 2014 to 1.0 and 1.8 percent respectively from 1.2 and 2.2 percent, citing the global slowdown, domestic austerity measures and weak household consumption.
The downbeat view was supported by the Markit/CIPS Construction Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), which fell to 49.3 last month from 50.9 in October, showing construction activity shrank last month. Confidence about the next 12 months fell to its lowest in almost four years, the survey showed. The headline figure was the lowest since August and below the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction for the third time in four months. It was also below even the weakest forecast in a Reuters poll and well short of the median 50.5 prediction.
"This latest data ... set the scene for continued difficult trading during 2013," said Simon Rawlinson, head of strategic research at consultancy firm EC Harris.
New orders saw their steepest decline in just over 3-1/2 years last month, the survey found, pushing firms to shed jobs at the fastest pace since December 2010 in anticipation of a prolonged period of depressed demand.
Official data suggests construction output is more than 10 percent lower than a year ago.
British retail sales edged up in November, though by less than analysts were expecting, as shoppers hunted for cheap Christmas gifts, the BRC said.
The improvement follows a solid reading from Confederation of British Industry's November retail sales index and a rise in consumer confidence on the GfK measure to its highest in 18 months after weak official data in October.
Like-for-like retail sales - a measure that strips out changes in floorspace and is favored by equity analysts - rose by 0.4 percent in value on the year, after falling 0.1 percent in October, the BRC said. Economists polled by Reuters had expected a 0.9 percent rise.
"Today's report shows that retail sales failed to progress as the economic outlook is rather uncertain and labour market conditions are set to deteriorate in the coming months," said Annalisa Piazza at Newedge Strategy.
Trade group BCC, representing firms employing more than one in five private-sector workers in Britain, said unemployment was likely to peak at around 8.1 percent in the final months of next year partly due to job losses in the public sector.
Data released on Monday showed manufacturing activity shrank less than expected in November, though the sector remained fragile, while figures due on Wednesday are expected to show that growth in Britain's services sector picked up. <GB/PMIM>
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ALAMO — Danielle Feinber, Pixar Animation Studios' director of photography for lighting, will give insights into the creation of some of Pixar's famous scenes at a talk on Saturday, April 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Roundhill Country Club at 3169 Roundhill Road in Alamo.
Sponsored by the Danville-Alamo-Walnut Creek Branch of the American Association of University Women, Feinber's presentation and it is open to the public. Tickets are $20.
Feinber has worked on nine of Pixar's 14 feature films, including "A Bug's Life," "Finding Nemo," "Wall-E," "Monsters' University" and "Brave."
A buffet-style deluxe continental breakfast will be served starting at 9:30 a.m. Reservations and payment for the event must be made on or before 9 p.m. April 3. For credit card payment or PayPal, go to the event's website at http://daw-ca.aauw.net/pixar.
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BEIJING -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the world body's peacekeeping efforts face growing dangers from non-traditional threats such as suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices.
Ban told reporters on a visit to a peacekeeping training base near the Chinese capital that the U.N. must ensure that peacekeepers have the necessary training and specialized skills to face the threats.
These threats "are not new to the U.N., but they are more intense," Ban said.
Ban's comments came at the start of a three-day visit to China to meet with newly appointed President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang. Their discussions are expected to include China's growing involvement in U.N. affairs, along with international topics including tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
He said peacekeepers need to react rapidly and gather and analyze information on remote areas. In order to ensure that capability, the U.N. is deploying drones for the first time to its mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ban said.
Ban also praised China's commitment to peacekeeping efforts. China has dispatched 22,000 troops to 23 missions, more than the other four permanent members of the U.N. Security Council combined.
"I applaud this solidarity," Ban said, noting 14 Chinese peacekeepers have died while serving.
In all, nearly 3,000 peacekeepers have died in the line of duty since the first were deployed 65 years ago -- 103 of them last year in Congo, Darfur, Sudan, Ivory Coast and other countries. Eight more civilian contractors, such as pilots, also died during deployment with peacekeeping missions in 2012.
The United Nations currently has more than 113,000 personnel serving in 16 U.N. peacekeeping and political missions.
In the latest crisis to hit peacekeeping efforts, Austria announced it would pull out its 377 peacekeepers from the 911-member U.N. force in the Golan Heights after fighting from the Syrian civil war threatened their positions earlier this month. That will leave just 341 Philippine soldiers and 193 from India in the strategic area along the border with Israel.
Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario told reporters Wednesday that his country will keep its peacekeepers in place at least until Aug. 3. It will then consider a request from Ban to stay on, del Rosario said.


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By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:14 PM GMT on January 10, 2011
A powerful winter storm has brought heavy snow and dangerous amounts of freezing rain to much of the South, in a swath stretching from northeastern Texas to southern North Carolina. The storm began Sunday in Texas, then tracked almost due east, bringing snow amounts of 8 - 11 inches to southern Arkansas, northern Mississippi, northern Alabama, and southern Tennessee. As of 9am CST, the heaviest snow amounts as reported in the NOAA Storm Summary were 11 inches at Lawrenceburg, TN and 10 inches at Baldwyn, MS. The worst freezing rain was reported in central Georgia at Fort Valley, where 3/4" of ice had accumulated. Texarkana, Arkansas, had 1/2" of ice. Freezing rain amounts of 1/4 inch were also reported over much of northern Louisiana, central Alabama, and central Mississippi. A nasty mix of up to four inches of snow, sleet, and freezing rain hit the Atlanta, Georgia area, causing the cancellation of thousands of flights at the world's busiest airport. The storm will bring an additional 2 - 6 inches of snow to eastern Tennessee, central South Carolina, and central North Carolina today, with significant freezing rain possible in northern Georgia and portions of North and South Carolina. Below-freezing temperatures are expected to remain over the region through Wednesday morning, resulting in a long period of dangerous travel conditions.
Major Nor'easter expected for New York City and Boston
Today's snow storm is expected to push off the coast of North Carolina tonight, then "bomb" into a classic Nor'easter off the coast of New England on Tuesday and Wednesday. Up to a foot of snow is possible for New York City, Boston, and coastal Connecticut and Rhode Island beginning on Tuesday night. The Nor'easter will not be as intense as the December 26 blizzard, however. The winds from the new storm are expected to remain less than 35 mph, resulting in only minor coastal flooding and an absence of blizzard conditions (winds in excess of 35 mph and visibility less than 1/4 mile.)
South Bend nearly sets all-time Indiana snowfall record
An epic lake effect snow storm hit South Bend, Indiana Friday and Saturday, burying the city under a remarkable 36.6" of snow. It was the heaviest two-day snow storm in South Bend's history, breaking a record that had stood since 1909 (a 29" snow storm on January 30 - 31.) The 32.6" that fell in a 24-hour period between 4pm EST 1/7 and 4pm EST 1/8 came just 0.4" short of matching Indiana's heaviest 24-hour snow storm on record. Indiana's heaviest 24-hour snow event was the 33.0" that fell at Salem in December 2004, according to wunderground's weather historian, Christopher C. Burt.
Figure 1. Snow from Saturday's record lake effect snow storm in South Bend, Indiana piles up. Photo by slowhiker.
While the current snow event is over, new snows are expected in South Bend beginning Wednesday, when a renewed strong northwesterly flow of air off of Lake Michigan will develop in the wake of the strong winter storm currently pounding the Southern U.S. Another 8+ inches of snow may fall in the South Bend area in the new storm.
Figure 2. True color satellite image of the South Bend, Indiana lake effect snow storm of Saturday, January 8, 2010 at 1:45pm EST. A well-defined band of heavy snow developed over Lake Michigan and anchored itself over South Bend, giving the city its heaviest snow storm on record. Image credit: NASA.
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The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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AIG MEASURE CLEARS HOUSE: The House passed its measure today to recoup the controversial AIG bonuses. While there was some question going into the vote as to whether the two-thirds needed for passage would be there, the bill was approved rather easilyGood.
[...] The bill would place a 90 percent tax on bonuses paid out by firms receiving at least $5 billion in bailout money. The tax would apply to individuals and families with overall income exceeding $250,000..
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4BETTER OR WORSE- The week in review
Hottest seat: Virginia Tech president Charles Steger hears people calling for his head following the report of the panel that investigated the April 16 massacre by Cho Sueng-Hui.
Deepest cut: UVA loses 7.5 percent– $11.5 million– of its state funding, due to a state budget shortfall.
Biggest donation: Supervisor David Wyant gets a $10,000 check for his reelection coffers from Duane Zobrist, whom Wyant appointed to the Planning Commission.
Most gruesome murder trial: Irvin Fountain, 28, stands trial September 4 for the April 2001 murder of eight-months pregnant Shantay Latrice Wheeler, whose body was discovered five months later in Louisa County, the Progress reports.
Most touching: Assault and battery charges against Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport executive director Barbara Hutchinson are dismissed August 28 when Judge William Barkley rules that Hutchinson legally touched U.S. Air flight attendant Maria L. Martin to show her the door after a lengthy parking ticket dispute, Bob Gibson reports in the Daily Progress. On WINA, Hutchinson's attorney, Fran Lawrence, describes the maneuver as "crowd control"; Martin says Hutchinson forcefully grabbed her arm.
Most likely to kill you: A family member or intimate partner is responsible for one in three Virginia homicides, according to a report by the Virginia Department of Health's medical examiner.
Best case in point: Phyllis Powell Spangler, 51, is charged with attempting to kill her 94-year-old mother in the Laurels of Charlottesville Nursing Center August 28, according to an NBC29 report.
Worst wrecks: Laura Cavedo, 48, and her two daughters, Elschen, 12, and Iliana Strickler, 9, die after their vehicle is rear-ended August 31 on Route 151 in Nelson County. On August 30, motorcycle driver Gabriel Ryan Dean, 25, dies on Stony Point Road.
Twenty-third fattest: The Trust for America's Health ranks adult obesity in the U.S., and Virginia (ranked 23) has plumped up since last year, when it weighed in at number 25.
Most timely: UVA prof Edmund Russell's book on the history of dogfighting, Bulldog Nation, arrives in the heat of the Michael Vick scandal and traces the blood sport back to 14th-century England.
Most astoundingly expensive nonprofit digs: The Jefferson Scholars Foundation plans a $21-million headquarters building at the corner of Maury Avenue and Clark Court, according to Brian McNeill story in the DP, and will finance the swanky structure through the sale of municipal bonds okayed by the Albemarle County Industrial Development Authority. The current 126 undergraduate Jefferson Scholars and the 33 graduates get a free ride to UVA, with tuition, books and housing covered. The Foundation is in the midst of a $100 million-fundraising campaign.
Longest barbed wire fence: Republican leaders in the General Assembly announce bills to ban illegal immigrants from public colleges and universities, which would affect a handful of PVCC students, McNeill reports in another Progress article.
Most women: Ninety-eight women enroll in Darden this fall, the largest number ever to go for the $100,000 MBA.
Latest Tommy Garrett sightings: The über publicist from Buckingham County appears in two soap opera mags: the September 4 issue of CBS Soaps in Depth and next week's issue of ABC Soaps in Depth. The magazines feature Garrett's book, So You Want to be in Pictures: The Making of Hollywood Idols. Garrett's seven counts of forgery in Buckingham are still pending from the original February 16 court date.
Widest stance: Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho) resigns September 1 after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct following a foot-tapping incident in an airport restroom. The arresting officer said the senator stuck his leg under the stall next to him, a signal commonly associated with the desire to solicit sex. Craig argued that he merely has a "wide stance."


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Formation AttacksProduct Code: B0046OB
Publisher: Lulu Press
Author: Joel Johnson
Year of Publication: 2010
Pages: 500
Notation Type: Figurine Algebraic (FAN)
Book Description
As a Chess Master who has spent many years playing aggressive and attacking chess, I was quite dismayed during a recent visit to my local bookstore. I was in search of a book that covered an array of attacks against many Pawn formations in an organized fashion. Needless to say, my search came up empty. The books on attacking fell short in many ways. Many of the books were simply a small collection of attack games with no instruction about the art of attacking or about the skills required to become a great attacker. None of them provided the reader with any reference information about attacking or the weaknesses of various Pawn formations. None of them contained games with attacking themes like the Traxler Variation of the Two Knight's Defense, and the Jack Young Fishing Pole. None of them contained any wild attacking ideas that can stream from opening gambits such as the Blackmar–Diemer Gambit, King's Gambit, Scotch Gambit, Nakhmanson Gambit, etc.
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I know how to change default program to certain type of files, but I've been running to situations where I could use 2 defaults.
Lets take .html files for example. I have assigned Chrome to open all .html files on doubleclick, which is nice. As Im web developer, I usually need to open .html files also in textmate. For this to happen, I need to open context menu and select program from Open With menu.
Wouldn't it be great if one could Command+doubleclick to open that file with secondary program?
Is there a way to achieve this?


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Jon Gosselin has said that he hasn't seen some of his children in a couple of years because Kate Gosselin only lets him see four of their eight kids at a time. But now two of his daughters, Cara and Madelyn Gosselin (Mady), are speaking out about their father and what's really going on.
In an interview with People, Gosselin's two daughters set the record straight, telling the magazine they're not being kept from their father, but instead, they just don't want to see him.
"I wouldn't even know what to say about him," Cara said.
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Gosselin previously told Yahoo that he has no say in who he sees when his children come to visit. He also admitted that he hadn't seen their son Collin, who Kate admits has special needs, in almost two years.
"Now all the secrets are coming out because I'm not afraid to say anything. 'How come you only get four kids?' Because who I get is who I get," he told Yahoo. "Whoever comes through that gate or gets off that [school] bus is who I get. And Collin is home-schooled, so he doesn't get off a bus."
He continued, "If the kids want to come, they come. I love them all, but I am going to focus on the ones that want to come. My hands are tied."
But Mady's story about her relationship with her father is different.
"Here's how I feel about this," she shared. "This year I'm going to turn 16. I'm going to be learning to drive, taking the PSATs, thinking about college...so much is going on in my life. And the last thing I have time for is a toxic relationship."
Mady also said that as long as her father continues to talk about his kids in interviews, she won't reach out to him.
"He makes it seem like we're being kept from him, which is insane," she added. "He should maybe spend some time thinking about why we don't want to see him, and maybe realize that if he ever does want a relationship with us, talking about us on TV is not the way to make that happen."
E! News has reached out to Gosselin for comment.
Having not seen Mady, 15, or the other kids in so long, Mady feels her father has no right to say anything.
"He doesn't even know us — how can he dare to talk about us?"
Although Kate says she has "no regrets," the mom of eight does worry about how her divorce will affect her children.
"They do struggle, and it's not going to be an easy road — anyone who grows up with a parent who is often absent is going to have issues to deal with," Kate said. "At the end of the day I just want them to make good choices. And so far they really have been."
Kate Gosselin Says Son Collin Gosselin Has Special Needs: This Has Been a Struggle We've Had for a Very Long Time


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A roundtable chat with director Stephen Frears of "Tamara Drewe"
Anyone who thinks that the only interesting directors are the ones with obvious personal styles needs to take a long, hard long at the filmography of Stephen Frears. Something of a contemporary, English throwback to such versatile craftsmen of pre-auteur theory Hollywood as William Wyler, George Stevens, Robert Wise, and Michael Curtiz, the Cambridge-educated Frears began his career neck deep in the English New Wave cinema of the 1960s as an assistant director on Karel Riesz's "Morgan!," and Lindsay Anderson's 1968 surreal youth revolt drama, "If…" Later moving on to directing for the BBC, his second theatrical feature, 1984's "The Hit," was mostly ignored despite an all-star cast, but did gain a cult following of which I am a proud member. Frears' follow up collaboration with writer Hanif Kureishi, a then-bold cross-racial same-sex romance, "My Beautiful Laundrette," co-starred a young Daniel Day Lewis and got more immediate results. It was a hit in arthouses on both sides of the Atlantic and helped make Lewis a star; it also paved the way for Frears' smashing mainstream Hollywood debut, 1988's Oscar-winning "Dangerous Liaisons."
Since then, Frears has enjoyed success both here in the U.S. and at home in England with numerous BAFTAs and films as diverse as "High Fidelity" and "The Grifters" — for which he was nominated for an Oscar — as well as the ultra-English "The Queen" and "Mrs. Henderson Presents." He's dealt with modern-day cowboys (1998's "The Hi-Lo Country"), English fascism (2000's "Liam"), the monarchy (2006's "The Queen"), and the illegal trade of human organs (2002's "Dirty Pretty Things"). When George Clooney decided he wanted to try a live television remake of "Fail Safe" back in 2000, Frears handled the chore to no shortage of acclaim.
Frear's latest, "Tamara Drewe," has fared reasonably well with critics on the whole, though not so much with this particular longtime admirer. An adaptation of a graphic novel originally serialized in England's The Guardian by cartoonist and children's book author Posy Simmonds, the tale is a comic, modern-day homage to Thomas Hardy's tragic 1874 novel, Far From the Madding Crowd starring Gemma Arterton as a formerly large nosed "ugly duckling" whose swannish post-operative return to her family's estate sparks chaos at a writer's retreat in ultra-picturesque rural England.
Apparently taking the casualness of California fully to heart, the 69-year-old Frears, who bears some resemblance to the late Rodney Dangerfield, arrived unshaven and in a t-shirt that had seen better days. If the "just rolled out of bed" look was disconcerting, however, we needn't have worried. Frears was in good spirits and clearly enjoys sharing his views with the press.
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Combining IT and science to monitor the weather
Combining IT and science to monitor the weather
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Chuck Pavloski sits in his office on the sixth floor of Walker Building on a cold March day and keeps an eye on the continuous streams of data packets coming across his computer monitor.
"With the ice storms on the East Coast, we've seen a real increase in people using our eWall," he says.
The eWall, or electronic wall, was developed by Fred Gadomski, well known "Weather World" host and senior lecturer in meteorology, as a way for students, forecasters and weather enthusiasts to have a one-stop online location for current weather information.
To the novice, the eWall's home page is a dizzying digital display of numbers and computerized weather data from various countries, including the United States. But when used as a utility page, the eWall is a major resource for meteorologists around the world for viewing computer-simulated models of the weather.
Pavloski, director of meteorological computing and research associate in Penn State's Department of Meteorology, spends most of his day monitoring the eWall as well as a plethora of servers, switches, applications and services for which his IT team is responsible. A quick glance at his status screen lets him know immediately of any service outages so he can rectify the issue before faculty and others experience any problems.
"This is how fast the eWall is continuously getting hit from different forecasting sites. If it shuts down for more than two minutes, I can guarantee you I'll get phone calls," he says as he points to a steady stream of Internet traffic flowing across his monitor.
The department's eWall is a major resource for meteorologists around the world for viewing computer-simulated models of the weather.
As director of meteorological computing, Pavloski's job of keeping things running smoothly is his No. 1 priority. In addition to his knowledge of IT, Pavloski received his Ph.D. in meteorology from Penn State and he also is well-versed in the science of weather. His office shelves are adorned with books about meteorology, physics, calculus, quantum theory and computer science. The books huddle with several weather measurement gadgets, including a deflated weather balloon Pavloski used during his graduate study of atmospheric remote sensing.
Throughout his 21-year career at Penn State, Pavloski has taken part in numerous scientific field experiments, taught meteorology courses and is currently involved in the SCRiM initiative, a National Science Foundation-sponsored team of research scholars focused on sustainable climate risk management strategies. As a result, he understands the needs of the department, its students and faculty members on both an IT and scientific level.
Pavloski was always interested in weather and refers to himself as a full-blown "weather weenie."
"There's a lot of science involved in meteorology, so I always joke around and say I'm a scientist gone bad," he says. His interest in meteorological scientific research led him to his work today, away from the bright lights of television where only about 10 percent of meteorology graduates end up. "I also joke around and say I have a face made for radio," he adds.
While constantly dabbling in new technologies for the classroom, Pavloski is more of a "weather wizard" and often has a hand in the faculty or graduate student research projects taking place in the department to make sure they have the necessary IT resources for their research.
"If our faculty have an initiative where they're going to be collecting or generating 50 terabytes of climate data, then I'll go over their projects with them so they can get their models running scientifically and to make sure they're computationally sound," he says.
It's a big job. Penn State's Department of Meteorology is one of the oldest and largest meteorology and atmospheric science programs in the country — and is a good fit for a weather weenie like Pavloski.
"Meteorology is an IT-dependent field," says Pavloski. Forecasters rely on real-time data on temperatures, winds and other observations from radar, satellite and surface weather stations from around the globe, as well as the latest computer models to mold their own predictions. Since Penn State is a tier one distribution site for the U.S., the University receives the collection of data for the eWall instantaneously 24 hours a day — far beyond the weather depictions available via the latest smartphone weather app.
"Students who go through the meteorology program at Penn State are basically getting the equivalent of an atmospheric engineering degree," says Pavloski. "It's not just about getting on TV and pointing to maps on a green screen." Today's students are learning math, physics, chemistry, computer programming and fluid dynamics.
Before the use of computer-simulated weather modeling, most college meteorology departments had a map room with walls lined in hard-copy weather maps — typically purple squiggles generated on facsimile paper — a technology that lingered into the 1990s. Today's technology allows the data to be easily displayed as computer-simulated animations, which show up on the department's eye-catching digital display that spans more than 20 feet of the Joel N. Myers Weather Center. The data also are analyzed on personal computers that enable students and faculty to develop forecasts and carry out innovative research.
These types of computerized modeling and high-performance science applications generate massive amounts of data, and the department has tapped into Penn State's new "Big Data" research network, a sub-network on the Internet devoted to large data application areas, to manage it all.
Modeling enables meteorologists to simulate a storm and then look at how variations to the model change the amount of precipitation formed, wind speeds, and other conditions to simulate weather patterns.
For graduate research assistants like Burkely Twiest, this high-performance network will help her conduct research on nighttime temperature and energy balance at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory in Penn State's Stone Valley Forest, about 10 miles south of the University Park campus. Twiest, who received her bachelor of science degree in meteorology last December, takes 10 wind measurements per second from instruments she leaves in the field for a period of three months and stores the data on the departmental network. "As you can imagine, three months of this sort of information from several different instruments creates quite a lot of data," she says. "Without the technology, I would be unable to perform my research."
Twiest, who is also well-versed in computer information systems, knows programming allows meteorologists to model the atmosphere to forecast the weather and also enables researchers to conduct experiments that they would otherwise be unable to perform in the real world. Modeling enables meteorologists to simulate a storm and then look at how variations to the model change the amount of precipitation formed, wind speeds, and other conditions to simulate weather patterns.
"It's very hard, for example, to have the same storm occur over and over again with differences in wind shear as the only variable," says Twiest.
Even with all of this technology and high-end computing at hand, Pavloski doesn't think we've reached the outer limits when it comes to forecasting the weather. He sees the development of further improvements in the way meteorological forecasts are delivered with the use of smartphones and other devices, as well as improvements on remote sensing capabilities and satellite technologies that will provide exact measurements.
For now, Pavloski continues to monitor and support the infrastructure that's already in place. On a break from his computer monitor, he meets Gadomski at the digital map wall where they discuss possible enhancements to the wall including interactivity and the ability to display images that come directly from geographical satellites with resolutions in the tens of millions of pixels.
"The current generation is much more into their personal devices," says Gadomski as he turns to admire an ultra-high resolution global satellite picture on the digital map wall. "I'm an old-fashioned weather person, and I like to stand here and look directly at the wall. I use it to get a general sense of the large-scale weather pattern. Then if I really want to think about weather and weather forecasting, I will go to my personal workstation and do more detail. But I can stand here, relax, have my eyeballs massaged and learn a little bit about the large-scale weather. And I like that."
For more stories about IT at Penn State, visit Current at http://current.it.psu.edu.


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Something that I don't think military history has ever quite convinced in portraying is the extent to which people are vulnerable to accidents and illness war time. In particular during the periods of mass mobilisation during both world wars. The National Roll of the Great War gives unparalleled information about how people died, which sheds new light on the experiences that affected the people of Portsmouth.
During war time, the usual health and safety and economy measures go out of the window. On a Dreadnought, or on the front line, for that matter, there are all manner of things that can go wrong. Several men were washed overboard warships. There were accidental explosions. Men fell into dry docks, or even Canals. One man drowned whilst attempting to rescue a man who fell overboard. One man was seriously injured when he fell under his horse. All manner of dangers could befall individuals during war. And we need to remember as well that in general life was more dangerous than it is now. Danger was an accepted part of life, and there was no such thing as health and safety. Personal Protection Equipment did not exist, and neither did risk assessments. But neither did litigation.
During wartime people seem to have been far more susceptible to illnesses that might be less than fatal in peacetime. Men died of illnesses as varied as Meningitis, Heart disease, Rheumatism, Brights Disease (nowadays called Nephritis), Blood Poisoning, appendicitis, post-operation illnesses and Malaria. If you think about it, a young man with an underlying heart weakness or defect is going to be susceptible to becoming ill during stressful circumstances. And that goes for pretty much any kind of illness. And in situations where there was a lack of sanitation, medical care or supplies, and poor diets, it is not surprising that so many people succumed to illness. Cuts and grazes or even insect bites could cause blood poisoning, and of course men in tropical climates were susceptible to Malaria.
Of course many men died during the Spanish Influenza epidemic during 1918 and 1919. Again, with so many men moving around the world, it is not surprising that the flu virus spread so virulently. Men who were tired and malnourished may not have had the immune system to fight off the flu. It is interesting also that a few men died of pneumonia during 1918 and 1919 – was this misdiagnosed influenza, or caused by it?
More obviously, several men died of the lingering effects of being gassed, some almost a couple of years after they had come home. Theirs must have been a horrific demise. A couple of men died from the effects of exposure – one the master of a Tug who had probably been at sea in cold weather, and suffered the consequences. Men also died of the effects of Trench Fever, and one man even died of frostbite in the Ypres sector in 1917.
Several men died soon after being invalided home with shell shock. Whilst it is hard with the information available to prove that shell shock killed them, it is not impossible – particularly considering the way in which shell shock was treated in the Great War.
One painter actually died from the effects of lead poisoning – almost certainly down to the lead content in paint. He was only 27 and had joined the Navy at the age of 18. Clearly nine years of working with lead paint on a daily basis was deadly. How many other men died of what we now know as industrial diseases? We all know nowadays about asbestos, but a hundred years ago so many hazards were not known. I also wonder how many stokers died of respiratory disease, or of illness linked to their job.
One man died from the effects of what was termed, at the time, acute nervous prostration. Nowadays, this would be termed a serious nervous breakdown. I'm loath to mention the gentlemans name, but he was a seaman who had been invalided out to hospital in 1916, and died the next year. If you think about it, many of us suffer from mental health issues, so for one man among almost 5,000 to experience a breakdown is not that surprising. Especially when you consider what he might have been through. Also, in 1916 treatment for mental illness was a lot more harrowing, as the condition was not nearly so well understood.