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William C. "Pap" Lewis devoted 46 years of his life to education.
Countless lives were impacted through Lewis' coaching and teaching at S.C. high schools.
To devote that many years had to be a labor of love for Lewis.
Coach Lewis had his share of successes, winning state titles – team and individual crowns – at every high school where he worked. Those include Wilson High of Florence, Booker T. Washington in Columbia, as well as Barr Street and Lancaster high schools here.
Sports, often regarded as the games kids play, can be cruel. In a world of what-have-you-done-lately, athletes are often judged by their latest effort. And a performance by an athlete in the twilight of his career will impact how he's remembered.
If one wants to remember Olympic champion Shawn Crawford by his latest venture, then so be it.
Crawford, a Van Wyck native and former Indian Land star athlete, came in seventh in an eight-man race in the 200-meter finals for a spot on the U.S. track and field team at the 2012 Summer Games in London.
The United States of America will celebrate its 236th birthday today.
The midsummer holiday commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, declaring America's independence from Great Britain.
It is a day of celebration, from the backyard to the pool, river or the beach. Popular forms of celebration and observance include picnics, parades, cookouts, concerts, baseball games and family reunions.
Before embarking on that special celebration, we encourage you to take in the true meaning of the day.
Persistence personified can be found in the group of area youth who have pushed for a skateboard park in Lancaster County.
The group, led by Dustin Owens and his skateboard-loving followers, have frequented area government council meetings in the past year, pushing for a skateboard park.
They've been to city and county council meetings in hopes of a solution, but it appears they may have found their future hopes at the Kershaw Town Council.
The South Carolina Gamecocks brought home a handsome trophy from Omaha on Tuesday afternoon to a large throng of garnet and black-clad USC fans at Carolina Stadium.
It wasn't the biggest prize the Gamecocks had hoped for, but it was a coveted trophy.
Plenty of teams would have loved to be bearing the runner-up trophy from the College World Series, and the Gamecocks were.
The two-time defending national champions had hoped to bring home another national crown for the third straight June.
To earn entry to a hall of fame is quite a feat. To have two from one area earn election to a hall is extra special. Lancaster County is quite fortunate for the latter in regards to the S.C. Firefighters Hall of Fame.
The Firefighters Hall inducted two fire chiefs from Lancaster County during its recent enshrinement at Myrtle Beach.
Retired Pleasant Valley Volunteer Fire Department Chief Paul Blackwelder and the late Elgin Volunteer Fire Department Chief Dennis Cauthen were inducted during the S.C. Firefighters Association Conference in Myrtle Beach on June 4-9.
Although school has already been out for a month, summer officially starts today, June 20.
With that in mind, it's time to remind everyone – children and adults alike – to put safety first this summer.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), summer is when you are most likely to be injured, with emergency room visits spiking by about 20 percent during June, July and August.
The University of South Carolina baseball team, in recent seasons, has seemingly become a fixture in Omaha, Neb., for the College World Series.
The Gamecocks are bidding for their third straight national crown after winning in 2010 and 2011.
Getting there is sweet, but it's not a given.
When you're the king of the hill, or in baseball terms, the man on the mound, it gets tougher each time. Along with that shining national championship trophy at the end of the season comes a major target on the team's back for the following campaign.
Just when Lancaster County residents thought the specter of
trash mountains was laid to rest, at least for awhile, another reared its head in the middle of Indian Land.
A growing mountain of trash at Pressley's Recycling Center Inc., was discovered in late October, after a very public battle over the proposed "Project December" landfill in southern Lancaster County and the fear that the Foxhole construction and demolition debris landfill just north of the state line would begin accepting household waste last year.
On Tuesday, June 12, registered voters across the state will be able to exercise one of the most precious privileges democracy grants us – the opportunity to determine who will represent them in their government.
In Lancaster County, there are only two races on the ballot – Republicans vying for the Lancaster County Council District 3 seat and the newly created District 7 seat in Indian Land.
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Judicial Watch v. U.S. Air Force (No. 11-1496) – Michelle Obama's family trip to Africa
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the United States Air Force to obtain records related to the June 21-27, 2011, trip taken by First Lady Michelle Obama, her family, and her staff to South Africa and Botswana. Judicial Watch is seeking the documents to determine details about the trip and, in particular, a breakdown of the costs to taxpayers.The Judicial Watch FOIA request filed on June 28, 2011, seeks:
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"Give us this day our daily bread." The simplicity of the prayer that Jesus gave us can distract us from its wisdom and its challenge.
In a neglected neighbourhood, kids are growing produce and raising a community.
An interview with food activists Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry.
Why scavenge? You get a lot of really good food that's really, really free.
At St. Olaf, students learn to reap what they sow.
How consumers and farm workers together can make a better meal.
Our long-distance food system provides choice - but at what cost?
My journey with Super Giant.
Good food is much more than a matter of taste.
Space in al Qaeda?
'I'm tired of those old white guys telling us what to think and do.'
Culture Watch
'You deserve a break today' can be a pretty appealing proposition.
Love binds and builds, heals and hallows, redeems and restores.
Thanks to Brian McLaren for his essay "decoding" the "kingdom of God" ("Found in Translation," March 2006), and offering an alternative lexicon for this fundamen
Our move to a new building last fall brought us many gifts: a more efficient space, working heat and air conditioning (most of the time)--and a giant sparkling supermarket one floor below.
Driving east on Jackson Street one morning, only a couple of blocks from the bungalow on Abe Street where a few years ago hundreds of people claimed
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The Official Tomahawk Site
The official site for the Tomahawk library can be found at http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk/index.html.
This page is a community-maintained page that contains additional information and errata (corrections) for information on the above site.
Configuring your JSP or JSPX pages to use Tomahawk
Instructions on how to use Tomahawk components in your application can be found at the official site: http://myfaces.apache.org/tomahawk/. There is further information on the ["MyFaces 1.1.0 Tomahawk Components"] page.
Tomahawk can be used with the non-standard (but very nice) Facelets project (an alternative to JSP or JSPX for your pages). You can find more information on the ["Use Facelets with MyFaces"] and ["Use_Facelets_with_Tomahawk"] pages.
- ["validateCreditCard"]: validate that a String is a valid credit card number
- ["validateISBN"]: validate that a String is a valid ISBN number
- ["validateRegExpr"]: general validator that checks compliance with a regular expression
- ["validateEmail"]: validate that a String is an email address
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["DisplayValueOnly"] Toggle between output/input mode
- ["forceId"] Do not let JSF generate an assembled id of the ids of the component and its parents, instead use the provided id.
["ExtendedMessagesSupport"] Messages automatically replace the id of the message with the corresponding label or column header.
The following standard components have been additionally enhanced:
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["AliasBean"]: introduce variables in a limited scope inside a JSF page (also used to pass parameters to include files)
["AliasScope"]: see ["AliasBean"]
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New repeat option: first [day] in [month] (e.g. 'second monday in january')
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Hi. Suggestion: add support for custom due dates to be entered in the format [first] [Day] in [Month] [Year(optional)]. ie. I set the due date as "second Monday in January at 5pm" and RTM interprets this as "10 Jan 2011 @ 17:00". I might be the only one who wants this feature, but it would be handy.
Great product, keep it up!
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emily (Remember The Milk) says:
emily (Remember The Milk) says:
This repeat option (and more!) are available in the new Remember The Milk. Thanks for everyone's feedback on this!
andrewski (Remember The Milk) says:
Hi Nathan,
Thanks for your feedback! I've added this to our list to investigate.
Thanks for your feedback! I've added this to our list to investigate.
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The trunk release solenoid releases the trunk latch, allowing you to open the trunk with the press of a button. When you press the trunk button on your wireless remote or on your dashboard, power is sent to the trunk solenoid. The solenoid has an arm controlled by an electromagnet. When the magnet gets power, the arm moves and releases the latch.
Some General Motors vehicles integrate the trunk release solenoid into a motor which also closes the trunk. If you try to slam a trunk, hard air resistance can actually slow it down, which can, conversely, cause it to close slower. GM came up with a solution in the form of a trunk pull down motor. You only have to touch the trunk striker to the latch and the motor pulls it the rest of the way down. That saves you the trouble of slamming the trunk and saves the trunk the grief of getting slammed.
Models without power trunk releases use a cable to release the trunk latch, similar to the cable used for the hood latch.
How do I know if my trunk release solenoid needs to be replaced?
Usually you will find out there's a problem with your trunk release in the worst possible way. You will go to open your trunk and nothing will happen. In other cases, you may not be able to close your trunk, leaving you with no secure place to put your groceries.
The solenoid can wear out over time, as can the gears in a trunk pull down motor. Slamming the trunk closed speeds wear on these parts, so close your trunk firmly but not too hard to avoid these kinds of problems in the future. If you buy a used car with a trunk release pull down, the pull down may soon need to be replaced if the previous owner treated it roughly.
Trunk release cables may become jammed, rusted, stuck, or snapped with age, leaving you unable to open the trunk.
Can I replace the trunk release solenoid myself?
Yes, replacing a trunk release solenoid is quite straightforward. You can just open the trunk, unbolt and remove the solenoid cover, unbolt the solenoid, disconnect the wiring, and pull it out. Then you can reverse the above steps to install the new one. The steps are the same for a trunk pull down motor.
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USC defensive tackle George Uko announced Tuesday morning he would make himself available for the NFL draft. Uko joins safety Dion Bailey and center Marcus Martin, who already announced they would turn pro early.
Wide receiver Marqise Lee has not announced his plans but is expected to also turn pro,
Meanwhile, USC coach Steve Sarkisian said former coach Ed Orgeron would not be returning to the staff. Sarkisian reached out to Orgeron last week.
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Apple shines light on iOS projector tech
Illuminating patents discovery
Apple has considered including a projector as part of an iOS device, with blueprints discovered through a recent patent filing.
The patent, titled "Projected display shared workspaces" was dug up by UnwiredView this week. It shows various Apple products with small pico-projectors onboard.
The plans document multitouch gestures being read on projected images as well as the ability to create shared workspaces, transfer files between handsets and form a unified display from multiple devices.
Widespread phones with built-in projectors have been rumoured for a while now - even this patent request was filed 18 months ago. Perhaps the company hit a rock when digging for implementation solutions.
As it stands, projector-phones have been unpopular and an unprofitable prospect, with Samsung's Galaxy Beam one casualty of such. We reported last week how a components manufacturer claimed to have made the industry's smallest aspherical glass lens. The FLGS3 lens could pave the way for kitting-out smartphones with projectors while keeping a handset's size down to a minimum.
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Frogs are amphibians, which comes from the Greek language and means "both lives." Most frogs are born in water as tadpoles and gradually change into frogs although some frogs, known as direct developers, are born as full frogs. This allows them to be born and live far away from water, such as on mountaintops.
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A frog mainly lives on insects and small animals like earthworms, minnows and spiders.
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The world's tiniest frogs are smaller than a dime, and the largest frog can grow to be longer than a foot and weigh more than 7 pounds!
There are approximately 4,740 species of frogs around the entire world. There are about 90 species of frogs in the United States. Unfortunately, about 120 amphibian species, including frogs, toads and salamanders, have disappeared since 1980. Historically, one species of amphibian would disappear every 250 years.
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"Without the opportunity to learn through the hands, the world remains abstract and distant, and the passions for learning will not be engaged." – Doug Stowe
In my newsletter I spoke about Labor Day's beginning as a way to celebrate, honor and give a voice to the working class. I shared my thoughts about the working class being the producers and providers of services. The working class are those whose work demands full engagement of their physical bodies, and a deep immersion into the concrete world around them.
They are the embodied foundation of society.
In the west historically there has been a dissonance between book learning and practical experience. Somehow they've been pitted against each other and at times separating society primarily by race and economic status. Some folks scoffed at well learned educated folks, while others looked down on those that worked with their hands. Other times it was the exact opposite, those that chose to go into higher education were not particularly valued in communities with larger population of blue collar workers.
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How does this apply to yoga?
The applied yogi needs to be BOTH, absolutely visceral and engaged in all things earthy, grounding and primitive, while at the same time having a nimble creative, intelligent and discerning mind.
Come practice and embody these powerful qualities by focusing on your foundation (your worker physical body) and letting that help you serve optimally (your expressive intelligence).
Let yourself re-align and refresh yourself as we began the journey into Fall!
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When: September 6, 2010 6-7:30 pm
- You can park on Center or on Rebecca.
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SANTEE, Calif. – California Authorities say a pilot from Phoenix, his wife and daughter were killed when a home-built airplane crashed in a San Diego County nature preserve.
Sheriff's Lt. Scott Amos says the single-engine plane went down Saturday morning within Sycamore Canyon Open Space Preserve near Santee. Medical examiners said the dead included a 65-year-old man, his 53-year-old wife and their 19-year-old daughter.
Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor says the four-seat Lancair IV-P had departed from San Diego's Montgomery Field en route to Deer Valley Airport in Phoenix.
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WEDNESDAY, Jan, 16, 2013 (MedPage Today) — Adding fecal infusion to vancomycin, with or without bowel lavage, was significantly more effective than the drug regimens alone at treating recurrent Clostridium difficile infection, researchers found.
In a small, open-label, randomized controlled trial, 81 percent of patients treated with fecal infusion following a short-course of vancomycin had resolution of C. difficile-related diarrhea compared with 21 percent of patients treated with a longer course of vancomycin with bowel lavage and 31 percent who received vancomycin alone (P<0.001 for both), according to Josbert Keller, PhD, of the University of Amsterdam, and colleagues.
Fecal infusion therapy was well tolerated other than for mild diarrhea and abdominal cramping on the day of treatment, they wrote in the Jan. 16, 2012, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
The authors noted that antibiotic treatment of C. difficile infection "does not induce a durable response in approximately 15 percent to 20 percent of patients," and that an effective treatment against recurrent infection does not currently exist.
Their study compared duodenal infusion of donor feces following a short course of vancomycin with standard vancomycin treatment with and without bowel lavage in resolving diarrhea associated with C. difficile infection in a population of 43 patients ages 18 and older with recurrent infection after "at least one course of adequate antibiotic therapy" and at least 3 months' life expectancy.
Participants were randomized to one of three treatment groups:
- 500 mg vancomycin four times a day over 4 days, followed by bowel lavage, and infusion of donor feces (16 patients)
- 500 mg vancomycin over 14 days, four times daily (13 patients) followed by bowel lavage
- 500 mg vancomycin four times a day for 14 days (13 patients)
Participants were followed to resolution of infection-related diarrhea without relapse at 10 weeks.
Donor feces were collected on the day of infusion and diluted with 500 mL of sterile saline, stirred, strained, and kept in a sterile bottle to be administered through a nasoduodenal tube. The tube was removed 30 minutes after the infusion and patients were monitored for 2 hours following the procedure.
Outcomes were recorded in participants' stool diaries and through interviews about stool frequency and consistency, medication use, and adverse effects at days 7, 14, 21, 35, and 70. Stool tests for the bacteria were performed on the latter four days and on days when diarrhea occurred.
Of the 16 patients in the infusion group, 13 (81 percent) were "cured after the first infusion of donor feces," while an additional two were treated with feces from a different donor at days 14, 50, and 53 and cured. One patient left the study because of a rapid decrease in renal graft function following the infusion.
One patient in the vancomycin-only group died of complications unrelated to drug treatment.
Infusion therapy with short-term vancomycin was considered superior to 2-week vancomycin treatment with and without lavage following the first infusion. This difference grew following the second infusion.
Median time to recurrence in the vancomycin-without-infusion groups was 23 days without bowel lavage and 25 days with it. Recurrence occurred in 1 of 16 infusion patients, 8 of 13 vancomycin-only patients, and 7 of 13 vancomycin and lavage patients.
Most patients experienced diarrhea (94 percent) after receiving the infusion; cramping (31 percent) and belching (19 percent) were seen in a minority of patients. Additionally, three infusion patients reported constipation at follow-up.
Patients treated with fecal infusion had significantly greater fecal microbiota diversity after 2 weeks following treatment, "becoming undistinguishable from the fecal microbiota diversity level of the donors."
The authors noted that the optimal protocol for fecal infusion is not known, but that infusion of "a relatively large amount of feces ... had an acceptable adverse-event profile and was logistically manageable."
They also noted that the study was limited by the fact that most patients had had numerous relapses before inclusion in the study, despite the fact that the efficacy of antibiotics declines with subsequent recurrences. Thus, they said, the efficacy of vancomycin "was considerably lower than expected."


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It'll be my birthday in a few days and this year I'm feeling it. My ankle is still a little shaky and it has made me physically unsure. It gets a little better every day but it has made me contemplate my mortality anew. I step off the curb more deliberately; I put on an elastic bandage if I think I'll be walking for a while. I think about the body I usually take for granted.
My barber, an old Italian man in a toupee, horrified me yesterday. He said, "You know, your hair is very thick at the back. You could easily do a transplant and put some up front." I barked out a laugh but he was serious, "One session, not very expensive at all.". For the briefest of moments, I imagined what it would be like to have a full head of hair and then dismissed it in a vision of doll's hairplugs and snickering comments behind my vain back. I told him that receding hairlines had been a family tradition for generations and to go easy on the gel.
Time does seem to be fleeting. Jack is nearly up to my shoulder these days. Summer's almost done. And we are repainting our apartment and replacing the furniture we bought when we moved in nine years ago. Sic transit. Last weekend we went to 18 West 18th Street, the address where Patti and I met in a long defunct restaurant called Café Seiyoken. When we got married there, five years later, it was a another restaurant. Now it is a children's book store. The spot where we said our vows is now a cupcake counter. The bar where we first met has been replaced by a rack of Eric Carle books.
I know, I know. What's more tedious than a middle aged man bemoaning the passing of time? The odd thing about it all is how full life seems to be of things I've never done or known. In many ways, I feel dumber and more inexperienced withe each year. I am still learning how to be married after two decades, how to be a dad after eleven years. I still wonder where my career is going, still plan on getting into an exercise program, still consider getting a therapist, still consider moving to the other side of the world.
My grandfather was born in 1909 and he's still alive and kicking, so chances are I may only be halfway through my journey. Then again I may be electrocuted by this computer and die today.
I do know I wish I had more time to draw so I could get really good at it. Last night I was curiously liberated when I spent an hour tracing a devilishly complex drawing by Ronald Searle. For months I have been looking for the right pen to duplicate his lines, thinking he must have used a dip pen or a rubbery fountain pen of some sort. But when I studied and reproduced his drawng, I discovered that his individual lines are remarkably consistent and that my Rapidoliner traced them perfectly. There's no trick, no tool that I am missing. My pen is just fine.
Enough excuses. I should just take it outside and use it. But first, let me wrap up my ankle and suck down some Geritol.


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KANSAS CITY - Imagine Schools, Inc., a nationwide operator of charter schools, will pay $570,000 to settle a pregnancy discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, (EEOC), the federal agency announced today.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri (EEOC, et al. v. Imagine Schools, Inc., No. 4:08-cv-00731-SOW), charged that Imagine Schools discriminated when it chose not to retain two pregnant employees after closing its charter middle school in Kansas City, Mo., and opening a private middle and high school, Renaissance Academy, at the same location. The lawsuit claimed that the company did not rehire LuShonda Smith, an office manager, and Charity Brooks, an administrative assistant, to work at the new school because they were pregnant.
Pregnancy discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended by the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. The EEOC filed suit in September 2008 after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. Smith and Brooks, who intervened in the EEOC's suit, were represented by Patrick Reavey and Kevin Koc of Reavey Law LLC in Kansas City, Mo.
"Unfortunately, the EEOC keeps having to drive home the point that no woman should lose her means of earning a living simply because she is pregnant," said EEOC Acting Chairman Stuart J. Ishimaru. "This significant settlement should serve as a reminder of that fact to other employers."
In addition to requiring $570,000 in back pay, emotional distress damages, and attorneys' fees, the two-year consent decree, which must be approved by the court, requires the nationwide charter school company to disseminate a policy on pregnancy discrimination, provide management training on such discrimination, report internal discrimination complaints to the EEOC, and prominently post a notice regarding employee rights under federal anti-discrimination laws enforced by the agency.
"There is no excuse for a company in the business of educating children to discriminate against pregnant women," said EEOC Regional Attorney Barbara A. Seely. "We are pleased that Imagine Schools is now setting a good example for today's youth by recognizing that working mothers deserve the same opportunities as all other employees."
Pregnancy discrimination charges filed with the EEOC and state and local Fair Employment Practices Agencies rose from 4,160 in Fiscal Year 2000 to 6,196 in FY 2009.
In April 2009 the EEOC issued a document on best practices to avoid discrimination against workers with caregiving responsibilities. It is available at http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/caregiver-best-practices.html.
According to the company web site, Imagine Schools, based in Arlington, Va., operates more than 70 charter schools in 12 states, including two schools in Kansas City, Mo., and five schools in St. Louis.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the Commission is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0. Uh oh, zero rows were returned! Oh no!?!? How could that be? It just doesn't make any sense, users are so intelligent and resourceful. They are the basis for all that is clueful in the world....NOT.
Too bad you can't use SQL queries in the real world. We suppose it's also too bad that reality (whatever that is) doesn't have a command line mode. Or does it? And if it did, would we also have access to replication from this all encompassing command line? Go find out. We have already, right ThinkGeek? 'Yes ThinkGeek, we have already'.
Black tshirt with the following SQL query written in white on front "SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0". Unfortunately, zero rows are then returned....uh oh. And hey! there is no freakin semi-colon at the end of this query because not everybody under the sun uses the same database with the same console/shell - and there is more than one way to skin a cat. Umkay? Umkay.


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Terms: RATE – 7.9% Fixed (interest begins accruing after the first disbursement). FEES – 4.204%.
Student FAFSA: The student MUST HAVE A CURRENT YEAR FAFSA ON FILE IN ORDER FOR YOU TO ATTAIN A FEDERAL DIRECT PLUS LOAN FOR PARENTS.
Maximum Loan Amount: Cost of Attendance less all other financial aid. When determining the appropriate amount to borrow it is important to understand Cost of Attendance. Cost of Attendance (also known as "budget") is the total estimated cost to attend Concordia for one year as a full-time student. Components of the Cost of Attendance include Tuition, Meal Plan, Housing, Fees, Board, Loan Fees, Misc Personal Expenses and Transportation. When completing the Direct PLUS Loan Application (Step 1 below), please be aware that if you select "maximum loan amount" you will receive a loan based on the total Cost of Attendance estimate. If your intent is to borrow only what is due to the university, please be sure to contact the Bursar's Office at 949-214-3075 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
To get started, click "Sign In" under "Manage My Direct Loan" at www.StudentLoans.gov and select "Request a PLUS loan." Note: Parents MUST sign in using their own Federal Student Aid PIN (same as FAFSA PIN if you have one) – you will not be able to complete the application properly otherwise. If you don't have a PIN or forgot your PIN, please stop and go to the Federal Student Aid PIN site here.
Please be aware that the Direct PLUS Loan Application only allows you to communicate to the university the aid year and loan amount. As a result, Concordia will set-up the loan to be disbursed evenly over the terms the student is enrolled unless otherwise notified. If your intent is for the loan to be disbursed for one term only or in uneven amounts you must email the Financial Aid Loan Coordinator with specific instructions (firstname.lastname@example.com). Please put Federal Direct PLUS for Parents in the subject line and reference the student's full name and school ID (E#) in the body of the email.
The electronic Master Promissory Note is also located at www.StudentLoans.gov. As in step 1 above, click "Sign In" under "Manage My Direct Loan" and select "Complete Master Promissory Note." Please be sure to sign the note labeled "Parent PLUS."
If you were initially declined for the PLUS loan you can either obtain an endorser (cosigner), or choose to appeal the reason you were declined.
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Today I got a notification about World MRSA Day. I didn't even know they had such a day but this is only their 3rd year so, I am not that far behind.
Anyway, in the PR it has info about where you can watch the event live so If yo want to check it out visit World MRSA Day PR.
On the press release it also states that more people now die from MRSA-HAI's than from HIV/AIDS each year.
WTH?? We spend MILLIONS of dollars each year for HIV/AIDS research and to help people in other countries become educated about the disease but we seldom hear about MRSA.
Why don't more people know about MRSA?
Why do we continue to allow Dr's to prescribe antibiotics like they were candy, we put antibiotic in our food, and no one seems to think this is worthy of yelling to the public?
If you don't know what MSRA is the Mayo Clinic site has some info - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection is caused by a strain of staph bacteria that's become resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat ordinary staph infections.
SuperBugs are caused when there is an overuse of antibiotics and the germ becomes resistant. Then they build up a stronger/newer antibiotic and the germ will likely become resistance to that sooner or later.
At the same time antibiotics weaken the body's natural immune system so much that it becomes "lethargic". It's like the natural immune system just doesn't kick in when it figures you'll just take a pill and kill off the germ. This is why I get sooooo freakin mad when people take their kid (or themselves) to the doctor for every lil sniffle, ache, or pain. The doctors just hands out some damned antibiotics that probably aren't necessary. This does more harm than good. It contributes to the building of SuperBugs and lowers the immune system. Personally…I don't care about your immune system…I avoid antibiotics so mine is probably good to go BUT…the super bug you contribute to build pisses me off.
Farmers and doctors need to step back and think before they feed all of these antibiotics to people and animals.
Here are a couple of articles for further reading – New salmonella superbug threat from intensive pig farms June of 2011
More MRSA, in milk: A new strain in cows and humans June 2011
And to show that this is NOT newly discovered info – Sept. 2003 [url http://www.independent.co.uk/environmen ... 37728.html] Antibiotic abuse in pigs 'could create superbugs'[/url]
So my hope is that the National MRSA Day will bring attention to the overuse of antibiotics. Maybe some people will stop and think BEFORE they contribute to more superbugs that could possibly lead to the death of others.
In fact, next time I hear someone say that 2nd hand smoke kills…I'll ask them how many antibiotics they use, flush, or unknownly eat. Hell, might as well ask them if they approve of antibiotics being used with farm animals…


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I was at the game on Tuesday night, afterwards they ran a full fireworks display that honored the Mets legacy from past to present, starting with the Miracle of '69 all the way up to Johan's No-No, not only did the Phillie fans that were in attendance endure an 11-1 drubbing but were made to sit through the post-game festivities as well, great night for Mets fans...love the use of the Phillie Phanatic on this oneReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Too bad next game didn't have the same result. LGM!Delete
Joe, I can't wait to see tonight's rendering after Wright and co pick up R.A. What a game!!! Love it. Let's Go METS!ReplyDelete
- SFGiantsFanJuly 10, 2012 at 12:53 AM
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Quasar Host Galaxy Markarian 231
This Hubble Space Telescope image reveals a bright starlike glow in the center of the interacting galaxy Markarian 231, the nearest quasar to Earth. Located 581 million light-years away, we are seeing the galaxy as it looked before multicelled life first appeared on Earth. Quasars are powered by a central black hole that heats the gas around it to unleash tremendous amounts of energy. Hubble spectroscopic observations infer the presence of two supermassive black holes whirling around each other. Because such a dynamic duo is found in the nearest quasar, it would imply that many quasars host binary-black-hole systems. It would be a natural result of a galaxy merger.
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I'm trying to redirect old urls of my old web site to new urls to my new web site.
There ara several urls to redirect and I need to redirect them one to one.
My old url is:And the new url is:Code:http://www.oldsite.com/index.php?page=old-addressI tried this;Code:http://www.newsite.com/new-adress
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I wanted to review this book because it was really funny to read. My favorite chapter was Growing up Feet. In that chapter, they fussed and fussed. I liked the part when they went to the shoe store. When I read that part, I got excited. My favorite character is Jent. She reminds me a lot of me. I like the way she thinks. She likes to pretend like I do.
I recommend this book for beginning chapter book readers because it is easy to read. It is a happy book with nothing bad in it besides a little bit of arguing between the twins. I think anyone with brothers or sisters could relate to it.


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Back to mechanics.
In Kishaba Juku dojo, we work hard on body dynamics. That is an understatement!
Sometimes I say that we are like racing car mechanics. We are trying to customize our students (and ourselves) for maxim speed, power... dynamics.
Sometimes I will see a student who has worked on developing a good koshi movement, which essentially is the use of whip-like (core driven torque) mechanics in all Karate movements. But some students are like a firecracker that sizzles -- just a dud. The whip is there but there is no power (or very little).
Most of the time, the reason for this lack of power is because the student has not yet learned to put his weight behind the block, strike or other movement. The "crack of the whip" is there, but it is just fluff.
It is important for our movements to be light and heavy. We move lightly, but at the moment of explosion and power transfer, all or much of our weight should be behind the movement. This is usually accomplished by shifting weight in different ways. Imagine a whip with a hammer at the end.
My point is that koshi is just part of the formula. It is an important part, but not the whole thing. Usually, when an advanced student has struggled for years to overcome the limitations of linear mechanics, koshi is the answer... at that particular moment. But it is the coordination of movement principles (body shifting, weight shifting, body alignment, delay, koshi, etc.) that leads to results.
Move lightly but hit heavy.
Charles C. Goodin
Heavy Koshi
Back to mechanics.
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Fibromyalgia AND RA … but there's light at the end of the tunnelJune 28, 2009 at 10:00 am | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | 3 Comments
Tags: 5 HTP, aches, aerobic exercise, amitriptyline, arthritis, consultant, deep sleep, exercise, fatigue, fibromyalgia, griffonia simplicifolia, lack of sleep, methotrexate, NHS, pain, RA, REM sleep, rest, rhematoid arthritis, rheumatoid, Rheumatoid arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), sleep, tiredness, weight gain
Well, I had my consultant appointment on Wednesday – saw one of the registrars who was really nice, listened, sympathetic, examined properly, no sarcastic comments or comments about how lucky I was to have RA mildly. (I figure no one's lucky to have RA – full stop!)
She did drop a bit of a bomb-shell though, or so I felt at the time – that my symptoms indicated fibromyalgia as well as RA. Fibromyalgia symptoms are aches and pains in the muscles around some joints, serious fatigue and a feeling of general unwellness … sounds quite simliar to RA in many ways, only muscle based, and one of its old names was in fact muscular rheumatism.
Having got over the initial shock and feeling of oh hell, something ELSE to contend with, I can see some reasons to be cheerful though!
1. My sister-in-law has had fibromyalgia for quite some time now – grim for her, but it's handy for me to have someone I can talk to who really understands what it's like.
2. It's not like having RA twice over – which was my initial feeling. Fibromyalgia (which makes you feel generally crap and all over achey, and actually affects muscles) is not progressive and not (if you can crack it) permanent.
3. The current most popular theory about fibromyalgia is that it's fundamentally caused by a lack of deep sleep. People with fibromyalgia may be insomniacs, but just as often they're people who seem to get plenty of sleep, but it's REM sleep (dreaming sleep) rather than deep sleep, and that's not good enough. And the good news is there ARE things I can do that can improve my sleep.
4. There IS a drug that's often successful in curing fibromyalgia if given in small doses (amitriptyline) but it has some unpleasent side effects including weight gain, the last thing I need! But before I try that there are also things I can do to try to balance my own sleep pattern. These are getting aerobic exercise (kinda tricky with RA but I'm working on it), having a regular routine and going to bed at similar times each night, reducing tea and coffee (a real challenge for me, but as most of it is instant and decaf I don't think it's much of an issue really) and possibly trying a supplement derived from griffonia (griffonia simplicifolia) seeds, called 5 htp, which increases seratonin in the brain and may help to improve sleep.
5. Because there are things I can actually do to help myself, however challenging they may be, I actually feel empowered – I feel I have a chance to kick this latest thing right back, whereas with the RA I feel, I suppose, pretty disempowered; I just have to lie back and hope the meds work.
So … right now I'm feeling surprisingly positive about the whole fibromyalgia side of it. Let's hope I can keep up the exercise, regular bed times etc. and that that actually does do the trick. As to the RA, I'm on an increased dose of methotrexate although the consultant was wondering if I was just one of those people it wasn't going to be great for – but having had a very good response to it early on, she and I both think it's worth a shot to give it another few months on a higher dose. After all, in the UK on the NHS with mild RA, there's not much alternative!
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1. Big and flashy
2. Chi chi, overpriced, faux vintage tea room
3. Cheap and nasty;
and there's not much room for anything else. Unless, that is, you know where to look...
There's a critic's favourite if you can find it, a moody tapas place located down a maze of backstreets off Manchester's Deansgate - at the weekend a booking is essential and you need a map or a local guide to find it. Having not been here for a very long time (and being a little worse for wear the last time), I thought it best to pay them a visit.
Located underground, El Rincon looks authentically rustic - dark woods, white walls and there's legs of ham hanging up at the long bar. Seated at our table we were overlooking an authentic old style refrigeration counter reminiscent of an 80s sandwich shop; but at least it gave us a good view of tapas being taken out and freshly cooked.
The menu's long, with an added list of 'specials' and then hand-written daily specials at the bottom of that. Scanning down it's obvious that El Rincon is rooted firmly in traditional style British tapas - there's the typical Serrano ham, battered prawns and tortilla with the odd unusual (for the UK) dishes thrown in. Unlike Evuna, which is only a stone's throw away up the road; there's no premium hams, no twists on traditional dishes and no regional specials.
Prawns with a garlicky sauce were large, soft and juicy, the batter was feather light if ever so greasy and the accompanying sauce had a good old punch of garlic. Battered hake was also exceptionally well cooked, again the batter was a little greasy and you could taste the oil this time, but there was no garlic sauce to save it - just bought in mayonnaise.
Fillet steak in red wine had a tinny, livery taste and a fabada of haricots with morcilla and pancetta was thin and watery, plus it lacked the advertised porcine delights (indeed only one piece of each was evident). The patatas bravas were slightly soft and again there was that light slick of oil to them, but the sauce was deep and screamed sun drenched plum tomatoes, plus had a good old kick to it. Pinchos stole the show - soft and sweet with a fresh, lively salsa on top that sang out from the more mediocre offerings on the table.
El Rincon's pared back interior and pared back cooking means you're not going to be wowed with culinary creativity or Michelin type magic, but the food's reasonably priced and you get a big portion for what you pay. The service was excellent; friendly staff were happy to get us what we wanted even if the boy was constantly ordering new dishes left, right and centre. The food arrived quickly, even though El Rincon was full to bursting, coming out in traditional 'when the dish is ready' style rather than all at once.
I'm not sure, as a 'critic,' I'd call it a favourite or that I was that happy with the food; however for a night out with friends who don't want something extra special or usual Manchester high prices, then it's just the ticket. At least there's no pretence here and you don't get stung for the average quality food as you would in most of Manchester's other eateries.
Price for seven tapas, basket of bread, two beers and a large glass of house red - £54.60
Food - 5/10
Atmosphere - 7/10
Service - 7/10
Value for money - 7/10
Total - 26/40
Go again? Maybe with a group of friends who just wanted a lot of reasonably priced food, but I'll go elsewhere to get my culinary kicks.
El Rincon de Rafa, off St John's Street, 244 Deansgate, Manchester M3 4BQ - 0161 839 8819


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On Jan. 25, approximately 200 University of Florida students were turned away at campus recreation centers after the university's registrar's office incorrectly listed the students as ineligible for membership to the university RecSports center, according to University of Florida's student-owned newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator.
The RecSports coordinator for technology, assessment and membership services said the registrar's office determines gym membership eligibility, and students who were not registered as full-time students or had not paid their tuition were therefore not eligible to exercise at the gym.
Problems arose when eligible students such as 20-year-old pre-nursing sophomore Barbara Cadet were incorrectly flagged as not eligible. Cadet, a full-time student, was allowed into the gym but first had to speak with center officials regarding her eligibility.
According to the newspaper, an employee informed Cadet that the computer system may have incorrectly processed her schedule changes or had not yet processed the changes, which made her a part-time student.
RecSports has fixed membership problems for 210 students as of Jan. 25, and students can once again access the gym.
Associate University Registrar Mary Ann Hagler said her office does not have a history of these errors in membership and she was unaware that they had occurred, the newspaper reported.


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Report: Lawson to Sacramento | Embiid finally ready? | Divac hope Cousins continues growth
No. 1: Report: Lawson reaches deal with Sacramento — After establishing himself as one of the best point guards in the NBA with the Denver Nuggets, last season was something of a lost campaign for Ty Lawson following a trade to the Rockets. But after sitting out most of this summer's free agency, as The Vertical's Adrian Wojnarowski writes, yesterday Lawson agreed to terms with the Sacramento Kings, where he should have the opportunity to get playing time…
Lawson visited with Kings officials and coaches on Saturday in Sacramento and had planned to meet with New Orleans Pelicans officials early this week – until the Kings offered him a deal on Sunday, league sources said.
Lawson joins a backcourt full of opportunity in Sacramento, where the Kings lost Rajon Rondo in free agency to the Chicago Bulls. Darren Collison is expected to be the Kings' starter at point guard.
For Lawson, the experiment of coexisting with All-Star guard James Harden didn't work with the Houston Rockets last season. Lawson agreed to a contract buyout in March after the Rockets sent Denver a first-round pick in a July deal for him. He then agreed to a contract to finish the season with the Indiana Pacers.
No. 2: Embiid finally ready? — The Philadelphia 76ers drafted Joel Embiid two summers ago with a lottery pick, and the knowledge that he would need some time to get healthy. Since then Embiid hasn't played a second in a Sixers uniform, as Philly fans have waited to see him get healthy. At an event in Philly this weekend, Embiid made an appearance and said that he's finally 100 percent and ready to play alongside Ben Simmons. Jessica Camerato of CSNPhilly.com has more:
"I feel a hundred percent," Embiid said Saturday at the Sixers Beach Bash. "I'm ready to get started. My summer has been great. We've been working out a lot this past summer, just getting some runs in. I've gotten a chance to play a little bit against the guys."
Embiid's pro career has been sidelined by injuries, undergoing two foot surgeries in as many years. The first was to repair a stress fracture in his right navicular bone. The second, a bone-graft operation on the same bone.
The 7-foot-2 big man has been rehabbing since then, traveling as far as Qatar in the process. This offseason Embiid was cleared for monitored, five-on-five drills. He joined the Sixers during the Las Vegas Summer League to continue his recovery away from game competition.
"It's been really tough," Embiid said. "The main thing is, I haven't gotten a chance to get on the court and play, or help my teammates, or play in front of Sixers fans. I look forward to it and I can't wait."
Embiid said he "definitely" plans to be a go for training camp. He expects there will be a transition period once cleared to play given the length of his rehab, but notes he is a quick learner. Embiid also anticipates having restrictions, but has not discussed the specifics with the Sixers.
"Probably," he said. "But I think the restrictions would probably be about the fact that I haven't played in two years. It's not going to be about because people are worried that I'm going to re-injure myself, which I don't think is going to happen."
One player who is eager for Embiid's return is rookie first overall pick Ben Simmons. The two have been friends since high school. They easily gel off the court, and plan to do the same in games.
"He has great footwork, he has great touch, so I'm looking forward to playing with him," Simmons said, continuing, "Off the court, we're like brothers. We have fun."
Embiid has been present with the Sixers for games and practices. He has had numerous conversations with head coach Brett Brown about his days on the San Antonio Spurs coaching staff and how the organization achieved success with fellow big Tim Duncan, one of Embiid's basketball role models.
With an abundance of bigs, the Sixers will have to determine how they share the floor. For Embiid, who can also knock down long-range shots, he plans to fill whatever role the coaches outline for him.
"I think I'll take a couple threes, but I'll do what's best for the team and whatever I'll feel comfortable doing," he said. "Obviously they're going to need my presence inside and that's what I'm going to do. But when I'm open, I might fire some threes."
No. 3: Divac hope Cousins continues growth — The Sacramento Kings have seen a lot of changes the last few seasons, but the one constant has been All-Star big man DeMarcus Cousins. And while the Kings have changed coaches and players around him, as Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe writes, Kings general manager Vlade Divac hopes Cousins will use his gold medal winning experience this summer to take a step forward:
Vlade Divac is president of the Olympic Committee of Serbia and also general manager of the Sacramento Kings. During the 2016 Rio Olympics, his two worlds collided when his Serbian team matched up with Team USA twice in the Olympic tournament.
The first game was a tight 94-91 Team USA win during pool play. Divac had some fun with Team USA and Sacramento center DeMarcus Cousins, promising a Serbian victory if the teams met again. Well, they did meet in the gold-medal game and the Americans were impressive in their decisive 96-66 win.
Cousins turned in his most productive game of the tournament with 13 points and 15 rebounds after being beset with foul trouble for most of the Olympics.
"Boogie played well," Divac said. "He's a very talented kid. Hopefully he can bring that positive attitude that he had here to Sacramento next year."
Cousins is considered one of the more talented centers in the league but has a reputation for being mercurial. He had to convince USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo to name him to the USA Select Team a few years ago, before he was named to Team USA for the 2014 World Cup.
Divac has maintained that Cousins will be a fixture with Sacramento after a tumultuous season that led to the firing of coach George Karl. Has the Olympic experience helped Cousins mature? Divac is banking on that.
"[The Olympics] helps international guys but it also helps NBA guys," Divac said. "You see a different part of basketball. They can pick up some tricks. That's how I look at it. When I used to play, I loved playing international because it's more freedom and more ability to improve."
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: The recruiting pitches are already starting in Oklahoma City for Oklahoma native Blake Griffin … Tony Parker helped out a locker room attendant who got robbed at the Olympics in Rio … The Bucks are hoping Jason Terry still has fuel left in the tank … Shane Larkin looks at playing in Spain as a stepping stone … If that intern at the NBA offices in New York looked familiar, that's because it was tennis star Maria Sharapova …


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Frank Ocean is "like 10, 11 songs" into his next album, the follow-up to last year's Grammy Award-winning "Channel Orange."
Speaking Tuesday night to Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, the L.A.-based R&B star said the album is shaping up to be "another cohesive thing, bordering on a concept record again." Ocean plans to travel to Bora Bora after his current stay in London (where he's up for the international male solo artist prize at Wednesday's BRIT Awards) and work on the beach for a few weeks. Possible collaborators on the album, he added, include Pharrell and Danger Mouse.
Ocean also said he's hoping to tour this summer.
"Pharrell was telling me months ago, 'You got to tour with this record. You should tour for a couple years -- just say the hell with it and get on the road,'" Ocean said. "I was like, 'I can't tour two years straight 'cause I have to record to make more music.' But I do want to get out for a few months this year. I think it'll be pretty sweet when I do."
Other tidbits from Lowe's interview:
--Though he's "probably never completed an episode of 'Friends' or 'Seinfeld' or any of those landmark sitcoms," Ocean watches "Breaking Bad" and "Game of Thrones."
--He's listening to Tame Impala and King Krule at the moment.
--Unlike Clive Davis (whose pre-Grammy gala he attended), Ocean has no plans to tell his story on the page. "I don't think I could manage to be unbiased enough to write a proper [auto]biography," he said. "I would probably make myself seem godlike."


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Books: The Go-Giver
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Nearly 100 years ago Wallace D. Wattles wrote a short book, The Science of Getting Rich. Wattles inspired Napoleon Hill and others to write about the power our thoughts have over the world around us, and about the beneficial consequences of having certain beliefs and acting in a certain way.
The Secret book and video recently repackaged this body of knowledge for mass consumption. Whether all the hoopla over The Secret will have been justified by a tangible positive shift in peoples' lives remains to be seen. I'm not at all aware of any new paradigm shifts in the world at large since The Secret was distributed.
I don't want to sound cynical, because I'm really not. And I love personal development books and courses. Nevertheless, I cannot help but notice that despite the course's apparent lack of impact, its promotion was a huge marketing success.
The success of The Secret hasn't stopped with the book and the video. Bob Proctor and his Science of Getting Rich program have seemingly managed to keep the momentum and monetization of that momentum going.
Is this the only way to spell $u¢¢e$$?
Meanwhile, two accomplished social networking experts and authors, Bob Burg and John David Mann, brought out their new book, The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea, late this past year.
This short book teaches us how to achieve success by relating an inspiring parable about an ambitious young man named Joe and his encounter with The Old Man. We learn The Five Laws of Stratospheric Success as well as the importance of applying them as soon as we learn them. Each of the laws is exquisitely illustrated within the narrative.
The first law, The Law of Value, that "your true worth is determined by how much more you give in value than you take in payment," is also exemplified by the authors' present undertaking. They and their publisher have made this wonderfully written hard cover book available through Amazon.com at a very modest price.
It's one of those books that I know I will re-read again and again in the months and years to come. Each time I will progress farther to integrate and internalize The Five Laws in my life.
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If the overcast entrance of fall has you feeling down, you may soon see a short reprieve.
If the overcast entrance of fall has you feeling down, you may soon see a short reprieve.
The National Weather Service is forecasting a mid-week return of some sunshine before another cloudy start to the weekend.
�(Today) and Thursday look like the best chance we have this week to get back some sun,� meteorologist Robert Frederick of the NWS forecast office in Newport said.
He said another front is expected to move in Friday with more overcast days in store Friday and Saturday before some clearing on Sunday and the return of sunshiny days early next week.
While the days of cloudy skies aren�t unusual this time of year, Eastern North Carolina has seen its share of them the past week.
�We usually don�t have a stretch this long,� Frederick said Tuesday.
For most of us, the gloomy weather can lead to a gloomy mood. What�s often referred to as a case of the winter blues can affect us all on occasion.
�We all have those days, days where we�re feeling down and don�t want to crawl out of bed and do anything,� said Loretta Keelin, a licensed clinical social worker practicing in Jacksonville.
Generally, those moods pass after a short time.
For others, the fall season brings on a type of depression known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD), with symptoms most likely appearing during late fall and winter and then going away during the spring and summer.
There are cases of summer-onset SAD, but it generally coincides with the time of year when the days are shorter and less sunny.
�We don�t know the cause, but we do know it has something to do with the decrease in light hours,� said Louise Biller, also a licensed clinical social worker in Jacksonville.
The symptoms of SAD include feelings of hopelessness, loss of energy, anxiety, difficulty concentrating and a lack of sleep.
Keelin and Biller said that unlike the winter blues most people experience, SAD symptoms are prolonged and can become severe.
�It�s a true depression and not just a down day,� Biller said.
Individuals may want to seek the help of a professional if they withdraw from family and friends, start thinking about suicide or find themselves turning to alcohol for comfort or to relax.
Keelin said there can be a number of factors involved in causes of SAD, from the body�s chemical makeup to where you live.
Less sunlight can decrease serotonin levels in the brain, which affects mood, and can in turn cause depression. Melatonin levels in the body, which affect sleep patterns, also can drop with the change in the seasons.
SAD also tends to be more common the further you live from the equator.
Treatment for those diagnosed with SAD may include light therapy, medication or psychotherapy.
As the fall season kicks into gear and winter approaches, there are also steps everyone can take to help deal with the down days that may come with gloomy weather or holiday stress, Keelin said.
Eating healthy, keeping a regular sleep pattern, not taking on too many tasks at once and taking time for ourselves can help in staying healthy and handling stress, she said.
�Sometimes we try to do more than we should and forget to take care of ourselves,� she said.
Contact Daily News reporter Jannette Pippin at 910-382-2557 or email@example.com. Visit JDNews.com to comment.


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Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan
On this day in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan in perhaps the most memorable speech of his career. The speech, in which he called Japan's act a "deliberate deception," received thunderous applause from Congress and, soon after, the United States officially entered the Second World War.
The day before, Japanese pilots had bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, decimating the majority of U.S. warships in the Pacific Fleet along with most of the Air Corps and Navy aircraft stationed on the island of Oahu. The bombing raids killed 2,403 people, including 68 civilians, and wounded almost 1,200.
Although Roosevelt and his advisors had received intelligence reports indicating an imminent attack by Japan days before, he had hoped that Japanese and American diplomats, then negotiating in Washington, would come to a peaceful solution. He was incensed to realize that while American and Japanese diplomats engaged in negotiations (over Japan's recent military actions in China and elsewhere in the Pacific), Japanese aircraft carriers had been steaming toward Hawaii intent on attack. His words on December 8 relayed his personal indignation and fury.
Roosevelt had already proven his oratorical skills during the Great Depression when his "fireside chats" rallied the nation's morale. The same president who once said "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" declared with equal conviction that the nation "would never forget the character of [Japan's] onslaught against us" and vowed that the "unbounding determination of our people… will gain the inevitable triumph—so help us God."
The stirring speech was hardly necessary—Congress and millions of Americans, who had been hearing details of the attack in the news, shared the president's outrage and commitment to defending the nation. Young men flocked to armed forces recruiting stations the next day and both houses of Congress quickly voted to declare war on Japan, with only one dissenting vote.


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