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VANCOUVER – Electric car owners in B.C. will get a real charge out of this — the provincial government is spending $1.3 million to set up fast-charging stations in 12 communities.
The stations can give a car an 80 per cent charge in 30 minutes or less, compared to other kinds of stations that require up to eight hours for a full charge.
The stations are being set up in various cities including Vancouver, North Vancouver, Surrey, Whistler, Hope, Merritt, Nanaimo and Saanich.
In announcing the program in Vancouver today, Environment Minister Terry Lake said providing electric vehicle owners with more charging options will make electric cars even more attractive.
The government says setting up the stations will complete the B.C. portion of the West Coast Green Highway, an agreement with three American states to ensure electric vehicle charging is available along the West Coast from B.C. to California.
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2. My wonky eye is back. Which means I've been self-medicating with bodily fluids again, and the only thing more attractive than a woman with a limp and a swollen red eye is if that eye also has a milk mustache. Jeff is so turned on that his central nervous system completely shuts down and he's passed out before I even set foot in the bedroom.
3. I had to set aside time to watch Mad Men, and NOW I have to learn the lyrics to something sexy and French to perform for Jeff once my limp subsides. Like maybe...
Voila mon passport! See? Full circle, topical.
Long story short: Somehow they let us back in to the US. It was probably my Zooey Deschanel impression.

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Just two years ago, outsourcing seemed to be the magic solution for CFOs looking to scale down operational costs within their organizations. This meant that many CIOs were suddenly confronted with the reality of offloading essential enterprise needs or project-related tasks to unfamiliar workers in distant lands. The results? In some cases, there were internal and external customer-service gaps due to cultural, language or time-zone differences. Now, a new survey from accounting and consulting firm BDO USA reveals that a clear majority of CFOs at tech companies are tuning out outsourcing as part of their big-picture strategies. "Outsourcing can be looked at as a bellwether of the economy," says Don Jones, partner in the technology and life sciences practice at BDO USA. "Tech companies turned to outsourcing in 2009 in order to reduce operating costs and ride out the recession. Since then, we've seen a marked decrease [in outsourcing] as companies recover and look to create jobs and growth close to home." The survey also examines CFO perspectives on federal regulatory proposals, demonstrating positive support for a major initiative from the Obama administration. One-hundred CFOs representing tech companies took part in the survey. Here are selected highlights:
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An earthquake of 5.2 magnitude occurred at about 4:35 this morning in the Wabash Valley of southeastern Illinois, roughly 40 miles northwest of Evansville, Indiana
I was sound asleep in bed when it happened, but the shaking of the house woke me up. Dennis was up and busy with his morning routine -- doing his exercises, running the washing machine, and getting ready for work.
In my sleepy stupor, I imagined that the washing machine was shaking the whole house during its spin cycle. I thought that the load of clothing must be terribly unbalanced. The shaking quit after a few more seconds, and I went back to sleep immediately.
When I got up this morning, Keely asked me if I had felt the earthquake in the night. She had built it into a dream about a bulldozer hitting the house, causing the walls to shudder. Like me, she didn't realize it was an earthquake when she felt it.
Our experiences were nothing like those of people near the epicenter:
At Mesa Lake, retiree Harvey Manor described the quake as "a deep roar."
"I got out of bed. It was ominous ... a deep roar. I knew it was an earthquake," Manor said. "I thought it might be the big one they've talked about us having.
Source: "Earthquake, aftershocks rattle Tri-State" by Rich Davis and Ryan Reynolds, Evansville Courier & Press, April 18, 2008
At about 10:15 this morning, I felt an aftershock. The floor quivered slightly, the dishes and glass shelves in the china cabinet rattled a little and I noticed that the ceiling fan blades were trembling. The Evansville Courier & Press (article cited above) reports the 10:15 a.m. shock at 4.5 magnitude.
Over a dozen aftershocks have exceeded 3.0 magnitude, but that's the only one I've noticed. It's my day off, and I took a nap after everyone left this morning. Apparently none of the aftershocks were strong enough to wake me up.
Did you feel this earthquake or any of its aftershocks? Please tell us about it in the comments. Also, you can make a report to the U.S. Geological Survey website about this quake.


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One month ago, Ohio was unbeaten, ranked and rolling toward a title.
After four losses in five games and a slew of injuries, the Bobcats are bruised, battered and bewildered.
They're eligible for a bowl, but they hardly feel worthy.
"We're a banged-up football team," coach Frank Solich said Saturday following a 28-6 loss to No. 23 Kent State, which finished off a perfect season in the Mid-American Conference and warmed up for next week's title game against No. 24 Northern Illinois.
This was not the finish the Bobcats (8-4, 4-4 MAC) had envisioned. Following a win over Akron on Oct. 13, Ohio was 7-0 and ranked in the AP poll for the first time since 1968.
It all crumbled.
Kent State returned a fumble and interception for touchdowns in the first quarter and built a 21-0 lead over the Bobcats, who seemed to be groggy following an 11 a.m. kickoff. By the time Ohio recovered, it was too late.
"It was terrible," junior running back Beau Blankenship said. "We tried to rebound from it. We kept our heads up and tried to pull it out. It's upsetting to finish the season like this."
C.J. Malauulu returned an interception 33 yards for a touchdown — 12 seconds after another Kent State TD — in the first quarter as the Golden Flashes (11-1, 8-0) won their 10th straight win, improved their bowl resume and continued the best season in the program's 90-year history.
If not for a loss to Kentucky in the second game, Kent State would be unbeaten.
"Our guys believe, and we believe what the coaches are telling us," said quarterback Spencer Keith.
Trayion Durham rushed for 97 yards and scored on a 15-yard run in the first quarter as Kent State quickly built its three-touchdown lead. And although the Golden Flashes' offense did little in the second half, Kent State's defense wouldn't budge and finished with eight sacks on Ohio quarterback Tyler Tettleton.
Ohio lost three more players to injuries. Offensive lineman Ryan McGrath broke his leg in the first quarter, and the sight of him going down in pain seemed to shake some of his teammates. It also further decimated a unit that's been ravaged of late. The Bobcats have lost 10 players who were projected as starters when the season began to injuries.
"We just have to keep our head up and keep working and hopefully some time off will help them, but some of the injuries are season ending," said Blankenship, who rushed for 138 yards on 25 carries. "It's gut wrenching. We had some guys step up. It's hard to see them go down, I'm close to them and I love them."
With representatives from the Military and GoDaddy.com bowls on hand, the Bobcats wanted to put on a good show.
But the early turnovers created a hole that was just too deep.
Ohio now must hope it did enough before its recent slide to get picked for a postseason bowl.
"I'm not making a case," Solich said. "We are what we are, we've got eight wins. We'll go with the bowl seed, and we'll go from there, but I'm not making a case one way or another."
The Golden Flashes came in leading all FBS schools in turnover margin, and they wasted little time forcing the Bobcats to cough up the football.
Kent State scored two defensive touchdowns in the first quarter — one on a 50-yard fumble return, the other on Malauulu's pick — to stun Ohio and open a 21-0 lead.
Just 12 seconds after Durham's 15-yard burst, aided by some bad tackling, made it 14-0, Malauulu picked off Tyler Tettleton in the middle of the field. He found some blocks down the left sideline and dived inside the front pylon for the score, which survived a video replay.
"That was a crazy play," Malauulu said. "It happened so fast. I read the quarterback's eyes, I rolled over that way and came up with the ball. I picked it and I was like 'Oh my gosh, I caught the ball.'"
Earlier, Malauulu stripped Blankenship and Kent State's Luke Wollet fielded a one-hopper off the turf and sprinted half the field to make it 7-0.
Ohio managed a 33-yard field goal by Matt Weller to close the quarter, but the Bobcats were down 18 despite outgaining the Golden Flashes, running more than twice as many offensive plays and holding the ball for eight more minutes.
Two plays did them in.
"We just killed ourselves with the turnovers," Blankenship said. "Just stupid plays."


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Google / T-Mobile G1 Report
Like many others, I received my T-Mobile G1 yesterday. I was a Hiptop / Sidekick user, so early in fact that I got interviewed twice.
I stuck with the Hiptop platform up through the Microsoft acquisition, and beyond, but the initial happiness I felt with the device was eventually overshadowed by the business model of T-Mobile and Danger, which was an insidious kind of walled garden.
Like some other developers, I called for more openness, and eventually abandoned the idea of doing any software development for the Hiptop platform.
So, when Andy Rubin, Brian Swetland, and others left Danger and formed Android, I was intrigued, and quite happy when Google announced their plans for open spectrum, open devices, and open markets. Clearly Andy wanted to do (at least what I considered to be) the right thing, and perhaps this time he'd found his mettle.
So, when the G1 was announced, I pre-ordered, and was treated with a package yesterday, the day before the official launch. So I've had a few hours to use the device, and wanted to write my impressions here.
I'm uninterested in comparing the device to the iPhone, as I don't need Steve Jobs telling me what I can put in my pocket, and I'm utterly uninterested in phone calls or call quality (as you can see from The Inquirer article. I really want to say I'm quite happy to have the G1. It shows an incredible amount of promise, and I mean what I say below in the nicest way. But what I have to say below does need to be said. I'll leave to others the task of reviewing the device overall, talking about its great features or comparing it to other mobile devices on the market now, and just focus here on a few things that I strongly need to cheer as very rightm and the unfortunate few things that I find very wrong.
(Why am I doing it here rather than posting in one of the many Android of G1 or Tmobile forums? One of the consequences of letting a thousand flowers bloom is quite a weedy garden, and at least for now, I can't see any one place that would be valuable to post.)
The keyboard sux. Really, really badly. It's not as bad as a Treo (sorry Karl) but it's very, very difficult for me to use. The Motorola T-900 series, the Sidekick 1, Sidekick 2, Sidekick 3, all had good keyboards. This one is decorative. It's not as bad as not having a keyboard and using a touch screen, but it's pretty bad. I'm hoping that some rev 2 hardware is available at a price I can afford, and that T-Mobile allows a secondary market to form so I can upgrade without paying a heinous penalty.
Application Navigation
I find application navigation, and in particular the various options and settings, to be a confusing maze. The Hiptop HCI design language was much easier to navigate, and although I occasionally got lost between types of settings. I get lost in the maze of secondary options, screen press-hold, trackball press holds, menu-keys, magnifying-glass keys, MENU button popups, "More" soft keys, and double lines of selectable items (Wifi, Wifi Settings, Bluetooth, Bluetooth setting) ad nauseum.
Android (Google, Tmobile, Andy, many others, can I call you Android?) can fix this in software, but the point is they must fix it.
Mail Program Morass
I hardly know where to begin. First off, there's two totally separate mail programs. One for POP/IMAP and one for Gmail. I set up both. I'll complain about the IMAP one, as I haven't used the Gmail one enough to complain.
IMAP Mail Program
It can't poll at more than 5 minute intervals. Danger polled at 30 minute intervals, but they provided a device address that you could re-send to, and let you specify the "from" field (after some initial hiccups). So that worked great: instant mail, your own non-device address in response. Maybe I can get that with Gmail, which at least in the browser version lets you specify a separate address, or maybe not.
The screen real estate usage is atrocious. You get maybe 4 messages on the screen at once, and then when you do get a message to read, 25% of the screen is taken up by Reply, Reply All and Delete buttons, which are all available as well when you presst the Menu key, with other options, and in a different order (see Application Navigation, above). How can I say this more clearly? Maybe if I say it in bold? It's incredible that I get a quarter of the number of messages on the 480x320 screen that I used to get on my Hiptop at 320x240.
Once you reply to a message, the fun really starts. Again, you get three huge buttons at the bottom of the Reply screen: Send, Save as draft, Discard. What! There's a huge Discard button that takes up 10% of the entire screen, begging you to accidently brush against it, and it discards your entire cooutgoing message with no confirmation and no way to recover! It reminds me of the Gary Larsen "Far Side" cartoon of the happy rodent family in the kitchen, while be-aproned Mom lovingly looks at the table as she reaches for the box of cereal, stored in the cupboard right next to the box of Rat Poison. "Hey, what do we have this stuff for anyways?" she realizes. Get those huge, ugly, and dangerous buttons off the screen! At this point, you've probably realized I've just lost a big message I laboriously typed on the keyboard (did I mention the keyboard sux?) and have come back to my desk to compose this. You're right. By the way, did I mention the keyboard sux?
Mail Notifications
The window shade for notifications is innovative, but again, the actual content there is confusing. I get a list that says "New Email" followed by "New Email." One has an @ icon. The other has a mail envelope with an "@" icon. I suppose I can suss out that one of these is gmail and the other is imap mail, but if that's really the case, the icons need be something really much more informative. They're the image equivalent of calling one program "mail" and the other "postage." I'm not even sure I'm right here...maybe one is threads and the other is individual messages. I'm totally confused.
Mail Navigation
There's no individuality to the screen displays of messages and headers and threads and I get absolutely no sense of place (so important for navigation, see Application Navigation above). Thunderbird has clearly defined areas of messaging: folders, message headers, messages, composition. Outlook has the same. So does just about everybody. Even the simple Danger mail client had a very clear indication of these different arenas of interaction. The Android IMAP client attempts to do everything inline with a long scrolling list, except when it doesn't (composition and replies) and the result is just muddy. And did I mention you can barely get five lines of text on the screen, even though it's much bigger than the 320x240 Hiptop? And the buttons are HUGE, and that they destroy your mail? And did I mention that the keyboard sux Maybe I already mentioned that...
HTML Messages
MIME messages formatted with inline HTML work very nicely. I like the layout and the "Show Images" button. It was a pleasant surprise to see this working well.
Battery Life and Charging
When the hiptop first came out, the battery life was terrible. Software revisions of the OS and modem made great improvements. I'm hoping that Android does the same, as this device really needs it. Even if you have GPS off and WiFi off, it draws the battery down. Clearly they know this, or they wouldn't have set the LCD backlight timeout to whatever it is, seems like about 5 seconds...
The package (smart looking box, by the way) contains a USB cable. Thanks for including it -- it's good to see that Android has left behind the Danger terror of someone actually using the device or writing an application that isn't a game. I initially thought it wasn't charging from the USB port, but apparently I was using either a disconnected or unpowered hub in a Dell monitor...hardly Android's fault. Now if I could only find the screen that shows me how the battery's doing (See Application Navigation, above).
I'm sure there's more things I'm annoyed about, and for now all I can do is complain.
Once I find the right forum or forums to join and the right way to contribute to fixing the things that annoy me, and given the purported openness of the OS and at least some of the applications, I'm hoping that I can help solve my own problems. That in and of itself is 102% of the reason I bought a G1.
Goodbye Danger, hello Android. Now let's talk.


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here to view the complete women's schedule with times
Click here to view the complete men's schedule with times
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Tech has announced starting times for all Golden Eagle basketball games during the 2012-13 season, home and away. The season begins Monday, Nov. 5, with a women's exhibition game against Lee College at 7 p.m.
All of Tech's home single games will tip off at 7 p.m., while game times for seven doubleheaders feature a women's tipoff at 5:30 p.m. and the men's game at 7:30 p.m. One doubleheader will feature a slightly later start time -- on Saturday, Nov. 10, following the final home Golden Eagle football game of the year, the women's basketball game begins at 6 p.m. with the men's game at 8 p.m.
The road games for the women's and men's teams have a wide variety starting times.
A couple of OVC doubleheaders on the road have afternoon starting times. The twinbill at Jacksonville State on Dec. 29 begins with the women's game at 2 p.m. and the men's contest at 4:30 p.m. The doubleheader at SIU Edwardsville on Jan. 12 has starting times of 4 and 7:30 p.m.
Check the complete schedules on TTUsports.com. As always, changes in the schedule might occur throughout the year, so continue to check the official website of Tennessee Tech athletics for the latest information.
Season tickets are on sale for the 2012-13 Golden Eagle home schedule in Eblen Center. Visit or call the Athletics Ticket Office in Eblen Center (931-372-3940) to order tickets or for additional information.


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A recent graduate from St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, I am now second priest at my beloved home parish of St. Herman of Alaska Orthodox Church in Langley, BC, Canada. When I'm not working at Maple Ridge Christian School as the school's high-school English teacher, I'm either playing with my two sons, spending time with my wife, working on my hobby, web-site development (see the list of my sites, below), or, occasionally, actually reading or writing.
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Very interesting discussion! And very interesting article, even though I agree that it's bad-titled.
@Aral, I wanted to add that in my opinion it's not entirely true that "the only way to truly achieve this is to cater to a lowest common denominator in your design." Actually, I think that the exact opposite is true. Not easy to do, of course. But I think that (when we can) we should design for the best possible experience, and let those other browsers/device do what they can.
Like we already do with the desktop. We do use CSS3, knowing that IE can't show most of them (and its users won't even realize), don't we? Here it's harder, because we're talking about many more devices… but theoretically it seems to me it's the same thing.
Great article, anyway, lots of good stuff to use, in addition to media queries.


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Luz at Edmonds Community College
Last year more than 150 million Americans went to work each day, including Luz Torres. A devoted wife and mother of two, Torres worked long hours as an ultrasound technician in a Seattle-area medical clinic in order to help make ends meet at home.
Then one day, she lost her job because her physician's group she worked for had to move from the area. Torres, unable to afford relocation and facing a saturated ultrasound technician job market, couldn't find work. Her world started to unravel.
"I became homeless," said Torres, 40, who spent the last year living in her car to staying in transitional housing. "I received TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), which helps you get by. But then a counselor at a shelter offered me a new program."
Torres enrolled in an education program that would help her learn new skills to achieve employment. The opportunity came from the Health Professions Opportunity Grants (HPOG) program found in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In 2010, ACF's Office of Family Assistance announced 32 HPOG programs throughout the nation that focus on improving the work readiness and employment outcomes for low-income workers and TANF participants.
Participants receive healthcare-related training in the fields of home care aides, certified nursing assistants, medical assistants, pharmacy technicians, emergency medical technicians, licensed vocational nurses, registered nurses, dental assistants, and health information technicians.
Grantees work with community partners to enhance supportive services for participants, such as transportation, dependent care and temporary housing.
"Because of my medical background, my counselor told me I would be a perfect candidate for the program," said Torres. "HPOG provided all my tuition and books, which makes it more possible for students to achieve something."
Ever since she was little Torres wanted to become a nurse and help people. So she took advantage of this second chance at life and enlisted at Edmonds Community College, which hosts the Creating Access to Careers in Healthcare (CATCH) program. She's been a dedicated student, taking up to 19 hours a semester to help fulfill her goal.
Torres is determined not to let her past define her future. Aside from her economic troubles, Torres also had a problem with her manual dexterity.
As a left-handed child, Torres suffered at the hands of a school system in her native Guadalajara, Mexico, where she was forced to write with her right hand, while her left hand was tied behind her back as a corrective solution. Sadly, this practice caused her left arm to be broken in two places and caused her shoulder to separate. Although Torres' parents took her out of that school, the damage would remain with her for decades. As the young girl healed and started to improve her left-hand movement, her brain rewired to make her left-hand dominant again, while leaving her right hand useless.
After she emigrated to the U.S. and became a citizen at 21, Torres was stuck in employment where only one hand was required. Luckily for Torres, her teachers at Edmonds would help her overcome this problem, too.
"Luz is an exceptional phlebotomy student. Not only did she complete our program with a top score but she exhibited outstanding determination. Luz had a traumatic early childhood experience that affected her dexterity as an adult. Instructors worked closely with Luz giving her feedback with each blood draw," said Instructor Erika Ferreri. "However, it was her dedication to 'practice' and a willingness to absorb feedback that resulted in the development of the skills required for fine motor movement for both the dominant and non-dominant sides of the body. She, by far, is a true example of what dedication to learning can accomplish!"
As of fall 2011, Torres has become a certified nursing assistant and phlebotomist. Currently she's working on being certified as a patient care technician and a clinical lab assistant by next spring.
"I told myself that I need to have more career skills for back up," said Torres, "so I don't have to go through this again."
When asked where she's herself in three years, Torres positively responded "working."
Torres is grateful for the assistance programs that helped her family survive during this difficult time. She believes these programs that she contributed tax dollars to when she was working throughout her adult life are necessary.
"I don't see it as a waste. I see TANF and HPOG as opportunities to help people like me," said Torres. "I had no idea when I went to into that homeless shelter that I was getting a career. I just needed a place to sleep.


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8-Bit Salutes Veterans in Chicago Charity Event
Chicago, IL - November 7, 2012 - Off Duty Gamers, in conjunction with Kona's Korner Productions and Game Pazzo presents an evening supporting our veterans and recognizing Veterans Day with a little fun, prizes and support for a great cause. Please join us online or in person for this event on Saturday November 10th, 2012 from 6pm until 1am!
This 501c3 (tax deductible) organization is dedicated to the morale of the troops!
Captain Stephen "Shanghai Six" Machuga, a former Army Airborne Ranger, founded Operation Supply Drop in Nov. 2010, after serving for eight years with the US Army, including 13 months in Iraq. An avid video game player himself, Machuga realized that many soldiers who are gamers don't have access to their favorite form of entertainment, one of the few types of leisure activity permitted in high threat areas of deployment.
"When soldiers aren't outside the wire on patrol, they're playing video games," explains Machuga. "Our packages are an immeasurable morale booster for the soldiers; troops are accustomed to getting care packages from strangers full of baby wipes and socks. Our care packages are designed to blow their socks off."
Since the charity's establishment, Operation Supply Drop has raised more than $60,000 in games and gear each with an average value of $2,000 to units deployed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
With the help of a variety of allied gaming organizations, Operation Supply Drop's "8-Bit Salute to Veterans" will be one of the country's largest efforts undertaken in support of Veteran's Day.
]Learn more about Operation Supply Drop and see other care packages that have been sent]( http://fronttowardsgamer.com/osd/2012/09/11/operation-supply-drop-announces-nationwide-veterans-day-party-with-8-bit-salute-to-veterans/).
Charity Event Details:
Game Pazzo
2011 63rd Street
Downers Grove, IL 60516
Date: Saturday November 10th, 2012
Time of Event: 1800 (6pm CST) until 0100 (1am CST)
GAME PAZZO is THE entertainment destination located in Downers Grove, IL for all ages and families. 2000 sq feet of retail game store where you can BUY, SELL, or TRADE-IN your games/accessories; followed by 13,000 sq ft in the back which is the Gaming Center, offering the ultimate gaming experience where you can play on your choice of gaming systems - Playstation, Wii, XBOX 360 & Kinect, PC games and Rock Band on our very own state-of-the-art Rock Band Stage. In addition to gaming areas, Game Pazzo features a full service bar and kitchen with areas to hang out, grab a bite to eat, drink with friends, catch a game on TV or play pool.
Check out the location and learn more!
Live Twitch.tv Coverage with Kona!
Kona's Korner Productions will be running the Chicago event LIVE via Twitch.tv all night long. We'll bring you commentary, game play, fun and even some give aways. We realize not everyone can get to the event but we are looking forward to spreading the word and having everyone join us online!
Live Feed: http://www.twitch.tv/gamepazzolive
About Kona's Korner Shawn 'Kona' Waribany has a long rich history with the game industry. His talents led to a successful website about the industry at http://konaskorner.com/ and launched his production company which has been offering live streaming video production services to some of the biggest names in the industry.
Anyone can attend this event. The event is to raise awareness for Operation Supply Drop, say thank you to veterans of our military for the service and sacrifices they make and of course to have some fun. Any patriotic individual who would like to honor the troops and enjoy some game time can and should attend. If you are not local then get on the live stream and join in the fun.
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Washington, DC, June 16, 2011 – Even with a turbulent economy, Americans are more optimistic about their personal financial futures than that of the overall economy, and those who have planned have a more upbeat outlook, according to a new survey released today by Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc.
"While our country continues to grapple with sustained unemployment and other economic headwinds, Americans have a more positive outlook on their own personal finances. And those people who have a financial plan believe that their own financial situation will improve over the next year and are willing to contribute to the economy by spending more," said Charles A. Moran, CFP®, Chair of CFP Board's Board of Directors.
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Moran noted that these findings suggest there is "a gap between how Americans view financial plans and knowing the best way to build and maintain one. They clearly understand the importance of a financial plan, but too many Americans are not taking the necessary steps to formalize it in a concrete, comprehensive way."
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My Room: "Bunny"
Yuki and her husband integrated their interest in science as well as their individual heritages into their daughter's room in warm and subtle ways. Perfection. Yuki shares: When we first started this process, we knew we didn't want anything too cute or precious and aimed for a room that reflected our somewhat geeky/science/nerdy outlook. We wanted a room that was calm and unisex, but not boring, and yet hinted at wonders of the world outside.
We sought something that evoked his heritage (Irish) and mine (Japanese) without reverting to ticky-tacky cliches of clovers and geisha dolls. And the room had to be on strict budget. The room is attached to our bedroom so we were planning to convert it back into our home office when The Bunny moves to her big girl room. On top of it, my husband, who is in the Army, was stationed away from home but wanted to have input-- lots of things were discussed over Skype!
Granted, I'm not sure whether we managed to hit all our goals, but we gave it the old college try.
Budget wise, we did pretty well. By repurposing our furniture from around the house (which included a discarded lawn chair, the Eames knockoff, and a wood basket), hitting IKEA, culling Craigslist, discount stores, and garage sales, the nursery decor cost well under $400. It should be noted that we lucked out with a generous gift of a high quality mattress from my parents and great hand-me-downs from friends.
For art work, I bought a pile of IKEA frames. I raided my stash of early 20th century Japanese botanical wood block prints, a biology department website in Japan (I love the fanciful green jellyfish and the blue copepod), and also used photos taken by our talented friends (which I downloaded and printed with permission from Flickr). I also framed a paper cut I bought when I was last in Shanghai. For a bit of fun. I folded lots of origami cranes and some Sonobe polyhedra, which were tacked to the ceiling. The changing table is a Craigslist find, which my husband painted and modge podged the interior of the drawers.
We tried to evoke Japan with an origami crane mobile (we bought a photo mobile-- we figured we can put photos in it as she grows older) and the washi paper polyhedra. The lantern used to hang in my room when I was a child. I like the cherry blossom pattern on the Ikea lamp-- softly feminine without being super girly. Ireland was evoked by the cheerful green color which is used throughout the room (it was also inspired by a Cthulhu stuffed animal that my husband bought me while we were still dating).
So there you have it-- the super geeky, super budget, Irish-Japanese nursery.
Source List:
• Crib, rug, bookshelves, lamps, table, cans: Ikea
• Eames knockoff rocker: Overstock.com
• Pouf: CB2
• Chair: Discarded lawn chair with Ikea sheep skin
• Pillows: Discount store, Ikea, Target
• Door hooks: Urban Outfitters
• Bureau: Craigslist
• Mobile photo mobile: Kikkerland
• Biological art: Riken Center for Developmental Biology
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2012: Wegner has his best time in the 5k event, finishing with a time of 22:42. He set season best times in the 8k event with a time of 36:19, and the 10k event with a time of 47:50.
2011: Wegner ran in all eight meets for the Cobras in 2011, posting a season best time of 31:52 at the Confernece Carolinas Championship.
2010: Wegner competed in six meets in 2010. His best time was a 22:50 6k at the Claflin Open.
2009: Wegner competed in five meets for the Cobras during his freshman year. His best time was a 19:14 5k at the Gamecock Invitational.
High School: Wenger was an All-Regin cross country and track runner at Sumter High School. He earned All-Area in the 1600m and was a three-time region champion in the 3200m. His personal best times are: 5K-17:15, 8k-29:15.
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I of course expect to be getting a recruitment letter from NASA any day now.
Scary that only 7% get 13 out of 13; rocket science this ain't.
That won't happen. Pianodwarf stole the template when they sacked his sorry ass had to re-structure the IT department.
Actually it doesn't. One could conceivably be all-powerful but not exceptionally intelligent.
You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly.You scored better than 93% of the public and the same as 7%.
I got 8. And one of those was a pure guess. Next week Wright, post a quiz on history, literature or geography...cheers
I got 15/13. Amazing, huh?
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Faced with the uncertain future of health care reform, nearly half of the New Jersey doctors responding to a new survey are considering changing the structure of their practice this year, which could include joining forces with another practice or going to work for a hospital system.
The Roseland law firm Brach Eichler conducted the annual survey among nearly 150 physicians statewide, including solo practitioners, members of a group practice or employees of a health care facility, in July.
"The health care environment is a dynamic one in New Jersey, characterized by tremendous competition and an increasingly complex regulatory environment," said John Fanburg, managing member and head of the health care practice at Brach Eichler.
Physicians with a negative outlook cited increasing insurance premiums, declining reimbursements, increased competition and declining autonomy as the most influential factors.
Fanburg said more than 63 percent of respondents said their reimbursement rates decreased from last year.
"A tremendous number of physicians in New Jersey have sold their practices to hospitals or large physician groups," echoing a national trend, Fanburg said. He said hospitals throughout the state are creating accountable-care organizations, mostly with Medicare, which are groups of health care providers and hospitals that come together to deliver higher-quality care, reduce duplication of services and spend health care dollars more efficiently.
Fanburg said hospitals are acquiring physician groups "because as they develop their ACOs, they want to establish their footprint … they need to capture physicians before the other hospitals capture the physicians. So there is competition to get these doctors into these hospitals systems."
Fanburg said these contractual arrangements are generally three- to five-year commitments, and what happens when that time is up "no one really knows at this point. The one thing everybody does acknowledge is the health care marketplace and the landscape is going to be very different — we just don't know how different."
He said physicians are frustrated "that there is a lack of clarity as to where they are going, and that is very unsettling."
Fanburg said in general, reimbursements to doctors are expected to decline in the future. "But I think there is going to be positive economic incentive for physicians to provide quality care and to be efficient. But the whole notion of just being paid for what you do, regardless of the quality and regardless of the efficiency — I think we can all assume those days are coming to a close."
The survey also revealed about one in four physicians has joined an ACO, and of those that have joined, the vast majority — 95.2 percent — said they have not seen any benefits as a result.
"The truth is, we simply do not know yet whether there are any meaningful benefits associated with joining an ACO, or whether we simply have not seen them yet," Fanburg said.
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NC man sentenced for retaliating against witness
A Henderson man has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison after his conviction for beating a federal witness.
The U.S. Attorney's office said 25-year-old Waynemon Demount Bullock was sentenced Monday after his conviction in May to a charge of retaliating against a federal witness.
Investigators said Bullock was involved last October in an assault on a federal witness who had previously testified before a federal judge. Authorities said Bullock and a co-defendant approached the federal witness at a convenience store in Henderson, accused the witness of being a snitch and beat the person.
Bullock had recently been released from the N.C. Department of Corrections prior to assaulting the victim.


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subroutine inquiry_stopwatch (default_clock, io_unit_print, io_unit_error, print_errors, abort_errors, print_form, cpu_avail, user_avail, sys_avail, wall_avail, cpu_prec, wall_prec, version, err)
Returns the value of StopWatch options and other system and implementation dependent values. All arguments are optional and have intent OUT.
The following arguments can be set by option_stopwatch. See option_stopwatch(3) for further details on their meaning. default_clock is the set of clocks that are used when the clock argument is omitted in a call to a StopWatch routine. io_unit_print returns the unit for output from subroutine print_watch. io_unit_error returns the unit for any error messages printed by StopWatch . If print_errors is TRUE, then an error message will be printed to io_unit_error whenever an error condition occurs. If abort_errors is TRUE, then the program will terminate when an error condition occurs. print_form is the format used by print_watch(3) when the form argument is omitted.
The remaining arguments return system information that can not be changed.
Since an interface to the CPU clock is not part of the Fortran 90 standard, the availability of clocks and clock precisions are implementation dependent. Not all clocks are available in all implementations. The logical arguments cpu_avail, user_avail, sys_avail and wall_avail return TRUE if the respective clock is available in this implementation.
The precision (the shortest time interval that can be measured) of the clocks also varies between implementations. The real variables cpu_prec and wall_prec return the precision of the CPU and wall clocks, in seconds. It is assumed that the user and sys clocks have the same precision as the CPU clock. If the CPU clock is not available, then cpu_prec will return 0., and similar for the wall clock.
The character string version returns the version number of StopWatch .
If present, the optional intent OUT integer argument err returns a status code. The code is the sum of the values listed below.
An error message will be printed to a specified I/O unit (unit 6 by default) if print_errors is TRUE (default is TRUE). The error message contains more detail about the cause of the error than can be obtained from just the status code, so you should set print_errors to TRUE if you have trouble determining the cause of the error.
If abort_errors is TRUE (default is FALSE), the program will terminate on an error condition. Otherwise, the program will continue execution but the requested value(s) might not be returned.
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OT: Ann Arbor Power Outages Last Night
So, last night the power (at least in south AA near Hill Street) went out about 10 times. I have looked around the internet and found nothing talking about it. I realize it's not that important, but I was wondering if anyone had heard anything about it or experienced it anywhere else in town. I kept hearing what I thought was a transformer blowing every few minutes. Any information, thanks!
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No matter how much Clippers Coach Doc Rivers has tried to steer his players away from the controversy surrounding team owner Donald Sterling the last 10 days, something always seems to distract them.
Rivers said his team was "pretty much focused" on Game 2 of their second-round playoff series Wednesday night against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Still, the Clippers were obliged to talk about the NBA's announcement Tuesday that team President Andy Roeser was taking an indefinite leave of absence, effective immediately.
Rivers said he didn't find out about Roeser's departure until a team spokesman told him after they had finished practice Tuesday evening.
Rivers then told his players the news and offered advice. "I told the guys, 'Just keep playing. We got it. We'll handle everything,'" Rivers said.
And how did his players respond?
"Right now, they don't respond anymore," Rivers said. "I think they've heard so much stuff lately that they are just moving forward."
The Clippers won Game 1 in the best-of-seven series on Monday night, 122-105. Game 2 is also at Chesapeake Energy Arena, but the Clippers say they are not content with just one victory over the Thunder.
"It's still a lot of basketball to be played," Chris Paul said. "I think with us, you can't get too high, you can't get too low. You've just got to keep coming out and playing. We may get those same shots tomorrow and they may not go in. But it may be somebody else who has to step up or defense has to win the game."
The Clippers made shots from everywhere in Game 1, connecting on 54.9% of their field-goal attempts and 51.7% (15 for 29) from three-point range.
Paul was the best player in the opener. He scored 32 points, missing just two of 14 shots and hitting his first eight three-point attempts.
"The next game, I might have 12 points, 10 points or maybe not even that many," Paul said. "I think I'm one of those people that whatever it takes to win, I don't care."
The Clippers had some good news to talk about Tuesday when they found out that All-Star power forward Blake Griffin finished third in voting for the NBA's most valuable player award, and Paul finished seventh.
Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant won the award and Miami forward LeBron James, who had won the previous two MVP awards and four of the last five, finished second.
Griffin received one second-place vote, and 66 third-place votes.
"I'm honored, humbled by that," said Griffin, who averaged 24.1 points and 9.5 rebounds per game during the regular season. "It was a two-man race. But it's definitely cool to be in that."
In Game 1 against the Thunder, the Clippers took control in the first quarter, outscoring the Thunder 18-5 in the last 4 minutes 9 seconds to build a 39-25 lead. They weren't threatened the rest of the way and led by as many as 29 points in the fourth quarter.
Still, the Thunder outrebounded the Clippers 47-31, and Rivers said his team can play better.
"We can be a better defensive team," Rivers said. "I thought we played good defense. I didn't think we were great defensively. And I think there are things offensively that we can do better. We're not going to shoot that way every night. But there are things I thought we can do offensively a little bit better."


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It sounds like his everyday board uses more front foot pressure than the WT and may be longer. That's why it's happening. Other riders, use to different twin tips, may have different first impressions. Also the boards are very short compared to what most people are use to riding. A 147 WT is really only 138 long on the bottom. It rides like a 138. Trust me, a few more rides and it'll feel normal in length and he'll stop putting too much pressure on the front foot. It's a short board with quick response to weight shifting. Those flipped ends make errors in weight distribution easy to deal with. Try it yourself and you'll see what I mean.On 2002-09-02 17:10, jever98 wrote:
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Louis tried the WT 147 yesterday and said something like: "it's a board where I can't decide whether I will love it or hate it. It goes upwind like hell and is very fast, but the edge seems to pull down into the water and suddenly, I get a lot of spray in my face".
Unfortunately, I couldn't try it in the choppy conditions, since we didn't have wind for long enough. But may be its the edging Louis and I are not used to?
Once you adjust, it makes other boards feel like Fords, while the WT is a BMW.


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Three students from Hagerstown Community College recently won the 2012 American Institute of Graphics Artists MockUP Student Design Challenge.
Six colleges competed in this year's event, including Kaplan University, Shippensburg University, Shepherd University, James Madison University, Frederick Community College and HCC.
HCC's student design team included Meredith Brown of Fayetteville, Pa.; Sarah Cimaglio of Williamsport; and Yun Lee of Hagerstown.
All three HCC students are design majors. Brown is majoring in Web design and plans to transfer to Towson University to obtain her bachelor's degree in digital art and design. She ultimately wants to find a job designing and developing websites.
Cimaglio is a graphic-design major who also intends to transfer to a four-year college to obtain her bachelor's degree after graduating from HCC. Her dream is to find a job designing posters and other artwork.
Lee is pursuing dual certificates in graphic design and Web design, and after graduating from HCC, she plans to start her own design business.
Held annually each year by AIGA Blue Ridge, the competition challenges college students to design logos and other graphics for a preselected client chosen by AIGA. According to Blue Ridge AIGA, students are given four hours to develop a creative strategy before presenting their designs to a panel of professional designers who choose the winning design.
"Our student design team took the event very seriously," said Ellen Smith, associate professor, graphic design technology. "They went the extra distance in researching the needs of the client and applying that information to their logo design. We are very proud of them."
To learn more about HCC's graphic and Web design programs, go to www.hagerstowncc.edu/academics/divisions/technology-computer.


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Those of us who dabble in the of the English language have had a busy twelve months. I give you, in the waning days of 2010, 10 observations about The Year in Eggcorns:
(1) This year we lost all claim to propriety as we rode our barrel over the precipice of Viagra Falls and plunged into the misty of and . Discussions on this forum ranged over such expressions such as "valva," "cockhold," "genetailia," "homaphrodite," "tuba ligation," "exasturbate," "defacecate," "fairskins," "circumschism," "askefise," "rum, bum and concertina," "repuke," "fallopen tubes," "vast deferens," "poop-pooped," "sexpool," "spread ego," and "emusculate." We have, as one of David's Québécois speakers might say, gone in recent months. Whether this was our long-delayed Befreiung or a journey into simple Schmutzigkeiten remains to be seen. Reactions to this trend will probably between the two responses to in the Firefly series.
(2) We passed less questionable milestones in 2010, marking the fifth anniversary of the Eggcorn Database and the Eggcorn Forum. A couple of years ago Pat wrote about the , Liberman's original mention of "eggcorn" on Language Log. We can now amend that to "the post that launched five thousand posts"–sometime in late November of 2010 we crossed the half myriad line. In addition, three individuals, David T, David B (using a double avatar), and yours truly, passed the thousand-post mark, joining Pat and Joe . Fpberger and JuanTwoThree became Eggcornistas and discovered, alas, that the check was not in the mail.
(3) The mantle of "most obsessively numerical contributor" was snatched from my shoulders this year when David B, the man with a vocabulary the size of a planet, called attention to how the number of posts written by our contributors relates to their rank . In short, a few posters do a lot a posts and a great many do only one or two, a trend that continued through 2010.
(4) In compiling the year end list, I was struck by how many posts turned out to be (often inadvertent) reposts of earlier submissions. This was partly due to our confusing forum search options. But the search problems have always been there. Chances are that we are seeing the effect of our accumulating mound of eggcorns as we inch closer to Pat's Eggcorn Omega.
(5) The big fuzzy spots that we started to note in 2009 continued to pop up in 2010. We found the following collections:
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(6) Pat pulled off , leaving us all wondering how many other IEDs he has planted in our gentle landscape. Tread carefully in the new year.
(7) Contributors adopted new terminology this year. In 2009 we latched on to silicisms and Annie Lehmanns. This year that and found growing in our gardens.
(8) We tried to launch in 2010,but lacked time or enthusiasm. Perhaps in 2011…
(9) Eggcorns received some unexpected publicity this year. The Los Angeles Times presented us with an . The word "eggcorn" . The Macmillan English Dictionary webzine of our site.
(10) Finally, the increasingly tenuous cord binding the Eggcorn Database and Eggcorn Forum seems to have snapped in 2010. Only one enty was made to the Eggcorn Database in 2010, and it was (in my opinion) not even an eggcorn. Will 2011 solve this problem?
In a few days I'll post, in the Contributions Meeting Place, a list of our 2010 eggcorn candidates.
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Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
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...We can now amend that to "the post that launched five thousand posts"–sometime in late November of 2010 we crossed the half myriad line. In addition, three individuals, David T, David B (using a double avatar), and yours truly, passed the thousand-post mark, joining Pat and Joe .
I'm confused. You've just accounted for at least 5,000 posts (as of November) by just 5 kiloposters. Additionally, someone mentioned elsewhere that we've passed the 1,000 single-poster mark. That makes at least 6,000 posts, not even counting those from we who posted between 1 and 1,000 posts. If that's all true, or even close, there's no way we only passed the 5,000 post mark just a month ago. Clarification, please.
Clarification, please.
Somebody is watching our math. Yes, Dixon, you are right, I have made a mistake, a big one. I was going by the numbering system on the threads and calling them posts.
If you look at , under the "Eggcornish Meeting Places" heading, you will see that the Forum reports about 13400 posts in about 4600 threads.
Which means that I don't understand the Forum's thread numbering system. This particular thread line is numbered "5069," but that doesn't correspond to the post count or the thread count. And if you try to step through the threads in sequential order, you'll find that about 1 out of 10 sequential numbers reports that no thread corresponds to the number. Hmm. Perhaps Pat or Chris can explain the discrepancy. Maybe it's a "feature" (i.e. bug) in the Forum software.
Anyway, we passed the five year mark, no matter what the real total on the threads and posts. Pat will have to adjust his claim to "the post that launched over 10000 posts." Much more impressive.
Hatching new language, one eggcorn at a time.
Dixon, the five thousand posts must make reference to the number of threads or topics. This one is topic 5069. The number of individual posts, before this one, has been 13,856, entered thoughtfully by somewhere around 1719 individual posters (give or take a robot, and a multiple-named crank or two). The average number of posts per member is 8, and it looks like the mean number of replies to any post is about 1 and a half.
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010
On a nice cold snowy afternoon we got into the truck and went to our favorite "cut your own tree" farm. Much to our chagrin the farm was closed. The owner was walking in his driveway so we stopped to talk with him. Seems that he had a operation in the summer and didn't get into fields to trim his trees so he was going to take the year off.
Disappointed we went back to the shop and started our search for a new place to cut a tree. We found several, made phone calls and checked on prices. Mary Lynn found one that was close by and any size tree was $30.00. Mary Lynn likes a bargain. So the next morning we piled into the truck and off we went.
We found the place to be a small unassuming little place with a row of cut trees leaning on a cable stretched across the yard. I immediately expressed my skepticism but Mary Lynn said we could at least look. The trees by the road were short and scraggly and I was unimpressed, but by this time Mary Lynn had rang the door bell and a little old lady, probably in her 80s met us. We were told that we could go in the back lot and pick and cut our own if we'd like and she handed me a saw. Off we went, trudging through the deep snow.
The trees were not well kept but Mary Lynn was thrilled and had already picked out several that she said would be satisfactory. While we were looking Mary Lynn told me what she had gleaned from her conversation with the proprietor. One, she was probably a widow, two the person that cut the trees was her son which meant that he was at least my age.
And the thing that I gleaned from our conversation was that Mary Lynn was going to buy a Christmas tree from this sweet little old lady regardless. And so we did. I drug the tree to the truck while Mary Lynn went to pay the lady, (she gave us an oven mitt for cutting our own tree). Still mumbling about the quality of the tree I was stretching a bungee cord to hold the pickup bed cover down when I let it slip, it hit me in the mouth causing great pain and a very swollen lip. Mary Lynn while sympathetic later suggest that if I had remembered what the tree was really about I might not have needed such a severe reminder.
It is without a doubt one of the most beautiful Christmas trees ever.
(this story has been abbreviated believe it or not)
Posted by Steve Blood at 12:41 PM
Labels: Christmas
3 comments:
- Ann said...
Going out and cutting our own tree was such a fun adventure. It sounds as though your tree hunt was a perfect beginning of the season for you two.
Merry Christmas!
- December 22, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- Judy said...
This story is the perfect example of what means the most at Christmas. Mary Lynn comes out a winner for insisting that your tree would come from the lot of a most needy owner. The tree is beautiful.
- December 22, 2010 at 10:52 PM
- Elizabeth said...
Steve, so glad that Mary Lynn has her priorities in the right place and that you are a willing abettor. Sorry about the bungee cord - one has to be careful, because they are out to get you. inanimate object that seems to have a life of its own. Merry Christmas!
- December 23, 2010 at 11:53 AM
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Families rally together offering support and encouragement when a family member faces an unusually difficult situation. For the Bollhoefer family, they've had to find unexpected strength for two of their members facing dangerous diagnoses this year.
Two former Newton residents Shawn and Megan Bollhoefer are cousins who have both lived happy and healthy lives but recently have been faced with tough battles.
Shawn, who graduated form Newton in 1991 and is the son of Mike and Linda Bollhoefer, is an avid bicyclist and, like many, enjoys such challenges as RAGBRAI.
He married classmate Wendy Olson and they have two children, Noah and Grace.
After RAGBRAI last summer, Shawn felt pain in back but dismissed it. Although unusual, he felt it was probably a side effect to his recent long bicycle ride.
After visiting his family doctor, Shawn performed a self examination and felt a large tumor in his lower abdomen. His doctor directed him to a gastroenterolist.
In December, Shawn had a colonoscopy performed where the doctor gave he and Wendy the news. It was advanced colon cancer.
Shawn found an oncologist, Dr. Michael Guffy at Ames Greeley Medical Center, who began his treatment with surgery to remove the large mass along with 11 lymph notes. It was just the beginning of a series of hard treatments, and Shawn was sent home on Christmas Eve.
In January, Shawn started the first of 12 chemotherapy treatments. The treatments were divided in half because of the severity of chemo, with 38 radiation treatments in between.
"It was a quick process, but I've had tons of help along the way," Shawn said.
Shawn has learned a lot about a world he knew nothing about, from the day he walked onto the cancer floor to hearing others stories about survival. His gratefulness, thanks and appreciation is evident, and his love for his family a source of motivation.
Throughout the year, there have been good days and bad days, but Shawn has remained nothing but positive.
"You can't look forward, you can't look back. It's just a one-day-at-a-time thing," he said.
"Shawn has always been a great guy, especially this last year. His character has really shone this last year. Never once has he complained or not lived a normal life," longtime friend Darin Swarts said. "He still has made sure Wendy, Noah and Grace remained his focus."
Shawn has recently finished his 11th round of chemothearpy and will finish his treatment shortly after the benefit.
Right around the same time Shawn started to feel more ill, his cousin Megan, who graduated from Newton in 2002 and is the daughter of Chris and Karen Bollhoefer, started to feel ill as well. She had become short of breath, tired and had no appetite.
One morning in January, Megan went to shovel the driveway at her new home in Estherville when she passed out, hit her head and woke up some time later confused and frightened.
After going to the emergency room, nurses and doctors couldn't find anything wrong with her after performing blood work.
Later, they found the right side of her heart was enlarged and there were blood clots in her lung. She had a tissue plasminogen activator infusion drip to break up the blood clots in her lungs, and she became swollen, gaining 20 pounds of extra fluid.
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Megan said she is overwhelmed with the outpouring of support from everyone in both her current community and Newton.
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While the president is in Cushing, OK for Day Two of his energy "tour de farce," the energy we need is stuck up in Canada and the upper Midwest. By blocking the Keystone XL pipeline that connects the two – even as he preaches "all of the above" – President Obama is leaving families and small businesses with fewer jobs and higher gas prices. This is an example of the Obama Energy Gap.
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After rejecting and personally lobbying against Keystone XL and thousands of new jobs, the president plans to tout that he's now interjecting himself on behalf of a routine permit that is normally handled by bureaucrats … not Presidents of the United States. Or as Speaker Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck put it, "This is like the governor holding a press conference to renew my driver's license."
The president is holding this event because two-thirds of the American people support Keystone XL – and similar numbers think his anti-energy policies will make gasoline more expensive.
The thing is, the southern portion of Keystone from Cushing to the Gulf Coast is being built in spite of his administration – it doesn't need presidential involvement. The rest of the pipeline does. But instead of doing "all of the above" to address gas prices and create jobs, the president chose to block Keystone.
Republicans have a real "all of the above" strategy that removes government barriers to energy production and stops policies that drive up gas prices. Learn more by "Liking" the American Energy Initiative on Facebook, and visit jobs.GOP.gov for more information on the Republican jobs plan.
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