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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 2, No. 126 Part II, 2 June 1998
___________________________________________________________ RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 2, No. 126 Part II, 2 June 1998 A daily report of developments in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia prepared by the staff of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. This is Part II, a compilation of news concerning Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. Part I covers Russia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia and is distributed simultaneously as a second document. Back issues of RFE/RL Newsline and the OMRI Daily Digest are online at RFE/RL's Web site: http://www.rferl.org/newsline xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Headlines, Part II * KUCHMA ORDERS ANTI-CRISIS MEASURES * U.S. CONTINUES DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE OVER KOSOVA * KOSOVAR POLITICIANS FAIL TO AGREE ON UCK ROLE End Note: MOLDOVA, UKRAINE SQUABBLE OVER OIL TERMINAL xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE KUCHMA ORDERS ANTI-CRISIS MEASURES. Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma ordered his cabinet on 1 July to prepare measures to halt the country's economic decline, AP reported. Presidential spokesman Oleksandr Maydannyk said the measures, which are to be issued as decrees due to the standstill in the parliament, seek to stabilize the economic situation in the country. Maydannyk said Kuchma's measures will reduce taxes, give tax breaks to large foreign investors, lower the need for foreign credit, and attract international investment. Other possible steps include increased support for farmers and an amnesty for Ukrainians abroad who left with large amounts of money. Also on 1 July, the parliament failed yet again to elect a speaker. Oleksandr Moroz received the most votes in the balloting. PB KYIV WANTS CASPIAN OIL TRANSPORT TO TRANSIT UKRAINE. Uladislau Toroshevskiy, the acting chairman of Ukraine's Committee for the Oil and Gas Industry, said on 1 July that Kyiv is trying to ensure that oil will be transported through Odessa and along the Odessa-Brody pipeline, ITAR- TASS reported. Toroshevskiy was speaking at an oil conference in Kyiv. He said the government has adopted a resolution to expedite the establishment of an international consortium that would promote and improve conditions for the transport of Caspian oil through Ukraine. PB EU, LITHUANIA CRITICIZE MINSK OVER DIPLOMATIC DISPUTE. The EU issued a statement on 1 July expressing its "strong disapproval" of the Belarusian government's handling of the dispute over the ambassadors' residences in Drazdy, Belapan reported. The EU's General Affairs Council, meeting in Luxembourg, said it will restart a dialogue with Minsk when the latter is ready to "respect its international obligations." In Vilnius, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus said Belarusian officials have "ignored all standards of diplomacy and international cooperation." He said he hopes that "logic and common sense will prevail." PB CHINA, BELARUS PLEDGE CLOSER COOPERATION. Belarusian Foreign Minister Ivan Antonovich and his Chinese counterpart, Tang Jiaxuan, said on 1 July that their countries are committed to boosting relations, ITAR-TASS reported. Antonovich, speaking in Beijing during a five-day visit to China, said both sides "have similar positions on key international issues." He said stronger relations with China is a major priority for Minsk. Tang commented that the two countries are ready to develop long-term, stable relations. PB SIGNATURE-COLLECTING CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN MID-JULY IN LATVIA. The Central Election Committee on 1 July announced that the campaign to collect signatures in support of a referendum on the citizenship law amendments will take place from 20 July to 18 August, BNS reported. Signatures will have to be counted by 30 August, when the two-month period in which the law is suspended expires. The chairman of the commission estimated that the cost of holding the referendum may total 150,000 lats (some $300,000). JC LITHUANIANS MORE KEEN TO JOIN NATO THAN BALTIC NEIGHBORS. According to a poll carried out by the Baltic Surveys company in March, Lithuanians are more keen than either Estonians or Latvians to join NATO, BNS reported on 1 July. Fifty-five percent of Lithuanians supported their government's efforts to gain entry to the Atlantic alliance, compared with 54 percent of Estonians and 47 percent of Latvians. The figures for those expressing opposition to NATO membership were 26 percent in Lithuania, 31 percent in Estonia, and 32 percent in Latvia. BNS reported that in evaluating the influence of NATO membership on their country, Lithuanians are most optimistic while Latvians are most skeptical. JC POLISH PARLIAMENT APPROVES PLAN FOR 15 PROVINCES. The Sejm passed legislation on 1 July reducing the number of provinces from 49 to 15, AP reported. President Aleksander Kwasniewski is expected to veto the bill, which has also been approved by the Senate. Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek said he hopes the president will approve the plan so that parliament can move on to "other elements of [administrative] reform." The rightist governing coalition would be unable to muster the three-fifths majority needed to override the veto. Kwasniewski has said he favors having 17 provinces and has campaigned to retain the northwestern province of Koszalin and the central Kielce province. Critics say he is grandstanding in order to gain electoral support from those regions in future elections. PB YELTSIN'S PRESENCE MAY ACCELERATE NATO EXPANSION. Polish Defense Minister Janusz Onyszkiewicz said on 1 July that Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic may be admitted to NATO earlier than planned in order to allow Russian President Boris Yeltsin to attend the alliance's 50th anniversary celebrations in Washington, Reuters reported. Because of Moscow's ardent opposition to NATO expansion, Onyszkiewicz said it would be difficult for Yeltsin to attend the 26 April summit if formal accession ceremonies took place. The Polish newspaper "Zycie" suggested that the aspiring countries could be admitted as early as January. PB CZECH GOVERNMENT ORDERS REASSESSMENT OF TEMELIN PROJECT. The government on 1 July decided to hire a team of local and foreign experts to reassess the construction of the controversial Temelin nuclear power plant, in southern Bohemia, CTK and Reuters reported. The government expressed dissatisfaction at the growing costs of and repeated delays in completing construction at Temelin. Industry and Trade Minister Karel Kuhnl told journalists that the cabinet wants the experts to recommend whether the construction should be continued, halted temporarily, or abandoned altogether. The state-controlled power company CEZ estimates the plant will cost $3 billion. Austria opposes the completion of the Soviet-designed facility, which is some 70 kilometers from its border. MS SLOVAK OPPOSITION APPEALS TO CONSTITUTIONAL COURT. The Slovak opposition parties on 1 July asked the Constitutional Court in Kosice to rule ahead of the 25-26 September elections whether an amendment to the election law passed by the parliament in May contravenes the country's basic law, RFE/RL's Bratislava bureau reported. The opposition says the amendment disadvantages smaller parties by establishing a threshold of 5 percent for each party running in an alliance. It also says the provisions including state officials in election commissions and allowing the Supreme Court to reconsider the Central Electoral Commission's decisions also contravene the constitution. Also on 1 July, the parliament approved an amendment to the law on local elections, while the opposition Slovak Democratic Coalition said it will examine the amendment to establish whether it is in keeping with the constitution. MS NEW CABINET'S ATTITUDE TO MINORITIES CRITICIZED IN HUNGARY. Csaba Tabajdi, outgoing political state secretary at the Prime Minister's Office in charge of minority affairs, has said he is concerned about the new cabinet's program on minorities in Hungary as well as ethnic Hungarians abroad. He told journalists on 1 July that the program is a "step backward" in terms of political autonomy for minorities as it lists the Roma population not as a minority group but as "socially handicapped" people. According to Tabajdi, that designation implies some kind of "assimilation drive". He observed that the minority issue is important for the new government only inasmuch as it serves the cause of ethnic Hungarians abroad. MSZ SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE U.S. CONTINUES DIPLOMATIC OFFENSIVE OVER KOSOVA... State Department spokesman James Rubin said on 1 July that U.S. officials are continuing talks with officials of the Kosova Liberation Army (UCK) in an effort to bring about a cease- fire by talking to those who are fighting, VOA reported. He added that talks with the UCK are a "practical matter" and do not constitute formal recognition of the guerrillas. Rubin stressed that Washington still regards shadow-state President Ibrahim Rugova as the legitimate Kosovar leader. Rubin added that U.S. diplomats, including Ambassador to the UN Richard Holbrooke, will continue to be "engaged in an intensive effort...for some time." U.S. special envoy Robert Gelbard will visit Bosnia later this week, and U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Christopher Hill goes to Albania. Russian and EU officials have stressed recently that only Rugova can represent the Kosovars internationally. PM ...BUT SHIFTS STANCE. Rubin also said on 1 July that Washington no longer insists on an immediate withdrawal of Serbian forces from Kosova. He added that a cease-fire must precede a withdrawal "as a practical matter." Observers noted that this new position corresponds to the view of Belgrade and Moscow that Serbia cannot withdraw its forces as long as an armed insurgency is in progress. Elsewhere, State Department officials said that at least 88,000 Kosovars are now homeless, AP reported. Of these, 60,000 to 85,000 remain in Kosova, 15,000 are in Montenegro, and 13,000 have crossed into Albania. PM ALBANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS FOR 'REALISM' IN KOSOVA... Paskal Milo told a press conference in Tirana on 1 June that many Albanians confuse their desire for Kosova's independence with political realities. He stressed that Albania is part of the international community and has to respect the inviolability of international borders. Milo added that Albania is continuing to work for a peaceful solution to the Kosova conflict, which, he said, will take time. He warned, however, that time is running out and that negotiations will have to start next week or else the armed conflict could spread further. FS ...WANTS KOSOVARS TO HAVE JOINT NEGOTIATOR. Milo said that the UCK has become an important factor in determining developments in Kosova and must be part of negotiations, along with Rugova. Milo added that the UCK is not a terrorist group but consists of people defending their homes in the face of massacres by Serbian forces. Milo called on all political forces in Kosova, including the UCK, to appoint a joint "authorized and competent" negotiator for talks with Belgrade. It was unclear if he meant one person or a team, such as the one that Rugova appointed in March (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 25 March 1998). FS KOSOVAR POLITICIANS FAIL TO AGREE ON UCK ROLE. Established political leaders reached no agreement in Prishtina on 1 July on how to integrate the UCK into political structures, RFE/RL's South Slavic Service reported. Rugova and his Democratic League of Kosova (LDK) want to convene the LDK- controlled shadow-state parliament so that it can "provide sponsorship" for the LDK. Opposition parties want to set up a new National Council that would represent politically the UCK. Amid the growing violence in recent weeks, the leading role of the moderate LDK has been under challenge from Adem Demaci of the Parliamentary Party and other radical politicians, who seek recognition for themselves as the political wing of the increasingly influential UCK. PM KINKEL SAYS INTERVENTION A MATTER OF 'WEEKS, MONTHS.' German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel said on 1 July that the Kosovars should "not be under any illusions" that NATO will intervene to stop the violence at any time soon. He added that any military intervention in Kosova could be a matter of "weeks or months" because of opposition from Russia and China, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" wrote. Kinkel suggested that "an appropriate means to contain the conflict" could be to send an OSCE observer mission to Kosova. Such missions, however, proved totally ineffective in the Croatian and Bosnian conflicts, where locals dubbed them "ice-cream men" because of their ineffectiveness and their white uniforms and vehicles. PM SERBS RELY EVER MORE ON ARMY. The Yugoslav army has recently become more active in the interior of Kosova, the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" wrote on 2 July, citing unnamed Western diplomatic sources in Belgrade. Previously, the army limited its activities largely to the border region with Albania. Meanwhile in the Drenica region, UCK fighters regrouped following their loss of the coal mine at Belacevac (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 1 July 1998). Elsewhere, fighting continued around the besieged Serbian-held town of Kijeva, which Holbrooke recently called "the most dangerous place in Europe." PM UN INVESTIGATES ALLEGED PROSTITUTION RING. UN police spokesmen said in Sarajevo on 1 July that they have launched an investigation into charges that Bosnian Serb police are running an organized prostitution ring involving women from Eastern Europe and the former USSR. In Zagreb, customs officials found 16 tons of marijuana in two ship containers during a routine inspection. A police spokesman said that one man was arrested and added that this is the single largest drug bust in Europe this year. Also in Zagreb, the government has approved a program for the restructuring of Croatian Railways, according to which 7,000 workers will lose their jobs, "Jutarnji list" wrote on 2 July. PM INTELLIGENCE SERVICE CANNOT REVEAL DEPUTIES LINKS TO FORMER SECURITATE. Responding to the Chamber of Deputies' resolution of 29 June, Romanian Intelligence Service director Costin Georgescu on 1 July told the parliamentary commission supervising the service's activities that under existing legislation, the service is prohibited from making public the links of parliamentary deputies to the former secret police. In order for the chamber's request to be met, legislation prohibiting the disclosure of information from Securitate files for 40 years since the legislation's enactment would have to be changed, RFE/RL's Bucharest bureau reported. MS ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER IN ROMANIA. Lamberto Dini on 1 July met with his Romanian counterpart, Adrian Plesu, to discuss bilateral relations, Italian support for Romania's quest to accede to NATO, and the conflict in Kosova, RFE/RL's Bucharest bureau reported. Dini said that the Kosova Albanians' demands for full independence may result in a war affecting the entire region. Both he and Plesu advocated a "large [measure of] autonomy" for the Kosova Albanians within Yugoslavia's existing borders. Dini was also received by Premier Radu Vasile and by the chairmen of the two houses of the parliament, Petre Roman and Ion Diaconescu. MS LUCINSCHI ON TRANSDNIESTER CONFLICT. President Petru Lucinschi on 30 June told the OSCE Secretary-General Giancarlo Aragona that Moldova is willing to solve the conflict with the Transdniester by granting the separatist region a special status with a large degree of autonomy, BASA-press reported the next day. He said this position coincides with that of the OSCE and the two mediating countries, Russia and Ukraine. He also said Moldova "counts" on OSCE support in its quest to solve the conflict. Aragona is participating in a OSCE-organized seminar on relations between central and local authorities. Separatist leader Igor Smirnov declined an invitation to attend the seminar. He wrote to OSCE mission chief in Moldova John Evans that "Moldova is not a central authority" for the Transdniester region. MS AGREEMENT ON REDUCTION OF FORCES IN TRANSDNIESTER BUFFER ZONE. The Joint Control Commission supervising the truce in the buffer zone announced on 2 July that the two conflicting sides will each reduce their number of "truce observers" by 500 over the next weeks, Infotag and BASA-press reported. At present, there are some 800 Moldovan, 900 Transdniestrian, and 500 Russian troops in the zone. The agreement is in line with the accord signed last March in Odessa by Lucinschi, Smirnov, and Russian President Boris Yeltsin. MS SLOVENIAN PRESIDENT IN BULGARIA. Janez Drnovsek, on the second day of an official visit to Sofia, told journalists in Varna on 1 July that Bulgaria could become "Slovenia's bridge" to other countries and regions, an RFE/RL correspondent in the Bulgarian capital reported. Prime Minister Ivan Kostov praised Slovenia's backing of Bulgaria's drive to join the Central European Free Trade Agreement. Last week, Bulgarian officials said Sofia will join CEFTA in mid-July. Drnovsek and Kostov signed four accords, including a memorandum on mutual protection of investments and an agreement on transport links between their countries. Drnovsek discussed the conflict in Kosova with both Kostov and President Petar Stoyanov. Drnovsek said both sides, but particularly Belgrade, must accept the need for a compromise solution. Stoyanov said a new embargo against Yugoslavia will be detrimental to reform in the entire region. MS END NOTE MOLDOVA, UKRAINE SQUABBLE OVER OIL TERMINAL by Stefan Korshak Plans to build an oil transfer terminal in Moldova are stirring opposition in Ukraine, which is worried about an adverse environmental impact. The $38 million project is scheduled for completion next year. The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing a $25.5 million credit for the construction of the terminal, which will allow Moldova to transfer petroleum to and from tankers plying the Danube, bringing considerable savings for the small landlocked country. "This is just the kind of project we need," noted Moldova Deputy Premier Minister Ion Gutsu at a recent EBRD conference. "It will create critical infrastructure...and enable our economy to grow." But Ukraine sees the terminal in a very different light. "Our experts recently went to the site and inspected the project," Odessa Regional Administration spokesman Yuri Shiroparov told RFE/RL. "And they found many things wrong with it." Situated on the Danube's left bank south of the village of Dzhurdzhulesht and snug up against the Ukrainian border, the terminal could transfer 2.1 million tons of oil annually, giving Moldova an alternative to Russian energy deliveries. Ukraine has no problem with that. But Kyiv is arguing that because the terminal is only a few kilometers upstream in the middle of Europe's largest wetland, the project endangers the environment. "One of the most important problems our experts found is that [the terminal] threatens our ecology and vulnerable wetlands," Shiroparov said. "We need to make sure that our interests are protected." The Danube Commission, composed of representatives from countries bordering the river, could have been a forum to iron out differences about the environmental impact of development in the basin. This proved, however, not to be the case. The Ukrainians charge that the Moldovans may have misled them and brought to near-completion a major industrial project without providing full information on the scope of the work. But Moldovan project managers counter that Kyiv has had ample opportunities to learn about the Dzhudzhulesht Terminal, as far back as 1994. "Ukrainian and Moldovan commissioners met in Chisinau on 3 November 1994 to discuss the problems of the terminal," said Deputy General Director of the Terminal S.A., Yakov Mogorian, in a recent newspaper article. "Results of [an independent Dutch] study were presented in Chisinau on 9 December 1994...[and] on 23 November the Moldovan side invited [Ukrainian ecological representatives]...but no one came and no one made any comments." There were several permutations of the project before it was finalized into a Greek/Moldovan/EBRD joint venture. The first funds were obtained in late 1996, and by 1997 Dutch general contractor Fredric R. Harris had begun construction. Kyiv demands now that Harris's blueprints be approved by its Ministry of Ecological Protection. Protests have been made to the Danube Commission and, more recently, Ukraine has tightened border control near the frontier town of Reni. 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Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera has been scratched from Wednesday night's starting lineup against the Baltimore Orioles.
J.D. Martinez's homer was his third of the three-game series, as the Tigers took two out of three from the Orioles.
Martinez is 1-1 with a 4.82 ERA in three career outings against Detroit. Twice last season, in fact, he gave up seven runs on eight hits - just like he did in a forgettable 2? innings against the Orioles Tuesday.
DETROIT (AP) - Chris Davis homered in the 12th inning and again in the 13th. "I ran into some trouble there and it came down to one pitch, the first curveball I hung all day, and ended up giving up a couple of runs".
Keuchel allowed two runs and four hits in five innings. It was the second home run in three games for Martinez, who had gone deep only once previously on the season.
The Tigers were one out away from the win.
Will the Detroit Tigers be able to hold off the Baltimore Orioles when the two AL foes meet up tonight at 7:10PM ET? Davis came up with a runner on third in the 13th and hit a drive to right off Francisco Rodriguez (1-5).
After what started out looking like the weather might be the only positive thing about the game, the Tigers showed they wouldn't be bested by the Orioles, and revved up their collective offense engines. "So, that can't happen and I've got to do a better job". Designated hitter Victor Martinez struck with one man on base in the fifth inning, staking the Tigers to what was then a 5-4 lead that they did not relinquish the rest of the way. Collins is mired in an 0-for-30 slump. "Attacking guys and sticking to the scouting report and communicating during the game, making sure we don't get off track of what we want to do". "That's a great win".More news: Tottenham Hotspur - Manchester United Betting: Back Spurs to score first
Instead, when the Tigers announced the move after Thursday's game, it was actually an arm that was Detroit-bound from Triple-A Toledo, in the form of right-handed pitcher Buck Farmer. Once Scherzer hit the open market, you knew that no matter how many times the Tigers said they are "still in the running" to keep Scherzer, he wasn't coming back.
Mookie Betts led off the game with a home run and added another RBI to lead Boston to a victory over St Louis.
Elvis Andrus added an RBI double and Nomar Mazara added a two-run double for Texas.
RAYS 7, INDIANS 4: Corey Dickerson hit a three-run homer - his third homer in two days - and Alex Cobb controlled Cleveland over seven innings as Tampa Bay completed its most successful trip in a year.
Cobb (4-3) allowed three runs and six hits. He has allowed 17 earned runs in 39.1 innings with 19 walks and 29 strikeouts.
After Mike Trout was walked intentionally to load the bases, Pujols hit the ball over the drawn-in outfield to end it. The Orioles didn't have any relievers left after Bleier, but Showalter said he could have used right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez if need be.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, manager Brad Ausmus stressed the injury is not serious. Castillo missed 14 games with right shoulder tendinitis. He was activated from the disabled list before the game and had three hits.
The pitching matchup for tonight's game has Matt Boyd (2-3, 3.89 ERA) on the mound to face Wade Miley (1-1, 2.45) of the Orioles.

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A USENET post I dug out of my history…
Another USENET post I dug out of my history. 🙂
USENET still going strong, and more environmentally friendly than BitTorrent 😉 #internet #torrent
I like pronouncing things dead as much as the next guy, and don't feel bound by facts. As I previously said in Death of USENET I don't think USENET is dead, and neither do the statistics[1].The war….


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Dodging a Bullet with My Name on It.
Disclaimer: This is quite a morbid post and better avoided by those with a queasy stomach. It contains graphic descriptions of diseases and deaths and is not recommended for everyone.
I woke up sometime around four this morning with my mind all alert of a sudden. For a few minutes I lay there trying to calm myself of the sudden wave of anxiety that had woke me up and trying to recall what it was that was troubling me so much. And then it crashed on me like a wave. Oh god, how could I miss it? It was so much like an HIV case. And then it all came back. Yesterday, being an unusually busy day with a long line of patients- each one crowding out the other like on an assembly line- I had seen a patient with certain unusual symptoms- a severe disease with no logical added reason like diabetes or some previous fevers or something which could explain the severity of her symptoms. And being such a busy morning with forty plus impatient patients waiting next-in-line I had asked her the mandatory questions, asked her to get the routine blood tests next time she came, did a minor procedure on her then and there and prescribed the usual medicines all the while functioning on my robo- doc mode.
I know that my being tired and distracted with all the noise and clamor of those patients surrounding me doesn't excuse me from not suspecting something amiss right then and there. But, i suppose my ever present vigilance slipped for a minute and i decided to treat it for then and there and reserve further inquiry for the next visit in three days. But somehow, somewhere in the back of my mind my subconscious was not satisfied with the mystery is what I think now. It must have been plugging away at it all day until in the middle of the night it made the right connections and it woke me up. I was lying there in a cold sweat while thinking how careless i had been in handling an HIV patient. What if, god forbid, I had been exposed too? Was it already too late for me? Am I going to get AIDS and die? Believe me these are morbid thought to think in the middle of the damn night. They don't make for much pleasant sleep the rest of the night.
When we are students we are taught repeatedly how to protect ourselves. There is a reason that we are taught to take precautions as if every single patient is an HIV patient because you never know who can be one. They might know that they are hiv positive but conceal it and lie to the doctor so they wouldn't be treated differently- with extra safety measures. Or the poor patients might not themselves have known about it. Any which way if only we, I, had followed the proper procedure of doubting everyone- I wouldn't be here in the middle of the night shivering with fear. But complacency they say can kill even the best of them and as i had started to think myself as wise as Yoda the Jedi master, I had let down my guard and been as foolish as the newest apprentice.
Of course the blame can also be shared by the authorities- they expect us doctors to do miracles with what we have while they support us only halfheartedly. If you want to give the best health care to the poor patients then you should be prepared to spend more money by hiring more doctors who can spend more time with each patient listening and diagnosing carefully. You can't expect just a handful of doctors to cope with a hundred patients in five hours and still take a detailed look into everyone's complaint and not make a single error. We are human too- a fact which the authorities conveniently forget all the time. I had been travelling all night that night, on a rickety government bus, perched on an uncomfortable seat trying to grab a few winks of sleep and as soon as I had landed in the city I had come straight to work after stopping to change at home. I was tired, sleepy and my alert levels were far below normal. Of course I made an error- but the bottom-line is I am in a profession where errors are inexcusable- they can either kill the patient or kill the doctor. No excuses allowed.
And to conclude this post, medicine is as a risky a profession (for doctors, I mean) as you can ever see in life. The chances of our errors killing us is almost as high for airline pilots - remember the Thai flight lost recently due to pilot error? Similarly, one mistake, one moment of carelessness and we doctors are dead- it's an accepted hazard of the profession though no one talks about it much. If you think I am being paranoid let me explain that on a daily basis we doctors are exposed to far more life threatening diseases than anyone else - including those sick people who have that disease and only "that" disease. For example, I had spent a majority of last week at the fever ward- the place where severely infectious patients are admitted- because there has been a recent explosion of chicken pox cases in the city and everyone's been pitching in to help out to get over the staff shortages because of the summer hols.
I guess my blood by now is crawling with all sorts of viruses and bacteria after being exposed to the infectious diseases wards all week. I am a walking, talking bio-bomb, most likely. On the other hand the fact that I am still healthy and haven't caught anything yet only points out the astonishing fact that my immune system is robust and copes with everything that's thrown at it. Those little buggers, the white blood cells swimming down my arteries must be some helluva strong fellas right? And in the end - what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger, in the immortal language of that awesomatic rapper 50-Cent. So, let's see, my options are I can either keep worrying all day long about whether I have caught anything or just get on with life throwing it all to fate and that's what I am prefer to do. Just get on with my life and hope for the best - like the light brigade- canons to the left of them, canons to the right, rode the six hundred and so will I.
P.S. Just now- this morning the patient has returned with her blood test results. She said she had been cured completely by whatever drugs I had given her earlier- all her symptoms had disappeared. And most importantly her blood test results came out clean- she was not HIV positive which means I was in no real danger whatsoever and had merely been frightened badly. I don't know who was more relieved at the result - her or me. Somehow I seem to have dodged the bullet this time- but I have learnt my lesson. Eternal vigilance is the price to pay- to sleep well at night. No more excuses- of being tired or anything- nothing will be tolerated. I vow to keep awake, alert, all the time, so help me god. And I sincerely hope that the bullet which has my name on it will take some more time to arrive. I am not dying yet, I have work to do and a life to live and miles to go before I sleep.


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Man Found Dead Near Miranda Cosgrove's Home, Charlie Hunnam Checks Out Crime Scene
This is a pretty crazy story – a body was found dead and engulfed in flames right near Miranda Cosgrove's home in the Hollywood Hills on Friday night (December 16).
The 23-year-old former iCarly actress lives in a celeb-filled neighborhood and Charlie Hunnam was spotted walking by the crime scene while the cops were investigating the death to see what was going on.
It is believed that the man who died committed suicide. He was found with a gun and ammo next to his body and the LAPD put the fire out, according to TMZ. Nobody else is suspected of being involved in the incident.
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That quote is actualy very witty, Celdur. I suggest you use that in your signature.
Please say the primary and secondary job system is still in, I feel that being able to have a secondary class should be a staple in RPGs after playing that game for a while.
They removed the yellow and red cards? If there's no punishment to disobeying the law, what incentive is there to follow them? Being rewarded isn't so great, since in the first game following the recommended gave just JP, which I really never used.
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The book, Journeys Out of Body by Robert Monroe has approached it's sound forty five years later. The Outside Inflation is sound from the other world. An unknown beauty in some foreign realm. Hovering what is recognizable in your listening space like a hypnotist twirling a pendant in very front of your site. Soon your are away in the world of Skittish Arm. Endless in infinite creations never heard from home. An ambient bridge to beyond the dimension we currently perceive.
Over an hour long and there are tracks, seven of them. More like shift changes because the sound is so seamless. The mood is impressively positive and this is a amazing skill, with the approach used so mysteriously unconventional by Dylan Burchett. A droned out abyss with distances beyond calculation. The Outside Inflation is truly a spell casting for the consciousness. A mysterious force pressing a new atmospheric pressure against your body. The weight is a perfectly delighting change from the monotonous state we live in. Skittish Arm controls the mass your thoughts float through, deftly changing small amounts allowing your mind to breath. Once in, there is no start or end, only the moment of time in constant stream. There is a lot of material on this cassette and with so much variety, words are very hard to use as concise descriptions. The development of all the sounds on The Outside Inflation takes absolutely perfect amounts of time. Once you find yourself comfortable and skimming thought, Dylan evokes a change, like he is cooking your mind and it needed to be rotated for a perfect crust.
This is number fourteen for the Oklahoma label and music writing outfit PSI LAB. Sold in an edition of fifty with one left at the label, making this the only and last cassette PSI LAB has for sale as this is being written. That is pretty amazing for all labels and maybe goes to show listening to so much music helps find the really good stuff.
Fortunately Dylan has some copies for sale at his bandcamp site. Although the rest of his prolific discography is all sold out from his site. So this would be good to get fairly soon. Really a good one.
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Learning of the locations of the Cagewrights from Jenya, the Eldritch Blades journeyed deep beneath Cauldron into the heart of the volcano. There they hoped to stop the infernal ritual the Cagewrights were performing and prevent the demonic legions of Carceri from spilling forth into Cauldron and the surrounding area.
They made their way to the obsidian gates of the Fiery Sanctum, home of the Cagewrights. Exploring within, they were set upon my demon minions. After a fierce fight, the group was able to lay low their foes. They discovered a secret passage, seemingly their only path forward further into the complex. They proceeded with caution.


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I want a 10 steps graphic tutorial of mobile phone skin installation. For every step, I want a single graphic design that summarizes it. I want each to design to be in a square or rectangular format. Please check the attached photo. It's gonna be something similar to it. Those are the 10 steps: 1. Use the included cleaning kit and the electrostatic
I have a static female model (naked body with jeans and shirt) I need the model: - rigged and skinned, ready to be animated with controls - with facial blend shapes for lip syncing and some emotions (references attached) I need this in Maya and Max, but Max is not so important, Maya is mandatory.
Hello there... I'm looking for a writer to research and write a 5000+ word count article on "The Ultimate Guide To Taking Care Of Elderly Parents" topic. I would be happy to provide you with a rough outline for the kind of article I'm looking for. However, you would need to do some additional research to add points of your own. Budget: $50 USD Payment
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Telefonica Czech is apparently refusing to carry the iPhone 4S, and will be discontinuing sales of Apple's other iPhone models as well, citing unacceptable business terms, according to Bloomberg.
iPhone 4S: Not at Telefonica Czech
The carrier isn't saying exactly what about Apple's business terms turned it off and pushed it to stop carrying the iPhone line.
The Czech divisions of T-Mobile International and Vodafone began selling the iPhone 4S today, so customers will still be able to pick up Apple's newest iPod and smartphone combo.


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Systematic review and meta-analysis: prevalence of alcohol use among young people in eastern Africa
This review found that alcohol use and problem drinking were common among diverse groups of young people in eastern Africa
Objective: Systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies of alcohol use among young people (age 15–24 years) in eastern Africa to estimate prevalence of alcohol use and determine the extent of use of standardised screening questionnaires in alcohol studies This review covers Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Seychelles, Rwanda, Eritrea, Burundi, Somalia, Somaliland, Comoros and South Sudan
Methods: 5 databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, Global Health, Africa-wide, and PsycINFO) were searched for publications until 30th June 2013. Results were summarised using the guidelines on preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) and on quality assessment using the modified quality assessment tool for systematic reviews of observational studies (QATSO). Heterogeneity was assessed using the I2 statistic (DerSimonian-Laird).
Results: We identified 2785 potentially relevant studies, of which 56 were eligible for inclusion. Only two studies (4%) used the standardised Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT) questionnaire, and six studies (13%) used the Cut down, Annoyed, Guilt, Eye opener (CAGE) questionnaire. The reported median prevalence of alcohol use was ever-use 52% [interquartile range (IQR): 20–58%], use in the last month 28% (IQR: 17–37%), use in the last year 26% (IQR: 22–32%), and problem drinking as defined by CAGE or AUDIT 15% (IQR: 3–36%). We observed high heterogeneity between studies, with the highest prevalence of ever use of alcohol among university students (82%; 95%CI: 79–85%) and female sex workers (66%; 95%CI: 58–74%). Current use was most prevalent among male sex workers (69%; 95%CI: 63–75%).
Conclusions: Reported alcohol use and problem drinking were common among diverse groups of young people in eastern Africa, indicating the urgent need for alcohol-focused interventions in this population. Few studies have used standardised alcohol screening questionnaires. Epidemiological research to investigate alcohol-focused interventions in young people should aim to apply such questionnaires that should be validated for use in this population.
This research is funded under the Department for International Development's STRIVE Programme which is led by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
Francis, J.M.; Grosskurth, H.; Changalucha, J.; Kapiga, S.H.; Weiss, H.A. Systematic review and meta-analysis: prevalence of alcohol use among young people in eastern Africa. Tropical Medicine and International Health (2014) : [DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12267]
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Okay, so last week was a DOOZY! The whole family came down with the stomach flu. Blech.... hubby was out of town, and my Mommers and her best friend were visiting. (Yes, the friend caught the flu too. Boo.) SOOOO... before I show you the creation I made for The Color Room... and see it's simplicity compared to other works... keep in mind that any smell made me sick, lol, so paste and paints were almost totally off limits. BUT that didn't stop me from wanting to create something!
Based on this palette!
The layout may be a tad clean for me, but I confess... I like it. :) I really do think it ended up capturing the sweetness of this photo of Sarenna on her birthday!
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Review of Die For Me by Amy Plum
When Kate Mercier's parents die in a tragic car accident, she leaves her life--and memories--behind to live with her grandparents in Paris. For Kate, the only way to survive her pain is escaping into the world of books and Parisian art. Until she meets Vincent.
Mysterious, charming, and devastatingly handsome, Vincent threatens to melt the ice around Kate's guarded heart with just his smile. As she begins to fall in love with Vincent, Kate discovers that he's a revenant--an undead being whose fate forces him to sacrifice himself over and over again to save the lives of others. Vincent and those like him are bound in a centuries-old war against a group of evil revenants who exist only to murder and betray. Kate soon realizes that if she follows her heart, she may never be safe again.
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When I started this book I thought, 'Wow, this is pretty good!' I really liked the writing style. Then cue page 20, Kate sees Vincent and everything goes mushy. The writing is still good but it's a romance I have read so many times before that I wanted to bang my head against a wall. This could have been so much better. I don't know if the Author just wanted to play it safe but I didn't enjoy the book at all.
Kate would be a good character but Vincent's character is awful, a typical Edward Cullen/Damon Auguste character that I've seen in a million other YA books. I really wanted to get into the story and read about the Revenants but there wasn't much mentioned as everything is centred around her obsession with Vincent.
Kate's and Vincent's romance drove me up the wall. They get together far to quickly for my liking and when she decides to avoid him he stalks her, standing outside her house for hours on end. I don't about you but that reminds me of someone... ~cough~EdwardCullen~cough~
What is it with the growing trend of teenage heroines in YA books dating really old men? 'Oh well, it's okay because he looks 19.' Um, he's still in his 80's!
I actually wanted Kate to get with Catherine, I think that would have been a far cuter storyline. I can picture them holding hands down the street and visiting little cafes. Or Bistros. Whatever the French call them. The word Bistro makes me think of gravy. Anyway.
I found the ending a lot duller than I was expecting. I was half expecting cartoon characters it was so silly. It wasn't as weak as the ending in Finding Sky but I felt that the author just threw whatever in, knowing it would sell anyway. It was quite disappointing. I'm not sure if I'll read the next book, unless it sounds like it will be better.


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Hi Any node would submit the job to JobTracker which distributes the jar to TaskTrackers and individual tasks are executed on nodes across the cluster. MR tasks are executed across the cluster. Regards Bejoy KS Sent from remote device, Please excuse typos -----Original Message----- From: KayVajj <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:01:42 To: <email@example.com> Reply-To: email@example.com Subject: Question regarding hadoop jar command usage I have a question regarding the hadoop jar command. In a cluster of say nodes n1,n2...n100 the node n1 has jar Myjar on its local file system. If I run the command hadoop jar local/path/to/Myjar Myclass other-args Is the MR job executed just on n1 or any arbitrary node n1..n100? If it is any arbitrary node, since Myjar exists only on n1. Is the jar copied across all nodes on the cluster to run the MR code.
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I don't know about you but for me with the diagnosis of coeliac, quinoa has become my best friend. Last weekend at the Orange farmers market I got introduced to the idea of quinoa porridge made with almond milk by Roquette Science . A way to make quinoa porridge even tastier (and healthier!). As a bonus, all it takes is 2 ingredients plus toppings.
For my breakfast this morning all i did was cook quinoa in almond milk on the stove, top with raspberries and shredded coconut, and devour! The best gluten-free, dairy-free, paleo breakfast yet!
Cook the quinoa to your own taste – I use lots of almond milk as I like it creamy and not at all chewy! Just make sure you keep and eye on it whilst it's on the stove!
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Florida is a fabulous place to live, and it's getting better.
Here are ten reasons why people should be thankful they call the Sunshine State home.
1. Panhandle politics. The conservative traditions of North Florida serve as a vital counterweight to those of the People's Democratic Republics of Broward and South Palm Beach Counties, making Florida a centrist state.
2. South Florida politics. Ditto to No. 1, but in reverse.
3. A growing population.
Sure, lots of residents gripe about too much traffic, but people provide the critical mass for some really good things. World class medical care, improving higher education, superb entertainment, and a selection of restaurants second to none are all the result of an expanding population.
4.If it's going to happen, it's going to happen here.
Take, for example, the Elian Gonzalez saga, the 2000 botched election and the Miriam Oliphant tragicomedy. Stories like these keep life interesting in Florida, and particularly South Florida. If aliens were to arrive from outer space, they no doubt would land on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
5. Low taxes, and in particular, no personal income tax. People are justifiably angry at the rapid rise in property taxes. But they need to look beyond their annual TRIM notices. Overall, Florida ranks 38th out of the 50 states in taxation, which is one reason its economy is resilient.
6. The rainy season.
The fall colors in the North are magnificent to look at, but so are the incredible cloud formations during Florida's summer. Of course there's a hurricane threat. That comes with living in the tropics.
But judging from the last two hurricane seasons, the prognosticators who predicted Florida would be blown off the map are beginning to look like Chicken Little.
7. A laid-back attitude, at least for most Floridians. They've learned not to take life too seriously, which is why the state tends not to produce political maniacs like Howard Dean.
8. Reasonably honest government. Florida isn't Louisiana.
9. The Florida Marlins. Despite their current woes, they've given South Florida two World Series.
10. Year-round golf. Need I say more?
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In some alternate reality right now, Democrats are banking on a strengthening economy that is the envy of the world as a bulwark against big losses in the midterm elections in November.
Because the economy itself is, in fact, doing pretty well with job growth at an average of more than 200,000 per month (throw out August as an outlier) and an overall expansion rate of over 4 percent. The U.S. is certainly outpacing Europe and even growing faster than Brazil while catching up with a slowing China.
In this parallel universe, President Barack Obama is seizing on rising U.S. economic confidence to help Democrats hold the Senate and fight off significant losses in the House.
In our actual universe, things are very different.
The fact is the economy is a major drag on Obama and the Democrats heading in the midterms, according to the latest Politico battleground poll conducted among likely voters in key Senate and House races.


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NEW YORK--Solar panels clusters in New Mexico, wind farms dotting the Great Plains? That's all very nice. But that railroad tunnel in Baltimore is important, too.
On a gray and rainy Thursday, I went to Time Inc.'s midtown Manhattan headquarters for what was supposed to be a panel about the company's flagship magazine's annual "Person of the Year" honor. But amid consistently grave economic news, not to mention the fact that everyone in attendance seemed to agree that President-elect Barack Obama eclipses any other options for the award, the conversation was less about a magazine headline and more about the future of the country.
After a hefty fall season of digital-media and Web conferences, I was surprised to witness that outside the culture of think-big tech pundits, "the future" is a lot more mundane.
"This is what President Obama's going to face," said panelist Elizabeth Edwards, Center for American Progress senior fellow and wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards. The road out of the economic crisis is "not a refund check" encouraging more consumption, "not more houses with more flat-screen TVs...(but) bridges that work and schools that inspire students."
The panelist lineup was impressive: in addition to Edwards, there was NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams; Mad Men actor John Slattery; personal-finance talking head Suze Orman; Saturday Night Live head writer Seth Meyers; and congressional Rep. Artur Davis (D-Alabama). None of them were the sorts of people whom I'd seen onstage in the past two months of tech industry events, from the Web 2.0 Expo in New York to the Future of Web Apps in London to last week's Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco (which featured Intel CEO Paul Otellini, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and former Vice President Al Gore, among others).
To be sure, the Techmeme set talks a whole lot about recession and recovery these days. Al Gore has urged us to move beyond "the gee-whiz stuff." Back in April, Tim O'Reilly expressed mild disgust at the fact that some of the U.S.' best and sharpest minds were busy building new ways to throw virtual hamburgers at each other on Facebook.
The problem is that some of these digital thought leaders' "real-world solutions" are still painted with that wide-eyed, change-the-world Valley sparkle. There is a distinct soldier-on, innovation-won't stop attitude, even as dozens of tech companies slice off a fifth, a quarter, a third of their workforces. Tech innovation will change the world in big ways, but it will change the world in small and unglamorous ways, too, and we're not hearing a whole lot of that.
At the Web 2.0 Summit, Gore suggested that in ten years we can build a "unified national smart grid" of sustainable electricity, a plan that would create thousands of jobs but which critics say might not even work. Paul Otellini excitedly showed off an Intel prototype of a camera-like gadget that could do language translations in seconds. Other panels at the same conference were all about consumer solar equipment retail, home DNA tests, and $100,000 electric sports cars.
There was none of that on Thursday at Time Inc.'s headquarters. Williams suggested that perhaps President Obama's priorities should, FDR-style, putting people to work repairing a national infrastructure that's in bad disrepair. "Would it be that bad if we had a big jobs program?" Williams posed.
He asked why New York's LaGuardia Airport is in disrepair, why some of the city's infrastructure hasn't been touched since the days of controversial public works czar Robert Moses, and why it was possible that a bridge collapsed in Minneapolis last year. He asked why the U.S.' only high-speed train line, Amtrak's Acela Express, has to slow to 25 miles per hour to get through a tunnel outside Baltimore that dates back to the 1930s.
If people were put to work repairing it, Williams said, "you could get to Washington 20 minutes earlier."
The nifty smart-camera gadget that Otellini showed off at the Web 2.0 Summit might as well have been a flying car on The Jetsons in comparison.


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Chapter 33
The Fall of a Chieftain
THERE never was such an overturn in this world. Each of these six men was as though he had been struck. But with Silver the blow passed almost instantly. Every thought of his soul had been set full-stretch, like a racer, on that money; well, he was brought up, in a single second, dead; and he kept his head, found his temper, and changed his plan before the others had had time to realize the disappointment.
"Jim," he whispered, "take that, and stand by for trouble."
And he passed me a double-barrelled pistol.
At the same time, he began quietly moving northward, and in a few steps had put the hollow between us two and the other five. Then he looked at me and nodded, as much as to say, "Here is a narrow corner," as, indeed, I thought it was. His looks were not quite friendly, and I was so revolted at these constant changes that I could not forbear whispering, "So you've changed sides again."
There was no time left for him to answer in. The buccaneers, with oaths and cries, began to leap, one after another, into the pit and to dig with their fingers, throwing the boards aside as they did so. Morgan found a piece of gold. He held it up with a perfect spout of oaths. It was a two-guinea piece, and it went from hand to hand among them for a quarter of a minute.
"Two guineas!" roared Merry, shaking it at Silver. "That's your seven hundred thousand pounds, is it? You're the man for bargains, ain't you? You're him that never bungled nothing, you wooden-headed lubber!"
"Dig away, boys," said Silver with the coolest insolence; "you'll find some pig-nuts and I shouldn't wonder."
"Pig-nuts!" repeated Merry, in a scream. "Mates, do you hear that? I tell you now, that man there knew it all along. Look in the face of him and you'll see it wrote there."
"Ah, Merry," remarked Silver, "standing for cap'n again? You're a pushing lad, to be sure."
But this time everyone was entirely in Merry's favour. They began to scramble out of the excavation, darting furious glances behind them. One thing I observed, which looked well for us: they all got out upon the opposite side from Silver.
Well, there we stood, two on one side, five on the other, the pit between us, and nobody screwed up high enough to offer the first blow. Silver never moved; he watched them, very upright on his crutch, and looked as cool as ever I saw him. He was brave, and no mistake.
At last Merry seemed to think a speech might help matters.
"Mates," says he, "there's two of them alone there; one's the old cripple that brought us all here and blundered us down to this; the other's that cub that I mean to have the heart of. Now, mates — "
He was raising his arm and his voice, and plainly meant to lead a charge. But just then — crack! crack! crack! — three musket-shots flashed out of the thicket. Merry tumbled head foremost into the excavation; the man with the bandage spun round like a teetotum and fell all his length upon his side, where he lay dead, but still twitching; and the other three turned and ran for it with all their might.
Before you could wink, Long John had fired two barrels of a pistol into the struggling Merry, and as the man rolled up his eyes at him in the last agony, "George," said he, "I reckon I settled you."
At the same moment, the doctor, Gray, and Ben Gunn joined us, with smoking muskets, from among the nutmeg-trees.
"Forward!" cried the doctor. "Double quick, my lads. We must head 'em off the boats."
And we set off at a great pace, sometimes plunging through the bushes to the chest.
I tell you, but Silver was anxious to keep up with us. The work that man went through, leaping on his crutch till the muscles of his chest were fit to burst, was work no sound man ever equalled; and so thinks the doctor. As it was, he was already thirty yards behind us and on the verge of strangling when we reached the brow of the slope.
"Doctor," he hailed, "see there! No hurry!"
Sure enough there was no hurry. In a more open part of the plateau, we could see the three survivors still running in the same direction as they had started, right for Mizzenmast Hill. We were already between them and the boats; and so we four sat down to breathe, while Long John, mopping his face, came slowly up with us.
"Thank ye kindly, doctor," says he. "You came in in about the nick, I guess, for me and Hawkins. And so it's you, Ben Gunn!" he added. "Well, you're a nice one, to be sure."
"I'm Ben Gunn, I am," replied the maroon, wriggling like an eel in his embarrassment. "And," he added, after a long pause, "how do, Mr. Silver? Pretty well, I thank ye, says you."
"Ben, Ben," murmured Silver, "to think as you've done me!"
The doctor sent back Gray for one of the pick-axes deserted, in their flight, by the mutineers, and then as we proceeded leisurely downhill to where the boats were lying, related in a few words what had taken place. It was a story that profoundly interested Silver; and Ben Gunn, the half-idiot maroon, was the hero from beginning to end.
Ben, in his long, lonely wanderings about the island, had found the skeleton — it was he that had rifled it; he had found the treasure; he had dug it up (it was the haft of his pick-axe that lay broken in the excavation); he had carried it on his back, in many weary journeys, from the foot of the tall pine to a cave he had on the two-pointed hill at the north-east angle of the island, and there it had lain stored in safety since two months before the arrival of the HISPANIOLA.
When the doctor had wormed this secret from him on the afternoon of the attack, and when next morning he saw the anchorage deserted, he had gone to Silver, given him the chart, which was now useless — given him the stores, for Ben Gunn's cave was well supplied with goats' meat salted by himself — given anything and everything to get a chance of moving in safety from the stockade to the two-pointed hill, there to be clear of malaria and keep a guard upon the money.
"As for you, Jim," he said, "it went against my heart, but I did what I thought best for those who had stood by their duty; and if you were not one of these, whose fault was it?"
That morning, finding that I was to be involved in the horrid disappointment he had prepared for the mutineers, he had run all the way to the cave, and leaving the squire to guard the captain, had taken Gray and the maroon and started, making the diagonal across the island to be at hand beside the pine. Soon, however, he saw that our party had the start of him; and Ben Gunn, being fleet of foot, had been dispatched in front to do his best alone. Then it had occurred to him to work upon the superstitions of his former shipmates, and he was so far successful that Gray and the doctor had come up and were already ambushed before the arrival of the treasure-hunters.
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UPDATE FROM ANDREW: My mom called me all excited today from the filming of KOMO TV Northwest Afternoon. It turns out Floyd stopped by the afternoon local variety show to explain his story and promote his book. They usually post their content on their site so I'll link the clip once it's up.
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Traditionally when you have lost lists of dat you want to alternate rows for usability. The first thing everybody makes to fix this is a simple if statement loop, but this adds a number of lines and is hardly a clean solution. Additionally it required you to have a "counter†or "switch†variable, usually placed at the bottom of the loop, overall very messy.
I had a boss who thought he was on the cutting edge by compressing the traditional if statement into a shorthand version (saving 2-3 lines of code), but the system was still using a $class variable and still requires a counting or switch variable. It was still a mess and added clutter to the code.
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To combat the chill of a winter wedding day, a Bride must wear an extra warm layer. I opted for a vintage fur stole on my January wedding day. This Bride opted for a cozy, knit scarf, a choice I am loving. But what I love even more is that her handsome ring pup is sporting a matching knit scarf. How adorable! After all, everyone needs to stay toasty warm, right?
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Kids Make It Better, Children Find Creative Solutions to the World's Toughest Problems
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This post was written by Suzy Becker, an artist, educator, entrepreneur, and the author of Kids Make it Better.
There's a freaky back-story to this post. The day I signed on as a guest blogger, this site's homepage featured a photo of a duck whose feathers had been doused in oil.
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A nearly identical photograph was the genesis of my new book, Kids Make it Better. I was teaching 2nd and 3rd grades, and a bunch of my kids were upset about the sad, doused duck they'd seen on the front page of The Boston Globe. I scrapped my lesson plan, handed out some paper and ask the kids a question: "If you were in charge, if you were the President or a scientist or an inventor, what would you do to clean up the oil slick?"
Then I stood there. Last night, at a "Think-in" in memory of education giant, great mentor and friend Ted Sizer, someone referred to the process of teaching as "lying in wait"—that's what I was doing after I handed out those pieces of paper.
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What happened: The kids began to write and draw. Meghan wrote, "I would get a big sponge and tie it with ropes to a helicopter. Then lower it down and soak up all the oil." Kathryn wrote, "I would put suntan lotion on all the animals. Then take the water out and wash it in a washing machine and put it back."
These kids weren't daunted. They were busy "solving" the problem, ant they were visibly less upset. As I watched them working away, I started to think: I could put any problem in front of any roomful of kids and they would come up with solutions. And the more I thought (the longer I was "lying in wait"), the more the idea grew on me.
Eighty classrooms and 20 elementary schools later, I had the beginnings of the Kids Make it Better book. Last summer, I turned those beginnings into a write-in, draw-in journal for 6 to 10 year-olds everywhere. And just last week, I got to watch my 5½ year old choose a problem: "When people are sick, they need extra-special care. How would you take care of someone who is sick?"
I read her an eight year old's solution from the book: "Let them have their pet in bed with them."
"Ew," she said. Earnie (our old cat) drools and Vita (our old dog) desperately needs a bath.
She thought for a while and wrote in her first solution in her very own copy of the book, "Give them lots of fresh air, TV, soda and sweets."
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a very long time – North American informal
1951 - William Styron - Lie Down in Darkness - I haven't seen him in a coon's age.
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cool as a cucumber
perfectly cool or self-possessed
1992 - Randall Kenan - Let the Dead Bury Their Dead - How many men do you know, black or white, could bluff, cool as a cucumber, caught butt-naked in bed with a damn whore?
cool your heels
be kept waiting
A British variant of this is kick your heels.
a gone coon
a person or thing in desperate straits or as good as dead - US informal
Coon in these idioms is an informal abbreviation of raccoon. Raccoons were hunted for their fur and a gone coon was one that had been cornered so that it could not escape.
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TILTON — U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes said Wednesday he will continue fighting for health care reform with "vigor," a word he has always associated with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
TILTON — U.S. Rep. Paul Hodes said Wednesday he will continue fighting for health care reform with "vigor," a word he has always associated with the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.
Speaking at a Rotary Club meeting, the Democrat from New Hampshire said Congress wouldn't have gotten as far as it has on health care reform without Kennedy's passion and commitment. Kennedy, 77, died late Tuesday night after a yearlong struggle with brain cancer.
"His voice will be sorely missed in the coming days, but I think we can say with some assurance we know where his heart was, we know what he fought so hard to see and we will take up the fight with vigor," said Hodes, who asked for a moment of silence in Kennedy's honor.
Jim Clements, headmaster at the Tilton School, said he was most concerned about how the health care proposals being negotiated in Congress would affect the federal deficit.
When Hodes explained that the House version of the bill was deficit-neutral but included a "surcharge" on the wealthiest Americans, Clements quickly interjected. "That's another name for higher taxes?" he asked, and Hodes clarified that was indeed what he meant.
Hodes said while he, too, was concerned about spending, he was more concerned with making wise investments.
"This is an investment we must make as a nation. We must make it for each of us as individuals, for our families, for our kids. We've got to make it as a country in order to be globally competitive," he said.
Pat Clark, a salesman for an electronics manufacturing company, said if Congress passes a government medical plan to compete with private insurance, he's worried it will be so complicated people would have trouble deciding if it's the right option for them.
"There's so much variety out there. It's very difficult to compare apples to apples," he said. "Is there anything you're working on to even the playing field so little people can sit down and look at the paperwork and not sift through 'War and Peace' to figure it out?"
Hodes said he hopes to see a simple tool, either on paper or online, that will allow people to easily compare their current coverage to the public plan.
Earlier, Hodes described a personal experience to defend a provision in the Democratic health care legislation that would authorize Medicare to pay doctors for counseling patients about end-of-life care, living wills, hospice care and other issues if a patient requests it. He said his father-in-law, who died this week, had been clear with his doctors about his wishes.
"I saw first hand what it meant for the family that had gathered for their beloved father to know how he wanted to die," he said. "As difficult as it was, it was dignified, it was calm, and the family's emotional burden was relieved," he said.
Hodes also planned to participate in an AARP telephone town hall meeting last night.