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Tuberculosis during pregnancy
Antonio Addis, Pharmd; Doug Blowey, MD; Gideon Koren, MD, FRCPC
August, 1996
In my practice I have many patients who recently immigrated to Canada from developing countries. One of them, treated for tuberculosis, discovered last week she is 3 months pregnant. What should be my approach?
The TB skin test (PPD) is considered safe and accurate during
pregnancy and is recommended for women who have TB symptoms or are at
high risk for TB. Available data indicate that the standard treatment
(isoniazid, rifampicin, ethambutol) is not teratogenic. Pregnant women
diagnosed with TB should be treated without delay. Tuberculosis does
not appear to influence pregnancy and pregnancy does not appear to
affect the course of TB. Tuberculosis is a far greater hazard to
pregnant women and their fetuses than is treatment of the disease.
Tuberculosis (TB) in pregnant women has been a concern since the days of Hippocrates. Because of improved living conditions and the discovery of effective chemotherapy, the incidence of TB has rapidly declined. However, recently there has been a resurgence.1 The increase in TB cases is due most likely to many factors, including the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic, drug abuse, poverty, homelessness, a deterioration in the health care infrastructure, and an increasing number of cases among immigrants.2
Tuberculin skin testing with purified protein derivative (PPD) during pregnancy has not been associated with teratogenic effects. In fact, screening for active or latent TB using PPD is indicated for certain pregnant women (including women who have symptoms of TB, have recently been exposed to TB, or have medical conditions, such as HIV infection, that predispose them to TB) and women in other high-risk categories (eg, HIV-positive, drug abusers). Pregnancy does not appear to affect the validity of PPD, and it is now accepted that tuberculin skin testing is valid throughout pregnancy.3 The most helpful activity in containing TB is prompt initiation of chemotherapy.
Central to understanding the therapeutic options for pregnant women or women of childbearing age infected with TB is knowledge of the effect of pregnancy on the clinical course of TB, the effect of TB on pregnancy, the safety of treatment during pregnancy, and recommendations for newborn babies of infected mothers.
Historically, pregnancy was thought to have a deleterious influence on the clinical course of TB, but data evaluating 1565 pregnancies during active TB infection suggested that pregnancy had no adverse effects on the clinical course of TB.4 This notion is supported by other studies, which in addition emphasize the success of chemotherapy in treating TB during pregnancy.4 A 10-year follow-up study of 215 patients who had received adequate chemotherapy for pulmonary TB concluded that pregnancy does not predispose patients to relapse, even patients with a persistent pulmonary cavity. 5 Finally, the clinical presentation of TB is not altered during pregnancy, although the symptoms of pregnancy might delay diagnosis of TB. The conclusion from available information is that pregnancy has little, if any, effect on the clinical course of TB.6
No evidence suggests that TB affects or complicates either the course of pregnancy or delivery ; women with and without TB had similar rates of normal, spontaneous deliveries.4 The prognosis of TB changed dramatically after specific chemotherapeutic agents were developed. Because drug resistance develops rapidly when a single drug is used, chemotherapy regimens for TB use at least three drugs, which vary depending upon the organism's susceptibility.
Most experts consider rifampin, combined with isoniazid and ethambutol, to be safe and effective for treating TB during pregnancy. 7,8 Despite the fact that all these drugs cross the placenta and reach low concentrations in human fetal fluids and tissues, no reports linking the use of these drugs with congenital anomalies have been located. Both rifampin and isoniazid have been implicated as potential causes of hemorrhagic disease in newborns. 9 Although the risk for these complications is supported only by case reports, women should take oral prophylactic vitamin K1, during the last month of pregnancy.
All pregnant women receiving isoniazid should take pyridoxine. Streptomycin is the only licensed anti-TB drug documented as having harmful effects on fetuses ; several cases describing congenital ototoxicity in newborns exposed in utero to streptomycin have been reported. 4 With the exception of eighth cranial nerve damage, no other congenital defects due to streptomycin have been reported. Routine use of pyrazinamide also is not recommended during pregnancy, not because teratogenicity has been documented, but because there is insufficient data to assess risk. Pyrazinamide should be considered only when the organism is found to be resistant to the drugs known to be safe in pregnancy. Pregnant women with inactive TB are generally administered prophylactic isoniazid therapy to prevent latent TB from progressing to clinical disease. 8
Infection with TB in utero is rare. Infants suspected of having congenital TB (eg, TB present in the placenta or history of miliary TB) should be referred to an infectious disease specialist. Almost all newborns who get TB acquire it from postpartum exposure to an untreated source (eg, mother or family member). Management of newborns whose mothers or household contacts have or are suspected of having TB is based on whether contacts have evidence of current disease and whether they are considered contagious. Management emphasizes proper evaluation of all individuals to whom the infant will be exposed. If this evaluation is not immediately possible, newborns should be given isoniazid therapy until the evaluation is completed. Because therapy is based on individual case considerations, and infectious disease specialist should be consulted for specific guidelines. 8
Because the low concentrations of anti-TB drugs in breast milk do not produce toxicity in nursing newborns, breastfeeding should be encouraged. However, because drug levels are so low in breast milk, they cannot be relied upon for either prophylaxis or therapy for nursing infants.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tuberculosis among pregnant women - New York City, 1985-1992. JAMA 1993; 270(11): 1293-6.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Initial therapy for tuberculosis in the era of multidrug resistance; recommendations of the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis. JAMA 1993;270(6):694-8.
- Huebner RE, Schein MP, Bass JB. The tuberculin skin test. Clin Infect Dis 1993;17:968-75.
- Hamadeh MA, Glassroth J. Tuberculosis and pregnancy. Chest 1992;101(1):1114-20.
- Summers L. Understanding tuberculosis: implications for pregnancy. J Perinat Neonatal Nurs 1992;6(2):12-24.
- Davidson PT. Managing tuberculosis during pregnancy. Lancet 1995;346:199-200.
- Ad Hoc Committee of the Scientific Assembly on Microbiology. Tuberculosis and pulmonary infections. Treatment of tuberculosis and tuberculosis infection in adults and children. Clin Infect Dis 1995;21:9-27.
- Pregnant women with active tuberculosis should be treated. Drug Ther Perspect 1996;7:9-11.
- Briggs GG, Freeman RK, Yaffee SJ, editors. Drugs in pregnancy and lactation. Baltimore, Md: Williams & Wilkins, 1994.


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Reinventions: sculpture + assemblage
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Rosalie Gascoigne The colonel�s lady 1976
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Reinventions: sculpture + assemblage features a diverse range of contemporary treasures from the national art collection, including works from the 1960s and 1970s through to the present day by artists such as Colin Lanceley, Rosalie Gascoigne, Robert Klippel, Neil Roberts, Ricky Swallow and Timothy Horn.
This exhibition is about the surprising, inventive adaptation of materials and ideas. Assemblage is the process of re-assembling discarded, found objects and materials in new contexts. Other sculptures in the exhibition reflect the idea of reinvention with new and innovative approaches to the use of traditional materials such as bronze and porcelain.

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A workshop on "Values in Nature: The Role of Ethics in Environmental Policy" is set for 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, May 2.
Workshop sessions will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 10 East Pyne. The event will conclude with a keynote address at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 10. Sessions will cover topics such as "Aesthetic and Spiritual Values," "Moral, Political and Religious Values" and "When Values Conflict: Climate Change."
The keynote address is titled "Some Say by Fire: Scientific Forecasting, Climate Change and What We Can Do as Americans." Speaking will be James Gustave Speth, dean and professor in the practice of environmental policy and sustainable development at Yale University's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.The workshop is sponsored by the University Center for Human Values and the Princeton Environmental Institute with support from the Council of the Humanities. For more information, view the schedule of events.


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In our first lesson, we'll go over the basic concepts in workers' compensation. You'll learn how your chances of being involved in a workers' compensation case—either as employee, employer, paralegal, or human resource coordinator—are much higher than you might expect. Every year, hundreds of thousands of claims are filed. In this lesson, we'll review how the system works, how claims are filed, and why it's so vital for you to know and understand the basic workers' compensation system.
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Would you like to know exactly what benefits an injured worker is entitled to receive? Not sure what terms like temporary total disability, permanent total disability, temporary partial, and many of the other terms used to describe workers' compensation benefits really mean? In this lesson, we'll take the mystery out of them all. We'll go through each type of benefit, avoiding the legal jargon to provide a down-to-earth explanation of the benefit system in the workers' compensation system.
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Today, we'll examine the workers' compensation system that covers all federal employees. This is a huge and multilayered bureaucracy, but we'll go through it step by step to show you how the federal system, which covers hundreds of thousands of federal workers, is both similar to and different from the state systems. We'll also examine some of the new initiatives created to track workers' compensation fraud and to prevent government agencies from making double or triple payments for the same injuries.
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How do Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid interact with workers' compensation benefits? We'll answer that question in this lesson. We'll begin with an overview of these three systems. Then we'll proceed to a discussion about how these agencies work with state and federal workers' compensation agencies to provide different levels of payments and benefits. If you've ever been injured on the job, are close to retirement, are pregnant, or are in any way disabled, then you need to know how all of these systems work together, as well as what types of benefits you can receive from each.
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So far, we've focused on the workers' compensation system, from benefits to the relationships between other government agencies. In this lesson, we'll get specific about who is covered under workers' compensation statutes. What, for instance, qualifies a person as an "employee?" Are business owners covered by workers' compensation? How many employees must you have before you're legally obligated to make payments to the state workers' compensation fund? We'll answer these and many other questions in this lesson.
What Qualifies as an Injury?
What types of injuries are covered under workers' compensation? We all assume that if you slip and hurt yourself on the job, your injury will be covered. But is it? What about other types of injuries, such as repetitive stress injuries or psychological trauma? Are they covered as well? In today's lesson, you'll learn how injuries are classified under workers' compensation systems and the rules that employees must follow in determining which injuries are covered and which are not.
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It's time to get specific about medical benefits provided under workers' compensation. How much is the injured employee obligated to pay out of pocket? How many treatments may the employee receive? What about physical therapy or chiropractic care? We'll address these questions in today's lesson, and we'll also take a look at some less traditional remedies. Just what types of treatment will the workers' compensation system pay for and what types will they force the employee to pay for?
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In this lesson, we'll talk about the amount of money an injured employee will receive for different types of injuries. You'll learn the precise details about the dollar amounts an injured employee can expect to receive, and we'll break this down by the classification of benefits as temporary or total temporary disability. We'll also go over how injuries are reclassified as permanent and what that means for the benefits paid out. Finally, we'll explore how benefits are actually paid and the possibilities of lump-sum payments.
In this lesson, we'll focus on what happens when an injured employee comes into conflict with his or her employer about benefits. Suppose that the employer wants to terminate benefits? What recourse does the employee have? The employee can request a hearing for a judicial decision about benefits. So today we'll examine how these hearings are scheduled, what evidence can be brought up at a hearing, the function of administrative law judges, and how attorneys get paid to represent people at workers' compensation hearings.
Jurisdiction and Awards
How are workers' compensation awards paid out? Can an injured employee opt for a lump sum instead of a regular monthly payment? How do workers' compensation boards enforce their judgments against employers and insurance companies? These are just a few of the questions we'll answer as we examine the issues surrounding obtaining an award. Finally, we'll also explore the power that workers' compensation boards have to enforce their regulations, not only against employers, employees and insurance companies, but also against doctors and other medical professionals.
Insurance and Workers' Compensation
Most employers don't pay workers' compensation benefits from their own budgets. Instead, they obtain workers' compensation insurance. In this lesson, we'll examine all of the issues surrounding how workers' compensation insurance works, from issuing the policy to paying out claims. Along the way, you'll learn how insurance companies make money from issuing policies and specify certain types of injuries that justify the insurance company from refusing to pay a claim. We'll also examine the role of the insurance defense attorney, who is hired by the insurance company to represent companies in workers' compensation hearings.
In our final lesson, we'll follow a workers' compensation case through the appellate process. What powers do appellate courts have in workers' compensation cases? Can they modify the award of benefits or completely terminate them? What is the procedure that an employee must follow to bring an appeal when his or her benefits have been terminated? We'll answer these questions and explore the role of higher courts in workers' compensation cases.
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During the past few years the Top Level Domain (TLD) .ru has been heavily abused by cybercriminals. According to ZeuS Tracker, TLD .ru was one of the most abused Top Level Domains that were used by criminals to run ZeuS botnet controllers.
The Top Level Domain .ru is managed by the Coordination Center for TLD RU (cctld.ru). CCTLD.ru finally did their job well and addressed the reputation problem TLD.ru had by setting up new terms and conditions for domain name registration of .ru domains which came into force on November 11 2011.
One of the most interesting parts of the new terms and conditions is the following passage:
- receipt from third parties (users of the system) of confidential information by misleading these persons regarding its origin (authenticity) due to similarity of the domain names, design or content of the information (phishing);
- unauthorized access to third parties'(users, visitors) information systems or for infecting these systems with malware or taking control of such software (botnet control);
In fact this means that a registrar can terminate a domain name when it is being used for phising attacks or when it is being used to control a botnet. However, there is one part which seems to be not well defined:
I'm asking myself what the definition of "organization indicated by the Coordinator as a competent one to determine violations in the Internet" might be. As we all know there are many security vendors and non-profit organisations out there which do a great job in tracking down malicious and fraudulent content. Will registrars accept takedown requests received from such parties? I don't know…
However, what I can say so far is that the number of fraudulent .ru domains used by ZeuS botnet herders decreased in the beginning of 2012. I can also see that malicious .ru domains which are being added to ZeuS Tracker have a much shorter life span. While malicious .ru domains used to stay active for several weeks or months in the past, they are now getting nuked much faster (mostly within 4-24hrs). That's great news for the internet community!
Unfortunately we all know that there is a never ending cat and mouse game between the security industry / infosec community and cybercriminals. Criminals have already noticed that their domains are getting shut down much faster. So they started to look for another TLD to use for their dirty business and found a TLD that nearly has been forgotten: the TLD .su.
For those of you who don't know: .su is (or should I say was) the Top Level Domain for the Soviet Union, which we all know doesn't exist any more. Nevertheless, TLD .su (which is operated by RIPN) is still active today which means that people can still register domain names with that TLD. As of today I'm seeing an increasing number of malicious .su domains being used by botnet herders. In fact this means that the criminals seem to be switching from .ru to .su.
Since the Soviet Union isn't any more and I see legit .su domains pretty rarely, I think it's a good idea to block .su on the network edge (web proxies / content filtering systems). If you are operating a gateway in your company / network you should take the time and have a look at your logs. If you don't see any legit .su domains being hit/used in your company just simply block it.
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"[T]here is something magical about finding things," writes Paulo Coehlo, author of The Alchemist and The Witch of Portobello, in "The Good Pirate," about a found white feather that he considers to be his good luck charm. "The universe places things in your path; it's the language the universe uses to communicate with you."
And what messages is it transmitting? Many of the writers in editor Davy Rothbart's anthology (Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine; read an interview with him on page 10) suggest that found items remind us of the diversity of our experiences. Perhaps finding what someone else has lost (or let go of) encourages us to adopt a broader perspective, to remember that we are not the center of the universe.
"There are so many different kinds of lives being led," Geek Love author Katherine Dunn writes in her Paper Bag essay, "The Old Clerk's Diary." "When you read a journal like this old woman's journal, and you peer so deeply into a stranger's life, it expands your imagination so that you can't look at other people — a woman on the bus, a guy on a park bench — without wondering about them and what their lives might be like. You feel a sense of communion with the people you share the world with — it's a way of connecting with the cosmic consciousness."
Imagination is integral to the experience of stumbling upon an unclaimed object. Each one is taken from its natural setting, from its own reality, and placed into our personal contexts, imbued with our histories, associations, needs, and stories. In going from trash to treasure, found items both feed and need our imaginations.
"The attraction of these found items is that they arrive context-free, separated from the situation in which they once, perhaps, made sense," writes Glasgow artist and author David Shrigley, in his piece about a mysterious 1982 missive from a headmistress to parents about a potentially offensive guest speaker (we, as latecomers, never learn what was so objectionable). "My imagination is obliged to fill the gaps. Maybe in a small way this is an example of what makes good storytelling — giving the audience just enough so that they can finish the story themselves."
And finish it we must, or so our brains insist. When we stumble upon pieces of other people's stories, we feel a need to fill in the blanks, to come up with explanations and context, and not just because it's voyeuristic and fun. No, we do it because we need to assign order to seemingly random events, things, or conversations. It's interesting that some of the authors in Rothbart's diverse anthology choose to do this by fictionalizing their found experiences (particularly memorable is author Kevin Sampsell's story about a well-worn erotic photo), while others take the more straightforward, analytical approach of a non-fiction essay. It reminds the reader of the very act of interpretation that goes along with finding; it also highlights the different ways that such understanding can occur.
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Chapter 1
August 1902
Ginny lay in her bed, wide awake and shivering.
It wasn't cold weather causing her to shake so badly beneath the thin, white sheets. Outside, it was a hot evening in early August, and the Virginia night air blowing in through her bedroom window was just as hot and humid and sticky as the Virginia day air had been. The awful summer heat made Ginny restless, and in protest, she angrily kicked the sheets off her skinny legs. She tried to settle down, but it was hard to be still while listening to the sounds that made her so afraid.
Stop it, she thought.
Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
But it didn't stop.
The angry voice of her drunken father in the kitchen downstairs kept yelling and yelling, and the unhappy voice of her mother yelled back, then pleaded, then wept. And these recurring sounds shook Ginny's soul.
She pulled the feather pillow out from under her head and put it over her face, holding the ends over her ears. She knew that she couldn't fall sleep like this, but it usually made her feel better. Why couldn't she sleep through it like Willie and Bessie? Willie was her little brother, just turned four years old. He was the baby of the family and too young to understand. Besides, once Willie was asleep, he stayed that way till morning. Bessie, her younger sister, was eight years old, just two years younger than she, and old enough to understand what was going on downstairs in the kitchen. But there Bessie lay in the bunk above her, softly snoring away in peace.
This really made Ginny mad, and she was sorely tempted to stretch her leg upwards and kick the underside of Bessie's bed real hard. She had done this before. Slowly, she lifted her right foot up carefully towards the bunk above. At that precise moment, in Bessie's salvation, a small yellow kitten named Cornbread jumped up on Ginny's bed and proceeded to attack her exposed left elbow.
Ginny reached out and pulled the kitten up to her chest.
"Stop it!" she insisted. At least the kitten obeyed her wishes. Insulted as only a cat can be, Cornbread pranced haughtily across Ginny's chest and curled up into a tiny ball on the bed beside her. Ginny felt guilty for yelling at the innocent kitten, she reached out and began rubbing her behind the ears. The kitten closed her eyes in ecstasy and starting purring. It was a comforting sound.
She put the pillow back underneath her head and closed her eyes and tried to remember happier times, days when her Papa was well. Papa was a tobacco farmer, and their family lived on a small farm in rural Charlotte County, Virginia. They lived in a two-story white farmhouse that had a large open front porch and a screened-in back porch. Her earliest memories of Papa were sparkling summer evenings when she was four years old. Just before dinner, Mother would let her go out on the front porch swing and wait until she could see Papa walking down the road towards their house. Ginny would leap off the porch and run down the road to greet him as he returned from the tobacco fields.
Papa's hands would be stained brownish black, and his shirt would smell like tobacco leaves. She didn't mind the stains one bit, and she learned to like the funny smell of the tobacco. Papa would give her a big bear hug and then throw her up on his wide shoulders for a piggyback ride back to the house.
Another sweet memory came to Ginny's mind. It was that cold winter just before her little brother Willie was born, when it snowed and snowed and snowed. For many days school was cancelled, and Bessie and Ginny sat around the house after chores were done and complained there was nothing to do. Mother told Papa that she was sure that her children were going to die of cabin fever. That made Bessie scared. Bessie thought cabin fever must be like measles or scarlet fever, and she didn't like being sick.
One night, Papa and some of the neighbors decided to organize an evening sleigh riding party. The menfolk built a big roaring fire at the top of Hamner's Hill, and the grown-ups sat around the fire, drinking hot cider and talking happily while the children rode their wooden sleds down the steep embankment. Bessie's fears of being sick had came true that day. She had caught a bad cold playing outside without her mittens the day before, so Mother decided Bessie had to stay in with her.
That meant Ginny had Papa all to herself. Each time she got ready to ride, Papa would push her sled in a running start, and Ginny just squealed with fear and delight all the way down that snow-covered hill. Several times, Papa jumped on the back of the sled and rode down the hill with her. It was so much fun!
When she and Papa walked home, he held her hand and pointed out some of the star constellations to her, like Orion and Little Pleides and the Big Dipper. She liked Orion best. Papa told her it was a strong prince wearing a sword in the sky and that he watched over small children and young animals. After that, whenever she looked up into the sky and saw Orion, she felt safe inside.
The sound of shattering china startled Ginny and interrupted her pleasant thoughts. Mother must have thrown a dish again. She only did that when she was very, very angry at Papa. Three dinner plates and one salad bowl had been lost since Christmas. Ginny moaned and pushed the edges of the pillow up against her ears.
She thought back to "The Parade." Well, that's what Mother called it. Papa's younger brother, Abraham, and his family lived up in Lynchburg, Virginia. He wrote Papa a nice letter, inviting Papa's whole family to come up to town for a visit on the Fourth of July. Since it was the beginning of a new century, the year 1900, the city had planned an extra special Independence Day parade.
The news of the trip thrilled the children. Ginny was anxious to see Lynchburg, the big city she had heard so much about. Lynchburg was a river town, built on seven large, steep hills right beside the James River. Bessie was excited to see her cousin Elizabeth, Uncle Abraham's only child. That was because Bessie and Elizabeth were the same age and both had blond hair. They liked to pretend they were twins separated at birth by a tragic accident. They never explained what the accident was, but Bessie assured Ginny it was very "tragical." Two-year-old Willie didn't quite understand what it meant to go to the big city, but Papa explained that he would get to take a long ride in Papa's big wagon. That was enough to make Willie happy.
Uncle Abraham had sent written directions for them to meet him and his family right downtown where the parade was going to be, but somehow Papa got lost riding around down there on those steep hilly streets. By accident, they ended up on the parade route just before the parade started. Mother was so embarrassed that she held her head down and put her hands over her face, but Papa proudly drove their wagon and horses right down Main Street, waving and smiling and tipping his hat to the people lined up on the curb. The people thought the parade had started, and they yelled and smiled and waved right back. Mother swore she would never set foot in Lynchburg again. Papa and Uncle Abraham thought it was great fun. Ginny thought so, too.
Through the feather pillow, Ginny could hear her Papa yelling and hitting the kitchen table now with his fist. If Papa would only go to sleep, she thought anxiously, things would be okay again in the morning.
Go to sleep, Papa.
Just go to sleep.
Ginny squeezed her eyes shut and thought of the best memory she had of Papa when he was feeling better. It was old Hiram Blankenship's funeral. Old Hiram was something of a legend in their community. He was a Civil War veteran, having survived several of the biggest and last battles of "The War." For some reason, people in Virginia didn't like calling it "The Civil War." "The War Between The States" was an awful lot to say in one breath, so folks just shortened it to "The War." If you starting talking about "The War," folks knew exactly which war you were talking about.
Mother said Old Hiram had his horse shot right out from under him but Old Hiram never got wounded. He was present at the surrender with General Lee at nearby Appomattox, and since he didn't have a horse, he had to walk home to Charlotte County.
He was a little man, not much taller than Mother, with a long white beard that reached below his waist. Mother said he used to tuck it under his belt when doing his carpentry work. Mother and Ginny were invited to lunch at his house once, and Old Hiram showed Ginny the old black boots he had worn in battle and the little prayer book which he swore protected him from the Yankee bullets. When Old Hiram died, the Widow Blankenship asked Papa to sing at the funeral.
Ginny could still clearly recall the images of that day in church as she sat in the second pew in her Sunday best. The minister's sister, Mabel Coffey, had come all the way down from Madison Heights to play the organ. At the end of the service, when the Reverend Coffey had finished his sermon, Papa stood up front next to a large wreath of red roses and sang "Amazing Grace." Ginny looked around and saw that a lot of people were crying while Papa was singing. Afterwards, she heard Mother say proudly to their neighbor, Mrs. Holt, that there wasn't a dry eye in the place when Papa sang.
That was not so long ago. But Papa got real sick last winter with the croup, and old Doc Davis had told him to drink a glass of whiskey each night before going to bed for his cough. Doc Davis said it would help him sleep. The doctor's cure worked. Papa slept well, and in no time, the cough went away. But the whiskey stayed. Papa continued to have one drink at night when he came home from the fields. Then it was two drinks. Then three. Then the fights with Mother started.
Ginny rolled over on her stomach in frustration and threw her pillow on the floor. Cornbread saw this as an opportunity to regain lost territory, and the kitten promptly rose and climbed up on Ginny's back. Ginny didn't move. Why fight the kitten? She felt helpless against her Papa's drinking, against what was happening downstairs. It felt good to just lay there with the whole world and that kitten on her shoulders and to feel quite sorry for herself.
Week after week, the family situation was getting worse. Most nights she lay in her bed like this, feeling guilty for not doing anything to help. But what could she do? Children were to be seen and not heard when it came to grown-up problems. But Ginny did reason initially that if she would do more around the house to help Mother, without being asked, things might get better. Unfortunately, Ginny soon saw that nothing she did seemed to make any difference.
The worst part of it all was she couldn't talk to anyone about it. Since Bessie was pretending that nothing was wrong, she could hardly talk about it, and Willie was too young to understand or help. And Ginny knew things like drinking and fighting were not talked about outside the house. Mother did not speak of it to friends or to Reverend Coffey. So neither would Ginny.
Suddenly, there was silence.
The absence of sound from downstairs made Ginny bolt upright in her bed and sent Cornbread flying in the air. The kitten yowled in protest, landed on the hard wood floor, and then scurried underneath the bed to hide.
The quiet woke Bessie up from her deep sleep, and she sprang down from her bunk bed and threw herself into the bewildered arms of her older sister.
"Ginny, what's happening?" she asked with her big blue eyes wide with fright.
"I don't know," whispered Ginny anxiously. She stared at her sister, straining to hear what was happening downstairs. But no more sounds came. Just silence.
Bessie reached for Ginny's hand and held it tight. The two girls held each other close and continued to listen, but no more sounds came from the downstairs kitchen. Now Ginny wished that her Papa would yell or that her Mother would cry. Any of the sounds that usually frightened her would be a comfort now. The seconds seemed like minutes. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
"We better go see," Bessie said finally. She slid out of Ginny's bed and waited for her sister to take the lead.
Ginny reluctantly got out of her bed, ashamed that her younger sister was braver than she was. She put her lips tightly together, determined to not be afraid in front of her younger sister, and more than anything else, she promised herself she would not cry.
The two girls stepped carefully into the dark hallway and slowly walked together towards the back stairs. The old wall clock ticked loudly, still the only sound in the house. Ginny led the way, slowly making her way down the narrow staircase and holding Bessie's hand tightly for security.
She was the first to see Mother lying on the kitchen floor. She was unconscious. Her black hair, which fell in long tresses below her waist, was lying across the floor in a wild tangled mess. There was a small amount of blood on her face. It was a horrible scene, but what really frightened Ginny was the blood stains that appeared on the bottom half of her mother's thin, white nightgown. Mother was eight months pregnant. Ginny knew instantly what those stains meant. The baby was starting to come.
Bessie screamed, "She dead!" and rushed angrily towards their father, who was standing motionless with a lost expression on his face. His blond hair was matted against his brow, which was wet with perspiration, and his cheeks and eyes were an ugly shade of red. The strong smell of whiskey reached Ginny's nose, and the smell made her feel sick. Papa held a half-empty bottle of whiskey in one hand. There was blood on his other hand.
Bessie reached her father and began hitting him in the stomach with her little fists, crying uncontrollably. His daughter's screams acted like a splash of cold water on his face, cutting through the alcohol's numbing effect on his brain, and Papa's face contorted into a look of painful comprehension and utter anguish. He reached down and grabbed Bessie's hands.
Protective, angry feelings welled up inside Ginny. She felt alert as a mother cat, waiting to see what Papa would do, afraid he would hurt Bessie for hitting him, and more than ready to attack him if he did. But her father stood frozen. More feelings rose up inside Ginny, moving her to action. It took all the courage and anger she possessed to decide what to do. But, at last, she would do something. And she would not cry!
With determination, she walked over to the back door and opened it.
"Get out," she said in a harsh low voice that surprised her. It sounded very grown up.
Papa turned and looked at Ginny, but Ginny didn't move nor did she speak to him again. She just continued to hold the door open with the powerful authority of an angry child. Her father paused to look down at Bessie and at his wife. Then, he haltingly walked over to the table, picked up his crumpled hat, and walked out the back door. Ginny slammed the door behind him.
Louella moaned, and both girls rushed over to their battered mother. Ginny ordered Bessie to go immediately to the linen closet and get washcloths and towels while she poured water into a basin. Together the girls knelt and washed Mother's bruised face and hands, and slowly the woman opened her eyes.
"William?" asked Mother.
"He's gone," answered Ginny bitterly.
A look of hurt crossed Mother's face. Her hand went over her bulging stomach, and her head jerked back in response to the wave of pain.
"The baby . . ."
Bessie looked up at her sister frantically.
"The baby's coming?" asked Bessie, her eyes widening with understanding.
Ginny frowned. Being a farm girl, Bessie was already aware of the basic facts of life, yet she was too young to be allowed to help deliver this baby. Ginny had been present at several births with Mother and essentially knew how it was done. But she knew she couldn't do it all by herself. She would need help. She sighed as she thought of the first and best choice of action. Doc Davis lived several miles away. She knew how to ride a horse, but she couldn't leave Bessie and Mother alone for that long. There was only one other option.
Ginny stood up and pulled Bessie up with her.
"You stay with Mother, Bessie, and don't let her get up. I'm going to get Mrs. Holt. She's close by and the best midwife in the county."
Bessie nodded her head obediently, and Ginny dashed up the stairs to her room to change her clothes. She hurriedly tore off her white nightgown and then rushed around the room, frantically looking for her blue flower-print dress. Where was it? It took her a few moments before she spotted the edge of it sticking out from underneath her bed. It must had fallen down there when she kicked off her covers earlier. She pulled it out and discovered Cornbread curled up in a comfortable ball on top of the dress.
"Off!" she ordered, as she tossed the kitten off the dress. The kitten responded to this action by pointing its tail high in the air, turning around in a circle twice, and then walking out of the girl's bedroom headed in the direction of little Willie's room. There she could sleep undisturbed.
As Ginny changed, fearful thoughts began racing inside her head. Would Mother live? Sometimes women died in childbirth. Ginny was aware of that. Mrs. Ramsey died in April giving birth to twin boys. What would happen to them if Mother died? Would Papa come back?
Did she even want Papa to come back?
Her eyes began to moisten, but Ginny wiped them quickly. Not now! She needed to be brave for Mother. She would not let herself cry until Mother was safe.
As she was putting her shoes on, someone abruptly entered her room. Ginny jumped up defensively, fearing perhaps her father had returned. Instead, a sleepy, four-year-old Willie walked into the room, dragging his tattered blanket behind him.
"Ginny, I thirsty," he whined. "I want a drink."
This was almost more than the ten-year-old girl could stand. She had been close to hysteria up till now, and the last thing she needed to do was worry about her little brother. Who would take care of him? She had to go get Mrs. Holt, and Bessie needed to stay with Mother. And Willie absolutely must not be allowed to see Mother in her condition downstairs.
Oddly enough, Willie's presence proved to be a gift, for it forced her to calm down. It made her stop worrying about the future in order to rationally think about what to do for her brother right this instant. The request for a drink was easily solved. There was a glass on her nightstand, and there was still fresh water in the washstand pitcher that she and Bessie used to wash their face and hands. That meant she didn't have to go downstairs for the drink. Ginny got the glass and poured a small amount of water in it for her brother. Willie took the glass and drank it all in several loud gulps. He handed the glass back to his sister and looked at her closely.
"You got your clothes on, Ginny. You going somewhere?"
She lovingly picked up her little brother and his blanket and carried him back to his room. "I'm going to Mrs. Holt's house, Willie. Bessie is terrible sick with a cough, and Mother needs me to go to Mrs. Holt's house for some medicine."
"Bessie's sick?"
"Yes," lied Ginny sweetly. "She has a very bad cold."
"Can I give her a kiss and make her feel better?" he asked sincerely. Willie loved his sister and he loved giving kisses.
"Oh, no, 'cause then you might get sick and then Mother would have to give you some medicine," replied Ginny wisely.
Willie made a face. He was persuaded. Loving or not, he hated medicine.
"Why don't you give me Bessie's kiss, and I'll give it to her later," said Ginny as she tucked Willie back into his bed. Cornbread appeared, jumping up onto Willie's small bed, and snuggled herself down into the covers at Willie's feet.
Willie smiled and reached up and kissed Ginny gently on the cheek twice.
"One's for you," he said.
"You're a good boy, Willie. Now, go to sleep and sweet dreams."
"Sweet dreams," answered Willie through a yawn.
Ginny stood for a few moments at his door until she could hear his breathing slow down into the quiet sounds of sleep. Thank goodness little children fall asleep almost instantly, she thought, closing the door securely.
Ginny lost no time in rushing back down to the kitchen. Bessie sat on the floor with Mother's head in her lap. Mother was awake and holding her daughter's hand.
"Mother, are you alright?" asked Ginny, kneeling beside her.
"Yes," said Mother weakly. "But the baby is coming tonight, Ginny. You must go and get help." Mother's request made Ginny feel good that she had made the right decision. Mother's face contorted with pain as another contraction gripped her bruised body. Ginny held her mother's hand tightly until the wave of pain stopped.
"I'm going now to Mrs. Holt's," assured Ginny.
"Hurry," said Louella. She turned her head and tried to smile at her oldest daughter.
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She ran as fast as her thin legs could carry her. Gratefully, there was a bright full moon hovering overhead to light the way down the winding dirt road that stretched between their house and the Holt's neighboring farm. The Holt place was at least twice as big as their farm, which was a good thing seeing that the Holts had nine children. Fortunately for Mr. Plunkett Holt, six of those children were strong, healthy boys who could work the land alongside him. The Holt children were Josiah, Mary Susan, the twins Elijah and Embro, Eliza, Kathleen, Benjamin, Jeremiah, and Jacob.
It was about half a mile between the two houses, and the Holt's large white farmhouse lay hidden back in a thick patch of pine trees. To Ginny, it seemed like a castle, with a large round tower that Mother said was a turret built on one side. Eliza Holt, Ginny's best friend, had the round bedroom up in the turret, and sometimes the girls liked to pretend they were fairy-tale princesses locked inside some evil castle.
Ginny loved the Holts. Mr. Holt was a farmer like Papa, but he grew corn in his fields. He also had a big apple orchard, and Ginny and her family always helped them pick apples during the fall harvest. Ginny and Eliza loved to climb up the small apple trees, full of dark red fruit, and toss down apples to waiting hands and baskets below.
Like her husband, Mrs. Holt loved to garden, but her efforts centered on flowers and herbs. Once Mother said if God ever planted another Garden of Eden, he would put Mrs. Holt in charge of the roses.
Mrs. Holt's roses were the most beautiful part of their farm. They were everywhere. There were large white climbing roses growing on the brick gates at the main entrance to their property. At the side of the house, Mrs. Holt had her kitchen garden. It was a small square piece of land that Mr. Holt had set apart with a white picket fence. Inside, there were patches of tomatoes and green peppers and onions. There were buckets filled with different kinds of wild mint, and there were small patches of dill and oregano and thyme. Within her kitchen garden, Mrs. Holt planted large shrub roses in the four corners and more climbing roses along the sides of the fence. Ginny loved going there. It was wonderful to be surrounded by the smell of roses and peppermint. In the front, alongside a large porch that wrapped around both sides of the house, Mrs. Holt had planted her favorite roses. These roses only bloomed in the spring, but they had the strongest and sweetest scent.
Because of the pine trees, Ginny couldn't see the house until she was practically at the front gate, but the smell of the white roses on the gates greeted her and gave her the assurance that she had arrived at her destination. As she ran down the drive leading to the house, she was relieved to see light shining out from several of the downstairs windows. The Holts were still awake.
As Ginny approached the large house, she realized that the Holts were more than just awake. They must be entertaining company, for the sound of Mr. Holt's fiddle floated out upon the hot night air, and Ginny heard the happy sounds of singing and laughing and dancing when she reached the front porch.
She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes!
She'll be coming 'round the mountain when she comes!
Ginny bolted up the front porch steps and began pounding furiously on the screen door. The singing and fiddle playing stopped immediately, and a surprised looking Mr. Holt soon peered out through the screen door. Ginny liked Mr. Holt. He was a plain man, tall and thin with grey hair and soft green eyes, and he had such a nice laugh. Sometimes he took time to play at the fairy-tale games with her and Eliza. He liked playing the part of the fire-breathing dragon.
"Virginia St. John!" he exclaimed with a whistle, opening the screen door and motioning for Ginny to step inside. "What in blue blazes are you doing out this time of night, child. Do your folks know where you are?"
Ginny grabbed Mr. Holt with both of her hands and shook him fervently. "Mr. Holt, you got to help us. Mother is having her baby! Now!" shouted Ginny. "Doc Davis is too far away. We need Mrs. Holt. Hurry!"
Mr. Holt smiled in understanding and patted Ginny on the back. "Now, now, don't fret so, child. Babies are born every day! I should know. Nine were born here in this very house. That's nothing too serious for a pretty girl like yourself to worry about . . ."
"We got to hurry, Mr. Holt," interrupted Ginny, "Mother isn't well. She needs help! She's . . ."
Before Ginny could explain further and before Mr. Holt could respond, Ann Holt breezed into the hallway from the back kitchen, carrying a large tray filled with several bowls of hot peach cobbler and vanilla ice cream. Besides Mother, Ginny thought Ann Holt was just about the prettiest woman in all of Charlotte County. She was tall and slender like her husband, but her hair hadn't turned grey yet like Mr. Holt's hair and beard had done. She had the most beautiful dark auburn hair that Ginny had ever seen.
Ann Holt stood there, holding her heavy tray, and stared at Ginny in amazement.
"Virginia dear, what's all this commotion about? What are you doing here late at night like this? Where's your Pa?"
Mr. Holt answered the first part of his wife's question before Ginny could reply.
"It seems Mrs. St. John is having her baby tonight, Mrs. Holt, and Virginia has come to ask for your help."
"Mother said to hurry," added Ginny quickly, hoping to move Mrs. Holt into action.
Instead, Mrs. Holt put down the tray and put her hands on her hips and continued to stare at the child.
"And where's your Pa?" she asked with a frown.
A terrible feeling suddenly came over Ginny. Her only concern had been getting help for Mother. Not until this moment did she realize she would have to explain what had happened. She looked around and discovered that there were several other people now standing in the doorway of the living room watching her. She recognized the three eldest Holt boys, Elijah, Embro, and Josiah. Josiah was almost eighteen, and he worked full time in the corn fields with his father. He was supposed to get married next Christmas to Sarah Simpson. Embro and Elijah were thirteen years old, and they loved horses. The Holts raised horses to sell, and it seemed that the twins were destined to take over this part of their father's estate. Mary Susan, the Holt's sixteen-year-old daughter, was also there, standing between the twins. She had often babysat Ginny and Bessie when they were little girls.
There was an older couple and two teenage girls standing there that Ginny did not know. She found it hard to speak in front of all these people.
"Papa's . . . Papa's gone," Ginny stammered.
Mr. and Mrs. Holt continued to look at her for further explanation. Why should she feel bad for Papa? She was still angry at him. What he did was wrong. Yet something deep inside her now wanted to hide the truth, to protect him. But she had to tell. Besides, once they saw Mother, they would know anyway.
"Papa was drunk and had a fight with Mother," she muttered, with her head down. "He hit her and hurt her real bad, and Papa left. I . . . I made him leave."
Mr. and Mrs. Holt exchanged knowing glances and said nothing at first. This made Ginny relax a little. Then Mr. Holt knelt down in front of Ginny and put his hands on her small shoulders. "It's okay, child, I think we understand now. You don't have to say another word. And don't you worry one little bit. We'll see to it that your mother is well taken care of."
Ann Holt removed her apron and excused herself from her company, explaining that she needed to go upstairs to get her midwifery things. As she left, Mr. Holt took Ginny by the hand and led her into the living room where the other people were gathered.
"Virginia, there are some folks here I'd like for you to meet. Virginia St. John, this is my sister Susanna Johnson and her husband Stephan and their two daughters Sophia and Martha. They are visiting us this week from Richmond." The older couple advanced and held out their hands in greeting.
Once the introductions were made, Mr. Holt took matters firmly in hand.
"Elijah, Embro, Louella St. John is . . . in need of a doctor immediately. I want the two of you to saddle up your horses and ride over to Doc Davis' place as fast as you can. Tell him it's an emergency. Bring him over to the St. John place as fast as you can."
Elijah and Embro agreed and left the room quickly. Ginny felt better already knowing they were going after Doc Davis. Both young men were excellent riders, and she knew that Embro's red horse, Cinnamon, was said to be the fastest in the county.
"Susanna," asked Mr. Holt, "would you mind staying here with Virginia and our children? I'd like to take Stephan with me. Mrs. St. John has two small children that I think ought to stay here overnight. I'll take Stephan along to bring them back here promptly."
"I'll be happy to care for the children," said Mrs. Johnson warmly. "I'll just sit up with my knitting till Mr. Johnson brings them 'round."
"We'll sit up with you, Mother," said one of the teenage girls.
"Thank you, Sophia. You and Martha and Virginia can help me get a place ready in little Jacob's room for those two youngsters to sleep in."
"We can put Virginia in Eliza's room," suggested Mary Susan.
Ginny did not like what she was hearing. She didn't want to stay here and help Mrs. Johnson and her daughters. She grabbed Mr. Holt's hand and shook it in protest.
"Mr. Holt, I don't want to stay here. I want to go with you. I want to help Mrs. Holt with Mother's new baby."
Mr. Holt shook his head decidedly. "Virginia, I don't think so. You've been through so much already, child. I think it's better for you to stay here with Mrs. Johnson. We'll take good care of your Mother. You'll see."
But Ginny wouldn't be easily swayed.
"Mr. Holt, I saw what Papa did to Mother, and I was the one who threw him out of the house. I'm not going to stay here now and be tended! I want to be with Mother. She needs me."
Ginny thought she could see those kind green eyes of Mr. Holt get a little misty. He looked at her for a long moment and then relented.
"Alright, missy, you can go. But stay right here with the Johnsons while I go get the horses hitched up to the wagon. Josiah, will you give me a hand in the stable?"
Mr. Holt and Josiah left the room together, leaving Ginny alone with the others. She took a deep breath. Mother, she thought, help is coming. Hold on, Mother, for just a little bit longer.
Mrs. Johnson came over and put a reassuring arm around the girl.
"Don't worry, Virginia. Everything is going to be fine."
Against her will, Ginny turned and put her arms around this woman. She had been brave beyond her years for the last hour. She had faced her father and his sickness. She had seen her sweet mother abused and in pain. She had deceived her little brother and had told the terrible truth to these strangers.
From this night on, Ginny would have to be an adult in her family, to help Mother with running the house and with raising the children. Tonight, her childhood ended. But just for a few moments more, she wanted to feel like a child again.
Ginny closed her eyes and leaned her face on Mrs. Johnson's sturdy shoulder and cried.
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Silverwood County Park to open near Edgerton in town of Albion
MADISON, Wis. - Dane County Parks officials are looking for input and partnership from the public on one of Dane County's newest parks, according to a release.
Silverwood County Park will be located in the town of Albion near Edgerton, officials said. The nearly 300 acres is a mix of woodland, agricultural fields, grassland and public shoreline access along Rice Lake.
Parks planning staff will hold the first of several meetings to provide information and gather public input for the future development of the park on Jan. 30, according to the release. The meeting will start at 6:30 p.m. at the Albion Town Hall at 620 Albion Road in Edgerton.
"Silverwood County Park has the potential to become an amazing regional attraction -- connecting people to Dane County's agriculture heritage and our vast natural resources," Dane County Executive Joe Parisi said in the release. "The outpouring of support this park has already received from the community has been extremely helpful, and is critical to our planning process moving forward."
At the meeting staff will propose management goals, agricultural activities, recreational use and park facility development, according to the release. The planning area will include lands surrounding Rice, Sweet and Turtle lakes.
Parisi's 2013 and 2014 budget included a $150,000 capital investment for initial development of the park, officials said. The funding will help increase accessibility to the land with signage, road access and parking for the park, renovation of on-site buildings and walking trails.
Park development will be done through Operation Fresh Start, a longtime partner with the county that works with at-risk youth and young adults to help them earn a high school or equivalent diploma while learning job skills, according to the release.
Silverwood County Park is named for Irene Silverwood, an Edgerton educator for 44 years and a volunteer for Dane County Parks for nearly three decades, who generously donated the land for the park in 2002, according to the release. A condition of the donation was that the park features a strong agriculture education component.
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Author Gretchen Rubin was born and raised in Kansas City and three years ago, she hit the big time when her book The Happiness Project: Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun made the number one spot on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list. Rubin is now winding down what she calls her second happiness project. The book Happier At Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life.
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Japanese automakers Suzuki and Mitsubishi are issuing separate recalls to fix issues with crossover vehicles. Suzuki is recalling nearly 70,000 SX4 compact crossovers from the 2007-2010 model years to replace screws on the outside rearview mirrors that could become loose.
The automaker told the U.S. government the mirrors could become loose because of vibration and fall off the vehicle, creating a safety risk.
Mitsubishi is recalling more than 19,000 Endeavor crossover vehicles from the 2006-2008 model years to address air conditioning problems. It says the air flow could randomly change direction and the temperature could cycle between hot and cold.
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This has been mentioned before for different Lenovo models (here: How do I enable Bluetooth on my Lenovo IdeaPad Z580?).
The toggle switch shows off, switching it on does nothing, different BT dameons do not work either. There was a suggestion to upgrade the kernel to 3.7* (I am running 3.6* now), but when I did this, I could not figure out how to get wired network driver support. My mistake for getting a Lenovo, looks good, but the linux support seems to be lacking.
rfkill list 0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
Any suggestions how to get the bluetooth enabled?
kernel messages: dmesg | grep -i bluetooth [ 26.701536] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.16 [ 26.701554] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized [ 26.701556] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized [ 26.701557] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized [ 26.701560] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized [ 26.719851] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized [ 26.719855] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized [ 26.719856] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11 [ 26.800299] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3 [ 26.800301] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast lsusb Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1a40:0201 Terminus Technology Inc. FE 2.1 7-port Hub Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Bus 002 Device 003: ID 5986:0294 Acer, Inc Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b4:0033 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Mouse Bus 001 Device 006: ID 04d9:1503 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. Shortboard Lefty


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JuopunutBear is the first release from team Unlimited.IO. It is a tool for gaining (radio) S-OFF and flashing a custom bootloader that supports full write/erase fastboot commands on a number of HTC phones.
JuopunutBear does not provide root access, however with S-OFF this is a simple process of flashing superuser from recovery.
JuopunutBear comes with NO WARRANTY (express or implied), and NO GUARANTEE OF FITNESS for any particular task. We have made every effort we can to make this a safe process for users however the authors disclaim any liability for damage to your phone or other materials or devices used during this process. The entire risk of running JuopunutBear lies with you, the user. By downloading and/or using any software, video file or text from this website you acknowledge and accept that the authors are not liable for any loss, material or otherwise howsoever caused.
JuopunutBear currently supports the following Android phones running GingerBread and Ice Cream Sandwich:
No HTC Dev Unlock Devices supported (click the link for instructions):
JuopunutBear will permanently unlock NAND flash write protection on all supported devices.
Read all of the instructions on this page AT LEAST once through - gathering your supplies, downloads, and opening the image for the wire trick - BEFORE following the directions step-by-step. Failure to do so may cause problems.
Supported Operating Systems:
We only support Ubuntu 12.04 (and newer) 32bit, you may use a LiveCD if you have the wrong OS installed natively. LiveUSB will NOT work!
Ubuntu 64bit, Ubuntu versions lower than 12.04, other Linux distros, Virtual Machines and Mac's will NOT work - we will not help you if you break your device!
Be on the Stock RUU. No other ROMs are supported, Fresh ROM will not work regardless of what you have read elsewhere.
Ensure that your battery is fully charged.
External SD card (2GB - 16GB) in your device.
The original HTC USB cable for your device.
Perform a full backup or replace your SDcard with one that you are willing to wipe - it is possible that during these steps all data may be lost.
You must be directly connected to a USB 2.0 port on your computer - USB 3.0 and USB hubs will NOT work!
Verify - You are on Stock RUU (not FreshROM, Stock Rooted, HarmonyROM - none of these will work!)
Verify - You are HTC Dev Unlocked
Turn ON USB Debugging on your device (Settings > Developer Options)
Verify fast boot is turned OFF (Usually found under Power Settings)
Connect your device and set to "Charge Only"
Download the correct version of the tool for your HBOOT and OS:
HTC myTouch 4G Slide (doubleshot)HTC Vivid/Raider/Velocity (holiday) HTC Sensation (pyramid) HTC Amaze (ruby) HTC EVO 3D cdma (shooter)
Untar ALL files from the download into a new folder
cd into the folder where you extracted and run the following cmd:
Note: This cmd returns a blank new line if you have done it correctly.
Run ControlBear from terminal - sudo ./ControlBear
Follow the on-screen instructions from ControlBear.
Do not press any of the buttons on the phone during the process.
The "wire trick" is an essential part of the JuopunutBear S-OFF procedure.
Obtain an insulated wire of appropriate length and gauge. Suitable wires are: a SINGLE core (strand) from an ethernet cable or a core from a coaxial cable.
Pick our your device from the link below and click on it. This will open a new window with the image for the PIN and GND points needed for completing the wire trick.
When instructed to do so by the program you must perform the "wire trick" as follows:
Hold one end of the wire into the hole where PIN is indicated in the picture below, ensuring that a firm contact is made with the metal contact at the bottom of the hole.
Briefly touch to other end of the wire to the contact marked GND in the picture.
Wait approximately 1.5 seconds and then again touch the wire to the marked GND.
* If that timing does not work the first time try: TAP (pause 1.25 seconds) TAP
Allow the program to continue.
IMPORTANT: If you get the error Still Sober all you need to do is re-run ControlBear after you have verified that you meet all of the pre-requirements.
If you're having problems check these troubleshooting steps.
Don't know if your HBOOT is GB or ICS?
Support for JuopunutBear is on IRC channel #unlimited on freenode. If you do not have an IRC client you can use the link below.
While it is possible to gain S-OFF on using any current version of android on the HTC Sensation Evo3D and MT4GS, we encourage you to use the revolutionary tool if your device is on a supported HBOOT. The revolutionary tool is a simpler process for the end user than JuopunutBear.


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Thread: Glofish lost color???
04-11-2013, 01:27 AM #1Member Goldfish
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Glofish lost color???
Not sure where to post this, as glofish/zebra danios don't have their own forum and I'm not sure if this is a disease...
I got 2 glofish in February and had them in quarantine until March. One was bright yellow green and one was bright purple. While the yellow green one was uniformly colored, the purple one wasn't evenly colored (white stomach area). In March they were moved into a 12 gallon Eclipse aquarium with 1 golden white cloud mountain minnow and 1 white cloud mountain minnow (since its fairly newly cycled, I wanted to go easy on the stocking). After being moved, the yellow-green glofish is now bright yellow and started chasing ll the fish in the tank. I got more plants and decorations and that cut down on the chasing alot. All the fish grew, but the formerly purple glofish lost all color. The fish is pure white and looks well proportioned, but small. The glofish will occasionally school with the other fish but prefers to stay near the lower right side of the tank and will wait for food to sink near him/her. I had heard that fish lose their color if under stress, so I moved him/her to a qt tank today and will feed separately. The glofish seems OK alone and is darting around in the qt tank-moving more since the relocation...not sure how much he/she's eating, just fed now. I don't think its intestinal, but I might try feeding a pea tomorrow.
Parameters in the 12 gallon Eclipse:(OK, a little small for glofish, but long story for another post)
Ammonia: 0
Nitrites: 0
Nitrares: 5-10
Temp: around 74 (both thermometers ordered DOA, awaiting #3)
Sorry for the long post, but has anyone had a glofish lose its color?
It sounds like stress to me. Probably because danios are schooling fish and need groups to feel secure.When I go fishing I just throw sharp rocks in the water and wait for the dead fish to float to the top... Kingfisher
Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes that reason is you are stupid and make bad decisions.
I think my fish is adjusting well to the four gallon, He's laying on his side attempting to go to sleep on the bottom of the gravel.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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04-11-2013, 02:09 AM #3Member Goldfish
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The glofish seems more active in the qt. I want to try and get him to eat more and hopefully get bigger so I can try putting him back in the eclipse and then once the qt is empty get a few more fish to up the school #. I don't want to put more fish in the qt with the glofish in case it is something other than stress.
A 12 gallon is awfully small for an active species like the danio. Your numbers are insufficient as you know. If that tank is also bare then I think stress is the main factor.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
Totally agree with the above posters 21" x 11.5" x 17.5" is not enough room for danios.
Not enough company and cramped quarters is not a recipe that makes fish color up in any spectacular fashion... It just stresses them out.
The best thing to do is rethink your stocking plans.
Gas mileage isn't everything OIIIIIIIO
Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Why pretend there are no stupid questions? Actually, There are many stupid questions: "Should I drink this bleach?" Is just one example.
Having said that, Just because it's a stupid question doesn't mean that it shouldn't be asked. It's better to know.
A warm beer is better than a cold beer. Because nothing is better than a cold beer, and a warm beer is better than nothing.


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Packers: Welcome back, Flynn
GREEN BAY, Wis. - Matt Flynn's re-welcoming committee consisted of two semi-nude, affectionate fat guys.
Oh, there were plenty of other former – and now, current again – teammates who were happy to see him back at Lambeau Field. But none as, uh, demonstrative as offensive linemen T.J. Lang and Josh Sitton.
"When I first walked in, T.J. and Sitton were in the hot tub, and they tried to throw me in," the once and now again Green Bay Packers backup quarterback said Wednesday. "They were both almost naked and giving me hugs soaking wet (when) I was in my clothes."
For Flynn, returning to Green Bay was never part of the plan when he signed a three-year, $26 million deal with the Seattle Seahawks as an unrestricted free agent in March 2012, after four years of backing up starter Aaron Rodgers. But after losing out to then-rookie Russell Wilson in Seattle, then being traded to – and later cut by – the Oakland Raiders, Flynn's 20-month odyssey has brought him back to where it all started, as a 2008 seventh-round pick.
"(I) definitely never expected to be back here in this locker room," Flynn said after taking part in his first practice Wednesday afternoon, following a Monday workout that earned him a contract. "I feel very fortunate and blessed to have this opportunity, but looking back at the last year and a half, last two seasons, it definitely didn't go the way I planned on it, for whatever reason that was.
"But I have no regrets about it. I feel like I worked my tail off everywhere I went, controlled what I could control and things just didn't work out. For whatever reason it was, things didn't work out the way I planned or saw in my head. But I feel like I'm still the same player I was when I left here. I'm still a confident guy, a confident player. And whatever I can do to help this team out, (I will do), and hopefully bring some experience for this team."
For now, Flynn's job is simple: Back up starter Scott Tolzien, who earned the starting nod this Sunday against the New York Giants with a solid performance in relief of an injured Seneca Wallace in the Packers' loss to Philadelphia on Sunday.
Wallace, of course, was starting in place of an injured Aaron Rodgers, who suffered a broken left collarbone against Chicago on Nov. 4 – the same day Flynn was serendipitously released by the Buffalo Bills after a three-week stay in upstate New York. A timeline for Rodgers' return has not been established, although the 2011 NFL MVP is hoping to be back for the team's Nov. 28 Thanksgiving Day game at Detroit, if not sooner.
In the meantime, the Packers are just hoping to go a week without losing a quarterback in the first quarter. Against the Bears, Rodgers was planted into the turf by defensive end Shea McClellin at the end of the team's opening possession; against the Eagles, Wallace was 5-for-5 on the opening drive but began complaining about a groin injury while on the bench and ended up sitting out the rest of the game. The Packers placed Wallace on season-ending injured reserve Tuesday to make room on the roster for Flynn.
"It's good to see him back. Hopefully – no offense to Matt – we won't need him. At our rate, we might, but hopefully he can stay there (on the sideline)," wide receiver Jordy Nelson said. "But it's great to have a friend back, someone who came in (with me) as a draft class. It's good to see him again."
While signing Flynn became imperative after Wallace went down, his road back to Green Bay actually began last week, when the team contacted him about coming in for a workout. The call came just after Rodgers' injury, but before Wallace's, and the Packers' intention was thought to be simply a check-in, to see how Flynn's arm looked and to figure out where to put him on their emergency board. For instance, the Packers had quarterbacks James Vandenberg, Matt Brown and John Skelton in for workouts Wednesday – not that, you know, any more quarterbacks will be going down, according to coach Mike McCarthy.
"We're not going to need him, OK?" McCarthy said, not sounding like he was kidding. "I've had enough of this bad karma about quarterbacks getting injured. Scott's going to play the whole game."
If he doesn't, Flynn should be able to step in and run the offense he spent four years learning. Even though this will be Flynn's fourth playbook in less than two years, McCarthy said he appeared to still have a good grasp of the passing concepts. The running game, meanwhile, has been overhauled since his departure and will require more time.
"It's definitely challenging. I learned, since I left here, three different playbooks, three different terminologies, three different philosophies on how to attack defense, how to do footwork, this way or that way," Flynn said. "But I've been ingrained in this offense for so long, knew it inside and out. I was fluent in the language and fluent in what we were trying to do, (so) it has come back pretty quickly. I see myself having it pretty close to 100 percent very soon."
The greater issue, though, had been whether Flynn's elbow was 100 percent. Given the success he'd had in Green Bay – completing 24 of 37 passes for 251 yards and three touchdowns (100.2 rating) in a loss at New England that preceded the team's 2010 Super Bowl XLV title run, or completing 31 of 44 passes for 480 yards and six TDs (136.4 rating) against Detroit in the 2011 regular-season finale – it was hard for many in the Packers organization to understand why he didn't find success after departing.
One theory: An injury to his right (throwing) elbow that dated back to 2012 training camp with the Seahawks. But Flynn insisted Wednesday that the elbow was only an issue during that camp, even though the Packers acknowledged that the primary reason for the workout was to gauge his arm.
"I thought he threw the ball well (in the workout). I thought he threw it as I remember him," McCarthy said. "I'll be honest with you, I'm not qualified to answer (what happened in Seattle or Oakland). I didn't go back and watch all his video in Seattle. I didn't watch his video in Oakland. I think when you have as much history with a player as we do here, it's more about the conversation and the physical workout. And that's really what it was. It was more of a medical hurdle that we had to make sure – as you do with any player that you bring in to put on your 53 – that he's ready to go. And that's how we felt after going through all that."
Asked if he thought Flynn's arm is 100 percent, McCarthy replied: "Based on the medical examination, they're fine with the testing and everything that's been run. Yes, he was cleared medically."
And now that he's back, Flynn plans to enjoy himself. While he wasn't thinking too far into the future – although he signed a one-year deal, the Packers may very well want him and Tolzien as Rodgers' backups next year – Flynn admitted that being back in Green Bay felt like home.
"You know, first time I walked in here, it seemed like it's been about 10 years," he said. "But after talking to everybody and being here for two days, it kind of feels like I never left. A lot of different faces in here, but it's a lot of familiar ones, too.
"I was the butt of a lot of jokes today and when I came here on Monday. It's been good. It's the same old guys. It's good to see that not much changes with how the people act around here, people still having fun and doing their jobs."
Listen to Jason Wilde every weekday from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. on "Green & Gold Today" on 540 ESPN, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasonjwilde.


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The big problem with Kohls is that their prices are super high. However, they have so many crazy sales there that it usually brings the price down to TRU level.
The big problem with Kohls is that their prices are super high. However, they have so many crazy sales there that it usually brings the price down to TRU level.
Nowhere in your incoherent ramblings did you come anywhere close to the answer. Thanks to you, everyone in this room is now stupider having heard you. I award you no points and may God have mercy on your soul. -Billy Madison-
One of my sightings of everyone in the wave but Jazz was at Kohl's.
That's my jacket!
I dunno. Transformers have been known to mix in a few Joe vehicles from time to time (they even had a Transformer version of the Snow Cat called, creatively enough, Snow Cat), so it's most likely a Human Alliance toy of some sort. Unless they're actually planning a crossover line, which I don't consider likely.
That's my jacket!
I don't believe there will be a leader-class Ironhide, especially with that misclaim of Megs one above being LC, coupled with a new voyager-class Ironhide was just shown off.
For Insecticons, you have art from Guido Guidi, the artist on the Hearts of Steel comic book, of which no action figures have ever been made, and this is clearly concept art for the comic, not a toy. Here's more of the same concept art: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Hearts_of_Steel_1ri.jpg
Foreign sources are often like this, mixing hopes into 'real news'.
There is no chance that Hearts of Steel Insecticons image will become a toy, that's art for the comic.Thanks for the info on the Insecticon train. If those become toys, I'd prefer them to be less kibble. The bots look like they turn into a train and I can only imagine the insects look like they are a train. Only ants run on a straight track (sometimes).
Yes. It's ugly packaging and sloppy and pointlessly curved, so it's definitely Hasbro.Megatron's packaging is legit I'm sure.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
All Hail Darth Schmitsky!
For TF3, Shockwave is probably (underwhelmingly) a security truck (armored car? SWAT Van? of some sort. Uncreatively, the alternate form mimics his rank and function in the Decepticon army.
Meanwhile, Beachcomber HA? I'm not sure we need that. I might buy this if only I will need to use the vehicle as a human operated machine in a diorama. I've not heard that Beachcomber is in the TF3 cast at all. Not that I dislike him. He's always been cool.
JediTricks: I'd welcome and all-new mold to a Voyager Ironhide. Previous Voyager offerings of him (well the old mold) really disappointed, as the chest did not hold together and he was too loose. That's why I was so excited to scale down and grab the Deluxe. If this Ironhide is cool and lives up to my expectations, I'll be pleasantly surprised.
If Silverbolt is in the movie, he is actually the ideal candidate for a Leader Class Autobot (other than Prime - who most of us have at least 2 versions of already).
DARN IT! It does not look like a big helicopter Decepticon is in the 3rd movie so I can finally get a Leader Class Blackout / Grindor - something that should have been made a long time ago!
NEW UPDATE: DOTM Megatron vs. Optimus Prime video!
These are the Voyager toys. I am disappointed that Megatron looks considerably smaller than Prime, especially in Alt mode. You'd think he might be a larger Decepticon truck?
Cool video. I love the use of the old Hasbro music! Makes me want to watch my G1 DVDs
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
If Beachcomber is in TF3, he will be mentally impaired, super-violent, and somehow based on an Arabic stereotype. He will also likely be gay and try to hump Sam's leg a few times.
Hey, just going by the awesome respect they showed for Skids and Wheelie.
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Recent News
ACCLAIMED HISTORICAL INTERPRETER PACE WILL PORTRAY AMERICAN HUMORIST/POET LANGSTON HUGHES AT LITERARY ARTS FESTIVALPosted on: 30 October, 2012
Acclaimed Chautauqua historical interpreter Charles Everett Pace will portray American humorist and poet Langston Hughes as part of East Central University's 17th Annual Literary Arts Festival on Nov. 8.
Pace will be appearing in "On the Road with Langston Hughes" from noon to 1:15 p.m. at the Ataloa Theatre inside the Hallie Brown Ford Fine Arts Center on the ECU campus.
Posted on: 30 October, 2012
East Central University faculty, staff and students, along with the Ada community, can learn about high performance computing as Dr. Henry Neeman, from the University of Oklahoma, will be speaking on the topic the ECU campus Thursday at 2 p.m. in the Estep Multimedia Room of the Bill S. Cole University Center.
With the advent of multicore technology, it won't be long before cell phones and all types of computers will contain supercomputer technology, according to Clay Carley, instructor of mathematics and computer science.
NOTED NATIVE AMERICAN CONCEPTUAL ARTIST HEAP OF BIRDS GUIDES EAST CENTRAL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN CAMPUS SCULPTURESPosted on: 26 October, 2012
oted Native American conceptual artist Edgar Heap of Birds just completed a two-week residency entitled 'Hidden Histories' at East Central University.
Throughout the residency, Heap of Birds worked with students enrolled in the art department sculpture 2 class and students with the Native American Students Association (NASA). Work with the two groups took two different tracks.
Posted on: 26 October, 2012
The East Central University Opera Theatre will conduct a gala performance on Friday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the Dorothy I. Summers Theatre.
The performance, which is free to the public, will include scenes from Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss; Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti; and H.M.S. Pinafore with chorus by Gilbert and Sullivan.
Student performers include Kelsey Howry, Steve Filkins, Danielle Haynes, Kevin Gottman, Rachel Talley and Ashley Tucker.
Posted on: 26 October, 2012
ast Central University students have a chance to study abroad in Spain during Spring Break, March 15-25, 2013.
The students will join ECU professors Ben Johnson and Dr. Mara Sukholutskaya on the trip which features stops in Madrid, Toledo and Guadalupe. Students can receive six credit hours as they immerse themselves in Spanish culture, history and language.
The cost is $2,895 (price is tentative with a group of 20 and does not include ECU tuition and fees). The deadline for registration is Dec. 14.
Posted on: 25 October, 2012
When the Campus Initiative to Reduce Crime Against Women was formed at East Central University in 2004, a figurative light was shining on campus.
CIRCAW, a program funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, is designed to reduce the incidence of interpersonal violence, domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
Posted on: 25 October, 2012
East Central University's Global Education Office, in conjunction with the Global Education Committee and Department of Family and Consumer Science, is planning to host a 'Taste of Russia and Ukraine' event on Nov. 13 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the second floor of Faust Hall, Room 219, on the ECU campus.
The cost is $10 per person.
The event increases the awareness of cultures in question, promotes exchange with ECU partner universities in Kiev and Moscow, and raises money for study abroad scholarships.
Posted on: 25 October, 2012
Twenty-one elementary students recently learned how to start a business when they participated in East Central University's Junior Business Club.
The three-week academy, sponsored by ECU's School of Business, guided Ada's Willard Elementary School students into a business venture of lemonade stands. The students, divided up into four companies, learned how to create a business plan, obtain a loan to start up the business, build and paint their stand and sell lemonade at the Tigers' home football game on Sept. 22.


text: All those geniuses in Congress, why is all the waste and fraud in both defense and social security spending not ever addressed? I'm willing to bet if fraud, wasteful/duplicate programs and gouging was investigated, there would be untold billions in savings. If I was in charge, I'd initiate a program where whistle blowers could get a reward for diming out the cheats, wasteful programs and duplication.


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By Michael Aneiro
Thanks again to falling Treasury rates, the average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rate fell for a third straight week, this time to 3.41% in the week ended today from 3.43% a week ago, according to Freddie Mac's (FMCC) latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey, closing in again on the 3.31% all-time low seen last November. Prior to last week, the 30-year rate had been stuck in a range between 3.51% and 3.63% for more than two months. A year ago the same rate averaged 3.90%.
The average 15-year fixed-rate mortgage rate also fell slightly, to 2.64% from 2.65% a week ago and 3.13% a year ago. It's now back within one basis point of its all-time low 2.63% seen in November.


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Free Teacher Certification Workshop Feb. 19 at Cape May County Campus
January 14, 2008A representative from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey will present a free workshop on Stockton's Teacher Certification program at 1 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 19, at ACCC's Cape May County Campus, 341 Court House-South Dennis Road, Cape May Court House. Nancy Fiedler of Stockton's Teacher Education Department will lead the workshop in room 212.
The workshop is open to anyone interested in pursuing the teacher certification program at Stockton and will cover various K-12 certifications in New Jersey. Attendees should bring a copy of their college transcripts for Fiedler to evaluate. She will advise what action is needed to complete the requirements of the state and Stockton for teacher certification.
For more information, contact Lisa Apel-Gendron at (609) 463-3619.