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Boiling Springs was first settled in the 1740s, when the now famous grist mill was established. In the years that followed, a local iron industry also grew along its seven-acre man-made lake.
The village was formally founded in 1845, after which it began to grow well into the 19th century. Before the Civil War, Boiling Springs was also one of the stops on the underground railroad.
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Chiefs Win as Roster Cuts Loom
Posted on 3 Sep 2010 by Vince Sapienza.
Well as C Day (Cut down day) is right around the corner, the Chiefs players had to buckle down a day earlier and show why they deserve to make that 53-man squad. The Chiefs were able to muster their first win at the New Arrowhead, along with the preseason against the Green Bay Packers. It was their first win in the preseason since 2008, and it was a performance that either made or broke the fut...


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Murder suspect seeking lower bail, release from jail
SPOKANE, Wash. - Clay Starbuck, the Deer Park man accused of killing his ex-wife Chanin so he wouldn't have to pay child support, is making a bid Tuesday to get out of jail in time for Christmas.
On Tuesday Starbuck will ask a judge to reduce his $1 Million bail and release him into the custody of his mother. He claims because prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty against him, he is entitled to a reasonable bond.
Starbuck is accused of breaking into his ex-wife Chanin's home, waiting for her to return and then strangling her to death.
Detectives say Starbuck staged the victim's body to further degrade her and used her phone to pin the crime on one of her boyfriends.
"This wasn't just somebody who went in and killed her and left. This is something that was planned and took pretty much all day to carry out," Chanin Starbuck's brother Stephen Conway said.
Conway flew into town from Florida Monday night and is prepared to tell the court Tuesday that his ex-brother-in-law is a flight risk.
"If he makes bond, he will be gone. There's no doubt in my mind, he knows he's guilty so the second he's out, he's gonna be gone," Conway said.
Starbuck has been behind bars since last February and new court documents show the jail has recorded 17 hours of his phone conversations behind bars.
This motion being heard in superior court comes just one week after Starbuck got his trial postponed from next month to late May of 2013. Defense attorneys have delayed Starbuck's trial while they review if he made any incriminating statements.
"We were really looking forward to getting this over this winter but as long as he's in jail, we don't have a problem with it. They can take him 10 years to have the trial," Conway said.
Since a jury won't hear his case for another five months, Starbuck wants his $1 Million bail reduced and be released on electronic home monitoring.
However, prosecutors are expected to argue he is a danger to the community's safety. "We think he needs to stay in jail," Conway said.
If he does get released, Clay Starbuck won't be allowed to have any contact with his children, who are set to be witnesses against him at his murder trial. Documents filed earlier this month allege, however, his children are reluctant to testify against their father.
A judge has ordered them to be deposed.
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Ob-it's been a really really really long time...
For today, this is just a wee note about my previous entry, in which I had found an inadequacy in ccache's hash. It had returned a cached object with incorrect file paths in its debug information, which the linker was then printing out in warnings and error messages.
Other people must have been noticing that too, because soon thereafter ccache acquired a CCACHE_HASHDIR option to put the whole path into the hash calculation.
That wouldn't help me much, of course, because with my build directory varying daily it would be the same thing as just disabling the cache entirely! Instead, I wound up using a small sed script to canonicalise the logs before I looked at them.
Pretty stone age, but effective.


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Shares of Chevron (CVX) were up 0.7% in recent trading, on the heels that it has reached a settlement with Brazilian prosecutors.
Chevron and Transocean (RIG) were named in the $20 billion lawsuit over a 2011 oil spill off the southeast coast of the country, and both parties are expected to sign off on the deal today, reports The Wall Street Journal. Criminal charges against executives have already been dropped.
The move comes at a delicate time for Brazil—while many energy companies are eager to tap the nations resources and appetite, some criticized the government of overacting to the spill; the settlement should calm some ruffled feathers a month before the country will auction off rights to what "is believed to be one of the largest oil fields ever discovered in deep ocean waters," notes the Journal.
However, Transocean didn't get any bump from the news, and was trading down 1.5% at recent check. Both names have lagged the index in the past year: While the S&P 500 has gained nearly 15% in the last 12 months, Chevron is up 5.7% and Transocean is up just 1.7%.
Other oil majors like Exxon (XOM) and ConocoPhillips (COP) are also up today.
Update: Reuters is reporting that Chevron is considering bid for stake in a Brazil offshore oil prospect (via Briefing.com).


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BikingToronto has set up a Bixi Toronto page on facebook … in preparation for the launch of the system in 2011, and the public launch for memberships later this month!
Bixi is a low cost public bike sharing system that will be launched in Toronto in May 2011. The system will feature 80 "stations" throughout downtown Toronto with a total of 1000 bikes available for rent. Any bike can be picked up at any station and dropped off at any other station – allowing for quick low-cost trips around downtown Toronto.
The rates to use Bixi Toronto are forecast to be:
– $95 for an annual membership
– $40 for an monthly membership
– $6 for a daily membership
With this membership, the first 30 minutes of any trip are absolutely free – with additional costs starting after the initial 30 minutes.
Be sure and "LIKE" the Bixi Toronto page to let everyone know that you support Bike Sharing in Toronto.


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CEO of J. Crew to speak, June 2
Posted June 1, 2006; 10:17 a.m.
Mickey Drexler, chief executive officer of J. Crew, will give the
keynote address at a conference on entrepreneurship on Friday, June 2,
at the Friend Center for Engineering Education.
The conference, which will run from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., is organized by an alumni group, the Princeton Entrepreneurs' Network. It will feature panels and workshops on running a business and raising capital. Among special topics for discussion will be legal issues, technology trends and not-for-profit management.
Panelists will include: John Quigley, founder of Nassau Capital; Jared Polis, a 1996 alumnus who is founder of Blue Mountain Arts and Pro Flowers.com; and Diane deCordova, a 1983 alumna who is founder of Strategic Business Development Partners Inc. and former director of strategic alliances at Yahoo.
H. Vincent Poor, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, will deliver opening remarks. Drexler's address will begin at 10:15 a.m.
Prior to joining J. Crew in 2003, Drexler spent 18 years at Gap Inc., where he was named president in 1987 and CEO in 1995. While there, Drexler and his team increased the company's annual sales from $400 million to $14 billion.
The conference also will feature the conclusion of the Entrepreneurs' Network annual business plan contest. Six finalists will compete for a $10,000 prize to be awarded by a panel of successful venture capitalists and entrepreneurs for the best business plan.
The conference, open to alumni, students and the general public, is co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Bendheim Center for Finance. For more details and registration information, visit the conference's Web site.


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A new mother in her 30s is probably the last person to spring to mind when conjuring up an image of a typical Kiwi gamer.
But according to research gaming is no longer just for moody teenagers, geeks or boys who like their toys.
Today's gamers are more likely to be in their 30s - and 47 per cent of them are female.
New mother Davanea Forbes is one such fan and while the 34-year-old normally spends about 10 hours a week gaming she admits to indulging in up to 40 hours a week before her son was born seven months ago.
The West Auckland woman has loved gaming since she was a kid - a passion that started with games such as Sonic the Hedgehog.
"It was playing at home or going to your friend's place. It was completely normal for other girls to play [too]. It was the latest toy and whoever had the latest toy, everyone wanted to be involved."
Over the years the games have changed and today you are more likely to find her grabbing a quick game on her smartphone, but she also enjoys the odd game with her husband on their PlayStation or Wii.
Ms Forbes said gaming was a way of relaxing and she also enjoyed the social element of playing online or in the same room as friends.
She said the stereotypical image of gamers was long gone but not everyone wanted to be known as a gamer, despite often spending a lot of time playing.
"There's nothing wrong with it but a lot of people have this stereotypical idea in their head and they'll say 'I'm not a gamer' but they play Solitaire or Hearts on their computer for 20 minutes a day."
Dr Jeff Brand, Associate Professor at Australia's Bond University and author of the gaming report, said there had been an explosion in mobile gaming.
"Over the last year, we've seen a growing pattern of 'snack gaming' with more Kiwis using their smartphones and tablet computers to play video games.
"When people are travelling to work or trying to fill in that little bit of time between appointments they're turning on their mobile devices to 'snack' on a video game."
Dr Brand said it was clear from the Digital New Zealand research on more than 800 New Zealand homes that video games were no longer just the domain of teenage boys.
The research found nine out of 10 households owned a device for playing games - be it a gaming console, phone or tablet computer, and nearly four in five parents with children played computer and video games.
Mark Goodacre, director of Interactive Games & Entertainment Australia, said Kiwi gamers were growing up and were now parents and even grandparents.
"Research shows that 41 per cent of people aged over 50 now play video games and a quarter of gamers have been playing for more than two decades."
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* 93% of homes have a device for playing computer/video games. 51% have traditional game consoles, 38% play on a mobile phone and 9% use a tablet computer
* 33 average age of today's gamer
* 47% of gamers are female
* 58% of gamers play daily or every other day
* 92% of parents who play also used games to help educate their children.


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against more wars
like Iraq,
By Thom Shanker
The New York Times
Posted: 02/26/2011 01:00:00 AM MST
WEST POINT, N.Y. — Defense Secretary Robert
Gates bluntly told an audience of West Point
cadets Friday that it would be unwise for the
United States to ever fight another war like Iraq
or Afghanistan and that the chances of carrying
out a change of regime in that fashion again
were slim.
"In my opinion, any future defense secretary who
advises the president to again send a big
American land army into Asia or into the Middle
East or Africa should 'have his head examined,'
as General MacArthur so delicately put it," Gates
told an assembly of Army cadets here.
That reality, he said, meant that the Army would
have to reshape its budget because potential
conflicts in places like Asia or the Persian Gulf
were more likely to be fought with air and sea
power, rather than with conventional ground
"As the prospects for another head-on clash of
large mechanized land armies seem less likely,
the Army will be increasingly challenged to
justify the number, size and cost of its heavy
formations," Gates said.
"The odds of repeating another Afghanistan or
Iraq — invading, pacifying and administering a
large third-world country — may be low," Gates
But the Army and the rest of the government
must focus on capabilities that can "prevent
festering problems from growing into full-blown
crises which require costly — and controversial
— large-scale American military intervention."
Gates was brought into the Bush Cabinet in late
2006 to repair the war effort in Iraq that was
begun under his predecessor, Donald Rumsfeld,
and then was kept in office by President Barack
Gates has said that he would leave office this
year, and the speech at West Point could be
heard as his farewell to the Army.
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SARASOTA COUNTY — The Sarasota County Commission will take its final vote on the 2012 fiscal year budget and millage rates after public hearings Sept. 26 at the Administration Center in Venice.
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. The center is located at 4000 S. Tamiami Trail, Venice.
Members of the public will have three minutes each to address the commissioners.
The County Commission on a first reading Sept. 12 approved no change in the general fund millage rate from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2012. That rate is 3.0607 mills. Including the debt service and mosquito millage rates, the total millage rate is also unchanged at 3.3384 mills. One mill is the equivalent of $1,000 of assessed property value.
The total tentative budget for fiscal year 2012 is $860,474,628.
The Sarasota County Property Appraiser Office had certified the taxable value for Sarasota County property as of July 1 at $39.6 billion, down from $42.1 billion in the previous year.
Among the budget cutbacks for the new fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1, are a reduction in library hours of service and purchases of new materials, as well as discontinuation of the inter-library loan program, saving $450,774; a reduction in small-scale recreation programs and events and a deferral of minor maintenance and equipment replacement in the Parks and Recreation Department, saving $257,458; and a 5% reduction in primary care services for the Sarasota County Health Department, saving $148,395.


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hacked util_status.c to make srvmgr work again
Hmm .. printing with TNG 2.5 partly works. The printer driver gets copied to the samba server, but then fails.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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[Taipei, Taiwan, April 17 , 2012] IEI Technology Corp. (IEI), the global industrial computing innovator, released a 3.5" Single Board Computer (SBC), the WAFER-OT-Z650/Z670. This 3.5" embedded computer board is based on the Intel® Atom™ Z650/Z670 processor. The Intel® Atom™ processor Z6xx series is a highly optimized platform with small form-factor and low-power design, enabling the new embedded board to be utilized on industrial portable devices. An integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 600 graphics engine supports HDMI and up to 1080p video decoding. This platform also supports Windows® 7, WES 2011 and MeeGo operating systems. This 3.5" embedded computer board supports DDR2 memory and is ideal for a wide variety of applications including industrial tablets, retail point-of-sale systems, and high performance digital signage.
The WAFER-OT-Z650/Z670 supports dual display with one HDMI and one 18-bit single-channel LVDS. It features on-board 800 MHz 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM support, HDMI, 18-bit single-channel LVDS display output and ultra low power consumption. The WAFER-OT-Z650/Z670 comes with complete I/O options including seven USB ports, one SATA 3Gb/s connector, one SD slot, four COM ports, and an audio connector. These features make the WAFER-OT-Z650/Z670 an ideal fan-less embedded system for digital signage and other high-performance applications.
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Anyway, no one's talking about a plan ala Australia just yet. For one thing, I doubt they had a Constitutionally protected right to arms. We might one day fairly soon -- if not right now -- reach some kind of 2/3rds majority by population for strict gun control legislation in this country, but you're never going to get the 38 states it takes to ratify it. Not in the next 50 years, anyway.
The only way anything drastic is going to get done is by having majority of Supreme Court justices who believe the operative phrase in the 2nd amendment is not "shall not be infringed" but rather "well regulated." And even then... the Court is very cautious to lag behind public opinion on these matters so as to maintain their place as an unbiased legal arbiter. Even a justice like Elena Kagan, who is quite openly disdainful of a broad reading of the 2nd amendment, would be likely to tread carefully on behalf of judicial restraint.


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White House weighing plan to replace sequester with smaller spending cuts
White House officials are in advanced internal discussions about a plan to replace the sweeping spending cuts set to begin in January with a smaller, separate package of targeted spending cuts and tax increases, people familiar with the planning said…
The plan that has been discussed by White House officials is similar in many ways to what lawmakers have discussed. It would terminate the spending cuts for a period of six to 12 months, and replace the cuts with more targeted reductions and revenue increases. House Republicans have proposed a similar model, though they have called for terminating the cuts to defense programs only and haven't accepted a deal to include tax increases as part of any package.
If left unaddressed, the sequester would cut military spending by $54.7 billion in the first nine months of 2013, reducing many Pentagon programs by about 10%. Other domestic programs, such as those relating to education and housing, would also see cuts. Social Security and Medicare benefits would not be hit, with the exception of a 2% cut in payments to Medicare providers.


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This well is being drilled along Hypocrite Creek Road north of Ligonier. This well appears in another image on this page, which focuses on the frac pond. This image places the well in the context of those who live near it. The white house is very close to the well site. I am told that the land owner who leased his gas rights resulting in this well lives around the bend on the other side of the hill. The well was placed far from his house at the edge of his property and abutting his neighbor. I don't know whether the neighbor is part of the leasing agreement which would provide him with financial compensation for what some in the gas industry refer to as a 'temporary inconvienence'. On the day I made this image, the activity at the well created a fair amount of noise.
Note: Once you lease the land you have almost no say as to where the pad is made and the well, drilled. The location is typically determined by the size and shape of the lease and the local geology. With this in mind the surface location will be located where the well can achieve the maximum horizontal length in the pay zone while not crossing any lease lines.
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Track and field meet raises money for Freedom Honor Flight
LA CROSSE, Wis. - Track and Field athletes braved the cold and snowy weather over the weekend to raise money for veterans in our area.
The UW-La Crosse men's and women's track and field teams hosted the Phil Esten Challenge on the UW-La Crosse campus to raise money for the La Crosse chapter of the Freedom Honor Flight.
Eight teams were in the meet, as well as individual competitors.19841774
The men's track and field coach says the fundraiser relies on the athletes taking ownership of the event.
"All of our athletes go out and solicit funds and donations for the program lump sum or per point that we score at teh competition here if you score 200 points and you have a penny per point it adds all up and we get the money we raised for the event," says Josh Buccholtz.


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Missouri Pandemic Influenza Response Plan
The Missouri Pandemic Influenza Response Plan describes the concept of operations that DHSS and coordinated agencies and organizations will employ during a pandemic response. This plan is not intended to describe the processes for stopping a pandemic, but rather to describe strategies of preparedness, response and recovery to attempt to decrease illnesses and deaths during the pandemic period to manageable levels (i.e., that do not overwhelm the critical infrastructures of the state), and to promote community resiliency and rapid recovery. DHSS reserves the flexibility to modify the plan during the pandemic in response to the actual behavior of the disease and the effectiveness of the ongoing response.
This plan is designed primarily to guide the operational response of the state response to pandemic influenza in Missouri, though segments of information contained within the plan will prove useful to guide activities of planners at the local level and to the general public. An effective response will reduce the pandemic impact on public health by reducing illnesses and saving lives, and maintain essential services while minimizing economic loss.
Download the complete plan.
- Cover and Introduction
- Purpose of Plan
- Pandemic Phases and Stages
- H1N1 Experience
- Assumptions in Planning
- Assumptions Concerning Response to a Pandemic
- Roles and Responsibilities of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services
- Concept of Operations
- Definitions
Technical Support Annexes
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Road to Glory New York Weigh-Ins
- Written by Dave Walsh
This is a big weekend for GLORY as in London fans are anxiously awaiting GLORY 5 London, featuring Remy Bonjasky vs. Tyrone Spong, but tonight in New York City the Road 2 Glory continues.
The Road 2 Glory USA events have been in full swing for a while now, giving up-and-coming fighters a chance at the big time in a one night tournament. In fact, runner-up from the Road 2 Glory LA tournament, Eddie Walker, is fighting at GLORY 5 London this weekend, showing how vital these Road 2 Glory shows can be for a young fighter. The weigh-ins went down last night and MiddleEasy's own Bauzen was there photographing for the WKA.
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JBL J33 Premium In-Ear Headphones - Black
" Okay..well this is my first review..if you may call it so..hence any,,amatuerish mistakes be forgiven..here we go.. So i saved some money(i'm always short of it) for the Vsonic gr02 be..after studying Head-fi posts extensively..and at the moment of commitment, my seller went out of stock. These were just launched on a reputed website here in india..so i decided that i'd get them to satisfy..." --Aakash
JBL Reference 220 Headphone (White)
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Well I just logged in to advogato and being of an academic bent am wondering if this distributed certification process would be a better way to make help tenure appointements than the current black art. :)
Specifically, it is possible to write a valuable, widely used piece of software inducing a large number of downloads and not make any academically significant contribution. Developers at IBM, Microsoft, Sun, etc. do this every day. In such cases the software is literally new, as might be expected in a synthetic field, but it has been created within the known state-of-the-art. It is not "better" by embodying new ideas or techniques, as Brooks requires. It may be improved, but anyone "schooled in the art" would achieve similar results.
Quantitative data may not imply all that is claimed for it, and it can be manipulated. Downloads do not imply that the software is actually being used, nor do Web hits imply interest. There are techniques, such as the Googol page-rank approach [http://www.google.com], that may produce objective information about Web usage, for example, but caution in using numbers is always advised.
So should being highly ranked on adovgato "count" during tenure review? If it did, you could get lots of tenure-track faculty to probably write more useful free software. The current "economic" incentives in a academic environment make writting useful cutting edge software difficult.


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Are we seeing anything new yet? other than flamethrower troopers (which I did get and will be part of the kids bday next month)? I just feel like I am missing or forgetting to look for something. Any clue?
Well, if you're like me you're probably missing just about everything that came out around the time of Hondo Ohnaka and Aayla Secura. Hasbro is kind of starting to tick me off here. I'm far from a completist, but I hate having such huge holes in my collection.
Dublin Target was putting out their end cap today. I got everything I wanted there but I know San Ramon is planning to put theirs out today or tomorrow as well. Happy hunting.
Have: CW Yularen, CW Clone, everything from CW Slave I set except Slave I, TFU Shadow Stormtrooper x2, Evo Trooper, Saga AT-AT Driver, K-Mart Jodo Kast || Want: Vintage Fordo
Thanks to TheDarthVader, Phantom-like Menace, TheRealDubya, Jediguy, Dark Marble, Umbra, Qui-Long Gone, CrunchyNug, GH_fan and jedikiss.
went to target last night, the union city/hayward one. reset was up and this guy had the last seven hoth sets in his cart plus a bunch of geo arena stuff my 7 year old son wanted one of the hoth turret set and the mexican guy said "better luck next time"
Buy the way as of 10am this morning hesperian hayward target had nothing done yet.
I picked up the last Defense of Hoth set that I saw at the San Leandro Target this morning. It is your if you still want it. Otherwise, I will be returning it later this week. Send me a PM and let me know if you still need it and we can work out the details on how to get this to you.
BTW - other Bay Area guys, the San Leandro Target also had the new Geonosan Arena 2 packs and the Senate Commando/Captain two packs. They also had the battlepacks with the Pirate figure.
The Arena packs are on sale for $9.99.
If anyone happens to see the following Marvel Universe figures while they are out hunting, please pick one of each up for me and I will be happy to reimburse you: Thanos, Constrictor, or regular Archangel.
Have a good week all!
Found two DCUC Series 15 Sinestro Corps Batman figures at K-Mart in Pleasant Hill on Sunday. If any of you collect DCUC, now might be a good time to start checking those K-Marts.
I'm having a good week! I found all of the Marvel Universe figures that I mentioned in my previous post with the exception of the archangel.
Hope everyone else is doing well.
Met Jon Dougha today. Nice to finally meet another one of our bay area group.
After that went over to home depot to grab stuff for my kids costume and on my way home, as much as I said I was not stopping anywhere today I did hit the Hesperian TRU and found one camo arf trooper. Looks like he is hitting the shelves with the new Kit Fisto, Mace Windu, and Gree according to the card back, however I did not see any of those other guys on the shelf.
Found Shaak Ti, Embo, and Mando Warrior at San Leandro Target.
No sign of the other figs from this wave.
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Alumni and parents of current undergraduates will converge on campus for a day of lectures, award ceremonies and other events Saturday, Feb. 20.
Highlights of the annual Alumni Day and Parents' Program, coordinated by the Office of the Alumni Association, include:
- A lecture at 9:15 a.m. by U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, the James Madison Medalist. Petraeus, who earned his master's in public affairs and a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1985 and 1987, respectively, oversees the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as commander of the U.S. Central Command. He will provide an "Update From the USCENTCOM Commander" in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
- An address at 10:30 a.m. by Jim Leach, the Woodrow Wilson Award recipient. Leach, a member of Princeton's class of 1964, was a longtime U.S. congressman and now chairs the National Endowment for the Humanities. He will speak in Richardson Auditorium on "Civility in a Fractured Society."
- A 12:15 p.m. Alumni Association luncheon and awards ceremony in Jadwin Gymnasium.
- A 3 p.m. service of remembrance in the University Chapel to honor deceased Princeton alumni, students and University faculty and staff members.
- A 5:30 p.m. reception in Procter Hall of the Graduate College with Petraeus hosted by the Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni and the Wilson School.
The Alumni Day and Parents' Program is not open to the general public. Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend the lectures, panels, workshops, luncheon and service of remembrance. Registration is required.
During the day, a variety of presentations are planned, ranging from retiring engineering professor David Billington's recollections of 50 years of teaching at Princeton to University provost and legal scholar Christopher Eisgruber speaking on "How to Pick a Supreme Court Justice." A number of programs are scheduled for families, including a discussion led by Dean of Admission Janet Rapelye on "Navigating the College Admissions Process" for students in grades 9-11 and a guided tour of the newly renovated Butler College.
For a complete schedule and registration information, visit the Alumni Day website or call the Office of the Alumni Association at 258-1900.
Registrants must bring event confirmation forms and identification for admittance to events at Richardson Auditorium and Jadwin Gymnasium and for other Alumni Day programming. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. No backpacks, large bags or umbrellas will be allowed in Richardson. Bag check will be available in Maclean House. Photography and audio recording also are prohibited in Richardson.


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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 6:39 PM GMT on March 05, 2008
A Lufthansa Airbus A320 with 137 people on board nearly crashed at the Hamburg, Germany airport on Saturday, March 1, as the pilot struggled to land the airplane during high winds kicked up by winter storm "Emma". If you don't have a fear of flying, take at look at the remarkable video an amateur photographer captured of the landing. It's been uploaded to LiveLeak.com and YouTube. As seen in the still images captured from the video (Figure 1), the pilot attempted to land the aircraft with a strong crosswind blowing from right to left. The crosswind is so strong that the drift angle of the aircraft (the difference between where the nose is pointed and the actual track of the airplane along the runway) is about 20 degrees. As the pilot touches the wheels down, he kicks the rudder to straighten the airplane out, and at that moment, a strong gust of wind lifts up the right wing, pushing the left wingtip of the aircraft into the runway. The pilot is skillful and lucky enough to avoid having the airplane cartwheel down the runway and explode, and aborts the landing attempt. You can see the blast of the engines kick up a cloud of dust on the left side of the runway as he goes to full throttle for a "go around" (thanks to Jeff Weber of UNIDATA for making the correct analysis of this dust cloud). The plane landed safely on its second attempt. Do you think the passengers were praying during that second landing? I do! Only minor damage was done to the left wingtip, and the plane was back in service by the next day.
Figure 1. Still photo of the Lufthansa jet (left) as it approached the runway. Note sharp angle between the direction the airplane's nose is pointed, and the track it is taking along the length of the runway. Strong winds of 40 mph gusting to 63 mph were observed at the airport that afternoon. Right photo: the left wingtip of the jet scrapes the runway as a big gust of wind hits. Image credit: LiveLeak.com.
The weather that led to the near disaster
The initial press reports indicated that a wind gust of 155 mph hit the aircraft as it tried to land. That sounded rather dubious to me, so I took a closer look at the weather conditions that day. The only way a wind gust of that magnitude could have been generated would be from a powerful microburst flowing out from the base of a severe thunderstorm. The world record strongest thunderstorm microburst occurred on August 1, 1983, when winds of 149.5 mph were clocked at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington D.C., just five minutes after President Reagan landed there aboard Air Force 1. So, a 155 mph wind gust is possible, but it would be a new world record.
Figure 2. Visible satellite image from 10:20 GMT Saturday March 1 2008. Winter storm "Emma", a 960 mb low pressure centered north of Hamburg over Norway, has pushed a cold front through Germany. A strong northwest to west-northwest flow of air coming off the North Sea (red arrows) brought sustained winds of 36 mph, gusting to 56 mph, to Hamburg, Germany. Image credit: University of Bern, Switzerland.
Were there severe thunderstorms near Hamburg on March 1 that could have generated such a wind gust? A powerful low pressure system (Emma) with a central pressure of 960 mb passed to the north of Hamburg, Germany that morning, dragging a strong cold front through in the late morning (Figure 2). After cold frontal passage, the wunderground history page for Hamburg at 12:50 GMT, five minutes before the time of the incident, shows sustained winds of 35 mph, gusting to 56 mph. A temporary wind reading of 40 mph, gusting to 63 mph, also occurred. The temperature was about 45°F, with occasional rain. This is classic post-cold front weather, and is not the sort of environment where severe thunderstorms with strong microbursts occur. Later press reports corrected the 155 mph wind gust, reducing it to 56 mph. Apparently, the aircraft's landing speed was 155 mph. In any case, the plane was operating very near to the maximum crosswinds an Airbus A320 is permitted to land in--38 mph, gusting to 44 mph. There are questions whether air traffic control should have used that runway for landings, and whether or not the pilot should have attempted a landing in those conditions. There is an interesting discussion at the LiveATC.net discussion forum where some pilots weight in on the near-disaster.
Winter storm Emma did considerable damage across Germany. Six people died in weather-related automobile accidents, power was cut to 150,000 homes, and high winds ripped the roof off of a school in Hesse. In neighboring countries, 260 buildings lost their roofs in Poland, flooding collapsed a bridge in Romania, and in the Czech Republic, 92,000 people (about 10 percent of the population) lost power.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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didnt know you were a fan of the Cowboys Buddy
didnt know you were a fan of the Cowboys Buddy
officially? no. unofficially? about as close a player can get to being a bust
He isn't a bust yet...but if he comes into training camp again looking like fat Albert than he might me. He will need to have a good camp and pre-season or he's a goner
This year will tell all for Austin.. I sure as hell hope he's not a bust
It's starting to look that way. He's definitely going to need to do something this year to not be.


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I love that cover photo. I also think Carol's chapter on reading your dog, general fairness to the dog and training group manners is very good.
Ordered my copy yesterday. Can't wait to get it!!
Met Carol in Maine a few years ago in Dover Foxcroft of all places..and she had Val Ducross with her. It was so great to meet both. The other reason I like Carol, other than her book, is the way she is with her retrievers and the team work that I saw that weekend.
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Dementia, Caregiving and Controlling Frustration
The Stresses of Caregiving
Caring for an individual with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia can be challenging and, at times, overwhelming. Frustration is a normal and valid emotional response to many of the difficulties of being a caregiver. While some irritation may be part of everyday life as a caregiver, feeling extreme frustration can have serious consequences for you or the person you care for. Frustration and stress may negatively impact your physical health or cause you to be physically or verbally aggressive towards your loved one. If your caregiving situation is causing you extreme frustration or anger, you may want to explore some new techniques for coping.
When you are frustrated, it is important to distinguish between what is and what is not within your power to change. Frustration often arises out of trying to change an uncontrollable circumstance. As a caregiver of someone with dementia, you face many uncontrollable situations. Normal daily activities—dressing, bathing and eating—may become sources of deep frustration for you. Behaviors often associated with dementia, like wandering or asking questions repeatedly, can be frustrating for caregivers but are uncontrollable behaviors for people with dementia. Unfortunately, you cannot simply change the behavior of a person suffering from dementia.
When dealing with an uncontrollable circumstance, you do control one thing: how you respond to that circumstance.
In order to respond without extreme frustration, you will need to:
learn to recognize the warnings signs of frustration;
intervene to calm yourself down physically;
modify your thoughts in a way that reduces your stress;
learn to communicate assertively;
learn to ask for help.
Warning Signs of Frustration
If you can recognize the warning signs of frustration, you can intervene and adjust your mood before you lose control. Some of the common warning signs of frustration include:
shortness of breath
- knot in the throat
stomach cramps
chest pains
compulsive eating
excessive alcohol consumption
increased smoking
lack of patience
desire to strike out
Calming Down Physically
When you become aware of the warning signs of frustration, you can intervene with an immediate activity to help you calm down. This gives you time to look at the situation more objectively and to choose how to respond in a more controlled way.
When you feel yourself becoming frustrated, try counting from one to ten slowly and taking a few deep breaths. If you are able, take a brief walk or go to another room and collect your thoughts. It is better to leave the situation, even for a moment, than to lose control or react in a way you will regret. If you think someone may be offended when you leave the room, you can tell that person you need to go to the restroom. You can also try calling a friend, praying, meditating, singing, listening to music or taking a bath. Try experimenting with different responses to find out what works best for you and the person you care for.
The regular practice of relaxation techniques can also help prepare you for frustrating circumstances. If possible, try the following relaxation exercise for at least ten minutes each day:
Sit in a comfortable position in a quiet place. Take slow, deep breaths and relax the tension in your body. While you continue to take slow, deep breaths, you may want to imagine a safe and restful place and repeat a calming word or phrase.
Modifying Your Thoughts
As you take time out to collect your thoughts, try rethinking your situation in ways that reduce frustration. How you think often affects how you feel. Of course, feelings of frustration arise from difficult circumstances. If, however, you analyze your response to a frustrating situation, you will usually find some form of maladaptive—or negative—thinking that has the effect of increasing your frustration, preventing you from looking at your situation objectively, or finding a better way to deal with it.
Below are six major types of unhelpful thought patterns common among caregivers. Following each unhelpful thought pattern is an example of an adaptive—or more helpful—thought that can be used as self-defense against frustration. Familiarizing yourself with the unhelpful thought patterns and the adaptive responses can help you control your frustration.
You take one negative situation or characteristic and multiply it. For example, you're getting ready to take the person in your care to a doctor's appointment when you discover the car battery has died. You then conclude, "This always happens; something always goes wrong."
Adaptive response: "This does not happen all the time. Usually my car is working just fine. At times things don't happen the way I would like, but sometimes they do."
You overlook the good things about your circumstances and yourself. For example, you might not allow yourself to feel good about caregiving by thinking, "I could do more" or "anyone could do what I do."
Adaptive response: "Caregiving is not easy. It takes courage, strength, and compassion to do what I do. I am not always perfect, but I do a lot and I am trying to be helpful."
You reach a conclusion without having all the facts. You might do this in two ways:
Mindreading: We assume that others are thinking negative thoughts about us. For example, a friend doesn't return a phone call, and we assume that he or she is ignoring us or doesn't want to talk to us.
Adaptive response: "I don't know what my friend is thinking. For all I know, she didn't get the message. Maybe she is busy or just forgot. If I want to know what she is thinking, I will have to ask her."
Fortune-telling: You predict a negative outcome in the future. For example, you will not try adult day care because you assume the person in your care will not enjoy it. You think, "He will never do that. Not a chance!"
Adaptive response: "I cannot predict the future. I don't think he is going to like it, but I won't know for sure unless I try."
You try to motivate yourself using statements such as "I should call mother more often" or "I shouldn't go to a movie because Mom might need me." What you think you "should" do is in conflict with what you want to do. You end up feeling guilty, depressed or frustrated.
Adaptive response: "I would like to go to a movie. It's okay for me to take a break from caregiving and enjoy myself. I will ask a friend or neighbor to check in on Mom."
You identify yourself or other people with one characteristic or action. For example, you put off doing the laundry and think, "I am lazy."
Adaptive response: "I am not lazy. Sometimes I don't do as much as I could, but that doesn't mean I am lazy. I often work hard and do the best that I can. Even I need a break sometimes."
You take responsibility for a negative occurrence that is beyond your control. For example, you might blame yourself when the person in your care requires hospitalization or placement in a facility.
Adaptive response: "Mom's condition has gotten to the point where I can no longer take care of her myself. It is her condition and not my shortcomings that require her to be in a nursing home."
Using the "Triple-Column Technique"
Unhelpful thought patterns are usually ingrained reactions or habits. To modify your negative thoughts, you will have to learn to recognize them, know why they are false, and talk back to them.
One helpful way to practice using more adaptive thinking processes is to use the "triple-column technique." Draw two lines down the center of a piece of paper to divide the paper into thirds. When you are feeling frustrated, take a personal "time out" and write your negative thoughts in the first column.
In the second column, try to identify the type of unhelpful pattern from the six examples above. In the third column, talk back to your negative thoughts with a more positive point of view. See below for examples.
Negative Thoughts
Thought Patterns
Adaptive Thoughts
|(Caregiver burns dinner.) "I can't do anything right!"
|I'm not perfect, but nobody is perfect. Sometimes I make mistakes, and sometimes I do things well.
|(Caregiver has coffee with a friend and spouse has accident at home.) "I'm selfish and rotten! If I had been home, he wouldn't have fallen."
|Labeling; personalizing
|I'm not selfish or rotten. I do a lot to take care of my husband, but I need to take care of myself as well. He might have fallen even if I had been home.
|(Brother does not show up to take your Dad to the doctor.) "I knew I couldn't trust him.I should just do it myself next time."
|Jumping to conclusions; should statements
|I don't know why he didn't come, but I need his help, so we'll have to find ways for him to share the burden of Dad's care.
Communicating Assertively
Good communication can reduce frustration by allowing you to express yourself while helping others to understand your limits and needs. Assertive communication is different from passive or aggressive communication. When you communicate passively, you may be keeping your own needs and desires inside to avoid conflict with others. While this may seem easier on the surface, the long-term result may be that others feel they can push you around to get their way.
When you communicate aggressively, you may be forcing your needs and desires onto others. While this allows you to express your feelings, aggressive communication generally makes others more defensive and less cooperative.
When you communicate assertively, you express your own needs and desires while respecting the needs and desires of others. Assertive communication allows both parties to engage in a dignified discussion about the issue at hand.
Keys to assertive communication are:
- Respecting your own feelings, needs and desires.
- Standing up for your feelings without shaming, degrading or humiliating the other person.
- Using "I" statements rather than "you" statements. For example, say, "I need a break" or "I would like to talk to you and work this out" instead of "You are irresponsible" or "You never help out!"
- Not using "should" statements. For example, say, "It's important to me that promises be kept," instead of "You should keep your promise."
The Critical Step: Asking for Help
You cannot take on all the responsibilities of caregiving by yourself. It is essential that you ask for and accept help. Discuss your needs with family members and friends who might be willing to share caregiving responsibilities. People will not realize you need help if you do not explain your situation and ask for assistance. Remember, you have the right to ask for help and express your needs.
When to say "Yes"
Don't be afraid to say "Yes" if someone offers to help. Say "Yes" at the moment a person offers to help rather than saying "maybe" and waiting until you are in a fix. Have a list handy of errands or tasks you need help with. Keep in mind that people feel useful and gratified when they are able to help others.
When to say "No"
Often, caregivers are pulled in multiple directions. In addition to the demands of caregiving, you may feel compelled to meet the demands of your immediate and extended family, your friends and your employer. Learn how to say "No" to the demands of others when you are overwhelmed or need a break. It is your right to say "No" to extra demands on your time without feeling guilty.
Learning Effective Communication Techniques for Dementia Caregiving
Many families find it frustrating to communicate with a loved one who has dementia. The person with dementia may repeat questions over and over or mistake you for someone else. It is important to remember that the person with dementia cannot control behavior caused by their disease. They do not need to be corrected or grounded in "reality." You can distract them or just agree with them as a way to reduce your frustration.
It can be helpful, however, to learn more about dementia and effective communication techniques which will ease your frustration. For example, use simple, direct statements, and place yourself close when speaking to a person with a cognitive disorder. Try not to argue about unimportant things such as what the date is. Allow extra time to accomplish tasks such as dressing. Remember, people with dementia often react more to our feelings than our words. Finding ways to be calm can help you to gain cooperation. See FCA's Fact Sheet: Caregiver's Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviors for more helpful strategies.
Self-Care to Prevent Frustration
Caregiving can be tiring and stressful. When you're caring for others, it's easy to forget to care for yourself. While it may be difficult to find time to focus on yourself and your needs, it is very important that you do so to prevent frustration and burnout. FCA's Fact Sheet: Taking Care of YOU: Self-Care for Caregivers offers additional information.
Here are three steps to taking better care of YOU:
Make Time for Yourself
You may feel guilty about needing or wanting time out for rest, socialization and fun. However, everyone deserves regular and ongoing breaks from work, including caregivers. "Respite" providers can give you the opportunity to take the breaks you need. Respite breaks may be provided by in-home help, adult day care, "friendly visitor" programs, friends and neighbors, or other means. The important point is to allow yourself to take a break from caregiving. See "Resources" at the end of this fact sheet for organizations that might help you give yourself time off from caregiving.
Take Care of Yourself
Although caregiving may make it difficult to find time for yourself, it is important to eat well, exercise, get a good night's sleep and attend to your own medical needs.
When you do not take care of yourself, you are prone to increased anxiety, depression, frustration and physical distress that will make it more difficult to continue providing care.
Seek Outside Support
Sharing your feelings with a counselor, pastor, a support group, or with another caregiver in a similar situation can be a great way to release stress and get helpful advice. You may want to contact the organizations under "Resources" at the end of this Fact Sheet or look in the community services section at the front of the Yellow Pages, under "Counseling" or "Senior Services" to find services to help you get some caregiver support. The FCA Fact Sheet on Community Care Options also offers information.
Burns, David D., M.D., (1980, 1999). Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, Revised and Updated Edition, Avon Books, New York, NY.
Gallagher-Thompson, D., Rose, J., Florsheim, M., Gantz, F., Jacome, P., Del Maestro, S., Peters, L., Arguello, D., Johnson, C., Moorehead, R.S., Polich, T.M., Chesney, M., Thompson, L.W., (1992). Controlling Your Frustration: A Class for Caregivers. Palo Alto, CA: Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Parrish, Monique, L.C.S.W., Dr. PH., (2000). "Stress: What is it? What can be done about it?" Stress Reduction Instruction Manual, written for John Muir Mount Diablo Medical Center, Concord, CA.
Family Caregiver Alliance
National Center on Caregiving
785 Market Street, Suite 750
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 434-3388
(800) 445-8106
Website: caregiver.org
E-mail: [email protected]
Family Caregiver Alliance (FCA) seeks to improve the quality of life for caregivers through education, services, research and advocacy.
Through its National Center on Caregiving, FCA offers information on current social, public policy and caregiving issues and provides assistance in the development of public and private programs for caregivers.
For residents of the greater San Francisco Bay Area, FCA provides direct support services for caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's and other debilitating disorders that strike adults.
FCA Fact Sheet: Caregiver's Guide to Understanding Dementia Behaviors
FCA Fact Sheet: Hiring-In-Home Help
FCA Fact Sheet: Taking Care of YOU: Self-Care for Family Caregivers
Alzheimer's Association
225 N. Michigan Ave., Ste. 1700
Chicago, IL 60601-7633
(800) 272-3900
Eldercare Locator
Visit website or call to find your local Area Agency on Aging and services for the elderly and caregivers, including respite care providers.
(800) 677-1116
National Volunteer Caregiving Network
Visit website or call to find volunteer caregiving assistance.
(512) 582-2197
ARCH National Respite Network and Resource Center.
Visit website to find local respite providers
Prepared by Family Caregiver Alliance. Funded by the California Department of Mental Health. ©2003 Family Caregiver Alliance. All rights reserved.


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Since PHP is an open source project, #php on OPN inevitably attracts the regularly repeated discussions on what free software is, should be, etc. It's always interesting to see what people think it should be, especially the people who aren't contributors themselves.
bytesplit's latest reminds me of one such discussion, since he uses the same example app to argue his point, editors. Everybody who wants to has written one, and that's fine. Are there "way too many"? Maybe, but who cares? Nobody owes you a quality editor, bytesplit. The individuals or groups that wrote these "way too many" apps that don't meet your expectations probably aren't too concerned. The reason is simple. When people work on free software projects, they do so because they want to. Everything you see around you, every little editor that doesn't have any unique features, or every major accomplishment in software development, it all came into being because somebody wanted to write it. So when you say that there aren't enough quality apps, and that this is a major issue, I can't help but feel a little indignant. But, I'm not going to start ranting about how a meritocracy works tonight.
So, there are a whole lot of sub-bytesplit-quality editors. Well, tough. The people who write them want to write them, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Moving right along...
The question I hear from many people, and mind you I am much more of a Windows user at this point than a non-Windows user, is this: Why should I move to another platform when there aren't very many great products like Office 2000 and games like Madden Football 2002 can't be played on anything other than Windows
I hear this question a lot too. Here's my answer.
Maybe you shouldn't. No operating system will ever be all things to all people. I don't know why anyone who is using Windows should feel compelled by another person to switch, as if they're doing something wrong by using one OS instead of another. If you need/want products like Office 2000 and games like Madden Football 2002, stick with the platform you can use them on. Why should you switch, if the games you like, and the tools you're used to are already available to you? Maybe you shouldn't.
As far as documentation goes, I'm not sure why you're looking to FreeBSD for a newbie-friendly system. That doesn't seem to be a high priority for the BSD community, but that's just what I've observed from afar. I don't even recommend my distro of choice to newbies, because it just doesn't feel like it's there yet. I tend to direct newbies interested in Linux towards Mandrake, because they've put a lot of hard work into that audience.
In any case, documentation isn't all that different from "low quality" editors. The folks that write it do the best job they can. Once more, nobody owes you perfect documentation. And again, I can't help but feel rather indigant about this gripe. Especially with my knowledge of some documentation groups like the PHP doc team, who have assembled and who actively maintain what I consider one of the better manuals for a language anywhere, and I know I'm not alone. We regularly get people in #php who have either started with other languages, or are starting with PHP, and almost without exception, they mention how impressed they are with the PHP manual.
You don't have to be a good writer to contribute, either. If you find it so disturbing that all the docs around you are gibberish, all you have to do is send some suggestions on how to improve it to the authors. Maybe throw in some example paragraphs, as you'd like to see them, from the perspective of a user reading their docs. Who knows, maybe that's your calling in free software. Maybe that's how you can earn the certification of Journeyer you've already given yourself.


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