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Top medical tests patients should question
Doctors from nine leading medical specialty societies have each created lists of "Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question" to help doctors and patients make wiser decisions about care.
The nine groups represent thousands of doctors nationwide. Their specific, evidence-based recommendations caution fellow doctors not to over-prescribe tests and screenings that patients may not need.
The recommendations were released as part of ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) Foundation's Choosing Wisely campaign.
Read on to learn more about the most often overused or unnecessary medical procedures that you and your doctor should carefully discuss to assure that you get appropriate care.
1.) Unproven diagnostic tests in evaluating allergies.
2.) You don't need sinus CT scans or antibiotics for uncomplicated sinus infections.
3.) Doctors should not routinely do diagnostic testing in patients with chronic ulcers.
4.) Doctors should not recommend replacement immunoglobulin therapy for recurrent infections.
5.) Don't diagnose or manage asthma without measuring lung function.
Top 10: American Academy of Family Physicians
1.) Don't do imaging for low back pain within the first six weeks, unless red flags are present.
2.) Don't routinely prescribe antibiotics for acute mild-to-moderate sinusitis unless symptoms last for seven or more days, or symptoms worsen after initial clinical improvement.
3.) Don't use dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) screening for osteoporosis in women younger than 65 or men younger than 70 with no risk factors.
4.) Don't order annual electrocardiograms (EKGs) or any other cardiac screening for low-risk patients without symptoms.
5.) Don't perform Pap smears on women younger than 21 or who have had a hysterectomy for non-cancer disease.
6.) Don't schedule elective, non-medically indicated inductions of labor or Cesarean deliveries before 39 weeks, 0 days gestational age.
7.) Avoid elective, non-medically indicated inductions of labor between 39 weeks, 0 days and 41 weeks, 0 days unless the cervix is deemed favorable.
8.) Don't screen for carotid artery stenosis (CAS) in asymptomatic adult patients.
9.) Don't screen women older than 65 years of age for cervical cancer who have had adequate prior screening and are not otherwise at high risk for cervical cancer.
10.) Don't screen women younger than 30 years of age for cervical cancer with HPV testing, alone or in combination with cytology.
Top Five: American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
1.) Don't delay palliative care for a patient with serious illness who has physical, psychological, social or spiritual distress because they are pursuing disease-directed treatment.
2.) Don't leave an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) activated when it is inconsistent with the patient/family goals of care.
3.) Don't recommend more than a single fraction of palliative radiation for an uncomplicated painful bone metastasis.
4.) Don't use topical lorazepam (Ativan), diphenhydramine (Benadryl), haloperidol (Haldol) ("ABH") gel for nausea.
5.) Don't recommend percutaneous feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia; instead, offer oral assisted feeding.
Top Five: American Academy of Neurology
1.) Don't perform electroencephalography (EEG) for headaches.
2.) Don't perform imaging of the carotid arteries for simple syncope without other neurologic symptoms.
3.) Don't use opioid or butalbital treatment for migraine except as a last resort.
4.) Don't prescribe interferon-beta or glatiramer acetate to patients with disability from progressive, non-relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.
5.) Don't recommend CEA for asymptomatic carotid stenosis unless the complication rate is low.
Top Five: American Academy of Ophthalmology
1.) Don't perform preoperative medical tests for eye surgery unless there are specific medical indications.
2.) Don't routinely order imaging tests for patients without symptoms or signs of significant eye disease.
3.) Don't order antibiotics for adenoviral conjunctivitis (pink eye).
4.) Don't routinely provide antibiotics before or after intravitreal injections.
5.) Don't place punctal plugs for mild dry eye before trying other medical treatments.
Top Five: American Academy of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck Surgery Foundation
1.) Don't order computed tomography (CT) scan of the head/brain for sudden hearing loss.
2.) Don't prescribe oral antibiotics for uncomplicated acute tympanostomy tube otorrhea.
3.) Don't prescribe oral antibiotics for uncomplicated acute external otitis.
4.) Don't routinely obtain radiographic imaging for patients who meet diagnostic criteria for uncomplicated acute rhinosinusitis.
5.) Don't obtain computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with a primary complaint of hoarseness prior to examining the larynx.
Top Five: American Academy of Pediatrics
1.) Antibiotics should not be used for apparent viral respiratory illnesses (sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis).
2.) Cough and cold medicines should not be prescribed or recommended for respiratory illnesses in children under four years of age.
3.) Computed tomography (CT) scans are not necessary in the immediate evaluation of minor head injuries; clinical observation/Pediatric Emergency Care Applied Research Network (PECARN) criteria should be used to determine whether imaging is indicated.
4.) Neuroimaging (CT, MRI) is not necessary in a child with simple febrile seizure.
5.) Computed tomography (CT) scans are not necessary in the routine evaluation of abdominal pain.
Top Five: American College of Cardiology
1.) Don't perform stress cardiac imaging or advanced non-invasive imaging in the initial evaluation of patients without cardiac symptoms unless high-risk markers are present.
2.) Don't perform annual stress cardiac imaging or advanced non-invasive imaging as part of routine follow-up in asymptomatic patients.
3.) Don't perform stress cardiac imaging or advanced non-invasive imaging as a pre-operative assessment in patients scheduled to undergo low-risk non-cardiac surgery.
4.) Don't perform echocardiography as routine follow-up for mild, asymptomatic native valve disease in adult patients with no change in signs or symptoms.
5.) Don't perform stenting of non-culprit lesions during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for uncomplicated hemodynamically stable ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Top 5: The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
1.) Don't schedule elective, non-medically indicated inductions of labor or Cesarean deliveries before 39 weeks 0 days gestational age.
2.) Don't schedule elective, non-medically indicated inductions of labor between 39 weeks 0 days and 41 weeks 0 days unless the cervix is deemed favorable.
3.) Don't perform routine annual cervical cytology screening (Pap tests) in women 30–65 years of age.
4.) Don't treat patients who have mild dysplasia of less than two years in duration.
5.) Don't screen for ovarian cancer in asymptomatic women at average risk.
Top Five: American College of Physicians
1.) Don't obtain screening exercise electrocardiogram testing in individuals who are asymptomatic and at low risk for coronary
2.) Don't obtain imaging studies in patients with non-specific low back pain.
3.) In the evaluation of simple syncope and a normal neurological examination, don't obtain brain imaging studies (CT or MRI).
4.) In patients with low pretest probability of venous thromboembolism (VTE), obtain a high-sensitive D-dimer measurement as the initial diagnostic test; don't obtain imaging studies as the initial diagnostic test.
5.) Don't obtain preoperative chest radiography in the absence of a clinical suspicion for intrathoracic pathology.
Top Five: American College of Radiology
1.) Don't do imaging for uncomplicated headache.
2.) Don't image for suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) without moderate or high pre-test probability of PE.
3.) Avoid admission or preoperative chest x-rays for ambulatory patients with unremarkable history and physical exam.
4.) Don't do computed tomography (CT) for the evaluation of suspected appendicitis in children until after ultrasound has been considered as an option.
5.) Don't recommend follow-up imaging for clinically inconsequential adnexal cysts.
Top Five: American College of Rheumatology
1.) Don't test ANA sub-serologies without a positive ANA and clinical suspicion of immune-mediated disease.
2.) Don't test for Lyme disease as a cause of musculoskeletal symptoms without an exposure history and appropriate exam findings.
3.) Don't perform MRI of the peripheral joints to routinely monitor inflammatory arthritis.
4.) Don't prescribe biologics for rheumatoid arthritis before a trial of methotrexate (or other conventional non-biologic DMARDs).
5.) Don't routinely repeat DXA scans more often than once every two years.
Top Five: American Gastroenterological Association
1.) For pharmacological treatment of patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, long-term acid suppression therapy should be titrated to the lowest e ective dose needed to achieve therapeutic goals.
2.) Do not repeat colorectal cancer screening (by any method) for 10 years after a high-quality colonoscopy is negative in average-risk individuals.
3.) Do not repeat colonoscopy for at least five years for patients who have one or two small (< 1 cm) adenomatous polyps, without high-grade dysplasia, completely removed via a high-quality colonoscopy.
4.) For a patient who is diagnosed with Barrett's esophagus, who has undergone a second endoscopy that confirms the absence of dysplasia on biopsy, a follow-up surveillance examination should not be performed in less than three years as per published guidelines.
5.) For a patient with functional abdominal pain syndrome (as per ROME III criteria) computed tomography (CT) scans should not be repeated unless there is a major change in clinical findings or symptoms.
Top Five: American Geriatrics Society
1.) Don't recommend percutaneous feeding tubes in patients with advanced dementia; instead offer oral assisted feeding.
2.) Don't use antipsychotics as first choice to treat behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia.
3.) Avoid using medications to achieve hemoglobin A1c <7.5% in most adults age 65 and older; moderate control is generally better.
4.) Don't use benzodiazepines or other sedative-hypnotics in older adults as first choice for insomnia, agitation or delirium.
5.) Don't use antimicrobials to treat bacteriuria in older adults unless specific urinary tract symptoms are present.
Top Five: American Society of Clinical Oncology
1.) Don't use cancer-directed therapy for solid tumor patients with the following characteristics: low performance status (3 or 4), no benefit from prior evidence-based interventions, not eligible for a clinical trial, and no strong evidence supporting the clinical value of further anti-cancer treatment.
2.) Don't perform PET, CT, and radionuclide bone scans in the staging of early prostate cancer at low risk for metastasis.
3.) Don't perform PET, CT, and radionuclide bone scans in the staging of early breast cancer at low risk for metastasis.
4.) Don't perform surveillance testing (biomarkers) or imaging (PET, CT, and radionuclide bone scans) for asymptomatic individuals who have been treated for breast cancer with curative intent.
5.) Don't use white cell stimulating factors for primary prevention of febrile neutropenia for patients with less than 20 percent risk for this complication.
Top Five: American Society for Clinical Pathology
1.) Don't perform population based screening for 25-OH-Vitamin D deficiency.
2.) Don't perform low risk HPV testing.
3.) Avoid routine preoperative testing for low risk surgeries without a clinical indication.
4.) Only order Methylated Septin 9 (SEPT9) to screen for colon cancer on patients for whom conventional diagnostics are not possible.
5.) Don't use bleeding time test to guide patient care.
Top Five: American Society of Echocardiography
1.) Don't order follow up or serial echocardiograms for surveillance after a finding of trace valvular regurgitation on an initial echocardiogram.
2.) Don't repeat echocardiograms in stable, asymptomatic patients with a murmur/click, where a previous exam revealed no significant pathology.
3.) Avoid echocardiograms for preoperative/perioperative assessment of patients with no history or symptoms of heart disease.
4.) Avoid using stress echocardiograms on asymptomatic patients who meet "low risk" scoring criteria for coronary disease.
5.) Avoid transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to detect cardiac sources of embolization if a source has been identified and patient management will not change.


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The incidence of diabetes continues to grow at an alarming rate. Some of the most concerning growth is occurring with young people under 25 in each of the seven regions. Over 50% of the world's population is under 30, yet with only 5% of people with diabetes being under the age of 30, the needs of young people with diabetes can often be forgotten and that's why it's vital for them to have a voice within the IDF and their member associations. Since young people are the future of any nation, and considering the bad effects of unmanaged diabetes on the economy, a need for involving young people in diabetes advocacy is crucial. As Kofi Annan once said, "Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline."
IDF Vice President, Debbie Jones, believed that "The initial Young Leaders in Diabetes Programme will be the staging ground for the future". Leaders from around the globe will be identified and nominated by IDF member associations to represent them at IDF congresses worldwide. Young Leaders attending the programme are asked to do a project alongside their member associations to improve the lives of those with diabetes in their respective countries. To assist them, applicants would provide a name of someone from within their member association who could be a mentor.
At the initial congress these young leaders will form a council which will meet at regional meetings outside of the biennial congress. A President, President Elect and Vice President, in addition to two leaders from each of the seven IDF regions will be elected to form a council of 17. This council will then act as the governance structure for the programme, whilst also helping to be the organizing committee for YLD programmes at future congresses.
The Young Leaders in Diabetes Programme is the key driver in enhancing the lives of young people living with diabetes. The Young Leaders are committed to raising awareness of diabetes by being a powerful voice for prevention, education, access to quality care, improved quality of life, and the end of discrimination worldwide.
To Improve the lives of young people affected by diabetes worldwide.
The YLD programmes aims to reach the following goals:
1. Be a voice for young people affected by diabetes worldwide.
2. Identify and support the development of Young Leaders in the international diabetes community.
3. Empower and educate Young Leaders to support the mission of YLD and IDF by strengthening the IDF member associations.

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Every three years, ADOT must set a new overall annual goal for participation of DBEs in its federally-funded contracts. ADOT will submit a new three-year overall DBE goal to FHWA this summer to go into effect on October 1, 2017.
ADOT has retained Keen Independent Research to perform an availability analysis to assist ADOT in this process. (Keen Independent completed the most recent availability and disparity studies for ADOT in 2015.)
Once the draft Availability Study and ADOT's proposed DBE goal are prepared in May, ADOT will release them for public review and comment. Two public meetings regarding the proposed goal will be held, with a public comment period open through the end of June. All public comments will be reviewed before ADOT submits its final DBE goal request to FHWA.
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IT is an ill wind that blows nobody good, says the comfortable proverb. Which would appear to be but another manner of declaring that the law of compensation works permanently in human affairs. All quantities, material and immaterial alike, are, of necessity, stable; therefore the loss or defect of one participant must—indirectly, no doubt, yet very surely—make for the gain of some other. As of old, so now, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Julius March would, how gladly, have been among the martyrs! But the lot fell otherwise. And—always admitting the harshness of the limitations he had imposed on himself—the martyrdom of those he held dearest, did, in fact, work to secure him a measure of content that had otherwise been unattainable. The twelve years following the birth of Lady Calmady's child were the most fruitful of his life. He filled a post no other person could have filled; one which, while satisfying his religious sense and priestly ideal of detachment, appeased the cravings of his heart and developed the practical man in him. The contemplative and introspective attitude was balanced by an active and objective one. For he continued to live under his dear lady's roof, seeing her daily and serving her in many matters. He watched her, admiring her clear yet charitable judgment and her prudence in business. He bowed in reverence before her perfect singleness of purpose. He was almost appalled apprehending, now and then, the secret abysses of her womanhood, the immensity of her self‐devotion, the swing of her nature from quick, sensitive shrinking to almost impious page: 86 pride. Man is the outcome of the eternal common sense; woman that of some moment of divine folly. Meanwhile the ways of true love are many, and Julius March, thus watching his dear lady, discovered, as other elect souls have discovered before him, that the way of chastity and silence, notwithstanding its very constant heartache, is by no means among the least sweet. The entries in his diaries of this period are intermittent, concise, and brief—naturally enough, since the central figure of Julius's mental picture had ceased, happily for him, to be Julius himself.
And, not only Katherine's sorrows, but the unselfish action of another woman, went to make Julius March's position at Brockhurst tenable. A few days after Ormiston's momentous interview with his sister, news came of Mrs. St. Quentin's death. She had passed hence peacefully in her sleep. Knowledge of the facts of poor, little Dickie Calmady's ill‐fortune had been spared her. For it would be more satisfactory—so Mademoiselle de Mirancourt had remarked, not without a shade of irony—that if Lucia St. Quentin must learn the sad fact at all, she should learn it where le bon Dieu Himself would be at hand to explain matters, and so, in a degree, set them right.
Early in April Mademoiselle de Mirancourt had gathered together her most precious possessions and closed the pretty apartment in the rue de Rennes. It had been a happy halting‐place on the journey of life. It was haunted by well‐beloved ghosts. It cost her not a little to bid it, the neighbouring church of the St. Germain des Près, where she had so long worshipped, and her little coterie of intimate friends, farewell. Yet she set forth, taking with her Henriette, the hard‐featured, old, Breton maid, and Monsieur Pouf, the grey, Persian cat,—he protesting plaintively from within a large, Manilla basket,—and thus accompanied, made pilgrimage to Brockhurst. And when Katherine, all the lost joys of her girlhood assailing her at sight of her lifelong friend, had broken down for once, and, laying her beautiful head on the elder woman's shoulder, had sobbed out a question as to when this visit must end, Marie de Mirancourt had answered:—
"That, most dear one, is precisely as you shall see fit to decide. It need not end till I myself end, if you so please."
And when Katherine, greatly comforted yet fearing to be over‐greedy of comfort, had reasoned with her, reminding her of the difference of climate, the different habits of living in that gay, little, Paris home and this great, English country‐house; reminding her, further, of her so often and fondly expressed desire to page: 87 retire from the world while yet in the complete possession of her powers and prepare for the inevitable close within the calm and sacred precincts of the convent—the other replied almost gaily:—
"Ah, my child! I have still a naughty little spirit of experiment in me which defies the barbarities of your climate. While as to the convent, it has beckoned so long—let it beckon still! It called first when my fiancé died,—God rest his soul,—worn out by the hardships he endured in the war of La Vendée, and I put from me, forever, all thought of marriage. But then my mother, an emigrant here in London, claimed all my care. It called me again when she departed, dear saintly being. But then there were my brother's sons—orphaned by the guillotine—to place. And when I had established them honourably, our beloved Lucia turned to me, with her many enchantments and exquisite tragedy of the heart. And, now, in my old age I come to you—whom I receive from her as a welcome legacy—to remain just so long as I am not a burden to you. Second childhood and first should understand one another. We will play delightful games together, the dear baby and I. So let the convent beckon. For the convent is perhaps, after all, but an impatient grasping at the rest of paradise, before that rest is fairly earned. I have a good hope that, after all, we give ourselves most acceptably to God in thus giving ourselves to His human creatures."
Thus did Marie de Mirancourt, for love's sake, condemn herself to exile, thereby rendering possible—among other things—Julius's continued residence at Brockhurst. For Captain Ormiston had held true to his resolve of scorning the delights of idleness, the smiles of ladies more fair and kind than wise, and all those other pleasant iniquities to which idleness inclines the young and full‐blooded, of bidding farewell to London and Windsor, and proceeding to "live laborious days" in some far country. He had offered to remain indefinitely with Katherine if she needed him. But she refused. Let him be faithful to the noble profession of arms and make a name for himself therein.
"Brockhurst has ceased to be a place for a soldier," she said. "Leave it to women and priests!" And then, repenting of the bitterness of her speech, she added:—"Really there is not more work than I can manage, with Julius to help me at times. Iles is a good servant if a little tediously pompous, and Chifney must see to the stables."—Lady Calmady paused, and her face grew hard. But for her husband's dying request, she would have sold every horse in the stud, razed the great square page: 88 of buildings to the ground and made the site of it a dunghill.—"Work is a drug to deaden thought. So it is a kindness to let me have plenty of it, dear old man. And I fear, even when the labour of each day is done, and Dickie is safe asleep,—poor darling,—I shall still have more than enough of time for thought, for asking those questions to which there seems no answer, and for desires, vain as they are persistent, that things were somehow, anyhow, other than they are!"
Therefore it came about that a singular quiet settled down on Brockhurst—a quiet of waiting, of pause, rather than of accomplishment. But Julius March, for reasons aforesaid, and Mademoiselle de Mirancourt, in virtue of her unclouded faith in the teachings of her Church,—which assures its members of the beneficent purpose working behind all the sad seeming of this world,—alike rejoiced in that. A change of occupations and of interests came naturally with the change of the seasons, with the time to sow and reap, to plant saplings, to fell timber, to fence, to cut copsing, to build or rebuild, to receive rents or remit them, to listen to many appeals, to readjust differences, to feed game or to shoot it, to bestow charity of meat and fuel, to haul ice in winter to the ice‐house from the lake. But beyond all this there was little of going or coming at Brockhurst. The magnates of the countryside called at decent intervals, and at decent intervals Lady Calmady returned their civilities. But having ceased to entertain, she refused to receive entertainment. She shut herself away in somewhat jealous seclusion, defiant of possibly curious glances and pitying tongues. Before long her neighbours, therefore, came to raise their eyebrows a little in speaking of her, and to utter discreet regrets that Lady Calmady, though handsome and charming when you met her, was so very eccentric, adding:—"Of course everyone knows there is something very uncomfortable about the little boy!" Then would follow confidences as to the disastrous results of popish influences and Romanising tendencies, and an openly expressed conviction—more especially on the part of ladies blessed with daughters of marriageable age—that it would have been so very much better for many people if the late Sir Richard Calmady had looked nearer home for a bride.
But these comments did not affect Katherine. In point of fact they rarely reached her ears. Alone among her neighbours, Mary Cathcart, of the crisp, black hair and gipsy‐like complexion, was still admitted to some intimacy of intercourse. And the girl was far too loyal either to bring in gossip or to carry it out. Brockhurst held the romance of her heart. And, notwithstand‐ page: 89 ing the earnest wooing—as the years went on—of more than one very eligible gentleman, Brockhurst continued to hold it.
Meanwhile the somewhat quaint fixed star around which this whole system of planets, large and small, very really revolved, shone forth upon them all with a cheerful enough light. For Dickie by no means belied the promise of his babyhood. He was a beautiful and healthy little boy, with a charming brilliance of colouring, warm and solid in tone. He had his mother's changeful eyes, though the blue of them was brighter than hers had now come to be. He had her dark eyebrows and eyelashes too, and her finely curved lips. While he bore likeness to his father in the straight, square‐tipped nose and the close‐fitting cap of bright, brown hair with golden stains in it, growing low in short curling locks on the broad forehead and the nape of the neck—expressing the shape of the head very definitely, and giving it something of antique nobility and grace.
And the little lad's appearance afforded, in these pleasant early days at all events, fair index to his temperament. He was gay‐natured, affectionate, intelligent, full of a lively yet courteous curiosity, easily moved to laughter, almost inconveniently fearless and experimental; while his occasional thunderbursts of passion cleared off quickly into sunshine and blue sky again. For as yet the burden of deformity rested upon him very lightly. He associated hardly at all with other children, and so had but scant occasion to measure his poor powers of locomotion against their normal ones. Lady Fallowfeild it is true, in obedience to suggestions on the part of her kindly lord and master, offered tentatively to import a carriage‐load—little Ludovic Quayle was just the same age as Dickie—from the Whitney nurseries to spend the day at Brockhurst.
"Good fellow, Calmady. I liked Calmady," Lord Fallowfeild had said to her. His conversation, it may be observed, was nothing if not interjectional.—"Pretty woman, Lady Calmady—terrible thing for her being left as she is. Always shall regret Calmady. Very sorry for her. Always have been sorry for a pretty woman in trouble. Ought to see something of her, my dear. The two estates join, and, as I always have said, it's a duty to support your own class. Can't expect the masses to respect you unless you show them you're prepared to stand by your own class. Just take some of the children over to see Lady Calmady. Pretty children, do her good to see them. Rode uncommonly straight did Calmady. Terribly upsetting thing his funeral. Never shall forget it. Always did like Calmady—good fellow, Calmady. Nasty thing his death."page: 90
But Katherine's pen was fertile in excuses to avoid the invasion from Whitney. Lady Fallowfeild's small brains and large domestic complacency were too trying to her. And that noble lady, it must be owned, was secretly not a little glad to have her advances thus firmly, though gently, repulsed. For she was alarmed at Lady Calmady's reported acquaintance with foreign lands and with books; added to which her simple mind harboured much grisly though vague terror concerning the Roman Church. Picture all her brood of little Quayles incontinently converted into little monks and nuns with shaven heads! How such sudden conversion could be accomplished Lady Fallowfeild did not presume to explain. It sufficed her that "everybody always said Papists were so dreadfully clever and unscrupulous you never could tell what they might not do next."
Once, when Dickie was about six years old, Colonel St. Quentin brought his young wife and two little girls to stay at Brockhurst. Katherine had a great regard for her cousin, yet the visit was never repeated. On the flat poor Dick could manage fairly well, his strangely shod feet travelling laboriously along in effort after rapidity; his hands hastily outstretched now and again to lay hold of door‐jamb or table‐edge, since his balance was none of the securest. But in that delightfully varied journey from the nursery, by way of his mother's bedroom, the Chapel‐Room next door, the broad stair‐head,—with its carven balusters, shiny oak flooring, and fine landscapes by Claude and Hobbema,—the state drawing‐room and libraries, to that America of his childish dreams, that country of magnificent distances and large possibility of discovery, the Long Gallery, he was speedily distanced by the three‐year‐old Betty, let alone her six‐year‐old sister Honoria, a tall, slim, little maiden, daintily high‐bred of face and fleet of foot as a hind. This was bad enough. But the stairways afforded yet more afflicting experiences. The descent of even the widest and shallowest flights presented matter of insuperable difficulty, while the ascent was only to be achieved by recourse to all‐fours, against the ignominy of which mode of progression Dickie's soul revolted. And so the little boy concluded that he did not care much about little girls. And confided to his devoted play‐fellow Clara—Mrs. Denny's niece and sometime second still‐room maid, now promoted, on account of her many engaging qualities, to be Dickie's special attendant—that:—
"They went so quick, they always left him behind, and it was not nice to be left behind, and it was very rude of them to do it; didn't Clara think so?"page: 91
And Clara, as in duty and affection bound, not without additional testimony in a certain dimness of her pretty, honest, brown eyes, did indeed very much think so. It followed, therefore, that Dickie saw the St. Quentin family drive away, nurses and luggage complete, quite unmoved. And returned, with satisfaction and renewed self‐confidence, to the exclusive society of all those dear, grown‐up people—gentle and simple—who were never guilty of leaving him behind—to that of Camp, the old, white bull‐dog, and young Camp, his son and heir, who, if they so far forgot themselves as to run away, invariably ran back again and apologised, fawning upon him and pushing their broad, ugly, kindly muzzles into his hands—and to that of Monsieur Pouf, the grey Persian cat, who, far from going too quickly, displayed such majestic deliberation of movement and admirable dignity of waving fluffed tail, that it required much patient coaxing on Dickie's part ever to make him leave his cushion by the fire and go at all.
But, with the above‐mentioned exception, the little boy's self‐content suffered but slight disturbance. He took himself very much for granted. He was very curious of outside things, very much amused. Moreover, he was king of a far from contemptible kingdom; and in the blessed ignorance of childhood—that finds pride and honour in things which a wider and sadder knowledge often proves far from glad or glorious—it appeared to him not unnatural that a king should differ, even to the point of some slightly impeding disabilities, from the rank and file of his obedient and devoted subjects. For Dickie, happily for him, was as yet given over to that wholly pleasant vanity, the aristocratic idea. The rough justice of democracy, and the harsh breaking of all purely personal and individualistic dreams that comes along with it, for him, was not just yet.
And Richard's continued and undismayed acquiescence in his physical misfortune was fostered, indirectly, by the captivating poetry of myth and legend with which his mind was fed. He had an insatiable appetite for stories, and Mademoiselle de Mirancourt was an untiring raconteuse. On Sunday afternoons upon the terrace, when the park lay bathed in drowsy sunshine and sapphire shadows haunted the under edge of the great woods, the pretty, old lady—her eyes shining with gentle laughter, for Marie de Mirancourt's faith had reached the very perfect stage in which the soul dares play, even as lovers play, with that it holds most sacred—would tell Dickie the fairy tales of her Church. Would tell him of blessed St. Francis and of Poverty, his sweet, sad bride; of his sermon to page: 92 the birds dwelling in the oak groves along Tiber valley; of the mystic stigmata, marking as with nail‐prints his hands and feet, and of that indomitable love towards all creatures, which found, alike in the sun in heaven and the heavy‐laden ass, brothers and friends. Or she would tell him of that man of mighty strength and stature, St. Christopher, who, in the stormy darkness,—yielding to its reiterated entreaties,—set forth to bear the little child across the wind‐swept ford. How he staggered, in midstream, amazed and terrified under the awful weight of that, apparently so light, burden; to learn, on struggling ashore at last, that he had borne upon his shoulder no mortal infant, but the whole world and the eternal maker of it, Christ Himself.
These and many another wonder tale of Christian miracle did she tell to Dickie—he squatting on a rug beside her, resting his curly head against her knees, while the pink‐footed pigeons hurried hither and thither, picking up the handfuls of barley he scattered on the flags, and the peacocks sunned themselves with a certain worldly and disdainful grace on the hand‐rails of the grey balustrades, and young Camp, after some wild skirmish in search of sport, flung himself down panting, his tongue lolling out of his grinning jaws, by the boy's side.
And Katherine, putting aside her cares as regent of Dickie's kingdom and the sorrow that lay so chill against her heart, would tell him stories too, but of a different order of sentiment and of thought. For Katherine was young yet, and her stories were gallant—since her own spirit was very brave—or merry, because it delighted her to hear the boy laugh. And often, as he grew a little older, she would sit with her arm round him, in the keen, winter twilights before the lamps were lit, on the broad, cushioned bench of the oriel window in the Chapel‐Room. Outside, the stars grew in number and brightness as the dusk deepened. Within, the firelight played over the white‐panelled walls, revealing fitfully the handsome faces of former Calmadys—shortlived, passing hence all unsated with the desperate joys of living—painted by Vandyke and Sir Peter Lely, or by Romney and Sir Joshua. Then she would tell him not only of Aladdin, of Cinderella, and time‐honoured Puss‐in‐Boots, but of Merlin the great enchanter, and of King Arthur and his company of noble knights. And of the loves of Sigurd the Niblung and Brunhilda the wise and terrible queen, and of their lifelong sorrow, and of the fateful treasure of fairy gold which lies buried beneath the rushing waters of the Rhine. Or she would tell him of those cold, clear, far‐off times in the northern page: 93 sojourning places of our race—tell him of the cow Audhumla, alone in the vast plain at the very beginning of things, licking the stones crusted over with hoar frost and salt, till, on the third day, there sprung from them a warrior named Bur, the father of Bör, the father of Odin, who is the father of all the gods. She would tell him of wicked Loki too, the deceiver and cunning plotter against the peace of heaven. And of his three evil children—here Dickie would, for what reason he knew not, always feel his mother hold him more closely, while her voice took a deeper tone—Fenrir the wolf, who, when Thor sought to bind him, bit off the brave god's right hand; and Jörmungand the Midgard serpent, who, tail in mouth, circles the world; and Hela, the pale queen, who reigns in Niflheim over the dim kingdoms of the dead. And of Baldur the bright‐shining god, joy of Asgard, slain in error by Höder his blind twin‐brother, for whom all things on earth—save one—weep, and will weep, till in the last days he comes again. And of All‐Father Odin himself, plucking out his right eye and bartering it for a draught of wisdom‐giving water from Mirmir's magic well. Again, she would tell him of the End—which it must be owned frightened Dickie a little, so that he would stroke her cheek, and say softly:— "But, mummy, you really are sure, aren't you, it won't happen for a good while yet?"—Of Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods, of the Fimbul winter, and cheerless sun and hurrying, blood‐red moon, and all the direful signs which must needs go before the last great battle between good and evil.
And through all of these stories, of Christian and heathen origin alike, Richard began dimly, almost unconsciously, to trace, recurrent as a strain of austere music, the idea—very common to ages less soft and fastidious than our own—of payment in self‐restraint and labour, or in actual bodily pain, loss, or disablement, for all good gained and knowledge won.
He found the same idea again when, under the teaching of Julius March, he began reading history, and when his little skill in Greek and Latin carried him as far as the easier passages of the classic poets. Dick was a very apt, if somewhat erratic and inaccurate, scholar. His insatiable curiosity drove him forward. He scurried, in childish fashion by all short‐cuts available, to get at the heart of the matter—a habit of mind detestable to pedants, since to them the letter is the main object, not the spirit. Happily Julius was ceasing to be a pedant, even in matters ecclesiastical. He loved the little boy, the mingled charm and pathos of whose personality held him as with a spell. With untiring patience he answered, to the best of his ability, page: 94 Dickie's endless questions, of how and why. And, perhaps, he learned even more than he taught, under this fire of cross‐examination. He had never come intimately in contact with a child's mind before; and Dickie's daring speculations and suggestions opened up very surprising vistas at times. The boy was a born adventurer, a gaily audacious sceptic moreover, notwithstanding his large swallow for romance, until his own morsel of reason and sense of dramatic fitness were satisfied.
And so, having once apprehended that idea of payment, he searched for justification of it instinctively in all he saw and read. He found it again in the immortal story of the siege of Troy, and in the long wanderings and manifold trials of that most experimental of philosophers, the great Ulysses. He found it too in more modern and more authentic history—in the lives of Galileo and Columbus, of Sir Walter Raleigh and many another hero and heroine, of whom, because of some unusual excellence of spirit or attainment, their fellow‐men, and, as it would seem, the very gods themselves, have grown jealous, not enduring to witness a beauty rivalling or surpassing their own.
The idea was all confused as yet, coloured by childish fancies, instinctive merely, not realised. Yet it occupied a very actual place in the little boy's mind. He lingered over it silently, caressing it, returning to it again and again in half‐frightened delight. It lent a fascination, somewhat morbid perhaps, to all ill‐favoured and unsightly creatures—to blind‐worms and slow‐moving toads, to trapped cats, and dusty, disabled, winter flies; to a winged sea‐gull, property of Bushnell, one of the under‐gardeners, that paced, picking up loathsome living in the matter of slugs and snails, about the cabbage beds, all the tragedy of its lost power of flight and of the freedom of the sea in its wild, pale eyes.
It further provoked Dickie to expend his not inconsiderable gift of draughtsmanship in the production of long processions of half‐human monsters of a grotesque and essentially uncomfortable character. He scribbled these upon all available pieces of paper, including the fly‐leaves of Todhunter's Arithmetic, and of his Latin and Greek primers. In an evil hour, for the tidiness of his school books, he came across the ballad of "Aiken‐Drum," with its rather terrible mixture of humour, realism, and pathos. From thenceforth for some weeks—though he adroitly avoided giving any direct account of the origin of these grisly, imaginative freaks—many margins were adorned, or rather defaced, by fancy portraits of that "foul and stalwart ghaist" the Brownie of Badnock.page: 95
So did Dickie dwell, through all his childhood and the early years of youth, in the clear land of dreams, petted, considered, sheltered with perhaps almost cruel kindness, from the keen. winds of truth that blow forever across the world. Which winds, while causing all to suffer, and bringing death to the weak and fearful, to the lovers of lies and the makers of them, go in the end to strengthen the strong who dare face them, and fortify these in the acceptance of the only knowledge really worth having—namely the knowledge that romance is no exclusive property of the past, or eternal life of the future, but that both these are here, immediately and actually, for whoso has eyes to see and courage to possess.
The fairest dreams are true. Yet it is so ordered that to know that we must awake from them. And the awakening is an ugly process enough, too often. When Dickie was about thirteen, the awakening began for him. It came in time‐honoured forms—those of horses and of a woman.


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One way to out think people is to make them think you think they'll think what you are not really trying to get them to think what you think.
I also forgot the following....
A t-shirt that says "Life begins when baseball season starts"
and a gift from my wife to the whole family......tickets to a Cubs game, plus dinner
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Jericho, second season DVD
SW novel Death Star (Heard it wasn't bad)
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Transformers Animated Leader Class Bulkhead, and Rescue Ratchet.
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Supergirl "Beyond Good and Evil"
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Wendi Adelson, of the Florida State University College of Law in Tallahassee, published This is Our Story, a novel about human trafficking in the United States that follows two young women who become victims of human trafficking when duped into domestic servitude and commercial sexual exploitation in the Southeast. Adelson maintains a blog about human trafficking at www.humantraffickinglaw.blogspot.com. A Facebook page for the book is at www.facebook.com/thisisourstory. The novel is available in print and electronic versions from Amazon.com and https://targetcopy.presencehost.net/thisisourstory.html.
Jessie Harrell of Creed & Gowdy in Jacksonville published Destined, a young adult retelling of the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche. Destined is a story of twisted prophecies, first love, and the courage to defy the gods, the book is written to appeal to teenagers and adults who enjoy paranormal romance or Greek mythology. The book is available in print and electronic versions from Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Kobo.com, Smashwords.com, and the iBooks app.
Robert F. Williams, of Rutgers Law School in Camden, N.J., published the second edition of The New Jersey State Constitution. The book contains a detailed historical overview of the New Jersey Constitution's history, together with a section-by-section analysis of the current constitution and a bibliographical essay. It is part of a 50-state series on state constitutions published by Oxford University Press. The book may be purchased from www.oup.com/us.
William Eleazer, of Elex Publishers, Inc., in St. Petersburg, wrote The Indictments, a legal thriller. The story details a brazen robbery at one of the finest restaurants in Savannah that results in the death of a teenage girl and murder indictments against two defendants. An assistant district attorney's attempt to dismiss one indictment results in threats to both his career and life. The book is available in print and electronic versions from Amazon.com and www.elexpublishers.com.
Paul Turk of Wellington wrote Faith Beyond the Trials, Trials of Hope, and Love on Trial. The trilogy follows the lives of a Palm Beach attorney and his wife, a teacher. The first story involves a felony DUI and civil lawsuit. The second involves two wealthy siblings embroiled in a $500 million contest over their parents' estates. The third work details a divorce and child custody battle. Turk worked as a trial attorney in West Palm Beach for 30 years before changing careers in 2009 to become an author of Christian-based, fictional novels. The trilogy is available in print and electronic versions from Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and www.paulturkbooks.com.
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Posted February 4, 2004; 03:13 p.m.
Carol Bellamy, executive director of UNICEF , will present a lecture titled "Out of the Mouths of Babes: Why the Voices of Children Matter" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
The head of the United Nations Children's Fund since 1995, Bellamy has focused the world's leading children's organization on five major priorities: immunizing every child; getting all girls and boys into school, and getting all schools to offer quality basic education; reducing the spread of HIV/AIDS and its impact on young people; fighting for the protection of children from violence and exploitation; and introducing early childhood programs in every country.
Prior to joining UNICEF, Bellamy was director of the U.S. Peace Corps. A Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala from 1963 to 1965, she was the first former volunteer to run the organization. Bellamy also has pursued a career in corporate law and finance, spent five years in the New York State Senate and, in 1978, was the first woman elected president of the New York City Council.
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As the economy shows signs of a rebound, the desire for business owners to look into expansion is on the rise. For many entrepreneurs, the timing seems perfect. Their company has weathered the economic storm and survived. Now the urge to capitalize on low-interest rates, depressed property values and a high unemployment rate is strong for some business owners…At Commerce Bank of Arizona, we carefully examine the business plan, projections and unintended consequences of growth. We also test those assumptions before signing off any loan. We understand that at times, a banker must play the role of adviser and be comfortable saying, "no" when necessary. It's always in a customer's best interest and we base our decisions strictly on what our customers can and can not afford. A bank is not an equity partner; it is a lender that must protect its investors and depositors. Because we are a community bank, we have a deeper level of knowledge and understanding of our customers' needs and we strive to align ourselves as a strategic partner, but we must carefully balance the line between advisors and investors to run a successful business of our own…John S. Lewis is president of Commerce Bank of Arizona, a locally-owned community bank specializing in serving small- to mid-size businesses in Arizona.
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When Alderperson Scott Resnick of Madison, Wisconsin ran for local elected office in 2011 at the age of 24, he knocked on nearly every door in his district – which encompasses parts of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus and surrounding neighborhoods. As he was greeted by residents, some would mistakenly ask, "Are you running for student council?" To their initial surprise, Resnick replied that he was seeking their vote for a seat on the Madison Common Council.
Engaged in local governance from a young age, Alderperson Resnick joined his home town's Youth Action Council while in high school, continued his passion for public service in various clubs throughout college at UW-Madison, and upon graduation, served as President of the State-Langdon Neighborhood Association. In 2004 during his junior year in high school, Resnick also served as a youth representative on NLC's Council on Youth, Education, and Families.
"From my earliest days involved with local government back in Wausau, I learned to love how communities are made strong by effective and creative leadership," said Resnick.
At NLC's Congress of Cities in Boston last month, Alderperson Resnick shared his experience in local government with nearly 100 youth delegates. Joining him on the panel were Boston City Councilor Matt O'Malley, age 33, and Coral Springs City Commissioner Dan Daley, age 22. The young elected leaders told the youth to not let their age restrict them from engaging in public service – that their voice adds value to the design of local policies, practices, and public spaces.
Youth as Participants
Over the years, municipal leaders have increasingly championed this same message in cities across the country. More and more city leaders see youth as a resource for community problem-solving rather than simply recipients of services. Youth are working with elected officials and other city leaders to tackle important issues, and similar to Alderperson Resnick, discovering that their voice matters to their communities and taking initiative to make it heard.
For instance, in Boston, with the emphatic support of Mayor Thomas Menino, youth participation in local governance is a pervasive and self-perpetuating expectation throughout the city. Part of the comprehensive Boston Youth Zone initiative, the Boston Mayor's Youth Council (MYC) empowers youth to act as advocates for themselves and their peers through identifying and representing the needs and desires of the youth community before city leadership.
The council consists of 40 high school juniors and seniors selected from each of the city's 12 neighborhoods to ensure that the council represents the diversity of youth in Boston. Council members are highly responsive to their peers, and conduct regular outreach to their neighbors and local community organizations. At the same time, MYC staff encourage youth to explore their political interests, connecting them with state legislators, U.S. Senators, members of the White House, among others.
A Youth Participation Framework
In addition to engaging the next generation of civic leaders, cities using effective approaches to youth participation are realizing far reaching benefits such as budget savings and revenue generation; increased support for city initiatives; improved policies and programs for youth; identification as a youth-friendly community; and improved indicators of well-being among youth.
NLC's Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute) has drawn upon the experiences of communities with the most robust youth engagement initiatives to develop an Authentic Youth Civic Engagement (AYCE) framework consisting of four critical elements for a successful initiative:
- A setting in which the civic climate of the community is welcoming and inviting to youth, acknowledging their role in public policy, planning, and decision-making;
- A structure in which the organization and system that supports AYCE meets both the needs of the local government and the interests of the young people;
- A strategy that offers a wide range of activities and provides youth with a breadth and depth of meaningful opportunities for participation in local government; and
- Support from adult allies, both within and outside local government, which enables the young people involved in AYCE efforts to have a real impact on issues that concern them.
Like any other local initiative, there may be no magic recipe for youth participation. But, as noted by Alderperson Resnick, Counselor O'Malley, and Commissioner Daley, it must begin with an acknowledgement that the youth voice matters – that youth are valuable stakeholders, capable of contributing to the vibrancy of our communities.
To learn more about how your community can engage youth in local decision making, contact Leon T. Andrews Jr., at (202) 626-3039 or email@example.com.


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Yup, that Rihanna rain still won't let up!
The 24-year-old diva confirmed via Twitter that she will be covering another issue of Vogue magazine.
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PHOTOS: Rihanna Gets "Grill'd" After Chris Brown Tattoo Drama
This will be Ri Ri's second time gracing the cover of the fashion bible and Rihanna's #Navy might just have even more in store for themselves before the year ends.
According to MTV the "We Found Love" singer could be releasing yet another album in November. This would be Rihanna's seventh album!
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The French branch of her record label, Def Jam, may have accidentally spilled the beans about her next release when they tweeted out that the singer will drop her forthcoming album in November, with a single reportedly hitting the streets as soon as Monday.
The tweet has since been deleted, Billboard.com reports, but the label has since tweeted out a new message, teasing that an announcement would be made this week. The site has translated the tweet to read, "New announcement this Thursday about Rihanna on our account."
A rep for the singer confirmed to MTV News that Rihanna does have a new album coming out but didn't provide any further details.
PHOTOS: Chris Brown New Tattoo Looks A Little Bit Like Rihanna
It doesn't look Rihanna is slowing down anytime soon. She has been pumping these bad boys out like clockwork! We can't wait to see what direction she will take her next project.


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Posted September 11, 2009; 06:17 p.m.
University community members can obtain free seasonal flu vaccines at University Health Services' annual FluFest event Sept. 23-24 and Oct. 12. These are not vaccines for the novel H1N1 (swine) flu virus, which are not yet available. The vaccine that will be available is appropriate for traditional seasonal flu.
Flu shots and nasal-spray flu vaccines will be available from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 23-24, and from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, Oct. 12, in the Frist Campus Center Multipurpose Rooms. The vaccines are available free to all faculty, staff and students. Dependents over 12 can receive the shot for $23 and the nasal spray for $30. No appointments are necessary.
From noon to 5 p.m. on Sept. 23-24, FluFest will be accompanied by health and fitness screenings outside the Multipurpose Rooms.
The events are cosponsored by the Office of the Provost, the Auxiliary to the Isabella McCosh Infirmary, the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and the Frist Campus Center, with additional participation from several campus and local organizations.
More information about possible vaccinations for H1N1 flu will be provided as it becomes available. For more information, contact University Health Services at (609) 258-5137 or visit its website.


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The Immunization Branch produces a wide range of materials promoting immunizations. Many of these pieces are developed in coordination with our major annual immunization campaigns, including Preteen Vaccine Week, National Infant Immunization Week, and our seasonal flu-prevention efforts.
Flu Prevention MaterialsLinks to educational materials such as public service announcements, flyers, posters, and more.
HPV VaccineInformation about the vaccine and the disease.
Preteen Vaccine WeekEvent information with links to planning and educational materials.
Immunizations for a Healthy PregnancyInfomation and materials for moms-to-be to keep themselves and their growing families healthy.
National Influenza Vaccine WeekEvent information and educational materials.
National Infant Immunization Week/Toddler Immunization MonthEven information with links to planning and educational materials.
My Best ShotAn immunization awareness site for adolescents.
VacunasVacunas Y Mi Salud is a Spanish-language site with vaccination information for families.
Wash Your HandsHoliday jingle, video, and school lesson plan.
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MADISON – Esther R. Hernandez, age 94, passed away Sunday, January 20, 2013. Esther was born in Laredo, TX on November 28, 1918. She married George Hernandez in August of 1937 in Laredo, TX. Esther worked as the head cook at Gratiot Community Hospital in Alma, MI for 25 years. In 1988 they moved to Madison, WI. Esther was a member of Iglesia La Hermosa Pentecostes. She was an avid reader, especially her bible. Esther will be greatly missed by all that knew her.
Esther is survived by her children, Ruth (Julio) Estrada, Sara (Salvador) Franco, Joseph (Rosanne) , Raquel (John) Mojica, Elizabeth (John) Campos and David; 9 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; 2 great-great grandchildren. Preceded in death by her husband and grandchild Annette Franco.
A service will be held at JOYCE-RYAN FUNERAL HOME, 5701 Odana Rd, at 6PM on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 with Rev. Alfonso Avila officiating. Visitation will be held at the funeral home from 4PM until time of service on Wednesday. Burial will be at Sunset Memory Gardens. To view and sign this guestbook, please visit: www.ryanfuneralservice.com
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I'm back from my excellent adventure. A trip to the "great middle east", as I like to refer to Cleveland, proved to be refreshing, exhausting and enlightening. Refreshing because I had no real schedule. Exhausting because I ate too much ( I was burning calories lifting a fork and cutting meat 12 hours a day ). Enlightening because I realized how different we are versus them with regard to recycling practices. The friends and family I visit just don't do it.
The landscape of this part of the country is absolutely unique and beautiful. I don't mean to fashion a scenario that paints Northeast Ohio as a filthy wasteland where trash is pilled along the street curbs, the dumpsters are oozing goo over their edges and the rivers are still burning. I only know the people I know, and they just don't bother with recycling. A friend of mine hosted a BBQ and I asked him the simple, commonly asked question "Where's your recycle can?" I was almost made fun of with such an odd inquiry. "Hey guys, the Colorado kid wants to know where to put his beer bottle." Most restaurants I was treated to had the same type practice. Everything in the dumpster out back.
This is not to say Waste Management doesn't offer the service of single stream recycling, it's just that nobody I know uses the service.
The point of my observation while visiting is the difference in lifestyles. What is totally accepted behavior here has barely caught on there. We all have a long way to go. It's just that some have a further road than others. Anyone out there see the same thing when they travel, or am I totally off base here?


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Another tip for those who want to buy vintage figures are the missing accessories that cost you almost as much as the figure by itself or more. Heres a list of the most expensive accessories.
Vader, Luke, Obiwan double telescoping sabers
Jawa Vinyl cape
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R2D2s pop-up lightsaber
Carbonite Block
Luke Stormtrooper helmet
General Landos cape
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Ken was able to play a few other courses during our time here and enjoyed them. In fact, he witnessed his first hole-in-one, when one of his fellow players, aged 75 by the way, hit one in on a par 3. That alone will make Ken's Augusta experience memorable!
Besides being home to the Masters I really had no idea what else Augusta had to offer. I was confident that I could find things to do though and Augusta didn't let us down.
We started with a visit to the Augusta Museum of History. Would it surprise any of you to learn that General Oglethorpe was also responsible for the creation of Augusta? That's right. After laying out Savannah in 1733, General Oglethrope sent out his surveyor, Noble Jones, to lay out a second city in the colony of Georgia. They chose the location for it's 'strategic location to all of Indian country'. Augusta was named in honor of Princess Augusta, the new wife to the Prince of Wales.
By the 1840's Augusta's economy had taken a turn for the worse and it's population was declining. A local citizen, Henry Cumming, believed that a canal could be dug parallel to the Savannah River. Mr. Cumming worked tirelessly trying to convince the citizens of Augusta that this canal could be the cities savior. By 1845 construction had began and the canal was completed by 1847.
The canal connects two points of the Savannah River and was devised to harness the power of the fall line of the river. This drop in elevation allowed for power to be generated to run mills as well as providing for transportation of goods. It also provided a source of drinking water for the city. It is the only canal in the world still used for its original purpose of providing power to textile mills.
By the time of the Civil War, Augusta was one of the few manufacturing centers in the South. Early on in the Civil War it was discovered that the Confederacy had only enough gun powder for about 30 days of fighting. Col. George W. Rains was sent to scout a location for the consturction of a powder works. Because of the canals power generating capacity, along with its ability to transport the completed product, Augusta was chosen. A total of twenty-eight buildings, which were the only ones constructed by the Confederate Government, would eventually stretch for two miles along the Augusta Canal. Other war industries started to establish along the canal making Augusta an important center for war material.
General Sherman bypassed Augusta on his march through the South. Local legend holds that this was because of young lady that he had once danced with when he was stationed at the local Armory.. Whatever the case, Augusta ended the war in better condition than it started. The population had doubled and hard currency was available to fiance recovery. The canal was enlarged in 1875 and a boom era saw the construction of the Enterprise Mill, King Mill, and Sibley MIll, the Lombard Ironworks and many others.
By the mid-20th century, the canal came into a period of neglect. The textile factories began to close and the city's industrial activity began to shift south of the city. At one point in the 1960s, city officials considered draining the canal to build a superhighway.
The canal was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977. Today it continues to be Augusta's main drinking water source. The abandoned Enterprise Mill now houses the Augusta Canal Interperative Center. Boat tours are offered by this center several times a day.
The canal really is a fascinating bit of history. The building of the Confederate Powderworks is also a very interesting bit of our countrys history. Today, all that remains of these works is the large chimney. Most of the buildings were demolished and the bricks were used to build the textile mills that now lie, mostly abandonded, along the canal.


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Three hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning
SPOKANE, Wash. - Three people are being treated at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane for apparent carbon monoxide poisoning.
The incident happened at a home on Fairview Road in Mead early Tuesday afternoon. Authorities say a technician working on the gas fire water heater inside the residence was found unconscious, and when fire crews responded they thought it was some sort of medical issue.
The first firefighter on scene put his oxygen mask on just in case it was not medical and when he walked into the room the CO readings were off the chart. The levels were reading above 900; a carbon monoxide detector for the home is set to go off if levels reach 150.
Firefighters decided they had to get the victim out immediately so they shoulder carried him from the home, the victim regained consciousness and was transported to the hospital for treatment.
After the technician was transported, the homeowners began to complain about flu-like symptoms, which are also symptoms for carbon monoxide poisoning, and they were also transported to the hospital.
Investigators are at the residence working to determine the cause of the leak.
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Feature film videos and musical film videos were often originally produced as motion pictures. Some films are screen adaptations of literary works, novels, plays, librettos and popular fiction, while some are screenplays written for the motion picture industry. Like printed literary works, feature films are also critically reviewed, in both print and nonprint medium.
PN1995 Most of the print materials in the collection which discuss the motion picture industry by topic or genre have been correctly classified in PN1995, particularly 1995.9. However, to classify feature films in PN1995.9 with a genre or subject Cutter would be in conflict with this standard that has effectively and historically been used for print materials.
PN1997 If feature films were created primarily for entertainment purposes and are the product of a play written for the screen, classify under Drama, motion pictures PN1997. Also include all musical films (i.e., Singing in the Rain) and biographical feature films (i.e., Bird Man from Alcatraz). If the content of a video was originally released as a motion picture, add a 500 note with a date if known.
Example: 500 Originally release as a motion picutre in 1990.
PN1997.A1 A-Z Use for film collections such as a collection of short features by one or more directors and not based on an original creative literary work. Assign the second Cutter by main entry, A-Z.
PN1997.A2-Z8 Use for individual motion pictures and assign the first Cutter number for title A2-Z8.
Example: PN1997.N47 for The Net
An extension to the first Cutter is assigned if the film or work is a criticism/critique of the original work/motion picture. The root Cutter for title is the same, then extend with the number 3 for a criticism. Then assign a second Cutter for the author of the critical work.
Example: PN1997.N473 R34 for a critique of The Net by Rex Reed
NOTE: If the original film has a foreign title and is known, cutter by original title, not the translated title.
PN1997.5 Use for children's videos (cartoons, sing-alongs, Sesame Street, etc.), animation, and computer animation. All animation classed here should be the art form itself, not "how to" videos or videos about animation techniques.
PN1997.85 Use for film adaptations of original works of fiction such as works of literature or creative works of fiction such as short stories, novels, poetry, and plays (for example, works by Tennesse Williams or John Grisham). A 500 note will state the work upon which the film is based.
The two exceptions are juvenile works and works by William Shakespeare.
Film adaptions of Shakespeare's works are classed by the individual work from PR Schedule. PR28xx .A23 A-Z (for director) Date
Example: A video adaption of Romeo and Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann is classed PR2831 .A23 L84 1997
Adaptions of children's books are classed by the author/title of the original work in the PZ section. For example: An animated adaption of A Bridge to Terabithia is classed PZ7.P273 Br YEAR Adaptations of children's books by a single author with a single title are classed as PZ7.First cutter by authorSecond cutter by first significant wordDateFor example: The Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgPZ7.V266 Po 1988Adaptations for children's titles by a single author with multiple titles are classed as PZ7.First cutter by authorSecond cutter by first titleDateFor example: The Adventures of Curious George by A.H. ReyPZ7.R33 Cur 2008Adaptations of collected children's titles by multiple authors for multiple works are classed as PZ5.First cutter by title main entryNo secondary cutterDateFor example: Good Night Gorilla...and more bedtime storiesPZ5 .G66 2002
When an item fits more than one category (e.g., an animated adaptation of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman), the following hierarchy determines the classification. Use the class scheme for the first descriptor that applies:
Children's film (class in PZ by author/title of original work) Silent film Animation Adaptation Feature For example: A silent film, titled Odyssey, based on Homer's The Odyssey is classed as a silent film. PN1995.75.O39 YEAR BUT
Dangerous Minds based on LouAnne Johnson's My Posse Don't Do Homework is classed as an adaptation. PN1997.85.D36 YEAR
Currently, subject analysis is not performed on literary works of art in print. Therefore, no subject analysis is recommended for works in feature films. Topical subject headings for biographical or historical films are acceptable. Use LCSH terms for all works. Assignment of genre subject headings should be considered if they are clearly documented in the summary notes. The following LCSH genre terms are appropriate to include in OPAC records for videorecordings:
This is a basic working list; a more comprehensive list can be found in LCSH under Motion pictures, NT (narrower terms).
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Lecture focuses on political leadership in Italy and Japan, Nov. 5
Posted October 30, 2003; 11:22 a.m.
A comparative political and economic history of leadership in Italy and Japan will be offered at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, in 2 Robertson Hall.
Richard Samuels, director of the Center of International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will discuss "Machiavelli's Children: Leaders and their Legacies in Italy and Japan." He is the author of a book by the same title published by Cornell University Press this year.
Samuels also is the Ford International Professor of Political Science and founding director of the MIT Japan Program. In 2001 he became chair of the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, an independent federal grant-making agency that supports Japanese studies and policy-oriented research in the United States.
The event is sponsored by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies and the East Asian Studies Program .
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Myrtle Beach MarathonLocation: Myrtle Beach
Get your running shoes on and run in the Myrtle Beach Marathon! Start your marathon weekend out at the Myrtle Beach Marathon Race Expo on Feb. 14 and 15 at the Myrtle Beach Convention Center!
Then, on Feb. 15 the 5K, Ripley's Family Fun Run and Ripley's Post Race Party will take place and on Feb. 16 the BI-LO Marathon, Dasani Half Marathon and House of Blues Post Race Party will take place.Next Date:


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I know no retailer is supposed to stock AOTC merchandise before April 23rd. I also that Walmart has been stocking them, and has just received emails/fax, that NO Star Wars Episode II merchandise is to be stocked before then. But can anyone tell me why my Walmart, in Union Park, near UCF, has pulled EVERY Star Wars toy of the pegs and shelves?
All of the 12" Death Star Droids, D.S. Troopers and Han troopers are gone.
All of the pegs and pegs of Shmi, Ketwol, Bespin Guard, General Leia, Ellors Madak etc. (about 30 pegs FULL) are gone.
All of the 25th Anniversary Vader/Ben, Luke/Leia, Han/Chewie 2 packs are gone.
All of the Deluxe Darth Maul and Bacta Luke (about 14 pegs worth) are gone.
The only Star Wars toy left is a 12" Jar Jar from the Episode 1 line.
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It's time for MidNight Madness all over again!
We line up outside of participating Toys R Us stores tonight!!!
What do you expect to find?
Let's talk about your expectations, and then come back on Wednesday for a new follow-up poll to check up on how you did!
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Internship Form
The internship program is designed for upper level Communication Majors. It enables students to gain a comprehensive understanding of professional work through on-the-job training. The program can provide an effective transition from academic work to a career in a specific communication field.
Interns will be expected to work a total of 120 hours per semester, regardless of academic requirements, employment or holidays. All breaks and vacations must be coordinated with the cooperating internship agency.
The internship is for one semester but may be repeated for one other term.
- Students must be a Communication Major.
- Completion of at least 75 semester hours by the end of the term in which students are applying.
- Completion of at least six (6) courses in the Communication area.
- Cumulative grade point index of at least 2.5 in Communication with no grade lower than a "C."
Application Procedure
- Apply to the Communication Internship Coordinator with the application, most recent college transcript of your courses and grades and a resume. After being accepted into the program, the student will be granted an interview with a communication professional, in consultation with the Intern Coordinator, will decide on the acceptance of the candidate.
- Filing of application does not guarantee acceptance by the Department for the Internship Program. In cases where the Internship is not required, the Department reserves the right to deny approval or postpone the application to a later semester.
- Transfer students should be aware that the Department does not guarantee placement in the Internship program within the first four semesters at RIC, or that students can complete all requirements for graduation within four semesters.
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