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Tori Spelling Spills Her Secrets
Tori Spelling has decided to spill her secrets to the world and I cannot be happier. I love Tori and her show...I'm glad that she's all good considering the way she grew up. (Besides we have the same name...SHHHHHH!!!)
Here are some of the juicy bits that have been spilled:
On 'Beverly Hills, 90210'
- I had an insta-crush on Brian Austin Green. Shannen Doherty, Jennie Garth and I became friends ... I cheated on [my first boyfriend] by hooking up with my costar Brian. Brian was the only guy on the show my age. We had something going (or not going) over the years we worked together. We were always fighting, making up, having fun, and hating each other. We were just young.
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· '90210' Cast Then & Now
- The center of this high school clique was Shannen and Jennie. Shannen had everything, but she could be arrogant and carefree. Jennie was outspoken when she thought Shannen was out of line. Sometimes they got along, but there were explosions. Once, they got into a fistfight ... For the most part, the cast and crew functioned as a close family. And in the course of the ten years the show was on the air, everyone in the cast pretty much slept with everyone else. We all would laugh about it years later.
On Meeting Future Husband Dean McDermott
- I'd been instantly attracted to men before, but this was different. It was love at first sight. I fell so hard ... I thought that was adorable. Then I noticed he had a wedding ring. When someone asked, he pulled out photos of his children. And -- oh, yeah -- I had a husband too. It was fun to flirt, but I knew nothing would happen ... But: Dean and I went to a bar after dinner. And we spent the night at the Cartier Place. The following day when I woke up next to Dean, I had no regrets. Something was really wrong with my marriage. Not only because I slept with this guy—though that certainly wasn't a positive sign—but because I didn't regret it.
On Breaking the News About Dean to Husband Charlie Shanian
- I told him that I'd never been in love with him. I loved him and he'd been a friend to me, but I married him because he was a great guy, a guy who took care of me. Charlie didn't want to hear it. He kept saying, "Where's all this coming from? We have a perfect relationship." Then he turned to me. "Did you cheat on me?" I said yes. He said, "It was with Dean, wasn't it?" I said yes. He said, "I should have known."
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Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs) help
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"[It] blends beauty and crudeness, grit and grace… With language that is lyrical despite the earthiness of its subject, Byl turns the words of work into found poetry ("brake on, choke on, pull, pull, fire"), offering a bridge for readers to those "who would not speak like this themselves"—a beautiful memoir of muscle and metal." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
"A beguiling journey of self-discovery." —Kirkus Reviews
"Here is a love story that encompasses wild country, skillful labor, hand tools, crusty workmates, and lingo formal and foul. As a woman, and a small one at that, the author must persuade the males on her crews that she can more than hold her own at hiking, trail-building, and swearing. She begins by convincing the man who becomes her husband, and ends by convincing the reader. You'll find plenty to relish here, in a narrative that's gritty, witty, and wise." —Scott Russell Sanders, author of A Conservationist Manifesto
"Christine Byl has been summering on trail crews for more than a decade and a half. A first-rate storyteller, she details the techniques and tools, and the spirit of fellowship and feel of the woods. If you love getting into the back country, or even if you're an armchair backpacker as Iam now at age eighty, you'll love Dirt Work." —William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky and The Nature of Generosity
"Every denizen of wild places from Laotse to St. Francis to Rachel Carson to black bears to field mice has depended upon trails. But rarely have we considered the people, tools, or toil that lay our favorite trails down. Dirt Work is a spectacular correction of this omission. Imbued with a tough-minded, ribald reverence for honest labor that brings to mind a female Gary Snyder or Wendell Berry (if you can imagine that!), Christine Byl does epic justice to the whole-bodied satisfactions that come of staying out in the weather, staying alert, and working one's ass off for others with love, tenacity and skill." —David James Duncan, author of The River Why and Sun House
"Byl's is not a world of groomed nature, inert tools, or nostalgic rituals, but a vibrant landscape inhabited by people and animals and layered by idea and history. She means this book as a love song, she writes, and it is, not only from her to her fellow laborers, but from the mind to the body, the hand to the tool, the human to the wild." —Sherry Simpson, author of The Accidental Explorer: Wayfinding in Alaska
"While Byl does not romanticize nature or her work, she skillfully uses poetic language, daring the reader to feel the grit, grim, and sore muscles of working ten hour shifts digging, chopping, clearing, and creating trails… Dirt Work is highly recommended for readers who love the outdoors, and especially those who have hiked in a national park or forest, and benefited from the hard work of trail crews." —Women's Adventure Magazine
"'Our work speaks for us,' Byl writes, speaking on behalf of all traildogs, who seldom brag about what they do. And it speaks volumes for this woodswoman and wordsmith." —High Country News
What We Carry
Chapter 1: North Fork: River
Rock Bar
Chapter 2: Sperry: Alpine
Chapter 3: Middle Fork: Forest
Chapter 4: Cordova: Town
Skid Steer
Chapter 5: Denali: Park
Chapter 6: Denali: Home
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NVIDIA's 1.4 Billion Transistor GPU: GT200 Arrives as the GeForce GTX 280 & 260by Anand Lal Shimpi & Derek Wilson on June 16, 2008 9:00 AM EST
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Building NVIDIA's GT200
Here's a Streaming Processor, NVIDIA calls it an SP:
NVIDIA calls an individual SP a single processing core, which is actually true. It is a fully pipelined, single-issue, in-order microprocessor complete with two ALUs and a FPU. An SP doesn't have any cache, so it's not particularly great at anything other than cranking through tons of mathematical operations. Since an SP spends most of its time working on pixel or vertex data, the fact that it doesn't have a cache doesn't really matter. Aside from name similarities, one NVIDIA SP is a lot like a very simplified version of a SPE in the Cell microprocessor (or maybe the SPE is like a really simple version of one of NVIDIA's SMs, which we'll get to in a minute). While a single SPE in Cell has seven execution units, a single NVIDIA SP only has three.
By itself a SP is fairly useless, but NVIDIA builds GPUs and if you add up enough of these little monsters you can start to get something productive given that graphics rendering is a highly parallelizable task.
Here's a Streaming Multiprocessor, which NVIDIA abbreviates as SM:
A SM is an array of SPs, eight to be specific, along with two more processors called Special Function Units (SFUs). Each SFU has four FP multiply units which are used for transcendental operations (e.g. sin, cosin) and interpolation, the latter being used in some of the calculations for things like anisotropic texture filtering. Although NVIDIA isn't specific in saying so, we assume that each SFU is also a fully pipelined, single-issue, in-order microprocessor. There's a MT issue unit that dispatches instructions to all of the SPs and SFUs in the group.
In addition to the processor cores in a SM, there's a very small instruction cache, a read only data cache and a 16KB read/write shared memory. These cache sizes are kept purposefully small because unlike a conventional desktop microprocessor, the datasets we're trying to cache here are small. Each SP ends up working on an individual pixel and despite the move to 32-bit floating point values, there's only so much data associated with a single pixel. The 16KB memory is akin to Cell's local stores in that it's not a cache, but a software-managed data store so that latency is always predictable. With this many cores in a single SM, control and predictability and very important to making the whole thing work efficiently.
Take one more step back and you've got a Texture/Processor Cluster (TPC):
The G80/G92 TPC (left) vs. the GT200 TPC (right)
NVIDIA purposefully designed its GPU architecture to be modular, so a single TPC can be made up of any number of SMs. In the G80 architecture it was made up of two SMs but with the GT200 architecture it now has three SMs.
The components of the TPC however haven't changed; a TPC is made up of SMs, some control logic and a texture block. Remember that a SM is a total of 8 SPs and 2 SFUs, so that brings the total up to 24 SPs and 6 SFUs (must...not...type...STFU) per cluster in GT200 (up from 16 SPs and 4 SFUs in G80). The texture block includes texture addressing and filtering logic as well as a L1 texture cache.
The modular theme continues with the Streaming Processor Array (SPA) that is composed of a number of TPCs:
The GT200 SPA, that's 240 SPs in there if you want to count them
In G80 the SPA was made up of 8 TPCs, but with GT200 we've moved up to 10. Note that each TPC now has 3 SMs vs. 2, so the overall processing power of GT200 has increased by 87.5% over G80.
And here's G80/G92, only 128 SPs thanks to two SMs per TPC and 8 TPCs
At the front end of the GPU we've got schedulers and control logic to distribute workloads to the entire array of processing cores. At the other end we've got L2 texture caches and rasterization processors that handle final filtering and output of data to the frame buffer.
The culmination of all of this is that the new GT200 GPU, the heart of the GeForce GTX 280 and 260, features 240 SPs, 160KB of local memory, an even smaller amount of cache and is built on TSMC's 65nm process using 1.4 billion transistors.
1.4 Billion Transistors. It wants vertex data. Really bad.
754 Million Transistors
There are more transistors in this chip than there are people in China, and it's the largest, most compute-dense chip we've ever reviewed.
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gigahertz20 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkI think these ridiculous prices and lackluster performance is just a way for them to sell more SLI motherboards, who would buy a $650 GTX 280 when you can buy two 8800GT's with a SLI mobo and get better performance? Especially now that the 8800GT's are approaching around $150. Reply
crimson117 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkIt's only worth riding the bleeding edge when you can afford to stay there with every release. Otherwise, 12 months down the line, you have no budget left for an upgrade, while everyone else is buying new $200 cards that beat your old $600 card.
So yeah you can buy an 8800GT or two right now, and you and me should probably do just that! But Richie Rich will be buying 2x GTX 280's, and by the time we could afford even one of those, he'll already have ordered a pair of whatever $600 cards are coming out next. Reply
7Enigma - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - linkNope, the majority of these cards go to Alienware/Falcon/etc. top of the line, overpriced pre-built systems. These are for the people that blow $5k on a system every couple years, don't upgrade, might not even seriously game, they just want the best TODAY.
They are the ones that blindly check the bottom box in every configuration for the "fastest" computer money can buy. Reply
gigahertz20 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkVery few people are richie rich and stay at the bleeding edge. People that are very wealthy tend not to be computer geeks and purchase their computers from Dell and what not. I'd say at least 96% of gamers out there are value oriented, these $650 cards will not sell much at all. If anything, you'll see people claim to have bought one or two of these in forums and other places, but their just lying. Reply
perzy - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkWell I for one is waiting for Larabee. Maybee (probably) it isen' all that its cranked up to be, but I want to see.
And what about some real powersaving Nvidia? Reply
can - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkI wonder if you can just flash the BIOS of the 260 to get it to operate as if it were a 280... Reply
7Enigma - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - linkYou haven't been able to do this for a long time....they learned their lessons the hard way. :) Reply
Nighteye2 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkIs it just me, or does this focus on compute power mean Nvidia is starting to get serious about using the GPU for physics, as well as graphics? It's also in-line with the Ageia acquisition.
will889 - Monday, June 16, 2008 - linkAt the point where NV has actually managed to position SLI mobos and GPU's where you actually need that much power to get decent FPS (above 30 average) from games gaming on the PC will be entirely dead to all those but the most esoteric. It would be different if there were any games worth playing or as many games as the console brethren have. I thought GPU's/cases/power supplies were supposed to become more efficient? EG smaller but faster sort of how the TV industry made TV's bigger yet smaller in footprint with way more features - not towering cases with 1200KW PSU's and 2X GTX 280 GPU's? All this in the face o drastically raised gas prices?
Wanna impress me? How about a single GPU with the PCB size of a 7600GT/GS that's 15-25% faster than a 9800GTX that can fit into a SFF case? needing a small power supply AND able to run passively @ moderate temps. THAT would be impressive. No, Seargent Tom and his TONKA_TRUCK crew just have to show how beefy his toys can be and yank your wallet chains for said. Hell, everyone needs a Boeing 747 in their case right? cause' that's progress for those 1-2 gaming titles per years that give you 3-4 hours of enjoyable PC gaming.....
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ChronoReverse - Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - linkThe 4850 might actually hit that target... Reply


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The city will soon ignite again. Many remember last April, the inaugural One Spark festival, when downtown was transformed into a creator's utopia.
One Spark is a five-day, crowd-funded festival that serves as a platform for creators to exhibit their ideas. The projects will be exposed to more than 100,000 people with the idea of connecting creators to the resources they need to make their ideas a reality.
People will display projects from the five categories: art, music, science, technology and newly added, innovation. They will have the chance to win from $310,000 of crowd funds and awards.
Last year the top winner was Rethreaded, a creative company with the mission to break the cycle of the sex trade. The project brought home more than $6,000 in crowd-funds.
The founder of Rethreaded, Kristen Keen, said that One Spark was a game changer and not only because of the winnings.
"It put us on the map," Keen said, "most people in Jacksonville heard about us though One Spark."
This year, a newly reformed price structure will allow for even more winners than last year. Sponsored awards, including a check for the project that gains the highest amount of online contributions, will fund great ideas.
Even the "losers" of One Spark may get their big break. Private investors, gallery owners and music producers will bring $3.25 million to the table.
Last year, Shad Khan's STACHE fund invested over $1 million in emerging businesses and this year he will invest again.
According to Mededith O'Malley Johnson, the Public Relations and Volunteer Services Manager of One Spark, the number one benefit surveyed creators got from One Spark was "immediate market feedback and validation from the general public."
Sylvia Walker, a creator last year, only received $647 from crowd funds, but she credits One Spark to her success.
"The exposure and the branding that we got from One Spark in … More
What is the identity of Jacksonville? The creators of "Us: A Story of Connection in Jacksonville" hope by producing a collaborative documentary they can answer just that.
The idea for the documentary came about a couple of years ago at the hands of Sarah Clarke Stuart's students. An English professor at Florida State College at Jacksonville's downtown campus, Stuart became inspired by her students' various accounts of Jacksonville.
"A couple of years ago, I had a lot of students with stories, I heard all kinds of different stories, all kinds of different perspectives of Jacksonville, perspectives I had never heard before," Stuart said. "I felt like there was this disconnect."
Urban sprawl, technology booms, education disparities, land mass size and poverty are just some of the factors that play into the disconnect on which Stuart picked up.
Playing the role of writer and director for the film, and with her original inspiration in mind, Stuart connected with Justen Mann, who will act as director of cinematography, and Jessie Shternshus, who will play the role of producer. The three decided to enter their project into One Spark 2014.
The creators said they believe by telling the many narratives existing in Jacksonville that they can aid in the overall health of the city's cultural ties, connect the dots of identity that seem to be absent in this modern age and reveal where Jacksonville is going as a city.
After all, they explained, the soul of a community comes from the ties its members share. The trio sees themselves as anthropologists unearthing Jacksonville's unique identity through the eyes of its residents.
"We want to make Jacksonville one huge community," Mann said. Shternshus added, "We want to make Jacksonville the new place to be."
They will have an interactive exhibit, making One Spark part of the production. One Spark attendees will have the opportunity to participate in the making of the film. They … More
Jason, Derek and Adam Pratt are Jacksonville natives who share a similar interest: the power of family and love of Jacksonville. But the Pratt Guys are more than just your average brother trio. They are construction craftsmen who build backyard landscapes.
More specifically, the Pratt Guys specialize in building outdoor wood scapes. They started the business in 2004 building everything from pergolas to backyard decks and decorative patios.
Now they're collaborating on a One Spark entry and pursuing $197,604 in crowd-funding to finish setting up a headquarters for their business. They're excited not only about the potential for their project, but also One Spark's potential to infuse the city they love with excitement.
"We are all about the collaborative effort in Jacksonville," Jason said, who also works as a public affairs specialist at Mayo Clinic.
The brothers began construction on their showroom and storefront office building in September of 2013 but had to stop due to lack of funding. They need the showroom to act as a workspace as well, allowing them to build the foundations for their signature pergola structures.
The 9,000-square-foot showroom located off Philips Highway would act as a destination to illustrate what the Pratt Guys do, build livable backyard landscapes where people "enjoy earth," which is also their primary hashtag for social media.
Each of the Pratt brothers possesses an important skill that brought Pratt Guys to life. Jason, a brand consultant, markets the business. Derek and Adam are, respectively, the construction management and planning experts who build the landscapes.
"We set the bar so high for not just quality, not just creativity, but customer service," Jason said.
Pergolas are the signature feature-build of the Pratt Guys. What is a pergola? Pergolas are garden arbors with slanted posts that allow for a mixture of both sunshine and shade. The Pratt Guys feel that pergolas are the best way to … More
The members of On Guard are not new to the realm of One Spark. They rocked out on stage at the crowd-funding festival during its inaugural year.
The dedication and enthusiasm of On Guard is electrified through its music and into the audience. With the help of One Spark, On Guard plans to raise money to tour nationally and spread an energetic vibe to an even broader audience.
All five members bring their own musical background and inspirations to the table, ranging from indie pop to heavy metal. On Guard became the end result. It brings a little bit of everything to cater to a veritable audience.
"We're not indie rock and we're not alternative rock," said vocalist Nick Klimchak. "I guess you could say we're indie rock alternative."
Despite their different musical backgrounds, many of their inspirations tend to overlap along with similar tastes in music. Each brings forth their own twist to make up On Guard's soulful expression.
"We've been compared to Incubus and I sometimes hear that in our melodies," said guitarist Jairo Lobusta. "Nick brings a really awesome element, too. He sings his heart out and not a lot of bands are doing that these days. He's really soulful."
Despite having jobs and activities outside of music, every Wednesday night all five members meet at Warehouse Studios to collaborate on new, innovative projects and practice their harmonic rhythms for upcoming shows.
Klimchak and drummer Alex Lingafelt started the band in November of 2012 and managed to take the Jacksonville music scene by storm since. Adding to the group guitarist Jairo Lobusta and Aaron May on bass, On Guard has successfully released its self-titled EP and shot its first music video within the past year. In January 2014, guitarist Chad Kotce joined the group to allow Klimchak to focus primarily on vocals.
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Wanda Patterson and Octavius Davis hope their positive attitudes bode well for them at this year's One Spark by winning crowd-funded support for an online radio station that boasts positivity right in its call letters.
They are the Jacksonville co-owners of WPOD.com, an online radio station whose call letters follows those of traditional radio stations by beginning with a "W" and ending with three other letters. The "POD" stands for positivity on demand.
The company originated in 2012 because Patterson and Davis were disappointed with the quality of local radio.
WPOD is an internet radio station that aims to serve Jacksonville with inspirational and contemporary Christian music. The station is different from Pandora and Spotify, which allows users to select the type of music they want to hear. Unlike on-air stations, it has no disc jockeys.
WPOD is attempting to merge the best of traditional radio and the Internet. Patterson said traditional radio is extremely costly, but Internet radio is much more cost efficient. She also said that digital media is the wave of the future.
"We've fused contemporary, inspirational, gospel and R&B that's clean and positive," Patterson said. "We're excited for Jacksonville to tune into POD FM so they can experience good music."
Davis heard about One Spark in 2013, and he knew he had to participate this year as a creator for WPOD. The pair hope to raise $300,000 to help expand their enterprise, which includes funding for several positions.
"One Spark will allow us to position ourselves to receive more capital for the company," Davis said. "POD FM is one of three stations that we plan to launch. We want to launch a sports radio station that features historically black colleges and universities, a station for teenagers and young adults which will feature positive hip hop, R&B and Christian music."
Davis said he is hopeful to win at One Spark and have the opportunity to be funded by … More
For Salvaged Ember founder Jacob Jones, what started as one side project has turned into a side business.
It all began on the patio of Jones' home in Green Cove Springs when he decided to construct a wooden table. When Jones' wife, Kimberly, proudly posted a Facebook photo of her new table people began to notice – and call Jones to build them similar tables.
That's when Salvaged Ember was officially born. Now the business has grown into a one that will be featured in One Spark as a creator in April. While the business was new for Jones, construction wasn't.
"I grew up around my father and grandfather building stuff," Jones said of how he decided to start building as a hobby.
After that first table for his wife, Jones began working on pieces for other people. Since the transition to a business last spring, Jones has used salvaged pallets and other salvaged materials to build tables, cabinets, headboards and shelving units, among other things. Customers can share their desires and ideas with Jones and he will design something based on their specifics.
Jones said he tries to use salvaged materials and be as green as possible, as long as he can find the materials he needs. He finds the pallets and other materials through Craigslist and connections the couple have made through networking with business contacts.
With an increasing customer base, Jones has enlisted help from his wife, Kimberly,
to handle the business side, handle orders and help with staining and finishing the projects. There are two other people involved in the project, Josh Puckett and Justin Thompson, who help Jones keep up with orders. Thompson's wife, Carla, also helps the team to finish projects when needed.
Jones currently spends 15 to 20 hours per week building. He works three or four nights a week after work and on the weekends.
"We have a system now," said Kimberly. "It is busy but it's bearable."
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A bin full of worms may sound like a prop in a hair-raising reality TV show challenge, but to Ed Hubbard it represents the future of the green movement.
Hubbard is a software guru turned earthworm wrangler. He launched Nature's Little Recyclers almost a year and a half ago. NLR is a vermiculture composting company where earthworms turn municipal level waste into organic top soil and fertilizer.
Hubbard is traveling from Chicago to Jacksonville for One Spark 2014. He has entered NLR as a creator project in the festival.
Hubbard developed NLR after coming to the realization that he wanted to do something disruptive that would make a difference and affect a lot of people.
He said that clean air, water and energy are all areas that are already being addressed but soil quality was being neglected.
"This was the fourth important piece," Hubbard said, "and I decided this was a business worth getting into."
Dr. Courtey Hackney, the director of the coastal biology department at the University of North Florida, said there is a huge market in verimculture composting.
"What he's doing is really important as far as plant nutrition," Hackney said. "People have found ways to create the organic part of the soil. It's an old concept that has been resurrected."
So Hubbard purchased earthworms and started feeding them organic materials and in return they excreted "vermicast," a natural fertilizer that forms the basis of most soil.
"If we eat it, they'll eat it and if we wear it and it's cotton, they'll eat it," Hubbard said, "we've even fed them T-shirts, they've eaten right through them."
In particular Hubbard is interested in coffee – it's the most compostable thing he's found that earthworms love to eat. NLR is partnered with different coffee companies for materials.
"Ninety-eight percent of the material that's left over from coffee is all compostable and in most cases it's in a … More
Crowdfunding is a way of raising finances by asking a large number of people each individually for a small amount of money. Traditionally crowdfunding has involved people utilizing networks including their family, friends and work acquaintances.
In the modern era, fund seekers are able to establish profiles on a website such as Kickstarter or Rocket Hub. From this platform they can utilize social media to spread their messages and provide opportunities for individuals to donate.
One Spark brought those opportunities to Jacksonville in a big way last year with its first crowd-funded entrepreneurial festival. This year the festival organizers have raised $310,000 in crowd-funded donations to distribute to the creators rated most worthy by festival attendees, who will vote for their favorites using a special app.
In addition, festival attendees will be encouraged to personally add their own funds to any project they like. This type of crowd-based funding provides start-ups with not only the revenue creators need to realize their dreams, but also with the validation they need to realize their dreams are worthy.
"Great ideas can come from anywhere, and they need a few things to grow into a sustainable entity: someone ready to take them to action, funding and resources," explained Joe Sampson, the executive director of One Spark. "Our goal is to provide the platform that connects those people of action who have great ideas with the funding and resources they need to move those ideas forward."
But it's not the first time crowdfunding has been used in Jacksonville.
"Crowd funding is a great resource for folks who might not be able to raise funds through conventional means," said Tim Massett, who raised 20 percent of the money needed to start up his business, Sun-Ray Cinema in Jacksonville's Five Points, from online crowdfunding.
While Massett's own crowdfunding efforts took place a year before One Spark's entrance on the … More
Donald Wicklund pulls out an old letter from a folder filled with aged pictures of ships and sites from his life at sea. The letter, he explains, is why he believes in his cause. It's from a sixth-grade student who explains that while he doesn't enjoy school, he will never forget what he learned on Wicklund's oceanographic cruise.
Those cruises began in Sandy Hook, N.J., during the 1990s, when Wicklund gave oceanographic tours to students on his 70-foot vessel, the Challenger.
"It blew up from word of mouth. We wound up having over 10,000 New Jersey students on board the Challenger," Wicklund said.
After ending the tours in 2000 and selling his ship, Wicklund is hoping One Spark will provide him with another chance to inspire future mariners and oceanographers.
As a candidate at One Spark, Wicklund said he is hoping to gain $25,000 to acquire a new boat. He would also need a marine biologist to accompany him on the tours, Wicklund said
Wicklund also wants to offer his oceanographic vessel to universities in Florida with a marine biology program, such as Jacksonville University.
"We are very much interested in it. If it (Wicklund's tours) were available we would probably utilize it," said Quinton White, executive director of Jacksonville University's Marine Science Research Institute.
The benefits that students would receive from the tours create would improve their knowledge of the ocean and also introduce them to the functions of a boat, Wicklund said.
Being no stranger to open waters, Wicklund has enough experience on the sea to rival Ahab. His career ranges from sailing around the world for marine biology firms to salvage diving millions of dollars worth of silver coins from a sunken Civil War era ship off the coast of Savannah.
If Wicklund is able to restart his tours, children would have the opportunity to interact with another part of the world that would never exist on land in a classroom. His proposal would … More
The city of Jacksonville is in full swing with preparations to make downtown the best possible venue for One Spark 2014.
With news that the world's crowd-funding festival is going global with a second event in Berlin and more to follow, the city's volunteer efforts to clean up downtown are ongoing to ensure the headquarters of One Spark remains presentable.
Recently more than 100 volunteers surfaced around Hemming Plaza -the heart of downtown Jacksonville and located directly across from City Hall – and planted new flowerbeds throughout Hemming Plaza.
"We've been planning this cleanup for some time and our deadline was to have it done before One Spark to help showcase the city and its beauty," said Wayne Wood, the founder of Friends of Hemming Plaza, whose volunteers were on hand for the beautification. "We have a really good relationship with One Spark."
While maintenance is always a challenge for public spaces, public and private investors have come together and donated thousands of dollars to help start the process. Wells Fargo provided a grant of $35,000 as part of the Neighborhood LIFT program.
Indeed downtown is improving, especially the 20 square blocks that will be showcased during One Spark. As the crowd-funding festival closes in on downtown Jacksonville, more efforts are underway to create the best possible venue for One Spark 2014.
Wood's grand vision is to restore the plaza as one of the city's top urban park areas. He would love to recreate Hemming Plaza as it appeared in the 1970s before it was paved.
And, there's more he'd love to add. Wood wants Hemming Plaza to become a city attraction with food, art, beautiful landscaping, shows and events and 24-hour security.
"We want to show the city we care. We (Friends of Hemming Plaza) have a grand vision for the plaza," … More


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This week we celebrated Earth Day by learning about our earth, recycling and ways we can take care of our planet. We also learned about night and day and the earth's rotation.
We made these lovely tie dyed coffee filter earths to decorate our classroom door by using markers to color coffee filters then used eyedroppers to drop water on them to make the colors bleed together. We often use coffee filters to color, then use a spray bottle, so this was a little different for us. It turns out that mastering the eyedropper is a little tricky, but great for our fine motor muscles.
We needed some extra fine motor practice and thankfully, I was able to find lots of ways to incorporate these skills into our theme. One morning, we tore blue and green construction paper into little pieces and glued them to paper plates to make the earth.
Another activity we did to work on fine motor skills was making mobiles of the sun, moon, earth and stars. The friends traced different sized lids to make the sun and earth and used large lacing buttons to trace and cut stars and a moon.
We decided to move Wee World to a shady spot so the friends can play where it's cool and reclaimed the little patch outside our classroom door for our garden. We spent the week cleaning out the bed (the friends had transported lots of sand and rocks into Wee World) and getting it ready for planting. I've said before that I am extremely challenged when it comes to flowers and plants. Honestly, the garden doesn't stand a chance, but I try every year. Maybe this year will be the miracle year where something sprouts! (fingers crossed!)
Finally, on Thursday, we planted a ton of seeds in the patch. The kids had a lot of fun sprinkling seeds and covering them up.
We went on a "garbage hunt" to clean up any litter we could find.
Our large group activities were a lot of fun this week. One day I had a giant poster sized sun in the middle of the rug. We faced the sun for day time, then turned with our backs to the sun for night. This quickly became a game of "Night and Day", similar to red light green light.
I've mentioned before that we really don't do worksheets in our class. There are, however, some really great ones out there, so I've found creative ways to use the ones I really like. Sometimes I'll make file folder games or learning centers from them. This worksheet I found in my files, collected from somewhere in internetland was designed for the kids to cut the little boxes and place them in the appropriate column. I enlarged it, put it on bulletin board paper and gave the friends the cards. One by one they each got to come up and determine whether the item could be recycled. We the class had to agree or disagree. This turned out to be pretty fun and the kids were really using their thinking caps!
On another day, I placed a large paper pond in the middle of the rug. We filled it with fish and turtle manipulatives to simulate pond life. I then walked around the pond like I was having a big picnic and began throwing "clean" garbage onto the pond.
Soon, the pond was fully covered in garbage and we couldn't see any of the animals. We talked about how this was harmful and how quickly the pond got very dirty even though it was only a few pieces of garbage.
Each friend got to pick up a piece of trash to help clean our pond. Soon the pond was clean and the friends decided the fish and turtles were happy again!
Our Show and Tell this week was quite impressive. I understand the importance of show and tell, but I struggle with the "toy" issue. I encourage the friends to bring in something theme related other than a toy, but often that's all that shows up. I have participated in several good discussions this year and really plan to work on this next year, but with only a few weeks left, I'm just resigned to letting it go. I do, however, really try to promote (not really brainwashing :) bringing in something to share that relates to our theme. This week, a few friends really got creative. A few brought in recyclables like paper towel rolls and newspapers and that sort of thing.
One friend brought this really cool shopping bag made from recycled plastics. We read the tag and talked about how the trash was made into something that is earth friendly, all because someone took the time to recycle. We also talked about the images on the bag and why they are earth friendly symbols.
One of the friends made this really cool music shaker from a milk jug and rice!
And one of my friends (my Little Author, Linny) make this beautiful recycling bin. I love her labels and that she worked so hard to make it all by herself!
Resiklu (Recycle)
Erf (Earth)
Notice the green recycle arrows and the happy earth!
And last, but not least, here are some of the great books we read:
The Earth and I by Frank Asch has beautiful watercolor illustrations and a simple message.
Earth Dance by Joanne Ryder also has bright illustrations and is one I include every year.
I recently got Not A Box by Antoinette Portis from Scholastic. Very simple and cute and gives lots of creative uses for a box in imaginative play.
Here are some of the other great titles we read this week.
I'd love to hear what you were up to for Earth Day ~ feel free to leave a comment or a link to your Earth Day activities!


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Big iPod Accessory: Nissan Dualis
Usually, I salivate for pocketable iPhone accessories, or add-ons which keep the iPhone safe in the pocket. The Nissan Dualis, however, is a bit bigger. Rather, I think there ain't a safe way to stow it in my room and certainly ain't totable atop my Marinoni (I cannot drive in Korea). But it has an iPod dock (so, I'm thinking about it), possible line-in for analogue connection to anything audio, a fancy-nancy HDD based navigation system, and that is about it. Anyway, add it to the list of iPod dockable vehicles and don't forget your safety belt.[via Yomiuri Newspaper (Japanese)]


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Welcome to the Functional Genomics Core
The Functional Genomics Core performs expression profiling and SNP genotyping (Affymetrix) services.
We currently have Beckman Coulter's Biomek® FXP Target Prep Express robot and the GeneTitan Instrument from Affymetrix which allow the processing of hundreds of microarray samples in a week, and processing of high throughput expression peg arrays and Axiom genotyping high throughput peg arrays.
Also, we have the Affymetrix GeneChip® Scanner 3000 7G Plus Targeted Genotyping System in the Core. It has the ability to scan all research arrays manufactured by Affymetrix including the high density expression arrays which place an entire genome on one GeneChip®. This equipment includes 2 Fluidics Station 450s and the GeneChip® Hybidization Oven 640.
Affymetrix GeneTitan
Beckman Coulter Biomek FXP Target Express Robot
Affymetrix GeneChip Scanner 3000 7G Plus with Autoloader
The picture above shows the Affymetrix GeneChip Scanner 3000 7G Plus Targeted Genotyping System with Autoloader. This scanner will scan all Affymetrix arrays.
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Moyer Nixes Max
Last night's story line was billed as a 23-year-old flame thrower making his first major league start against a 45-year-old making his 558th start.
It ended up being no contest as the Phillies bats came alive in the series opener as Jamie Moyer picked up the win over Max Scherzer.
Arizona manager Bob Melvin said it best in Ken Mandel's story: "He (Moyer) rope-a-dopes you to death. I know first hand. He throws a 74-mhp change and backs it up with a 71-mph change and cuts it to both sides of the plate. He reads hitter's swings and he'll go slower than slow. He's been doing it for a while."
Scherzer can register 98 mph on the radar. The gun practically falls asleep when Moyer pitches. The only time the lefty uses a gun is spring training. He wants to make sure his change lacks enough speed.
Moyer chipped in two of the Phillies 17 hits. When he cam to bat the third time, Phillies radio voice Scott Franzke reported: "Jamie has a single and a double. He's half-way to hitting for the cycle."
Good to see the Phillies mix in some base hits and winning a game without a home run. Going into the game, the Phillies had scored 70 of their 150 runs via the long ball. During the Giants series, it was either home runs or SF errors that led to Phillies runs.
Moyer won the only game for the Phillies against the Diamondbacks a year ago. Let's hope history doesn't repeat.
Appreciate the enthusiastic responses to yesterday's Insider urging fans to vote for Pat Burrell during the All-Star balloting process.
Pat went 0-for-5 and snapped his streak of reaching base safely in 30 consecutive games. Did we jinx him?
On the one response that ballots weren't distributed in Section 133 on Sunday, will check on that. But, keep in mind there are displays throughout Citizens Bank Park that contain ballots.
So we can't vote more than 25 times online. Still the most convenient way to vote.


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Name: Tabby
Age: 13
Breed: Thoroughbred
Discipline: Hunter/Jumper
Owner: Dawn Longman
"Soon after Tabby came to our barn, we discovered that she had some unflattering 'mareish' behaviors. She became overly sensitive and spooky, would bare her teeth at other horses, and was so pushy and bossy that my daughter could no longer handle her. After doing some reading online, I decided to start Tabby on SmartMare Harmony. In less than two months' time, I had my loving mare back. She is now more tolerant of other horses, no longer jumps and spooks at every breeze, and is very sweet natured."


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MONTREAL — Angie Johnson of Norwegian Wood has created a truly museum-worthy garment.
The Montreal designer was one of five Etsy artisans commissioned by the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to create a work from its archives. The museum has made its wealth of art available for download for personal and creative use. To get the creative juices flowing, it partnered with Etsy, the marketplace for independent artisans. Almost 150,000 works are in the archive.
Johnson created a breathtaking kimono, digitally printed on the back panel with The Threatened Swan, an oil painting by Jan Asselijn, circa 1650. The front panels are printed with images of an inlaid wooden cabinet from the same era.
Johnson said she was excited when she was contacted by the museum in December, especially because she had been doing digital printing for some time, but was finding few good images to work with.
"Suddenly, I had this amazing art work,'' said Johnson, who added the original project was for a lingerie set.
"I snuck in the kimono."
She liked the image of the swan because it was angry, she said, adding she learned they are aggressive creatures. And she wanted an animal or landscape for the kimono because people are attracted to them.
She looked through hundreds, not thousands, of images — her deadline was tight — and tried a few floral images. "But it was too commercial, too obvious. You know, Dutch oils paintings and still lifes."
A black and white Rembrandt print was another possibility, but she knew she wanted painterly colour.
The piece was created in Montreal on silk chiffon, with custom fringe also made in Montreal. Collar and sleeves are of bamboo jersey.
A prototype of the kimono and lingerie set are on display in the museum; versions of the pieces are for sale on Johnson's website, www.norwegianwoodonline.comor on www.etsy.com.
The kimono costs $278 Canadian.
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Hän menetti kaiken: Sisareni taistelu borrelioosia vastaan.
Vuosien taistelu sietämättömiä oireita vastaan päättyi itsemurhaan.
Sue, 46, sairastui borrelioosiin 1990-luvun puolivälissä. Hän kuoli 21.8.2005.
Perheemme oppi tuntemaan myöhäisvaiheen borrelioosin vuosien aikana liiankin hyvin. Vähitellen tauti tuhosi sisareni elämän. Bakteeri pääsi etenemään Suen elimistössä rauhassa sillä se diagnosoitiin virheellisesti kahden vuoden ajan. Suella oli lukuisia oireita; migreeni, voimakas uupumus, kipuja niskassa ja suurissa nivelissä. Jokainen niistä kavensi hänen mahdollisuuksiaan normaalin elämään. Lopulta hän joutui jättämään työnsä ja jäämään sairauseläkkelle ja muuttamaan takaisin kotiin äitinsä luokse. Hyvinä päivinä hän pystyi tekemään puutarhatöitä ja huonoina hän vietti koko päivän vuoteessa suuresti rakastamansa chihuahuakoiransa kanssa.
Suen suurin ongelma oli voimakas yliherkkyys äänille. Normaalielämään kuuluvat äänet kuten ohiajava moottoripyörä, ruohonleikkuri, lapsen itku, oven sulkeutuminen jne. olivat hänelle sietämättömän voimakkaita ja saivat hänet pakenemaan huoneeseensa. Aikaa myöten oire vain paheni. Erityisesti terävät äänet olivat sietämättömiä. Hyperacusis, yliherkkyys äänille, voi aiheutua trauman seurauksena mutta sen on ajalteltu johtuvan myös aivojen muuttuneesta tavasta käsitellä ääniä.
Perheellemme ja Suelle oli erityisen vaikeaa se, että lääkärit eivät kyenneet löytämään syytä oireisiin. Hänet diagnosoitiin virheellisesti kahdesti; krooninen väsymysoireyhtymä ja Epstein-Barr -virus. Lääkärit väittivät hänen liioittelevan oireitaan jotta hänen ei tarvitsisi tehdä töitä tai keksivän erilaisia oireita jotta hän saisi kipulääkkeitä. Siinä vaiheessa kun kukaan ymmärsi tehdä borrelioositestejä, oli tauti jo edennyt tavoittamattomiin. Tri Auwaerterin mukaan on vaikea sanoa kuinka paljon virhediagnooseja tehdään, mutta taudin varhainen diagnosointi on vaikeaa. Borrelioositestien luotettavuus erityisesti varhaisvaiheessa on huono. Lisäksi potilaiden oireet ovat samanlaisia kuin useissa muissakin taudeissa. Yleissääntönä kuitenkin on, mitä kauemmin infektiota on sairastanut, sitä moninaisempia ovat myös oireet.
Sue joutui taistelemaan yksin lisääntyviä oireitaan ja erityisesti ääniyliherkkyyttään vastaan. Hän löysi kuitenkin internetin välityksellä henkilön joka kärsi samanlaisista oireista ja jonka kanssa hän pystyi vaihtamaan kokemuksiaan. Hän kävi useiden erikoislääkäreiden luona löytääkseen yhden joka voisi auttaa häntä ja joka uskoisi häntä. Hän käytti korvatulppia ja korvakuulokkeita mutta niistä oli vain vähäinen apu. Sue kertoi ihmisten tavallisen kuiskauksenkin kuulostavan huutamiselta. Lääkärit olisivat ohjanneet hänet hoitoon psykiatriseen sairaalaan. Sanoimme lääkäreille että Sue ei ole mielenvikainen, vaan kärsii vaikeasta kroonisesta sairaudesta ja veimme hänet takaisin kotiin.
Sue muutti äitinsä kanssa asunnosta toiseen löytääkseen hiljaisen asuinympäristön, mutta sellaista ei löytynyt. Lopulta Sue pyysi, että hänelle tehdään leikkaus jossa hän kuuroutuu. Yksikään lääkäri ei kuitenkaan suostunut tekemään toimenpidettä. He eivät uskoneet ongelman aiheuttavan niin paljon kipua hänelle. Sisareni taisteli urheasti elämänlaatuaan voimakkaasti heikentävää tautia vastaan siihen pisteeseen saakka jolloin hän ei enää kestänyt sitä. Loppujen lopuksi hän olisi vain halunnut löytää keinon jolla kivut vähenisivät ja löytää jonkun joka uskoisi häntä."
All she lost: My sister's battle with Lyme disease
After a decade of unbearable side effects, she decided to end her life
By John Baiata
NBC News producer
updated 8:14 a.m. ET May 18, 2009
The phone had not even finished its first ring before my wife, Anna, snatched it from its cradle. Concern was etched in her face as she handed me the receiver: ?It?s the police. It?s about Sue.?
My stomach dropped. My older sister had disappeared the day before and my family feared for her safety. ?I?m sorry to have to tell you this,? the police lieutenant said in an even voice, ?but we found your sister dead this afternoon. We have reason to believe it was a suicide. We?re here with your mother now.?
I fought the urge to scream as my mind went in a million directions. ?Do not leave my mother by herself,? I urged the lieutenant over the phone. ?I?ll be there in a little more than an hour.?
I lurched outside and clung tightly to the deck railing, while everything else seemed to spin violently around me. Anna grabbed me with both hands. ?What happened?!?
?She really did it this time,? I said. ?She killed herself.?
In the decade or so before Sue took her own life at age 46 on August 21, 2005, my sister Dawn, my mother and I had become all too familiar with advanced Lyme disease, which had slowly, inexorably diminished Sue?s life.
Sometime in the mid 1990s, my sister contracted Lyme disease, likely through being bitten by a deer tick or black-legged tick. The bacterium that had introduced itself to Sue?s bloodstream went undetected, and then was misdiagnosed for the better part of two years.
Identified early, a short course of oral antibiotics will cure the majority of cases of Lyme disease ? more than 27,000 cases were reported in the U.S. in 2007 ? and wipe out the typical symptoms of headaches, fatigue and a circular rash near the area of the bite. But left untreated, the disease can affect the heart and nervous system, causing joint pain. Sue faced a parade of symptoms including migraines, severe pain in her neck and major joints and staggering exhaustion.
Each one narrowed the prism through which she lived her life. Sue had to leave her job as a facilities manager to go on disability, and lived with my mother in the Long Island home where we were raised. On her good days, she would spend hours in the gardens she had lovingly cultivated in the expanse of the backyard. More than likely it was there too where the tick which bore the disease that would seal her fate attached itself to her.
On her bad days, she would stay in bed with the shades drawn, cuddled with the dog she loved unconditionally, her beloved Chihuahua, Katie. She would emerge only briefly to have some tea and a bite to eat, and a few words with our mom.
Still, she had accepted what her life had become. On those good days she could still fill the room with laughter. She would mine the late-night comedians for material but never really needed to. Making people laugh came naturally to her.
Her life became more attuned to the seasons than ever. She knew instinctively how to grow just about anything. She kept a pair of pruners in her car in case she happened across something that would make its way into one of her many centerpieces. One fall while driving through a rural part of northern New Jersey, she forced me to pull over to the side of the road, disappearing into a thicket of brush and trees. She emerged moments later holding a fistful of exotic-looking flowers over her head, grinning ear to ear like she?d just been handed an Oscar. One Christmas season, in a burst of energy, she decorated the entire house while my mom was at work. The memory of walking through the front door that day still lights up my mother?s face.
The agony of sound
Despite what Lyme disease had already taken, it was not done with her. A crueler, more insidious phase awaited. She began to develop an aversion to noises that had never bothered her before. Everyday sounds like the closing of a door or the cry of a child would cause her to cringe. A passing lawn mower or motorcycle would send her running for her room. The disease?s attack on her central nervous system had brought on hyperacusis, a severe sensitivity to sound. And it became progressively worse.
It was as if a volume dial, set on high, had broken off, and everything in her aural experience was overmodulated. Softer sounds were tolerable. Sharper sounds were not, and painfully so for her.
Hyperacusis, which can be brought on by trauma to the inner ear, is also thought to be a processing problem with the way the brain perceives sound, which seems much more likely in my sister?s case.
Dr. Paul Auwaerter, clinical director of infectious diseases at John Hopkins University School of Medicine and a leading specialist on Lyme disease, describes hyperacusis as ?a bit like the old fashioned AM radios. When you turn the ?gain? button up you get more stations, but you get a lot more static, too.?
One of the enduring frustrations for my sister, and for those of us who loved her, was the failure of her doctors to recognize what was wrong. She was misdiagnosed twice in the early stages of the disease ? once with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the second time with Epstein-Barr virus. She was accused of exaggerating her symptoms to avoid work, or inventing them in order to get pain medication. By the time anyone thought to give her a definitive blood test for Lyme, the disease was on the march.
Patients treated in the early stages ? within about two to four weeks after the onset of symptoms ? usually make a complete recovery. Not everyone is so fortunate.
?It?s hard to put a number on how common misdiagnoses are, but early detection can be difficult," says Auwaerter. "It takes the body some time to generate enough antibodies to show up in testing, and the symptoms are common to many other ailments. There?s a general sense that if you have the infection longer, you?ll have extended symptoms.?
For those who are diagnosed late and have persistent symptoms, some doctors will prescribe an extended antibiotic regimen. That is a controversial approach, however, as several studies have shown it not to be an effective strategy.
There is also considerable debate in the medical community and with advocacy groups over some of the symptoms of ?advanced? or ?persistent? Lyme disease, like Sue had, and how to treat them. One theory, based on research studies, suggests that people who suffer from post-Lyme disease symptoms ?may be genetically predisposed to develop an autoimmune response that contributes to their symptoms.?
'It's like they're screaming'
Sue was determined to deal with the progression of the disease ? and especially the hyperacusis ? on her own terms. She went on the Internet and did exhaustive research. She kept in contact with another sufferer of advanced Lyme who lived in New Jersey, comparing notes on their progressive symptoms. And she ping-ponged from specialist to specialist, desperate to find someone who could help, someone who believed her. She took to wearing ear-plugs, then sound-proof headphones. But it was akin to spitting in the ocean. It made no discernible difference.
?Sometimes,? she told me, ?when people are talking to me, even if they?re whispering ... it?s like they?re screaming.?
My mother found her one day in her room, unresponsive and foam coming from her mouth. A long suicide note was tucked in a dresser drawer. She?d taken a bunch of pain pills from two prescription medications, but would live. When I arrived at the hospital my mother was outside stealing a cigarette, crying and ashen. When Sue came to, she was enraged that my mother had intervened. In the days after, an uncomfortable dynamic followed: Dawn and I were naturally supportive of my mother, and yet entirely empathetic to my sister?s situation. A common enemy soon emerged, however. Her doctors wanted her committed to the psychiatric ward.
We argued vehemently that she was not crazy. She was suffering from the advanced stages of a debilitating disease, and had left behind a reasoned, lucid note explaining her actions.
We eventually got her home and struck a wary truce: we would redouble our efforts to help her navigate the maze of health-care providers in search of some relief, and she would simply not give up. She was sent to a therapist, and placed on medication for depression ? something she had struggled with even before contracting Lyme disease.
In search of a quieter neighborhood without the noises that were agony for Sue, my mom reluctantly put the house up for sale ? the one that held so many memories for all of us, and Sue tore herself away from the gardens she loved. They moved, and then moved again, finally settling in a 55 and older community that they thought offered the quiet my sister so desperately sought. The first day the landscapers came by with their torturous weed-wackers, it became clear there would be no silent refuge.
Asking to be made deaf
Sue came to a drastic, but, given the circumstances, reasonable conclusion: she wanted to be surgically deafened. My sister ? the same one who turned me on to all manner of wonderful music, who liked nothing better than lying on the beach listening to the sounds of the waves and seagulls, for whom peals of laughter were a siren?s song ? would rather go deaf than endure any more pain. Now all she had to do was find a doctor who would do it.
No doctor would. They either did not believe the extent of her pain, felt it was too drastic a measure, or cited the ?do no harm? tenet of the Hippocratic oath.
The last time I saw my sister alive was on one of her good days, in the summer of 2005. I had driven out to Long Island on a Saturday, and we spent the day together. We took a drive, and she asked me what music I was listening to. She could barely stand listening to music anymore, but she still wanted to know what was out there. I played a few tracks for her at the softest volume possible, and she laid her head back and smiled. Later, we went for a swim and she cracked a few jokes about sharing a pool with a bunch of people 20 and 30 years her senior. Looking back, the day seems impossible. A mirage. Later that week, I called to see if it was OK to come out that weekend with my family. Sue was godmother to my oldest, Alexa, but had yet to meet my son Luke, who at the time was 3 months old. She wanted desperately to see him ? and I to show him off ? but she was fearful of the noise a crying baby would make. She urged me to come, and offered to leave the house in order to avoid the noise. I put the visit off again ? a decision I regret to this day.
When my sister attempted suicide the second time, she was determined that there would be no intervention. Sue was up and dressed early that day in August, and told my mom she was going to the mall. She called later that day to say she had met a friend and would be home late, not to worry. Instead, she checked herself into a motel along a busy stretch of New York highway, affixed a bunch of morphine patches to her body, and lay down to die in an empty motel room. There was no note. I think, in Sue?s mind, her actions no longer required an explanation.
In the days following her death, my sister Dawn and I did our best to simultaneously deal with our grief and to support my mother, whose own grief had turned her near catatonic. The thought of never seeing Sue again, of never touching her or hearing the sound of her voice, was overwhelming. What was most painful for me was the knowledge that she would not be around to see my children grow. She?d never again get to spoil her goddaughter. And she had never met my son, Luke.
The day of her funeral, the visitation room was closed to all but immediate family just before her body was to be moved to the church. I walked in with Luke in my arms, and closed the door behind me. I placed his tiny hands in mine, and pressed them against my sister?s casket. ?Sue, this is my beautiful boy, Luke,? I whispered.
?Luke, meet your wonderful Aunt Sue.?
I have a favorite picture I keep on my dresser of Sue with her arms wrapped around me on my wedding day. Her face is lit with undiluted joy. Joy for me. Joy for the moment. There are times still when my longing to have her back hurts as deeply as the day she left us. But mostly when I think of her now, I think of all the times, and all of the little ways she expressed that same unbridled passion for life.
My sister fought valiantly against a disease that had diminished the quality of that life to a level that was no longer acceptable to her. It never once diminished her spirit. Through it all, all she really wanted was relief to her pain, and for someone to believe her story.
John Baiata is a senior editor with NBC News.
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NEW YORK It was a rough third quarter for United Airlines (UAL).
Travelers stayed away, frustrated by technology glitches from United's merger with Continental. And a huge accounting charge wiped out most of its profit.
United's performance weakened by every measure important to airlines: Per-passenger revenue fell 2.6 percent, and was down in every part of the world except for the Pacific. Traffic decreased 1.5 percent. Yield, which measures fares paid, slipped 1.2 percent.
- United raises fares for round trips
- Hawker Beechcraft sale to Chinese firm collapses
- Bankrupt American Airlines expects to hire 2,500 pilots
Net income for United Continental Holdings dropped to $6 million, or 2 cents per share, from $653 million, or $1.69 per share, a year earlier.
Its most recent profit would have been bigger if not for a special charge for a preliminary agreement with its pilots. But excluding that charge, its profit of $1.35 per share was still 12 cents less than analysts expected, according to FactSet.
Revenue fell 2.6 percent to $9.91 billion, also below analyst expectations.
By comparison, Delta's (DAL) passenger revenue rose 1 percent during the most recent quarter, and yield rose 3 percent. The rival airline posted a $1.05 billion profit, with an assist from bets on fuel prices.
United planned ahead for some of the traffic reduction by reducing flying capacity 1.4 percent. Airlines have been increasingly aggressive about cutting capacity to keep the number of seats they offer in line with demand, so they can keep fares higher.
United booked a $454 million charge to cover future lump-sum payments to pilots. United also recorded $60 million in integration expenses for merging the two airlines. That money covered repainting planes, merging computer systems, and charges for getting rid of facilities that the combined airline no longer needs.
Shares of the Chicago-based airline fell 77 cents, or 3.8 percent, to $19.50 in midday trading.


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Certified mediator of workplace conflicts lends expertise in helping employees determine the right course of action for situations that seem to pop up in the office.
From a distance, you see your co-workers Nancy and Barbara whispering intently at the water cooler, seemingly unaware of the hum of the office around them. That is, until you approach. Then it's as if your colleagues forgot how to talk, they stop mid-sentence, their eyes flutter nervously, guiltily and with a quick 'hi' they walk hurriedly past you and back to their desks. And all of the sudden that prickly, nervous feeling creeps into your stomach and you just know. They were talking about you.
Interpersonal situations in the office can range from uncomfortable to downright unbearable.
Ann Farrell, a professional certified life coach, regularly speaks to workers about many of the problems that can plague an office of people, who different as they might be, are expected to work harmoniously together day-in, day-out.
"People aren't investing time to build professional relationships," said Farrell of Winfield. "Sharing with co-workers and being vulnerable to them is huge."
And while nobody really likes stereotypes, they abound in the workplace.
"Which one of us wants to be labeled 'the gossip?' but everyone of us can think of times we slip into it," Farrell said.
What takes the negativity out of the equation is being open with people and knowing when to take a stance, she asserted.
A big thing for Anese Cavanaugh, a leadership coach out of St. Charles, is what she terms "personal sustainability."
Personal sustainability includes a focus on wellness, self-care and the ability to positively engage with others. These traits build a "strong foundation" for personal and professional growth.
"(Personal sustainability) means managers and leaders are better equipped to lead," Cavanaugh said. "They've got more tools and skills and they have a stronger way of being because they're taking care of themselves."
A manager's skill at handling arguments concerning miscommunication and personality clashes can often make or break the morale and efficiency of an office. As a certified mediator of workplace conflicts, Ann Marie Pahlman sees a lot of bosses who don't know what to do when issues arise.
"It's suprising how many managers don't want to deal with (problems)," Pahlman said. "Typically there is not a seminar to teach managers how to deal with workplace conflicts. If the person has a master's of business administration, they would have learned some of these skills, but often managers lack the insight to see what's really going on."
Below are familiar workplace scenarios. Pahlman lends her expertise in helping employees determine the right course of action for the given situation.
Situation 1
The situation: You hear someone in the office has been spreading rumors about you
The solution: Lay it out on the table. This direct approach will embarrass the person and make them think twice before they do it again, Pahlman said.
Though you may be seething, it's important to try and make the other person as comfortable as possible so they don't become defensive or antagonistic.
"If the gossip is true, say something like 'In the future, I'd appreciate it if you came to me before anyone else,'" Pahlman said.
Situation 2
The situation: While working with another person on a project, you come to find he has been routinely taking the credit for your ideas
The solution: "If you know you're working with that kind of individual, document everything you do," Pahlman said.
To put a stop to this behavior, put your ideas and contributions in writing and submit them to your boss. Also, keep your ideas to yourself.
"This way your boss will know what's going on if the person comes in to claim the credit," she said.
Situation 3
The situation: A colleague repeatedly ignores, bulldozes over your ideas
The solution: Pahlman advises being truthful with the person.
"Tell them they may want to tone it down or that you feel like you're not getting heard," she said.
If the person is gruff and pushy, however, don't push it.
Situation 4
The situation: You hear one of your co-workers complaining about the job at every turn
The solution: If it gets to be too much, tell the person you don't have time for their complaints.
"If they realize that they don't have an audience, they'll stop," Pahlman said.
It's important to keep in mind, however, when another person's behavior is debilitating and when it's just annoying.
"If something is merely obnoxious, but not professionally affecting, ignore it," she said.
"You can't change people but you should always treat them with respect."
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The situation: Your boss is elusive and often late in getting back to you about work-related matters
The solution: Write your boss an e-mail and give a date by which you need a response. You may also want to document consequences of inaction by telling your superior that if, for example, she doesn't respond by such-and-such time the project will be set back four weeks or the company will lose a month's worth of sales.
"You have to be careful about the tone of the e-mail," Pahlman said. "Write something like, 'I know you're busy, but....'"
Ask a trusted colleague about your boss' management style, but even then make sure to keep your questions broad.
Going above your manager's head is something you want to avoid, so if you still feel like you're getting nowhere, bring up the issue in a meeting to create awareness.
"You can describe it in such a way that you don't call out any names," Pahlman said. "Say 'This project slipped' or 'This information wasn't available in time.' Someone will inevitably come up to you later on and ask for more details."
But always keep the dialogue respectful, she heeded.
Situation 6
The situation: A person in your office is consistently slacking off and it's backing up on you
The solution: Again the direct approach is best, Pahlman said. Remind your colleague of the tasks involved and document.
"Anything you can put your hands on, put it in writing," she said. "It might make that person step up to the plate."
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You may have had it with your colleague but it's a good idea to show some effort at fixing the problem before seeking out your boss.
"It's going to highlight your interpersonal skills if you go to management over and over again," Pahlman said. "You want to limit contact as much as you can with management and try to solve the problem yourself."
She advises communicating with the person about the situation or their problematic behavior. If the talk doesn't help, seek the person out a second time and reiterate your stance. Only if there is still no progress, should you go to your manager.
"When you talk to your boss, you should emphasize how the dispute is slowing up a project or productivity," she said. "If you know the person you're having problems with is a management pet, go to another manager."
Only if a superior has tried, unsuccessfully, to resolve the problem, should you request mediation.
Seeking out management is also a dicey move if you get the feeling your voice won't be acknowledged.
"If you're a woman in a boys' network, you already know you're not going to be heard," Pahlman said. "Try and approach the person in a joking manner and if that fails, look for another job." What to say, how to say it
The best way to prepare for a difficult talk with a colleague is to plan the conversation.
"When you approach your co-worker, you may want to give them an indication of what you want to talk about," Pahlman said.
When the two of you do sit down, have on-hand, concrete examples of the person's negative behavior and how it has affected you.
"Let emotions out on the table, but make sure it's not going to be personal," Pahlman said.
Another good idea is to find out when the person's energy level is at its highest.
"Some people are morning people, others are crabby in the morning," Pahlman said. "Don't talk to them when they're crabby."
A Friday afternoon can be a good time for a sensitive chat because it allows the other person the weekend to think about what's been said. But whatever you do, don't "dump" on your co-worker.
"Try to make the conversation as non-confrontational as possible and be respectful," she said.


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