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As our regular readers are well aware, I happen to love Dorset. It's my favorite place to visit in England and we always visit when we're in the country. Because of this, I have a particular love of the works of Thomas Hardy, with Far From the Madding Crowd being my favorite. So it was with great delight that I learned today that it's being adapted into a new film.
Fox Searchlight, DNA Films and BBC Films are all producing the picture, which began filming on location in Dorset on Monday. The film will star Carey Mulligan as Bathsheba Everdene, Mattias Schoenarts will star as Gabriel Oak with Tom Sturridge playing Sergent Troy and Michael Sheen as the gentleman farmer William Boldwood.
The film will be directed by Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt) and was adapted for screen by David Nicholls. I'm reasonably confident that the right people are making this movie – David Nicholls also adapted the 2008 adaptation of Tess of the D'Urbervilles that starred Gemma Arterton and that was fantastic.
This property was made into film previously in the 1960's, starring Julie Christie. While it's an excellent and faithful adaptation, it's LONG and rather trying to get through. It was also made again in the 1990's as a TV miniseries and I remember that being all right. But it's a perfect story that's ripe for a modern take remake.
I'm not sure Carey Mulligan is right for Bathsheba, she doesn't have quite the dark beauty (though beautiful she is) that is Bathsheba. Michael Sheen will make a perfect Boldwood.
Filming now in Dorset, it will probably be released in the fall of 2014.
I can't wait to see it!


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Images: Grand opening [Image 1 of 4]
Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Hunt
CAMP TAJI, Iraq - Soldiers and civilians from Camp Taji, Iraq, stand in front of the new fire station at its grand opening on June 10. The new station has the capability of holding four fire trucks, 18,000 gallons of water and 4,800 gallons of firefighting foam.
(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Brent Hunt, 1st BCT PAO, 4th Inf. Div.)
This work, Grand opening [Image 1 of 4], by SFC Brent Hunt, identified by DVIDS, is free of known copyright restrictions under U.S. copyright law.
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Keene high student makes strides in accident recovery
GREENFIELD - Though a fluke accident on a trampoline left him a quadriplegic, David Hudgik's positive attitude is helping him meet his new life head-on. That zeal was why Hudgik dropped the puck at Crotched Mountain's Boston Bruins Alumni Classic on Sunday.
Hudgik, a senior at Keene High School, was an avid freestyle skier who spent his winters in the snow, his mother Barbara said.
"He was your typical athletic teenage boy," said Barbara. "He skied in the winter and had fun in the summer jumping off bridges and doing those things that mothers don't want to know about."
But it was an accident at home in September 2011 that put David in a wheelchair. Hudgik was at home bouncing on the trampoline in the yard with a friend when he attempted a forward roll and landed on his neck. Barbara said she poked her head out the window when she heard a commotion in the yard. When her son asked her to call 911, she knew he was serious.
"We left Keene that night and David didn't come back for five months," she said. "When he came home, it was in a wheelchair."
Hudgik broke two vertebrae in his neck. Though he underwent three hours of surgery and had a metal rod inserted in his back to stabilize his spinal cord, he lost all feeling in his right side, his left shoulder and below the waist.
At a rehabilitation hospital in Atlanta, Hudgik became acquainted with his new life as a quadriplegic, and when he returned to New Hampshire, he stayed at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Center in Greenfield. At Crotched Mountain, Hudgik participated in physical therapy and relearned the skills he needed to live at home.
He and his family have recently moved to a new home that accommodates his wheelchair, and are learning to overcome the obstacles his disability. Hudgik was able to get back out onto the slopes through the Crotched Mountain Accessible Recreation and Sports (CMARS) program, which pairs trained staff and volunteers with people with disabilities and gets people back skiing, kayaking or participating in other activities.
As a result of Hudgik's positive attitude and perseverance, he was asked to drop the puck at the opening face-off of Crotched Mountain's annual Boston Bruins Alumni Classic game. The game was between the Boston Bruins Legends and the Crotched Mountain Wild and was held at Sullivan Arena at Saint Anselm College and raised money for the CMARS program. Hudgik met former Bruin Rick Middleton and was named an honorary member of the Crotched Mountain Wild.


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April 2, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas - With one round remaining in the Challenge at Onion Creek, the Washington State women's golf team is in fifth place in the 15-team field. The Cougars collectively shot 29-over in the first two rounds Monday and trail No. 16 Texas Tech (fourth) by just three strokes.
The Cougar women were led by Mallory Kent in the first two rounds. Kent is tied for third place overall after shooting a 1-under 69 in the first round and following that with a 3-over 73 in the second round. She is 2-over going into the final round and trails Texas State's Krista Puisite, the individual leader, by just four strokes.
Emma Betland also made the top 25 for day one. She is tied for 24th at 8-over par.
Gonzaga sits atop the team leaderboard going into Tuesday's final round. The Bulldogs are 7-over par and are trailed closely by No. 36 Texas State (second, +13).
Tuesday's final round of the Challenge at Onion Creek will begin with a shotgun start at 8 a.m. Central / 6 a.m. Pacific. Live results will be available at www.golfstat.com during tournament play, and final tournament recap will be posted at www.wsucougars.com following the contest.


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Leland DeHart - July 30, 2012
Leland Milford DeHart was born Jan. 15, 1918, at Yuma, Colo., to Floyd H. and Nellie E. (Frazell) DeHart.
As a young man he moved with his family to Wauneta, Neb., where Leland attended school, graduating from Wauneta High School in 1937.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corp on Sept. 25, 1942, and served in the European Theatre during WWII. Leland was discharged in September of 1945 and returned to Wauneta, where he married Glendene Doretta Louch on April 6, 1947.
The couple settled in Wauneta and became lifetime residents. Leland was employed at Hamilton's Garage for over 40 years and then after retirement worked for the Wauneta Coop Oil Company for another 10 years.
Leland was very community minded, serving on the Wauneta Volunteer Fire Department, the EMTs, and acted as an elder for the United Methodist Church in Wauneta. He was a Senior Center volunteer and delivered Meals on Wheels until age 92. He was also the primary caregiver of his Mother; Grandma "D" and wife, Glendene, in their later years. Leland was also very active in the Wauneta VFW and American Legion Posts, serving on the Honor Guards for many years.
Leland passed away Monday morning, July 30, 2012, at the Chase County Community Hospital in Imperial, Neb. He was 94 years of age.
Survivors include: daughter, Ruth DeHart of Spokane, Wash.; daughter, Ledene and husband, Steve Clapp of McCook, Neb.; one granddaughter, Josette and husband Justin McConville of Kearney, Neb.; two great-grandchildren: Brodie and Lexie McConville; sisters: Irene and husband Loran Wright of Palisade, Neb., and Joan Church of Fort Collins, Colo., many nieces and nephews.
Leland was preceded in death by his parents; wife Glendene; siblings: Merle, Marvin, and Mason; sister-in-law Phyllis Shafer and brother-in-law and best friend: Bill Louch.
Memorial services for Leland DeHart will be held Thursday morning, Aug. 2, 2012, 10:00 a.m. MT at the United Methodist Church of Wauneta with Pastor Bonnie McCord officiating. Inurnment will follow at Riverside Cemetery, Wauneta. Neb.
There was no visitation as Leland chose cremation.
A memorial has been established to the Wauneta Senior Center.
On line condolences can be left at liewerfuneralhome.com
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It has been a busy week for all of us and our VIP members, already testing "Virtual Awakening" and giving us interesting feedback. But for now, let me introduce our new Virtual Endless hero: Kyuind Neuil.
Endless hero: Kyuind Neuil
Faction: Endless
Class: Administrator / Commander
- Labour: 7
- Wit: 0
- Melee: 0
- Offence: 4
- Defence: 4
Special Ability:
- +5 industry per population on Methane / Hydrogen / Helium
- - 10 % ship cost on system
Appointed as the operator of an industrial platform orbiting a gas giant during the Dust Wars, Neuil's skills at production were greatly appreciated until the war moved elsewhere, and he was left alone. After spending millennia maintaining the platform, he was found and expatriated by an Automaton scientific expedition. Neuil now roams the galaxy, putting his many years of practical knowledge in industry and warfare to work for his clients.
We will be able to announce the release date in the upcoming week, so stay tuned and have a nice weekend!


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"Realize that now, in this moment of time, you are creating. You are creating your next moment based on what you are feeling and thinking. That is what's real."
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"I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds."
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"It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America."
"There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."


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A Small Town With A Big History – by Phil Neibaur
Nestled spaciously between the Bitterroot, Lemhi, Lost River and Pioneer
Mountains on the North and West, and the Teton Mountains on the East, is the little farming village of Newdale.
Before the area was settled by the Mormon Pioneers, it was well used by the Indians and fur trappers as they traveled between the Snake River Valley on the West and the Teton River Valley on the East. One of the last of the fur trappers, Beaver Dick, and his Indian wife are buried just three miles north of Newdale.
Newdale, as a town, actually came into existence late in the 1800's when the Union Pacific Railroad put in a line connecting Ririe on the South, with St. Anthony on the North. Where the railroad crossed Highway 33 the town of Newdale sprang up.
It was originally a thriving town with a chapel, school, bank, several stores, gas station and pool hall. But with the coming of oiled roads and great snow removal equipment, Newdale has become a bedroom community to the larger cities of Rexburg and St. Anthony.
Newdale has a country setting with great shopping, entertainment and work opportunities only fifteen minutes away. Newdale – zip code 83436 – proud to be part of "Small Town America."


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Dawn M. Wolthuis wrote:
> While it seems to me that the PICK model is much more flexible (but I
> don't have evidence to prove that), I will grant that all of the
> systems I have seen that use the model are mid-range in size. I
> suspect that when you need to scale beyond the millions to the
> billions of stored "records" in one "file" you might be out of the
> PICK league. I'll have to ask some pickies about scaling up. I'm
> more inclined to think that recent approaches to scale, such as
> clustering, might apply to the big guys where PICK might be left in
> the dust on newer scaling techniques.
When I said scaling I was actually thinking in terms of more tables, more queries, and more complex queries, rather than more rows. But I guess the same might apply to that sort of scaling, I don't know enough about how Pick works to say that.
I think this example has already been made: If you have an invoicing database and the order lines are physically stored with the orders (as in Pick), then it is optimised for printing invoices. But say you want to know how many orders there are with a particular order line?
With relational, your database is already optimized for this; it "scales" nicely to the new type of requirement. With Pick I understand you'd have some extra work to do by scanning every single order record looking for a particular order line.
My experience has been that businesses will ask for the most convoluted reports you could imagine, not just the ones that you might think are needed at first analysis.
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Is there a way to set it so that all mail folders are expanded? If there isn't an option in the user interface, is there somewhere in the code (I'm running the OSS version) that I can change it so that this happens.
Is there a way to set it so that all mail folders are expanded? If there isn't an option in the user interface, is there somewhere in the code (I'm running the OSS version) that I can change it so that this happens.
You can right-click > then expand all on the top of your folder structure (pic attached)
But it sounds like you want to vote for Bug 1920 - Persist folder tree expand/collapse state across sessions so you don't have to do it each time
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The bug shows as "Fixed". Do we know how to do this or is it a V7 fix?
this is a v7 feature
It is partly fixed...
Tryng out Zimbra here, and stumbled on this bug.
If you create folders under your primary account and subfolders for these folders. Then the "opened" state of folders, Folder state will be saved correctly.
However there are separators, "zimlets" and if you use child accounts with "google for +zimbraChildAccount". Then neither separators, or child accounts remeber if they should be closed or opened.
They behave very randomly. If you create new accounts + childaccounts and view from parent account, then they are all opened. I got them all closed after logging in/out like 10 times.. and after 10 times of tryng i never could get them all be opened as default again. Then i added more child accounts, and wanted them all to be closed by default.. i never managed that either.
All testing was done With:
Server: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64bit - Zimbra 7.1
Client: Firefox 7.0 and Google Chrome 14.0 on Debian 6 aka squeeze.
Shortly - folders remember closed/opened state.
Everything else that can be closed/opened acts randomly (especially annoyng with lots of child accounts under primary account).
This is a stopper to migrate my small business to Zimbra.
PS: the comment i made at.. https://bugzilla.zimbra.com/process_bug.cgi
seems to hang on Fixed bug, sorry.. could anyone create a new bug correctly.. or how could i do it myself ?
PS:PS: if i would try to fix this myself, where should i look in the source/or webserver files ?
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Hi i have fixed the problem for myself.
If anyone could open a bug report, i could attach some instruction on it how to fix it.
Giving a hint what is actually wrong:
The bug involves this line:
In file Startup1_2_all.jsCode:appCtxt.set(ZmSetting.ACCOUNT_TREE_OPEN, expanded, null, null, null, acct);
The variable "acct" gets lost in settings saving procedures.
And instead wrong account is used as Active Account to save ACCOUNT_TREE_OPEN expanded/closed status.
Took me 2 days to learn javascript debugging with firebug, and finding the correct bug location and coming up with a fix for it.


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May 25, 2016
The Ochlocknee station was built several years ago and it wasn't built to accommodate the living conditions for volunteers and staff! Now, firefighters say they're even running out of room for their equipment.
In recent months, Ochlocknee residents say their volunteer fire department had some staffing troubles.
Resident Randy Smith said, "They had some personality conflicts with some of the volunteers and when volunteers who have had the longevity they've had quit. I don't know."
Thomas County Fire Chief Chris Jones says thanks to SPLOST dollars, the department may be headed down a smoother road by building a brand new station.
"Thomas County firefighters hope their new Ochlocknee building will give them more room for themselves and for their equipment. They say the old station in Ochlocknee doesn't even have room inside for all their fire trucks!" Thomas County Fire Chief,
Chris Jones added, "The new station will accommodate their needs to be able to stay there and we'll be able to put all of our Ochlocknee equipment inside the building."
Chief Jones says the total cost of the building hasn't been tallied up, but not having an updated facility in the area could certainly come at a higher cost. The chief says there are about five or six volunteers currently on the Ochlocknee roster and one full-time firefighter. They've already broken ground. They hope to have the facility built within the next few months.
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Tuned into you...CTV is Canada's oldest private broadcaster, and second-oldest network behind the publicly owned CBC. It began broadcasting in 1961, nine years after the CBC, and was established for many of the same reasons that ITV was in the United Kingdom: to end the public monopoly over Canadian broadcasting and provide choice for viewers. (Throughout the history of analog transmission, most Canadians have been able to watch the three (and later four) American networks as well. Simulcasts with Canadian stations are plastered over on cable.)"CTV" doesn't legally stand for anything, but nearly everyone assumes it to mean "Canadian Television". Many Station Idents, by American branding firm Pittard Sullivan, have capitalized on this assumption. Today, It is owned by Bell Media, who also own The Comedy Network, MuchMusic, Space, TSN, and Canadian versions of MTV, Discovery Channel (along with Animal Planet and Investigation Discovery), E!, and HBO among others.The network took a long time to find its feet. Most shows were simulcasts (essentially, authorized network feeds) from the three American networks, which remains true to this day. However, "CanCon" content laws required some local broadcasting. During the early years, most of these were very cheaply produced game shows. Famously, the network's first well-known attempt at a sitcom was the notorious flop The Trouble With Tracy, regarded as one of the worst shows of all time. Judge for yourself.After over a decade in the doldrums, the network's fortunes began to change in the mid-1970s. Lloyd Robertson, a star news anchorman for the CBC, was lured over to CTV with the promise of editorial control, and remained at the news desk for 35 years, until his retirement in 2011. Canada's most popular game show, Definition, began running in 1974. The network also has a knack for taking American programs and making Canadian versions of them. It actually beat 60 Minutes to the punch by two years with their own newsmagazine show called W-Five. A morning show called Canada AM began running in 1972. One of the iconic Canadian series, The Littlest Hobo, debuted in 1979.But the CBC remained the dominant network well into The '90s, at which point public funding began to dry up in the face of federal budget problems. At the same time, the CBC made the well-intentioned but boneheaded decision to stop simulcasting American programs (except for strip repeats of The Simpsons, for some reason). This allowed CTV (and rival network Global) to become incredibly dominant. One major homegrown success from this period was Due South, which was the first series produced for Canadian audiences to be simulcast by an American network a rare and incredibly satisfying role reversal.In the early 90's, Baton Broadcasting (a major owner of CTV affiliates, and flagship CFTO) made a few tricky moves with an intent to either gain more power within CTV, or subvert it entirely and build its own network; it bought several CTV affiliates from various owners, but then realized that under its cooperative bylaws, Baton still only had one vote on business decisions in the network. Then it launched Ontario Network Television as a secondary affiliation across its Ontario CTV stations (and several independents), to fill in the gaps already provided in the network schedule for local primetime programs.When CTV was faced with a re-organization in 1993 (which changed its structure from a cooperative to a private company with shares divided based on station ownership, and reduced network primetime programming further), a consulting firm suggested that Baton go for the ultimate prize of majority ownership and control of the CTV brand. But just to be on the safe side, Baton introduced BBS, a new primary brand for its stations, and an expanded lineup of supplemental programming. It then formed a joint venture with fellow CTV affiliate owner Electrohome (which gave them joint ownership of several stations, which they later sold to Baton), but part of the deal gave Baton control of Electrohome's shares, giving it 42.9% control. For a grand finale, Baton swapped stations with CHUM; giving it the Atlantic Television System and ASN in exchange for Baton's independents, giving it majority control. After triggering an option to allow the remaining owners to sell their stakes, Baton's mission was accomplished. The BBS brand was ultimately replaced by CTV; however, BBS remained as a technicality for affiliates that had not yet reached an affiliation deal to air programs beyond the base CTV schedule (such as CHAN-TV in Vancouver; which Baton decided to meddle with after it launched the BBS-only independent CIVT. A purchase of its parent company by Canwest and CIVT eventually picking up CTV in 2001 led to Disaster Dominoes for just about every private station in Vancouver).In the new millennium, CTV decided to start producing substantial Canadian programming, and has for the most part been very successful. It lured some of the producers of the old Degrassi shows away from the CBC for the Revival series Degrassi: The Next Generation. But their greatest success was Corner Gas, reckoned by many as the best (which is to say, the only good) Canadian sitcom since King of Kensington in The '70s. Both Degrassi and Corner Gas also became very popular in the States. The recent WGA strike resulted in American networks investing in several Canadian productions. One of these, Flashpoint, has aired on CBS as well as CTV (just like Due South, in fact) and became a moderate success for both networks. Another, The Bridge, started airing in summer 2010, but it quickly flamed out south of the border. At the same time, two new sitcoms, Hiccups and Dan For Mayor, produced by and starring many of the same people from Corner Gas, were unveiled with much fanfare.Unfortunately, it seems as though recent CanCon efforts have not been quite so fruitful. Degrassi: The Next Generation saw its ratings fall so far that the show had to make a Channel Hop to cable sibling MuchMusic (avoiding outright cancellation thanks to its immense popularity in the lucrative American market); The Bridge was cancelled after a season; Hiccups, Dan For Mayor, and the popular So You Think You Can Dance Canada were all cancelled in September 2011.Famously, CTV wrested the Olympics away from the CBC starting with the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, paying top dollar and nearly being bankrupted when the recession hit; luckily, and unlike in the case of NBC's infamous experience with the 1980 Olympics, they were a huge success. CBC did, however, regain the rights to the Olympics and will be doing so beginning in 2014. CTV has also succeeded with gaining the rights to the World Cup until 2022. Also, the network had also shown an interest in poaching Hockey Night in Canada, the CBC's last remaining bastion in the ratings, but they've been unable as of yet, having lost the new NHL broadcast contract to Rogers Media. They did, however, succeed in taking the famous theme music, currently owned by sister cable channel TSN (which is not only a Canadian version of ESPN, but is itself partly owned by the network); perhaps someday they'll be reunited...CTV Two was established for the 2011-12 television season. It's a re-branding of what was formerly called "A" (before that, A-Channel, and before that, NewNet, as well as, in Atlantic Canada, the regional cable channel ASN [Atlantic Satellite Network], which itself is now CTV Two Atlantic); it has a Prime Time schedule composed primarily of reruns and "surplus" American shows with lower ratings. The flagship network continues to be known as simply "CTV", with no "One" or any other modifier attached.Not to be confused with the many TV stations around the world that share its initials, including Chukyo Television in Nagoya, Japan; China Television in Taiwan; Canterbury Television in New Zealand, and the television service owned by the Vatican.
— Network advertising slogan during the early 1990s
Shows that has aired on CTV
- The Beatles
- The Brady Bunch
- Canadian Idol
- Gilligan's Island
- Sonic the Hedgehog
- The Weakest Link
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?


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Lee County Mental Health Community Center Hits Road Block
Keokuk, IA – A proposed mental health community center in Lee County has hit a road block. The Lee County Board of Supervisors has tabled a proposal to develop a facility that would be open 20 hours a week in Fort Madison. The board started accepting proposals for such a center about 8 months ago. Supervisor Bob Woodruff says too much time has passed and the board needs to re-evaluate the county's need for the center. He says the board should wait until March to discuss the center, so the supervisors can focus on crafting the county's budget at the start of the new year. During its meeting, the supervisors hammered many issues surrounding the center: cost, lcoation, format, timeframe, funding. CPC Administrator Jim Posz says the idea of the center is to eliminate isolation and encourage socialization. The board told Posz to go no further than working out any liability issues surrounding such a center.


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text: Never lose hope Carol received a kidney transplant through a paired kidney donation. Never lose hope. That's Carol Mainolfi's advice to anyone who is waiting for a kidney transplant. She would know – she received one after three years on dialysis and one failed transplant. "I feel like a different person," said Carol, who received a kidney through a paired kidney exchange last June. "I am slowly getting my life back. I'm appreciating the freedom from dialysis and a second chance at life." Since the 1980s, Carol's health had always been up and down, with frequent urinary tract infections (commonly known as a UTI) leaving her hospitalized on more than one occasion. At the time, her doctor told her she had sponge-like kidneys that were susceptible to infections and were symptomatic to UTIs. He had also told Carol her kidneys were large, most likely because "she was tall." Fast forward to 1994, the day before her son Gregory was born. During a routine ultrasound, cysts were discovered on his kidneys. One week later, both Carol and her son were diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease (PKD). Prior to her diagnosis, Carol had never heard of PKD. She's been unable to find history of the disease anywhere in her family, leading her to believe it was a spontaneous mutation. Carol, a fulltime second grade teacher, began to feel the symptoms of renal failure in 2007. Her doctor told her there would be a day when she'd just know [it was time to go on dialysis]. "For me, that day came before the new school year started," said Carol. "Reality set in and I just knew – it was time." After starting dialysis in August 2009, she immediately got on the transplant waiting list. Several relatives and friends, including her husband Matt, tested to be a match. Unfortunately, no one was. It was then the Mainolfis decided to join the paired kidney exchange program at the University of Maryland Medical Center. A paired exchange, also known as a "kidney swap," occurs when a living kidney donor is incompatible with the recipient, and exchanges kidneys with another donor/recipient pair. Matt wanted to be a part of the process from the get-go. "He always knew he was going to be the one to fix it," said Carol. "He's the fixer of the family." However, there was one concern. Their only child had PKD – which meant one day, he would most likely need a kidney transplant. Matt has the same blood type as his son, and would probably be a good match. So there was a choice: either donate a kidney to help Carol or donate a kidney directly to Gregory. "It took a lot of soul searching," recalls Carol. Carol and Matt recently celebrated their 24th wedding anniversary and Carol's one-year transplant anniversary. Ultimately, they determined that Gregory would need a kidney later in life, so he had more time. They decided to continue as planned in the paired kidney exchange program. In November 2010, Carol received a kidney, but a blood clot formed and it had to be removed the next day. Carol and Matt were told this happened to less than one percent of the population. "All was falling into place so well. Losing the kidney was heartbreaking." Carol was forced to go back onto dialysis and wait another two years before a new match was found. She received another kidney on June 12, 2012. Matt donated his kidney to another recipient on August 28. Carol believes it takes a special person to do what her kidney donor and her husband did. "They made this possible," said Carol. And because of Matt's selflessness, they'll not only celebrate their 24th wedding anniversary this summer, but also Carol's one-year transplant anniversary. "I'm so blessed that Matt came along on this journey with me. He helped save my life – and a life of another." Today, Carol is feeling better than ever and credits her strong support system. "My biggest challenge was dialysis, and what it took from my daily life," recalls Carol. "It was nice to have people in my life that cared and supported me. It made all the difference." Carol and Matt are now sharing their experiences, hoping to help and educate PKD patients and others going through dialysis. They recently became the new Chapter Coordinators for the Baltimore Chapter of the PKD Foundation. "We always felt it was our calling to help, but we were never able to do it in the past," said Carol. "Now is the perfect time." Through her own experience, she tells people to always remain positive, that giving up is not an option. "Your time will come. Maybe not tomorrow, or next month, or next year – but it will come. Never lose hope." Learn more about paired kidney donation at pkdcure.org/learn/paired-kidney-donation. Share your story


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Sid Selvidge
The word came Thursday afternoon that Sid Selvidge has died.
Summing up what he meant to Memphis music is very difficult because his contribution covers so much ground as musician, as an influence, as a counselor on the intersection of music and the lifestyle of making music. And then there was the example of continuing to pursue with dignity and determination something that all too many people believe is neither art nor a pursuit for anyone but the young on their way to some other goal.
Realizing the limitations of trying to encompass all that Selvidge meant to a city with an abundant and ongoing musical firmament, I'll go for this:
He was an artist with his music in the manner and determination of a painter or a sculptor. And that will be his enduring impact – a body of work that even now is being evaluated and posted on Facebook and YouTube.
Some of the bravest people I know are musicians who take their songs, their voices and perhaps a guitar or a piano onto stages, big and small, temporary and permanent, and connect with audiences night after night.
That is what Sid Selvidge did for a long time in our city and continued doing almost up to his death. He was our troubadour and our portal to the essence of a music that met official resistance and world-wide acceptance and questioned whether either was the point.
Some of us watched much of the journey from the pre-Beatles coffee house days of folk music at places like the Bitter Lemon on Poplar Avenue to the Beale Street Caravan-Levitt Shell residencies.
Others came across him intermittently over the years, a reference point in a city that to those of us who live here doesn't seem to change fast enough but which has changed tremendously to those who no longer live here.
Still more encountered the old records turned CDs turned digital files in which his voice and his art at first surpassed the technology and then the technology managed to begin to capture what those who saw him live encountered.
The encounter will continue although the body of work is now complete.


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Gerald F. Seib, executive Washington editor of The Wall Street Journal, has been involved in covering every presidential election since 1980 and writes the weekly Capital Journal column for the Journal. Click here for Mr. Seib's full bio.
Odd as it sounds amid a wheezing economy, mounting bankruptcies and rising unemployment, President-elect Barack Obama and his aides realize they'll actually be dealing with the easy part of their economic challenge when he takes office next week. After all, getting Congress to agree to spend billions of dollars and cut billions more in taxes to stimulate the economy right now is, politically speaking, relatively easy.
The harder part will be trying to follow that up by creating what is coming to be known in Obama circles as a Grand Bargain: getting everyone to agree to clean up the nation's budget mess in a really big way, one that doesn't just fix the problems being created now, but also addresses the frightening long-term problems America was going to face anyway to pay for Social Security and Medicare in coming decades.
For this Grand Bargain to work, all sides would agree to sacrifice some part of their agenda. The price they would agree to pay would be unhappiness — temporary, perhaps, but real — among their constituents and favorite special interests. Their reward would be a cure for problems everybody knows they'd have to deal with a few years down the road.
In other words, the Obama view is that the country has reached a momentous point in its economic history, like it or not. Why not try to see whether the nation can turn pain into an opportunity to make an equally momentous change in the way it conducts its affairs?
This is why the opening of the Obama era next week will be a time of both great peril and great opportunity. The risk of further economic meltdown and government overreach are both very real. But times of great problems also can be times of great clarity, when all see and agree that big problems simply can't be avoided.
President George W. Bush, by comparison, could never get Congress or the nation to buy into his call to reform Social Security, noble though the effort might have been. To be blunt, the problem just didn't seem all that pressing to enough people. Life was good; the problem could be pushed into a corner.
These times are different. The test of Mr. Obama's presidential leadership is whether he can convince his own party, the Republican opposition and the public that pain also represents an opportunity to do more than muddle through.
Things won't start out quite so grandly next week, of course. Mr. Obama will start by trying to build a three-legged stool to stabilize the economy here and now.
The first leg of the stool is to be an economic-stimulus package in the range of $800 billion. The second leg is to be the second, $350 billion half of the financial-markets rescue package Congress approved last year, used to both stabilize the wobbly banking system and head off a new wave of home foreclosures that could arise as more people lose jobs. (The Senate just last night voted to let that money flow to Mr. Obama's administration.)
The third leg — largely underappreciated for now, but a high priority for the new president — is a legislative package to overhaul regulation of the financial markets. The Obama team considers that step crucial to maintain political support for the other parts of the rescue plan. It worries that without confidence that there is a new regulatory system to create greater transparency for investors, both Congress and the public will begin to feel that tax dollars are being thrown down the same black hole that swallowed the nation's 401(k)s.
When all that is done, the federal government's budget deficit will be an ugly sight to see, north of $1 trillion.
That will pose both a problem and an opportunity. If the deficit problem is that acute, the case for overhauling government to make it more efficient and less wasteful also is more pressing. That means there could, for example, be real support for changing the way the Pentagon handles acquisitions, finding government programs that can be eliminated and attacking congressional earmarks more seriously.
But those aren't the places where the big money is to be found to address the yawning deficit. The big money lies in the defense budget, in interest on the national debt and in entitlement programs, specifically Medicare and Social Security.
Even before the new deficit migraine arrived, simply keeping those programs afloat in their current form was going to create a giant headache anyway. The government traditionally uses about 18% of the gross domestic product to fund its programs. Even before the big bailout costs, the Office of Management and Budget had estimated that, in theory and without policy changes, that would rise to something like 40% by 2080; the deficit alone would consume 22% of GDP.
Here's where the Grand Bargain could come in. Like Humpty Dumpty, the budget is going to be broken anyway. In putting it back together, would retirees be willing to accept the idea of having more prosperous seniors pay a higher monthly premium to receive their Medicare health coverage? Would liberals accept cuts in their favorite social programs? Would conservatives accept the idea of a carbon tax, to both raise big money for entitlements and prod the nation to move more quickly away from fossil fuels?
Those would be the big trade-offs. Washington may shy away from them once again. But the Obama era of big problems at least creates the opening for that kind of big debate.
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With the tragic death of her fiancé, Elizabeth Hamilton believed she'd never love again. The comfortable life she's settled into with her brother in Boston is upset when he abruptly marries. Displaced by her spiteful new sister-in-law, and hoping to find a home for herself, Elizabeth allows handsome cowboy Nick Sanders to escort her from Boston to her friend's Montana ranch.
In Montana, Elizabeth meets attractive Caleb Livingston, a wealthy banker who strongly resembles her beloved fiancé, and believes she has a second chance at love. Yet, she has to fight a growing attraction to Nick. In braving the dangers and hardships of the West, Elizabeth discovers unexpected strengths within herself–strengths tested when an influenza epidemic ravages the town. As a child's life hangs in the balance, Elizabeth must choose between the man who has everything, and the one with nothing but his heart to offer.
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