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FITCHBURG — A Fitchburg priest who fled to the Philippines last year after being accused of possessing child pornography and stealing from his parish is expected to be brought back to Massachusetts soon.
Timothy Connolly, spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., said the Rev. Lowe Dongor was caught by authorities in his homeland of the Philippines and was extradited to Los Angeles, where he was arrested on Dec. 10. Dongor was arraigned on charges of child-pornography possession and larceny over $250.
Connolly said details are slim at this time, but Dongor waived his right to contest being sent back to Massachusetts and authorities are currently working out the logistics for his return.
"It'll be soon," said Connolly.
In June 2011, a computer expert informed police a computer operated by Dongor contained multiple pornographic images of preteen girls.
In a state police interview in July 2011, Dongor is said to have admitted to downloading the images, which he acquired through a paid website. He also told police he had been swiping small amounts of money from St. Joseph's Parish in Fitchburg, where he was stationed as a priest since 2010. He had been sending the money to his family in the Philippines and said the total amount was more than $250.
Dongor was placed on administrative leave in July 2011.
He was arraigned in Fitchburg District Court on Sept. 10, 2011, on charges of larceny over $250, larceny from a building and possession of child pornography, and was released on personal recognizance. He did not show up for his Oct. 25, 2011, court appearance and had been missing ever since.
The staff at St. Joseph's Parish referred all requests for comments to the Diocese of Worcester.
Ray Delisle, director of communications for the Diocese of Worcester, said in December 2011 Bishop Robert McManus started the process to laicize Dongor. Commonly referred to as "defrocking," the process to remove someone's priestly title and privileges has to go through the pope.
"We are still awaiting upon a response from the Vatican, so technically he is still Father Lowe Dongor," said Delisle. He said they've been following the case through the media in the Philippines and now the media in the U.S.
The laicization process can take time. Nova Scotian Bishop Raymond John Lahey was found with child pornography on his computer in September 2009. Lahey pleaded guilty in May 2011 and was laicized on May 16 of this year.
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After a gap of more than two years, a total eclipse of the sun will be visible this week from northeastern Australia. Residents and visitors in Cairns in Queensland will see the moon completely cover the sun for two minutes in the eastern sky shortly after local sunrise.
Australia's total solar eclipse this week will occur at sunrise on Wednesday, Nov. 14 local time, though it will still be Tuesday afternoon (Nov. 13) for observers in North America tracking the event through webcasts.
This solar eclipse Down Under is followed by two more solar events in 2013 — an annular, or "ring of fire," eclipse on May 10, which can be viewed from northern Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the Gilbert Islands, and a special "hybrid" eclipse (a combination of annular and total solar eclipse) on Nov. 3, which will be visible from the African nations of Gabon, Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia.
If you are chasing the eclipse by going to Australia, the South Pacific, or Africa, here are a few tips to keep in mind as you make final preparations for your overseas eclipse adventure:
Create a checklist: Don't rely on your memory to remember all the things you need to bring for the trip as well as do during the eclipse. List them down on a notepad or save them in your smartphone, tablet, or laptop. As the saying goes: "Fail to plan, plan to fail." [Video: Watch Path of Nov. 13-14 Total Solar Eclipse]
Choose the right optics and mount: To capture detailed, close-up shots of the eclipse's partial phases, Baily's beads, diamond rings, solar prominences, and inner corona, you'll want a telephoto lens or telescope of sufficient focal length, say, 500 to 1,000 millimeters (or even longer). This will give you a reasonably large image of the sun's disk in the frame.
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Make sure your tripod and head are sturdy enough to carry the load of your telescope and camera gear and that the tripod would fit inside your carry-on or check-in luggage. Carbon-fiber tripods are stronger and lighter than regular aluminum tripods, but they cost a lot more.
Keep your setup light and portable: Try to keep your photo gear as portable, compact, lightweight, and easy to assemble and operate as possible. Portability is essential if you need to move hastily to a different site to escape clouds.
Bring solar filters: Use a proper, visually safe solar filter when photographing or observing the eclipse's partial phases. Keep the filter mounted securely in front of your telephoto lens or telescope objective (and finder scope). The only time it is safe to look at the eclipse directly without a filter is during totality, when the sun's disk is fully covered by the moon. Be sure to put the filter back on as soon as totality ends. [Solar Eclipse Chasers' Photo Guide (Gallery)]
Warning: Never look directly at the sun, either with the naked eye or through telescopes or binoculars, without the proper filters. To safely view solar eclipses, you can purchase special solar filters or No. 14 welder's glass to wear over your eyes. Standard sunglasses will NOT provide sufficient protection.
Have extra memory cards and batteries handy: Don't skimp on memory cards. Use a reliable, high-speed, large-capacity (8 gigabytes or more) memory card when shooting the eclipse. Don't forget to use fresh battery for your camera. Digital SLR cameras can easily drain their batteries, especially if you use the LCD screen continuously. Make sure you use a fully charged battery at the beginning of the eclipse, and have a spare one handy, just in case.
Test your imaging setup: Try out your actual gear before leaving the country. This will reveal any potential problems with focusing, balance, or vibrations, as well as internal reflections or vignetting in the optics. Practice your imaging sequence over and over so you can time your pace and refine it as needed. Take some test shots of the sun to determine the best exposure to use for your particular telescope/camera/filter combination.
Pack your things carefully: When disassembling your gear, carefully pack each part so you don't leave behind any essential screw, adapter, or cable. Also, place delicate optics and cameras in your carry-on baggage to ensure safe handling. Check with your airline or travel agent regarding baggage size and weight restrictions to avoid problems or delays during check-in and boarding. Also allow ample time for airport security screening.
Register your equipment: If you are bringing along expensive telescopes, cameras, or computers, you can register your equipment with the U.S. Customs prior to your departure. You have to bring them to the local customs office at the airport, where you need to fill out CBP Form 4457 "Certificate of Registration for Personal Effects Taken Abroad." An officer will then stamp and the sign the form, which you need to present upon your return home. More Information here.
Check your location: Make sure your chosen observing site lies within the eclipse track. Depending on the weather forecast and road conditions or accessibility, select a site that is as close to the track's central line as possible to gain the maximum eclipse duration. Double-check your exact geographic coordinates using a GPS receiver or a detailed map — you don't want to travel halfway across the globe only to miss seeing the eclipse by a few miles!
Monitor the weather: Get the latest weather update or satellite images and animations from the Internet to help you plan on where to go in case clouds or rain showers threaten your intended eclipse observing site.
Automate your imaging: Many eclipse chasers now use custom software that let them preprogram their entire imaging sequence in their laptop computer. Using USB or FireWire (IEEE 1394) connection, they let the computer control their digital SLR camera from start to finish. The captured images are then automatically downloaded and saved into the computer's hard drive. All the eclipse chasers have to do is to sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
For example, for Windows users there's Eclipse Orchestrator. For Macs, there's the freeware Umbraphile.
Protect your eclipse images and video: Immediately after the event, remove the memory card from your camera or camcorder, label it, and back up the eclipse images or video by copying them into your computer's hard drive or pocket flash drive.
If you're using videocassette tape for your camcorder, remove the tape for safekeeping; don't forget to label the videocassette and "lock" it or break its tab so you can't accidentally erase your recording.
Conduct public astronomy outreach: A solar eclipse is a perfect opportunity to enlighten the locals about astronomy and space exploration. If you plan to arrive a few days before the eclipse, make arrangements to give talks at a local school or astronomy club and bring a small solar telescope for the students, teachers, parents, and club members to observe with. Don't forget to bring extra eclipse glasses so you can share the experience with the public.
Learn about the host country and its people: Solar eclipses crisscross some of the best destinations in the world. Depending on your budget and time, you can use the eclipse trip to explore a country you've never visited before. Try to learn more about its people, culture, language, and history, sample its cuisine, and visit its top natural attractions.
During our nearly three decades of chasing eclipses around the world, we've had the opportunity to tour such exciting, exotic locations as Indonesia, Philippines, Mexico, the Caribbean, Turkey, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, China, and French Polynesia. As we like to tell people: "We let Mother Nature plan our next vacation."
Good luck and clear skies on Eclipse Day!
Editor's note: If you are in Australia or along the solar eclipse path and snap an amazing photo of Tuesday's total solar eclipse that you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, please send images, comments and location information to managing editor Tariq Malik at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Imelda Joson and Edwin Aguirre are veteran eclipse chasers and photographers with 10 successful expeditions to date (eight totals and two annulars). Follow SPACE.com on Twitter@Spacedotcom. We're also onFacebookand Google+.
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We are a hi-tech startup about to launch a new Sports internet television concept and we need a new logo.
Our Company has a mix of very experienced entrepreneurs and young gun programmers. We have offices worldwide. We are a fresh, cutting edge Company aiming to bring every sport to everybody across the world.
**note that the website currently at the address is a placeholder and does not represent what our actual site will look like.
We have a unique concept for sports on internet television that will have a worldwide audience. We will be screening every sport you can imagine including all the big one's: baseball, basketball, cricket, football, soccer, rugby, athletics, swimming, every sport at every level from junior high to college and seniors, from every Country and Continent.
The target audience for our logo is broad. We need something that will appeal to subscribers to the website, television Companies and producers, and as well as sports fans worldwide.
We're looking for a logo which we can use on our printed materials as well as the website: everysport.tv. The logo needs to convey a feeling of cutting edge internet TV as well as show that we're exclusively sports content, but also pay homage to old school sports.
Now here's you biggest challenge: we're going to launch a competition/project after this one to design our stationary and business cards and the style we're going for is like on the old baseball or sports trading cards. We've attached some samples. So we need to get a logo that works on the level of internet TV (fairly cutting edge) and also conveys a feel of the history of sports and will work with our sports card brief for all the other stationary. Our business cards will look like sports trading cards with text on the back about each Company principle. The logo we get from you will need to work on the front with the photographs of the staff member.
Other than that feel free to be as creative as you like. We're in your hands. One thing we do demand though, from ourselves, our technology and our designs is quality.
The winning logo designer will need to provide AI, EPS or similar for print publication requirements and also web versions is full color and if possible a 2 colour version for a fax cover sheet (unless the color one works).
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(AP) — CEOs at nonprofit hospitals earned an average of $600,000 a year — and in some cases, more than $3 million — but there was no correlation between high pay and good outcomes for patients, according to a new study.
CEOs were paid more at hospitals that got high patient satisfaction scores; used more high-tech equipment, including advanced imaging machines; had more beds and were in large urban areas.
But pay wasn't reflected in 30-day outcomes for patients with heart attacks, heart failure or pneumonia in 2008, including deaths and readmissions. Those are among publicly reported outcome measures used by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and others.
A Crain's analysis published earlier this year, however, did show that quality and safety are becoming more important benchmarks in hospital CEO pay for Chicago-area hospitals.
While hospitals get big tax exemptions for providing charity care and other community benefits, the researchers in the national study said the top executives' annual pay wasn't tied to those measures, either.
CEO compensation varied widely, from less than $100,000 to more than $3 million, but it averaged almost $600,000 in 2009, the study found.
The results were "a little disappointing," said study author Dr. Ashish Jha, a health policy professor at Harvard's School of Public Health. To not hold CEOs accountable for whether patients live or die within 30 days of treatment "doesn't quite make sense," he said.
Jha said the study results are a message for hospital boards that decide CEO compensation: "'If you really care about patient outcomes here's a place to look."
The study was published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine. It is based on an analysis of public records including federal tax returns for 1,877 CEOs overseeing 2,681 private nonprofit hospitals.
Most U.S. hospitals are nonprofit, and those studied comprise 98 percent of private nonprofit hospitals, the study authors said.
In an editorial in the same journal, a hospital CEO in San Francisco disputes the conclusion and said CEOs may be compensated based on many other quality measures the authors didn't consider. Dr. Warren Browner, CEO at California Pacific Medical Center, said using death rates and readmissions as a comparison can be misleading because both may be higher at hospitals that treat a higher proportion of very sick patients.
The American Hospital Association also took issue with the study.
Compensation for nonprofit hospital leaders "is set by an impartial board of community representatives," said association spokeswoman Elizabeth Lietz. "It appears that the study fails to fully capture the full range of responsibilities of today's health care leaders."
Browner, the editorial author, said hospital CEOs' compensation typically includes a base salary plus incentive pay if the hospital meets certain targets, which may include financial performance, patient satisfaction and several other quality measures. Browner noted that patient satisfaction is subjective but easier to gauge than some other measures.


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Taiwan and France are likely to reach an agreement on a reciprocal working holiday program that will allow young adults from the two nations to travel and work in both countries, French officials said yesterday.
French Senator Catherine Tasca, chairwoman of the French Senate's Franco-Taiwan Friendship Group, said the procedure for reaching the agreement was still in progress and that certain barriers have been eliminated.
Tasca added that the prospective agreement between Taiwan and France had the full support of the group.
Taiwan, which has made advancements in economics, culture, technology and research, as well as in its capabilities for innovation and invention, was an important partner for France, Tasca said.
The working holiday program could be instrumental in developing effective future relations between the younger generations of Taiwan and France, Tasca said.
Christophe Gigaudaut, head of the culture, education and science section at the French Office in Taipei, also expressed his confidence in the bilateral working holiday program.
Gigaudaut said the program might also help more Taiwanese students study in France.
Tasca, a member of the French Senate, served as culture minister of France from 2000 to 2002, and visited the country in 2010.
She had come to Taiwan to attend Double Ten National Day celebrations, which are held on Oct. 10 each year.
Taiwan has been trying for years to reach a working holiday agreement with France, which has similar arrangements with countries such as Canada, Japan, South Korea, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Ireland and Germany.


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Holiday Gift Guide 2013: Makeup Gifts./
I love to give makeup gifts for the holidays; not just because I am makeup obsessed, but I feel that giving a gift of makeup to someone instantly makes them feel pretty as they imagine using the new gift. Sometimes finding the right makeup for someone can be difficult, but that is where I come in. I have made it easy because I have found the best makeup gifts and sets for you by selecting the best of the best, all perfect for gifting!
bareMinerals Degrees of Dazzling - $79.00
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This luxurious purple quilted bag is stuffed full of some of Tarte's best selling and most iconic products plus some limited-edition shades that are reminiscent of holidays past. 33 products in all, this treasure is a chest full of delights.
BITE Beauty Best Bite Set - $25.00
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Now with special limited edition packaging, you can give Mally's same full, dramatic lash boosting formula mascara with a new festive exterior perfect for gifting. This essential present includes three Limited Edition Volumizing Mascaras in a one-of-a-kind gift box.
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The Mineralize brush kit features four essential brushes designed to give you gorgeous makeup application each and every time. This kit includes the Duo Fiber Face brush, Duo Fiber Blush brush, Duo Fiber Tapered Blending brush and Duo Fiber Eyeshadow brush.
Clarins The Essentials Eye Palette - $45.00
This limited edition eye palette will not only have gals creating beautiful neutral eye looks all season long, but all year long. This is Clarins' blockbuster natural eye palette that contains 10 silky soft mineral shadows in a range of brown tones. It couldn't be more beautiful for gifting (or for yourself).
Anastasia Beverly Hills Lavish Set - $38.00
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MAKE UP FOR EVER Ultimate Long Lasting Lip Set - $140.00
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Laura Mercier Colour-To-Go Portable Palette - $50.00
This handy portable palette has everything for eyes, cheeks and lips in one double decker compact. It's filled with a trio of shadows, a cake liner, a blush, bronzer and mini lip glacé tucked inside too. The Smoky Violets palette will work for any woman on your list.
Benefit Groovy Kind-a Love Makeup Set - $36.00
Gift your favorite girl with this groovy set! This tin is complete with makeup for eyes, lips, cheeks & face. It includes the POREfessional, they're real! mascara mini, benetint medium, dandelion & gimme fever cheek powder duo with brush plus a four shade eyeshadow palette.
bareMinerals Crystalized Full Face Collection - $54.00
bareMinerals has put together eight makeup wonders featuring shimmering crystallized color in a beautiful keepsake tin. This gorgeous gift includes beauties to create shimmering smoky eyes, radiant cheeks, and glitzy lips.
MAC Cosmetics Stroke of Midnight Gold Eye Bag - $46.50
This limited edition cosmetic bag contains everything a chic gal needs for a holiday eye. The bag includes In Extreme Dimension Lash, Fluidline in Blitz & Glitz, Pro Longwear Paint Pot in Genuine Treasure and the Double-Ended 209 Eye Liner/239SE Eye Shader Brush.
tarte Pure Delights 8-Piece LipSurgence™ Lip Set - $34.00
Give the gift of kissable lips this holiday season with this deluxe limited edition LipSurgence collector's set. The gift boxed set features four lip tints and four matte lip tints in all-new, limited-edition shades.
Smashbox Wondervision Eye Set - $32.00
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Things are coming to some kind of head in Flushing. Wednesday, fans begin to show up with brown paper bags over their heads, probably the most evocative visual for this team since that Post cover of sad Mr. Met. Even the media started tuning the losses out.
But, hope! Manager Terry Collins got himself ejected into last night's game, making a statement in advance of a 9-1 stomping of the team with the second worst record in baseball. (The Mets are still in dead last.) Jason Bay is back!
And now GM Sandy Alderson is looking on the bright side:
Regarding the fans who showed up this week wearing bags over their heads, the optimistic Alderson said, "As I recall it, that phenomenon originated in New Orleans and not too long ago they won the Super Bowl, so things do change."
So at the end of the season, we'll look to these few days as the moment the Mets turned things around. Or, continued on through a 70-win season mostly devoid of highlights.


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Mulch. What exactly is it?
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This location may be different depending on where you installed oracle. I prefer to put my dump files in the dpdump folder so that I don't have to specify a directory when doing the import.
Next you should open up your command line utility and type the following command
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The data pump import utility will begin running and outputting it's progress to the screen. It will generate your tables, triggers, binds, and fill the data in. Basically it will make an exact replication of the database it was exported from. After this is complete check your errors. If there were none, you're good to go!
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Do not expect the perfect carpet cleaning expert to just appear when you're looking for one in Sarasota. When you know for certain how you want your final product to look, you will probably be ready to match a carpet cleaner to your needs. You will never find the perfect carpet cleaning expert when you have no idea what you want or how you want the final product to look. Our suggestions can help you to draw up a quick list of the qualities you are looking for in Sarasota
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Hamilton, Mary and Moss, W. (1995) The challenge of linking research and practice : ways of learning in adult basic education. In: Innovations in continuing education provision, teaching and learning : research perspectives. University of Lancaster, Department of Continuing Education, Lancaster, pp. 113-120.
Mansfield, T. A. and McAinsh, Martin R. (1995) Hormones as regulators of water balance. In: Plant Hormones: Physiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands, pp. 598-616. ISBN 0-7923-2985-6
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Jeff Cook necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
We have created a new industry which offers solutions for American families dealing with financial and credit issues. Our objective is to get American families out of debt, help them get rid of their reliance on credit, repair their credit, and set them on a track of financial self reliance so they can live a quality lifestyle with the dignity and respect they deserve. We provide a single source for virtually every credit and finance need, all at one place. We enjoy the highest success rate of mortgage resolution in the U.S.
Typically our clients are married homeowners averaging from 28-54 years old. The female is the predominant respondent nearly 80% of the time. Millions of homeowners are in trouble, frightened, and very confused about what their rights and options are. We provide a highly experienced level of strategy development and solutions not found in any single source in the country.
Our name, AmericaForward, is displayed as one word with the "Forward" being italicized which gives it a forward motion appearance. The logo, or bug, must be re-producable on a wide variety of media, glass (i.e windows, coffee cups, etc), metal such as signs, lapel pins (preferrably that can be porcelainized and baked), cloth as in embroidery or silkscreening, and so on. The logo and branding will appear on TV and in print. It must be able to be produced in black and white as well as color.
Branding needs to be serious without being stuffy, and create confidence in a reliable , ethical company. Colors could reflect something to do woth the flag and possibly contain brass or gold color as well, but we are open to your interpretation. The product should give the signal that our work is of the highest quality yet affordable and a good value.
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Keep a shotgun handy
Even though it seems that fewer folks are squirrel hunters now, the season is open in most East Texas counties as of May 1. Out in the Hill Country, there is no closed season for squirrels. Hunters that enjoy still or stand hunting during the Hill Country deer season will normally see numerous fox squirrels. East Texas offers both fox squirrels and gray squirrels, depending to the type of terrain where you are hunting.
With so much green vegetation now on the trees, seeing a squirrel may be difficult. That's especially the case when it lies flat and holds tight to a big limb. Windy days are especially tough on hunting. During dead still mornings or afternoons it is possible to locate the bushy tails at fairly long distances. Whenever they are active on still days, it is possible to not only see the squirrels move but also the leaves shake. Many times I have heard them in the trees long before I could see them.
For the outdoors folks that enjoy both hunting and fishing, and there are a good number of us, it is possible to enjoy either fishing at dawn or dusk and hunting during mid-morning or mid-afternoon. On the other hand, some folks might choose to be squirrel hunting at dawn and then heading afloat. Either way there is plenty of action available now.
Deciding what type of firearm to use can depend upon the type of area that you plan to hunt in. Over the years, the .22 rifle has been a choice squirrel stopper. They are relatively inexpensive to shoot, and youngsters can enjoy using them. The .22 caliber has no recoil to speak of. I've had good success hunting squirrels using all of the three bullets offered. Shorts, long or long rifle ammo are all squirrel getters. Even some of the low velocity bullets do fine. I do prefer to use hollow points when using a .22 caliber for small game. The hollow points seem to make more clean kills. The .22 caliber magnum is much more powerful than the regular .22 caliber. Ammo is much more expensive to buy, though. When a .22 magnum hollow point hits a squirrel, it will definitely be instant lights out. That hot bullet might be just a little bit overkill, but is works fine.
I do not recommend using any rifle other than an air rifle if you are hunting on public land. Those little .22 bullets can travel a long distance and become a hazard to others that are in the woods. It does not make for a pleasant hunting trip to hear whining ricocheted bullets coming from nearby. The answer to this problem is the use of either one of the new powerful air rifles or a scattergun. The shotgun has long been the more popular choice for squirrel hunting. That's especially the case where the little .410 or 28 gauge is selected. Both of these guns are great, especially in leafy woods, for taking squirrels. Larger gauges do fine. It's just that they have many more pellets than are necessary to kill a squirrel. I prefer to use No. 6 shot, 3-inch .410 ammo for squirrels. For the younger hunters, the short brass ammo will do just fine with little recoil.OK, so now it's time to head into the woods in search of some squirrel stew, dumplings or just plain fried squirrel.
There are, however, several woods dwellers that could make your hunt uncomfortable. There are those banana spiders that build their webs across walking trails. I don't believe that they will actually harm you, but they could make me harm myself trying to get them off me. There are also plenty of ticks and chiggers (redbugs) out this year. Deer ticks are known carriers of Lyme disease, which is a bad scene. I recommend spraying any opening in your clothes with a strong repellant such as Off.
Last, but certainly not least, is that the snakes are on the move. Wooded brush areas should be checked closely before walking through them. Also check closely before reaching for a dead squirrel to retrieve it. Sometimes those big rattlesnakes eat squirrels. Copperheads are much more common in the woods, but there could be cottonmouth water moccasins around creeks and sloughs. Any wooded area that holds water may be good places to check closely before crossing.
I can't finish this article without notifying the flounder anglers that a fair run is taking place in and around Lake Sabine. Lead-head jigs with grubs, plastics and tipped with shrimp are good choices. The new Nearly Alive has come to the front as a fluke catcher.
Billy Halfin can be reached by e-mail at bhalfinoutdoors [at] aol [dot] com.


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Obama has seized on income inequality in America as the main theme
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Melissa Freshwater from Mrs. Freshwater's Class & Jana from Thinking Out Loud are hosting Chapter 3 of our book study. If you choose to participate through your blog please link back to the chapter hostesses.
Part of D5 is establishing a gathering place in your classroom. The space above is my classroom library where we gather when I don't use anything digital. I am not one to have big anchor charts, I use them but they are digital & displayed on my Smartboard.
When I am using my Smartboard the gathering place is at their seats. I will pull up certain anchor charts through my Smartboard or simply through them on my Elmo or Luna Projector. With the way technology is going I don't feel the need to waste the paper on an anchor chart BUT there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with doing that...I just don't have the space.
This is the only picture I could find of my calendar area. This will be changing this upcoming school year. This will still be a gathering area but will have more D5 reference posters instead of a calendar. My calendar time will be all digital.
Benefits to having a gathering place is to meet as a community, the children can turn & talk to each other about what we are discussing. It's always not a bad idea to have them in one spot to monitor behavior as well. I use my gathering place before and after we are in D5. If we broke stamina I usually STOP D5 instantly & then we gather together to discuss what went wrong. I also bring them together to discuss what went right & have them turn and talk to each other about what they learned that day.
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This will be something that you model and practice with your students all year long. Some got it right away & others....well you know. Research shows an independent or good-fit book is one that student's can read with 99% accuracy. I used to see my struggling readers try to pick a chapter book that I knew they couldn't read & then in turn their behavior is off task. When you see this then you pull them to the side & go over their bookmark with them until they get it. This leads us right into I-PICK.
1. I choose a book
2. Purpose-Why do I want to read it?
3. Interest-Does it interest me?
4. Comprehend-Am I understanding what I am reading?
5. Know-I know most of the words
The sisters point out that a child's purpose for reading, interest in a topic, and ability to comprehend played as large a role in finding a good-fit book as readability did.
The sisters do a phenomenal I-Pick a Good-Fit Book Lesson with their students that I totally copied. Basically to explain this concept you need to run around & get all kinds of shoes. I borrowed someone's baby shoes & brought some of my husband's shoes. You demonstrate how to pick a good-fit book by using the shoes as a visual. You go from shoe to shoe until you see that light bulb go off when you point out how my own shoe is the perfect "fit"....right? I also brought in a mountain biking magazine, a hunting magazine & Vogue or some kind of girly magazine. Then we discussed which would be a good "fit" for me. It reflected my "interest" so I would "pick" the girly magazine.
Like I said you model & teach this method all year long and once we go shopping for books it's amazing how you see it in action.
Setting Up Book Boxes
I was lucky enough to get a hold of 23 of these bins from Target.....after I stalked about every Target in the area & attacked a stock boy unloading them. Anything for my little nuggets :o) Each child had their own bin that they stored in the bottom of their cubbies.
I have so many books in my class I actually got rid of a TON at the end of the year. I only have AR books in my class that they can choose from. I put all they kindergarten level books in 4 containers they can pick from until I assess them using Dibels & get their TRC levels. So basically they don't have a chance to choose the right book. I hide the chapter books until the end of the 2nd quarter.
I've acquired such a LARGE collection of books by living at garage sales in the summer, Scholastic freebies & I get a ton of donations from parents.
After I go over all the lessons to get them ready to shop for their books, we ONLY shop for books on Monday. Later in the year as they started taking & passing so many AR tests I allowed them to switch the book out that they passed for another one & it worked out just fine.
If you google D5 anchor charts you will get a TON that pop up. As I said earlier, I do all mine digitally on my Smartboard as a class & then save it & refer to them often.
This is where the stamina building comes in. I started out building our stamina during Read to Self in 3 minute increments and yes there were some days where we didn't increase by 3 minutes & broke stamina. After someone would break stamina we would regroup & discuss what went wrong & then the child or children would be held accountable. We did this for every part of D5 that I introduced.
I use chimes that are similar to the above picture.
I also use music wands that I purchased from a teaching conference. You can click on the pic below that will take you to a website where they can be purchased.
I really had fun with this & so did the kids. These are just some pics I had taken during the school year. Next year I will show these pics to my students. The above is the correct model of "Read to Someone". This year since it was my first year we acted it out. I would have them sprawl out, roll on the ground, scream across the room....& they giggled so hard. Since we modeled the incorrect way they had the visual of what not to do & this really does help them.
I will show this on my Smartboard and have them show me which set of students are NOT demonstrating the correct way to sit "EEK" during "Read to Someone".
Next Wednesday, July 4th the following bloggers will be hosting Chapter 4.


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=== Desktop wallpaper ===
=== Desktop wallpaper ===
Openbox itself does not include a way to change the wallpaper. This can be done easily with programs like [[Feh]] or [[Nitrogen]]. Other options include {{Pkg|imagemagick}}, {{Pkg|hsetroot}}, '''xsetbg''' and more advanced choices such as PCmanFM or Xfdesktop.
Openbox itself does not include a way to change the wallpaper. This can be done easily with programs like [[Feh]] or [[Nitrogen]]. Other options include {{Pkg|imagemagick}}, {{Pkg|hsetroot}}, '''xsetbg''' and more advanced choices such as PCmanFM or Xfdesktop.
You can disable the wallpaper loading in ''gnome-settings-daemon'' like this:
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A similar command for {{ic|feh}} is:
feh --bg-scale /path/to/image.file
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== Recommended programs ==
Revision as of 10:18, 21 November 2013
This wiki article deals with customizing the appearance of Openbox in Arch Linux. Helper programs such as panels and trays are also explained.
- 1 Themes and appearance
- 2 Recommended programs
Themes and appearance
With the exception of the Openbox Themes topic, the following section is intended for users who have configured Openbox to run as a standalone desktop, without the assistance of GNOME, KDE or Xfce.
Openbox themes
Openbox themes control the appearance of window borders, including the titlebar and titlebar buttons. They also determine the appearance of the application menu and on-screen display (OSD).
Some themes are available for installation with the openbox-themes package in the official repositories.
This package is by no means definitive. You can download more themes at websites such as:
Downloaded themes should be extracted to
~/.themes or
~/.local/share/themes and selected from obconf or lxappearance-obconf. Theme selection can also be done manually by opening
rc.xml and changing the <name> key in the <theme> section.
Creating new themes is fairly easy and well-documented. For those who prefer a GUI, obthemeAUR is a very capable editor.
X11 mouse cursors
See Cursor Themes.
GTK themes
See GTK+#Themes.
Desktop icons
Openbox does not provide a means to display icons on the desktop. To provide this function, one can use:
- Xfdesktop — The desktop manager for Xfce.
- PCManFM — An extremely fast and lightweight file manager used by the LXDE desktop.
- ROX — A small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels, part of the ROX Desktop.
- IDesk — A simple tool that gives users of minimal wm's (Fluxbox, pekwm, Window Maker, Openbox, etc) icons on their desktop.
- Nautilus — The file manager of the GNOME desktop.
- Spacefm — A GTK multi-panel tabbed file manager.
Desktop wallpaper
Openbox itself does not include a way to change the wallpaper. This can be done easily with programs like Feh or Nitrogen. Other options include imagemagick, hsetroot, xorg-xsetroot xsetbg and more advanced choices such as PCmanFM or Xfdesktop.
You can disable the wallpaper loading in gnome-settings-daemon like this:
$ gconftool-2 --set /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/background/active --type bool False
In Gnome 3 use:
$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background draw-background false
One approach, using
hsetroot is possible by placing the following command in
hsetroot -fill /path/to/image.file
A similar command for
feh is:
feh --bg-scale /path/to/image.file
For a simple background colour you can set
xsetroot in
# White background colour xsetroot -solid "#ffffff"
Recommended programs
For a more complete choice of applications available on Arch, look at the List of Applications. You can also look at the list recommended on the Openbox wiki, although most overlap with the following suggestions.
Display managers
- SLiM (Simple Login Manager) — A lightweight and elegant graphical login solution.
- Qingy — An ultralight and very configurable graphical login independent on X Windows (uses DirectFB). It supports login to either a text console or an X session.
Desktop compositing
- Cairo Composite Manager — A versatile and extensible composite manager which uses Cairo for rendering.
- Compton — A fork of Xcompmgr containing many fixes.
- Xcompmgr — A lightweight composite manager capable of rendering drop shadows, fading and simple window transparency within Openbox and other window managers.
Desktop utilities
A number of utilities provide panels / taskbars, system trays, or pagers to Openbox:
See the list of taskbars.
You may also find useful:
- Screenlets — A widget framework that consists of small owner-drawn applications (weather widget, clocks, system monitors, mail checkers, etc.).
- Stalonetray — A stand-alone system tray with minimal dependecies.
- Trayer — A lightweight GTK2-based systray.
- IPager — A configurable pager with transparency, originally developed for Fluxbox.
- Neap — An non-intrusive and light pager that runs in the notification area of your panel.
- Netwmpager — A NetWM/EWMH compatible pager.
- Pager — A highly configurable pager compatible with Openbox Multihead.
If you wish to set desktop layout without using a pager, try the obsetlayoutAUR package from AUR.
File managers
Three popular lightweight file managers are:
- PCManFM — An extremely fast and lightweight file manager used by the LXDE desktop.
- ROX — A small and fast file manager which can optionally manage the desktop background and panels, part of the ROX Desktop.
- Thunar — The file manager of the Xfce Desktop with many plugins and features.
For even lighter options, consider:
- Gentoo — A lightweight file manager for GTK.
- emelFM2 — A file manager that implements the popular two-pane design.
- Xfe — A Microsoft Explorer-like file manager for X (X File Explorer).
- muCommander — A lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface written in Java.
Alternatively, you may use GNOME's Nautilus as your file manager. It is heavier and slower than the previous solutions, but Nautilus has many helpful features such as virtual file systems, allowing folder access via SSH, FTP, or Samba.
Application launchers
- gmrun — A lightweight GTK based application launcher, with ability to run programs inside a terminal and other handy features. To enable
Alt+F2functionality add the following to the <keyboard> section:
<keybind key="A-F2"> <action name="execute"><execute>gmrun</execute></action> </keybind>
- dmenu — A fast and lightweight dynamic menu for X, which is also useful as an application launcher. To enable
Alt+F2functionality add the following to the <keyboard> section:
<keybind key="A-F2"> <action name="execute"><execute>dmenu_run</execute></action> </keybind>
- Bashrun2 — Provides a different, barebones approach to a run dialog, using a specialized Bash session within a small xterm window. To enable
Alt+F2functionality add the following to the <keyboard> section:
<keybind key="A-F2"> <action name="execute"><execute>bashrun2</execute></action> </keybind>
To make Bashrun2 act more like a traditional run dialog add the following to the <applications> section:
<application name="bashrun2-run-dialog"> <desktop>all</desktop> <decor>no</decor> # switch to yes if you prefer a bordered window <focus>yes</focus> <skip_pager>yes</skip_pager> <layer>above</layer> </application>
- Kupfer — A launcher inspired by Quicksilver, written in Python. To enable
Alt+F2functionality add the following to the <keyboard> section:
<keybind key="A-F2"> <action name="execute"><execute>kupfer</execute></action> </keybind>
- Launchy — A less minimalistic approach; it is skinnable and offers more functionality such as a calculator, checking the weather, etc. It is launched with the
Ctrl+Spacekey combination.
- LXPanel — A lightweight X11 desktop panel and part of the LXDE DE. The run dialog can be executed with:
$ lxpanelctl run
- GNOME Panel — The default Gnome panel. The run dialog of the GNOME Panel can be executed with:
$ gnome-panel-control --run-dialog
Clipboard managers
You may wish to install a clipboard manager for a richer copy/paste experience. The following are the more lightweight options:
- Clipman — A clipboard manager for Xfce. It keeps the clipboard contents around while it is usually lost when you close an application. It is able to handle text and images, and has a feature to execute actions on specific text selections by matching them against regular expressions.
- Glipper — A clipboard manager for GNOME with more features and plugin support.
- Parcellite — A lightweight yet feature-rich clipboard manager.
- ClipIt — A fork of Parcellite with additional features and bugfixes.
Make sure you add your chosen clipboard manager to
Volume managers
- GVolWheel — An audio mixer which lets you control the volume through a tray icon.
- GVTray — A master volume mixer for the system tray.
- PNMixer — A fork of Obmixer. It has many new features such as ALSA channel selection, connect/disconnect detection, shortcuts, etc.
- Volti — A GTK application for controlling audio volume from system tray with an internal mixer and support for multimedia keys that uses only ALSA.
- VolumeIcon — Another volume control for your system tray with channel selection, themes and an external mixer.
- VolWheel — A little application which lets you control the sound volume easily through a tray icon you can scroll on.
Battery and CPU
- Trayfreq — A light battery monitor and a CPU frequency scaler.
Keyboard layout switchers
- fbxkb — A NETWM compliant keyboard indicator and switcher. It shows a flag of current keyboard in a systray area and allows you to switch to another one.
- xxkb — A lightweight keyboard layout indicator and switcher.
- qxkb — A keyboard switcher written in Qt.
- X Neural Switcher — A text analyser, it detects the language of the input and corrects the keyboard layout if needed.
- http://www.xneur.ru/ || xneurAUR, gxneurAUR (GUI)
Logout dialog
A few simple shutdown managers are available:
- exitx — A logout dialog for Openbox that uses Sudo.
- exitx-polkit — A GTK logout dialog for Openbox with PolicyKit support.
- exitx-systemd — A GTK logout dialog for Openbox with systemd support.
- obshutdown — A great GTK/Cairo based shutdown manager for Openbox and other window managers.
Alternatively, you can also use Openbox's menus to create a simple dialog. Which can also be binded to a key for easy access.
An example with
exit-menu as the id and
Exit as the label in a local
systemd-logind user session:
<menu id="exit-menu" label="Exit"> <item label="Log Out"> <action name="Execute"> <command>openbox --exit</command> </action> </item> <item label="Shutdown"> <action name="Execute"> <command>systemctl poweroff</command> </action> </item> <item label="Restart"> <action name="Execute"> <command>systemctl reboot</command> </action> </item> <item label="Suspend"> <action name="Execute"> <command>systemctl suspend</command> </action> </item> <item label="Hibernate"> <action name="Execute"> <command>systemctl hibernate</command> </action> </item> </menu>
Add this to your
~/.config/openbox/menu.xml, then later in your menu or pipemenu of choice add:
<menu id="exit-menu"/>
If you would like to bind this to a key, simply add this example keybind to the <keyboard> section:
<keybind key="XF86PowerOff"> <action name="ShowMenu"> <menu>exit-menu</menu> </action> </keybind>
This will bind it to your power button, if you prefer otherwise change XF86PowerOff to your preferred key.


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Almost every aspect of the U.S. energy landscape is changing drastically -- except government policy. Consider: The global price of oil has soared to more than $100 today from $30 a barrel in 2004. As a result, the U.S.'s annual bill for oil imports has risen to $365 billion, even though domestic oil production has jumped in the past two years to 7.5 million barrels a day from 5.5 million barrels.
Meanwhile, the price of natural gas has plummeted. The tight shale gas boom in the U.S. has caused the domestic price of gas to drop to less than $4 per million British thermal units today from $10 in 2010. By replacing a diesel or gasoline engine with one that accommodates compressed gas, Americans can drive for the equivalent of 50 cents a gallon.
A similar revolution is under way in the solar industry. Solar panels that cost $7.50 per peak watt a few years ago can now be had for less than $1 per peak watt. Conventional utilities fear not only that their legacy coal-fired and nuclear plants are fast becoming white elephants, but also that their customers will become competitors, producing electrons for sale from cheap rooftop solar panels.
Change AvalancheThe exception to this avalanche of change is Washington: It has barely acknowledged the revolution. Neither the Barack Obama administration nor the Republican Party offers a coherent vision of how to exploit these new energy realities, including cheap natural gas, which is poised -- but still only poised -- to be used as a prime transportation fuel. The broad outline of a new, comprehensive energy policy, one capable of restoring vigor to the economy while revitalizing middle-class jobs, is abundantly apparent. Yet no one in Washington seems willing to acknowledge the shape of things to come, let alone sketch in the details.
Illustration by Neil Donnelly
Congress has not passed significant energy legislation since 2007, before many of these trends emerged. It cannot muster the will to do so now. The oil and gas industry has a clear strategy for driving up U.S. fuel prices -- employing the mantra of "free trade" to export U.S. oil and gas over the objections of major domestic manufacturers such as Alcoa Inc. (AA) andDow Chemical Co. (DOW)
Although U.S. laws prohibit exports of crude oil (to prevent upward price pressure), oil from the Bakken and Eagle Ford shale formations is now routinely exported. The American Petroleum Institute has initiated a campaign to remove the export ban, arguing that U.S. refineries will be unable to handle increased production.
The U.S. Department of Commerce has bought it, ruling that, with Gulf Coast refineries committed to processing Canadian crude, the U.S. lacks sufficient refinery capacity to crack U.S. light oil. Meanwhile, the department has quietly been issuing export waivers to appease the industry.
The result is that we now export cleaner, cheaper U.S. light crude and import heavier, more expensive Canadian bitumen. It's hard to see how these exports help the U.S. economy: We get higher oil prices and environmental risks; Canada gets the profits.
The case of natural gas is even more perverse. Despite intense proselytizing, the marketplace has not sorted out the role natural gas should play in transportation, and the federal government has, if anything, undermined its great potential as transportation fuel. Both economics and environmental quality argue for large fleets of gas-powered vehicles. That vision, however, will require greater infrastructure and capital investment to support. If big capital investments are instead made in export terminals for liquefied natural gas, export contracts will trump development of LNG transportation infrastructure. The first in line calls the tune.
Substantial PremiumIf the U.S. fails to make a determination about the role of gas in transportation, a decision will nonetheless be made for it. Export contracts are typically 20 years and require foreign customers to pay whatever the price of gas is in the U.S. plus 15 percent. If buyers find cheaper gas elsewhere, these contracts require them to pay a heavy penalty -- so heavy, in fact, that they will probably keep buying U.S. gas even if the cost doubles. U.S. consumers would likewise end up paying a substantial premium over current prices. In effect, once gas-export terminals are built, cheap U.S. gas prices can be maintained only if foreign customers leave a surplus for the domestic market.
Read More: Carl Pope's "The American Myth of Cheap Oil and Gas"
The Obama administration claims that it can revoke export authorizations if exports cause price surges. Yet that would require breaking contracts, which trade agreements make a dubious proposition. Indeed, the Department of Energy has thus far refused to specify what circumstances would trigger a cancellation -- despite requests from Congress to do so.
Market realities suggest that if global prices rise, U.S. prices will rise with them until our dramatic price advantage over European competitors, who now pay three times what Americans pay for natural gas, evaporates almost completely. As a result, the price advantage of gas over oil will also sharply narrow, and the opportunity to replace imported oil with domestic gas in trucking fleets may be lost. Likewise, the shift in industrial power from dirty coal to cleaner gas stands to be reversed, along with the economically beneficial decline in home heating and cooling costs.
"America's natural gas bounty is more than a simple commodity," Dow Chemical Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Andrew Liveris has said. "It's a once-in-a-generation opportunity for America to export advanced products, not just BTUs."
Not all the signals from Washington are negative. New Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has promised to evaluate natural gas export proposals comprehensively, rather than one by one. Obama has signaled new caution about the export-oriented Keystone XL pipeline. Meanwhile, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden is pushing ahead with a series of hearings exploring the issues.
Ideological WarAt the same time, congressional Republicans appear determined to handicap vast swaths of the U.S. economy in favor of securing windfall profits for the oil patch. The infrastructure investments that would enable the U.S. to reduce its dependence on foreign oil, which are broadly supported by American business, have been blocked by Republicans' ideological war on federal spending. And no one from either party seems eager to question the impact of pending trade agreements on the U.S.'s ability to leverage its oil and gas resources domestically for competitive advantage.
The U.S. has the resources and technologies to transform its economy and ecology, re-establish U.S. manufacturing strength, and cut our debilitating dependence on oil from theMiddle East. Such a policy would also make progress combating climate change. But with one major political party captured by dirty energy interests and the other often blinded by its commitment to trade doctrines that promote energy exports over a domestic value-added economy, our dysfunctional political system has put a second American Century at risk.
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This kind of thing isn't everyone's cup of tea, but the first time I ever heard this track (back in college) it knocked my socks straight off. (The actual improvising starts at around 2:50.) I had maybe never heard fearless subversion of 4/4 time like this, and I still haven't heard many recordings that match it.
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Many Great War histories tell the reader what happened on the Western front but few spell out why. In this book, the author looks at the battles through the eyes of the generals who were charged with winning them and examines the accusations that have surrounded them for over 70 years. The tragedy of the death toll on the Western Front gives weight to the argument against them, but what were the near unsurmountable problems that stood between the generals and final victory? How much of what the general public believes about the First World War is really true? This book aims to illuminate the bitter controversy.
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Tour de France Froome victory sure to get more people cycling
Tour de France Froome victory sure to get more people cycling
The 28-year-old was set to win as he led by more than five minutes going into the last day of the epic three-week road race - and there was no challenging him on the traditional procession into Paris.
As Team Sky crossed the finish line on the Champs-Élysées, hands linked in triumph, social media erupted with messages of congratulations.
And, with everyone tweeting and celebrating GB's 2nd TdF triumph in just two years, there's surely no better time to Get Britain Cycling.
David Cameron and Ed Miliband took to Twitter to congratulate Froome on his win with the Prime Minister tweeting: "A brilliant win by @chrisfroome.
"After two British winners it's only right the Tour de France comes to Yorkshire next year."
The Number 10 Twitter account added that Froome's win "confirms British dominance in cycling".
Ed Miliband described the victory as "fantastic", adding: "Another brilliant day for British cycling."
Earlier yesterday, six-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy said that Froome's victory was a "huge achievement", and that Britain's back-to-back wins were "monumental".
"It is a huge achievement and I almost feel sorry for Chris because people are almost getting blasé about it," Sir Chris said.
Speaking at the National Lottery Anniversary Run at London's Olympic Stadium, he added: "For Britain to have two riders winning the Tour de France back-to-back is fantastic for British cycling.
"Just a few years ago we did not have anyone who could podium but now we have two cyclists who can win the Tour in consecutive years, it is a phenomenal achievement and what Chris has done is phenomenal."
Sir Bradley Wiggins pulled out of this year's race through injury, meaning that his Kenyan-born fellow Team Sky rider immediately became the hot favourite to bring home the honours.
Sir Chris said: "I think it would have been lovely to have seen Bradley racing this year and it would have been fantastic to see both him and Chris competing. Last year was Bradley's year and this year is Chris's."
Welsh hurdler Dai Greene tweeted his congratulations for Froome, saying:
"Team sky did amazing. Massive congratulations to @chrisfroome, what a worthy winner"
Broadcaster Gary Lineker also took to the social networking site to voice his delight, tweeting: "Congratulations to @chrisfroome on a stunning #TourDeFrance victory. A monumental effort."
Meanwhile, Minister for Sport Hugh Robertson said: "Congratulations to Chris Froome, Dave Brailsford and all at Team Sky for Froome's fantastic Tour De France win.
"He rode superbly for three weeks and no doubt will have inspired even more people to participate in cycling."
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The QRF-4C Phantom II drone crashed seconds after takeoff at Tyndall Air Force Base. The Air Force said total losses came to $4.6 million, including the drone and its cargo and damage to a runway and barrier. The drone was carrying 120 flares.
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I wanted to have own place here. I'll put some pics here and tell how we are doing here in Finland
First I want to start with a picture of my new car. It's Volkswagen Polo 2002.
It seems like Picasa do not let me link my pictures here
Only the frontpage http://picasaweb.google.fi/ladybug.sade
We do not have any snow here, sun is shining and it is nice to walk a dog
We have here four kittens. They borned 22nd of April
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Thursday, November 3, 2011
A Calling
I have sworn off this profession more times than a bad habit. I have stormed out of the office with belly churning and head swimming in a migrainous ocean.
Each time, I feel more resolute then the last. Yet somehow I remain. I sit in my little office typing away on my lap top. The phone is ringing, my pager is buzzing, and the paperwork is piling up.
Yet, I'm still here.
Howie was like a tank. His thick muscular arms were covered in tattoos. His belly usually protruded proudly over his Harley as he drove into our parking lot. Needless to say, he wasn't the kind of guy who complained.
So it was with great surprise, that I watched him hobble into my office. His cherubic face was flaming red. Sweat soaked the front of his t-shirt. His left arm wrapped around his son, and they walked in unison as if they were participants in a three legged race.
I paused for a moment as Howie got settled on the examining table.
Doc. I think I'm dying
I was amazed at how this giant of a man had been transformed into a cowering mouse. I waited patiently as he explained the agony of the last few weeks. His knees were aching. His feet were swollen. He couldn't bare to walk or move. His pain was only tolerable if he remained perfectly still.
His trip to the ER had been fruitless. He was told that he didn't have blood clots in his legs, but was otherwise given no explanations. I surveyed the situation. His knees were warm and swollen with small circles of color radiating downward. He jumped with any attempt at manipulation. His ankles were also sensitive and edematous.
I diagnosed him with gout. I faxed a prescription for prednisone to his pharmacy and requested he come back the next day. He limped out of the office unconvinced.
Twenty four hours later, he strode through the hallway towards me a changed man. He walked confidently into the room. He smiled broadly showing his stained front teeth.
Doc. You saved my life!
I was about to disagree when he unexpectedly grabbed me around the shoulders and gave me a bear hug.
I didn't say a word. I was speechless.
Sometimes I feel that being a doctor is like fighting a pit bull. You scratch and claw against the vicious opponent in an attempt to survive. And when you finally pick yourself up off the ground in victory, the dogs owner walks over and kicks you in the groin.
Yet there are few professions that give back so much. Physicians are allowed a unique window into the lives of their fellow men. We help people live; we help them die. We bear witness to all that is laid at our doorstep.
We are treated as both kings and peasants. Our rewards are fleeting but much appreciated: a handshake, a pat on the back, a hug.
Years ago my parents asked me what I want to be when I grow up. I didn't know then what I know now. This profession is a calling. A loud, disruptive, unswerving calling.
And with every breath, of every moment, of every day,
I humbly answer it.
6 comments:
- tracy said...
Thank you, Dr. Jordan.
As one who "fantasises" what it would be like to be a Physican, you always bring me back to earth.
And, this was a lovely post!
- November 4, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Beautiful post. I don't often consider the other side of the medical coin, so it's nice to be woken up to how my doctor might be feeling.
Lovely words and I'm glad to read them.
- November 4, 2011 at 1:45 PM
I've stumbled upon your post really by accident and was not be able to just pass by without a comment. I have never known what I wanted to be when I grew up. So I've become an engineer, just like my parents. After few years of work, marriage and 3 kids I finally got it - a physician. I could never say it better than you did, why exactly. It rang so true to me! Somehow it made all the hard work I did over the past few years just to be able to apply, completely worth it. For that I thank you.
- November 4, 2011 at 10:00 PM
- Donna RDH in TEXAS said...
one word... social workers give a lot to what your saying.. yet we are underpaid and at time underappriecated but I wouldnt change it..because I love that what I do does matter.. even it its a hug from a big ole harley dude .. likeyou got lol ..I would recommend..talking to a good social worker.. who specializes in counseling.. and grief therapy... to help debrief...
- November 6, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- November 11, 2011 at 2:19 PM
I am a Canadian CA (your version of a CPA). However I have had PPMS for the last 15 years, and have pretty much retired now. I have also been hospitalized with a gallbladder operation. They did a laparoscopic procedure, screwed it up, and then had to open me all up to clean me out. I have also had a kidney cancer operation.
And none of this cost me a penny. If I was in the U.S. I would have been bankrupt.
I presume you know about MS and chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency? (CCSVI)
I recently had to go to Albany to get a CCSVI angioplasty. Canadian doctors have forbidden this procedure.
This "Liberation Treatment" cost me a lot of money, but at least I had a choice and a chance.
I think there are pros and cons to any healthcare system. As I am sure you are aware, America spends more money per capita than anybody, but only gets so-so results.
However, Canada is going to have to change something in its healthcare system, because it cannot afford to continue the way things are now.
It is most interesting to read about your feelings as a doctor. And I suppose it is good therapy to write about issues of concern. We patients don't really get to build much of a relationship with our doctors anymore, because there is simply not enough time.
Your posts let us look a little deeper into the doctor as a human being. Which is a good thing.
I am constantly amazed by the front line people in healthcare. Having spent more time in the ER and ICU than I would like to remember, I have marveled at the dedication of all healthcare workers. Unfortunately, this dedication can sometimes lead to burnout.
Anyway, it is nice to get to "know you" so to speak.
- November 11, 2011 at 3:16 PM


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