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See Lady Gaga's Sister Natali in a Fashion Spread at Joanne Restaurant
Fashion is a part of the Germanotta family DNA, with Lady Gaga earning her reputation as a fashionista. Her little sister Natali, 20, is a budding designer, but she is also featured in her own spread for online fashion outlet Viral Fashion. While Nat isn't nearly as outrageous as her big sis Stefani when it comes to clothes, she is a headturner just the same.
The editorial was shot at Joanne Trattoria, the Germanotta famiglia's NYC restaurant. We met Natali in her Teen Vogue spread, where she did discuss her famous older sister. But in this spread, we see her for who she is, not just Gaga's baby sis.
Even though Natali is posing amongst food, like loaves of bread and fish, she doesn't see edible items as wearable, like her sister, who infamous for her meat frock. Instead, she looks classic in a black dress and raven hair, showing off her curvy bootay. She resembles a non-tattooed, softer version of celebrity tattoo artist Kat Von D, who, BTW, tattooed Gaga before she was Gaga as we know her.
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A 60-year-old woman claiming her human sexuality professor required students to masturbate twice as often and share the intimate details with the class might not have as strong of a case as she thinks.
She signed a waiver at the beginning of class, Westlaw Insider reported Thursday.
Back in November, Western Nevada College student Karen Royce sued the school, claiming instructor Tom Kubistant's class was so offensive it created a hostile work environment.
But she, and every student, signed a waiver acknowledging they were in a class covering human sexuality.
Royce said she didn't read the entire document before signing it, Westlaw Insider reported, noting that the waiver might not derail her case in light of how shocking her claims were.
In her November complaint, Royce alleged Kubistant assigned a term paper called "A Sexual Case Study...You!"
The assignment instructed students to examine how they became sexually aroused, their fetishes, and their personal promiscuity, according Westlaw Insider.
"It's so inappropriate," Royce told the Arizona Republic in November. "This is why I'm pursuing it. This needs to change."


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Some of us have had quite enough mystery and intrigue after filing our income tax returns, but for the young professionals who haven't: buy a ticket for Cloak & Swagger.
It's a cocktail party, presented by 5280 magazine, that's designed to drum up interest amongst the 40-and-under set for the 2010 Mask Project Gala.
Cloak & Swagger begins at 6 p.m. April 15 at Saks Fifth Avenue Cherry Creek, and the host committee for this "Night of Intrigue" is headed by Josh Hanfling. Members include Lydell Peterson, Tegan Alexander, Sean McNicholas, Dr. Anil Idiculla, Abby Berger, Jenny Platt and Betsy Oyler.
Tickets are $50 for Cloak & Swagger alone, or $125 for both Cloak & Swagger and the Mask Project Gala.
The admission includes food from Second Home and drinks courtesy of Balistreri Wines, Montanya Distillers, Peach Street Distillers and Great Divide Brewing Co.
The Mask Project Gala, chaired by David and Bonnie Mandarich and John and Nancy Sevo, is expected to bring 1,100 people to Cherry Creek Shopping Center on May 1 for an evening of food, music and bidding on masks that have been decorated by luminaries ranging from first lady Michelle Obama to Dr. Oz.
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"I am a ma-an of constant sorrow... I've seen trouble all my days." Songs like this from the Soggy Bottom Boys take you back the down-home country feelin' of bluegrass music, don't they? Well why in tarnation would you not bring that sound live to your next event with one of these talented bluegrass bands? You and your friends can tap your toes and dosey-doe to the upbeat melodies of the banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and upright bass. And don't forget some twangy vocals, if you're in the mood for 'em. Whether you're a fan of Alison Krauss & Union Station, Ricky Scaggs, or Nickel Creek... you'll be sure to enjoy the soothing sounds these bluegrass bands have to offer.
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"Bert looks good this morning, Doc," Dud said, quietly. Three stools down the counter, Bert smiled and said, "Yes, I certainly do!"
We turned toward our old pal. "You heard that?"
"Sure did, guys," he grinned. "Look...."
He pointed to his ears. "Hearing aids," he said. We walked over and looked, and sure enough.
"It was Maizie's idea," Bert said. "She made the appointment and everything. Said she was tired of having the TV on so loud."
"But it was a good idea, Bert," Doc said.
"Oh, I know. I'd been thinking about it for some time, Doc, but you know how a guy gets. You never really want to admit you need them, I guess. Truth is, I didn't know how bad my hearing had become until I got them. Yesterday, when we got that little shower ... I heard the rain on the roof. I heard a clock tick, too, and it's been years for both those things."
"Both what things?" said Herb.
We all looked at each other. We knew who should be next.
"Rain and clocks, Herb."
"Oh ... yeah."
"The hearing test lady came in the little room when the test was over and asked me if I'd shot guns a lot," Bert said.
Bert's younger days as a hunting guide brought nods and chuckles from us.
"There's a range of sound that loud noises can hurt, and I guess that's what happened with me. Turns out, it's also the range of most women's voices."
He grinned. "That may have something to do with Maizie's making that appointment for me. Now I have no excuse when she says things like 'Take out the trash' and 'When are you gonna mow the lawn?'"


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Office of Student Life
The Office of Student Life supports student initiatives and livens up campuses. Located in the "Pôle étudiant" right in the heart of the Tertre Campus, you will also find an information kiosk on each campus, where a student will inform you on the following services:
- University-based services (sports, careers advice, health etc.)
- local services and authorities (swimming pools, libraries, grants.)
- CROUS (housing, grants, culture)
- cultural events in the city
- student associations (more than 100 associations)..
Office of Student Life (Direction de la Vie Étudiante)
Pôle étudiant- Chemin de la Censive du Tertre
BP 41214 - 44312 Nantes Cedex 1
Tel. : 02 72 640 440
"Autour du monde" - Erasmus Student Network (ESN)
The association Autour du Monde-ESN Nantes helps you get settled in on your campus and in the city. Autour du Monde-ESN offers activities throughout your stay, putting you in contact with local businesses interested in your profile and getting you involved in community life :
- conversation groups (English/French, Spanish/French, German/French) which take place in bars in Nantes
- outings and visits in Nantes and the surrounding area
- Welcome parties
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There are many other associations for students. Joining is an excellent way to improve your knowledge of the French language and make friends ! Contact the Direction de la vie étudiante.
Student Center - Pôle Etudiant
Opened in 2005, the venue has become the hub of student life. It is located at the centre of the Tertre Campus, the main university campus in terms of number of students. This space dedicated to campus and community life is a cultural venue. Concerts, exhibits, debates, film screenings and theatre are featured throughout the year. It is a resource for your projects with spaces dedicated to associations : shared office space, a meeting room and a workshop.
At the Pôle étudiant you will also find all the information about student life in Nantes and services to facilitate your studies : computer workstations, copiers, WI-Fi zone, Monéo ATM and more. The Pôle étudiant also has a cafeteria that is open all day and evening.
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Tram, line 2, stop Facultés
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Les Savy Fav in Sheffield: beard-core
One of my favorite bands hit Sheffield recently. The last time they were nearby it was in Manchester and I missed them for a date with a girl who only now, having finally seen Les Savy Fav, can I truly stop resenting. If you like rock and you miss LSF when they're in your town, you're a complete and utter quentin.
If you're new to LSF I personally recommend that you start your adventure with their collection of 7″s, the appropriately named 'Inches'. I did. That got me hooked. Although that's not to say their latest album 'Root for Ruin' isn't maintaining the quality I've come to expect. But I'm not going to focus on that. I think a great contrast to LSF would be another recent Sheffield Corporation gig; Melissa Auf Der Maur. Like LSF, more than competent musicians with a history of awesome albums. Another personal favorite. But when she played in town, it was a pretty damn disappointing delivery. Full marks for turning up, but that's it. I know Sheffield isn't the biggest town on the tour, but we like music too (if I was a music journalist I'd insert a quote from Reverend and the Makers here… but I'm better than that so no). I've paid my 15 quid. LSF, in contrast, got a nice A++ for effort. Why?
How to sell records in 2011
Since the gig, I've been imagining LSF are the sort of band who know how live music has to work in this time of mp3s, crappy laptop speakers and a fanbase who just won't leave the house. A live show needs to bring it, and LSF brought it big time. Whilst I'd personally be perfectly happy to go to Corporation and see them perform a technically good set, LSF know this isn't enough. They've heard of this thing called 'showmanship'. It is their best weapon against pretentious tedious gigs, and their delivery system comes in the form of a big ball of bearded power: front-man Tim Harrington. Don't get me wrong, LSF don't need gimmicks and would be A-ok without Harringtons presence, but the energy that the bearded-one brings to the room is immense. If you're standing near the back of the room and the lyrics are being delivered right into your face (literally)… that's a show. That's value for money. That's the sort of effort that makes it worth getting out and supporting a band.
Harrington made the grimy floors of Corp his bitch. He roamed the room doing questionable things with bananas (whilst singing the Banana boat song, naturally), slowly loosing layers of clothing. It was not sexy, but it was sexual. He climbed through the room, over bars and ledges. Fans held up the thick microphone chord that trailed behind him so he could connect with others. Musically. Physically. Emotionally. I'd seen such behavior from LSF on YouTube at big US outdoor shows. I thought, "Sure, they put the effort in when it's a big show back home, but will they really bother in some northern city they've probably never heard of?" Well I was wrong. They did and they deserve credit for it. This was one of the best gigs I've ever been to.
Often when American bands come to town they blatantly don't care. I'm looking at you, Interpol. It's another box ticked and they slump on stage, looking cool but ultimately lifeless. Not LSF. They obviously believe in live music. This gig was part of a tour organized by the DrownedInSound people. I hope everyone felt that Sheffield was a worthwhile stop, because we enjoyed it. Probably almost as much as Tim Harringtons greengrocer.


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Jane Abbott Lighty and Pete-e Petersen were given the first same-sex marriage license in Seattle at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. King County Executive Dow Constantine signed the license for them and several other couples, and the King County Administration Building stayed through the early morning.
"To have our 35-year loving relationship publicly honored and celebrated and have this be a legal marriage means everything to both of us," said Lighty, a former nurse. She and Petersen, a former Korean War flight nurse, will be wed at a Seattle Men's Chorus concert at Benaroya Hall in Seattle this weekend.
By 3:30 a.m. 212 had been issued, breaking the single-day record. Typically the county issues between 75 and 100 marriage licenses per day, but by 6:45 a.m. Thursday the count surpassed 300.
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After an ugly pass from 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick to receiver Randy Moss floated into the hands of Ravens safety Ed Reed for the first interception ever thrown by a 49ers quarterback in any Super Bowl, chippiness that had been building all game erupted into a melee.
Along the way, Ravens cornerback Cary Williams made contact with an official, via a two-handed shove.
After the officials sorted it out, Williams was neither flagged nor ejected. Instead, referee Jerome Boger called offsetting unnecessary roughness fouls on 49ers tackle Joe Staley and Ravens cornerback Corey Graham.
Coincidentally, it was Boger who failed to eject Panthers quarterback Cam Newton after Newton made contact with Boger during a regular-season game.
At the time, former NFL official and officiating supervisor Jim Daopoulos walked me through the relevant portions of the rule book and case book. There is no discretion; contact with an official should always result in an ejection.
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The automatic budget cuts set to take effect on March 1 will delay the opening of the East and West Rim drives at the Grand Canyon and reduce hours of operation at the main visitor center. At Gettysburg, 20 percent of student education programs would be eliminated this spring.
The Blue Ridge Parkway would lose 21 seasonal interpretive ranger programs, resulting in the closure of half of the park's visitor stations and leaving 80 miles between each one.
Mount Rainer would permanently close a key visitor center, and Glacier would delay the opening of a well-visited mountain pass.
Five campgrounds and picnics area would close at the Great Smoky Mountains, affecting 54,000 visitors, and the Grand Tetons would close a visitor center, information station and preserve.
These are some new details that have emerged this week of how the National Parks Service would implement a 5.1 percent across-the-board reduction if Congress does not avert $85 billion in spending cuts across the federal government. A Park Service memo obtained by park advocates and provided to The Washington Post outlines some of the cuts, which would affect direct services to visitors from grass cutting to access to rangers and mountain passes.
The Post reported last Sunday that park advocates are pressuring Congress to avert a $110 million cut to the system, which would affect every park, from the National Mall to Yellowstone.
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India ETFs Gain After Rate Cut
The move could pump $3.3 billion into the Indian banking system.
Editor's Note: This content was originally published on Benzinga.com by The ETF Professor, Benzinga Staff Writer.
The WisdomTree India Earnings ETF (NYSEARCA:EPI) and the PowerShares India Portfolio (NYSEARCA:PIN) are among the marquee India funds trading higher Tuesday after Asia's third-largest economy announced an interest rate cut. EPI and PIN are each higher by about half a percent on the news.
Overnight, the The Reserve Bank of India pared its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 7.75%. The move, though widely expected, is RBI's first rate cut in nine months. In a surprise move, RBI also pared the cash reserve ratio, or the amount of deposits Indian banks must keep with the central bank, by 25 basis points to 4%.
That could pump an added $3.3 billion into the Indian banking system, Reuters reported.
This is the second time RBI has lowered the cash reserve ratio since the third quarter of 2012 and the news comes at a time when Indian banks are dealing with a rising number of bad loans.
The ratio of bad debt at Indian banks jumped to its highest level in at least five years at the end of the third quarter, Bloomberg reported last week.
Increased liquidity has the potential to bolster the financial positions of Indian banks, which make often make up sizable portions of the major India ETFs. For example, the $1.29 billion EPI devotes nearly 27% of its weight to financials while that sector accounts for 17.6% of PIN's weight.
The iShares S&P India Nifty 50 Index Fund (NASDAQ:INDY) allocates about 21.2% of its weight to financial services names.
Even with the rate cut and reserve ratio announcements, RBI offered up a good news/bad news outlook on the Indian economy. Already enduring slowing growth after years of being home to one of the most torrid growth clips in the developing world, India is projected to slow further in the current fiscal year.
RBI lowered its growth estimate to 5.5% for the current fiscal year from 5.8%. The good news is that the central bank also slashed its March headline inflation estimate to 6.8% from 7.5%.
Inflation, long a problem for India's domestic economy and equity markets, is seen as cooling. However, news of the lower headline inflation estimate from RBI is only having a minimal impact on India small-cap ETFs today, which offer noticeable exposure to the Indian consumer.
The Market Vectors India Small-Cap Index ETF (NYSEARCA:SCIF) is up just 0.21% while the EGShares India Small Cap ETF (NYSEARCA:SCIN) is higher by just 0.32%.
SCIF allocates about 27% of its combined weight to discretionary and staples names while SCIN has about 21% exposure to the Indian consumer.
While SCIF and SCIN are not as big or heavily traded as their large-cap counterpart, the two may offer a cautionary tale about the near-term outlook for Indian ETFs. EPI, INDY and PIN are all in the green since the start of 2013. SCIF and SCIN are down 5.3% and 4.3%, respectively, and that is including today's gains.
Both funds have recently fallen below their 20- and 50-day moving averages, and in the case of SCIF, that fund is only about 4% above its 200-day line.
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Changing Lives in the Great Outdoors
There comes a moment during summer camp orientation when parents smile and kids cringe: Absolutely no electronics are allowed at YMCA Camp Widjiwagan. No cell phones, no Game Boys, no iPods-not even hair dryers.
"The brochure spells this out, but somehow the kids gloss over it," says Liz Flinn, who became Widji's first female executive director in 2006.
Founded in 1929 in the wilds of northeastern Minnesota, Widjiwagan (an Ojibwe Indian word loosely translated as "comradeship" or "traveling companion for life") offers wilderness adventure and environmental education for boys and girls aged 7 to 18. Its programs are designed to help young people develop leadership skills along with respect for self, community, and the environment. Programs include 10- to 21-day canoe trips in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, Ontario, and the Northwest Territories; backpacking adventures in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska; and weeklong environmental programs, launched during the 1970s, to introduce city kids to the wilds.
"About 75 to 80 percent of our kids are from Minnesota," says Flinn. "The rest come from around the country, and many have parents with a connection to the camp or to Minnesota."
Flinn is no exception. Her mom attended Widji during the 1950s and encouraged her and her brothers to spend at least one summer there. Many Lewis & Clark students have attended–first as campers and later as counselors.
"I was overwhelmed by my first canoe trip," says Flinn. "I still remember my introduction to the Boundary Waters. It was so beautiful yet so hard–carrying food, gear, and even the canoe sometimes."
While attending Lewis & Clark, Flinn spent her summers at Widji as a camp counselor. After graduating with a B.A. in communication, she returned to Minnesota, worked at several social service agencies, and served on Widji's board of directors. When the executive director spot opened up, she jumped at the chance to lead an organization that had offered her such strong female role models and helped her find her stride–both personally and professionally.
"The biggest draw for me is the opportunities our programs provide for kids," she says. "Coming off a 10-day canoe trip, they feel proud and accomplished–like they can do anything. It might have rained for the entire trip, but they come back smiling and happy. It's a place where young people can find themselves, where they can learn who they are and what they're capable of doing."
Flinn works in St. Paul for most of the year but relocates to the camp during the summer. Depending on her workload, she heads out into the wild every chance she gets.
"Widjiwagan is a nice, quiet little corner of the world," she says. "A lot of Minnesotans now want to build big vacation cabins on the state's lakes. I'm actively working to make sure our camp stays remote, so that our children's children will be able to come and enjoy this amazing wilderness area."
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They're not letting a technicality ruin this one.
File-sharing site Megaupload has tried to escape criminal prosecution in the United States by saying since the company doesn't have a mailing address in this country, it can't be prosecuted here.
But federal Judge Liam O'Grady ruled Friday that the government could circumvent that technicality by serving notice to infamous founder Kim Dotcom once he's extradited to America, Ars Technica reported Tuesday.
The feds can send notice to Dotcom's jail cell since he's essentially an "alter ego" for the company, the judge ruled.
The feds shut down Megaupload in January and charged Dotcom with piracy.
Back in July, Megaupload's lawyers argued that since the company is based in Hong Kong, only that country's laws apply, Ars Technica reported at the time.
But, according to O'Grady, that doesn't really matter.
"To this court's knowledge, no court has ever dismissed an indictment for failure to meet Rule 4's secondary mailing requirement," he wrote in his opinion.
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Discover engaging stories shared by U-M dental students about their experiences in this unique history of the nation's first public university based dental school.
Inside the Dental Practice 1860-1940
Step back in time and see how dental offices and equipment evolved as technology advanced and revolutionized the profession.
Over 15,000 objects have been collected and cataloged, and approximately 15% are on display in permanent and temporary exhibitions. Thirteen Museum exhibit cases, most located on the ground level of the Kellogg Building of the School of Dentistry, feature history of dentistry themes with emphasis on the United States and Michigan.
Visitors can view historical dental tools and equipment from the 18th century to modern times in chronologically arranged dental office settings. Also on view are artifacts featuring areas where the Museum has a substantial collection of oral hygiene products for the consumer, as well as equipment used by dentists including articulators, denture forming equipment, and dental X-ray technology
Additional themes in the exhibit line-up include: St. Apollonia, the Patron Saint of Dentistry; Remedy for the Toothless, with a 19th century story with a tragic ending about a denture making dentist using a patented process without a license the story of U-M alumnus, Dr. Willoughby Dayton Miller and his significant impact on the field of dentistry. Many visitors continue to enjoy the historic dental hygiene products, advertisements, and tooth brushes, most of which are on loan from alumnus, Dr. Ronald Berris.
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I normally enjoy the Hook and the wide array of articles and opinions within. However, I was dismayed at your comment in the article about the time capsule [June 7: "Wet capsule: Soggy city memorabilia retrieved at opening"] where you said "...a beauty queen, and an array of officials, all white of course..."
Charlottesville was once a very Southern city, and it is to its credit that it now continually strives to be a progressive city– modern obstacles aside. Charlottesville 50 years ago was like most of America: white washed, especially in the government. Your comment only seeks to revive animosity and is in poor form and shoddy journalism. The tone of looking forward towards a more diverse Charlottesville is a noble one. However by adding your own politics to a non-commentary article, you have detracted from the story as a whole. I got to that part and stopped reading, so disgusted was I by your blatant soap-boxing.
I myself am of a liberal/moderate stance. I enjoy your paper. However, while I had previously considered it a reputable source of local news and town-happenings, your article and its commentary has made me take a second look at the Hook as an actual news source and not just a soap box rag.
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My name is Marissa Murguia and I am 24 years old. When I was 15 I was diagnosed with lupus. But within a year of being diagnosed, I was told by my doctor's that the lupus was a severe case and my kidneys have begun to suffer from it. I was put on high dose of prednisone (among other medications) and begun chemotherapy once a month for the next 2 1/2 years.just when I had begun to give up altogether, my parents and I went to a loop this seminar and learned of experimental stem cell transplants from lupus patients with severe cases. So I researched online and discovered that the best place to have the procedure, with the most experience with lupus patients, was in Chicago. Northwestern Memorial Hospital saved my life. I was in Chicago for two months, and received my new stem cells on November 6, 2003. Once I returned home I felt a sense of hope that I hadn't felt in a long time. My lupus was finally put in remission!!! because I waited so long to get the stem cell transplant, by the time I got home from Chicago my kidneys were too far gone. So on September 10, 2004 I received one of my mom's kidneys.
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In Texas! The Exhibition you can view hundreds of objects, each with fascinating back stories. Some of these amazing artifacts belonged to well known national heroes and some to local heroes.
As I stroll through the exhibit's Civil War section, I'm often drawn to one small and shiny object named the Davis Guards medal. I'm a history nerd, but until recently I wasn't familiar with Davis Guards metals.
Engraved on the metal are the words: Jack White| Sabine Pass| Sept: 8th| 1863. A document in the case above the metal has the signature of a 1st Lieutenant by the name of R W Dowling.
Together, these objects reveal an interesting story.
It's a story this history "connoisseur" still might have overlooked if something in the text panel had not caught my eye. According to the panel, the Davis Guards medal on display is one of three held in private hands, and it is one of only seven that are known to still be in existence.
However, being rare does not always translate to being fascinating. As I was preparing to begin my research for our upcoming Discovering the Civil War exhibition, I noticed something interesting.
On a rough draft of objects we hope to have on display is yet ANOTHER shiny disk with the words: Sabine Pass| Sept: 8th| 1863. I was intrigued. If only three of these are in the hands of private collectors and HMNS may have the honor of displaying a second Davis Guard medal, this piece is more fascinating.
But who was R W Dowling? What was his connection to the Davis Guards medal? What happened at the Battle of Sabine Pass? And most importantly, why is this medal significant? Since the discovery of the second medal to be displayed I have been obsessively researching to find more about these topics.
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Richard William "Dick" Dowling was born in 1838 in an area called Tuam (pronounced choo-um), which is located in Ireland.
He and his family left Ireland at the start of the potato famine in 1845 and settled in New Orleans, Louisiana. While living in Louisiana, Dowling's parents and four of his siblings died of yellow fever in 1853. After the loss of his parents, he and a few siblings moved across the Louisiana border to Texas.
Dowling settled in Houston where he met, fell in love with, and married Elizabeth Odlum. With the support of Elizabeth's family, Dowling was able to start and maintain several successful saloon businesses and became a founding member of the Houston Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 (which later became the Houston Fire Department), and even owned one of the first oil and gas companies in Texas. His saloons were outfitted with gas lighting as a result of this investment. Richard Dowling was indeed a prominent local businessman.
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, like many men during this time, Dick Dowling went off to war.
He joined a group of other Irish immigrants. His group would help the Confederate army remove the Union blockade during the Battle of Galveston. During that battle, the USS Westfield sank off the coast (HMNS will display some objects from the USS Westfield in the Discovering the Civil War exhibition). Dowling and his group were in charge of guarding the coast of Texas until they were given a new assignment, the Sabine Pass.
Dowling was placed in charge of a group of 47 men of the Davis Guards, which was named after the current Confederate States of America's president. Under his uncompromising leadership, he drilled his men until they could properly shoot up to 2,000 yards, which was the length to clear the Sabine Pass.
What Dowling and his men did on September 8, 1863 would go down in history as one of the greatest military upsets on American soil.
The 47 men of the Davis Guard were faced with 5,000 enemy soldiers. Instead of drawing back, according to his official report, Dowling and his men used a motto that once brought heartache to Texas.
They shouted "Victory or Death" as they aggressively attacked the Union forces.
After 45 minutes, the Union soldiers retreated and the battle was over. The Davis Guards hadn't lost a single man. They captured 350 prisoners, and 50 Union soldiers lay dead that day in a solid victory for the CSA. The Union forces would never again threaten Texas in a major confrontation until the Battle of Palmito Ranch (also a CSA victory), which was fought over a month after the Civil War had ended. The victory at the Battle of Sabine Pass was one of the reasons that Texas was the only southern state to never be successfully occupied during the Civil War.
President Jefferson Davis was so pleased with the underdog victory that he asked the Confederate Congress to approve the commission of medals for the Davis Guard.
The medal is thought to be the only one commissioned by the Confederate Congress. Each Guards member would receive a silver round medal attached to a green ribbon (in honor of their Irish background) that was engraved with Sabine Pass| Sept: 8th| 1863 on one side, and on the other D.G. with either a Maltese cross or the CSA flag below the initials. Naturally, being an honorary member of the Davis Guards, President Davis was also given a medal along with every Davis Guards member.
The Confederate flag was the shortest reigning flag in Texas' history, and even though the "war of northern aggression" would bring this chapter in our history to a close, it provided us with local Texas heroes.
In Texas! The Exhibition there are amazing artifacts from Texas' proud past. Don't miss the chance to see a rare part of history that is on display at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
And don't forget to join us in October for our new special exhibition Discovering the Civil War!


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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Appearing last year before Taiwanese regulators, billionaire media magnate Tsai Eng-meng appeared perplexed over a decision to fine his flagship newspaper for carrying camouflaged advertising on behalf of China's Communist government.
"I really don't understand this," said Tsai, who became Taiwan's richest individual by selling treacly rice crackers on the Chinese mainland through his Want Want China Holdings company. "I think they should allow me to make this money."
It was a vintage statement from a man Forbes magazine says is worth $8 billion and whose pro-China views have made him a lightning rod for criticism among many on this democratic island of 23 million people. Since purchasing Taiwan's China Times Group in 2008, the rough-hewn Tsai has burst like a meteor onto Taiwan's political scene, leveraging his China-derived fortune to promote a political union across the 160-kilometer- (100-mile-) wide Taiwan Strait. Despised by Taiwan's Beijing-wary opposition, the crew-cut 55-year old seems to roll effortlessly over his detractors, proudly flaunting his limited formal education and soaring business success.
Now he seems ready to roll over them again. Next month Taiwanese officials will rule on his bid to take a 32 percent share — through his son — in the Next Media Group, owned by Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai, an outspoken anti-communist reviled in Beijing. Next properties include Apple Daily, which is Taiwan's biggest selling newspaper, and Next Magazine, its pre-eminent investigative journal.
If the deal goes through, Tsai would add substantially to his existing ownership of another major newspaper, an influential business daily, a top-rated cable TV news station, and a popular terrestrial TV channel. Critics, who believe Tsai uses his media empire's consistently laudatory coverage of China to advance his mainland business interests, say this new level of clout could stifle Taiwan's press competition and even undermine its young democracy.
The controversy over Tsai and his expansive Taiwanese media holdings goes right to the heart of the dominant issue in Taiwanese politics: Whether the island should attempt to maintain the separate political identity from the mainland it has maintained since splitting apart from it amid civil war in 1949, or whether it should bow to China's increasing political and economic might and accept its sovereign sway. Taiwanese media, particularly the island's four national newspapers and its seven major 24-hour cable news stations, play a crucial role in the debate, using their columns and broadcasts to promote the competing pro-China and independence agendas of the two main political parties.
The strength of Tsai's pro-China views were underlined in January 2012 when he told the Washington Post newspaper that he unreservedly backed Taiwan's unification with the mainland. "I really hope that I can see that," he said. In the same article he also attacked the widely held belief that Chinese security forces killed hundreds if not thousands of demonstrators during pro-democracy protests around Beijing's Tiananmen Square in June 1989, citing the refusal of a phalanx of Chinese tanks to run over a famously bold protester as evidence of the forces' restraint.
Want Want's own internal newsletter reported in its December 2008 edition that during a meeting in Beijing, Tsai told Wang Yi, head of the Chinese government's Taiwan Affairs Office, that Tsai had acquired the China Times Group "in order to use the power of the press to advance relations between China and Taiwan." The newsletter quoted Wang as saying that if Tsai's company had any future needs "the Taiwan Affairs Office will do its best to help it, including giving support to its food business."
After a lengthy exchange of emails with a Tsai legal representative, Tsai declined to be interviewed for this article. Contacted by The Associated Press, his public relations department also declined to answer questions on Tsai's China attitudes and his plans for Next Media. "We do not plan on repeating ourselves again," wrote his son, Cai Shao-zhong, explaining that Tsai had outlined his views in other forums in the past.
Interviews with media figures and former employees help fill in the blanks about Tsai. They paint a picture of a hard charging, detail-oriented businessman, loyal to his friends, but implacably hostile to anyone he feels is getting in his way. They also suggest he either lacks an understanding of the role of the media in Taiwan's democracy or does not consider it important.
"My understanding of Tsai is that's he's a businessman, all his thinking is about business, and how to make money," said Ho Jung-shin, who left his job as deputy editor of Tsai's flagship China Times newspaper last year over what he said was Tsai's use of his sprawling media holdings to conduct vendettas against perceived enemies.
Ho said he was particularly upset by repeated China Times Group claims, which the group later backed away from, that a researcher at Taiwan's prestigious Academia Sinica paid university students to mount demonstrations against Tsai's efforts to purchase a major Taiwanese cable TV distribution system. Regulators on Wednesday nixed that deal, at least in its present form.
"He took this public trust and turned it into a personal tool," Ho said. "He's sees the media only as a tool to advance his own campaigns."
Other former China Times employees also lambast him for turning both the China Times newspaper and the CTi cable news station into rubber stamp apologists for China's authoritarian government. They cite a long litany of examples, including the two outlets' harsh criticism of the Dalai Lama during a 2009 Taiwan visit — Beijing reviles the Tibetan spiritual leader for allegedly promoting Tibetan independence — and the short shrift the outlets gave imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo when he was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 2010.
Taiwanese newspaper columnist Antonio Chiang, a longtime Tsai acquaintance, said a key to understanding Tsai's larger than life personality is the intense pride he feels at having taken over his father's small food business as a young man in the late 1970s and building it into what is now China's largest snack food company, despite having never finished high school.
"He's always talking about how little education he had and how it didn't hurt him in the least," said Chiang, who strongly opposes Tsai's views on China. "He loves the fact that he has all these PhDs working for him and that they have to listen to what he says."
"This is a man with extremely strong will," Chiang said. "He's not very sophisticated but he's very self-controlled. And he's completely honest. What you see from him is exactly what you get."
The lack of pretense Chiang describes is reflected in Tsai's unpolished persona, which includes a shoot from the hip social style and a preference for his native Taiwanese dialect over the clipped, Mandarin Chinese employed by the better educated doyens of the Taiwanese business elite.
A 2012 Chinese language biography portrayed him as a simple man of the people, most comfortable chewing betel nut and conversing informally with food processing workers amid a hands-on management style that includes familiarity with every aspect of his business, from buying raw materials to managing production lines and kibitzing with customers.
But Chiang said that beneath Tsai's everyman personality is a single-minded approach that threatens Taiwan's free press, including the Apple Daily newspaper, Chiang's current employer, and Next Magazine, the investigative journal.
Apple, while better known for its racy diet of sex, scandal and celebrity gossip, has also been praised for its editorial independence that sets it apart from most other Taiwanese media outlets, which seem most comfortable parroting the views of one or the other of Taiwan's two main political parties.
"He ruined the China Times," Chiang said. "He can ruin Apple as well."
Tsai has also stirred controversy by taking initiatives that appear aimed at bringing Taiwan and China closer together on important foreign policy questions.
Last September, Tsai contributed five million New Taiwan dollars ($166,000) to underwrite the voyage of some 60 Taiwanese fishing vessels to an island group in the East China Sea hotly contested by China and Japan. The voyage ended in a confrontation between Japanese and Taiwanese coast guard cutters, significantly raising tensions in the area, despite the declared intention of Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou to avoid taking provocative actions on the sensitive island issue.
Fishermen involved in the demonstration said they were only interested in asserting their fishing rights around the Diaoyu, or Senkaku islands, and had no interest in politics, or making common cause with China. But 11 days after they returned to Taiwan, the China Times ran a hard-hitting editorial, calling on the Taiwanese government to join Beijing in pushing for Chinese sovereignty there.
Initiatives like this are feeding the belief among Tsai critics that he and other deep-pocketed Taiwanese business people are attempting to subvert the Ma government's relatively cautious China policy, which while consciously moving the island ever closer to Beijing economically, still opposes an early political union.
"These business people are definitely pushing the two sides closer together," said Ketty Chen, a Taiwanese-American academic at Taipei's National Taiwan University. "They're very influential."
Arrayed against the influence of Tsai and his pro-China allies is Taiwan's boisterous democracy and the blossoming among many Taiwanese of a political and cultural identity distinct from the mainland.
"I wouldn't sell Taiwan short," said Taiwan expert Mark Harrison of the University of Tasmania in Australia. . "It won't surrender without a fight. This battle isn't over."


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Peabody had the busiest ambulance unit in Marion County for February with 29 calls, but more than one-third of those calls were transfers from Hillsboro Community Hospital, Emergency Medical Service Director Steve Smith told the County Commission on Monday.
The reason Peabody ambulance made those transfers is because it is the only unit that has regular volunteers qualified to make advanced life support transfers. Smith said that in recent months, HCH has started requesting advanced life support transfers whenever there is a chance that it will be needed.
Advanced life support transfers require ambulance workers who are licensed to perform a greater number of invasive procedures or administer a greater number of lifesaving drugs, Smith said.
Hillsboro ambulance made 26 runs in February, including four transfers. Marion ambulance made 23 runs, including eight transfers. Tampa ambulance went on five runs, and Florence went on three. Goessel first response made two runs, while Lincolnville first response made one.


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PissingTV.com has a wild side about it as it makes a point out of smell and taste of urine! Although the site features every kind of peeing action under the sun, the girlies find extra pleasure in enjoying the taste of the yellow liquid! You should join if peeing is more than a natural need, but a true fetish! The guys who have created this site surely know about the excitement that takes over women and men who love... [read more]
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Mozilla Background Transparency BugApril 13, 2003
I'm having a rather difficult time believing I'm the first one to encounter this, but some pretty deep Googling and searching of the Bugzilla database isn't turning up any prior mention of it.
When using a transparent GIF as a background image in an absolutely–positioned div, Mozilla does some pretty radical colour shifting. I've had this happen on more than one occasion, but I only looked into it a little further today.
update (4/14): — it's been brought to my attention that this bug has been fixed by Mozilla v1.4. Great news for future releases, but Netscape 7 is still buggered unfortunately.
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that's happened to me a bunch of times. i couldn't understand why mozilla was showing imgs with different RGB values.
If it looks like a bug, and it smells like a bug…
While we're at it, I wish Mozilla would actually animate animated GIFs on rollovers. For example, my fade-inny projects buttons top right.
I guess at least there are work-arounds for the transparency issue, ie. dropping the transparency. Hurts to do it though.
Ack. No way I'd go to that length for animated rollovers. They're a nicety, not a necessity.
Then again, K10k is the same site that sniffs your browser and spits out PNGs or GIFs depending on alpha support. Those guys are animals.
when it comes to animated gifs that only play once, NS (4 and 7) play it at the very beginning when the page JUST loads up. it'll play once, then it wont play anymore. if you use javascript to do rollovers, it'll swap the animated gif, but it will swap the gif that has already played.
IE is a little different in that it'll restart and replay the animated gif every single time the gif has been called. but this doesnt include MAC and PC bc MAC IE (mixed with javascript) completely messes up the sequence of the frames in the animated gif, making the animation looked fcked out.
NS4 plays animated gifs that fastest, second place is IE, while NS7 and moz are slow-ass playaz. why all these browsers need to be such retarded fools?
to solve this problem (and i personally find this an absolute OVERKILL of a solution), dont use animated gifs. instead, use javascript that will play a sequence of gifs. that way, the javascript controls the speed, what is seen, and how it's played. i believe k10k does this, but it is bloated, superfluous code.
Sherif — quite. I don't test anything I do in 256 colour mode anymore.
Thanks for the testing results though, I'll add them to the page this evening.
Hmmm, no such problem in Phoenix 0.5, or Mozilla 1.3 on Windows 2000. Display color depth set to 16bit (64,000 colors) and to 24 bit (millions of colors). Are you sure you didn't accidentally have your color depth set to 8 bit (256 colors) ;-)?


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By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College on Friday took center stage when the institution pledged to contribute $125,000 toward the $4 million project to renovate the Town Hall Theater.
The pledge, which will be paid over five years, will be used specifically for interior repairs to the 122-year-old building on Middlebury's Merchants Row, according to THT Executive Director Doug Anderson.
College officials and THT boosters hailed the contribution as an affirmation of the many town-gown artistic collaborations that have occurred throughout the years.
"The college has long contributed to the vitality and well-being of the town, just as the town has always been an important part of the college's 206-year history," said Middlebury College President Ronald Liebowitz. "But supporting a cause like the town theater is especially important and rewarding today because we live in a time when it has become increasingly rare for members of a small town to come together and share experiences that inevitably and importantly strengthen the bonds within a community. We believe supporting the Town Hall Theater, with its visionary leadership, will inspire Middlebury residents to come together, share artistic performances, and strengthen the civic culture of our town."
By HARRIETTE BRAINARD
ADDISON COUNTY — "The real pleasure is not just the delicious food one gets to eat, but the abundance of new relationships that are formed, the growing knowledge of where I live — the people and the geography of where I live," says Ripton resident Bill McKibben of his stint as a "localvore."
Localvore refers to people who eat only locally grown food, and is a national movement that is growing quickly in the state of Vermont, as many people become educated on the multitude of benefits of eating foods grown close to home. McKibben, and author and Middlebury College visiting scholar, went seven months eating all Vermont fare and wrote about the experience last year for Gourmet magazine.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectmen on Tuesday served notice they are far from sold on the state's latest plans to replace the deteriorating railroad overpass on Merchants Row.
Board members this week got their first glimpse of the Vermont Agency of Transportation's (AOT) draft plans to replace next summer the portion of the road that passes over the railroad. Plans submitted by AOT Project Manager Roger Whitcomb call for:
• Removal of the existing pier columns at the bottom of the new deck, which would be around eight inches thicker than the current deck.
• A rise in street level of around 13 inches at the project site, which would require installation of a grade-separated, split sidewalk near the main entrance of the Battell Block.
ADDISON COUNTY — A spirited, six-candidate race for Addison-3's two House seats figures to provide the most excitement in what is otherwise shaping up as one of the least-contested Vermont House and Senate election slates that Addison County has seen in at least two decades.
Information provided by Addison County Superior Court and local town clerks shows that incumbent Democrats are unopposed in their re-election bids for Addison County and Brandon's two state Senate seats, as well as in two of the area's six House districts.
Candidates had until Monday, July 17, to file their nomination papers to get on the November ballot.
Paul Forlenza, chairman of the Addison County Democratic Committee, said the lack of competition could be construed as an endorsement of the job the incumbents have been doing in Montpelier.
WEYBRIDGE — The town of Weybridge will spend $40,000 to form its own "insect control district," an organization that should be in place in time to give citizens some relief from mosquitoes beginning next spring.
The move earned approval from a decisive majority of the approximately 70 voters who showed up at a special town meeting on Tuesday to discuss the issue. A local resident had requested the meeting and vote through a citizens' petition filed this spring.
Weybridge residents had rejected an insect control program last March at town meeting. But an onslaught of mosquitoes spawned by this spring's wet weather prompted some citizens to bring the issue back to the fore.
By CYRUS LEVESQUE
NEW HAVEN — The Champlain Valley Greenbelt Alliance (CVGA) considers the Charron family farm in New Haven "one of the most striking settings" on the stretch of Route 7 between Middlebury and Shelburne. Thanks to the Vermont Land Trust's recent purchase of development rights on a large acreage along that strip, the land will continue to be farmed for a long time.
With partial funding from the CVGA, the Vermont Land Trust in May bought a conservation easement on 198.5 acres of the Charron farm.
"It is important to have some open land and I hate to see good farmland growing houses," said Lee Charron, who has farmed the New Haven property with his wife, Brenda, since 1977.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
FERRISBURGH — Most of the 40 residents at a July 18 forum devoted to whether Ferrisburgh should accept a new sewer line were skeptical. But the developer who signed a deal with Vergennes for a possible sewer extension insisted that Ferrisburgh could benefit from the line and that the town would help determine how the line would be used.
At what was the second of three planning commission forums at Ferrisburgh Central School on the topic, Infill Group head Bill Niquette, who has a $1 million option to buy 100,000 gallons of daily sewer capacity from Vergennes, said he would not dictate how sewer capacity would be used, although he would like it to serve an intensive development on a key 32-acre parcel near the school and town offices.
MIDDLEBURY — Two local residents who were recently asked to help create a report on how well state-run programs for the disabled and elderly are working, bring a lot of relevant background to the task. They are a founding member and advisor of Speak Up! Addison County, a Middlebury-based organization that helps people with developmental disabilities become more independent and better advocates for their own needs.
Randy Lizotte, 26, president of Speak Up! Addison County, and Lindsey Hescock, the group's founder, last week filed their contribution to a report being created for the Vermont Department of Health to judge outcomes of programs that serve the elderly and the developmentally disabled.
The pair has first-hand experience in helping such a program succeed. In the two and a half years Speak Up! Addison County has been in existence the group has tallied a long list of accomplishments. Most notably, they have presented a series workshops at local, state and national conferences, built connections to similar organizations around the state and created a working organization that helps local people help themselves.
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With a pack of cigarettes costing up to $8.50, smokers already pay a hefty price to light up. But they might find that nicotine rush costing them even more if they want a job in the Massachusetts health care field.
Several Massachusetts hospitals � including two in Central Massachusetts � will no longer hire job applicants if they smoke or use tobacco products.
Health care providers say they cannot speak with any authority on healthy lifestyles if they continue to tolerate smoking among their own employees, as smoking is a major cause of preventable diseases in the U.S.
�If you're going to talk the talk, then you have to walk the walk,� said Lynn Nicholas, president and chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Hospital Association, which hung out the no-smokers-need-apply sign two years ago.
�I took some flak, but it was the right thing to do,� said Ms. Nicholas.
Following the path blazed by the MHA, Heywood Hospital in Gardner, owned by North Central Healthcare, established the change in hiring policy Oct. 1. St. Vincent Hospital and MetroWest Medical Center, both owned by Vanguard Health Systems of Nashville, came on board Nov. 1. They join Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton and Anna Jaques Hospital in Newburyport.
�The north central area of the state has one of the highest smoking rates in the state,� said Winfield �Win� Brown, president and chief executive officer of North Central Healthcare. �We have to step up and make a statement about that, and be a leader in the field.�
The no-hiring-smokers policy is not yet in effect at Athol Memorial Hospital, which, as of Jan. 1, merged with Heywood under the umbrella of North Central Healthcare. �We haven't brought that (policy) to Athol yet, but it does have a smoke-free campus,� said Mr. Brown.
About 71 percent of Massachusetts hospitals are smoke- or tobacco-free, according to Ms. Nicholas at the MHA. That means that staff and visitors as well as patients cannot smoke on hospital property.
The no-smokers-need-apply policy is just one more step in a continuing effort to stop tobacco use, according to Ms. Nicholas. �There is nothing beneficial, whatsoever, about tobacco use, other than to the tobacco industry,� she said.
The policy change does not affect employees already on the job before the start of the new hiring policy, although they will be expected not to use tobacco anywhere on hospital campuses.
Nor can they, at least in Worcester and Gardner, smoke on sidewalks or property near hospitals.
The Gardner Board of Health has created a 200-foot no-smoking buffer zone around Heywood, including an area at the foot of two driveways where hospital employees used to huddle to puff away � a much-discussed topic of conversation in the community, and a sore spot with the hospital's top administrator.
�Here I am, a public health leader, and I have all these people standing at the foot of our driveways � just technically off campus � smoking, right next to the 'no smoking' sign,� said Mr. Brown.
In Worcester, the City Council has established a 50-foot no-smoking buffer zone in front of the entrances and exits of Worcester Medical Center, according to Paul R. Strniste, vice president of facilities at St. Vincent Hospital.
While smoking rates among adults have dropped precipitously over the past decades, acknowledged Lisa Whaley, vice president of human resources for Vanguard Health Systems, �there is still 10 to 20 percent of the population, depending on the region, that still uses tobacco products.�
About 18.1 percent of adults in Massachusetts smoke, according to statistics from the 2011 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance System produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Other surveys show a slightly higher rate of smoking, about 18.2 percent, among high school and middle school youths in the state.
Ms. Whaley said Vanguard's new hiring policy prohibits hiring those individuals who not only smoke cigarettes or cigars or chew tobacco, but also those who wear a nicotine patch or chew nicotine gum. Use of the patch or gum could serve to mask tobacco use in a screening test.
�We are not trying to pry into people's lives, but we do want to encourage our employees to lead healthy lifestyles,� said Ms. Whaley.
For the past year, she said, Vanguard Health Systems has been establishing the new hiring policy in its Nashville-based home office as well as throughout all of its hospital facilities, with the exception of four hospitals owned by Vanguard in Illinois.
Illinois is among 29 states and the District of Columbia that have laws on the books that prohibit employers from either refusing to hire smokers or firing an employee for using any type of tobacco product during non-working hours and off the employer's property.
�Obviously, state law applies, so we can't implement (this policy) anywhere where it would be illegal,� said Ms. Whaley.
There are no laws on either the federal level or on the Massachusetts books that would prevent employers from refusing to hire smokers, according to Jonathan R. Sigel, a partner in the labor, employment and employee benefits group at Mirick O'Connell.
In fact, Massachusetts statutes that took effect Jan. 1, 1988, could set a precedent for Massachusetts employers. Those laws prohibit hiring smokers as uniformed state police; Department of Correction employees whose job duties require the care, supervision or custody of prisoners and criminally insane people; city or town police officers or firemen; and Registry of Motor Vehicles investigators or examiners empowered to perform police duties.
There are screening tests � blood, saliva or urine samplings � that can detect the use of tobacco products. The MHA, which has 46 employees, has been using the �honor system� for the past two years.
North Central Healthcare, with 1,000 employees, will also take the word of a prospective employee that he or she is tobacco-free, but if a job applicant is hired and then found to have been lying, he or she would be fired, according to Mr. Brown.
St. Vincent and MetroWest � the former Framingham Union Hospital and Leonard Morse Hospital in Natick � will use a urine test that will be sent out to an independent laboratory for analysis, according to Ms. Whaley.
If the test comes back positive, the job applicant will be encouraged to enroll in a community smoking cessation program and would be welcome to reapply for the job opening after 90 days.
�Anyone can stop smoking for a week,� said Ms. Whaley, �but a lasting change takes 90 days.�
According to Ms. Nicholas, the MHA is putting together new policy guidelines for hospitals and health care providers to use if they want to go forward with a policy of not hiring smokers.
The MHA's guidelines can also be a resource for businesses that might not want to hire smokers.
�If you can do this in a complex environment like a hospital � with shift work, a widely ethnically diverse work force, workers of all ages, workers undergoing a lot of stress � if you can do it there, you can do it anywhere,� said Ms. Nicholas.


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