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Implantable contraception (often called the birth control implant) is a small, flexible plastic tube that doctors insert just under the skin of the upper arm. The tube slowly releases hormones that can help protect against pregnancy for up to 3 years.
The implanted tube slowly releases low levels of the hormone progestin to prevent ovulation (the release of an egg during the monthly cycle). Without ovulation, pregnancy can't happen because there is no egg for sperm to fertilize.
The released progestin also thickens the mucus around the cervix. This helps prevent sperm from entering the uterus. The progestin also thins the lining of the uterus so that if the egg is fertilized, it may be less likely to attach to the wall of the uterus.
Implantable contraception is a very effective method of birth control. Over the course of 1 year, fewer than 1 out of 100 typical couples using the implant will have an accidental pregnancy. The chance of getting pregnant will increase if someone waits longer than 3 years to replace the tube. So it's important to keep a record of when a tube was inserted, and get a new contraceptive implant on schedule or have the old tube removed and switch to another method of birth control.
In general, how well each birth control method works depends on a lot of things. These include whether a person has any health conditions or is taking any medicines or herbal supplements that might interfere with its use.
No. Implantable contraception does not protect against sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Couples having sex must always use condoms along with the implant to protect against STDs.
Contraceptive implants might cause side effects such as:
Some of these side effects may improve with time.
Sometimes there can be irritation, infection, or scarring where the tube was placed.
Implantable contraception increases the risk of blood clots. Blood clots can lead to serious problems with the lungs, heart, and brain. Smoking cigarettes while using the implant can increase the risk of blood clots. So anyone who uses this type of birth control should not smoke.
Anyone who wants want long-term protection against pregnancy may be interested in implantable contraception.
In some cases, health conditions make it less effective or more risky to use. For example, the implant is not recommended for people who have had blood clots, liver disease, unexplained vaginal bleeding, or some types of cancer.
People who has diabetes, migraine headaches, depression, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, gallbladder problems, seizures, kidney disease, or other medical problems should talk with their doctor.
Anyone who thinks she might be pregnant should not have a contraceptive implant inserted.
Implantable contraception is only available from a doctor or other medical professional who has been trained in how to insert it. When the doctor can insert the implant depends on when a girl had her last period and what type of birth control she currently uses.
After numbing the inside of the upper arm, the doctor will use a small needle to insert the tube just under the surface. The whole process only takes a few minutes. After the tube is put in, a girl shouldn't do any heavy lifting for a few days. She will have a bandage on for a few days after the procedure.
A health care professional must remove the tube after 3 years — it cannot be left in the arm, even after it is no longer working. The area is numbed, then a small cut in the arm is made and the health care professional pulls out the tube. The tube can be removed any time after insertion — there's no need to wait the full 3 years.
The cost of implantable contraception can vary, but it's often free, though there might be a charge for a doctor to place and remove the tube. Typically, there are programs to waive that cost for people under the age of 21.
Someone using implantable contraception should call the doctor if she:
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Date Reviewed: Jan 10, 2022
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Could I Be Pregnant?
You might feel excited about the possibility of pregnancy, but you may also be feeling stressed, anxious, confused, or scared.
If you're not sure whether you are pregnant, we are here to help.
When you are sexually active, there is always a chance you could become pregnant. At different times of the month, your chances of pregnancy can increase or decrease. Additionally, sperm can survive in a woman's body after sexual activity for several days. Even while using contraception, pregnancy is possible.
Possible Signs and Symptoms
One of the most common signs of pregnancy is a missed period. However, pregnancy is not the only reason a woman might miss her period.
Signs and symptoms of pregnancy vary from woman to woman and even from pregnancy to pregnancy. Some women have many signs and symptoms, while other women have no noticeable signs at all. Early indications of pregnancy may include but are not limited to:
- Missed period
- Tender and swollen breasts
- Nausea, with or without vomiting
- Increased urination
- Fatigue (tiredness)
Other symptoms may include, but are not limited to:
- Light spotting
- Cramping
- Moodiness
- Bloating
- Constipation
Pregnancy Tests
So, what now? The first step is to find out if you're pregnant.
If you're wondering if it's too early to test, a good rule of thumb is that a pregnancy test should be accurate right around the first day after a missed period. If your period is irregular, or you don't know when to expect it, waiting 17 days after you had sex to take a pregnancy test can usually give you an accurate reading. We can set up an appointment to verify your pregnancy test results.
Pregnancy tests are a good indication of pregnancy; however, it is important to know that they are only an indication of pregnancy. An ultrasound can confirm if you are pregnant or not. If you have had a positive pregnancy test, consider scheduling an appointment for an ultrasound for confirmation.
Next Steps
If you have had sex, there is a possibility of pregnancy. Our center can provide a free and confidential pregnancy test, retest, or referral. We can also provide or refer for an ultrasound to confirm your pregnancy. Contact us today. We are here to help you work through your questions confidentially.
Whenever you need us, we can help. Contact us by phone or by chat.
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American Pregnancy Association. (n.d.). Positive pregnancy test. https://americanpregnancy.org/getting-pregnant/positive-pregnancy-test/
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Cleveland Clinic. (2023, March 3). Fetal development. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/7247-fetal-development-stages-of-growth
Eagleson, H. (2023, April 26). Can you only get pregnant during ovulation?. Parents. https://www.parents.com/getting-pregnant/trying-to-conceive/ovulation-getting-pregnant/
Mayo Clinic. (2021, December 3). Symptoms of pregnancy: What happens first. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/in-depth/symptoms-of-pregnancy/art-20043853
Mayo Clinic. (2022, March 8). 1st trimester pregnancy: What to expect. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/pregnancy-week-by-week/in-depth/pregnancy/art-20047208
Mayo Clinic. (2022, December 23). Home pregnancy tests: Can you trust the results?. https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/getting-pregnant/in-depth/home-pregnancy-tests/art-20047940
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Former Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti hired by New York City Football Club
Ousted Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti has been named the chief business officer of the New York City Football Club.
The Major League Soccer team announced the appointment on Monday. The expansion team is a joint venture that pairs Manchester City Football Club with the Yankees.
Pernetti served four years as Rutgers' athletic director before being forced to resign in April for his handling of a scandal involving basketball coach Mike Rice, who verbally abused his players.
The popular Pernetti suspended and fined Rice, also forcing him to undergo anger management. University president Robert Barchi fired Rice after viewing films of the abuse four months later and then forced his athletic director to step down.
Pernetti, who helped to engineer Rutgers' entrance into the Big Ten Conference next season, will bring more than 18 years of business and media experience to his new job. He will oversee all business operations for the team, which is set to start play in 2015.
The club previously hired Claudio Reyna as director of all football operations.
"The post of Chief Business Officer attracted a significant number of high-caliber candidates, but Tim's extensive experience in New York sports business was particularly compelling," said Ferran Soriano, the team's chief executive. "He fits perfectly within our organization, adding different skills and talent to our existing international management group. He is the ideal person for this role."
The job is Pernetti's first since Rutgers.
"I relish the opportunity to be part of a global organization, and also to use my experience to create a first class club for New Yorkers and one in which they will always have a voice," Pernetti said. "This is a tremendously exciting time for all involved and interested in soccer in New York."


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Game of Thrones - Review
Dragon-Woman: Homecoming.
Warning: Full spoilers for the Game of Thrones: Season 7 premiere follow...
Honestly, I probably tend to over-score Game of Thrones premiere episodes because of the "I'm So Glad You're Back" bump, and if you parse all of "Dragonstone" out you'll find that very little happens. But we don't really look to season openers for the truly big moments, right? They're meant to masterfully draw us back into the world of the show and set the stage for the upcoming season. We rejoin everyone's lives and see what direction they'll initially head in.
"Dragonstone," however, may be one of the most hotly-anticipated premieres of the series to date because of Daenerys' return home and her arrival at Dragonstone. Arguably, Dany reaching the shores of Westeros for the first time is the pinnacle moment the show's been building toward for seven years, and because of that I'm so happy they saved it for the final beats. In fact, I loved how the way "Dragonstone" both closed and (cold) opened. The choice to bring us back into the Twins for the mass execution of the remaining Freys was a vicious, crowd-pleasing way to cut the ribbon on Season 7. We may fear for Arya as she heads down to King's Landing to try and claim her final prize but the moment where she lured an entire hall's worth of soldiers to their doom helped provide a glimmer of hope. She goes big. Arya is not shrinking from this task.
She's also not headed back North. From the trailer footage, guesses were made that she might be. As in, she could have heard her family was all back in Winterfell and she'd chosen to reunite with them. And I'm torn. Because that's the safe journey. Arya's tale has all the signs of a fulfilling-yet-tragic one, where she'll carve a canal of flesh with her fury, but perhaps fail right at the end. So her trek south feels right, but also sad. It's the path I want her to take but I'm also fearful. She even seemed a bit overwhelmed saying it out loud to the resting soldiers (and crooning Ed Sheeran) when she admitted "I'm going to kill the queen."
In "Dragonstone," we got a great "cheer in your seats" opening and a tremendous finish where words were hardly spoken. It was just Dany taking it all in - seeing the scope and scale of Dragonstone, entering its walls, running her fingers along the Painted Table, and then getting down to business. There are only seven episodes this year so, initially, the presumption was that they might feel rushed. But they're a smidge longer too. Sometimes by just ten minutes, like tonight, while others reportedly will clock in at 90 minutes. There's time. We can have a silent Dany surveying her birthright. We can also catch up with, well, just about everyone. The Greyjoy siblings, Olenna, and Dorne were left out this week, but The Hound made an awesome showing.
The Hound's solemn return to the homestead he ruined back in Season 4 was sort of the surprise hit of "Dragonstone" in that it was unexpected, and unexpectedly moving. And I'm so glad it worked because his Season 6 return and redemption story, with Ian McShane, was hokey to the point where it almost didn't even feel like Game of Thrones. This time, with the Brotherhood, Clegane's remorse and regret felt like more of an earned moment. Now he can die a hero's death (if that's to be his fate). And good for him actually calling out the fact that Beric is basically a bland Bop Bag - The Lord of Light's personal Mr. Potato Head.
While not creating as much of a "YEAAAH!" moment as Arya's big mass poisoning party, Sansa actually bringing up to Jon that he needs to be smarter than both Ned and Robb was a fantastic moment. "Stupid mistakes" she said. I love it when things that need to be said out loud actually get said. If cool heads prevail, this can be the Starks Rebooted. It can be honor combined with cleverness, as the stubborn nobility that Jon brings is mixed with the cunning and common sense that Sansa's learned from the likes of Cersei and Littlefinger. The best of both worlds. I also liked that you could see both sides of their arguments, whether the point being debated is traitors, Cersei, or the Night King. Despite it seeming at times like Sansa is jealous of Jon's current standing, they make a nifty duo. If only Catelyn could have provided Ned with a little of what Sansa's gifting to Jon.
Speaking of saying what needs to be said: Yes, the Ironborn are terrible. "They're not good at anything," Jaime astutely offered. Sure, the subtext here was Jaime and Euron butting heads and being passive aggressive because Euron wants Cersei's hand in marriage, but the friction caused a lot of things to pop out into the open, even some nice extra history tidbits about who actually started the Iron Islands' rebellion against Robert. Hell, even Euron didn't think much of himself or his own people. What a miserable lot. Unfortunately, they're all the Lannisters have at the moment, being totally surrounded by armies who want them dead and all.
Truthfully, the Euron stuff wasn't the greatest, and the moment when Jaime stood next to Cersei watching the ships and he was like "You invited the Greyjoys?" felt a little too "TV" (she wouldn't have told him who was coming at some point before that?), but the scene between the two of them before all of this, when they discussed creating their own life and legacy without their children was excellent. Jaime wanted to mourn while Cersei needed to power through. We don't know how long these too have left what with the insurmountable odds they face so I'm glad they had this moment.
Then there was poor Sam down at the Citadel, in his endless loop of soup and poop. Of course, there's no time for Sam to actually become a Maester, as that's not why he's really there. That's more of his long-term goal once the Night King and his hellacious hordes are dispelled. He's there to find chinks in the armor (or caches of weapons, as it were) so it's very possible that he'll get booted out once they find out he swiped those tomes. Plus, sooty scaly Jonah Mormont may hold the key getting him, Gilly, and baby Sam to Dragonstone.
Riches from the Realm:
- Eastwatch-by-the-Sea. Set waypoint.
- I hope Lady Mormont keeps shaming Lord Glover all season.
- Yay! Tormund still has an eye (and eyebrow!) for Brienne.
- Hooray for actually decent human beings as soldiers. "Enemy" soldiers, at that. Arya actually managed to stumble across some armed Riverlands men who weren't raping, murdering lunatics. They actually had families who they missed and loved. Good to know! Maybe they've heard of Gendry. I just have this theory that the few decent human beings in Westeros all know each other.
- Yup, Sansa knows what Littlefinger wants. Let's just assume it's not clever.
The Verdict
"The Iron Throne" offered a bittersweet but ultimately hopeful ending to one of the most popular TV shows of all time, and in that respect, it's probably more than we could've hoped for. But after last week's undercooked (no pun intended) Daenerys twist, the finale couldn't entirely stick the landing, struggling to resolve many of the show's lingering plot threads in a satisfying and coherent conclusion (and ignoring others completely), and once again falling victim to the season's needlessly truncated episode order. It's not quite the dream of spring we might've hoped for, but it's not a disaster either. And now our watch has ended.


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Bowfishing Equipment
Bowfishing equipment is simple, inexpensive, and available from most sport shops. It consists of:
- A solid fiberglass arrow which has a specialized fish point and a slide device to which your line is attached. The slide attachment helps prevent the fish arrow from coming back toward the archer if the line gets snagged on part of the bow or if the line does not feed smoothly from its receptacle.
- Either a large spool or container that screws or tapes right onto your bow and feeds out the line like a standard spinning reel, or a closed-face spin cast reel made especially for bowfishing.


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The CloudBees Prometheus Metrics plugin exposes basic metrics in Prometheus format. The CloudBees Prometheus Metrics plugin collects:
Basic system metrics, such as garbage collection, memory pools, class-loading, and thread counts.
Metrics collected by the Metrics plugin, which is installed by default in CloudBees CI on modern cloud platforms and CloudBees CI on traditional platforms.
Other open source plugins can be safely installed to controllers to monitor a Jenkins-based instance. However, it is unsafe to install them in the operations center and is strongly discouraged. CloudBees recommends the CloudBees Prometheus Metrics plugin for the operations center. |
Installing and configuring the CloudBees Prometheus Metrics plugin
Ensure you are logged in to operations center as a user with the Administer permission.
Install the CloudBees Prometheus Metrics plugin. For more information, refer to Best practices for installing plugins on production instances.
Once installed, the Prometheus Metrics plugin can be configured to access and consume metrics from the instance.
From the operations center dashboard, in the left pane, select Manage Jenkins.
Select Configure System.
Scroll down to CloudBees Prometheus configuration and configure the plugin settings.
Figure 1. Configure the Prometheus Metrics plugin-
Path: The URL path to metrics exposed in Prometheus format. This path must be specified to prevent the metrics from being exposed in the instance root URL. If the path is not specified, the default prometheus path is used.
If the default prometheus path is used, the metrics can be read from ROOT_URL/prometheus. However, more complex paths are supported. For example, if compose/path/to/metrics is the specified path, it can be read from ROOT_URL/compose/path/to/metrics. -
Default namespace: The default namespace used by some basic metrics exposed in Prometheus format. Generally, the default namespace is ignored by Prometheus, so CloudBees recommends you leave this at the default cb_ci value.
Enable authentication for Prometheus endpoint: Enables authentication for the Prometheus endpoint.
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Metrics collection time, in seconds: The amount of time, in seconds, that must elapse for the metrics to be collected again. The metrics collection period must be a valid positive value, or the default metrics collection time of 120 seconds is used.
Any change in this value is loaded after the next scheduled collection or after a restart, whichever occurs first.
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Reducing lug wear once and for all
Earthworks contractor, Blackwell, supplies all the mining equipment at House of Water, one of the last remaining surface coal mines in the UK. The company wanted to use a Caterpillar 777G off-highway truck because of its efficient hauling capability and travel speed.
After many hours of operation in the abrasive conditions of a granite quarry, the truck had suffered significant wear in its suspension lug mountings and hoist mountings, and required maintenance work.
Because of the design of the Caterpillar 777G, line boring would have required removal and storage of the rear wheels. As each wheel weighs 4 tonnes, it is a manually intensive and risky job.
Furthermore, line boring is a costly, disruptive and time-consuming process that had been an integral part of Blackwell's business for decades due to the use of regular straight pins. At a modern mine, every minute of lost production costs money, so to keep production going, replacement machines were brought in, which increases complications and expenses. When Expander System approached the company with an alternative, they were happy to try it.
During the installation of the new pins, the heavy rear wheels of Blackwell's 777G could stay in place, which alone saved several hours.
"With the Expander System, downtime was reduced from days to just a few hours," says Blackwell Plant Manager, David Lancashire. "While it's too early to judge the long-term savings, the system has already given us impressive savings in both time and money."
The Expander System also increases the lifecycle of the joint up to 50,000 hours. After a positive start with the system, Blackwell recently used it on a wheeled loader and are looking to increase its use as a repair option on their extensive fleet.
Customer: BLACKWELL, PART OF HARGREAVES SERVICES PLC
Solution: EXPANDER SYSTEM
Business: EARTHWORKS CONTRACTORS
Project: HOUSE OF WATER COAL MINE, SCOTLAND
Challenge: REDUCING DOWNTIME DURING MAINTENANCE
Application: TRUCK SUSPENSION LEG MOUNTINGS AND HOIST MOUNTINGS
Time saved: DOWNTIME REDUCED FROM DAYS TO A FEW HOURS


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Mesothelioma is a type of cancer that develops in the lining that covers the outer surface of some of the body's organs. It's usually linked to asbestos exposure.
Mesothelioma mainly affects the lining of the lungs (pleural mesothelioma), although it can also affect the lining of the tummy (peritoneal mesothelioma), heart or testicles.
More than 2,700 people are diagnosed with mesothelioma each year in the UK. Most cases are diagnosed in people aged 75 and over, and men are affected more commonly than women.
Unfortunately, it's not possible to cure mesothelioma, although treatment can help control the symptoms.
Symptoms of mesothelioma
The symptoms of mesothelioma tend to develop gradually over time. They typically do not appear until several decades after exposure to asbestos.
Symptoms of mesothelioma in the lining of the lungs include:
- chest pain
- shortness of breath
- fatigue (extreme tiredness)
- a high temperature and sweating, particularly at night
- a persistent cough
- loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss
- clubbed (swollen) fingertips
Symptoms of mesothelioma in the lining of the tummy include:
- tummy pain or swelling
- feeling or being sick
- loss of appetite and unexplained weight loss
- diarrhoea or constipation
See a GP if you have any persistent or worrying symptoms. Tell them about any exposure to asbestos you may have had in the past.
What causes mesothelioma?
Mesothelioma is almost always caused by exposure to asbestos, a group of minerals made of microscopic fibres that used to be widely used in construction.
These tiny fibres can easily get in the lungs, where they get stuck, damaging the lungs over time.
It usually takes a while for this to cause any obvious problems, with mesothelioma typically developing more than 20 years after exposure to asbestos.
The use of asbestos was completely banned in 1999, so the risk of exposure is much lower nowadays. But materials containing asbestos are still found in many older buildings.
Read more about asbestosis.
How mesothelioma is diagnosed
If your GP suspects mesothelioma, they'll refer you to a hospital specialist for some tests.
A number of different tests may need to be carried out, including:
- an X-ray of your chest or tummy
- a CT scan – a number of X-ray images are taken to create a detailed image of the inside of the body
- fluid drainage – if there's a build-up of fluid around the lungs or in the tummy, a sample may be removed using a needle inserted through the skin so the fluid can be analysed
- a thoracoscopy or laparoscopy – the inside of your chest or tummy is examined with a long, thin camera that's inserted through a small cut (incision) under sedation or anaesthetic; a sample of tissue (biopsy) may be removed so it can be analysed
These tests can help diagnose mesothelioma and show how far it's spread.
Treatments for mesothelioma
The best treatment for mesothelioma depends on several factors, including how far the cancer has spread and your general health.
As mesothelioma is often diagnosed at an advanced stage, treatment is usually focused on controlling the symptoms and prolonging life for as long as possible.
This is known as palliative or supportive care.
Possible treatments include:
- chemotherapy – this is the main treatment for mesothelioma and involves using medicine to help shrink the cancer
- radiotherapy – this involves using high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells; it may be used to slow the cancer down and keep it under control
- surgery – an operation to remove the cancerous area can be done if mesothelioma is detected at a very early stage, although it's not clear whether surgery is helpful
- immunotherapy – this involves using a combination of 2 medicines to help stimulate the immune system to attack cancer cells; immunotherapy cannot cure mesothelioma, but it can slow the spread of the disease and prolong lifespan
You'll also probably have treatment for your individual symptoms to help you feel as comfortable as possible.
For example, regularly draining fluid from your chest may help your breathing and strong painkillers may help relieve your pain.
Sometimes, a procedure is carried out to stop the fluid coming back by making the outside of the lungs stick to the inside of your chest (pleurodesis), or a tube is put in your chest to drain the fluid regularly at home.
Your doctors should discuss these treatments with you.
Outlook for mesothelioma
Unfortunately, the outlook for mesothelioma tends to be poor. This is because it does not usually cause any obvious symptoms until late on and can progress quite quickly once it reaches this stage.
There are currently around 2,500 deaths from mesothelioma each year in the UK. This number is expected to drop in the future because asbestos was banned in 1999.
More information and support
If you'd like to find out more about mesothelioma, the following organisations can provide further information, advice and support:
- Cancer Research UK: mesothelioma
- Macmillan Cancer Support: mesothelioma
- Asthma + Lung UK: mesothelioma
- Mesothelioma UK: mesothelioma FAQs
If you or a relative were exposed to asbestos in the UK, you may be entitled to a payment as part of a government-run assistance scheme:
A similar scheme is also available for people who were exposed to asbestos while serving in the armed forces:


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A CarFit event, which offers older adults the opportunity to check how well their personal vehicles "fit" them, will take place at Helen Hayes Hospital on Saturday May 17, 2014 from 9 a.m. to noon.
CarFit is a nationwide educational program created by the American Society on Aging and developed in collaboration with AAA (American Automobile Association), AARP and the American Occupational Therapy Association. The event, which will take place at the physical rehabilitation hospital in West Haverstraw, is free of charge and open to the public.
The program is designed to help older drivers find out how well they currently fit their personal vehicle, to highlight actions they can take to improve their fit, and to promote conversations about driver safety and community mobility. A proper fit in one's personal vehicle can greatly increase not only the driver's comfort and safety, but also the safety of others.
Participants will each have a 20-minute, one-on-one consultation with a certified CarFit technician. The technician will go through a 12 point checklist to evaluate vehicle fit, including: mirror adjustment to reduce blind spots; foot positioning on the gas and brake pedals; seat positioning and line of sight over the steering wheel; properly adjusted head restraints. Hospital occupational therapists will be on hand to make recommendations of adjustments and adaptations, including adaptive devices such as seat belt extenders or steering wheel covers. Such changes help drivers benefit from their vehicle's safety features and enable them to be in better control behind the wheel.
It has been estimated that by the year 2030, 65 million older drivers will be on our roads. Changes in vision, flexibility and strength, range of motion and height can all affect driving. Ensuring that your vehicle is a good fit to accommodate such changes is a valuable safety precaution.
The CarFit event on May 17 is free, but an appointment is required. To schedule an appointment, call 845-786-4809. For additional information on CarFit, visit the web site at www.car-fit.org.


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Companies, communities, and homes around the world choose DuPont Water Solutions to help make water safer and more accessible. Industries and markets count on us to become more efficient; to make food more nutritious; and to offer more effective pharmaceuticals. Our innovation and collaboration with the world's best water experts enable ecosystems of innovation to deploy vital technologies in new, market-shaping ways.
With a global network of accessible knowledge and a market-leading portfolio of purification and separation technologies, we enable the water productivity from which health, profits, and possibilities spring. In a world of increasing water scarcity, we provide a proven path that balances resource productivity and responsibility.
We offer a broad portfolio of globally recognized, industry-leading solutions to help you produce, purify, and extract some of the world's most commercially important products.
Our products are based on decades of industry leadership, and include ion exchange resins, reverse osmosis and nanofiltration membranes, ultrafiltration membranes, and electrodeionization products, with globally recognized brands like FilmTec™, FilmTec™ Fortilife™, TapTec™, and the Amber series to meet your water and specialty separation challenges.
We offer separation and purification support to markets and industries across the globe, including residential and municipal, power generation, oil and gas, healthcare, commercial industries, chemical and petrochemical, microelectronics, and food and beverage for a wide range of applications, including minimal liquid discharge (MLD).
Unmatched in our global reach, industry experience, and expertise, our focus on reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, ultrafiltration, ion exchange, and electrodeionization places us in perfect position to help industries, organizations, and communities prosper. We offer the broadest ion exchange portfolio in the industry, and provide leading innovations in membrane science.
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Alice Cooper Clarifies 'Death Pact' Story
After Alice Cooper revealed he'd made a "pact" with his wife to die together, because neither of them wants to live without the other, he clarified what he meant.
He's been married to Sheryl Goddard for 43 years, and she's been part of his live performances since 1975, along with their daughter Calico. Cooper, whose real name VIncent Furnier, is 71 while Sheryl is 10 years younger. They were wed a year after they met.
"We've made a pact – there is no way of surviving without each other," he told the Mirror in a recent interview. "I couldn't live without her. We always said there will never be a time when one of us will be mourning the other. Whenever it does happen, we are going to go together. I've been married 43 years to the greatest girl in the world. We have never cheated on each other."
He added that "she dances better now than she did in 1975. You would think people would want to get away from the wives, but she is my best friend. And there is no way of surviving without each other."
Cooper has now explained his comment further. "Sheryl and I do not have a death pact, we have a life pact," he said in a new statement. "We love life so much. What I was meaning was that because we're almost always together, at home and on the road, that if something did happen to either of us, we'd most likely be together at the time."
In a separate interview, Cooper said his passion for playing golf was a way of managing the issues that led to his health problems due to alcoholism in the '70s. "I play golf six days a week, and the reason is I had to find something that was going to be an addiction, because I like being addicted," he told the i newspaper (via Music-News.com). "But I want to be addicted to something that's not going to kill me."
He said he "was drinking a bottle of VO [whiskey] a day. When you're 25 or 26, you think you're indestructible. I started throwing up blood, and that's when you're alarm goes off. The doctor said, 'I give you two months before you join all the other Hollywood Vampires, the guys that are gone.' I took that seriously. ... I looked at it this way: God gave me another chance and said, 'Look I don't mind you being a rock 'n' roller at all but also be a Christian,' and I went, 'Okay, that sounds good to me.'"
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This section describes how using the JMS API in enterprise bean applications or web applications differs from using it in application clients.
A general rule in the Java EE platform specification applies to all Java EE components that use the JMS API within EJB or web containers: Application components in the web and EJB containers must not attempt to create more than one active (not closed) Session object per connection.
This rule does not apply to application clients. The application client container supports the creation of multiple sessions for each connection.
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@Resource(lookup = "jms/ConnectionFactory") private static ConnectionFactory connectionFactory; @Resource(lookup = "jms/Queue") private static Queue queue;
However, when you use this annotation in a session bean, a message-driven bean, or a web component, do not declare the resource static:
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If you declare the resource static in these components, runtime errors will result.
Using Session Beans to Produce and to Synchronously Receive Messages
An application that produces messages or synchronously receives them can use a session bean to perform these operations. The example in An Application That Uses the JMS API with a Session Bean uses a stateless session bean to publish messages to a topic.
Because a blocking synchronous receive ties up server resources, it is not a good programming practice to use such a receive call in an enterprise bean. Instead, use a timed synchronous receive, or use a message-driven bean to receive messages asynchronously. For details about blocking and timed synchronous receives, see Writing the Clients for the Synchronous Receive Example.
Using the JMS API in an enterprise bean is in many ways similar to using it in an application client. The main differences are the areas of resource management and transactions.
Managing JMS Resources in Session Beans
The JMS API resources are a JMS API connection and a JMS API session. In general, it is important to release JMS resources when they are no longer being used. Here are some useful practices to follow:
If you wish to maintain a JMS API resource only for the life span of a business method, it is a good idea to close the resource in a finally block within the method.
If you would like to maintain a JMS API resource for the life span of an enterprise bean instance, it is a good idea to use a @PostConstruct callback method to create the resource and to use a @PreDestroy callback method to close the resource. If you use a stateful session bean and you wish to maintain the JMS API resource in a cached state, you must close the resource in a @PrePassivate callback method and set its value to null, and you must create it again in a @PostActivate callback method.
Managing Transactions in Session Beans
Instead of using local transactions, you use container-managed transactions for bean methods that perform sends or receives, allowing the EJB container to handle transaction demarcation. Because container-managed transactions are the default, you do not have to use an annotation to specify them.
You can use bean-managed transactions and the javax.transaction.UserTransaction interface's transaction demarcation methods, but you should do so only if your application has special requirements and you are an expert in using transactions. Usually, container-managed transactions produce the most efficient and correct behavior. This tutorial does not provide any examples of bean-managed transactions.
Using Message-Driven Beans to Receive Messages Asynchronously
The sections What Is a Message-Driven Bean? and How Does the JMS API Work with the Java EE Platform? describe how the Java EE platform supports a special kind of enterprise bean, the message-driven bean, which allows Java EE applications to process JMS messages asynchronously. Session beans allow you to send messages and to receive them synchronously but not asynchronously.
A message-driven bean is a message listener that can reliably consume messages from a queue or a durable subscription. The messages can be sent by any Java EE component (from an application client, another enterprise bean, or a web component) or from an application or a system that does not use Java EE technology.
Like a message listener in an application client, a message-driven bean contains an onMessage method that is called automatically when a message arrives. Like a message listener, a message-driven bean class can implement helper methods invoked by the onMessage method to aid in message processing.
A message-driven bean, however, differs from an application client's message listener in the following ways:
Certain setup tasks are performed by the EJB container.
The bean class uses the @MessageDriven annotation to specify properties for the bean or the connection factory, such as a destination type, a durable subscription, a message selector, or an acknowledgment mode. The examples in Chapter 48, Java Message Service Examples show how the JMS resource adapter works in the GlassFish Server.
The EJB container automatically performs several setup tasks that a stand-alone client must perform:
Creating a message consumer to receive the messages. Instead of creating a message consumer in your source code, you associate the message-driven bean with a destination and a connection factory at deployment time. If you want to specify a durable subscription or use a message selector, you do this at deployment time also.
Registering the message listener. You must not call setMessageListener.
Specifying a message acknowledgment mode. The default mode, AUTO_ACKNOWLEDGE, is used unless it is overridden by a property setting.
If JMS is integrated with the application server using a resource adapter, the JMS resource adapter handles these tasks for the EJB container.
Your message-driven bean class must implement the javax.jms.MessageListener interface and the onMessage method.
It may implement a @PostConstruct callback method to create a connection, and a @PreDestroy callback method to close the connection. Typically, it implements these methods if it produces messages or performs synchronous receives from another destination.
The bean class commonly injects a MessageDrivenContext resource, which provides some additional methods you can use for transaction management.
The main difference between a message-driven bean and a session bean is that a message-driven bean has no local or remote interface. Instead, it has only a bean class.
A message-driven bean is similar in some ways to a stateless session bean: Its instances are relatively short-lived and retain no state for a specific client. The instance variables of the message-driven bean instance can contain some state across the handling of client messages: for example, a JMS API connection, an open database connection, or an object reference to an enterprise bean object.
Like a stateless session bean, a message-driven bean can have many interchangeable instances running at the same time. The container can pool these instances to allow streams of messages to be processed concurrently. The container attempts to deliver messages in chronological order when that would not impair the concurrency of message processing, but no guarantees are made as to the exact order in which messages are delivered to the instances of the message-driven bean class. Because concurrency can affect the order in which messages are delivered, you should write your applications to handle messages that arrive out of sequence.
For example, your application could manage conversations by using application-level sequence numbers. An application-level conversation control mechanism with a persistent conversation state could cache later messages until earlier messages have been processed.
Another way to ensure order is to have each message or message group in a conversation require a confirmation message that the sender blocks on receipt of. This forces the responsibility for order back onto the sender and more tightly couples senders to the progress of message-driven beans.
To create a new instance of a message-driven bean, the container does the following:
Instantiates the bean
Performs any required resource injection
Calls the @PostConstruct callback method, if it exists
To remove an instance of a message-driven bean, the container calls the @PreDestroy callback method.
Figure 47-9 shows the lifecycle of a message-driven bean.
Managing Distributed Transactions
JMS client applications use JMS API local transactions (described in Using JMS API Local Transactions), which allow the grouping of sends and receives within a specific JMS session. Java EE applications commonly use distributed transactions to ensure the integrity of accesses to external resources. For example, distributed transactions allow multiple applications to perform atomic updates on the same database, and they allow a single application to perform atomic updates on multiple databases.
In a Java EE application that uses the JMS API, you can use transactions to combine message sends or receives with database updates and other resource manager operations. You can access resources from multiple application components within a single transaction. For example, a servlet can start a transaction, access multiple databases, invoke an enterprise bean that sends a JMS message, invoke another enterprise bean that modifies an EIS system using the Connector architecture, and finally commit the transaction. Your application cannot, however, both send a JMS message and receive a reply to it within the same transaction; the restriction described in Using JMS API Local Transactions still applies.
Distributed transactions within the EJB container can be either of two kinds:
Container-managed transactions: The EJB container controls the integrity of your transactions without your having to call commit or rollback. Container-managed transactions are recommended for Java EE applications that use the JMS API. You can specify appropriate transaction attributes for your enterprise bean methods.
Use the Required transaction attribute (the default) to ensure that a method is always part of a transaction. If a transaction is in progress when the method is called, the method will be part of that transaction; if not, a new transaction will be started before the method is called and will be committed when the method returns.
Bean-managed transactions: You can use these in conjunction with the javax.transaction.UserTransaction interface, which provides its own commit and rollback methods you can use to delimit transaction boundaries. Bean-managed transactions are recommended only for those who are experienced in programming transactions.
You can use either container-managed transactions or bean-managed transactions with message-driven beans. To ensure that all messages are received and handled within the context of a transaction, use container-managed transactions and use the Required transaction attribute (the default) for the onMessage method. This means that if there is no transaction in progress, a new transaction will be started before the method is called and will be committed when the method returns.
When you use container-managed transactions, you can call the following MessageDrivenContext methods:
setRollbackOnly: Use this method for error handling. If an exception occurs, setRollbackOnly marks the current transaction so that the only possible outcome of the transaction is a rollback.
getRollbackOnly: Use this method to test whether the current transaction has been marked for rollback.
If you use bean-managed transactions, the delivery of a message to the onMessage method takes place outside the distributed transaction context. The transaction begins when you call the UserTransaction.begin method within the onMessage method, and it ends when you call UserTransaction.commit or UserTransaction.rollback. Any call to the Connection.createSession method must take place within the transaction. If you call UserTransaction.rollback, the message is not redelivered, whereas calling setRollbackOnly for container-managed transactions does cause a message to be redelivered.
Neither the JMS API specification nor the Enterprise JavaBeans specification (available from http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=318) specifies how to handle calls to JMS API methods outside transaction boundaries. The Enterprise JavaBeans specification does state that the EJB container is responsible for acknowledging a message that is successfully processed by the onMessage method of a message-driven bean that uses bean-managed transactions. Using bean-managed transactions allows you to process the message by using more than one transaction or to have some parts of the message processing take place outside a transaction context. In most cases, however, container-managed transactions provide greater reliability and are therefore preferable.
When you create a session in an enterprise bean, the container ignores the arguments you specify, because it manages all transactional properties for enterprise beans. It is still a good idea to specify arguments of true and 0 to the createSession method to make this situation clear:
session = connection.createSession(true, 0);
When you use container-managed transactions, you normally use the Required transaction attribute (the default) for your enterprise bean's business methods.
You do not specify a message acknowledgment mode when you create a message-driven bean that uses container-managed transactions. The container acknowledges the message automatically when it commits the transaction.
If a message-driven bean uses bean-managed transactions, the message receipt cannot be part of the bean-managed transaction, so the container acknowledges the message outside the transaction.
If the onMessage method throws a RuntimeException, the container does not acknowledge processing the message. In that case, the JMS provider will redeliver the unacknowledged message in the future.
Using the JMS API with Application Clients and Web Components
An application client in a Java EE application can use the JMS API in much the same way that a stand-alone client program does. It can produce messages, and it can consume messages by using either synchronous receives or message listeners. See Chapter 25, A Message-Driven Bean Example for an example of an application client that produces messages. For an example of using an application client to produce and to consume messages, see An Application Example That Deploys a Message-Driven Bean on Two Servers.
The Java EE platform specification does not impose strict constraints on how web components should use the JMS API. In the GlassFish Server, a web component can send messages and consume them synchronously but cannot consume them asynchronously.
Because a blocking synchronous receive ties up server resources, it is not a good programming practice to use such a receive call in a web component. Instead, use a timed synchronous receive. For details about blocking and timed synchronous receives, see Writing the Clients for the Synchronous Receive Example.


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The Mexican red-kneed tarantula is a docile spider that inhabits the desert and scrublands of Mexico. And, just like all other arthropods, the red-kneed tarantula must moult in order to grow.
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A cantor, also called a chanter (in Greek, ψάλτης, psaltis; in Slavonic, Пѣвецъ, pievets), is a lay person in minor orders who chants responses and hymns in the services of the church. Particularly in the Byzantine tradition, the cantor in charge of doing the music for a service is referred to as the protopsaltis (προτοψάλτης), a term which may also refer to an office within a diocese or whole jurisdiction.
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Unfortunately, we may have a much better reason in a few months to do a 1031 exchange when and if the Bush tax cuts expire. However, there will likely be folks who decide to cash out and sell before the new rates take effect. Frankly, that make a bunch of sense if the new rates are going to be at or near the earned income rate.
However, for the purposes of this post, which is the third in my miniseries on 1031 exchanges, let's look at the five primary reasons for doing a 1031 exchange.
Preservation of equity
A properly structured and executed 1031 exchange provides the investor with the opportunity to defer 100% of federal and state capital gains taxes. This, for all practical purposes, provides the investor an interest free no term loan on taxes due until the property is sold. Capital gains taxes can be delayed indefinitely by exchanging from one property to the next thereby greatly increasing the value of their investments over time.
Many investors 1031 exchange from a property that is free and clear into a more valuable property using some leverage. A larger property provides more cash flow plus a greater depreciation write-off, which increases the return on investment. This of course depends on market interest rates being lower than market caps rates. If market caps are 6% and the market interest rate is 7% then this isn't going to much help.
Conversely, if an investor owns a property free and clear in a 4 ½ cap market and sells, does a 1031 exchange, and invests in one or more (200% rule applies) properties at a 6% cap with 50% leverage, there can be a huge increase in after tax cash flow.
1031 exchanges allow an investor to diversify to other geographic regions or to other products types. If an investor owns in a cyclical market such as LA with huge swings up and down, it would be possible to diversify some of those holding into markets such as the plain states or certain cities in the Midwest where average appreciation is lower, but a far more linear market plus the cap rate is a couple of points higher.
Another possibility is exchanging from high maintenance PITA multifamily residential into absolute net retail where there are properties with no landlord responsibilities. .
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This one ties in the above a bit. Maybe you as an investor have accumulated a large portfolio of multifamily residential properties over the years and you're not quite as young as you were 15 or 20 years ago so you might be looking for a way to reduce the multifamily residential headaches by doing a 1031 exchange on some of your properties into absolute net or triple net retail or even net leased distribution or warehouse.
Estate planning
I've had several calls just like this recently. Sometimes a number of family members inherit one large property and disagree about what they want to do with it. Some want to continue holding the investment and some desire to sell it immediately for cash. By exchanging from one large property into several smaller properties, an investor can designate that, after their death, each heir will receive a different property, which they can either hold or sell.
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Gender, Work and Families
The focus of this course is on understanding "women's work" and "men's work" as gendered practices. Economics of paid and unpaid work at various scales of production and reproduction including the family and the nation state are examined. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both WOMN 2036 and either WOMN 2035 or 3035.
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The post below was originally written on September 12, 2001, at http://paulfrankenstein.org/2001/09/91101.html; more entries from that month can be found here.
This is what I was doing yesterday.
I was at home, getting ready to leave for work. The message on the internet was short and slightly irreverent:
BREAKING NEWS from CNN.com -- World trade center damaged; unconfirmed reports say a plane has crashed into tower. Giant monkey unharmed.
I thought it was a joke. But I checked in to CNN.com, just in case. Staring me in the face was a simple picture of the World Trade Center, smoke pouring from one tower.
I flipped on the television. Every channel had that same, bizarre image on - a single tower billowing dark, black smoke. A thin dark line stretched across the face of the tower, possibly where the wing of the aircraft had hit the tower.
But the line was so big. Huge. If that really was the impact line, then it must have been a big airplane. A commercial airliner. Unthinkable.
On the television, commentators were chattering away, buttressing and then contradicting each other, their apparent confusion only making the matter worse.
I reached for the phone and called my mother.
"Mom, turn on the television. An airplane just crashed in to the World Trade Center."
I couldn't see the towers from the windows of my apartment, so I stood there, looking at the pictures, trying to wrap my brain around the impossible. I remembered that in the late 1940s, a B-25 bomber flew into the Empire State Building in the fog. Those images, of the bomber half-in and half-out of the old skyscraper, were bouncing around in my head. But it was a clear, sunny day. And the airplane - what kind of airplane? - had been swallowed entirely by the tower. I looked out the window, to see who was out on the street. And then I glanced back to the television, only to see a monstrous fireball emerge from the side of the other, previously pristine, tower.
"Oh my God, Mom, there was just a huge explosion in the other tower!"
Up to that point I had thought that it had been an accident. But then, the other explosion, the other tower. I at first thought that I had been mistaken, that there had been a second explosion in the first tower, or maybe debris from the first accident had somehow--someway--gotten into the second tower and exploded late. But there had been no marks on the face of that second, southern tower. And a little voice inside my head quietly--persistently--forebodingly said "This was not an accident."
The smoke was now streaming out of both towers. I don't remember if I stood - if I sat - if I paced around my apartment. I was flipping channels rapidly, the differing views from different helicopters of the two wounded towers providing an almost cubist experience; with a little imagination I could see myself flying around the towers. I wanted them to go back to the explosion, to look at it again, to see if you could see something - anything.
And then they slowed down the tape. And the shape was unmistakable. Blurry, pixilated, fuzzy, out-of-focus. But clear enough. A twin-engined passenger airliner. Heading for that southern tower. Dipping behind the first stricken tower. Emerging for only a frame or two in the gap between the skyscrapers. Vanishing again. And then that massive, horrible explosion.
Horror. Nothing but horror.
And they played it again.
The President of the United States came on the television, and gave a brief statement, confirming what had been an increasingly sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. An "apparent terrorist attack."
Other reports started to trickle in. An explosion at the Pentagon. Airports closing. Amidst the confusion, the only thing that seemed clear to me was that nobody knew anything.
I asked my mother if she'd heard from my brother.
"No word yet."
Stuyvesant--his high school--is less than five blocks from the WTC.
I sat down at my computer and fired off a quick status email to my sister: "I'm OK; Mom & Dad are OK; am assuming that William is OK." I followed it with a quick email to my brother, betting on the slim possibility that he might be able to access his email. "William - report in. Email, cell phone, phone home, whatever."
I slowly got dressed, and went downstairs to go to work.
The streets were empty. I walked down to 66th Street, looking for a taxi or a bus to take me to work. I found one on the corner, near the ABC studios. I told the taxi driver where to take me, and then he turned to me and said "One of the towers collapsed."
"One of the skyscrapers collapsed. The second one that got hit. It's gone."
I was thinking that perhaps the top of the building, above the explosion, had toppled, leaving a truncated, grotesque mockery of a once-proud building.
"No, it collapsed completely."
Then he told me how he had been downtown only five minutes before the first plane had hit. He showed me his log book. I looked at it. 8:40 a.m., the intersection of Water and Wall streets.
The street outside of my office was jammed with people. It looked like half the population of the building had decided to spontaneously evacuate.
Inside, the building was eerily quiet; an uncommon hush had descended. It was a hush that would spread across the city. I found my boss, and asked him if there was anything that I could do. Nothing was the response. I asked him if we had had any people at the World Trade Center that morning. The news was not good. One of our engineers had been there and we hadn't heard from him.
I checked my email, and responded quickly to a couple of "Are you OK" queries. No word from my brother. That wasn't entirely surprising, as local phone line service at my house had gone out before I left for work, and my cell phone wasn't working at all either.
I settled down in front of a TV, trying to digest what had happened--what was happening. The pictures made it clear that there was no more southern tower at the World Trade Center. Only the one was left. A shroud of smoke and dust at the base of the center made it difficult to tell how much--if any--of the southern tower was left.
The talking heads were saying that New York city schools were in "lock-down" mode. There were reports that there was a car bomb at the State Department. The Mall in Washington DC was on fire. No, there was no car bomb. Someone was saying that there was a third plane that brought down the tower. An airliner had crashed in Pennsylvania somewhere. A bomb scare downtown. Missing, hijacked aircraft. All air traffic in the United States had been grounded.
Then the second tower collapsed. There was no commentary as the top part of the skyscraper gently settled, with a gray skirt of smoke coming out around the tower where the aircraft had hit. And then in horrifying slow motion, but with sickening quickness, the rest of the tower collapsed upon itself.
There were more reports of schools still being in lockdown, but that some kids were being allowed out in the custody of their parents. An email came in from a senior vice-president, telling everyone to go home. On the television, lower Manhattan had been engulfed by a giant gray cloud.
I grabbed my bag and found my boss. There was nothing I could do at the office, so I told him I was going to try to find my brother. Miracle of miracles, the phones at work were working. I called my parents and told them what I was going to do. They still hadn't heard from him.
I left the building and started walking down Tenth Avenue. It was a beautiful day out. Warm, but not too hot. There were far more people walking uptown than down. There was a strange in the air. I heard the roar of a jet fighter overhead, and looked for it. An F-15 over the Hudson. I never thought I'd see the day when armed interceptors patrolled the skies over Manhattan. Then again, I never thought I'd see the day when the World Trade Center would be destroyed in suicidal terrorist attacks.
I walked down to 15th Street, where Tenth Avenue meets the West Side Highway. Hordes of teenagers were making their way uptown along the bike path along the river. Someone grabbed one of the kids and asked them where they were from.
"We're from Stuyvesant High School. They evacuated the school."
I slowly started to pick my way down the bike path, scanning the crowds for my brother's face. There was no traffic at all on the West Side Highway. I would later learn that Manhattan had been sealed off -- no traffic either in or out. There had been a exodus across the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge as people made their way by foot across the East River, away from Manhattan, away from danger.
I was less than two miles from ground zero when the rest of the students from Stuyvesant had passed me. There were other refugees from lower Manhattan heading up, too -- men, women, in varying states of griminess. A woman in a dark blue suit was crying in to her cell phone, saying she had seen people jump from the burning towers.
Ambulances would punctuate the stillness, full sirens on, heading north, heading for hospitals. Emergency vehicles -- fire trucks, cars with sirens on them, cops on motorcycles -- would appear out of nowhere, rushing somewhere, and then disappear.
And then people started running north, away from the disaster area. I heard cries of "Gas Leak!" I ran across to the east side of the street. There was a pay phone there. I picked it up -- it was ten seconds until I got a dial tone. I got through this time, but they hadn't heard from William yet.
I yielded the phone to a middle-aged woman in a tan suit. And then people started running again. A construction worker was yelling "Gas Leak!" again. I grabbed the woman, and told her to start running, to forget the phone call.
I cut inland, into the West Village, until I found another pay phone. My cell phone was still not working. I was in line behind a Chinese teenager who was giving a quick update to someone -- her parents? a friend? an aunt? -- in rapid-fire Cantonese. This time I got a dial tone immediately. My parents still hadn't heard from William.
I walked back up Hudson Street, joining the human migration northwards. I stopped and looked for a bus. No sign of a bus.
As I neared 14th Street, a man on a bicycle passed me, his long hair dancing in the wind as he sprinted up towards Eighth Avenue. Across the back of his white T-shirt he had written "Give Blood."
I stopped at Martin's house on 22nd Street to see how he was doing. He was fine, as were Sandy and Kristina. His cat Floyd was pretty freaked out. Of course, Floyd is not exactly a normal cat. Called my parents again. William had finally called. We had missed each other somehow. I think that he had already passed me by the time I had gotten down to the West Side Highway. I later learned that he was in the process of evacuating his school when the second tower collapsed.
I made another stop along Eighth Avenue, at the offices of a production company that I do some freelance work for. The office was abandoned, save for a few people who worked a company that sublet space from my employers. I checked my email again, responding to the emergency "How is Everybody" emails that were flying around. I also updated my webpage, alerting any potential visitors that I was fine, as was the rest of my family (I took the time to fix an embarrassing error: for some reason, I'd been entering all the September entries with "August").
Then I finally made it the rest of the way up to my parents' house, spotting a few more F-15s keeping the peace along the way.
It is hard to explain the feel of the city now. There is an odd, stilted quietude; there are virtually no cars on the street, and people are hushed. It feels depopulated, as if the normal hustle and bustle of the city had been told pack it in for the night and go home. There were very few people out on the streets last night. It feels like the city as a whole has withdrawn because of the shock and the horror; as if it has paused for a moment of collective introspection. Walking home last night I passed a well-dressed blonde woman standing in a phone booth. She was crying into the phone.
The surreal quality of the city right now has been amplified by the fact that the prevailing winds have shifted today, and are now coming out of the south, spreading the fumes from the disaster scene across Manhattan. There is a faint smell of burnt rubber hanging in the air, even as far up as my apartment. And then there's the , a sonic manifestation of the pensiveness that pervades the city; and the occasional sirens, not unusual in the usual urban symphonies of honks and squeals and assorted random noises, but unsettling in the slightly nervous calm that grips New York.
New York City is a tough city, and it will harden you.
But the response of the people of this city has been astonishing. Yesterday there were four and five-hour waits to give blood. Today, emergency centers around the city were having to turn away volunteers -- total strangers, most without any sort of medical training, just New Yorkers willing to lend a hand in their city's hour of need. I have seen with my own eyes hundreds of volunteers manning phones in emergency response centers, helping people try and track down missing and injured loved ones. Impromptu memorials have gone up in parks downtown. The Mayor was asked at a news conference if there had been any looting. He looked at the questioner as if they were from Mars.
(I don't think that anyone would accuse me of being the world's biggest Rudy Giuliani fan, but he has really distinguished himself, showing real leadership in this crisis. I won't mention other people in leadership positions who did not distinguish themselves during this calamity.)
I don't know who masterminded this attack.
I don't know what an "appropriate" response would be.
There is that old cliche: "And at that moment, everything changed forever."
I do know that a city has changed forever.
I do know that life has changed forever.
Things really never will ever be the same.
I am lucky.
I am safe. My family is safe. My friends are safe.
I can only hope that you and your are healthy and safe as well.
My thoughts tonight -- and, I suspect, for many days and nights to come -- are with those who have not been as fortunate or as lucky as I.
Good night.


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Roger Keith Barrett
Birth: | Jan. 6, 1946 |
Death: | Jul. 7, 2006 |
Musician, Songwriter, Singer, Artist. Barret cofounded the band, Pink Floyd, along with Roger Waters, Nick Mason and Richard Wright in 1965. Their 1967 album "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" was a huge commercial hit. Of the eleven songs on the album he wrote eight and co-wrote two others. An innovative guitar player, he was never afraid to experiment with techniques for different sound. The group's distinct sound can be directly related to his experimentation. As the success of the band grew his experimentation with drugs such as LSD caused erratic behavior that increased as time went on. This combined with his mental illness led to an increasing lack of participation in the bands musical endeavors. Another guitarist was asked to join the band to compensate for this increasing lack of performance. The band members were not amused with his behavior and by 1968 he was officially released from the band. He released two solo projects. The first album "The Madcap Laughs" was produced by David Gilmour and Roger Waters. It is widely believed that the song "Dark Globe" is a self description of one suffering from schizophrenia. The second album "Barrett", took 6 months to record mostly due to his mental state. It was produced by David Gilmour. On this second album Gilmour played guitar, Rick Wright played keyboards and Jerry Shirley played drums. Most believe the songs on the albums were written in the years before Pink Floyd and that he wrote no songs after leaving the band. During these years he was not in the public eye with regard to his music. With the exception of one performance on radio all of his music was in studio. The one live performance was on June 06, 1970 in London at the Olympia Exhibition Hall. He performed with Gilmour and Shirley. Strangely, he put down his guitar and left the stage after just four songs. He disappeared for a year after a performance on February 16, 1971 where he performed three songs from "Barrett". He formed the band Stars in 1972 but it only lasted a short while. In 1975 while Pink Floyd was recording "Wish You Were Here", he showed up at the session to watch them record "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". The song was written by Roger Waters about Barrett. The band members did not recognize Barrett as he had changed so much as his mental illness had progressed. He continued to shun all public attention. By 1974 he was ready to record again. However, that session only lasted three days. At this time it appears as though he cut his ties with the music business. He sold rights to his solo albums to the record label and moved to a London hotel room. After the funds of the sale were depleted he walked to Cambridge, England where his mother lived and moved into her basement. He lived there for the rest of his life. It was at this time that he reverted back to his given name, Roger Barrett. He had taken the name Syd at the age of 15 after a well-known local Cambridge drummer, Sid Barrett. He changed the spelling to Syd to avoid confusion. From then on he lived his life in relative obscurity and seclusion, turning to graphic art for his creative endeavors. While trying to live a quiet life he was still pursued by journalists and paparazzi. At his death Barrett left an estate of almost $3 million to his two brothers and two sisters. This was largely due to his former bandmates, who made sure that Pink Floyd royalty money was paid to him throughout the years. David Gilmour was quoted as saying, "we made sure the money got to him alright". Interest in his music and curiosity over his seclusion never diminished. (bio by: Julie Karen Hancock (Cooper) Jackson) | |
Burial: Cremated, Ashes given to family or friend. |


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I think in writing novels, the logline maybe claims more importance than it really has — some folks paint a world where you have to sharpen this short blurb of your own work to an atom-splitting point, keeping the weapon in your back pocket because at some point you may find yourself at a coffee counter with an agent or editor and have a sudden chance to pitch them. (Which I'm sure is awesome for the agent or editor. Particularly if they haven't had their coffee yet. Pro-Tip: never pitch an agent or editor before they have consumed at least one cup of their daily caffeine. You may lose a hand, an eye, a few toes.)
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Plus, you're keeping me from refilling my drink.
(Pro-Tip: never keep a writer from refilling your drink. We won't just take a hand, eye, toes. We'll go for the soul. We'll write you into our next book as a possum-molesting Neo-Nazi who gets thrown into a wood chipper as everyone else laughs.)
Clarity and conciseness are powerful skills for the writer.
So, let's practice.
You're working on something now, I take it?
Give us the logline.
Meaning, hook us into the story with a single sentence.
Then: feel free to discuss everyone's logline with them. How'd it work? How's it sound? Did it hook you? Did it compel you in some fashion? Was it both clear and concise?


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How to Construct a New Invisible Hand
Lambert here: Funny, I've just been thinking about how Bernard Mandeville, who wrote The Fable of the Bees — the moral of which is that "the pursuit of self-interest robustly benefits the common good," just as Wilson puts it — actually knows nothing about bees, and so would do very well in today's neoliberal economics departments.
In a previous essay, I announced a new concept of the invisible hand to replace the old and erroneous idea that the pursuit of self-interest robustly benefits the common good. The new version is based on examples of the invisible hand that exist in nature, such as cells that benefit multi-cellular organisms and social insects that benefit their colonies. These lower-level units don't have the welfare of the higher-level units in mind. They don't even have minds in the human sense of the word. Instead, they exhibit behaviors that have been winnowed by higher-level selection to benefit the common good. Higher-level selection is the invisible hand.
Use psychological pricing methods.
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Demonstrate the differences
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