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Whether you are a recent graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) or you are interested in transitioning to a different nursing specialty, the Clinical Academy supports your professional development, reflecting the highest national standards. We provide an integrated, consistent support structure for mentoring, career guidance and development—to make sure our nurses are reliably prepared, inspired, and challenged in their work.
Our program for new graduate nurses will provide you the foundation and support to become an expert in your specialty. Learn through a combination of classroom sessions, simulation and authentic patient experiences with the support of experienced preceptors/mentors.
Upon hire, nurse residents will have graduated from an accredited nursing program and typically have less than 12 months of nursing experience.
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Applicants may apply, be interviewed and be offered a position before they obtain an RN license. An active RN license will be required prior to the start date, and will be verified with the state.
Yes, but applicants must complete a nursing program by the start date.
Yes. However, an active RN license in the state of hire will be required prior to the start date. Many out-of-state candidates are unable to start in their residency program due to not having their state license active prior to their start date, which can be attributed to unexpected licensing timelines. If a candidate is already licensed out-of-state, we highly recommend researching the reciprocity timeline and requirements for the state in which they are applying. If a candidate has not taken their NCLEX, we highly recommend they reach out to their local state board of nursing for testing options that best support their professional license transition to another state.
Yes. Individuals hired into residency positions typically have graduated less than 12 months from graduation, though length of time from graduation can vary. Individuals who have more than 12 months post-graduate work experience may choose to consider applying for a RN Fellowship in a specialty area in which they do not yet have experience.
No, however, first consideration will be given to BSN, MSN and BSN-in-Program prepared applicants. All nurses who are hired with their ADN will be asked to complete a BSN program within a certain period of time, depending on location.
The number that is hired each month or into cohorts varies by location.
Generally, all hospitals in our family of organizations offer residency programs.
Yes. Opportunities for new grad nurses are sometimes available in clinics, home health, hospice, long term care, and skilled nursing facilities. The requirements listed on each job posting should help candidates to determine if new grad applications are being accepted.
This varies between location and specialty. In most specialties and locations, cohorts start three times a year (typically in winter, spring and summer). In some locations and specialties, we also offer rolling start dates year-round. Start dates are typically indicated on the posting.
RN residency assignments are approximately one year in length.
Yes. RN residency training includes precepted time on the unit, online learning, classroom-based learning, and clinical simulation. Unit-based training length varies between 8 and 16 weeks, depending on specialty. Learn more about our Clinical Academy.
Yes, residents are hired as an employee and will be paid bi-weekly.
The specialties offered depend on location and time of year. The following areas could be available, but are not limited to: behavioral health, critical care, emergency department, medical-surgical, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), obstetrics, pediatrics, perioperative services, and telemetry.
Each applicant is given the opportunity to indicate and explain their top choice areas. When a job offer for a specialty area is made, it may be accepted or declined. Great efforts are made to accommodate preferences.
The length of time an RN resident is asked to commit to the organization is dependent on the location and will be discussed as part of the interview process.
Transfer eligibility for individuals in "good standing" will be dependent on location and union contract transfer eligibility. In many areas, employees may transfer to another department after one year of training in a specialty.
RN residency positions are typically full-time opportunities that require 36-40 hours per week. Schedules will vary to accommodate education time and simulation experiences. Scheduled shift length varies and could include 8, 10, or 12 hours in length. Per diem/on call positions are offered at a few hospitals and would be discussed with candidates early in the interview process.
Nurse resident schedules may include nights, evenings; and will include weekends and holidays. Schedules are typically made 30 days in advance and have rotating schedules.
Residents receive the same vacation, paid holidays and sick leave allowances as other contractual nurses. As each residency is an intensive program, time off or scheduling requests are typically not granted during the initial 6 months of training.
Applications are accepted when jobs are posted. Our practice is to post them approximately 2-3 months in advance of start date. Click here for current residency job postings within our family of organizations.
To apply, please submit the online application to the posted job and include a resume and letter of intent indicating why you are interested in Providence St. Joseph Health, the values you will bring to the organization, and how our program will help further your professional career goals. Additional components may be required and will be indicated in the job posting.
Yes. Applicants may be asked to submit five clinical references at any time after applying. If references are requested at time of application, it will be indicated on the job posting.
Available resident positions will be posted prior to the projected start date. In many cases, only one job is posted per city for multiple specialties and locations. After a candidate submits a complete application and meets job requirements, they may be asked to complete a video interview. Next possible steps include a web-based reference check, phone conversation with staff, and face-to-face interviews with hiring teams.
Yes, please submit an application and we do our best to apply technology to conduct interviews for candidates who are unable to interview in person. For some positions, an in-person interview will be the final step before an offer is made.
Email invitations for applicants to complete a video interview will include a link to a web-based interview of pre+B16determined questions. RN resident applicants have 7 days to complete this interview. If a candidate clicks the interview link and is taking to the application site to enter a user name and password, this means the link is still active. After Login is selected the HireVue video interview will launch. If an error is received stating the interview is no longer available, candidates should connect with their recruiter.
Our program for nurse fellows is designed for your career advancement and guided transition into a new specialty through structured curriculum, prepared preceptors and hands on learning. Length of fellowship varies dependent on desired specialty.
Upon hire, nurse fellows will have a current RN license in good standing and typically have at least 12 months of continuous nursing experience.
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Our Clinical Academy offers a wide variety of specialty options from highly technical clinical roles to leadership development to advanced practice nursing roles.
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There is an amazing depth and breadth of opportunities to explore at our ministries across the west. Whatever your specialty or sub-specialty focus, you can find your future at one of our locations.
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The next time TMZ wants to catch Mark Zuckerberg in an awkward moment, it may have to go through his security team.
The Facebook CEO has reportedly hired a 24-hour personal security team to protect him and his new home in Palo Alto.
The 27-year-old is the world's youngest billionaires and he has quickly become one of Silicon Valley's most recognizable faces.
Zuckerberg has unfortunately had to deal with stalkers getting too close. He took out a restraining order against one man who was harassing him at his home and at Facebook's headquarters.
News of Zuckerberg's security detail came from Dropbox co-founder Drew Houston, who revealed in a recent Forbes interview that he was interecepted by a security force on a recent visit to Zuckerberg's home.
"I'm not sure I want to live that life, you know?" He said.
Zuckerberg probably doesn't want to live that life either but having more than 600 million people use a site you created apparently limits his choice in the matter.
Mark Zuckerberg Hires a Security Team
The next time TMZ wants to catch Mark Zuckerberg in an awkward moment, it may have to go through his security team.

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text: JP1 Remotes :: View topic - Hifi-Remote.Com - JP1 remotes and cables for sale JP1 Remotes FAQ Search 7 Days Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in File Section File Search Lookup Tool Wiki Hifi-Remote.Com - JP1 remotes and cables for sale Goto page Previous 1, 2, 3 ... , 40, 41, 42 Next JP1 Remotes Forum Index -> Market Place View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message The RobmanSite OwnerJoined: 01 Aug 2003Posts: 19815Location: Chicago, IL Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:27 am Post subject: If you want to see what the Kameleon adapter looks like (in case you think you can make one yourself, check out this post... http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=46636#46636_________________Rob www.hifi-remote.com Please don't PM me with remote questions, post them in the forums so all the experts can help! Back to top Tommy TylerExpertJoined: 21 Sep 2003Posts: 410Location: Denver mountains Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: And here's an old article on making one: http://www.hifi-remote.com/forums/dload.php?action=file&file_id=3970 Back to top JohnSilverJoined: 30 Oct 2003Posts: 10 Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 3:27 pm Post subject: The Robman Rob, I bought a couple of 8811s (green BL) from you a few years back and am worried about replacements when they eventually wear out. I'm looking to buy two spares from you and I'd like to get your opinion on which remotes would work for me. 1. I'd prefer to have JP1 six pin connector all ready to plug my cable into. I can solder header pins if necessary but would rather not cut traces, etc. 2. I like the backlit keys and would prefer a remote with these. 3. I'd prefer six devices instead of eight. 4. Must have both arrows and transport keys. 5. I'd prefer to have the transport keys toward the top of the remote, instead of close to the bottom like the 8811 has. It looks like the 6131 would fit the bill, but I don't know if it is backlit and I don't know if you have any more. If you don't, it also looks like the 6131N would be fine too. Do you have any of those? Back to top The RobmanSite OwnerJoined: 01 Aug 2003Posts: 19815Location: Chicago, IL Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:58 pm Post subject: The 6131 is not backlit. I still have a couple of 8811s, so why not get them?_________________Rob www.hifi-remote.com Please don't PM me with remote questions, post them in the forums so all the experts can help! Back to top JohnSilverJoined: 30 Oct 2003Posts: 10 Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:12 pm Post subject: The Robman wrote: The 6131 is not backlit. I still have a couple of 8811s, so why not get them? I'm going to try a 6131N for the next few weeks and see if I really need backlighting, because I'd really like to get away from the 8811 if at all possible (because of the awkwardness of the transport key location). If not, I'll get an 8811 from you. Thanks Back to top ericpearceJoined: 12 May 2009Posts: 5 Posted: Wed May 13, 2009 12:49 pm Post subject: Looking for JP1 remotes for Media Center Robman, I have a couple of 8910s that have served me well over the past 5 years. They are starting to get a little beat up. What are the odds that you have some? I am looking for 3 total, and I would like to stay with the same model across the board. If the 8910 is no longer available, what would you recommend? Thanks, Eric Back to top Mr_KenJoined: 10 Nov 2008Posts: 2 Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: Any 6131n Remotes available?? Looking to get a couple of modded 6131n remotes if available. Thanks!_________________Mr_Ken URC-8910 (to learn new remotes) URC-6131NW (My work horse remotes) Back to top LreudenkainenJoined: 23 Jun 2006Posts: 1 Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject: Robman, Looking to get a couple of 8811 remotes if you have any left. Let me know. Thanks. Back to top FamadorJoined: 26 Jun 2009Posts: 1 Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 1:34 pm Post subject: I want to make an order too. I will buy in bulk. Just let me know if there are still remotes available. Simulation pret Back to top mthomp9561Joined: 30 Jun 2009Posts: 3 Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject: unknown model Ok, I bought one of these remotes about 5 years or longer ago from eBay and they said it was one number but when it came the remote had URC-9811B00 as a model number on it. So to the question... do you have any of these remotes for sale? it had red back lighting. Back to top mickyJoined: 13 Jul 2009Posts: 1 Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject: Hi Rob, I need 10 modded 6131n remotes; and add three 8811 remotes. Please pm me with price. Thanks, micky Simulation pret immobilier Back to top johnjay829Joined: 17 Jul 2009Posts: 1 Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject: any 9910 left Back to top neogeosnkJoined: 26 Apr 2004Posts: 18 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 12:08 pm Post subject: Need 2 modded 6131 - Do you have any left? Let me know I'll put in an order right away. Back to top xiaobao12Joined: 09 Jan 2010Posts: 6 Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 12:58 am Post subject: Hi Rob, This store is permanently closed right? Back to top The RobmanSite OwnerJoined: 01 Aug 2003Posts: 19815Location: Chicago, IL Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 8:34 am Post subject: Pretty much, but I still have some URC-8820 remotes left, which is what I had in mind for you._________________Rob www.hifi-remote.com Please don't PM me with remote questions, post them in the forums so all the experts can help! 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Lawrence Lek, Unreal Estate (the Royal Academy is yours) (2015; video game still)
Wealth is monolithic: it refutes argument, pointed criticism, direct gaze. The architecture of today's wealth is monolithic, as well: a crucial expression of modern oligarchies' centralized power. Where the estate once served as a neat symbol of riches, our edifices are more diverse and inventive. They are built heavy and tall, as rebuff. They have to symbolize abstract figures, tens of billions of dollars on paper.
Artist Lawrence Lek offers us entry into the monolith in his work Unreal Estate. In it, we, the viewers, are the new billionaire owner of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.


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BARQ Systems has the pleasure to announce that we are now gold partner to Infoblox. This new achievement will demonstrate BARQ's ability to sustain meeting customers needs.
Tableau is a software company that specializes in highly visual and rapid-fire reporting and analytics, using breakthrough technology for both its visualizations and data management. Tableau is taking business intelligence (BI) to a whole new level of fast.
We are committed to ensuring that we continue to support business and technical needs of your organization
"A decade has passed and another one is upon us. This provides an opportunity to look at the successes of the past year back and set new goals for the future", is the theme for this year's Kick Off meeting
BARQ Systems kicked off the year with its annual Townhall welcoming new strategies and objectives for the upcoming year.
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The Notion Ink Adam [tracking page] may have wow-ed most at the CES 2011 but the proof is always in the pudding once the tablet is truly unleashed for general consumption in the consumer market.
It took a little while, but Engadget's Sean Hollister managed to get his hands on a unit and wrote a good review on the Adam. From the review feedback, the Adam may not have lived up to expectations as being a perfect technology marriage of form and functionality.
Let's explore the Adam, shall we?
The Adam has a unique form factor which differentiates it from most uniformly slim-line tablets – it has a rather rounded bulky rear (pictured below).
Some may find this rather unsightly but from an ergonomic's perspective, I think this is a good design as it may allow a good one handed grip when using the Adam in a portrait mode. This is especially important as the Adam weighs in at rather hefty 1.6 pounds and therefore having a good grip whilst single-handedly using it is a must. Sean mentions the cylindrical rear holding a pair of stereo speakers as well as three-cell battery which makes me wonder if the unit may be possibly top heavy (or bottom depending on which direction you hold it!) when held in a landscape position.
The reviewer wasn't impressed with the four capacitive touch buttons (pictured above) which are neither backlit or possess haptic feedback.
One thing the Adam has going for it is the plethora of ports, from two full-sized USB ports as well as a HDMI slot that is capable of 1080p display mirroring. I feel that this is a key feature that distinguishes the Adam as a tablet meant as a serious productivity workhorse or mobile home-theater from a tablet meant soley as a sofa surfing device. I cannot tell you how many times I have been frustrated when someone at work hands me a USB thumb drive and I am unable to transfer files via USB to my Dell Streak 5 inch nor my Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 inch!
Another feature which had us all eagerly anticipating the arrival of the Adam is the famed Pixel Qi display. Unfortunately, the reviewer found that the Adam's 1024×600 resolution Pixel Qi display was not good, describing the display's viewing angles as "terrible inch with the colors being "a bit washed out inch. A saving grace is that the reviewer found the Adam's Pixel Qi's reflective mode working well and once the screen backlit is switched off, the screen is viewable even outdoors and conserved hours of battery life.
The reviewer also found the 3.2MP camera's picture taking capabilities to be unimpressive, describing issues with the autofocus as well as over exposed pictures. Note that the camera is able to swivel front to rear, vice versa.
Under the hood, the Adam sports a dual-core 1Ghz Tegra 250 and the reviewer has found no issues with general performance of the device.
From an operating system perspective, the Adam runs Android 2.2 aka "Froyo inch but Notion Ink designed its own user interface known as the Eden UI that provides an innovative-looking PanelView (pictured above) that allows the multiple applications to be open and active on the same homescreen.
Though the hardware issues can't be fixed through a software update, Notion Ink will be releasing a significant update to the Adam's software. The update will contain the following:
- a new e-book client
- a new Browser (the name of the book client and browser will be released in a separate blog next week)
- updated Kernel
- optimally over-clocked Tegra
- Gingerbread 2.3
- lots of usability Issues resolved
- new multi-tasking environment (easier way to manage all tabs and applications)
- Chords Music Library and Player (Simple and straight Music Player)
- Video Library and Player
- DSP support, so now equalizer will work in better way. Soon we are adding more bass boost in the speakers as well (not a part of this update).
- Flash pre-installed
- and more
Readers may wonder why the update to Android Gingerbread 2.3 instead of Honeycomb 3.0, the reason being that Google only releases the Honeycomb source code to a selected few partners at this point and Notion Ink isn't one of them.
The release date of the update is still unannounced at this stage.
Notion has certainly challenged the tablet manufacturer's norm by designing a tablet that has the capability of replacing a desktop thanks to USB peripheral support. I certainly hope that it is able to rectify the hardware quality issues and deliver the software update in a timely manner.
Here's Notion Ink Adam Picture Gallery thanks to Engadget!


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British Go Journal No. 62. July 1984. Page 14b.
Matthew Macfadyen
It is a long time since a book appeared of which one could say to all Go players, regardless of strength, 'Buy this book'. But the Ishi Press' new translation of collected essays by Nakayama is such a book.
It is a pot-pourri of all that is most fun in Go - fascinating insights into life as an aspiring professional; bizarre problems with ladders running all over the board, and back again; an essay on when to resign; and much more.
Those of us who were privileged to meet Nakayama last summer in Edinburgh will remember his infectious enthusiasm for the game. As one of the very few professionals who actually writes the books which appear under his name he offers us here a treat which no Go player should refuse.


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The female MC will receive the International Friend of Reggae Honoree accolade to thank her for sharing the spotlight with up-and-coming and more established artists from the Caribbean country.
EME Awards founder, Richard Burgess, says, "Some of the icons of our rich musical heritage as well as the hottest newcomers around will receive the recognition they so rightfully deserve, for providing us with wonderful musical gems throughout their careers."
Trina follows in the footsteps of previous award recipients such as Missy Elliott, John Legend and Akon, reports AllHipHop.com.
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Company will introduce the project to distributors at AFM.
Vicente Canales' Film Factory will handle sales of Caníbal, the new film by Spanish director Manuel Martín Cuenca [pictured] (The Weakness of The Bolshevik) with a script by Alejandro Hernández, with whom he also co-wrote Oscar's Half.
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Film Factory will introduce Caníbal to international distributors at the American Film Market, which starts this Wednesday (Oct 31) and runs to Nov 7 in Santa Monica, California.
Caníbal, in pre-production, participated in Cinemart (Rotterdam Projects Festival) and was one of the 15 titles selected at the Atelier de la Cinéfondation at this year's Cannes Film Festival, with the project well-received at both.
The film is a production of MOD Producciones (Agora, Biutiful, FIN) and La Loma Blanca (Oscar's Half). It will begin shooting in early 2013 and the project has been developed with the support of Media, Ibermedia, ICAA and Junta de Andalucía.
Antonio de la Torre (The Last Circus, I'm So Excited) will star in the thriller that mixes Hitchcock and Buñuel influences. It tells the story of Carlos, a successful tailor from Granada who has a happy life but hides a dark secret: he enjoys eating people. One day he meets Nina, the twin sister of a woman he already killed years ago.


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Anime Boston, the largest anime convention in the Northeast, announced another round of guests today. Director Tomohiko Ito, producer Shinichiro Kashiwada and voice actors Cherami Leigh and Bryce Papenbrook will attend Anime Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Mass. on May 24 through May 26, 2013.
Tomohiko Ito works at A-1 Pictures and is most recognized as the director of the hit series Sword Art Online. He made his directorial debut with the animated series Occult Academy.
Ito's long list of credits includes Death Note, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, and Summer Wars to name a few.
This will be Ito's first time appearing at an Anime Convention here in the U.S. Mr. Ito is looking forward to share his thoughts on Sword Art Online and more, here at Anime Boston.
As Aniplex's producer, Shinichiro Kashiwada is involved as a chief producer for the hit animated series Sword Art Online.
He has also been involved with numerous titles including Puella Magi Madoka Magica TV series and Oreimo Series as an associate producer.
Cherami Leigh is an on camera and voice actor from Dallas.
In the anime world, she is the female lead Asuna in Sword Art Online. She has appeared as Road in D. Grayman, Sae in Peach Girl, Yuti La in Heroic Age, Elizabeth in Black Butler, Patty in Soul Eater, Ayano in Kaze no Stigma, Natsumi in Sgt. Frog, Naomi in Witchblade, Yoshika in Strike Witches, Elicia Hughes in Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Setsuna and Akira in Negima, Mai in Ghost Hunt, Tamaki in Bamboo Blade, Himawari in XXXholic, Cecily in Sacred Blacksmith, Liechtenstein in Hetalia, Lucy in Fairy Tail, Takeshita in B Gata H Kei, Kneesocks in Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt, Sunako in Shiki, Suzuha in Steins;Gate, Shana in Shakugan no Shana, Gaige in Borderlands 2.
She has been in over 75 commercials, and was a live national on-air DJ for Radio Disney. She has appeared in many films and television shows, including the soon to be released Beyond the Farthest Star and in the hit webseries Throwing Stones. She was also in the Emmy-award winning Temple Grandin, and has appeared on various network television shows.
Bryce Papenbrook has been a professional voice over artist since the age of eight. He has also been announced as Kirito, the male lead of Sword Art Online.
Papenbrook was introduced to the voice acting scene by his father, Bob Papenbrook, and has continued the trade in his footsteps. Bryce has performed in numerous video games, cartoons, and television shows.
Some recent roles include Rin Okumura in Blue Exorcist, Asbel Lhant in Tales of Graces F, Zidane Tribal in Final Fantasy Dissidia 012, Masaomi Kida in Durarara!!, and Guan Ping in Dynasty Warriors. Past leading roles include Shugo in .hack//Sign Legend of the Twilight, Jack in MAR, Jack Russell in Radiata Stories, Hanabusa Aido in Vampire Knight, and Isami Fujiwara in Noein.
Previously announced guests were Chris Ayres, Greg Ayres, Lauren Landa, David Matranga, ORIGA, Raj Ramayya, Stephanie Sheh, Tom Wayland, and Kari Wahlgren.
About Anime Boston: With more than 22,000 attendees in 2012, Anime Boston is an annual three-day Japanese animation convention held in Boston, Mass. Anime Boston 2013 is scheduled for Friday, May 22 through Sunday, May 24 at the Hynes Convention Center and Sheraton Boston Hotel. More information about Anime Boston can be found at http://www.animeboston.com.
About New England Anime Society: The New England Anime Society was founded in 2001. Based in Massachusetts, The New England Anime Society, Inc. is an organization dedicated to furthering public education and understanding of the Japanese language and culture through visual and written media. More information about The New England Anime Society is available at http://www.neanime.org.


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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings will have cornerback Chris Cook on the field in Houston, after a six-game absence because of a broken right arm.
Coach Leslie Frazier said after Friday's practice that Cook will play Sunday against the Texans. Cook was placed on injured reserve with a designation to return, and this is the first week he's eligible to be reinstated to the active roster. The Vikings didn't immediately make a corresponding move to make room.
This is the third straight season that Cook has missed significant time. He had knee problems his rookie year and legal trouble last season.
Also, defensive end Brian Robison returned to practice Friday. He has a sprained right shoulder.
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English Teacher
What are your thoughts on these two phrases:
I was alone.
I was on my own.
How can we define the nuances for a student?
Many thanks for your help.
The context would indicate whether this was a neutral statement or carried an implication of negative feelings, etc. As they stand here, I don't see a difference.
To me, however, "alone" is rather neuter. "On my own" would imply I had to do something to survive, as if I were lost in the forest/jungle/desert/you name it.
Maybe it's just related to how I was taught, that's why I highlighted the beginning.
Please be aware that I'm neither a native English speaker nor a teacher.
To me, alone is more likely to be merely factual. I was alone when I did my Christmas shopping.
And "on my own" is more likely to be social or affective. When the guilty verdict came down, it hit me I was on my own.


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Understanding Wood Finishing: How to Select and Apply the Right Finish
Reader's Digest, 1999 - House & Home - 310 pages
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Real faces of HIV say more needs to be done
As she parses the details of being HIV-positive, Eva Fields, 37, lays out some essential facts: Her infection is a notable marker of her personal health but not a source of incapacitating shame.
She has never hidden the regrettable truth of how she contracted HIV—through unprotected sex with a man, now dead from AIDS-related causes—least of all from the three children she has mainly single-parented and the doting husband she married a year ago.
"I had to take the initiative to better understand what it meant to have HIV. Once I did that, the stigma … went away for me," Fields told The Grio. "There was never any doubt in my mind that I could overcome this."
The real faces speak
In a video highlighting the nationwide Empowered/Greater Than AIDS campaign, a Kaiser Family Foundation project that launched today, Fields, of Roswell, Ga., shares with four other HIV-positive women her sentiment and assorted details of what has transpired since her 1994 HIV diagnosis.
Like Fields, they are attaching to that campaign—whose much prominent public spokesperson is singer-activist Alicia Keys, also appearing in the video—their names, faces and real-life tales of how they are thriving in an era when HIV/AIDS is far from the automatic death sentence it seemed, years ago, to have been.
theGrio: Alicia Keys campaigns for HIV education
Alongside Keys, the five HIV-infected women, as grassroots campaigners, are assisting Empowered's multi-pronged bid to hammer home to the broad public that HIV/AIDS treatments are more effective than ever.
They also are messaging on television, radio, print and digital publications that, while HIV/AIDS rates have declined overall, the disease continues to have a rarefied impact on women, especially black ones. Black females, according to the latest available data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, account for two out of three newly diagnosed HIV cases among women.
Even so, an estimated 18 percent of infected people in the United States, overall, are wholly unaware of their infection, the Centers for Disease Control has reported. That's due largely to the presumption that they are invulnerable and not at risk.
Making change
What would help change that for black women and everyone else, said Empowered's Dr. Lisa Fitzpatrick, a public health researcher who also treats HIV/AIDS patients, is including HIV/AIDS in the kind of routine, blood-sampled screenings used to detect, say, diabetes, or other disease. For now, HIV/AIDS tests, which cost roughly $20, must be specifically requested. For women with health insurance, the tests also are now free through a provision of Obamacare that went into effect last year.
"Make sure that everybody you know knows what's available to them," said White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett, during today's press briefing to launch Empowered.
Heightening awareness of that provision among women is only one aspect of the screening issue.
"We have to make this more palatable so that health-care providers see that this is a manageable, chronic disease and do this screening along with other tests," epidemiologist Fitzpatrick, director of the Center of Excellence for Infectious Diseases at United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., told The Grio.
Routine screening also would help de-stigmatize HIV/AIDS, which some still see as a kind of punishment for misbehaving, said Fitzpatrick, also a member of the AIDS Commission in Washington, D.C., which provides free anti-retroviral drugs to HIV/AIDS patients who are uninsured or cannot afford them.
Routine screening, as a standard of health care, also seems especially critical, public health researchers and advocates, grassroots activists and physicians contend, at a time when government and philanthropic funding for HIV/AIDS programs has diminished; and when programs that do qualify for funding face stricter requirements to empirically prove that their work is achieving the desired results.
Atlanta Harm Reduction's needle exchange program, for example, has been viewed as a model of effectiveness—in a state where such exchanges are illegal, but law enforcement agencies, nevertheless, have arrested no one in connection with that endeavor.
Still, the organization's $50,000 operating budget for the current fiscal year allows for far less programming than did the $150,000 2012 budget. The nonprofit now functions as a team of two with the help of volunteers.
Those who help struggle to stay afloat
While the bulk of the Atlanta project's clients are men, women—including mothers who prostitute themselves because their nominal job skills keep them out of the legal job market—also are in those ranks.
Funding shortfalls, even if temporary, "are going to mean is that we will have to look at our strategy for reaching certain black women differently … We're going to have to look at how we [medically] treat those who are HIV-positive, how we link and keep them in care and, then, have them become ambassadors to promote testing and prevention within their own social networks," said Leisha McKinley-Beach, director of technical assistance and stakeholder engagement at the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute.
While the Institute, another Empowered partner, has conducted no comprehensive survey, the California nonprofit has seen roughly a half-dozen HIV/AIDS projects that it has counseled fold recently, mainly due to decreased funding and the new qualifying standards demanded by government and private funders.
Meanwhile, the Institute has been counseling Atlanta Harm Reduction on how to expand its funding prospects and revamp programming in a manner that builds upon and retains the best of its services, which, in addition to the needle exchange, have incorporated job training and training in safe sex practices, including on how to insist that a male partner wear a condom.
Those are among the necessary "wrap-around' services addressing the difficulties that do attend the lives of some with HIV/AIDS.
Some progress, not enough
Poverty, homelessness, personal denial and, in some cases, mental illness disproportionately plague the teen-age to 70-something female HIV/AIDS patients that Dr. Monika Daftary sees at Howard University, the first hospital in the country to adopt a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-suggested rapid HIV screening effort.
"We still have kids who get diagnosed and whose parents kick them out of the house … It's hard for someone to take anti-retrovirals every day if they're hearing voices," pharmacology professor Daftary, a clinician and researcher focusing on HIV-AIDS therapies, told the audience at a health disparities conference last month in Washington, D.C. "If we can't keep folks engaged, it's like a cat chasing its tail. We're never going to be able to fix this."
Indeed, only a quarter of the 1.1 million Americans diagnosed with HIV—one in four of them are woman of every racial stripe—is taking drugs designed to keep their biomedical markers from falling to levels that indicate they have what has been conventionally defined as AIDS. Those who do maintain their treatment regimens reduce their chances of infecting others with HIV by 96 percent, with that study based on information that those with HIV self-reported.
"We know that antiretroviral therapy for HIV-positive individuals not only improves health and extends life for that individual," said Dr. Risha Irvin, a senior advisor in Kaiser's Health Communication & Media Partnerships Program. "But we also know that the initiation of antiretroviral therapy … substantially protected their HIV-negative sexual partners."
Worldwide, fewer people are contracting and/or dying from HIV/AIDS, with that trend holding true in the United States. That black Americans still are disproportionately counted among those who are HIV-infected is partly due to the fear many blacks harbor about the pandemic and the failure of many blacks to have a candid discussion about the risks, observers said.
Those lapses reflect misplaced fear, confusion, "rage and anger," said Stephanie Brown, 26, an HIV-positive performance artist-HIV/AIDS activist from Fayetteville, N.C., who is one of the five spotlighted, grassroots Empowered spokespeople.
"After I [eventually] was comfortable accepting the fact that is what is and that I was living with this virus, I started talking about it," Brown told listeners at that Washington health disparities conference. "And when I went to tell my story in prison, these men, they could be murderers, rapists … wouldn't even come in the room with me when they found out my diagnosis … Thirty years [after the first AIDS diagnosis] and people act like this is still brand new."
Or, as Eva Fields put it: "We can be afraid of the unknown. But, for me, this work is personal. I'm helping to put a face on it … and broaden the avenues" of discussion, awareness and prevention.
Keys, who began championing the anti-AIDS fight during a 2001 trip to Africa and co-founded Keep a Child Alive, said during today's launch: "Knowledge is the best way to overcome ignorance and fear. Courage is the best way to overcome stigma and shame."
New York-based freelancer Katti Gray specializes in reporting health, higher education and criminal justice. Her byline has appeared in The Washington Post, Salon, Reuters, Newsday, Ms., Essence, Ebony, CNN.com, ABCNews.com and other national and regional publications. Follow her on twitter@KattiGray.


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Poll: Germans accept nuke exit despite rising bill
A new poll finds that a large majority of Germans back the government's decision to phase out nuclear power and switch to renewable energies within a decade, despite rising electricity bills.
The poll for German news magazine Focus published Sunday found that 72 percent continue to support the country's energy switchover. Only 24 percent were opposed to the policy.
Germany's grid operators announced earlier this month that a surcharge on households' electricity prices financing the expansion of renewable energies will increase by 47 percent starting in January. A typical family of four will then have to pay about €250 ($325) per year on top of their bill.
Polling agency Forsa surveyed 1,000 people this week. Focus did not provide the poll's margin of error.
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COVER- Shorting the C&O: Is this any way to run a railroad?
News that railroad behemoth CSX might hand over the historic Chesapeake & Ohio main line between Richmond and Clifton Forge to a mom-and-pop short-line has transit officials and rail fans hoping for a new golden era of training– including the revival of that 1993 sensation, the Autumn Glory steam train. But for the men who fix the rails, there's another kind of steam.
They say safety and jobs are tied to the tracks, and they're angry and resentful about the prospect.
Mountain to shore
The single-track railroad line that divides north from south in Charlottesville used to be the main line of the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad stretching from the piers of Newport News to the coalfields of West Virginia. A steep line, it traverses the George Washington National Forest at Buffalo Gap and plunges under the Blue Ridge through Claudius Crozet's famous tunnel. While passengers still roll over the line on Amtrak's Cardinal, gone are days when the C&O's own passenger trains such as the FFV and the George Washington carried people in style.
In 1989, officials of the CSX Transportation, successor to C&O, told the state the company was losing money on the line and planned to abandon the stretch between Clifton Forge and Charlottesville. Rail fans were aghast. Politicians vowed to save it.
Mom and pop
Recent communications to freight customers and employees suggest that CSX is planning to lease about 200 miles of the former C&O– from Clifton Forge all the way to Richmond– to a tiny short-line called the Buckingham Branch.
Based in Dillwyn and operating less than 17 miles of track, the Buckingham Branch is a family business owned by Robert and Annie Bryant– with about a dozen industrial customers who appreciate the opportunity to move heavy loads from rural Buckingham to CSX's James River line and on to points all over the world.
Customers say the Bryants are dedicated and friendly. Three times a year, they let the Old Dominion Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society run excursions: the "James River Rambler" as well as a "Santa Train" on the 10-miles-per-hour Buckingham Branch tracks.
Except for a few errant dogs stepping in front of lumbering diesels, there's never been a fatality on the Buckingham Branch. But does this short-line have what it takes to maintain a former main line used several times a day by 150-car coal "empties" and six times a week by an Amtrak passenger train travelling at speeds over 60 miles per hour?
Fall of the heavy brigade
Like most cities, downtown Charlottesville– now an enclave of coffee shops, offices, and loft apartments– once was home to a thriving rail yard. Located east of the Belmont Bridge, the C&O yard had a roundhouse, a turn-table, and about a dozen sets of rails for maneuvering cars filled with tobacco, lumber, apples, wheat, chickens, and even sumac, according to Albemarle, a history by the late John Hammond Moore.
Until tractor-trailers decimated the industry, America moved most of its long-distance freight on rails. But even now, with freight traffic rebounding from the doldrums of the late 20th century, the nature of the business has changed.
In the past 10 years, says Tom White, spokesman for the Association of American Railroads, freight traffic has "grown rather substantially," from 1.2 trillion ton-miles to 1.6 trillion ton-miles. "And we expect it to continue growing," he adds.
While bulk commodities are still part of the traffic base, says White, the biggest growth sector is intermodal traffic: trailers and containers carried by flatcars to be loaded onto ships or trucks. The largest intermodal customer is UPS, the United Parcel Service.
"Intermodal requires a more precise level of service and stricter schedules," says White. Industry consolidation means that one railroad can move goods without visiting the yards of each railroad along the way. "You try to avoid rail yards as much as possible," says White. "Yards are where delays happen."
So does mingling with Amtrak.
White says that although the big four remaining freight carriers– Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, Norfolk & Western, and CSX– receive millions of dollars to cover "out of pocket" costs for carrying Amtrak, they don't profit from their legally mandated relationship with the passenger carrier created by Congress.
"In fact," says White, "you lose money when you look at all the costs associated with Amtrak." Carrying passenger trains often forces railroads to provide extra infrastructure in addition to the almost legendary delays.
In the late 1980s, city officials bought and developed the Charlottesville yard as a corporate office park with the Michie Company (now Lexis-Nexis) as the anchor tenant. The only vestige of the heyday of the C&O is the concrete coaling tower that has become a local landmark. The CSX presence has shrunk to just two short sidings and a pair of beige and brown office trailers.
Virginia Central Railroad starts
In the fall of 1993, native Virginians Sally Kammauff and her father, Jack Showalter, began a series of "Autumn Glory" steam excursions that captured the popular fancy.
Borrowing the name from the 19th century line that eventually became the C&O, the father-daughter duo created the Virginia Central Railroad. While they had their own trove of restored engines and cars, they didn't have a railroad, so they rented one from CSX for $81 a mile. They also rented a ticket office in the old C&O depot on Water Street.
"It was truly an event," says Bucky Chisholm, a financial administrator who bought a ticket on one of the first runs. "This wasn't about speed or destination," says Chisholm, although the train did reach speeds of 40 mph. "This was steam, cinders, and smoke– and absolutely beautiful views of pristine countryside."
On Saturdays, they ran west to Clifton Forge. On Sundays, they went east to Gordonsville. Round-trip tickets, priced at $12 to $114, sold out faster than a Dave Matthews concert.
"You had to beat people back with a stick," says Chisholm. He says he had so much fun he became one of the 103 volunteers who, in addition to a small paid staff, made the Virginia Central possible.
Meanwhile, Charlottesville city councillors vied with other local governments to offer stay-in-our-town incentives– such as attempting to sell the Virginia Central some land at the base of the old coal tower.
And then it all stopped. A railroad calamity nearly 1,000 miles away touched off a liability crisis that eventually crushed the project.
On September 22, 1993, a bridge weakened by a moments-earlier barge collision sent two engines and three passenger cars of the Sunset Limited plunging into an Alabama bayou. The horrific 3am accident killed 47 people, the worst disaster in Amtrak history. Over 100 wrongful death suits, most including bridge owner CSX, were filed.
Shortly thereafter, Kammauff learned that CSX was demanding that she carry $200 million in liability insurance. The Virginia Central Railroad was derailed.
The C&O flats
Flash forward 11 years. It's a sunny Saturday at the "C&O Flats" in downtown Staunton. An old combination rail yard and stock yard, this is the home of the mothballed fleet of the Virginia Central.
Sally Kammauff has surrendered to three days of hectoring by a journalist. She wants it clearly understood that she is not waging a campaign to persuade any railroads to carry her trains. But she might not mind if they decided to.
A volunteer shows up to cut the grass under the cars, while Kammauf's father, now 75, is busy performing routine maintenance. The equipment includes two fully restored steam locomotives, six coaches, two dining cars, and a traditional red caboose.
Time has taken its toll. As have the rocks. Neighborhood youth seem to delight in picking up the old ballast– the railroad term for the coarse granite rocks covering railbeds– and tossing them through the windows.
"They break them as fast as we put them in," says Kammauf, noting that she and volunteers have replaced 120 panes over the years.
The news hasn't all been depressing. The interior of the former ambulance car that Kammauf, her father, and Charlottesville cabinetmaker Blaise Gaston transformed into a dining car would pass any white-glove test. And in their decade-plus at the C&O Flats, Kammauf's cars have been in about 10 films, including the recent Hearts in Atlantis starring Anthony Hopkins. But the lack of nearby tracks to accommodate filming, has meant the loss of some film projects, Kammauff says.
The past 11 years have been eventful for Kammauf: She's survived cancer and increased her family to five children. "I've been kind of busy with real life," she says.
"We remain convinced that a steam excursion railroad on this line would offer tremendously positive economic benefits for the state and the communities along the line," says Kammauf. Although intrigued by the proposed lease, Kammauff says she has not talked with either CSX or the Buckingham Branch.
"We still believe it would be a wonderful boon for the entire community," says Kammauf. "We're glad the asset is still here."
Resentment on the rails
If there's cautious optimism in Staunton, there's disappointment in downtown Charlottesville at what's left of the old CSX rail yard.
"We don't have the big customers per se," says Fred Barker Jr., a track inspector with 23 years of experience on the railroad. "The CSX chose 15 or 20 years ago not to work this line because it wasn't profitable."
But Barker believes the old main line serves a major role in CSX operations. Even casual observers notice that about a dozen empty coal trains amble through Charlottesville daily. The empties, Barker says, constitute a lot of traffic that isn't clogging the busy James River line.
Barker reaches into his wallet and pulls out a multi-hued 20-dollar bill bearing the signature of the new U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, John W. Snow. Having left the chairmanship of CSX in 2002 to become President George W. Bush's treasury secretary, Snow reportedly took plenty of CSX currency when he went. Some estimates put his take at $60 million for just over a decade of running the railroad.
Some critics of corporate America consider such hefty payouts emblematic of the sloppiness of corporate boards. But to Barker, the payouts are emblematic of sloppy rails.
"If the railroad had $60 million to pay one man," says Barker, "why didn't they put it in this line and save these jobs?"
Jobs at risk; safety
"The lease is going to take my livelihood," says Barker, a 44-year-old Scottsville resident and father of two. He is one of four men based in Charlottesville whose positions could be lost or transferred under the proposed lease.
"I think it's a crock," Ben McGuire, a 24-year veteran of track repair, says of the proposed lease. McGuire and other employees gathered April 23 to get the news from a CSX executive via speakerphone.
"Everybody was just kinda shocked," says McGuire. "It's disheartening when you work at a place your whole life."
The men say they've been told that dispatching, signalling, and communications operations will continue to emanate from CSX's Jacksonville, Florida, headquarters. They– members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way– say they earn about $20 an hour– around $40,000 annually including overtime. And they feel singled out for possible termination. Because no deal is finalized, neither CSX nor Buckingham Branch officials would talk about the specific details of the lease.
Because McGuire and Barker have so much experience, their options are a little better those of new hires. Barker believes he'll have to sell his house and move to Lexington. McGuire worries that he'll have to join a "suitcase gang" and fix lines somewhere far away on CSX's 23,000-mile system.
"I'll probably have to go back on the road," says track inspector Mark Linkswiler. He says a Buckingham Branch employee pegs the takeover date as December 1 with new hiring slated for November 1.
The inspector is sceptical. "You cannot train people in 30 days," he says. "It took me 26 years to get where I'm at and to know what I know."
Linkswiler, who lives on Route 53 in southern Albemarle's Buck Island area, lost a son two years ago. "He's buried here," says Linkswiler. "I don't want to move."
Kathy Linkswiler met her husband in 1985 when his rail job kept him away for three or four days a week working on a suitcase gang between Newport News and Hinton, West Virginia. It's only been the last five years that his seniority has allowed him to leave for work in the morning and come home at night.
"He worked his way up," says Kathy, a lab technologist in the UVA Medical Center, "and now they're going to pull the rug out from him."
"We all know what's going to happen," says Barker. "The taxpayers will pay for this track."
Rail preservation program
As the vice-chairman of the union, Roy Griffith says he recently learned that the new operator wants to install 70,000 new ties. But Griffith believes a more appropriate number for a line he alleges is in "ridiculous condition" would be closer to 200,000. Either way, he doesn't believe the Bryant family will be footing the bill.
With $15 per tie as the typical price, says Griffith, just 70,000 ties would tally over $1 million. That would probably come from Virginia's Rail Preservation Program, a state subsidy of $3 million a year in taxpayer funds for Virginia's nine short line railroads.
"The small pool will be consumed quickly," says Griffith.
Created in 1990, the subsidy program recognizes that for all the benefits they offer– fuel efficiency, labor efficiency, and reduction of truck traffic– short-lines can barely cover operating costs.
"If it's not turned over to a short-line," says Phil Light, president of the Virginia Railroad Association, "it gets abandoned."
A report in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, which first released word of the proposed lease, suggests that CSX reserves the right to continue to run its empty coal cars over the line. Griffin compares it to selling a used car to someone with a "rich daddy" who still lets you drive it.
"You don't have to change the oil and the belts," says Griffith. "It's a win-win for CSX."
"We might run some things over it," confirms CSX spokesman Sullivan. "When you get involved in a transaction like this, you try to ensure the viability of the line."
There's a lot riding on these rails
While the line running through Charlottesville means westbound empties to CSX, to Amtrak, it's the only way to run the Cardinal. Now carving a big southern arc between New York and Chicago, the Cardinal passes through Charlottesville three times a week in each direction.
And Barker has a dire concern. As the Alabama accident demonstrated, blame often falls on the track owner, and Amtrak's had some track problems. The immediate cause of the April 2002 derailment of Amtrak's Auto Train near Crescent City, Florida that killed four and injured 142 was heat-induced track buckle. However, the National Transportation Safety Board blamed CSX for inadequate "track-surfacing operations."
Two years earlier, after two Amtrak trains derailed on CSX tracks, the Federal Railroad Administration inspected all CSX track on which passenger trains ran. While CSX immediately fixed the problems, the ensuing compliance agreement threatened the railroad with civil penalties if it didn't upgrade its maintenance program.
"Amtrak runs 60 miles per hour, and this branch railroad is used to only 10 miles per hour," Barker notes. "What's going to happen if people get killed?"
CSX's Sullivan says safety is CSX's priority. "We worked closely with the Federal Railroad Administration, and those issues were addressed," says Sullivan. "Our record on track safety is a good one. "
Buckingham Branch general manager Steve Powell explains that the only reason the Buckingham Branch travels at 10 miles per hour is that several sections have tightly curving track. And he says his crews recently upgraded their track– which runs over 19 bridges including a biggie over the James– to handle 286,000-pound cars.
Death of the Air Line
How will Buckingham Branch employees get to work on the C&O mainline? They can't hop a train from Dillwyn. Thirty years ago, however, they could.
Until 1975, there was no gap between the Buckingham Branch and the old C&O mainline; there was the Air Line.
Built in 1908, the Air Line was a heavy-duty, 30-mile-long coal connection between the C&O main at Lindsey in far north eastern Albemarle, to the C&O James River line just west of Bremo Bluff at Strathmore.
When Potomac Yard in Alexandria stopped taking coal, the Air Line lost its purpose. In 1972, the C&O offered it to Fluvanna County, which was eyeing a possible tourist enterprise, for $248,000. Fluvanna– which a year earlier had sued to keep the Air Line running– turned down the offer, so the C&O ripped out the rails and sold off the right-of-way in bits and pieces.
Civic-short-sightedness or fiscal prudence? There are opinions on both sides.
Good for passengers?
East of Gordonsville, the C&O main line sweeps through Louisa and Hanover counties. It hugs the eastern edge of Paramount's Kings Dominion and connects to Richmond's most recently revitalized landmark– the 1901 Main Street Station. A red sandstone and brick confection of French Renaissance styling, it's the kind of building that sparks excitement– even if it weren't slated to receive high-speed trains by the end of the decade.
Griffith suggests that CSX has neglected this stretch by lowering its speed limits from 50 miles per hour when passenger service terminated in 1975 to 40 mph in the 1980s to today's to speed of 25mph. "It's in ridiculous condition," says Griffith.
CSX's Sullivan says it's an appropriate condition for a low-traffic freight path. But the fact that the track isn't welded means that fast passenger trains probably won't resume anytime soon, says Michael Testerman, long-time president of the Virginia Association of Railway Patrons.
"The track between Gordonsville and Richmond is what they call jointed rail," says Testerman. "It goes clickety-clack, clickety-clack."
Short-lines help whom?
Compared to big railroads, says Larry LeMond, who operates two short-lines, "We can give more personal service." LeMond runs the Eastern Shore and the Shenandoah Valley Railroads, the latter which he wrested away from the Bryants with a competitive bid in March 2003. "There's more of a personal touch."
The owners of Charlottesville's Lee Tennis Products know the feeling. Asked about the proposed lease, general manager John Welborn replies, "Boy, that would be great. We would love for Buckingham Branch to take over."
Lee Tennis makes the famous quick-drying Har-Tru tennis court surface, which is based on metabasalt, a hard and rare green stone mined in Shadwell. The company trucks its stones for processing to Zion Crossroads, and then ships out 80-100 railroad cars per year.
"That's not a lot when you spread it out over a year," says Welborn, "so you don't have a lot of clout with the railroads." He considers the Buckingham Branch "much more hands-on than CSX– just really good people to deal with."
Already, the Buckingham Branch has one customer ramping up for more shipments. Paper-maker MeadWestvaco has plans to replace its aging de-barking and chipping facility with a $5.3 million facility. The new plant three miles north of Dillwyn plans to ship 5,000 carloads per year on the Buckingham Branch– up from 2,000 per year currently– to the paper mill in Covington.
MeadWestvaco spokesperson Rosolyn Durden says that the competitive rail rates they've been offered will mean 10,000 fewer trucks on the highways hauling the wood and chips to Covington. A rezoning hearing for the new plant is slated for May 24.
The planners, the studies, and TDX
For regional urban planning chief Harrison Rue, putting the C&O in the hands of a small company might jumpstart the effort to use the rails for commuting– as part of "UnJam 2025," the effort the Thomas Jefferson Planning District is orchestrating. "We've had a lot of public comments like, 'Oh, wouldn't it be nice to have light rail from Staunton to Richmond?' " he says.
Rue's employee Ryan Mickels says he heard rumors several weeks ago that CSX may have found an operator for the C&O line. "CSX is not as willing as Norfolk Southern to accept passengers," he says. Indeed, Norfolk Southern officials stunned Central Virginia transit honchos recently by suggesting that the freight railroad would be willing to run the state's impending TransDominion Express (TDX) passenger service from Bristol to D.C. and Richmond– sending four daily trains through Charlottesville.
The mix of regional rail dreams also includes two recent preliminary studies from the Planning District. The September 2002 study– dubbed "Corridor Concepts"– envisions light rail stretching from Stanardsville along Route 33 to Ruckersville and bouncing across Route 29 for pick ups at major nodes including UVA, Fashion Square, Forest Lakes, and UVA's new arena plus its North Fork Research Park– before heading downtown on the C&O line, out to Pantops, and east to Zion Crossroads.
Another study, this one dated July 2003, proposes buying nimble Colorado Railcars to create a rail system that would connect Charlottesville commuters on the old C&O between Staunton, Waynesboro, Crozet, Louisa, and Mineral. The study even suggests taking over the downtown C&O tracks for commuters and pushing freight onto a new corridor south of town.
Kammauff understands CSX
Sitting inside her dining car, Sally Kammauff notes that she and her father paid CSX over $130,000 to run the "Autumn Glory" trains in the fall of 1993, but they couldn't get back on track. A particular irony in the demise of the Virginia Central, Kammauff says, is that she eventually secured the $200 million liability insurance– and still CSX shut her out.
"In 18 months, we got the insurance and said, 'Okay, we're ready. Let's go.' But they hemmed and hawed and said, 'Because of the traffic we're now running, it's not in our best interest at this time.' "
Kammauff says she disagrees with the position– but understands it. In an accident, people will sue but coal cars won't.
"They're badgered by rail fans all the time who want to run a train but may not know how," she says. CSX's position, she says, is pretty simple: "We're a freight railroad– leave us alone."
Bob and Annie Bryant operate 17 miles of short-line track in Dillwyn.
Can the Buckingham Branch keep the old CSX main line safe enough for the Cardinal?
Will the Autumn Glory, here chugging up Afton Mountain in October 1993, run again?
Getting passenger trains to Richmond will take lots of track work.
Fred Barker Jr. and Ben McGuire might have to leave Albemarle if C&O leases its line.
Since its runs were quashed by CSX, the Autumn Glory trains have collected dust and broken windows at the "C&O Flats" in Staunton.
Jack Showalter and his daughter Sally Kammauff made six weekends come alive for hundreds in the fall of 1993.
"It's like a living museum," says Sally Kammauff of her Virginia Central Railroad, which includes two engines, eight railcars, and a caboose.


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A Lion Ambassador portraying former Penn State President Milton Eisenhower hands out cookies outside McAllister Building as part of the Lion Ambassadors' Lantern Tours of campus.
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Outside of Old Main, a group of Lion Ambassadors played the role of freshmen during the early 1900s, getting hazed by upperclassmen, as part of the annual Lantern Tours of the University Park campus put on by the group.
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Lion Ambassador Emily Hebner, dressed as the ghost of Frances Atherton and haunted her husband's grave outside of Schwab Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus. Several students dressed up to represent parts of Penn State's past during the Lion Ambassadors' annual Lantern Tours of campus.
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Outside the Hintz Family Alumni Center, Joe Millet (in vest) and Kyle Brzezynski (grey sweater) portrayed famous Penn State alumni Herman Fisher, who founded Fisher-Price Toys, and Tom Clarke, former president and COO of Nike.
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A Lion Ambassador played a student from the 1960s, talking about the time students celebrated a win over Ohio State by dumping a Volkswagen into the pond outside the president's house.
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Attendees heard about the Land Grant Frescoes inside Old Main from the artist himself -- Henry Varnum Poor, as portrayed by Lion Ambassador Alexander Middleton.
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Three Lion Ambassadors reenacted the stresses of dating at Penn State in the 1950s, when chaperones and curfews were the norm.
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Adjustment and Age Through the Eyes of Portuguese and English Community-Dwelling Older Adults
Purpose: To analyze subjective age (SA) and the contributors to adjustment to aging (AtA) identified by older adults and to investigate the latent constructs that can work as major determinants in SA and AtA in an older population. Method: Measures were completed, using a variety of appropriate methods, including demographics and interviews. Complete data were available for 108 older adults aged between 75-99 years (M = 81.1; SD = 6.43). Data was subjected to content analysis. Representation of the associations and latent constructs were analyzed by a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA). Results: The most prevalent response of the interviewed participants for contributors to AtA was 'sense of limit and existential issues' (20.2%). 'With congruence' (29.3%) was identifi ed as the most frequent SA response. AtA and SA for Portuguese elderly were explained by a three-factor model: 'integrated', 'involved' and 'youngat- heart'. A three-dimension model formed by 'attentive', 'driven' and 'connected' was indicated as a best-fit solution for English elderly. Conclusions: AtA is related to SA in older adults in both samples. The results presented in this paper stressed the under-developed potential of an adjustment and age overall model for this population.
Key words: Adjustment to Aging; English; Portuguese; Multiple correspondence analysis; Community-dwelling older adults; Subjective age
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Some of my Recent Projects!
Here are a few of the things I've been working on recently!
Flying While Fat Animation
760k views in its first weeks online and a readership of nearly 2 Million. Premiered at DADA (Deaf and Disability Arts Festival) and exhibited at Liverpool's Tate and Bluecoat galleries. Partially funded by the University of Liverpool in collaboration with Dr. Bethan Evans.
Rad Fatty Merit Badges
With an 831% funded crowdfunding campaign and features in People, Cosmo, Bust, Mic.com and many more mainstream and feminist publications, the Rad Fatty Merit Badges were a joyful storm of fat positivity in late 2015!
Yoga for Larger Bodies Documentary Animation
Yoga for Larger Bodies is an animated documentary of one woman's experience of being a plus-sized yoga instructor. It is the origin story of London's yoga class specifically for larger bodied individuals.
Flying While Fat:
Join the FB Group with 8000 + Happy Users and share tips and hints for traveling the world as a plus-sized passenger!
If FB groups aren't your scene, check out this post that details the makes and models of airplanes I've flown on over the last 5 years of living abroad. I update this resource every time I fly so bookmark it and keep coming back!
So what is Fat Activism, Anyway?
Fat activism is an umbrella term for an intersectional social justice movement that contains lots of voices and even sometimes conflicting goals! That said, it's fairly safe to assume that all fat activists are striving in some way toward an end to discrimination based on size. This means equal access to medical care, an end to social stigma, economic marginalization, and job discrimination. The routes by which that work is undertaken vary wildly. You can read more of my thoughts on this here at Curve Magazine.


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iPhone 5 – A dual mode world phone?
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Access to both CDMA and GSM networks will be integrated into Apple's upcoming hotly anticipated new gadget. According to a source of TechCrunch, the iPhone 5 will be able to operate on the majority of countries around the globe. Information from registration logs was reportedly pulled by an unidentified app developer. The interesting fact is that two different mobile network codes – MNC and MCC were unveiled by these registration logs. These codes belong to AT&T and Verizon and represent unique mobile network identifiers.
At the moment, both companies are being catered by Apple but the devices cannot function on each other's networks. The CDMA standard is used by Verizon while the iPhone 4 of AT&T operates on the standard in Europe, the GSM network. Looking back, many rumors have popped up in the past about an Apple CDMA/GSM world phone but this function is present on Verizon's iPhone. However, it is not activated. The Qualcomm MDM6600 chip is used by the device. Does it ring any bells? Of course it does because the Droid Pro world phone sports the exactly same chip.
So there is no LTE support? If the iPhone 5 will be a dual mode world phone, chances of this happening are high indeed. On the other hand, the MacRumors site tells us that a snippet of code that mentions LTE is contained by the latest developer builds of Apple's iOS 5. Is Apple testing 4G internally? We can't wait to find out as the October release date of the iPhone 5 draws nearer every day.
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The glitter is cut as .004 squares, or less than 150 microns. Not recommended for use in nail polish.
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The FDA has determined that glitter is a color additive which is not listed on their list of approved color additives. This means that a glitter product is TECHNICALLY not allowed for use in any cosmetic in the USA. Consumers have expressed confusion over this, as it is obvious that there is glitter in all kinds of cosmetics sold currently in the USA and there are no known reports of harm caused by glitter.
The FDA has not explained itself to our company, but it has advised us that it recognizes that the cosmetics industry has been largely unaware of this determination and it is essentially providing the cosmetic industry a grace period during which FDA enforcement is "discretionary". This grace period allows the cosmetics industry to "respond". The FDA has not provided us with any information on how long this grace period has been in effect, nor how long it will be in effect. They simply state the the issue is "active".
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After a long time on the road, menus - especially on the budget end - start to blur together into a mix of familiar fast-food staples, whether you're in France or the Philippines. It's easy to forget that some of the foods people the world over eat with gusto are actually based on a single tasty, authentic archetype. Here's where to find the real deal.
Shawarma in Turkey
What would weekend revellers do without their 3am kebab? This meaty sandwich has been preventing hangovers ever since it spread into European and American cities. But not just alcohol has blurred the kebab, or shawarma as it's known in the Middle East - the foodstuff itself has gotten warped by all its travels, the meat being processed and pressed into the Greek-American gyro or doused in ketchup in Romania.
The authentic - and best - shawarma is still to be found in Turkey (the name is derived from a Turkish word) or, with subtle variation, in neighboring Lebanon or Syria. In the best snack stands, the skewer of meat is assembled by hand each morning: layers of beef or lamb, alternating with the occasional piece of fat for succulence, and cooked with a vertical charcoal fire. The grilled meat is shaved off thin and rolled up in a tender pita bread, then garnished with yogurt and herbs or tahini sauce. Heaven - even when you're sober.
Authentic "French" fries
Poor Belgium is so underrated. It gave the world the thin-sliced-and-fried potato, which was promptly renamed "French fry" by geographically challenged people (er, Americans). In the process, the humble chip became a token garnish, always served on the side and sometimes made with an alarming lack of care.
In Belgium frites are often eaten on their own as a snack. What makes them better here than anywhere else is the fact that they're made from the Bintje potato, which retains perfect potato flavour after its hot-oil bath. And they're fried twice, to cook the center through while setting the outside crust to the perfect shatter texture. The technique can be replicated outside of Belgium, but rarely is the potato. And in Belgium, as a bonus, you can wash the frites down with an exceptional beer.
Noodles in Japan
Think of those plastic packets of wiggly noodles that got you through college - the ones that cost less than a bus fare and derive all their flavour from an even smaller plastic packet - and its hard to believe they're related to a real, non-processed food. But ramen noodles rule Japan, where you can still get a budget bowl-full, even when the noodles are fresh and handmade by some famously obsessive lifelong perfectionist of the craft.
Every region of Japan has a distinct ramen style. In Kyushu, the noodles float in a rich broth made with pork bones. In snowy Sapporo, the soup gets extra warming body from a heavy dab of miso paste. But the simplest, most authentic version is found in Tokyo ramen shops, where the noodles are delicate and thin and served in a soy-infused chicken broth. Slurp up any and all of them - it's an experience miles from the one you had in your college dorm kitchen.
A slice in Italy
Pizza is perhaps the most abused food on the planet, bent to fit local tastes - ham and pineapple! - or available ingredients (ketchup will do). Sometimes it's even adapted to the local economy: "Peso pizza" is Cuba's bare-bones lunch staple; needless to say, it doesn't feature fresh buffalo mozzarella.
For a reminder of what made pizza a global craze, head to Italy. Ideally to the island of Sicily where pizzaioli (pizza-makers) compete to turn out the most sublime combination of chewy-crispy crust, oozing cheese and brightly sweet-acidic tomato sauce. We don't dare pick the best in town - just follow your nose to an authentic wood-burning oven, and look for the lines of pizza fanatics.
A hamburger a day in L.A.
Yes, frankfurters come from Frankfurt. But hamburgers as we know them today don't really come from Hamburg - they were perfected in California. This archetypal American sandwich has been made to endure all sorts of indignities - being topped with foie gras, served bun-less to the carb-conscious or even made with actual ham, due to a translation error.
In the United States, various old-time lunch counters claim to be the originators of the grilled beef patty on a bun, with a variety of toppings. But it's California where McDonald's got its start and where the hamburger continues to be most revered - elevated above regular fast food. The small chain In-N-Out Burger probably serves the most authentic example of the form, with quality beef and just a few fresh toppings.
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The new low in Stephanie Seymour's ugly divorce case is whether her urine is valid.
Her estranged hubby, publishing mogul Peter Brant, doesn't think so and he's using it to try to get sole custody of the couple's three kids, the New York Post reports.
Brant, a polo playing art collector and horse owner, claims the former Victoria's Secret model keeps handing over "invalid" urine samples for drug and booze tests, the Post reports. The issue seems to be what's missing from her urine, and that's it's just too cool.
In court filings, Brant says Seymour sought treatment in 2000 for her Vicodin addiction and got a prescription for Subutex, a drug used to treat opiate addictions, the Post reports.
However, her urine "did not test positive for Subutex . . . even though [she] ingests 24 mg daily," the Post reports, citing Brant's court filing.
Seymour, 40, sued Brant, 62, are splitting after 16 years together. Since they filed for divorce in March, the allegations get odder and odder.
In May, she said the couple was sharing a Greenwich mansion but he forced her to bunk with the maid.
Then there was the alleged skirmish between Seymour and Brant's security guard, Joseph Babnik. She said the guard shoved her. He claimed she grabbed papers from the seat of his car and cut him when he followed her to the house and she closed the screen door.
Now, Brant says Seymour and a moving crew broke into the couple's Florida mansion last week and took $700,000 worth of stuff, the Post reports.
Brant not only wants to be the sole custodian of their three kids but he also wants to cut Seymour's time with them, order her to attend Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and order her not to drink booze.
Divorce lawyers for Brant and Seymour did not return the Post's calls.


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- Three Ways to Adversely Impact your Google Pagerank
- Don't Use More Than One Title Tag
- Don't Hide Keyword Lists
- Don't Create Link Farms
Three Ways to Adversely Impact your Google Pagerank
Most of the time on my site Free Web Money I talk about proactive things you can do to improve your search engine findability, your site's relevance for a specific key word or key phrase. For example, keyword density and page titles have both been explored in depth in previous entries.
Instead, this time I thought it would be useful to talk about a couple of things that you really shouldn't be doing, things that will actually lower your Google pagerank and, quite likely, your relevance score for the other top search engines too.
The first thing to realize is that too much of a good thing isn't good. Who said "all things in moderation, including moderation itself"? Anyway, they could have been a search engine optimization (SEO) expert, quite frankly!


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