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Traveling gives us the opportunity to disconnect from our regular life. You get to forget your problems/issues for a few weeks, it can also help you figure things out that you would not have understood without the distance traveling can give you. We all have crazy schedules, work and a family to take care of, going away alone or with some friends can give you distance and perhaps even make you realize how important these people are for you. Like the saying says: we never know what we have until we lose it.
Another great benefit is the relaxation you get to do. It's nice to live life to its fullest and enjoy a stress free time with yourself. Going on vacation lets us recharge our "batteries" by disconnecting us from our regular life. When we come back we feel invigorated and we are happy to be back in our day to day routine. It's a very good stress remover that has a lot more to give than most people are willing to accept.
Traveling increases our knowledge and widens our perspective. To view new customs, different ways of living is fantastic for the mind. It gives us a new perspective about life and especially our life, it can help us change some of our habits or even create new ones. When I travel I usually make it a point to try new food, some cultures don't have fries in their diet and they are all skinny, others use spices to give taste and not oils or fats. Discovering different values and ways to get by in life is really interesting. You also need to visit exotic new places and discover what this wonderful world has to offer.


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I have a new blog up at the Suicide Girls safe-for-work site. So go look at it!
The article is about the Garrison Institute sponsored Buddhist "Maha Council" going on right now in upstate New York. Marnie Louise Froberg wrote this very incisive critique of the event. Although it's quite long, it's worth reading, I think. My own critique over at Suicide Girls is not quite as cutting as her's.
I don't agree with absolutely everything Marnie says in her piece. But the stuff she says addresses pretty much all of my own concerns about this gathering and gatherings like it. And I agree with most of her opinions. In my own piece I tried to steer away from re-stating what she already said more eloquently.
For those of you who still can't access the SG SFW site, I'll re-post my piece here in a couple days.

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Watch the prize-winning You Tube Contest entry, describing To Kill A Mockingbird and The Big Read.
|"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." (Chapter 3)
Ways to experience the story of To Kill A Mockingbird:
For more information on the novel as literature, try
Readings on To Kill A Mockingbird edited by Terry O'Neill
What's in a name? Harper Lee chose the name of Atticus after Titus Pomponius Atticus, a friend of the Roman orator Cicero, who was renowed, as Lee said, as "a wise, learned & humane man." Finch was one of Lee's mother's names. (So was Cunningham!)
About the Author
Nelle Harper Lee was born April 28, 1926, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for To Kill a Mockingbird -- her only major work to date. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007 for her contribution to literature. Other past winners of the Medal of Freedom for literature have been Carl Sandburg, Ralph Ellison, John Steinbeck, and Tennessee Williams.
Learn more about Harper Lee in the biography by Charles Shields: Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee. Harper Lee was childhood friends with the writer Truman Capote and accompanied him to Kansas while he researched his book In Cold Blood. The character Dill in To Kill A Mockingbird is said to have been inspired by Capote as a child, and Lee in turn inspired the character Idabel in Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms. Try also The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, some of which are autobiographical, or the fictionalized account of Nelle and Truman's relationship in the novel Capote in Kansas by Kim Powers.
What do you think? -- Harper Lee loved 19th-century British authors best, and once said that her ambition was to become "the Jane Austen of Southern Alabama." What do you think of the comparison?
Novels Dealing with Civil Rights & Justice
- Blood on the Leavesby Jeff Stetson :an African American prosecutor in Jackson, Miss. finds himself prosecuting a civil rights leader accused of killing whites that were acquitted of hate crimes.
- Fire in the Rock by Joe Martin
- Set in the South in the 1950's, four friends find their lives changed forever when a carefree summer takes a violent turn.
- Justice for None by Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan
- On the run from the law after being falsely accused of murder, a troubled WWI veteran joines forces with an African American who has also been wrongly accused.
- A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
- In 1948 Louisiana, a young teacher, asked to impart his pride and learning to a young black man awaiting execution, comes face to face with his own cynicism and hopelessness.
- Your Blues Ain't Like Mine by Bebe Moore Campbell
- A racist beating in a small Mississippi town riples through generations, changing the lives of everyone involved with the incident.
- Wolf Whistle by Lewis Norton
- If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Lane Cake -- Stephanie Crawford has been after Miss Maudie for her recipe for Lane Cake for thirty years. Lane Cake, a white or yellow layer cake covered with coconut, nuts, and dried fruits, is said to have originated in Clayton, Alabama, when its creator, Emma Rylander Lane, won a prize for it in the state fair in the 1890's. For a recipe for this type of cake and other delicacies that the bridge ladies might have enjoyed, look in non-fiction 641.5975 for cookbooks with Southern recipes. Edna Lewis' Gift of Southern Cooking has a recipe for Lane Cake.
Novels Dealing with Race & Identity In Rural or Small-Town Southern Settings
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow." (Chapter 23)
- Clover by Dori Sanders
- Interracial marriage in the rural south of today as seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Clover, who is raised by a white step-mom despite protests from relatives.
- My Last Days as Roy Rogers by Pat Cunningham Devoto
- Growing up in Alabama in the 1950's, two inseparable 10-year-old girls, one black and one white, discover the theft of money meant for polio victims and expose a racial injustice.
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- After her "stand-in-mother" insults the three biggest racists in town, Lily Owens and bold, black Rosaleen escape to Tiburon, South Carolina where they are taken in by bee-keeping sisters.
- Meridian by Alice Walker .
- Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith.
- The Angels of Morgan Hill by Donna Vanliere
Similar Coming of Age Novels
"Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." (Chapter 10)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith.
- Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry.
- Montana 1948 by Larry Watson
- Wish You Well by David Baldacci
Did You Know? -- Thomas Jefferson kept pet mockingbirds while at the White House and at Monticello. One favorite, whom Jefferson named Dick, rode around on his shoulder. Mockinbirds in the United States are of the species Mimus polyglottos and are known for mimicking other birds' songs. If you want to know more, try Know Your Bird Sounds: Songs and Calls of Yard, Garden and City Birds by Lang Elliott or try field guides to North American birds in nonfiction under *598.2
Historical Context
"Cry about the simple hell people give other people -- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people, too." (Chapter 20)
In the book, Scout is the same age as Harper Lee was in the early 1930's, during the trial of the "Scottsboro Boys." This case and that of Emmett Till both display prevalent Southern attitudes about race during this time period.
- The Scottsboro Boys by James Haskins
- Stories of Scottsboro by James Goodman
- Death of Innocence by Mamie Till-Mobley & Christopher Benson
- The Murder of Emmett Till (on DVD)
- The Lynching of Emmett Till, a Documentary Narrative ed. by Christopher Metness
More about the time period and Civil Rights
- Alabama: a History by Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton
- Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965 by Juan Williams
Or browse in nonfiction 323 for more Civil Rights material.
The Movie -- The movie To Kill a Mockingbird was released just a year after the book came out. Gregory Peck played Atticus Finch and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1962. The film was nominated for Best Picture but lost to Lawrence of Arabia which is also available at the library.
For Younger Readers
Share the To Kill A Mockingbird experience with younger readers with these books which explore similar themes: In Young Adult Fiction by Author
- The $66 Summer by John Armistead
- Burning Up by Caroline B. Cooney
- Mississippi Trial, 1955 by Chris Crowe
- Dangerous Skies by Suzanne Staples
- Let the Circle Be Unbroken by Mildred Taylor
- Sonny's House of Spies by George Ella Lyon
- Spite Fences by Trudy Krisher
In Juvenile Fiction by Author
- Sounder by William Armstrong
- From Miss Ida's Porch by Sandra Belton
- The Watson's Go To Birmingham, 1963 by C.P. Curtis
- Francie by Karen English
- Darby by Jonathan Scott Fuqua
- My Louisiana Sky by Kimberly Willis Holt
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
- Dovey Coe by Francis O'Rourke Dowell
Literary Allusions # The novel's main character Scout is extremely well-read for a first grader, which causes her teacher much consternation. She alludes to Mr. Jingle from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens during Mayella Ewell's testimony at the trial and Bulfinch's Mytthology. # Jem, Scout & Dill act out stories from Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Rover Boys by Victor Appleton, Tom Swift books, and books by Oliver Optic. # Jem reads Ivanhoe to Mrs. DuBose. # Scout learns to write by copying passages from the Bible. And Calpurnia teaches her son Zeebo to read from Blackstone's Commentaries.


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Released in November 2004, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb was U2's 11th studio album and their first since All That You Can't Leave Behind in 2001.
With a series of hit singles like 'Vertigo', 'Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own', 'All Because of You' and 'City of Blinding Lights', the album reached No.1 in 34 countries and went on to sell 10m copies. It has the 'wisdom, depth and complexity expected from the durable foursome,' wrote Edna Gunderson in USA Today, 'but there's also some of 1980's Boy power and no shortage of buoyant optimism, still evident today.'
Vertigo, the first single, was released in time to be nominated in three categories at the 2005 Grammy Awards - it won in all three. A year later, the album qualified for consideration and was nominated in five categories - it swept the board again, including Song of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Rock Album. Steve Lillywhite joined the band on stage - and took home his own Grammy for Producer (nonclassical) of the Year.
'How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb is an odd title for an album,' reflected Bono at those Awards. 'We accept that. Actually I was talking about my father Bob. He was the atomic bomb in question. I wanna thank my father Bob for giving me the voice and a bit of attitude to use it...'
The worldwide success of the first single 'Vertigo' was accelerated by a partnership with Apple - the song featured on a global TV promotion for the iPod. The band released a customised 'U2 iPod' in the black and red look of the album artwork containing 'The Complete U2', an iTunes digital collection of 446 tracks, including previously unreleased songs and rarities.
The success of Vertigo at the 2005 Grammy Awards was followed by the band's induction into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame - with Bruce Springsteen making a perfectly judged speech.
'Uno, dos, tres, catorce. That translates as one, two, three, fourteen. That is the correct math for a rock and roll band. For in art and love and rock and roll, the whole had better equal much more than the sum of its parts, or else you're just rubbing two sticks together searching for fire.'
Produced by Steve Lillywhite. Additional production: Chris Thomas, Jacknife Lee, Nellee Hooper, Flood, Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno, Carl Glanville.
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(This story, originally on our sister site LifeHealthPro, was excerpted from Healthcare Reform Facts, which is available for purchase.)
The effective date of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is March 23, 2010, although various provisions have their own effective dates from Jan. 1, 2010 (the small business income tax credit), through 2018. The start of 2013 saw the launch of a number of key provisions, among them Medicare tax increases, limits on Health FSA deferrals and the requirement that W-2 reporting note employer and employee payments for certain health care items in 2012.
But 2014 is the year when most core pieces of PPACA will be put into effect, like individuals must obtain minimum essential health coverage for themselves and their dependents, whether or not they have access to coverage through their employer. The mandate that employers with 50+ employees must provide health insurance was delayed till 2015.
Equally momentous, beginning Jan. 1, 2014, states are required to have opened a state-run health insurance exchange, or to have partnered with the federal government to open an exchange. Oct. 1 saw the rocky opening of enrollment into the exchanges. In theory, within these exchanges, insurance companies will compete for business on a transparent, level playing field, which should reduce costs and give individuals and small businesses the purchasing power enjoyed by big businesses.
However, health reform does many things to increase costs by covering those who are now uninsurable and by increasing mandated benefits. Many predict these factors will far outweigh any efficiencies created by the exchanges and that health insurance prices will increase. If exchanges succeed, they will create the first viable alternative to the group markets for the under-65 population.
In short, there's a lot to track over these next six months. Read on for 15 provisions that will become effective on Jan. 1, 2014.
1. Health Insurance Nondiscrimination Requirements
Code Section 105(h) currently taxes the benefits received by highly compensated employees (HCEs) under discriminatory self-funded health plans. PPACA has extended these nondiscrimination rules to insured plans. It is unclear whether this change imposes tax penalties or is a substantive requirement. Employers with discriminatory insured arrangements, however, will need to consider changing them. Grandfathered plans are exempt from this rule.
This new requirement was originally intended to be effective for plan years beginning on or after September 23, 2010. The effective date was postponed in 2010 until IRS publishes a notice, which has not yet been issued. The provision may not be effective in 2014 but it likely will be.
2. State Health Insurance Exchanges
Each state must establish a health insurance exchange (or HHS will do so) for use by the uninsured and small employers with 100 or fewer employees (although states may set the cap at 50 employees). The exchanges will offer fully insured insurance contracts that provide essential health benefits at different levels of coverage (bronze, silver, gold, and platinum). Employees of small employers who offer health insurance coverage through an exchange may pay their employee premiums for such coverage on a pre-tax basis through the employer's cafeteria plan.
3. State Health Insurance Exchange Tax Subsidies
Individuals who do not have affordable minimum essential coverage from their employer will be eligible for tax credit subsidies for their health insurance purchase on a state exchange if their income is below 400% of the federal poverty level.
4. Employer Mandate (Pay or Play) Tax Penalties
(This has now been deplayed till 2015.) Employers with 50 or more full-time equivalent (FTE) employees will be required to offer their full-time employees (FTEs) minimum essential health coverage or pay a fine of up to $2,000 per year for each FTE in excess of thirty FTEs if any employee receives a premium tax credit on a state health insurance exchange.
If an employer provides minimum essential health coverage to its FTEs, but fails to pay at least 60% of its actuarial value or the coverage is considered unaffordable (costs more than 9.5% of household income), then the employer must pay a penalty of up to $3,000 per year for each FTE who receives the premium credit on an exchange, but not more than would be owed for the $2,000 per year penalty. An FTE is defined as an employee who is employed for 30 or more hours per week, calculated on a forty-hour work week. This provision also applies to grandfathered plans.
5. Individual Mandate Tax Penalty
Individuals are required to obtain minimum essential health coverage for themselves and their dependents or pay a monthly penalty tax for each month without coverage. The monthly penalty tax is one-twelfth of the greater of the dollar penalty or gross income penalty amounts. The dollar penalty is an amount per individual of:
- $95 for 2014 (capped at $285 per family),
- $325 for 2015 (capped at $975 per family), and
- $695 for 2016 (capped at $2085 per family).
These dollar penalties will be indexed for inflation starting in 2017.
The gross income penalty is a percentage of household income in excess of a specified filing threshold of:
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- 2.5% for 2016 and later years.
In no event will the maximum penalty amount exceed the national average premium for bronze-level exchange plans for families of the same size.
Minimum essential coverage includes Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, TRICARE, individual insurance, grandfathered plans, and eligible employer-sponsored plans. Workers compensation and limited-scope dental or vision benefits are not considered minimum essential health coverage.
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Employers with more than 200 employees who maintain one or more health plans must automatically enroll new full-time employees in a health plan. The employer must give affected employees notice of this automatic enrollment procedure and an opportunity to opt out. State wage withholding laws are pre-empted to the extent that they prevent an employer from instituting this automatic enrollment program. The final effective date was [will be?] established by DOL regulations.
7. Pre-Existing Condition Exclusion Practices Eliminated
Pre-existing condition exclusions no longer will be allowed in group health plans or individual insurance policies, not even the limited exclusions previously allowed under HIPAA. This also applies to grandfathered plans.
8. 90-Day Maximum Waiting Period
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Group health plans, including grandfathered plans, may not impose cost-sharing amounts (i.e., copays or deductibles) that are more than the maximum allowed for high-deductible health plans (currently these limits are $5,000 for an individual and $10,000 for a family coverage). After 2014, these amounts will be adjusted for health insurance premium inflation.
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Group health plans, including grandfathered plans, may no longer include more than restricted annual or any lifetime dollar limits on essential health benefits for participants. Limits may exist in and after 2014 for non-essential benefits.
11. Wellness Program Health Plan Discount
The maximum premium discount an employer can offer under its health plan for participation in a wellness program is 30%. This is an increase from the prior 20% maximum premium discount. Regulatory agencies can increase this maximum discount to 50% in the future.
12. Coverage for Those in Clinical Trials
Insurers and health plans, unless grandfathered, may not discriminate against an individual for participating in a clinical trial. If a plan covers a qualified individual, it may not deny or impose additional conditions for participation in a clinical trial.
13. Employer Minimum Essential Coverage Reporting
All employers providing minimum essential coverage must file information with the IRS and plan participants.
14. Large Employer Health Information Reporting
Large employers and employers with at least 50 full-time equivalent employees must submit annual health insurance coverage returns to the FTEs and the IRS. The returns must certify whether the employer offers health care insurance to its employees and, if so, describe the details regarding plan participation, applicable waiting periods, coverage availability, the lowest cost premium option under the plan in each enrollment category, and other information.
15. Medicaid Expansion
The U.S. Supreme Court in effect ruled that the requirement for states to offer Medicaid benefits to all persons with incomes at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level is optional with each state. States that participate in the expansion will receive full reimbursement of their additional Medicaid costs from the federal government until 2017. At that time, reimbursement will gradually decline to 90 percent of extra costs in 2020 and thereafter.
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Krusader 1.30 Does Tabbed-Browsing
Krusader, the old school file manager for KDE, now supports tabbed-browsing in the 1.30 release. Each panel can create unlimited tabs, thereby keeping the twin-panel look and feel while allowing you to keep local folders, ftp, ssh open all at once. Screenshot here. Of course, this release offers a lot more. Enjoy!
krusader != total commander
I hope for a nearly 100% copy of Total Commander (aka Windows Commander) on Linux.
Please, lovely Krusader Developers, make your Krusader behave like Total Commander and I buy your software!! Forget bookmark handling for remote connections and do the user interface first, maybe a "Total Commander Theme" ;-)
I think I used Windows so long because of Total Commander ;-)
By Anonymous at Tue, 2003/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I used Total Commander for a while on windows, and it nowhere near compared to Directory Opus for Windows.
Although for pure file management, I'd have to say the classic MacOS finder takes the cake. There is something to say for simplicity.
By fault at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
This reminds me... Directory Opus version 4 for the Amiga was insanely great, fast, flexible and very easy to use.
Then, with version 5, they tried to make a program that would replace the desktop interface ("Workbench") and it was way too complicated.
'Course, I didn't pay for either version so I'm not really in a position to complain.. ;)
By Apollo Creed at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
total commander is bullshit.
- the internal API is beyond stone age. I wrote three plugins for that tool since some of our users demanded support for our custom archive/file formats.
- the performance of that tool is in most cases slower than the original windows file explorer
- two-panes are for beginners. even the good old "DirOpus" 5.x for amiga had more than two. anything else is a step into the wrong direction
- IMHO the look of total commander is a pain, it reminds me of windows 3.x
and last but not least: how cares about windows applications? I don't want windows applications on my desktop that remind me of MSDOS, "norton commander" or "windows commander".
In my experience, users of these tools were more unproductive than other users. they did not gain any more experience and stayed at their level. These users did not organize their data, they made themself more work than necessary. In the company where I work, we made file copy operations obsolete. Everything is controlled by style guides (file/directory naming conventions), revision control systems and synchronisation (i.e. rsync). No one needs to copy anymore, everything "moves" automatically to the correct locations.
By psxdev at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
- I have never had a need to write plugins for TC. What kind of company uses its custom archive/file formats, when it has had the wisdom to make such a basic operation, as copying, obsolete?
- TC has never crashed on me, unlike Explorer (many times a day). Outperfoms explorer which needs to be restarted every once in a while, or perhaps the whole system needs a reboot.
- If you need more panes than two, use some other tool. Two is enough for me.
- I don't care about the look of TC. I do work with it, not spend hours on gazing its looks.
- I care about windows applications, since I have no choice. Windows is used where I work.
- Maybe I am less productive than other people. I have no means to prove otherwise. And no need to prove it to you...
By janza at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I would really appreciate if Krusader could have ability to work more like TC...:c)
BTW: Sunchronization tools are useful for very limited types of operation, like working with source code or writting some shared documents...but there are many other "operation" than have to be done...and they have to done quickly !
By Rostislav Stribrny at Fri, 2005/02/25 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Let go of the mouse and start using the keyboard. Thats how TC is meant to be used. Anyone whose ever challenged me on how fast you can zip around the filesystem and other routine things you would normally do, normally loses and by a decent margin. I'm always open to suggestion that there is something better out there, but I haven't yet found it (including Opus), so get off the old high-horse and just accept that some things are better than others and some people work better with different tools.
By jose marin at Sat, 2005/11/12 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I use Total Commander at work and Krusader at home and I could really appreciate if the user interface of Krusader could be configured to be exactly like the UI of Total Commander. As for tabbed browsing: nice, but not very high on my priority list. Remote connections are a nice feature too, but lets face it: its the local files I want to manage with Krusader.
Anyway, nice job you have done so far Krusader developers!
By janza at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
If you want it so much, why don't you code it yourself? Or, if you can't do that, how about giving that money to somebody to do it?
By Luboš Luňák at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
that's a nice thought, but we'd settle for bug-reports and useful suggegstion first! it isn't that helpful to say something like "TC look and feel", be specifc so we could talk specifically.
By Shie Erlich at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
sorry to disappoint you, but we don't hold the "total commander ui" feature very high on the priority list. once upon a time, krusader let you change colors, but we decided that the program should fit into KDE as a desktop and look the same.
apart from that, i do think it looks close enough already. what's missing?
btw: we just found out that tabbed-browsing and bookmark handling a-la krusader was implemented in the new TC version 6.0, so i guess we're doing something right ;-)
By Shie Erlich at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I did not mean Krusader should imitate the looks of TC, but behaviour. Sorry if my message was confusing... Little anoyances that I usually run into are shortcut key differences like: Shift+F6 when trying to rename a file, other example would be selecting files with shift+arrow up/down, in TC I can let go of shift scroll further push shift back down and select some more files. There are a buch of other things I have run into, but don't come into my mind right now.
I know, these are little things and I can live with them, but they keep coming up every once in a while. As someone suggested, I could just code the changes my self, but I think Krusader is not the easiest peace of code I can start practising my KDE/Linux programming, since I have so little experience in it...
Still, considering all the above Krusader is by far the best filemanager for Linux!
By janza at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Just came in to my mind: normal mistake I keep doing is pressing Alt+F1/F2 that changes drive in TC. Of course there is no need to changed drive in Linux, but I would like to configure these shorcuts to open bookmarks for left/right pane...
By janza at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
problem is that some keys used by TC are already taken by KDE
By Shie Erlich at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Could Alt+1/2 be used for shortcuts to bookmarks?
By janza at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Any body have any idea about Total Commander software for RedHat Linux version (RPM). Pl give me some idea about it. I need it.
I am using Total Commander since 2 years in Windows. But Now I am using Linux in my Laptop. So I need it ASAP.
Pl help me on this regards.
By Nazmul Hoque at Tue, 2005/08/30 - 5:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I think you answered to my question ;-)
The look of the icons are irrelevant, don't need Krusader to look the same as TC. I mean it too: the behaviour
It's nice to have the keyboard shortcuts, browsing and marking through files/dirs and the behaviour of compressed files from TC. Compressed files, once decompressed in a tempdir, have nearly the same behaviour like normal files/directorys. Also the extension (.mp3, .rar, .ace. bz2...) should be configurable to have an own tab for a better overview.
The white background is too light for me, sorry I can't do anything. I *always* change the color background of TC to light grey if I install it on a machine at work.
In combination with winrar and irfanview, TC was the best for me on Windows.
I know, all suggestions are not for the wide user range, but exactly this behaviour and integration was the reason to use these programs and not the other 1000 "normal" programs.
Now, I "code" some shellscripts for the context menu in KDE to have nearly the same behaviour.
I think someone should laugh at me because I have the double-click in KDE activated. Sorry, I used it for years an Amiga & Windows, what's wrong?
By Anonymous at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
"I think someone should laugh at me because I have the double-click in KDE activated. Sorry, I used it for years an Amiga & Windows, what's wrong?"
There's nothing wrong with it, that's why that option exists:)
I've become acostumed with single-click in kde, but never understood this idea to disregard the convention on all other major desktops. Was it made to emulate the single-click option that win98 had? I don't know.
When I brought my father to windows, I changed his desktop to double-click, since even after years of using the web, my father never could get rid of the double-click behaviour he had known since win95, and still double-clicks links on the web sometimes.
By jukabazooka at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
KDE always uses single click as default for usability reasons, it's more reliable and easier to use for those who have a hard time with timed double clicking for whatever reason.
By Datschge at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I've KDE _allways_ set on dubklik behavior... _Never_ had a problem ;-)
By cies at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Single-click behaviour on KDE has a few problems:
- Acidental clicks. Since everybody keeps his finger rested on the left button of the mouse, ocasionally we single click without wanting to, be it a reflex, or whatever. This can cause for acidental apps to be launched, files to opened, buttons to be pressed.
I know I shouldn't put this here, but it the right places, but it seems to me that this behaviour is so set in stone, that it would do little good. And while an option of double-click exists, I'm happy.
By Luis Silvino at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I always see this, and I always ask the same thing, and I never get a full answer:
Why do you want to select ONE file?
Selecting several? Sure, and you do it in KDE just as in windows, using Ctrl-click and shift-click.
But selecting ONE?
By Roberto Alsina at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I don't know. I just know that I do it all the time :)
The thing is, when I'm on KDE I feel afraid of using the mouse because just clicking somewhere can trigger a number of potentialy destructive actions. The relative complicatedness of double-click is a protection against doing something wrong and that's why I like it.
By An ony mous at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Ok, at least we agree that selecting the file to rename it or see its preferences is not necessary, right? ;-)
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
What kind of potentially destructive actions are you thinking of? Simply opening a file by single clicking is not what I'd call "destructive".
By Datschge at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
How to select a file with single-click:
First. The file does not get launched by mouse button down, but on button up. So if you want to drag/drop a file just do as you always do, click on the file and drag, still keeping the button down. Moving the mouse also helps accidental clicking.
Second. If you want to delete, rename etc, a file: Right-click on the file and choose the appropriate action.
Third. If you want to mark one file, for any reason, without launching it. Press ctrl before selecting the file.
By Dragen at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
I understand how the system works. I use it. I still think it's less unintuitive, less easier to grasp than
The first anoyance of people I know who start using KDE is this behaviour.
By Luis Silvino at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Just pretend it's a webpage. Howcome nobody complains that links open when you single click them?
And yes, I have seen people double-clink on webpage links, but it's pretty unusual. Hell, I have seen people double-click windows quick launchers, which are buttons and thus single-clickable, or toolbars.
Double-click is evil.
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Because you never select links! And you also have a back button for when you fuck up.
I can see it now:
By happyhappy at Fri, 2006/12/22 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Yup, I think single click has the potential to be much more user friendly than double click, but the current implementation in KDE has a lot of problems that make it less user friendly than double click mode.
By fault at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Care to elaborate?
By Datschge at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Ok, I see tons of people having this discussion of how "difficult" it is to adapt to the single click style of operation in konqueror. Well all that aside, when im hammering through files in a file manager of sorts, I am (was) constantly using the quick search method of looking for files (ie. click a file and type and it automatically highlights files with the name starting with...) well with the single click style of operation, this is not possible. I dont know about you, but when im diggin through say... 146 files at once, i dont want to be scrolling down doing my abc's (i got $hit to do)... does anybody know how to force konqueror to behave with the double click mode? I've got it set in the global settings but konqueror refuses to play nice with me and now I want its config file to edit(or something) if possible... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks all
By Novell Newb at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
Hi there Shie
Well, I've used TC for a long time (4 years now), and have recently switched to Debian. I think that Krusader is great in comparison with TC, but there's one thing I dearly miss. TC can be configured to jump to a file as you start typing its name, autocompleting as you continue to type. Krusader only recognises the first letter you type, therefore should you have more than one file starting with the same letter, you'd have to repeatedly keep typing the first letter (or start scrolling down) to find the correct instance.
Anyways, keep up the good work.
By jacques at Wed, 2004/09/08 - 5:00am
Re: krusader != total commander
The things I miss from TC :
- right-click to mark a file as selected
By O. at Fri, 2004/10/01 - 5:00am
This software is Free. Download away!
By Royall at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: buy?
Yes, I will buy it. I know it's free and I have installed it ;-)
But if Krusader will feel like "total commander" I will buy Krusader for this (in my eyes) very helpful feature...
By Anonymous at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: buy?
is free as in free speech not as in free beer...if people like the software they should contribute with money!!
By Luis Mendonca at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
double click
krusader is nice, I've used several versions so far, and
By hoernerfranz at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: double click
> I've also always be annoyed by the inevitable
I hope, Krusader developers will fix this.
Since Norton commander, thousands and millions users like to
By gray at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: double click
actually, krusader does support using single clicks.
By Shie Erlich at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: double click
>actually, krusader does support using single clicks.
By hoernerfranz at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: double click (but ignore 2nd click)
Off topic, but I have a question about single-click support in KDE (QT?) in general.
I kind of like single-click, but there are many Mac/Windows users that insist on double-clicking all the time and totally freak out when they end up opening several windows. This is especially true because of the startup delay for KDE apps on older systems.
My question: is it not possible in QT to either request doubleclick notifications and ignore them, or check the time delay between 2 single clicks and ignore the second if it's too soon. It'd be a pain if it required code for every widget that is activated by a single click, but couldn't the toolkit be coded to handle this transparently?
By Rob at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: double click (but ignore 2nd click)
KDE lets you choose wether to use single of double clicks
By Anonymous at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: double click (but ignore 2nd click)
My guess is that that is not what he meant. If you have KDE configured for single click, he suggested it ignores the second consecutive click within a certain interval. I think that makes sence. I have seen people using my system that were totally confused, but I'm not about to change my system for them. This would be a nice solution that neither gets in my way, nor makes them scared :-)
By André Somers at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Good stuff!
This is fan-goddamn-tastic. Its like the old XTree program for DOS but about 10x better. I've been using konq for so long I forgot how freaking handy it is to use a program MEANT for file/dir navigation/manipulation.
Thanks for the great software!
By rsk at Wed, 2003/11/26 - 6:00am
smb4k must be in KDE 3.2 please.....
I am very pleased with smb4k, windows smb share browser, we must have it in KDE as "Samba Network" or "MS Network" or "Samba Neighboorhood". KDE have been very poor in dealing with smb shares. the only hope i see is with smb4k very well integrating with konqueror and KDE in general.
By smb4k user at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: smb4k must be in KDE 3.2 please.....
Feature freeze for KDE 3.2 was three months ago.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2003/11/27 - 6:00am
Hrm, why?
Sorry if I don't get the point of this, but what doe sKrusader have that Konqueror doesn't already offer? I can already do a vertical split mode like this in Konqueror by clicking a single button.
By Jason Keirstead at Fri, 2003/11/28 - 6:00am


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Boy was the first of three albums to be produced by Steve Lillywhite and was released in October 1980. The original sleeve featured the 'boy' Peter Rowan but Warner Bros, fearing controversy, released a different album cover in North America, featuring a stretched and distorted picture of the band. Other releases of note around the world included the original 12" vinyl of Boy in Japan - withdrawn after a few months and re-issued on the Polystar label. In several countries, Boy was also re-issued on 5" CD in April 1995 as part of the Island Master series. This Island Masters re-issue featured higher quality paper and extra pictures from the original LP's inner sleeve. On the heels of the UK and Ireland release of Boy, in Sweden they released a limited blue vinyl pressing, with identical sleeves and catalog number to the UK edition.
Boy was voted Best Album, Best Debut Album, and Best Album Sleeve in the Hot Press Irish National Poll Results. It peaked at No. 52 on the UK album charts and No. 63 on the US album charts. In the US, it was certified platinum by the RIAA.
A digitally remastered edition of Boy was released in 2008.
'Boy was a retrospective of U2 over two years - the end of our adolescence...What we were looking for in Boy was a sort of cinema sound, panavision - really textured and big, like a huge screen in a cinema.'
'Going back through the early stuff, nothing really horrified me. Particularly on Boy, I can hear a bit of the Banshees and The Buzzcocks and some hint of The Skids, as well as - ha ha - some wildly original ideas of our own... The shocking thing is that well before we had a right to, we had this belief that we would become a very succesful band. From the beginning Adam never doubted that we would make it big.'
Edge speaking to Q Magazine, December 1998
'The first thing we recorded together was A Day Without Me, which we thought was pretty good then. But when you listen back to it, it's probably quite childish, but everyone seemed to like it so I was asked to do their first album....
Everyone was in such a good frame of mind, ideas would just flow. All the silly noises on I Will Follow in the middle section, me and Bono...I'll always remember this...Bono was breaking bottles in the back and I had a push-bike upside down on its saddle, turning the wheels and running a knife along the spokes...'
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37 Years of BoyReleased on October 20, 1980, Boy is 37 years old today. Its songs streamed through my formative teen years and a lifelong run of growing up with the pulse and soul of U2. Thank you, Bono, Edge, Adam and Larry!!! Cheers, cheers!
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30 YEARSU2 perfectly capture the experiences of adolescence on their debut album. On "Twilight" Bono sings with raw passion and in lines like "Twilight, lost my way" there is a sense of uncertainty young people often feel when growing up. Having experienced the punk era U2 find their own and unique ways of expression quite soon. Adam;s driven bass lines accompanied by the fascinating rhythmic density of Larry;s drums form a powerful basis, which allows Bono and The Edge to build up their striking guitar riffs and melodies. The magic of those early recordings is rooted in their raw energy and direct release of deep emotions, but at the same time U2;s sensitivity to create subtle shades already appears. "The Ocean", one of my favourite tracks, evokes an image that is like an impressionistic painting. With this slow and epic piece of music full of wonderful soundscapes U2 create a very thoughtful mood. I also love how the dark and mystical atmosphere of "An Cat Dubh" merges into the shimmering notes of "Into The Heart". Instead of just delivering a sort of accompaniment The Edge lets his instrument sing a tune that is very close to the heart Bono refers to. The melodies of Bono and The Edge are so haunting, stirring, deeply emotional and overwhelming that they can move me to tears. Life moves on, but the timeless beauty of this very special song lets us go back to the pure innocence of childhood where we all come from.


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Earlier this year, we ran an article about the emerging crop of native languages. The group included D, Go, Rust, and Vala. I promised then that we would eventually explore these languages in greater detail. This week starts that fun journey with what will be a five-part series on Go, the new language from Google. Unlike past tutorial series in Dr. Dobb's, we will run the articles in consecutive weeks, so that you can be up and running quickly.
More than the other languages on the list, Go really attracts me. While I am by no means an expert in it, I like what I've seen so far. My enjoyment derives, as you'll see, from an appreciation of the maturity of feature selection, rather than from a gee-whiz enthusiasm that new languages can generate on first exposure. (I confess I am susceptible to this kind of excitement as well—which is why I can recognize the difference with Go.) These features in particular appeal to me:
Fast and simple compilation. Go compiles fast. In fact, it compiles so fast, it can easily be used as a scripting language. Several reasons for the compilation speed are that it does not use header files; if a module depends on A, which in turn depends on B, a change in A requires only recompiling the original module and the A dependency; finally, the object modules contain enough dependency information that the compiler needs no make file. You simply compile the main module and it will automatically compile everything in the project that needs to be updated. Cool, eh?
Error handling through multiple return values. There are two primary paradigms today in native languages for handling errors: return codes, as in C, or exceptions, as in OO alternatives. Neither system is ideal. But of the two, return codes is the more frustrating, because returning error codes often conflicts with returning other data from the function. Go solves this by allowing functions to return multiple values. One value that returned for functions that you designate is of type error and can be checked anytime a function returns. If you don't care about the error value, you don't check it. In either case, the regular return values of the function are available to you.
Simplified composition (in preference to inheritance). Types can be qualified as members of a group of objects by the use of interfaces, which, like they do in Java, specify behavior. So, for example, the io package in the standard library defines a Writer that specifies one method, a Write function with array of chars as the the input parameter and return values of integer and error type). Any type that implements a Write method with the same signature is a de facto implementation of the io.Writer interface. This design decouples code rather elegantly. It also simplifies mocking objects for unit testing. For example, if you want to test one method in a Database object, in standard languages you have to create a database object that requires lots of initialization and protocol in order to create the mock. In Go, if the method under test implements an interface, you can create any object with that interface and you're good to go. So, you could create MockDatabase, which is a minimal object that implements only the few methods necessary to run the interface that needs to be mocked—no constructor, no added features, just the methods.
Simplified concurrency. Concurrency in Go is made comparatively easy. Put the keyword 'go' in front of any function and that function will run in its own go-routine (a very light thread). Go-routines communicate through channels that are essentially blocking message queues. The usual tools for mutual exclusion are available, but Go makes it simple just to kick off concurrent tasks and coordinate via channels.
Excellent error messages. No language I've seen comes close to Go in the quality of the diagnostics it emits. For example, if a program deadlocks, the Go runtime notifies you of this and, to the extent it can, tells you which threads are causing the deadlock! Compiler error messages are similarly detailed and useful.
Grab bag: There are other appealing features, which I'll quickly run through here: higher-order functions, garbage collection, hash maps and expandable arrays built into the language (so part of the language syntax, not brought in as a library), and so on.
Of course, not everything is rainbows and lollipops. The tools are still fairly immature and the community is small, but with Google behind the language, both aspects are sure to be remediated. While many languages—notably D, Rust, and Vala—aim to simplify C++ and add specific features, they all feel to me like "C++ with better features." In Go, however, there's been a fundamental rethinking of how native languages should operate. And from that perspective comes an elegance of implementation that does away with many problems. Even if you have no particular need to consider Go, I think that by kicking the tires on the language, you'll find yourself appreciating many of its features. Cheers!
Related Reading
Go Tutorial: Object Orientation and Go's Special Data Types
RESTful Web Service in Go Powered by the Google App Engine


text: Thursday, January 24, 2013 HHS Moves to Rebrand 'Exchanges' Last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) started referring to state health insurance exchanges as "marketplaces" in an attempt to rebrand the central component of the Affordable Care Act, says an article in The Hill. A press release issued January 17 by HHS announced new grants to support states building health insurance "marketplaces." The agency also revamped HealthCare.gov to reflect the name change. Opponents of the health care law say the name change shows the administration is "failing" at getting support for the state-run programs and won't make any difference. According to The Hill, supporters of health care reform say the name change wasn't meant to assuage political opposition to the health care law. They say that "exchange" simply isn't a very good description. States have come up with their own names for their exchanges. Massachusetts', which predates the federal health care law, is called the "Connector." California named its exchange "Cover California."


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Like any 11-year-old boy, Jason DeMarco is not one to ramble on about his day.
Life happens, and he moves on. But he's quick to point out specifics on the moment he was knocked into the boards during a hockey game between his Vancouver Spirit Peewee team and the Cloverdale Comets.
The incident involved Jason in the starring role: in control of the puck, an opponent chasing him behind the net and another, bigger boy bearing down in front.
Then, a shoulder to Jason's head, and Jason's head rammed into the boards behind.
As he tells it, what happened next was anticlimactic. "I just got up and skated to the bench." Not really.
Jason got up and skated down the centre of the ice, obviously disoriented, says his father, Dion DeMarco. From the bench, Jason's coaches and his father yelled at the boy to turn around and join them. There he sat with a headache throughout the game.
The next day, a doctor confirmed the DeMarcos' fear. He'd suffered a concussion, his second in the last six months.
He has spent the next 16 days waking up with a throbbing headache.
"It's hard to see him suffer," says Dion.
"(While he's recovering) he can't play any sports or elevate his heart rate. He loves sports, and it's all been taken away from him. You can see how it's affecting his childhood."
With a careful recovery under the watch of his father, Jason is less likely to suffer the effect of multiple concussions, or Second Impact Syndrome (SIS), a growing concern among professionals in pediatric brain trauma. In SIS, a brain that hasn't recovered from a previous concussion swells rapidly minutes or even days after the second blow. With the swelling comes a loss of control over cerebral blood flow, causing cerebral edema, ending in either disability or death.
Jason is part of a growing number of children in B.C. reporting multiple concussions. Since they're grossly under-reported, it's nearly impossible to track them, says Dr. Ash Singhal, a neurosurgeon, University of B.C. pediatrics associate professor and the medical director of the pediatric trauma pro-gram at BC Children's Hospital.
Singhal says a concussion diagnosis doesn't always lead to a visit to the emergency room.
In 2009, the most recent data avail-able, BC Children's Hospital reported 257 emergency department visits related to concussions in children and youth.
Health care professionals believe those numbers have gone up in the last couple of years because doctors seem to be more willing to diagnose concussions where they would have previously diagnosed them as minor head injuries, according to Mariana Brussoni, director of BC Children's Hospital's Injury Reporting and Prevention Program.
The Canadian Paediatric Society released a new position statement in January warning that parents, doctors and coaches need to treat concussions as brain injuries with potentially catastrophic consequences.
"Because their brains are still developing, children and adolescents are more vulnerable to head injury and take longer to recover from concussions than adults," said Dr. Laura Purcell, the CPS statement's author.
According to a 2006 report in the BC Medical Journal, concussions among players allowed to bodycheck make up 86 per cent of injuries among players age 9 to 15 — an age range when the immature brain may be more vulnerable to injury.
Keith Primeau is a Canadian hockey player who retired in 2006 from a National Hockey League career with the Detroit Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers.
Though Primeau is six years removed from the four concussive hits that ended his career, he still feels the lingering effect of post-concussion syndrome: headaches, fatigue, neck stiffness and light-headedness during exercise.
The four concussions are only those that have been diagnosed. "I would guess that over my career span I have had around 10," Primeau says from his Philadelphia home.
He keeps busy with various hockey franchises in Ontario and Philadelphia, as a coach of his two sons' hockey teams, and raising concussion awareness as part of his advocacy group, StopConcussions.com.
Speaking as a coach and father, Primeau says he's worried about the pressure young hockey players face to return to the ice before they've been monitored after a hit.
"These kids aren't going to understand the severity of their injuries. Even though they may not feel well, they don't understand, so it disturbs me when I see players returning to the ice before being evaluated," he says.
Generally, players at 10 and 11 years of age aren't eager to express any concussive pain around their peers, says Primeau. Also, parents could pay in the thousands in registration fees, gear costs and tournaments. Ice time on public rinks is rare and never guaranteed, he adds, so young players and their paying parents could feel the pressure to get as much ice time as possible, without recognizing if a concussed child has fully recovered.
Primeau sees it often. "There's a lot of external forces at work, economic forces, and there are egos involved. I've seen kids who have been two or three concussions along, and they're in dangerous waters."
Concussions can be caused by a direct blow to the head, neck or face.
Though the jarring impact may not result in a blackout, the victim is knocked out, feels dizzy, has visual disturbances, loss of consciousness or balance, vomiting, irritability, trouble falling asleep or sleeping more than usual. A rare complication is fatal swelling of the brain known as malignant brain edema syndrome: a phenomenon that occurs almost exclusively in children and teens and can lead to coma and death.
Children most often recover from a concussion within three weeks without lingering effects, says Singhal, a neurosurgeon who specializes in operating on brain trauma, tumours and epilepsy.
While specialists with Vancouver's pediatric trauma program see mostly preteen and adolescent boys, they're also noticing more girls concussed from injuries on the soccer pitch or through bicycle accidents. Singhal says he's seeing more multiple concussions in boys aged 10 and older, those he characterizes as the high-energy risk takers. One of his worst cases has been a teenager who had suffered six concussions.
He says cases like Jason DeMarco's are typical: a young person who suffers a concussion is more likely to suffer another. Though Jason's recovery is well monitored, too often specialists see damage caused when the child hasn't received proper treatment after a blow to the head. The child may say he is feeling fine, but then return to the ice, field or pitch before fully recovering.
Even those who've suffered one or two concussions in preteen and adolescent years can show a disturbing change in behaviour, he says.
"We've seen kids who've had concussions, but not a brain injury where blood clots have collected, and they've changed their behaviour," says Singhal. "Parents will tell us, 'He was good at school, but now he's withdrawn, he's irritable. He gets into fights.' "
Often, parents mistake such behaviour as a trope of adolescence, a dangerous assumption after a hit to the head, he adds. "It does seem clear that repeated concussions can influence patient mood and behaviour."
Multiple hits over time can lead to extremes, says Chris Nowinski, head of the Boston-based Sports Legacy Institute, a collaboration of doctors and advocates for research on brain trauma linked to contact sports.
Nowinski, a former Harvard football player and WWE wrestler, suffered six concussions before he retired from violent play in 2004. He's since written Head Games: Football's Concussion Crisis.
According to Nowinski, researchers at the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy recently discovered the youngest documented case of CTE, a degenerative disease found in people who have suffered multiple concussions, in Nathan Stiles, a 17-year-old high school football player who died on the field in October 2010.
West Coast hockey organizations have recently responded to a growing concern over players' brain trauma with new safety regulations and policies to ban bodychecking in the Pee-wee age group (ages 11 and 12).
The Pacific Coast Amateur Hockey Association voted in a special meeting last month to ban bodychecking in the lower Peewee levels, and vowed to support a motion that BC Hockey follow suit in its general meeting in June. That move would hold all players and coaches across the province to the same standard.
The new rules, which take effect at the start of the 2012-13 season, apply to nearly 20,000 children involved in minor hockey in the Lower Mainland.
Mischa Polzin, a coach and hockey director of the Vancouver Minor Hockey Association, says if bodychecking is done right, it shouldn't result in injury. But he says he's seen a deteriorating ethic among young players over the course of his 15-year coaching career.
"Kids are becoming bigger and faster, and many are growing faster than others," says Polzin. "There's less respect on the ice."
Though the PCAHA's new policies will have an impact, little will change without more brain-injury education and resources for coaches, volunteers and parents, says Polzin, who's currently coaching two players who've suffered concussions. His recovery policy: a wait of one week without a single headache, then another three-week pause, which could include light training before a return to play. "And they're not playing without a note from a specialist."
The North Vancouver Minor Hockey Association distributes concussion identification cards to parents, says vice-president Lawrence Smyth. The NVMHA mandates a policy to pull a player if coaches suspect a concussion. They're not allowed to return to the ice before an "observation skate" and a doctor's sign-off.
Brandon Campos, a Port Coquitlam native and a forward with Texas's Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees, is taking a careful, measured approach to his own recovery. Just last month, he concussed for a third time in his career after he fell backward when an opponent tripped him in a game.
"I felt dizzy and sick; I wasn't unconscious, but I knew what was wrong," he says.
It was a familiar feeling. He had concussed in B.C. games twice before, at ages 12 and 17 — blows that forced him out for weeks at a time.
Though he's patient with his slow recovery this time, and he's being supervised by two team doctors, he says the pressure to recover quickly and get back into play is ever present.
"I believe playing professional hockey, there is a certain amount of pressure, because there's someone coming up after me, ready to fill my job," he says.
"Back in the day I would have pressured myself into playing because there were always scouts watching. In that way, it's really hard for the younger crew. But now at my age, I'm doing it as a career, so I think, 'Is an extra week on the ice really going to benefit me?' "
Dion DeMarco says one more concussion would force him to end his son's hockey-playing.
"I think if Jason had another concussion in the next year or so, I wouldn't want him to play hockey again. Why would you? As much as they like it, it's way too risky."


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