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We all know how fictional vampires attack their helpless prey, thanks to the deluge of vampires as depicted by such writers as Stephenie Meyer, Anne Rice, Stephen King and countless others. From "True Blood" to Twilight, vampires have never been hotter—nor more popular. Modern ideas of what vampires are, what they do and how they look can be traced back to Irish writer Bram Stoker, author of Dracula (1897).
Stoker is said to have modeled some aspects of his title character off Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476), the Romanian prince who fought for his country's independence against the Ottoman Empire. Though his methods were brutal by modern standards (he is said to have impaled his enemies on stakes) they were not particularly barbaric for the time, nor were they vampiric (he didn't drink blood).
Fictional vampires are usually depicted with permanent or retractable sharp canine teeth to pierce their victims' veins and draw precious lifeblood. In books and in movies it seems easy, but sucking blood is not straightforward for real vampires.
In zoology, animals that suck blood are referred to as "hematophagous." Most of the world's bloodsucking animals are insects, such as bedbugs, mosquitoes, sand flies, fleas, ticks and assassin bugs. (The assassin bug can transmit a nasty infection called Chagas Disease, which can kill a person decades after being bitten; see Fig. 1). There are also several water-dwelling vampires.
Regardless of where they live, the animals have developed specialized mouth structures to drain blood from their prey. Leeches, for example, have strong suckers that allow them to attach to other animals. Mosquitoes have tiny, sharp proboscises that create a puncture wound from which to draw blood.
Their teeth also lack enamel and self-sharpen every time the bat takes a bite.
The best-known vampiric animal is the vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus), which does not actually suck blood but instead bites its victim with sharp teeth and laps the blood as it oozes out of the wound. Special enzymes in the bat's saliva keep the blood flowing freely and render the wound painless. Their teeth also lack enamel and self-sharpen every time the bat takes a bite.
Some animals have hollow (or grooved) teeth or tooth-like appendages, for example, venomous snakes and spiders. But those specialized dental adaptations are used to inject fluids, not suck them out. I interviewed Page Van Meter, a New York City zoologist, and asked about the possibility that blood could be sucked through hollow canine teeth. "Many reptiles have grooved teeth that act as a delivery system for poison," she told me. "But none of these animals 'suck blood.' "
Van Meter says fictional vamp biology bothers her. "Once sucked through the tooth, where would the blood go then? It's a silly design."
Drinking blood is one thing, but digesting it as a food source is another matter. Because blood is so rich in iron—and because the body has difficulty excreting excess iron—any animal that consumes blood regularly runs a risk of overdose. True vampires have adapted specialized digestive mechanisms to deal with iron toxicity. Leeches, for example, store consumed blood in their bodies for later digestion. This requires the leeches' bodies to secrete specialized enzymes, as well as antibiotics, to keep the blood free of disease-carrying bacteria.
Katherine Ramsland, in her 2002 book The Science of Vampires, notes that a bat ingests more iron than it needs, so its body discards the excess. The digestive system extracts the nutrients, but a mucus membrane lining the intestinal tract prevents too much iron from being absorbed.
They don't wear capes, but watch out for real, biologically astounding monsters this Halloween. They vaaant to suck your blooood.


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2010 will be remembered by some as the year of the Great Patent Wars. After it became clear that Android had really taken off and was making serious money for companies like Google, Motorola, Samsung, and HTC, Apple chose to fight back. Litigiously. From March 2010 to March 2011, Apple filed 37 lawsuits against Android software and hardware manufacturers. The Cupertino giant sued over everything from device size and shape to how devices accept and process touch input, even down to the very names used for new tech-jargon features like apps and stores and marketplaces. Apple wanted to make their message clear: any ideas we stole first are ours now, so you'd better try something else. Much of the legal drama has cooled off now as courts and ITCs in different regions of the globe have ruled that Samsung, Motorola, and HTC have made the necessary changes to adequately differentiate themselves from Apple, iOS, and the iPhone (though it seem Apple would be unhappy with anything short of the exclusive rights to build touchscreen-only devices and sell apps). During this time of Great Patent Wars, Microsoft was developing their latest smartphone OS: one that bears no resemblance to any UI or OS anyone has seen before on anything. When the first Windows Phone 7 handsets were made available in October of 2010, the world was introduced to Metro UI. Especially at the time, Microsoft and Window Phone were joining an already saturated market, not to mention their radically different design and theory. The phones haven't sold super well here in the US, but they're doing better every quarter (especially since the release of the Nokia Lumia). Coming up on its two year anniversary, Metro is still making the steady approach to its tipping point. With its soon-to-be ubiquitous presence on all of Microsoft's latest devices (PCs, the Xbox 360, and Windows Phone), the Metro UI will be making its way into your life one way or another in 2013. This is only the beginning.
Sure a lot of people are voicing concern over the major switch to Metro UI they can expect with Windows 8, but a radical new paradigm can take a little while to take hold. (Bad example: Nobody wanted or played Nintendo's Virtual Boy until they were discontinued.) In the beta releases and consumer previews, developers, writers, and the general public have gotten a chance to begin to familiarize themselves with navigating within Metro UI. We've heard them loud and clear: it's different, too different for many. But that's okay. It should be. It's 2012 and our computers and technology are vastly different than even two years ago. The things we do with our devices have changed. We use the internet more and more. We store our data in the cloud. We stream media over the internet through gaming consoles, set-top boxes, and home theatre pcs. We stopped carrying iPods and mp3 players because our phones are capable of the task. Instead of gaming on computer or with the consoles that now act as Netflix and Hulu portals, we play short and simple app games. Things we once did on our laptops are now easier and more fun on tablet or phone. For all of this to happen the industry has had to focus much of its development effort into mobilizing their offerings. Microsoft has had this vision of the future and has been preparing in full force. They've been subliminally conditioning us all for their next generation in peripheral computing or ecosystem integration or whatever term you prefer to use to describe using one interface on many different devices. In 2009 and 2010, Microsoft wasn't preparing their mobile platform and their next Windows iteration for 2011 and 2012. Microsoft is busy preparing their devices and software for 2013, 2015, and beyond. Consumer sales speak loudly, and in the recent years they've said that people like the simplicity and continuity of a close ecosystem of devices, such as the one Apple provides with Mac OS, iOS, and iCloud. Microsoft recognized this, and has responded with an ecosystem and user interface built for the future.
Apart from making wonderful products that seem to "just get" their users, much of Apple's success in recent years can be somewhat attributed to wide-scale positive press. Most of the highest traffic technology and news sites feature many more Apple stories than Windows and/or Android stories on a given day. This is especially true around events such as Apple's World Wide Developer Conference in June, and the iPhone release every Fall. Sure you could argue that the news sources are covering stories that t heir readers care about, but it is often a self-fulfilling prophecy. If consumers read more about Apple (especially if those stories are favorable, as they usually are based on Apple's incredible product lines) they are going to think more about Apple, and thus be more likely to buy Apple when the time comes. Social psychologists might call this an availability heuristic bias, and consumer psychologists refer to this as a being on one's automatic list. I believe that this is all going to change during the last quarter of 2012. Microsoft is innovating and pushing Metro in three main tech arenas: mobile phones, game consoles and home theatre, and personal computing. They're going to be getting a ton of coverage in all three. When Smartglass (more on this later) and internet explorer arrive on the Xbox, you're going to hear a lot about it. When Windows 8 drops this fall, you'll be hearing even more about it. As people begin to love Metro on their Xboxes and computers, they are going to buy more and more Windows phones. When that happens, you're going to hear a lot about it. Within the next 6 months, Microsoft will be garnering more press coverage than they have at any point during the last several years, maybe even decade. Sure, some of the articles will be negative reviews and rants, but as Lindsay Lohan's publicist likes to believe, "all press is good press".
The Metro UI and Ecosystem will reach everyone
The new Metro UI represents Microsoft's reimagining and rebranding of Windows. Instead of opening and stacking window after window in an eternal cycle reminiscent of "infinity mirrors" at the fun house, Microsoft is taking a more literal approach to the whole Windows metaphor. Think about the front wall of a home: it probably has two or four or more windows side-by-side. Each one gives a different view of the information (information being everything outside the house). That's how Microsoft has reimaged its Windows design. You've got plenty of windows–each with a different view on your digital world–and you don't have to close one before going to the other. As I eluded to earlier, Metro will be on every current Microsoft device, in one way or another, by the end of the year. While not officially called Metro at first, the latest UI for the Xbox 360 Dashboard employs the Metro theme. Each different category is represented by a page or window, and information and apps within the category are presented as a two-dimensional pane. Moving side-to-side will bring you to each different Window or Page. This is Metro on the Xbox. Windows Phone 7 was introduced with Metro in 2010. And Metro is the centerpiece of Windows 8. When you use a Microsoft device in 2013, you will be operating from within Metro (except of course for legacy devices and computers not updated to Windows 8). Sure Metro is scary and different now, but by 2014 most won't remember their lives without it. Once people learn (and eventually love) Metro, it will make more and more sense to purchase Windows phones. Metro will seem easier and better, and so people will desire it on their phones. The phones will be part of the whole experience and ecosystem.Everything will play so nicely together. In a sense, Microsoft is teaching us Metro. Windows phones will be big sellers, but only after more people are comfortable looking at their world with big, flat Metro windows. We'll all look back at apps and widgets and laugh. One day.
Windows 8 will lead the revolution
Windows 8 is the corner-stone of the new Windows ecosystem, and it will simultaneously revolutionize the tablet industry and introduce Metro to the masses. When Windows 8 is released in the fall of this year, it will ship on most new computers. Samsung, Lenovo, and Asus all have some pretty remarkable Ultrabooks set to drop with Windows 8 this year, and those devices are all pretty drool-worthy. Even if you don't like the idea of Windows 8 right now, you'll likely be swooned by one of the many incredible computers coming out this year or next. The next time you want to buy a new Windows computer, it will be very difficult to find one not running Windows 8. Not only are these next-gen PCs marvels in design and specs, but many of them are even hybrid devices that combine the form factors of the laptop and tablet. Apple has been the undisputed king of the tablet market since they re-created it with the first iPad. Many of the apps that Apple and others have developed for the iPad are truly remarkable and wonderful. They've come to define what we consider a good tablet. Android has tried to make a more full-featured tablet with Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich OS versions, and they're getting better at it. Still, neither Apple nor Google have been able to provide a full-fledged computer operating system and user interface on a tablet. With Windows 8, an OS designed equally for computer and tablet, anything you can do on a laptop you can now do on your tablet. if you're like me and plan on purchasing one of the upcoming laptop/tablet combos, your laptop and your tablet will be one in the same. Microsoft is blurring the line between tablet and computer, and giving users a pretty good example of what Metro and the new Windows should be. Your Windows 8 tablet screen is your window to the full Metro experience. Flip the screen around and you can use your keyboard and mouse for input when you want more control. Most people end up buying keyboards for their iPads anyway, so obviously there is a desire for a go-anywhere, do-anything device with both a touchscreen and keyboard.
Xbox will rule the home theater market
Microsoft is going to make sure that the xbox is on the cutting edge of home entertainment software. They've already brought Metro to the Xbox dashboard, and now they plan to extend the Metro presence from your big screen to your computer, tablet, and phones screens with Smart Glass. In case you haven't heard about it yet, Microsoft announced the upcoming release of Smart Glass for the Xbox 360 at the E3 conference this year. Smart Glass will allow any iOS, Android, or Windows device to act as a remote control, keyboard, and extra screen for your media content on the Xbox. In the photo above you see Smart Glass being advertised on an Android tablet. Microsoft doesn't want to alienate any Xbox users with iOS or Android devices. You'll be able to enjoy all of the Smart Glass goodness on your smart devices, with Windows Phone users getting extra goodies such as Xbox Games, Music, and Video Apps. In an interview with Venture Beat, Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi had this to say:
What SmartGlass really does is it creates a new creative canvas for three-screen entertainment. Something that's not happening today. It happens today in a kind of sneakernet way. You're watching a TV show or a movie or playing a game, and in a moment, when there's moments, you go to your device that's handy. We know that people are playing with tablets or PCs while they're watching TV, or they've got their phones in their pockets. What we've done is create a platform where the content creator can actually program to the devices, the devices are smart, and they are aware and they're listening to the broadcast from the TV, and then they light up.
Microsoft has already innovated the gaming console arena in many ways, including groundbreaking user interfaces and superb movement and speech controls via the Kinect. You can now speak or swipe your way through the Dashboard of your Xbox and in apps such as Netflix and Youtube. They also announced they'll be bringing Internet Explorer to the Xbox, so you can talk, touch (via Smart Glass) or swipe your way around the web from the comfort of your favorite seat. The Xbox was already the biggest home theatre device, majorly out-selling all set-top boxes and home theatre pcs. Once Internet Explorer hits the Xbox, it'll be everything Google hoped GoogleTV would be. Ostensibly, as more and more people are considering buying set-top boxes, home theatre pcs, and smart tvs, Microsoft is busy ensuring Xbox is the best choice for many with innovative features, great connectivity across platforms, and a full-range of entertainment utilities and abilities (you can't play COD on an Apple TV). WinSuperSite has a good summary of some of the new features coming soon to the Xbox experience:
Internet Explorer for Xbox. Microsoft is making Internet Explorer available for the Xbox, as you probably know, and while it will feature the IE 9 rendering engine, the Xbox version of the browser will closely resemble the Metro look and feel of IE 10 on Windows 8. And, as Whitten notes, "with the power of Kinect and Xbox SmartGlass, you'll able to navigate websites with any device or the sound of your voice."
Favorites. Microsoft is evolving its content pinning capability, available currently on the Xbox 360, into something called Favorites. Whitten explains: "Favorites allows you to personalize the dashboard by saving your movies, TV, games, music and the web right to the home screen in the dashboard. Favorites will make it easier and faster than ever to get to your favorite content on Xbox and Xbox LIVE."
Xbox apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. As I previously noted in my Xbox Music Preview, Windows Phone 8 (and the Xbox 360) will also be getting the same Xbox apps that we're seeing on Windows 8: Xbox Games, Xbox Music, and Xbox Video.
Improved Bing Search on Xbox 360. As highlighted during Microsoft's E3 media briefing, the Bing Search features on the Xbox 360 are being evolved to include genre search in addition to the currently available movie, TV show, and actor search. Somewhat obvious, but welcome.
Even if you no longer play games, Microsoft wants to ensure you're using your Xbox almost every day.
The last five years have seen Apple rise to the top of the tech industry, and rightfully so. With the App Store, iTunes, the iPhone and iPad, Apple has been giving customers what they want: seamless and thoughtful mobile technology that just works and works well together. Microsoft took note, and put a lot of it eggs in one basket in attempting to predict the next step. Microsoft has gone all-in with Metro, and has been subtly introducing it to us for two years now. Microsoft is on the verge of their next big revolution, similar to the one Apple started a few years ago with the iPhone and iOS. Because Microsoft is releasing so many new things over an extended period of time, they will dominate the tech conversation on the web for the first time in years. Instead of every other tech story being about apple, we will be seeing people talk about Windows 8, Windows 8 tablets and laptops, Metro UI, Windows Phone 8, and the updated Xbox experience making every touchscreen an extension of your Xbox media center. When the conversation tips, the sales will follow, leading to even more stories about Microsoft (stories about earnings and the sales figures of devices that have already been featured in earlier stories). Microsoft has seen the future and Metro is here to stay. If I were a betting man, I'd put my money on Microsoft next year. If you buy stocks, now is a great time to buy Microsoft. In fact, I think I may go and make my first stock market transaction and buy some Microsoft stock: like Metro, it's a good investment.


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NEW YORK—Airports in New York, Boston and Connecticut were ramping up service Sunday, as they worked to return to normal operations following a massive snowstorm that crippled parts of the East Coast and led to thousands of flight delays and cancelations.
Airlines said they were operating close-to-normal schedules on Sunday, a busy day for air travel.
Meanwhile, trains and public transportation networks were also struggling to get back to full operation in time for Monday morning's commute.
Boston's Logan Airport opened at 11 p.m. ET on Saturday, after closing in anticipation of the storm along with airports in New York City and Connecticut.
As of Sunday afternoon, Boston was still experiencing delayed and canceled flights and officials urged passengers to check with their airline before heading to the airport. Connecticut's Bradley International Airport opened early Sunday morning, also advising passengers to contact individual airlines about possible cancellations.
Flight-tracking website FlightAware.com said about 450 flights were canceled on Sunday, a busy travel day for airlines. Only 20 are expected for Monday.
In all roughly 5,700 flights have been canceled since Friday, when the airports shut down in anticipation of the storm. Friday saw the most cancelations, according to FlightAware, with Saturday a close second. Airlines waived ticket-change fees for passengers in the affected areas.
Airlines try to get ahead of big storms by canceling flights in advance. They want to avoid having crews and planes stuck in one area of the country. They also face fines for leaving passengers stuck on a plane for more than three hours, under a rule that went into effect in 2010.
Delta Air Lines Inc. said that as of Sunday morning, its flights were back to normal. In all, it canceled about 1,200 flights due to the storm.
United Airlines spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said the airline was operating at all airports Sunday, though it was experiencing some delays because of the weather. United is part of United Continental Holdings Inc.
American Airlines spokesman Kent Powell said that by Sunday afternoon the storm-related cancellations had become "almost a non-issue."
JetBlue Airways Corp. said flights are back to regular schedules in New York and will be in Boston by Monday.
Amtrak trains were running on a limited schedule between New York and Boston, after service between the two cities was canceled Saturday.
Regional lines were still working to restore service.
As of Sunday afternoon, Metro-North Railroad service on the New Haven Line was operating between New York City and Stamford, Conn., but remained suspended between Stamford and New Haven, and on branch lines. Train crews were working to clear as much as 4 feet of snow off the tracks.
The Long Island Rail Road was back to "near-normal" weekend schedule on the western portion of most of its lines, New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. But train service in Long Island's Suffolk County, also hit with more than two feet of snow, was suspended.
Most New York City subways and buses were operating on a regular schedule.
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority said service on some subway and bus lines resumed at about 2 p.m., and planned to operate on regular schedules Monday. But the agency said commuters should expect "significant" delays.
Most commuter rail service around Boston should resume by Monday morning, the agency said on its website.
The blizzard also snarled drivers across the Northeast as snow cleanup continued Sunday.


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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (March 23, 2009) - A day after the Lady Bucs season came to an end, junior guard Siarre Evans (Griffin, Ga.) learned Monday morning she took home the Atlantic Sun Conference scoring title, marking the first time an ETSU player has claimed the crown since Tiffani Mayes did so in 2005.
It was a close race, but when everything was totaled Evans stayed in front of her teammate TaRonda Wiles (Danville, Va.) to capture the crown. Evans finished the season averaging 16.4 points per game and Wiles closed out the year in second with 16.2 per contest.
Evans became only the fourth player in ETSU history to accomplish the feat, as she joined current Lady Buccaneer assistant DeShawne Blocker, Nicole Hopson and Mayes to win the title. In addition, Evans finished the year averaging a double-double, as she posted 10.3 rebounds per game as well.
Wiles and Evans also joined an elite club after the first round NCAA Tournament loss to Iowa State on Sunday night. The junior duo both scored 500-plus points this season, which is something that has only been done one other time in Lady Buccaneer history. Evans scored 507 points on the year and Wiles netted 501. The first time two ETSU players scored 500 points in one season was when Blocker and 1,000-point scorer Amy Engle started the special club in 1994-95.
Evans and Wiles will be back for their senior season and the scoring combo looks to guide the Lady Bucs to their third straight NCAA Tournament appearance.
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LAKEWOOD RANCH, Fla. (Nov. 10, 2013) - One day after picking up a win over college tennis' 35th-ranked player, Lyn Yee Choo (Kuching, Malaysia) capped her fall season with another win, coming from behind to win a thrilling match at the Dick Vitale Intercollegiate Clay Court Classic.
Choo lost her opening set to Notre Dame's Julie Sabacisnki, 6-1; however, Choo refused to give in, taking the second set in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (7-3) before sealing the comeback victory with a 10-7 third-set tiebreak win.
"Tessie can be very happy about her performance this weekend," ETSU head coach Travis Sandlant said. "She represented ETSU well this weekend."
Choo finished the weekend with a singles record of 3-1.
"To go 3-1 at an invitational event that hosts some of the big colleges in tennis is a great effort," Sandlant said.
Teammate Ana Gerbasi (Caracas, Venezuela) suffered a setback to No. 35 Britney Sanders. Choo was able to pick up a win over Sanders Saturday, Nov. 9.
The tournament marked the final competition of the fall season for the ETSU women's tennis team. The Buccaneers will be back in action in the spring when they begin their final season in the Atlantic Sun conference.
Lyn Yee Choo (ETSU) d. Julie Sabacinski (Notre Dame), 1-6, 7-6 (7-3), 10-7
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text: Joseph Forney Johnston was born in Lincoln County, North Carolina, on March 23, 1843. He moved with his family to Alabama around 1860. When the Civil War began, he enlisted in the 11th Alabama Infantry. Later he joined the 12th North Carolina Infantry, and rose to the rank of captain. On August 12, 1869, he married Teresa Virginia Hooper of South Carolina. Johnston had a successful career as a lawyer, was president of the Alabama State Bank, and was the first president of the Sloss Iron and Steel Company. He was elected governor of Alabama in 1896 and again in 1898, and later served in the U.S. Senate. He died in Washington, D.C. on August 8, 1913.


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I do the breast sandwich. I've moved on to feeling sorry for myself.
Thank you all for your help. You've all been so kind to me, and I'll never see you again, because I'm killing myself as soon as we reach the bridal suite.
I do the breast sandwich. I've moved on to feeling sorry for myself.
Thank you all for your help. You've all been so kind to me, and I'll never see you again, because I'm killing myself as soon as we reach the bridal suite.
"We are not put on earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you."
When I left the hospital I was using Soothies, but now that my milk has really come in they get yucky way before 72 hours. I've been applying breast milk and/or lanolin and trying to leave it exposed to air. I'm planning to go buy some shield thingies to wear in my bra so I can wear clothes again without the fabric rubbing on them.
Just a word of warning - if it is thrush, lanolin can make it worse by trapping moisture and allowing the yeast to grow, and if it's in your breast milk, you're just reapplying infected milk. Can you get a script for Dr. Newman's all-purpose nipple cream? I've also used over the counter Canesten...
I second the recommendation for the APNO per Newman. I had a similar problem (youch--makes me cringe thinking about the pain!). The ointment really helped to heal, and you don't need to wipe it off before feeding, unless there is an obvious glob. One 30 gram tube lasted me several months of application (sparingly). The cracks will take time to heal. I had a really bad one on the right nipple and it was 2 months before the rift in the skin was gone. Also, time will be your friend. My LO's chin was also recessed, and it took a few months for his mouth to grow big enough to fit all the breast in. Good positioning helped--you might check out the My Brest Friend Pillow, which I completely fell in love with at my lactation consultant's office and promptly purchased from amazon. For a few months, I added a flat pillow under the MBFP so baby was raised high enough on the breast--you might confer with your LC that you are getting a good position. I thought I was under a LLL leader visited me and showed me that the position I was using was actually pulling on the nipple. Proper position made all the difference in terms of healing and comfort!


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"He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself."
Last I checked, this wasn't an episode of 24. No beatings needed. So many people this week were worrying this would somehow degrade their 2nd amendment rights but it seems they don't care about the 5th amendment protections that are slowly being chipped away. The way I see it, once you are in custody you won't have your gun so all you have at that point is the 5th amendment.
Actually I don't see how we will get much useful info out of him as it was an amateur effort at terrorism despite being pulled off quite successfully.


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Self documenting bash script options
This Linux HOWTO describes a process to display a help window for a bash script that has several command line options.
Most bash scripts can be called with a varying number of options (using the getopts syntax) and it is sometimes hard keeping up with what each option does, particularly if there are many.
Inside the script these options are managed in the getops list, so a print-out of the current option list is useful. However, the options may change in time and short of updating a help message file each time, or opening the script and viewing the relevant area, it is useful to provide a synchronised way of displaying the options in a readable format.
A typical getopts sequence might look like the following:
In this case the area of interest is the getops sequence and to demarcate this place ###START (3 '#') at the start and ####END at the end of the sequence (as these are comments they can be inserted anywhere).
The following function within the script then gathers all lines between ###START and ####END, tidies the content up a bit (this is optional) and shows the result in a zenity window.
print_ops() { #place a start marker consisting of three # and an end marker of four # around getopts #create a tmp file here echo > /tmp/tmp.txt # start with a blank line t=` sed -n '/[#]\{3\}/,/[#]\{4\}/p ' "$0" >> /tmp/tmp.txt ` #get range between 3#s and 4#s #tidy up tmp file (note these are mostly specific but will work in general elsewhere (but check/change as needed) t=` cat /tmp/tmp.txt | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*// ; s/"//g ; s/)/\t:\t/ ; \ s/s=$s/ / ; s/;;//g ; s/=/\t= / ; \ s/^[#]\{4\}// ; s/[#]\{3\}// ; s/^/\t/ ; s/-/ / ; s/+/ /; s/#/\t\t\t\t\t: / ' ` # sed expr in order : del leading white space; replace all "; repl ) with a tab : tab; repl s=$s with 4 spaces; # del all ;; ; repl = with tab = sp ; del the start and end marker #s; add a tab to the start of each line; # repl first - with sp; put 5 tabs in front of # (comments) #rewrite /tmp/tmp.txt `echo "$t" > /tmp/tmp.txt` #show in a zenity window zenity --text-info --title="Options for $0" --filename="/tmp/tmp.txt" --height=1000 --width=1200 }
The output can be further tidied up and formatted, as above. This sends the output to a zenity window, as shown below.
To try this add the ### and #### tags around the getops list in your script (yourscript.sh), include the function (or its contents) and pass the 'h' option when calling it:
yourscript.sh -h
Note: There is a related bash syntax involving what are known as Here Documents or Strings that provide a way of embedding message blocks in files (eg see: http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/redirection )
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Terriers gear up for home showdown against Furman at 7 p.m. Thursday.
When: 7 p.m. Thursday
Where: Benjamin Johnson Arena
Records: Furman (5-12, 2-4 Southern Conference); Wofford (7-12, 1-5)
Radio: 910 AM, 105.7 FM
Top scorers: Furman — Sr. F Colin Reddick (12.2 ppg., 6.1 rpg.); Fr. G Stephen Croone (8.5 ppg.); Jr. G/F Charlie Reddick (8.1 ppg., 5.5 rpg.). Wofford — So. G Karl Cochran (16.1 ppg.); Fr. G Spencer Collins (11.4 ppg.); So. F Lee Skinner (11.1 ppg., 7.5 rpg.)
Notes: The Terriers have lost six of seven since the 56-55 win Dec. 22 at Xavier. Wofford's only win in Southern Conference play came in a 71-53 blowout of Georgia Southern on Jan. 12. The Terriers then lost three straight, the latest 68-61 last Saturday at Elon. … Furman took a 69-65 win Jan. 14 against Wofford in Greenville. Collins, from Easley High School, led all scorers with 18 points. Cochran added 17. … The Paladins went on to lose at Elon (73-59) and win at UNC Greensboro (69-61). … Wofford is one game out of a tie for third place with Furman and Georgia Southern in the South Division, which is led by Davidson (6-1) with the College of Charleston (4-3) in second place. … Wofford's fourth-leading scorer, Jarell Byrd, is averaging 4.6 points per game. … In their last two games, losses to Elon and UNC Greensboro, the Terriers have 16 assists and 31 turnovers. … Wofford has been struggling with its 3-point shooting in the past seven games, averaging only 27 percent (33 of 121). … The Terriers, with a deliberate style of offense, have the lowest-scoring offense (59.1 points per game) but also the top defense (60.3 points per game allowed). … Wofford is ranked seventh among 12 teams in defensive rebounds, but 11th in offensive rebounds, ahead of only Samford. … Cochran is the league's fourth-leading scorer and leads in steals with 42.
Next: Wofford plays at 7 p.m. Saturday at home against the College of Charleston. The Terriers then play Jan. 31 at The Citadel before three straight back at home, beginning Feb. 2 against Davidson.


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Umm...so, I just called the IBCLC from the hospital - and she seemed surprised to hear from me, despite her numerous voicemails to check in. Anyway, I wasn't pleased with my first visit with her - when she recommended a shield for my nipple pain, instead of assessing my LO's latch. But I'm desperate for help, so I called her back.
I told her that my LO is transferring milk excellently, except it's causing me a lot of pain. Regardless of how I latch her, she always ends up in a shallow latch - and she is slurping/clicking and pinching my nipple.
Her solution? Come by and she'll "try" to help, but she'll also tell me about craniosacral therapy for my LO..she said it sounds like she is doing something inside her mouth that we can't see - and she may benefit from it. She didn't even bring up possible tongue tie or lip problems (not that I want it to be that...) or just a simple latch issue.
So frustrated - I don't have any other form of support here and the next LLL meeting isn't for 2 weeks.


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I've just heard one of their anchors today, announce that they won't be crediting their sources (twitter users) for fear of backlash from the Iranian brain-police.
Since companys like WebMediaBrands pretty much own a piece of whatever you decide to post up... everyone should make efforts to pit these companys agianst each other. What they've done to television and the internet is disgusting.


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In a word or phrase, what does leadership mean to you? Leadership to me means to guide yourself and others to make the right decisions in life from the simplest situations to the most complex.
Why did you join the program? I joined the program because I wanted to become positive role model for my peers. I also wanted to help others make the right decisions in their life, and with this program I am able to do that.
What do you hope to gain from the program? From the program I hope to gain the ability to make better decisions on my own and gain more confidence to speak out more, rather than holding back my thoughts.
What is or do you think will be your favorite part of the program? My favorite part of the program is the opportunities that we are given to help other people especially younger kids. I also have enjoyed the friendships I gained in this program as well.


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Fire alarms go off at 2AM
Fire alarms go off at 2AM
COLLINS, Iowa —
Fire officials said a father and son escaped an overnight house fire Tuesday.
An early morning fire destroyed a home at 310 First Avenue in Collins.
Fire crews said a father and son were able to get out of the home safely. The Red Cross is helping them.
Firefighters said it looked like the fire started in the kitchen, but they're not sure how just yet.
It took multiple fire crews to put the fire out.
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CANASERAGA � Canaseraga Mayor Melinda Swain will undergo open heart surgery Feb. 10 at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo.
It will be the third open heart operation since 1998 for the first-term Democrat, who ousted incumbent Bob Ames last year.
Swain, a member of the Canaseraga Fire Department,�will have a sub-aortic membrane resection and an aortic valve replacement. A sub-aortic membrane is fibrous tissue that forms at the bottom of the sub-aortic valve. The membrane can eventually cover the full bottom of the valve, potentially obstructing left ventricular outflow, according to Cardio Access, an international clinical outcomes database.
Swain underwent a similar procedure in November of 2010, when she had a resection and a bovine valve replacement. This time she will have a mechanical valve replacement.
"I was in the hospital for three days last time, then back home," Swain said Thursday. "Within a couple of days I was out walking."
Swain, 43, said she is facing the surgery with optimism. She has been told the mechanical valve has a longer life-span than the bovine valve � lasting up to 20 years. She is also hopeful this will be the final time she has to have a membrane resection, which is the removal of the fibrous tissue growth.
"I'm hoping this surgeon is able to remove all of the membrane," Swain said.
Once she returns to Canaseraga, Swain will handle mayoral duties from home.
"I'll keep in contact with the office," Swain said. "Email and phone are always available."
While Swain will be at the head of the board table for January's village meeting later this month, she is unsure if she will attend Canaseraga's Feb. 24 village board meeting, taking place exactly two weeks after the surgery. If she can't attend, Deputy Mayor Denise Spike will lead the session, Swain said.
Swain, who said she has been experiencing some shortness of breath but otherwise feeling well, said community members have offered their support and encouragement.


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Monika Weiss: Five Rivers Installation, drawing, performance, video and sound
September 6 December 16, 2005
Drawing on Syncope: The Performativity of Rapture in the Art of Monika Weiss / by James D. Campbell
trap shall be your shelter: the hidden desires and public appearances
of Monika Weiss / by Aneta Szylak
trap shall be your shelter: the hidden desires and public appearances
myself about the most important features of Monika Weiss's art, I understood
that its core is based on finding her own mode to display the performing
body and art as a process, while maintaining a mixture of methods of representation
and documentation. There are several, overlapping and inter-textually
corresponding, layers of how the body is exposed and represented. It is
a very specific going or - according to its features - crawling from the
mobile to the frozen state of the body and back again. Extremely personal,
even intimate, the art of Monika Weiss strikes us by the way it merges
performance, drawing and sculpture as well as sound and media art. Here,
the more traditional artistic forms merge with those that appeared later
and expand the notion of the artist's body, its representation and medialisation.
The way the artist approaches the idea of the performing body in the gallery
space and outside of it and the way she integrates drawing into the performative
art and the media creates strong relationships between all the constituents.
In a conversation with Nathalie Angles, Weiss once said, "My works
consist of elements that come both from past and from present, bringing
evidence of action, bearing traces, visual or virtual, of something that
has happened. In that sense both drawings and installations are performative."
2 It seems to be formative for her practice to maintain different time
paths and systems of recordings to approach the generally unsubstantial
features of ephemeral work.
Her performances
have no dramaturgical plot; there is no key moment or spectacular finale.
It seems to be a practice for its own sake, gaining and losing its intensity
throughout time. The presence of the viewer is not always required: the
artist refers in her talks to the situation, when the public had already
gone and she was found in a chalice by the gallery employees, no less
astonished by the situation than she herself. She provides herself and
the audience with separated and dissimilar encounters. The one related
to her own experience is based more on sensing through the body and the
tactile, haptic component plays the significant role. The one of the viewer
is more connected with perception through the eyes and ears and the general
relation with the space. Weiss's works, depending on their specificity,
can be understood as the miniatures of social relations and the dramatic
moments of loneliness. The struggle between public appearances and private
rituals reveals here its subtlety and complexity.
are some durable elements that make Monika Weiss's performative practice
recognisable. There is the artist's body, often naked or dressed in a
very modest, minimalist way, crawling or curled-up. Then, there is a space
or its specific limitations, provided either by a simple plane of paper
or fabric or by the sides of a shelter especially built for the body.
So, there is a container: chalice, vessel, sarcophagus, and here is its
filling: liquid paint, water or paper. It is a space of her own, made
from the need for a visibly defined area. Making such a space connects
her art with early feminist practices searching for a suitable arena to
express subjectivity, as in the writings of Virginia Woolf, whose definition
of the workspace for the female creative being lies in the core of the
feminist system of production and representation.
The other
component of Weiss's work is the outline she draws around her body, both
visible and invisible. This activity reminds us of the early conceptual
gestures of Ewa Partum, the Berlin-based Polish artist, whose 1965 works,
such as "Presence", were the first to approach the subject of
the space for the female and feminist artist. As Angelika Stepken puts
it, "Ewa Partum spreads a primed, unpainted, unstretched canvas on
the ground. Then she lies on this surface and traces the contours of her
body." 3 Where is the space for art and for the artist, Partum seemed
to ask. What is left for her presence? The very matter of being there
seems to be a formative constituent part of Weiss's artistic practice:
the here and now of the subject, the momentum of appearance, the long-lost
Benjaminian 'aura' through its contemplative aspect and the immediacy
of its impact on the viewer. This understanding of the spatial features
of artistic practice seems to be internalised by Monika Weiss in a very
conscious way. It accustoms the feminist awareness of the spatial conditions
of artistic production but its core rests in both the conceptual gesture
and the existential understanding of corporeality.
The situation
changes when she performs on a prism of books in her installation "Phlegeton/Milczenie"
in Germany. Carving through the layered Logos, through rational, masculine,
language-based cultural experience, Weiss, unlike in any other of her
works, draws a strong link to the locality, to the context of German literature
and to the damage to intellectual discourse done by the Nazis before and
during WW II. The meaning of the title, connected with notions such as
the unexplored, unspoken, unnamed and intuitive, was strengthened by the
accompanying sound consisting of vocal parts and also of the sound of
burning paper. But her understanding of paper, especially old paper, as
a reference to human skin, makes us also think about the internalisation
of culture, about the absorbance of the intellectual through the bodily
works of Monika Weiss might be interpreted - through their relationship
with the given location - as performative installations whereas some others
appear to be "still" performances, suspended or extended in
time, facilitating the very definition of space. Her practice brings back
the once-forgotten notion of "the temple" to the gallery space,
understood as defined by obsessive ritual, a compulsively re-enacted activity,
when at the same time making it very private, intimate and nearly fully
internalised. Some of her works put the viewer into the position of the
passive spectator of a clandestine celebration, whilst others engage the
audience, inviting it into sharing and togetherness.
and given an artistic education in Poland, Weiss seems to have some more
distinguished predecessors - besides Ewa Partum - among the female artists
in her native country. The fragility in seeing the human body as a shell
or vessel seems to be inherited from the oeuvre of Alina Szapocznikow,
who, through her resin-cast sculptures, said more about human existence
than any other female artist before and not many after. The prematurely
deceased, eminent representative of the 1960s, Szapocznikow is now seen
as an ancestress of today's feminist Polish artists, the first to touch
in such a deeply existential way the issues of death and mortality, female
sexuality and the body. Her expression of the feminine form as well as
the idea of the body as a vessel rests in the origin of female subjectivity
in Polish art. The most memorable examples are the "Fetish"
series and "Tumeurs". But the way in which the body is represented
in her art differs from that of Weiss. Szapocznikow always sculpted the
fragmented body, turning its moulded elements into separate objects. Weiss
represents the female body both in her performances and in her drawings
as a rounded, full form exposing its vulnerable openings. But what both
artists have in common is the specific aesthetisation of the body. In
the words of Piotr Piotrowski, writing about Szapocznikow, "Form
[...] allows her to maintain intimacy without falling into vulgarity;
it allows the silence and the subtlety of the message to be maintained
[...]." 4
The forms
recollecting the female body in works by Polish women artists appear in
the 1970s. In the almost abstract early textile works by Magdalena Abakanowicz,
e.g. "Read Abakan" (around 1970), the soft intersections of
woven objects remain those of female openings. Rebirth and fertility are
addressed in Monika Weiss's drawings, such as "Pandora's Belly"
or "Ennoia (Bird)" (both from 2000). According to the artist,
"The figures presented frontally open themselves to the gaze, sometimes
having their belly open like a flower, with a symbolic representation
of the inner organs, or their legs up with a view of the vagina opening."
The drawing can also be spread out on a table, making the female body
in the picture even more vulnerable. Both the curled-up body within a
chalice and that in her drawings seem to the viewer to resemble submissive
sexual positions. Although the artist quite openly rejects obvious erotic
connotations in an understanding of her art and treats the body rather
as an instrument of an artistic message, the carrier of meaning rather
than as a body with all its fleshy and biological connotations. The sexual
message here appears to be unclear, undefined, its addressee cannot be
discovered, but it is extremely striking in the way it combines submissive
innocence and mature openness.
are ink drawings by the artist in relation to the ink-leaking body in
her performance work. The body opens up, shows itself as vulnerable and
fragile, and risks being the subject of rapturous dominance. The ink pouring
from the body, from even the smallest pore of the skin, not only during
the performance but also for weeks after its effecting, expands this feeling
of weakness, vulnerability and dependence whilst maintaining a profound
physical connection between the body and the world.
The passive
body seems to express hidden needs and unspoken desires. It builds an
ambiguous relationship with the viewer. It invites the spectator to voyeurism
and at the same time makes him or her aware that the viewer can also be
watched. It expands the notion of desire so strongly connected with the
history of art, making us think of what desires the object of desire and
where this carefully planned and executed passivity is coming from, reminding
us of the questions raised by the early videos by Lili Dojourie. If during
the performance the artist makes unexpected eye-contact, it is not aggressive
or confrontational, it is inviting, although it might create some kind
of confusion and uncertainty.
The works
of Weiss express feelings both of being hidden and of being captured.
The body is lonely, penetrated by the ritual liquids. The dripping of
these liquids from the female body, leaving her own traces in the gallery
space, reminds us of those that appear in relation to the natural fluids
in such strong performative acts as those by Anna Mendieta or the sculptures
of Kiki Smith. "Fluids have no boundaries and as such they connote
the lack of boundaries between the self, the body and the world,"
5 notes the artist.
The ceremonial,
ritual and performative components and references to natural elements
link Monika Weiss with Teresa Murak. This Polish artist, whose career
started in the 1970s, realised several works combining naturally grown
shoots, architectural components, public the space and the body. It was
Murak whose performance works consisted of the element of immersion in
water, in her case infused with freshly-grown shoots. Murak used to grow
different kinds of shoots on gowns she later wore and on household towels,
but her rituals of growth and fertility appear to come through the complete
acceptance of the female role and its parallel to the natural processes
in the life of plants and the sequence of seasons. Weiss though seems
more to have focused on an individual experience approach and is more
aware of the impact of the camera image of the body.
are multiple perspectives in looking at the artist's body in her work
- directly, from above or from the side, or the way it is being captured
by the video camera and through the way it is drawn on the paper. Sometimes
in real time, sometimes with a time delay. The medialised image of the
body in Polish female artists' work appeared strongly in the works from
the 1990s by Izabella Gustowska, where the camera and monitor work as
a looking-glass, mirroring the female face and a passive silhouette. Also
in other works, such as "Floating" (1997) or "The Source"
(1995), water is an important constitutive component and has an almost
symbolic and mythic dimension - here we can see some subtle link. Gustowska
though is rather addressing the mind in the state of dreaming whereas
Weiss appears to be more there if not yet awakened. Through her recordings
or the parallel projections accompanying the performances, she creates
corresponding situations, extremely personal, exploring the alter-ego
and its possible representation. The Self seems to be in the very centre
of her practice although here it is connected with anonymity and image
production. Weiss is apt to see herself as a mirrored image of a universal
human being. In strongly addressing the issue of the human condition,
the work of Weiss brings to mind T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men":
the desire
The performative
space created by the artist is marked by the edges of fabric or paper
or vessels, and is defined a second time by the body measure, executed
by a crawling and rolling body as well as in the very act of drawing.
The containers seem to be a replacement or equivalent of something between
a plinth and a deprivation chamber. There is also an act of immersion
in water, liquid body ink, paper or fabric. This practice can be considered
as a public ritual of purification. It is a moment when her practice gets
closer to the public and it becomes in full a public appearance in those
works, like "Drawing the City" or "Leukos", where
the very act of outlining the body and of measuring the space by the body
becomes the shared experience of numerous individuals. The performances
of Monika Weiss can be, by the notion of space, divided into two general
categories - as indoor and outdoor - and by the number of actors - those
she performs herself and those in which she invites the audience, especially
children, to take part in them. The latter appears to be an effort to
break through the estrangement connected to those she does on her own.
The act
of drawing seems to be strongly formative for the way Monika Weiss sees
herself as a woman and artist. Using charcoal or ink, the artist draws
with her eyes often closed, especially when writing the framework of a
performance. When drawing appears as a separate, smaller-scale work, the
body becomes a form of density. When made as a result of performance,
the drawing appears around her body, through numerous lines applied one
by one by the artist's hand. It becomes dispersed, blurred, time-defined
and nearly musical in the way the trace of the body is noted. An accomplished
musician, Weiss is aware of the rhythm and melody in the visual, both
in works that consist of sound components and those without them. The
focused and slowed-down way in which she works with charcoal, ink and
pencil brings different results. There are drawings that seem to be sketches
for the performances and there are performances that turn out to be drawings,
even expanding the notion of drawing to three-dimensionality. It is not
for nothing that in traditional artistic education, and often even outside
it, drawing is still considered an inseparable part of artistic practice,
giving credibility to all other media imposed. In Weiss's work it is a
profoundly extended notion of drawing. It is "Drawing as a form of
choreography" 7 as described by Stephen Vitiello.
The work
of Monika Weiss spans the solitary and the social: it stretches from the
ritual sacrifice in performances when she acts on her own to the joyful
shared experience in those she does with others, especially children.
The vessel makes a form of shelter in which, no matter how much she forces
her body to obey the concept, she protects herself from the external world.
The body is here both captured and protected. Weiss opens up a field for
considering passivity and vulnerability as a form of safety. Isolation
and entrapment provide the feeling of security, the most desired and cherished
is extremely smooth when dealing with the space of her own intimate experience,
rituality and transgression from that of the viewer. From her there flow
suggestions of clandestine unspoken desires and she invites the viewer
to a shared field.
the conception
And that
is a shadow of her own.
Weiss: Between Presence and Perfomative Memory, video presentation and
conversation with curator Aneta Szylak, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk,
March 23, 2005


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Kevin DeLeon, an undergraduate student at Andrews University, was found deceased in his University apartment Wednesday evening, March 13, 2013. Funeral services were held for Kevin on March 17. The following is the life sketch of Kevin that was shared at the funeral.
Kevin DeLeon | 1989–2013
After years of waiting, hoping, and praying, an 8-year old girl named Winnelle received an early 9th birthday gift, a baby brother. At 5:08 p.m., on October 19, 1989, within the walls of Adventist Hinsdale Hospital, Kevin Roy Paulo DeLeon was welcomed into the loving arms of Winnie and Elizabeth DeLeon.
Kevin, or "Kevoy," was named in honor of both his grandparents, Roy and Paulo. Even in his name, he was firmly rooted in his family, a theme that would continue throughout his life. While growing up, Kevin had to overcome many medical obstacles such as severe episodes of asthma and food allergies. As the youngest cousin of both his mother and father's family, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins would collectively ensure Kevin was safe. This was a challenge because he experienced allergic reactions to almost anything he ate, touched or breathed.
While he was often sick as a child, Kevin grew up to be a very strong and athletic boy. Reaching Voyager rank, he loved the outdoors since his days as a Pathfinder. He played any sport his hands could find, including baseball, tennis, football, volleyball, hockey, swimming, basketball, snowboarding and pool. In his later years, he especially enjoyed weightlifting. The child who could be weakened by the air grew into a man of strength, able to leg-press almost 700 lbs., squat 300 lbs., and was training to bench-press 300 lbs. so he could join the "300 Club" at the Andrews Men's Health Club.
Kevin was very musically talented. Throughout his life Kevin used his talents to serve God. Often alongside his cousins, he helped lead in praise songs, performed in musicals, and sang baritone in choir. Additionally, he played trombone, guitar, piano and the drums for fun.
Through the relationship Kevin had with his father and grandfathers, Kevin learned a strong work ethic. Throughout his life he would help his dad by mowing lawns, repairing houses and helping family members whenever they were in need of heavy lifting. When he was 10, Kevin's giving spirit and hard-working mentality allowed him to raise the most money for the first Illinois Conference bike-a-thon, winning a rare Schwinn bike as first prize. Kevin worked as a golf caddie, physics TA, Citgo cashier and, during his time at Andrews, a greenhouse gardener. He also loved to volunteer at Camp Akita, and every summer he enjoyed working there as a staff member.
Kevin Roy Paulo DeLeon
Kevin was known for his unique mannerisms and endearing habits. He would try to cover up his smile when he laughed; he would greet his friends with funny sayings from movie lines; and he never failed to say "I love you" at the end of every phone conversation with his mom. He loved his family. His older cousins can tell you that whenever he greeted them by name it would always be preceded by "Ate" or "Kuya," a sign of respect. His uncles and aunts knew him to be respectful and considerate, while his nieces and nephews knew him as fun and spontaneous Uncle Kevin. Through all periods of his life he lovingly placed the needs of his friends and family above his own without expecting anything in return.
At the funeral service for Kevin, it was shared that Kevin's goal of completing his college degree would be fulfilled. "The Andrews University family of faculty, staff and students join you in mourning the loss of Kevin. He was your son. He was our student," said Frances Faehner, vice president for Student Life at Andrews University. She continued, "Kevin was very close to completing his studies at Andrews and was looking forward to graduating this year. Therefore the University has determined to confer his degree posthumously during our May 5, 2013 graduation. On that day he and you will have reached the first goal in his adult life: a college degree. The next goal for Kevin will reunite him with his family on the resurrection morning."
Kevin touched all the hearts and lives of those he came in contact with. He lived his life with humility, forgiveness and love. In his short life, he brought joy to whomever he could. We will earnestly wait for the day when we can see his smiling face, hear his gentle laugh, and hold our Kevin in God's kingdom.
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Department of Revenue News Release
February 18, 2011Online Reporting System Gives Missourians a New Option to Report Fraud to Department of Revenue
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri citizens have a new online system to report fraud to the Missouri Department of Revenue.
"The enforcement of taxation and motor vehicle laws is a top priority of the Missouri Department of Revenue," said Alana M. Barragán-Scott, director of the Department. "The new online reporting system was developed to give citizens a convenient option to report suspected cases of fraud. The Department rolled out the system in mid-December of 2010, and it's proving effective for citizens to use. We take fraud reports seriously, and follow-up on them to see if they merit further investigation."
The new online fraud reporting system is located within the Department's website at www.dor.mo.gov, or more specifically at https://sa.dor.mo.gov/fraud/. Citizens reporting fraud - or illegal activities - concerning Department of Revenue-related laws can identify themselves or make reports anonymously. The Department's investigative efforts, however, could be improved if the person making the report makes his or her identify known for additional clarification of the report.
Since the reporting system went online, there have been 62 reports of suspected fraud submitted. More than 60 percent of the reports dealt with tax laws, and nearly 30 percent dealt with motor vehicle, driver license and automobile dealer regulations. The remaining reports were in unspecified categories. The number of reports is expected to increase as the public becomes more aware of the online reporting option.
"Tax and motor vehicle fraud hurts everyone," Barragán-Scott said. "It's the hope of the Department that this online reporting system will not only help the Department enforce the state's tax and motor vehicle laws, but that it will encourage voluntary compliance with the laws."
The Missouri Department of Revenue does not offer rewards for reporting illegal activities.
The Missouri Department of Revenue is now on Twitter! To follow the Department on Twitter, go to http://twitter.com/MoRevenue


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Main Site - :: Why Won't God Heal Amputees? ::
Anything that the Christian Right hates so much and that must be defeated at all costs, must be the correct choice. I get so much right-wing propaganda about Obama and how he's evil and must be destroyed ... er, voted out. It just makes me want to vote for him more.


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My four week old son is constantly fussy, barely sleeps, and always wants to eat. His poops are green with mucous and often explosive w gas. He's also had a persistent diaper rash for two weeks now (despite two different prescription creams). I've worked through a lot of issues to breastfeed...I had a c section and got milk a week late, have inverted nipples, worked through latch issues that caused a lot of damage, and a bout of mastitis. I worked with a lactation consultant to heal my nipples and get a good latch with a guard and have been breastfeeding mostly pain free for about two weeks now with a nipple shield.
Unfortunately, my son is still really fussy and frequently seems to be in pain, but his weight gain is normal (he was 9 lb 10 oz at dr last wed). He constantly wants to feed and in general won't sleep more than an hour at a time (about once a day he will nap for 2.5). My LC suspects an oversupply with fore milk/hind milk imbalance. I am one of those women who does not feel a letdown, and with the nipple shield I haven't noticed any of the over active letdown issues though from time to time he has pulled off coughing. Last time I pumped for a bottle feed I got six ounces - three from each breast in about 12 min if pumping (I try to pump and feed through a bottle once every other day so he'll know how to take bottles when I go back to work) . I also stopped eating dairy five days ago at the recommendation of his pediatrician.
At the recommendation of my LC, I began block feeding yesterday. My son fed for hours straight yesterday, after he seemingly drained my breast in just 20 min or so. Should I just let him feed constantly for hours? He screams if I take him off. If I'm not block feeding, he feeds about 15 to 20 on. Each breast and will sometimes calm enough to sleep an hour. We have more or less ruled out reflux.
Even before the block feeding, I was averaging about five to six hours of sleep in a 24 hour period, so this is hard. I need help soon for my own physical and mental health. Also, to make matters worse, my husband is so sick of the crying that he wants me to stop breastfeeding completely. Im really committed to making this work and I've been through so much that I hate to give up, and I really need more help. Any ideas?


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Circle Cross Ranch at Valentine, Nebraska
The 40,000 acre Circle Cross Ranch near Valentine, Nebraska, sold at auction on Dec. 2, 2011, for $11.75 million. A seven-brother partnership, represented by Danny Weinreis of Minatare, Nebraska, and Gene Weinreis of Golva, North Dakota, placed the winning bid.
You can read more of the details in "Ranch sells for $11.75 million" on the Norfolk Daily News website. There's also a video tour on You-Tube. What a beautiful place! It includes 7 miles of Niobrara River frontage. I'm pleased to read that the Weinreis Brothers will continue operating it as a cattle ranch.


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Letter to the Editor for Nov. 9, 2012
The best of Winsted
On behalf of the Board of Commissioners of the Winchester Housing Authority and the residents of Chestnut grove I wish to extend our thanks to the Town of Winchester, City of Winsted. The recent fires at Chestnut Grove, a property managed by the Winchester Housing saw the best of Winsted.
Fortunately only one injury was sustained as a result of a 2:45 a.m. fire on Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012. The best of Winsted avoided what could have become a disaster from the 83 residents of this four-story facility. The cause of the fire, yet to be determined by the fire marshals from both Winsted and the State, could have been much worse than realized.
Escorting the 83 senior residents from the building, some wheelchair bound, by Winsted, and Winchester's Finest Firemen was a sight to behold. From their numbers, it appeared that the Winchester Housing Authority received a "full court press" from these dedicated firemen. Seeing the mayor, town manager, and senior center director opening the center's doors to welcome this large group of evacuated seniors was truly a town-coordinated effort.
As Chestnut Grow slowly returns, as the home of 83 Winsted residents, we are grateful to the Executive Director, Fred Newman, his tiny staff and the numerous trades-people who supported the emergency response and continuing repair process. The many calls, as this early morning emergency unfolded, went to B&D Landscaping. Bershire Alarm Company, Onion Electric, Mangione Plumbing and J.P. Maguire Property Damage Co. For their immediate response we are grateful.
To say we appreciate the early response by Winsted Police and Fire Departments seems inadequate. To envision seniors trapped on the upper floors of this facility should this fore not have been quelled by the emergency responders make us all pause to think...Thanks to Winsted's best.
- Anthony Paige, Chairman, Winchester Housing Authority


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During a conversation over dinner tonight, I had a sudden epiphany that someone ought to write up a new list of beatitudes to reflect what the Christian right in this country actually believe, as taught by their version of Jesus. Here's the new list:
Blessed are the filthy rich, for they shall inherit offshore accounts on the Isle of Man and the Caymans and be showered with tax breaks to free up cash to spend on their mistresses.
Blessed are the wingnuts, for they shall be taken seriously in politics despite being hopelessly ignorant about nearly everything.
Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth — but only after the powerful screw things up so badly that it's only good for a Superfund site.
Screwed are they who mourn, for they shall have much more to mourn about soon.Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they are lucky not to be the poor in finances because those people are screwed by deeper and deeper spending cuts.
Screwed are they that hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be subjected to unconstitutional surveillance, denied access to courts to challenge the government's abuse and, quite possibly, sent to Gitmo.
Screwed are the peacemakers, for they shall be labeled as traitors for daring to question the government's latest justification for blowing up a nation full of brown-skinned people who've done nothing to harm or threaten us.
Blessed are the bigots, for they shall be pandered to by the Republican party in a desperate attempt to exploit their ignorance and fear.