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LOWELL -- Erik Finn had a big week.
On Sunday he won first place in the 100-meter backstroke, setting a Lowell High School record and became the school's first state champion in swimming with another teammate.
On Thursday night, he was presented a nomination to the U.S. Air Force Academy from U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas, D-Lowell.
"I'm extremely proud," said his mother Irja Finn. "It's an accomplishment just to get here."
Irja was speaking about the 33 young men and women from around the 3rd Congressional District at City Hall Thursday night, who have been preparing for their entire high-school careers to enter the military, focusing on academics, leadership, athletics and community service.
Tsongas acknowledged the arduous requirements to be eligible for the nomination.
"You all deserve tremendous credit for having been nominated. The requirements are very steep. Unlike many other academic institutions, there are all the physical requirements that are necessary as well," Tsongas said. "So the simple fact that you have been nominated says an awful lot about all of you."
Applicants to the U.S. Military, Naval, Air Force and Merchant Marine Academies must be nominated by a member of Congress.
Many of the high-school seniors were waiting to hear back on whether they were accepted.
"It's the worst part," said Corey Egan, 17, of Billerica.
He said he knew he wanted to join the Army since he was 12.
Knowing where he wanted to end up, Egan spent four years at Arlington Catholic High School competing in cross-country, winter track and rugby. He is a member of the National Honors Society and is in the Classics Club.
In his spare time, he does his homework.
His mom, Tanja, said he's spent a lot of years working hard.
Finn's prowess doesn't end in the pool. He is also a member of the National Honors Society and is Student Council president.
He chose to apply to the Air Force because he wants to study international relations.
"Going into the military is a great way to get access to these types of jobs," he said. "And I wanted to serve my country."
He said he loves exploring other cultures and has been reading international news since he was a child.
His favorite country that he's visited is India, where he traveled last summer with his friend's family.
Tsongas said even if the letters come back and the young aspiring military men and women do not get accepted into the very competitive academies: "I hope you will forever remain interested in serving your country one way or another."
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A recent study led by researchers at UC Davis explores the association between intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy. The study shows that young women often face efforts by their partners to coerce pregnancy or destroy contraception, and that these attempts at reproductive control are associated with other forms of intimate partner violence, increasing the risk of unintended pregnancy.
In this study, "Pregnancy coercion, intimate partner violence and unintended pregnancy," published in the January issue of Contraception, researchers surveyed over 1300 English and Spanish-speaking women ages 16-29 who were seeking care at five family planning clinics in California. Researchers divided "reproductive control" into two broad areas: pregnancy coercion and birth control sabotage. The results showed that an astounding number of surveyed women had experienced either pregnancy coercion or birth control sabotage.
Approximately a third (35%, 237/683) of women reporting partner violence also reported either pregnancy coercion or birth control sabotage, in contrast to only 15% (91/595) of those who never reported violence reporting reproductive control of either form….The combined effect of both partner violence and reproductive control increased the odds of unintended pregnancy almost two-fold.
While many pregnancy prevention efforts place the responsibility for unintended pregnancy on women, especially among teenagers, this study shows that these efforts are not only wrong, but dangerous. They ignore the possible role of of abusive partners in pregnancy.
It also contradicts the popular notion that men are the sole victims of contraceptive sabotage. We often hear stories of women deliberately missing their pill or lying about using contraception entirely to coerce their partner into a more serious relationship due to pregnancy. Less commonly known or discussed is the fact that men also participate in birth control sabotage to manipulate their partners.
The authors suggest a possible step forward: intervention programs provided by family planning clinics and harm reduction services for women affected by partner violence. Family planning clinics could be a great resource for women suffering domestic abuse if programs such as counseling services are offered.
This study shows how important it is for all women to have access to emergency contraception, and a choice of contraceptive methods. Some women need injectable or intrauterine methods so that their partners cannot see or tamper with their contraception. The study also stresses the importance of confidentiality in reproductive health care, so that women can exercise their right to reproductive health without fearing coercion from their partners.
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Thanking voters for Hudson re-election… City officials ignore rules, whistleblowers
Thanking voters for Hudson re-election
To the editor,
To the 500 folks who gave me permission to continue serving them on the Hudson City Council, a heartfelt "Thank You."
Congratulations to Namrata Carolan and Ric Moreno as they begin their three year terms. May they find as much, or more, satisfaction in serving as I have through the years.
The only downbeat note, is no competition for the three council positions led to no expression of ideas. Evidently, from the media's viewpoint, if there are no challengers, there is no need for an exchange of thoughts. I had a list of nine. Most especially, I wanted to explain my opposition to the formation of the Hudson Carnegie District Library. So be it....
A blessed Thanksgiving to all.
Lee Ann Minton
City officials ignore rules, whistleblowers
Citizens of Adrian:
I am so tired of being treated as a second-rate citizen in this small community by the city employees, and their arrogance towards the citizens and the laws MUST change/be followed!
The city employees feel they can do and go anywhere they feel and not have to present any form of identification when asked for one. Further, some don't even possess a valid city ID! This is a major homeland security issue that MUST be addressed, even if you do not wish to!
Communication has to be the front line of any issue. However, the mayor and his administration have failed to respond to this issue. Communication to the city employees is phone tag and the pass-the-buck system, or even call the police because someone has a different view!
If you wish the citizens of this town to respect you and the employees of this town, then I recommend major changes immediately. To have a city employee address me at my home and tell me if I have an issue to call the police rather than trying to end the issue then. Zero respect. How do you expect respect in return, Mr. Mayor?
I am no longer going to sit back and watch as the city destroys the rights of its citizens. The rights people have fought and died for. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS!
Mr. Mayor, have you carried a weapon while in uniform for this country? I have! How dare you take my rights away indiscriminately! I have simple questions that deserve answers!
How you proceed from here is your choice.
I have lost my patience, and the political babbles--- you and your administration are known for is notorious as far as the Capitol!
I demand to know what steps are being taken to change the policies! IF any exist!
Things are going to change. Is it really necessary to demand basic constitutional rights in YOUR town, Mr. Mayor?
Harry Milliron
Editor's note: According to city officials, the worker was having a new ID badge made, and Mayor Greg DuMars did serve in the U.S. Army.


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Boulder officials announced Friday that there are no more SmartRegs rebates available for 2012 after giving out $160,420 in upgrade assistance this year.
The rebates -- designed to help defray the cost of complying with the city's new SmartRegs energy-efficiency standards for rental property owners -- will be available again in 2013, but the amount and structure of the rebates have not been announced.
Boulder is on track to reach its 2012 benchmarks for the rental housing ordinance, with 5,000 rental units getting an initial inspection and 2,500 of those expected to meet the energy-efficiency requirements by the end of the year.
SmartRegs will require all of the city's estimated 19,000 rental properties to meet a points-based rating system for energy efficiency by 2019.
Rental property owners are still eligible for a $30 discount off the $120 cost of home energy assessments through Boulder County's EnergySmart program for single-family and multi-family properties until the end of the year.
"Now is a perfect time for property owners to plan ahead and get their initial home energy assessment through EnergySmart," said Megan Cuzzolino, Boulder's residential sustainability specialist, in a statement. "The assessment is the first step in the process; once 2013 rebates funds are secured, these property owners will be a step ahead in the process."
Residents and property owners who enroll in the program are paired with an energy adviser to help them find rebates and financing opportunities and connect with qualified contractors.
For more information, visit EnergySmartYES.com; or call 303-544-1000 for homes or 303-411-1300 for businesses.


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LONGMONT -- Longmont police investigating a hit-and-run crash that left a 16-year-old Denver boy dead on New Year's Eve are now looking for a gray sports car that might have been involved, Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said on Wednesday morning.
Police did not locate any parts of the vehicle at the scene of the crash in the southbound lanes of the 2200 block of Main Street, so it is not clear whether the car is damaged, Satur said.
Friends and family identified the victim as 16-year-old Jason Grimmer, who used to live in Longmont and attended Longmont High School. The Boulder County Coroner has not confirmed the identity, and an autopsy today may reveal more about the crash, such as whether the boy was struck more than once. Officers were called to the crash scene shortly after 10 p.m. Monday and found the boy in the street with "massive head trauma."
Initial reports indicated that he was fleeing a fight in front of the Noodles & Co. restaurant but was struck in the street. Satur said investigators have located most of the people involved in the fight and there is no evidence to suggest the boy was intentionally run down.
Police have been struggling to identify a suspect vehicle in the wreck. Initially, investigators suspected that the boy was hit by a light-colored Chevrolet van that was rear-ended at the scene and then left. However, Satur said on Wednesday that investigators found the van and the driver who reported his van was rear-ended when he slowed because of the boy in the roadway. Investigators are working with the driver of a white sedan that rear-ended the van.
Satur said the boy was running from a clash that came to blows between a group of four white boys and men, ages 16 to 31, and a group of six black men in their 20s. Satur said police responded to the area earlier in the evening on a report that the group of white boys and men had used racially charged language toward a black man who was alone in the area at the time of the initial call. Officers spoke to the black man, who did not want to pursue charges at the time and who had since met up with a group of friends.
After officers left, Satur said, the two groups converged and ended up in a fight. No weapons were used, but some of the combatants were injured and the 16-year-old boy tried to run from the area, police reported.
The fight was racially motivated but did not have any apparent gang motivations, Satur said.
Investigators are still collecting and reviewing surveillance videos from local businesses and are still interviewing witnesses. Satur said police would like to speak with anyone who saw either of the altercations or the hit-and-run. He said businesses in the area were open at the time and traffic should have been fairly busy in the area at the time.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Longmont Police Department at 303-651-8501 or Northern Colorado Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS. Tips also may be submitted online at nococrimestoppers.com. Tipsters may remain anonymous and could qualify for a reward if information leads to an arrest and filing of charges.


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Submission + - NASA on full court press to deflate doomsday prophecies (networkworld.com)
coondoggie writes: "Insidious unknown planets lurking behind the sun ready to slam into Earth, supernova set to engulf the planet and giant, unseen asteroids screaming toward our globe are all theories espoused across the Internet as to how we will meet our demise next week on 12/21/2012. Do any of these theories even remotely hold out a scintilla of evidence they could happen? Not even remotely if you look at the material NASA has put out lately which pretty much debunks any and all of the notions being floated in across the cybersphere."


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The scientific community was buzzing Tuesday over a leaked draft summary of a highly anticipated intergovernmental climate change report, which cautions sea levels could rise more than 3 feet by this century's end and also more strongly ties global warming to human activity.
Two scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who participated in the report, which will be debated and fine-tuned in Stockholm, Sweden, late next month, said confidentiality agreements bar them from discussing the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in detail.
Kevin Trenberth, a distinguished scientist in the climate analysis section at NCAR and a review editor on the report, didn't strongly dispute a projected sea rise that could transform low-lying cities from New York to Shanghai.
"We can't really predict at that high end," Trenberth said. Three feet by 2100 is "generally not in the likely category. It's at the limits of ranges of what we can conceive."
Trenberth put about a 5 percent probability on seeing the high end of a 10 inch- to 3-feet rise by 2100. Such a surge, scientists believe, could possibly be triggered by an event such as a mammoth chunk of polar ice sheet melting and collapsing into the sea.
"I think it is likely we will get there" to a 3-foot rise, Trenberth said, "but a little later than 2100."
The IPCC, established in 1988 by the United Nations, issues scientists' comprehensive assessments on the risk of climate change every few years, the most recent in 2007, with the next due by 2014. It is divided into three so-called working groups, and it is Working Group I, charged with addressing the physical science basis of climate change, which will be hammering out its summary for policy makers next month in Stockholm.
The complete IPCC Fifth Assessment Synthesis Report, incorporating the work of 830 authors around the world in all three working groups, will be unveiled in October 2014 in Denmark.
In the 2007 report, IPCC scientists put the chances that human activity was warming the planet at 90 percent. The coming report reportedly places that probability higher.
A draft of the group's summary for policy makers, obtained by the New York Times, stated, "It is extremely likely that human influence on climate caused more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010."
Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at NCAR who authored the chapter on near-term climate change for the coming IPCC report, said, "It's obvious that the New York Times got a hold of the summary for policy makers.
"But how these things get portrayed, and the wording used to describe them, may change, to try to make it more clear. The caveat is that that's not the final version."
That was seconded by Trenberth -- who has attended the IPCC sessions in the past but won't be doing so this year.
"It's going to change a lot," he said. "How it gets said, and the wording, and what gets emphasized and what gets dismissed is decided by the government representatives. And there is usually a war of sorts that goes on in that room, between governments who are determined to have a clear and accurate report, and some governments who are trying to muddy the language and downgrade the language.
"For the 1990, '95 and 2001 reports, the main countries that were working to obfuscate and diminish the language were the OPEC countries, led by Saudi Arabia," Trenberth said. "And the 2007 report, the country with a strong delegation and strong objections was China, backed up by Saudi Arabia.
"There is supposed to be unanimous consensus. And that is very hard to achieve."
The struggle to reach consensus, Trenberth said, "is an interesting process, but it's a brutal process. The chair has to have an amazingly robust bladder."
Meehl said the presence at Stockholm of the dozens of scientists who have contributed to the assessment's 14 chapters helps guard against political considerations overriding the data. Each chapter, by this stage, has already been subjected to more than 1,000 readers' open-sourced comments -- each and every one of which the scientists are obligated to address.
"I've been involved in every one since 1990, and as we learn more about climate system and our modeling tools improve, the certainty with which we can say certain things increases generally," Meehl said. "But the general conclusions don't change too much from report to report -- which is a good thing. It's a very similar story (from report to report). We know more about it. We have more certainty. And we know more of the details."
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After using several other riding suits that I became discontented with for one reason or another, I bought a Darien jacket and pants about five years ago. The jacket is a size L from just before the switch to numerical sizing, and fits me decently at 6'2"' 180lbs.
I have worn the Darien jacket as my main riding garb almost daily in every kind of weather imaginable. I have never gotten wet in it even in biblically proportioned rainstorms. I have found it tolerable in 90+ temps, and with layers in sub-30 temps with layers. The pockets are useful and sensible, without a lot of excessive flaps, Velcro, or other frippery. I have been fortunate enough not to crash-test it, but it seems to hold up well for many who have.
After five years, the only appreciable wear is a few abraded spots on the Gore-tex laminate, but this does not seem to affect water resistance. Also, there is a layer of perma-crud that won't completely come out in its annual wash and rewaterproofing.
Although it is expensive, I would have saved myself some cash if I had bought it earlier instead of those other riding suits d'jour. If it ever wears out, I will probably get another.


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Tim Miles' Dream: Sold-Out Signs at Pinnacle Bank Arena
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"How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. You have to be willing to work for it." – Jim Valvano
Since Tim Miles dreams big like Smarty Jones, no one was surprised Tuesday when Nebraska's head basketball coach was highly encouraged, but not overly excited about a 49 percent increase in the public sale of 2013-14 season basketball tickets compared to 2012-13. "We want to get Pinnacle Bank Arena sold out, and we're not quite there yet," Miles said after learning that Nebraska's Ticket Office has sold 10,355 season tickets to the general public, and that's not counting student ticket sales, which reached 1,165 season ticket sales last year.
"When you walk into an arena that's half full or two-thirds full, it gives you a sense of the confidence of the traveling team," Miles said. "When you walk into sold-out arenas, you worry about getting your team to communicate. When the arena's sold out, there's so much more pressure on an opposing team to play in a certain manner."
'Bottom Line, I Want to See That Place Full'
Miles wants to maximize every opportunity Nebraska has to win in the nation's toughest men's basketball conference. "Bottom line, I want to see that place full," he said, explaining why sold-out signs were part of his vision in a recent TV campaign. "We believe that sellouts will help take us from where we are now to where want to be," Miles said.
Jim Valvano, one of the most inspirational college basketball coaches of all time, said enthusiasm for life is a prerequisite, and anyone who knows Miles or has listened to him speak can check the box on that one.
Valvano says a coach needs to have a dream, and Miles doesn't hide from his – win Nebraska's first-ever NCAA Basketball Tournament game as quickly as possible. You can't check the 'dream fulfilled' box yet, but you can put a check mark in the goal box.
And that leaves Valvano's final criteria open for discussion … the willingness to work hard to make that dream a reality. Ask his players. Ask the coaches Miles hired. Ask all the schools that were going nowhere and ended up somewhere beyond where they'd ever been because Miles put himself in the driver's seat.
'I Want Fans to Be One of Biggest Obstacles'
What we have is a coach who understands how important fans are to put a program on a faster track. "Opposing teams have to overcome so many obstacles that a home crowd can provide," Miles said. "I want our fans to be one of the biggest obstacles in the building.
"If I'm a fan, I want part of the action, and I want to be there," Miles added. "Pinnacle Bank Arena is going to be a premier place in the United States to play college basketball and to watch college basketball. The experience is going to be outstanding. My job is to put a product out there on the floor, so the experience of watching us play is even better.
"I think we're on track and moving forward, and I really do hope we can sell this place out," Miles said. "I want to create a situation where that ticket is extremely hard to come by."
Capacity at Pinnacle Bank Arena is 15,147, and Nebraska already has sold 2,756 more season tickets than last season. That number is higher than it has been for 16 years, and it reflects Miles' ability to communicate with existing fans, win new friends and influence everyone around him. I have a friend who recalls a plane getting delayed in Denver last year because of weather. Passengers who gathered at the gate were told that Lincoln and Omaha were not likely landing options.
High-Fiving Worn-Out Airline Passengers
"It was late on a Sunday night, and everybody started to look depressed," my friend said, adding that Miles single-handedly lifted the spirits of just about everyone. "He told most of us the weather might change, and sure enough it did. He was high-fiving everybody when he got on the plane, and you wouldn't believe what a difference he made in everyone's attitude."
Tim Miles wants Nebraska fans to envision the same sold-out signs he sees every day. When Nebraska Executive Associate Athletic Director Marc Boehm told Miles that a recent 21-day advertising campaign resulted in 1,130 new season ticket sales to the general public, Miles smiled. The video he starred in at the new arena had an impact, but he's ready to do whatever Marketing asks him to do next.
"All we wanted from that campaign was to communicate Tim's vision to our fans, and it's obvious they're buying into his vision," said Michael Stephens, Nebraska's assistant athletic director for Marketing.
Wish Granted: Prime-Time Student Seating
Nebraska has reserved 1,500 student tickets, including tickets behind the team benches. Nebraska has sold 2,020 of the 2,065 available mezzanine seats and has sold all 616 suite and loge seats. Boehm said 6,410 lower-bowl seats have been sold. "A few single tickets remain that require a donation," said Holly Adam, Nebraska's assistant athletic director for Ticketing. "People interested in buying those tickets can call the athletic ticket office at 1-800-824-4733."
At this point, Nebraska has sold 1,309 of its 4,108 reserved seats in the upper bowl but expects to sell the rest when fans realize how affordable they are. "We've put a premium on value, and those seats are priced at only $85 for 17 home games – $5 a seat and no donation required," Boehm said. "The seats are cushioned and the view's good … it's a great deal."
When Miles hears about those seats on Thursday, he smiles because he can identify with the passion of those fans smart enough to buy those seats before someone else does. "That's an outstanding value. That's insane," Miles said. "What a great way to get families inside the door. What a great way to get young people in the door.
"Not everyone has disposable income," Miles said, "and I think our administration has done a really good job of making tickets available to everybody that wants to get in on the ground floor of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Every person who buys one of those tickets is important to me, my staff and our team. We want that place full, and we're going to keeping working hard until it is."
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Http-client is a highlevel HTTP client library.
Requires the intarweb, sendfile, openssl and md5 extensions.
Main request procedures[procedure] (call-with-response request writer reader)
This is the core http-client procedure. It is only necessary to use this when you want the most control over the request/response cycle. request is the request object that contains information about the request to perform. reader is a procedure that receives the response object and should read the entire request body (any leftover data will cause errors on subsequent requests with keepalive connections), writer is a procedure that receives the request object and should write the request body.
The writer should be prepared to be called several times; if the response is a redirect or some other status that indicates the server wants the client to perform a new request, the writer should be ready to write a request body for this new request. In case digest authentication with message integrity checking is used, writer is always invoked at least twice, once to determine the message digest of the response and once to actually write the response.
Returns three values: The result of the call to reader, the request-uri of the last request and the response object. The request-uri is useful because this is to be used as the base uri of the document. This can differ from the initial request in the presence of redirects.
If successive requests cause more than max-redirect-depth redirect responses to occur, a condition of type (exn http redirect-depth-exceeded) is raised.
If the request's URI or the URI of a used proxy is of an unsupported type, a condition of type (exn http unsupported-uri-scheme) is raised (this can of course also occur when the initial URI is correct, but the server redirects to an URI with an unsupported scheme).
When the request requires authentication of an unsupported type, a condition of type (exn http unknown-authtype) is raised.[procedure] (call-with-input-request uri-or-request writer reader)
This procedure is a convenience wrapper around call-with-response.
It is much less strict - uri-or-request can be an intarweb request object, but also an uri-common object or even a string with the URI in it, in which case a request object will be automatically constructed around the URI, using the GET method when writer is #f or the POST method when writer is not #f.
writer can be either #f (in which case nothing is written and the GET method chosen), a string containing the raw data to send, an alist, or a procedure that accepts a port and writes the response data to it. If you supply a procedure, do not forget to set the content-length header! In the other cases, whenever possible, the length is calculated and the header automatically set for you.
If you supplied an alist, the content-type header is automatically set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded unless there's an alist entry whose value is a list starting with the keyword file:, in which case multipart/form-data is used. See the examples for with-input-from-request below. If the data cannot be form-encoded, a condition of type (exn http formdata-error) is raised.
reader is a procedure which accepts a port and reads out the data. If there is data left in the port when it returns, this will be automatically discarded to avoid problems.
Returns three values: The result of the call to reader, the request-uri of the last request and the response object. If the response code is not in the 200 class, it will raise a condition of type (exn http client-error), (exn http server-error) or (exn http unexpected-server-response), depending on the response code. This includes 404 not found (which is a client-error).
When posting multipart form data, the value of a file entry is a list of keyword-value pairs. The following keywords are recognised:
- file:
- This indicates the file to read from. Can be either a string or a port. This must be specified, everything else is optional.
- filename:
- This indicates the filename to pass on to the server. If not specified or #f, the file:'s string (or port-name in case of a port) will be used.
- headers:
- Additional headers to send for this entry (an intarweb headers-object).
Same as call-with-input-request, except when you pass a procedure as reader-thunk or writer-thunk it has to be a thunk (lambda of no arguments) instead of a procedure of one argument. These thunks will be executed with the current input (or output) port to the request or response port, respectively.
You can still pass #f for both or an alist or string for writer-thunk.
(use http-client) ;; Start with a simple GET request: (with-input-from-request "http://wiki.call-cc.org/" #f read-string) => ;; [the chicken wiki page HTML contents] ;; Perform a POST of the key "test" with value "value" to an echo service: (with-input-from-request "http://localhost/echo-service" '((test . "value")) read-string) => "You posted: test=value" ;; Posting a file to the same echo-services: (with-input-from-request "http://localhost/echo-service" '((test . "value") (test-file file: "/tmp/myfile" filename: "hello.txt" headers: ((content-type text/plain)))) read-string) => "You posted: test=value and a file named \"hello.txt\"" ;; Performing a PUT request (a less commonly used method) requires ;; constructing your request object manually: (use intarweb uri-common) ; Required for "make-request" and "uri-reference" (with-input-from-request (make-request method: 'PUT uri: (uri-reference "http://example.com/blabla")) (lambda () (print "Page contents")) read-string)
Request handling parameters[parameter] (max-retry-attempts [number])
When a request fails because of an I/O or network problem (or simply because the remote end closed a persistent connection while we were doing something else), the library will try to establish a new connection and perform the request again. This parameter controls how many times this is allowed to be done. If #f, it will never give up.
Defaults to 1.[parameter] (retry-request? [predicate])
This procedure is invoked when a retry should take place, to determine if it should take place at all. It should be a procedure accepting a request object and returning #f or a true value. If the value is true, the new request will be sent. Otherwise, the error that caused the retry attempt will be re-raised.
Defaults to idempotent?, from intarweb. This is because non-idempotent requests cannot be safely retried when it is unknown whether the previous request reached the server or not.[parameter] (max-redirect-depth [number])
The maximum number of allowed redirects, or #f if there is no limit. Currently there's no automatic redirect loop detection algorithm implemented. If zero, no redirects will be followed at all.
Defaults to 5.
When the redirect limit is reached, call-with-response raises a condition of type (exn http redirect-depth-exceeded).[parameter] (client-software [software-spec])
This is the names, versions and comments of the software packages that the client is using, for use in the user-agent header which is automatically added to each request.
Defaults to (("Chicken Scheme HTTP-client" VERSION #f)), where VERSION is the version of this egg.
Connection management[procedure] (close-connection! uri)
Close the connection to the server associated with the URI.[procedure] (close-all-connections!)
Close all connections to all servers.
Cookie management
http-client's cookie management is supposed to be as automatic and DWIMmy as possible. This means it will write any cookie as instructed by a server and all stored cookies are automatically sent back to the server upon a new request.
However, in some cases you may want to take control of how cookies are stored.
The API described here should be considered unstable and it may change dramatically when someone comes up with a better way to handle cookies.[procedure] (get-cookies-for-uri uri)
Fetch a list of all cookies which ought to be sent to the given URI. Cookies are vectors of two elements: a name/value pair and an alist of attributes. In other words, these are the exact same values you can put in a cookie header.[procedure] (store-cookie! cookie-info set-cookie)
Store a cookie in the cookiejar corresponding to the Set-Cookie header given by set-cookie. This overwrites any cookie that is equal to this cookie, as defined by RFC 2965, section 3.3.3. Practically, this means that when the cookie's name, domain and path are equal to an existant one, it will be overwritten by the new one. These attributes are taken from the cookie-info alist and expected to be there.
Generally, attributes should be taken from set-cookie, but if missing they ought to be taken from the request URI that responded with the set-cookie.
(store-cookie! `((path . ,(make-uri path: '(/ "")))
(domain . "some.host.com")
(secure . #t))
`#(("COOKIE_NAME" . "cookie-value")
((path . ,(make-uri path: '(/ ""))))))[procedure] (delete-cookie! cookie-name cookie-info)
Removes any cookie from the cookiejar that is equal to the given cookie (again, in the sense of RFC 2965, section 3.3.3). The cookie-name must match and the path and domain values for the cookie-info alist must match.
Authentication support
When a 401 Unauthorized response is received, in most interactive clients, the user is normally asked to authenticate. To support this type of interaction, http-client offers the following parameter:[parameter] (determine-username/password [HANDLER])
The procedure in this parameter is called whenever the remote host requests authentication via a 401 Unauthorized response.
The HANDLER is a procedure of two arguments; the URI for the resource currently being requested and the realm (a string) which wants credentials. The procedure should return two string values: the username and the password to use for authentication.
The default value is a procedure which extracts the username and password components from the URI.
For proxy authentication support, see determine-proxy-username/password in the next section.[parameter] (http-authenticators [AUTHENTICATORS])
This parameter allows for pluggable authentication schemes. AUTHENTICATORS is an alist mapping authentication scheme name to a procedure of 7 arguments:
(lambda (response response-header new-request request-header uri realm writer) ...)
Here, response is the response object, response-header is the name of the response header which required authentication - a symbol which is either www-authenticate or proxy-authenticate.
new-request is the request that will be sent next, to be populated with additional headers by the authenticator procedure, and request-header is the name of the request header which is expected to be provided and supplied with extra details by the authenticator - also a symbol, which is either authorization or proxy-authorization.
uri is the URI which was requested when the authorization was demanded (in case of www-authenticate, the protected resource) and realm is the authentication realm (a string).
Finally writer is the writer procedure passed by the user or fabricated by call-with-input-request based on the user's form arguments. It's always a procedure accepting a request object. This is only needed when full-request authentication is desired, to obtain a request body.
Proxy support
http-client has support for sending requests through proxy servers.[parameter] (determine-proxy [HANDLER])
Whenever a request is sent, the library invokes the procedure stored in this parameter to determine through what proxy to send the request, if any.
The HANDLER procedure receives one argument, the URI about to be requested, and returns either an URI-common absolute URI object representing the proxy or #f if no proxy should be used.
The URI's path and query, if present, are ignored; only the scheme and authority (host, port, username, password) are used.
The default value of this parameter is determine-proxy-from-environment.
(lambda (url)
(uri-reference "http://127.0.0.1:8888/")))
If you just want to disable proxy support, you can do:
(determine-proxy (constantly #f)) ; From unit data-structures[procedure] (determine-proxy-from-environment URI)
This procedure implements the common behaviour of HTTP software under UNIX:
- First it checks if the requested URI's host (or an asterisk) is listed in the NO_PROXY environment variable (if suffixed with a port number, the port is also compared). If a match is found, no proxy is used.
- Then it will check if the $(protocol)_proxy or the $(PROTOCOL)_PROXY variable (in that order) are set. If so, that's used. protocol here actually means "scheme", so the URI's scheme is used, suffixed with _proxy. This means http_proxy is used for HTTP requests and https_proxy is used for HTTPS requests.
- If there's still no match, it looks for all_proxy or ALL_PROXY, in that order. If one of these environment variables are set, that value is used as a fallback proxy.
- Finally, if none of these checks resulted in a proxy URI, no proxy will be used.
Some UNIX software expects plain hostnames or hostname port combinations separated by colons, but (currently) this library expects full URIs, like most modern UNIX programs.[parameter] (determine-proxy-username/password [HANDLER])
The procedure in this parameter is called whenever the proxy requests authentication via a 407 Proxy Authentication Required response. This basically works the same as authentication against an origin server.
The HANDLER is a procedure of two arguments; the URI for the proxy currently being used and the realm (a string) which wants credentials. The procedure should return two string values: the username and the password to use for authentication.
The default value is a procedure which extracts the username and password components from the proxy's URI.
- 0.6 Provide a proper condition when encountering unsupported URI schemes (thanks to Christian Kellermann). Fix response body reading in error situations (thanks to Andy Bennett). Update request writer to use new finish-request-body from intarweb 1.0.
- 0.5.1 Restore compatibility with message-digest and string-utils egg.
- 0.5 Improve detection of dropped connections (prevents unneccessary "connection reset" exceptions to propagate into the program). Simplify interface by switching to POST when a writer is given to with-input-from-request and call-with-input-request. Add support for multipart forms (file upload). Fix error in case of missing username when authorization was required (introduced by version 0.4.2). Put loop call in tail position (thanks to Felix) Automatically discard remaining data on the input port, if any, to avoid problems on subsequent requests. Add rudimentary support for parameterizable authentication schemes.
- 0.4.2 Allow missing passwords in URIs for authentication
- 0.4.1 Fix connection status check so when the remote end closed the connection we don't try to read from it anymore (thanks to Daishi Kato and Thomas Hintz)
- 0.4 Fix redirection code on 303, and off-by-1 mistake in redirects count (thanks to Moritz Heidkamp). Add arguments to exn objects (thanks to Christian Kellermann). Also accept an empty alist for POSTdata. Fix URI path comparisons in cookies (thanks to Daishi Kato)
- 0.3 Fixed handling of missing Path parameters in set-cookie headers. Reported by Hugo Arregui. Improve set-cookie handling by only passing Path and Domain when matching Set-Cookie header included those parameters.
- 0.2 Added proxy support and many many bugfixes
- 0.1 Initial version
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Hot yoga -- and hot barre and hot spinning classes -- is a booming trend, with yogis crowding into sweltering rooms to twist their bodies to the point of exhaustion. But whether or not yoga in heated rooms, sometimes up to 105 degrees F (40.5 degrees C), is safe has been a point of contention. Now a new, small study suggests it's perfectly safe for healthy adults, as long as it's not too hot.
According to the study from the American Council on Exercise, as long as you stay hydrated, hot yoga is just as safe as yoga in more moderate temperatures, Prevention magazine reports.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse researchers recruited 20 healthy adults between the ages of 19 and 44. Researchers measured the core body temperature of the subjects both after a 60-minute Vinyasa yoga class in a room set to 70 degrees F (21 degrees C) and after a 60-minute hot yoga class heated to between 90 and 95 degrees F (around 32-35 degrees C) with 35 to 40 percent humidity.
After both classes, the students' core temperature rose to an average of 99 degrees F (37.2 degrees C), which is well below the unsafe threshold of 104 degrees F (40 degrees C), study author Dr. John Porcari told Prevention.
"When you're exercising it's almost like your body shuts down if you get to that level," he said in the report. "It's considered dangerous, and heat related illness is almost impending."
However, if you're not hydrated, this could cause problems. He suggests drinking plenty of water, including drinking 6-8 oz or 177-236 mL of water immediately before class and more during class as needed.
Also, if you're new to hot yoga, keep in mind that it can take anywhere from 10 days to two weeks for most people to fully acclimate to exercising in the heat, so be sure to give yourself time to adjust, he noted.
Still, more tests need to be done to gauge the safety of Bikram yoga, which involves 90 minutes in a room heated to around 105 degrees F (40.5 degrees C).
Fabio Comana, an exercise physiologist with the American Council on Exercise (ACE), told MSNBC that the body wasn't designed to perform yoga in extreme heat (over 104 degrees F/40 degrees Celsius) and that doing so can damage proteins. "You may think it's purifying and cleansing but you have to respect the physiology of the body," he said.


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DOVER — Several area police departments reported an uptick in car crashes Saturday morning due to the inclement weather, though it appeared there were no injuries.
In Rochester, a rollover crash was reported near Salmon Falls Road in the early afternoon. Officials responding, including Rochester police and fire departments, found a 1998 Isuzu Rodeo vehicle on its side in an embankment. Police subsequently issued a court summons to Antonio W. Guyer, of Somersworth, for operating his vehicle in a snowstorm without proper seating in the vehicle.
Guyer reportedly told officers he was headed to the local scrap yard to dispose of his vehicle but he took out the front seats to sell them. He was reportedly operating the vehicle while sitting on an old car battery which Rochester police said, in a press release, caused the driver to lose control and crash.
He will appear before Rochester Circuit Court on Jan. 7.
As of 11:30 a.m., the Dover Police Department reported they had bee notified of nine collisions since 9 a.m. A dispatcher warned drivers to proceed with caution and to keep a fair distance from other vehicles due to icy conditions on city roads.
According to the National Weather Service, the Seacoast has received ½ inch to 1 inch of snow, and could expect to see another inch of precipitation by the end of the day. NWS Meteorologist Nikki Becker said the precipitation may also turn to freezing rain by the end of the day, with a warm front headed through the area.
In Somersworth, a police dispatcher reported he had heard of at least five accidents in the community by early afternoon. Patrolman Kevin Abbott said a highway cruiser was working to scrape ice off the side roads, but residents should continue to drive slowly.
A police sergeant in Portsmouth said the road conditions in the city were not as severe as those in the northern communities.
Snow brings slippery roads, crashes
DOVER — Several area police departments reported an uptick in car crashes Saturday morning due to the inclement weather, though it appeared there were no injuries.


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IP H R ER BB K BF PITSingles by Crisp and Ramirez brought in a first-inning run. Brilliant play by Coco on Ortiz's grounder to second. Crisp hit the deck and Polanco couldn't reach him with the ball in his bare hand for a force. So Polcano threw to first for the out, but because of the Papi shift, 3B Inge was hanging around second near Coco. Crisp waited 2-3 seconds, then took off for third uncontested.
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Okajima 1 0 0 0 0 1 3 13
Papelbot 1 0 0 0 0 2 3 13
(There has been talk at Chez Sock about possible similarities between the 2007 Red Sox and the 1998 Yankees. Nine years ago, it seemed that if the Yankees' opponent made even the slightest mistake, at bat or in the field, the Yankees pounced and exploited it. We're seeing the Sox do the same thing, mostly recently with the Mother's Day Miracle and with Coco's opportunistic dash to third today. (I wouldn't be too annoyed with 114 wins, either.))
An infield error, Ortiz's walk and Youkilis's second hit of the game made it 2-0 in the third.
The Tigers got their run in the fifth, but Lips was able to retire Ordonez with the bases loaded to keep it at 2-1. He was at 85 pitches, but was able to get the side in order in the sixth on only six pitches, giving himself the chance to come out for the seventh. And making it easy to use the Jeemer & the Bot to close it out.
Zach Miner (2007 debut) / Julian Tavarez (6.60, 66 ERA+)
First of two today!
Zach Miner -- not Mike Maroth (stomach flu, didn't have a pleasant night last night, apparently) -- gets the start for the Tigers. He made his big-league debut against the Red Sox last June, giving up home runs to Alex Gonzalez and Kevin Youkilis.
Doug Mirabelli catches the first game.


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The University of Colorado's faculty and administration is discussing options for improving their online learning system after recent outages kept students from completing assignments.
The system, Desire2Learn (also known as D2L), has been unreliable this semester. The company's attempt to upgrade caused several outages over the past three weeks, affecting hundreds of institutions worldwide. Last week, an outage left students and faculty without access to the site for nearly three days.
The problem was fixed and all customers were up and running by Friday, said Virginia Jamieson, D2L's senior director of corporate communications, in an email Monday. Jamieson was not available for further comment on Monday.
Greg Stauffer, spokesman for CU's Office of Information Technology, said CU is collecting feedback from faculty and students and considered options as the campus looks to improve online learning.
Campus officials are discussing whether to stick with their current contract with D2L (which includes an annual fee of $654,000), move the hosting on-site or consider another option, Stauffer said.
"The CU-Boulder campus is evaluating options to ensure our collaborative learning system is the reliable anchor of the online learning tools that meet the teaching, learning, research and service mission of this campus," Stauffer said.
"D2L is not the only choice on the table, and nothing is off the table moving forward."
Geoffrey Rubinstein, CU's director of independent learning, said since most online classes are run through D2L, the recent outage delayed several assignments.
"It's a big deal for us when it's out for days at a time," Rubinstein said. "Students were not able to get into their D2L classes at all for two and a half days, but we had everything backed up and were prepared for it."
Despite the recent complications, Rubinstein said D2L's previous reputation and efforts to upgrade left him optimistic about the future of the system.
"It's a solid company, and they hadn't had any problems when we first met them," Rubinstein said. "I think a lot of institutions discovered D2L at the same time, so I think they weren't quite ready for the explosive growth that came, and now I think they're playing catch up, frankly."
Assistant Professor Julie Lundquist created a website last week to post the syllabus and notes from her classes while the system was down, but she wasn't able to use the discussion feature or post grades for her students through the new site.
"I really like that I can securely communicate grades through D2L, which I can not do through a regular website," Lundquist said.
Luckily, her classes were small enough that the outages didn't cause much of a disturbance, she said, but another outage could change her attitude about the site.
"If this happens again this week, while the students are preparing for an exam or have projects due during an outage, it would be a lot more problematic," Lundquist said.
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Ahead in the polls and touted by many as a lock to win May's provincial election, B.C.'s New Democrats raised $1 million more in political contributions than the incumbent Liberals, who won a clear majority.
The NDP raked in $9.3 million from all donors — including a major jump in contributions from corporations — in the lead up to the May 14 election, eclipsing the $8.3 million raised by the Liberals, according to data released Monday by Elections BC. Both the Liberals and NDP raised another $210,796 and $124,955, respectively, through various fundraising events.
Buoyed by the possibility of a big win at the polls, the NDP raised $4 million more in donations than last general election.
The NDP raised 22 per cent of its donations from incorporated businesses ($2.1 million), a big increase from the four per cent ($226,530) of its total raised from corporations in the 2009 election. RPMG Holdings Ltd., the Arizona-based parent company of real estate developer Onni, gave $78,500. Teck Resources donated $57,500, EnCana donated $38,500 and Spectra Energy gave the party $35,000.
Individual donors also gave more to the party this election than last, donating roughly $4.4 million this year and only $2.8 million in 2009.
Donations from unions accounted for a quarter ($2.4 million) of the money the New Democrats raised, a larger amount than last election but down from the 40 per cent of all 2009 donations.
The Liberals raised much more than the NDP from businesses, which contributed $5 million to the ruling party's campaign coffers. Mining companies Teck Resources and Goldcorp Inc. combined to give $422,000, making them the party's biggest corporate donors.
The Greens took in $138,929 from all political contributions while the B.C. Conservatives garnered slightly more in donations, $176,422, according to Elections BC data.
Ten candidates failed to meet the 90-day deadline for disclosing how much they spent on their election campaigns. Each of the four main parties had at least one offending candidate. They face a $500 late fee and must file their reports by Sept. 11.


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Circa 1910
A black wrought iron lantern glazed with curved clear glass panels. This fixture relamps through a hinged bottom door.
Current height: 46-1/2"
Minimum height: 30-1/2"
Overall: 15-1/2" diameter
Can be UL listed for use in dry environments
3 Candelabra sockets, maximum 60 watts per socket
1 fixture total available.
On display at our Greenwich showroom.


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Brett Dalton admits he was "a little frightened" when he arrived for his first day of work on the set of "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." -- even if his initial scene figured to be a breeze.
All the San Jose-born actor had to do was walk from one end of a room to another when director Joss Whedon signaled "action." And Dalton did so, it seemed, without a hitch.
Then he saw Whedon rushing toward him, and he panicked.
"What the hell are you doing?" the filmmaker bellowed. "How could you mess that up?"
Dalton's heart froze for an instant -- just before he realized Whedon was messing with him.
"He could sense that I was nervous and wanted to let me know there was no need to stress out," recalls Dalton, who is making his debut as a TV series regular. "He got me laughing and broke the tension. It was much easier after that."
You can understand why Dalton, or anyone associated with the show, might be a little on edge. "Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," an ambitious offshoot of last year's big-screen blockbuster, "The Avengers," is the most high-profile, high-stakes endeavor of the fall season. It's Marvel's first live-action foray into television and signals the return of Whedon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), a revered geek god, to prime time.
"There's a lot of pressure on this show, for sure," Dalton says during a phone conversation. "There's a big budget and some really big expectations."
Even so, success is by no means guaranteed. Yes, when the "S.H.I.E.L.D." pilot episode debuted at Comic-Con this summer, it received a rapturous response from fan boys and girls, who ate up every morsel of its fast-paced action, slick production values, cool gadgets and Whedonesque wit. But the show will have to reach well beyond the core comic-book fan base to have a shot at longevity.
And there are some substantial obstacles. "S.H.I.E.L.D." is airing on ABC, a network known more for soapy shenanigans than super heroics, and it's in a time slot that pits it against "NCIS," TV's No. 1 drama. Moreover, it has the daunting challenge of trying to lure viewers to a show that is only loosely connected to "The Avengers" and doesn't feature Thor, Iron Man or The Hulk.
Instead, the focus will be on characters who don't possess stupendous powers -- the mortals, as Whedon says, "who didn't get the hammer or the super soldier serum."
"The thing that appealed to me from the very beginning was the idea that everybody matters, that the people who get shunted to the side in a giant epic can take the spotlight," Whedon told reporters at the TV critics summer media tour. "You know, the underdog, the common man."
These underdogs in "S.H.I.E.L.D.," which stands for Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division, are a group of quirky operatives who travel the globe in a high-tech plane as they investigate bizarre threats to humanity. The story picks up where "The Avengers" left off, after the epic Battle of New York, in which aliens raided Manhattan. Now, the public is aware that superheroes -- and super villains -- do exist.
Leading the covert agency is top cop Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) -- yes, the same likable bureaucrat who was killed by Loki in "The Avengers." His return from the dead will be explained as the series unfolds, but for now, Gregg is just thrilled to be part of the fun.
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"I feel like they've put together an amazing team with a really interesting idea," he says. "I'm completely compelled by the idea of a world post-'Avengers' where things are out of control, and humans are once again either eager to get ahold of, or are already in possession of, things we aren't really socially evolved to the point of dealing with."
Coulson's agents include Grant Ward (Dalton), a "lone wolf" highly trained in combat and espionage, Skye (Chloe Bennet), a mysterious computer hacker, and Melinda May, an expert pilot and martial artist played by Ming-Na Wen, the former "E.R." star who now gets to show off her fighting skills.
"It's wonderful to be put to task and having to raise the bar and do the training to really be able to carry this character off," Wen says. "I'm really enjoying it, surprisingly, because I normally hate working out. But I do like kicking ass."
As for the Ward character, Dalton describes him as "a one-man ninja, or a Swiss Army Knife" -- a guy with a vast variety of talents, but no people skills.
"Before being recruited to this agency, he was used to going it alone and being the sole solution to any problem," Dalton explains. "He's not used to being part of a team, so he's struggling to adapt."
Dalton, a graduate of Westmont High School in Campbell, is adapting just fine to his first major screen role. A relative newcomer to Hollywood, he received a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in 2011 after graduating from UC Berkeley. Other than a few TV guest stints on shows such as "Army Wives" and "Blue Bloods," his résumé was hardly eye-popping when he went in for his first "S.H.I.E.L.D." audition.
"I initially thought there was no way in hell that I would get this role. It seemed like they saw everyone in the world," says Dalton, who admits he was a comic-book nerd as a kid. "But Joss has a history of taking chances on someone new, and clearly, it has worked for him."
Whedon, who co-wrote the pilot with his brother Jed and sister-in-law Maurissa Tancharoen, is on board to write and direct "The Avengers" big-screen sequel, so it isn't clear how much involvement he will be able to have with the TV show. But he pledges that the producing team he has put in place will keep things fresh and interesting on an episode-to-episode basis.
"Every week, it's not going to be some new hero. It can be a device. It can be a mystery," he says. "We want to deal with every aspect -- spy stuff, hero stuff, heartfelt stuff, humor. We want something that feels a bit different, so it's not just turkey every day."
'Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'
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In a battle for sole possession of first place in the Iowa Conference, No. 15 Loras defeated Luther 3-0 tonight in the Rock Bowl.
The Duhawks Madi Avery scored the game winner at 32:01 of the first half. Madeline Tennant and Ailish Rispin knocked in a couple of insurance goals in the 51st and 62nd minutes respectively.
The Duhawks outshot the Norse 17-7 and placed nine shots on goal, while Luther had four shots on goal.
The loss snapped Luther's seven match win streak. The Norse are now 4-1 in the Iowa Conference, 8-6 overall. Loras improved to 5-0 in the IIAC, 13-3-1 overall.
Luther will wrap up its non-conference schedule on Wednesday, Oct. 23 when it will travel to Macalester College. Match time is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.
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The Agape Health Clinic (for low income, uninsured people of Pratt County) will be open on July 6 from 8 to 11 a.m. The clinic is located at the Chandler Building on the Pratt Community College Campus (just follow the signs). Please bring proof of income and photo I.D. if you wish to see a physician.
The next dental clinic (extractions only) is August 10, but patients must be seen by a physician at either the July 6 or the August 3rd clinic.
Medical volunteers are always welcome! Call 620-388-4191 to volunteer or for any questions you might have.


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I found this on allnurses and can understand everything this poor girl is saying. It is all true. Families and Patients behave this way because of their social conditioning about Nurses and because of unrealistic views they have as a result of media portrayals of Nurses, Doctors, and Hospitals. A hundred years ago sick and dying patients were cared for at home. Families understood first hand what illness and death actually look like. The sick and the terminal wasted away,developed sores and became delirious at home with their family members watching and doing everything possible. No Nurses or Doctors were around to blame it all on.
I recently read an account of the death of Willie Lincoln, a 12 year old boy in 1862. His father was the president of the United States. Willie contracted Typhoid fever and screamed in agony as his bowel perfed. This sickness and suffering went on for months. He was treated at home, in his parents bed. He wasted away to nothing and lost his mind through delirium. His family had front row seats to the reality of sickness and death. They had no Nurse around to blame it on. If they had a Nurse I doubt they would have started screaming at her because pharmacy delivered medication late or because the x ray department couldn't fit Willie in for an xray that day. They would have been grateful that those things existed. I doubt they would have accused her of Starving their son when he got past the point of being able to eat and digest food, a usual part of terminal illness. I think they would have been intelligent enough to realise that Nurses have no control over those things.
People today have a very sanitised view of it all thanks to TV. Therefore they cannot handle the realities of sickness and death. The reality is that terminal sickness and death looks like hell, even with the best of modern medicine. When they are confronted with this reality they go absolutely apeshit on the very people killing themselves to try and help. So very sad. They are going to embitter every Nurse we ever train and run them the hell away from the bedside. The following was written by a Nurse who has been in the profession for 5 years.
When I was in nursing school, I was so excited to get finished and get a job. I thought I would enjoy doing nursing tasks all day...meds, IVs, injections, dressing changes, catheters, assessments. I was so proud to tell people I was becoming a nurse. My job would be exciting all day long. I would be working hard and helping people. I would get respect...
But 5 years later, ha! What a joke! Don't get me wrong. I am grateful to have a job in this bad economy, but nursing sure turned out to be a disappointment. I never thought that I would be worked to death the way nurses are. I never thought I would be talked to like a dog the way I am by patients, their families, people from other departments, and some doctors. I never thought bosses would be so quick to stab you in the back and try to get you in trouble. I thought I would be a valued employee and appreciated for what I did because I am a nurse who truly has a heart, cares about my patients, likes to get along well with others, and work as a team.
Instead, as a nurse you are treated like a peon. You have a team of 15 patients and are running like a mad woman to take care of all of them properly while your manager sits on her butt looking for any one tiny thing you might miss (while not offering to lift a finger to help you). Families sit in the room watching you like a hawk assuming you are going to hurt their family member..... Griping because you have to turn people with skin issues or check for incontinence. Griping because you have to change an IV. The other day I had a family member sitting there watching me like a hawk as I had to change the patient's IV site. Mind you the patient was an obese lady with huge arms and had had to have deep lines in the past due to difficult access. She said to me very rudely, "You get ONE stick, then somebody else is gonna do it." Then proceeded to stand and watch me with her arms folded across her chest. Excuse me, since when does the family dictate my job? That really burnt me up. Fortunately I got her IV on the first stick, but I have to take crap like that from people or I would probably be written up by my manager. I never thought nursing would be like this. When I visited people in the hospital before I was a nurse I had respect for the medical staff and would never dream of talking to them the way I am talked to.
You are blamed for everything. Doctor comes in late today? Nurse is yelled at about it by family. Doctor changes a medicine and doesn't tell the family about it or the Nurse? Nurse is grilled about it. Lab wakes patient early for blood draw? Nurse is yelled at about it. Doc orders stat MRI at 5 pm on a Friday? Nurse is yelled at about it by Radiology. Assistant doesn't check patient for incontinence while nurse is trying to medicate a critically patient in the other room? Nurse is yelled at about it by family. Medicine is late from pharmacy? Nurse is yelled at about it. Dietary doesn't send up a food tray for a patient or send up what the patient ordered then refuses to communicate with the Nurse? Nurse is yelled at about it by patient and family. Family members interrupt you while you are trying to calculate a cardiac drips that the doctor ordered to stop your heart patient from dying to ask where mum's nightdress went. Then they throw a tantrum because your won't stop what you are doing to look for it. What the hell makes these people think that a Nurse with multiple patients can provide them with service? Are they all mad? We can do nothing right. It has really been disheartening. We go into nursing to help people and instead are treated like crap. I can honestly say that nursing is the job I have felt I have been the least respected in of all the jobs I have ever had. It has just been very disappointing. I WANT to like nursing because I spent all of this time getting trained and getting licensed but wow.


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Posted on May 1, 2009
Ah, it's grand, driving around town to pick up books for the Newberry Library Book Fair. You get to see amazing old buildings, view fantastic apartments, and meet people you wouldn't meet otherwise…at any price.
You meet people who forget what day they said they'd meet you at the storage locker. You meet people who haven't quite decided which books to give you, and ask won't you please just wait while I go through book by book and make up my mind. You meet people who ask you to call them but hang up if a man answers because Dad doesn't know we're cleaning out his books. You meet people who once planned to corner the market in old Life magazines, but forgot that corner of the basement gets damp every spring.
You meet people who ask you to PLEASE use the servants' entrance and stairs, but not today, as newspaper would have to be put down first. (She could control the soil on her servants' shoes, but library volunteers were another matter.) You meet people who are being evicted for nonpayment of rent and regard you as one of the tools of oppression for taking their books away.
And I wonder sometimes why we're down to just two pick-up drivers.
Still, there are friendly and sympathetic souls like the woman who, on a hot, sticky day, asked if the man from the Newberry wouldn't like a cold glass of lemonade. He says he didn't realize until he sipped it that her definition of a glass of lemonade was a tall glass of bourbon with ice and a slice of lemon.
"What did you do?" I asked him.
He stepped back, shocked. "It would have been rude to refuse it!"
You meet all kinds of people.


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Ellison Earl Rainey, 74, of Nebraska City died Oct. 13, 2013 at St. Mary's Community Hospital in Nebraska City after battling cancer.
Ellison Earl Rainey, 74, of Nebraska City died Oct. 13, 2013 at St. Mary's Community Hospital in Nebraska City after battling cancer.
He was born on Dec. 4, 1938 in Glenwood, Iowa, to Edward J. and Elizabeth M. (Jennings) Rainey.
Earl was employed at Morton House Kitchens in Nebraska City for 17 years. He also worked for Campbell Soup Company in Tecumseh for 12 years and later was employed as custodian at the Nebraska City High School for three years until his retirement.
He enjoyed fishing with his good buddy Tony Soriano and grandson Alan Hershey. He also enjoyed watching Nebraska Football, but his family members were his greatest enjoyment and he loved them dearly.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Jennie Rainey of Nebraska City; four children: Duane Rainey of Nebraska City, Jennie Hershey of Nebraska City, Johnny Rainey of Lincoln and Julie Powell of Nebraska City; nine grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; sister Wava Shipley and husband Don of Percival, Iowa; other family and many friends.
He was preceded by son Earl Rainey; brothers Kenneth Rainey, Duane Rainey and Stevey Rainey; and sister Pauline Miller.
Funeral services will be held Friday, Oct. 18, at 2 p.m. at Gude Mortuary in Nebraska City with Rev. Jerry Albright of the First Christian Church officiating.
Memorials may be directed to the family in his memory.
Remembrances may be left at www.gudefuneralhomes.com.
Gude Mortuary, Nebraska City, is in charge of the funeral arrangements.


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Brussels, 27 mars 2006
Sustainable transport - Towards fair and efficient infrastructure charging
This morning the Council of Ministers approved the European Parliament's amendments on the Eurovignette Directive and thus finalised the new European road charging regime. The new Directive will enter into force following its publication in the Official Journal. This legislation will encourage Member States to introduce and develop tolls and charges which will make it possible to improve the management of commercial freight traffic, reduce pollution and generate funds for investment in new transport infrastructure. "I welcome the adoption of the Directive which has been the subject of tough discussions between the Member States and Parliament. With the possibility of differential tolling and introducing toll "mark-ups", this new framework represents a major step towards fairer and more efficient transport infrastructure charging", said Commission Vice-President Jacques Barrot, who is responsible for transport policy.
The text amends the 1999 "Eurovignette" Directive,[1] which provides a framework for the levying of tolls and user charges on Europe's motorways. The aim of the Commission's 2003 proposal was to increase the efficiency of the operation of Europe's roads. With the new charging framework, transport users will gradually assume responsibility for the costs generated by their activities, the aim being to reduce pollution and congestion and generate additional funding for investment in transport infrastructure.
The scope of the new road charging Directive is broader. It lays down rules for tolls or user charges on the trans-European network, whereas the existing Directive limited tolls and charges to motorways. It allows Member States to levy tolls and user charges on all other roads as well. The Directive applies to vehicles over 3.5 tonnes, rather than only to vehicles over 12 tonnes as at present.
The new Directive represents the first step towards taking account of external costs: it will allow a greater variation in tolls to reflect congestion, and toll variations to reflect the pollution caused by vehicles will be mandatory from 2010. It also makes provision for Member States to be able to increase tolls with a "mark-up" on roads in particularly sensitive mountainous regions. The income from these mark–ups must be used to fund alternative transport infrastructure.
The new Directive also establishes the principles for calculating tolls and limits frequent user discounts, to ensure that they are fair, proportionate, transparent and non-discriminatory. These improvements will reduce obstacles to the free movement of goods and guarantee fair competition between road haulage operators.
The Member States will be required to incorporate this Directive into
national law within two years.
[1] European Parliament and Council Directive 1999/62/EC of 17 June 1999 on the charging of heavy goods vehicles of the use of certain infrastructures - Official Journal No L 187 of 20 July 1999.
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