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Samantha Among The Brethren - Chapter 8CHAPTER VIII
For two weeks had passed away like a nite mair of the nite--and three weeks, and four weeks--and she didn't seem to be no nigher goin' than she did when she came.
And I would not make a move towards gettin' rid of her, not if I had dropped down in my tracts, because she wuz one of the relatives on his side.
But I wuz completely fagged out; it did seem, as I told Tirzah Ann one day in confidence, "that I never knew the meanin' of the word 'fag' before."
And Tirzah Ann told me (she couldn't bear her) that if she wuz in my place, she would start her off. Sez she:
"She has plenty of brothers and sisters, and a home of her own, and why should she come here to torment you and father;" and sez she, "I'll talk to her, mother, I'd jest as leve as not." Sez I, "Tirzah Ann, if you say a word to her, I'll--I'll never put confidence in you agin;" sez I, "Life is full of tribulations, and we must expect to bear our crosses;" sez I, "The old martyrs went through more than Lodema."
Sez Tirzah Ann, "I believe Lodema would have wore out John Rogers."
And I don't know but she would, but I didn't encourage her by ownin' it up that she would; but I declare for't, I believe she would have been more tegus than the nine children, and the one at the breast, any way.
Wall, as I said, it wuz durin' the fifth week that Josiah Allen turned right round, and used her first rate.
And when she would talk before folks about how much filial affection she had for him, and about his always havin' been jest like a parent to her, and everything of the kind--he never talked back a mite, but looked clever, and told me in confidence, "That he had turned over a new leaf, and he wuz goin' to surprise her--give her a happy surprise."
And he seemed, instead of lovin' to rile her up, as he had, to jest put his hull mind on the idee of the joyful surprise.
Wall, I am always afraid (with reason) of Josiah Allen's enterprizes. But do all I could, he wouldn't tell me one word about what he wuz goin' to do, only he kep it up, kep a-sayin' that,
"It wuz somethin' I couldn't help approvin' of, and it wuz somethin' that would happify me, and be a solid comfort to her, and a great gain and honor."
So (though I trembled some for the result) I had to let it go on, for she wuz one of the relations on his own side, and I knew it wouldn't do for me to interfere too much, and meddle.
Why, he did come right out one day and give hints to me to that effect.
Sez I, "Why do you go on and be so secret about it? Why don't you tell your companion all about it, what you are a-goin' to do, and advise with her?"
And he sez, "I guess I know what I am about. She is one of the relations on my side, and I guess I have got a few rights left, and a little spunk."
"Yes," sez I, sadly, "you have got the spunk."
"Wall," sez he, "I guess I can spunk up, and do somethin' for one of my own relations, without any interference or any advice from any of the Smith family, or anybody else."
Sez I, "I don't want to stop your doin' all you can for Lodema, but why not tell what you are a-goin' to do?"
"It will be time enough when the time comes," sez he. "You will find it out in the course of next week."
Wall, it run along to the middle of the next week. And one day I had jest sot down to tie off a comforter.
It wuz unbleached cheese cloth that I had bought and colored with tea leaves. It wuz a sort of a light mice color, a pretty soft gray, and I wuz goin' to tie it in with little balls of red zephyr woosted, and work it in buttonhole stitch round the edge with the same.
It wuz fur our bed, Josiah's and mine, and it wuz goin' to be soft and warm and very pretty, though I say it, that shouldn't.
(Illustration: "I HAD JEST SOT DOWN TO TIE OFF A COMFORTER.")
It wuzn't quite so pretty as them that hain't colored. I had 'em for my spare beds, cream color tied with pale blue and pink, that wuz perfectly beautiful and very dressy; but I thought for everyday use a colored one would be better.
Wall, I had brought it out and wuz jest a-goin' to put it onto the frames (some new-fashioned ones I had borrowed from Tirzah Ann for the occasion).
And Cousin Lodema had jest observed, "that the new-fashioned frames with legs wuzn't good for nothin', and she didn't like the color of gray, it looked too melancholy, and would be apt to depress our feelin's too much, and would be tryin' to our complexions."
And I told her "that I didn't spoze there would be a very great congregation in our bedroom, as a general thing in the dead of night, to see whether it wuz becomin' to Josiah and me or not. And, it bein' as dark as Egypt, our complexions wouldn't make a very bad show any way."
"Wall," she said, "to tie it with red wuzn't at all appropriate, it wuz too dressy a color for folks of our age, Josiah's and mine." "Why," sez she, "even _I_, at _my age, would skurcely care to sleep under one so gay. And she wouldn't have a cheese cloth comforter any way." She sort o' stopped to ketch breath, and Josiah sez:
"Oh, wall, Lodema, a cheese cloth comforter is better than none, and I should think you would be jest the one to like any sort of a frame on legs."
But I wunk at him, a real severe and warnin' wink, and he stopped short off, for all the world as if he had forgot bein' on his good behavior; he stopped short off, and went right to behavin', and sez he to me:
"Don't put on your comforter to-day, Samantha, for Tirzah Ann and Whitfield and the babe are a-comin' over here bimeby, and Maggie is a-comin', and Thomas Jefferson."
"Wall," sez I, "that is a good reason why I should keep on with it; the girls can help me if I don't get it off before they get here."
And then he sez, "Miss Minkley is a-comin', too, and the Elder."
"Why'ee," sez I, "Josiah Allen, why didn't you tell me before, so I could have baked up somethin' nice? What a man you are to keep things; how long have you known it?"
"Oh, a week or so!"
"A week!" sez I; "Josiah Allen, where is your conscience? if you have got a conscience."
"In the same old place," sez he, kinder hittin' himself in the pit of his stomach.
"Wall, I should think as much," sez I.
And Lodema sez, sez she: "A man that won't tell things is of all creeters that walks the earth the most disagreeable. And I should think the girls, Maggie and Tirzah Ann, would want to stay to home and clean house such a day as this is. And I should think a Elder would want to stay to home so's to be on hand in case of anybody happenin' to be exercised in their minds, and wantin to talk to him on religious subjects. And if I wuz a Elder's wife, I should stay to home with him; I should think it wuz my duty and my privilege. And if I wuz a married woman, I would have enough baked up in the house all the time, so's not to be afraid of company."
But I didn't answer back. I jest sot away my frames, and went out and stirred up a cake; I had one kind by me, besides cookies and jell tarts.
But I felt real worked up to think I hadn't heard. Wall, I hadn't more'n got that cake fairly into the oven when the children come, and Elder Minkley and his wife. And I thought they looked queer, and I thought the Elder begun to tell me somethin', and I thought I see Josiah wink at him. But I wouldn't want to take my oath whether he wunk or not, but I _thought he wunk.
I wuz jest a turnin' this over in my mind, and a carryin' away their things, when I glanced out of the settin' room winder, and lo, and behold! there wuz Abi Adsit a comin' up to the front door, and right behind her wuz her Pa and Ma Adsit, and Deacon Henzy and his wife, and Miss Henn and Metilda, and Lute Pitkins and his wife, and Miss Petengill, and Deacon Sypher and Drusilly, and Submit Tewksbury--a hull string of 'em as long as a procession.
Sez I, and I spoke it right out before I thought--sez I--
"Why'ee!" sez I. "For the land's sake!" sez I, "has there been a funeral, or anything? And are these the mourners?" sez I. "Are they stoppin' here to warm?"
For it wuz a cold day--and I repeated the words to myself mechanically as it wuz, as I see 'em file up the path.
"They be mourners, hain't they?"
"No," sez Josiah, who had come in and wuz a standin' by the side of me, as I spoke out to myself unbeknown to me--sez he in a proud axent--
"No, they hain't mourners, they are Happyfiers; they are Highlariers; they have come to our party. We are givin' a party, Samantha. We are havin' a diamond weddin' here for Lodema."
"A diamond weddin'!" I repeated mechanically.
"Yes, this is my happy surprise for Lodema."
I looked at Lodema Trumble. She looked strange. She had sunk back in her chair. I thought she wuz a-goin' to faint, and she told somebody the next day, "that she did almost lose her conscientiousness."
"Why," sez I, "she hain't married."
(Illustration: "WE ARE GIVIN' A PARTY, SAMANTHA.")
"Wall, she ort to be, if she hain't," sez he. "I say it is high time for her to have some sort of a weddin'. Everybody is a havin' 'em--tin, and silver and wooden, and basswood, and glass, and etc.--and I thought it wuz a perfect shame that Lodema shouldn't have none of no kind--and I thought I'd lay to, and surprise her with one. Every other man seemed to be a-holdin' off, not willin' seemin'ly that she should have one, and I jest thought I would happify her with one."
"Wall, why didn't you make her a silver one, or a tin?" sez I.
"Or a paper one!" screamed Lodema, who had riz up out of her almost faintin' condition. "That would have been much more appropriate," sez she.
"Wall, I thought a diamond one would be more profitable to her. For I asked 'em all to bring diamonds, if they brought anything. And then I thought it would be more suitable to her age."
"Why!" she screamed out. "They have to be married seventy-five years before they can have one."
"Yes," sez he dreemily, "I thought that would be about the right figure."
Lodema wuz too mad to find fault or complain or anything. She jest marched up-stairs and didn't come down agin that night. And the young folks had a splendid good time, and the old ones, too.
Tirzah Ann and Maggie had brought some refreshments with 'em, and so had some of the other wimmen, and, with what I had, there wuz enough, and more than enough, to refresh ourselves with.
Wall, the very next mornin' Lodema marched down like a grenideer, and ordered Josiah to take her to the train. And she eat breakfast with her things on, and went away immegiately after, and hain't been back here sense.
And I wuz truly glad to see her go, but wuz sorry she went in such a way, and I tell Josiah he wuz to blame,
But he acts as innocent as you pleese. And he goes all over the arguments agin every time I take him to do about it. He sez "she wuz old enough to have a weddin' of some kind."
And of course I can't dispute that, when he faces me right down, and sez:
"Hain't she old enough?"
And I'll say, kinder short--
"Why, I spoze so!"
"Wall," sez he, "wouldn't it have been profitable to her if they had brought diamonds? Wouldn't it have been both surprisin' and profitable?" And sez he, "I told 'em expressly to bring diamonds if they had more than they wanted. I charged old Bobbet and Lute Pitkins specially on the subject. I didn't want 'em to scrimp themselves; but," sez I, "if you have got more diamonds than you want, Lute, bring over a few to Lodema."
(Illustration: "IF YOU HAVE GOT MORE DIAMONDS THAN YOU WANT.")
"Yes," sez I, coldly, "he wuz dretful likely to have diamonds more then he wanted, workin' out by day's work to support his family. You know there wuzn't a soul you invited that owned a diamond."
"How did I know what they owned? I never have prowled round into their bureau draws and things, tryin' to find out what they had; they might have had quarts of 'em, and I not know it."
Sez I, "You did it to make fun of Lodema and get rid of her. And it only makes it worse to try to smooth it over." Sez I, "I'd be honorable about it if I wuz in your place, and own up."
"Own up? What have I got to own up? I shall always say if my orders wuz carried out, it would have been a profitable affair for Lodema, and it would--profitable and surprisin'."
And that is all I can get him to say about it, from that day to this.
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Bll Gross is betting that central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, will be successful in their efforts to ignite some inflation as they print money with the hope of generating economic growth.
"What I sense is a titanic battle of the ages, a battle between deflation and reflation," the manager of the world's largest bond fund said Thursday.
Mr. Gross, co-founder and co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC, gives the reflation effort a 70% to 75% chance of succeeding, versus a 20% to 25% chance of deflation taking hold.
"So you should naturally tilt your portfolios to reflation," he told an audience of about 400 advisers and ETF providers at the IndexUniverse Inside Fixed Income Conference in Newport Beach, Calif.
Even if central banks were to begin moving interest rates up, it wouldn't trigger 1970s-style inflation of 12% or 13%, with gold tripling in value, Mr. Gross said.
"We're not looking to that, but we see inflation moving to perhaps 3.5%," he said.
That scenario "tilts you toward the equity side, I suppose," Mr. Gross said. "Tilt toward [Treasury inflation-protected bonds], shorter-duration [bonds], tilt to developing countries, tilt to real assets. I'm not a gold bug … but if the Fed prints another trillion or two, they will have debased the currency relative to gold [or to] assets that can't be produced at that rate."
Mr. Gross addressed the question that he indicated was on everyone's mind: How could the Pimco Total Return Exchange-Traded Fund, an ETF best known by its trading symbol BOND, do so much better than its broad-based bond benchmark?
"I ask myself that everyday," he said, noting that the ETF has produced a 700 basis point return advantage over the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index over the past seven months.
"It's an appreciation rate that can't be continued," he said. "The target is 100 to 200 basis points over [the index]."
So how has it happened? "Because we work like dogs," Mr. Gross said. "I get in at 5:30 a.m. and follow BOND obsessively, every five minutes. It's sort of ridiculous, but I really care."
In addition, Mr. Gross said it was easier to manage "a fund that's all cash flow" coming in. "It gives you an open range of choices."
With $2.7 billion in assets now, though, "it's a little harder. But it is still an achievable objective to beat the [bond] index funds," Mr. Gross said.

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The Facebook - Micheal Phelps Relationship
Posted by mojaam on August 18, 2008
The Baltimore native swimmer Micheal Phelps along with NBC, has been giving facebook.com a lot of mentions lately after his historic 8 gold winnings. I think one of the first questions Bob Costas asked Phelps was something after mentioning how he has surpassed Obama, among other huge brands/names on facebook. Then in another interview Micheal Phelps brought up how he's receiving friend request from former schoolmates that disrespected him then and what not. So now I guess facebook is returning the favor by making an announcement box on top of everybody's newsfeed congratulating Phelps (and a ll the U.S athletes).


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Tonight's Evening Brief is brought to you by CPAC. Complete coverage of the Liberal and Conservative conventions, May 26- 28. Watch on CPAC TV, CPAC.ca or the CPAC TV 2 Go App.
The Lead:
We begin tonight with moving on. Stephen Harper will bow out of federal politics before Parliament resumes in the fall, resigning as MP for Calgary-Heritage to pursue new interests that could include an assortment of corporate boards and forming a foreign policy institute, depending on whose sources have it right. "Harper, who served as prime minister for nearly a decade, is deciding his future as the Conservative party prepares to meet for its national convention in Vancouver starting Thursday," reports the CBC.
While Harper will no doubt be touting his legacy when he speaks to fellow Conservatives in Vancouver, the overall theme of the convention will be change, MP and convention co-chair Diane Watts tells our Janice Dickson. "I think it gives us an opportunity to evolve, and change in the right direction is always good," said Watts.
In Canada:
While in Japan this week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland parried questions about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, announced a handful of commercial agreements, and met with executives from the country's largest auto companies. They do not, however, seem to have made any progress on a possible bilateral trade deal between Canada and Japan. Our BJ Siekierski reports.
Massive wildfires in northern Alberta and Saskatchewan will put Canada's GDP into negative territory this quarter as oil production is cut back, but there is no need to change monetary policy, the Bank of Canada says. The bank elected to keep its benchmark interest rate, known as the target for the overnight rate, steady at 0.5 per cent today. CBC has that story.
The president of Irving Shipbuilding has unveiled his company's proposal to lease the government a maritime supply ship that he says could be delivered in half the time, at half the price, of Davie's interim supply ship. Irving submitted the proposal last week as its response to the government's call for industry input on its defence policy review. Our Amanda Connolly has the full story.
In James Munson's Drilldown blog: Feds should halt B.C.'s Site C dam, say academics, plus all your other resource politics news.
In Kelsey Johnson's Sprout blog: Severe drought causes food shortage in Malawi, plus all the other ag news you need to know.
In the U.S. presidential campaign today, the major story comes not from the trail but from Foggy Bottom. "The State Department's inspector general sharply criticized Hillary Clinton's exclusive use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, saying she had not sought permission to use it and would not have received it if she had," per the New York Times lede. "In a report delivered to members of Congress on Wednesday, the inspector general said that Mrs. Clinton 'had an obligation to discuss using her personal email account to conduct official business' with officials responsible for handling records and security but that inspectors found 'no evidence' that she had."
As G7 leaders gather in Ise-Shima, Japan, for this year's G7 summit tomorrow and Friday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is preparing an economic message starkly different from what the world's most powerful leaders heard from Harper over the previous decade. Trudeau's theme: government investment is better than belt-tightening. "Trudeau's approach is expected to be well-received by most of his G7 peers," reports CP's Andy Blatchford.
In Other Headlines:
- Ottawa suspends Newfoundland's debt obligations (Globe and Mail)
- Foxconn replaces 60,000 factory workers with robots (BBC)
- Jimmy Carter resigns from the "Elders" (Politico)
- 'Tomato crisis' spreads panic in Nigeria (CNN)
"A cloud of noxious particles brewing in the air above the Alberta oil sands is one of the most prolific sources of air pollution in North America, often exceeding the total emissions from Canada's largest city, federal scientists have discovered," writes Globe and Mail science reporter Ivan Semeniuk.
While the Israeli-Palestinian peace process may be stalled, The New York Times has a beautiful op-doc by Iris Zaki from a Haifa hair salon where Arab and Israeli women solve all the problems of the world while they're under the hose.
The Kicker:
Finally, tonight … Elizabeth Warren's epic takedown of Donald Trump.
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Flowserve Corporation Cost Accountant in Taneytown, Maryland
Company Overview:
Flowserve is the recognized world leader in supplying pumps, valves, seals, automation, and services to the power, oil, gas, chemical, and other industries. With more than 18,000 employees in more than 55 countries, we combine our global reach with a local presence.
Position Description:
Perform project cost accounting function
Perform job costing and closing per revenue recognition policy
Maintain estimated costs in the system
Analyze backlog margin for monthly closing and forecasting
Review inventory classification and balance for completeness and accuracy
Distribute the product line profitability report to management
Perform Percentage of Completion Accounting as per ASC 606 Revenue from Contracts with Customers
Assemble required data and documents
Reconcile contract portfolio vs. Policy IQ
Perform reasonability analysis of estimates (initial vs. SAP, subsequent vs. prior period, and actual costs.
Prepare cost to cost calculation under percentage of completion method
Record journal entries and communicate with the sites within the scope of center of expertise
Maintain over time / POC files for each contract
Position Requirements:
Bachelor degree in Accounting or Finance
Three plus years of experience in general accounting or cost accounting roles
Prior experiences of job costing in manufacture-to-order environment desired
· Attention to detail and accuracy with the ability to package and present complex information in an effective and efficient manner
· Able to multi-task in high pressure, time-constrained situations
· Strong PC skills including Windows and Microsoft Office
· Experience with SYMIX, Oracle or other major ERP systems
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Client: Mollie's Fund
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"A highly creative, totally out-of-the-box approach with stop-you-in-your-tracks impact," a second judge said.
Reactions, which ranged from nervous laughter to running, were filmed and edited into a prank-style video that was posted to Facebook, YouTube and FreeKillerTan.com. Key online social news outlets were pitched when the video was released.
Sororities and fraternities were targeted on Twitter and a print ad ran in college newspapers.
"The perfect approach for the target group," a third judge said. "Great use of social media. Clever and targeted."
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Voices of Meningitis
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Client: Sanofi Pasteur
As part of an ongoing initiative by Sanofi Pasteur and NASN (National Association of School Nurses) to educate moms and teens about the importance of meningococcal vaccination, Olympic swimming medalist Dara Torres raced high school swim teams nationwide.
Judges found the effort unique, multilayered, creative and effective.
Results included 358 million+ total impressions.
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Vantage Point: Comparative Effectiveness Research
Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) is becomimg a key element in assessing the value of healthcare products.
Defined by the Institute of Medicine as "the comparison of effective interventions among patients in typical patient care settings, with decisions tailored to individual patient needs," CER links value to innovation by investigating real-world practice patterns and communicating the results throughout the healthcare system.
There is an opportunity to move from a fragmented healthcare market toward an integrated, evidence-based "ecosystem" of stakeholders. CER can be a unifying force in that drive to improve public health.
As Berger and Grainger wrote in a 2010 study: "The companies that will survive and thrive in this new environment will be those that embrace [CER] as the next logical step in the progression of requiring evidence."
That's a signal for companies to adapt their drug development and commercialization strategies by considering the following:
• Reworking experimental research design to address multiple stakeholder demands
• Demonstrating real-world value by refining observational research methods
• Creating a standardized and transparent set of CER methods
• Crafting a commercial platform that translates and links CER data for stakeholder messaging
These adaptations will ensure that biopharma clinical development and commercialization converge to build CER data pillars that bridge the gap between experimental and real-world value.


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NC to study attitudes toward hurricane evacuations
NC to study attitudes toward hurricane evacuations
With the Atlantic hurricane season under way, officials in North Carolina want to know what coastal residents would do if asked to evacuate.
The N.C. Department of Public Safety says emergency management officials are examining behaviors and attitudes regarding evacuations during hurricanes. For the next month, calls will be made to hundreds of coastal residents to gather information.
Each call will last 15 to 20 minutes and residents will be asked about their past behavior during an evacuation, expected plan if there is one in the future and perceived vulnerability to hurricanes and storm surge.
The study is being conducted for N.C. Emergency Management and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District.


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Jim Reichert knows he has spent a lot of years in the classroom because: His dentist and his attorney were once students he coached in high school football and the last names on his class roster sound familiar because he taught their parents.
Reichert is a longtime teacher. He walked into the classroom at Seacrest High School in Delray Beach in 1951 when the school had an abundance of rattlesnakes meandering across the grounds but lacked a football field for students and planning periods for teachers.
When he walks out of that school today, he`s in no danger of stepping on a rattler as he passes by the football field that he helped build about 30 years ago. He also leaves behind his world geography classes and those American government term papers he assigned with mind-numbing titles such as ``The Monroe Doctrine`` and ``The First Cabinet.``
It`s about time. Not that he hasn`t had fun with the students, of course, especially with those who called him coach. But he`s ready to call it quits.
``I want to retire, `` says Reichert, who`ll be 64 in July. ``I want to do what I want to do. I don`t want to be tied down to a job.``
That means he doesn`t want to head for the classroom at the sound of the bell or fill out paperwork that has multiplied with the years. He has a home in the mountains of North Carolina that he`d like to see more often and with no tests to write and no grade books to fill, he`ll have the time at last.
It shouldn`t take Reichert long to adjust to a life away from school. He left the classroom in `61 and spent almost two decades on the road with an encyclopedia company. When he wearied of traveling, he came back to the classroom in `79 and noticed how much things had changed. Seacrest High School had another name -- Atlantic -- and the seahawk mascot had turned into an eagle. But that was just the beginning.


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The Fair will be held on Friday, Oct. 21st from 10:30 AM to 2:30 PM on the UAB Campus Green.image by David Gunnells/UAB
A Fire Safety Demonstration involving the burning of full-scale models of residence hall rooms will follow the Homecoming Parade on the lawn of Rast Hall (near 10th Ave & 15th Street, across from the UAB Campus Green).
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The H2 did everything I asked of it and made it look easy.
The "baby" Hummer, as it sometimes is called, is actually longer (189.8 versus 184.5 in.) and taller (77.8 versus 75 in.) than the H1 Wagon, though somewhat narrower (81.2 versus 86.5 in.). Beyond obvious styling cues borrowed from the original Hummer, further comparisons would be about pointless because the H2 is an entirely different, more-refined animal.
The interior is what you'd expect in a luxury SUV and comfortably seats five, but there is surprisingly little usable storage behind the rear seats. The spare tire consumes about half of the room and an optional, removable rear jump seat, the other half. A rear-door-mounted spare would help and a luggage rack is a must for most excursions.
Storage space aside, the H2 is remarkably quiet, smooth, and responsive, on and off-road, thanks to the purposeful chassis it's built upon.
Our test model had the automatic, air-operated, load-leveling rear suspension. Longer, 719-mm-length shocks provide an additional 20 mm of rebound travel over that of the standard, progressive coil-spring suspension to help maintain wheel contact with the ground over undulating terrain. An "extended ride height" mode jacks up the rear end two additional inches for greater body-to-ground clearance and departure angle.
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Anything that could hang up the truck (crossmembers, exhaust, brackets) sits flush with or above the frame rails. Massive LT315/70R17 all-terrain tires help boost ground clearance to 9.9 in. yet have plenty of travel in ample wheel wells. The H2 can ford 20 in. of standing water at 5 mph. Doors are triple sealed against leaks. A square-tube winch receiver in the front bumper accepts an optional 9,000-lb electric winch. The matching trailer-hitch receiver is built into the rear crossmember and handles a 7,000-lb trailer.
Powering the substantial truck is a 6.0-liter Vortec V8 engine that makes 325 hp at 5,200 rpm and 385 lb-ft of torque at 3,800 rpm. As you might expect, mileage isn't great. I averaged about 11.5 mpg in combined highway/trail driving. The potent powerplant hooks to a heavy-duty, four-speed automatic transmission and a pushbutton controlled Borg-Warner transfer case.
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Alternative Winter Break: On The Ground, In The Community
Story posted January 20, 2012
Although he slept on the floor at 30 College St. this week, Robbie (Raymond) Harrison '14 didn't have a hard time falling asleep at night. His days took care of that.
As a co-leader of an Alternative Winter Break (AWB) group, he rose before dawn, helped prepare breakfast, then piled into a Portland-bound van with seven other students for a 12-hour day of volunteer work with immigrant and refugee communities.
AWB, administered by the McKeen Center for the Common Good, is now in its fourth year. It began as a small group of five students who came back to Bowdoin a week early from winter break to work with homeless people in the Portland community. It has since expanded to include work with immigrant and refugee populations as well.
This year, nearly 20 students gave up the comforts of home to pitch in for a demanding week of engagement with Portland community groups.
First stop for Harrison's group was a workshop with 50 English Language Learning (ELL) students in Portland's Lincoln Middle School.
Theirs was a delicate task—helping the often taciturn students speak about their dreams.
"We wanted to get them talking about themselves," explained Harrison. "Very often, ELL kids in mainstream classes are somewhat silent and don't get that attention. We wanted to help them vocalize their strengths and weaknesses and begin to think about themselves more deeply.
"There are those moments when the mask or shield comes off," Harrison added. "A student at my table revealed he wanted to be a musician and no one else knew he played music. It's great when you see seeds being planted."
This was an exercise with a purpose. The ELL students are traveling to Bowdoin next week for College Bound and Ready, a program former AWB leader Samantha Collins '11 developed and implemented last year to help the students see what college is like, and hopefully, to raise their aspirations.
"We had a very positive experience with the students last year," noted Collins, who is now a teaching intern at Portland Adult Education (PAE), which serves a variety of clients, including adult refugees who need to learn English.
"My perspective on college aspirations with these students is different [from the middle-schoolers]," she said. "Some students in my class are doctors in their home countries, but cannot transfer their certification to the U.S. system and need to learn English. Others need English language skills for basic survival."
The profundity of the language barrier for immigrants wasn't lost on Harrison and his group, who traveled to PAE later in the morning to work with Collins' adult students. Those pupils can range in age from 20 to 80, he said.
"The minute we walked in the door they were calling us 'teacher,'" said Harrison, who, as a Spanish major, is himself a language student. "It's very unusual at our age to be in that position of respect with older adults. We talked with students who come from different countries and speak two or three languages, they have worked so much harder than we have, and yet we're the ones telling them how to reach college.
"It gave us a lot to think about after we got back from Portland," he added. "We're privileged to be young and working on our education. Privilege with a capital P. It is daunting."
Alternative Winter Break gives students many different twists on the familiar. Instead of retiring to their own rooms, for instance, the groups bunk up together on floors, chairs and sofas at several of Bowdoin's college houses.
"We want to feel like we're not exactly on campus," says Harrison. "We want a sense of group bonding, so we stay together and don't sleep in the dorms."
The sparseness of accommodation can sometimes reflect on the living experience of some of the populations with whom the students are volunteering. "There is something about roughing it, when they're dealing with issues of poverty, that is part of the experience as well," notes Sarah Seames, Senior Associate Director of the McKeen Center for the Common Good.
Hannah Wurgaft '14, who participated in the AWB group focused on hunger and homelessness, said their lack of creature comforts paled in comparison with those living on the streets.
"While sleeping on the floor certainly is not ideal, the instability and uncertainty that homeless men and women face day in and day out is simply not something we have had to deal with," she said, adding: "Many don't even have consistent, reliable access to a bathroom."
The AWB program was Wurgaft's first foray into this kind of community involvement. Prior to her AWB experience, she had assumed that homelessness was primarily tied to unemployment.
Her work at Preble Street's Logan Place, a permanent residence for chronically homeless individuals, opened her eyes, she said: "We found that many chronically homeless people ... are severely mentally ill and physically unable to maintain employment. They often lack family support or a community network. Logan Place provides them with a stable environment and a sense of community."
McKeen Center Associate Director for Community-based Courses and Research Janice Jaffe says she knows AWB is a launching pad for students to deepen their studies and work on social issues in the community long after graduation. In fact, she noted, Preble Street is run by Bowdoin alum Mark Swann '84.
"Many students begin with a volunteer project like this, and then seek out courses that explore public issues in more depth," she notes. "They not only continue volunteering regularly with these organizations, but may also pursue related summer fellowships and independent studies projects that provide a broader understanding and greater sense of commitment and purpose over time."
Other organizations where AWB students volunteered this year included: Community Financial Literacy, Portland Housing Authority, Preble Street (Logan Place, Teen Center, Resource Center), Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program and Maine Building Material Exchange.
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The Ivory Tower on Display · 10 January 2005
By Rick Shenkman--History News Network--01/11/05
Clouds moved in. It rained a little. But there was no sign of snow (not downtown anyway).
One of the disadvantages of meeting in a place like Seattle, no matter what the weather, is that it is remote from major media centers, meaning that there will be less coverage of the convention this year than last, when the AHA was in Washington, D.C. Still, the New York Times sent Alex Star, formerly of Lingua Franca, now at the NYT Magazine. The Chronicle of Higher Education sent two reporters. And L'Express sent French journalist Phillipe Coste. L'Express? What on earth for, you may be wondering. We wondered too. Was it because he wanted to find out what historians think of Our Oldest Enemy : A History of America's Disastrous Relationship with France, the new book by John Miller and Mark Molesky? It turned out that Coste was here only because his wife is employed by a publisher doing business at the convention. Finding himself here, he decide to get credentials and attend a few panels. He said he went to an anti-war meeting held by Historians Against the War and an afternoon panel about American hubris. He thought about attending the panel on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11, but decided he'd probably heard all the arguments that can be made about the film.
All three panels proved to be interesting, we discovered. Hours later a Harvard professor was still talking about the presentation at the hubris lecture by Hofstra's Carolyn Eisenberg. She started off by saying that the AHA's program committee had "expressed the concern that we would be too present minded. So now I want to do just what they feared." And she did. The title of the session was: "Hubris and the Irrationality Principle in the Foreign Policy of Recent Presidents: From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush." First she got to work on Nixon and Kissinger, calling them "the boys from Columbine" because they seemed to hate everybody--they hated other Republicans, they hated Defense Secretary Laird, they hated Democrats and of course they hated the press. Then she went at the Bush people, quoting a high official at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who told her confidentially, "You don't begin to understand how crazy Don Rumsfeld is."
The closet analogy to what is happening in Iraq right now she said is what happened in Vietnam. In both wars high officials pursued a policy which couldn't possibly work. Vietnamization? It was stupid. How could you get the North Vietnamese to bargain in good faith as you drew down troop levels? LBJ hadn't raised troop levels because he was dumb. He did it because the South Vietnamese army wouldn't fight. Iraqification, she said, shows the same stupidity. Once again we are placing our faith in a force that is less committed to victory than its enemies.
Anticipating the criticism that her language might be a tad harsh, she said sharp language is needed to describe what's happening now and what happened in Vietnam, chiding diplomatic historians for using "professor-speak."
Why did the Vietnam war go on and on? Why did the United States invade Iraq and make a mess? She said it is important to go beyond the obvious observations ... that Nixon was crazy, that Bush is in over his head, that Nixon and Bush both benefited from the imperial presidency. She said that presidents don't go to war by themselves and cannot do as they please, even in foreign policy. So what is the common factor behind both Vietnam and Iraq that enabled irrational policies? She said that to find out we need to look at the role of "unbridled nationalism and racism" in American society that has allowed Americans to wage war on the Indians and drop the bomb on Japanese in Nagasaki. "You can say why did Bush go to war--because he was stupid, didn't read newspapers, was ideologically driven--but what kind of country do we have that led to such an irrational war?"
At the end of her talk the audience, seemingly in agreement, gave her a rousing round of applause.
At the meeting of HAW--Historians Against the War (where Carol Eisenberg also appeared on the panel), the discussion focused on the options the organization should pursue to help bring about an end to the war in Iraq. One option under consideration is to hold a three-day national conference of historians against the war (the unspoken assumption was that the war will continue; the conference is tentatively scheduled for the fall of 2005). Possible topics for panels might include: "historical perspective on the war and Bush's foreign policy," "past examples of resistance to war," and "attacks on freedom of speech, civil liberties, and academics." One historian in the audience rose to say that he appears to have lost his contract at a university in northern Washington State because he participated in an anti-war rally. Another historian said a friend had been heavily pressured for speaking out against the war and probably only kept her job because she had received tenure just a month before. Both were urged to contact HAW member David Montgomery, the chairman of a committee at the Organization of American Historians that is compiling a list of historians whose civil liberties have been compromised. About forty people attended the HAW meeting.
At the session on Michael Moore panel members seemed in agreement with the general observations of his 9-11 film, but uncomfortable with the way he scored his points. One historian said it is incumbent on scholars to point out the ways in which Moore distorted the historical record. But another, passionately asking "where's the beef," said he can't think of a single fact Moore got wrong.
Steve Mintz observed that one of "the most stunning developments in film" is that without documentaries the audience for film would have declined over the last few years. "Documentary is no longer spelled D-U-L-L." And historians need to account for the change. Several factors are apparent, he noted: the desire for the authenticity documentaries provide. The birth of reality TV. And perhaps most importantly, the willingness of documentarians to reveal taboo secrets. Until Moore showed the pictures of wounded Iraqi soldiers, most Americans had not seen them. Nor had they seen the compelling scene in the Congress when black representatives rose to object to the election of President Bush in 2000 and not one senator joined in, dooming the effort to review the result.
Each of these three meetings drew impressive audiences, as did a morning panel on shock and awe, "Destruction from the Air in Warfare of the Twentieth Century." The panel that may have drawn the largest audience of the day was "Atlantic History: A Critical Reassessment." The panel that seemed to draw a disappointingly small crowd, seemingly smaller than it actually was because the meeting was held in one of the large ballrooms, was the presidential session on "Stolen Public Records."
Rick Shenkman is the editor of History News Network.
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Main entrance is locked weeknights from 8 pm to 5 am and from 8 pm Friday to 5 am Monday. When the main entrance is locked, please use Door #4 off Dewey Street, the Emergency entrance or the Tower entrance near the Emergency entrance.
The Aspirus Riverview Gift Shop is located on the first floor of Aspirus Riverview Hospital and is staffed primarily by Auxiliary volunteers. The Gift Shop is open Monday through Friday, 10 am to 2 pm (excluding holidays), and carries a wide range of unique gift items.
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If you need space for quiet, prayer or meditation, the Chapel is located on the first floor, near the Emergency Department entrance. It is open at any time to you, your family or support persons.
Let Us Know Your Needs
We invite you to let us know your needs. To contact the chaplain, you may ask any member of your health care team to make a referral. Coverage for emergent needs outside of regular hours is also available. For questions or further information regarding Aspirus Riverview's spiritual support services or bereavement support program, please call us.
For those grieving the death of a loved one, whether it occurred recently or in years past, immediate and follow-up care is provided and available. This includes resources provided and staff follow-up with next of kin a year after a death in the hospital and an annual holiday memorial service.
Several times a year, Aspirus Riverview also offers grief support group programs that are open to the community, which include facilitated, small group sessions for adults experiencing grief following the death of a loved one. Opportunity for loss-specific groups are also available (for example, a group for parents who have lost adult children, etc.). For information about these free programs, please call 715.422.7744.
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Registered dietitians are also available by appointment to discuss the individual nutrition needs of patients who are no longer in the hospital. To learn more about our outpatient nutrition services and educational programs, call 715.421.7566.
Aspirus Riverview wants everyone who uses medications and household sharps (syringes, needles and lancets) to dispose of them safely, legally and at no cost.
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It is important to dispose of unused medications properly to avoid harm to others.
Medications are collected during business hours at the Marshfield, Nekoosa, Pittsville, Port Edwards, Rome, Grand Rapids and Wisconsin Rapids police departments and at the Wood County Sheriff's Department. For more information about medication disposal, please call the Wood County Health Department at 715-421-8911.
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Sharps are often mixed in with household garbage or flushed down the toilet. These disposal methods pose serious risks to family members and sanitation workers in the form of accidental sticks.
Aspirus Riverview's Sharps Smart community syringe disposal service provides three convenient locations to dispose of household sharps at no cost. (Sharps used by farms and businesses are not accepted.)
To use one of Aspirus Riverview's Sharps Smart community syringe-disposal centers:
Sharps Smart is funded by Aspirus Riverview Foundation and the voluntary donations of those who use or support the program.
At Aspirus Riverview Hospital, we respect the unique spiritual and religious beliefs of each patient and their loved ones. Spiritual support services are offered to people of all traditions, cultures and beliefs, regardless of affiliation with a particular denominational group or of having no affiliation.
Our staff chaplain is an ordained pastor who works as part of the interdisciplinary patient care team and observes standards of practice developed by the Association of Professional Chaplains. Service is available to all patients in the hospital, as well as those in the Emergency Department, Family Birthplace, Aspirus UW Cancer Center, and various hospital-sponsored support groups.
As a patient or support person, you may be visited by our staff chaplain to assess any spiritual or emotional needs with you, acquaint you with available spiritual care services, and provide assistance throughout your time at Riverview. You may also request to have our chaplain visit as needs arise.
Riverview welcomes and encourages visits from patients' home spiritual leaders or clergy. With your preference and consent upon registration, or by request at any other time, they will be notified of your hospitalization. Provision or facilitation of sacramental needs, such as communion, baptism and anointing of the sick are also available.
What is Spiritual Support?
In times of recovery, uncertainty, distress or transition, spiritual support provides and facilitates a compassionate response that will foster connection and hope, promote healing, and contribute to one's overall well-being.
Spiritual support may help you when you:
Chaplains may work with patients and their families to:
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We invite you to let us know your needs. To contact the chaplain, you may ask any member of your health care team to make a
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At Aspirus Riverview, it is our goal to deliver exceptional customer service in a safe manner.
If you feel we have not addressed your concern to your satisfaction, you may call The Wisconsin Office of
Quality Assurance, Health Services Section at 608.266.8481 or write to them at 2917 International Lane, Suite
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regarding Aspirus Riverview Hospital may contact The Joint Commission at 800.994.6610. Information
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In the event your complaint remains unresolved, you may file a complaint with our Accreditor, The Compliance Team, Inc. via their website www.thecomplianceteam.org or via phone at 1.800.291.5353.
Limited English Proficiency Policy: Aspirus Riverview is committed to providing equal opportunity in all programs and services to ensure full compliance with all civil rights laws, including Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which requires nondiscrimination on the basis of national origin. Equal opportunity includes physical and program access for persons with disabilities and program access for persons with Limited English Proficiency (LEP). Program and physical access for persons with disabilities is covered in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended in Section 504. It is our policy to provide language access services to populations of people with LEP who are eligible to be served or encountered by our programs. Such services will be focused on providing meaningful access to our programs, services and/or benefits. Our LEP coordinator can be reached at 715.422.9359.
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Is there a cut off age for developing type 1 diabetes? How common is type 1 in someone over 21 years of age?
There's no cut off age for developing type 1 diabetes which is why the terminology was changed from "juvenile" and "adult" diabetes to type 1 and type 2. However, type 1 is much less common as one gets older. Newer terminology and classification will focus on causes of different types of diabetes since this may have some bearing also on specific treatment options in the future.
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Big Miracle Trailer: Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski Save the Whales
Everybody does love whales.
Big Miracle, the based-on-a-true-story movie about a local Alaskan effort to save three trapped gray whales, was originally titled Everybody Loves Whales. It's really hard to argue with that statement. A Drew Barrymore-John Krasinski whale movie! If that basic premise does not have you cancelling all plans for February 3, 2012, then please consider the trailer, which contains the following wonders: a Krasinski local news report about avocados; the Alaskan governor (played by Stephen Root) glad-handing someone in a furry whale costume; three whales named Fred, Wilma, and Bam Bam; a camouflaged Dermot Mulrooney lecturing Ted Danson about Arctic ice; John Corbett in an Eskimo parka yelling "We can't keep up with the ice;" and Drew Barrymore donning scuba gear to rescue the baby whale. (If you're a crier, "Where's Bam Bam?" is probably the point at which you will need a box of tissues.) We won't even complain about the inclusion of the overused "Moth's Wings" in the trailer, because the song includes the lyrics "Buried deep under the water" — just like the whales! Exceptional. Snow Dogs for Whales, we salute you.


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HIV in Northern Saskatchewan
Over the past decade there has been a large increase in the number of new cases of HIV in Saskatchewan. In 2012, Saskatchewan reported the highest rate of newly diagnosed cases of HIV in Canada, at more than twice the national average.In northern Saskatchewan, HIV cases rose from about 7 new cases a year, 10 years ago, to 14 to 21 new cases between 2011 and 2013. The number of new cases of HIV diagnosed in northern Saskatchewan each year has been decreasing since then.
HIV can infect both men and women of any age - young and old. The number of people living with HIV differs across different communities in northern Saskatchewan.
HIV can spread by sharing needles, syringes, drug use equipment, or used for tattooing, piercing or acupuncture. HIV can also spread through sexual contact and blood and body fluid exposure. HIV can pass from a mother to her baby through pregnancy, delivery or breastfeeding.
It is estimated that 1 in 4 people living with HIV in Canada are not aware of their infection.
A person living with HIV who has been tested and knows their status can:
The Northern Saskatchewan HIV Awareness Initiative
The Northern Healthy Communities Partnership is working to raise awareness about HIV throughout northern Saskatchewan. The objectives of the HIV Awareness Initiative include:
1 in 4 people living HIV don't know they have it.
HIV is a chronic disease that can be managed.
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HIV does not discriminate - anyone can get HIV regardless of race, ethnicity, age or sexual orientation.
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Law Firms: Upping the Flex Factor
When attorney Janet Herman was pregnant with her first child in 1989, her firm was unsure how to arrange for her maternity leave. No one working there as an attorney had ever taken time off to give birth before, so Ms. Herman had to call other law firms to find out what was standard at the time.
The profession has undoubtedly made strides in maternity practices since Ms. Herman, now director of professional development at Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco, started in the industry, but there is still much to be done to meet the needs of working women — particularly those with families — in the legal field.
Nearly half of female lawyers leave the profession during their careers, and 78% of associates leave law firms by their fifth year, according to a report released today in Working Mother magazine that recognizes the 2008 50 Best Law Firms for Women. (The magazine partnered with Flex-Time Lawyers to compile the list in an effort to encourage firms to make themselves more attractive to potential female employees.)
However, all of the female attorneys interviewed for this piece say they believe the industry has made progress since they entered. Law firms are now offering programs like female networking, backup childcare services, private rooms for nursing mothers and increased flexibility, with part-time opportunities, including the option to make partner part-time and a de-emphasis on worth being judged by billable hours booked.
Ice Miller of Indianapolis offers a dry-cleaning drop-off service in-house and is in the process of renewing a program that allows employees to have frozen foods delivered to the office so they can simply go home and pop dinner in the oven. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom of New York now offers its employees the chance to take a sabbatical from the firm through a program called Sidebar, which allows lawyers in good standing to take a leave for up to three years.
Kayalyn Marafioti, a partner at Skadden, says this gives some lawyers a chance to return to the workforce after caring for a child or older family members.
"When people do return to the workplace, they think of [the firm] rather than just thinking they can't go home again," she said.
Deborah Epstein Henry, founder and president of Flex-Time Lawyers, says firms must stay attuned to the needs of women and men if they want to continue to thrive.
"The profession is really on a precipice for change," she said. "With Gen Y and men voicing work/life concerns [nearly as often as] women, it's really changing the complexion of law firms. It's not just small group of working moms to wrestle with any more."
Catherine Ballard, a partner at Bricker & Eckler in Columbus, Ohio, says firms must accommodate women with families or risk losing them altogether.
"Women are realizing they're missing out on their families. And they say, 'I don't want to make this my entire life. You have to accommodate it or I'm doing something else.'"
Ms. Herman says she believes the profession will retain more lawyers — both male and female — when firms start fully accommodating everyone.
"One partner I worked for had her tubes tied, and she told me that was the decision [a woman] had to make [to succeed at a law firm]. But that's not the attitude anymore. Men want to spend time with their families as well, and it ceases to be a women's issue," she said. "Over time, that's what's going to make a difference."
Readers: Whether or not you're in a legal field, what measures could your employer take to make your workplace more flexible? How accommodating is your current workplace of employees' needs? — Brittany Hite


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South Charlotte has long produced some of the state's best swimming, and the 2010-11 season was no different, as the Providence High boys and Charlotte Catholic girls repeated as state champions in their respective classifications.
The Providence boys, led by Sandy Martin and brothers Kip and Kyle Darmody, were dominant all season and beat their closest competition in the state championship in Raleigh by more than 70 points.
Meanwhile, the Catholic girls' swim team won its 10th straight state championship in 3A as well as the 10th consecutive regional title .
Cougars head coach Brian Gross led a relatively young team sparked by freshmen Lauren Rhodes and Maria Sheridan and junior Ashlyn Koletic.
The standards for being among the best in South Charlotte are high.
Boys Swimmer of the Year: Kip Darmody, Providence - Darmody did just about everything in his career at Providence. This year, the senior went out on top, winning four different events in the state meet including the 200-yard freestyle, 100 backstroke and the 200- and 400-yard relays, which he led. Darmody, who has signed with Texas, should continue to get better as he joins one of the elite NCAA swimming programs.
Boys Coach of the Year: Sandy Martin, Providence - This year, Providence's 14-year veteran leader added her 14th state championship overall (boys and girls) as the Panthers boys' swim team won its second consecutive 4A state title. Martin, who now has four boys state championships (10 girls state titles) also has 25 SW4A conference titles and 26 regional titles.
Girls Swimmer of the Year: Lauren Rhodes, Charlotte Catholic - The freshman sensation swam well beyond her years, leading the Cougars to their 10th straight state title. Rhodes not only won a state championship in the 50-yard freestyle - setting a 3A state record - but anchored both the champion 200- and 400-freestyle relay squads. Rhodes pulled off a similar feat at the 3A West Regional meet in Huntersville, winning the individual title in the 50 and 200 freestyle while leading both the 200- and 400-freestyle relay squads to wins as Catholic also won its 10th straight regional crown.
Girls Coach of the Year: Brian Gross, Charlotte Catholic -This year, the Catholic girls won their 10th straight 3A state championship by 121 points. Gross and company also won the 3A West Regional meet for the 10th straight time and will have a great shot at 11 in a row in both meets with a team littered with young talent.


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Emilio Karim Dabul
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Like most heroes, Steve Emerson denies that he is one. However, I would ask a simple question: what journalist has risked more than him to report on terrorist groups and their supporters worldwide? Steve will say he's just doing his job, reporting the facts. But telling the truth, as everyone knows, can be a high stakes game. The death threats that he has received in the past were serious enough to warrant him to take all sorts of precautions. Thankfully, he's still with us, reporting on very clear and present dangers to our national security from the Islamists' terror networks.
Robert Capa was able to capture great photos, because he was not afraid to get close to his subjects, no matter the cost to his personal safety. Steve Emerson has been able to do the same on a journalistic basis with terrorist groups located right here in the US.
Almost ten years before 9/11, Emerson predicted that that Islamists would launch a major attack on U.S. soil, and warned of the imminent threat of bin Laden. He based such warnings on solid research into the clandestine operations of Islamist groups in the US, showing how under the cover of "charity" they were able to collect money for groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. By getting very close to his subjects, Emerson laid the groundwork for what later became the Investigative Project, one of the world's largest archival data and intelligence sources on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups.
Richard Clarke, the former head of counter-terrorism for the US National Security Council said of Emerson, "I think of Steve as the Paul Revere of terrorism… We'd always learn things from him we weren't hearing from the FBI or CIA, things which almost always proved to be true."
Such bravery, of course, comes at a price. Besides death threats, and traveling with armed guards when he testifies before Congress, Steve lives almost constantly on the road as he chases leads as well as funding for his nonprofit organization. Such devotion to a cause also makes a personal life practically impossible. If he wasn't so committed to national security, Emerson could easily trade in his nonprofit status for a highly lucrative job with any of a number of print or broadcast outlets. Instead, he chooses to continue to expose the ongoing threats to the US posed by Islamists in a variety of forms.
He has been pilloried unjustly by the "politically correct" media and by supporters of Islamists, portrayed as an "Islamaphobe," despite the fact that one of his most senior researchers is a practicing Muslim and that Emerson's consistent stance has been anti-terrorist, not anti-Islam.
Groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) are the ones actually hurting all of us in the US, including Arab and Muslim-Americans. By crying "racism" and "bigotry" every time Steve uncovers ties to Islamist terrorist groups from so-called charity and civil rights organizations, which include the likes of CAIR and ISNA, they not only misuse and abuse those terms, but leave Arab and Muslim Americans actually more at risk for hostility and discrimination from Americans at large.
Rather than supporting moderate voices, which represent most Arab and Muslim Americans, Islamist groups and their supporters blanket the airwaves with shrill propaganda that incorrectly and dangerously paints convicted terrorist supporters like Sami al Arian, from the Florida chapter of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, as victims. Such actions run the risk of alienating other Americans from mainstream Arab and Muslim-Americans since they may wrongly assume that CAIR and other such groups represent the majority.
It has also resulted in naïve journalists printing these groups' "racist" fables as fact, instead of questioning the sources of such stories. When CAIR, for example, accused the show "24" of promoting stereotypes and creating potential backlash by representing some of the fictional terrorists as Arabs—imagine that—the Associated Press ran with the story that Arab-Americans were living in fear of violent reprisals because of the show. Strong contrary voices from the Arab-American community weren't heard or sought out.
In the midst of all these diversionary tactics of the Islamists' well-funded propaganda ministers, very real terrorist threats can be overlooked. That, however, is a story that neither AP nor NPR (or just about any other major media outlet other than FOX) apparently wants to pursue, and one that Steve Emerson has accurately called "The Grand Deception."
Steve, of course, continues to be guilty of speaking the truth. He has exposed such groups for what they are, showed how they undermine our national security, and never backed down, no matter how many lawsuits they bring (and lose), and how many threats he gets.
The Islamist groups and their supporters can't find any real evidence of bigotry or "Islamophobia" in Steve's many books and speeches, so they typically return to one incident. In 1996, before Timothy McVeigh was apprehended for the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, Steve said in an interview that it appeared to have the hallmark of Islamic terrorists: maximum destruction.
As an Arab-American and descendant of Syrian Muslims, that statement did not offend me then, nor does it now. The 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center as well as multiple examples of terrorism throughout the world would have led any rational person to that same supposition, including me. The fact that it was not true in that particular case doesn't make Steve, me, or anyone else a racist for making such a logical connection, no matter how much the Islamist bigots insist otherwise.
In the long run, death threats and defamation won't have any real effect on Steve Emerson as he pursues his mission: to do whatever he can to prevent another 9/11. It is a quest that is at once quixotic and dangerous. But it beats not trying. Like Capa, Emerson knows that some stories must be told no matter how many risks they entail.
"If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough," said Capa. This would seem to be Emerson's operating philosophy as he remains on the frontlines of the War on Terror in pursuit of terrorists at home and abroad. And if it's true, as he says, that he's just doing his job, then we need many more Steve Emersons.
Emilio Dabul is a Mideast commentator and author of such essays as "One Arab's Apology" and "An Arab-American Defends 24."
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Democratic State Representative Rick Lopes (D-24) prevailed solidly against his Republican opponent, Ald. James Sanders (R-AL) by a nearly two to one margin.
Lopes' defeat of Sanders was a major setback for local Republicans, who had hoped that they may prevail in the 24th Assembly District. Local Republicans had reportedly put considerable energy into the effort to elect Sanders.
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GlaxoSmithKline issues Paxil warning
GlaxoSmithKline has sent letters to doctors warning its antidepressant Paxil appeared to increase the risk of suicide attempts in young adults participating in clinical trials. The company also said it would change the labeling on Paxil to reflect the findings of the study, which found that reported suicide attempts were rare but significantly more common in adults who took the drug for depression than those who received placebo pills. Analysis of the study found that 11 of 3,455 people who were taking Paxil for depression reported an attempted suicide, compared with 1 in 1,978 taking placebo in the trials. Most were among adults ages 18 to 30, the company said. Glaxo sent out the warnings voluntarily, and its data still show that the drug's benefits outweigh the risks for people with depression, a company spokeswoman told The New York Times. "We are now advising doctors to monitor all patients to make sure their symptoms don't worsen" in the full course of treatment, the spokeswoman said. In 2005, total global Paxil sales fell 42% to $1.1 billion, according to numbers from Glaxo. The decrease was attributed to generic competition and an interruption in supply to Paxil CR during the year due to manufacturing concerns.