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ON THE DANUBE RIVER, Germany (AP) — We finally made it to our European river cruise, but not exactly according to plan.
Our trip along the Danube, from Germany to Hungary, began in Augusta, Maine, on a nine-seat plane that would bring us from our home state to Boston, where we were booked for our overseas flight.
Everything was fine as the small plane taxied down the runway. But then the pilot stopped, turned the plane around and took us back to the terminal. Heavy rain had closed a runway in Boston, and our plane had no clearance to land. The scene was set for what travelers most dread: A missed flight, caused by events beyond your control, that threatens an entire vacation.
Lucky we had travel insurance.
When we booked the trip a half-year earlier, we paid $798 to Travel Guard through our travel agent, not a piddling sum but prudent, we reasoned, for a major ($7,856) trip.
Our itinerary called for me and my wife Betty to take an evening flight to Paris, followed by another flight to Nuremberg, Germany, to start the cruise. With the Augusta delay, we hopped in the car and sped to Boston. By the time we found the right ticket counter, it was too late. The final boarding call had already been announced.
This prompted a frantic call to the travel agent. The next available flight was that night — but we were told it was unlikely we'd get on that one. Another flight was scheduled for the next afternoon; that's the one we ended up on.
The travel agent contacted the airline about rebooking our missed flight, reserved a hotel room for the night in Boston, and sent a message to Viking River Cruises. She also got the insurance paperwork going.
Her calming, after-hours assistance served as a reminder that having a travel agent and insurance can be well worth it when you get into a stew.
The insurance reimbursed us for an unplanned night at the Boston hotel, parking fees and meals, and a lost day aboard ship, for a total of $530, and we paid nothing extra for the rebooked flight. In the end, all we missed was a tour of Nuremberg before our ship, the MS Bolero, left its berth. As it turned out, our Boston-to-Amsterdam-to-Nuremberg flight got us to the dock a half hour before the ship, part of the Viking River Cruises fleet, left port. On board, we became known as "The Couple Who Missed Their Flight." It was a real conversation-starter.
Folks who plan ocean-going cruises might also want to consider travel insurance, said Michael Driscoll, editor of industry journal Cruise Week.
"I don't think you're going to find anyone in this business who wouldn't say that it seems a wise decision to buy travel insurance during hurricane season for Caribbean/Atlantic cruises given what has happened over the past 15 years," said Driscoll.
Some travel insurance vendors offer coverage online with trip cancellation allowed for any reason, with conditions. You can buy coverage for medical treatment and assistance, lost luggage and expenses related to other types of emergencies, such as itinerary changes caused by weather. The online Travel Insurance Review says more than 124 million travelers in the United States are covered by travel insurance or emergency services every year.
Depending on the terms of the coverage, insurance can run 4 to 10 percent of the cost of a trip. Travel agents can help you choose the right policy, but if you're booking your own itinerary online, some websites have an automatic option for adding travel insurance. You can also buy travel insurance after you've booked your trip. To get a quick comparison of quote estimates from a variety of companies — including well-known providers like Travel Guard and American Express — visit Travel Insurance Review's Squaremouth.com site.
At worst, had we missed our ship at the first port, a taxi ride would have gotten us to the next port, Regensburg, over lovely German countryside. I secretly smiled at the prospect, though we ended up seeing plenty during our Danube stops. That's one of the beauties of a river cruise: The stops come one after another, rather quickly compared to an ocean cruise.
The travel nightmares faded as we visited the medieval city of Regensburg, with its 12th century stone bridge and towering structures built by merchants of eras past. Stops also included Passau, where the Danube, Ilz and Inn Rivers meet. We opted for a side tour on a separate boat through the Danube Gorge, where towering cliffs loom over the river, and Kelheim, where we sampled beer which has been brewed at the Weltenburg Abbey since 1050.
In Vienna, the city's easily navigable metro system could be accessed a pleasant walk from the ship to the city's center. Another stop was Melk in Austria, and finally Budapest, whose breathtaking sites are too countless to list. The Central Market Hall is one stop that shouldn't be missed.
Along the Danube, the ship maneuvered through a series of locks that raise it to the high waters at the continental divide, before lowering it stage by stage as the Danube works its way to the Black Sea.
The return journey from Budapest to Amsterdam to Boston was trouble-free, no cancellations.
That was not the case on our previous trip to Europe.
When returning from Italy, we were told by the airline at London's Heathrow Airport that our confirmed flight to Boston had been canceled. The clerk handed us a plastic bag with overnight toiletries and chits for a hotel, bus rides and meals before the next day's flight.
She didn't mention the European Union's Compensation Claims program for such instances, but a British passenger who had been scheduled on the same flight brought it our attention. In the end, we were mailed a check for $1,700 for our trouble. No need to access the insurance that time.
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I just went on a little adventure over the past couple of days trying out different WMs and DEs. I went from XFCE, to gnome, to XFCE, then compiz stand-alone and back again. I found that in every environment I was trying to make it feel more like my openbox setup. Finally I realized that I needed to come back to my comfort zone. I must confess, the main thing I miss from using other DEs is compiz and its wobbly, snapping windows. Not to mention expo, and the desktop wall. However, I hate dealing with all the crap that comes with a DE, and compiz standalone is just not there yet. I also dabbled in awesome because I like the idea of being able to tile my windows, but I don't work enough in terminals to go that far.
Has anyone else ever tried to leave openbox? If so, why? Did you leave for good?
I am quite new to Arch. Two months or so. I started with Kdemod, didn't like it. Returned to good, old Gnome. This last week I decided to use something different, something I never used before (coming from an Ubuntu past). I didn't like tiling idea so Openbox was the one I tried. And let me tell you: It was love at the first sight. She had problems, but with some loving care we bypassed them. She is very shy, but opens herself gradually. How can anyone leave her?
I am no Cassandra, but I simply can not foresee me returning
ha, my experience pretty much mirrors your own. I liked the warm fuzzy feeling of GNOME/Compiz-fusion but it was just not pratical or flexible the way Openbox is. Even the most basic stuff was next-to-impossible. Have you ever tried typing in shortcuts in Metacity/Compiz? Yuch...
So to answer your questions: Yes, eye-candy, and no
Left Openbox for tiling wms and I've left for good - until I reinstall OB that is.
The reason I like tiling wm's is because I can control everything according to my wishes easier than I felt I could with Openbox.
Atm, I'm using Xmonad and every conceivable window management wish is theoretically possible - knowing a bit of haskell helps here I guess - heh.
Xmonad can be combined with XFCE, KDE and Gnome if one wishes to.
Openbox might look nicer to some people, though.
I have to admit I am completely enamoured with Openbox after 6 years of Linux usage and trying just a wide variety of WM/DE. I had a similar journey of discovery in that I tried gnome, kde, fluxbox, awesome, fluxbox and others.
The reason I left Openbox was that I managed (very quickly) to get the configuration of Openbox exactly how I wanted it. The big issue is that I am a tinkerer when it comes to all things on my PC. If something is so easily configured to the way I want it I get bored with it over time. I think this is Openbox's biggest issue. Configuration is simple and if you are like me and know what you want and how to get there it gets boring.
When I moved away from Openbox I was also aiming for a tiling window manager but I soon realised that GNU Screen is a far better replacement for multiple screens (well that is the case for my working style anyways).
Left Openbox for tiling wms and I've left for good - until I reinstall OB that is.
The reason I like tiling wm's is because I can control everything according to my wishes easier than I felt I could with Openbox.
Atm, I'm using Xmonad and every conceivable window management wish is theoretically possible - knowing a bit of haskell helps here I guess - heh.
Xmonad can be combined with XFCE, KDE and Gnome if one wishes to.
Openbox might look nicer to some people, though.
Yeah. It is seldom that I actually wish I could tile my windows - so those WMs wouldn't be very practical for me. But I've heard rumors about a tiling feature coming to openbox in the future - which of course I wouldn't protest in the least. Does anyone know any more about that rumor?
actually the rumours i heard were more along the lines of:
yes, it would be quite easy to implement but no we (the dev team) are not very interested in doing that.
but i might not be as up to date as you are
cheers barde
Does it count if you never used it before?
Going to install it BTW on my machine once I install Arch.
There was a topic here on the forums about people wanting a tiling openbox and i would like it too, because all the tiling wm's have a sucky floating layer. But i don't care about that because i have all my windows tiled all the time. Xmonad ftw.
Ontopic: I have used openbox, i like it the most off all the floating window managers. Nice and simplistic and no(!) dependecies. But i like tiling more so i left... Maybe for good, maybe not.
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Left openbox for Xmonad. Once you finally get used to tiling, I doubt you could go back easily...
The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck, is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.
But if they tell you that I've lost my mind, maybe it's not gone just a little hard to find...
Left openbox for Xmonad. Once you finally get used to tiling, I doubt you could go back easily...
I have, but not completely, still use "tile" (tile-windows in aur) and "whaw"
moljac024 wrote:
Left openbox for Xmonad. Once you finally get used to tiling, I doubt you could go back easily...
I have, but not completely, still use "tile" (tile-windows in aur) and "whaw"
tile didn't work nicely for me. What is this "whaw" you mentioned ?
The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck, is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.
But if they tell you that I've lost my mind, maybe it's not gone just a little hard to find...
The OP's question implies that you would want to leave Openbox.
Btw, for those who enjoy the merits of tiling WMs, just configure your openbox to behave like one. I have the following in my rc.xml file which lets me very quickly arrange windows in a tiled layout with no wasted space on my desktop using the MoveToEdge and GrowToEdge actions. Using these actions on windows without decorations lets you created any tiled layout that you want (I tried Awesome before Openbox but just couldn't stand the limited layout options). All it takes is a few drags and clicks.
<context name="Frame">
<mousebind button="W-Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
<action name="Move"/>
<mousebind button="W-Right" action="Drag">
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
<action name="Resize"/>
<mousebind button="S-W-Left" action="Drag">
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
<action name="Move"/>
<mousebind button="S-W-Right" action="Drag">
<action name="Raise"/>
<action name="Unshade"/>
<action name="Resize"/>
<mousebind button="W-S-Middle" action="Click">
<action name="ToggleDecorations"/>
<mousebind button="W-Left" action="Click">
<action name="GrowToEdgeWest"/>
<mousebind button="W-Right" action="Click">
<action name="GrowToEdgeEast"/>
<mousebind button="W-Up" action="Click">
<action name="GrowToEdgeNorth"/>
<mousebind button="W-Down" action="Click">
<action name="GrowToEdgeSouth"/>
<mousebind button="W-S-Left" action="Click">
<action name="MoveToEdgeWest"/>
<mousebind button="W-S-Right" action="Click">
<action name="MoveToEdgeEast"/>
<mousebind button="W-S-Up" action="Click">
<action name="MoveToEdgeNorth"/>
<mousebind button="W-S-Down" action="Click">
<action name="MoveToEdgeSouth"/>
You could of course skip the mouse and create some keyboard bindings to handle all of this too.
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Well, I'll be the first -- I've always used gnome. I've tried KDE (Yuck!), went to XFCE for a day, then back to Gnome, then the next month to OB for a couple of weeks. Now I'm back to Gnome. Nothing fits me like Gnome. I really don't know why either!
"It is very difficult to educate the educated."
It seems like some people are comparing WMs and DEs. You can use Openbox as a WM inside Gnome or Xfce for example. What you really need to compare are the WMs of those DEs with Openbox (Xfwm for Xfce, not sure what for Gnome).
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I agree with Xyne: moving from DWM to openbox I was missing the tiling feature so I set up those keyboard shortcuts...
<!-- Resizing windows-->
<keybind key="W-x">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeFull"/>
<keybind key="W-e">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeVert"/>
<keybind key="W-d">
<action name="ToggleMaximizeHorz"/>
<keybind key="W-c">
<action name="MoveResizeTo">
<!-- Moving windows -->
<keybind key="W-Up">
<action name="MoveToEdgeNorth"/>
<keybind key="W-Down">
<action name="MoveToEdgeSouth"/>
<keybind key="W-Left">
<action name="MoveToEdgeWest"/>
<keybind key="W-Right">
<action name="MoveToEdgeEast"/>
<keybind key="W-s">
<action name="MoveResizeTo">
<keybind key="W-q">
<action name="MoveResizeTo">
<keybind key="W-w">
<action name="MoveResizeTo">
<keybind key="W-a">
<action name="MoveResizeTo">
Anyway now I moved again, to the opposite edge: kde4 and I like it beacouse of integration (with OB you need a separate application for panel or system tray and so on). Openbox is great but i like to change often.
Love will tear us apart
I have tried GNOME, XFCE, PekWM and Fluxbox but none compared to OB in my mind.
There is a difference between bleeding [edge] and haemorrhaging. - Allan
I switched from openbox to KDE4 and have lasted a few months so far, (although I did instal openbox on debian just incase I got the urge) but think I'm going to stick with KDE4 as its constantly improving so 4.2 should be great
I left Openbox after having configured it using urukrama's guide. Honestly, I missed the eye-candy. Part of the fun with linux is having a free system looking great. So I am down with compiz-fusion again. It has lasted 5 weeks, I think.
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I was a GNOME/Compiz addict for the longest time, I admit. But I got intrigued with whittling the system down, so now I'm on Arch with Openbox and while I don't have my wobbly windows or neat effects, it still looks fantastic. Yeah, I'm stuck here.
And in the midst of such perfection,
I can't help but feel diseased.
Openbox has its deficiencies, but if you love minimalist (and aren't into tiling), I think it's the perfect solution.
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I used OB till I saw a screenshot of Awesome 2.3.
Since then Ive used dwm, xmonad, and eventually Awesome 3.0 Once you're used to a tiling window manager its pretty difficult to go back to any floating wm
I had a quite similar way to OpenBox - At first very long GNOME/Compiz, I tried KDE4 and didn't like it (itll take a looong time to reach the level of the KDE3 series and its much too bloated)... all the critics are right (first I didn't believe) and once I got addicted by making my system small, always looking on consumed RAM and Processor Time and number of installed packeged... I used Fluxbox for about a month (First in Ubuntu, then in Arch after I switched)... I maybe would never leave Fluxbox and I really loved it's configuration files... But at some point the menu just refused to work... I tried everything and found no other solution except of switching to openbox... I think they both have advantages and disadvantages... I hate the OpenBox configuration but I like the themes (in Fluxbox I searched very long for a nice one) - Onyx black ftw Well if OpenBox would not use XML at least in the menu file and use there Fluxbox-like syntax it would be perfect... Or maybe I shall invest some time in learning the menu xml stuff... I don't like the default menumaker menu for openbox and would like to ban it to a submenu for example... I don't know how long I'll stay with OpenBox, it depends on how long it will take for me to make the menu do what I want...
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Left OB to try out tiling wm's and stood pretty long with wmii, but somehow tiling wm's aren't much fun to use with gimp, so I switched back to OB.
back again to wmii for the time beeing
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Once you go tiling you never go back.

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Hi All,
How hot does a stator get? Can it be water cooled?
My idea is to cast some channels in/around the coils and pump cold water through the stator, would this work, and if so wouldn't it improve the efficiency of the generator. I'm not sure exactly how I would make the 'water course' through the stator but I'll figure something out if it would produce a reasonable hike in efficiency.
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Let's assume it's a 12 mag 9 coil pma, with twin rotors 1 either side of the stator (the standard home build axial flux genny).
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Development & zoning: More waivers in Bedford
The shopping plaza at the corner of Wallace Road and Route 101 in Bedford, anchored by Harvest Market, is getting a long overdue upgrade. Everyone involved seems to agree that the renovations and construction of a new bank building will serve the people, the tenants and the town very well. So why did the upgrades require a zoning variance?
The plaza was built in the 1970s. It just lost an anchor tenant (Dunkin' Donuts) to the new plaza at the corner of Routes 101 and 114. Though it is a nice looking little plaza, the need to upgrade it from a competitive standpoint is obvious. But the owners' first proposal was rejected by the Zoning Board of Adjustment.
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Kings not interested in making another trip to Big Apple
The Kings have no desire to go back to New York.
They want this Stanley Cup final done and Drew Doughty vowed they'll bring their best to make sure that's the case.
The Kings know what's at stake as they prepare to the face the New York Rangers in Game 5 of the final Friday night at the Staples Center and they don't want to pass up on the opportunity.
"There's no way that we're going to play a bad game tonight," said Doughty. "We're fully prepared for this and we want this game so bad and more than them. The guys really care so much. We believe in each other and believe in our team.
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Doughty said the Kings have to do a better job on Rangers' goalie Henrik Lundqvist.
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Question 1
According to the passage, some twentieth-century scholars have written at length about
- Walter's persecution of his wife in Chaucer's the Clerk's Tale
- the Duchess of Malfi's love for her husband
- the tyrannical behaviour of the Duchess of Malfi's brothers
- the actions taken by Shakespeare's Desdemona
- the injustices suffered by Chaucer's Griselda
Correct Answer : D
Question 2
The primary purpose of the passage is to
- describe the role of the tragic heroine in medieval and Elizabethan literature
- resolve a controversy over the meaning of "poetic justice" as it is discussed in certain medieval and Elizabethan literary treatises
- present evidence to support the view that characters in medieval and Elizabethan tragedies are to blame for their fates
- assert that it is impossible for twentieth-century readers to fully comprehend the characters and situations in medieval and Elizabethan literary works
- argue that some twentieth-century scholars have misapplied the concept of "poetic justice" in analyzing certain medieval and Elizabethan literary works.
Correct Answer : E
Question 3
It can be inferred from the passage that the author consider Chaucer's Grisselda to be
- an innocent victim
- a sympathetic judge
- an imprudent person
- a strong individual
- a rebellious daughters
Correct Answer : A
Question 4
The author's tone in her discussion of the conclusion's reached by the "school of twentieth-century scholars" (line 4) is best described as
- plaintive
- philosophical
- disparaging
- apologetic
- enthusiastic
Correct Answer : C
Question 5
It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that most people respond to intended instances of poetic justice in medieval and Elizabethan literature with
- annoyance
- disapproval
- indifference
- amusement
- gratification
Correct Answer : E
Question 6
As described in the passage, the process by which some twentieth-century scholars have reached their conclusions about the blameworthiness of victims in medieval and Elizabethan literary works is mot similar to which of the following?
- Derivation of logically sound conclusions from well-founded premises
- Accurate observation of data, inaccurate calculation of statistics, and drawing of incorrect conclusions form the faulty statistics
- Establishment of a theory, application of the theory to ill-fittings data, and drawing of unwarranted conclusions from the data
- Development of two schools of thought about a factual situation, debate between the two schools, and rendering of a balanced judgment by an objective observer
- Consideration of a factual situation by a group, discussion of various possible explanatory hypotheses and agreement by consensus on the most plausible explanation
Correct Answer : C
Question 7
The author's paraphrase of a statement by Samuel Johnson serves which of the following functions in the passage?
- it furnishes a specific example
- it articulates a general conclusion
- it introduces a new topic
- it provides a contrasting perspective
- it clarifies an ambiguous assertion
Correct Answer : B
Question 8
The author of the passage is primarily concerned with
- reconciling opposing viewpoints
- encouraging innovative approaches
- defending an accepted explanation
- advocating an alternative interpretation
- analyzing an unresolved question
Correct Answer : D
Question 9
The primary purpose of the passage is to
- criticize the inflexibility of American economic mythology
- contrast "Old World" and "New World" economic ideologies
- challenge the integrity of traditional political leaders
- champion those Americans whom the author deems to be neglected
- suggests a substitue for the traditional metaphor of a race
Correct Answer : A
Passage For Question 10 to 15
Woodraw Wilson was referring to the liberal idea of the economic market when he said that the free enterprise system is the most efficient economic system. Maximum freedom means maximum productiveness; our "openness" is to be the measure of our stability. Fascination with this ideal has made Americans defy the "Old World" categories of settled possessiveness versus unsettling deprivation., the cupidity of retention versus the cupidity of seizure, a "status quo" defended of attacked. The United States, it was believed, had no status quo ante. Our only "station" was the turning of a stationary wheel, spinning faster and faster. We did not base our system on property but opportunity-which meant we based it not on stability but on mobility. The more things changed, that is, the more rapidly the wheel turned, the steadier we would be. The conventional picture of class politics is composed of the Haves, who want a stability to keep what they have, and Have-Nots, who want a touch of instability and change in which to scramble for the things they have not. But Americans imagined a condition in which speculators, self-makers, runners are always using the new opportunities given by our land. These economic leaders (front-runners) would thus be mainly agents of Change. The nonstarters were considered the ones who wanted stability, a strong referee to give them some position in the race, a regulative hand to calm manic speculation; an authority that can call things to a half begin things again from compensatorily staggered "starting lines".:Reform" in America has been sterile because it can imagine no change except through the extension of this metaphor of the race, wider inclusion of competitors, "a piece of the action." As it were, of the disenfranchised. There is no attempt to call off the race. Since our only stability is change. America seems not to honor the quite work that achieves social interdependence and stability. There is, in our legends, no heroism of the office clerk, no stable industrial work force of the people who actually make the system work. There is no pride in being an employee (Wilson asked for a return to the time when everyone was an employer). There has been no boasting about our social workers-they are need; empty boasts from the past make us ashamed of our present achievements, make us try to forget or deny the, move away from them. There is no honor but in the wonderland race we must all run, all trying to win, none winning in the end (for there is no end).
Question 10
According to the passge, "Old World" values were based on
- ability
- property
- family connections
- guild hierarchies
- education
Correct Answer : B
Question 11
In the context of the author's discussion of regulat ing change, which of the following could be most probably regvarded as a "strong referee" (lin e 30) in the United States?
- A school principle
- A political theorist
- A federal court judge
- A social worker
- A government inspector
Correct Answer : C
Question 12
The author sets off the word "Reform" with quotation marks in order to
- emphasize its departure from the concept of settled possessiveness
- show his support for a systematic program of change
- underscore the flexibility and even amorphousness of United States society
- indicate that the term was one of Wilson's favorites
- assert that reform in the United States has not been fundamental
Correct Answer : E
Question 13
It can be inferred from the passage that the author most probably thinks that giving the disenfranchised" ' a piece of action'" is
- a compassionate, if misdirected, legislative measure
- an example of American's resistance to profound social change
- an innovative program for genuine social reform
- a monument to the efforts of industrial reformers
- a surprisingly " Old World" remedy for social ills
Correct Answer : B
Question 14
Which of the following metaphors could the authors most appropriately use to summarize his own assessment of the American economic system ?
- A windmill
- A water fall
- A treadmill
- A gyroscope
- A bellows
Correct Answer : C
Question 15
It can be inferred from the passage that Woodrow Wilson's idea's about the economic market
- encouraged those who "make the system work"
- perpetuated traditional legends about America
- revealed the prejudices of a man born wealthy
- foreshadowed the stock market crash of 1929
- began a tradition of presidential proclamations on economics
Correct Answer : B


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The Dynamo family room furniture group is a collection of items with a contemporary style. Created to reflect a modern design, this group of reclining furniture features smooth pulled upholstery and straight frame lines. Pad-over-chaise footrests provide unbroken comfort while visible seam stitching adds an element of style. A channeled stitch in the seat back creates definition in the shapes of the cushions to complete each piece.
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In the first of the Beltwide's four panels, "Cotton Variety Improvement," Lake Providence, La., producer Donna Winters will lead a discussion of how the U.S. cotton industry can work more efficiently to address grower needs regarding cotton varieties.
Panelists include Jack Hamilton, producer, Lake Providence; Stephen Oakley, breeder, California Planting Cottonseed Distributors, Shafter, Calif.; geneticists Roy Cantrell, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, and Fred Perlak, Monsanto, St. Louis; and seed company representatives Thomas F. `Bud' Hughes, Stoneville Pedigreed Seed, Memphis; Jane Dever, Aventis, Collierville, Tenn.; and Tom Kerby, Delta & Pine Land, Scott, Miss.
Panel will discuss how growers can work with research community to enhance progress on bringing new varieties to marketplace and will identify resources needed to make that happen. Conferees will hear what new value-added traits are in transgenic cotton pipeline such as early maturing, improved fiber quality and insect, pathogen or nematode resistant, including latest Bt cottons.
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Certain Stockton streets are city history writ in stone. But Lord knows what the El Dorado Street chapter says about Stocktonians.
Certain Stockton streets are city history writ in stone. But Lord knows what the El Dorado Street chapter says about Stocktonians.
City Hall decided to widen this main artery in 1994. Builders expect to be done by late July. No one can accuse Stocktonians of rushing recklessly into public works projects.
The city spent roughly $6 million on early phases of the project before the public realized the obsolete plan was uglier than a plateful of mortal sins.
That was in 2008. Preparing to expand a stretch of the street 12 feet, one northbound lane, workers clear-cut more than 100 trees. Pretty trees arching over El Dorado from Alpine Avenue one mile north.
Plans also called for removing the grassy park strips where trees grew. Construction would bring roaring traffic right up to the edge of the sidewalk.
The funny thing is not that a public outcry ensued. The funny thing is that City Hall approved a project in the first place. The environmental review bluntly said:
"The loss of the 101 ornamental street trees ... will completely change the character of the streetscape and could affect the neighborhood quality."
You wonder, what kind of red flag does a street project EIR have to wave before the Councils of old said whoa?
Apparently earlier planners were piously auto-centric. As long as a street project eased traffic, it didn't matter what sort of procrustean scourge it was. So the new street made pedestrian crossing scarier than blood-sucking demons? Fine. As long as commutes were smooth.
Seriously, this instance clearly shows that projects in the pipeline so long (from the last century!) need to be reviewed and subjected to further public comment.
And that happened, in a roundabout way. Residents of the Collegeview neighborhood got angry. A retired city landscape architect, Larry Nordstrom, who lived in the clear-cut zone, got involved.
"The problem is imbalance," Nordstrom said in 2008. "Unfortunately, the project has looked strictly at the vehicle, and moving the vehicle. But you can't eliminate all of the other necessities of life. Neighborhood needs. School needs. Quality of life issues."
Nordstrom ticked off the problems with designing roads solely for cars. Said streets are ugly; scary to walk; dangerous to bicycle; antithetical to this city's Strong Neighborhoods program; awkward for mass transit; hotter heat islands.
Nordstrom formed a neighborhood group. They barked at the council so effectively that the project was halted. The council sent the project back to the drawing board.
With citizen input this time. Nordstrom's well-mannered gang attended two years of boring meetings. Nordstrom moved to Temecula - so I'm not sure I can say "greener pastures" - but the group soldiered on.
A better plan emerged. One designed to offer safe and pleasant access to all users.
And then - the turn of the screw - Stockton went broke.
On top of that, greedy-guts Gov. Jerry Brown seized redevelopment money targeted for El Dorado.
Planners had to re-do the re-do. A shame, really, considering all the time and better ideas that went into the plan.
For instance, installation of nautical-motif railing created for the Calaveras bridge, a public arts project, was kiboshed. The railing will sit in the city corp yard for the indefinite future.
Improvements will be limited to certain spots. A few added turn lanes, a couple modified traffic signals, medians to ease traffic.
But the extra car lane is out; sidewalks will be modestly expanded; and 142 trees will be planted to replace the 101 lost. That's the way the community wanted it.
You could call that a story about a neighborhood that found its voice, and traffic planners who listened. I find something to admire in both camps.
If this column was called Sweetness and Light I'd probably leave it at that.
It's just that, well, the original effort cost about $6 million. The re-do costs $2.6 million. I'm not sure if staff time for the public meetings over two years was counted in that last figure.
Conservatively, that's basically $9 million for a few modest improvements and a net gain of 41 trees. That's history writ in stone - and red ink.
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Vanilla Apple Sponge
Member recipe by janerollinson
ServingsServes 6
This is a nice sponge with custard or cream, or as a cake with a cuppa.
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- 250g sugar
- 250g unsalted butter
- 250g self-raising flour
- 1 vanilla pod, split and deseeded (save the seeds)
- 4 eggs
- 4 Bramley apples, peeled, cored and cut into wedges
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- a quarter of a tsp of ground cinnamon
- Preheat oven to 180C/fan 160C/Gas 4.
- Grease a 30cm springform round cake tin, and line with greaseproof paper.
- Whisk the sugar and butter together until the mixture turns pale.
- Fold in the flour and the vanilla seeds.
- Mix in the eggs until you get a batter, then pour into the cake tin.
- Place the apple wedges halfway into the batter, sprinkle with the sugar and cinnamon and bake for 35-40 mins.
Comments, questions and tips
29th Aug, 2015
This cake was amazing! Everyone in my family thought that it it was a really nice texture and flavour. However I thought that it was a bit bare so I put on a cinnamon glaze and it really improved it. The recipe for the cinnamon glaze is here: http://homecooking.about.com/od/dessertrecipes/r/blc132.htm
9th Oct, 2011
I added small handfull of sultanas to the mixture, along with half tsp of cinnamon and half tsp of baking powder - turned out really well, will certainly bake it again, next time i will add beaten eggs to the mixture before folding in the flour & baking powder. The batter was not runny, had to spoon it into the tin, also i needed to bake it for 1 hr.
2nd Sep, 2011
After reading the great feedback I decided to make the cake as I have a Bramley apple tree in my garden and wanted to use some up. I halved the recipe as I only had 2 eggs left and then varied the method slightly...but very successfully too! I beat the butter (salted as that's all I had) with the sugar and then folded in the flour and eggs as per instructions. I mixed in mixed spice into the mixture and then cut the apple up into very small slithers/pieces and stirred them into the mixture too. Then I divided the mixture into 12 muffin cake cases and cooked for 40 minutes....A piece of fondant icing topped the cake and there's not many left now! Absolutely delicious.....Thank you for such a simple but original cake. I'll be making many more. :-)


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I'm User Y2kbug alias Andreas.
My systems – in use:
- Apple Power Mac G4 "Quicksilver" (2001)[1][2] – upgraded to be a Dual 800 MHz
- PowerMac: Texas Instruments TAS3001C
- Self-made midi tower:
- Mainboard: MSI 890FXA-GD70, Realtek ALC889 audio, Azalia 1.0 compliant
My systems – in use, but lent far away:
- IBM Thinkpad R51 1830-DG4
- Apple Power Mac G4 "Mirrored Drive Doors"[3][4] – upgraded to be a Dual 1.42 GHz
- Apple Onboard Audio: Texas Instruments TAS3004 works since ALSA 1.0.19 and Linux Kernel 2.6.30 (bug #2448 fixed thanks to Johannes Berg).
- Apple Power Mac G5 "Late 2005"[5][6] – Dual-core 2 GHz
- Apple Onboard Audio: Burr Brown PCM3052 "Onyx" (analog in- & output, S/PDIF digital output) and Crystal Semiconductor CS84xx "Topaz" (S/PDIF digital input)
Some useful resources:
- ALSA User Info, a good place to start
- The unofficial ALSA Wiki, a good resource for ALSA users
- Gentoo Linux ALSA Guide – now you know which GNU/Linux distro I'm using :-)
- The asoundrc configuration file
Please note: I'm just a regular user with no programming skills at all!
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Though featuring the F4RR's shorter-stroke Corsa Corta motor, the MV Agusta F4R makes only 191hp (6hp less than the F4RR), due to a revised engine map and the lack of hand-ported cylinder heads. Still with plenty of power on-tap, not to mention 84 lbs•ft of torque, & full titanium cylinder valves, the 2012 MV Agusta F4R with its 423 lbs dry weight should make the spec sheet warriors happy. Other changes include lower-spec suspension, a MAG-welded frame, a revised traction control system, and a €18,800 price tag.


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I recently had to setup Database Mail on dozens of SQL Server instances. Rather than perform this tedious task using the SSMS GUI, I developed a script that saved me a lot of time which I'm sharing here.
My needs were simple so I only needed a single SMTP account and profile. I decided to make the profile the default public one so that all msdb users would use this profile unless a different sp_send_dbmail @profile value was explicitly specified. You might want to extend this script if you need other accounts/profiles, such as separate ones for administrative alerts or user reports.
Below is the template script I used for my task. The sysmail_add_account_sp @username and @password parameters might be required depending on your SMTP server authentication and you will of course need to customize the mail server name and addresses for your environment.
-- Enable Database Mail for this instance
EXECUTE sp_configure 'show advanced', 1;
EXECUTE sp_configure 'Database Mail XPs',1;
-- Create a Database Mail account
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_account_sp
@account_name = 'Primary Account',
@description = 'Account used by all mail profiles.',
@email_address = 'email@example.com',
@replyto_address = 'email@example.com',
@display_name = 'Database Mail',
@mailserver_name = 'mail.mydomain.com';
-- Create a Database Mail profile
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profile_sp
@profile_name = 'Default Public Profile',
@description = 'Default public profile for all users';
-- Add the account to the profile
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_profileaccount_sp
@sequence_number = 1;
-- Grant access to the profile to all msdb database users
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_add_principalprofile_sp
@principal_name = 'public',
@is_default = 1;
--send a test email
EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@subject = 'Test Database Mail Message',
@recipients = 'email@example.com',
@query = 'SELECT @@SERVERNAME';
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Dell and Rackable's CFOs a-go-go
As the revolving brass door turns...
Dell-y Don Carty
Dell's finance chief Don Carty will step down next month, ending his short stint of overseeing the books during the computer maker's internal accounting probe.
He will be replaced June 13 by Brian Gladden, former CEO of SABIC Innovative Plastics Holdings — a spinoff of General Electric Plastics. Gladden previously worked at GE for about 20 years.
Carty is apparently done cleaning house at the number two computer maker. He had replaced then-CFO James Schneider in December 2006, when the US Securities and Exchange Commission began sniffing into its financial book-keeping. The following internal investigation by Dell uncovered evidence that unnamed executives were involved with fixing account balances to meet quarterly objectives and providing false information to auditors.
"Don has played a key role in re-establishing transparency and integrity in our financial practices and we are extremely grateful to have had his leadership," said CEO Michael Dell in a statement.
Carty will remain as a member of the company's board of directors, which he joined in 1992.
Rackable promotes Wheat from chaff
Meanwhile at Rackable Systems, James Wheat is now officially the chief financial officer after serving a month as interim CFO while Madhu Ranganathan readied her departure.
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The Montgomery County government is committed to providing outstanding services and support to all communities:
No matter what the income level, race or ethnicity, we all want the same things for our families and ourselves. We share the same objectives. Simply put, all people want is to improve the quality of life here in the county.
–County Executive Ike Leggett, Inaugural Speech, December 4, 2006
Montgomery County, Maryland has a wonderfully rich and diverse community that is supported by a growing proportion of ethnic residents, many of whom are foreign-born. In fact, nearly 30% of County residents were born outside of the United States. The County has a strong and growing representation of Asian Americans, Continental Africans, Latin Americans, and African Americans. The diversity within these groups is tremendous.
Learn about the layers of diversity in Montgomery County by reviewing the resources provided below.
Demographic Data
Maryland Department of Planning
Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Montgomery County Planning Board
- Race and ethnicity, broken out by County Council districts.
- County as a whole, Regional Services Centers, state legislative districts, Community-Based Planning Team Areas, and Planning Team areas. Data are broken out by ethnic groups, age, income level, and more.
- Brochures racial and ethnic groups in the County.
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Maryland Department of Planning
Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission and the Montgomery County Planning Board
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- A map of the County Council districts.
- A map of the state legislative districts.
- A map of the Regional Services Centers.


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E076980 boomerang, wood, Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia.
This boomerang is from the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia. The wooden boomerang has a central curve and rounded ends. Both surfaces of the boomerang are convex or curve outwards. Vertical ridges mark the surface of the wood.The boomerang was collected by Alexander Morrison in the late 19th or early 20th Century. It was acquired by the Australian Museum in 1979.
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Keith Little envisioned a place that would house the stories of the Navajo Code Talkers and where people could learn more about the famed World War II group who used their native language as a weapon.
His family now hopes to carry out his dream of a museum near the Arizona-New Mexico border that also will hold wartime memorabilia and serve as haven for veterans. Little, one of the most recognizable of the remaining Code Talkers, died of melanoma Tuesday night at a Fort Defiance hospital, said his wife, Nellie. He was 87.
Little was 17 when he joined the U.S. Marine Corps, becoming one of hundreds of Navajos trained as Code Talkers. They used a code developed by 29 tribal members that was based on the then-unwritten Navajo language. Their code helped confound the Japanese and win the war.
"My motivation was to fight the enemy with a gun or whatever," Little told The Associated Press in a July 2009 interview. "When I went into the Marine Corps ... I knew nothing about the Navajo code. It was really astonishing to me to get to Camp Pendleton and there were a bunch of Navajos there, and they were working with a Navajo code."
Little, the longtime president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association until his death, traveled the country seeking funding for the museum and veterans center that is expected to cost nearly $43 million. He preached about the preservation of Navajo traditions, culture and the language that the federal government tried to eradicate before he and others were called on to use it during the war.
It was a story he never tired of telling, association secretary Yvonne Murphy said.
"That was his life. That was the drive behind him," Murphy said Wednesday. "It didn't matter where he was. If there were people who came and wanted to sit and talk with him, he would share with them."
Nellie Little said her husband hoped the museum would be open by 2014 at its proposed location just outside the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock. But she said more money is needed.
She is asking people to send museum donations rather than flowers for his memorial.
Keith Little's health had been deteriorating over the past year, as he went in and out of hospitals between speaking engagements and appearances in parades _ the last time in New York in November for Veterans Day, the association said. When he wasn't traveling, he was tending to his family's ranch in Crystal, N.M.
A video on the association's website features Keith Little speaking about the importance of the unbreakable code. Fellow platoon members referred to the Navajos as "walking secret codes," with each message having to be memorized and destroyed after it was sent or received, Keith Little says.
"That is something that in itself was marvelous," he said in the AP interview. "It was so proficient and safe."
A public memorial is planned for Friday in Window Rock, with funeral services scheduled Saturday in nearby Fort Defiance. Navajo President Ben Shelly has ordered flags lowered across the reservation from Thursday through Sunday in Keith Little's honor.


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Haploblepharus fuscus
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Haploblepharus fuscus Smith, 1950
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|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable B2ab(iii) ver 3.1
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|Human, B.
|Cavanagh, R.D., Fowler, S.L., Stevens, J.D., Pollard, D., Dudley, S. & Valenti, S.V. (Shark Red List Authority)
Haploblepharus fuscus is distributed along less than 1,000 km of coastline. This catshark appears to be highly site specific, with a fragmented population. The species' estimated area of occupancy is less than 2,000 km². It appears to be an abundant inshore shark, commonly caught by rock and surf anglers, taken as discarded bycatch in recreational fishing activities, and is generally regarded as a nuisance by the fishermen, and persecuted as such. It has not been seen in other inshore fishery activities. The most inshore of all the Southern African endemic catsharks, it is restricted to a very narrow band of habitat. Its endemicity and very narrow nearshore distribution means that it is imperative to monitor the abundance of the species and the health of its preferred habitat, as abundance has not been quantified and fishing related threats are potentially high. A continuing decline in the quality of its inshore habitat is inferred as a result of heavy human utilization, warranting an assessment of Vulnerable.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|H. fuscus endemic to a relatively small stretch (less than 1,000 km) of the South African coastline, ranging from Storms River mouth, eastern Western Cape, to just south of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal. It is a rare vagrant west of the Storms River mouth, with one record from the western Western Cape (Bass et al. 1975; Human 2003, 2007). This inshore highly site-specific species' estimated area of occupancy is less than 2,000 km².
|Countries occurrence:
Native:South Africa
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – southeast; Indian Ocean – western
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|H. fuscus prefers inshore rocky reef habitats. All specimens examined by Human (2003, 2007) were collected very close to shore (rock and surf angling), with no records of specimens being caught by offshore fishing activities.
Very little of the life history is known for H. fuscus. Maximum size is reported at 73 cm total length (TL) (Compagno 1984). Males are juvenile at 43.8-46.0 cm TL, adolescent at 49.5-54.3 cm TL, and mature at 55.0-64.9 cm TL. Females are adolescent at 49.6-56.8 cm TL, and mature at 60.9-63.1 cm TL. The juveniles of this species are scarce and there appears to be an unknown habitat that is used by H. fuscus for egg laying, and where juveniles spend that stage of their life history (Human 2003, 2007). Other members of this genus produce a single eggcase per uterus which is assumed here for this species.
|Major Threat(s):
Persecution from recreational anglers and potential loss of habitat are the greatest threats to this inshore, restricted endemic. It appears not to be taken by other inshore fisheries, suggesting a very shallow habitat preference for this species, giving rise to this sharks potential vulnerability to habitat degradation. Survival rates from recreational angling, where it is a common bycatch within its range, are unknown. This shark is released alive during angling competitions, but this situation my not hold true in other forms of recreational angling, as is seen with other species of catshark in South Africa. This species is also occasionally used in aquaria, however, there is no directed fishery for this species for the aquarium trade at present (Human 2003, 2007).
This species' inshore habitat is subject to heavy and increasing human utilizations, including extensive recreational diving and sport and commercial fishing along with coastal housing development, boating, commercial shipping, holiday-making, beach utilization and extensive pollution and habitat degradation of inshore environments.
|Conservation Actions:
|The biology of this species is virtually unknown, which is of concern given that this is an inshore shark and caught with relatively high frequency by shore anglers in the Eastern Cape. The gathering of biological data for this species should be considered a priority given that it is an endemic with a restricted range, with a habitat preference that is in a zone that experiences significant fishing pressure (Human 2007). Recommend that recreational catches be monitored. Education and awareness is recommended, to reduce/prevent persecution.
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Sept. 16, 2009
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - In honor of the storied Santa Clara-Stanford rivalry, fans will be able to purchase official "Silicon Valley Super Clasico" t-shirts, available for sale at the Buck Shaw Stadium merchandise table Thursday and online at (www.santaclarabroncos.com). Fans of both schools are encouraged to celebrate the rivalry of two schools who share a tradition of great soccer and great academics.
"I am very familiar with each school's recent soccer history and the rivalry," said John Schuster, Santa Clara's athletic manager of marketing & promotions. "I have been working for years to create a promotional concept which highlights the soccer competition between the two schools and allows the fans to celebrate this great rivalry. The " Silicon Valley Super Clasico" title is meant to convey that a Santa Clara-Stanford soccer match is an intense, passionate, and fiercely competitive battle between two local institutions known for their soccer excellence."
As any rivalry game, with the schools located about 15 miles apart, you can throw the records out the window. Both squads are coming off of recent home wins and they appear to be building momentum for a strong push for the conference schedule. This 'Super Clasico' match will be a statement game for two teams eager to show to their fans that they have strong intentions to get back to the NCAA tournament.
Get your tickets for Thursday's match and for all Santa Clara soccer matches by calling the Broncos' Ticket Office at 408-554-4660 or visiting SCU's official athletics website (www.SantaClaraBroncos.com).


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'Nurses in War' coauthor Doherty receives research award at WCSU
Board of Regents cites nursing professor for study of nurses deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan
DANBURY, CONN. — WCSU Associate Professor of Nursing Dr. Mary Ellen Doherty has received a Connecticut public university annual award recognizing exceptional research for her contributions in giving new voice and long-overdue attention to military nurses on the front line of critical medical care for service men and women injured in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Doherty has been named the WCSU recipient of the 2012 Board of Regents/Connecticut State University Norton Mezvinsky Research Award for her research "bringing to the forefront the experiences of understudied populations," the award citation noted. Doherty is coauthor with her twin sister and research colleague, Dr. Elizabeth Scannell-Desch, of the recently published book, "Nurses in War: Voices from Iraq and Afghanistan," which explores the experiences of U.S. military nurses during deployments in those war zones from 2003 to 2011.
A Ph.D. recipient from the University of Rhode Island and member of the WCSU nursing faculty since 2008, Doherty has conducted extensive research in the areas of childbearing and women's health, and holds certifications as a nurse-midwife, family nurse-practitioner, and maternal-newborn clinical nurse specialist. Her research collaboration with Scannell-Desch, a retired colonel in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps and nursing professor at Adelphi University, began in 2007 with a study of the experiences of women who became widowed during pregnancy as a result of their spouses' deaths in the 9/11 terror attacks as well as the Iraqi and Afghan conflicts.
"We then decided to study nurses at war, because you just did not find this subject discussed very much in media accounts of the experiences of our service men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan," Doherty said. "It was uncharted territory."
Her longstanding interest in women's health topics complemented her sister's professional experience as a retired military nurse and officer in approaching their joint research undertaking. "My interest in military nursing was sparked when I started having nursing students deployed to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars with their National Guard units, and when graduating seniors knew that their first assignment would be Iraq or Afghanistan to fulfill their military obligations after college," Doherty explained.
One of the first lessons that Doherty and Scannell-Desch drew from their interviews with nursing veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan deployments is that they confront traumatic experiences equally intense as those suffered by service men and women in action, and with little relief from the daily exposure to the results of battlefield violence. Nurses also told the researchers that they were not fully prepared for the direct danger to which they were sometimes exposed in the course of their medical duties, as in helicopter evacuations of the wounded from battlefield sites.
"The nurses faced the reality of violence and death day in and day out, because they were always receiving new casualties for treatment," Doherty observed. "Whether they were stabilizing someone who had just been injured for hospital transfer, or preparing someone for medical evacuation to Germany, they never got away from this reality.
"One of the stories I will never forget is the nurse who told us about the day when three soldiers were brought into the emergency room. All of them had lost both legs within a few seconds" when an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated, she said. "Nurses also told us they were surprised at the number of children who required critical treatment," innocent victims who had suffered burn or blast injuries from an IED, grenade attack or similar battlefield violence. A recurring remembrance shared by many nurses was the experience of struggling to maintain professional discipline in the face of the most chaotic circumstances for emergency care that any of them had ever faced.
The fact that nurses' intense and continuous experience of war received significantly less attention than that of fighting troops during the early years of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts contributed to the inadequate initial response in diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among nursing veterans following deployment, Doherty said. She noted that PTSD symptoms are now more widely recognized and medical support services have greatly improved for military nurses in recent years, thanks in part to the willingness of nursing veterans to talk openly about their experiences.
Nurses also recalled the everyday working and living conditions, security and hygiene concerns, and personal challenges of deployment in the Iraqi and Afghan war zones. They provided care for patients either in tent hospitals where temperatures could reach well over 120 degrees, or in a hospital facility formed from several linked trailers. Air Force nurses typically served on the large Medevac aircraft that transport the seriously injured to skilled-care hospitals in Europe and the United States.
Doherty and Scannell-Desch made frequent trips to locations throughout the eastern United States to conduct personal interviews with nursing veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan war zones who had returned from deployment. For those military nurses at more distant sites, the researchers arranged extensive telephone interviews to complete each of the three major studies.
Doherty and her sister dedicated "Nurses in War," released in April by Springer Publishing Co., to all U.S. military nurses and to their mother, Marie Murphy Scannell. Doherty expressed a special sense of responsibility in giving voice to the military nurses who have served and continue to serve in war zones overseas.
"In reading this book, we hope that readers will see, feel and get as close as they can to the experiences of these nurses in war," she said. "This book is not about what two professors think that nurses may have been feeling at war — these are the words of the nurses who were there. The nurses tell their own stories."
For more information, contact the Office of University Relations at (203) 837-8486.
Western Connecticut State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public university with the characteristics of New England's best small private universities.


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Welder Center to Host "Country Dance Hall Survivors"
The Fifth Annual Charity Concert Series will feature performances by popular recording artists and songwriters. On Sept. 12, The Survivors of four decades of country dance hall music - Darrell McCall, Tony Booth and Curtis Potter - will perform together at the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Victoria, says the Victoria Advocate.
Concert tickets are $26 per person and are available by visiting the Welder Center Box Office or online at WelderCenter.org. The series benefits Bluebonnet Youth Ranch, the Lions Club, Theatre Victoria and the Welder Center.
In November, the series brings songwriters Aaron Barker and Chris Wallin. Their hit songs have been recorded by George Strait, Montgomery Gentry, Trace Adkins, Kenny Chesney and Toby Keith.
For more information about the Annual Charity Concert Series, contact the Leo J. Welder Center for the Performing Arts at 361-573-3291, extension 3382, or email email@example.com.


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Are you wondering what to make of all the new Facebook changes?
This article takes a detailed look at how the News Ticker, Smart Lists, News Feed, Subscribe feature and Timeline will impact marketers and business owners.
It's been quite a rollercoaster recently with all the new Facebook changes. Some changes have already happened (i.e., News Feed and the new Smart Lists) and other changes will be coming as a result of the Facebook F8 conference.
Let's dive into these changes in detail and talk about the changes to come in the next few weeks with the new Facebook Timeline.