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The Nolan County United Way (NCUW) assists nine agencies in our community. Making up the agencies are the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, SNAP (Senior Nutrition Activities Program), Cancer Services Network, Gateway Family Services, Sweetwater BackPack Buddies, the West Texas Children's Advocacy Center (WTCAC), the Big Country Medical Reserve Corps, and the Women's Resource Center.The Women's Resource Center is located at 310 Hickory in Sweetwater. Their purpose is to assist women who are pregnant or have small children and are having financial difficulties. The center does pregnancy tests and provides Medicaid papers when needed. They also give vouchers for pre-natal vitamins until Medicaid is approved or until the baby is born.In addition, maternity clothes are available. When the baby and mother leave the hospital, a complete layette for the baby is provided--which includes formula and bottles if the mother is not nursing, and they continue to supply almost anything needed to feed and clothe the baby.On occasion, the Women's Resource Center will receive inquiries about abortion."We always strive to offer the mother alternatives to abortion," said AdaBelle Clark with the Women's Resource Center. "It's our aim to save the life of the baby as well as assisting all mothers in having healthy, happy babies."In 2011, approximately 600 contacts were recorded by the agency. Forty-seven pregnancy tests were performed, with about one-half coming back as positive.Some of the financial assistance received by the Women's Resource Center comes from a yearly contribution from the local United Way, in which the NCUW runs solely on pledges. Wendy Smartt is the Executive Director, leading a board of directors who strive to impact the community in a caring and powerful manner.With their yearly campaign--with this year's focus as "Give Where You Live", the NCUW hopes to raise $85,000 in 2012. Their commitment is to serve the nine local agencies in the county, impacting thousands in the community.Those desiring to give to the Nolan County United Way can give a one-time donation through a payroll deduction or on a quarterly basis. The agencies supported must take part in an annual interview process and meet several guidelines to receive the support, which is broken down into three gifts over the course of a year.But, the Women's Resource Center also garners other financial assistance from several churches, some Sunday School classes and individuals who send regular monetary contributions; additional contributions are clothes and supplies that come from individuals. Anyone not familiar with the agency is welcome to come by any morning from 9 a.m. to 12 noon, or in the afternoons from 1 to 4 p.m."We have eight faithful volunteers who would love to show you around to look over our facilities. We are very proud of our Center and what we are able to accomplish here," Clark stated.This article is part of a series called "Nolan County United Way: Agency Spotlight". Through a partnership with the NCUW, the Sweetwater Reporter hopes to inform readers about all nine agencies. To learn more about the Nolan County United Way or for opportunities to volunteer, contact Smartt at email@example.com or by voice mail at 325-235-9522.


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Manny Rivera has worked for his favorite sports team for nearly a decade.
Manny Rivera has worked for his favorite sports team for nearly a decade.
The 34-year-old Pacific graduate grew up in Benicia as a fan of the San Francisco 49ers. Now, the Milpitas resident is in his ninth season as an assistant athletic trainer with the team.
Last Sunday, Rivera and the 49ers arrived in New Orleans to prepare for Super Bowl XLVII against the Baltimore Ravens this Sunday at the Superdome.
"It's a business trip," Rivera said prior to boarding the team flight out of San Jose International Airport. "We're going with just one goal in mind."
Rivera might not be a player or coach, but he is a valued member of the team, helping players stay healthy and treating them when they are not.
Rivera got his start at Pacific. He chose to go there, in part, because his older sister, Rowena, graduated from the university's pharmacy school. Rivera became interested in a career in athletic training and graduated from Pacific's school of sports medicine in 2001. At that time, Pacific had a close relationship with the 49ers, as the university hosted the team's summer training camp from 1998-2002. In 2001, Rivera received a summer internship with the 49ers. Then he earned a graduate degree from Indiana University and worked one year for the United States Olympic Committee before the 49ers hired him on a full-time basis in 2004.
"Pacific was great," Rivera said. "When I was at UOP, at first I was just trying to get my degree to make my parents happy. But then I got energized. I met some great people who taught me the clinical and academic sides of sports medicine and how to be a professional."
Rivera learned under Sharon Sell, who left the university in 2007 to help raise her family, and Chris Pond, who is in his 22nd year in the sports medicine department at Pacific.
"I've watched him in action and (the 49ers) are appreciative of him and they trust him," said Pond, Pacific's director of athletic training. "He has a really nice blend of working with high-caliber professional athletes and being patient and not getting pushed over."
Rivera works closely with team doctors and the players, helping treat and rehabilitate injuries, setting up training and nutrition programs, and ordering supplies and packing them for road games. He also hires and supervises interns, a group which almost always includes Pacific students.
"(Pacific) got me started on this journey of athletic training," Rivera said. "We still keep in touch, and I try to give back and try to hire one UOP student every summer for our training camp."
The league's enhanced protocols for recognizing and treating head injuries haven't affected his job, Rivera said, because the 49ers always have had strict guidelines for such injuries. Lawsuits filed by former NFL players allegedly suffering from the effects of repeated hits to the head during their careers have put player safety among the top priorities of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
"We will never put them out there if they're not safe," Rivera said. "That's not a negotiable thing. That's how we go about it, and the organization and the players know it. No questions asked.
"We feel good about that."
Rivera said he has to separate the fan inside him from his duties as an athletic trainer. He tells his interns from the moment they step inside the 49ers' facility, they have to act professionally. Rivera said it's a clear and necessary distinction. Rivera has worked closely with quarterback Alex Smith since he was the team's No. 1 overall draft pick in 2005. Rivera said he sympathized with Smith when he suffered a concussion in Week 10 against the Rams and lost his starting job to second-year sensation Colin Kaepernick.
"I know it's tough, but it's part of the job," Rivera said. "I haven't talked to Alex about it. But if someone gets benched or doesn't play well, we have to stay positive. We always put a positive spin on things to keep them going."
Rivera said the 49ers' comeback win over the Falcons in the NFC Championship Game on Jan. 20 in Atlanta was one of the highlights of his tenure with the team. Rivera said he and his colleagues stood in stunned silence immediately after the game before the reality of going to the Super Bowl hit them.
"It was kind of quiet, collecting our thoughts," Rivera said. "Then, I thought, 'We're going to the show.' It's surreal."
Rivera will be joined this week by his sister, his parents, his wife, Lauren, and their children, 3-year-old Alexis and 10-month-old Tyler. He has four tickets for the game to dole out among them.
"It might be a once-in-a-lifetime thing," Rivera said. "They might not all get to go to the game, but I have to have them there with me."
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My DIY tongue web experience!
Okay, so, it all started when i was about 13. I had just one piercing in each lobe, and wanted more. So i got a second hole, a couple of years later, got a third one. And slowly over the past couple of years I've desperately wanted to get pierced, somewhere not very common.
I'm a person who tends to enjoy being different sometimes. And i wanted a piercing that was different. So after reading a bunch of stories on here, I got my smiley pierced. But that's another post.
So one day, I come across a picture of a girl with her tongue web pierced. And I couldn't stop looking at it. It was unique, I dont think I had ever seen a tongue web piercing before that. I didn't really think of it on me though. Mainly because I was scared of the pain I guess. However , I read alot of experiences about it, and realised it didn't look so painful. And the thought grew and grew. And before I knew it, I WANTED a tongue web piercing.
Anyway, it was about a month since my first DIY piercing, and everything went smoothly. I felt like I did enough research, like I sterilised everything well, like I knew what I was doing when it came to DIY piercings.( and oh boy, i was wrong. )
So after watching some videos, and looking at some pictures, I looked in the mirror to inspect my tongue web, and head to the bathroom.
I was feeling VERY nervous , I had heard that if I hit a nerve it could paralyse my tongue, and other horror stories. Being the stubborn little girl I am, I decided to go for it anyway.
I used a 18 (or 20?) gauge earring. The ones that they put in the guns to pierce your ear. I figured since it looked quite sharp , it might pierce easier. I sterilised everything, including my mouth with Listerine ( which apparently isn't a great idea, but I knew nothing about sea salt soaks and couldn't get any at the time).
I poked around my tongue web, trying to find a place that didn't feel like it pinched alot. Eventually i found a spot that i was OK with and went ahead and pushed the earring through. Oh dear, my tongue web is oh so stretchy. It would do the tent effect instead of piercing through, and already feeling faint and scared, I took the earring out.
2nd try. I went back on the same spot and pushed. Half way in. I was feeling horribly nervous, but I decided I've wanted this for a long time , even if this is going to hurt, I might as well just get it done with. And I pushed really hard. POP . went right through. Wow, that barely felt like a pinch!
I kept the earring in because I was scared of changing it. I rinsed my mouth after every meal. My tongue web was swollen for a few days. And was just a bit sore for the first couple of days, making it a little hard to talk or eat without it hurting, but it really was minimal pain. Nothing too bad.
When I felt it was starting to heal , about a week afterwards ( too early, I know) I decided to change the jewelery and put in a 16g straight barbell. a really tiny one. I was a little scared since it was a gauge too big, but I remembered going from a 18 gauge to a 16 with my smiley, with no problems.
So I went ahead and sterilised everything again, including my mouth, and changed the jewelry. Oh dear , screwing the tiny little balls on was so hard and slippery. It took a WHILE. My jaw was starting to ache for having it open for so long, and i was drooling all over, which i found quite funny yet annoying. Finally , i got them on, and wow, it truly looked beautiful to me. I absolutely LOVED it.
The healing went pretty well, I looked up information about aftercare online, tried to follow what I thought were proper guidelines, and fortunately everything healed up well.
It's been about 2 months. And I've begun to play with it alot, putting the ball of the barbell between my teeth, moving it around, etc. It's even become subconcious. I don't always realise I'm doing it till someone points it out or I snag it too hard with my teeth.
I recently inspected it in the mirror to see how it was going, and am actually so surprised at how shallow it is. It should've been much more in the back. It's so much in the front, to the point that I'm scared it rips out. I've snagged too hard on it a couple of times by accident, and it hurt a bit, almost felt like it was ripping out. So im trying to be careful now. Hopefully I can keep it in as long as possible . ):
The reactions I've gotten when people have looked at my piercing were PRICELESS. Some people contemplated it admiringly, while others screamed in horror. Either way, it was very amusing to watch reactions of people .
Anyway, I would recommend anyone to do proper research before getting this piercing done, and going to a REPUTABLE piercer, and not doing any DIY piercings, cause you could end up with an infection , or the piercing could be badly placed like mine, and may eventually rip out. A piercer's worth the money sometimes.
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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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When I was growing up, I hadn't the slightest curiosity about the authors of books I read; it was the story that was important. My mother, and sometimes my father, read aloud to us every night. They sang to us too, and many of their songs were really stories.
I could hardly wait until I could read and write my own books. But in first grade, for some reason, I couln't make sense of reading for a while. I would sit with a group of children while the teacher turned over large sheets of paper on an easel. Sentences had been written in crayon and seemed to have something to do with pictures in one corner--a cat or dog or a tree in autumn. One by one the other children read aloud those black marks on white paper while I sat mute and unhappy. How did they know? I always wondered, and one day I decided that perhaps reading was just making stories up. So the next time that teacher pointed to the words, I eagerly launched into a story about a dog attacking a cat beneath a tree in autumn. The teacher looked sad and shook her head, and I knew that I still had not discovered the magic secret.
By the time I reached fifth grade, however, "writing books" was my favorite hobby. I rushed home from school each day to write down whatever plot had been forming in my head, and at sixteen my first story was published in a church magazine. In college, where I was studying to be a clinical psychologist, I was able to pay my tuition by writing stories. When I got my bachelor's degree, I decided I wanted to write more than anything else, so I gave up plans to to to graduate school and began writing full-time. I have since published, for both children and adults.
I'm not happy unless I spend some time every day writing. It's as though pressure builds up inside me, and writing even a little helps to release it. Usually I write about six hours each day. Tending to other writing business, answering mail, and just thinking about a book takes another four hours. I spend three months to a year on a children's book, depending on how well I know the characters before I begin and how much research I need to do. A novel for adults, because it is longer, takes a year or two. When my work is going well, I wake early in the mornings, hoping it is time to get up. When the writing is difficult and the words are flat, I am a grouch and not very pleasant to be around.
Getting an idea for a book is not hard for me keeping other ideas away while I am working on one story is what is difficult. My books are based on things that have happened to me, things I have heard or read about, all mixed up with my imaginings. The best part about writing is the moment a character comes alive on paper, or when a place that existed only in my head becomes real. There are no bands playing at this moment, no audience applauding--a very solitary time, actually--but it's what I like most.
I live in Bethesda, Maryland, with my husband, Rex, a speech pathologist, who is the first person to read my manuscripts when they are finished. Our sons, Jeff and Michael, are grown now, but we often enjoy vacations together, in the mountains or at the ocean. When I'm not writing, I like to hike, swim, play the piano, and attend the theater.
I'm lucky to have my family, because they have contributed a great deal to my books. But I'm also lucky to have the troop of noisy, chattering characters who travel with me inside my head. As long as they are poking, prodding, demanding a place in a book, I have things to do and stories to tell.Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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L.W. Flynn, the former 5th Circuit Solicitor's Office investigator and one-time Kershaw County sheriff candidate who created the Magic Minutes gaming machines, was charged Thursday in Spartanburg County with possessing illegal gambling machines.
SPARTANBURG — L.W. Flynn, the former 5th Circuit Solicitor's Office investigator and one-time Kershaw County sheriff candidate who created the Magic Minutes gaming machines, was charged Thursday in Spartanburg County with possessing illegal gambling machines.
Flynn was arrested Wednesday afternoon after a magistrates hearing in Horry County on an outstanding arrest warrant, Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office spokesman Tony Ivey said. Flynn is the owner of Magic Minutes, which sell long-distance calling cards and offer buyers the chance to win cash prizes after playing casino games and have been ruled illegal gambling machines in several counties across the state.
Magic Minutes machines were ruled illegal in Spartanburg County on May 24 by Magistrate Donnie Williams, according to a Spartanburg County Sheriff's Office report. Two of the machines were seized in February of that year during a raid at the Pine Street Party Shop.
During the proceedings, Flynn testified that he created and owned the machines. Based on that testimony, Spartanburg County deputies obtained an arrest warrant for the man on March 25.
He was booked into the Spartanburg County Detention Facility on Thursday and released that day on a $2,000 bond.
Flynn's arrest appears to be the first since S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley signed into law a bill that strengthened the state's 2000 ban on video poker to include sweepstakes machines such as Magic Minutes earlier this month. Prior to the signing, law enforcement agencies around the state had seized the machines under the 2000 ban. But magistrates issued conflicting rulings when the machines were brought before them in court.
Flynn formed Magic Minutes in 2010. He once told The State newspaper that he built most of the machines in his garage and took steps to make sure they complied with state law. But Flynn argued that Magic Minutes was not gambling because customers always received a product for their money. Gambling, he has said, means a person pays money with no guarantee of winning or receiving a product.
The machines can be found in convenience stores and some bars. The company advertises itself as selling long-distance phone time for 6 cents per minute. After customers slide their money into the machine, they are given a receipt with a toll-free number and a code that is supposed to allow them phone time.
Then, the customer is allowed to play video poker, slots or keno for a chance to win prizes.
"Magic Minutes provides businesses a proven, necessary product with a fun and amusing twist," according to the Magic Minutes website.
However, law enforcement officials have said in the past that the toll-free number does not work. During a February raid at an Eastover nightclub, Richland County sheriff's deputies confiscated Magic Minutes machines after putting money into them and then calling the toll-free number only to hear a recording that the service was not available.
Before creating Magic Minutes, Flynn was a special investigator with the 5th Circuit Solicitor's Office for 15 years. He also ran for sheriff in Kershaw County in 2010, but was defeated by Jim Matthews in a Republican primary.


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State has key role in addressing global food needs
Nebraska is at the epicenter of the challenge of increasing food production to meet the needs of a world population expected to reach more than 9 billion people by 2050, said the vice chancellor of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Ronnie Green was the keynote speaker at the Heartland Transatlantic Conference on Food and Fuels Monday morning at the State Capitol.
The conference, which also includes a visit to UNL's East Campus, continues Tuesday. It showcases Nebraska agribusiness prowess.
Diplomatic officials from countries including France, Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Estonia have joined Nebraska representatives at the conference, which focuses on the vital role Nebraska agribusiness and research plays in meeting the global demands for food and fuels.
"Nebraska is truly at the epicenter of innovating food production to meet the challenges of doubling the quantity of safe and high quality food for an anticipated global population of over 9 billion people by 2050," Green said.
"To be successful, this production must occur while sustaining our natural resource base as well as growing alternative energy sources," Green said.
Green noted that IANR's work in foods, fuels and water security is central to addressing the challenges. By 2050, he said, the world's population will grow by 40% and will require twice the food it needs now, and 70% of that additional food must come from efficiency-improvement technologies. One-third of the world's population already suffers from water shortages; by 2025, two-thirds likely will be affected.
"Agriculture is responsible for 70% of all water withdrawals," Green said. "We must grow more food with less water."
Nebraska already is a leader in global agriculture, Green said. It has the largest aquifer, is first nationally in commercial red meat production, second in ethanol production capacity and fourth in value of ag productions sold.
That agricultural strength, coupled with UNL's leadership in education and research, positions the state well to address the world's food challenges.
The new Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute will help lead the way. This research, education and policy institute is committed to helping the world efficiently use its limited fresh water resources. Sustainability is critical, Green said.
IANR's longtime strengths are well-suited to the world's needs, he added.
"Our work in the areas of plant science innovation, livestock innovation, energy sciences research, water research and in ag and food policy will continue to be essential as we address these global challenges," Green said.
The conference is sponsored by IANR, Nebraska Secretary of State John Gale, and the Nebraska Department of Agriculture.
"Nebraska is one of the leading states in America in terms of agriculture and ethanol production. Nebraska's significant agricultural capabilities and natural resources will be called on to meet the future food and energy challenges of the world," Gale said.
"The conference is a wonderful opportunity for diplomatic officials to visit our state, network with key Nebraska representatives and hear about the exciting developments in the state."
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Hi folks,
I recently got some XBee stuff (including an Adafruit adapter) and I have a question. But before, a short explanation :
The goal is to replace the infrared communication of a remote with a radio communication with a XBee module (and a XBee receiver of course).
For that sake there is a quick and dirty solution that would consist into wiring some buttons of the remote directly into some XBee pins, but this is quite limited as you can guess.
The clever solution (I've found so far) would be to plug the Xbee directly on a pin of the IR LED emitter... Depending of the button pressed, the IR LED emits a "pulsatile" signal, this pulsation is different depending on the pressed button... And you see my question coming now :
Would someone have a trick / or any idea / suggestion, to get this pulsation directly "parsed" into the XBee, so that the Xbee can guess what was the button pressed ? Or any other trick to take somewhere on the remote chip a relevant info about the pressed button ?
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Maui Public Talk: "Stellar Winds": Observing Stars from HaleakalaUniversity of Hawaiʻi
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IfA postdoctoral fellow David Harrington will give a talk entitled "Stellar Winds: Observing Stars from Haleakala" at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23 at the Maikalani building in Pukalani. This Maui Maikalani Community Lecture is sponsored by the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.
On at Haleakala, multiple telescopes observe the sun, stars, and space debris. Some of this research involves observing the process of star formationhow a young star interacts with its planet-forming circumstellar disk. Other projects involve investigating the structures seen on the sun, such as sunspots, active regions, and coronal loops. During the past five years, David Harrington has participated in these projects by building an instrument for the 4-meter Advanced Electro Optical System (AEOS) telescope and using it to observe young stars. Since processes on these young stars are somewhat similar to those on the sun, finding the similarities and differences helps us understand both in more depth. This talk will interrelate the sun, young stars, and some of the current projects at the observatories.
Harrington received his bachelor's degree from Michigan Technical University in 2003 and his PhD from the University of Hawaii this year. He has spent over 120 nights observing on AEOS and has authored more than 10 scientific papers. He has studied young stars, stellar magnetic fields and the solar corona, and also participated in the observations for NASA's Deep Impact mission.
The address of Maikalani, also known as the Advanced Technology Research Center, is 34 Ohia Ku Street, Pukalani, above Kamehameha Schools in the Kulamalu Town Center (the first light after King Kekaulike High School, just off Kula Highway). For a map, go to http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/maps/Maui-ATRC.html.
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Newport County chairman Chris Blight has warned fans that they must support the move to Rodney Parade or the club will be forced to return to Spytty Park.
Speaking at a fans' meeting in the plush Bisley Suite at the Parade, Blight said that if crowds did not rise to an average of 2,000 for the coming season he would have no option but to take the club back to their much-maligned former home.
"If people don't come here and spend their money here at the turnstiles and at the bar then we will be going back to Spytty," said Blight. "This is a trial time for all of us and if it doesn't work out we won't be able to stay here.
"We had 12,000 people watching us at Wembley and we'd be delighted if a fifth of those stayed with us.
"We need crowds of 2,000 to make this work. That is the figure on which we based the model we have agreed with the Dragons and Newport Rugby Club.
"That is what we need to help us maintain the revenue streams required to keep us here and if it's not met then we'll have to move back."
Blight added that the average crowd for last season at Spytty was 1,358 and that the income from the FA Trophy final at Wembley had made up for a big shortfall in the budget during the 2011/12 campaign.
"We budgeted for an average crowd of 1,900 last season and the fact that it was 1,358 cost us," he explained.
"Sadly, due to a number of factors under our previous manager, we failed to produce the goods on the field and the crowds dwindled.
"If it hadn't been for Wembley the shortfall would have been much worse," he added.
"Spytty Park is no longer capable of generating the income we need.
"The facilities at Rodney Parade are so much better and we hope that the fans will use them and enjoy watching Newport County here."
In response to fans' questions Blight revealed that County would receive a "single-figure percentage" of bar takings and that Bar Amber would be based at the current Snelling Bar at the ground.
New general manager Steve Dance said that the rent the Exiles have agreed is equivalent to what they were paying at Spytty and that the move would enable the club to add extra revenue from hospitality, advertising and food outlets.
Blight also brushed aside fears that there would be problems fitting in the fixtures for County, the Dragons and Newport RFC at Rodney Parade.
"I don't think it will be a big problem," said the chairman. "The Dragons play mostly on Friday nights and Sundays and Newport have maybe 11 home Saturday games.
"That leaves plenty of Saturdays free for us."


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NEW PRIZE INCREASE!!! WE NEED A LOGO WITHIN THE NEXT TWO DAYS!! for a tax relief company.
Hello all my great logo designers!! It's me again with a new logo project! My client wants a logo develop for all his marketing and website the name of the company is CERTIFIED TAX INC. their current website is this http://www.certifiedtaxassociates.com you guys can have an idea of what they do. They like the look and feel of this website http://www.taxincorporated.com so I'm currently working on their website within those colors. blue, gray, black maybe a red or orange for a highlight I don't know. is totally up to you!!
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LISBON (Reuters) - Angela Merkel faced scattered protests on Monday in Lisbon, where she delivered German endorsement of a government austerity drive designed to honor a bailout loan but which critics fear may only deepen the slump.
"The situation is difficult but what Portugal is doing, it is for the future," the chancellor told a joint news conference with Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, who has seen popular patience and political consensus begin to fray in recent weeks.
"This visit is an opportunity to know the country better and to bring hope."
Speaking for both himself and his fellow conservative Merkel, the Portuguese premier dismissed criticism such as that in a leading business newspaper which accused the chancellor of pursuing "Frankenstein experiments" with Portugal's economy; Passos Coelho insisted: "We think this is the only way forward."
Though at least one of the few hundred demonstrators in Lisbon carried a placard showing Merkel with a Hitler moustache and the slogan "Not again!", there was little violence and much less anti-German fury than when she visited Athens a month ago.
About 300 hundred protesters burned an effigy of Merkel outside a German-Portuguese business conference, holding up a billboard with the words "Die Merkel" on it and the flags of Spain, Portugal, Greece and Italy in the background.
Passos Coelho is anxious to mark out Portugal's differences from troubled debtor Greece. He is clearly pleased Merkel and German business leaders have hailed Portugal as model for the kind of deficit cuts and economic reforms they see as necessary to restore investment, revive growth and repay creditors.
While encouraging the Lisbon government to stick with its program in the face of opposition, Merkel may also hope her visit can reassure Germans, who will vote next year, that the billions they grudgingly lent are being well used.
"The program is being fulfilled by Portugal in an excellent way," she said at the coastal fortress where she and Passos Coelho had lunch. "I sense a great sense of determination here in Portugal to overcome this difficult phase."
Yet Portuguese patience with tax hikes and spending cuts, imposed under last year's 78-billion-euro rescue program, has begun to run out as the worst slump since the 1970s continues.
A general strike against austerity is set for Wednesday.
The CGTP union, which is organizing the strike, led a separate protest against Merkel and Portugal's lenders - the European Union and IMF - which started a quarterly bailout review of the economy on Monday.
"We have a government that has no mind of its own, just doing what Merkel tells them, what the European Council decides," said CGTP chief Armenio Carlos.
Making her first such official visit to Portugal since she took office in 2005, Merkel was given heavy protection, including sharpshooters posted on the battlements of the fort, where the last foreign leader to be welcomed was Libya's late Muammar Gaddafi.
The people of Lisbon had woken on Monday to find a dozen or so public statues in the city draped with black plastic sashes in a sign of mourning; protesters also pasted up posters showing Passos Coelho, Merkel and European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi in a casino. They read: "We pay, they play, bank wins."
In an example of how a consensus on austerity has broken down within the Portuguese establishment, a major business newspaper, Diario Economico, ran an piece on Monday condemning Merkel, a trained physicist, for her "science experiments" with Portugal. It argued that recession should be a cue for greater public spending.
"Merkel has made an economic Frankenstein out of Portugal," the newspaper said, warning of a downward spiral in activity.
The Portuguese government made clear it wants European allies to go beyond kind words and act to help - notably by letting Portugal slash some taxes on corporate investment that might otherwise fall foul of EU fair trade rules.
"We've done our homework with many sacrifices and a lot of determination," Economy Minister Alvaro Santos told a German-Portuguese business conference in Lisbon. "Now it's time for Europe to reciprocate.
(Additional reporting by Andrei Khalip and Sergio Goncalves in Lisbon and Stephen Brown, Andeas Rinke and Sarah Marsh in Berlin, Editing by Alastair Macdonald)


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On Sunday May 20th, 2012, a solar eclipse will sweep across East Asia, over the northern Pacific Ocean, and then into the southwestern United States.
Reno and Albuquerque are the only major cities along the shadow's narrow path – the center of the path sweeps directly through the south shore of Pyramid Lake. Yes, that's right, one of the best places in the world to view this astronomical event will be right in our backyard!
In Reno, a free solar eclipse viewing will be offered at UNR:
When: Sunday, May 20, 2012, from 5-7 p.m. (maximum eclipse, 6:28-6:33 p.m.)
Where: MacLean Observatory on the Redfield Campus of the University of Nevada, Reno, 18600 Wedge Parkway in southwest Reno
Out-of-town visitors: The Silver Legacy Resort Casino is offering discount rates for eclipse visitors! Visit this Visitors page for more information.
As you get starry-eyed over this opportunity of a lifetime, don't forget how dangerous looking directly into the sun can be! For maximum protection, the Planetarium will provide solar viewers for sale in the Science Store. For safe viewing tips, and how to build your own safe-viewing devices, see these resources.


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Reviewed By Scott H (TRAPHILL, NC) Reviewed for a 2006 Jeep Commander —5/5/2015 5:03 AM
The unit appears to produce more horsepower from my Hemi. I have noticed a couple of MPG improvement. But, changing the settings can be tedious. Bullydog really needs to improve how one accesses the settings in a more straight forward manner. Overall, I'll keep the unit and with time, I'll like it better.


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KIEV, Ukraine (KGO) --International investigators arrived at the site of the deadly plane crash on Friday, but they were not able to do a full inspection because armed pro-Russian rebels are guarding it. The team spent about 75 minutes at the site of the wreckage before rebels ordered them to leave and fired a warning shot.
The United States has begun building a case linking pro-Russian separatists to the downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine.
President Barack Obama says the U.S. believes the Malaysia Airlines plane was felled by a surface-to-air missile launched from an area near the Ukraine-Russia border that is controlled by Kremlin-backed separatists. Obama cautioned that the exact circumstances are still being determined, but also said the insurgents would not be capable of carrying out such an attack without Russia's support.
The president spoke shortly after the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, outlined preliminary evidence against Russia and the separatists during an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Samantha Power said separatists were spotted Thursday with an SA-11 anti-aircraft missile at a location close to the site where the plane came down and that they had boasted on social media sites about shooting down a plane, then later deleted those posts.
A graduate student at Indiana University who moved to the U.S. from Amsterdam and an American are among the victims who died when a Malaysia Airlines jetliner carrying 298 people was shot down by a missile in eastern Ukraine on Thursday.
Karlijn Keijzer, a 25-year-old pursuing her doctorate in chemistry, was on Flight 17. The university says she was a member of the school's rowing team during the 2011 season. She was taking a vacation with her boyfriend.
"I'm just in disbelief and expecting Karlijn to pop up on Facebook and tell everybody she's OK," Keijzer's friend Rachel Weigler told ABC News.
During a news conference, President Barack Obama also reported that an American was killed when the airline was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists.
A State Department official tells ABC News that the victim, who is a U.S.-Dutch citizen, is Quinn Lucas Schansman.
The president called it a global tragedy in remarks from the White House, one day after Malaysia Airline Flight 17 crashed.
Obama also called for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and demanded a credible investigation of the downed plane.
The plane was shot down near the border between Ukraine and Russia. The incident occurred one day after Obama announced broader economic sanctions against Russia for its threatening moves in Ukraine.
Emergency workers, police officers, even volunteers are busy picking through the wreckage of the Boeing 777 that shot from the sky. Debris is strewn across sunflower fields.
The Ukrainians called it an act or terror. On Thursday they released what they say were intercepted messages between pro-Russian rebel commanders, proving they thought they were targeting a Ukrainian military plane.
On Friday the rebels walked back on claims that they had found the plane's black boxes. And Russia said it will not remove them from the crash scene.
But aviation experts say the black boxes may only have a couple seconds of data and won't really give any clues about those key questions of who and why.
We're learning more about the 298 passengers on board that doomed flight, the majority of whom were from the Netherlands.
As many as 108 AIDS activists, researchers, and health workers heading to a major conference in Melbourne, Australia were on the doomed plane.
The World Health Organization has also reported that its spokesperson Glenn Thomas was onboard the jetliner. The 49-year-old Briton was also traveling to attend the AIDS conference, which starts Sunday.
UN Under Secretary General Jeffrey Feltman tells the Security Council that 80 children were on board.
And an Australian woman who lost her brother in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 learned that her stepdaughter was on the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17.
Kaylene Mann's brother Rod Burrows and sister-in-law Mary Burrows were on Flight 370 when it vanished in March. On Friday, she found out that her stepdaughter, Maree Rizk, was killed along with 297 other passengers on board Flight 17 when it crashed in Ukraine.
Mann's brother Greg Burrows says news of the second tragedy to hit the family has "ripped our guts again."
Rizk and her husband Albert were returning home to Melbourne from a four-week European vacation.
A Ukrainian official says 181 bodies have been located so far at the crash site. The Malaysian government is sending a 62 person team.
A senior administration official tells ABC News that FBI and NTSB officials will be headed to Ukraine in an "advisory role" in the crash investigation.
Officials are still working to confirm whether any other U.S. citizens were on board the plane.
(ABC7 News and the Associated Press contributed to this report)


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Virtualization for Cisco Finesse
From DocWiki
Updates to this Page
The following is a list of significant updates to this page:
|January 2012
|This is the initial version of this page.
|October 2012
|Added support for ESXi 5.0
Information for Partners about Finesse Deployments
Before You Buy or Deploy - Considerations for Design and Procurement.
Unified Communications Virtualization Supported Applications
VM-Specific Finesse Hardware Requirements
See Tested Reference Configurations (TRC).
Before you install the Finesse software on any server, you must address the following requirement:
If you are performing a fresh install of Finesse in any deployment, be sure to verify that the virtual machine is also fresh (no previously-installed OS is present in the VM).
Finesse-Specific Details for VMware Requirements
All Finesse servers run on VMs using the Unified Communications Operating System (Unified OS or UCOS).
See Unified Communications VMWare Requirements and Ongoing Virtualization Operations and Maintenance.
- Finesse ISO or DVD (Note: We strongly recommend that you install Finesse by configuring a DataStore ISO file on the virtual CD/DVD drive of the target VM.)
- ESXi 4.1 must be installed prior to the installation of Cisco Finesse Release 8.5(3).
- ESXi 5.0 must be installed prior to the installation of Cisco Finesse Release 9.0(1).
- Cisco UCS Hardware—Cisco Finesse supports a specifications-based virtualization model. You can use any hardware platform you like (from any vendor) as long as it supports the specifications required for the VM and the OVA template. Also, you can run any other application(s) you like on that same server.
- Be sure to disable Large Receive Offload (LRO) on the ESXi 4.1 or ESXi 5.0 host.
VM-Specific Finesse Software Requirements
See Unified Communications VMWare Requirements.
The following software requirements apply specifically to Finesse:
- Finesse Release 8.5(3) can only be deployed on servers using VMware ESXi 4.1.
- Finesse Release 9.0(1) and later can only be deployed on servers using VMware ESXi 5.0.
- The downloadable OVF Templates have the hardware configuration for the Finesse VMs. This is the only configuration supported. Please use the Finesse OVF Appliance to install Finesse.
- For other third-party software requirements and for a list of approved UCS servers, see the server requirements and version compatibility with Unified CM sections in the Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise Solution Reference Network Design (SRND) available at http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/custcosw/ps1844/products_implementation_design_guides_list.html.
Finesse-Specific Information for OVA Templates
See Unified Communications Virtualization Downloads (including OVA/OVF Templates).
The Finesse OVA can be downloaded here: http://www.cisco.com/cisco/software/type.html?mdfid=283613135&catid=null
Finesse-Specific Information for Sizing Guidelines
The Finesse Production OVF includes the following settings:
- 4 vCPU
- 1 vNIC with static MAC address
- 1 vDisks: 146 GB (contains aligned partitions for Cisco Finesse application)
Cisco Finesse-Specific VM Information on Installation, Timekeeping, and Best Practices
Creating the Finesse Virtual Machine
Perform the following steps in vSphere client to deploy the Virtual machines:
- Highlight the host or cluster to which you wish the VM to be deployed.
- Select File > Deploy OVF Template.
- Click the Deploy from File radio button and specify the name and location of the file you downloaded in the previous section OR click the Deploy from URL radio button and specify the complete URL in the field, then click Next.
- Enter the name of the VM machine that you are creating and the location where it will be created
- Choose the type of deployment (Production or Lab)
- Choose the datastore on which you would like the VM to reside - be sure there is sufficient free space to accommodate the new VM, then click Next.
- Verify the deployment settings, then click Finish.
- Update boot order as per instructions below
- Insert the Finesse disk and follow the Finesse installation guide.
Changing the Boot Order of the Virtual Machine
You must change the boot order of the Virtual Machine so that the system boots off the CD/DVD drive for the install.
To change the boot order of the Virtual Machine:
- In VMware vSphere Client, power off the virtual machine onto which you deployed the OVA template.
- In the left pane of vSphere Client, right-click the name of the virtual machine, and select Edit Settings.
- In the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box, select the Options tab.
- In the Settings column, under Advanced, select Boot Options.
- Under Force BIOS Setup, check the The Next Time the Virtual Machine Boots, Force Entry into the BIOS Setup Screen check box.
- Click OK to close the Virtual Machine Properties dialog box.
- Power on the virtual machine (The virtual machine boots into the BIOS menu)
- Navigate to the Boot menu and change the boot device order so the CD-ROM device is listed first and the Hard Drive device is listed second.
- Save the change and exit BIOS setup.
Note: After finishing the installation, consider changing the boot order back so that the Hard Drive device is again listed before the CD-ROM device.
Related Documents
The Cisco Finesse Installation and Getting Started Guide is available from the Finesse page on Cisco.com: (http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11324/tsd_products_support_series_home.html)
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Toms River Contractor Charged With Looting $10K Worth Of Construction Material
A Toms River man remains behind bars, accused of stealing thousands of dollars worth of materials, being used to restore a Sandy-ravaged home.
Eric Scarff, 22, was stopped in Ortley Beach Tuesday by police who were on a "proactive anti-looting patrol" as he walked along a street just after midnight according to the Asbury Park Press.
Police found his pickup truck loaded with metal ladders, copper pipe coils and other items -- all reported stolen out of a garage in the Silver Beach section. Bail is set at $30,000.
Toms River Police Chief Mike Mastronardy tells the Press the patrol "was formed to reduce the opportunity for people to enter vacant homes and steal things, particularly copper. Our plan is to reduce the victimization of our neighbors who have already been victimized by superstorm Sandy."


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Two weeks after Matthew Spencer got a spinal injection for his chronic back pain, he felt "not quite right." Nothing too specific: worsening headache, nausea.
Then he saw a TV report on a recall of contaminated steroid medication used for back pain.
"I thought, well, I don't know if I had that medicine or not, but maybe I'd better go check it out," Spencer says.
It turns out he had gotten one of the tainted steroids. A spinal tap showed possible signs of infection. Since then, he's had to be hooked up twice a day to an intravenous pump for infusions of a potent and risky antifungal drug. He doesn't know for how long.
Spencer — the 42-year-old mayor of Somersworth, N.H. — is one of an unknown number of Americans who may become victims of one of the most high-profile episodes of drug contamination in recent memory. So far, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recorded 308 fungal infections in 17 states; 23 people have died of fulminant meningitis or massive strokes.
How Many Affected?
It seems clear the vast majority of potentially exposed people will not become ill — but nobody knows how many will.
The CDC estimates that 14,000 Americans received vials of potentially contaminated steroids shipped by the New England Compounding Center since last May 21. It has also warned U.S. medical providers to be alert to illness among patients who have received injections of hundreds of other products shipped by the Massachusetts pharmacy since then. Included in the warning are thousands of patients treated with the company's ophthalmic medications and others exposed to a solution used during cardiac surgery.
The CDC has provided no estimate of the total number of patients potentially exposed to contaminated drugs, but the number must run into the tens of thousands. This week the Food and Drug Administration posted a 71-page list of drugs made by the Massachusetts company. Officials say it was really a mini-pharmaceutical manufacturer, not the pharmacy it was licensed to be. That amounts to something like 1,200 different drugs, "a large percentage" of which were injectables.
The FDA says patients who have received the company's injectable drugs since May 21 should be contacted by their doctors and advised to be alert to headaches, fevers, chills, stiff neck, nausea and vomiting, sensitivity to light, confusion, numbness and other symptoms.
Update at 9:33 a.m. ET: The FDA has reposted the names and addresses of health care providers that have purchased drugs from New England Compounding Center since May 21. A second list includes the products that each health provider purchased.
Apparently, all of this has been caused by contamination of drugs by a black mold called Exserohilum rostratum, which is common in the environment but almost unheard of as a cause of human disease.
Multiple Problems
Massachusetts officials said Tuesday that a preliminary investigation revealed multiple problems that could have caused the contamination. For instance, on 13 occasions, they said, New England Compounding shipped out vials of drugs in three suspect lots before getting back results of their own tests confirming the drugs were sterile.
The company's records "indicated a failure ... to sterilize products for even the minimum amount of time necessary to ensure sterility," says Madeleine Biondolillo of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
The firm's premises were not clean, Biondolillo added.
"Mats used to wipe dirt, dust and other possible contaminants off of shoes before entering sterile areas were visibly dirty, soiled, with assorted debris," she says.
State officials say records indicate that medications were not labeled with individual patients' names, as they are supposed to be under regulations governing so-called compounding pharmacies.
Paul Cirel, who represents New England Compounding, says in a statement that Massachusetts officials should not be surprised the company was shipping drugs on a large scale.
"It is hard to imagine that the [Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy] has not been fully apprised of both the manner and scale of the company's operations," he wrote.
Striking A Balance
But all this is far removed from the dilemma faced by thousands of patients and doctors caught up in the outbreak and health officials' attempts to contain it.
Public health officials and physicians are trying to strike a prudent balance between alerting, diagnosing and treating patients who might be at risk of fungal infections — and not overalarming, overdiagnosing and overtreating those who aren't really at risk.
Spencer, the Somersworth, N.H., mayor, is a good example.
Although he may harbor a fungal infection that could kill him, there's no proof that he does — and there may never be. Meanwhile, doctors are forced to treat him as if he's infected, out of what public health people call "an abundance of caution."
For the same reason, many anxious patients are undergoing painful spinal taps and some are getting antifungal drugs that can damage the kidneys and liver.
Dr. Michael O'Connell, who runs a pain clinic where Spencer was treated, says there's no doubt many of these patients are not infected.
"It's the perfect mess," he says. "Everybody is pretty frantic these days, seeing lots of patients and being extra-cautious."
The caution is warranted. This type of fungal infection can smolder for weeks and months before exploding into meningitis or causing massive strokes.
"It causes a quandary for the infectious disease doc to figure out, well, should this patient receive treatment at all?" O'Connell says. "Should they receive full-boat treatment, which would be an IV? Could they instead just be watched very closely with daily phone calls and visits to the office? We just don't know."
At-Risk Patients
Experts are working on ways to identify patients who may be most in danger. Some clues are coming from Tennessee, which has had more fungal infections than anywhere: 70 so far.
"Some people may be at greatest risk ... because they got inoculated with vials that had been on the shelf for longer periods of time," says Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Tennessee's experience suggests the mold builds up in the contaminated vials over time. So experts are debating whether patients who got older vials of steroids should be treated before they get symptoms of possible meningitis.
"Should we do lumbar punctures on those kinds of people so that we can anticipate those that are going to get symptomatic later and beat the fungus to it?" Schaffner wonders. "That is, initiate treatment much earlier, thus averting tissue damage, particularly those devastating strokes."
But when to start treatment is only part of the problem. When to stop is also uncertain.
Lately, experts have said people may need to stay on antifungal treatments for six months, maybe longer.
Spencer, who mixes up his IV medication himself and administers it for hours each day, tries not to dwell on that.
"You could probably drive yourself nuts," he says. "You just go day by day, do the best you can do, do what you can do, and get rest."
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne.
And I'm Steve Inskeep.
Massachusetts officials are learning more about the cause of a meningitis outbreak. The nationwide death toll stands at 23 now. As we've reported, hundreds of fungal infections were linked to a contaminated steroid drug made by the New England Compounding Pharmacy, or NECC. Madeleine Biondolillo of the state health department says an investigation has learned how black mold spread.
MADELEINE BIONDOLILLO: Examination of NECC records indicated a failure of the facility to sterilize products for even the minimum amount of time necessary to ensure sterility.
INSKEEP: Failure to sterilize. Thousands of patients across the country have received the pharmacy's drugs in recent months and now they live in fear, as NPR's Richard Knox reports.
RICHARD KNOX, BYLINE: One of the patients who's gotten sick is Matthew Spencer. He's the mayor of Somersworth, New Hampshire, 90 minutes north of Boston.
MAYOR MATTHEW SPENCER: Hello.
KNOX: Hi.
SPENCER: You must be Richard.
KNOX: I am. Hi. You're Matt.
SPENCER: Yep.
KNOX: I was wondering if you'd be able to answer the door or if you'd be hooked up to an IV.
SPENCER: Well, if you came about five minutes sooner, no.
KNOX: Spencer, a 42-year-old former Coast Guardsman, just finished a two-hour intravenous infusion of a powerful anti-fungal drug. He began to feel nauseated and headachy two weeks after he got an injection of a steroid to treat his back pain.
SPENCER: And then as the day progressed on, I noticed the headache kept getting a little bit worse, a little bit worse.
KNOX: And then he saw a TV report about the contaminated steroids.
SPENCER: And I say, well, I don't know if I had that medicine or not, but maybe I'd better go just to check out.
KNOX: Turns out, he'd gotten one of New England Compounding's steroids. And a spinal tap showed possible infection. Since then he's been on the IV medicine. A former EMT, he mixes the solution at home.
SPENCER: This is the actual medicine - Vfend, voriconazole. So what I need to do is take the caps off...
KNOX: It's a complex and exacting process that takes at least five hours a day.
SPENCER: And I need to extract a total of 53 cc's out of the three bottles here.
KNOX: But Dr. Michael O'Connell says he couldn't say whether Spencer really has a fungal infection.
DR. MICHAEL O'CONNELL: I really don't know. I just have to throw up my hands and say I don't know.
KNOX: O'Connell runs the pain clinic where Spencer got treated. He says he's pretty tired these days. Lots of patients are undergoing painful spinal taps and many are getting toxic anti-fungal drugs on the presumption that they may be infected.
O'CONNELL: It's, yeah, the perfect mess. Everybody is pretty frantic these days seeing lots of patients and being extra cautious.
KNOX: That caution is warranted. This type of fungal infection has almost never been seen before in humans. It's slow-growing. It can smolder for weeks and months before exploding into meningitis or causing massive strokes. The evidence so far is that the great majority of patients exposed to the fungus will not get sick. But nobody can be sure who will.
O'CONNELL: It creates the necessity to do diagnostic testing that in the end will be negative.
KNOX: Negative for most patients, that is.
O'CONNELL: It causes a quandary for the infectious disease doc to figure out, well, should this patient receive treatment at all? Should they receive full-boat treatment, which would be IV? Could they instead just be watched very closely with daily phone calls or visits to the office? We just don't know.
KNOX: But experts are working on ways to identify patients who may be most in danger. Some clues are coming from Tennessee, which has had more fungal infections than anywhere - 70 so far.
DR. WILLIAM SCHAFFNER: Some people may be at great risk of acquiring this infection because they got inoculated with vials that had been on the shelf for a longer period of time.
KNOX: That's Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Tennessee's experience suggests the mold seems to build up in the contaminated vials over time. Experts are debating whether patients who got older vials of steroids should be treated before they get symptoms of possible meningitis.
SCHAFFNER: Should we do lumbar punctures on those kinds of people so that we can anticipate those who are going to get symptomatic later and beat the fungus to it? That is, initiate treatment much earlier, thus averting tissue damage, particularly those devastating strokes.
KNOX: But when to start treatment is only part of the problem. When to stop is also uncertain. Lately, experts have been saying people need to stay on anti-fungal treatments for six months, maybe more.
Matt Spencer, the Somersworth, New Hampshire mayor, tries not to dwell on that.
SPENCER: You could probably drive yourself nuts. Absolutely. You just go day by day, do the best you can do, do what you can do, and, you know, get rest.
KNOX: Patients like him need to be monitored very closely. If he does have the fungus, he needs to keep enough medicine in his system to kill it. But not so much that it damages his kidneys or liver.
Richard Knox, NPR News, Boston. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


text: The City of Garland is accepting applications for two individuals to represent the City on the Dallas Area Rapid Transit Board of Directors. Each representative will serve a two-year term beginning July 1, 2014 to June 30, 2016. Interested individuals should submit a letter of interest and resume to the City Manager's Office at 200 N. Fifth Street, Garland, TX 75040 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com no later than Tuesday, May 27, 2014, at noon. Council will interview candidates at an upcoming Work Session.


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In its current form, the United States electoral system discriminates against large segments of the population, reinforces the power of money to influence politics, serves to bolster the two-party system and produces results that often conflict with the will of the majority. Perhaps in recognition of this state of affairs, only 51 percent of eligible voters participated in the last US presidential election in 2000, the lowest level in the advanced industrial world. The reality is that the representative nature of the US government, as determined by elections, is more myth than reality–a comforting storyline that masks a harsh truth.
Consider the following facts:
§ There are no African-American or Latino members of the US Senate.
§ Barely a quarter of the adult population voted for any of the current members of the US House of Representatives.
§ Major-party Senate candidates spent an average of $4.8 million in the 2002 election cycle (making extremely remote the possibility of a successful candidacy by an individual without access to personal wealth or wealthy contributors).
§ Women hold just 14 percent of seats in Congress.
§ There are no members of Congress representing Washington, DC–a city of more than half a million people, a majority of whom are racial minorities.
Why is it that the overwhelmingly white male population of the representative government looks so different from the diverse population of the country? Maybe because voting policies and procedures promote disenfranchisement and nonparticipation, while the election system fosters non-competitive races, limited options and plurality, rather than majority, winners. There are numerous ideas on the table to reform the current system, virtually all of them in effective practice elsewhere in the world. We summarize many of them below.
A Constitutional Right to Vote
Contrary to popular belief, there is no constitutional right to vote in the United States. Although federal law prohibits the disenfranchisement of particular groups of potential voters, it falls far short of guaranteeing the right to vote. As the Supreme Court made clear in Bush v. Gore in 2000, the states are not even required to allow people to vote in presidential elections–they can simply assign the task of choosing electors to their legislators.
The fact that no constitutional right to vote exists leaves the election system decentralized, and thus seriously vulnerable to disenfranchisement at the state and local level–from purges of voter lists on account of past felony convictions to confusing administrative practices that complicate the registration and voting processes. In fact, more than 4.5 million Americans are currently forbidden from voting on account of felony voting restrictions alone, which disproportionately affects the poor.
Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. has introduced HJ Resolution 28, which would add a right to vote amendment to the US Constitution. This would be a positive step on the road to fairer elections and more meaningful representation.


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Quarterback of yesteryear dismissing a hated rival, Take 3: Buffalo Bills legend Jim Kelly isn't sold on the Mark Sanchez-Tim Tebow union in Florham Park. He sees chaos on the horizon.
"I gotta be honest: I don't know what (the New York Jets) really were thinking," Kelly told NFL Network's "NFL Total Access" on Thursday. "Mark Sanchez is a quarterback who's going to be sitting there every single game if he plays bad, and No. 1, you know Jets fans -- they're going to start booing."
|Mark Sanchez (left) will have Tim Tebow -- not to mention Jets fans -- breathing down his neck all season. (Julio Cortez/Associated Press)
Looking back on his career in Buffalo, Kelly admits he would have questioned his "job security" had the Bills acquired some high-octane media magnet to breathe down his neck. (Frank Reich made a memorable dent in NFL lore, but he understood his place.)
"I think (there's) a lot of pressure on Sanchez to not only start off hot, but continue game after game after game playing steady," Kelly said. "If he doesn't, you know you're going to hear the boo birds. People want Tim Tebow in there.
"I like them both. I thought Sanchez was a very good quarterback coming on. If I was a general manager or president or owner of the team, I wouldn't have done that (trade) unless I got rid of Sanchez. But I think he's a good enough quarterback to be there.
"Tim Tebow's a great athlete who's going to be a big plus for somebody. But in New York? I'm not sure."
This is where we pause to tell you that Kelly remains deeply woven to the Bills' fortunes, admitting, "I hope there's so much turmoil during (Jets) training camp."
The delicious sidenote: The Jets open at home against the Bills. Huge, looming date on the calendar. Don't expect to learn much in preseason about the Sanchez-Tebow dynamic. Week 1 -- at MetLife Stadium, in front of a wild sea of green -- is your acid test.


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On two occasions over the past few weeks, I have been asked to assist with creating documentary films that included information about Oak Ridge's beginnings. One request wanted the history of how the Oak Ridge National Laboratory came to be a national lab and how Oak Ridge Associated Universities had its beginning. The other request was focused on the history of environmental management in Oak Ridge over the years.
On two occasions over the past few weeks, I have been asked to assist with creating documentary films that included information about Oak Ridge's beginnings. One request wanted the history of how the Oak Ridge National Laboratory came to be a national lab and how Oak Ridge Associated Universities had its beginning. The other request was focused on the history of environmental management in Oak Ridge over the years.
As I responded to both requests, it became apparent to me that while a lot has been documented about our history, there is not a single ready reference that can be used to capture all the needed details. Our history is rich, diverse and is found in multiple locations. Therefore, a comprehensive "History of Oak Ridge" is needed, in my opinion. Sounds like a good project for my retirement, huh?
Here are some of the notes I created when responding to these two requests for historical details to potentially be included in short documentary films. Of course, not all of this can be used in the videos and it is not intended as such, only as reference material from which sound bites can be extracted for the short videos.
First let's look at the generalized history and then the specific ORNL and ORAU history.
As early as the summer of 1942, the area of East Tennessee now known as Oak Ridge was targeted to be radically transformed from a sparsely populated group of small farming communities into a military industrial complex to produce the world's first uranium 235 for an atomic bomb. It was also to be the location of the first industrial size uranium reactor to prove that plutonium could be produced on a large scale.
By September, Gen. Leslie R. Groves, who had just been placed in charge of the Manhattan Project, took the action to secure almost 60,000 acres for his first "plant site." He immediately came to look at the site and in November 1942, construction began on the administration building that would become known as the "Castle on the Hill" and would serve as the day-to-day headquarters for Col. Kenneth D. Nichols, second in command to Gen. Groves and the person who administered the entire Manhattan Project from right here in Oak Ridge.
By August 1945, there were 75,000 people living in Oak Ridge and more th an 22,000 working at Y-12 alone. The other three sites, X-10 (now the Oak Ridge National Laboratory), K-25 (now East Tennessee Technology Park but then the Gaseous Diffusion Plant) and S-50 (the Thermal Diffusion Plant) were operating with approximately 5,000 more workers. In all, some 100,000 workers spent time constructing the Oak Ridge site or working at one of the plants.
There were 850 buses that transported workers from surrounding cities. The people living in Oak Ridge had to wear badges (if over age 12) and there were seven gates on the entrances to the area.
Those gates were not removed until March 19, 1949, when the public was allowed to enter the city for the first time. The three government sites were isolated by the white guard checking stations still standing today on Scarboro Road (isolated Y-12), Bethel Valley Road (isolated X-10) and the Oak Ridge Turnpike (isolated K-25). These three structures, although only used for that purpose until 1953, remain standing today. Two of them have been renovated (Scarboro Road and Oak Ridge Turnpike locations) and are used as meeting rooms.
During the war years, most people working at Oak Ridge did not really know what they were working on. They only knew it was an important effort to help win the war. Of the 22,482 people working at Y-12, on 1,152 Calutrons (CALifornia University CycloTRONS invented by Ernest Lawrence of the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif.) maybe 100 of the chemists and scientists would have had a clue about what was being done. The rest just did their jobs as trained and because of the secrecy required did not talk about the "project."
Y-12 also used 14,700 tons of silver borrowed from the U.S. Treasury as electrical conductors because there was a shortage of copper. The coils of the world's largest magnets were wound with silver.
When the Little Boy uranium atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the local newspapers reported that the material used to make the world's first atomic bomb ever used in warfare came from Oak Ridge. This is the first time many even knew of the word "uranium," since that word was classified.
Don't you know that General Groves was frustrated when he learned that the people in East Tennessee were numbering the buildings at Y-12 that processed uranium starting with the number "92," the atomic number for uranium?
The X-10 Graphite Reactor started operating on Nov. 4, 1943 and soon proved that plutonium could be produced in a uranium reactor. However, by the time that had happened, General Groves, was becoming concerned about having all the Manhattan Project production facilities in a single location.
Next we will look at the expanded Manhattan Project and Oak Ridge's role in it.


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Place a 1/2-inch layer of the salt mixture in the middle of the roasting pan, slightly larger than the diameter of the roast. Place the roast, fat side up, on top of the salt. Insert a meat thermometer into the center of the roast. Carefully pack the remaining salt mixture onto the meat, covering it completely.
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The Petersburg Indian Association will hold an election for board members and chairperson Monday, Jan. 7.
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Mike Sheldon and Tina Sakamoto are vying for the chair position on the board and Skip Hallingstad, Darnell Wilton, Melanie Frentz-Hallingstad, Jeanette Ness and Carol Martinez are going for the three board seats that are up for grabs.
Mike Sheldon is a lifelong resident of Petersburg and his family goes back in the area for generations.
"My idea as future chairman of the Petersburg Indian Association is to bring people together in a positive, respectful and caring manner with compassion toward the people," Sheldon stated. "I want all tribal members here to be heard. So many of our young people feel they don't have opportunity and their issues are not being heard so allowing the tribal membership the ability to express their opinion is the key to our tribe growing in a direction of health, prosperity and financial freedom."
Sheldon speaks of the struggles of the tribe over the last few years.
"I feel I could bring stability and focus to the tribal chairmanship," Sheldon stated. "I believe the tribal membership are demanding that this council re-focus and work together on behalf of them, the people."
According to Sheldon, the agenda should continue down the road to focus on economic development at a time when this tribal government can continue to create jobs and future opportunities.
"We can also continue to create relationships with the federal, state and local governments and whatever initiatives can help us to continue to build a strong infrastructure for ourselves and the generations to come," Sheldon stated. "My objective is to the people, to give the tribal membership a voice where their opinions can be spoken in a respectful manner that they can freely state their opinions in a safe environment and their opinions will be respected."
"You will not be disappointed in me as a voice of the people," he stated.
Jeannette Ness is also a lifelong resident of Petersburg and works as an office administrator for the Petersburg Public Health Center
Ness has spent the last 30 years of her life as a member of the PIA board and has served as chairman as well.
"I really want to find truth in this position," Ness stated. "I would like to dispel all false accusations and focus on bringing unity to the tribe and to the board."
According to Ness, PIA is a great organization that should focus on continuing forward with finding grants, better networking opportunities and building programs that will benefit the tribe and the community.
"So much work has gone into building this organization I would hate to see it fold," Ness stated. "That would put an end to all of the hard work that went into building PIA as well as all of the jobs and opportunities lost."
Ness explained that her goal is to bring the tribe together.
"We need to listen to the tribal members and put the focus back on their needs," Ness stated. "We have too much to look forward to, I would like to see positive change and the chance to move forward."
Melanie Frentz-Hallingstad was born and raised in Petersburg and is a third generation PIA member.
"I have been involved with PIA in one fashion or another since I was 10," Frentz-Hallingstad said. "I want to be involved with my tribe and bring good things forth for the future."
She also explained that she would just like to see the integrity brought back to the organization.
"I really want everyone to get together and work as one," Frentz-Hallingstad stated. "There are so many opportunities out there for our children that we are missing because of the constant bickering among ourselves."
According to Frentz-Hallingstad, unity is what is needed and desired by the members of the tribe.
"This should be the goal of the council and members, to come together," she stated. "We have so much to offer as an organization, we need to get back to the basics and make sure the people are being heard."
Darnell Wilton is a lifelong resident of Petersburg as well and works in the office of the Petersburg Pilot.
Wilton wishes to see change with the future of PIA.
"I want to see that positive changes are made for the organization," she stated. "Over the last couple of years there has been so much controversy surrounding PIA that the good is being overlooked."
According to Wilton, PIA has more to offer its members and the community than dissension and controversy.
"I would like to see unity on the board and between the board and the tribal members," Wilton stated. "We can help each other more by listening than arguing."
Wilton also explained that the board exists to speak for the people of the tribe.
"I'm not sure if the voices of the tribe have been heard lately, but I would like to see that change," she stated. "We should now be looking to the future and bringing our people together."
By press time, Tina Sakamoto, Skip Hallingstad and Carol Martinez were unavailable for comment.


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Before we say our final goodbye, I just wanted to leave you with a random sampling of posts from some of my favorite people on this blog:
Occam Razor on "The Seven Robots You Meet In Heaven."
Benjie and I watching New Moon and The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2.
The MPDG vs. the Amazing Girl, Heroes vs. BSG, and Kirsten Dunst vs. Kate Hudson.
Peanut St. Cosmo saying goodbye to her Blackberry.
(And really, just anything by Peanut, cause there's too many to list.)
Anytime we talked about Lost.
High Fidelity vs. 500 Days Of Summer.
"Hey, Shitface, Get Off My Lawn!"
Benjie and August Bravo on internet hype, and meeting expectations, and also Super 8.
The end of the Counterforce podcast, and the birth of Time Travel Murder Mystery.
Jonathan Franzen and his "Strong Motion."
Benjie on his favorite sequel ever.
Occam Razor on a post peak oil world, and big booty bitches.
Benjie on how to properly spend New Year's Eve.
"While my torrent gently downloads" by Benjamin Light.
This is by no means a complete list, not at all. It is, in fact, an extremely rushed list. And may actually be a really terrible retrospective, at least in terms of showing what we did best, when we did our best, but oh well.
It's just a few of my favorites. I would invite you to explore further, if you get the chance.


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New and Improved Text UI
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We have discussed changes to the text mode UI to make it more of a question and answer form, perhaps involving kickstart commands. This is very early, not fleshed out, and not currently targeted for any release. If someone is interested in working on this, please contact email@example.com to begin the discussion. Lots of ideas are needed given that some processes are not easily developed as Q&A.
What do I mean by "simplifying text mode"?
- Text mode is not going away, contrary to what you might have heard.
- I have removed many of the more complicated parts of the UI, turning text mode into the truly minimal install experience that a lot of people have asked for. You get a package set that's small but still able to install updates and new packages. You get the initial partitioning screen (choose your disks and handwaving layout) but not the second screen.
- We more strongly suggest VNC or xdriver=vesa, but text is still there if you want and still as a fallback should the graphical installer fail to start. Maybe that last bit should be changed.
[ ... ] I've put together an updates image that is my initial run through at simplifying text mode. If you'd like to give it a try, simply add the following parameters to the boot command line:
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Benefit to Fedora
Currently the text UI is a place where a lot of bugs and unwanted situations have the potential to occur. A direct benefit to fedora is the reduction of the anaconda code base (less is more). Moreover it gives the anaconda development team a change to concentrate on the anaconda backend and the graphical GUI.
- Text mode and graphical mode are completely separate codebases as far as the interface is concerned. We don't have some magic interface language that can display under both modes. What this means is that anything we add to the graphical mode needs to be coded up again a second time for text mode.
- Text mode only supports a subset of the graphical mode's features. For instance, you can't do LVM in text mode. Nor can you do encrypted filesystems, resizable filesystems, add repos, or edit repos. This situation is only going to get worse over time. Why is this the case? First, because it involves duplicating all the tedious work of writing a UI and no one wants to do that. Second, the screen real estate on the console is quite limited and things like LVM just don't fit in the space available.
- We already have alternate install modes available. You can do automatic installs via kickstart, or you can use VNC.
- If the graphical installer doesn't work, the fix is not to have a completely different path to go down. The fix is to fix graphical installs. Having said this, we still do have work arounds possible. You can always add xdriver=vesa as a boot parameter if the normal driver for your card doesn't work under X. My latest patch to the list makes it more obvious that you can do this.