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Fri, 16 May 2014 11:26:09 -0700
The Buffalo Bills cut WR Brandon Kaufman Friday, May 16.
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|Bills | Brandon Kaufman could change positions
Fri, 18 Apr 2014 18:10:40 -0700
Buffalo Bills WR Brandon Kaufman said he has added some weight this offseason and indicated he could move to tight end this upcoming season.
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|Bills | Eight signed
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The Buffalo Bills signed OT Jamaal Johnson-Webb, DE Jacquies Smith, DE Ikponmwosa Igbinosun (Cowboys), DB Mario Butler, CB Brandon Burton (Bengals), WR Brandon Kaufman, QB Dennis Dixon (Eagles) and OT Edwan Coughman to reserve/future contracts.
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|Bills | 14 players released
Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:41:08 -0700
The Buffalo Bills have released RB Zachary Brown, OG Antoine Caldwell, OG Zach Chibane, FS Jordan Dangerfield, TE Dorin Dickerson, CB Kip Edwards, RB Kendall Gaskins, DE Jarron Gilbert, CB T.J. Heath, WR Brandon Kaufman, LB Keith Pough, TE Nick Provo, LB Brian Smith and C David Snow.
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|Bills | Chris Hogan moving up depth chart
Wed, 21 Aug 2013 20:28:22 -0700
Buffalo Bills WR Chris Hogan appears to have moved up the depth chart, past WRs Marcus Easley, Brandon Kaufman and Da'Rick Rogers, to move on to the roster bubble. Footwork and consistency is key with Hogan, and those are what have gotten him into a favorable light with the coaching staff.
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|Bills | Four UDFAs brought in
Sun, 28 Apr 2013 17:30:22 -0700
The Buffalo Bills signed undrafted free agents WR Brandon Kaufman, LB Keith Pough, CB Nickell Robey and QB Jeff Tuel Sunday, April 28.
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|NFL | Several WRs under three feet in vertical jump
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Kansas State WR Chris Harper recorded a 35 1/2-inch vertical jump at the NFL Scouting Combine Sunday, Feb. 24. Florida State WR Rodney Smith, West Virginia WR Stedman Bailey and Washington State WR Marquess Wilson managed jumps of 34 1/2 inches. Texas Christian WR Josh Boyce had a 34-inch jump, while Elon WR Aaron Mellette, Southern California WR Robert Woods, Eastern Washington WR Brandon Kaufman, Lehigh WR Ryan Spadola, Oklahoma WR Kenny Stills, Cincinnati WR Kenbrell Thompkins and Baylor WR Lanear Sampson each checked in with a 33 1/2-inch jump. Jacksonville State WR Alan Bonner and Louisiana Tech WR Quinton Patton had a 33-inch jump, Duke WR Conner Vernon and Baylor WR Terrance Williams had a 32 1/2-inch jump, while Southern Methodist WR Darius Johnson, Syracuse WR Alec Lemon and South Carolina WR Ace Sanders had 32-inch jumps. Virginia Tech WR Corey Fuller had a 31 1/2-inch leap, while Arkansas WR Cobi Hamilton rounded out the group with a 29 1/2-inch leap.
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|NFL | WRs run 40-yard dash at combine
Sun, 24 Feb 2013 17:36:13 -0800
Louisiana Tech WR Quinton Patton posted a time of 4.53 seconds in the 40-yard dash Sunday, Feb. 23, at the NFL Scouting Combine. Elon WR Aaron Mellette and Cincinnati WR Kenbrell Thompkins posted a 4.54-second time, while Kansas State WR Chris Harper checked in at 4.55 seconds. Virginia Tech WR Marcus Davis managed 4.56 seconds, while Clemson's DeAndre Hopkins was clocked at 4.57 seconds. South Carolina WR Ace Sanders had a time of 4.58 seconds, while Syracuse WR Alec Lemon and Jacksonville State WR Alan Bonner finished at 4.59 seconds. Southern Methodist WR Darius Johnson checked in at 4.60 seconds, while Eastern Washington WR Brandon Kaufman had a time of 4.67 seconds. Duke WR Conner Vernon was good for 4.68 seconds, and Missouri WR T.J. Moe rounded out the group with a time of 4.74 seconds.
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- Website: shop.zabars.com
There's nothing like an old standby. At the center of Upper West Side Levantine food culture is Zabar's. Started in 1934 by Louis and Lillian Zabar this is a family operation and there is always "a Zabar in the store."
We all know and love it for their gourmet groceries and prepared foods that are perfect for Central Park picnics. But have you seen the second floor? It is one of the best stocked kitchen supply stores in the city.
When I'd just moved to NYC and lived in the neighborhood, I went there often and eyed the wares like candy. They have a great knife department, pot department and selection of small appliances. They "only stock the good stuff. There is no junk."
And their hours are great - where else can you pick up a copper beating bowl on Sunday at 9?
Voted "Best Cookware" by NYMag in 2002, they say Zabars "also offers an unbeatable selection of cookware and kitchen gizmos, and at highly competitive prices."

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Big Jay, Willie the Wildcat and Gus the Gorilla joined Kansas Governor Sam Brownback at the Topeka/Shawnee County Public Library to kick off Read Kansas Read, a statewide summer reading program, on May 17.
The program is a collaborative effort by the Governor's Office and the Kansas State Department of Education to challenge Kansas children to read while they aren't in school.
"For most of the calendar year, teachers are in the classroom working hard to develop students' literacy skills," Governor Brownback said. "During the summer, however, too many children lack educational experiences, like reading, to continue that development uninterrupted. Read Kansas Read is designed to be a fun way to help children bridge the gap between classroom learning in the spring and the fall."
The Kansas State Librarian Jo Budler, Kansas Commissioner of Education Dr. Diane DeBacker and literacy expert Dr. Malbert Smith also joined the Governor at the announcement.
"Reading is fundamental to success in school and life," Dr. DeBacker said. "Reading during the summer not only helps to keep students on track academically, it is also fun. The Kansas State Department of Education is pleased to partner with Governor Brownback on the summer reading program."
In August, the top two summer readers from each of the 10 Kansas State Department of Education districts and their families will join the Governor and First Lady for a special picnic celebration catered by Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers at Cedar Crest, the Governor's Mansion, in Topeka. Special guests and mascots from Kansas universities and colleges also will attend the celebration.
"Librarians are pleased to join Gov. Brownback in encouraging our youngest residents to read during their summer break," Budler said. "We know this prevents the infamous "summer slide" from grade level to below grade level."
Dr. Smith thanked Governor Brownback and Commissioner DeBacker for marshaling and coordinating a statewide effort to promote literacy.
"With this collaborative state effort today, Kansas is taking a leading effort in our nation in addressing one of the real challenges in eliminating the achievement gap," Dr. Smith said.
Kids interested in participating can sign up at the local library or download their own book tracking form from the program's website, www.ReadKansasKead.ks.gov. All participating libraries and individuals must complete and return their form by August 1st.
"I want to challenge every Kansas student to read as many books as they can this summer. I plan to read at least four," Brownback said.
Brownback said promoting summer reading is a real collaborative effort. Radio and television station members of the Kansas Association of Broadcasters will air PSAs featuring reading challenges from the Governor, First Lady Brownback and other well-known Kansans like KSU Football Coach Bill Snyder, KU Men's Basketball Coach Bill Self and WSU Baseball Coach Gene Stephenson. The State Library will use its library network to encourage local library participation.
Sponsors of the summer reading program include Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, Kansas Association of Broadcasters, Kansas Board of Regents, Kansas Book Festival, Kansas State Library, Kansas State Department of Education, Kansas State University, MetaMetrics, Inc., Pittsburg State University, University of Kansas, and Wichita State University.
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Active control. As you tab through the page, you'll see a dotted rectangle outlining an item that you can access. This is called your "active control." When the item that you want to access is selected, use the appropriate keys to activate that control (type into a text box, use the Spacebar to select or clear a check box or option button, or press the Enter key to activate a button).
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Nokia chucks another $250m at its mobile VC biz
Maybe we can FUND a winner
Nokia is setting up a third investment fund, putting $250m on the table for its VC business to invest in mobile-related ventures. It has also announced the appointment of a new MD and principal in its brand-new offices in China, where it is looking to expand operations.
Not that David Tang, the new Beijing-based managing director, will have trouble finding his way around, having spent a while as the vice president of Nokia China, but he's now working for Nokia Growth Partners, the investment arm. NGP already manages around $600m in funding and has had some decent successes.
NGP helped fund Inside Secure, which went public last year on the back of its NFC and secure processing platforms, and it also provided money to Swype and Netmagic, both of which made money for the fund when it sold out.
The new money isn't just for China, but the appointment of David Tang, who already advises various Chinese mobile businesses, is certainly a statement of intent.
Most of the large companies in mobile have investment arms, hoping their experience in mobile will help them spot the winners, and that taking advantage of industry connections will help those investments pay off. While these investments might help generate some sales or improve the brand, such funds are definitely intended to make a profit too.
Nokia's investments run from $5m to $15m or so, so they're more along the lines of growth capital rather than seed funding, which is good news as that's the money so many companies seem to be having trouble raising these days. ®


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DOYLINE, La. (AP) — Authorities are slowly moving 6 million pounds of explosives improperly stored at a munitions recycling facility because they feared a chain reaction blast could have spread through corridors packed with explosive materials, the sheriff of the threatened area said Tuesday.
A voluntary evacuation order for Doyline, a town of 800 people near the site and about 25 miles east of Shreveport, was expected to remain in effect until at least Friday while the material was moved to a safer location elsewhere on the sprawling Camp Minden grounds.
Webster Parish Sheriff Gary Sexton said Tuesday that the buildings operated by Explo Systems Inc. are several hundred yards apart but connected by above-ground corridors wide enough for a fork lift to shuttle materials between them.
He said state police who discovered the storage problems found the corridors stuffed with explosives, including a propellant called M6 that is used in artillery shells.
"We were concerned that an ignition in one building would spread from building to building," he said.
Dozens of workers at the Explo site were cautiously moving the materials to safe bunkers located on the former Army base. Officials were watching the weather, and would halt work if thunderstorms threatened. One of the corridors had been cleared by Tuesday, Sexton said.
The evacuation was requested over the weekend because authorities were unsure what would happen if the explosives were ignited.
"If you did have something go bump in the night, whether a fire, explosion or gigantic roman candle, we don't know what would happen and the professionals don't either," Sexton said.
Sexton said authorities have not been able to contact the owners of Explo Systems, who are thought to be returning from overseas, but are working with an on-site manager.
"The everyday workers with the company have been extremely good," Sexton said. "They are working to segregate the product for movement. But no one has had any luck contacting the higher officials of the company," he said.
Repeated phone calls by The Associated Press to company officials seeking comment have not been returned
Site work is being directed by the state police, who have opened an investigation into why the materials were stored improperly.
Sexton, who inspected the site Monday night, said the storage buildings appear to be about 10,000 square feet in size, with 14-16 foot ceilings. He said the amount of material stored in them — in plastic bags and cardboard boxes — varies.
Authorities were limiting access to Doyline, though many residents had returned and there were signs of life. Police were urging them to stay off the streets.
Sexton said a trio of burglars apparently thought they could take advantage of the evacuation and attempted to break into the home of an elderly couple just outside the city limits early Saturday.
When they tried to break into a rear window, the 77-year-old woman shot one with a .44-caliber handgun. Sexton said the injured suspect was hospitalized in critical condition and the other two suspects were arrested. He did not have their identities.
"She dropped the hammer on one of them. One is fighting for his life," said Sexton, 59, who is in his third term as sheriff. He said deputies were on the watch for others trying to take advantage of the evacuation.
The town was previously evacuated in 2006 after the explosion of different material at Camp Minden, a former military base now owned by the state of Louisiana and leased out as an industrial park.


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WICHITA — The former city clerk of a tiny southeast Kansas community has pleaded guilty to embezzling nearly $60,000 from the town and her church.
The U.S. Attorney's office says 67-year-old Diana Cox, of Havana, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count each of bank fraud and wire fraud.
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2010: Ended the season with a 10-9 record in singles play ... did post a 10-7 record when in the lineup at third singles ... in doubles play, teamed up with Travis Klein throughout the season as the two put together a solid 9-8 record ... went 7-8 with Klein in the second slot but 2-0 in first doubles.
2009: Joined with Tim Mowrer to put together an 8-6 doubles record ... posted a 7-5 mark when they played first doubles together ... also joined with Jeff Mansfield for a 2-1 record ... went 1-0 in doubles with Paul Graci.
2008: Teamed with Braxton Koppelman to register a 2-0 mark in doubles play, including a 1-0 mark at first doubles ... joined with Shawn Holzmann for a 1-0 record in doubles play.
Personal: Is a marketing major ... is the son of Alan and Kyle Jones ... born on May 18, 1989 ... hobbies include fishing and skiing ... chose York because he "could play tennis" ... most significant athletic achievement is making the varsity squad ... most memorable athletic moment while with the Spartan program is playing tennis ... after graduation he plans on getting a job.


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Like other Jack Tales, this one shows how remnants of old hero tales and legends brought to America by European settlers were transformed into folktales filled with details from the language and everyday life of regional Appalachian culture. Jack is a young man from an ordinary family concerned with clearing the land, keeping food on the table, and helping others when trouble comeseven if trouble takes the form of a wicked dragon. His struggles in the realm of the dragaman or fire dragon resemble those in many tales when the folk hero, with some help which is often supplied by female characters, escapes from giants, devils, or dragons.
Haley, Gail E. Jack and the Fire Dragon. New York: Crown, 1988. N. pag. Jack's opponent, "the wickedest and biggest giant," appears first as a mountain man stealing food. In Haley's colorful linocut illustrations, his green cat-like eyes and green coat with a scale pattern foreshadow his transformation underground into a "slinky, scaly fire-breathing dragon." One sideways illustration, covering 2/3 of a double-page spread, shows Jack being let down in a bucket by his jealous brothers, with imps around the cave walls. There are also tall heroic images of Jack facing and fighting the dragon. With some magic help, brave Jack rescues three sisters from the dragon, forgives his brothers for abandoning the quest, and wins the heart of the youngest sister, Jenny (whose name links her with King Arthur's Guinevere). Description in Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature.
Haley, Gail E. Jack and the Fire Dragon retold as a longer story than Haley's picture book, has been published in different places by the Newspapers in Education program as a serial story, with links to biography, activities and background on folk and fairy tales. It was part of the "Dragons, Dreams and Daring Deeds" state summer reading program in Michigan in 2005. See Ohio Newspapers in Education for links to these materials as pdf files (accessed July 2010). An Internet search may take you to other copies available through different newspapers. The biography says Haley heard the story from Ray Hicks (see below).
"Old Fire Dragaman" retold by Richard Chase:
Salsi, Lynn. Jack and the Dragon. Illus. James Young. Brown Summit, NC: Forza Renea Editions, 2009. This picture book retelling of the Beech Mountain tale, with humorous color illustrations, describes the foods Jack prepares for his brothers, who don't believe him when he tells about the dragon that steals their lunch. The long red dragon has "flashing yellow eyes and crooked yellow teeth." When Jack follows the dragon down a well, he finds a blonde girl on top of a shining heap of gold and jewels and "jars of jam and honey." She gives him magic salve, a silver sword, and a wishing ring, which help him defeat the dragon and escape after his brothers take the girl and treasure. He subdues his brothers with his sword so they back down, claiming they were going to return for him and agreeing to do their own chores. A few years later Jack builds a house on a ridge and marries the girl. Salsi reads this story and "Jack and the Giants" on a CD, The Appalachian Jack Tales Audiobook. Terra Alta, WV: Headline Kids, 2013.
"Jack and the Giant Fire Draga'man." In Salsi, Lynn, ed. Appalachian Jack Tales: Told by Hicks, Ward and Harmon Families. Illus. James Young. Brown Summit, NC: Forza Renea Editions, 2008. pp. 135-44. Salsi discusses the dragaman as dragon or giant to "represent hard times." The illustration in this book shows a giant man. She describes various members of the Hicks family telling about hearing this tale when they were young and even claiming they had seen the dragaman's hole in the ground (p. 135). Salsi notes that this tale has Irish structure and is similar to "Queen of Tubber Tintye," in which an Irish lad "passes through a series of chambers of sleeping monsters to find room after room of sleeping young women--each one more beautiful than the others," and then a room full of gold. Salsi also points out that mountain children worked with their parents at young ages and it would be unusual for young men to marry girls they did not know, as Jack and his brothers do in this tale when they marry Marie, Mary and Martha (p. 136). This book has eleven Jack tales with black and white illustrations, background on the storytellers (with whom Salsi worked closely) and additional notes on "mountain meanings," folkways, historical background, and author's notes.
Hicks, Ray. Jack and Old Fire Dragon. In McCarthy, William Bernard, ed. Cinderella in America: A Book of Folk and Fairy Tales. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007. pp. 346-52, with notes on the teller and tale types. From a 1985 recording in the Thomas G. Burton Collection at East Tennessee State University. In chapter 13 of this book on The Hicks-Harmon Beech Mountain Tradition, one of two chapters focusing on tales from the Southern mountains. McCarthy notes that the plot with an underground journey and three princesses is common in both English-speaking American and Hispanic traditions. The book demonstrates that American folktales, from Revolutionary times to the present, should not be viewed as watered-down versions of tales from older cultures. See tales listed at Folktale Collections Indexed in AppLit.
Jack and Old Fire Dragon. Told by Ray Hicks. In Ray Hicks Telling Four Traditional Jack Tales. LP. Sharon, Conn: Folk-Legacy Records, 1964.
"Jack and the Old Fire Dragon." Told by Ray Hicks. In Jack Tales. 1 Audio cassette. Sharon, Conn: Folk-Legacy Records, 1963. Also includes "Jack and the Three Steers,""Big Man Jack, Killed Seven at a Whack," and "Whickety-Whack, into my Sack."
Hicks, Ray and Luke Borrow. Jack and the Fire Dragon. Vidocassette (20 minutes). Appalachian Storyteller Ray Hicks Series. Part 3. Derry, NH: Chip Taylor Communications, 1997. Produced by Luke Barrow, Fandangle Films. Based on Richard Chase's The Jack Tales.
"Old Fire Dragaman" and other tales. Told by Stanley Hicks, 1985, on field tapes in Cheryl Oxford Collection, Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. See Inventory of Cheryl Oxford Collection, 1981-1988.
Parker, Jeff. "Old Fire Dragaman: From an Appalachian Jack Tale." Illus. Tom Fowler. Jim Henson's the Storyteller. Vol. 1. Los Angeles: Archaia, 2011. pp. 33-40. Graphic novel format. Detailed review of this book by Harley J. Sims at Mythopoeic Society web site: "Perhaps the most enchanting visuals of the collection are the work of Tom Fowler, who renders Parker's 'Old Fire Dragaman' (an Appalachian Jack tale) subtly in pencils, with fitting predominance of black, red, and gold." Brad Hawley, Ph.D., writes in Fantasy Literature web site, "It has some of my favorite images, aided by the artist's willingness to break out of the regular use of panels. For example, a page might have one or two panels layered on top of larger images that make up most of the page. The result is extremely interesting layouts and compositional designs, perhaps the most creative in the book." In the frame story in this book, the storyteller tells the tale to Dog, who asks whether Jack is "going up the beanstalk" or going to "outwit the bull" or "maybe challenge the devil?" (p. 33). Dog makes a joke about the origin of "jackpot" when Jack gathers a pot full of gold (p. 37). The Dragaman is depicted as a bulky giant man with a huge pipe full of fire, whose black smoke leads Jack to the hole under a tree's roots that leads down to his lair full of things he stole, gold and three young ladies. Underground the giant turns into a black dragon. Dog and the storyteller discuss Dog's preference for "a bit of character development" since Jack often doesn't change in his stories, but storytellers tell them differently and in this one his exact method and motivation for defeating the dragon with the enchanted sword the women give him are not explained. The feast stolen by the Dragaman from Jack and his brothers is balanced by a lavish feast at the end where they celebrate with the three young women.
"Old Fire Dragaman." Listed with program "Jack's Mama" by Sharon Kirk Clifton, Indiana storyteller, 2001.
"Jack and the Dragaman." In Doherty, Gillian. Usborne Stories of Dragons. London: Usborne, 2006. Unfortunately, this book contains no acknowledgements or notes on the sources of stories. For example, "Jack and the Dragaman" appears to be a retelling in standard English of the Appalachian Jack tale. It says that Will, Tom and Jack live in a log cabin miles from anywhere. They rescue one girl from the dragaman and the girl doesn't help much in the escape. Jack cuts the dragon's head off after trying twice with a hatchet and getting hurt with a fireball.
Teaching Four "Jack" Books includes activities on Jack and the Fire Dragon.
See also:
"Old Bluebeard." In Isabel Gordon Carter. "Mountain White Folk-Lore: Tales from the Southern Blue Ridge." Journal of American Folklore 38 (1925): pp. 340-74 (this tale on pp. 341-43). A landmark article containing Jack tales told by Jane Hicks Gentry (1863-1925), recorded by Carter in 1923. Carter comments on the decline of storytelling among mountain families who used to know them better, although they had not been recorded as ballads had been. This tale is very similar to the dragaman tales except that the villain is a man with a blue beard and long teeth. Available online through library services such as JSTOR. This tale reprinted in Jean Cothran, ed. With a Wig, With a Wag, and Other American Folk Tales. Illus. Clifford N. Grady. New York: David McKay, 1954, pp. 26-33 (also contains a Jack tale from New York state, "Rusty Jack"). For illustration of Old Bluebeard by Clifford N. Grady, see Jack and Old Greasybeard.
Stephenson, R. Rex. "Jack and Ol' Greasy Beard." The Jack Tales. Schulenburg, TX: I. E. Clark, 1991. Reprint Woodstock, IL: Dramatic Publishing. Story theatre dramatization, as performed by The Ferrum Jack Tale Players. Ol' Greasy Beard steals food from Jack and his brothers. In a chase scene, the brothers rescue Sally, who has been kept captive in Mr. Greasy Beard's cave. Sally calls Jack "brave and clever"; later they marry and have seven clever sons.
"The Man and the Devil's Daughter." In Roberts, Leonard (collector). Old Greasybeard: Tales From the Cumberland Gap. Illus. Leonard Epstein. Detroit: Folklore Associates, 1969. Rpt. Pikeville, KY: Pikeville College Press, 1980. pp. 99-105. The man rescues one of three girls, who turns out to be the devil's daughter, and she helps him with impossible tasks. For more on this tale, see "Jack and King Marock" page.
Musick, Ruth Ann. Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe. 1970. Rpt. Parsons, WV: McClain Printing, 1989. Section 5, "Dragons, Giants, and Other Monsters," contains several tales with dragons.
"How Dragon Run Got Its Name." In Virginia Folk Legends. Ed. Thomas E. Barden. Charlottesville: U of VA Press, 1991, pp. 216-17. A legend passed down for 200 years, collected in Gloucester County, VA in 1938. A man falls sick and dies after seeing, while fishing in a stream, a dragon or devil driving a chariot"the most horrible and gruesome looking creature imaginable."
Compare with:
The Gnome or "The Elves." Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Household Tales. Trans. Margaret Hunt (London: George Bell, 1884), 2:24-28. This reprint in Fairy Tales, Memorial University of Newfoundland English Department web site. In tale 91 a small "earth mannikin" harasses three huntsmen until Hans stands up to him and the mannikin takes Hans down a well to rescue three princesses held by dragons with different numbers of heads. Hans' brothers try to kill him after he rescues the princesses but they are hanged after Hans escapes (by using a magic flute which brings elves to help him) and the king hears of their deceptions.
"The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs." Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Household Tales. Trans. Margaret Hunt (London: George Bell, 1884, 1892). Reprinted online at SurLaLuneFairyTales.com, In this tale the King tries to get rid of the lucky boy who is prophesied to marry his daughter, so the King sends him to fetch three hairs from the devil, which the hero accomplishes with help from the devil's grandmother.
"Mr. Death and Molly Applegate" is a fascinating tale in which the heroine ends up marrying Mr. Death. She travels with him and sings lullabies to children in the Western U.S. Mr. Death's Granny asks Death three questions while he is asleep in the middle of the tale. It was told by Ron Jones of North Carolina at the NC Storyfest, Greensboro, NC, May 22, 2010.
"The King of Erin and the Queen of the Lonesome Island (An Irish Tale)." From Curtin, Jeremiah. Myths and Folk-lore of Ireland. Boston: Little, Brown, 1890 (also London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890). In SurLaLuneFairyTales.com and elsewhere, this tale is grouped with "Sleeping Beauty" stories. It is the "Queen of Tubber Tintye" tale that Lynn Salsi (above) links with the Appalachian Jack tale.
See also Dragons in Children's Literature: Annotated Bibliographies by Tina L. Hanlon.
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Guest blog: Toward safer malaria control solutions
A new World Malaria Day is around the corner and we at PAN applaud the strides made to combat this deadly disease over the past year.
Next month we'll be closely following discussions at the Conference of Parties of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (aka the "POPs Treaty") in Geneva. This is the body that banned DDT globally back in 2004, except for limited and specific uses for malaria control.
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I disagree. The early Christians went the full nine yards, practiced non-violence, no earthly possessions, the whole shebang. It was only after Paul hi-jacked this tiny Jewish sect, turned everything on its head and made it the most successful McReligion of all time that people got the notion that they could call themselves Christians while ignoring everything Jesus said, and once it became the official religion of the Roman empire, it got even worse.ukcanuck wrote:No one can practice what Jesus preached, thats the whole point dude. you need his help to live it, so you better start prayingRoyalDude wrote: So, in other words...Jesus died on the cross for nothing. These are the facts, the Christians of today simply do not practice what Jesus was preaching. If Jesus the extreme socialist came back today, I don't think the Arab Jew would be very happy with his so-called apparent followers who are nothing more than a violent, racist, greedy bunch of pornographic, snuff-film sado-masochists.
Jesus always sided with the outsiders, the little guy. The church has pretty much always sided with the powerful.
Jesus was vehemently opposed to violence, the church has started a zillion wars in his name.
Yet there are those that have tried to stay true to his teachings even in relatively modern times, like eg the Quakers and to some extent the Jesuites. The liberation theology of Latin America (which started with the Jesuites) also comes pretty close to what Jesus taught. But the mainstream church basically goes against what Jesus taught.


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Weirdness a theme in novel about atomic bomb
Author visits Dudley students.
The events that took place in a remote area of New Mexico during the predawn hours of July 16, 1945, forever changed the world.
In the early morning darkness the incredible destructive powers of the atom were first unleashed and what had been merely theoretical became reality.
—Eyewitness to History.comHave you ever had a friend who thought you were weird?
A show of hands of Gothenburg fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students revealed that most of them have had that experience when asked by author Ellen Klages.
"That's something we have in common," Klages told Dudley students in the performing arts center Oct. 13.
Weirdness and curiosity is what drew two misfit 11-year-olds together during World War II, Klages said.
The girls, whose parents were working on the atomic bomb near Los Alamos, NM, are featured in Klages' first novel The Green Glass Sea.
The book won the Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction and has been nominated for the 2009 Intermediate Nebraska Golden Sower Book Award.
Klages said the title of the book comes from the dropping of the first atomic bomb.
Less than a month later, two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, which led to the end of World War II and the beginning of the Atomic Age.
The test bomb, at a desert location with the code-name "Trinity," melted 75 acres of desert sand into glass.
Klages said it was described by a pilot as like being in the middle of a sea of green glass blooming from the desert.
Reading the accounts "got me hooked."
The author, who now lives in San Francisco, CA, said she also read about families who took their kids to the test site after the bomb was dropped.
The 55-year-old said she started writing at age 4 on fat-lined paper with crayons about leaves.
Although she wrote for herself through the years, Klages said she didn't know what steps to take to go from a student in creative writing class to someone who writes and tries to get published.
She worked as a copy writer and a proofreader before landing a job at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco, CA—a hands-on museum of science, art and human perception.
There, her boss (Pat Murphy) was a science fiction writer who introduced Klages to some other writers.
"I felt like a fraud," Klages said. "I had always thought I'd grow up to do what these fascinating people were actually doing."
After Murphy gave her the advice, "then write something, Klages went on to write her first short story which was published in 1998.
"I like to make words dance on a page," Klages said.
Later, another short story Basement Magic, won the Best Novelette Nebula Award in 2005.
At a science-fiction writing convention, Klages was reading aloud a short story that was heard by a New York City editor.
When asked if Klages wrote children's stories, Klages said "No, I write stories with children in them."
The editor asked if she'd consider writing a children's book, and the result—-a few years later—was The Green Glass Sea.
Although the fictitious novel is based on history, Klages said for her it's all about the story.
To write a good story about that time, she spent about three hours of research for every page of the book which translates into 1,000 hours.
She also visited Los Alamos, talked to physicists, and poured through issues of Seventeen Magazine and Popular Mechanics from the 1940s as background for the period and her characters.
Klages said she loves talking to kids about her book and its sequel White Sands, Red Menace.
"It's fascinating to me to introduce to them the history and the science and have them come up to me and say it isn't boring," she said.
The new book happens in 1946 when the war is over and the future is about to happen.
"It's the beginning of the Atomic Age, the Space Age and the Cold War," she explained.
The author said that kids today "are going to be running the world."
"They might not know where all of it started but they have seen weapons of mass destruction," Klages said.
Her visit was sponsored by the Nebraska Library Commission, the Nebraska Humanities Council and the Nebraska Regional Library Systems.
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I think so. Although we better wait for migya to answer that if we want to be certain.
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Legislative committees are considering whether to impose a 2-cent-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. In my opinion, this tax will raise less revenue than its proponents expect and will adversely affect low-income households and small retailers.
Lawmakers are considering a beverage tax in order to increase payments to health care providers whose patients are covered by Medicaid. Because Medicaid payment rates are low, providers shift their costs to patients covered by employer and individual insurance policies.
As a Vergennes Union High School faculty member, local taxpayer and parent, I find myself in a very awkward situation. As a faculty member I support my school and my community. I want to make it clear that my job is not in jeopardy from the proposed cuts. As a local taxpayer and parent, I feel an obligation to write this letter to inform the public on some of the details of the proposed budget and some of my thoughts on this process.
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ADDISON COUNTY — Voters in the northern half of Addison County rejected five school budgets in two supervisory unions on Tuesday evening, a sign that voters remain frustrated with the rising costs of education taxes.
Residents rejected spending plans for Vergennes Union High School and Ferrisburgh Central School in the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union, and three schools in the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union: Mount Abraham Union High School, Monkton Central School and Bristol Elementary School.
Let me be clear: I value holding onto my money as much as anybody. I brown-bag, buy in bulk, and browse for products on sale.
And I wish my taxes were lower. For the record, we pay almost $6,600 on a Middlebury home assessed at about $250,000. Property tax relief doesn't really help much, if at all, depending on fluctuations in one of our incomes.
With regard to the sugary beverage tax being floated and which so enchants our own Angelo Lynn, if Montpelier is so concerned for our health why is there a tax on gym memberships? Sounds like the state wants to have its soda and drink it too.
C.W. Cobb
If you believed that the Shoreland Protection Bill was about fighting pollution in Vermont's waters, you also probably believe that a tax on sugary drinks is a health care initiative. Both could not be further from the truth.
Reading the Jan. 15 issue of the Addy Indy inspired me to pen this missive. Bob Foster, the Middlebury Moo Doo Guru, and Bill Moore, Vermont Farm Bureau lobbyist, painted farmers as the epitome of philanthropy.
Untrue as proven by the following scenario. A business in Bristol assessed at $2.5 million, the property tax, (calculated at the non-residential rate) would be $56,877.50. Farm buildings in Bristol assessed at $2.5 million, the property tax is $0.
Max Kraus' excellent letter in the Jan. 15 Addison Independent goes to the heart of the matter. It's not just that school taxes are high and rising — even as student populations decline — but that the system is hugely inefficient and produces at best average results.
Has the Vergennes Union High School board not been informed that the taxpayers are done with "over the top" cost-per-student rates that are the highest in the country that do not give results of a better education for the students in our neighborhoods.
MIDDLEBURY — The proposed 2015-2016 budgets for six of the Addison Central Supervisory Union's seven elementary schools reflect spending increases ranging from 0.2 percent to 5.35 percent, but the impact on taxpayers in most communities will be greater due to declining enrollment and other variables.
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Well it's a somewhat complicated matter but the basics is that the Celestial is the monster form of the human and the human is a human.
"May the Heavens guide your path."
I was thinking if I should include someone who's actively making Celestials XD
|2012-04-18, 10:30
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Again: what kind of armor is that? An armor is designed to be flexible and/or rigid and all the damage suffered by it are mostly internal (the ceramic especially)
There is NO armor in the world that can fall piece by piece dramatically.
EDIT: except MODULAR armor, like, Gundam and tanks, and that design is useless when applied to human.
Back to more important question: what matter is the damage suffered by the wearer, certain kind of damage may not manifest until later, especially when adrenaline is involved. (hence I said sometimes an accident victim is not as fine as they show)
|2012-04-18, 10:40
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If he's smashed then go limp most of the damage is probably internal, and yes, walking limp is still possible if he still have enough system intact just to move.
As for the failing armor: it's a dark fantasy magic story with heavy dosage of rule of cool. It's up to you to use it or not. But as I said: unrealistic.
|2012-04-18, 10:48
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Location: Inside your head
Nope, but the internal ceramic piece will shatter, and someone that maintain/repairing the armor will ask if the wearer was hit by a truck or something
Not much development, now that she's got a boyfriend, less and less time for the project, since she was busy with school in the firs place
|2012-04-18, 10:55
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
kevlar is composed of multiple layers of kevlar fiber. It's not armor plating so falling apart might be a stretch.
If a person suffered serious injury like a gunshot but was given medical attention outside a hospital. A doctor was asled to give a more proper treatment if needed. Does the patient still need to go to the hospital? And if asked to keep things quiet about the patient and not go to the hospital. Would that go against doctor code?
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Just another Idiot
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Delusion world
*Age looked at the piles of bunnies behind him*
*Age go into hiding from Animal Right Groups*
|2012-04-18, 11:04
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Kevlar alone is not that heavy per se, standard kevlar shirt is usually weight less than 1 kg, but it wasn't that good against anything larger than dinky 22 LR and is extremely weak against knife.
Thicker vest with plastic/composite armor can be up to 2-3 kg, and is good at stopping common rounds like 9mm or 45 ACP, or maybe even smaller magnums like 357 or 44, and slightly more resistant to sharp object.
More powerful rounds including rifles requires heavy armor plate between the kevlar layer, be it metal or ceramic, and usually being 7 kg AT THE LEAST. Using knife against this one is meaningless unless it's a lucky strike.
Anyway, let's see if that wimpy-ass playah can last long with her, you know what's scarier than angry brother? scorned woman.
|2012-04-18, 11:08
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What armor is VECTOR wearing on his chest? If you need a reminder, here's a pic.
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Erik D. Sorenson, 40, of Dover reported he was traveling at 9:46 p.m. Feb. 24 on North Sixth Street, 200 feet south of 1650 North Avenue in Princeton, when an unknown vehicle entered his lane, causing him to swerve and lose control of his vehicle.
Miguel Lopez-Serrato, 52, of DePue was involved in an accident at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 18 on the Kentville Road, one-half mile west of Route 29. He was ticketed for driving too fast for conditions and failure to report an accident to authorities.
Diana M. Potthoff, 58, of Spring Valley was involved in an accident at 10:45 a.m. Feb. 19 while traveling on Route 6, one-eighth mile east of 2500 East Street.
Brian C. Webber, 63, of Dover and Jerrome P. Shiffer, 55, of Princeton were involved in an accident at 11:10 p.m. Feb. 21 on Route 6, one-fourth mile west of Interstate 180. Webber was charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.
Stacey M. Cherry, 37, of LaMoille and Alan C. Kitterman, 57, of Sandwich were involved in an accident at 10:27 a.m. Feb. 16 on Main Street in LaMoille.
Maitza Sack, 34, of Spring Valley was involved in an accident at 2:56 p.m. Feb. 26 while traveling on Route 6, one-half mile west of 2300 North Avenue.
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Adam C. Engel, 24, of Peru was traveling at 7:16 p.m. Feb. 23 on the Kentville Road, one-half mile west of 1725 East Street, when his vehicle hit two deer in the road.
Brittany S. Balensiefen, 28, of Sheffield was traveling at 10:10 p.m. Feb. 22 on 1995 East Street, one-half mile west of 1250 North Avenue, when her vehicle hit a deer.
Keri S. Campbell, 41, of Spring Valley was traveling at 4:50 a.m. Feb. 18 on Route 6, at the intersection with 2400 East Street, when her vehicle hit a deer.
Kathy L. Schmidt, 60, of Walnut was traveling at 6:44 p.m. Feb. 25 on 1400 East Street, one-half mile south of 2300 North Avenue, when her vehicle hit a deer.
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Ethan R. Noble, 20, of Dixon was charged with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor, zero tolerance, illegal transportation of alcohol, driving with a suspended/ revoked driver's license, reckless driving and speeding at 2:25 a.m. Feb. 23 while traveling on Route 26, at the intersection of 2075 North Avenue. In the same incident, Blake A. Cullen, 22, of Dixon, Steely G. Williamsen, 25, of Rock Falls, and Alex Linton, 23, of Rock Falls were each charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and illegal transportation of alcohol.
Philip W. Jones, 21, of Tiskilwa was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving with a suspended/revoked driver's license and speeding at 1:36 a.m. Feb. 24 in Tiskilwa.


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Real Estate:
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The Toddy Take On Iced Coffee
We've been talking a great deal about iced coffee lately, but it is after all a place where many of us spend extra cash, buying cold drinks at the coffee shop when it's actually easier and best of all tastier to make iced coffee at home. You've read about how to make it with a mason jar and cheese cloth, but we also can't help be smitten with The Toddy. Here's why.
Now before we sing the praises of this all white cold brew coffee making system, we have to tell you about our failure to brew our own, without it. Our wet grounds didn't stay where we wanted them, the coffee didn't stay where we wanted it to and although we've been known to make a mess in the kitchen, no matter how many times we tried, we just weren't successful. The mason jar method just wasn't for us. So we broke down and bought The Toddy and have had smooth sailing ever since!
The Toddy holds 9 cups of water and 1lb of coffee. You layer the coffee and water into the large reservoir, alternating them to help wet all the grounds without stirring. In the bottom there's a plug and a filter (which is reusable) to keep things in.
We've been setting our coffee to brew at night and it's ready to drain in the morning, a process that takes about 30 minutes. A carafe with air tight lid is included to catch the drips from the reservoir that sits snuggly on top while brewing. The coffee concentrate will keep for several weeks in the fridge and months in the freezer. We like to keep them frozen in cubes for easy use in sauces and rubs for other dishes in the kitchen.
To drink we mix 1 part coffee concentrate with 3 parts water/milk, all over ice, for the smoothest cup of joe we've ever had! Using the Toddy gives us the ability to make a much larger amount of concentrate, which eliminates the need to make a batch more than once a week, sometimes two! It's perfect for parties and makes brewing ahead of time a snap. It can also be used to cold brew tea, although we haven't road tested that one!
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This Qualcomm website, to me as a potential visitor, as opposed to a marketing professional, looks horrible. Corporate pages that look like this are one of the main reasons I do little on-line shopping.
Why do they fill up half the page with photos of people I don't know or care about, and use private marketing language that communicates nothing?
What is a BREW? I'm certainly not going to click on another page filled with irrelevant information to find out. What is MediaFLO?
I know what a Quarterly Cash Dividend is, but what is a On-Time Sampling of Second-Generation HSDPA S....? Maybe they could put a picture of it instead of that irritating female wearing a hardhat and grabbing her phone as she jumps on a trampline that, for some unknown reason the entire web production team seemed to feel was more important than acutally being useful and informatiive to the site visitor. Maybe if they spared a few more letters in their story leads, the website might be bit more inviting.
The search box doesn't look very helpful. In my expeirence, they are a waste of time - it's like trying to find something in the index. If you know the exact word, it's OK, but if you're trying to find the technical manual for a specific product, or help for a specific issue, fuggetaboudit!
All the different colors are visually irritating. There must be six variations of blue, and they don't mix well together. And the visual center of the whole page is her hat? Is there some kind of corporate link between Qualcomm and Red Hat? Does the same corporate conglomerate own them both? What's that about?
I don't think it's a co-incidence that two of the most successful websites on the internet, Google and Craigslist, have plain, no-nonsense, visitor-centered homepages that are not paeans to corporate executives or marketing gurus or other egocentric power-grabbers.
Amazon is a good example of the opposite, an information-rich homepage, but focused on getting visitors information they can use. They don't have a bunch of marketing language, books are called books, electronics are called electronics, etc. And you don't have to wait for the whole page to load if you just want to look up a specific product. Their search engine works pretty well.
Thanks for giving me an opportunity to vent on one of my favorite peeves.
MargaretBartleyI don't think it's a co-incidence that two of the most successful websites on the internet, Google and Craigslist, have plain, no-nonsense, visitor-centered homepages
I am with you on this one. I really don't find the corporate 'look alike' mode that appealing. However, it is harder to think like your users then like your company!
Have you worked with information architecture, or user design techniques. I find them very interesting. I've only skimmed the surface, but at one point I was doing quite a bit of research on it. I remember going to sites of the experts in information architecture, and the navigation was so smooth you almost didn't remember how you got to where you were going, but you still got to the right place. It really was like smooth surfing.
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The Calaveras Door of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center presents its second annual Christmas Shopping Extravaganza from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 24 at the Native Sons Chispa Parlor, 389 Main St., Murphys.
The Calaveras Door of Hope Pregnancy Resource Center presents its second annual Christmas Shopping Extravaganza from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 24 at the Native Sons Chispa Parlor, 389 Main St., Murphys.
There will be vendors, a visit from Santa Claus, food, a coffee cart, and food.
Information or booth space: (209) 754-5111.
Miracle Mile merchants will have a Shop, Sip and Stroll event starting at 5 p.m. Nov. 29.
Tickets are $15, which gets a commemorative wine glass, wine tasting and appetizers from participating shops. Santa and carolers will add to the holiday cheer. Proceeds to help decorate the Mile. Tickets available from Gluskin's Photo, With Garden Flair and DragonFairy.
Information: (209) 482-1038.
Local high school students, professional artists, local nonprofit groups and individuals are invited to create a unique chair, stool, bench or place to sit that will garner the most money for the charity of their choice.
The Calaveras Chairs for Charity 2013 will be Jan. 26 in the San Andreas Town Hall, 1516 Highway 12, San Andreas. There will be a no-host bar, a buffet dinner, silent and live auctions, and musical chairs for $25 per person.
Information: (209) 754-1774.
Parents by Choice is offering free weekly parenting classes. The Positive Parenting Program is about making small changes and seeing a big difference. It's designed to help reduce stress and enhance the knowledge, skills and confidence of parents.
Information: ParentsbyChoice.net or (209) 478-4554.
A Better Breathers respiratory support group is offered from 10 to 11 a.m. the first Tuesday of every month at Lodi Memorial Hospital, 975 S. Fairmont Ave.
Participants with breathing problems, such as asthma, bronchitis and emphysema will learn how to cope with chronic lung disease and learn how the lungs work. They will also learn how to use medications and oxygen properly. Family members are welcome to attend. Pre-registration is recommended.
Information: (209) 478-1888 or (209) 339-7821.
Brain Builders, a weekly program for people in the early stages of memory loss, is offered at 9:30 a.m. every Thursday at the Hutchins Street Square Senior Center 125 S. Hutchins St., Lodi, for a weekly fee of $25. Registration is required.
Registration and information: (209) 369-4443 or (209) 369-6921.
Veterans Forever will be holding weekly and bimonthly meetings working to raise awareness of Veterans Administration benefits.
Meetings for men will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursdays, and meetings for women will be from 6 to 8 p.m. the first and third Thursdays of the month.
Meetings will be held at Greater New Hope Deliverance Church of God in Christ, 1467 Michael Ave., Stockton.
Information: (209) 518-8519 or firstname.lastname@example.com; veteransforever.org.
Free phone support for relative caregivers in San Joaquin and Fresno counties is being offered by the California Kinship Navigator Program. The programs provides caregivers with the personal support and local referrals to needed services such as childcare, housing, legal aid and more. A phone call can be a lifeline for grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings and others who are raising children in the absence of biological parents. Bilingual Navigators are also available for Spanish speakers. Phone calls are confidential.
Information: (800) 546-0047.
The San Joaquin Genealogical Society will provide volunteers to help research your ancestry free of charge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Tuesday on the second floor of the Chavez Central Library, 605 N. El Dorado St., Stockton.
There are also limited Saturday appointments at the Margaret K. Troke Library, 502 W. Benjamin Holt Drive, Stockton.
Information: (209) 474-6448.
St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Center is offering outpatient programs for teens from 4 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays at the center, 2510 N. California St., Stockton. Chemical Recovery Adolescents meet from 4 to 7 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
The Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program is designed for individuals who need comprehensive treatment for their mental or emotional problems.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy is used to present skills for effective living. Patients learn how to identify and change distorted thinking, communicate effectively in relationships, and regain control of their lives. The therapists work with parents, doctors and schools.
Information: (209) 461-2000 or StJosephsCanHelp.org.
The Daughters of Isabella, St. Anne's Circle No. 1332, will host its annual Christmas Dinner on Dec. 8 at St. Anne's Hall, 215 W. Walnut St. (at Church St.) in Lodi.
No-host cocktails start at 6 p.m., followed by a barbecue dinner at 7 p.m. Entertainment will feature "Christmas Around the World" with musical performers featuring an array of international holiday selections.
Members and guests are encouraged to bring an unwrapped toy to place under St. Nick's tree for the Salvation Army and the Lodi Service Center. There will also be a drawing, silent auction and door prizes.
Tickets are $25 for adults, $10 for children 6 through 12, and children 5 and younger are free. Tickets must be purchased before Dec. 3, and none will be sold at the door. Proceeds from the event will support various local charities.
Information and tickets: (209) 333-7071 or (209) 368-1017.


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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 7:49 am
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costs per % of
GDP continue to rise without limit, oh yeah, and I continue to get less and less for my money.
And the presidents, CEOs, and stockholders of those publicly-traded health insurance companies thank you mightily for your payments and the opportunities that your money gives them to make additional mountains of money at your expense.
Doctors are getting screwed by the health insurance companies almost as much as we are.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:21 am
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Human nature & our culture make us too complacent when looking for and listening to doctors. We seem to dumb down and assume that they are all good at what they do.
What you must do to get good care:
1. Become knowledgeable about your body and the things that can/do go wrong.
2. If something isn't working right, research as much as you can about the problem.
3. The hard one.......... Find a good Dr. This means networking with friends & on line research. If you have one Dr. you trust, ask who they would see for: (whatever is wrong with you).
4. Establish a relationship with your doctors. Make them appreciate the fact that you are special, so they will take good care of you. Here you have to find something that sets you above the regular crowd. If you are old and fit, that alone gives you an advantage, hype it! Windsurfing itself can make you different, tell them about what you do. Doctors like to help people that take care of themselves and are special in some way. They will spend time with you if you are interesting.
5. Get second or third opinions for the serious stuff.
My wife was in healthcare so it was pretty easy to find the best doctors, but now she is retired and we are in another state, so it's back to the basics outlined above.
Catching problems early is critical. Avoiding the Dr. because of $, procrastination or bad experiences can be a big mistake.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:25 am
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Rigitrite is correct, IMO. Costs have been out of control for years and we continue to be less healthy. The system rewards doctors and hospitals that provide specialized care to treat the illness rather than health. Healthcare providers are compensated at a much higher rate for procedures than patient contact time. Wellness and preventative care have, largely, been uncompensated. The consumer is left to manage his health, on his own, until he is sick...then the costs really add up.
This is not Obamacare...this is our current system.
We arrived at this point, for a lot of reasons. Medicare (the nations largest insurer) for years increased reimbursement for procedures at the expense of primary care. Fear of lawsuits promotes over-testing and over-drugging. Unions resisted universal health care to maintain membership advantages. Gilded health plans received significant tax breaks. Unhealthy lifestyles are over-burdening the system. Technological advances in medicine and consumer expectations drive over-utilization of expensive medical imaging and testing equipment. Spending for end of life care is exorbitant. And, market forces and competition are, almost, completely lacking in medicine.
Will Obamacare work to decrease costs, in the long term? I do not know. But, the emphasis on preventative care may correct some of the problems. Unless we accept some limits on what medical care should be provided we cannot slow this spending.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:46 am
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CB, as ususal, you make very good points. How do we incentivize doctors to get their patients healthier? Mike Bloomberg is a hero of mine, and I agree with 99% of everything he says and does. I have been addicted to his product for 20 years, and now I am enjoying his attempt to make us healthier. I wish people would ease up on the "big brother" concept, and realize that if we want to reduce health costs as a percent of GDP, its going take a huge effort on all fronts...with prevention being the most important.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:24 am
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Our current system SUCKS. I avoid going to the doctor, because it costs money, in fact everyone I know does this: we avoid going to the doctor and put off routine check ups as long as possible, because it makes economic sense. ... we're completely screwed at the moment. .... we've already entered the drain with the Republican plan...
Going to the doctor costs me zero beyond the premiums on my four insurance plans. i.e., fixed cost covers virtually everything (you should try it some time). Good deal, right? Not when most doctors are too swamped or tight-fisted to do their damned jobs ... when I can find a competent one. That = screwed, all right, whether the Elephant or the Ass is responsible (I don't understand your "Republican Plan" reference to today's health care; it's evolved over centuries). But not one politician or pundit I've seen expects Obamacare to improve that situation. Quite the contrary; O-care's stated (by Obama himself) objectives are first and foremost to cover almost everyone not presently covered, as a stepping stone towards taxpayer-funded government managed health care for all -- the dictionary definition of socialized medicine -- within 10-15 years from now.
That alone = screwed on steroids.
Then add the fact, as another objective, that doctors are being driven out of private practice into hospitals. That alone has been proved to cut their productivity by 30%, at the same time another 30M people will be covered. That guarantees less time for your doctor to diagnose your ailment and prescribe the right pills ... let alone actually try to treat you
Then add Ocare's additional suppression of medical research, a U.S. strength for generations.
Add the premium increases of 50%, 100%, even more, already being announced within the industry for small businesses and private policies.
Screwed, on steroids, squared.
Finally, stir in the reduced incentives, even negative in many aspects, for people to become doctors. These very smart cookies often have lofty egos and goals to match their brain power, and many will not want to practice cookie-cutter, pill-dispensary, cattle-prodding medicine for pedestrian wages. How's that not going to reduce their quality even further? Heck, even Obamacare's chief proponents admit that most of our ordinary medical care will be in the hands of nurses and physicians' assistants. They're good, but we're still ...
Screwed, on steroids, cubed.
Last but clearly of great consequence is that the health care providers' crushing workload will tend to snuff out their last hopes of even trying to keep up with the few advances still coming out of the peer-reviewed medical research. I've already encountered many physicians, every one of them a specialist, who are ignorant of the very research they are obliged to base their care on.
Screwed to death ... and a big part of why I have literally chosen a decade of vigor over 15 years of radiation side effects.
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Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2013 11:41 am
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Boggsman... I am not sure that wellness should be the responsibility of the physician. Their training is in the treatment of disease and injury. And, this is what we need from them.
IMO, we need a "triage" system. Specialists (do not need to be physicians) trained in preventative care and health care management should be the front line. Someone needs to say "you do not get a knee replacement until you loose weight". The best surgeon I know just wants to cut. He is not interested in talking to someone about their fat belly, and money is not really the motive. So, incentives to physicians will fall flat.
This will only work if we change the expectations of the consumer on health care. We all expect to walk in and receive the full service, even if it makes no sense. And, the legal/medical/insurance model is perfectly willing to oblige.
As you indicated, this needs to be an "all fronts" approach. Including, attaching medical costs to products such as big gulps. coal power plants, Big Macs and ammunition. We need to establish rigorous treatment protocols that limit liability exposure for health care providers. We need, as a society, to decide how end of life care should be administered and financed.
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Well said techno900, I couldn't agree more, particularly with your last sentence. As a person that for years avoided going to doctors, I ultimately from that there can often be a huge price to pay for that kind of mindset. I found out just how stupid I was, and payed a price for that, but fortunately I was lucky. One of my problems could have easily killed me, as it often does to many who weren't as lucky as me. Believe me, I learned an important lesson from these health experiences. Don't ignore or procrastinate if you experience health problem signs.
coboardhead, as always, your take on the health care scene is spot on in my view. Even though there are a lot of imperfections with the ACA, we are clearly on a better path than we have following for decades. It will be interesting to see when the ACA really begins to have a positive affect. Like you, I'm much more inclined to believe that it will.
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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:57 pm
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Rigitrite is correct, IMO.
Let's all hope so. Even the biggest-name, most moderate opponents of that positive paradigm expect at the very LEAST a second recession deeper than the last one, with some still-moderate big names suggesting it may match or even beat the Great Depression. I'm doing my best to cover both theirs and Cob's/Rigit's expectations for myself, 'cause I sure as hell don't know how this will turn out or when we'll know either way.
Mort Zuckerman of U.S. News and World Reports posted today in the WSJ that "The Great Recession Has Been Followed by the Grand Illusion" regarding employment (it's 14-15%).
. Bottom line: we're being fed a line of purely political BS.
Why that's newsworthy escapes me.
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Like most people didn't already know this.
I still can't get over the name of this "The Affordable Healthcare Act"
What a sick joke on the country.
Sebelius: Yep, ObamaCare is raising insurance costs
By: John Hayward
A watershed moment in the ongoing disaster of ObamaCare, as Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius finally admits that health insurance premiums are rising because of the Presidents health insurance takeover, per the Wall Street Journal:
Ms. Sebeliuss remarks come weeks before insurers are expected to begin releasing rates for plans that start on Jan. 1, 2014, when key provisions of the health law kick in. Premiums have been a sensitive subject for the Obama administration, which is counting on elements in the health law designed to increase competition among insurers to keep rates in check. The administration has pointed to subsidies that will be available for many lower-income Americans to help them with the cost of coverage.
The secretarys remarks are among the first direct statements from federal officials that people who have skimpy health plans right now could face higher premiums for plans that are more generous. She noted that the law requires plans to provide better benefits and treat all customers equally regardless of their medical claims.
These folks will be moving into a really fully insured product for the first time, and so there may be a higher cost associated with getting into that market, she said. But we feel pretty strongly that with subsidies available to a lot of that population that they are really going to see much better benefit for the money that theyre spending.
Ms. Sebelius added that those customers currently pay more for their health care if their plans have high out-of-pocket costs, high deductibles or exclude particular types of coverage, such as mental health treatment. She also said that some men and younger customers could see their rates increase while women and older customers could see their rates drop because the law restricts insurers ability to set rates based on age and gender.
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 10:53 am
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NW...I see you started your day with a dosage of Drudge, good work. The question isn't if we will see more insurance costs, the question is will we(the US) be spending/paying more for healthcare overall. I think not. As Michael Milken says, health and healthcare is the #1 economic issue in this country, and if people have access to health care, they will make better economic choices, be healthier, and more productive. So, the net result could be quite positive. But, I dont want to rain on your negative parade....so carry on.
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Title: School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences records, Purdue University, 1882-1992
Primary Creator: Purdue University. School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences
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The records are divided into five series:
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4. Audio and Computer Files
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Date Acquired: 00/00/2005
Subjects: Jenkins, Glenn L. (Glenn Llewellyn), 1898-1979, Purdue University. School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences
Languages: English
The idea of developing a school of pharmacy at Purdue University was first brought up in 1883 when Purdue's President James H. Smart visited the drug store of his friend, Indianapolis pharmacist John Newell Hurty. Hurty pointed out to Smart that it would be in the university's best interests to add pharmaceutical studies to its curriculum. Smart agreed to bring the idea up before Purdue's Board of Trustees with the provision that Hurty would head up the school for at least two years. In the fall of 1884, Purdue's School of Pharmacy opened its doors with an enrollment of seven students. The faculty of four was headed by Hurty, who traveled from Indianapolis one day a week to deliver lectures. In 1888, A.L. Green was officially appointed dean of the school after a two year interim period when Hurty stepped down as the school's head in 1886. That same year, Hurty was awarded the school's first doctorate degree in pharmacy.
In 1910, Charles B. Jordan was appointed head of the School of Pharmacy. One of his main goals was to provide more space for the growing school which originally shared Building No. 2 with the departments of Chemistry, Physics, Mechanics, and Civil Engineering. In 1894, these departments were moved to a new building and the school of pharmacy became the sole occupant of the building. By the 1920s the school had outgrown the aging building and at the urging of Dean Jordan, President Edward C. Elliott went before Indiana's General Assembly to request funds for a new building. The funding was granted and the new school, which was stocked and furnished by a generous contribution from J.K. Lilly, opened its doors in 1930. Dean Jordan also inaugurated several programs to insure a more complete education of pharmacy students. One of these programs was the nurturing and promotion of graduate studies. In 1925, Anna Florence Shireman became the first pharmacy student to receive a Masters degree. In 1932, Alice Haden became the first woman awarded a Ph.D. degree from Purdue University when she attained her doctorate through the Pharmacy School.
Glenn Jenkins became head of the School of Pharmacy in 1941 following the death of Dean Jordan. Jenkins immediately reorganized the graduate program and added departments of instruction for graduate work: pharmacology and pharmacognosy in 1941, bionucleonics in 1947, physical pharmacy in 1956, and pharmacy administration in 1957. In 1950, the first African American male to receive a Ph.D. at Purdue was Phillip V. Hammond, who received a doctorate in pharmacology. Five years later, Dolores Cooper became the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. at the university with a doctorate in pharmacology. In 1960, the curriculum was changed from a minimum four-year course to a minimum five-year course with one year of pre-pharmacy and four years of pharmacy instruction. In 1963, the name of the school was changed from School of Pharmacy to School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences to indicate the school's new educational objectives. By the 1960s, Purdue's School of Pharmacy had become the fifth largest undergraduate and the largest graduate school of pharmacy in the United States. The school was a pioneer in pharmaceutical research, most notably in the area of bionucleonics, a term which was coined by Purdue's President Hovde and Dr. John E. Christian. When Jenkins retired in 1966, he left solid research and undergraduate programs as his legacy. His successors have followed his example and Purdue's School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences continues to be a world wide leader in pharmaceutical education and research. In 1970, the school moved into a new 145,000 square foot facility which was dedicated the Robert E. Heine Pharmacy Building in 1985.
From the first day of class in 1884 to the present, the school's philosophy and curriculum have been based on two basic principles: one, that the students should be educated in the appropriate sciences to become pharmacists who could serve in a professional capacity as pharmacist, researcher, or teacher who would contribute to the protection of the public's health; and two, in order to achieve these high standards the students would be educated by professional pharmacists and scientists devoted to teaching and research. Purdue's School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences continues to evolve and is dedicated to the education of future pharmacists and researchers.
Jenkins, Glenn L. (Glenn Llewellyn), 1898-1979
Purdue University. School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Physical Access Note: The collection is stored offsite; 24 hours notice is required to access the collection.
Acquisition Source: Pharmacy Library of Purdue University
Acquisition Method: Transfer of records.
Related Materials: Glenn L. Jenkins Papers, Purdue University
Preferred Citation: UA 53, The School of Pharmacy Records, Purdue University, Archives and Special Collections
Finding Aid Revision History: Collection identifier updated from UA 20.02 to UA 53 as of December 6, 2016.
Other URL: http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/UA00053_Pharmacy_School_of.pdf


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