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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA, IN AND FOR ST. JOHNS COUNTY CIVIL DIVISION CASE NO. 08-CA-0634 FREMONT INVESTMENT & LOAN COMPANY, Plaintiff, vs. ROBERT B. DAVIDOFF; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF ROBERT B. DAVIDOFF; KATHRYN T. DAVIDOFF; UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF KATHRYN T. DAVIDOFF; IF LIVING, INCLUDING ANY UNKNOWN SPOUSE OF SAID DEFENDANT(S), IF REMARRIED, AND IF DECEASED, THE RESPECTIVE UN- KNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, CREDITORS, LIENORS, AND TRUSTEES, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS CLAIMING BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE NAMED DEFENDANT(S); UNKNOWN TENANT #1; UNKNOWN TENANT #2; Defendant(s) NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to a Final Summary Judgment of Foreclosure entered in the above-styled cause, in the Circuit Court of St. Johns County, Florida, I will sell the property situate in St. Johns County, Florida, described as: ALL THAT CERTAIN LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA, VIZ: LOT 44, BLOCK 10, MANDARIN MEADOWS SOUTH, ACCORDING TO THE PLAT THEREOF, AS RECORDED IN MAP BOOK 10, PAGES 44, 45 AND 47, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FLORIDA. A/K/A 1600 Lemonwood Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32259 at public sale, to the highest and best bidder for cash, St. Johns Judicial Center, 4010 Lewis Speedway, St. Augustine, FL., 32084 at 12:00 Noon on October 7, 2008. DATED THIS 3RD DAY OF SEPT. 2008. Any person claiming an interest in the surplus from the sale, if any, other than the property owner as of the date of the lis pendens, must file a claim within 60 days after the sale. WITNESS, my hand and seal of this court on the 3rd day of September, 2008. CHERYL STRICKLAND CLERK OF CIRCUIT COURT By JEAN JACKSON Deputy Clerk In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), if you are a person with a disability who needs an accommodation in order to participate in this proceeding, you are entitled, at no cost to you, to the provision of certain assistance. Please contact the Court Administration Office at (904) 827-5617, 4010 Lewis Speedway, St. Augustine, Florida 32084. If you are voice impaired, call 1-800-955-8770. L2589-8 Sept. 11, 18, 2008
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text: Earthshock, Arc of Infinity and Snakedance (Fifth Doctor). Three excellent serials. Adric was too much the whiner in Earthshock but the writer made good use of his character and gave him an interesting death. I was glad to see Omega again in Arc of Infinity but Stephen Thorne's performance in The Three Doctors was better that Ian Collier's. The Mara are an interesting villian that I wouldn't mind seeing again on modern Who. That said, while they get some good development in Snakedance, Kinda was a better story.

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South San Juan Range, Colorado > Bennett Peak > Climber's Log
Bennett Peak Climber's Log
[ Sign the Climber's Log ]
Date Climbed: Jul 25, 2015
|Great morning stroll after a great camp at the lakes. Fun trip and beautiful San Fran basin.
|Posted Jul 25, 2015 11:46 pm
|Blowout Pass
Date Climbed: Aug 24, 2013
|Group hike for Furthermore's 13er finisher, congrats!! Thanks for the invite and thanks for all the trip reports - invaluable information for the 13ers. We also climbed Sheep on the way.
|Posted Aug 25, 2013 10:42 pm
|w/ wifey
Date Climbed: Sep 5, 2011
|love this place... almost lost the car, but we pulled it off.
|Posted Dec 28, 2012 3:43 pm
|Stop along the way
Date Climbed: Jul 20, 2009
|Wouldn't have stopped to climb this one if it had not been a county highpoint. The approaching storms had me running all the way back to the car. Would have liked to have given Wind Mtn a go, but the thunder convinced me otherwise.
|Posted Jul 26, 2009 6:12 pm
|From Blowout Pass
Date Climbed: Sep 10, 2005
|Drove from Denver and had good weather so I summited this peak the same day. While I was there I thought I might as well hike Sheep Mountain as well.
|Posted Nov 5, 2008 9:46 am
|A Gentle Giant
Date Climbed: May 2, 2008
|Hiked from 9500 ft above the town of Jasper where snow drifts blocked the road to Blowout Pass. There was still lots of snow, but it was well consolidated and never softened to the point where snowshoes were necessary. A freezing cold wintry wind was blowing. We also climbed nearby Sheep Mountain.
|Posted May 5, 2008 10:49 am
|Parked below Blowout
Date Climbed: Aug 28, 2000
|Drove from Del Norte to about a half mile below Blowout Pass with 2 wheel drive pickup and walked the rest of the way to pass. After walking I realized I could have driven all the way. A 2 hour hike, on top at 9:30am. View of lakes down steep north side was nice.
|Posted Jul 29, 2007 6:33 pm
|Scott Wisher
|Colorado County Highpoint #20
Date Climbed: Jul 13, 2007
|I made it about one-half mile in the first time I tried only to be turned back by a July snow/hail storm that covered my car in ice. After the storm, I summited in about an hour. Ended up camping at Blowout Pass. Beautiful area to camp.
|Posted Jul 15, 2007 10:30 pm
|Bennett Peak
Date Climbed: Sep 2, 2005
|A gentle but scenic mountain.
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Strong week ends with small losses
US stocks closed slightly lower on Friday, retreating from the previous session's record highs on a drop in financial shares, but major indexes had the biggest weekly gains since the first week of the year.
- SPI futures fell 19 points to 4997 in offshore trade
- The Australian dollar dropped 0.4% to $US1.0508
- Spot gold plunged 4.1% to $US1493 an ounce
- Brent crude hit nine-month low of $US101.09
- The FTSE fell 0.5%, while the DAX dropped 1.6%
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down just 0.08 points at 14,865.06. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was down 4.51 points, or 0.3 per cent, at 1,588.86. The Nasdaq Composite Index was down 5.21 points, or 0.2 per cent, at 3,294.95.
Shares pared losses in the final hour of trading, with the Dow helped by a rally in Home Depot. For the week, the S&P 500 rose 2.3 per cent while the Nasdaq rose 2.8 per cent. It was the best weekly gain for both since the first week of the year. The Dow rose 2.1 per cent.
Meanwhile, major commodity markets fell sharply, with oil tumbling to a nine-month low and gold hitting a 20-month low as investors dumped the commodities on worries about a weak global economic outlook and a plan for Cyprus to sell gold reserves.
Spot gold fell more than 4 per cent, hitting a session low of $US1493.35 an ounce, the lowest since July 2011.
Back on Wall Street, financial stocks were pressured on Friday by a pair of disappointing bank results and a delay in closing a large bank deal.
Weak retail sales and consumer sentiment data, suggesting the economy lost momenturm, also weighed on stocks.
The string of discouraging data indicates that equities could be vulnerable to a pullback, especially following a rally that has taken the S&P 500 up 11.4 per cent so far this year. Telecom and healthcare, two defensive groups, were among the few S&P sectors in positive territory.
"We're due for choppiness, given the run we've had, especially since the strong data we've seen recently looks increasingly misleading," said Hank Herrmann, chief executive of Waddell & Reed Financial.
"We're moving at a slower pace, and those who got overly excited about GDP growth are probably pulling in their horns a bit."
On Thursday, the Dow and the S&P 500 closed at all-time highs.
Both JPMorgan Chase & Co and Wells Fargo & Co were lower after reporting results, with JPMorgan hit by a decline in revenue and Wells Fargo by a reduction in home loans. Shares of Wells dropped 0.8 per cent to $US37.21 while JPMorgan, a Dow component, was off 0.6 per cent at $US49.01.
"The numbers weren't terrible, but also not terribly inspiring," said Herrmann. "I wanted to see more credit growth as confirmation that the economy is doing better and that didn't show up."
Earnings for S&P 500 companies are expected to grow at a modest 1.2 per cent in the first quarter, down from a January forecast of more than 4 per cent, according to Thomson Reuters data. With only 6 per cent of the S&P having reported thus far, 62 per cent of companies have beaten expectations.
The S&P financial sector lost 0.4 per cent and was hurt by a delay in the closing of M&T Bank Corp's acquisition of Hudson City Bancorp.
M&T shed 4.5 per cent to $US100.24 while Hudson slumped 5.5 per cent to $US8.29 as one of the S&P's biggest percentage decliners.
Losses were offset in the Dow by Home Depot, which jumped 2.4 per cent to $US73.62 after Jefferies & Co upgraded the stock on expectations of strong first-quarter same-store sales.
Data showed retail sales fell 0.4 per cent in March, while February's strong gain was revised down slightly. Consumer spending plays a key role in the US economy, accounting for two-thirds of activity.
Another report showed consumer sentiment fell to a nine-month low in early April amid gloom about the long-term health prospects for the US economy.
Investors have been rattled by indications economic growth could be softening, particularly after last week's disappointing jobs number, though that has not derailed the market rally so far.
The advance in equities in recent months was partly buoyed by the Federal Reserve's economic stimulus efforts, and analysts are viewing the first-quarter earnings season as a test for whether those gains are justified by corporate performance.
Material and energy stocks also fell alongside a drop in oil and precious metal prices. Oil prices sank 2.8 per cent to an eight-month low while gold hit its lowest since July 2011. Prices were hit by concerns over the global economic outlook and the impact it could have on demand.
Newmont Mining fell 5.9 per cent to $US36.37 while Newfield Exploration was down 4.1 per cent to $US21.70. The SPDR Gold Shares ETF fell 4.7 per cent to $US143.95 and hit its lowest close since May 2011. Friday marked the worst day for the gold ETF since February 2012.
About 58 per cent of companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange closed lower while 57 per cent of Nasdaq-listed shares closed in negative territory.
Volume was light, with about 5.94 billion shares changing hands on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and NYSE MKT, below the daily average so far this year of about 6.36 billion shares.
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Your chance to fight human trafficking [Livestream]
It's easy to get disillusioned with political debate. Frequently, it degenerates into petty point-scoring and partisan bickering. Constructive dialogue, it seems, often disappears out the window.
So it's nice when an issue comes along on which nearly everybody can agree. One such issue is the problem of human trafficking -- the use of fraud, force, or coercion to exploit a child or adult for profit. It's estimated that there are more than 12 million trafficked people in the world today -- a $32 billion industry. Every day, children are forced to perform sexual acts or work long hours in filthy, dangerous conditions for the financial benefit of someone else.
Sometimes, I imagine my own children forced into this position, and my mind almost blanks out at the horror of it.
In 2000, Congress unanimously passed the Trafficking Victims Protection Act -- widely regarded as the most comprehensive piece of human-rights legislation in U.S. history. The act has done much to protect the vulnerable and support trafficking survivors. At the same time, it has given law-enforcement agencies the tools to prosecute traffickers -- both for crimes committed in the United States and abroad.


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The bridge failed a 2011 inspection for the minimum federal weight requirements. At the time, Western New York and Pennsylvania (WNYP) had $1.6 million in funding for tie replacement. But "after receiving permission from the New York State Department of Transportation, we moved the funding from replacement of the ties to what became construction of a new bridge in Falconer," Belke told local media.
Wrap-up work includes construction of a walkway and the restoration of a 1½-acre site classified as wetlands, Belke said. Work should be completed by next May.
About $500,000 in funds is left over, which Belke would like to apply to its original purpose, tie replacement. That would require the assent of New York's Department of Transportationsand the Regional Eonomic Development Council for the Western Region.
Falconer, N.Y.-based WNYP also will receive more than $1 million from the state DOT for replacement of 8,000 ties from Olean, N.Y., to the Pennsylvania border, and a Pennsylvania DOT grant of $840,000 to replace about 12,000 ties over a 14½-mile section of the railroad's Oil City branch in the Keystone State


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Computer Entertainment, Inc. (SCEI) has been thus far relatively successful at preventing pesky
hackers from gaining full access to its PS3, opening the door to piracy,
homebrews, and heavy modding. Those happy days for SCEI may soon be at an
end, though.
A team of German hackers called fail0verflow (Twitter, the group is currently building a webpage) developed a hack to calculate the
super-secret security keys that the PS3 uses to determine if an application is
legitimate or not. The "epic PS3 security bypass" opens the
door to just about everything ambitious console hackers ever dreamed of,
As the hack makes
use [video] of a smartphone, like an iPhone or Android phone,
iPhone expert hacker Geohot (real name George Hotz) became involved and has
officially released a polished version of the exploit.
He writes:
props to fail0verflow for the asymmetric half
no donate link, just use this info wisely
i do not condone piracy
if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me. any of you 3.
it'd be fun to be on the other side.
...and this is a real self, hello world
although it's not NPDRM, so it won't run off the hard drive
shouts to the guys who did PSL1GHT
without you, I couldn't release this
The Xbox 360's DRM protections were cracked some time ago. Microsoft has worked
to ban modded consoles from online play, though, so
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By Naomi Dillon
While the U.S. economy has been looking up recently, the recovery has been slow to reach states and school districts. And with many states still facing budget gaps in the next fiscal year, districts must continue to find ways to save money and keep budget cuts as far away from the classroom as possible.
One area of money-saving potential is employee benefits. In fact, containing health care costs has dominated national attention in recent years, with federal and state legislation addressing the issue to varying degrees.
Signed into law in March 2010, President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act penalizes employers and individuals without coverage, subsidizes coverage for middle-class and working families, and forces insurance providers to keep rate increases reasonable. It faces stiff opposition and a legal challenge that the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule on by late June.
Meanwhile, several states have targeted health care benefits as part of a broader reform on public employee and collective bargaining rights. Although these political and legislative activities have had an impact on many district operations, by and large, the economy remains the biggest and most immediate obstacle to achieving balanced budgets.
With that in mind, school districts and school boards still can realize some savings while they continue to offer health care benefits to their employees.
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Winnebago Industries has introduced the 42JD floor plan to its lineup of 2012 Itasca Ellipse type A motorhomes. The Ellipse 42JD is built on a Maxum chassis and is equipped with three slideouts, including a full-wall slide on the street side.
"There's not just one thing that makes this floor plan appealing – there are many …" said, Roger Martin, Winnebago Industries' vice president of sales and marketing.
Highlights of the 42JD floor plan:
- a large rear bathroom in the rear with his and her sinks;
- dual wardrobes in the bedroom;
- a lounge area with opposing couches; and
- two TVs in the living area – a 32-inch LED HDTV mid-coach and a 40-inch LCD HDTV in the front overhead.
The dining area offers a buffet with extendable dining table and chairs and a four-door refrigerator. A residential-style Maytag French-door refrigerator is optional.
The galley features Pantry x2, which offers double the pantry storage thanks to swing-out doors. High-end Corian solid-surface countertops, backsplash and sink covers are additional galley highlights.
The large master bath includes his and her sinks, a large curved Big Shower with skylight, dual master bath wardrobes and optional stacked washer and dryer. A guest bath is positioned for easy access mid-coach.
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text: AirAsia wins sixth TTG 'Best Asian Low-Cost Carrier' award! Sepang, 8 October 2012 AirAsia was again hailed as the 'Best Asian Low-Cost Carrier' award winner by TTG, Asia-Pacific's leading travel news publisher, at the 23rd Annual TTG Travel Awards in Bangkok recently. The airline retained its top spot for the sixth time, with the preceding accolade received in 2011. According to TTG, the event was attended by a total of 700 members of the Asia-Pacific travel trade and garnered a total of 60,000 valid votes—compared to 49,000 votes last year and a 20 percent increase—from June to August for its voted titles. AirAsia was ultimately handed the crown in the Best Asian Low-Cost Carrier category, after the majority validated that the airline's popularity among travel trade insiders and the travelling public. AirAsia Thailand Director of Business Development, M.L. Bovornovadep Devakula, represented AirAsia Group to receive the award. AirAsia Group CEO, Tony Fernandes said, "A great achievement for us to come up tops in the Best Asian Low-Cost Carrier category. It reflects our commitment to excellence and dedication in providing the best to our guests. To be recognized by an industry insider such as TTG is an honour for us, more motivation to strive even harder in delivering unparalled products and services. An award for our achievement is amazing, but we must not be complacent but instead remain focused in our quest to provide amazing low fares, superior network and exceptional service." This is not the first time AirAsia has been awarded with the Best Asian Low-Cost Carrier title from TTG. The airline was voted winner of the category in 2005, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. In 2009, Tony Fernandes was named 'Travel Personality of the Year' by the editorial board of TTG. TTG Asia Media Managing Director, Darren Ng said, "It's heartening to see our industry colleagues innovate and reinvent their products to stay relevant and in demand. The fact that so many of our winners can return to reclaim their titles is testament to their constant drive for improvement, amidst so many other up-and-coming competitors." This award from TTG follows other significant accolades that the airline has received in 2012. On 5 July this year, Aviation Week--highly influential aviation industry magazine in the United States--announced AirAsia as the winner in the magazine's Top-Performing Airlines 2012 report, the leading annual rankings and competitive analysis for the global airline industry. The airline defeated other established and once-renowned airlines and even Europe's largest low cost carrier. AirAsia was also ranked highest in the US $250 million-$2 billion annual revenue category. A week later on 13 July, the world's air travellers--19 million of them—gave their verdict and AirAsia was once again Skytrax's World's Best Low-Cost Airline for the fourth consecutive year! The Skytrax World Airline Survey is an annual global survey conducted by respected London-based aviation consultants Skytrax, and AirAsia came out tops in the independent survey that measures airlines' product and service standards. AirAsia is a household name which has flown over 150 million guests since it was established ten years ago with a mission to democratize air travel in the region and has been operationally profitable from day one of its launch as a low-cost carrier. The airline also has affiliates in Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Japan, apart from Malaysia servicing 80 destinations across 20 countries.


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Skip to comments.Caregivers Accused Of Abusing Man With Autism (video)
Posted on 03/21/2013 4:42:57 PM PDT by Signalman
A mother says she is devastated, after hidden cameras captured caregivers physically abusing her adult disabled son. Its hard for me to forgive myself that I took my son and put him in their hand, like you take your son to hell, Kathy Coleman says.
Caregivers were recorded by hidden cameras kicking and punching her son Cameron, stomping on his face, spitting on him, whipping him with a chain and threatening him, possibly even shooting him with a pellet gun.
My son is sick. Does he deserve this? Coleman asks. Cameron is a 31-year-old man with autism. He doesnt speak and has the IQ of a 3-year-old boy, Kathy says.
People who pick on the weak are the lowest form of scum. What more can be said? Lock them up and throw away the key.
I agree. If the story is true they should spend a very long time in prison.
I wish I could but I have a dial-up modem. That is all that is available here unless I want to pay through the nose for satellite.
I guess you are saying the story is true. If so it literally almost brings me to tears that someone could be treated that way.
The video said the state is paying 18K a month to the facility.
For that much money each family could hire three people full time for respite care, and pay them VERY well with full benefits - the staffers usually get paid $10-12/hour if working for a private contractor, somewhat more for the state.
The perps wont spend much, if any, time in prison, though.
Because investigating and punishing all those involved in wrongdoing would be...wait for it...RACIST!
Can't force dishonest healthcare companies to perform simple cursory background checks on entry level employees with primary access to helpless, disabled people,can we?
The "system" is already overloaded from checking on the daily activities of citizens who are registered voters in the "wrong party".
This is why we are preparing as best we can to give our son a home before we die, and to arrange for only FAMILY MEMBERS to take care of him. We are going to hope, anyway ...
Just do not want to rely on government, or any outside "agencies" of any kind to take care of him, EVER. I know in my heart they will not care for him like family can.
I really feel sorry for the Mother having to know what they were doing to her child.
People think that caregivers should be nice. That isolated people in isolated environments should be nice.
They arent. That is why our forefathers and mothers put the mentally retarded in large centers. Where there were a lot of eyes watching. Was there some bad happening then. Yes, but not so much as there is now.
The son of an illegal immigrant asks his dad, Dad, whats democracy?
Well, son, thats when the Americans work and we get all the benefits from it!
But Dad, arent the American people unhappy about that?
Sure they are son, but thats called racism.
This is so true. If my 18 year old son with autism does not live at home, he will live in what is left of the state residential homes (only a couple). These small private places are scandalous privateers with minimal oversight, often staffed by criminals and illegals.
evil low life creeps, I am glad they are headed for prison
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My club, at the moment until I switch clubs in order to get a longer fall/winter season, Riverside SC is where Jennifer Robinson began to learn to skate and continued to skate until she was 13 and then had to find a bigger pad of ice in Barrie at Mariposa Winter Club. Riverside still has her pictures up in the showcase of her when she was a kid. My doctor's office has her mom working there and they're very pro Jennifer.
Where I am thinking about joining, Champions Training Centre/Club Tecumseh, novice men's skater Daniel Miller presently skates. I'll also get an NHL size rink when I switch instead of the rinky dink Riverside rink that I skated in this passed season.
Where I use to skate, Windsor FSC, juvenile pair skater Denis Ma still skates in the fall/winter.


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"Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths, and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply"
"Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was."
"Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience."
"As the valley gives height to the mountain, so can sorrow give meaning to pleasure; as the well is the source of the fountain, deep adversity can be a treasure."
"Somehow I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four C s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and consta"
"The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy."


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I like him... both safeties from the Georgia schools (Reshad Jones) are high on my list for 61.
He's a well balanced FS with good range and supports the run well. He did get beat deep a couple times last year and despite his INT total, his ball skills could use some work.
But he's big, fast and strong and seems to have a pretty good head on his shoulders. A good CF type of FS and a nice fit here IMO.


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Not In Our Town: Light in the Darkness documents the story of a town standing together to take action after a hate crime killing devastates their community. This documentary addresses the growing problem of anti-immigrant violence in communities nationwide. In 2008, a series of attacks by a group of seven local teenagers against Latino residents of the Long Island, New York town of Patchogue ended with the killing of 37-year-old Marcelo Lucero. An Ecuadorian immigrant, Lucero had been a Patchogue resident for 13 years. Filmed over a two-year period, the documentary follows Mayor Paul Pontieri, the victim's brother Joselo Lucero, diverse community leaders, residents and students as they openly address the underlying causes of the violence, work to heal divisions and initiate ongoing action to ensure everyone in their village will be safe and respected. A panel discussion follows the film. This program is part of One City One Book, San Francisco Reads.
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Four-star offensive lineman Brendan Mahon of Randolph, N.J., has had a lot more to deal with recently than most top recruits.
After committing to Penn State back in March, he faces constant questions regarding the school's NCAA sanctions. Yet for now he can focus on something else. On Friday, the top lineman was able to receive his U.S. Army All-American Bowl jersey.
"When I was invited I was beyond thrilled," said Mahon, who stands 6-foot-5 and 310 pounds. "I worked so hard for it, and it was always something I wanted to do. I really pushed myself and went to all of the extra combines so that I can could it. I was very excited."
Mahon had wanted to play in the U.S. Army All-American Bowl for quite some time, and his time at the U.S. Army All-American Combine back in January in San Antonio only further solidified these thoughts.
"It absolutely made me want to play in the game," he said. "There is nothing better than competing against the best in the country, and I think I can hang at that level. It's a great accomplishment, and I have a chance to prove myself."
Since Mahon accepted his invitation several months ago, he had been anticipating the day that he would finally receive his official game jersey.
"I've been excited and I've been waiting for this," he said. "I've been working very hard for this. I was thrilled to get the jersey. It's a very emotional day."
Now with the jersey in his possession, Mahon can turn his attention to the actual game.
"I just want to play to the best of my ability, because everyone else is going in the same way," he said. "I hope all of the hard work pays off."
Mahon will also have the advantage of making the trip to San Antonio with his good friend and future teammate at Penn State, Garrett Sickels.
"I was actually with him on Saturday and we talked about it," he said. "We're both really excited. It'll be a good thing to experience together. Our families have also become very close, so it will be fun."
Mahon will also use the game as an opportunity to prove to everyone that New Jersey produces some of the top talent in the country.
"Jersey definitely produces top notch kids, just like all of the states in the South," he said. "Jersey can produce kids that are just as good, if not better."
As would be expected, Mahon's family is also ready for this opportunity.
"They're really excited for me," he said. "They've seen me work very hard and they've seen how much I put into the sport. They're happy that it's a reality now."
Now in the midst of his senior season, Mahon has often been asked about his future regarding his commitment to Penn State. While other previously committed players have had a change of mind and moved on, Mahon is part of what seems to be a very strong nucleus of commitments who have maintained
their loyalty to the Nittany Lions.
"I'm 100 percent committed to Penn State," said Mahon.
In order to further strengthen his ties at Penn State, Mahon has made it a point to take several visits.
"I went to the opener, which was great," he said. "I'm hoping to make another visit, probably in the next month. I'm trying to get up there as much as possible. I'm also looking forward to my official visit, but that will be sometime after both the Penn State and Randolph season are over."
On the field this fall, Mahon is excited about the possibilities for his team.
"We're 2-1 right now," he said. "I'll be happy if we make it to the state championship game and win. But we're taking it one game at a time. I know my pass blocking has gotten much better. I'm taking it one step at a time and improving on everything."
Mahon will be a part of the East team that will take on the West in the 13th annual U.S. Army All-American Bowl at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, on Jan. 5.
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"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community... Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own."
"Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you."
"To have a group of cloistered clinicians away completely from the broad current of professional life would be bad for teacher and worse for student. The primary work of a professor of medicine in a medical school is in the wards, teaching his pupils how to deal with patients and their diseases."
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text: You gotta remember Fields played with much confidence too early on last year. If Fields gets chemistry with Davis, and if Shumpert continues to show confidence and plays well, then we can make a much, much better judgement. We know D'Antoni is gonna start Fields early on, what if the other starters aren't clicking with Fields? That might mean having him come off the bench when B. Diddy comes back isn't a good idea. If Shumpert has "it", then he'll get it, whether it's off the bench or being a starter. I think don't D'Antoni will wait around this time for a rookie to get earned minutes,


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Report of Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge, C. S. Army,
commanding division.
AUGUST 16-SEPTEMBER 22, 1863.--The Chickamauga Campaign.
October--, 1863.
Lieut. Col. ARCHER ANDERSON,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
COLONEL: I have the honor to report the operations of my division in the battle of Chickamauga on September 19 and 20 last.
It was composed of the Second, Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Kentucky, and Forty-first Alabama Regiments, with Cobb's battery; under the command of Brig. Gen. B. H. Helm; the Thirteenth, Twentieth, Sixteenth, Twenty-fifth, and Nineteenth Louisiana, Thirty-second Alabama, and Austin's battalion of sharpshooters, with Slocomb's battery (Fifth[Company]Washington Artillery), under the command of Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Adams; the First, Third, and Fourth Florida, Forty-seventh Georgia, and Sixtieth North Carolina Regiments, with Mebane's battery, under the command of Brig. Gen. M. A. Stovall.
My effective strength was, of enlisted men, 3,395; total, 3,769.
At daylight of the l8th, my command moved from Catlett's Gap and that neighborhood in the Pigeon Mountain, and the same afternoon took position on the east bank of the Chickamauga, near Glass' Mill, and composed the extreme left of the infantry of the army. I immediately threw the Second Kentucky across the ford to skirmish with the enemy and reveal his position, the Sixth Kentucky being placed in close supporting distance at the mill. Adams' brigade was sent, by order of Lieutenant-General Hill, to a ford a mile and a half above, where the enemy, as the cavalry reported, threatened to cross. It was so late when these dispositions were made that nothing satisfactory was developed that night.
On the morning of the 19th, Slocomb, with four guns, Cobb with two, and the remainder of Helm's brigade were moved across Glass' Ford, to ascertain the position of the enemy, while the two rifled pieces of Slocomb's battery, under Lieutenant Vaught, took position on a bluff upon the east side of the stream. An artillery engagement ensued, much to our advantage, until the enemy, who occupied the better position, brought forward a number of heavy guns and showed the greater weight of metal. While the engagement was progress ing, I received an order from Lieutenant-General Hill to withdraw my command, if it could be done without too great peril, and take position about 3 miles south of Lee and Gordon's Mills on the road leading from Chattanooga to La Fayette, and so as to cover the approach to that road from Glass' Mill and the ford above, leaving a regiment and section of artillery to observe those crossings. The movement was made in good order, Colonel Dilworth, with the First and Third (consolidated) Florida and a section of Cobb's battery, being left in observation.
Our casualties, which fell upon Slocomb, Cobb, and Helm, were 22 killed and wounded.
The loss of the enemy in killed alone, as shown by an examination of the ground after the 20th, was nearly equal to the sum of our casualties.
Although the enemy was in considerable strength at the fords above referred to, the result showed that it was a covering force to columns passing down the valley to unite with the center, and left of his army. Soon after taking up the new position I was ordered to relieve Brig. Gen. Patton Anderson's division, which was facing the enemy opposite Lee and Gordon's Mills. The troops marched rapidly, yet it was late in the afternoon before this movement was completed. The division was hardly in position when I received an order from the general commanding the army to move to the right, cross the Chickamauga at a point farther down, and occupy a position to be indicated. The di vision crossed at Alexander's Bridge, and arriving between 10 and 11 o'clock at night at a field about a mile and a half in rear of the right of our line of battle, bivouacked there by order of Lieutenant-General Polk. Remaining some time at Lieutenant-General Polk's camp fire, I left there two hours before daylight the 20th, to place my command in position.
During the night, General Polk informed me that I was to prolong the line of battle upon the right of Major-General Cleburne. Conducted by Major [Calhoun Benham?], of his staff, and Lieutenant Reid, aide-de-camp to General Hill, my division reached Cleburne's right a little after daybreak. Upon the readjustment of his line, I formed on his right and became the extreme right of the General line of battle. Helm was on the left of my line, Stovall in the center, and Adams on the right, the last extending across a country road leading from Reed's Bridge and striking the Chattanooga road at a place called Glenn's farm. The country was wooded with small openings, and the ground unknown to me. Our skirmishers, a few hundred yards in advance, confronted those of the enemy. Our line was supposed to be parallel to the Chattanooga road.
Soon after sunrise I received a note from Lieutenant-General Polk directing me to advance, and about the same time Major-General Cleburne, who happened to be with me, received one of the same tenor. Lieutenant-General Hill having arrived, the notes were placed in his hands. By his order the movement was delayed for the troops to get their rations, and on other accounts.
Dilworth, who had been relieved by a cavalry force late the preceding evening, and who had marched all night, now arrived and took his place in line. At 9.30 a.m., by order of Lieutenant-General Hill, I moved my division forward in search of the enemy. At the distance of 700 yards we came upon him in force, and the battle was opened by Helm's brigade with great fury. The Second and Ninth Kentucky, with three companies of the Forty-first Alabama, encountered the left of a line of breastworks before reaching the Chattanooga road and, though assailing them with great courage, were compelled to pause. From some cause the line on my left had not advanced simultaneously with my division, and in consequence, from the form of the enemy's works, these brave troops were, in addition to the fire in front, subjected to a severe enfilading fire from the left. Twice they renewed the assault with the utmost resolution, but were too weak to storm the position. The rest of Helm's brigade, in whose front there were no works, after a short but sharp engagement, routed a line of the enemy, pursued it across the Chattanooga road, and captured a section of artillery posted in the center of the road. This portion of the brigade was now brought under a heavy front and enfilading fire, and being separated from its left and without support, I ordered CoL Joseph H. Lewis, of the Sixth Kentucky, who succeeded to the command upon the fall of General Helm, to withdraw the troops some 200 yards to the rear, reunite the brigade, and change his front slightly to meet the new order of things by throwing forward his right and retiring his left. The movement was made without panic or confusion.
This was one of the bloodiest encounters of the day. Here General Helm, ever ready for action, and endeared to his command by his many virtues, received a mortal wound while in the heroic discharge of his duty. Colonel Hewitt, of the Second Kentucky, was killed, acting gallantly at the head of his regiment. Captain Madeira, Captain Rodgers, and Captain Dedman, of the Second; Captain Daniel, of the Ninth Kentucky, and many other officers and men, met their death before the enemy's works, while Colonel Nuckols, of the Fourth Kentucky; Colonel Caldwell, of the Ninth, and many more officers and men were wounded.
In the meantime, Adams and Stovall advanced steadily, driving back two lines of skirmishers. Stovall halted at the Chattanooga road. Adams, after dispersing a regiment and capturing a battery, crossed the road at Glenn's farm and halted a short distance beyond ia an open field.
When Helm's brigade was checked, and I had given Colonel Lewis orders in reference to his new position, I rode to the commands of Adams and Stovall, on the right. It was now evident, from the comparatively slight resistance they had encountered and the fact that they were not threatened ia front, that our line had extended beyond the enemy's left. I at once ordered these brigades to change front perpendicular to the original line of battle, and with the left of Adams and the right of Stovall resting on the Chattanooga road to advance upon the flank of the enemy. Slocomb's battery, which had previously done good service, was posted on favorable ground on the west of the road to support the movement. The brigades advanced in fine order over a field and entered the woods beyond. Stovall soon encountered the extreme left of the enemy's works, which, retiring from the general north and south direction of his intrenchments, extended westwardly nearly to the Chattanooga road. After a severe and well-contested conflict, he was checked and forced to retire. Adams, on the west of the road, met two lines of the enemy, who had improved the short time to bring up re-enforcements and reform nearly at a right angle to the troops in his main line of works. The first line was routed, but it was found impossible to break the second, aided as it was by artillery, and after a sanguinary contest which reflected high honor on the brigade, it was forced back in some confusion. Here General Adams, who is as remarkable for his judgment on the field as for his courage, was severely wounded and fell into the hands of the enemy.
Among the casualties, Lieutenant-Colonel Turner, of the Nineteenth Louisiana, was wounded, and the gallant Major Butler, of the same regiment, was killed. Stovall had gained a point beyond the angle of the enemy's main line of works. Adams had advanced still farther, being actually in rear of his intrenchments. A good supporting line to my division at this moment would probably have produced decisive results. As it was, the engagement on our right had inflicted on the enemy heavy losses and compelled him to weaken other parts of his line to hold his vital point. Adams' brigade reformed behind Slocomb's battery, which repulsed the enemy by a rapid and well-directed fire, rendering on this occasion important and distinguished service. By order of Lieutenant-General Hill, my division was withdrawn a short distance to recruit, while the troops of Major-General Walker engaged the enemy. My new line was about 600 yards in advance of the position on which I first formed in the morning, with a slight change of direction, which brought my right relatively nearer to the Chattanooga road.
Soon after taking this position an attack was reported on our right flank. It proved to be Granger's corps coming up from Rossville and threatening our right with a part of his force. At the re,-quest of Brigadier-General Forrest, I sent him a section of Cobb s battery, under the command of Lieutenant Gracey, who assisted handsomely in repelling the enemy. At the request of the brigade commanders, the artillery of the division had been ordered to report to the brigades with which they were accustomed to serve. Cobb's battery, from the nature of the ground, could not participate to its accustomed extent yet as opportunity offered it displayed its accustomed gallantry. The excellent battery of Captain Mebane, for the same reason, was able to take little part in the action.
The afternoon was waning, and the enemy still obstinately confronted us in his intrenchments. I received permission from Lieutenant-General Hill to make another charge. A line of troops on my right and covering a part of my front advanced at the same time. A portion of these troops obliqued to the right, and my line passed through the rest, who seemed to be out of ammunition, so that after moving a few hundred yards the enemy alone was in my front. The division advanced with intrepidity under a severe fire and dashed over the left of the intrenchments. In passing them I saw on my left the right of Major-General Cleburne, whose brave division stormed the center. Several hundred of the enemy ran through our lines to the rear. The rest were pursued several hundred yards and beyond the Chattanooga road. Of these some were killed and a good many taken prisoners, but most of them escaped in the darkness. It was now night. Pursuit was stopped by order of General Hill, and throwing out pickets, I bivouacked in line near the road.
The prisoners taken by my command during the day, of whom there was a considerable number, were allowed to go to the rear, since details could not be spared for them, and it was known they would be gathered up there. The division captured 9 pieces of artillery. I am aware that it is usually the whole army (not a part of it) that takes guns from the enemy, and that often the troops who obtain possession of them owe their good fortune quite as much to fire from the right and left as to their own efforts; yet I think it due to my command to say that in regard to 6 at least of these guns such considerations do not apply, and that they were taken without assistance from any other troops.
My total casualties, as shown by official reports, amounted to 1,240, of which number 166 were killed, 909 wounded, and 165 missing.
To Brigadier-Generall Stovall, to Colonel Lewis, who succeeded to the command of Helm's brigade, and to Col. R. L. Gibson, who succeeded to the command of Adams' brigade, the country is indebted for the courage and skill with which they discharged their arduous duties.
The officers and men of the division, with exceptions so rare as to place in striking contrast to them the general good conduct, sustained their former reputation and were alike worthy of each other.
To the gentlemen of my staff, I feel sincere gratitude for the prompt, fearless, and cheerful manner in which they discharged their duties. Major Wilson, assistant adjutant-general; Colonel von Zinken, assistant inspector-general, who had 2 horses shot under him; Captain Mastin, assistant inspector-general, who received a contusion from a grape-shot; Lieutenant Breckinridge, aide-de-camp, whose horse was shot; Captain Semple, ordnance officer; Lieutenant Bertus, Twentieth Louisiana, acting assistant inspector-general; Dr. Heustis, chief surgeon; Dr. Kratz, on duty in the field, and Messrs. McGehee, Coleman, Mitchell, and Clay, volunteers on my staff, performed their duties in a manner to command my confidence and regard.
One member of my staff I cannot thank. Maj. R. E. Graves, chief of artillery, received a mortal wound in the action of Sunday, the 20th. Although a very young man, he had won eminence in arms, and he gave promise of the highest distinction. A truer friend, a purer patriot, a better soldier never lived.
I am, colonel, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Major-General, Army Confederate Slates.


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This tip sheet helps African Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less to lower their risk for diabetes.
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I just had a HOLY SHIT moment! I'll be damned if I see a better music video than this all year. It has everything: love, loss, anger, regret, redemption, destruction. Pimples being squeezed. 30 second thrash pop. Sets to make John Waters proud.
SF heroes Hunx And His Punx, aka the gorgeous Seth Bogart and his (mostly) all girl backing group, return with a new record in July called Street Punk, and to whet our salivating appetites to the point of drowning, have dropped a new clip featuring not one, not two, but THREE tracks squeezed into one 5 minute video. So, technically, it can't actually be called a music video, singular, which excludes it from end-of-the-year polls. That makes it even better.
But it doesn't matter what those poll-building squares decide anyway, man, we finally have the queer-punk Star Wars. Street Punk Trilogy defines a generation; like Lord Of The RIngs before it, it manages to convey that universal mystery of the human condition, while making bold statements about life in the late-capitalist, early 21st Century.
OK, full disclosure: one of the highlights of my performing career so far has been warming up for Hunx & His Punx last year in Manchester (pics cos it happened) so of course I am biased. They are super-nice people, and, most importantly, they are brilliant. So really, it doesn't matter what I say or how much hyperbole I lay out, this video is still ace, and I dare any of you to watch it and not lol at least once.
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Victoria City Council looks to beef up juvenile court program
Feb. 18, 2014 at 9:05 p.m.
Updated Feb. 17, 2014 at 8:18 p.m.
Victoria Municipal Court soon could have a new staffer heading up juvenile cases if the Victoria City Council gives final approval.
During Tuesday's council meeting, City Attorney Thomas Gwosdz presented a plan to study whether two fees totaling $6 would allow the court to expand its accountability program and whether that program would be viable for the city.
Because it's difficult to issue warrants to juveniles, accountability for juveniles is another obstacle. A juvenile case manager is a person on staff of the municipal court who would help track those juveniles through the system.
The city has never begun that program partly because state funding has never been up to the level to cover the entire cost of the program, Gwosdz said.
However, the most recent legislative session allowed for a new $2 fee applied to most citations that cities can split evenly with the state if the city has or is considering a juvenile case manager program. The remainder of the cost would come from another $5 court fee the city is not yet collecting.
Gwosdz estimates Victoria's court could bring in $38,000 to put toward salary and benefits for that position. The job description has not been set, but Gwosdz said it would involve managing the juvenile docket for the court and might be a blend of clerical and social worker responsibilities.
Councilman Tom Halepaska said it comes down to a multi-agency community concern.
He said it "very well can be" a positive tool for the city but said he wants to make sure it will be effective before voting on adding a new employee.
Tiffany Totah handles juvenile cases for the municipal judge and spoke at Tuesday's meeting. She said all juveniles have to see the judge; some cases include disorderly conduct, trespassing on school grounds, curfew and traffic violations.
"Any citation an adult can get, a juvenile can get," she said.
She said the program would allow the city to keep jurisdiction on cases that involve juveniles with two non-traffic related violations.


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I'm wondering if it would be common for a British person to call a black eye a "shiner". If not, is there a specific slang term for it?
I'm wondering if it would be common for a British person to call a black eye a "shiner". If not, is there a specific slang term for it?
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Yep, I use shiner. I think you're fine with that. I don't know anything else it would be called, but others may know some.
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Thanks, both Sarah and Neil.
Okay, you've piqued my curiosity -- what is a Glasgow Kiss?
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Is there a particular name for a holiday home in Britain? We call a holiday home a 'bach' in New Zealand but I'm pretty sure that's only used down here at the bottom of the world. Holiday home sounds a bit strange and I was wondering if there was any colloquial term as such that I could use instead.
I've never heard the term 'bach' before. I don't think there is any particular term for a holiday home over here. People will sometimes call them 'second homes,' but that also includes people who have a home somewhere and then maybe a flat in the city close to work. (See the expenses scandal.) In general, I don't think it is very common to have a holiday home, though I suppose there are quite a few people who own flats or houses in Spain etc.Originally Posted by the opaleye
Holiday homes, as in a second home used only for a few weeks of the year by the owner but sometimes rented out to third parties does not have any name other than holiday home (or holiday cottage) so far as Im aware.
In my part of England most "holiday cottages" are owned by local landowners and rented out. Absentee owners still occasionally have problems, tough I havent heard of any in my area, there were a couple of holiday homes burnt down in Wales last year. This used to be very common (stereotype warning) because rich Londoners are buying up properties and artificially inflating prices so that locals cant afford to buy properties where they have always lived."
I agree that we don't really have a term for it. We used to have a cottage in Wales that we rented out to a local family and went there for summer holidays, but we sold it a few years ago. We only ever called that a holiday cottage, or just by its name which I can't spell because its so incredibly Welsh.
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Rapha and Broughton Hall present Rapha Tempest, a weekend festival of road cycling, as the world's greatest race comes to Yorkshire. A feast of riding, music, films and culinary indulgence, you and your family can immerse yourself in the culture, history and drama of road cycling. With the race route only a short walk away, and large screens across the campsite, you're guaranteed a front-row seat and the chance to experience the greatest sporting event in the world first hand.
Broughton Hall is a familiar venue to Rapha, having hosted the first round of the Rapha Super Cross Series for the last two years. As the family seat of the Tempests, prominent in the area since the Middle Ages, the grounds are steeped in history. Currently home to Sir Roger Tempest, the 7th baronet, the hall is also ideally situated near Skipton, close to stages one and two of the world's greatest cycling race.
For Rapha, this will also be a chance to celebrate. The race's departure from the UK coincides with Rapha's 10th birthday, and we want to invite all our customers and friends to share in the festivities and explore the surrounding area.
Whether you're riding or race-watching, the Rapha Tempest will offer something for everyone, through our carefully selected activities and partners. Along with festival food and drink, we will be hosting guided rides through the spectacular Yorkshire countryside, as well as a special Rapha Super Cross event. There will also be a rider recovery zone, bike parking, and much more.
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Alongside watching the sport's best pro cycling teams speed past Broughton Hall's front door, Rapha Tempest brings you rides and races, luxury camping, visual displays, market stalls, open-air cinema, music, food and drink, workshops, talks and plenty of festive revelry in an idyllic environment:
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Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
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Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds me thought would open, and show riches
Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked,
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Inside the dark blue-gray cover of The Sphinx, the 1938 yearbook of The Citadel, are hundreds of photos of young men, almost all of them bound for the military and then the war that would soon make its way to the U.S. Many of them never came home from that war.
"Too many of them," said Deets Williams, who ended up marrying one of the freshmen in the 75-year-old yearbook.
Her husband, Robert Williams — a baby-faced teen in that book — made it home safely from his stint in World War II. He was in the Army, serving in military hospitals in Okinawa and Korea, during and after the final months of the war.
But he never got a diploma from The Citadel, the military college in Charleston, S.C.
Until this past weekend.
On Saturday, there was a family-organized ceremony for him at his apartment in Vicar's Landing, a retirement community in Ponte Vedra Beach. A 2013 Citadel grad, Marine 2nd Lt. Scott Holmes, attended, and presented him with a diploma for the class of 1949 — 64 years later.
That wore him out.
Williams is 93 and in poor health. He rose to the occasion for the ceremony, said his son, Bob Williams, and was visibly moved during it. But Sunday, the day after, he was in the facility's nursing home, too ill to talk about his brand-new diploma.
"Today is really not a good day," said his wife.
Williams enrolled at The Citadel in 1938, took a year off to help family after his father's death, then returned for two more years. He left with a year to go though: During the war he, as a budding dentist, was allowed to attend dental school at Temple University. While there, he was drafted and sent to serve in the military hospitals in Asia.
His brother, Vincent Williams, 91, went to The Citadel as well. He was also in the Army during the war, but after his fighting was over he was able to return to the college to get his final year in. His older brother had other priorities.
"You want to finish something you started," Vincent Williams said, "though of course by that time he had a wife, a child on the way. He needed to get into practice."
After the war, Robert Williams returned to dental school at Temple and then started a practice in Connecticut. In 1972, he moved to Ponte Vedra and set up dental offices in several Northeast Florida communities. He eventually founded a prepaid dental care plan called Denticare of Florida, which he later sold to larger insurance company.
Bob Williams said his father was been a huge Jacksonville Jaguars fan since the team's inception. But over the years he also attended many Citadel football games, and often spoke proudly of going to the school. If you asked him what school he graduated from, he'd say The Citadel.
So last year, his son, a 59-year-old Asheville, N.C., resident, became determined to get his father a Citadel diploma. The school agreed this spring that he deserved one, as he'd served in the military and earned an advanced medical degree.
This weekend, he finally got a diploma from the school he loved.
"He got very emotional," Bob Williams said. "That's when I knew he was connecting. I was afraid he might not, but he was connected the whole time. He rallied for this."


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Implementing battery charger using Li-ion
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In Part One of this article, we discussed various battery types, their differences, and how to select a battery technology for a specific application. In this part, well discuss how to implement a battery charger using Li-Ion technology as the example.
Li-Ion battery chargers use constant current (CC) constant voltage (CV) profile for charging. The charging process passes through several stages to ensure the battery is charged to its full capacity while at the same time following certain safety rules. The CC-CV profile consists of several stages:
1. Pre-charge
2. Activation
3. Constant current
4. Constant voltage
Charging begins with a pre-charge stage to check if the battery is in good condition. During this stage, a small amount of current, usually 5 percent to 15 percent of the battery capacity, is provided to the battery. If the battery voltage rises above 2.8V, then the battery is considered in good condition and the charging process transitions to the Activation stage where the same amount of current is maintained for a longer duration of time. When the battery voltage rises above 3V, a rapid charge is initiated where a constant current equal to or less than the battery capacity is provided. This state is maintained till the battery voltage rises to full charge voltage (4.2V) or till time out; whichever is earlier. When the battery voltage reaches full charge voltage, the state is moved to a constant-voltage stage where the battery voltage is maintained constant. To achieve this, charging current has to be reduced over time. This stage of the charging process takes the longest time as compared to other stages of charging. In this process, when the charging current drops below the termination current limit, usually 2 percent of the battery capacity, the battery is fully charged and the charging process is stopped. Note that a time limit is kept for each stage of the charging process. This is one of the important safety features.
To implement this profile, battery voltage and charging current needs to be known at every time. Besides these, the temperature of the battery also needs to be kept in check. This is required because while charging, the battery tends to get heated. If the temperature exceeds the batterys specified limit, it can cause damage to the battery.
The user has two options when it comes to battery charger implementation: using a dedicated battery charger IC or a more general-purpose microcontroller. The first option offers a quick solution to the problem but with limited configurability and user interface options (LED indications). Alternatively, the use of a microcontroller will take longer to design but offers configurability options in addition to the potential to integrate other functions such as battery state of charge (SOC) calculation and sending such information over a communication interfaces to the host processor in the system. In addition, a microcontroller is not equipped with the power circuitry necessary for a charger and requires external BJTs or MOSFETs. However, the cost of these power components is lower as compared to the microcontrollers or dedicated charger ICs.


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The recent and long-awaited decision to expand the BCS National Championship Game to a four-team playoff was met with much fanfare, even if the resolution fell a little short of the eight-team tournament many had hoped for.
The folks at WhatIfSports.com couldn't help but ask the obvious question: What if a four-team playoff had been in place since the BCS first began in 1998? Using our college football simulation engine, we'll take a retrospective look to see how a few championships might have gone down had a playoff been in place.
This week, we step back to 2009.
When the dust settled on the regular season, five teams claimed undefeated records, including the top four in the final BCS standings. Alabama captured the No. 1 ranking by defeating previously-unbeaten and reigning national champion Florida in the SEC championship. Texas, meanwhile, snuck into the No. 2 spot in controversial fashion. A video replay placed one second back on the clock in the Big 12 championship and allowed Longhorns kicker Hunter Lawrence to nail a 46-yard field goal as time expired, securing a 13-12 victory over Nebraska. Cincinnati, TCU and Boise State also finished the regular season with unblemished records, ranking No. 3, No. 4 and No. 6, respectively, in the final BCS standings.
Boise State will have to watch this one from the sidelines as we advance the top four into a playoff.
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The BCS Playoff Championship Game got under way as Alabama kicked off to Texas. The Longhorns slowly advanced up the field before a 23-yard bruising run by Tre' Newton put the team in striking distance. A false start and a sack impeded the Longhorns' efforts, and a pass from Colt McCoy to Dan Buckner in the end zone fell incomplete. Texas settled for a 38-yard field goal, which Lawrence punched in for a 3-0 lead.
Things didn't begin so quickly for the Crimson Tide. As the second quarter began, Alabama punted for the third time, having yet to flirt with the end zone. Their luck changed midway through the quarter when Mark Ingram broke free for a 27-yard gain. Two plays later, freshman Trent Richardson ran 38 yards up the middle for paydirt and a 7-3 Alabama lead.
Two more field goals helped the Longhorns recapture the lead heading into the half, the latter coming with just 15 seconds remaining to secure a 9-7 advantage.
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Alabama backpedalled on the opening possession of the second half, surrendering prime field position to Texas. The Longhorns' drive fell short of the end zone yet again though, and Lawrence booted his fourth field goal of the game to extend the Texas advantage to 12-7.
The Crimson Tide responded with a field goal of their own as Leigh Tiffin demonstrated his range on a 49-yard try. It appeared as though Texas would hold a 12-10 edge heading into the fourth quarter, but Ingram saw things differently. With just 18 seconds remaining in the quarter, Ingram escaped for a 56-yard dash to the end zone. The score put 'Bama back in front, 17-12.
In the fourth quarter, Ingram again proved a big-play threat as he used a draw play to gain 55 yards and another touchdown. The Alabama lead stretched to 24-12.
Texas responded with a drive that included 15 rushing yards from Newton and three completions from Colt McCoy for 46 yards, including a 17-yard pass to Jordan Shipley to place the ball at the three-yard line. From there, Cody Johnson punched it in and narrowed the Longhorns deficit to 24-19.
Alas, Texas would get no closer. Richardson ripped off a 65-yard run on the next possession, setting up a Tiffin field goal. Still only down eight, the Longhorns' next two possessions ended in a fumble and a turnover on downs. Alabama recorded the 27-19 win.
Texas limited Alabama quarterback Greg McElroy to 95 yards in the loss, but surrendered numerous long runs to Ingram and Richardson. The duo combined for 306 yards rushing and three touchdowns. McCoy led Texas with 267 yards passing, including 10 completions for 124 yards to Shipley.
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They Got the Music in Them!
Lately I have been focusing a huge amount of my attention on the aspect of getting the Tampa Bay area convinced and enticed by the possibilities of this Rays team thrusting onward and upwards towards a possible American League Playoff spot. As the noose gets a bit tighter, and the ice begins to melt faster beneath all of our feet, I think it is time to back it down a notch and maybe have some fun today. Yeah, it is definitely a time to take a step back and chill for a moment and just have fun with today's blog.
Heck, I even began toying a bit with what if I had some sort of theme music, or a walk-up introduction music that would play if I walked into the stadium. And my personal choice of music would be Bon Jovi's hit "Have A Nice Day". I mean we all have thought about it for a few minutes, and we all have a few songs rolling around in our minds that might play out our hidden personalities and our music styles. Wouldn't it be too cool to have that music playing even if it is on our own personal Ipods every time we stepped down into the bowl of the stadium.
We all know that a player's walk-up music is a signature of their inner personalities that we might not see outside of the lines of the baseball field, and some them have some unusual and odd choice for their music. Some base it on childhood memories or a friendly reminding beat that gives them a sense of calm and clear mind just before they step into the batter box, or on the pitching rubber. But one of the wildest music I have heard is the music that accompanies J P Howell as he comes to the mound.
I have never asked Howell why he picks a song by Huey "Piano" Smith who was an important part of the great New Orleans piano tradition, following in the footsteps of Professor Longhair and Fats Domino to take his place among the Crescent City's R&B elite. He was also one of R&B's great comedians, his best singles matching the Coasters for genial, good-time humor, although his taste often ran more towards nonsense lyrics. So why would a guy who was born in Modesto, California in 1983 come in contact with a song written and recorded in the late 1950's? That has got to be one of the great stories that underline some of the Rays players song selections.
But then you have a guy like Rays starter James Shields who uses a well known song from a German band Rammstein that came into all of our subconscious when the band performed it live during a scene in the movie "XXX" with Vin Diesel. "Du Hast"( Do Have) is a great techno song that does get your mind and physical being up and ready. The pumping of the bass and the hard guitar licks do get you wanting to start a mosh pit right in the Rays Bullpen area each time you hear it. It was actually a undercover favorite of mine and I can truly see how it could be a favorite of Shields. Seriously I want to bang my head and pump my fist every time it plays in the stadium.
You might be wondering why I am focusing so much on the Rays pitcher's music instead of the Rays hitters? Well, really the answer is quite simple, the batters get their music heard sometimes 4 times a night, while the starters and the reliever might not get their music heard but once a series. So I decided to focus more on the pitching staffs music then the hitters right now. But that could be a possible future blog entry.
One of the newest members of the Tampa Bay Rays relieving corp is veteran Russ Springer. And in his mound music he reflects on his home town roots and his affection for the music that had influenced him for so long. Being a native of Pollack, Louisiana he is truly what you would expect of a country boy. The guy is low key, but passionate about the sport and remarked in a recent article in the St Petersburg Times that in his hometown, people ask "How your coondog is doing?" as mush as they ask about you.
But Springer has been able to keep that low key personality under the MLB radar until 2006 when in May of that year his name was spread out all over the media when he was a member of the Houston Astros and threw at San Francisco Giant several times in a series, finally plucking him once. He ended up with a 5-game suspension and a reputation that you do not mess with him.
Another guy who can changed and tossed his music around a lot during his Rays career has been Rays reliever Grant Balfour. He has gone as far as using fellow Aussies' Midnight Oil and their hit "King of the Mountain" to the wild and mysterious pick of Men at Work and their classic "Land Down Under." I have to tell you, the Men at Work song tends to freak me out a bit. I really hate to admit I liked that song so long ago when it first came out.
But seriously here, he has done a bit of mixing those two up with a few wild off the cuff picks like The Doors in the recent Red Sox/Rays series. I could not place the song title, but know it was not "Back Door Man", or even "The End", which could be a interesting twist to his use as a 7th, 8th inning set-up man for the team. Got to admit, the Midnight Oil song is an old classic I had not even thought about for years, but is a nice classic tune for a mound mood.
But then you have the left-side of the brain music of two of the Rays southpaws that really sets the tone for a reliever coming into the game late in a contest and gets the bass and the hard back beats going in your mind and body. It is the band AC/DC and their hard core rock and roll themes like "Thunderstruck" and " You Shook Me All Night Long", and "Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)" as their mound music.
I know that Brian Shouse and Randy Choate did not intentionally pick those tunes just for their times here with the Rays, but it is actually really funny, that they pick that music since resident Brian Johnson, who did the lead vocals for the group actually lives in the Sarasota area and attends some Rays games during the season. Hopefully the lead singer can get to a game before the end of the season and get a chance to chat with the guys who enjoy his band's music so much. Heck, I think he would be a fantastic National Anthem singer if the former Aussie would not mind belting out the tune.
As you can see some of the Rays pitching staff has a wide variety of musical tastes that can range from the wild and unusual to the down at home music from their regions. But most of all, it can be a audio cure to them personally to get into that mode of operation that will result in total concentration and effort on their parts. The job of a Major League pitcher is difficult enough knowing that the guy at the plate is trying to knock every pitch out of the ballpark, and it is your job to keep that from happening.
Music, song lyrics and also beat can get them into a frame of mind to mask that objective by the batter and get their job done so they can all go home with a win. Some days it works, some days it fails, but it is their own personal stamp on the game and it is their badge of recognition for the fans. Music can be the great inspirational point in a game. That is why we have certain songs that play during the game to key emotions and get not just the players, but us the crowd into the heat of the battle.
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It's always fun to find out the story behind the music the guys pick. Sometimes it's just a favorite song, others it's more personal, sometimes they just want to get the crowd going…but if it works for them than cool! Keep going.
Why am I not shocked that Balfour would choose that Men at Work song! He's is from the Land Down Under after all! LOL!
I actually chatted with Grant one time about Men at Work.
I was telling him it was not that I did not like the songs of Colin Hayes, the lead singer, but there was so much tongue in cheek humor there that most people would think that was what he was like in real life.
Vegi-mite is one of the worst thing I ever tried (Did it as a dare in college).
Always thought he was a more "Midnight Oil or maybe AC/DC guy himself. Most people forget they were a Aussie transplant.
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Great entry!! I always wondered what inspired players' background music. If you've ever heard Dustin Pedroia's music when he comes up to bat… I just wonder where that comes from. At the beginning of the summer, when I was talking to Michael Bowden, I asked him about his back up music. He said he didn't have a song yet, BUT he is learning how to play piano. So I've decided that is song is going to be Billy Joel's 'Piano Man'.
PS. for the record, I hate Evan Longoria's batting song :)
Evan's song is the beginning of a Tantric song.
I actually think the violin is kind of cool in a way, but the rest of the song is kind of mellow hard rock (lol).
Yeah, some of these guys agonize over the songs, other just pick one from the I Pod.
Always fun to go to another stadium and hear a players true walk-up song.
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CMS received informal inquiries for a national coverage determination (NCD) for autologous cellular immunotherapy treatment of prostate cancer. This interest arose upon the recent FDA approval of the Sipuleucel T treatment regimen, marketed as Provenge®.
As described on the FDA website at http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/CellularGeneTherapyProducts/ApprovedProducts/ucm213559.htm, "PROVENGE® (Sipuleucel T, APC8015) is an autologous cellular immunotherapy product consisting of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) obtained from patients by leukapheresis and activated in vitro with a recombinant fusion protein (prostatic acid phosphatase fused with GM-CSF)…FDA will require the sponsor to complete a post marketing study to evaluate the risk of stroke in patients who receive sipuleucel-T."
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CMS is commissioning a technology assessment from an external entity and plans to convene a meeting of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) in 2010.
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One consequence of the Second Vatican Council was that it seemed to make everybody busier. More people became involved in more ministries, and the number of meetings exploded. Where the Church had previously been disengaged from the issues of contemporary society, it now seemed to have an opinion about everything.
A few years ago, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin – not incidentally, sent to Dublin from the Vatican in the wake of the Irish sexual abuse crisis – said the Irish Church had been too concerned with doing things and helping people. It had "run the risk of becoming over-attached to its works and structures and buildings."
The founders of Ireland's great religious orders had, Martin said pointedly, not only been great doers, but also great mystics; they had spent a lot of time on their knees.
Before anything else, the Church should be the place where the faithful encounter God. Following the Exodus, God told Moses to call the people together and tell them: "You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy" (Leviticus 19.2).
That is the central duty of the People of God – to strive for holiness.
Holiness, it must be said, is God's gift, not something we earn with good deeds or by imposing our visions on other people.
God is so awesome, so far above our ways that it is unfathomable that we should even consider that we might become like him. But God comes to us in the form of his Son and doesn't simply show and tell us how to be good people, but calls us to share in God's divine nature.
For Vatican II's vision of holiness to come alive, we need to see the face of Christ in even the most ordinary events of daily life.
There's nothing new in this, but we keep forgetting.
Church historian John O'Malley says perhaps the most remarkable teaching of Vatican II's Constitution on the Church (Lumen Gentium) is its chapter on The Call to Holiness. "Holiness, the council said, is what the Church is all about.
"This is an old truth, of course, and in itself is not remarkable. Yet no previous council had ever explicitly asserted this idea and certainly never developed it so repeatedly and at length" (What Happened at Vatican II, 51).
The Church is not simply a guardian of right doctrine and an enforcer of good behaviour, O'Malley said. It is the place where we enter into the life of God.
The "new truth" that Vatican II taught is that everyone is called to be holy. Holiness is not the preserve of priests, sisters and brothers. There are not two tiers in the Church - one comprised of professional Catholics who strive to be saints and the other of the laity who do the minimum necessary to scrape into heaven.
The Church is a communion of grace, not a pyramidal institution in which the people at the top are closer to heaven.
To admit this – to say that lay people with families, jobs and other preoccupations are called to live holy lives – is also to reconfigure what we mean by "holiness."
Obviously, people with such busy lives cannot partake, with any degree of fullness, in a monastic model of holiness - community prayer seven times a day, sometimes severe self-denial and, in general, a life lived in the sanctuary. They must seek the face of God in the ordinary events of daily life.
If you think being a monk is difficult, this is perhaps even more difficult. God's face is not immediately evident in the face of one's spouse, children, co-workers or the cashier at the grocery store. However, for Vatican II's vision of holiness to come alive, those are exactly the places where we need to be looking.
If we do this, we will not be inclined to see the Church as an island of goodness in a sea of sin. For one thing, the sins of the sons and daughters of the Church are all the more evident the closer one gets to the Church's structures. As well, heroic goodness can be readily found among people who have no visible connection with the Church.
Grace abounds. We ought to take seriously the Eucharistic Prayers that became part of the Mass after Vatican II and that acknowledged the presence of holiness throughout creation.
For example, the Third Eucharistic Prayer proclaims: "Through your Son our Lord Jesus Christ, by the power and working of the Holy Spirit, you give life to all things and make them holy."
This does not undercut the need for evangelization, for God calls all people to himself and pours out his grace in a particularly intense way through the sacraments of the Church.
Fullness of life is only possible through the Word Made Flesh. Blessed John Paul II never tired of recalling the words of another council document, Gaudium et Spes, which said Christ the New Adam "fully reveals humanity to itself and brings to light its most high calling."
When we think of Vatican II, we should think first, not of activism, but of the call to holiness. We can never be satisfied with being "good-enough Catholics," but must strive for an ever-fuller union with the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
(Among the sources of information for this article were a talk by Christopher Ruddy, a theologian at the Catholic University of America, given at a conference at Catholic University in September 2012 and O'Malley's book What Happened at Vatican II.)