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AVONDALE, La. - One year ago, Jason Dufner's victory at the Zurich Classic made him the fifth player in the last eight years to celebrate his maiden PGA Tour triumph in New Orleans.
This weekend, Dufner will try to become the first repeat winner in the Big Easy since Carlos Franco in 2000. But even if Dufner remains beset by the inconsistency that has kept him out of the top 10 this season, the odds of yet another first-time winner at the Zurich seem increasingly slim.
Dufner is one of eight former winners of the New Orleans tour stop who are back at TPC Louisiana, a Pete Dye-designed course carved out of cypress swamp just southwest of the city, and home to the Zurich Classic since 2005.
In fact, he'll tee off with two of them - Bubba Watson and Nick Watney - in Thursday's first round.
"In the last three or four years, it seems like this has become a great spot for premier players to come," Dufner said. "This even is becoming more and more of a place that guys enjoy coming to play and one of the premier events other than the majors and the World Golf events."
More than 60 players in the Zurich Classic Field already have a PGA Tour victory to their name. Four of them have already won events this year: John Merrick (Northern Trust Open), Michael Thompson (Honda Classic), D.A. Points (Houston Open) and Scott Brown (Puerto Rico Open).
Some of the other more accomplished players in the field include Justin Rose, who is No. 4 in the world ranking; 2011 PGA Championship winner Keegan Bradley and "The Big Easy" himself, Ernie Els, who has 19 career wins and was the runner up in the Zurich Classic in a playoff a year ago.
The former winners in New Orleans who've returned include Jason Bohn (2010), Jerry Kelly (2009), Andres Romero (2008), K.J. Choi (2002) and David Toms (2001).
"The tournament is getting stronger and stronger," Rose said. "The golf course has gotten better and better every single year, it feels like. I think I'm slowly learning how to play it."
The course appeared to be in impeccable shape when the tournament's charity pro-am began Wednesday morning - before the arrival of driving rain, lightning and even a severe weather warning that had authorities briefly evacuating the course and tents used by media, tournament staff and VIPs. Nearly 2 inches of rain fell in the middle of the day, but officials said the course drains well and was expected to be fine by the time the first round started Thursday morning. Even the pro-am resumed after 3 p.m.
For about a half-hour after spectators and players alike were shepherded into permanent structures, the main club house was jammed. Some players retreated into the locker room, but others remained in the dining area or pro shop, which is normally off limits to the typical spectator during the tournament.
Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old amateur whose world fame skyrocketed after he made the cut at the Masters, remained with family and friends at a table in the corner of the restaurant and exchanged handshakes with a couple fans who noticed him.
The eight-grader had planned to return to China after the Masters, but then received a late-hour invitation to play in New Orleans, where he'd spent a month last summer working on his game.
Guan arrived in New Orleans right after the Masters, and last weekend helped out at a youth golf clinic at Lakewood Golf Club, which hosted the area's PGA event from 1963 to 1988, and where past winners included all-time greats Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson and Ben Crenshaw.
Now Guan is expected to have a sizable local following.
"I want to enjoy the week like the Masters and hopefully make the cut," Guan said. "If not, it's still a great experience."
Watson, who grew up about a three-hour's drive from New Orleans in the Florida panhandle, considers the Zurich his home tournament, and his group was already drawing a number of spectators during the pro-am, though many seemed more intrigued by his playing partners, brothers Willie and Jase Robertson of the Louisiana-based TV series, "Duck Dynasty."
In 2012, the Zurich Classic was the first tournament Watson played after winning the Masters and becoming one of golf's biggest draws. He said he only played the tournament last year because he felt obliged as the then-defending champ, and because it is one of the tournaments his mother traditionally makes the trip from Pensacola to see.
"I was tired," Watson said of last year's Zurich, in which he finished tied for 18th.
This time, Watson said he is "pumped up to play this golf course."
He was also appeared rather loose while exchanging lighthearted jabs with the Robertsons. When asked if he ever considered experimenting with the abundant facial hair for which the "Duck Dynasty" men are known, Watson cracked, "No, I look way too good to cover up my face. They have to cover up their face to be on TV."
Although Watson has yet to finish in the top three this year and tied for 50th at the Masters, he has two top-10 finishes and figures his unorthodox swing isn't all that far off from where he wants it to be.
"I've been playing well. Just some breaks haven't went my way," Watson said. "All in all, I know that I have the game and the ability to do it."


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Celebaby Roundup For Week of August 26, 2012
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It was another exciting weekend for celebrity babies across the world. Victoria and Harper Beckham got social at a party in LA, while Matthew McConaughey and his pregnant wife, Camila Alves, showed Levi and Vida NYC. Katie Holmes gave Suri Cruise a bike-riding lesson in the Big Apple, while Jennifer Garner and Seraphina Affleck got groceries for their family in Hollywood. Click through to see what other kids were up to.

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But what we found out last week trumps all of that by a long shot!
At first, we didn't think that much about a press release that popped up in our inbox last week announcing that Vallone would be playing in a celebrity table tennis tournament at Lincoln Center in a field that included author Jonathan Safran Foer (literally!), NPR contributor Will Shortz (puzzling?) and Judah Freidlander (that's more like it) from television's 30 Rock.
The event was organized to celebrate the launch of "Everything is Pong," a colorful historical account of the sport by Roger Bennett and Eli Horowitz. Proceeds went to 826NYC, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping children develop their writing skills.
We were, however, a little confused as to how Vallone was chosen to join the tournament. All of our earlier praise aside, he's not exactly a "celebrity" on par with the ones we just mentioned. Then we read on and found out that in ping pong circles, Vallone is a bona fide A-list star!
Before he grew up and got a law degree and a seat in the City Council, Vallone spent his part of his summer working as a life guard and the other part locked in intense competition hunched over a 9 by 5-foot green table with a paddle (no doubt an arylate blade for better spin and feel) in one hand and his destiny in the other.
Vallone's father taught his three sons the sport, and all of the hard work and practice paid off for Vallone – he went on to become a championship player at Fordham University. In fact, the councilman was invited to play against the Chinese national ping pong team on ABC's "Wide World of Sports."
(A pox on you, YouTube! We can find video of pretty much every embarrassing public appearance by Lindsey Lohan and literally every time a baby laughs, but you can't get us footage of Vallone playing the Chinese national ping pong team?! We promise to you, dear readers, to make every effort to figure out how this match for the ages ended.)
Vallone credits a healthy sense of competition and quick-thinking abilities in part to ping pong – which he taught his young daughters, nieces and nephews. Well, apparently he wasn't quick-thinking enough, because didn't win! No, that honor went to Friedlander, who took home the trophy.
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California's Second District Court of Appeals yesterday granted a retrial for a man convicted of raping a woman by sneaking into her bed and pretending to be her boyfriend.
The reason? She wasn't married, according to LA Weekly, which posted the ruling Thursday.
"A man enters the dark bedroom of an unmarried woman after seeing her boyfriend leave late at night, and has sexual intercourse with the woman while pretending to be the boyfriend," the court said in its ruling (emphasis ours). "Has the man committed rape? Because of historical anomalies in the law and the statutory definition of rape, the answer is no, even though, if the woman had been married and the man had impersonated her husband, the answer would be yes."
The woman, identified only as Jane Doe, said she woke up in the middle of the night "to the sensation of having sex," which confused her because she and her boyfriend had agreed not to have sex before he left for the night. When she was able to get a glimpse of the man's face, she says, she saw it wasn't her boyfriend but a man named Julio Morales.
Jane says she screamed and tried to push Morales away, and he eventually left the room.
Morales admitted he had sex with Jane and said "he also thought she believed he was her boyfriend," according to the appeals court ruling.
However, Morales' defense team said he didn't remember Jane trying to push him away, and that he did not try and continue having sex after he initially pulled out of her.
In his appeal, which was decided Thursday, Morales claimed his conviction was faulty because Jane didn't think he was her husband, but rather just her boyfriend.
California's penal code says a crime is rape if the victim was unconscious or asleep or "submits under the belief that the person committing the act is the victim's spouse, and this belief is induced by any artifice, pretense, or concealment practiced by the accused, with intent to induce the belief."
However, since Jane and Victor were not married, Morales couldn't be accused of pretending to be her husband, which means he didn't violate California's penal code.
"We reluctantly hold that a person who accomplishes sexual intercourse by impersonating someone other than a married victim's spouse is not guilty of the crime of rape of an unconscious person," the appeals court ruled.
Read the full ruling for yourself:
The law cited by the court was written in 1872 and doesn't offer unmarried women the same protections against rape as it does married women, The Daily Mail reported Friday morning.
Morales has already served his three-year sentence and will be getting a new trial, according to LAWeekly. A key issue in the new trial will be whether the alleged victim was asleep when Morales had sex with her, in which case he could be convicted of rape.
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As a matter of fact, turbo engines will overtake naturally aspirated engines in market share. Those same turbo engine are pushing a gain in specific output of ten horsepower per liter. The reason is obviously due to downsizing of displacement and increasing output thanks to boost.
Another interesting aspect is that inline-3 cylinder engines are becoming more popular. Great for commuter cars but not so great for enthusiasts. Ultimately, with more turbocharged enthusiast motors this really does not matter. Turbo tuning is only set to increase. A good time to be a BoostAddict, eh?
Diesels are also becoming a bit less popular even in Europe. No doubt emissions scandals have played a part in this as well as a shift to electrification.
DCT adoption continues to grow with 10-speed transmissions seemingly being the new norm. How many more gears are they going to cram in?
A big uptake in hybrids is expected in 2019 and on to 2022. Expect hybrid sports cars at that time as well.
As long as manufacturers don't give up on enthusiast cars this is all fine and dandy. The naturally aspirated and big displacement enthusiast car is quite definitely a dying breed. Enjoy them while you can.


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Joru Ka Ghulam is a story of a dominating father, Moazam, who controls every dynamics of the household. Moazam marries a middle class woman Uzma who gives birth to four sons. He forcibly marries all his sons simultaneously with girls of his own choice. Moazam retaliates when he finds out that one of his sons is in love with a girl, therefore he forcibly marry him to a conniving and illiterate girl. None of the sons are confident enough to take a stand against their father; consequently they fail to marry the girl of their preference. Moreover, the sons are encouraged to dominate and persecute the wives, which create chaos in the home and leads to family disintegration. He also ties the knot of his mentally challenged child with a simple orphan girl who finds about his disability after the wedding. She accepts him as a reality of life and abandons her ex-boyfriend for him.
How will Uzmasave her home from disintegration? What would be the fate of each son's marriage? How will each daughter-in-law survive the unreasonable and strict Moazam?
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I'm going to have a quilt of these little cuties for Mom by Christmas. (Or else, self! Or else!) I found the non-jelly-friendly block instructions HERE and they just happened to convert really well to jelly-measurements.
If anyone would like to know how to construct this and can't do it quickly from the link, please feel free to PM me! I just made the block on my 30 min lunch break + 15 min break as I worked on puzzling it out. It was friendly to little slips and mistakes, too.
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It appears my little import dog is pretty heat intolerant, at 16 degrees celcius(61 farenheit) after about 20 minutes of light running(in a large field/yard playing with some friends) and some heavy wrestling he was panting quite a bit-enough I wanted to keep a bit of an eye on him.
It regularly hits 25 (77 F) here in the summer, so he's got a lot more to deal with coming up!
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HILLSVILLE –– Zach Atwood's 26-yard field goal as time expired spoiled a gutsy Carroll County effort and lifted Bassett to a 17-14 nondistrict win over the Cavaliers in the season opener for both teams Friday at Tommy Thompson Field.
Carroll County had knotted the score at 14-14 on Logan Hodges' 1-yard run and Ulises Moreno's PAT with 1:59 remaining.
Bassett was given good field position with no time leaving the clock when the ensuing kickoff squibbed out of bounds. Shaq Finney broke three tackles to turn a catch on a 5-yard out pattern into a 30-yard gain, and he later added a 9-yard run to the Cavalier 10. Following a 1-yard Daniel Martin run, Atwood drilled the game winner.
Finney nabbed a 25-yard touchdown pass from Dashaun Valentine for a 7-0 lead in the first quarter, but Carroll County answered late in the half on a 4-yard scoring run by Hodges.
Finney gave the Bengals a 14-7 lead with a 53-yard punt return for a touchdown in the third quarter.
Carroll County held Bassett to 205 yards of total offense, led by Finney with 66 receiving yards and 28 rushing yards. Valentine carried 15 times for 59 yards for the Bengals.
The Cavaliers got 59 yards on the ground from Moreno and 40 yards on five carries by Ryne Ayers.
Carroll County will host its second Piedmont District opponent in as many weeks Friday when the Cavs welcome Patrick County.
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Bas–Finney 25 pass from Valentine (Atwood kick)
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Wrapped in Wood: Contemporary Family Home in the Czech Republic
Architects OV-A completed a family home in Kraluv Dvur, Czech Republic, displaying original architecture details. According to the project developers, the residence consists of one level built over a square ground plan, with three bedrooms with amenities facing north. The generous wood shutters can be used to create further rooms and to provide privacy for the inhabitants. The project was resembled with a gazebo providing views of the valley. Here is more from the architects regarding the materials used to build this home: "The load-bearing construction of the timber frame house consists of I-beams, thermal insulation of mineral wool and wainscotting, the flat ventilated roof is covered with a PVC foil with a layer of pebble rock on top, the facade system is composed of glazed walls in aluminum frames, terraces are from tropical wood and jatoba was the chosen material for he interior industrial strip flooring". Do you find timber-framed homes appealing?


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34-Year-Old East Lansing Man Charged With 2 Counts of Murder In Monday Shootings
Ricard Taylor faces up to life in prison for allegedly shooting and killing two men on Monday.
Taylor was arraigned in 54B District Court Wednesday afternoon on two counts of murder, two counts of felony firearm, two counts of carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent and carrying a concealed weapon.
Police say Taylor walked into Rite Aid, 3106 E. Saginaw St. near Frandor Shopping Center, about 11 a.m. and shot and killed 35-year-old Michael Addo, of Mason, then fled on foot. About 15 minutes later, he shot Jordan Rogers, 27, at Rogers' home in the 1800 block of East Lansing's Coolidge Road, which Taylor lives next door to, according to police.
At a Wednesday press conference, authorities did not divulge whether there was a relationship between Taylor and the victims, according to WILX.
A story from The State News last year profiled Taylor and his brother, who often performed street music in East Lansing. Taylor came to East Lansing from Detroit, according to the story, and was an aspiring musician.
East Lansing Police Chief Juli Liebler said at a Tuesday press conference that Rogers ran to a neighbor's house and called police after sustaining multiple gunshot wounds. When ELPD arrived at the scene, Rogers was unconscious. Authorities attempted to resuscitate him, then transported him to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Liebler said ELPD learned Taylor lived in a duplex next door and immediately surrounded it, evacuated adjacent residences and called in tactical support to set up a perimeter.
A standoff ensued, ultimately lasting about three hours.
"We approached the house, broke out the front window, made contact with the suspect," Liebler said. "He immediately surrendered and was taken into custody. There was no confrontation (with authorities)."
Police at Tuesday's press conference said there is nothing that indicates Addo and Rogers were related or connected.
Lansing Police Chief Mike Yankowski on Tuesday said authorities were still working to learn Taylor's motive.
"This was not a robbery attempt for guns or drugs," Yankowski said. "It was not a robbery attempt for money. This is what we know at this point in time. (We are) still actively compiling reports and evidence…"
Multiple law enforcement agencies were involved in Monday's incidents, from the local, county, state and federal level, including the U.S. Marshals.
Liebler said police recovered the gun Taylor used. Police declined to divulge further details, citing the ongoing investigation into the shootings.
"We believe (the suspect) acted alone," Liebler said. "That's the overwhelming indication we have at this point."


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European Travel Accounts Printed Before 1850
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Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections holds over 600 books printed before 1850 that are related to travel. These books cover a striking variety of topics and are grouped according to the geographical area they pertain to in the following census.
Travel writing necessarily entails the blending of different genres, as the description of a voyage can include observations on everything from history and religion to botany and zoology. The travel literature pre-dating 1850 in our collection spans all fields of interest, with even individual accounts rarely heeding modern disciplinary boundaries. Most traveler's accounts are written in the first-person, so autobiography is also brought into the mix in many cases. The writings included in the following list are considered 'factual' (in contrast with works of evident fiction), but in travel writing there often arises a tension between truth and fiction, between scientific observation, and a self-consciously literary mode designed to entertain the reader. Travel writing can range from statistical gazetteers purged of anecdote, to highly personal accounts of religious pilgrimage, and tales of survival under dangerous circumstances. During the period of European exploration of Asia and the Americas that began in the fifteenth-century many travelers attempted to achieve a balance of scientific and literary interest in their written accounts. As this phenomenon coincided with the invention and growth of printing, travelers' accounts came to be among the most widely read books available. By the late eighteenth-century they were second in popularity only to romances. As a consequence, a trend arose of compiling the most popular stories of exploration and discovery and publishing them as collections of travel literature. London publisher J. Knox's 1767 series A New Collection of Voyages, Discoveries and Travels is one such example.
Many of the earliest published travel accounts relate the experiences of European religious pilgrims to the Holy Land. Bernhard von Breydenbach's fifteenth-century Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam is the earliest printed description of a journey to Jerusalem. Tales of pilgrimage allowed non-traveling Christians to imaginatively experience the voyage to a sacred place. Although the number of pilgrimages began to decline in the Renaissance, Europeans continued traveling for other reasons. Commercial and colonial interests began to take precedence. The journals of Arnoldus Montanus, who traveled throughout Asia in the sixteenth-century on behalf of the East-India Company of the Netherlands, were published and lavishly illustrated. Theodor de Bry chronicled the earliest attempts to colonize the Americas in similarly grand style by incorporating elaborate engravings into his books. Leo Africanus was commissioned by the Pope to survey and describe the largely unexplored continent of Africa for the benefit of his European patrons. Europeans had access to the observations of missionaries abroad through such compilations as Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses: Ecrites des Missions Etrangeres, in which Jesuit letters were published. As Nigel Leask has noted, Europeans often couched their desire to travel and explore in terms of 'curiosity', but seemingly benign curiosity was often as much about the impulse to possess or to profit as it was about expanding human knowledge. Exploratory and scientific expeditions to distant continents were frequently combined with other interests: commercial, missionary, or military. European travel accounts of this era share a marked ethnocentricity, as the authors invariably take the European world as a starting point of normalcy and observe a world increasingly strange, exotic and monstrous the further they venture from home. Travelers such as Jean de Lery, author of Histoire d'un Voyage Faict en la Terre du Bresil in 1580, delight in describing all that would be shocking to European sensibilities in these newly discovered lands. The marvels encountered by Europeans elicited responses ranging from awe and admiration to fear and mistrust.
It has always been the case that the best known explorers were those who wrote accounts of their travels, or whose journeys were written about by others. For instance, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Mungo Park all documented their explorations. Among the most famous sea expeditions were those undertaken by Captain James Cook, which were written about by John Hawkesworth and by Cook himself. Once circumnavigation had been accomplished by explorers such as Cook and Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, and the task of mapping the world's coastlines was well underway, the lure of intercontinental exploration took over. An era of scientific travel followed, out of which Charles Darwin's surveying voyages are perhaps most famous. Voyages into the interior of uncharted continents could bring travelers into graver danger than had hitherto been imagined as they came up against tropical diseases, harsh climates, foreign plants, strange animals, and people with whom they had no established relationship. The description of marine travel usually necessitated a great deal of technical language, but interior exploration was better suited to the reading public's appetite for entertaining tales of adventure. Meriwether Lewis' account of his explorations with Captain Clarke across the American continent, and Charles-Maire de La Condamine's Relation Abrege d'un Voyage Fait dans l'Interieur de l'Amerique Meridionale, both belong to this class of travel writing. "Survival literature" became tremendously popular in the late eighteenth-century. In some cases, the writing and publishing of harrowing tales was a strategy for the survivors of calamitous voyages to finance fresh starts. Stories of Europeans surviving foreign captivity, such as sailor Robert Adams' tale of shipwreck and enslavement on the western coast of Africa, eerily invert the far broader reality of foreign enslavement at the hands of westerners. As Mary Campbell points out, travelers' accounts are often "guilty texts" which document European colonialism and Christian imperialism. They are indeed texts with political and historical consequences, but they are also works of literary interest.
Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth-centuries leisure travel became more and more convenient for wealthy Europeans. Accounts of domestic travel were a valuable resource for those preparing to embark on the Grand Tour, an increasingly popular rite of passage. Ritchie Leitch's Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, and in Belgium and Holland is a characteristic account of such an undertaking. By the early nineteenth-century, privileged Americans were steadily following suit, producing memoirs like J. Jay Smith's A Summer's Jaunt Across the Water. America was also becoming a tourist destination for Europeans as Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley's Travels in the United States, etc., during 1849 and 1850 demonstrates. The rise in the publication of recreational travel literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries reflects these trends. An increasingly literate public proved an eager audience for the wide variety of travel accounts that were entering into publication, from guidebooks to traveler' journals, and from works focused on natural history and geography to those detailing cases of religious and political imperialism.
The census of our collection of travel books printed before 1850 includes texts that will be of interest to scholars of nearly every discipline. Travel accounts may include detailed descriptions of local crafts, costume, and religious practices. Exploratory parties often included experts on a variety of topics ranging from linguistics to local medicine to geology. Special attention in often given to art, architecture, and antiquities in early guidebooks for leisure travelers, like John Stow's A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, which were designed specifically for tourists rather than written as accounts of personal travel. Many of these texts also provide valuable insights into European political and social history. For a modern reader, European accounts of non-European lands and peoples interestingly tend to reveal more about the authors' preconceived notions about whatever they are describing than about their ostensible subjects.
Our collection has been built in large part through the generous gift of many long-time friends and benefactors of the library, especially former president Catherine McBride and Seymour Adelman.
Adams, Percy G. Travelers and Travel Liars 1660-1800.
Berkley/Los Angeles: University of California
Press, 1962.
Campbell, Mary B. The Witness and the Other World. Exotic European Travel Writing, 400-1600. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1988.
Korte, Barbara. English Travel Writing from Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations. New York: St. Martin's Press, Inc., 2000.
Leask, Nigel. Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Travel Writing 1770-1840. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes. Travel Writing and Transculturation. London/ New York: Routledge, 1992.
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Random House, Inc., 1978.
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Flu Vaccine Information
We are offering the flu vaccine to people ages 6 months and older in Barron and other locations throughout northwest Wisconsin. You may call a number below to schedule an appointment to get a vaccination:
- Barron: 1222 E. Woodland Ave., 715-537-6747
- Bloomer: 1501 Thompson St., 715-568-2000
- Chetek: 220 Douglas St., 715-537-6747
- Chippewa Falls: 611 First Ave.,715-720-4400
- Eau Claire: 733 W. Clairemont Ave. or 1400 Bellinger St., call your primary care provider's office or 715-464-7468; Walk-ins are welcome at Express Care, South Point Shopping Center, 2839 Mall Drive, Suite 5, or schedule an influenza vaccine appointment through the patient portal.
- Elmwood: 236 E. Springer Ave., 715-639-4151
- Glenwood City: 219 E. Oak St., 715-265-7321
- Menomonie: 2321 Stout Road, 715-233-7777
- Mondovi: 700 Buffalo St., 715-926-4858
- Osseo: Seventh Street entrance, 715-597-3121
- Rice Lake: 331 S. Main St., 715-537-6747
The cost of seasonal flu vaccine is covered by some insurance plans. Mayo Clinic Health System will bill insurance or accept payment.
Children 6 months through 8 years need two flu vaccines if it's the child's first seasonal flu vaccination. The second vaccine is given at least four weeks from the date of the first.
People at high risk of developing serious complications from influenza include:
- Those with chronic medical conditions, such as asthma, diabetes and lung disease
- Pregnant women
- People 65 or older
- People who live with or care for others at high risk of developing serious complications, including caregivers of young children and people with chronic medical conditions
Viruses in the influenza vaccine are inactive, so you cannot get the flu from the vaccine. After getting vaccinated, it takes about two weeks to develop antibodies to protect against influenza. That's why getting vaccinated early in the fall is recommended. If you are sick, stay home from work or school to prevent spreading illness to others.


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Sandy Volunteer: Monique Pilie
It's been a year since Sandy swept the coast and left devastation in her wake, and a year since people flocked from all over the country to help those affected. Not all of those volunteers have left, and at least one has no intention of packing it in anytime soon.
Monique Pilie is originally from New Orleans, and knows what it's like to live through a natural disaster.
"After Katrina, I wanted to do something to help out so I decided to start a nonprofit* and sort of realized my calling."
For a few years, Pilie worked to replant trees destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. When Superstorm Sandy hit, she decided to bring her nonprofit expertise to New York. Pilie now serves as the director of Project Long Island for All Hands Volunteers. Over the months, she and her fellow volunteers have shifted their focus from immediate disaster relief to repair and rebuilding.
"I feel good about the work that we've done and I know that we've helped a lot of residents and I know that we're - every day - helping more. It's not a race, it's a marathon."
For more information about Monique Pilie, All Hands Volunteers, and how to get involved – visit hands.org.
*Pilie's nonprofit, Hike for KaTREEna, came to fruition when she quit her job and sold her house, vowing to plant a tree for every mile she hiked on the Appalachian Trail. Pilie worked to replenish the altered Louisiana landscape for five years, and though she has since left the organization, she says Hike for KaTREEna is still going strong.


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By now, it's clear that many extraordinary things happen whenever Gustavo Dudamel conducts at the Hollywood Bowl. First, the obvious; the attendance swells to at least twice the amount usually seen at classical events here — 13,970 on Tuesday night. The Los Angeles Philharmonic plays with an extra zip and attentiveness beyond its usual high level. The Bowl's video cameras are locked upon the charismatic 29-year-old Venezuelan, sometimes at the expense of the normally-spotlit soloists in the orchestra. The amplification seems louder; perhaps Dudamel prefers a hotter sound outdoors. Most significantly, Dudamel can freshen even the most overplayed standards in the outdoor repertoire — and he did it again Tuesday, triumphantly, with Gershwin and Bernstein.
To paraphrase Billy Joel, it was a program with a New York state of mind — every piece, even Gershwin's "An American In Paris," deeply evocative of that urbane urban landscape. It was also a program drenched with the memory of Leonard Bernstein, who irresistibly led his Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story" and Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" here in the summer of 1982. His subsequent Deutsche Grammophon recordings of these pieces with the Phil, made in San Francisco a few days later, are still available in nine different configurations, a daunting example for all.
Yet Dudamel is unafraid, even eager, to challenge Bernstein with an energy of his own that does not distort what the composer had to say. He has made the "West Side Story" dances his dashing calling card with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra — and likewise with the LA Phil, the Prologue exploded, the Mambo jiggled, and the Rumble had the right angular violence.
In "Rhapsody," Dudamel teamed up with fellow Venezuelan Gabriela Montero, a formidable pianist, though not quite as comfortable with the bursts of jazzy 1920s whoop-de-do as Dudamel seemed to be. After some early wayward rubatos, Montero hit her stride with the second cadenza and cruised all the way home. She then treated the crowd to two of her fascinating solo improvisations — first a Bach-chorale-like take on the theme of Beethoven's Fifth, and then a toccata on "Guantanamera" that nearly veered into "Tico Tico."
Dudamel displayed some invigorating ideas of his own in Bernstein's Three Dances from "On The Town" — some sly string glides in "Lonely Town," frantic tempo changes and a great swaggering feeling in "Times Square."
"An American In Paris" constituted Dudamel's best performance of the night — as jaunty as you would want it, all tempos just right in their contexts — and as in "Rhapsody In Blue," he gave the jazzers in the Phil free rein to blow mean and nasty. For those looking for direct comparisons of Dudamel with his new counterpart at the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert, here's one — Gilbert's correct yet pedestrian "An American In Paris," as seen on PBS TV last New Year's Eve, couldn't begin to touch Dudamel's incandescent Bowl rendition. Score one for the Venezuelan kid over a native New Yorker on the latter's home musical turf.


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[UPDATE:] After a report surfaced hinting at the fact that Microsoft is porting Windows Live Messenger accounts to Skype on Monday, Microsoft confirmed the reports by announcing that Windows Live Messenger will be retired worldwide beginning in the first quarter of 2013. The only country where Messenger will be available is in mainland China. For existing Messenger users to access their account, they'll be required to update their Skype client to version 6.0, and login with their Messenger account information. The announcement lists the following benefits of switching to Skype:
- Broader device support for all platforms, including iPad and Android tablets
- Instant messaging, video calling, and calling landlines and mobiles all in one place
- Sharing screens
- Video calling on mobile phones
- Video calling with Facebook friends
- Group video calling
[November 5]
We got a first glimpse of Microsoft's plans for their $8.5 billion purchase of Skype late last month when Microsoft enabled Facebook, Hotmail, and Windows Live logins through Skype. Now The Verge has caught wind from his sources that Microsoft may be taking this a step further by replacing Windows Live Messenger with Skype altogether.
The announcement that Windows Live Messenger will be put to rest after thirteen years since its founding, first introduced as MSN Messenger in 1999, may come as early as this week. The report adds that Windows Live Messenger's backend is slowly being integrated into Skype, which means that the only change for existing Windows Live users is that they'll have to login through Skype's client.
Skype has already been married into Windows 8 as a default native app to the Microsoft operating system, and Microsoft is free to do with Skype as it wishes — so the decision makes sense. The news of Windows Live Messenger's retirement however isn't official just yet and users have yet to be notified of Microsoft's intentions, so as for the answer to how tightly integrated Skype will be with Microsoft's products, we'll have to update you once we hear back from a spokesperson.
Update 11-6-2012: Microsoft spokesperson has gotten back to us but declined to comment on this article.
Windows Live Messenger has been in use by 300 million users per month in 2010, although we suspect that number has dwindled due to new competition Google Talk and Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and of course the many mobile messaging apps on the market today. Skype's CEO, Tony Bates revealed the latest figures show it had 250 million monthly users in May of this year.
Skype has been subject to a number of face lifts as of late. We've been content with the majority of the updates, but there have been just a couple of caveats. For instance all of the cross-platform integration means the Skype contact list is consequently flooded with friends, so users are either left to clean up with lists, deal with it, or forego using the new login integrations altogether.
But the pros outweigh the cons. Messaging Facebook and Live Messenger friends on the Skype client is admittedly a far better experience. Skype acts as a prompt to video call friends you otherwise might not using Facebook.
Pushing Windows Live Messenger clearly wasn't in the forefront of Microsoft's mind with the service since it's Skype acquisition. With a robust messaging and video calling service like Skype, Microsoft has room to offer more comprehensive monetization strategies, like its conversation ads rolled out in June, as it doubles up Skype's user base with existing Messenger users.


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*Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn,NY (1909)
*Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn,NY (1909)
*St. Nicholas Church, Auburn,NY (1909)
*St. Nicholas Church, Auburn,NY (1909)
The Russian Orthodox Church, in recently
The Russian Orthodox Church, in recently Fr. Alexander and Fr. John Kochuiov, emphasizes their deaths as martyrs that took place after their return to Russia. But for the OCA, their significance as Orthodox missionaries in America was affirmed in the words of Metropolitan Theophilus: "The American Orthodox Russian people stand on four corners - Bishop Nicholas, Fathers Hotovitzky, Kochurov, and Nedzelnitsky."
Other Early Parishes (NJ):
Other Early Parishes (NJ):
Revision as of 16:06, February 8, 2006
The Diocese of New York and New Jersey was formerly a diocese of the OCA but combined with the Diocese of Washington in 2005 to form the Diocese of Washington and New York.
New York City's first presence of Orthodoxy can is traced to 1870, when Farther Nicholas Bjerring, an American convert, was directed by Metropolitan Isidore of St. Petersburg to open the first Orthodox Church in New York City. Services for the congregation were held in a chapel within Fr. Nicholas's house. In 1885 the Russian government withdrew its support due to the small membership.
The oldest Diocesan parish sill functioning is SS Peter and Paul Church is Buffalo, NY (April, 1894) Among its early missionary priests were Fr. John Nedzelnitsky, the Dean of Eastern States, and Fr. John Kochurov (glorified 1994 by the Russian Orthodox Church).
In 1895, a second mission in New York City was established called The Russian Greek Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas, and began to flourish under the direction of its second pastor, Father Alexander Hotovitzky (also recently glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church). In 1901, Bishop Tikhon (later Patriarch Tikhon) laid the cornerstone for the new Cathedral of St. Nicholas, completed in 1904, from which he would direct the American church until he was called back to Russia in 1907.
The cathedral served the needs of Orthodox Christians in New York and throughout the country until 1926, when in the fallout from the Bolshevik Revolution; the building was declared the legal property of American representatives of the "Living Church". The head of the church, Metropolitan Platon was restrained from further use of archdiocesan property. Temporary facilities were utilized until 1943 when a new building at 59 East Second Street was purchased, renovated and dedicated to the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos. Over the next 31 years, the 2nd street cathedral served as the headquarters of the church in America, housing offices of the chancery and related national organizations, and convening meetings of the Metropolitan Council, the Holy Synod of Bishops (known until autocephaly as the "Great Council of Bishops"), and several All American Church Councils (Sobors). For many years most episcopal consecrations and ordinations to the deaconate and priesthood also took place there.
Local Diocese of the Ruling Hierarch
Orthodoxy in America recognizes as its beginning the arrival of Orthodox missionaries at Kodiak Island in 1794. The administrative center of the Mission in America, with the eventual sale of Alaska to the United States in 1867, gradually moved from Sitka to San Francisco in 1872. By the time that Bishop Tikhon arrived as administrator in 1898 and had made several extended pastoral journeys, it was obvious that the concentration of parishes and faithful was in the eastern United States. He recommended that the official name of the Mission be changed to the "Diocese of the Aleutians and North America" and suggested that the diocesan see be transferred to New York (which occurred in 1905). From that time until 1980 the parishes in the New York-New Jersey geographic area were officially under the auspices of the ruling hierarch of what is now the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).
Being close to the national Church's administrative center (both when it was located in New York City and since 1974 in Oyster Bay Cove/Syosset, NY) and to St. Vladimir's Seminary has allowed the Diocese to benefit from the leadership of the Church in America. Workshops and conferences on religious education and liturgical music, as well as lecture series for adults have taken place throughout the Diocese at various times and places over the last 40 years.
At the 6th All-American Council, it was announced by the Holy Synod of Bishops that a new Diocese of Washington, DC had been created that would begin functioning in 1981 and that the nation's capital city would become the see of the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America.
In 1981, the Diocese ceased being the responsibility of the Metropolitan and became one of the territorial Dioceses under its own hierarch, Bishop PETER, since 1990 recognized as Archbishop of New York and New Jersey. Under his guidance the Diocese has strived to balance the demands for stability and growth.
Life and Challenges
The Former Diocese was to be challenged by the same realities that confront many Orthodox Christians throughout America. Its urban communities had been shaken by deteriorating neighborhoods and the relocation of parishioners either to the suburbs or out of the area. The fragility of employment and lack of job security even within previously dependable companies have forced many to move more frequently than what might have been considered normal in the past. The Diocese has witnessed during the first years of the 20th century the early seeds of pan-Orthodox unity as proclaimed in the vision of Archbishop Tikhon.
Yet since the First World War it had seen attempts at realizing this unity foiled by the tendencies of each traditionally Orthodox ethnic group to minister primarily to the needs of its own people. It has been threatened by its own internal tensions and those caused by the administrative turmoil and confusion apparent within the Russian Orthodox Church since the time of the Revolution.
It has needed to defend its own administrative structure in battles within the American legal system. But areas of the Diocese (particularly in north and central New Jersey and the Triple Cities area of upper New York State) have also participated in a growing sense of interdependence and cooperation among the various Orthodox groups; something that brings great hopes for the future. Above all, the Diocese is challenged, as has been each generation of Christians, to respond and bear witness to the expression of the Orthodox Faith in ways that are both "Traditional" (in the sense of handing down what has been given) and creative (unique and sensitive to the questions and demands of its time).
End of the Diocese
Early Institutions
Other institutions established in the New York-New Jersey area of this time to meet both the religious and social/economic needs of the immigrants were:
- The Russian Orthodox Christian Immigrant Society of North America (1908)
- The St. Vladimir's National Home and Bank
- The Russian Orphan Home of Brooklyn (1914)
- In 1912, the first seminary originally located in Minneapolis, was transferred to Tenafly, NJ and was called the St. Platon's Orthodox Theological Seminary. (Upon its closure in 1923 the Church would not have another seminary in America until the establishment of St. Tikhon's and St. Vladimir's Seminaries in 1938.)
Early Period - Immigration
The initial establishment of parishes in the Diocese closely paralleled the immigration patterns of the immigrants who came before and after the First World War and in connection with the consequences of the Russian Revolution. Approximately half of the present 50 parishes began during this period (1894-1930). The energetic ministry of Fr Alexander Hotovitzky (1895-1914) should be recognized as a significant feature of these early years. Fr. Alexander, as Dean of the New York Cathedral, was instrumental in the formation of several Diocesan parishes (as well as some outside of the Diocese):
- Holy Trinity Church, Yonkers,NY (1899) (history)
- St. Basil Church, Watervliet,NY (1901) (history)
- SS Peter and Paul Church, South River,NJ (1905) (history)
- SS Peter and Paul Church, Jersey City,NJ (1907)
- Holy Transfiguration Cathedral, Brooklyn,NY (1908) (history)
- Holy Trinity Church, Brooklyn,NY (1909)
- St. Nicholas Church, Auburn,NY (1909)
The Russian Orthodox Church, in recently glorifying Fr. Alexander and Fr. John Kochuiov, emphasizes their deaths as martyrs that took place after their return to Russia. But for the OCA, their significance as Orthodox missionaries in America was affirmed in the words of Metropolitan Theophilus: "The American Orthodox Russian people stand on four corners - Bishop Nicholas, Fathers Hotovitzky, Kochurov, and Nedzelnitsky."
Other Early Parishes (NJ):
- SS. Peter and Paul Church, Manville, NJ (1915) (history)
- St. Spiridon Church, Perth Amboy, NJ (1915)
- St. Vladimir Church, Trenton, NJ (1915) (history)
- St. John the Baptist Church, Alpha, NJ (1916)
- SS. Peter and Paul Church, Bayonne, NJ (1922)
- St. John the Baptist Church, Passaic, NJ (1925) (history)
- Assumption of the Holy Virgin Church, Clifton, NJ (1930)
Other Early Parishes (NY):
- SS. Peter and Paul Church Buffalo, NY (1894)
- St. Nicholas Church Cohoes, NY (1914)
- SS. Peter and Paul Church Endicott, NY (1914)
- St. John the Baptist Church Spring Valley, NY (1914)
- Dormition of the Virgin Mary Church Binghamton, NY (1915)
- SS. Peter and Paul Church Syracuse, NY (1915)
- Holy Trinity Church Elmira Heights, NY (1916) (history)
- SS. Peter and Paul Church Herkimer, NY (1916)
- St. Nicholas Church Whitestone, NY (1916) (history)
- Holy Trinity Church East Meadow, NY (1924)
- Christ the Saviour Church New York, NY (1924) (history)
- Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection New York, NY (1932)
- St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary Crestwood, NY (1938)
- St. Nicholas Church Jamaica Estates, NY (1941)
- Holy Cross Monastery Niagara Falls, NY (1951)
- St. Andrew's Camp and Chapel Jewell, NY (1954) (website)
Later Period - Mission
A later period (from 1958 to the present) might be called the "time of mission
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Photos From Paris Fashion Week | Spring 2013
Paris Fashion Week Diary — Part 1
Paris Fashion Week Diary — Part 1
It's finally come: Paris Fashion Week, the grand finale and fabulous home stretch of the whirlwind that's been Spring 2013 Fashion Month. Despite the unexpected blustery weather (and that pesky jet lag), the first few days in the City of Light have been full of style and action — and everyone knows there's nothing like a little Lanvin, Nina Ricci, and Isabel Marant to brighten even the weariest spirits. Click through to see some of the highlights of the week thus far — including all the gorgeous sights, shows, and delicious snacks — here, in Part 1 of our Paris diary.


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More students look to coffee to power their day
Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
This university runs on coffee and that's evident in Jazzman's Café in the lower level of Pittsburg State University's Overman Student Center. Every day, with smooth jazz playing in the background and the aroma of coffee heavy in the air, students line up between classes to get their daily brew.
"I spend a lot of time down here," said freshman Meaghanne Mack. "The first week of school I filled up a punch card."
Mack is apparently in good company. A recent study by the NPD group shows a rapidly growing number of 18- to 24-year-olds turning from caffeinated sodas and energy drinks to coffee for their caffeine charge.
Senior Alyssa Snow said coffee combines the flavor she likes with the energy she needs.
"I've had energy drinks and such, but coffee tastes a lot better," she said. "They have really good coffee here and all sorts of different flavors."
This isn't your father's cup of Joe.
"We do a lot of caramel lattes and white chocolate mochas. Those are probably our most popular drinks," said barista Miika Duncan. "We also have a caramel delight, which seems to be pretty popular for those who like the sweet, sweet stuff."
"I like the caramel macchiato, the tuxedo, the caramel delight," Mack said.
There are still plenty of customers who like it simple, like sophomore Katie Rennie.
"Just black coffee, medium to a dark blend," Rennie said of her choice.
Simple doesn't mean there aren't choices to make and coffee drinkers face an array that includes organic, French roast, bold, blonde, and yes, de-caf.
Duncan, who said she begins her day at 5:30 with coffee at home, said fresh roasted beans are the foundation of a good cup of coffee.
"Using fresh beans is really good," Duncan said. "I like to grind my beans fresh. I have a bean grinder at home. Those fresh coffee grounds make a little bit of a difference. And making sure you get the right ratio of water to coffee."
Duncan said she isn't surprised to see students lining up for a smile from her and their favorite coffee drink each day.
"It's liquid sunshine!" Duncan said.


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Jimmy Comotto
Class of 2014
Major/Minor: Biology (Concentration: Biochemistry and Pre-med) / Philosophy
Campus Involvement
- Peer Mentor
- President of the Cross Country Club Team
- President of Best Buddies
- Kappa Sigma Fraternity - Guard
- President of Order of Omega
- Cater Society of Junior Fellows
- Tri-Beta
Hometown: Bel Air, MD
What do you do for a campus job or work study?
I am a Math Center tutor and a Peer Mentor .
What are you up to this summer? And what are you most looking forward to?
I will be conducting an Alzheimer's disease-related research project during a 10-week internship with the National Institute on Aging. But, I'm really looking forward to the beach!!
What does WC mean to you?
To me, Washington College means a close-knit community that is full of caring, charismatic faculty and dedicated students. All have helped me to develop and better myself in an assortment of ways.
How do you unwind?
I go for a run along the Chester River. Nothing is more calming than the soft sounds and sights of the water.


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Who says crime doesn't pay? According to London's Daily Telegraph, British hospitals are euthanizing patients at ever-increasing rates — and raking in big bucks as a result.
Documents obtained by the newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that nearly two-thirds of National Health Service (NHS) trusts, regional authorities that administer hospitals, "have received millions of pounds for hitting targets related to" the use of the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP), a controversial end-of-life care program.
Developed by a Liverpool hospice to relieve the suffering of terminally ill cancer patients during their final days, the LCP is essentially a death sentence meted out by doctors. A physician who considers a patient to be near death may put the patient on the pathway, after which the patient will be heavily sedated and may have food and water withheld. On average, patients die within 33 hours of being put on the LCP.
Use of the LCP has expanded far beyond its creators' intentions. As The New American reported in June, 29 percent of all patients who die under NHS care are on the LCP, leading British neurologist Patrick Pullicino to declare that the LCP has become an "assisted death pathway rather than a care pathway."
A survey of 72 NHS trusts obtained by the Telegraph reveals that about 85 percent of trusts have adopted the LCP. Over six in 10 of those trusts have received at least $20 million in the past two to three years for "hit[ting] targets associated with the pathway," though that number could end up being more than $32 million by the time all payments are issued, the paper says.
Under a system known as "Commissioning for Quality and Innovation" (CQUIN), local NHS commissioners pay trusts for meeting targets to "reward excellence" in care.
These can range from simply recruiting a set number of people to classes to help them stop smoking to providing specialist end-of-life services on wards — such as LCP.
As the goals are set locally, they vary from area to area but in some cases trusts are given specific targets to ensure that a set number of people who die in their hospital are on the LCP.
Elsewhere the targets relate to how the pathway is operated or monitored.
Central Manchester University Hospitals received $130,000 in 2010 for meeting LCP-related targets. The trust "said the proportion of patients whose deaths were expected and had been placed on the pathway more than doubled to 87.7 per cent in the past year," according to the Telegraph.
A trust in Berkshire received more than $1.6 million over two years for meeting its LCP goals. While no specific target for LCP deaths was included, auditing the number of deaths among LCP patients and having a "meaningful conversation" with each patient were among the trust's objectives.
A trust in Bradford "has seen the number of patients dying on the pathway more than double to 51 per cent over the last three years," the newspaper observes. Coincidentally, the trust has received over $790,000 during the past three years for reaching its LCP objectives.
The paper also reports that a Birmingham trust that received $973,000 in CQUIN funds in fiscal year 2010-11 "disclosed that 38 per cent of patient deaths occurred on the LCP in 2010 and 27 per cent in 2011."
"A handful of trusts," the broadsheet adds, "openly spoke of either hitting or missing targets connected to the LCP in their responses."
The survey results have provoked outrage among some observers, according to the Telegraph:
Dr. Gillian Craig, a consultant geriatrician who was among the first doctors to raise the concerns over the possible flaws of the LCP, described the use of the incentives as "absolutely shocking."
"I think there should be questions in Parliament as to who instigated this policy and I think the cash payments should be stopped forthwith," she said.
"You can't pay people to use a certain protocol that everybody knows to be lethal."
As might be expected, the government, including at least one Conservative Member of Parliament, is defending the policy.
Tory MP Dr. Phillip Lee, a former general practitioner, "insisted that the pathway did not amount to 'euthanasia by the back door,'" the Telegraph reports.
"This is about trying to provide appropriate care to someone who is dying," he told the newspaper.
The Department of Health, too, "has consistently stood by the LCP," says the Telegraph. A spokesman told the paper that while the department itself does not fund payments for the LCP, "local areas may choose to do so in order to improve the care and support given to people in their last days."
Of course, paying hospitals to ensure that a certain percentage of patients who die were on the LCP at the time of death only encourages them to put more patients on the LCP — patients who may not wish to be put on the pathway and who may well have lived much longer had they not been put on it.
Palliative-care consultant Dr. Peter Hargreaves told the Telegraph in 2009 that "he had personally taken patients off the pathway who went on to live for 'significant' amounts of time." Pullicino said likewise.
Several individuals have also charged recently that they were neither consulted nor informed that their now-deceased loved ones were being put on the LCP.
Such abuses have created enough of an outcry in the media that the NHS said earlier this week that it is beginning a review of the LCP.
Her Majesty's subjects ought not get their hopes up. As large as the LCP rewards to local trusts have been, they almost certainly pale in comparison to the long-term costs of treating the individuals who have been euthanized. It is, therefore, in the interest of the NHS to continue rewarding hospitals that exterminate budget-busting patients. Some surface reforms may be enacted, but a fundamental change in policy is unlikely.
Meanwhile, this news should serve as a wake-up call to Americans. ObamaCare includes a number of provisions that could have similar consequences, particularly for the elderly, who are also the predominant victims of the LCP. Under a regulation removed from the ObamaCare bill but reinstituted by bureaucratic fiat, Medicare will pay doctors to advise patients on end-of-life planning. The Independent Payment Advisory Board will directly ration care for Medicare recipients, and Accountable Care Organizations will reward healthcare providers for reducing Medicare costs, thereby encouraging them to hasten the demise of those with chronic conditions requiring expensive treatment.
"If we accept the Liverpool Care Pathway we accept that euthanasia is part of the standard way of dying," Pullicino told the Royal Society of Medicine.
If Americans do not want euthanasia to become the standard way of dying on this side of the Atlantic, they had better insist on repeal or nullification of ObamaCare.
Photo: The new Royal London Hospital building


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Sunday, November 13, 2011
Improbable regular cognates
In the "Shelha" Berber spoken near Touggourt, the word for "black" is aɣəggal. (In Tamasheq - Malian Tuareg - ɣǎggal means "to be brown".)
As you've probably guessed from the title, these are originally the same word. The semantic shift is sadly predictable, given Saharan history, but how can the consonants be related? Well:
Zenaga ʔ regularly corresponds to pan-Berber ɣ, eg iʔf "head" = iɣəf, iʔy "arm" = iɣil, iʔssi "bone" = iɣəs.
Proto-Berber *ww becomes bb in Zenaga and gg(ʷ) almost everywhere else in Berber, eg "year": Zenaga äššäbbaš = pan-Berber asəgg(ʷ)as.
Pan-Berber l becomes Zenaga y word-finally, eg ađ̣abbäy "male in-law" = pan-Berber aḍəgg(ʷ)al. But if you add the feminine ending -t, the resulting cluster lt becomes L. Sure enough, "slave (f.)" in Zenaga is toʔḅḅäL.
So if you're tired of repeating Armenian "erku" = English "two" every time you need an example of a non-trivial sound change, consider opting for a Berber example.
(All Zenaga data from Taine-Cheikh 2010; Tamasheq data from Heath 2006; Touggourt (specifically Tala n Aʕməṛ) data courtesy of a friend. The correspondences in question are discussed in more detail in Kossmann 1999.)
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So if you're tired of repeating Armenian "erku" = English "two" every time you need an example of a non-trivial sound change
I didn't know that. I went in search of evidence from the Net of a Thousand Lies, and this post of yours now occupies places 3 and 4 on googling the appropriate words. :o)
consider opting for a Berber example.
...if you know enough Berber to know how to pronounce ḅ and ä and ǎ (and ʔ and ɣ)...
- 14 November, 2011 11:06
Hi Lameen nice post :-)
I want to mention:
ungal: used for black and brown in the Moroccan High-Atlas [south-central&east]
The root GL ->>
ssengel: se mettre de Kohol
ungal: qui a les paupières noires
source| M.Kossmann 'essai sur la phonologie du proto-berbère
iqelian (Sous) et -iqelliun- (A. Ba3mran); coll. pl. que l'on doit rapporter à un mot -ghuel- (Ouargla), être bleu foncé d'ou -agheggal-, adjectief de couleur, bleu^noir -ungal-: noir (Dads)
source | Dictionnaire Berbère / Français - Dialecte des Ntifa par M.DRAY
- 14 November, 2011 19:13
That's definitely going on the list! Thanks!
- 17 November, 2011 18:18
- Zeus said...
/agheggwal/ =black is used in Shawi berber among the tribe of Ighassiren (whose territory stretches fom tifelfal to Ghoufi on ighzer amellal). two miles from tifelfal in taghit (on the sam river bank inhabited by ait buliman) it is no longer /agheggwal/ but /aberkan/ for black!!!!!!
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EDMONTON — Call it, if you like, the faintly smoking gun.
Court documents obtained by The Edmonton Journal and Postmedia on Monday show that an Elections Canada investigation into "robocalls" that allegedly misdirected Guelph-area voters to non-existent polling stations is specifically focused on the Conservative Party of Canada.
The calls originated with an Edmonton firm, RackNine, which runs a voice broadcast system for automated telephone solicitations.
Back in November, Elections Canada sought and received a court order from an Edmonton judge compelling RackNine to turn over all correspondence, emails and records of contact between the company and representatives of the Conservative Party general election campaign in Guelph, Ont. The production order, issued by provincial court Judge Michael G. Allen, compelled RackNine to turn over the names, passwords, and IP addresses of anyone associated with the Conservative election campaign in Guelph.
RackNine was also ordered to turn over the scripts and recordings of any messages that went out to homes in the 519 or 226 area codes through its system.
Allen's order states that there are "reasonable grounds to suspect" that person or persons unknown "did by pretence or contrivance, induce or attempt to induce" persons to refrain from voting, a violation of the Canada Elections Act.
But while the order suggests a connection between the robot calls and the Conservative party, it doesn't implicate RackNine.
"RackNine Inc. is not under investigation for an offence against this Act or any other Act of Parliament in respect other offences listed below," reads the order.
That's a point RackNine president Matt Meier, 30, is keen to stress.
Ever since the news of the so-called robocalls scandal broke last week, Meier has had to deal with the consequences of having his name and his firm linked to political dirty tricks.
Meier says he and his family are getting crank calls and threats from people who believe he was party to attempted voter fraud. And he's considering legal action, specifically against New Democrat MP Pat Martin and the federal New Democratic Party, for defamation.
"I've been misrepresented," Meier insists. "We are not under investigation by Elections Canada in any way. Our goal is to assist them in identifying, catching, and hopefully convicting whoever was involved in this process. We want this person to be caught."
Meier doesn't run a call centre. His business, with a staff of five, is considerably more high-tech. Clients pre-record their commercial sales pitches or political messages, upload them to RackNine's computer system, and provide the computer with a list of specific phone numbers. The calls aren't random: the computer automatically calls the numbers on the pre-set list.
Those pre-recorded phone messages lack the personal touch but they're dirt cheap. Based on RackNine's lowest rate of 1.9 cents per minute, a one-minute call to 10,000 people would cost a client just $190.
Since The Ottawa Citizen and Postmedia first broke the story last week, all kind of other allegations about all kinds of telephonic dirty tricks have come to light, including everything from live callers who made harassing phone calls to Jewish voters on the Sabbath, and others who promised to drive voters to polling stations and then never showed up. The Liberals and New Democrats have suggested that the dirty tricks may have influenced the election outcome in at least 34 ridings, from Edmonton to Nova Scotia. None of those other alleged telephone antics have been linked to RackNine.
Meier says his whole business philosophy is about encouraging voter participation, not suppression. And although his firm has been publicly linked to both the Conservative Party of Canada and the Wildrose party provincially, he insists RackNine is non-ideological.
"I've been called a Conservative operative. That is absolutely incorrect," he says. "I'm personally a member of the CPC, and like our competitors, used that membership to attend and host a suite at the Conservative AGM. RackNine is a for-profit business, has no political affiliation and has provided services to political parties across the political spectrum . . . We are absolutely non-partisan in terms of our customer base."
But is it really possible that Meier didn't realize that his nifty robot call system was being used to broadcast fraudulent calls allegedly designed to trick voters? Meier insists he had no idea.
His firm requires all clients to commit to a blanket terms of service agreement which clearly forbids them from using the site in a manner which is "illegal or promotes and encourage illegal activity." The rules also forbid clients from impersonating any person or entity. However, RackNine doesn't routinely monitor calls to enforce those rules. Once clients sign on, they simply use RackNine's software system to upload and blast out their messages.
"We do not vet any of the calls or lists that are provided by our clients. The software is designed to be completely automated. We have no involvement in what our customers do," he says.
"It would be impossible to inspect calls for content because of volume and circumstance. This would be like your cellphone preventing you from calling someone because it thinks you're angry."
Back in Ottawa, NDP MP Pat Martin isn't buying Meier's explanation. He has received a letter from RackNine's lawyer, demanding an apology. He's not offering one.
In fact, he suggests Meier, whom he dubs a zealot and a Conservative operative, should actually thank him, for pointing out how unlikely it is that one small Edmonton firm could have orchestrated dirty tricks across the country.
"I doubt that his little rinky-dink outfit could have been behind all of this. Elections Canada needs to look farther afield for the real mastermind."
Martin wants Elections Canada to widen its investigation, well beyond Guelph, and consider byelections, in any ridings where dirty tricks are proven and could have influenced outcomes in tight races.
"There seems to be a wilful blindness to wrongdoing in many other ridings," he says. "The integrity of our electoral system has been compromised. It's appalling. If you won by cheating, you don't have a mandate and neither do you have a moral majority nor the moral authority to govern."
For his part, Meier says he's considering filing a defamation lawsuit against Martin, complaining that Martin, as the party's spokesman on this issue, has referred to him as a "goon" and a "hillbilly" who helped to "fix an election." While Meier insists he did nothing wrong, his firm is reconsidering the way it screens and accepts its customers.
"I can say that, since working with Elections Canada, we're evaluating how and when we take in new clients. The service is designed to engage people in the voting process, and our policies will best reflect that."


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Mountains, monsoons and mosquitos: Highlights from amphibian biologist Dr Jodi Rowley's diary of her recent field trip to Central Vietnam.
I have finally reached the boundary of Kon Ka Kinh National Park, in the highlands of central Vietnam. I've come here for an eleven-night amphibian field survey.
My travel to this park commenced several days ago with a flight from Sydney to Hanoi, via Hong Kong. Once in Hanoi, I met up with my Vietnamese friends and colleagues, and we had spent a few days in Hanoi getting our gear together, then we flew to central Vietnam.
This morning we purchased all our food for the next two weeks (no supermarkets in the forest!), and then took a minibus several hours to the park. Tomorrow our amphibian surveys will begin!
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I'm sorry I didn't do it from the first few days, when everything was new and weird and I used to get a cultural shock almost every day...I remember I use to have an epiphany every other day and felt happy that I decided to come to India.
After I started to work, for real (since December), I did not have time to write anything, so...here I am, trying to share my Indian experience and what I understood so far of this unbelievable culture.
I'm on sick leave, so now I have some time to READ! So, I started "Holy Cow", by Sarah Macdonald - a book that I've been wanting to read for the past 6 month, but only touched when I was wiping off the dust from the bed-table.
I like it a lot! It helps me remember the beginning of my experience here and understand things about the culture that Indians were not able to explain to me (because even they don't know the reason behind it). It also has a lot of things that I haven't seen or experienced yet, but hope I will.
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Bill Amend of Fox Trot fame has a rather bizarre chore for his son to do in order to earn his allowance. Pretty sure I would have killed to be "forced" to do this as a child. Any crazy chores you've made your kids do, or any you remember doing growing up? Let us know in the comments!
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Walter Seigle Horner Jr., 68, of Saint Mary's, Ohio passed away on Thursday, January 18, 2013 at Select Specialty Hospital in Akron, Ohio after an extended illness. He was born on August 1st, 1944 in Ravenna, Ohio to Walter (Jack) and Eloise (nee Marks) Horner, who preceded him in death. Mrs. Horner, through her mother, was a direct descendant of Stephen Meyers Jr.; the first settler of Streetsboro Township in 1822.
Walter (Jackie) spent the formative years of his life in Portage County. Upon graduation from Kent State University in 1966 with a degree in Education, he embarked upon a trip to Europe, studying in England and touring sites in France and elsewhere on the Continent. In later years he also traveled to Russia, Spain, and Mexico. Walter enjoyed a successful high school teaching career, first at Marysville, Ohio, and then at Wapakoneta, Ohio, where he taught Government, Civics, and other Social Studies courses, and from which school he retired from teaching in the late 1990's. After his retirement Walter remained active in the community as a member of the Retired Teachers Association, Garden Club, and the Wayne Street United Methodist Church. He was an avid historian and acted as the Walter Horner Family genealogist. Walter enjoyed spending time with his loved ones (especially Harry, Wills, Maxine & Boots) and numerous friends. Jules Dowling shared with him the love of animals, gardening, and the history of Auglaze County.
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Sam Bradford- Am I Taking Crazy Pills?
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It seems destined that Sam Bradford is going to be the top pick in next weeks NFL draft. This is how David Carr happens, or Tim Couch, or Alex Smith. These are quarterbacks taken #1 because the team with the pick felt like their hands were tied.
People realize that Bradford only played college football for 2 years, right?
People understand that he never won a Bowl game? That he only beat Texas his FRESHMAN year? That his worst game in the last two years was the only one that truly mattered (title game against Florida). That he played in a conference where nobody played defense? Here are the pertinent numbers for 2008 (the one year where he did anything).
Sam Bradford: 68% passing, 4720 yards, 50 TD, 8 INT
Chase Daniel: 73% passing, 4335 yards, 39 TD, 18 INT
Graham Harrell: 71% passing, 5111 yards, 45 TD, 9 INT
Todd Reesing: 66% passing, 3888 yards, 32 TD, 13 INT
Joe Ganz: 68% passing, 3568 yards, 25 TD, 11 INT
Zac Robinson: 65% passing, 3064 yards, 25 TD, 10 INT (562 yards rushing, 8 TD)
Colt McCoy: 77% passing, 3859 yards, 34 TD, 8 INT (561 yards rushing, 11 TD)
All these quarterbacks were in the SAME CONFERENCE!
Then Bradford played a very good Florida D, had his worst game of the year, and lost. The only other team to play any defense that year was Texas, and Bradford lost to them as well. Don't say I didn't warn you, St. Louis.


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- nsMsgBodyHandler
- nsMsgDBFolder::GetMsgTextFromStream
- libmime
- IMAP fakeserver (one for body parts, one for body structure, and another spot happily hunts down headers)
- NNTP fakeserver (hunts down headers)
- nsParseMailbox
- nsNNTPProtocol (hunts down headers)
- nsMsgLocalStoreUtils (hunts down headers)
- Somewhere in compose code. Probably, although it's not clear how much is being funneled back to libmime and how much is not.
- A class in necko implements in the RFC 2231 and RFC 2047 decoding.
Well, it's time for to increment that count by one. And then decrement it by at least three (two of the IMAP and the NNTP fakeserver decoders are switched over in a queued patch, and I hope to get the third IMAP fakeserver switched over). I've been working on a new JS MIME parser to Thunderbird for a bit at a time over the past several months, and I have local patches that start using it in tests (and as a replacement for nsIMimeHeaders).
So, why replace libmime instead of consolidating everyone onto it? The short answer is because libmime is a festering pile of crap. It uses an internal object system that can be summarized as "reimplementing C++ in C" and has existed largely in the same form since at least Netscape 5 (the Mozilla classic version gives a date of May 15, 1996). All of that would be manageable were it not for the fact that the architecture is clearly broken. Reliably parsing multipart MIME messages is not a trivial task (indeed, not only does one of the above do it incorrectly, but there is actually a test which may rely on it being wrong. Guess which one it is.), and the fact that so many people have variants on it is a clear indication that the API fails to expose what it ought to expose. This means that the code is in need of change, and the implementation is a form which makes changing things extremely difficult.
The choice to do it in JS was motivated mostly by Andrew Sutherland. There has been a long-term ideal in Thunderbird dating back to at least around 2008 to move more implementation of core code into JS, which would help avoid massive churn spurred on by mozilla-central; nowadays, there is the added benefit that it would aid in efforts like B2G or porting to platforms where native code is frowned upon. MIME code, being extremely self-contained (charset conversion and S/MIME encryption make up the biggest dependencies in the core parser). As of my current implementation, the only external dependency that the MIME parser has is atob, although charset conversion (via the proposed string encoding API) will be added when I get there. In other words, this code is usable by anyone who wants to write a mail client in JS, not just the internal mailnews code.
Another advantage to writing my own library is that it gives me a lot of time to lay out specifications in clearer terms. One called out in the spec are on how to handle seeing boundaries for the non-leaf-most part. My own brain went further and started musing on non-leaf parts getting QP or base64 content-transfer-encodings (which RFC 6532 went ahead and allowed anyways), or multiple nested parts having the same boundary (which the specification, in my view, hints at resolving in a particular fashion). Other developments include the fact that most MIME parsers do not permit as much CFWS as the specification indicates could be present ("Content-Type: multipart / mixed" would be unusable in every MIME parser source I read)I also produced a list of all the specifications that the parser will need to refer to that I have found so far (13 RFCs and a handful of non-RFCs, plus 9 obsoleted RFCs that may still warrant viewing). As for size? The JS implementation is about 600-700 lines right now (including over 300 lines of comments), while the equivalent C++ portions take over a thousand lines to do more or less the same thing.
As I said earlier, one of the problems with libmime is its oppressive architecture. It is primarily designed to drive the message pane while living as a streaming converter. However, it encompasses roughly three steps: the production of the raw MIME tree (or a tree that combine the raw MIME data with pseudo-MIME alternatives), conversion of that tree into a more traditional body-and-attachments view, and then the final driving of the UI. Getting it to stop any earlier is between difficult and impossible; what I have now, once it gets some more testing, can satisfy people who just need the first step. Doing the second step would require me to sit down and document how libmime makes its choices, which is not a task I look forward to doing.