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Coaches often downplay the importance of spring football, particularly the spring game, but significant developments do take place during the 15 practices.
It was during the spring of 2007 that Todd Reesing beat out Kerry Meier for the Kansas University starting quarterback job, a development that greatly strengthened both ends of the passing game because Meier developed into a record-breaking KU receiver.
Based on coach Charlie Weis' "too close to call" comment about the quarterback competition, this could be looked back upon as the spring of Montell Cozart, since he's running in a dead heat with Jake Heaps.
If Cozart had not gained the valuable game experience a year ago, after Weis decided midway through the year not to red-shirt him, he wouldn't have had enough first-hand knowledge about where he needed to improve. Not even the hardest-hitting, liveliest practices can simulate game action. Heaps would have a stranglehold on the job had Cozart red-shirted in 2013.
Yet, if Cozart wins the job and develops into a three-year starter, some will bemoan the "burning" of his red-shirt year, the same lament so often expressed regarding Todd Reesing's limited play during his freshman season.
Reesing never has been one of those voices.
"People always ask: 'Aren't you disappointed? You could have had another year.' My response to that is, if I hadn't played that game, I wouldn't have had the chance to compete for the starting job the next year," Reesing said over lunch during the basketball season. "Kerry was clearly the starter. Going into the next year, that wouldn't have changed if I hadn't had a chance to play. It was a blessing in disguise."
In Reesing's first two-and-a-half seasons as a starter, KU went 25-6. His career ended on a bizarre seven-game losing streak, the second half of that stumble overshadowed by an investigation into coach Mark Mangino's treatment of players. After the season, Mangino accepted a $3 million buyout and Reesing never again played football.
"It was a weird deal," Reesing said of the investigation during late autumn of 2009. "I don't really know where it stemmed from. I'm sure there were mixed feelings by players about coaches, but there are mixed feelings by players about coaches on any team. Some coaches coach hard and you get yelled at."
Reesing had thick skin and great self-confidence, both of which made his shortcomings compared to prototypical Big 12 quarterbacks irrelevant.
"It's kind of part of the deal," he said. "You know what you're getting yourself into when you're playing football. I never had an issue with coach Mangino, never felt that he ever crossed any lines."
It all happened so fast.
"We started out great that year, had a rough few weeks and then that happens and it kind of implodes at the end of the season," Reesing said. "Next thing you know we're bringing in a whole new coaching staff. Too bad to see things end that way, especially after having the best year in the school's history two years before that."
Reesing, now working in his hometown of Austin for KU graduate and Lawrence native David Booth at Booth's company, Dimensional Fund Advisors, remembered what bothered him perhaps the most about the fallout of the Mangino ouster.
"It was tough to see for all the other coaches, guys who really busted their (tails) for years to build Kansas up to where it was at and then to be out of a job after one year because of all that and a new coaching staff being brought in," Reesing said. "Guys had to move families and look for jobs."
Clint Bowen found work at Western Kentucky and then North Texas before returning to Kansas to work for Charlie Weis. Bowen is KU's defensive coordinator. John Reagan joined Weis' staff in December as offensive coordinator.
"Excited to have them back at Kansas," Reesing said. "Hopefully, they can get it turned around. Coach Reagan, I knew him real well. He's a great coach. He's had a lot of success coaching the offensive line and being a play-caller at his previous job (Rice)."
Reesing said Reagan was offensive coordinator Ed Warinner's "right-hand guy. He's got a lot of expertise and a lot of experience, so I think the offense is in good hands."
Reesing, a very bright thinker and clear communicator, painted a vivid picture of what playing under Warinner was like.
"He really pushed players hard in practice," Reesing said. "He wasn't always the most fun guy to be around in practice because he was yelling and he was hard on people. He wanted people to give their best and thought that was the best way to get it out of them. Every coach has their different approach to practice."
Warinner's worked well.
"Him making us go at fast speeds and us being uncomfortable in practice because of the yelling and all that, when we got to the game, it was a much more controlled environment," Reesing said. "You didn't have people yelling at you. It wasn't as fast-paced, so things actually slowed down in the game."
Interesting. The absence of weekday mayhem created a Saturday clarity.
"I think the way he made us practice — the yelling, the fast pace we went at — was so wild that when we got to the game we were relaxed and worked at a fast pace, but it seemed slow to us," Reesing said. "He really was a huge catalyst for that Orange Bowl year and the success we had the next year. The offense he put in, the style of play we had on offense, was a lot because of his ideas, his leadership."
Warinner worked for a head coach who gave him a general idea of what he wanted and let him decide how to get there.
"His belief was, you don't make your players fit an offense; you make your offense fit your players," Reesing said.
Reagan practices that belief as well. And he's working for a head coach who fired himself as offensive coordinator and is letting Reagan run his no-huddle, spread offense the way he thinks it should be run. Humility isn't a word often used in the same sentence as Charlie Weis, but that's the precise quality it took from the head coach in order to put the right guy in charge of the offense and let him have the deciding vote on personnel matters.


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1916: Serbia in Corfu
Everyone knows that the First World War began with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. Less well known outside of the region is what happened next. First Austro-Hungary attacked Serbia but, to its shock, its troops were routed and had to retreat. In 1915 however they returned along with German and Bulgarian forces. The Serbian government then made a momentous and extraordinary decision. Along with the army, the King, parliamentarians, university professors and thousands of others it began a long march through Serbia, Kosovo and Montenegro to get to the Albanian coast where Allied ships then rescued those who had not died en route. Understanding the course of the First World War in the Balkans is of course essential to an understanding of how the first Yugoslavia was created in 1918. A large part of that story is told by Andrej Mitrovic, who teaches history at Belgrade University and whose book on Serbia during the war was published in English in 2007. This extract covers the evacuation of the Serbs from Albania which began in January 1916. By February says Mitrovic, "90,000 soldiers and about 5,000 civilians had embarked in the port of Durres alone." Thousands more were to follow with some of them taken by the French to Bizerta in Tunisia but most of them went to Corfu. The final evacuation, of the cavalry division, took place on 5 April 1916.
A French eyewitness described the disembarkation in Corfu: "They were all totally exhausted and frightfully thin… Those poor Serbs. Sailors helped them out of the boats, and they made their painful way uphill using their rifles as supports. They finally dropped to the ground, prostrate, virtually unconscious." At least 15,000 of them were gravely ill, but Corfu could not be transformed into a gigantic hospital for the sick and convalescent all at once. It was a poor island and everything, even food, had to be shipped in for the 140,000 weak and sick newcomers. The French troops who had arrived had only been able to make the most basic preparations for the huge number of long-suffering evacuees, who first had to be helped to build shelters for themselves. In addition, the weather at the beginning was very bad. Heavy rain fell unremittingly, so that the Serb soldiers started to liken their plight to the biblical Flood.
The situation continued to be catastrophic. The French eyewitness recorded: "Huge numbers died every day… From 23 January to 23 March there were 4,847 deaths". A French nurse later recalled: "Corpses piled up like planks of wood one on top of the other… , four in a row, sometimes six… . An arm, a leg or a convulsed face stuck out here and there." The sick were quarantined on the island of Vidos near Corfu, where, after so much torment, many died; the island became engraved in the memories of both Serbs and Allies alike as the "island of death". Around 5,400 people died there. Another 1,000 Serb soldiers died in Bizerta. And disease struck many of the survivors. General de Mondesire reported to his superiors that on 24 February, some five weeks after the first Serb units had landed, there were some 6,000 sick people on the island of Corfu.
But even the worst of misfortunes have to end. The weather finally improved; and the lull in fighting and rest worked their cures. The Serbian army was gradually able to provide better conditions for itself. Under the leadership of the French mission and with the cooperation of the British mission, the Allies were able to deliver more and more food, tents, clothing, medication and other requirements. Soon even those evacuees who had been close to death began to recover. "The Serbs are setting their camps to order and embellishing them… .It was a pleasure to go and see them." Men only recently prostrate with exhaustion and illness could be seen lined up in impeccable ranks, "healthy, well-armed, equipped from head to toe". [French envoy] Auguste Boppe reported to his Foreign Ministry: "Such a rapid and complete transformation seems miraculous."
Today a museum commemorates the Serbs on Corfu. Marcus Tanner, whose books we have featured on this site, visited it in 2007 and wrote Serbian Ghosts Haunt Corfu for Balkan Insight about it.
Serbia's Great War: 1914-1918. Andrej Mitrovic. 2007.
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Emma Thompson put her name on that petition. You know the one. The one that so many of them signed in support of Roman Polanski. SO MANY. And among them so many of our favourites. Like Emma Thompson. But now an update, thanks to Elizabeth for sending the link.
Apparently Emma was recently confronted by someone disappointed in her decision and she explained that she'd been rethinking it and promised to remove her name from the list. Click here for more on what went down and Emma's rationale.
But what about the others?
All the directors, the producers, the big name actors… Tilda Swinton and Natalie Portman, it's f-cking with my sh-t. But also consider the associations. Mike Nichols is married to Diane Sawyer. So Diane Sawyer is married to man who supports a rapist? Same goes for Sam Mendes. Kate Winslet is married to a man who supports a rapist?
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This is Emma a couple of weeks ago at the UK premiere of An Education with Carey Mulligan and Dominic Cooper.
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This year's Gamelab conference in Barcelona, Spain will see industry veterans Hideo Kojima, Cliff Bleszinski, Peter Molyneux and EA founder Trip Hawkins deliver key speeches.
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According to this, SCEE is to release a Starter Pack bundle in Spain, lauching tomorrow. "According to a source in Spain Sony Computer Entertainment's vice president for Spain and Portugal, James Armstrong has confirmed that a new Starter Pack is due to go on sale on 31 January," said the report, originating from Spanish site […]
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We were just IM'ing with Scotto and got to listening to an old song by Jawbreaker that we used to cover when jamming with Bill Stroppe's grandson back in college. We'd smoke Chesterfield Kings and American Spirit Regulars on the curb outside the building when we were exhausted and sweaty from him being Bill Stevenson and us being E. Bloom, Richard Hell, Joe Strummer and John Doe. And well, it made us think about ol' Stroppe. We found this great bit on what's basically the father of the modern Trophy Truck: the Stroppe/Parnelli Jones Ford Bronco oft-referred-to as "Big Oly," undoubtedly one of the proto-punkest vehicles ever.
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President, Jaguar Conservation Fund
What can scientists learn about conservation and biodiversity by observing the movements of wildlife in Brazil?
Earthwatch scientist Dr. Leandro Silveira researches the process of determining the habitat needs of iconic Brazilian jaguars, pumas, and maned wolves.
Says Dr. Silveira: "We are seeing our work have an outcome. Local community members and farmers have begun to understand that coexistence with wildlife on their land is possible when the desire for coexistence is there. Better still, they have started to put this understanding into practice, and some of them are among our strongest partners for regional biodiversity conservation. This project is about more than just learning the ecology or conserving wildlife: we are working to conserve the biological uniqueness of central Brazil."
"With the help of volunteers, we installed dozens of camera traps - with the resulting discovery of 10 individual jaguars new to the population - or at least to us. The presence of new individuals in the population is excellent news - it means that although the park we are studying is apparently largely isolated from other significant jaguar populations, recruitment of new individuals, in the form of immigration or birth, is taking place. This is absolutely vital for this small jaguar population to persist."
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NAMEXML::Pastor::Builtin - Module that includes definitions of all XML::Pastor W3C builtin type classes .
WARNINGThis module is used internally by XML::Pastor. You do not normally know much about this module to actually use XML::Pastor. It is documented here for completeness and for XML::Pastor developers. Do not count on the interface of this module. It may change in any of the subsequent releases. You have been warned.
use XML::Pastor::Builtin;
DESCRIPTIONXML::Pastor::Builtin is a module that includes the definitions of the classes that represent the W3C builtin simple types. These builtin packages are either directly defined here in this module or otherwise they are used by this module so that you don't have to use them in your program once you use this module. Each builtin type corresponds to a package. So this module defines multiple packages at once. In each of the packages, the XmlSchemaType class data accessor is set with an object of type XML::Pastor::Schema::SimpleType. This object contains the W3C facets that are used during xml validation, such as pattern, minInclusive, and so on. An internal facet called regex (not defined by W3C) is used to give the regex patterns that correspond to the builtin types. The regex facet will be guaranteed to be a Perl regex while the pattern facet (W3C) may divert from Perl regular expressions although they seem identical to me at this time. All builtin classes descend from XML::Pastor::Builtin::SimpleType which itself descends from XML::Pastor::SimpleType. There exist some ancestors for groupings of builtin types. For example, all numeric builtin types descend directly or indirecly from XML::Pastor::Builtin::Numeric. Such groupings are listed below:
EXAMPLEBelow is an example of how the double type is defined in the XML::Pastor::Builtin::double package.
package XML::Pastor::Builtin::double; our @ISA = qw(XML::Pastor::Builtin::Numeric); XML::Pastor::Builtin::double->XmlSchemaType( bless( { 'class' => 'XML::Pastor::Builtin::double', 'contentType' => 'simple', 'derivedBy' => 'restriction', 'name' => 'double|http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema', # Regex shamelessly copied from XML::Validator::Schema by Sam Tregar 'regex' => qr/^[+-]?(?:(?:INF)|(?:NaN)|(?:\d+(?:\.\d+)?)(?:[eE][+-]?\d+)?)$/, }, 'XML::Pastor::Schema::SimpleType' ) );
BUILTIN TYPESBelow is a list of W3C builtin types defined either directly in this module, or used by it (and so made available through it).
BUGS & CAVEATSThere no known bugs at this time, but this doesn't mean there are aren't any. Note that, although some testing was done prior to releasing the module, this should still be considered alpha code. So use it at your own risk. Note that there may be other bugs or limitations that the author is not aware of.
AUTHORAyhan Ulusoy <dev(at)ulusoy(dot)name>
Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Ayhan Ulusoy. All Rights Reserved.This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSOSee also XML::Pastor, XML::Pastor::ComplexType, XML::Pastor::SimpleType If you are curious about the implementation, see XML::Pastor::Schema::Parser, XML::Pastor::Schema::Model, XML::Pastor::Generator. If you really want to dig in, see XML::Pastor::Schema::Attribute, XML::Pastor::Schema::AttributeGroup, XML::Pastor::Schema::ComplexType, XML::Pastor::Schema::Element, XML::Pastor::Schema::Group, XML::Pastor::Schema::List, XML::Pastor::Schema::SimpleType, XML::Pastor::Schema::Type, XML::Pastor::Schema::Object
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After our pleasant visit to Hollis Garden Man and I found a parking spot closer to downtown, which was rather easy to do, as it was a Sunday. Sometimes weekend trips ARE the way to go, no downtown traffic.
Sculpture always draws my attention. I will never profess to understand it all, and in this case, so far, I have been unable to determine the name or artist, but, isn't this lovely? Outside the Polk Museum of Art.
Lakeland is known for it's swans, here is an interesting article, sadly as of October 2018 this link no longer functions. There are also swans painted around town. During our short visit I found two, this one is also outside the Polk Museum of Art.
We found a place to grab a burger and a beer and then walked back to Jolly. In front of the city hall we find:
Another view. Signage tells us: Genus Kaleidoscopus, AKA, "Kallie". Artist: Roger Haar. Sponsor: City of Lakeland.
Swanarch. Artist: Harrison School of the Arts. Swansor: City of Lakeland.
A visit to lovely gardens, a wedding, a nice but short walk around downtown, a good burger, art and swans, several hours delightfully spent.


text: Cam Newton's decision to re-enroll at Auburn has been a quiet storyline this week, but Newton's not the only national-title-winning QB again giving school the old college try. Vince Young is back in the classroom at the University of Texas, and he more or less began the week with sharpened pencils and an apple for the teacher. A fellow student says Young is "a contributing member to the class atmosphere," but his contribution looks something less than enthusiastic to us.


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- Todos > Medicine Information and Evidence for Policy > Information and Publications
- Todos > Medicine Access and Rational Use > Antimicrobial Drug Resistance
- Todos > Medicine Access and Rational Use > Rational Use
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Objective: To estimate the prevalence and identify the determinants of non-prescription use of antibiotics for children in Mongolia. Methods: A community-based cross-sectional survey was undertaken in 10 subdistricts in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia's capital. We used a structured questionnaire to collect data from a random sample of 540 households with at least one child aged < 5 years. Logistic regression was used to identify factors associated with antibiotic misuse. Findings: Of 503 participating caregivers, 71% were mothers; 42.3% (95% confidence interval, CI: 37.8–46.9) of caregivers had used non-prescribed antibiotics to treat symptoms in their child during the previous 6 months. Symptoms commonly treated were cough (84%), fever (66%), nasal discharge (65%) and sore throat (60%). Amoxicillin was the most commonly used antibiotic (58%). Pharmacies were the main source (86%) of non-prescribed antibiotics. Non-prescribed use by mothers was significantly associated with keeping antibiotics at home (odds ratio, OR: 1.7; 95% CI: 1.04–2.79), caregiver self-medication (OR: 6.3; 95% CI: 3.8–10.5) and older child's age (OR: 1.02; 95% CI: 1.01–1.04). Caregivers with a better knowledge of antibiotics were less likely to give children non-prescribed antibiotics (OR: 0.7; 95% CI: 0.6–0.8). Conclusion: The prevalence of non-prescribed antibiotic use for young children was high in Ulaanbaatar. Because such use leads to the spread of bacterial resistance to antibiotics and related health problems, our findings have important implications for public education and the enforcement of regulations regarding the sale of antibiotics in Mongolia.


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"We believe that by bringing committed scientists, physicians, and advocates together, we will find the truth about this significant public health threat, sooner rather than later." – Annette Whittemore
In some ways Annette Whittemore is your typical ME/CFS mother. Like many other mothers, she recalls her concern turning to alarm and then horror as she watched her young daughter collapse with a mysterious illness. Andrea Whittemore was a healthy 11-year-old when a racing heart, severe headaches, nerve pain and exhaustion confined her to bed. At her worst moments Annette Whittemore feared her daughter was dying.
Trips to their primary care physician were no help – and soon the Whittemores, like so many others, were on the ME/CFS treadmill, visiting specialist after specialist. Ten years would pass before Andrea, under the care of Dr. Daniel Peterson, achieved a substantial improvement on the experimental antiviral drug AmpligenR.
Annette knew her daughter was fortunate to have parents with the resources to scour the medical field for help and provide her access to experimental treatments. Not only do many ME/CFS patients have trouble simply getting a diagnosis, but their treatment often consists of nothing more than calls for rest and anti-depressants. When they do find a knowledgeable doctor, special treatments such as Ampligen are often unavailable or simply too costly.
She recalls, "I was constantly being asked if I knew anyone who could help these people." Frustrated by her inability to help, one day Annette had an epiphany, "I couldn't understand why there wasn't more being done. Somehow or other, I got up one day and thought that maybe that somebody was supposed to be me."
A Revolutionary Partnership
Meanwhile Dr. Peterson was dealing with frustrations of his own. For more than 20 years he'd waited for the federal government to create the kind of integrated research/treatment/education centers that ME/CFS patients so desperately need. Fed up with a federal response he called "abominable," he was chomping at the bit to get an opportunity to take a more comprehensive approach to this disease.
Over Andrea's bedside, concerned activist mother met frustrated physician/researcher – and a partnership was born that may change the face of ME/CFS research and treatment.
Dreaming big, they envisioned something that had never been done before…an Institute that would:
- Provide cutting edge treatments,
- Stimulate research into neuro-immune issues,
- And provide outreach to a new generation of physicians and researchers.
These were big dreams but they thought they might be able to make good on them. Annette's husband Harvey Whittemore, an attorney and real estate developer, had been active in Nevada's political circles for many years. Harvey signed on to the project, and the three began the long odyssey of gathering the necessary financial and political support.
The Whittemores contributed significant funds and raised more, and in 2005 a bill to create the Institute got the unanimous support of the Nevada legislature. After a tumultuous budget battle in 2007 the funds for the world's first integrated ME/CFS research and treatment center were approved.
Studies Already Underway
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Even though the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuroimmune Disease (WPI) will not open until 2010, the work has already begun. A year ago a WPI laboratory under the direction of cancer researcher and virologist Dr. Judy Mikovits, PhD, opened on the University of Nevada, Reno campus. This dynamic researcher, whose enthusiasm Annette Whittemore has called "infectious," is collaborating with a diverse team of immunologists, clinical virologists, pharmacologists and microbiologists.
Their look at ME/CFS from a neuro-immune perspective appears be paying off, with Dr. Mikovits suggesting it could reap dividends far beyond the disease itself. "We are beginning to realize that our research program at this Institute will have a significant impact on a much larger number of diseases with similar etiologies such as autism, epilepsy and MS."
A Destination for Patients
When it opens in 2010, the Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuroimmune Disease will occupy 19,000 sq. ft. in the Center for Molecular Medicine on the University of Nevada's Medical Campus in Reno, Nevada. It will be a place where ME/CFS patients can be diagnosed and participate in clinical trials, where novel research will be conducted, and where medical students can learn about this disease.
It has attracted substantial interest and support from patients, other foundations, and a host of international researchers who are already affiliated with it. It is the first Institute of its kind in the world.
Meanwhile, Andrea Whittemore is better but still not well. Ampligen has given her a glimpse of what's possible – she is now able to work part-time. But her dreams of independence, family and a career still take a back seat to this disease. Annette Whittemore is hoping to see her daughter well again, and is fighting for her and so many others with this disease.
As for Annette Whittemore, she couldn't be more excited. Now the director of the Institute and its chief fundraiser, she is fully committed, interspersing trips to Washington, DC, and to overseas conferences with her work in Reno. And despite her family's efforts to sometimes slow her down, she says "I can't imagine doing anything else."
"This project is central to our finding ways to greatly impact the lives of those who suffer from neuroimmune diseases," she states, and her dreams for the Institute include finding a cure, coming up with treatments, and ways to prevent it.
The Tragically Harmful Name
Annette is clear that part of the fight for ME/CFS patients involves coming up with a better name. "The name 'chronic fatigue syndrome' is incredibly harmful to all of those who suffer from this debilitating disease…and tragically misleads their families, communities, and doctors into believing it is benign," she emphasizes.
"The more we learn about this disease spectrum, the more I realize that a name can mean the difference between solving a significant public health threat and watching as millions more become victims to these life-long illnesses. ME or Myalgic Encephalomyelitis is the correct name for the illness that my daughter has had for over 18 years. It is devastating to our family and to all those who love her. Calling it CFS or anything else doesn't lessen the impact of the disease, it only keeps the world from knowing the truth.
"We believe that by bringing committed scientists, physicians, and advocates together, we will find that truth, sooner rather than later."
*Cort Johnson, a noted research reporter, is founder of the website Phoenix Rising: A Guide to ME/CFS (http://www.phoenix-cfs.org) and publisher of the bi-monthly Phoenix Rising Newsletter.


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A senior Catholic official who was found to be protecting the church from legal action by not taking notes in interviews with alleged sex abusers has defended his actions.
Father Brian Lucas, the general secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference told the child abuse royal commission he could not remember a meeting in 1993 with child sex abuser John Chute and the Australian provincial of the Marist Brothers, Alexis Turton.
Fr Lucas, a lawyer, said he accepted the meeting had taken place but, as was his practice, he had not taken notes.
The commission is looking at how the Marist Brothers handled accusations against two men later jailed for multiple child sex abuse offences - Chute and Gregory Sutton.
Fr Lucas was at the meeting with the Marists because he was on the bishops' special issues committee set up in 1992 to provide resources for bishops and religious orders dealing with sex-abuse allegations.
He repeated several times that he had not taken notes because Chute would not have been open with him. He said he did not make notes afterwards because of confidentiality.
"The simple fact is that he is not going to say anything if notes are taken, and in any case, the system of law provides he has his right to silence," Fr Lucas said when he was challenged by lawyer Peter O'Brien.
Mr O'Brien represents Damian De Marco, who was abused by Chute as an 11-year-old at a Marist school in Canberra.
He was reminded of the finding of the Cuneen inquiry in NSW that not taking notes was to avoid "the creation of documentary records" that could later be used in criminal or civil litigation.
He said the finding was not accurate and it was not his intention to frustrate the process of the law.
He asked to make a statement about the "extensive use" of the word "cover-up" in relation to the church's conduct.
People did not understand the dilemma the church had; it was dealing with adult victims, many of whom wanted confidentiality and did not want to go to police, he said.
"You can't do nothing, but suggesting that respecting the right of a victim not to go to the police amounts to a cover-up is something I completely reject," he said.
When asked if his approach was still the same, he said those types of interviews would no longer be held.
On Tuesday, the former superior of a Marist Brothers community and deputy principal of a school for 600 students told the inquiry he did not associate child sexual abuse with crime in the '80s.
Br Anthony Hunt led the Lismore Marist community to which Sutton was attached.
He had not reported Sutton to authorities despite repeated indications that his behaviour with children at a primary school was "inappropriate".
He said he thought inappropriate behaviour was "excessive expressions of affection" and had not heard the word pedophile.
Commissioner Justice Jennifer Coate asked him: "When you give that answer that, as the deputy principal of that Catholic college in the mid to late 80s in this nation, (were you saying) you did not understand that the sexual assault of children was a crime?"
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According to a calculation done by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLA), users of Microsoft Windows are paying as much as $21.50 more for each copy of the operating system they buy, thanks to the so-called "patent tax" that Microsoft is forced to pay to various companies that hold software patents.
The calculation is based on Microsoft's public statements that the company pays over $100 million each year in legal fees alone to protect itself from some 35 to 40 patent lawsuits. Recently, Microsoft has forked over significant sums to other technology companies to settle patent disputes: $1.25 billion to Sun, $536 million to Novell, and $1.52 billion to Alcatel-Lucent are just some examples. The total payouts over the last three years add up to more than $4 billion dollars.
SFLA took the total of $4.3 billion dollars in legal costs for Microsoft from 2001 to 2004 and divided it by estimated sales of Windows XP over the same period—approximately 200 million copies—to come up with the $21.50 estimate. The organization added that North American and European customers, who pay more for Windows licenses than customers in other parts of the world, actually ended up paying more of this "patent tax," and that people who pirate Windows pass their share of the tax on to paying customers.
The study concludes by pointing out that Linux, as a free and open-sourced operating system, has no "patent tax" at all, and suggests that this be taken into consideration when choosing operating systems for deployment in places such as schools.
While the study may help to raise awareness of the cost of runaway software patent litigation, its conclusions are faulty in several respects. Firstly, the costs of the various payouts Microsoft has given in the last few years have not yet literally been incorporated into the cost of Windows—the OEM price of Windows XP did not increase during the period surveyed, and although more expensive versions of Vista are now available, the price for versions with equivalent functionality has not gone up. Microsoft is excessively profitable and the price they set for their products is more a reflection of what the market will bear rather than an attempt to recover legal costs.
Secondly, the choice to install Windows or Linux is not likely to be swayed by a theoretical extra $20 difference in costs, especially when it is already common knowledge that Linux is free whereas Windows is not. The reasons for sticking with Windows invariably involve third-party application support, something that Linux—despite the existence of "emulators" like WINE—has not been able to overcome on the desktop.


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Honestly, I tried EVERYTHING under the sun to get my little one out and I after a week past my due date I was induced. So I can tell you, just try your hardest to be patient because its only going to happen when it's supposed to and there's really not much we can do about it. Lol
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You're past your due date, but baby just seems to want to hang out in your tummy! For those not inducing, what are some safe methods you've heard of to encourage your baby to start heading into the world?
Trust and respect the natural process. Be patient. Baby will trigger labor when baby is ready. Natural methods or not, meddling is still meddling. Birth does not like to be told what to do, and as soon as you try, you're inviting problems. Be patient, momma. Baby will be here soon. :) ♥
My water broke and after a certain amount of time my midwife had me use castor oil. It was absolutely horrendous. I would never do that again. It was like having food poisoning with contractions. Completely miserable. It doesn't affect everyone that way, but if you don't know how it will affect you then, well, you don't know! I would say not worth the risk. And if I had my first birth to do over again I would not have intervened the way we did - broken water or not. My body wasn't ready for the labor we were forcing upon it. I went from a home birth to a c-section. Don't mess with birth, let it do it's thing.
Don't induce! If baby hasn't triggered labor, baby is not ready. EDD - estimated due dates - are just that, estimates! We are not machines, we are all different, and so are our babes. A "due" date can be off by several weeks. And there is a high correlation between induction and c-section. If your body and baby aren't ready, they're not ready and forcing it won't make it so. You won't stay pregnant forever! ;) In the grand scheme of things, this last stretch is a very, very short period of time. Lots of love and best of luck. :)
rasberry leaf tea, castor oil, evening primrose oil, lavendar baths. brisk walking, sex, breast stimulation, accupuncture.im sure theres more :)
I used castor oil one spoon full 6 hr 28 min later Bobby J was here
I had a pedicure done and went into labor about 12 hours later!
Dont bother!! I sat on an exercise ball instead of a seat, drank raspberry leaf tea, walked up & down the stairs heaps, ate curry & whole pineapples, drank castor oil with fresh orange, had sex, walked miles, coaxed/threatened/bribed/stopped speaking to my bump, 3 stretch & sweeps..everything lol! But i finally caved & got induced at 2weeks overdue & after a 56hr labour battle had my gorgeous boy :) they most definately will only come when they're ready! I wish id just tried to enjoy the last bit of my pregnancy more instead :)
I was a week and a few days over due. I went to a take-out place and had some mozzarella sticks and some popcorn chicken.. Don't know if it really was the greasy food but the next morning I went into labor.. Good timing because I was scheduled for a doctors appointment that morning to find out when I would be induced!
In my opinion I would not do castor oil. It can complicate things and can have bad symptoms that you aren't going to want to deal with being pregnant and overdue. I started walking a few days before my due date and the day I started having contractions I walked for about an hour, took a break for about an hour and a half and then did another walk for about an hour or a little more and then within 2 hours I started having contractions.
Everyone is different and if you shouldn't be walking (swelling feet) then don't.
Remember, your baby will come when he/she is ready and don't you want your baby to be ready to come out?
Enjoy the last few moments with yourself :)
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I tried lots like eating a whole pineapple, a curry, raspberry leaf tea etc. None of these worked on either occasion. With my 2nd I went for lots of walks from 38 weeks but at 39 weeks I had a fall and was advised I had broken a bone in my foot but obviously no X-ray could be done. Even the fall did not kick start my labour I ended up being induced! So baby will come when he/she is ready :)
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I was wondering does anybody have any information for me on advanced stage of cirrhosis of the liver ?
Has anyone ever dealt with a loved one with with advanced cirrhosis ?
My father in law was diagnosed with advanced stage of cirrhosis of the liver yesterday september 9th 2006.
My father in law is an alcoholic , i have known him for 12 years and during this time he has consumed on average 5 litres of wine per day .
I want to know what to expect down the track with his condition , i have read up alot on this and it is really devasting to me about his prognosis.
A few months ago he was stating that his legs were playing up , and i suggested that he should see a doctor to discuss this with him , but he is very stubborn and in denial about his alcohol problem , so the doctors were out of the question, after weeks and weeks of me pressuring him he finally agreed to go , only so i would get of his back .
The doctor did blood test and we got the result back yesterday and he was advised that his liver is completly gone its not functioning at all , he was told that he needs to see a liver specialist now , apparantly he is jaundice badly , his stomach sticks out like he is pregnant and on the left side of his stomach he has this huge mass that pops out i havent a clue what it is , the doctor said his legs were breaking down due to the fact that his liver is gone.The doc said that seeing the liver is completely gone his brain will stop functioning well soon.
I have these test result with me and i have looked them up on the internet and its scarring me really bad
alp 126
ggt 455
mcv 110
platelet count 96,000
Does anyone know what these numbers exactly mean?
since yesterday he has not being drinking as much , but even 1 drink at this stage is putting him in even more danger
the doctor said if he completly gives up the alcohol , changes his diet , lose weight , and excercise he may have 1-2 good years in him , this is so hard for me to comprehend , i cant even think of him not being here , he is only 61.
Has anyone been through anything like this before , my husband and i feel so very alone , and when i talk to people about it , people arent very nice they say well " what do you expect " he is of course an alcoholic ,:mad:
What will happen to him in the near future , any information about this would be greatly appreciated , i thank you all for taking the time out to read this.
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Simply put, switches bear the brunt of the changes in storage networks. They must simultaneously monitor and prioritize bandwidth for critical applications, handle storage management functions and secure access for all devices attached to the SAN. Putting these services in switches gives users multiple benefits:
- A central point of administration for storage, performance and security management functions
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- Are switches the best choice to house storage and security functions? Or are customized appliances better suited?
- How will these technologies impact the performance of your critical applications?
- How compatible are these vendors' advanced switch technologies with your storage environment?
Users must also assess if they should use existing technologies or deploy new ones. For example, Brocade Communications Systems Inc., Cisco Systems Inc. and McData Corp. switches integrate security and volume management technologies from companies such as EMC Corp., IBM Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. However, a new switch vendor like Maxxan Systems Inc. ships its own storage and security products.
Magnifying the problem, the capabilities that smart switches offer vary significantly from vendor to vendor. For example, Sandial Systems' Shadow 14000 FC switch offers users the ability to monitor performance and then dynamically allocate bandwidth based upon predefined QoS policies. Both Maxxan's MXV320 and Cisco's MDS 9000 family of switches can incorporate virtualization blades into their switches from third-party providers like FalconStor Software Inc., IBM and Veritas. Still others like Computer Network Technology Corp.'s UltraNet Multi-service Director (UMD) offer users the ability to turn on RADIUS authentication that enables switches to verify the authenticity of servers logging onto the FC SAN. What follows is a look at who offers what, how the features work and which ones you need and when.
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Volume management functions appearing in the fabric continue to gain momentum. Much of this impetus comes from the fact that vendors in the host, switch and array arenas recognize that storage network traffic in enterprise environments differs from traditional networks in one important aspect: It requires a storage routing table. Network-based volume management products provide this more granular ability to map the server's host bus adapter (HBA) world-wide name (WWN) to the individual LUN on an array.
For users who manage large heterogeneous server and storage environments, network-based volume management technology should appear on their must-have list. It offers the ability to do the following:
- Pool different vendors' arrays into one logical pool
- Manage different classes of storage
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- Enable advanced capabilities such as mirroring, snapshots and off-site disaster recovery
- Simplify data and server migrations
Unless users are experiencing a lot of pain managing their environment, they should wait for a standardized API virtualization interface. A standardized API will free users from being tied to any one specific switch vendor's volume management implementation and allow them to easily move between switch vendors in the future. The forecast is for a 2005 release of the Fabric Application Interface Standard (FAIS) 1.0 standard that will provide standardized APIs for network-based volume management.
For those enterprises ready to move ahead now, consider either products that are SMI-S enabled or comply with their existing environment. For users who predominantly have either Veritas or EMC in their shops, look to current or forthcoming products from Brocade, Cisco or McData which have announced plans to port these types of volume management products to their switches.
Some new technologies like Maxxan's 256-port MXV500 give users an either/or choice of virtualization technologies. In band, the MXV500 supports file-level and block-level virtualization as well as virtual tape. The switch also supports existing out-of-band products by putting what Maxxan calls "coordinating software" into the MSV500's application card that works in conjunction with existing products on the market. This functionality allows users to choose which type of virtualization solution they wish to deploy and helps remove any concerns about in-band virtualization causing congestion in the switch.
Some users view moving to network-based volume management and away from existing--and working--storage vendor array interfaces as too many steps to take all at once. To help ease users down the path, both Troika Networks' Accelera NSS and DataCore's SANsymphony can create the virtual storage pool from a number of heterogeneous storage arrays. These products run as appliances in the network and can represent LUNs to servers in the manner system administrators want to access them. They can also be deployed as point solutions, allowing users to move into them at a pace at which they're comfortable.
For example, IBM's Subsystem Device Driver (SDD) dual-pathing software looks for a volume labeled with an IBM signature before its dual-pathing functionality will work. Both Accelera and SANsymphony can present a virtual LUN to servers with the IBM 2105 volume signature, even though it may be carved out of a virtualized pool of Dell, EMC, HP and StorageTek storage. This should permit the SDD driver to work as it had before even though there may be no IBM 2105 storage anywhere on the SAN.
Cisco was the first of the major switch vendors to successfully port and host existing server and network-based virtualization technologies on a FC switch. Its MDS 9000 family of switches allows either IBM's SAN Volume Controller (SVC) or Veritas' Storage Foundation for Networks software to operate on the switch. Cisco says it intends to work with EMC and HP and is still in the investigation stage with HDS.
Porting these existing storage management technologies allows users to continue to work with products they're accustomed to using. (For more information go to https://www.techtarget.com/network.) IBM's SVC ships with software such as Peer-to-Peer Remote Copy (PPRC) and FlashCopy that also come with its IBM Shark. Similarly, users experienced with Veritas' Foundation Suite will find Flash Snap and integration with its Enterprise Administrator and SANPoint Control products at the network level. Users deploying these technologies on Cisco switches can experience one additional benefit. Cisco claims that deploying both its VSAN technology and one of these virtualization technologies on the same switch allows users to virtualize storage in multiple VSANs simultaneously.
On the other hand, companies such as Candera, DataCore, FalconStor, Maxxan, Softek and Sun that offer their own network-based virtualization products usually present LUNs that have characteristics unique to their products. Yet many enterprise administrators are hesitant to deploy these products throughout their enterprise, fearing that they are too risky and too narrowly focused or they are incompatible with the existing infrastructure.
As users consider the benefits and drawbacks of network-based volume management and how to best implement it, here are some key steps to take:
- Start testing now. Whether on the switch or as an appliance, users need to spend at least a couple of months getting their arms around this technology before gradually moving it into a production environment.
- Pick a product that fits into your environment. Network-based volume management requires a major change to your storage environment. If you're already an EMC, IBM or Veritas shop, it's probably best to choose one of their products. In a heterogeneous storage and server shop, a third-party product from a vendor such as DataCore, Softek or Troika Networks should be considered.
- Move slowly. Network-based volume management is a foundational storage technology. It will be extremely difficult for an organization to migrate from the product once it's put into place.
While users are increasingly receptive to the idea of more intelligent switches, they must assess the performance impact that network-based intelligence may have on their applications. Features that authenticate the server, encrypt the transmission, route the traffic or perform the volume management in the data path will each introduce latency into the I/O path. The degree to which applications are affected will vary by how many functions are deployed, the latency each one introduces and in what combination they are used.
As a rule of thumb, users of performance-intensive applications such as e-mail and Oracle databases notice an impact when individual I/Os exceed 15 milliseconds. So, the deployment of any technology will ideally keep each I/O at about three milliseconds under normal loads, and under 10 milliseconds per I/O under heavy loads.
Regarding performance, it's also important to consider how a technology such as volume management is deployed. For example, FalconStor and IBM offer virtualization technologies that run as either standalone appliances or as blades in a switch. The underlying features are the same in both instances, but deploying this technology on an appliance can introduce more latency because it requires two more network hops, from the switch to the appliance and then from the appliance back to the switch again.
The good news is that this latency routinely gets measured in microseconds, essentially amounting to little more than noise in the network. Some vendors like DataCore find that its SANsymphony product keeps latency in the nanosecond range for each I/O in optimal conditions. Factor in that these technologies also incorporate additional storage caching algorithms and can take advantage of newer, faster technologies. As a result, users may actually experience a performance boost.
Network bandwidth
While network performance rarely surfaces as an issue, that doesn't mean users never experience network congestion nor does it negate the need to manage network bandwidth. Servers, tape and disk all connect to the SAN at the same 1Gb or 2Gb FC speeds, and the amount of bandwidth each application needs--and when it needs it--varies. With tape and disk ports shared in many users' environments and some servers hosting multiple applications, switches increasingly need to recognize and prioritize how applications utilize the bandwidth on these ports. For the switch to do this, it needs to be able to inspect the contents of the FC packet and adjust bandwidth for specific applications based on predetermined policies.
Brocade, Cisco, CNT and Sandial each enable users to set policies in their switch operating systems that can recognize and respond to fluctuations in SAN activity. For instance, Sandial's ConnectIQ manages the bandwidth of different servers accessing the same storage array port and guarantees bandwidth minimums as well as enforcing maximum bandwidth restrictions based on policies set by the user. Cisco's MDS9000 offers four QoS priority levels that allow users to configure data traffic such that the traffic of latency-sensitive applications receives higher priority than throughput-intensive applications. The ability of different vendor products to analyze the contents of the FC packet and dynamically adjust bandwidths can vary significantly.
Products such as Maxxan's MXV500 and McData's Intrepid 6140 have limited abilities to report on bandwidth utilization and identify potential problem areas. Users should favor FC switches that enable them to capture and monitor performance information. However, you should only pay a premium for those switches that automate this functionality and when your environment has a demonstrated need for it.
With the introduction of IP and different types of servers being connected to the SAN, storage administrators are starting to pay more attention to security. A number of switch vendors already offer tools to enforce various levels of security in their environments, with most designed to prevent accidental intrusions. For example, Cisco's MDS9000 SAN-OS resembles most vendors' products because it follows the Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) method for centralized administration. Their SAN-OS authenticates the user, and then authorizes the user for the activities on the switch.
McData offers its SANtegrity suite of security products as an option for its switches. It allows users to zone by either WWN or by fabric port as well as the ability to lock down the fabric by preventing the spoofing of WWNs on N_Ports and E_Ports. Brocade's Fabric OS offers similar functions, as well as the ability to implement trusted switches and a Public Key Infrastructure-based infrastructure for authentication and security using digital certificates.
Intelligent switches are a foregone conclusion in the storage network. They offer the ability to prioritize FC and Ethernet packets, divvy up bandwidth between applications, centralize storage management and secure access to the data housed on it. Users should make accommodations for more of these features to appear in their fabric. But the path that intelligence will follow in the network is still unclear. No one switch has assumed a dominant position. As a result, storage administrators should move slowly down this path, only deploying intelligent switches where there's a need for network-based storage, performance or security services.


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LONDON -- A suicide car bomb killed a British member of the international coalition in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, authorities said. It was the second death this month of a member in the NATO-led coalition.
Britain's Ministry of Defense said the soldier from 3rd Battalion The Mercian Regiment was killed in the attack while on patrol in the area of Kamparak, east of Lashkar Gah.
The defense ministry did not name the soldier but said next of kin have been informed.
According to an Associated Press count, 136 NATO troops have died so far this year in Afghanistan. Of that figure, 106 were American military personnel.
Responsibility for the country's security has been turned over to the Afghan National Security Forces, but NATO troops routinely aid their Afghan allies when they come under heavy attack from insurgents.


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2010-11 (Senior):
Averaged 2.8 points and 2.5 rebounds per game in 11 games played ... Suffered season-ending injury against Massachusetts Jan. 2 ... Grabbed six rebounds in win over Boston University (Nov. 23) ... Handed out three assists to go along with four points and two rebounds in win over Hartford (Dec. 3) ... Went 3-for-5 from the field for six points at Florida (Dec. 7) ... Dropped nine points, including a pair of threes in win over UNH (Dec. 10) ... One of four players to lead the Crimson with four rebounds at Dayton (Dec. 30).
2009-10 (Junior):
Team captain … Played in 23 games, starting five … Averaged 5.3 points per game and 2.7 rebounds per game Made 23-of-24 attempts from the free throw line for a team-best .958 percentage … Connected on 4-of-6 shots from the field for 12 points in win over Boston College, including a career-high three treys ... Scored a career-high 15 points on 5-for-10 shooting in win over Maine ... Led the Crimson with 14 points on a 4-for-5 effort from the field against New Orleans ... Scored 14 points and grabbed five boards in win over Boston University ... Grabbed a season-high seven rebounds in a career-high 32 minutes against Northeastern ... Went 4-for-4 from the foul line and scored 10 points at Marist ... Recorded a career-high tying three steals against Columbia.
2008-09 (Sophomore):
Started seven of 29 games this season ... Averaged 5.4 points and 5.3 rebounds per game ... Was third on the team in rebounding ... Pulled down five rebounds and scored two points in win over CCSU ... Posted first collegiate double-double at Holy Cross with 14 points and 12 rebounds, both career highs ... Went 4-for-4 from the free throw line, had six points and grabbed four rebounds against Marist ... Scored 11 points on a 4-for-8 effort from the floor that also included a 1-for-1 effort from three and a 2-for-2 effort from the foul line in a win at Siena ... Went 3-for-4 from the floor for seven points in win against UNH ... Led the Crimson with eight rebounds against Southern California ... Pulled down seven rebounds in win against Northeastern ... Scored eight points and pulled down a team-high seven rebounds in loss to Dartmouth ... Scored seven points in first collegiate start against Brown ... Started against Princeton and Penn as well ... Had 11 points and went 6-for-6 from the free throw line against Yale ... Pulled down a team-high six rebounds against Dartmouth.
2007-08 (Freshman):
Made collegiate debut and scored first collegiate basket against James Madison ... Played five minutes against Fairfield, scored three points and pulled down one rebound ... Grabbed a career-high three rebounds against Pitt ... Nailed 4-of-4 free throws in win over BU ... Pulled down a career and game-high seven rebounds against Vermont ... Scored a career-high five points on 2-of-3 shooting against Princeton ... Scored a career-high six points and her first ever collegiate three pointer in win over Brown.
Before Harvard:
Three-year starter at forward ... Played at the No. 2 singles on the women's tennis team and earned three varsity letters ... Captain of the basketball team as a senior and the tennis team from sophomore to senior year ... Second team All-Met by the Washington Post ... First team all-county by the Washington Post & Gazette Newspapers ... Nominated for the McDonald's All-American basketball team ... First team Washington Athletic Conference as a senior ... Gazette and WCAC honorable mention as a junior ... WCAC runner up in tennis and honorable mention recipient as a junior.
Sings in Key Change, the premiere co-ed forum for Black a capella expression ... National Achievement Finalist ... National Merit Commended Scholar ... Honorable mention Maryland Distinguished Scholar ... Received Class Leadership Award as a freshman, sophomore and junior ... Represented Good Counsel at National Leadership & Diversity Conference ...Received the Chorus Director's Award in 2006 ... St. Mary's Scholars from 2004-07 ... A volunteer for several organizations, including Shepard's Table and Gabriel House ... Brother, Stephen, played basketball at Catholic.
Career Highs:
Points: 15 vs. Maine, 11/17/09
Field Goals Made: 6 vs. Boston University, 12/6/09
Field Goal Attempts: 10, twice, most recent, 11/17/09
Field Goal Percentage: 1.000, twice, most recent, 2/6/09
3-pt. Field Goals Made: 3 vs. Boston College, 11/14/09
3-pt. Field Goals Attempted: 5 vs. Boston College, 11/14/09
3-pt. Field Goal Percentage: 1.000, several times, most recent 12/10/10
Free Throws Made: 6 vs. Yale 3/7/09
Free Throws Attempted: 6 vs. Yale, 3/7/09
Free Throw Percentage: 1.000, several times, most recent, 2/27/10
Rebounds: 12 at Holy Cross, 11/20/08
Assists: 3, four times, most recent, 11/28/10
Steals: 3, twice, most recent1/29/10
Blocked Shots: 3 vs. New Orleans, 11/27/09
Minutes Played: 32 vs. Norteastern, 12/9/09


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McCraw uses the immigrant experience to explain in part the development of a national perspective (see here and here for the 1st 2 installments in this series). Being originally outsiders, immigrants could see the forest for the trees while many, if not most of their native born friends were freighted with the prejudices of particular states. (363) It was this, combined with Hamilton's and Gallatin's natural brilliance, McCraw contends "that enabled them to envision and then to execute the responsible deployment of rootless capital in the forging of a new economy." (326)
Looked at from this perspective, McCraw understandably connects only partially to his subjects pre-American experiences, and then more for Hamilton than Gallatin. Much of the former's sense of urgency and impatience stemmed, as he notes, from Hamilton's youth on the island of Nevis: "He knew from his boyhood that things could fall apart on short notice." (49)
The Caribbean was not the most stable region politically. Hamilton's own French Huguenot background through his mother, and his father's origins in Scotland, testify to the imperial seesaw that characterized the geopolitical reality of the islands. Yet for Gallatin, he misses a similar opportunity.


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By Zosia Zaks Nov 16, 2011 0
Books to be Thankful For
It is 3:00 PM on Thanksgiving and dinner isn't for another couple of hours. Everyone is watching the football game, but sports aren't your thing. Or it is Friday the morning after Thanksgiving and your sisters are headed to the mall with glee, but you rather be beamed to Mars than go shopping. For some of us on the spectrum, holidays are trials of survival.
Having something to focus on can sometimes keep things calm during those vexing stretches of downtime. So in this month's column, I suggest three books that promise a dose of entertainment and intellectual stimulation when you need it most.
For those of you who like a good story, Herb Heiman's Running on Dreams is a refreshing tale that can be tackled in an afternoon or so. Justin, a teenager on the autism spectrum, is "assigned" to Brad, a peer buddy at school, whose mind is anywhere but on disability issues.
Both boys face pressures that might seem diametrically opposed. What does a popular jock with a girlfriend have in common with a special education student? The author does an excellent job weaving these two lives together. Through the events of the story, which the author tells in an interesting alternating format, what emerges is the commonality these young men face in growing up.
What I liked so much about this story is that I could see myself in Justin. Those of us on the spectrum know that we are different and also the same as everyone else. What Brad and Justin learn about friendship is universal and touching. Don't pass up this book just because you think it's for high-schoolers. Anyone at any age will find this story endearing.
If your reading tastes veer more toward straightforward factual material, grab a copy of Temple Grandin's The Way I See It. A prominent animal scientist and autistic adult, Grandin may be more famous for some of her other books. But this one provides candid insight into autism—across the spectrum—that everyone can appreciate.
The book is wide in scope but not terse or dense. Grandin delivers the kind of straight-forward advice so many of us long for. You can't beat honest advice like, "…being good at something helps compensate for being weird." Yet such frank insights do not at all detract from her comprehensive coverage of topics ranging from education to sensory issues and from the latest brain research to eating techniques.
This book serves a double-purpose: As I read through the chapters and Grandin's insights unfolded, I gained new models for explaining how I operate to others—perfect timing for the family-saturated holiday season.
Outside the Autism Universe
I am also going to recommend Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio. The heroine of this book is not autistic, but she has Tourette Syndrome. Growing up in the 1950s in a poor Appalachian community, she is taunted and ostracized and even institutionalized at one point. What Icy really lacks is self-understanding. She doesn't know why she has tics. Being different is a burden—but how much more so is the burden when you don't know your diagnosis? For some of us on the autism spectrum who grew up not knowing our challenges weren't our fault, Icy's story definitely resonates.
Icy discovers her strengths and talents anyway, and when at last understanding does arrive, she turns her pain around to make a difference in the world as a children's therapist. This is certainly inspiring. But beyond being "just" a tear-jerker, Icy's story underscores that diversity is a regular part of life, and it is really our fears that are most disabling. We adults on the autism spectrum are not alone, and many other adults, on the spectrum and with other conditions and issues, can be strengthened by our common efforts to take a place in society with our dignity intact.
I hope this short list of books keeps your brain occupied during one of the most socially challenging and sensory challenging holidays. Thanksgiving is, ultimately, a holiday of gratitude. I think these three books speak to this theme in different ways. Whether the feelings of gratitude arise from gaining understanding about our differences, from triumphing over our challenges in little and big ways, or from bridging understandings between those of us with diversities and those of us without, the autism community and individuals on the autism spectrum have much to be thankful for.


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A bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn near 78 degrees north latitude has been spied by the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer on NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This image is one of the first clear images ever taken of the north polar region as seen from a unique polar perspective. Originally discovered and last observed by a spacecraft during NASA's Voyager flybys of the early 1980's, the new views of this polar hexagon taken in late 2006 prove that this is an unusually long-lived feature on Saturn.
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What logistics prevent Charlie from buying up Sylvan's parents' farm? Why is she so insistent that that would not be the way to go about things?
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I didn't recall anywhere in the story where Charlie found out about the deal between Sylvan and Boaty in regards to her parents' property. I supposed he would have had a problem with the purchase from Boaty but even with Boaty money talks. I think Sylvan should have explained the situation to Charlie. Maybe he could have found a way to ensure her parents were safe and she would have married him.
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Hi everyone, it also made me wonder...even if all obstacles WERE cleared, would Sylvan go along and help Charlie buy the farm? I think she felt a strong sense of obligation to that original commitment and worried that one misstep anywhere would mess things up. It's almost as if she had decided that being with Boaty was her fate in life. Wonder if I am over-reading things here :)
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I don't remember Charlie wanting to buy Sylvan's parents farm. I finished reading the book about a month ago, so possibly I have forgotten. I think he knew that she would not want that land, but that other land would make her feel like she owned something. Without the land Charlie bought, Sylvan owned nothing, not even her own life.
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Boaty's genius clause in the marriage "contract" that said if Sylvan left him, he got her parents' land. Who knew that would have SUCH dire implications?? On one hand, I'm not sure Sylvan really wanted to be with Charlie, or that Charlie was even real to her. It was like she had a split personality...to escape her lot in life, she daydreamed, to the point of breaking with reality. Her dad basically sold her to Boaty, yet she felt a sense of obligation to them, even THOUGH Charlie could've moved her parents, etc.
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