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Leisa Hutchison, M.S. CCC/SLP has been a practicing speech-language pathologist since graduating with a masters degree and Rank 1 from the University of Kentucky in 1986. She also has completed additional coursework in the area of early childhood special education. She has experience in different professional settings including: hospital, public schools, pediatric clinic, preschools, private practice, including First Steps, and the university. She currently works as a clinical instructor and supervisor in the communication disorders program at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. She routinely teaches courses in language development, language disorders, articulation disorders, and non-symbolic communication intervention in addition to supervising undergraduate and graduate students in clinical practicum experiences. She has enjoyed working in both clinical and administrative positions.
Leisa completed the Bobath Eight-Week Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Treatment course at Vanderbilt University and has developed skills in working with children with complex needs, including motor, sensory, autism spectrum disorders, and multiply involved children. She enjoys working with children with oral motor/feeding concerns and their families/caregivers. She recently was appointed by Governor Beshear to the Kentucky State Advisory Panel For Exceptional Children, serving a two year term. Leisa is married to David, a middle school principal for the Warren County Schools, and they have a teenaged son, Ben, who has FG syndrome. David, Leisa, and Ben live in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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USB devices including CUPS printing, scanners, and webcams
This article
Based on work by Myno, andre, mindbender, downlalaway, Thorongil, frontalot, and TcT.
Originally by downlalaway
at Linkstationwiki.org
This is a basic run through of USB devices connecting for Debian on an PPC LinkStation. The USB hard drive is USB 2.0 at 3Mb/s (on a laptop HD). NB. This was based on using the original kernel #990 conversion of the LS 1 and not the Freelink project. It has been updated for use with Freelink 1.11 but requires run-throughs by others to check. USB and hotplug was/is a little flakey on 2.4 kernels in recognising devices. A reboot while the device is in should make things work. The 2.6 debian kernel is highly recommended if hot-swapping of usb devices might occur.
- 1 Printing and Scanning
- 2 USB Devices
Printing and Scanning
CUPS Printer
Assuming you're running testing or unstable then:
apt-get install cupsys cupsys-driver-gutenprint cupsys-pt cups-pdf
As at July 06 cupsys-driver-gutenprint is not in Debian stable 'Sarge' (default freelink 1.11) - you can either dist-upgrade to testing 'etch' (use caution -which is why its not described) or just install the odd package from testing or unstable, such as gutenprint by following: (http://www.nas-central.org/index.php?title=Articles/DebianUnstablePackages) and adjusting as you feel appropriate. Testing instead of unstable is generally fairly up-to-date but with fewer problems.
apt-get install gs-common gs-esp gs-gpl gsfonts xpdf
for pdf and possibly to help gimp-print drivers
apt-get install hotplug usbview usbutils
for easier usb device info -if you haven't done it already for a usb hard drive [(see usb hard drive part)]
cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV -v usb
(probably unnecessary)
mknod /dev/usblp0 c 180 0
(think this makes the show work)
mknod /dev/usblp1 c 180 0
(added this for luck)
- Personal note: I ran the above three lines, agonized for hours over configuring CUPS, then ended up going to /dev again, deleting usblp0 and usblp1, running ./MAKEDEV again (this time without any parameters), and voila my testpage suddenly appeared (it had been trying to print for a long time, but said the printer was disconnected. I'm not an expert in devices either so I have no idea why this solved my problem - but it seems it did.
Probably reboot LS (for kernel 2.4.17). Reboot printer then insert.
It should show the printer connected somewhere
This should show it again (in a gui via vnc) and show the Name:usblp and interface number (mine is 1 possibly due to it being also a scanner). Go through the cups web interface http://localhost:631 if you have mozilla running on-board. Alternatively edit cupsd.conf and scroll down to the Allow localhost lines near the bottom and add
Allow From @LOCAL
below the lines:
Allow From 127.0.0.1
This will allow locally networked computers to access and admin the printer config. Turn off the @LOCAL or modify for your IP only if you don't trust everyone to be able to admin it.
NB. Cupsys 1.2 and 1.2.1 have changed a little and have an apparent bug (or zealous security feature):
The Allow From localhost line in the /etc/cups/cupsd.conf line locks out any other added Allow lines, e.g. local network connections. Replace it with Allow 192.168.1.x for the LS's LAN address and add Allow @LOCAL for your lan and any others you need. It seemed to work... Check access with typing http://linkstationip:631 into a browser.
If you probably have problems in accessing the https-sites:
I found the hint here [1]
You have to create a ssl-certificate in /etc/cups/ssl
openssl req -new -x509 -keyout /etc/cups/ssl/server.key -out /etc/cups/ssl/server.crt -days 365 -nodes
Select printers, add printer, enter the Name, location descripton etc (there are notes about no spaces in names - maybe an old version of cups tho). Select usb #1 interface and then your printer from the next lists. If your printer isn't in gutenprint then you might need to check it in linuxprinting.org. Cupsys-gutenprint gives you every printer possible, a bit unnecessary usually. Hopefully returning to the printer page it should show it on
USB 1 interface number printer gives usblp0, USB 2 interface gives usblp1 etc. Both worked for me!?
Print a test page from the web interface and be very joyful if it works first time. To troubleshoot: Reboot the linkstation, unplug the printer, reboot the printer while plugged in... trying test pages. Often it springs into life when not expecting and then works for evermore. Do usbview through a vnc link to see if it connected properly at each stage.
Now there's two ways of setting up to be able to print from your other networked computers -IPP printing and samba printing. IPP is preferred since samba currently shows delays in printing.
Cups-IPP Printing
You can share you printer to your network without using Samba. Thus, you can easily share your printer without bothering about Samba configs.
Working with RAW printers (you use the driver on your client, simply add the printer with driver "RAW" in CUPS web interface) is in my case sped up by the factor 100, as Windows and Samba and Cups do not need to argue about the driver to be used and access rights.
- Personal note: In my CUPS web interface (version 1.2.2), I never got the option of adding a printer with driver "RAW", it just offered me a subset of the available printers, seemingly based on some autoconfiguration options (I only saw HP printers, which is what I have). Disconnecting the printer did not result in RAW being offered. After a great deal of trial and error I removed the "MyPrinterName.ppd" file which was automatically created in /etc/cups/ppd/ . After removing this file, my printer was finally listed as a "Raw Printer" in the CUPS web interface, and I managed to print according to the instructions below (I needed to have my printer driver disk ready to install, since each client needs its own driver due to the lack of a device-specific driver on the server).
For sharing to your net 192.168.0.x, you simply add "allow from 192.168.0.*" to the line configuring access to CUPS in cupsd.conf. Or one can use @LOCAL -see above.
To add the printer in Windows, goto Settings, Printers & Faxes, Add a printer, say "Network printer", now select "Connect to Printer on Internet or your Intranet via HTTP" and put in:
Now you are prompted for a driver, if CUPS does not provide one. In the case of a RAW printer, you must always select a driver and use it.
Thats it, you are done, wasn't that easier than fumbling around with smbd.conf?
Cups-PDF Printing
Cups-pdf is installed to do a pdf printer, but I think the gs files are needed to allow it to work. xpdf is used to view the pdfs (through a vnc connection). To activate a cups-pdf printer: go to Cups web interface then add printer, insert name etc (no spaces), find Virtual Printer(PDF printer) at bottom, select postscript (I did at least), 'Generic postscript color..' on next page and go back to the start.
One can adjust resolution if needed. Print a test page. It should end up in /root/cups-pdf since logged in as root in the web interface. Otherwise it will print in the /home/username/cups-pdf/. There's error messages available in the web interface too. There appears to be no direct way to change the output directories, but it can be shared by creating a symlink to the /home/username/cups-pdf directory within an area already shared in samba. If samba share permissions allow access to the cups-pdf folder the pdf files will appear in this new directory when you print them. e.g. If you have guest access on the samba share check read permissions for others apply to the cups-pdf folder and pdfs. Also make sure wide links=no is not in smb.conf for that share. A command to create the symlink will go as:
ln -s /home/username/cups-pdf /mnt/sambashare/pdfoutput
Replacing username with your standard samba share user and sambashare with the directory name (or path) that you want the new pdfoutput directory to appear. This needs clarifying a little but should work with a little investigation.
Samba for Printers (although IPP is recommended & faster)
All the following Samba configurations can be done more easily through Webmin (see Articles/DebianWebmin) instead of manually editing the conf file. Samba settings for M$ printing. My config in /etc/samba/smb.conf (relevant section):
[global] . . load printers = yes printing = cups printcap name = cups show add printer wizard = No guest account = nobody [printers] comment = All Printers path = /tmp browseable = yes printable = yes create mask = 0777 use client driver = yes print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s -r guest ok = yes guest account = nobody [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /etc/samba/drivers browseable = yes read only = yes guest ok = no write list = root
It works ok for me! Others may wish to change guest access for internal network security.
Do a /etc/init.d/samba restart then switch to your M$ box. Find each printer on your linkstation in network neighbourhood and double click etc and select the correct driver for the physical printer and the Apple Color LW 12/660 PS printer for the PDFprinter. For the PDF printer check that colour is selected in the default printing properties on the M$ box -can default to B&W. All this took a few evenings to finally sort out (thanks for help to wartstew). The breakthrough was getting cups with gimp-print drivers to run (it broke first time) and getting the usb port right.
Scanner Setup
For scanner I originally used xsane -this can test if your scanner actually works. Confident people might go straight to sane.
apt-get install xsane
It worked and found the scanner first time through a vnc link as root -before I did ./MAKEDEV or mknod etc. If xsane works this is a good start.
There is a good way of networking your scanner -this is pretty impossible in windows except with a corporate commercial program I saw. You need to install sane on the LS as per:
apt-get install sane sane-utils
I used versions 1.0.15-10, a newer version is now current. sane-utils sets up a 'saned' user and group which are the safe ways to access instead of root as xsane used. Best to check this is in /etc/group.
The main difficulty is giving your scanner access to non-root. There's a number of tricks depending on hardware (mine an Epson CX3200 printer/scanner). This is how I (downlalaway) did it: As root do scanimage -L this should find a scanner - if not reboot and reboot/replug scanner. Hopefully a found scanner is id'd and uses libusb. Try as a non-root user - it probably won't find it yet.
Note: the following script was unnnecessary when using udev on 2.6.16 experimetning on a debian Linksys NSLU2, and is expected to be the same with udev on a linkststation.
So to get non-root access to the scanner I had to add a small script to automatically give the scanner group as 'scanner' -details from: http://www.freecolormanagement.com/sane/libusb.html And the relevant section: Save the script as /etc/hotplug/usb/epson_scanner and make it executable.
#!/bin/bash if [ "${ACTION}" = "add" ] && [ -f "${DEVICE}" ] then chown root "${DEVICE}" chgrp scanner "${DEVICE}" chmod 660 "${DEVICE}" fi
Check in /etc/group there's a group 'scanner' and add any usernames you want access and the saned user.
Reboot the scanner and LS to update group list. Now we need to log in as saned and check saned access. As root type:
linkstation#su -s /bin/sh - saned saned@linkstation$scanimage -L
This should find your scanner again if its all worked -try some rebooting/repluggin first if not and check root still finds it. So it works for non-root locally now to get networked follow the advice at: http://penguin-breeder.org/sane/saned/
The steps are: ->1. Setup up inetd (or xinetd) with /etc/inetd.conf to start saned on a request ->2. Check /etc/services (should be default ok) ->3. Set inetd to start at boot (Webmin..system..bootup and shutdown.. tick the inetd entry and press button to start on boot)
To access from a Windows box use sanetwain (its great!):
It will allow Twain integration easily into any windows programs including work etc as though it were directly connected (NB check your firewalls to allow access). You may have to delete the Devices line in the C:\Windows\sanetwain.ini file before connecting. I don't know a good solution yet, but it is caused by sanetwain recording the last good libusb connection number, but it changes the next time the scanner is turned on. You could also use XSane (for Win or Linux) and other Linux derivatives -Kooka etc.
Scanner Sharing
Here's how to provide scanning services to the local subnet 191.168.11.*. The router's IP address is 192.168.11.1 here. The scanner in this example is an, already running, HP-PSC 1100 All-In-One device, using HP's hpaio driver (hplip) on Debian etch. saned is started via inetd and protected via TCP wrappers (/etc/hosts.{allow,deny}). The first line hints to the file you are supposed to add the code in the respective second line to. If the files don't exist, create them. Complete all steps, reboot.
# cat /etc/inetd.conf |grep sane sane-port stream tcp nowait saned.saned /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/saned
The above suggests to add the line "sane-port stream tcp nowait saned.saned /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/saned" to the file "etc/inetd.conf" with an *X compatible editor such as vi (onboard).
# cat /etc/services |grep sane sane-port 6566/tcp # SANE network scanner daemon
# cat /etc/hosts.deny |grep sane sane-port:ALL
# cat /etc/hosts.allow |grep sane sane-port: 192.168.11.
# cat /etc/sane.d/net.conf localhost 192.168.11.1/24
# cat /etc/sane.d/saned.conf 192.168.11.1/24
# cat /etc/sane.d/dll.d/hplip hpaio
# cat /etc/sane.d/dll.conf hpaio net
USB Devices
USB Hard Drive
Kernel 2.4 (MIPSel)
apt-get install hotplug autofs usb-utils usbview
Note: If usb-utils doesn't work, try usbutils.
autofs is for file system recognising and hotplug for usb detection is necessary. Usb-utils gives us the lsusb tool for detecting connections and usbview is a gui showing connected devices. Create a mount directory in preparation: I did /mnt/UsbDrive but one can make one in /home/username/. A symlink to the directory you chose as mount point from a directory that you already share through samba should allow it to share (unless you've modified samba to prevent this).
Note: This is for brief usb disk mounting. For repetitive use go straight to the Automount section since this work very well especially with kernel 2.6. All usb devices can need reboots with 2.4.17, but this is due to the kernel only.
mkdir /mnt/UsbDrive
Might be worth a chmod permissions modification if you want to share it with samba or use for backups (haven't used it too much yet).
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/UsbDrive
Of course, replace vfat for whatever your partition type is.
USB Removable Media: Automount
Note to kernel 2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint #997 users (ships with Freelink 1.1.1): You need to move a few modules out of the way before you can continue:
mv /lib/modules/2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o /root/
mv /lib/modules/2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.o /root/
mv /lib/modules/2.4.17_mvl21-sandpoint/kernel/drivers/usb/storage/usb-storage.o /root/
Reboot when done.
Note to Linkstation HG users: You may also need to do this; adjust the paths to your needs.
I found this to be the easiest way to automount removable USB devices:
apt-get install autofs gawk wget bzip2 make wget http://myy.helia.fi/~karte/linux/doc/automatic-mounting-autofs-files/mounttero-0.5.tar.bz tar -xjf mounttero-0.5.tar.bz cd mounttero-0.5 make /etc/init.d/autofs restart apt-get remove gawk # this step is optional
The devices will be mounted automagically in /mnt/auto/, for example, /mnt/auto/usb/ in case of a typical USB thumb drive, and unmounted automagically after four seconds when unplugged.
Edit /etc/auto.tero and comment out all /dev/hda? entries:
#hda1 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda1
#hda2 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda2
#hda3 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda3
#hda4 -fstype=auto,nosuid,nodev,user :/dev/hda4
Kernel 2.6 (Power PC)
This will add USB Drive automounting and mount USB drives to /media/usb0,1,2,3 etc. symbolic links in /mnt/share will also be created usb0,usb1,usb2,usb3 so that they will be accessable via your samba share
apt-get remove hotplug apt-get install usbmount
You should change the lines in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf to give you more universal access
- Line that starts FILESYSTEMS change to FILESYSTEMS="ext3 ext2 vfat"
- Line that starts MOUNTOPTIONS change to MOUNTOPTIONS="noexec,nodev,noatime"
- Line that starts FS_MOUNTOPTIONS change to FS_MOUNTOPTIONS="-fstype=vfat,umask=000"
These commands will create symbolic links will be into the shared filespace ( /mnt/share )
ln -s /media/usb0/ /mnt/share ln -s /media/usb1/ /mnt/share ln -s /media/usb2/ /mnt/share ln -s /media/usb3/ /mnt/share
USB Webcam
Update June 2006: Please note the availability of modules and the /dev/ entries depends on quite a few factors -e.g. this was originally written based on the 2.4.17 #990 LS1 kernel which had the modules but no /dev/video entries. The 2.4.17 freelink 1.1.1 has /dev/video entries and kernel modules ov511.o, so may work straight off (but I haven't tried! It may still be flakey with 2.4.17..) As of June 2006, freelink 1.1.1 upgraded to 188.8.131.52 (andre's v28?) has the /dev/video since its freelink 1.1.1 again but has no webcam modules -check by drilling down in /lib/modules/2.6.xx/kernel/drivers/ to see if videodev.ko, ov511.ko or ovcamchip.ko are present. Update July 06: Andre fixed the lost modules in v41pre2 and newer 2.6 upgrades -it should now have most video drivers in the kernel you could wish for and could be plug and play (not sure about /dev/video). Check if the camera has auto-loaded modules using lsmod (mainly), lsusb and/or usbview.
Webcam drivers There are a few types of webcam chip -you may have an ov511 but others may have pre-compiled modules sometime. Find out by plugging into the LS and with lsusb it should tell you in the list of devices. Creative webcams are often ov511, but others: logitech quickcams or Philips could need another driver. See http://webcam-osx.sourceforge.net/cameras/index.php?orderBy=controller for a full list. NB. Many (practically all?) will now be in the new 2.6 kernel (upgrade v41 & on).
Using udev in future, instead of hotplug, can also be possible -this may mean the /dev/video links are automagically assigned, but I have not attempted this on a Linkstation.
Original instructions (sometimes still be valid): With 2.4.17 webcams were flakey at times to be discovered if not pulled out/plugged in at the 'right time'. Not clear what the 'right' time is. There may not be any USB entries for dev/video depending on freelink package used so I did a:
cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV -v video
This made some. Loading a gui to see something:
apt-get install gqcam
Now when the webcam didn't discover correctly and when typing command gqcam from a terminal it will complain about no /dev/video present or similar. A reboot with camera plugged in usually solves it but the right solution si to upgrade to 2.6 kernel. I also get reversed RG colour with gqcam and changing it back (there's conf file) messes up the brightness. Other apps that might be tried are: 'xcam' -another alternative viewer, and 'motion' - a command line webcam app to be used as a security motion detector (tried on a PC briefly -seems ok). Should be very simple to make a motion detecting security camera with your debian LS.
Enjoy and please carefully comment if it doesn't work or changes needed.

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The Casey Anthony trial took a surprising turn today when Anthony's mother Cindy Anthony said that one of the most compelling pieces of evidence against her daughter -- a Google search for "chloroform" -- was actually her doing. She claims she was doing a search on chlorophyll after her dog ingested some bamboo and that prompted her to look up chloroform.
The question: Is she telling the truth or would she do anything to save her daughter, including commit perjury?
It seems very different from the statements Cindy Anthony made originally and the very statements the prosecution hinged their case on. For instance, now she says the stain in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car was old, so old, in fact, that it was there when they bought the car in 2000. Prosecutors are saying the stain was caused by leaking fluid from Caylee's decomposing body. Puts a pretty big crimp in that one, no?
In addition, prosecutors allege that Casey used chloroform to kill her daughter and the search was part of that evidence. Now what can they do?
I will say that as someone who was fairly convinced of Anthony's guilt at the beginning of this thing, this is starting to cast some doubts for me. If Cindy Anthony is telling the truth, then it would call the state's entire case into question.
If she isn't, then that would be no big surprise. After all, who among us wouldn't do anything to save our child's life? Given that Casey is charged with capital murder, she could be doing just that.
Of anyone in this case, Cindy Anthony is by far the most sympathetic. She clearly felt the most for her little granddaughter, called 9-1-1 first, has cried the hardest on the stand, and even mouthed the words "I love you" to her daughter after her daughter claimed that her father had been abusing her for years.
But is she telling the truth? It seems doubtful. On cross, the prosecution laid into Anthony, pointing out that she was at work during those searches and that the Internet progression showed visits to MySpace, on which Casey was very active.
The irony of all this is that Cindy Anthony seems willing to do anything, including possibly lie, to save her daughter, while Casey Anthony, if found guilty, would have been willing to do anything to get rid of hers.
This case is compelling because of the human elements, because this family is so dysfunctional and yet hard to stop watching. It's an unimaginable, senseless tragedy for everyone, but perhaps no one so much as Cindy Anthony.
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Performance, not health, appears to be the reason why the Green Bay Packers are making a change at center.
Jeff Saturday confirmed Friday that he was being benched in favor of Evan Dietrich-Smith, and it's not because of injuries to his neck and shoulder that has kept the 37-year-old out of practice for most of this week.
Packers head coach Mike McCarthy said during his Friday press conference that Saturday would be ready to play Sunday against the Tennessee Titans, but that Dietrich-Smith would probably start. In the locker room, Saturday confirmed the decision was a benching, or as he put it, "a passing of the torch."
Saturday, signed this offseason to a two-year, $7.75 million deal, had started all 14 games for the Packers. But his performance as the anchor of the offensive line was questioned all season, and with two games left, McCarthy decided to pull the trigger.
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Saturday was limited during Friday's practice after missing both Wednesday and Thursday. In Week 14, Saturday was limited with foot injuries. When asked if the move was injury-related, Saturday said he didn't think so.
Dietrich-Smith, 27, started four games at left guard this season. He struggled mightily in his first start at Detroit, but played progressively better over the final three.
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Katherine Hester's short stories neatly weave layers of a near-forgotten American South with the familiar realities of life in the region today.
Now, as the 2013 Writer-in-Residence at the Carl Sandburg Home in Flat Rock, Hester will leave her home in north Georgia for three weeks to work on a new "novel in stories" at the national historic site, as well as engage with the community on writing.
"It is indeed a pleasure to have Katherine Hester in Flat Rock as the 2013 Writer in Residence and a member of the Carl Sandburg NHS family," says Tyrone Brandyburg, superintendent of Carl Sandburg NHS.
Brandyburg thinks that Hester's work fits well with the goals and themes of the national historic site, as well as with the works of Carl Sandburg.
"I look forward to meeting Katherine in person and having her share her writings with the community as we continue the park's tradition of promoting artists," Brandyburg says.
While she is in Flat Rock for the residency, Hester will live in the historic farm manager's house on the grounds of Carl Sandburg Home NHS.
"I feel really honored to have been chosen," says Hester, who adds that she thinks the residency program is "a thoughtful marriage of having the alone time to dig deep and a chance to interact with community about what writing is all about."
As part of that outreach, Hester will read her work at a public reception at the Chamber of Commerce on Friday and interact with area students and teachers while she's in Flat Rock.
She will also appear at the Carl Sandburg Student Poetry Contest celebration on March 22 at Blue Ridge Community College.
The public is welcome to join in the recognition of the students as they recite their winning poems at this event.
Hester says she looks forward to being immersed in the tranquil surroundings of the park and its historic buildings as a backdrop for inspiration and to inform the historical aspects of her writing.
Hester laughs as she admits she looks forward to being around the park's herd of goats, as she's always been intrigued with the idea of goat farming.
Hester is the author of a collection of stories, "Eggs for Young America," which was awarded the inaugural Bakeless Prize, and selected by Barnes & Noble for its Discover New Writers promotion, as well as named a New York Times Notable Book.
In her fiction, Hester writes of "a New South that includes both suburbia and nostalgia for a countryside once wild."
She recognizes the nostalgia for the South's agrarian past.
"There's a tension between what we came from and where we are now," Hester says. "You can't think about the South without thinking about what it used to be."
Her short fiction has also appeared in "Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards," "Best American Mystery Stories," American Short Fiction, The Yale Review, and Brain, Child magazine, among other publications.
"Short stories are really great for our time period — they can be read in one sitting, and easily read on screen," Hester says. "They are the connective tissue between poetry and the long novel — they are very powerful, like a boxer's best punch."
Born in 1964 in Dallas, she received an undergraduate degree in print journalism from the University of Georgia and an M.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from the University of Texas at Austin, where she was awarded two James A. Michener Fellowships in Writing.
Hester lives near Atlanta with her husband and two young daughters.
Having grown up in Athens, Ga., where her father taught at the University of Georgia, she's has been familiar with Western North Carolina for most of her life.
Her first visit to the Sandburg house was on a road trip back to Atlanta from Asheville, about 12 years ago.
"I was so struck by the hominess of the house," she says. "People tend to mention the toaster between the armchairs in the living room — it's become a symbol of the domestic quality of his life there."
"Modern writers are always having to make choices between work life and home life," Hester adds. "Carl Sandburg was very much a part of the family — it's an idyllic image for a writer."
The annual residency program that has nurtured the work of poets and fiction writers is made possible though the support of the Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara.
"The Friends are very excited to welcome our fourth writer-in-residence and eager to have the magic of this place be the muse for her," says Kathleen Abbate, president of the Friends of Carl Sandburg at Connemara.
"We sponsor this annual event to fulfill the wishes of Mrs. Sandburg, who hoped Connemara would be an inspiration to other writers in the same way it was for her husband," Abbate adds.
Hester will talk with high school students during the residency and be available for teachers and students with questions about writing — an interaction that she is looking forward to.
"On a personal level, I love the high school age — it's when I decided to become a writer," says Hester, who is looking forward to conveying the excitement about writing that she had at that age.
The chance to work on a novel in stories is partly what drew Hester to the Sandburg program.
Her novel's stories will be linked by theme and character, she says, with two story lines — one set in contemporary times and one historic.
The historic theme will follow a young couple in the 1860s as they move from Western North Carolina to the Texas frontier.
"This (residency) is a chance to experience that part of the country in a historical setting," Hester says.
Though the modern-day characters of the novel are products of her imagination, the 19th-century characters are loosely based on her own ancestors — from an oft-told family story of Tennessee kin moving to Texas with 12 children in tow.
Many details are true to the family history, such as the father's affliction with "brain fever" that necessitates the pregnant mother to act as leader on the arduous journey.
"There's something so domestic and elemental about that story — it's not the way our world is anymore, yet informs the way the world is now," Hester says.
"People still do difficult things they can't imagine doing," she adds. "It takes it back to that elemental level."
Ga. writer hopes to hone her craft at Sandburg Home
Katherine Hester's short stories neatly weave layers of a near-forgotten American South with the familiar realities of life in the region today.


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8. Languages are constantly changing: In the past, English borrowed words from other languages, now many languages borrow English words.
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Foster, Li and Powell have been voted as team captains for the 2012-13 season.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard women's swimming and diving team held its annual awards banquet on April 14 where it announced its captains for the 2012-13 season and honored its major award winners from this past year.
For the first time since 2000-01, the Crimson will be led by a trio of captains as Clare Foster, Sara Li and Brittany Powell have been voted by their peers to guide the team next season. Foster and Powell are entering their senior years at Harvard and have been integral to the program's recent success. Foster won the 200 IM and placed second in the 100 breast at this year's ECAC Championships, helping Harvard to a second-place finish. Powell, meanwhile, competed on the one-meter diving board as the Crimson captured its 10th Ivy League Championship.
Li, a rising junior, is a three-time All-Ivy honoree and the first underclassmen to be voted captain since Alexandra Clarke '10 in 2008-09. Li has been a member the winning 800 free relay teams at Ivies the last two years and took second in the 200 free relay a year ago.
Sophomore Deirdre Clute and Foster were honored with the Alice McCabe Award, honoring the most improved team member(s) whose performances in all areas reminds people of the ideals set forth by former coach Alice McCabe. Clute competed at the ECAC Championships last year as a freshman before taking fourth in both the 100 and 200 back this season and eclipsing the NCAA 'B' standard in the 200.
The Maura Costin Scalise Spirit Award, honoring the team member whose contributions to the program in spirit, energy and enthusiasm most emulate that of former coach Maura Costin Scalise '80, went to Powell.
Senior Kristi Korsberg was presented the Nancy Sato Award, given to the senior whose action and attitude over the years reflect a strong commitment to the improvement of Harvard swimming and diving as demonstrated by Nancy Sato '75. Despite battling through injuries over the years, Korsberg served as a co-captain this past season and was a member of the winning 400 free relay team and took second in the 800 free relay at ECAC's.
Senior Catherine Zagroba was bestowed the Dr. Mary Ellen Mangano Award, given to the person whose dedication, hard work and overall pursuit of excellence emulates those those of the late Dr. Mangano'80, also known as the "Unsung Heroine." Zagroba was a member of the winning 800 free relay team at Ivies and also placed fifth in the 200 free, fifth in the 500 free and seventh in the 1,650 free. She will graduate as a school record holder in the 800 free relay, an Academic All-American and an Academic All-Ivy selection.
The Coach's Award, honoring the member(s) of the team whose all-around attitude and contributions stand out to the coaching staff, was presented to seniors Victoria Pratt and Hilary Roberts. A co-captain this season, Pratt posted several personal best times and finished second in the 800 free relay, sixth in the 200 IM and 10th in the 200 breast at ECAC's. Roberts, meanwhile, scored key points for the Crimson at Ivies with a fourth-place finish in the 200 fly, a fifth-place finish in the 400 IM and a 12-place showing in the 200 IM.
Courtney Otto, who earned four All-Ivy honors this year, was presented the Outstanding Freshman Award given to the freshman whose outstanding talent and contribution to the team throughout the season perseveres, so that she may reach her goals and held the team surpass its. Otto won both the 400 IM and the 800 free relay in her first appearance at Ivies, while placing second in the 500 free and 200 fly. She also qualified for the NCAA Championships, where she placed 24th in the 200 fly, 30th in the 400 IM and 54th in the 500 free.
Senior Leslie Rea was given the John Walker Award, honoring the outstanding diver whose contributions to the Harvard program in attitude, dedication and performance are modeled after those of former diving coach John Walker. Rea earned the Ivy League's Career High Point Diver Award after four years of consistently reaching the finals. This season, she also earned her first All-Ivy recognition with a second-place performance on the three meter.
The Sharon Beckman Award, given to the swimmer whose outstanding performances, dedication, qualities of leadership and promotion of Harvard swimming emulates former co-captain Sharon Beckman '80, went to senior Meghan Leddy who capped her career off at the NCAA Championships competing in the 100 and 200 back. Leddy also won her third 200 back title at Ivies this season while placing third in the 100 back and fifth in the 200 IM, and will graduate as the school record holder in both the 100 and 200 back.


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I was doing about 40 mph, the view of water-filled potholes coming into view.
I was doing about 40 mph, the view of water-filled potholes coming into view.
I slowed my Ford Ranger pickup, trying to find the best path to navigate through the bumpy minefield. In a second or two, I was past it, accelerating again toward 40 mph.
Such was my drive Saturday on Catfish Lake Road. Yes, that Catfish Lake Road, the site earlier this month of the deaths of two Camp Lejeune Marines in a car crash.
Skyler D. Way and Nicholas S. Buscarnera were both only 19 years old. Their car left the dirt and gravel road and flipped into the roadside canal. Both drowned before they could escape the car.
I eventually came to the spot on the road where the two young men had lost their lives, the location marked by a simple white cross. I stopped my truck and got out, examining the area.
The road didn�t look particularly rough in the area of the crash, but no one will ever know what really happened.
All it takes is one pothole to throw a car off line. The driver jerks the wheel back in an attempt to get the car straight and under control but instead overcorrects, sending the car sliding through the gravel and dirt. Once sideways, there�s nothing to stop it, except for that canal or maybe a tree. Neither scenario is good.
I tried to see how deep the water was in the area of the crash, but not wanting to slip down the embankment into the water on the cold 40-degree day, I thought better of it.
Still, I felt uncomfortable at the spot, the site where two men died. I know I was there to do a job � to take a picture to illustrate a story about the road. The Department of Transportation has no plans to pave the road or change it. They may look at speed limit signs.
We all know how well speed limit signs work on U.S. 70. I would guess they would be equally as effective on Catfish Lake Road.
I said a little prayer, asking God to look after the two men and their families, and then went to work, taking the photo that appears on today�s front page. I got back in my truck and headed for home.
I understand the purpose of Catfish Lake Road. It�s there to allow access for recreational activities in the Croatan National Forest. It�s not supposed to be the high-speed shortcut between Havelock and Jacksonville that it has become for some.
Of course, others may not be able to resist the temptation to joyride on the road, taking advantage of the dirt and gravel to spin their tires and have some fun.
Maybe in my younger days, I would have done the same thing. Now at 48, I�m probably a bit too old for such play � or maybe just a bit wiser, with the memory of a lone white cross next to a deep-water canal alongside the dirt road still fresh in my mind.
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Robin Mason accused of sexual assaults over 4 years
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A Washington County man was accused Thursday of sexually assaulting a teenager over four years.
Authorities with the Washington County Sheriff's Office said Robin Mason, of Lincoln, confessed during an interview to sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl and raping her one week after her birthday.
Investigators said Mason is also accused of striking the victim in the face on Nov. 4, which caused her to suffer a nosebleed.
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Paul Verhoeven: I've yet to see anyone punching the air and cheering over the transition of the Elder Scrolls series from yawning, epic, operatic single player experience to what will, in all likelihood, be another WOW clone.
Thank heavens..its such a pain in the ass for bethesda making this game less buggy
Skyrim has been dead to me for a while now, I beat Dawnguard when it first came out, and beat Dragonborn when it first came out, I've already got every Achievement you can get on the game, think it took me a year and a half of playing a couple of hours here or there to do.
I'm always looking to the next big game though, so hopefully it's announced at E3?
Skyrim dead?
Wait let me check…
I DON'T THINK SO!!! --> http://skyrim.nexusmods.com...
The reason why i play Oblivion and Skyrim on PC.
Skyrim is only dead to those who have completed it or have no desire to re-play.
For those who have yet to sample Skyrim for whatever reason, then surely (like any game) the game lives on?
Even in 5 years, Skyrim would be worth another visit. That's if you can suffer the aged visuals it will have in 5 years from now.
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Protesters and proponents of gun control legislation converged on Legislative Hall Tuesday as the General Assembly began the second half of its 147th session.
HB 88 died in June 2013, and was buried Jan. 14, 2014.
The bill, which was designed to allow law enforcement to take action if an individual is deemed mentally ill, was not brought up for reconsideration during the opening session of the second half of the 147th General Assembly.
Instead of reconsidering the legislation, the 23 state senators adjourned into caucus sessions after approximately 15 minutes of opening formalities.
Bill supporters meantime worked to round up enough votes to bring the bill back, but ultimately failed to gather the minimum 11 votes.
"It was not restored today," said Senate Pro Tem Patricia M. Blevins, (D-Elsemere). "There were not enough votes to restore it."
But prospects such legislation aren't necessarily dim, Blevins added.
"I think it's doable," she said of prospects of bringing back similar a similar bill.
"I think that maybe this bill was not the right avenue," she said. "Maybe it's time to start over."
Any new legislation could begin in either house, Blevins said.
Opponents and proponents of gun control legislation made their presence known in front and inside of Legislative Hall on Tuesday as senators inside considered reviving House Bill 88, legislation that died there in June.
Tuesday was the first day of the second half of the General Assembly's 147th legislative session.
Standing in a steady drizzle outside, Second Amendment advocates held their annual "Stand Your Ground/Welcome Back" rally where they spoke against HB 88 and planned to distribute letters to legislators outlining their agenda for the session. Their ranks included members of organizations that included the Campaign for Liberty and the First State Patriots.
"Last year, they pushed the gun bills, and of course we're opposed to them," Theresa Garcia, executive director of the 9-12 Delaware Patriots said on Monday. "This year, they're coming back right off the bat with HB 88, which we very much oppose."
George Higgins, acting director of the Delaware Coalition Against Gun Violence, said most members of his and other groups, including the Brady Campaign and Delaware Voices Against Gun Violence, planned a different approach.
"We know folks who are adamantly against this like to hold an event opening day, but we're not interested in that," Higgins said. Their primary concern was addressing legislators' concerns about HB 88 and getting it passed, he added.
House Bill 88, introduced in April 2013 by Rep. Michael A. Barbieri, (D-Newark), would have required law enforcement officials to take action if a mental health provider had concerns about an individual and also would have mandated a Department of Justice investigation into those concerns. If the individual was deemed a danger, the DOJ then could petition a court for an order to prevent that person from having access to weapons.
The House of Representatives passed the bill and its three amendments in May by a 40-1 vote, but the legislation failed in the Senate on June 27. The tally there was six in favor, 13 against and two not voting.
The attempt to revive the bill was made under Senate rules that permit a member to recall a vote. If seconded without opposition, this procedure allows the upper chamber to hold another vote or to send it back to committee for reconsideration, Barbieri said. If there is no call for the vote or no second, the measure is dead for good.
Barbieri said he was surprised the bill failed last year.
"My impression was I didn't think it would run into any trouble with the Republican leadership," he said. Amendments to the bill apparently had satisfied concerns brought up by the National Rifle Association, which Barbieri said withdrew its opposition to the legislation.
Barbieri said he got the impression some senators felt they were being pushed into a vote just three days before the end of the first half of the legislative session.
"It went to the Senate and there were a number of people who were not necessarily provided the most clear and accurate information about the bill, and a number of people chose not to vote for it," he said.
As an example of what could be done under HB 88, Higgins noted that Colorado police were legally prevented from taking action when Aurora resident James Holmes had told his mental health provider he wanted to kill people. Holmes later opened fire in a crowded movie theater, wounding 70 people and killing 12 others.
Higgins argued that if police had been empowered to act when learning about Holmes' comments, the Aurora shooting could have been prevented.
In an email to the Dover Post, 9-12 Delaware Patriots lobbyist James Atkins said the group is just as concerned as anyone else about possible violence caused by a mentally ill person. However, he said, Delaware already has laws that prohibit the mentally ill from possessing or obtaining firearms.
Additionally, current laws already require health care facilities to evaluate threats made by persons before they are discharged, Adkins said.
One senator, who supports the legislation, told him the bill also could apply to persons who have not been deemed mentally ill, but who still could present a danger to themselves or others. That statement means people could be deprived of their Second Amendment rights without a professional diagnosis of a bona fide mental illness, Atkins argued.
"Under HB 88 that 'mental health professional' will have a requirement to refer you to law enforcement if they think (NOT diagnosed) you are a danger (maybe only angry?)" Atkins wrote.
"This bill would not have prevented nor will it prevent any tragic mass shootings from happening," he added. "It will, however, discourage people from seeking mental health help in the future."


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Braudy is university professor and Bing Chair of English at USC and the author of several books, including "The Frenzy of Renown." Andrew Marvell's "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland, 1650"One of the great political poems in English. Unlike Shakespeare's history plays, it concerns itself directly with questions of executive authority not in the past but in the immediate and confusing present. Long before the birth of political parties and political science, Marvell delves into the complexities and compromises of power. Daniel Defoe's 1701 poem "The True-Born Englishman"Written in response to attacks on "foreigners" diluting the purity of the English nation, Defoe's poem uses slashing wit to point out that "we are all really foreigners ourselves": "A true-born Englishman's a contradiction, / In speech an irony, in fact a fiction." He concludes that generalizing about people on the basis of where they come from is nonsense: "'Tis personal virtue only makes us great." Anthony Trollope's "He Knew He Was Right"This 1869 novel is the story of a husband so jealously — and mistakenly — committed to believing his wife is unfaithful that he ruins his marriage and his life. It's a cautionary tale about the fallibility of one's own emotions and perceptions, and the tragedy that can result from trusting them too blindly. Joseph Conrad's "Lord Jim"Conrad's 1900 novel tells the story of a young British seaman who in a moment of panic abandons a sinking ship filled with Muslim pilgrims traveling to Mecca. The ship is later rescued but Jim spends his life trying to atone for his moral lapse by doing good works. Joseph Heller's "Catch-22"No contemplation of the human ravages of modern warfare is complete without "Catch-22" (1961). Written about World War II, "Catch-22" crucially mocks the bureaucratic military world in which the ordinary member of "the greatest generation" had to live, and die. Even though Heller's airmen seem to be far above the action, the war damages them nevertheless. Heller's insights and his comic clarity are even more relevant today in an era of drones and other means of psychologically detaching combatants from warfare.
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Michael Jackson in an ambulance after his accident
Jackson received second degree burns to his scalp in the accident
A spokeswoman for Pepsi said the drinks giant has no idea where "terrifying" footage of Michael Jackson's hair catching fire in 1984 came from.
The accident, which happened when the singer was filming a commercial for Pepsi at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, left him with serious burns.
"We don't know how the footage became available," Nicole Bradley of Pepsi-Cola North America said in a statement.
"This was an unfortunate accident that occurred more than 25 years ago."
The late entertainer was singing his hit song Billie Jean for a Pepsi Cola commercial when the "highly publicised" incident took place.
The footage, which surfaced for the first time this week, shows the singer's hair being set alight by a pyrotechnic explosion.
Jackson, who was 25 at the time, was taken to hospital where he was treated for second degree burns to his scalp.
It has since been alleged the pop star became addicted to pain-killing medication as a result of the incident.
"It was a terrifying event that we'll never forget," Bradley continued, saying Pepsi had been "deeply saddened" by his death last month.
"We were grateful for Michael's recovery and for the chance to continue working with him on a number of successful projects."
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OT Ways to pass time until Sept. 4th.
So currently, I am in the process of watching all of the 2009 Michigan games(courtesy of mgovideo) , 1 per day.
That way, when I finish, we will have 12 less days until the season starts, in which I will sit at my computer more and stare at the mgoblog homepage, waiting on a "Hello" post.
What do you all do in order to pass time leading up to the season?


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Terastation autorestart
The Terastation offers a mode that allows to automatically restarts after a power outage (e.g. when the power comes back). But this mode is disabled by default, and can be only enabled if directly connect a UPS via the serial or the USB port. The UPS must be APC or OMRON products.
It an be interesting to know how to set the "recover mode" even if not connecting an UPS.
Root acces is mandatory (not available by default).
Make the proc driver interface writtable:
root@terastation> chmod 666 /proc/buffalo/ups/ups_recover
Then set any value to activate ("apc_on", "omron_on", "usb_on"), or "off" to deactivate:
root@terastation> echo "apc_on" > /proc/buffalo/ups/ups_recover
Internal behavior
Buffalo Linux kernel includes a driver to interface the ups_recover "proc" to a DS1339 chip. This chip is a RTC. It has a timer functionality. When setting the "ups_recover" file to "apc_on", for example, the kernel set a timer to occurs 2mn(?) after power outage (it seem to start once and not 2mn after power comes back). When the power comes back, the timer begins, and starts the Terastation. I didn't find why there is different possible values to set to the driver.
This mechanism is handled by apcupsd and omronupsd daemon that were patched by Buffalo (the sources are available on there web site, but for recent Terastation: XL models). The patched code, do access to the ups_recover "proc" file.
This has been checked on a Terastation Pro II Rack (TS-RITGL/R5) patched for root access


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Casting Announced for MARY POPPINS at Dunfield Theatre Cambridge
With internationally renowned Director Nigel West and Canadian leading lady Jayme Armstrong already attached to the inaugural production at the new Dunfield Theatre Cambridge, Drayton Entertainment is thrilled make another exciting casting announcement.
"Chim chim-in-ey, chim chim-in-ey, chim chim cher-ee! A sweep is as lucky, as lucky can be." Broadway actor Mark Ledbetter will sing those iconic words when he takes on the role of Bert, the lovable chimney sweep, in the Drayton Entertainment production of Disney's and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins. Audiences may remember the affable character as made famous by movie star Dick Van Dyke in the original 1964 film starring Julie Andrews.
Ledbetter is a well-established actor, having been on Broadway in the recent productions of A Christmas Story and Anything Goes. He also understudied and frequently performed the role of Bert in Mary Poppins on Broadway for almost two years.
Ledbetter's distinguished career also includes roles Off-Broadway including The Tin Pan Alley Rag with the Roundabout Theatre Company, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Of Thee I Sing with City Center Encores. His first national touring credits include Robert Martin in The Drowsy Chaperone and Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
The accomplished performer also originated the roles of Jimmy and Scooter in the world premiere cast of Irving Berlin's White Christmas and in subsequent years was seen in the Danny Kaye role, Phil Davis, in the San Francisco, Detroit and St. Paul companies. He can also be heard on the show's cast album.
Regional theatre highlights include Leo opposite Patti LuPone in The Kennedy Center production of Marc Blitzstein's opera, Regina, both Tony and Riff in West Side Story at The Human Race Theatre Company and the Pioneer Theatre Company, respectively, CosMo Brown in Singin' in the Rain at NSMT, and Romance, Romance at Paper Mill Playhouse.
In addition to his stage work, Ledbetter's also appeared in the movie version of The Producers with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick among other film and television credits.
Prior to arriving in Cambridge in early February to start rehearsals for Mary Poppins, Ledbetter will participate in a workshop of the new musical The Honeymooners adapted from the classic television series.
In making the announcement, Alex Mustakas, Artistic Director of Drayton Entertainment noted, "Mark is a true triple threat - he's an incredible dancer, terrific comedic actor and a fantastic singer. I know audiences will marvel at his charismatic portrayal of this beloved character."
Mustakas also noted that he is continually amazed by the top-notch talent that is attracted to the various productions produced by Drayton Entertainment. "We are so fortunate that many of North America's best theatrical artists want to work us," he says.
Mary Poppins tells the tale of the Banks family and how their lives change after the arrival of a "practically perfect" nanny at their home on Cherry Tree Lane in London, England. The production runs March 6 through April 28.
Tickets for the inaugural 2013 Season have been on sale to the public since January 2nd, and may be purchased online at www.dunfieldtheatrecambridge.com, in person at the Box Office, or by calling (519) 621-8000 or toll free 1-855-DRAYTON (372-9866).


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The Bisons, the No. 2-seed, were originally scheduled to play No. 5-seeded Mercer in the opening game. But due to rainy weather the format of the tournament was changed Thursday. Mercer and No. 4-seeded Belmont played in the opening game. Belmont fought off a late rally by Mercer to win 6-5.
Lipscomb coach Jeff Forehand had a late night meeting with his players to talk about the events of the day.
"You try not to let the players think that this is a big problem," said Forehand who scouted ETSU one last time along with assistants Chris Collins, Lantz Wheeler and Brian Ryman. "And it's not really a big deal. There are times during the season when you expect to play on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but the Friday game gets rained out and you play a doubleheader on Saturday. You can't control the weather."
In the nightcap ETSU upset Stetson, the No. 3-seed on its home turf at Melching Field at Conrad Park by a score of 4-2. Both Mercer and Stetson were eliminated from the tournament.
Jacksonville,the top seed, will play Belmont at 8:30 a.m. Friday. Both Jacksonville and Lipscomb earned first round byes under the new format.
Junior left-hander Rex Brothers, a First Team All-Conference performer, will start for the Bisons. ETSU will make a game-time decision on a starter.
The remaining four teams will play a double-elimination tournament the rest of the way, unless the weather once again becomes an issue. If four games are not completed by midnight Friday the tournament will switch to a single-elimination format.
The Bisons, 23-31, closed out the season against ETSU, winning two of three games in Johnson City. The Bisons won 6-5 and 16-7, but lost the final game of the series 14-7. The Bisons won seven of their last 10 regular season games.
ETSU, 24-22, is playing in the tournament for the first time since 2006. The last time a No. 6 seed has won the tournament was in 2003 when Jacksonville took the title.
"We have a pretty good read on ETSU," said Forehand. "It was our last series so our players still have all of the info we prepared. "
While they may have been the last team to qualify for the tournament ETSU entered the tournament as the leader among the remaining four teams in batting average, slugging percentage, on-base percentage, home runs and total bases.
ETSU has won its last two games after losing seven in a row.
"ETSU is playing with a bunch of energy," said Forehand. "Their enthusiasm is really running high."


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- Boxing
Calzaghe Sr warns against Hatton return
Enzo Calzaghe has urged Ricky Hatton to reconsider his expected return to the ring, telling the former world light-welterweight champion: "You can't be better than you were three years ago".
Hatton retired from boxing in 2009 after heavy defeats at the hands of Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao in world title fights. But the Hitman, now 33 years of age, is closing in on a comeback fight at the MEN Arena in November.
Calzaghe, father and trainer of undefeated super-middleweight champion Joe Calzaghe, added that he would not want to be involved were his son to launch a comeback to the sport for the same reasons he is now warning against Hatton's return.
"Everyone has their own life. But the bottom line is, as a trainer, I wouldn't be with Joe Calzaghe if he ever decided to come back," Calzaghe told the Sun.
"I respect every fighter. Yet the question you need to ask Ricky is 'Why?' Life is the most important thing and that means family and health. He has family and kids and you have to look at that.
"No-one forces these fighters to retire. They retire for their own reasons or because they have fallen out of love with boxing. But you can be bored.
"Yet Ricky made millions. So if you don't have to risk your health, don't risk it. You can't play games with your health."
Hatton is expected to formally announce his return to professional boxing on Friday, with a potential future fight with Amir Khan in the offing. But Calzaghe is adamant that the Manchester native's return cannot be the platform for greater things.
"Of course, you can believe you are going to be a world champion again. But you can't be better than you were three years ago. That's the bottom line in any sport.
"Tiger Woods came back but isn't as good as he was before - and no-one is punching you in the head on a golf course!"


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The first trailer for Johnny Depp's Transcendence was released this weekend. Johnny Depp doesn't wear fake teeth. Or a wig. Or cartoon makeup. And he doesn't speak in an accent. Jesus, how long has it been?
It's so nice to hear his "regular" voice – a deep drawl, more suited to a rock star than a scientist, but let's not complain. That said, would Johnny Depp wouldn't spend an entire movie in "costume" without changing form? Which is why he then becomes a computer. Which is a simplistic way of describing a complicated storyline – that they try to preserve his brain, his memories, so that they can carry on with their tech project after he dies, only, of course, iJohnny is unpredictable and evil and he might wipe out the world. At least that's what I *think* is happening.
There are a lot of notables in this movie. Depp is joined by Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara, Leonardo DiCaprio's best friend, and, of course, the narrator Morgan Freeman. I'm interested. You?


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When I was 12 and first discovering rock music there was nothing wrong with liking Bon Jovi. I got into Nirvana just the the right side of Kurt Cobain's suicide, I loved Guns N' Roses, I had a Megadeth t-shirt and the cover of Cannibal Corpse's Eaten Back To Life as an A2 poster, despite never hearing a note of the album. It was all rock music, it all fundamentally represented the same thing to me. I didn't yet know that Pearl Jam and Soundgarden were cool and Extreme and Poison weren't, to an uneducated pre-teen in 1993, Bon Jovi were as valid as Slayer. To a kid who didn't know any better they sounded like a pretty good rock band.
Cheesy to the point of faintly embarrassing they may have been, but in their Eighties, Nineties and even Noughties peaks Bon Jovi were still emphatically a Rock Band (capital 'R', capital 'B'). They had big solos and punch-the-air drum bits and proper riffs. Look at 'Keep The Faith', look at 'Lay Your Hands On Me', 'You Give Love A Bad Name', even 'It's My Life'. When they did ballads they were rock ballads: 'Always', 'Bed of Roses', 'I'll be There For You'... they had massive, thundering drums and solos that went on for several months, with guitarist Richie Sambora airlifted to mountain tops to play them in the video. Jon Bon Jovi, who lest we forget has a hell of a pair of lungs under that denim jacket, could open his throat and wail. These were songs designed to translate to 50,000 people all at once, anywhere in the world and despite the cliches the best of them became part of the fabric of modern rock music, you'll have to search for a long time to find anyone who doesn't know 'Living On A Prayer'.
There's none of that on What About Now, the New Jersey quartet's twelfth album. They eased out of the hard rock game several records back; what's left is a blend of Nashville pop and the kind of light anthems you get by adding Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida' to the Temper Trap's 'Sweet Disposition' and running the results through Ronan Keating's brain. It's slick as all hell but it's thunderingly uninspiring. When they do attempt some of the old fists-aloft magic it's usually faintly embarrassing, as proved by opener 'Because We Can', sent from some sort of horrible dimension where Garth Brooks is more important than Bruce Springsteen.
Over and over again What About Now pitches itself at the same commercially anthemic middle ground as U2, ideal for talent show montages and inspiring moments at award shows but ultimately anemic, soulless and forgettable. 'Pictures Of You', 'Army Of One', 'With These Two Hands' and Richie Sambora's closing 'Every Road Leads Home' all suffer from a creeping blandness masquerading as widescreen euphoria.
It's a shame, because when the band stick to their blue-collar Jersey roots things improve dramatically. Sure we're lacking in rock thumpers, but other Jovi hallmarks do make welcome returns, notably the down n' out narrative on 'What's Left Of Me' and the bar-room stomp of 'That's What the Water Made Me'. Two stripped back acoustic waltzes, 'Not Running Anymore' and 'Old Habits Die Hard' are genuinely lovely, all walm, folky fingerpicking and brushed drums showing a band that still have plenty to offer when they stop playing to the middle ground.
5Marc Burrows's Score


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NZXT HALE90 750W Power Supply Review
The 80 Plus performance specification requires certified power supplies to be at least 80% efficient or greater at 20%, 50% and 100% of their rated maximum output power whilst maintaining the power factor level above 0.9. The award scheme has been extended since the introduction of the basic 80 Plus accreditation with the addition of several more levels above and beyond what was originally required and now includes bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels with required efficiency levels as high as 94%. Platinum rated power supplies are rare but more and more manufacturers are now producing gold rated units with a maximum efficiency requirement of 90% at 50% loading.
The NZXT HALE90 750W power supply is such a unit. NZXT products are designed and engineered in the United States and manufactured overseas in China and Taiwan. Their product line, aimed at the PC enthusiast and gamer, includes enclosures, cooling fans, fan controllers, mice, power supplies and premium cables. Let's have a closer look at the NZXT HALE90 750W power supply and see how well it performs.
Closer Look:
The NZXT HALE90 750W power supply packaging is predominately white with a little black, red and gold used to good effect. The front of the box contains a window through which the power supply fan and fan grill are visible along with the NZXT trademark, power supply wattage, model number and 5 year warranty logo. The front of the box also shows five features of the power supply, modular power, 100% Japanese capacitors, 12V single strong rail and 14 cm silent operation fan with a small picture to illustrate each with a 80 Plus Gold logo completing the set. The rear face of the box shows the specification table, connector types and quantities, photograph of the power supply cooling fan side and a comprehensive feature list.
The top of the power supply box comes with a useful carry handle and on the bottom a shortened feature list is given in Chinese, Spanish, Russian, German, Japanese and French.
The side panels show the agency approval logos along with a couple of graphs to illustrate the power supply efficiency and fan noise levels.
Lift the lid; remove the user manual and the power supply with its captive cables securely tied sits next to the modular cable bag.
The power supply is contained in a plastic bag for added protection and the box contents which include a user manual, power cord, mounting screws and modular cable bag.
The NZXT HALE90 750W power supply is well packaged with a basic, but adequate set of accessories so let's move on and have a closer look.


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The 2nd Womble wrote:Yes I'm sure a neurosurgeon knows nothing about preventative medicine or how to protect against head/spinal injuries
They might know "some" things, but it is not their area of expertise. They are no more qualified to comment on it than anyone else who takes the time to look into or study it, and you do not have to be a doctor to do this. But the extent of this doctor's knowledge is that he "can't help but think" helmets are reducing the severity of the injuries he sees. This is not evidence that helmet laws are useful, it is idle speculation.


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In 1937, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay came close to refusing an honorary degree from New York University when she learned she had been excluded from a reception for male recipients of the doctorate at the Waldorf-Astoria and instead was to have a quiet dinner with the chancellor's wife.
By that time, Millay had written almost 10 books of poetry, won a Pulitzer Prize and cut herself out of corsets and stays by — as she so famously put it — "burning her candle at both ends" during the Jazz Age.
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Millay ultimately accepted the degree, but her objections to gender segregation were later taken up by the feminist movement, which viewed the term "women writers" as derogatory, consigning those so labeled to second-class citizenship.
I hope that we're beyond polemics now and that it is no longer incorrect to think women can't be great writers. Lately, I've been thinking about three who lived near me in the Northeast: Millay (1892-1950), who traded bohemian Greenwich Village for a placid farmhouse in eastern New York state; celebrated novelist Edith Wharton (1862-1937), chatelaine of a mansion across the Berkshire Mountains from Millay in the upper-class summer haven of Lenox, Mass.; and the divine Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), who spent her whole life in Amherst, Mass., and thus "never saw a moor," though she could conjure up the universe in the space of a single stanza.
I recently toured Millay's Steepletop, Wharton's the Mount and the Emily Dickinson Homestead. Seeing the houses in succession gave me a fresh appreciation for their work and the different obstacles they faced to become writers. But perhaps just as significantly, I realized how profoundly at home they were in the beautiful countryside.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
"O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!
Thy mists, that roll and rise!
Thy woods, this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag
To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!"
"God's World"
Millay was born in Rockland, Maine, and given her unusual middle name because her uncle had once been treated at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. Vincent — as almost everyone called her — was the oldest of three daughters raised in a financially strained single-parent family after her ne'er-do-well father was sent packing.
She was 20 when she wrote "Renascence," a haunting lyric poem about spiritual awakening that made her an overnight sensation. Admirers of the "girl poetess" in 1913 sent her to Vassar, where she made friends, purportedly lesbian; Millay was a lifelong bisexual. After college, she sloughed off her shy provincialism, roaring through the 1920s in Greenwich Village and collecting lovers like bottles of bathtub gin.
In 1923, she married Eugen Boissevain, a Dutch businessman who in many ways was the hero of Millay's story. He saw her through illness and drug addiction, ran her household and left her free to have affairs — all in order to keep her writing poetry.
Boissevain spotted an ad for a 435-acre dairy farm in the Taconic Mountains near the border of New York and Massachusetts. In 1925, the couple moved to Steepletop, named for a wildflower that grows around the modest white farmhouse on Harvey Mountain. "We're so excited about it we're nearly daft in the bean — kidney bean, lima bean, string-bean, butter-bean — you dow whad I bean — ha! ha! ha!" Millay wrote to her mother.
To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the poet's death last year, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Society opened Steepletop to visitors, who must look sharp while passing through the hamlet of Austerlitz, N.Y., must look sharp for the two-mile gravel road leading up the mountain. The society's headquarters, a ticket office, bookstore and gallery are in the old garage.
I met Peter Bergman, executive director of the society, who showed me around the house and grounds, left dilapidated when the last resident, Edna's sister Norma, died in 1986. The gardens that Millay nurtured have gone to seed, though her writer's cabin, in a grove of pine trees, is intact; the swimming pool where Eugen, Edna and friends disported in the nude is cracked and full of brackish water; and the first floor of the house remains closed because of water damage, except for the slate-floored entry with the poet's Size 3 boots in the corner.
Millay was petite and redheaded, the perfect flapper, with a low, mellifluous voice that mesmerized audiences when she toured the country giving readings. Bergman showed me her tiny gloves and lingerie, still carefully folded in a bedroom drawer; the monogrammed towels and bidet in her bathroom; her books, daybed and handwritten Silence sign in the library.
After Millay died — as dramatically as she lived — from a fall down the staircase in 1950, Norma left every detail intact, living amid her late sister and brother-in-law's belongings, hoping someday to turn the house into a museum. The Millay Society now owns the property, relying on donations for upkeep and renovation. As a result, visitors are bound to find Steepletop a work in progress, but singularly authentic. "The house has a life," Bergman said. "It feels like someone lives here."
Steepletop, 436 E. Hill Road, Austerlitz, N.Y.; (518) 392-3362, http://www.millay.org. Closed Wednesdays. House tours Fridays-Mondays; garden tours daily, until Oct. 17; $25 for both house and garden, by reservation. The Millay Poetry Trail is open daily.
Edith Wharton
"The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade … the landscape outspread below her seemed an enlargement of her present mood… She found something of herself in its calmness, its breadth, its long free reaches… Was it love, she wondered, or … the spell of the perfect afternoon, the scent of the fading woods, the thought of the dullness she had fled from?"
"The House of Mirth"
It's thought that Millay and Wharton crossed paths in Paris in the early 1920s, but did not become friends. In fact, it's hard to imagine two more different women, one a reckless free spirit, the other a society woman raised in the upper echelons of Gilded Age New York and Newport, R.I.
To her mother's despair, Edith was a bookish little girl; she spoke French, German and Italian and started her first novel when she was 11. Still, she came out at the obligatory debutante ball and was courted by several gentlemen, including Teddy Wharton, whom she married in 1885.
By the time the Whartons moved to Lenox in 1901, Edith had published her first book, "The Decoration of Houses," co-written with architect Ogden Codman, advocating a departure from the then-popular Victorian style. Plans for the new house, known as the Mount, closely followed the book's proscriptions, resulting in an elegant white mansion with 35 rooms.
The design of the house was inspired by the couple's frequent trips to Europe; between 1885 and 1914, they crossed the Atlantic nearly 70 times, prompting Edith's friend Henry James to call her the "pendulum woman." In 1903, she set out for Europe again to research a series of articles that became the book "Italian Villas and Their Gardens," an important source for the Mount's landscape, including a long, winding drive, formal flower parterres and a cool, green Italian sunken garden.
Edith and a small, select group of friends passed pleasant afternoons alfresco, but mornings were her private time, spent in bed writing compulsively on a lapboard, surrounded by papers and pampered dogs, all miniature breeds such Pomeranians and Skye terriers. They looked on as she completed her first bestselling novel, "The House of Mirth," in 1905; several dozen more books followed, along with a Pulitzer Prize and the French Legion of Honor.
Her halcyon days at the Mount ended in 1911, when Teddy's mental health began to deteriorate and she moved permanently to France. After the Whartons' departure, the estate suffered as it changed hands many times, ending as home to Shakespeare & Company, a Lenox theater company.
In 2001, work to refurbish the Mount began, at a cost of about $15 million.
Executive director Susan Wissler told me more needs to be done, but visitors find the gardens lavishly abloom and the house handsomely restored, with Wharton's books lining shelves in the first-floor library. Other rooms, such as the dining room and Edith's suite, were decorated by local designers because the Whartons took their furnishings with them when they moved out.
After my tour, I stayed for a reading of one of Edith's short stories in the terrace café, one of many events offered at the Mount. "The Mission of Jane," published in 1904, is about how an adopted daughter brings together a loveless couple by growing up to be such an annoying young woman that her parents can't wait to get her out of the house when she marries.
Pure Wharton in the perfect setting.
The Mount, 2 Plunkett St., Lenox, Mass.; (413) 551-5107, http://www.edithwharton.org. Open daily May-October; admission $16, plus $2 for docent-led house and garden tours.
Emily Dickinson
"Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses — past the headlands —
Into deep eternity —
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the last league out from land?"
"Exultation Is the Going"
Dickinson is my favorite. She studied for a year at my alma mater, Mount Holyoke College, and when my mother died, I found a Dickinson collection with well-loved poems marked, including the one quoted above.
Her celebrity rests on 1,800 poems, left after her death in handwritten booklets, bound with thread from her sewing box and on scraps of paper, used envelopes and chocolate labels. She was too private a person to need the approval of publication and loath to let editors correct her singular, sometimes ungrammatical punctuation, inexact rhymes and jolting meters.
According to the poet's orders, her younger sister, Lavinia, destroyed her letters when she died in 1886, a disaster for scholars. But Lavinia did set a chain of events in motion that resulted in the publication of the poems. Even so, it took 50 years for the verses to appear unedited, as she wrote them, uncannily modern for their time, admiring critics say.
Others become her devotees because they hear Dickinson's voice speaking to them intimately about profound matters: life, death, grief, joy and the bumblebee.
Her life was as gloriously strange as her poetry, lived almost from start to finish behind the picket fence and hemlock hedge that bound the Homestead, a fine yellow house on a corner lot down the hill from the center of Amherst. It was constructed in the early 1800s by Emily's grandfather Samuel Fowler Dickinson, one of the founders of Amherst College; several decades later, her father, Edward, built a grand Italianate mansion next door for her brother, Austin, and his family.
Emily loved Austin and his wife, Susan, the first family of Amherst in the mid-1800s. At the Evergreens, they entertained every passing dignitary, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, though it's thought that shy Emily stayed home that night. The death of their little son Gib sent Emily into a tailspin of sorrow and ill heath from which she never recovered. Austin later had an extramarital affair with the wife of an Amherst College professor that sundered the Dickinson family, resulting in wars over the dissemination of Emily's poetry.
Now, her wars are "laid away in books," as she wrote, and both the Homestead and the Evergreens are again conjoined and open to visitors, thanks to the trustees of Amherst College.Tours underscore the enduring mysteries of Dickinson's life: the heartbreak that caused her to retire from the outside world when she was in her early 30s; her appearance, recorded by just one remaining daguerreotype; and her illnesses, partly the subject of "Lives Like Loaded Guns," a recent book by Lyndall Gordon, hypothesizing that she was epileptic.
Much has been written about her. But as Jane Wald, executive director of the Emily Dickinson Museum, told me, "Some things are always going to remain unknowable. It's the mysteries that keep people interested."
I began with the audio tour of the grounds, narrated by poet Richard Wilbur who pauses to describe the long gone 11-acre Dickinson meadow across the street where Emily wandered with her big brown Newfoundland, Carlo. Nasturtiums, marigolds and day lilies grow in the garden, her province, together with baking. She refused to touch a duster or broom, leaving the light housework to Lavinia.
Then I toured the houses with a college-aged guide in a white dress — even in her casket, Emily always wore white — who recited poems as we went from room to room in the Evergreens and the Homestead.
Inevitably, the highlight was Emily's second-floor bedroom, which has her single sleigh bed and a replica of her tiny writing table.
Devotees fall silent or weep to see it, Wald told me.
I thought of my mother, an inland soul gone to sea.
Emily Dickinson Museum, 280 Main St., Amherst, Mass.; (413) 542-8161, http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org. Open Wednesdays-Sundays, through December; $10 for house and garden tour.
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A literary stamp to these three houses
In 1937, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay came close to refusing an honorary degree from New York University when she learned she had been excluded from a reception for male recipients of the doctorate at the Waldorf-Astoria and instead was to have a quiet dinner with the chancellor's wife.


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THE search for the county's new top cop will begin immediately.
Current Chief Constable Jim Barker-McCardle announced his decision to leave Essex Police last month.
He told of the decision in a letter to all of the candidates standing for election for police and crime commissioner.
Nick Alston, the new police and crime commissioner, revealed the Chief Constable will leave on May 3 this year.
The search for his replacement will begin immediately.


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Your prompt, professional delivery includes a complete furniture package setup down to the last pillow, lampshade, or spoon. CORT Furniture Rental provides a furnished life without compromise or commitment.
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