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boil is caused by what the?
infection and skin dirty, scratches, high ambient temperature or lower the body resistance to infection-related. Boils can occur in any follicles of the skin area, often to the head, face, neck, armpits and buttocks so often by the friction of the parts is more common.
(a) causes
boil the pathogenic bacteria Staphylococcus aureus based, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, are also caused by the disease. Local and systemic skin's resistance to infection is reduced mainly due to Benbingfasheng, so infants, malnutrition, diabetes is a good risk of this disease. Dirty skin, skin abrasions, high ambient temperatures often lead to local infection such as the direct cause.
(B) the pathogenesis
bacteria invade the hair follicle and their sebaceous glands and sweat glands, in hair follicles and surrounding tissue multiply rapidly, producing toxins, causing local tissue degeneration, necrosis, and the center of the formation of boils, the performance of local congestion, exudation, induration. Aggregation of neutrophils to the damaged body tissue cells and bacteria to be destroyed, and he gradually necrosis and dissolution, the formation of abscesses in the dermis. Due to Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase contain toxins, so the formation of pus bolt, protruding outward. Swelling and induration clinically visible in the center of a yellow-white pus plug. This is Staphylococcus aureus infected lesion characteristics. Ulceration after discharge pus, abscess gradually by the new fibrous tissue repair and healing.[Sign]
boil the early symptoms?
1. redness, swelling, heat, pain summary, cylindrical cone.
2. inflammation to the development of nodules increases, the pain intensified.
3. A few days later nodules central necrosis, abscess formation, dissolution, soft induration, pain relief, the central pus head most of the self-rupture, discharge pus, inflammation subsided recovery.
4. furuncle usually no obvious symptoms, but if the blood flow occurred in the rich parts of the body resistance weakened, it can cause discomfort, chills, fever, headache and loss of appetite and other symptoms of toxemia.
5. Facial Boil such as intracranial infection, facial swelling and severe, may be associated with chills, fever, headache, sinus infections and other embolization.
boil because of location, severity of different clinical manifestations may vary.
local swelling and pain sclerosis: no systemic symptoms of early disease and more, only infection redness, swelling, pain, range of not more than 2cm in diameter, small nodules gradually enlarged, as papules bulge. A few days later lesions extended about 3 ~ 5cm, nodules gradually softened, the center was white, a slight touch of the fluctuations; then ulceration pus, and the emergence of yellow-white pus plug. Pus bolt off, pus shed, the inflammation subsides and healing. There is no pus boil bolt (the so-called headless boil), since the collapse a bit late, need to find ways to promote its pus discharge (Figure 2 ).
fever, swollen lymph nodes: furuncle serious infection, the local area of the lymph nodes, tenderness, and may be associated with body heat, and sometimes lymph node abscess formation.
nose, upper lip and around (called "dangerous triangle") of the surface boil, add or pushed in touch, the bacteria via the angular vein, ophthalmic vein into the brain, causing intracranial suppurative infection. At this point may have fever, headache, vomiting, consciousness disorders.
early follicular redness, swelling, heat, pain, induration. After the white purulent center, there is volatility. May be associated with systemic fever, elevated white blood cell count and differential count.[Aftertreat]
boil ate?
therapeutic side:
1. composed of: a single head of garlic, honey, 9 grams. Usage: pound evenly wrap the affected area.
2. consists of: single head of garlic amount. Usage: Peel and slice into 2 to 3 mm, with the first affected area with warm salt water when dry wash, and then sticking garlic, and gently massage the 10 to 20 minutes, 2 or 3 times a day, 2 3 There is no more. Indications: Boil, folliculitis. Note: In severe cases, such as local irritation may reduce the massage time, a serious condition should be added to serve anti-inflammatory drugs.
3 . composed of: tea 2 grams of dried honeysuckle 1 gram. Usage: boiling water 6 minutes after each meal drink in a cup. Indications: Boil, exogenous heat.
4. composed of: fresh Malan first 100 grams, the amount of liquor. Usage: Add a little salt before blindly smashed wine Ban Cheng paste, coating the surface of the skin furuncle carbuncle. Indications: furuncle, carbuncle.
5. Composition: rosin 10 grams of white wine. Usage: rosin research to fine tune white wine into a paste, resisting heat, wrap the affected area after dissolution, for the degree of responsibility to cover all of the above and then covered with wax paper and tape securely, to enhance efficacy, can drop a few drops of wine, rosin to keep moist. Indications: furuncle, carbuncle, folliculitis.
6. smashed topical papaya leaves, swollen boil carbuncle treatment drug.
7. fresh peach leaf, plug smashed the lesion, treatment of nasal furuncle.
8. rhizome or fresh banana leaves smashed Jiao Zhi, coating the surface of the skin, cure carbuncles, boils, swelling.
9. almond powder with sesame oil paint, heat treatment boil.
10. Purple cane coal deposit of the skin, powder, paint the affected area or sesame oil dressing, boil carbuncle treatment, stomatitis , eczema.
11. raw taro add a little salt, smashed drunk wrap the affected area twice a day replacement, bones can cure pain, swelling of unknown drugs, pediatric head hot boil, finger boil.
12. raw loofah (or leaf), smashed juice, coated surface of the skin, soak sore treatment days, yellow water sores, heat boils, urticaria .
13. mung bean sugar kelp: seaweed 60 grams, shredded, green beans, 150 grams, with the soup, add brown sugar to taste food. There Sedative, diuretic, soft-kin, Phlegm, scattered gall tumor effect. For hypertension, beriberi edema, neck lymphadenopathy, simple goiter, prickly heat boils hot summer day in children poison, phlegm cough embolism.
14. yi melon soup: melon (not peeled) 500-600 g, yi 50-100 grams of soup. Can be flavored with sugar or salt, on behalf of the tea used, heat, hot weather, diuretic, dehumidification effect. Drugs for Rush boils, eczema athlete's foot, yellow urine deficient.
15. Daozhi raw turnip, vinegar and rub the affected area transfer, heat treatment boil.
16. green beans 30 grams of powder, each 10 grams, water delivery service, boils cure breast swelling and pain.
17. failure to adopt the open rose 3 - 5 朵 wash, add water, two pregnant, suffering from a cup of low heat, ice sugar 30 grams, made of rose soup, until the temperature dose, to cure blood stasis amenorrhea, boils Chung pain, traumatic swelling and pain.
18. boils and pus ulceration of the skin sore or eczema, rinse with water, tea, allow the wound clean and promote healing.
19. a white sweet potato, peeled and chopped, smashed, can also be added with the same amount of fresh Houttuynia smashed, spreads in the affected area, apply to the local heating that line replace (about two three hours long), and even apply a few days more, boils cure mastitis.
20. soybeans amount, turn on the water immersed soft, add a little alum were smashed drunk, external surface of the skin, swollen boils boil treatment.
21. adzuki beans with water until soft, mash with water or vinegar, or honey or egg amount, into a paste, external surface of the skin, cure mumps, hot boil.
22. Kapok 30 - 50 grams of sugar amount, fry a bowl with water and drink two bowls and a half. Favorable moisture, heat effect. For enteritis, urethritis, eczema, summer boil embolism.
23. fresh buckwheat leaves 60 grams, Shuijianbi day one; or fried yellow noodles with the vinegar into a paste, applied to the lesion, sooner or later be replaced. Governance sore, swollen boils, erysipelas, mastitis, and swelling of unknown drugs.
appropriate patients to eat what?
1, edible grapes plus zinc salt or zinc, other foods such as soy, sunflower seeds, wheat bran, yeast, brown sugar and so on.
2, Yi Shi taste light, the cold food, such as Malan head, purslane, melon, red and white radish, bitter gourd, sponge gourd, mung bean, red bean, lily, chrysanthemum brain and celery.
patients unfit to eat what?
not eat ginger, pepper and other spicy foods , as well as mustard, yellow croaker, shrimp, crab, chicken head, goose, Zhu Tourou so fat objects.
should avoid fried foods and meat, edible oil cans.
data only refer to the specific, please ask a doctor.[Prevent]
how to prevent boils?
boil is born of acute suppurative superficial skin disorders, widely available health, children, young people more common. "Surgical management case" that: "boil persons, birth processes, floating red rootless feet, swollen found in the skin, only the width of an inch, there is less pain, a few days later Microsoft, thin peel, the beginning of the blue water, the latter from breaking the pus out of. "The disease occurs in the summer and autumn, protruding roots shallow, swelling potential limitations, lift the red pain, mostly in the range of about 3cm, easily swollen, easy to collapse, Yi Lian. Early can be divided into a head, without the first two kinds of general light and easy to cure the symptoms, so the saying goes, "no boil the size of a pus like." ;;; ;;;;; ;;;;; ;;;;; But also due to the formation of improper treatment or care "mole cricket boils," or repeated seizures, lack of disunion. Multiple furunculosis ", is difficult to cure.[Treat]
boil precautions before treatment?
attention to the skin clean, timely replacement of underwear and avoid skin injuries, especially in the summer, to bathe, wash your hair, hair, changing clothes, nails, children in particular should pay attention. With honeysuckle and wild chrysanthemum Jiantang tea. Boil the surrounding skin should be kept clean and coated with 70% alcohol to prevent infection spread to nearby hair follicles.
boil Chinese medicine treatment methods
total boil caused by the toxic heat treatment to detoxify the basic principles.
A Differential Treatment:
1. Heat toxin Accumulation card: lesion processes, such as cone, burning pain, or fever, thirst, tongue pink, yellow fur, rapid pulse. Detoxification. Flavors disinfection decoction.
2. Shushi heat Melancholia: seen in summer and autumn, the affected area, such as agglomeration cone, single or multiple, burning pain, chest tightness, anorexia, deficient urination, red tongue, greasy or yellowish, veins slippery. Qingshu dampness, detoxification swelling. Qingshu Decoction.
3. Is virtual evil love cards: distributed in the body, local color dark red, pus scarce, one after another, delayed healing, with fever, irritability, thirst, or fatigue, limb soft, red tongue thin yellow, rapid pulse. Righting detoxification. Liu Wei Di Huang Decoction.
Second, external treatment and other treatment:
1. The beginning of detoxification should be swelling, moderate to henbane, water reconcile, wrap the affected area. Or wishful golden powder for external application. Or green cream Waicha.
2. Pus, the clip bolt out the pus.
3. Unhealed after the collapse, sores can be a little ninety-one Dan to drugs or drug line twist into sores, topical berberine gauze.
4. Oral Meihuadianshe Dan, Niuhuangjiedu, Fang Feng Tong Sheng Wan, Liushen other medicine.
5. Unilateral prescription: Silver Flower 30g, licorice 10g, decoction, on behalf of the tea.
Western boil treatment
1. Local treatment, such as heat, physical therapy, 10% ichthyol coated ointment. Facial Boil should rest in bed should not squeeze or prick Boil, so as not to spread to the brain.
2. Swelling or have a large range of obvious symptoms, should give systemic antibiotics (third-generation cephalosporin antibiotics).
3. The formation of abscess, incision and drainage should be timely but should be avoided Boil the face cut.
(a) treatment
1. The principles of early treatment to promote inflammation subsided, after early drain purulent pus; timely elimination of systemic adverse reactions.
2. Local treatment
(1) Physical therapy: early, ultraviolet micro-irradiation, can promote local anti-inflammatory, to prevent proliferation. Swelling stage, the selection of FM, infrared and other heat, promote Boil liquid. 2 to 3 times / d, 20 ~ 30min / times.
(2) Drug eraser: 0.5% povidone-iodine scrub, the drug not only for skin irritation, and the role of long-lasting, no pigmentation. Can also be used erythromycin, tetracycline ointment.
(3) topical cream: local swelling and a small pustules, use ichthyol, wishful golden powder, Gyokuro powder and so on.
(4) incision and drainage: Boil into pus, nodules soften, a sense of volatility, you can make a small incision drainage or fire needle drainage. Taboo squeeze purulent lesions.
(5) to keep local clean and dry: adhere to local skin cleaning, daily showers are the best conditions. Young children with skin, topical lip after taking a bath in summer, to avoid the formation of multiple Boil.
3. Systemic treatment usually does not require systemic treatment of boils. But facial boils or accompanied by chills, fever, headache, general malaise, etc., should be given antibiotics. Clinical observations and experimental results show that the efficacy of penicillin, cephalothin, cefazolin and amikacin better effect.
(B) the prognosis
generally good prognosis after active treatment, without sequelae.[Examine]
boil should be how?
1. Peripheral blood
(1) white blood cell count: fever, elevated WBC count may have.
(2) white blood cell count: white blood cell count was elevated often accompanied by increased neutrophils .
2. diabetes check
(1) fasting plasma glucose measurement: two fasting blood glucose were increased, should consider the possibility of diabetes.
(2) glycated serum protein: This clinical trial is not the impact of fluctuations in blood glucose higher than normal to help the diagnosis of diabetes.
(3) glycosylated hemoglobin: glycosylated hemoglobin and blood glucose were positively correlated, and the irreversible reaction. Diabetes is often higher than the normal 2 to 3 times.
3. bacteriologic
(1) bacterial culture: the multiple, repeated infections, abscesses can be extracted directly pus for bacterial culture, positive results will help the diagnosis of pathogens.
(2) drug susceptibility testing: bacterial culture in the pus, while line drug susceptibility testing can provide the scientific basis of clinical drug treatment.[Diff]
boil diseases easily confused?
1. Multiple sweat gland abscesses are summer disease, more common in infants and young children and frail mother's head, forehead, etc .. Lesions of multiple subcutaneous abscesses. Surface tenderness, inflammation lighter. No pus bolt, left scars. Usually accompanied by a lot of prickly heat. Generally known as prickly heat poison. It was also known as pseudo furunculosis (Pseudofurunculosis).
2. Hidradenitis suppurativa common in young women, lesions of the skin induration. Subcutaneous abscess formation, followed by skin redness, swelling, heat, pain, ulceration scarring. Lesions occur in the armpits, groin, genital and perianal, umbilical, etc.
3. acne acne mild infection, red, swollen, painful, but the disease is small, the top a little bit like creamy.
4. sebaceous cysts sebaceous cyst infection are redness, swelling, pain, but the previous round has been painless mass over an extended period , the epidermis as usual.
5. carbuncle carbuncle with redness, swelling, pain, but there are several hair follicle infection, lesions larger than the boil.[Disease]
hump-related diseases
juvenile osteochondrosis of vertebral osteoporosis youth sexual hump sore scoliosis ankylosing spondylitis vitamin D deficiency disease
more back symptoms
small blisters appear back back pain back spasms, back pain does not have subtle linen spine back pain sinus pain Road with sensory ataxia spinal nerve root damage spinal cord hemisection syndrome, spinal cord lesions of hemorrhagic infiltration of the spinal cord injury spinal cord infarction, cauda equina involvement across the spinal cord within the spinal cord gliosis in the spinal cord anterior horn of the spinal cord lesion cavity formed spinal thalamic tract compression


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I won't bore you with the details of the package versions included in Squeeze, since I'm assuming that if you run vanilla Debian, you'll be smart enough to figure that out for yourself. The most interesting aspect of this new release is that it is the first to include support for FreeBSD - a project known as Debian/kFreeBSD, in both 32bit and 64bit. This means the Debian userland running on top of FreeBSD.
"These ports are the first ones ever to be included in a Debian release which are not based on the Linux kernel," the press release states, "The support of common server software is strong and combines the existing features of Linux-based Debian versions with the unique features known from the BSD world. However, for this release these new ports are limited; for example, some advanced desktop features are not yet supported."
Another very important aspect is that of the removal of problematic firmware blobs - which were non-Free code. These have all been removed, restoring the purity of the Debian distribution. You can re-enable them from the non-free repository - where they belong for a distribution such as Debian.
"Another first is the completely free Linux kernel, which no longer contains problematic firmware files," they explain, "These were split out into separate packages and moved out of the Debian main archive into the non-free area of our archive, which is not enabled by default. In this way Debian users have the possibility of running a completely free operating system, but may still choose to use non-free firmware files if necessary."
Debian runs on anything (Intel IA-32 (i386), Intel EM64T/x86-64 (amd64), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Sun/Oracle SPARC (sparc), MIPS (mips (big-endian) and mipsel (little-endian)), Intel Itanium (ia64), IBM S/390 (s390), and ARM EABI (armel)), and you can obviously upgrade your existing installation painlessly.

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Book by Sarah Gerkensmeyer '01 on Longlist for O'Connor Short Story Award
April 19, 2013
What You Are Now Enjoying, a collection of short stories by Sarah Gerkensmeyer, a 2001 graduate of DePauw University, is on the longlist for the 2013 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. The world's richest prize for short fiction (about $33,400 U.S.), the award is presented by Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, and will be given at the Cork International Short Story festival in September.
Gerkensmeyer's work was the winner of the 2012 Autumn House Press Fiction Prize.
An English (writing) major at DePauw, Sarah E. Gerkensmeyer went on to graduate from Cornell University's M.F.A. program. She teaches creative writing at State University of New York at Fredonia.
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One characteristic of the 1986 Mets was their explosiveness. Not only did they dominate with pitching and the ability to manufacture runs, but they could take over a game with one big inning.
On this day in 1986, that inning was the third when the Mets broke through for five runs on consecutive homers from Gary Carter, Darryl Strawberry and Kevin Mitchell en route to a 5-1 victory at Atlanta.
Rick Aguilera gave up eight hits in the complete-game effort.
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During Sullivan Team Camp on Friday.
Players from the Rolla High School football team probably slept very well on Saturday.
The Bulldogs had a LONG evening of full-contact action on Friday during the Sullivan Team Camp, held at Sullivan High School.
The event officially ended Rolla's off-season football activities. The Bulldogs again take the field for the start of the 2013 fall practice, from 4-7 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 12.
RHS sent 56 players to the Sullivan Team Camp Friday and everyone got plenty of work.
The Bulldog varsity played eight sessions total against opponents Salem, University City, Blair Oaks, Sullivan and Northwest Cedar Hill while the RHS junior varsity got in three sessions, against Northwest, Sullivan and University City.
Each session had a live, 15-minute running clock.
Bulldog head coach Willie Howard said the RHS varsity offense got in 90 plays while the defense played 90-to-100.
"It was a very good end to three weeks of football camp," Howard said. "We got to see a lot of different looks. Sullivan and Northwest are double-wing offenses and fortunately we don't see that anymore."
One of the big questions for area high school football fans has been what the Salem Tigers will run this season after the retirement of Bill Schuchardt as head coach. For 32 years Schuchardt featured the wishbone offensive formation.
New Salem head coach Brian McNamee unveiled the spread offense with the Tigers on Friday – the polar opposite of the wishbone.
"Salem was in the shotgun on every play but one," said Howard, a former player under Schuchardt in Salem (also on the RHS coaching staff is Schuchardt's son, Joe). "They were all three or four wide receivers. And they ran their offense pretty well."
Meanwhile, the Bulldogs' option offensive attack was on display and Howard was happy with the results.
"I was extremely pleased with our offensive line's performance," he said. "(Left tackle) Jor Jon Ellison tweaked his back during the first session and didn't return. Jay Atherton and Dakota Cartwright filled in nicely.
"Andy Satulla ran the ball kind of how we expected; he broke a lot of tackles and scored a couple of touchdowns. And Ben Maples ran the ball well and scored a touchdown against University City."
Howard said Ellison probably would have returned if it were a real game and reported no other RHS injuries from the night.
Rolla's quarterback competition was also on display between sophomore Kyle Morris and senior Joe Drallmeier. Those two combined to complete 9-of-20 passes on Friday.
The new-look Bulldog defense, with a new contingent of starting linebackers, will be a work in progress for a while.
"Defensively we started off kind of slow," Howard said. "But we picked up intensity. In the eighth session we were better than the first session, and it was good to see us get stronger as the night went on."
Howard was also pleased with his large group of younger players.
"The jayvee kids were really a bright spot," he said. "I would say they scored more touchdowns than they gave up. (Sophomore jayvee quarterback) Zack Brown threw four touchdown passes to (sophomore wideout) Keegan Chrisco."


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Skip to comments.Exxon Mobil plans multibillion-dollar Baytown plant expansion
Posted on 03/06/2013 5:41:30 AM PST by thackney
Exxon Mobil Corp. is expanding the capacity of its Baytown complex to boost its capacity for turning natural gas into petrochemical building blocks, a multibillion-dollar upgrade the company believes makes sense even if gas prices rise from lows that have driven a manufacturing surge.
The company announced the project Tuesday afternoon at the IHS CERAWeek conference, a five-day gathering of industry heavyweights at the Hilton Americas downtown. Permit applications are pending.
Irving-based Exxon Mobil is the largest U.S. producer of natural gas and plans to leverage its bounty into a huge expansion of its petrochemical facilities in the Gulf Coast, including the new steam cracking capacity at its Baytown plant. It did not put a precise price tag on the work.
When the permits are approved, construction of the plant will take about three years, and Exxon Mobil says the plant could be up and running by the end of 2016.
The project is going to be an expansion of our Baytown project, which is already the largest integrated refining complex in the country, said Steve Pryor, president of ExxonMobil Chemical Co. It builds on our strengths as an integrated petrochemical company and will take advantage of all the shale gas that is coming on.
Technological advances in recent years have helped producers unlock natural gas and oil from tight shale formations.
The expansion will increase the Baytown plants capacity to convert ethane, a natural gas liquid, into the chemical building block ethylene, and from that to produce the plastic polyethylene.
Pryor said that the expanded plant will have features that will keep it economically competitive, even if the price of natural gas rises.
One expected advantage is that the plant will produce a premium-grade polyethylene, which Pryor said can be used to make lighter and lower-cost packaging products with smaller environmental footprints.
The expanded plant also will enjoy economies of scale, Pryor said, and will use new environmental technology that will allow it to operate within already permitted emission limits.
And the company also has plenty of its own natural gas, which petrochemical plants use both as fuel and raw material. Exxon Mobil bought XTO Energy in 2009 for $41 billion, a big bet on the shale gas boom. Its looking for ways to protect that investment as gas hovers around a relatively low price of $3.50 per million British thermal units.
Exxon Mobil, the nations largest chemical manufacturer, had 2012 profit of $3.9 billion in its chemical division on revenue of $61 billion, Pryor said.
The company estimates that the plant expansion will create 10,000 area jobs during its construction and will create about $870 million of economic activity annually. The Baytown complex now employs about 6,000 workers, and the expansion will add 350, the company said.
Exxon hopes that the expected boost to the economy will help speed along the permitting process.
Won't happen. The EPA will find a rare fuzzwort spider or new species of sand snail whose habitat will be destroyed. All construction will cease.
Baytown motto:
It is a huge refinery complex.
If you have ever been to Baytown and seen the refinery complex, you'd know that would be impossible.
Baytown is not some remote area. The ExxonMobil Baytown Area is the largest petroleum & petrochemical complex in the United States.
No doubt. Their main complex covers five square miles, and includes the refinery, two chemical plants, regional engineering office and global technology center.
Too bad that these refineries have to expand in Hurricane Alley because the energy parasites on both coasts won't allow development off their shores. Then consumers bitch and moan when rigs and refineries have to shut down during a hurricane threat and prices rise.
Most of the shutdowns come from offshore production and delay of oil shipments landing at docks. Although there are occasional refinery shutdowns due to hurricanes, it is not a common event every year.
We still import more oil than we produce domestically. We are very dependent on those tankers offloading on a regular basis.
Yeah, but the EPA will find something. Probably a ruby throated yellow rat or something like that. (sarc)
The threatened species in Baytown are Greenie Weenies.
I forget the name of the company, but they are planning on opening a fabrication yard in Galveston for fabricating offshore rigs.
I think they are mostly going to be building deep water rigs.
From what I've heard they are trying to move as much fabrication work as possible out of union states because of delays and cost overruns.
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GEICO Brands Talladega Track Campgrounds
April 15, 2011 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on GEICO Brands Talladega Track Campgrounds
GEICO will be unveiling its new event footprint for camping race fans at the Talladega Superspeedway this weekend. The insurance company recently signed a five-year sponsorship deal that will rebrand camping areas at seven International Speedway Corp. (ISC) race tracks with its widely popular and iconic Caveman and Gecko personalities.
On April 16-17, Talladega Superspeedway will be the first NASCAR event with the GEICO branded campsites, according to a news release. The interactive infield display will feature free Wi-Fi with access for up to 65 simultaneous users; bean bag toss tournaments; giveaways of premium items including American Express gift cards and photo opportunities with the Gecko. The GEICO Caveman Campgrounds will house tent campers and GEICO Park West, Gecko Shores at Lake Lloyd and recreational vehicles.
"NASCAR fans are some of the most passionate fans in all of sports," said Tom McNicholas, manager of GEICO's RV unit. "They travel far distances with their campers and turn trips to the races into weekend-long excursions, camping at the race track. This partnership gives us ample opportunity to build GEICO brand awareness within the vast NASCAR community."
GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. family of companies and is the third-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States. GEICO handles auto insurance coverage for 10 million private passenger auto policies and insures more than 16 million vehicles.
In addition to auto insurance, GEICO offers customers insurance products for their motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), and recreational vehicles. Coverage for life, boats, homes and apartments is available through the GEICO Insurance Agency. Commercial auto insurance and personal umbrella protection are also available.
VIDEO #2: GEICO is More Than Car Insurance
November 18, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on VIDEO #2: GEICO is More Than Car Insurance
Today's VIDEO #2 comes courtesy of GEICO and promotes its RV insurance.


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Auboni Champion Morin waits outside a juvenile courtroom Thursday, March 15, 2012, in Houston. Her son, Miguel Morin vanished eight years ago with his babysitter, has been found safe. The former babysitter, 26-year-old Krystle Rochelle Tanner, was arrested Monday on a kidnapping charge. She was being held in jail in San Augustine, a community about 140 miles northeast of Houston. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)
HOUSTON (AP) — Long after tiny Miguel Morin disappeared in late 2004, the infant's family still paused to mark the milestones of his life, holding a celebration every year on his birthday and praying for his safe, swift return.
Now that wished-for reunion may be only days away after police arrested the boy's former baby sitter on charges she abducted him and began raising Miguel as her own.
"It's kind of hard to believe," the child's mother, Auboni Champion-Morin, said Thursday. "Some of these cases take years and years, and sometimes they don't come back. It was overwhelming."
Miguel, now 8 years old, is in foster care in the Houston area while investigators sort out his complicated story. At a court hearing Thursday, a child-welfare investigator testified that he was healthy physically and emotionally but had apparently not attended school.
Lisa Rose, an investigator for child-protective services, said the boy is a normal height and weight and that he's well-mannered but cannot read or name the school he attends. He believed he was 6 years old and identified a photo of the kidnapping suspect as his mother.
Miguel's parents agreed in court to provide DNA to confirm that the child is theirs. The whole family is eager to have him back, including the couple's five other kids ranging from 7 to 14, the mother said.
"They're anxious," Champion-Morin said. "They're ready to see him."
The former baby sitter, Krystle Rochelle Tanner, had been a friend of Champion-Morin's and she was Miguel's godmother. She lived in the same apartment complex.
Police identified her as a suspect shortly after the boy disappeared, but investigators soon lost track of her. Relatives said she had vanished too.
When the boy was reported missing, Houston police declined to issue any sort of alert that might have drawn tips from the public. Champion-Morin said officers told her she would have to pay $500 for that step, and she didn't have enough money.
Instead, she put up fliers and constructed a website about her son's disappearance.
In San Augustine, a community about 140 miles northeast of Houston where Tanner was jailed, police said evidence against Tanner had been presented to Houston prosecutors in February 2005, but no charges were filed because authorities could not verify the exact date the boy was reported missing.
Further complicating matters were unconfirmed claims by Tanner's relatives that Champion-Morin asked Tanner to keep Miguel indefinitely and may even have had a written agreement to that effect.
With no charges filed, Houston police closed the case in 2006.
Gary Cunningham, chief deputy of the San Augustine Sheriff's Department, did not know why the case was abandoned.
"I will add, however, that I truly think they did the best they could do with the information that they had," he said.
The boy's parents were frustrated that the case was not more aggressively pursued.
Police "kept changing the person who was supposed to be handling this case," Champion-Morin said.
Victor Senties, a spokesman for the Houston Police Department, said the case was handled as a suspected kidnapping and was therefore assigned to homicide detectives. He said the department is now investigating why the matter was closed, but he would not elaborate.
The case got new life last summer, when Tanner took the boy to the hospital for some kind of leg injury. She could not provide his name or Social Security number, which raised doubts among the hospital staff, who contacted child welfare investigators.
Tanner told authorities different stories about the child: He went by different names and she had been asked to keep him for an extended period of time for a woman that she had met in a park. She told investigators she did not know the women's last name and had only been given a cellphone to contact her but that the number had since been disconnected, Cunningham said.
In January, sheriff's deputies began investigating the matter as a missing child's case. Neither Child Protective Services nor law enforcement knew about the 2004 Houston kidnapping case because the boy had been removed from a national database of missing children.
Caseworkers kept digging and told police on March 7 that Tanner's older child may have been reported missing in Houston years earlier.
On Monday, officers arrested Tanner, who admitted she was keeping the boy "off the radar" by not sending him to school. Authorities located Miguel a day later, when Tanner's sister called to say she had seen reports of the arrest and offered to turn over the boy, whom she believed was her sister's stepchild, Cunningham said.
Tanner was expected to appear in court next week. She does not yet have an attorney, and jailers were not making her available for interviews.
Miguel's mother, a stock clerk at a clothing store, has not seen a recent photo of the boy and does not know for sure when she will be permitted to see him. She plans to get a lawyer to pursue legal action against Tanner.
"This is my child, not her child," she said. "It's hard for me to hear that he's had no type of education, that he didn't know his age. I want to tell him that I love him."


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Lakewood tops Forest Hills Eastern in five games to win regional title
Trailing Forest Hills Eastern 2-1 after three games, the No. 1 ranked Lakewood volleyball team had their back against the wall in the regional final Thursday night at Thornapple-Kellogg High School.
The Vikings responded the way coach Kellie Rowland hoped they would.
Lakewood hung on to win the fourth set, then its frontline took over in the decisive game as the Lady Vikes picked up a 25-27, 25-12, 23-25, 25-21, 15-7 win over the Hawks to take the Region 15 title. They also move on to the Class B Quarterfinal in Allegan.
Rowland said she has been happy with her team's play in fifth games. After not playing in many five-game contests during the regular season, and having had no five-game matches in the district tournament, the Vikings needed to survive a pair of them to take home the regional championship trophy.
"I am just so happy with our fifth-game play," she said. "I didn't know how the girls would play in a fifth game, but boy, they know how important it is to get in and not make errors and pound the ball and force (the opponent) to try and come at us.
"This side of the state is so tough. I mean we've faced No. 7, No. 4, No. 2 (in the tournament). I've said all year, I don't think we're No. 1 (in Class B), we just play very consistent (against a tough schedule)."
The Vikings started the match strong, taking a 20-15 lead in the opening game, however, the Hawks battled back to edge out Lakewood, to take a 1-0 match lead.
In the second, the Lady Vikes controlled things from start to finish as they tied the match with a 13-point game win.
In the third, Lakewood again built a late lead, only to have FHE rally for a two-point victory, putting the Vikings on the verge of elimination. However Lakewood hung on in the fourth, then the frontline came up with some big kills and blocks, and Libero Beth Tingley closed out one of her best games of the state tournament with solid play on serve receive.
Tinley said her coach talked to her heading into the fourth set, which helped her confidence.
"Kellie told me to pass the ball and just relax. We are going to win this.
"(Winning regionals) is amazing. It proves that hard work does pay off."
Beth Tingley led the Lakewood serve receive with 17 digs, while fellow senior Brooke Wieland picked up 10. Taylor Shook paced the frontline defense with eight blocks, while Wieland finished with four, including two key stuffs in the fifth game.
Emily Kutch led the attack with 24 kills with a hitting percentage of .400.Olivia Davis finished with 16 overhand scores as well.
Wieland dished out 40 assists, and led all servers with 13 service points and three aces.
The group of seven seniors on the Lakewood squad has seen many highs and lows, which include regional tournament losses. Kutch said she is happy to have accomplished one of the team's goals with a very close-knit group.
"It feels amazing (winning regionals), especially with this group of seniors," she said. "We love each other and have played so hard together. This is great."
Lakewood (49-4) will take on Berrin Springs on Tuesday in Allegan at 7 p.m.


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The iPad 3 has a quad-core processor which will be known as the A6 and has the codename S5L8945X, if some recently-taken photographs are to be believed.
The BGR website published the photos which it claims come from a source who has an iPad 3 prototype in his or her possession.
The images show output from the supposed iPad 3 running the iBoot development and debugging tool, and appear to show codes referring to next-generation iPad models as well as the reference to the new processor.
As the article informs us, the A4 processor used the code S5L8930X whereas the A5 uses the code S5L8940X. By that logic, the S5L8945X code must mean that this prototype is using an A6 processor, BGR reckons, though it seems to us that this could also be a code for a modified A5 chip.
iPad 3 will be 'turning point in history of Apple' and other hyperbole
BGR also makes the quad-core claim on the basis only of what it has been told previously, as there is no data in the images that supports this. Given the vague nature of the source and the claims, as well as BGR's questionable track record with Apple-related predictions in the past, we'd take this one with a large pinch of salt.


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Dave Palmer's review of Legacy of Ashes
So back in April, I was in a bookshop, and my eyes fell on a meaty, red-covered book called Legacy of Ashes, the History of the CIA. "Huh, that looks interesting," sez I. Then a more rational voice in my head pops up. "Are you frakking nuts? You already know a bit about that spook house, reading a book like that will only piss you off." But it was my birthday, so I HAD to have me a little something.
Man, does it get tiresome being right ALL the time...
This is an appalling, sickening, infuriating book, particularly since its impeccable scholarship requires one to take it seriously. Unlike your average innuendo-and-hearsay CIA book, this one is based entirely on historical and declassified government documents and on-the-record interviews with named (and heavily-footnoted) sources, usually with the most senior personnel. The author, Tim Weiner, is a Pulitzer-winning NY Times reporter who has been covering US intelligence agencies for 20 years. He's the kind of guy who just pops out for lunch with current and past CIA Directors.
Like a lot of people, I had always assumed that the CIA might have a few massive public screwups (such as the Bay of Pigs), and there were surely times when Presidents ignored or twisted the CIA's intelligence to political ends (witness the current misadventure in Iraq), but underneath it all, there was at least SOME small bit of competence at work in the agency; there were people there who at least knew how to gather useful intelligence. Like the old quote about the CIA goes, their failures are all public, their successes are all secret.
OK, so maybe I'm not right ALL the time.
Turns out, the CIA is in fact a Mongolian clusterfuck of staggering, breathtaking proportions. And they always have been, all the way back to their founding in 1947 (and even the OSS, the agency's WWII precursor, wasn't quite as swift as they're made out to be on The History Channel). If the guy who coined the term "epic fail" had read this book, he wouldn't have bothered, there is no point in describing the ocean with teaspoon-sized words. As far as I can tell, they have had NO significant successes at all. Ever.
From the very start, they were constructed for failure. The main idea in founding the CIA was "to prevent another Pearl Harbor" by keeping a close eye on other nations and to distill those observations into a keen understanding of what those nations were actually up to. That notion (or at least, the actual practice of it) was pretty much tossed in the dumpster the day the doors opened. Instead, they jumped on the anti-Commie bandwagon like the rest of the government, and there they stayed until chunks of the Berlin Wall actually started falling on their heads some 30 years later. The black-or-white thinking that so characterizes the neocons of today was the CIA's one and only mode of thought. The rules that set the entire tone for the CIA were simple:
-There is ONE enemy in the world: the Commies.
-The Commies want to destroy us.
-If you're not with us, you're against us, and hence a Commie.
-The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
And that's it. No shades of gray, no questioning of those basic principles, no consideration of other possibilities (apparently, not even that the recently-defeated Axis powers might be a threat again). This thinking would blind the intelligence-gathering division almost until the 1990s.
Then it got worse. Almost immediately, the veterans of Wild Bill Donovan's he-man OSS corps elbowed their way to the table and decreed that clandestine operations should be the REAL focus of the CIA. Screw this reading other people's mail stuff, we've got to go and blow shit up, shoot people and sabotage the spread of communism wherever it shows its head. From that day on, the intelligence-gathering division was relegated to a barely-tolerated afterthought.
The major problem with this plan was that the CIA really sucked at it. No, I mean REALLY sucked...and I mean both the clandestine and the intelligence-gathering. From the start, the agency was run by smugger-than-thou Yalies and uppercrust preppies who felt they didn't need to actually KNOW about any of this stuff they were blowing up, it was Commie stuff, so it just needed blowing up. The willful ignorance and stupidity practiced by the CIA was just staggering.
Over and over and over again, the book lays out details of CIA foreign stations where not a single officer there spoke the local language, knew anything about the history of the region, or ever made any effort to learn anything that was going on outside of what could be picked up over cocktails at the country club. The CIA guys in Laos who were arming and training Hmong tribesmen to fight the North Vietnamese didn't even know the name "Hmong." They called them by a term that the author says was somewhere between "barbarian" and "nigger." In the 70s-80s, the agency's TOP Soviet expert spoke not a single word of Russian. And he had never even set foot there. The way the CIA learned that the Berlin Wall was falling--and I'm NOT making this up--was when somebody at headquarters happened to tune into CNN.
Over and over and over again, the book tells of CIA directors and top officers who were drunks, liars, con men. One CIA director was eventually committed to the happy home, and the guy who ran the counterintelligence division for years was widely regarded to be certifiable for most of his tenure.
Over and over and over again, the author details clandestine operations that went horribly, disastrously wrong. Massive clusterfucks like the Bay of Pigs were far more the rule than the exception. For years, the CIA was supplying money and weapons to a Polish resistance group fighting the Soviets. The only problem was, it didn't exist. It had been wiped out years earlier by the KGB, and the whole operation was just a scam on the CIA run by the Soviets. They even donated some of the CIA's money to the Italian Communist Party as a final dig.
One side aspect of the story is that any JFK conspiracy theories that claim the CIA planned the assassination have had a stake decisively hammered through them. If the CIA had planned the JFK assassination, the only result would have been that a goatherd in a small Congolese village would have become the village's head man when all seven other contenders for the job suddenly perished in a freak bobsled accident. And a baker in Skipros, Greece would have received a shipment of German anti-tank missiles in crates labeled in Linear B, and an envelope with 2 million Romanian Lei inside.
And speaking of presidents and murder plots, the book suggests that the famous plot by Saddam to kill Papa Bush might not have been what it appeared. The "confession" of the plotters that they were working for Saddam was tortured out of them by the Kuwaitis, and the author notes that the alleged conspirators were really just a bunch of hash smugglers and other low-level criminal types.
Meanwhile, over in the intelligence-gathering division (and of course, the two divisions did frequently overlap), things weren't going any better. Over and over and over again, we read of utter and complete failure to plant spies in Commie countries. Not a single one of the dozens and dozens of spies dropped into North Korea during the Korean war was ever heard from again. The same was true for just about every other spy dropped into every other country. In one case, after dozens of spies disappeared without a trace, it was discovered later that the clerk who typed up the orders for the insertion was working for the Commies, so the KGB was there to meet them when they hit the ground. Although the CIA managed to recruit a handful of low-level spies in the Soviet Union (one was a high school teacher, another a roofer), in the entire cold war, they only ever managed to recruit three--count em--THREE spies of any consequence. All were arrested and shot.
When they did gather intelligence, it was ludicrously wrong FAR more often than it was right. Indeed, I don't think the book details a single case where the CIA got its intelligence right on a major issue. In 1961, they reported that the Soviets had 500 nukes pointed at the US. They were just a tad high. 496 high, to be precise. The Soviets had a grand total of FOUR nukes pointed at us. Nonetheless, that report set of a frenzy of weapons building that brought us to the brink of nuclear war and economic collapse. Over and over again, the book tells of the CIA reporting that <X> will never do <Y>. And then two days later, <X> doing <Y> was on the front page of the daily paper. They confidently predicted the Russians wouldn't have a nuke for years just about 2 weeks before the Russians tested their first one. They said that Saddam was just bluffing when he massed tens of thousands of troops on the Kuwaiti border.
The few times they did score on a piece of correct intelligence, they got it from the spy agencies of other countries. In a 1956 speech to the Congress of the Communist Party, Khruschchev delivered a scathing denunciation of Stalin. The CIA had to get a copy of the speech from the Israeli secret service.
Even the things that the CIA defined as "successes" were questionable at best, particularly in the long run. What the CIA did have a fair record at was overthrowing democratically-elected governments and replacing them with right-wing despots. When the democratically-elected PM of Iran suggested to the Brits and Americans that maybe Iran should get a little more of all that oil money that they were taking out of his country, they laughed and told him to STFU/GBTW. So he suggested that maybe he might just nationalize the oil fields. WELL, that's your actual commie talk, of course, so the CIA overthrew him and put a puppet Shah in his place...and then trained and outfitted a brutal secret police to keep the sheeple in line. That is the chief reason why a lot of Iranians hate our guts today. The CIA considered their arming and training of Afghan Muslim fanatics to kill Russians to be a *spectacular* success...and I think we all know how that turned out in the third act.
That was the norm for the CIA. That "enemy of my enemy is my friend" thing led them into bed with every kind of lying, thieving, murdering drunken thug in the sewer, just as long as they were anti-Commie.The CIA cheerfully funded openly unrepentant Nazis just after the end of WWII, and actually went downhill from there. I can't think of any case where the CIA helped overthrow a government and then replaced it with a fair, lawful one.
And the thing is, they weren't even any good at overthrowing governments, they were just lucky. It wasn't a case of skillful psychological warfare and precisely-timed black ops, they basically just paid goons to start shooting people in the streets. At least one operation, an attempted coup in Indonesia, ended with the US military shooting at the CIA's own hired thugs.
Now, even though no President in the CIA's history comes off looking very good in this book, it wasn't as if nobody noticed how bad the CIA's record was. Over and over and over again, blue-ribbon panels, inspectors general, and even internal CIA reviewers were commissioned to report on the effectiveness of the agency, and like the reports were Xeroxed, they all reached the same conclusion: the CIA is seriously, SERIOUSLY broken, and probably the best thing we could do is just torch the place. These reports were all either just buried, or tut-tutted over in the press for a couple weeks, and then everything returned to incompetence as usual.
The punchline to all this is it really appears now that the Commies just weren't that much of a threat, even when Stalin was in power. Khruschchev himself wrote that the concept of an all-out war with the west terrified Stalin, and then later Khruschchev was making tentative peace feelers with the US when the CIA sent "just one more" U2 flight into Russian airspace, and that slammed the door for years. Sure, the Soviets were out to flatter, bribe, steal, or bully influence in countries all around the world that had oil, minerals, or a strategic location. Just as we were. Just as every other world power has done in history. I think that a great deal of the fault for the cold war has to be laid at the CIA's feet.
And since "the only enemy in the world" up and vanished, the rudderless ship of the CIA has been even more adrift. After the 9/11 attacks, the command structure of the agency was changed (think re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic), and the former position of CIA director was more-or-less replaced by the position of Director of National Intelligence. The last actual CIA director was Porter Goss, and his main contribution to the fun was to systematically sack everybody in the agency who disagreed with Dubya's policies. That got rid of the last people who might actually know something useful. After that, some 50% of the employees were so new as to be classified as "trainees." And then it got worse. Today, a number of private intelligence agencies have sprung up like weeds, and they all pay much better than the CIA. So the current career track there is to join the CIA, get the training, put in five years or so, quit, join Spooks R Us for double the pay...and then show up for work the next day at the CIA wearing a contractor badge instead of an employee badge.
Reading this book was a gut-wrenching, eye-opening experience. For the first couple hundred pages, I was outraged. Then, it just kept coming, it didn't let up, and I was eventually left with just a numb shock, and even a kind of disgust at being an American. The book really gives you a better perspective of what's been going on in the world for the last 60 years, and why we are where we are and why the people who hate us came to that opinion. The book has just been released in paperback, and it should be required reading in high school.
My opinion now (and I mean this with almost no sarcasm) is that one of the greatest threats--perhaps THE greatest threat--to America since 1947 has in fact been the CIA. They have spent uncounted billions of dollars, caused uncounted thousands, hundreds of thousands, of deaths, put America in bed with a staggeringly long list of murderers, liars, goons, rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, ...well, lots of bad guys. And through all that, they failed to predict even a SINGLE event of significance to the US (there have been a couple of cases where they got something right, but nobody listened because they were usually wrong). Instead, they tarnished our reputation around the world, and led us to the brink of both nuclear and conventional war too many times to comfortably recount. And so far, every single President has gotten disgusted with them, decided they weren't worth the powder and shot to put them down, and then increased their budget and left them as a mess for the next President to clean up. But the CIA HAS demonstrated a cheerful willingness to spy on Americans (they've been doing it at least since the 60s), and to do any vile thing they're called upon to do. So with the current neocon push for an Imperial President and a Big Brother state, they are in a perfect position to step up and become our very own KGB or Gestapo...but minus the competence.
[Previously at this blog on Weiner's book:
"Abolish the CIA"
"A Brief History of the CIA: 1945-1953 (Truman)"
"A Brief History of the CIA: 1953-1961 (Eisenhower)"
"The CIA in Venezuela in 2002"
Also Rottin' in Denmark has a review of the Weiner book similar in some respects to Dave's.]


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January 18, 2013
Year of the Snake
A bed familiar but not mine; Nostalgic. (Shh, don't tell!) His snoring keeps me on the outskirts of sleep as the sun reveals the promised new year. He cracks the window, letting the cold scrub us- between my toes, behind my ears, around my eyes, massaging my neck and back, Ah! All is sepia- the tree, the sky, the small flakes floating to the ground. It's 2013. It's my year. It's my year to rid myself of anger, jealousy, and bitterness, to enjoy the sun and the couch, to read books and absorb films, to nurture relationships and acknowledge my own needs. It's my year to run the Boston Marathon, to raise money for someone else, to see this new job through, to turn 26 (oh my!), to run an Ultra Marathon. I'll go to Europe. Perhaps reconnect with my Bulgarian love, Maria. Maria! I'll fight this anxiety caused by extreme changes over a few short years by realizing what I love and what I lack. I'll push myself to the core of my insecurity by asking who I am and who I wish I was, and "why"? And when I am forced to act in inexplicable ways, I will in turn force myself to be a part of real conversations with real words and concrete explanations for why I feel the way I do. I will speak. And perhaps I will stop being ashamed. I am proud to be a part of things that even some of the closest people to me don't understand, because these things are a part of me, and though I admit to my sometimes insane insecurity, I love being me. I run far because I love to. I believe in God because I've felt Him, and because I want to. I am with this marvelous man because I love him and he makes life better. I don't paint enough, or make enough music, or climb to a high place and watch the world below enough. But 2013 is my year: A rabbit in the year of the snake. Mine.
5 comments:
- Optimistic Existentialist on January 18, 2013 at 2:47 PM said...
This blog is BEYOND amazing. I love the way you write!!
- Ryan on January 19, 2013 at 7:21 AM said...
I dig that. I'm glad you posted again cuz i really enjoy reading your blog. That's good stuff, keep it up.
- LuLu on January 23, 2013 at 8:47 PM said...
My dad once told me that a birthday is just a day when you are born. Or born again. Perhaps the same should be said for the 'new year.'
Lovely writing.
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- Ellen Chamberlain on February 6, 2013 at 4:38 PM said...
oh my Kendra...you are truly amazing. I pray 2013 IS your year. We love you and are so proud of you. took a chance as i went through my "favorites" and yes, there you were. keep it up!
- Anonymous said...
miss your heart.
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This year, during Februarys cold, dark days, the city of Durango offered its residents a long-anticipated bright spot as it rolled out its new single-stream recycling service. In doing so, the city has responded to a demand for increased recycling opportunities and eased the process, all while reducing the amount of trash residents are amassing. There is little to dislike about the program.
What formerly was an exercise in precision waste management at the household level, where avid recyclers were required to separate glass, aluminum, paper and the limited plastic and cardboard recyclables that were accepted, it now is a virtual free-for-all for the sustainability-minded citizenry of Durango. Large blue bins can accommodate a smorgasbord of materials that previously were not on the citys recycling menu, thanks to a new system that can process and bundle the goods for shipping to faraway sorting centers.
Each ton of dispatched recyclables fetches upward of $40 on the commodity market. Because of the new system, Durango already is sending almost three times as much material to that market and doing so by making the process easier for residents and city employees alike.
By expanding the list of acceptable items to include a wide range of plastics such as take-out containers, yogurt tubs and their ilk, as well as the ubiquitous paperboard that transports cereals, crackers, macaroni and cheese, and biscotti from manufacturers to consumers, the city has laid the foundation for recycling to become second nature. Instead of inspecting boxes for the telltale ridges that define corrugated cardboard, residents can send almost all of their cardboard to the big blue bin with nary a thought. Rather than scouring plastics to discern whether they are of the No. 1 or 2 variety, residents can rest relatively assured that the container in question is green-lit for recycling. Taking the guesswork and busywork of sorting out of the equation eliminates hurdles for reluctant recyclers.
The 60- and 90-gallon collection bins are a boon for city workers, too, who no longer must empty each residents carefully sorted recyclables in what certainly was a tedious, labor-intensive process. A large truck lifts and empties the bins a la garbage pickup and off it goes to the next container on the street.
The expanded program was not without cost. The city invested $1.6 million to update the recycling center with single-stream equipment, and curbside customers will pay $3 on their monthly utility bill for the service. That is hardly an onerous fee, especially considering how dramatically the program has improved as a result.
It is not perfect, though. Banned from curbside collection is glass of any kind, which now must be dropped off at one of the various collection centers around town. While that might be a minor inconvenience for dedicated recyclers, it is not sufficient to significantly offset the overall benefits of the new system. An occasional trip to Wagon Wheel Liquor, north City Market, Fort Lewis College or the Durango Recycle Center is an easily manageable errand for most recycling customers.
The citys investment in the single-stream system was a wise and responsive one, and its benefits are many to residents, employees and the broader environment.


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That Wayne county is over 21 years older than the state of West Virginia?
That the first deed ever recorded in Wayne County was entered of record of record over 84 years ago?
That 2,100 deeds and 1,050 trust deeds were recorded in this county within the past year?
That you'll never find the answers to these questions unless you read the article below?
The first deed ever entered of record in Wayne county was filed at the local clerk's office on the 12th day of April, 1842, nearly 84 years ago and nearly twenty years before the Civil War was declared.
It might be of some interest to many of our readers to note here that Wayne County's eighty- fourth birthday was last week--Monday, January 18th. It was on the 18th of January , 1842, that a bill passed the general assembly at Richmond, Virginia, by which a part of the county of Cabell was cut off and designated as Wayne County.
The counties of Wayne, Cabell and Lincoln were at first all a part of Kanawha County, then in the State of Virginia, for that was before the State of West Virginia had been formed, which was June 20, 1863.
In fact Wayne County is over 21 years older than the State of West Virginia itself, since the county was formed before the two Virginias were divided. It was a long way for people from Wayne, Cabell and Lincoln to travel to Charleston, their county seat, to attend court. So the General Assembly was petitioned to divide Kanawha County, and this petition wasgranted, and it was thus that the county of Cabell was created on the second day of January, 1809. What is now Wayne County was still in Cabell until the assembly voted another change January 18, 1842, and created Wayne County by cutting off this section from Cabell. The county was named in honor of General Anthony Wayne.
The first deed ever recorded in the county is still preserved as a matter of record in the offices of the present County Clerk, Hezekiah Adkins. It was made by Zattu Cushing, Edward Tupper and Rachel, his wife, to William Ratcliff . For the sum of $1,500 the following described tract of land on Tug River in this county was sold, the following being the description given in the first deed in the county:
"Beginning at a large rock at the upper end of the narrows above the fall bottom near the lower end of a new field made by the said William Ratcliff, and from thence running a straight line to the summit of the low gap where the road crosses leading up Tug River to two beech trees where it intersects the back line of the original survey which runs up the river; thence with the said back lines until it strikes the said Tug river, thence down the same with its meanderings to the place of beginning, the quantity of land being unknown."
From the above description we are not able to decide just exactly where this land was located on Tug River but probably some of our readers will be able to identify the tract from the foregoing description.
This deed was written and acknowledged May 30, 1840, while Wayne county was still a part of Cabell county, but it was not put to record until nearly two years later, April 12, 1842.
The deed was acknowledged before Samuel Webb and Frederick Moore, who were justices of the peace. The first county clerk in Wayne county was Hugha Bowen, with whom this deed was filed for record. In the 84 years which have elapsed since that time, the ink has become dim and the paper in the deed book yellowed, necessitating that the book be recopied, which was done; however, the original deed book is also preserved.
In the 84 years that Wayne County has been in existence a total of 144 deed books have been used up. These books average over 500 pages each, making a total of over 72,000 pages in deeds that are preserved in the office of the county clerk. This number does not include trust deeds.
The work of recording deeds is increasing by leaps and bounds in Wayne County every year. Last year seven large books were used up in recording deeds, which was three more books than were ever required in any previous year.
County Clerk Adkins reports that in the year 1925 that his office recorded a total of 2,100 deeds and 1,050 trust deeds. In addition to these the clerk recorded 1,000 reservations of title in 1925.
The amount of work required in handling the 2,100 deeds and 1,050 trust deeds recorded last year is indicated by the fact that each deed and trust deed must be handled eleven times and in eleven separate operations in the office of the clerk. This means that in 1925 deeds were handled 23,100 times and trust deeds 11,500 times. These eleven operations necessary for each deed and each trust deed are as follows: Deed is received; charged; recorded; compared; mailed out; slips made out for each deed for purpose of indexing; these slips compared; deeds then indexed direct; deeds then indexed reverse; direct index compared and checked; reverse index compared and checked.
The mounting of record work in this county is due to numerous causes. First, the population of the county is growing. People trade in real estate more than formerly. Many large tracts have been cut up into lots, making separate deed for each lot necessary. The lively activity in the sale of lots in the Kenova and Westmoreland sections have been a big factor in the increase of property records each year.
Following is a list of the grand and petit jurors drawn to serve at the regular term of circuit court at Wayne, which begins on the second Monday in March, the 8th:
Ceredo District: G. L. Freeman, Howard Wilson, W. J. Drown; Union District: W. L. Banfield, A. G. Smith, Theron Drown. Butler District: Henry Rayburn, Thornton Crabtree, Ralph Plymale. Lincoln District: Stanley M. Copley, G. H. Marcum, L. B. Crum. Grant District: Jarvy Fry. Stonewall District: Thomas Griffin, Henry Justice. Westmoreland District: E. J. Hunt.
Ceredo District: D. G. Thacker, Albert Cole, W. K. Ferguson, Walker H. Bromley, H. S. Simpson
Union District: Albert Peak, Sylvester Pack, Burnie Adkins, J. D. Smith, John H. Beckley, G. T. Farra, William F. Marshall, Allen Smith, J. B. Dean, Theodore A. Ray, Vermont Adkins and William Wilkinson
Butler District: Julius Lambert, Bert Webb, Okey Bartram, P. C. Brumfield, Wayne Dean, B. B. Cyrus, C. C. Hatten, Herbert McComas, Claude Holt, Curtis Ellis and Jesse Frazier
Lincoln District: Elbert Parsley, Jesse Parsley (son of John), G. W. Gillispie, Sol Marcum (son of Jim), P. H. Wilson, E. L. Kidd and Taylor Parsley
Grant District: Noah Queen, Pat Moore, Charley Maynard, Jay Maynard, William Wiley, W. A. Napier, and Oscar Dyer
Stonewall District: F. W. Tabor, John McClelland, Lucian Skeans, E. L. Jarrell, M. J. Stiltner, John B. Beckett, Everett Watts, John W. Crabtree, Charles R. Morrison, W. A. Mills, Edgar Maynard, H. H. Davidson, and James H. Smith
Westmoreland D.: R. R. Rucker, James A. Hughes, L. H. Umphrey, Donald Clark and Lloyd Malcolm
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde S. Scaggs of Wayne, January 24, an 8 pound son.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Adkins of Westmoreland, January 18, a daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Eli Eastham of Kenova, January 18, a daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Crossen of Kenova, January 20, a son.
Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Napier (son of Rev. P. H. Napier) of near Hany, a baby girl on January 10, which has been named Susie.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter Wilson of Wilsondale, a son named Ronald Earl. Mrs. Wilson was before marriage Mrs. Georgia Williamson.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Elliott of Russell, Kentucky, January 21, twin girls.
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Cook of Huntington, January 15, a son. Mrs. Cook was before marriage Miss Thelma Adkins.
Mr. and Mrs. Freelin Robertson of Hurricane Branch, twin girls, named Ida and Imogene. Imogene died. Mrs. Robertson was before marriage Frances Perry.
Mr. and Mrs. Wye Wellman of Fort Gay, January 20, a daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. App Queen of near Stiltner, January 18th, a son.
Mr. and Mrs. Bee Vanhoose of East Lynn Route, January 13, a son.
Mr. and Mrs. Byron Donahoe of East Lynn Route, January 3, a girl, name Reetha.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parsons of East Lynn Route, January 25, a son.
Mr. and Mrs. Maxon Jeffers of Huntington, January 14, a son named Claude Maxon.
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Corns of Crum, January 21, a 10 pound girl, Beulah Fay.
A number of Wayne county men are working on a road contract near Smithville in Ritchie county this winter. The contract is in charge of C. A. Eblin, who has been in road work in Wayne county for several years, his last job here being the contract between East Lynn and Stiltner.
The local boys who are in Ritchie county with Mr. Eblin are Cain Lloyd, Lee Dean, Lisa Marcum, Everett Marcum, Jay Thompson, Emery Thompson, Otis Thompson, John O'Dell and Harry Conners. Mrs. Elizabeth Sparks, also of this county, is house-keeper for the Eblin road camp. W. Frank Harrison of Wayne is also assistant superintendent of the contract there, but is home at the present.
The rains of last week flooded Twelve Pole last Friday to the highest stage that has been seen here since the year 1913 according to opinions expressed by many. There is no record available here of the various high waters since 1913, and some were of the opinion that the river was little if any higher than it was about two years ago.
The stage here last Friday morning was 21 feet, according to the local government river guage. The river was in the road between Wayne and Lavalette in three different places: at the Sanders Spurlock farm, at the mouth of Wilsons Creek and at the mouth of Garretts Creek. Traffic on the road was held up for only one day, however, as the cold weather checked the rising water.
George E. Byer of Lavalette was in town on business Monday. Mr. Byer and family formerly lived in Huntington, but purchased a farm near Lavalette sometime ago. He says that they like Wayne county and have enjoyed better health since they moved to the country.
H. E. Berisford, principal of the high school, has bought the C. H. Saunders property in Wayne and moved into it last week.
Miss Rinda Meade, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. B. F. Meade of Maynard, and Mr. Lark Maynard, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jarrett Maynard of near Kiahsville, were married January 19. He and Mrs. Maynard will make their home at present with the groom's father.
Transcription by June White
Wayne County News


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Work Songs of Enslaved African Americans
Work songs played a vital part in the lives of enslaved African Americans and continue to influence African American musical traditions to the present day. Although captive Africans brought very little material evidence of their cultures to America, historians agree that these African musical traditions help them maintain their cultural identity and memory in America. New music was created to represent their new experiences as a slave in a new world and was the foundation for the creation of a new African American cultural tradition. The songs provide insight into the daily realities of slave life, with lyrics, melodies, and rhythms reflecting death, the master's whip, their lack of food, and the rhythm and pace of exhausting field work. Some songs were satirical contained innuendo and double and hidden meanings. Music such as this offered a means of cultural resistance to the institution of slavery.
In this lesson, students learn about and journal on enslaved African American work songs, and then analyze the lyrics and structure of the work song "Shuck That Corn Before You Eat."
In this lesson, students:
- Write an interactive notebook entry predicting why slaves would use work songs as they labored.
- Read a short description of the historical importance of African American work songs and the importance of this music.
- Write a short reflection, using the notes from the guided reading activity, on the importance of work songs in relation to survival, morale, regulating the pace of their labors, and entertainment.
- Analyze the lyrics and structure of the slave work song "Shuck That Corn Before You Eat."
- Interactive Notebook
- Reading: Work Songs of Enslaved African Americans
- Lyrics for "Shuck That Corn Before You Eat"
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- Ask the class if they know what a 'work song' is and what purpose it may have. To stimulate this discussion, remind the students of "The Clean Up Song," which was popularized by Barney and they may have sung in grades K-2, repeating until the chore is complete:
Clean up, clean up, everybody everywhere,
Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share.
- Provide each student with the template for the Interactive Notebook entry. For the "In" portion, begin the discussion of the term "work song" by asking students to brainstorm ideas for why slaves would use work songs as they labored.
- After a brief discussion of their ideas, students should read the selection "Reading: Works Songs of Enslaved African Americans." Explain to students that some of the language in the readings is historical, for instance Booker T. Washington using the word "Negroes" to mean African Americans. Either working independently or with a reading partner, students should make notes on the reading in the 'Through' portion of the template on the purposes of work songs for enslaved African Americans.
- Discuss briefly the class' ideas generated from the reading.
- Provide each student with the lyrics to the song "Shuck That Corn Before You Eat." Define the word "shuck" to the class. (Shuck is an older term for huskingremoving the papery outer shell from ears of corn.)
- Individually or with their partner, students should make notes on the message of the song. Ask students, "Why do you think the song would inspire the slaves to work hard?" Note to teacher: this song provides the message that slaves who work hard at harvest are rewarded with special treats and privileges for their efforts. This was intended to raise morale and productivity.
- Discuss briefly ideas generated by the students from reading the song. You may wish to write student responses on the board.
- For the culminating activity, students are to write a reflection or question about what they have learned about African American work songs.
Lesson Extensions
- From links in the featured article, play some or all of the work songs for the students. Compare the lyrics to the notes students previously completed in their interactive notebooks.
- Music from enslaved African Americans provided the basis for development of distinctive African American musical expression in jazz, blues, and spirituals. Investigate how these contemporary musical forms are based on early African American musical expression.
- Early African American music traditions included much more than work songs. Investigate how African American music played a significant cultural role in community, celebrations, religious practice, and ceremonies.
- Read excerpts from interviews of former slaves who, from their memories of slave days, describe the situations in which they would sing work songs. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/community/text2/plantationcommunitywpa.pdf (When using these transcripts, please note that the language is appropriate to the era and may be offensive to modern readers.)
This lesson was written by Shawn Cunlisk, Vancouver, WA, and Bill Neer, Baldwinsville, NY.


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Fostering a Healthy Education
Theresa Adelman-Mullally, an assistant professor of nursing, works with students at the Markin skills laboratory. Adelman-Mullally has been awarded an Illinois Board of Education Nurse Educator Fellowship.
By Frank Radosevich II
January 25, 2013
Theresa Adelman-Mullally, an assistant professor of nursing, has been awarded an Illinois Board of Education Nurse Educator Fellowship to help support her education and teaching on campus.
The fellowship, awarded annually to nursing educators in Illinois, includes a nearly $10,000 grant toward continuing research, and is given to those who have made significant contributions to their nursing education programs.
Award recipients are selected after a highly competitive review by an external nursing expert and the IBHE staff.
Adelman-Mullally, who is currently pursuing her doctorate in nursing, said she hopes to use the grant to pilot new curriculum for her students by developing simulations for potential courses on treating military veterans or individuals with mental disabilities.
A veteran herself, after serving as a Commissioned Officer in the US Army Nurse Corp, Adelman-Mullally said it's important that students understand and are able to care for veterans appropriately.
"I want to help students recognize and properly react and respond to the health needs of veterans," she said.
The simulations would include creating lifelike scenarios where nursing students learn firsthand how to assess, manage and treat patients with a variety of illnesses or problems.
At Bradley, Adelman-Mullally currently teaches courses on nursing fundamentals, mental health, men's health and alcohol abuse. Her doctorate dissertation focuses on recovery from alcohol addiction using the 12-step program for patients.
Adelman-Mullally said she was surprised to learn she had won the grant. She is the second Bradley faculty member to be selected for the grant and was nominated for it by the University's Nursing Department Chair Dr. Francesca Armmer.
"I honestly did not expect to get it," she said. "I'm flattered that Dr. Armmer nominated me for this."


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I'll make no secret of it: the BSDs really aren't my area of expertise. I've always seen them as the more ideologically developed alternative to Linux, which tends to take a more practical approach to development. Considering my lack of knowledge, here's what the team itself considers the most important new features and changes in FreeBSD 9.0.
- A new installer, bsdinstall(8) has been added and is the installer used by the ISO images provided as part of this release
- The Fast Filesystem now supports softupdates journaling
- ZFS updated to version 28
- Updated ATA/SATA drivers support AHCI, moved into updated CAM framework
- Highly Available Storage (HAST) framework
- Kernel support for Capsicum Capability Mode, an experimental set of features for sandboxing support
- User-level DTrace
- The TCP/IP stack now supports pluggable congestion control framework and five congestion control algorithm implementations available
- NFS subsystem updated, new implementation supports NFSv4 in addition to NFSv3 and NFSv2
- High Performance SSH (HPN-SSH)
- Flattened device tree (FDT), simplifying FreeBSD configuration for embedded platforms
- The powerpc architecture now supports Sony Playstation 3
- The LLVM compiler infrastructure and clang have been imported
- Gnome version 2.32.1, KDE version 4.7.3
As always, architecture support is outstanding, so no matter if you have an amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc, powerpc64, or sparc64 box, FreeBSD 9.0 will happily run. One note, though - a problem was found with the DVD images for amd64 and i386; new images have since been uploaded, but if you downloaded one of these images before this announcement, it's wise to re-download the image, or verify its checksum.
Have fun, and FreeBSD users, let us know how it goes!


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The biggest thing to hit NBC's "The Voice" tonight was Baltimore's Nelly's Echo, a Nigerian refugee who wowed the judges with his rendition of Bill Wither's "Ain't No Sunshine," and who found a place on Christina Aguilera's team.
Nelly's Echo -- the band and stage name of Nigerian native Nelson Emokpae --prompted both Christina and Adam Levine to spin their chairs with his oh-so-groovy take on the soulful classic, and undoubtedly won the audience's heart with his story.
"We left Nigeria because of the political unrest," Nelson, 32, told host Carson Daly before performing. "Our lives were in danger."
Nelson, his brothers and his mother had to leave a wrongfully imprisoned father behind in Nigeria when the came to the United States where, he said, everything changed.


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Billy Sharp struck twice as Nottingham Forest turned on the style either side of half-time to send in-form Leeds spiralling to a 4-2 defeat at the City Ground.
Forest, who had slipped to 11th place after taking only four points from their previous five matches, were the latest side to make a mockery of the form book in the npower Championship after Sharp converted a late first-half penalty to cancel out Paul Green's early opener for Leeds.
Sharp fired his second of the game soon after the restart and a three-goal blitz in nine minutes - Rodolph Austin scored a clumsy own goal and Dexter Blackstock headed home the fourth - stunned the visitors who responded with a late goal from Davide Somma.
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GRAND FORKS, N.D. --- The University of North Dakota women's hockey team extended its current winning streak to a program-record eight games after defeating Ohio State 3-2 Saturday night at the Ralph Engelstad Arena.
In what turned out to be a nail-bitter that came down to the final buzzer, it was extra special for UND as it also tied the program record for wins in a season on its senior day as it honored its eight players that played in its final regular-season home game tonight after the contest.
With its efforts this weekend however, the team guaranteed that it will be back at home hosting in the first round of the WCHA Playoffs in two weeks. There are still critical points at hand though as the team concludes the regular season at Minnesota Duluth next weekend and is still battling with Wisconsin to see who finishes in second behind Minnesota.
After dominating the Buckeyes in the series-opener, UND looked like it might ease its way to another win after 20 minutes of play. The home squad was able to cash in on a couple of its early chances to take a 2-0 lead.
It was one of the seniors that scored first as Monique Lamoureux (Grand Forks, N.D.) sniped the glove-side corner only 2:01 into regulation.
Meghan Dufault doubled the lead as UND converted on its first power-play attempt of the game with a great re-direct out of mid-air off a point shot by Monique Lamoureux at the 15:12 mark. Dufault's goal was her 16th of the season which is second-best in program history.
OSU got on the scoreboard after Shelby Amsley-Benzie (Warroad, Minn.) lost her stick and Kari Schmitt sent a shot through traffic and past the netminder.
Dufault picked up her second of the night, showing some nice hands to place a rebound past Chelsea Knapp at 14:11 of the middle frame. This time it was Danielle Gagne that answered for the Buckeyes in their comeback attempt only 1:44 afterwards to cut the lead to 3-2 entering the second break.
The third period went scoreless as UND held on for the sweep. North Dakota held the Buckeyes without a shot on goal until nearly 17-minutes into the stanza and only three total. It went on to outshoot OSU 26-18 in the game.