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IRVINE — For the first time this year, an Orange County Breakers match went into overtime Saturday night at UC Irvine's Bren Events Center.
Overtime is a unique feature to World Team Tennis. It is not unique in the world of one of the onlookers of the women's singles match between Anna-Lena Groenefeld of the Breakers and Asia Muhammad of the Sacramento Capitals.
Asia's younger brother, Shabazz, watched the action close to the court in the southeast corner. Shabazz Muhammad, considered one of the top high school men's basketball recruits in the country, will play at UCLA this year.
Asia nearly pulled off a superstar type of comeback herself. But Groenefeld got the hold she needed in the second game of overtime and helped the Breakers earn a 23-20 victory.
"It's a big confidence-builder for the team," said the Breakers' John-Patrick Smith, who opened the match with a big tiebreaker victory in men's doubles with Travis Parrott. "Anna-Lena competed great tonight. Great team effort."
It was a victory that Coach Trevor Kronemann's Breakers (2-2) needed, as they moved within a half-match of Western Conference-leading Sacramento (3-2). Orange County is tied for second with Kansas City. The Breakers are away for their next five matches, before returning to the Bren on July 23 against Springfield.
Sam Querrey, ranked No. 55 in the world in singles, was announced as a last-minute addition to the Capitals' lineup earlier Saturday. Smith and Parrott still pulled off the big men's doubles victory over Querrey and the longtime doubles standout Mark Knowles.
"It's really fun playing with J.P.," Parrott said. "He's got a lot of energy. He played at Tennessee and I played at Georgia, so we should not like each other, but we get along pretty well. We really have fun out on the court. We enjoy playing first, and it's helped our team get the two wins we have. We've been able to keep that momentum going throughout the match.
"Team Tennis is so much about getting off to a good start. You really have to start quick, and that's what we did tonight. J.P. and I really started off well, and that's not what we did [Friday] night. We lost in mixed doubles, 5-0, and that kind of set the tone for the whole match. It felt like it was the opposite tonight."
The Breakers had lost at Sacramento, 24-14, on Friday night. But, after Groenefeld and Breakers marquee player Lindsay Davenport earned a 5-3 victory over Muhammad and Yasmin Schnack in women's doubles Saturday, the hosts had a 10-7 lead.
Smith, who lost to Mardy Fish on Friday, had another tough men's singles set with a top American in Querrey on Saturday. Querrey won, 5-3. But Parrott and Davenport came back for a 5-2 victory over Knowles and Schnack in mixed doubles, pushing the Breakers' lead to 18-14 entering women's singles.
Muhammad topped Groenefeld in a tiebreaker, sending the match to overtime. Muhammad held serve in the first game of OT to bring the Capitals within 22-20. But Groenefeld, one of the league's top women's singles players this season, easily held serve in the next game to end the match.
The road schedule next week will be challenging. The Breakers play at Springfield on Monday, at Boston on Tuesday, at Philadelphia on Thursday, at Washington on Friday and at Kansas City on Saturday. Davenport is scheduled to play in the Springfield and Boston matches.
The Breakers will continue battling, and having fun doing it.
"A team sport is more fun when you can get a couple of wins under your belt," Parrott said. "But the whole team has had fun hanging out. We've got really good team chemistry."
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Two years ago, Olympic gold medallist Ivano Brugnetti of Italy alluded to the idea that Francisco Javier Fernandez didn't have what it takes at the sharp end of a race.
The Spaniard didn't need a sprint in La Coruña.
By the time Brugnetti crossed the line, Fernandez had already given his first interview after blazing a trail in the 22nd IAAF World Race Walking Cup. Ever since the Spaniard was adopted by Olympic great Robert Korzeniowski as his coach, Fernandez has repeatedly been told by his mentor, 'he's not only going to beat Brugnetti, but everyone else as well.'
The Italian finished a lowly 15th in the Spanish port, but once the initial charge had been stalled, there was only going to be one winner.
China's Yucheng Han shot away from the gun like it startled him. The Chinese hurtled through the first kilometre in a time which would have brought him home inside 76 minutes!
Once he settled down a minute later Han was reeled in by double Commonwealth gold medallist Nathan Deakes and home favourite Fernandez. However, the trio were still comfortably inside a World record by the end of the first 2km.
When they reached 3km in 11:42, the pace had become a more manageable tilt at Jefferson Perez's World record at the 2003 Paris World Championships.
As they moved into lap three Fernandez edged ahead of Deakes, who in turn had 10 metres on Han. Behind the frame places, a group of 12 ominously included Perez clearly biding his time.
Another circuit saw only Fernandez and Deakes interested in a sub 78-minutes time, and even then the Spaniard had eight seconds over the Aussie.
At 5k the team race was a much tighter affair with Russia ahead by 13 points, but a largely new Mexican trio six ahead of China.
By 10km Fernandez was still averaging 3:53 minutes for each super-fast kilometre, but the group behind Deakes was inching closer. Perez, had been joined by Tunisian champion Hatem Ghoula, Han, Colombian Luis Fernando Lopez – on a pace two minutes inside his PB - and two Russians.
A lap later and Deakes had been swallowed up and Ghoula – a veteran of four World Cups – was making a bid for silver with a 3:50 kilometre. The team race had also undergone a drastic change. China were a mere point ahead of Russia, and to excited cheers from supporters around the waterside course, Spain had moved into bronze medal position.
By 14km Fernandez had not only laid down the foundations for a popular win, he had cemented the cornerstone.
The chasing group of four had dropped Lopez and recovered Han, but were still 58 seconds down on the leader and losing ground. Spain had also moved up a step on the podium to silver.
A World record was beyond even Fernandez when he recorded the slowest kilometre of his race at 17k. 4:02 was still good enough to keep up an unassailable first, but the race for second was wide open with Perez and Han neck-and-neck.
"I am very happy with home crowd victory," Fernandez said. "It meant everything – I discussed this with Robert (Korzeniowski) and the idea was to start fast. The idea went to plan. I was in very good shape."
""I was surprised Jefferson Perez didn't make an effort to catch me after 10k," the Spaniard added, "and that gave me heart."
The team competition was even more dynamic, with Spain taking the lead for the first time.
From nowhere Australia moved into second thanks to Deakes' perseverance and good grouping from teammates Jared Tallent and Luke Adams who were in 14th and 18th position.
It wasn't quite a case of throwing down the gauntlet, but when Perez through away his cap away going into the last kilometre, it meant much the same as he quickly opened up a five-metre gap on the Han to claim silver.
"Right now all I want to do is rest," said Perez. "I'm very disappointed. I have the utmost respect for Fernandez. At the moment he is the most prepared walker in the world, and the best coach. There was no excuse. I did all I could, but I was unable to push my body the way I normally do. My heart and my head didn't give me what I had in the past. Today I saw the future Olympic champion. What happened today puts everything about my future back into question."
The sprint of the day saw Ghoula summon up his last ounce of energy to pass a tiring Deakes in the final 50 metres for a season's best time.
Fernandez collected two golds, but Spain's team win was a mere four points over Australia. Second place was only decided on count-back with Russia also finishing on 37 points in closest team finish for 11 years.
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text: Johannesburg - Accolades poured in on Sunday for South Africa's Oscar Pistorius, who became the first double amputee to compete in an athletics event at the Olympics. Sunday newspapers' front pages splashed images of the 25-year-old finishing second in his heat running on carbon fibre blades. Also known as the "Blade Runner", he had both legs amputated below the knee before he was aged one because of a congenital condition. "Oscar melts the hardest of hearts", said a headline in City Press newspaper, while the Sunday Independent awarded "An Oscar for gutsy Pistorius". "It's been a battle of courts, minds and hearts," the newspaper reported, referring to the runner's challenges to reach the Olympics. He was cleared four years ago to run against able-bodied athletes when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) overturned a ruling by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) that his blades gave him an unfair advantage. The Sunday Times likened Pistorius to fellow South African Natalie du Toit, a single amputee who swam against able-bodied athletes in the Beijing Olympics. "These two great South Africans have done more than just compete at the highest level with great success. They have also redefined what it means to be 'disabled'." "It is not exaggeration to say that they have forever changed the way the world views those who have lost one or both limbs," the paper said in an editorial.


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Monday, September 20, 2010
The Name Game Part II
*Should the name Simon only be used for Chipmunks?
*Would a boy named Owen be pushed around?
*Can a person ever be called Samuel or would they forever be Sam?
*When you hear the name Noah, do you only think of an ark full of animals?
Help us please.
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- Michael and Denise said...
I like Simon. The only Owen I knew was a super smart nerdy boy in high school. The first thing I think of when I hear the name Noah is an ark full of animals, but Michael's cousin is named Noah, and you get past the ark connection pretty easily. As for Samuel, it's possible to keep it "Samuel" for the most part. Michael is "Michael" to all of his family (his mother doesn't like "Mike"), but in high school all of his friends called him "Mike". He doesn't have a preference.
Just for fun, and going off of T's comment on your last post, Michael said you should consider "Seal". Then he can be a rich, R&B star.
Good luck.
- September 20, 2010 at 7:27 PM
- Terynn said...
Not a fan of Simon, personally. I would think Chipmunk. Always.
Owen is the trendiest of the names and I do not have a nerdy vibe assigned to it, but we are from the midwest, so you know we know nothing of trends, until something has become absolutely stale on the coast(s). ha
Samuel is a GREAT name, but preventing him from being called Sam, would be all but impossible; except for family and friends, who know your preference.
Thanks for asking for input. Call him "Seal" like Denise said. Ubercool. :)
- September 20, 2010 at 8:57 PM
- Brooke said...
Simon = carried the cross of Jesus. One of our favorite boy names.
Owen = We have some good friends, last name is Wise. They are expecting a boy. I think they should name him Owen Bartholomew, so that his initials would be O. B. Wise (Jacob 6:12)
Samuel = It's inevitable, he would be called Sam. But then, I doubt you could find a name that won't come with a nickname. Boys are obsessive about giving each other nicknames.
Noah = very trendy these days, but a great name.
My other favorite boy names = Micah, Chad, George, Abram
- September 20, 2010 at 8:59 PM
- Katie said...
I love Owen....isn't it funny the associations "we" have with names and how it holds us back? I went to high school with someone named Blaine and he was always cocky and kind of rude, and Simon is the name of a mentor I have over in England and is quite a bit older (like my grandpa's age) so it seems old to me.......oh and I always have that song in my head "ah low my name is Simon, and I like to do drawerings"......or something along that line :) HAHA
- September 21, 2010 at 1:37 AM
- Jen Bay said...
When we were picking names the most important question after, "What do you think of _____" was, "What will the natural nickname become... try as you may, no one will say Samuel... just like no one will say Jennifer.... I will say this, no one has called Cameron "Cammy" more than once... but we hear "Cam" all the time. Boy,we are lazy speakers..... Just to add to the pot, I like Austin, Cameron, and Dave... oh wait... now I remember why.... :)
Someone's advice to us when picking a name was that once we thought we liked a name, open the back door and yell it two or three times (like you inevitably will) and see how it feels...
- September 21, 2010 at 6:15 AM
- Eileen said...
I think you're right, Jen, that you have to kind of test drive a name. We thought we wanted to name him Gavin, but after saying it about 5 times, I changed my mind. Not that I don't love other little Gavins that I know.
I would like to find a name like Cholita's that doesn't sound made-up but that also sounds like it might come from a different country.....has a hint of the exotic. I'm finding that's harder to do with boy names than girls.
- September 21, 2010 at 6:23 AM
- CSIowa said...
I think any of the four would be an excellent choice. I know a Noah who is now 14. His grandmother stopped sending him Noah's ark things about the time he hit kindergarten. I don't think he thinks about it much any more. I know a Simon who gets called Si a lot. No chipmunk association. I think you can stave off the nickname until the child himself decides he likes it. I think a mother always has the prerogative to use the name she chose. Owen is a great name, I think. Personally, I'm a fan of names that are easily said and spelled, are actually names (not inventions), and at the same time are not super-popular. I never wanted my kids to have five other kids with the same name in kindergarten.
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Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy's road to recovery will be bumpy.
The Labor Department report, released Thursday, showed that even as the recession flashes signs of easing, companies likely will want to keep a lid on costs and be wary of hiring until they feel certain the economy is on solid ground.
June's payroll reductions were deeper than the 363,000 that economists expected and average weekly earnings dropped to the lowest level in nearly a year.
However, the rise in the unemployment rate from 9.4 percent in May wasn't as sharp as the expected 9.6 percent. Still, many economists predict the jobless rate will hit 10 percent this year, and keep rising into next year, before falling back.
All told, 14.7 million people were unemployed in June.
If laid-off workers who have given up looking for new jobs or have settled for part-time work are included, the unemployment rate would have been 16.5 percent in June, the highest on records dating to 1994.
"We were on the road of things getting less bad in the jobs market, and that has been temporarily waylaid," said economist Ken Mayland, president of ClearView Economics. "But this doesn't change my view that the recession will end later this year. We're probably two months away."
Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has lost a net total of 6.5 million jobs. As the downturn bites into sales and profits, companies have turned to layoffs and other cost-cutting measures to survive. Those include holding down workers' hours and freezing or cutting pay. The average work week in June fell to 33 hours, the lowest on records dating to 1964.
Layoffs in May turned out to smaller, 322,000, versus the 345,000 first reported. But job cuts in April were a big deeper — 519,000 versus 504,000, according to government data.
Even with higher pace of job cuts in June, the report indicates that the worst of the layoffs have passed. The deepest job cuts of the recession came in January, when 741,000 jobs vanished, the most in any month since 1949. And there was some other encouraging job news Thursday.
In a separate report, the department said the number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to 614,000, in line with economists' predictions. The number of people continuing to draw benefits unexpectedly dropped to 6.7 million. Still, job losses last month were widespread.
Professional and business services slashed 118,000 jobs, more than double the 48,000 cut in May. Manufacturers cut 136,000, down from 156,000. Construction companies got rid of 79,000 jobs, up from 48,000 the previous month. Retailers eliminated 21,000, up from 17,600. Financial activities cut 27,000, following 30,000 in May. The government cut 52,000 jobs, up from 10,000 the previous month. Leisure and hospitality cut 18,000 jobs, erasing a gain of the same size in May. One of the few industries adding jobs: education and health services, which added 34,000 positions last month and 47,000 in May.
Mayland and other economists said a good chunk of June's job losses likely were affected by shutdowns at General Motors Corp. and fallout from the troubled auto industry, which should let up later this summer. The government said employment at factories making autos and parts fell by 27,000 last month. Payroll losses and the unemployment rate are derived from two separate statistical surveys. The jobless rate probably would have moved higher if not for people dropping out of the labor force.
With the weakness in the job market, workers didn't see any wage gains in June. Average hourly earnings were flat at $18.53. Average weekly earnings fell from $613.34 in May, to $611.49 in June, the lowest level in nearly a year and the first drop since March. That raises fresh questions about consumers' willingness to spend in the months ahead. The worst crises in the housing, credit and financial markets since the 1930s have plunged the country into the longest recession since World War II.
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In 2010 the estate of Henry W. Toll donated to the Museum's
Library his collection of materials on the Grand Canyon. The
collection includes 180 books, several large atlases, periodicals,
catalogs, river runner guides and logs, and postcards. Most are
early works, published from the late 1800s to the 1970s, written by
historians, geologists, biologists, explorers, hikers, and river
runners. There's the translated diary of Francisco Garces, a
Spanish priest who travelled to the mouth of the Colorado River in
his quest to convert Indians (On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer,
1775-76, ed. Elliott Coues). A much later but equally exceptional
and interesting explorer was Sharlot Hall who journeyed through
Northern Arizona in 1911 (her diary:Sharlot Hall on the Arizona
Strip, ed. C. Gregory Crampton). As a young man in the 1940s, just
another "river rat" then, Barry Goldwater took aDelightful Journey
Down the Green and Colorado Riversand recorded it with photos.
James White of Trinidad, Colorado floated through the Grand Canyon
on crude driftwood rafts, two years before Powell, some say; Powell
thought he was a fraud. White's story is told inFirst Through the
Grand Canyonby R. E. Lingenfelter, 1958.
The most exciting books of all are those written by J. W.
Powell,himself: Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and
its Tributaries, 1869, 1870, 1871, 1872; Canyons of the
Colorado(1885); Major John Wesley Powell, First Through the Grand
Canyon(1915) and many more. Here's a first-hand report
fromExploration of the Colorado River:
"From around this curve there comes a mad roar, and down we
are carried, with a dizzying velocity, to the head of
another rapid. . . Away we go, on one long, winding chute. I
stand on deck, supporting myself with a strap, fastened on either
side to the gunwale [remember, Powell had only one arm], and the
boat glides rapidly, where the water is smooth, or, striking a
wave, she leaps and bounds like a thing of life, and we have
a wild, exhilarating ride for 10 miles."
Henry Toll, who amassed and contributed this wonderful
collection, was a Denver medical doctor and lawyer, and himself a
river rat. He was a member of the Powell Society, a self-described
"collection of free spirits"-geologists, doctors, lawyers and
businessmen from Denver and Boulder-who enjoyed running the
Colorado and other rivers of the West. At one point (1969) they
"got serious" and published River Runners Guides, used by boatmen
for many years. Henry Toll was the contact for this group; shortly
after he died in 2008, the group disbanded and donated its treasury
to the Museum to take care of Toll's collection.
Henry's wife, Lydia, is also an important figure in the Museum's
history, volunteering in various capacities from 1973 until 2005.
She was an advocate for outdoor education, and developed the WEBS
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between the Museum and Balarat, the Denver Public Schools Outdoor
Education Center. This program, which began in 1973, is still going
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Tonight's Concert Picks: XPN Welcomes ALO to The Blockley, Denison Witmer at Johnny Brenda's, New Sweden at Steel City Coffeehouse, The Hooters with Good Old War at The Electric Factory
XPN welcomes California band Animal Liberation Orchestra (ALO) to The Blockley tonight. SIgned to Jack Johnson's Brushfire Records, ALO create a laidback, jammy brand of surf rock / pop that has bound them to other Johnson-fan favorites Donavon Frankenreiter, Matt Costa and G. Love. In 2012 ALO released their seventh studio album Sounds Like This. Tickets and information for tonight's 18+ show with Ryan Montbleau Band can be found here. Watch an acoustic performance of "Storms & Hurricanes" from the new album below.
Denison Witmer celebrates his album release at Johnny Brenda's tonight. The self-titled record is Witmer's ninth and most personal effort since the start of his career fifteen years ago. Recorded at his Brooklyn studio The Honey Jar (co-run by Philly native Devin Greenwood), the Lancaster-born musician called in friends Sufjan Stevens and Greenwood for creative collaboration, though the stories told on the album's ten tracks are purely Witmer's. Tickets and information for tonight's 21+ show with Soporus can be found here. Below, stream and download "Asa," a song named for Witmer's young son.
New Sweden head down to Phoenixville for a show at Steel City Coffeehouse. The Wilmington five-piece enthralled a Saturday morning audience at the 2011 Noncommvention with their rootsy, robust folk rock and they've been climbing the proverbial ladder ever since. With two Tri-State Indie awards on the shelf and a buzzy appearance at SXSW earlier this year, the local band hasn't slowed down one bit after the release of their debut LP The Mountain. Tickets and information for tonight's show with The Turnips can be found here. Watch New Sweden perform "Frying Pan" below.
The Hooters and Good Old War play a hometown show at The Electric Factory tonight. An institution in the Philadelphia musical cannon, The Hooters got their start in the 80s with hits like "All You Zombies" and "And We Danced." In recent years, members of the band have sparked their own projects, with drummer David Uosikkinen's In the Pocket and vocalist / keyboardist Rob Hyman's Elm Street Studios in Conshohocken. Good Old War, a trio that is becoming a local institution in their own right, returns to the stage in support of 2012's Come Back As Rain while working on material for a new album. Tickets and information for the all-ages show can be found here. Below, watch The Hooters' video for "And We Danced" followed by Good Old War's "Amazing Eyes."


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Four Cards
after Professor Louis Hoffmann
This is an old puzzle from the end of the 19th
century. To its original task we've added two more challenges.
First print the four "fives" shown on the left, and then cut them out.
Original Puzzle. The object of the puzzle is to arrange these
four cards, face upwards, so that only four pips of each are visible.
Puzzle 2. Arrange the cards, still face upwards, so that only
three pips of each card are visible.
Puzzle 3. Now arrange the cards, face upwards again, in such a
way that you'll see exactly 1, 2, 3, and 4 pips. Each of these four
groups of pips have to be from another card. This means that one pip
will be from one card, two pips from another, three pips from next
one, and four pips - from the last of them.
You are not allowed to cut, bend or fold the cards while solving the
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text: Only the larger switches were from QLogic (144 and 288 ports) all other switches were made by TopSpin/Cisco directly. Cisco is not leaving the HPC space only IB. Btw: you can still buy cables from Cisco. But as mentioned, all cables come from 3rd party vendors. ~rob On Oct 1, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 01:59:05PM -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > >> I'm sure you're right. It's my understanding that IB is a >> well-documented standard, so all IB cables should be created equally, >> but you know vendors, they'll say that their cables are more equal >> than >> others and refuse support if we're not using all Cisco kit. > > Then buy from an IB vendor that isn't silly like that. QLogic and > Voltaire are choices. Is Cisco still re-selling QLogic switches? > > Joe wrote: > >>> Cisco does appear to be transitioning to *other* technologies. >>> Again, >>> they aren't the only IB provider out there (seems such a shame, >>> gobbling >>> up TopSpin and then effectively discarding them). > > Apparently the main attraction of TopSpin was their virtualization > software. Cisco, of course, supports all the major technologies, so it > can be hard to tell if they really are transitioning to something > else. At a minimum Cisco will want to sell gateways for all > non-Ethernet technologies. After TopSpin was bought, Cisco continued > to sell gateways developed by TopSpin, but sold rebranded QLogic DDR > switches. > > -- greg > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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History of Medicine
Carole Reeves
Carole Reeves has a PhD in history of medicine (University of London) and additional qualifications in education, photography, film and television production. She has worked as a medical illustrator, and was, for over twenty years, a freelance writer/director, communicating medicine and science both to specialist and public audiences. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Medical Illustrators, a Fellow of the British Institute of Professional Photographers, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society.
is interested in the history of psychiatry, the history of infectious
diseases (particularly tuberculosis), oral history, and the history of
material culture in medicine. In addition to teaching History of
Medicine she is also teaching on the MA Collections Curatorship.
She is actively involved in public engagement. Her projects include 'Secrets of the Body', a film which has toured public venues in the UK and is used in schools and colleges throughout North America; a history of medicine for HistoryWorld, which won the New Statesman New Media Award (2003) for the UK's best educational web site; and 'The Children of Craig-y-nos', a community oral history project that recorded the memories of children who were patients in a tuberculosis sanatorium.
Selected publications
Medical Book Illustration: A Short History (Cambridge & New York: Oleander Press, 1983). With John L Thornton.
The Children of Craig-y-nos: Life in a Welsh Tuberculosis Sanatorium, 1922-1959, (The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2009). With Ann Shaw.
Shortlisted for the Medical Journalists Association Open Book Award 2010.
Egyptian Medicine, 2nd revised edition (Princess Risborough: Shire Egyptology Series, 2001).
Edited volumes
The Cultural History of the Human Body: The Age of Enlightenment, 1650-1800 (Oxford & New York: Berg Publishers, 2010).
Biographies of 'William Abt', 'Robert Battey', 'William Buchan', 'William Budd', 'Rufus Cole', 'Erasmus Darwin', 'Luther Emmett Holt', 'William Keen', 'Sir William Arbuthnot Lane', 'Samuel George Morton', 'William Prout', 'John Rock', 'Albert Bruce Sabin', 'Dame Mary Ann Dacombe Scharlieb', 'Mary Jane Seacole', 'Benjamin McLane Spock', 'Robert Lawson Tait' in W F Bynum and Helen Bynum (eds), Dictionary of Medical Biography (Westport, Connecticut/London: Greenwood Press, 2007). Also picture editor.
Contributor, Pestilence, Pandemics, and Plagues (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2008). Editor Joseph P Byrne. Articles on Influenza pandemic, 1889-1890, Personal hygiene and epidemic disease, Tuberculosis in England since 1500.
Exhibition catalogue
Reframing disability: portraits from the Royal College of Physicians (London: Royal College of Physicians, 2011). With Bridget Telfer and Emma Shepley.
Articles and features
'Everyday life for Jewish patients in Colney Hatch Asylum, 1880-1946', Shemot, vol 19, 3. December 2011.
'What's up doc!' 'Kill or cure', Young Archaeologist (Council for British Archaeology), issue 147, Spring 2011: 8-12.
'Passion killers', IMI News, 2010, May: 6.
'Sixties swinger coughs up the cash', IMI News, 2009, April: 6.
'Inside the artist's body', IMI News, 2009, August: 6.
'Selling safe sex', IMI News, 2009, November: 6.
'Tracing your ancestors through medical records', Shemot, 2009, 17 (3).
'Bloomsbury People', Opticon1826, issue 6, spring 2009.
'Finding the lost children of Craig-y-nos', Wellcome History, 2008, 37:15-16.
'Finding the lost children of Craig-y-nos', Opticon1826, 2008, issue 4.
'Health warning – know thy limits', IMI News, 2008, March: 6.
'Confessions of a fat man', IMI News, 2008, July: cover.
'Vitpop', IMI News, 2008, November: 8.
'No smoking please – we're German', IMI News, 2007, February: 11.
'Wanted – nurses for duty or fantasy', IMI News, 2007, May: 5.
'No sex please – we're drowning', IMI News, 2007, November: 5.
'The Wellcome Trust', in Encylopedia of the Life Sciences (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2007), online www.els.net
'Dad's army fights malaria', IMI News, 2006, March: 5.
'How soaps changed our culture', IMI News, 2006, October: 15.
'The golden lotus or Chinese bound foot', IMI News, 2005, April: 9.
'Cupping glasses on the buttocks of a constipated gentleman, 1694 (Buttock cups)', IMI News, 2005, August: 6.
'Joined at the hip', IMI News, 2005, December: 5.
'Picturing the history of medicine', Montage 2005; issue 100: 10-11.
'A history of the optic nerve and its diseases,' Eye 2004; 18: 1096-1109. With David Taylor.
Roy Porter Bibliography
Children of Craig-y-nos


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Compassion in Dying, Issue 7
Winter 1997
Our Day in Court
By Barbara Coombs Lee, Executive DirectorOn January 8, 1997, the Supreme Court heard arguments on both Compassion in Dying cases, now called Vacco v. Quill and Washington v. Glucksberg. The standard wisdom coming from Court watchers is that the Court will not rule in our favor. But we should remember that pundits' predictions of Supreme Court rulings often prove wrong. When oral arguments are over the Justices retire to their chambers and plumb the depths of the issues before them. They read and re-read the briefs, and no doubt they reflect on their own life experience.
Therefore, we at Compassion are not making any predictions about the Court's ruling, which is not expected until June or July. As Susan Dunshee states elsewhere in this newsletter, regardless of the Court's eventual ruling, we are confident that the right to choice at the end of life is self-evident.
As I read through the transcripts I am struck that, together with evidence of concern over abuse and risks, there is also evidence of the Justices' intense examination of the issues and an understanding of the arbitrariness of current law. Here are some interchanges that have not been widely reported in the press.
Glucksberg was the first case, and Assistant Attorney General of Washington, William C. Williams, argued that Washington's law prohibiting assisted suicide does not violate its citizens' liberties. Justice Ginsburg pressed for the notion that a liberty could be recognized and balanced against the state's interest in protecting life.
Mr. Williams agreed, but argued that recognizing the liberty would limit the "flexibility"of the states to deal with a complicated area.
Later the Chief Justice returned to the point of regulation versus an absolute ban.
Justice Scalia added some sarcasm to the discussion:
Walter Dellinger, the United States Solicitor General, joined arguments for the states on behalf of the Clinton Administration. His brief argued exactly what the Chief Justice had just said was a "conundrum" -- a Constitutional liberty interest, the exercise of which may be totally prohibited by state law.
Mr. Dellinger went on to explain that, in his view, "the critical issue is the state's overwhelming interest" in affirming the value of life. He went on to cite the report of the New York State Task Force on Life and the Law for the proposition that, if legal, doctors would abuse the privilege by not following procedures. The Task Force asserts that, by its nature, medical practice cannot conform to a regulatory framework.
My hope is that this line of inquiry will lead the Justices to the ultimate question of whether criminalizing physician assisted dying actually does serve the states' interest in promoting life, given the unregulated, covert assistance that is acknowledged and condoned by the New York Task Force and others. Add to this the violent, premature deaths chosen by those who fear waiting until they cannot act on their own, and the conclusion is unavoidable that criminalization works against the goal of preserving life and preventing abuse.
When Kathryn Tucker spoke, various Justices shot questions and challenges to her regarding the nature of the liberty, why it should be limited to the terminally ill, whether there is enough experience or data to properly weigh the risk of abuse against an individual's right to choose, and whether the question shouldn't be left entirely to the states. Ms. Tucker held her own with grace and perseverance, boldly staying on course and refusing to be distracted. She was repeatedly pressed on why the Court should find fault in state laws, and she summed up nicely.
Next came arguments related to the equal protection claim asserted in Quill, argued by Attorney General Vacco for New York and Professor Laurence Tribe for Compassion respondents. The question was whether the state of New York irrationally discriminates against terminally ill individuals who are not on life-support systems, because, unlike those who are, they may not enlist the aid of their physicians to hasten their deaths.
Mr. Vacco began by drawing a distinction between the "right to be free from battery," and the right to have "physicians help (patients) kill themselves." But the Court demonstrated an awareness that the real question is more complex.
A point of controversy emerged about the treatment known variously as "barbiturate coma," and "terminal sedation," in which persons with uncontrollable symptoms are sedated to unconsciousness while they await a death from dehydration or respiratory depression. Justice Ginsburg returned to the question:
At first Mr. Vacco denied this is a recognized treatment.
Later Sandra Day O'Connor made a similar point.
But Mr. Vacco sidestepped the question, answering, not about a case of "certain knowledge" but "if there is a risk of death, pursuant to the principle of double effect, that is not criminal conduct in the State of New York."
Several of the Justices also questioned the state's assessment of a higher risk justifying the distinction between withdrawing treatment and prescribing lethal medication.
That was the wrong answer, as far as Justice Scalia was concerned.
When Mr. Vacco tried to say the distinction was one of a medical treatment that violates bodily integrity versus force-feeding, he was caught short by the Chief Justice.
Thus the point was made that the critical distinction is whether or not one is terminally ill, not whether one has a tube or machine that can be withdrawn. Yet the state makes that distinction only to discriminate against terminally ill persons who have no devices to discontinue.
Professor Tribe's mind races ahead, and when his turn came, his examples were sometimes hard to follow. The Justices will need to think through his reasoning at some length, but his points are powerful. New York allows for state intervention if the intent of an otherwise healthy person withdrawing treatment is to commit suicide, with an example of force-feeding a healthy young man.
Finally, Mr. Tribe also was asked to define the liberty at stake.
Several Justices commented on the high quality and useful character of the many briefs presented. It is clear they will be studied and analyzed at length. Our deep appreciation goes out to the law firms which gave so generously of their time and intellect to produce both our respondents' briefs and many fine amici briefs. It has been a monumental effort, of which our supporters can be immensely proud.
Supporters Attend Church Service in the Nation's CapitolOn Tuesday, January 7, 1997, the evening before arguments were presented to the United States Supreme Court, supporters of physician aid-in-dying gathered for prayer and remembrance at Christ Church Capitol Hill, in Washington D.C. The service was sponsored by The Death with Dignity Education Center in cooperation with Compassion in Dying and was led by Episcopal priests from opposite sides of the country. The Reverend Dr. Lawrence Falkowski, who co-chaired the Task Force on Assisted Suicide of the Diocese of Newark, came from the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church of West Orange, New jersey. Joining him was Reverend Donald Stewart Miller from the Church of St. Matthew, San Mateo, California.
The service was held for families and friends to remember and honor loved ones whose deaths have led us to confront the challenges of assuring Compassion, dignity, and self-determination for all dying persons. It also served as a time of serenity and reflection amid the intensity and frenetic pace of activities around the Supreme Court arguments.
The service began with opening prayers and invocations affirming the beauty of life and the individual nature of every person's spiritual beliefs. To reflect this diversity, the service centered on an ecumenical conceptualization of a supreme being and included the chanting of the Hebrew prayers by Stanley Fisher. Following two touching and personal homilies by the Reverends Falkowski and Miller, the congregation joined them at the alter to hold hands and sing Amazing Grace.
While Compassion in Dying has not pressed arguments of religious liberty in its landmark cases, the point is made that the manner in which one chooses to die arises from deeply held values and convictions related to the meaning of life, God, and eternity. Our attitudes toward suffering, redemption, and Compassion are also shaped by our religious beliefs. One can make a rational argument that laws banning aid-in-dying enforce a particular religious doctrine, while criminalizing other, equally authentic, beliefs.
A Message to Our Supporters
By Susan Dunshee, PresidentDuring this period of time between Compassion's "day in court" and the announcement of the Justices' decision some months hence, I want to reassure patients and their families, as well as all of our supporters, about the potential outcomes. Winning would, of course, be great. However, many in the death with dignity movement feel that we have won already just by the tremendous public airing of this issue, the press and media attention it has already garnered, and the enormous sense of momentum within the movement itself.
Should the Justices back away from finding a Constitutional basis for this liberty, we will not be deterred. Compassion in Dying will proceed with its active patient work, will pursue its plans for expansion, and will contribute to any efforts in Washington State to bring physician aid in dying to our citizens. If death with dignity can only be achieved in a state-by-state changing of the laws which prohibit it, so be it. One way or another, this cause will prevail.
All of us who work for and believe in death with dignity know in our hearts that this is an inalienable, personal right. When terminal illness brings us to the last chapter of our lives, we do have the right to determine the circumstances, the time, the place of our dying. We do have the right to request from our physicians safe, effective medications to ease our passage; we do have the right to have our loved ones present, serene in the knowledge that they will be free from any potential harassment. We do have the right to choose for ourselves what we are willing and able to endure, and what suffering and indignities we will spare ourselves and our families.
As I begin my fourth year as President of Compassion in Dying, I feel tremendous optimism about our future. The organization is stronger, more focused, more united than ever. We are posed to extend our reach and to share the model of patient care and family support which we have developed. We invite you to enlarge your own commitment to this cause. There is much for all of us to do. If you have a personal story to tell about this issue, now may be the time to come forward. If you know of others who are ready to add their voices to the dialogue, perhaps they can be encouraged to do so. Write your legislators about your feelings on this issue. Have a discussion with your doctor and be sure that he or she shares your views. Speak up, speak out. Volunteer. Send money. Together, we will prove that the death with dignity movement in this country is unstoppable.
Achievement Award Goes to Compassion PioneerA board of judges that includes Ted Danson, Morris Dees, and Gloria Steinem has named Compassion's former Director, Ralph Mero, as recipient of a Citizen Activist Award from the Gleitsman Foundation. The Gleitsman Foundation encourages individual dedication and commitment by recognizing the achievement of people initiating social change. It hopes to stimulate others to realize they too can make a difference and work to correct problems facing society, thereby improving the quality of life for us all. We applaud the Gleitsman Foundation for its awareness of this important issue.
New Reports From Netherlands Reveal No Slippery SlopeThe November 28 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine carries three articles with the latest data from the Netherlands on physician assisted dying. Together, they confirm that physicians in that country provide assisted death in a careful, responsible manner, and the practice is not escalating.
Euthanasia and assisted suicide are performed in fewer than a third of those who request it. Together, they still comprise a very small proportion of all deaths -- 3.5%. This represents a very modest rise since 1990, when the reported incidence was 2.7%. Other means of assisted death, including administration of pain medication in doses large enough to hasten death and decisions to forgo treatment, also increased slightly over the last five years.
Much attention has been focused on those patients for whom life is ended without the patient's explicit request at the time. This group accounted for .8% of all deaths in 1990 and .7% of deaths in 1995. In about half these cases, either the decision was discussed with the patient earlier in the illness or the patient had expressed a wish for euthanasia if suffering became unbearable. Ninety-five percent of the time the physician discussed the decision with colleagues, nursing staff or relatives. One third of these patients had less than one day estimated to live; 90% had less than a week. A reasonable explanation for the existence of this small group is that some people very near death and exhibiting great suffering are also too sick to make a request for assistance. In the United States, they might be subject to terminal sedation by their physicians, a practice which is considered legal here, yet is entirely unreported and unregulated.
An editorial accompanying the articles is written by the Journal's Executive Editor, Dr. Marcia Angell. Dr. Angell concludes: "Are the Dutch on a slippery slope? It appears not. As far as we can tell, Dutch physicians continue to practice physician-assisted dying only reluctantly and under compelling circumstances."
Oregon's Death With Dignity Act Still StalledIt was July 9, 1996, when a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit heard oral arguments in Portland, Oregon, on the challenge to that state's newly passed Death with Dignity Act (the Act). National Right to Life brought suit shortly before the Act was to go into effect. They claimed that to allow terminally ill, mentally competent adults to request a prescription from their physician to end life in a humane and dignified manner discriminates against the terminally ill and violates the Constitution's Equal Protection clause. The premise of the suit is that the Act deprives terminally ill individuals of state intervention to prevent a suicide, should they seek to hasten an imminent death.
The federal district court in Eugene, Oregon, was receptive to the Right to Life arguments and enjoined Oregon from implementing the Act. At the appellate court hearing, it appeared that the judges of the 9th Circuit were less receptive and more inclined to view the Right to Life suit as improper meddling. One judge asked James Bopp, Right to Life Counsel, whether his case wasn't just a "hypothetical fantasy" of imminent harm arising from the new law.
Those who attended the hearing expected a relatively quick ruling, that would dismiss the case on the threshold issue of standing. But still Oregon waits, now 6 months after the hearing and a full two years after the law was to go into effect. The longer the wait, the stronger is the speculation that the judges of the 9th Circuit are waiting for the Supreme Court to rule on the Compassion cases.
If the Supreme Court affirms Compassion's victories and declares that states must recognize the right to choice and control at the end of life, then it follows that states may pass laws such as Oregon's. But if the Court overturns the Compassion rulings, the question theoretically remains whether a state may enact such a law. It seems unfair that the people of Oregon, who mustered the political will to pass a good law, should be forced to wait until the Supreme Court decides whether the state was obligated to do what it did or merely permitted to do so. We join those in Oregon who anxiously await a ruling to implement the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, which will allow physicians in the state to do, in an open and forthright environment, the kind of counseling Compassion in Dying now does quietly.
This article was provided by Compassion in Dying.


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There are over 150,000 out of hospital sudden cardiac arrests in the US annually. In an attempt to decrease the morbidity and mortality associated with sudden cardiac arrest in Westchester, the EMS division manages the county's Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) program. This program involves recruitment, training and re-certification of county employees. Training includes proficiency in Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and in using an automated external defibrillator (AED).
What is an AED?
The automated external defibrillator (AED) is a computerized medical device that is used by trained personnel to save a life. The AED can recognize a life threatening cardiac rhythm and if needed deliver a shock to the heart in an attempt to stimulate a normal heart rhythm.
Why do we train county employees in CPR/AED?
Early recognition and CPR is a critical part of providing lifesaving aid to people suffering sudden cardiac arrest. An employee trained in CPR and in the use of an AED can recognize the signs of sudden cardiac arrest and initiate immediate care prior to the arrival of medical personnel. The training provided ensures that employees are familiar with the signs and symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest, know how to get assistance and can provide immediate assistance.
Are there AED devices in all County buildings?
Since the inception of the PAD program DES has provided CPR/AED training to over 1,200 county employees and coordinated the placement of 126 AED units. Devices are located throughout 61 county buildings and in many first response vehicles.


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Forget the stars. The people I always wanted to talk to were the writers and producers who created the fictional worlds that became long-running TV series.
One of the great pleasures of this job in my earlier days on the beat was going out to California, breaking away from my colleagues on the press tour and spending a long afternoon in a producer's bungalow on a studio backlot as he or she told me and my tape recorder how their visions became prime-time series.
Whether it was Steven Bochco talking about "Hill Street Blues" or Larry Gelbart explaining the history of "M*A*S*H," I always felt as if I was being let in on a great secret as to how entertainment, culture and sometimes even art was improbably created in the hyper-commercial world of Hollywood.
I felt some of that excitement last week in screening the premiere episode of "The Writers' Room," a series debuting Monday night at 10 on the Sundance Channel. Hosted by Oscar-winning screenwriter Jim Rash, this unpretentious and utterly engaging production features a roundtable conversation with the writers and producers of prime-time series.
It opens Monday with "Breaking Bad," the acclaimed AMC series that begins its final season Aug. 11. Other series featured include "Game of Thrones," "Dexter," "American Horror Story," "Parks and Recreation" and "New Girl."
Eight writers and producers from "Breaking Bad," the drama about a high school chemistry teacher who turns to making and selling methamphetamine, join Rash at a conference table. The set is made to look like — guess what? — a writers' room. Think corkboard on the wall with lots of colored Post-it notes, whiteboards filled with lines and arrows, and posters of the show.
Call it basic-cable cheap. But it's not the set that matters. It's what the people sitting on the set have to say.
Vince Gilligan, creator and showrunner of the series, has the best tales to tell. When he was a writer on "The X-Files," I counted him among Hollywood's best storytellers. He's not nearly as good on camera, but he does just fine in taking viewers backstage in the creation and making of "Breaking Bad."
The series that has won 43 Emmys came about, Gilligan says, after he read an article in The New York Times about a man making meth in a New York City apartment and getting children in the building sick from the fumes.
Gilligan says he and Thomas Schnauz, a friend from film school who worked with him on "The X-Files," had been out of work for two years since the end of that Fox series when he came across the Times article.
"We were both bemoaning the fact that we were jobless, close to penniless and close to being without Writers Guild insurance," Gilligan says.
"So it was these two angry old men talking to each other, saying, 'Did you see what that SOB did to these little kids?' " Schnauz, a writer on "Breaking Bad," adds, finishing Gilligan's thought. "And somehow that clicked in Vince's brain."
Gilligan shares the shorthand he used to try and sell the series to potential network and cable buyers: "The pitch was always, 'We're gonna take Mr. Chips, and we're gonna turn him into Scarface.' "
And it wasn't an instant winner: HBO, FX and TNT all took a pass before Gilligan found a buyer at AMC.
"I can't believe the show ever made it on the air," Gilligan says. "It has all the ingredients of failure."
Bryan Cranston, who won three best actor Emmys as Walter White, the teacher who becomes a drug dealer to provide for his family after finding out he has inoperable lung cancer, says he saw nothing but a winner when he got a look at Gilligan's script for the pilot.
"I just knew that what I read was brilliant and remarkable," he recalls. "And I got my agents to move the meeting up. … I wanted to be one of the first, because I know other actors would smell the meat and want to chomp down on it. I wanted to get there and lift my leg on the material and mark it with my scent."
Like many actors, Cranston, who also holds the title of producer, is a bit of a camera hog. And some of his lines sound a little rehearsed — or, at least, sculpted to attract attention, like the statement about lifting his leg. I do wish some of the other producers and writers seated at the table — such as Peter Gould or Moira Walley-Beckett — had played a more prominent role in the discussion.
But for all the staging and editing involved, such roundtables work best when the conversation feels organic — and that means not all eight members will have equal airtime. And not all will have something great to say. Some dominate, and some pull back in such situations. And as dominant as Cranston tries to be, he does seem accepted as a working member of this group — not a face added to the lineup for a little star power.
Rash, who in addition to being a screenwriter is also comedian and actor on NBC's "Community" sitcom, can be a little camera-precious. He also seems given to the quip rather the question that will take the conversation to a deeper level.
To his credit, Rash does try to drill a little deeper, at one point asking Gilligan whether the series is trying to comment on the "disappearing middle class" in America.
I believe it does offer such commentary — if not an outright meditation on that disturbing state of American life. Further, I believe the series finds a deep source of psychic energy by tapping that current of shared anger and economic anxiety in the audience. It's the same current that "Weeds" tried to address on Showtime.
"I honestly think we get a lot of credit for giving this kind of social criticism or commentary," Gilligan says. "But for me personally, I think it's this story of this one guy. … I was about to turn 40, and I was already thinking, 'God, I'm going to have a hellacious midlife crisis. So, what about doing a story about a guy having an end-of-life crisis?' But I studiously avoid putting politics into anything I'm working on."
A better interviewer might have said, "I wasn't really asking about politics. I was asking about the anxiety and anger of middle-class people today who find themselves after a lifetime of working hard not having the money to protect their family — just like Walter White. And didn't you say earlier that you and Tom had been out of work for two years and were anxious and angry about being 'almost penniless' and about to lose your health insurance? Do you think some of that might have found its way into the world you created?"
Instead, Rash lets it drop and asks Gilligan whether he was surprised that the show was a hit.
In three decades of interviewing men and women who create TV shows, I have never heard anyone say they knew their show was going to be a hit.
Maybe that's the difference between a one-on-one, in-depth print interview in a backlot bungalow with only a handheld recorder between reporter and producer, and a prime-time cable TV show staged in front of a bank of cameras.
Still, I wish Rash had pushed Gilligan — in a polite way, at least.
But I'll be back in "The Writers' Room" in weeks to come. Probably not for "Parks and Recreation" (Aug. 5) and "New Girl" (Aug. 19). But definitely for "Dexter" (Aug. 12), "Game of Thrones" (Aug. 26) and "American Horror Story" (Sept. 2).
Here's hoping the host goes a little deeper as the series goes on.
On TV
"The Writers' Room" debuts at 10 p.m. Monday on the Sundance Channel.


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Bandwidth refers to how much data you can send through a network or modem connection. It is usually measured in bits per second, or "bps." You can think of bandwidth as a highway with cars traveling on it. The highway is the network connection and the cars are the data. The wider the highway, the more cars can travel on it at one time. Therefore more cars can get to their destinations faster. It's the same principle with computer data -- the more bandwidth, the more information that can be transferred at one time.
While using the Internet, you are using bandwidth to transfer data. Bandwidth is counted for both uploads and downloads. Abusing bandwidth refers to an individual taking up a larger share of the highway than they should.
When students on the residence hall network are sharing lots of music and movie files, especially by way of peer-to-peer networks, the speed of the network decreases for everyone. When bandwidth use rises, so do bandwidth costs. Increasing costs can lead to higher housing contract fees. Many people exceed bandwidth quotas because they are sharing copyrighted material without permission. Copyright violation is against the law and you may be prosecuted.
In a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network, the "peers" are computer systems which are connected to each other via the Internet. Files can be shared directly between systems on the network without the need of a central server. In other words, each computer on a P2P network becomes a file server as well as a client.
The only requirements for a computer to join a peer-to-peer network are an Internet connection and P2P software. Common P2P software programs include Kazaa, Limewire, BearShare, Morpheus, and Acquisition. These programs connect to a P2P network, such as "Gnutella," which allows the computer to access thousands of other systems on the network.
Once connected to the network, P2P software allows you to search for files on other people's computers. Meanwhile, other users on the network can search for files on your computer, but typically only within a single folder that you have designated to share. While P2P networking makes file sharing easy and convenient, is also has led to a lot of software piracy and illegal music downloads. Therefore, it is best to be on the safe side and only download software and music from legitimate websites.
It has become popular practice to download movies, music, games and software files from P2P networks at no financial cost. However, this violates both copyright and criminal law. According to the music and movie industries, the majority of the offenders are college students using their college internet service.
UNF's Computer and Network Use Policy explicitly prohibits individuals from using its computer systems and networks to violate copyright law. It is important for all users of UNF's systems to understand their responsibilities and UNF's obligations regarding copyright.
Unless you are the copyright holder or have express permission to share someone else's copyrighted works, you are almost certainly violating someone's copyrights if you upload or download copyrighted works via a P2P network. While there are some circumstances in which unauthorized sharing may be lawful, sharing songs instead of purchasing them is clearly unlawful.
A number of websites are legally authorized to sell digital content and/or subscription services to customers. Services such as iTunes, Napster and MusicMatch are convenient and affordable ways to get your music over the Internet.
Most file sharing takes place on computers owned by individuals. UNF does not have the authority to unilaterally remove these applications from personal computers. Moreover, there are many legitimate and lawful uses for these applications, for instance in research, teaching, and scholarship.
A number of P2P providers exist on the Internet, some legitimate, some not. Individuals who download music or videos from these sites may be exposed to the software that enables file sharing. In order to avoid sharing, the individual must know how to "turn off" that feature. The University of Chicago website mentioned above does a very good job of explaining how to disable such file sharing.
UNF requires all campus residents to install a policy key the first time they connect to the Internet. This key looks for peer-to-peer applications, and if found, quarantines the computer.
Students who refuse to accept the policy key, or are caught file sharing, are unable to connect to any off-campus Web sites. For these students, www.unf.edu is the only online site available. This leaves sites like myWings unavailable for students without the policy key.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been actively and very publicly asserting the rights of artists in the music industry. As a college student, you need to appreciate the fact that you are the current focus of the RIAA's litigation efforts.
The latest efforts of the RIAA involve pre-litigation settlement letters. Such letters offer students the option to settle copyright-infringement claims out-of-court before the RIAA sues them. Some reports state that the RIAA charges a student approximately $700 per downloadand that the average settlement has cost a given student $3,500. As you can see, the RIAA is quite serious about its anti-piracy efforts.
If you have not yet been contacted by the RIAA, it is entirely up to each individual what programs and files they keep on their computers – provided they comply with UNF policies and procedures.
If, however, the RIAA has already contacted you, deleting or destroying files and information on your computer could be a violation of law and could subject you to further penalties. As a result, you should seek legal counsel once you have been contacted by the RIAA and before you make any changes or deletions to your computer.


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I have a special affection for decorated letters, especially the ornamented designs of the nineteenth century. You know the kind: they're chubby Regency typefaces, slab serifs or high-contrast 'Fat Faces,' mostly, whose surfaces are emblazoned with intricate patterns or pastoral scenes. The collection of L. J. Pouchée contains some genuine masterpieces that I've long admired, letters festooned with grapevines or peonies or cobblestones, or illuminated with bucolic vignettes of farmer at the plough. "We should really do something in this vein," I once said to one of our designers. "Covered in fax machines, or pigeons?" he quipped. I dropped the topic.
Designer Jeanie Nelson has picked it up. On her blog Jeanie & Jewell, she's exhibiting a wonderful collection of ornamented capitals of her own invention, and they are absolutely enchanting. There are so many things to love about these that I hardly know where to begin: the cheery colors whose roles change from letter to letter, the witty imagery that conceals more than a few oblique puns, the whimsical way she tweaks the nose of typographic convention whenever the spirit moves her. (Most type designers start with the sober letter H that serves as a template for the rest of the design; Jeanie Nelson's H, right now, is having more fun than any H that's ever lived.) I'm delighted by this design not only because of its squirrels, dragons, pineapples and ice cream cones, but because it pays homage to a potent and beloved historical style without ever becoming a stuffy museum piece in period dress. That the koala bear in the K is climbing a letter made of wood just makes it doubly fantastic. —JH


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The Next Golden Moment for Tomasevicz: Throwing a First Pitch at Wrigley
To "Respond to Randy" click on the link below and choose "Randy York's N-Sider" under "Area of Interest" on the new screen. Please include your name and city/town/state and share your thoughts on Olympic gold medalist Curtis Tomasevicz. Your comments may be published.
In last week's crush of activity that felt every bit as fast as that Olympic bobsled gold medal run in Whistler, British Columbia, one-time Nebraska football walk-on Curtis Tomasevicz was everywhere.
He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, on NBC's Today Show, shooting t-shirts from a Valentino's gun at a sold-out Nebraska women's basketball game, and oh yes, he also delivered three one-liners on the David Letterman Show's "Top Ten Things You Don't Want to Hear from a Guy in Your Bobsled".
Tomasevicz also managed to visit his hometown of Shelby, Neb., and make it to Lincoln to address high school students and to chat with Tom Osborne, Bo Pelini and just about anyone else in the Nebraska Athletic Department who wanted to see what a 24-carat gold medal looked like and felt like.
Now Curtis Tomasevicz knows why ex-Husker Charlie Greene, a 1968 gold and bronze medal-winning sprinter, considers an Olympic medal a significant lifetime achievement that can be an easy conversational trigger in any public appearance.
That's not all it can do. Tomasevicz's first Olympic medal appears to have set the stage for another golden moment in his fast-changing life ... the opportunity to throw a ceremonial first pitch for a Chicago Cubs' baseball game this season.
"I'm a die-hard Cubs' fan, and I just got some of the greatest news possible," he said. "A couple of my teammates have set it up where it looks like I'll be throwing out one of the opening pitches at Wrigley Field this summer. For me, an opportunity like that ranks right below a gold medal."
Walk-On Question: Could This Be the Cubbies' Year?
Curtis Tomasevicz grew up dreaming about Chicago winning a World Series, something that has eluded the Cubbies for 102 years.
His own unlikely road to glory in Canada "gives me hope that the Cubs could do it this year yet," Tomasevicz said. "Maybe 'next year' comes this year for all of us die-hards."
The best brakeman in bobsledding doesn't have a specific date to step inside Wrigley as a special guest, but he'll be counting down the opportunity when it's finalized. He can't wait to take the red-line to the Addison stop and join the Boys in Blue.
You'd smile, too, if you'd spent the last six years bundling up, lifting hard and pushing fast before jumping into the last seat of a four-man bobsled that would fly down ice so dangerous that some of the world's best drivers crash with alarming regularity.
Just the thought of a beautiful day in Wrigley, with its ivy-covered brick walls and manually operated scoreboard, stirs the blood in Curtis Tomasevicz, who admits he would enjoy sitting in the bleachers as much as anywhere.
An old-fashioned ball park seems like a perfect getaway for someone that was part of the first USA team in 62 years to win bobsledding gold, and yes, Tomasevicz is proud that the Americans did it the old-fashioned way - with hard work, courage and lots of heart.
Nebraska Experience Paved the Way to the Top
A highly humbled Tomasevicz drew two full auditoriums of Lincoln Southwest High School students in his first two speeches after winning Olympic gold. He told students and teachers that winning is fun, but doing it the right way was more important.
His right way started at Nebraska, where athletic tradition is rich and is most often the result of what Tomasevicz describes as a "blue-collar, nose-to-the-grindstone attitude that everybody has here." He said NU's weight room "is a sanctuary and everybody lives and breathes in that thing. That's how the program gets better."
And that's how he got better.
The hometown hero was an even bigger hit in Shelby - something you'd expect from a town of less than 700 that has a sign that says: "Shelby, Nebraska: Home of Olympic Bobsledder Curtis Tomasevicz."
All you need to know is that the morning Tomasevicz went to cash a couple of checks last week at his local bank, he didn't get out of there until 2½ hours later. You may have seen his family at the bobsled finish line wearing their Big Red winter coats, but all the Shelby natives that Bob Costas said were glued to their televisions at home wanted a piece of him, too.
"Some people in Shelby have told me they've watched that final race four or five times," Tomasevicz said. "I had one family tell me their 4-year-old daughter had to watch it three times every morning last week before she'd go to day care."
Her mom told Tomasevicz that the 4-year-old even mimicked her new role model bouncing from one leg to another as he warmed up for his initial run-and-push.
Amazingly, a week after the Americans' historic gold, Tomasevicz had not seen a replay. He vividly remembers, however, lying back in the sled. The second he pulled the brake lever and went horizontal, he started shaking like a rock 'n 'roll star.
He never thought about being the first guy to break the curtains on Letterman's show and drawing big laughs, especially when he stated Reason No. 6 in the Top 10 Things You Don't Want to Hear from a Guy in Your Bobsled: "I bought us a Toyota bobsled."
He Believes in Dreaming the Impossible Dream
Who would have thought that Curtis Tomasevicz would be waving to the world, cracking lines on national television or thinking about how he might throw a ceremonial first pitch at Wrigley Field?
For him, it all still seems a little bit like fantasy.
Then again, it's not really all that difficult to comprehend. After playing football for the sheer love of the sport and without a scholarship, Curt Tomasevicz decided to dream big one more time and compete in bobsledding for the sheer love of the sport and without sponsors.
This time, though, his love lifted him higher than he'd ever imagined.
When he played under Bo Pelini in 2003, Tomasevicz said he learned the value of passion, patience, perseverance and process, and how they all relate to performance.
"Bo Pelini could fire you up to go to breakfast," said Tomasevicz, who lights his own motivational fire when taking on formidable challenges. Right now, for instance, he's contemplating becoming a driver like Steve Holcomb, his friend and teammate.
"Steve is THE best driver in the world," Tomasevicz said, "but he's been in this for 12 years now. I've only been in it six years. It'd be hard not to push for him and keep winning, but I'm thinking about giving driving a try and maybe see how it goes."
One thing is certain. Curtis Tomasevicz will never underestimate the inherent power of a dream ... or whatever it takes to live it.
Voices from Husker Nation
Curtis is a unique individual. We have watched him through high school, at Nebraska and now for the last six years, on the bobsled circuit. Being in Whistler was one of the most exciting times of my life. It is a whole different kind of excitement. Curtis is the kind of person that is always going to push the limits and that is what makes him special. Nice article and keep up the good work!! Hopefully, 2014 will bring more hardware back to Big Red Country. Monte Selden, Shelby, Nebraska
Attending the past two Summer Olympic Games as a spectator makes me keenly aware of just how special it must be to stand on the podium as an Olympic Champion. Now, Curtis Tomasevicz is that special champion, and I would like to join all Americans and Nebraskans in congratulating him on this extraordinary accomplishment. Curt, you exemplify everything Nebraskans strive for, but I have one personal request for you: Come back in four years and let us cheer you and USA Bobsled Team 1 on as you defend the gold in 2014!! Jerry Seiler, Hastings, Nebraska