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Coronavirus isn't just infecting young people. It's killing young, healthy people as well.
We've reported many stories about young people getting severely sick with or dying from coronavirus.
Dimitri Mitchell, 18, admits he had a "false sense of security." But he was later hospitalized with coronavirus and now wants everyone to take it seriously.
"I just want to make sure everybody knows that no matter what their age is, it can seriously affect them. And it can seriously mess them up, like it messed me up," Mitchell said.
He started feeling sick on St. Patrick's Day, with just a small cough. "I thought at first it was just a normal cold. And then it started progressively getting worse," he said.
"Four days in, the really bad symptoms started coming along. I started having really bad outbreaks, like sweating, and my eyes were really watery. I was getting warmer and warmer, and I was super fatigued. … I would start experiencing the worst headaches I've ever felt in my life. They were absolutely horrible."
Eventually, the teen had to be hospitalized. His mother said she worried he might "fall asleep and never wake up."
Mitchell is now recovering, but still has a cough almost a month later.
"I just hope everybody's responsible, because it's nothing to joke about," he said. "It's a real problem, and I want everybody to make sure they're following social distancing guidelines and the group limits. And just listen to all the rules and precautions and stay up to date with the news and make sure they're informed."
No. That's just a hoax going around the internet.
"The theory that 5G might compromise the immune system and thus enable people to get sick from corona is based on nothing," said Eric van Rongen, chairman of the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP).
Learn more about how 5G really works and why this hoax makes no sense.
Ideally, you should limit your children's potential exposures to coronavirus and work out the safest plan possible with your ex.
The problem: Most state and county family courts are closed, or open only for emergencies involving abuse or endangerment. So if parents wanted to formally modify pre-existing custody agreements, they can't.
But some states may be offering some flexibility during the pandemic. And there may be creative solutions, such as spending more time with one parent now in exchange for extra time with the other parent after the pandemic ends.
The CDC recently changed its guidance on wearing face masks as more studies about asymptomatic spread pile up.
Now, the CDC "recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain (e.g., grocery stores and pharmacies)."
But there are several important caveats and key points:
"There is a delay because the way it goes, you have people who get exposed; they get infected; the number of new infections, hospitalizations, critical care and deaths (follow)," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
"So even when you suppress or stabilize the number of new infections, it's still going to take a while before you see a decrease in hospitalizations, a decrease in intensive care, and a decrease in deaths. And in fact, deaths are the last thing that lag. So you could be doing well (with mitigation measures) and still see the deaths go up."
"We really should be," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
"If you look at what's going on across the country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that."
President Donald Trump has declined to give a nationwide stay-at-home order.
More than 40 states have stay-at-home orders, which generally allow exceptions for grocery shopping, helping a sick loved one or getting outdoor exercise away from other people.
But states with fewer cases of coronavirus also need to be on high alert, Fauci said.
"If you just look at those (places) and say, 'There are very little infections in this area or that area, we don't have to worry about it,' you're making a big mistake," he said. "Those are tinders that can turn into big fires."
Most coronavirus patients don't need to be hospitalized. "The vast majority of people – about 80% – will do well without any specific intervention," said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Those patients should get plenty of rest, hydrate frequently and take fever-reducing medication.
"The current guidance – and this may change – is that if you have symptoms that are similar to the cold and the flu and these are mild symptoms to moderate symptoms, stay at home and try to manage them," said Dr. Patrice Harris, president of the American Medical Association.
But about 20% of coronavirus patients get advanced disease. "Older patients and individuals who have underlying medical conditions or are immunocompromised should contact their physician early in the course of even mild illness," the CDC says.
The CDC also says you should get immediate help if you have:
"This list is not all inclusive," the CDC says. "Please consult your medical provider for any other symptoms that are severe or concerning."
No, the water supply is not at risk.
"The COVID-19 virus has not been detected in drinking water," the CDC says. "Conventional water treatment methods that use filtration and disinfection, such as those in most municipal drinking water systems, should remove or inactivate the virus that causes COVID-19."
So there's no need to hoard drinking water, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci said he and his wife are still drinking tap water.
The Harvard Medical School offers several tips, including:
Unless you have an emergency, the American Dental Association suggests rescheduling imminent appointments.
The ADA has urged dentists nationwide to postpone elective procedures.
"Concentrating on emergency dental care will allow us to care for our emergency patients and alleviate the burden that dental emergencies would place on hospital emergency departments," ADA said in a March 16 statement.
You can't, said Dr. James Phillips, chief of disaster and operational medicine at George Washington University Hospital.
"We're so far behind on testing, there's only one way we can be certain not to transmit the virus and be certain not to get it ourselves: We need to start treating every person as though they have this, " Phillips said.
"And everyone needs to treat us like we have it, and socially distance ourselves in that manner. Because until we have (enough) testing, we don't know who has this. And we're not sure when they start spreading it."
That's why it's so critical to avoid crowds, stay at least 6 feet away from others, wash or disinfect your hands, and stop touching your face.
With the shortage of coronavirus testing nationwide, it may be difficult to know whether your loved one has coronavirus or another illness. So it's critical to play it safe and not infect yourself and, in turn, others. The CDC suggests:
Fever, dry cough and difficulty breathing are hallmarks of coronavirus.
Symptoms may appear anywhere from 2 days to 2 weeks after exposure, the CDC says. But some people get no symptoms at all and can infect others without knowing it.
The illness varies in its severity, and many patients can recover at home in isolation.
It's virtually impossible to say for sure that you haven't been exposed to the virus. Some carriers of coronavirus don't have any symptoms. But they can still pass on the virus without knowing it.
"We now know that asymptomatic transmission likely (plays) an important role in spreading this virus," said Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
He said it's "absolutely clear" that asymptomatic infection "surely can fuel a pandemic like this in a way that's going to make it very difficult to control."
Read more: How can people spread coronavirus if they don't have any symptoms?
Infectious disease experts say those older than 60 are at much higher risk of getting seriously ill if they're exposed to coronavirus.
The CDC says "older adults" and people with serious chronic medical conditions "are at higher risk of getting very sick from this illness."
Anyone over 60 and those with underlying health problems should try to avoid places with large crowds – such as movie theaters, busy malls and even religious services, infectious disease experts say.
"This ought to be top of mind for people over 60, and those with underlying health problems," said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University professor and longtime CDC adviser.
But why is age 60 often used as a threshold for those who need to be extra cautious?
"(The) average age of death for people from coronavirus is 80. Average age of people who need medical attention is age 60," US Surgeon General Jerome Adams said.
Read more about what adults 60 and older should do to prevent coronavirus.
"Younger people, thankfully, seem to be insulated to some extent to protect (them) from getting particularly sick from this," said CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta. "We don't know entirely why."
But while children might have mild to no symptoms with coronavirus, they can still get others sick. "They can still carry the virus in their bodies," Gupta said. "They could potentially still shed the virus and be a source of infection."
Like everyone else, children should wash their hands frequently for at least 20 seconds, stay at least 6 feet away from anyone coughing or sneezing, and stop touching their faces – which is a lot harder than it sounds.
"I would suggest wiping down external surfaces of canned or wrapped foods," said Dr. Celine Gounder, an infectious disease specialist at Bellevue Hospital Center.
"You should be washing your vegetables (and) produce anyway," she said. "But I think making sure you sanitize your hands, wash your hands after you do all that – after you unpack all your groceries – is also a key step."
Yes, you can make both at home.
"Unexpired household bleach will be effective against coronaviruses when properly diluted" if you're trying to kill coronavirus on a non-porous surface, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The CDC's recipe calls for diluting 5 tablespoons (or ⅓ cup) of bleach per gallon of water, or 4 teaspoons of bleach per quart of water.
You can also make your own hand sanitizer. The Nebraska Medical Center – famous for its biocontainment unit and treatment of Ebola patients – offers this recipe:
What you'll need:
In a mixing bowl, stir isopropyl alcohol and aloe vera gel together until well blended.
Add 8-10 drops of scented essential oil (optional, but nice). Stir to incorporate.
Pour the homemade hand sanitizer into an empty container and seal.
Write "hand sanitizer" on a piece of masking tape and attach to the bottle.
Yes, because a family member may suddenly have to quarantine. Just don't hoard more than you need because others need supplies, too.
Harvard Medical School recommends keeping a two-week to 30-day supply of nonperishable food at home. And if you don't use them now, they may come in handy for power outages or extreme weather.
It's also a good idea to keep at least a 30-day supply of prescription medications you may need, though it can be difficult to get them early. Consider mail-ordering medications.
If you rely on public transportation, use caution. If you're sick or live in an area where an outbreak has been reported, avoid it.
Mass transit could increase your risk of exposure to coronavirus. Luckily, transit systems are upping their cleaning regimens — notably the New York subway system.
Dr. Robyn Gershon, a professor of epidemiology at New York University's School of Public Health, has some tips: When you ride a bus or subway, sneeze or cough into your elbow. Use a tissue to hold onto a pole. Avoid touching your face while you're riding, and use hand sanitizer if you have it while you're commuting.
Again, wash your hands before, during and after your trip.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo recommends letting crowded trains or buses pass and waiting for a less crowded one. It's nearly impossible to maintain 6 feet of distance on a packed subway car.
If you have a chronic illness, find alternative means of transportation — being in a crowded subway car or bus will significantly increase your risk of infection.
Both rideshare companies said they're actively trying to protect customers and drivers from coronavirus.
Uber said it is trying to give drivers with disinfectants to help keep their cars clean, and the company "may temporarily suspend the accounts of riders or drivers confirmed to have contracted or been exposed to COVID-19."
Lyft announced a similar policy: "If we are notified of a rider or driver testing positive for COVID-19, they will be temporarily suspended from using Lyft until they are medically cleared."
Both Lyft and Uber also said they will protect drivers financially if they are asked to isolate themselves.
"Any driver or delivery person who is diagnosed with COVID-19 or is individually asked to self-isolate by a public health authority will receive financial assistance for up to 14 days while their account is on hold," Uber said.
"We've already helped drivers in some affected areas, and we're working to quickly implement this worldwide."
States have received guidance from the CDC on how to keep voting locations clean. It's up to you whether you feel comfortable going.
Many states that already held elections imposed measures to reduce contact between voters, increasing the distance between voting booths and rigorously disinfecting voting equipment. But if you go, remember – wash your hands before, during and afterward.
If you're able to mail in your ballot, do – just don't lick the envelope.
If you think you have a fever or respiratory symptoms, the CDC advises that you stay home. It's unfortunate to skip out on your civic duty, but sick people shouldn't visit crowded locations.
If you can, you should stay home from work when you're sick, whether or not you have coronavirus.
Many companies are increasingly flexible with work from home policies. If your company is allowing employees to work from home, consider it. Some companies have enforced working from home.
If you must go into work, maintain 6 feet of distance from your colleagues, wash your hands frequently and practice good respiratory etiquette by coughing or sneezing into your elbow.
Avoid handshakes, switch in-person meetings to teleconferences and disinfect your workspace with EPA-approved products at the start of your shift.
An employee can be fired if they don't show up to work and they don't have sick leave that would cover the absence, says Krista Slosburg, an employment attorney at Stokes Lawrence in Seattle.
But there are exceptions.
Employers that make workers with coronavirus come in may be violating Occupational Safety and Health Administration [OSHA] regulations, according to Donna Ballman, who heads an employee advocacy law firm in Florida.
If you work in a city or state that requires sick leave and you use it, you can't be terminated or disciplined.
But there is no federal mandate that requires companies to offer paid sick leave, and almost a quarter of all US workers don't get it, according to 2019 government data. Some state and local governments have passed laws that require companies to offer paid sick leave.
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can sometimes protect a worker's job in the event they get sick, but it won't guarantee they get paid while they're out.
Employee advocates urge businesses to consider the special circumstances of the coronavirus, and some already have. Uber and Olive Garden are two that recently updated their sick leave policies to adjust to the pandemic.
The Society for Human Resource Management recommends companies "actively encourage sick employees to stay home, send symptomatic employees home until they are able to return to work safely, and require employees returning from high-risk areas to telework during the incubation period [of 14 days]."
If a manager feels an employee's illness poses a direct threat to colleagues' safety, the manager may be able to insist the employee be evaluated by a doctor, said Alka Ramchandani-Raj, an attorney specializing in workplace safety.
It's not the cabin air you need to worry about. It's keeping your hands clean.
Always be mindful of where your hands have been, travel medicine specialist Dr. Richard Dawood said.
Airport handrails, door handles and airplane lavatory levers are notoriously dirty.
"It is OK to touch these things as long as you then wash or sanitize your hands before contaminating your face, touching or handling food," Dawood said.
"Hand sanitizers are great. So are antiseptic hand wipes, which you can also use to wipe down armrests, remote controls at your seat and your tray table."
Most viruses don't spread easily on airplanes because of how the air circulates and is filtered, the CDC says.
Modern commercial jets recirculate 10-50% of the air in the cabin, mixed with outside air. "The recirculated air passes through a series of filters 20-30 times per hour," the CDC says.
"Furthermore, air generally circulates in defined areas within the aircraft, thus limiting the radius of distribution of pathogens spread by small-particle aerosols. As a result, the cabin air environment is not conducive to the spread of most infectious diseases."
Still, try to avoid contact with anyone sneezing or coughing. And if you're feeling sick, cover your entire mouth and nose with the inside of your elbow when you cough or sneeze.
"US citizens, particularly travelers with underlying health conditions, should not travel by cruise ship," the US Department of State says.
Cruise ship passengers are at an increased risk of infection, the CDC says. The virus spreads more easily between passengers in tight quarters.
Several cruise ships have been linked to coronavirus, including the Diamond Princess, where more than 700 people were infected. Half of those infected didn't have symptoms when they tested positive. At least seven of those patients have died.
Since the coronavirus outbreak started, some cruise lines have implemented more flexible rebooking or cancellation policies.
People who are immunocompromised "are at higher risk from this illness, as well as other illnesses like the flu. Avoiding contact with ill people is crucial," Washington state's Snohomish Health District said.
"While rates of infection may not differ significantly between healthy and immunocompromised travelers, the latter are at greater risk for severe disease," according to researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine.
Top healthcare officials say the US does not have enough stockpiled medical equipment like masks, gowns and gloves to meet the anticipated need as this pandemic grows.
There are several reasons hospitals are on track to face dire shortages, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert and professor at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
"About 20 or 30 years ago, we decided that we would not over-hospitalize," Schaffner said.
Back then, hospitals often had empty hospital beds for new patients. But now, many hospitals are "absolutely full," Schaffner said. "We have under-built hospital beds because they are very expensive."
Also, Americans have grown accustomed to "just-in-time" ordering. But that becomes a huge problem when international supply chains are disrupted by an outbreak. "We didn't anticipate international turbulence influencing this," Schaffner said.
Now, some health care workers are making their own masks. They've also been told they can use bandanas or scarves as masks.
There's currently no cure for the novel coronavirus. And while research is underway, it could be more than a year before a vaccine becomes publicly available.
An antiviral drug must be able to target the specific part of a virus's life cycle that is necessary for it to reproduce, according to Harvard Medical School.
"In addition, an antiviral drug must be able to kill a virus without killing the human cell it occupies. And viruses are highly adaptive."
Stay home. Call your doctor to talk about your symptoms and let them know you're coming for an appointment so they can prepare for your visit, the CDC says.
Only a Covid-19 test can diagnose you with the virus, but if you suspect you have it, isolate yourself at home.
Many patients with coronavirus are able to recover at home. If you've been diagnosed and your illness is worsening, seek medical attention promptly. You may need to be monitored in a hospital.
Ask your physician to call the local or state health department, too, so they're aware that you're being monitored for the virus.
No. Those products work on surfaces but can be dangerous to your body.
There are some chemical disinfectants, including bleach, 75% ethanol, peracetic acid and chloroform, that may kill the virus on surfaces.
But if the virus is already in your body, putting those substances on your skin or under your nose won't kill it, the World Health Organization says. Not to mention, those chemicals can harm you.
And please – do not ingest chemical disinfectants.
There's no evidence from the outbreak that eating garlic, sipping water every 15 minutes or taking vitamin C will protect people from the new coronavirus. Same goes for using essential oils, colloidal silver and steroids.
"It takes anything up to six weeks to recover from this disease," said Dr. Michael Ryan of the World Health Organization.
"People who suffer very severe illness can take months to recover from the illness."
Recovery is often marked by a patient no longer showing symptoms and having two consecutive negative tests at least one day apart, Ryan said. But there is no known cure for the novel coronavirus.
Some people with coronavirus have mild or no symptoms. And in some cases, symptoms don't appear until up to 14 days after infection.
During that incubation period, it's possible to get coronavirus from someone with no symptoms. It's also possible you may have coronavirus without feeling sick and are accidentally infecting others.
So anyone who has had close contact with someone known to have coronavirus should ask a health care provider about getting tested, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Experts say it's due to cuts in federal funding for public health and problems with early testing.
Problems with public health infrastructure Two years ago, the CDC stopped funding epidemic prevention activities in 39 countries, including China. This happened because the Trump administration refused to allocate money to a program that started during the 2014 Ebola outbreak.
Former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden warned that move "would significantly increase the chance an epidemic will spread without our knowledge and endanger lives in our country and around the world."
Problems with the testing Malfunctions, shortages and delays in availability have all contributed to the slowdown.
In the first few weeks of the outbreak in the US, the CDC was the only facility in the country that could confirm test results — even though a World Health Organization test became available around the same time.
Some test kits that were sent around the country were flawed — a move that put the US behind about "four to five weeks," says Dr. Rob Davidson, executive director of the Committee to Protect Medicare.
No. There are some interesting coincidences in the 1981 fiction novel, which says "a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread around the globe" around the year 2020. Modern editions of the book call the biological strain "Wuhan-400," and the current coronavirus outbreak started in Wuhan, China.
But there are important differences between the book and reality. The original version of the book called the strain the "Gorki-400," in reference to a Russian locality, before it was later changed to the "Wuhan-400." In the book, the virus was man-made, while scientists believe the novel coronavirus started in animals and jumped to humans. And in the book, the virus had a 100% mortality rate. Early estimates of the mortality rate for this coronavirus outbreak range from 2-4%.
There's no evidence from the outbreak that eating garlic, sipping water every 15 minutes or taking vitamin C will protect people from the new coronavirus. Same goes for using essential oils, colloidal silver and steroids.
Some posts have suggested that putting sesame oil on your body or spraying yourself with alcohol or chlorine will kill the virus. That's also false.


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At the northern end of Chile lies the Atacama Desert. Those who study such things believe it to be the driest desert in the world. Though it borders the Pacific Ocean, it averages less than .004 inches of precipitation a year, and sees no rainfall in some years. Yet, it is exactly those conditions that makes it one of the best places on earth to observe the night sky. Those hot desert days create amazingly clear skies, there is rarely cloud cover or light pollution, and it is at a high elevation. That's why it 'houses' some of the largest astronomical observatories in the world.
It reminds me of what folks call 'thin places' - those spots
where the gap between heaven and earth seems but a couple of feet, where the
veil between God and us is as thin as phyllo dough. A dozen years ago,
I was able to visit some thin places: Gethsemani, Taize, Iona,
Lindisfarne, the Northumbria Community, all of which offer tremendous
hospitality to pilgrims from all over the world. Places where I recharged my
spiritual batteries, and felt closer to God than I had ever experienced, before or since.
While I get back to Gethsemani on a
regular basis, I have always hoped to get back to some of the other thin
places, especially Iona, before now. God willing (and if I win
the lottery or sell a million books!), that might happen this year. But in
the meantime, I am trying to open my soul to those thin places which might
just be around me.
Sometimes when I am standing in the woods with
Dusty and the wind is gently blowing around us, I feel like if we took
just a few more steps, we would cross that boundary.
Sometimes, when I
sit on the deck with only the night sky as my companion and the stars softly singing their songs, I am at worship.
Sometimes, as I sit on that
child-size chair reading books to the preschoolers with Dusty, I think I could reach through that veil and touch God's face.
Sometimes . .
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THEIRS is not a conventional life but then, if it were, Rob Heffernan wouldn't be a world champion. His wife Marian, an international 400m runner who put her own athletics career aside a year ago to manage his, is due a baby at the end of January, so they've had to make some contingency plans.
They've converted the attic to help make room for their third child and there's also a 5m x 6m log cabin in the back garden now. It's pretty basic but has electricity, carpet, a corner sofa and a television.
She teases him that it is his new "man-cave", and that when she's in the front room with a wailing newborn he'll be in there taking it easy.
But, like so much of their unusually dedicated lives, that's an in-joke they can share because only they truly understand what it takes to become the world 50km race walking champion.
They're already well used to living in different rooms or countries during those periods when he sleeps in an altitude tent in their Douglas home or goes abroad, for months at a time, to warm-weather training camps.
When you're an international athlete who races over a gruelling 31-mile distance, getting the necessary rest and recovery is just as important as the thousands of hours you log up in training.
Heffernan does a session each morning and evening and needs to rest -- often sleeping -- in between.
Any spare minute is spent with his family but, new baby or not, some things -- like sleep and training -- are non-negotiable.
No one can plan exactly for the exigencies of an infant so they accept there'll be times in 2014 when they'll just have to wing it.
But, as much as possible, the meticulous planning and relentless daily training routine that is Heffernan's trademark will continue.
He may have the sort of cheeky-chappy quick wit and rapport that was a god-send to TV hosts like Jonathan Edwards and Ryan Tubridy after he won his world crown in Moscow last August, but don't let that fool you.
Heffernan is not only blessed with the indigenous, scrappy personality that gives Cork folk a head start in all sport, but is also remarkably organised and disciplined.
Having finally found his sporting niche and perfected his own training system, he is not about to do that comic wobble-walk off into the sunset now with a pint glass in his hand.
"I look at some athletes in Ireland who hit one high and then came back down and I don't want to be one of them. The typical Irish thing, 'oh, your man went on the beer for a year,' or whatever," he explains.
It took until his 35th year to make the breakthrough, so he's intent on not becoming a one-hit wonder and firmly believes he can improve further. He wants to add a European title to his world crown in Zurich next summer and also believes he can still be a medal contender at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
He knows age is regarded as an impediment in sport but believes his situation is exceptional. He was originally a 20km specialist and it is only four years since he first completed a 50km race.
"I'm in a privileged position to say if I knew now what I knew 10 years ago I could have been great," Heffernan says. "But I'm still in that privileged position that I can still improve knowing what I know now.
"I'm still hungry for more, and because physically I'm still able to do it, why not go on, and try to back up this year and what I've done in London?" he argues.
"Also when I look back over my results, I've always performed relatively well at championships, I just haven't always won a medal. I've just really found my niche over 50km."
It was not until hooking up with Polish walks legend Robert Korzeniowski in the mid-noughties that his career really took off and he believes the haphazard nature of his early training may now actually stand to him.
"In Ireland, because we don't have professional set-ups from when we're 18 or 19, a lot of our training is sporadic. We also get injured and maybe our bodies are kept younger," Heffernan notes.
"I'm doing 100km this week and I'll double that in a few months. That's tough, but if I was training like that at 18 or 19 I would be burned out by 30.
"It was amateur at home for so long and when I was younger I had much more to worry about in terms of funding and qualifying standards."
He has certainly found his groove in the past three years and is helped by maximum government funding (€40,000 a year) and a sponsored car; but that's not much to rear a family on and he has suffered serious hardship and heartache over the years.
In the past decade he has had two hernia operations, the disappointment of finishing 15th at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin (he had been eighth in the Olympics the previous summer) and then finishing fourth in both the 20km and 50km at the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona.
His time when finishing fourth in the London Olympics 50km was good enough to have won all but one of the previous gold medals.
In the 2010 Europeans, Italy's Alex Schwarzer took silver in the 20km. He was the reigning Olympic 50km champion but is now serving a two-year ban for EPO.
When Heffernan was coming down the Mall in London, the last man he overtook was Russia's Sergey Bakulin, a former World Youth and European Junior champion.
Bakulin was back racing after serving a two-year ban for EPO in 2008-2010 and, a year ago, was banned for life for a second doping violation.
But Heffernan, drug-tested 18 times in the past year, takes an unusually sanguine attitude to the cheats. Some of the Russians, he notes, may be on drugs "but they're fierce hard, hard as nails", he stresses.
"Whatever they're on, they're (also) living in (training) camps, with the best support, the best of everything. Doping comes when there's big money and professional teams but, before they get that far, they've brilliant systems in place and that's what we have to concentrate on, getting your system right."
He refuses to waste time being bitter, pointing out the great joy and satisfaction he gets from competing and pushing himself to the limit.
But even his eternally sunny and wise-cracking disposition was almost defeated by the biggest test in his life in 2011; the sudden death of his mother, with whom he was close.
The circumstances were particularly tragic. She was found at the foot of the stairs after an apparent fall and only later did they discover that she had had a heart attack.
He was in Daegu, South Korea, at the time, preparing to race in the World Championships and the Irish team manager had to break the news. He cried all the way home with Marian by his side but immediately after the funeral she flew straight back out.
He insisted on it because she was part of the Irish 4x400m relay team that was chasing Olympic qualification at the time.
That terrible episode alone demonstrates their exceptional dedication.
Only rarely do elite athletes get due reward, like the weekend they both enjoyed in Monte Carlo last month, rubbing shoulders with megastars like Usain Bolt at the IAAF's annual gala of champions.
Given that Heffernan is 'only' training six days a week at the moment, he was able to take a full day off on the Sunday and was as delighted to get 14 hours of uninterrupted sleep.
After becoming only the third Irish athlete to win gold at a World Championships, he enjoyed the acclamation but resumed serious training on November 1.
"I know they'll (the opposition) be going out next year thinking, 'we're going to take him'. I love that. There's no animosity, but it's a new challenge, not going in as underdog. You're in there, on top of the pile, and they'll be looking to take me down," he enthuses.
Success has brought celebrity status, not all of it wanted. He wasn't a complete innocent, given the attention he attracted after finishing fourth at the 2012 Olympics.
"I realised after London that I still had no medal and could have been pulled left, right and centre. But once I'm back training, that's it, and I'm delighted to be back into the routine to be honest. I was sick of all the publicity stuff.
"With any job you want to get back to reality. I'm a sportsman. I'm not a TV personality or a politician, I'm an athlete." That fact was harshly underlined by his ill-judged tweet about the Roma people a few months ago.
He made a knee-jerk comment on Twitter in response to unfounded allegations of a child kidnapping in Tallaght and was taken aback when other knees jerked equally rapidly in his direction.
He was particularly hurt to be called racist, considering he has trained with and befriended athletes of so many nationalities.
"It was stupid, I never read all the facts and I threw it out but I apologised and still people are bringing it up to me. I was surprised people were ready to tear me down," he says.
"The biggest lesson is that I'm only an ordinary fella from Cork and I need to be more responsible. I'm a public figure now and just can't be throwing out comments like that.
"But I'm only human too. People make mistakes and people need to get over it and move on."
That Twitter storm taught him an important lesson, but many of his Irish team-mates could learn a lot from Heffernan.
Sonia O'Sullivan reckons that some of them are simply not tough enough, a criticism that could never be levelled at the steely Corkman, but Heffernan has a slightly different take on that theory.
"It's easy to be tough when you're prepared," he stresses. "If you threw me into a 20km race right now I'm not tough because I'm not ready.
"For any athlete it's about preparation and environment. You can throw booklets and plans at them all you like but unless an athlete is willing to live, sleep, eat and train -- with no distractions -- then you're never going to be any good."
Heffernan may finally be a world champion but he has never been one for getting above his station and is well able to put things in perspective.
August 14, 2013, may have been the greatest race of his career but he actually doesn't believe it was his best performance ever.
"In 2006 I was going to be cut from funding. I'd had a double hernia operation and 10 weeks later I had just one opportunity to get an (Olympic) 'A' standard. I went and got it in Copenhagen then. That was just as big an achievement as Moscow.
"Last year, after London, I was walking around Cork and you could easily fall into that bubble of thinking you're some kind of superstar.
"But I raced in Lugano (Switzerland, in a 20km race) in March and luckily there was no media coverage because I was only 10th and nearly at the end of my rope by the time it was finished.
"When I came back from London and everyone was patting me on the back, all I could remember was Lugano! That's good because it keeps you grounded and focused."
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NICE have recently published their behaviour change guidance http://publications.nice.org.uk/behaviour-change-individual-approaches-ph49 and the British Academy have now released their report on social science interventions in Public Health (press release here http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/news.cfm/newsid/1041 ; report itself here http://www.britac.ac.uk/policy/Health_Inequalities.cfm . )
These two events have come almost simultaneously, and they both highlight the importance contribution of social sciences in health. The British Academy report deliberately focused (as we say in our introduction) on non-individual social science and behavioural science contributions whereas the NICE guidance focuses specifically on behaviour change. These two reports complement each other well and the key issue, as we say in the introduction, is for local areas to find public health strategies which hold population and individual measures, policy/regulatory and behaviour change methods, clinical services and health improvement services in balance. A balanced public health strategy is one which uses appropriate methods and tools for the different facets of the public health challenge we face, especially non-communicable disease.
I've read the NICE behaviour change guidance twice now, and I'm using it to bring together our various behaviour change intentions and programmes into a strategy as they recommend. This is a helpful and sane document with wise advice and a good framework for commissioners and providers.
On 28th January Public Health England, NICE and the Local Government Association will be holding Evidence into Practice , the first of a series of events seeking to support the introduction of evidence-based practice. http://www.local.gov.uk/events/-/journal_content/56/10180/5751863/EVENT
I'm taking part in a panel discussion on the day, and I've also recently had colleagues from Public Health England spend a morning with me discusing and sharing how behaviour change approaches fit into a public health strategy.
I believe that there are several big challenges in getting behaviour change working effectively in public health programmes and strategies, and the NICE guidance is an enormous step forward, but we have much more still to do.
1. Having a conceptual framework of where behaviour change fits in public health as part of a strategy is a real challenge and no-one has really articulated this nationally yet in a clear and succinct way.
2. Understanding what method to use- do we target automatic processes or conscious ones, do we do population or individual level?
3. Policymakers often seize on one tool or method because it's the current buzz topic and attracts a lot of scientific and practitioner interest. That doesn't always make for or effective strategy.
4. Many public health departments don't have expert level behaviour science staff, and often the training we have had relies on models of behaviour change which are no longer used by experts in the field. The field has moved on, our training hasn't.
4. The field itself is still developing – a bit like public health – and so experts and researchers in the field need to be better at communicating with policymakers
All of this leads me to conclude that we need some propositions about how we as public health practitioners take behaviour change forward. I intend to share these with participants on 28th January.
Locating behaviour change in public health practice: some propositions
I share this because we ourselves are on the journey of working this out. It needs much more work, but we are already starting to use the framework they help us create.
I: Policymakers and commissioners need a clear Context within which Behaviour Change is used
- The epidemiology of the UK is such that behavioural sciences can make a significant contribution to primary prevention of non-communicable disease, secondary prevention especially self-management and resilience and tertiary prevention (e.g. coping skills for breathlessness in heart failure.) Behaviour change needs to be seen within this context.
- This contribution is alongside not instead of policy and population measures (like regulation of tobacco etc). Behaviour change is not the answer to our public health challenges. It is a part of the answer
- A balanced public health strategy will have interventions at policy, environmental, social, sub-population and individual levels (eg the 6 levels of public health action in the Hertfordshire Public Health Strategy taken from Dettels et al,2009 http://slidesha.re/1e4CVzY ) Another way of looking at this is the Health Impact Pyramid https://www.idph.state.ia.us/adper/common/pdf/healthy_iowans/health_pyramid.pdf
Example of how they can be applied – Tobacco
|Social – changing social norms about health, e.g. acceptability of binge drinking, acceptability of taking smoking breaks
|Behavioural economics, social marketing Young people
|Biological – immunisation, vaccinations, treatments
|Nicotine replacement therapy and cognitive tools for cravings
|Environmental – encouraging green transport, reducing pollution, changing the public realm
|Environmental cues, display legislationSmokefree playgrounds
|Individual Behavioural – helping individuals to stop smoking
|Individual and group behavioural change and support
|Legislative – the smoking ban, legislation on alcohol sales
|The ban on smokingLegislation on displays
|Structural – policy changes such as workplace health, school health policies
|Workplace policiesTobacco control partnerships
II: Policymakers need Clarity of the aims and uses for Behaviour Change
- Behaviour change can be used at population or individual or sub-population levels. Different theories, approaches and methods work for different settings. Policymakers should be aware of this.
- Including behavioural science skills (e.g. health psychologists) in your service is essential to get it right . They need links with the academics to keep track of the field. We've recognised the need for links between public health practice and academic public health starting with our training and running all through our careers. It's time behaviour sciences had this parity of esteem.
- Behaviour change can target "automatic" cognitive/emotive processes (e.g. choice architecture and also eye position tracking on cigarette package warnings) or conscious deliberative ones (e.g. behavioural skills to negotiate safer sex.) You need to be clear which you are using for what, and why
III: Policymakers need Clarity of methods, settings and audiences for Behaviour Change
- The experts in the field need to work with policymakers to create a framework or architecture within which local areas can understand and roll out behaviour change strategies and methods. A preliminary attempt at this is below
IV: A first step at a ready reckoner for behaviour change tools and methods
A ready reckoner for behaviour change tools and methods
Population Level
Group Level
Individual Levels
"Conscious" processes
"Conscious" processes
"Conscious" processes
Choice Architecture
Advertising e.g. change4 life
Groupwork for behaviour
Targeted social marketing
|Choice Architecture
Health Trainers
We still have gaps and weaknesses in science and tools across all of these
(i.e. the science is still developing)
I hope this makes sense, and welcome your comments


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Dallas InstallFest - It's a wrap!
The North Dallas .NET User Group and I, along with Intuit and TechniSource sponsored the Dallas Area Visual Studio 2008 InstallFest Party last night at the Intuit Headquarters in Plano. By all accounts it was a raging success! I don't have all the final numbers in yet, but here are my preliminary stats:
- 225 people in attendance
- 200 copies of Visual Studio 2008 Given Out
- 100 people installing some version of Visual Studio 2008 at the event and receiving a T-Shirt for it
- 100 lucky people that hung around at the end to pick up the rest of the T-Shirts
- 100 Pizzas from Domino's Pizza
- 75 Laptop stickers given out
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- 3 Xbox stations running High Definition playing Rock Band, Guitar Hero III and Halo 3
- 2 guys that were brave enough to sing during some wild Rock Band playing
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I'd like to make a special THANK YOU to a couple people that made this possible:
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- Norma Mills at Intuit to providing a FABULOUS facility for us to meet in. Intuit went out of their way in offering up their offices and a crew of folks to help us set up for the party. Mitch (sorry Mitch, didn't catch your last name) was particularly helpful in getting us set up with power and A/V equipment for all the Xboxes and the PA system.
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There was a lovely couple who had been committed with each other since their childhood. They were the best of friends and lovers. Things starting rolling off hill once they were separated in college. They had a lot of fights and misunderstandings which made their relationship bitter. On and off break ups created a gap between the two.
However, there came a drastic change in the girl's behavior after a few months. She became more and more distant, kept fighting on trivial issues but never outright broke up. The boy was troubled by her avoidance and careless attitude. He asked us if we could help him, and we took up the case.
We started tracking the girl's activities. Being in a long distance relationship gave her the advantage of lying. She could just lie to his face whenever she wanted to. So we recorded her daily life events, where she used to go, with whom, for how long, everything.
Merely after 3 days, we had a full confirmation that this girl had been cheating on her boyfriend for a very long time. She used to put her phone on silent or flight whenever she was with her new boyfriend, she would fight and make her present boyfriend guilty only so that he broke up and she had the benefit of the victim.
The girl was really clever at hiding her affair from her boyfriend. When we showed him the recorded images, audios and videos, he was crumbled and said he didn't believe in love anymore.
We advised him that he should move on with his life as this girl was not worthy of his love. Imagine what could have happened had they got married or had kids. What if she would have cheated after marriage? A divorce is not a simple solution, It drains a person out mentally, emotionally and physically.
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Bringing in hay on the Burgess farm on Kick Hill Road
Photographer: unknown
Date: circa 1890-1920
Image of four unidentified men posed in a hay field. One is driving a horse-drawn hay rake, one stands with a scythe, one is driving a two-horse team pulling a loaded hay wagon, and the last is standing on top of the load of hay.
According to the donor in 1899 her great-grandmother Emma Daggett, wife of Joseph Nathaniel Daggett (a Civil War veteran and manager of Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia and New York,) purchased a farm on the Lebanon Green from the estate of Dr. Charles Sweet. The Daggetts apparently hoped that their son Joseph would be interested in farming. The family used the farm as a summer home and hired Frederick A Burgess as resident farmer. Emma Daggett sold the property in 1902 but her daughter had fallen in love with Fred Burgess and the two were married in 1906.
This image was taken on Martha and Fred Burgess's farm on Kick Hill before they purchased the "Simeon Gray Tavern at 896 Trumbull Highway. Fred Burgess was a trial judge for twenty years and held court in the front parlor of their house.
Provenance: Gift of Margaret Daniel


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So, the sun has set on Whitley Bay Film Festival 2012 and I'm already excited for 2013! This post is about Whitley Bay Film Festival 2012 and why it was the highlight of the year for me.
After 14 days, 17 films, 12 indie shorts, 7 community shorts, 2 Arthouse evenings and 1 busker's night, the festival has come to an end. So why do I think it is the greatest event of the year?
Whitley Bay Film Festival is run purely by volunteers and the wonderful spirit demonstrated by these volunteers during every event was impressive. The smiles on their faces, their genuine interest in whether everyone had enjoyed the film and the great deal of effort, thought and preparation that was taken is like none I've never witnessed before. Certain multiplexes (and other retail operations) would benefit greatly by having their staff train with Whitley Bay volunteers.
I've seen some classic films and some independent shorts that could be regarded as classics in a few years. Visitors to The Playhouse also got an exclusive peek at the trailer for 'The Spies of Warsaw' which is due to be screened on BBC later this year. The films that have screened at the film festival have been broad in range and there's certainly been something for everyone. Not only did the film festival show films but they hosted animation classes, an art exhibition and music events, it was culture-filled.
Audience members were encouraged to get as involved as they like. Zombies shuffling out into the crowd during a film, glitter cannons exploding at the end of another movie and the costumes donned by the volunteers made the events truly memorable.
By planning surprises like the piano on Whitley Bay beach and arranging special guests like Dorothy & Toto at the beginning of 'Wizard of Oz' and an owl during 'The Birds', volunteers demonstrated their ability to add another dimension to film viewings.
Whitley Bay Film Festival helped me connect with like-minded people. Whether I attended screenings or alone, there was always someone to chat with who was equally as enthusiastic as I was. In Pantrini's one evening, when a girl and her mum started enthusing about the film festival. They'd just been to see 'Wizard of Oz' and were treating themselves to a fish supper. I've chatted with people during the Arthouses exhibition and the Independent Shorts evening. The people I met at St Mary's Lighthouse allowed me to geek out with total freedom and they made great film companions.
The choice in venues made me remember that Whitley Bay is not just a place for drunk stags and hens but a place of beauty and culture. I've learned about the regular busker's and film nights at the Trojan Rooms which had previously gone unnoticed by me. Thanks to visits to St Mary's Lighthouse and The Dome (among other places), I have fallen in love with Whitley all over again.
See you in 2013.
Vic x
To read my Whitley Bay Film Festival blog posts, please visit http://whitleybayfilmfestival.co.uk/.
To watch WBFF's 'Dawn of the Dead' night, click http://vimeo.com/48272172


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National Signing Day is usually on the first Wednesday in February where it allows high school athletes to sign their National Letter of Intent to play a college sport at a school that offered them a scholarship.
I got the opportunity to work with the awesome team at the Players Tribune to photograph the Michigan Signing of the Stars Event.
I ended 2016 in Miami, FL covering the 2016 Orange Bowl. Michigan vs Florida State at Hard Rock Stadium. The trip felt like it was four days even though I was only gone 24 hours. I left my house at 4:00am landed in Miami at 10:30am and grabbed lunch with a fellow photographer friend.
More than halfway through the 2016 college football season and teams in the Mid American Conference switch from playing games on Saturdays to weekdays to get a chance to shine on national television.
Last night the Ohio Bobcats traveled to Toledo for some late October MAC action. Personally, I didn't have a great game shooting, but here are some of my favorite photos from the game.
Some of my readers and followers may or may not know that I played football at the Univeristy of Toledo, I was the placekicker so being able to document the team like I have been able to this far in 2016 has been such an awesome experience.
I am trying to look at things just a little differently then most sports photographers on the sidelines. I love telling stories whether that be in person or via my photography. A picture truly is worth 1,000 words.
In the images below I have converted a few to black and white to show a little more emotion and the current mood the the image. Please let me know if you like that style by commenting below.
Thanks for looking!
2016 Homecoming at the University of Toledo! The Toledo Rockets hosted the team down south the Bowling Green Falcons on a stunning fall afternoon in October. The campus was packed with excitement which was awesome to see.
Here are my favorite photos from the game! Enjoy!
The Wyoming Cowboys traveling to Ypsilanti, MI to take on the Eastern Michigan Eagles on Sept. 23rd. Wyoming got off to a fast start but couldn't close the game after a last second fumble in the 4th quarter. Eastern Michigan went on to win the game 27-24.
Bristol Motor Speedway, also know as the "The Last Great Colosseum." hosted it's first ever NCAA Football game between the Virginia Tech Hokies and the Tennessee Volunteers on Sept 10, 2016. The University of Tennessee is 110 miles from Bristol Motor Speedway and Virginia Tech is 131 miles.
The Ohio State vs Michigan rivalry is know as one of the best match ups in college football. Ann Arbor and Columbus are only 190 miles apart. The two teams have been playing since 1897 and Michigan is currently leading the series 58-47-6. But the past four years, Ohio State has had Michigan's number. Michigan can't get over the hump and beat the team down south. Going into the game on Saturday everyone was expecting a closer game with a lot less scoring, but after Ohio State lost last weekend to Michigan State, Urban Meyer and the Buckeyes need some style points in hopes to make it back into the College Football Playoff.
I have been attending the Ohio State Michigan game for over ten years and I have only missed one game and that was last year, so it felt good to be back on the sidelines photographing the big game.
Special thanks to Chef Drew, whom is the last person I would have expected to see in Ann Arbor, for the pedicab ride from my parking spot to the media entrance at the stadium.
Here are my favorite images of the game. I hope you enjoy.
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The making of the Super Bowl 50 football at the Wilson Football Factory in Ada, Ohio. I was working for Wilson Sporting Goods to create some dynamic story telling images of how the Super Bowl and the College Football Playoff footballs are made in the little town of Ada, Ohio.
Every football is made by hand and each year around 700,000 footballs are produced for NCAA and NFL teams to be used on Saturdays and Sunday. It's truly and amazing experience to be able to see how each football is stamped out of slabs of leather and transformed into a football that we see our favorite collegiate and NFL players catch in the end zone on Saturdays and Sunday.
Here are some of my favorite images from the shoot.


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Domestic considerations behind Jordan's stance on Qatar crisis
Amman- For domestic political reasons, Jordan appears reluctant to take additional measures against Qatar other than reducing its diplomatic representation in Doha and closing Al Jazeera's office in Amman.
Jordan's move came after Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt broke diplomatic relations with Qatar and imposed an embargo on it.
Qatar is accused of sponsoring terrorist organisations and of threatening security and stability in the region by entertaining close relations with Iran. Doha denies the allegations.
Jordanian-Qatari relations have been discretely tense for some time because of what Amman considers provocations by Doha, especially through Al Jazeera. Nevertheless, Amman is treating the Qatari crisis with care.
The boycotting countries issued a list of demands, including that Qatar stop supporting extremist organisations. Political observers said Jordan was not in favour of some of the demands, especially those related to the Muslim Brotherhood.
Amman argued that the Muslim Brotherhood is part of Jordan's political life and has representatives in the parliament. Accepting a ban against the Muslim Brotherhood would cause a crisis in Jordan.
Atef Tarawneh, speaker of the Jordanian House of Representatives, said Jordan did not intend to go beyond the measures it had already taken against Qatar and that there was no intention of blacklisting the Muslim Brotherhood or the Palestinian movement Hamas. A large portion of Jordan's population is of Palestinian origin.
Tarawneh put out a statement clarifying that what he had said was based on his analysis of the situation and should not be taken as an official Jordanian position. Jordan has preferred to follow a policy of containment with respect to the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood rather than confront or ban it.
Jordanian King Abdullah II explained Jordan's policy towards the Muslim Brotherhood during his latest Washington meeting with US President Donald Trump.
Jordan's position and policy on this subject have put a damper on relations with Egypt, which has long suffered at the hands of what it classifies as terrorist organisations and was hoping for a stricter attitude and policy.
Amman's position did not come as a surprise because the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has often been in concert with the government. During the "Arab spring" of 2011, the Brotherhood thought the circumstances were ripe for rebellion and for demanding more freedom. It failed and the Brotherhood is once again flirting with the government after realising that there is no way to implement its plans.
The political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Action Front (IAF), took part in Jordan's parliamentary elections in 2016 after the group boycotted the previous two elections over allegations of unfair practices in the electoral system. The IAF and its Islamist affiliates won 15 seats in the 130-seat lower house of parliament last September.
Analysts said the Jordanian government's strategy of dealing with the Muslim Brothers was risky because the group previously opted for confrontation with the government and might do so again.
Jordan is facing another problem as it benefits financially from its ties with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
"By choosing a watered-down action, Amman was hoping to satisfy Riyadh and Abu Dhabi, the two capitals leading the Qatar boycott, without having to adopt extreme actions," wrote Osama al-Sharif on the website Al-Monitor.
Jordan may soon be facing more pressure from the Arab Gulf countries.
"In the event that Kuwait's efforts to resolve the Qatar crisis fail, perhaps Jordan will find itself under greater pressure to embrace Riyadh and Abu Dhabi's position by severing ties with Doha," wrote Giorgio Cafiero and Shehab al-Makahleh for the website lobelog.com.


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Northeast to add rodeo to intercollegiate athletic program lineup
October 23, 2018
NORFOLK, Neb. – Life will literally be a rodeo for some students at Northeast Community College. Officials announced Thursday that rodeo will become the 10th intercollegiate athletic program at the Norfolk-based college beginning in fall 2019. "Rodeo is a popular sport across the region among ...
Northeast Community College dance team names new members
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September 20, 2018
NORFOLK, Neb. - The dance team at Northeast Community College has kicked off its new year with six new members and one performance already under their belt. The non-competitive squad will perform at a number of home volleyball, soccer and basketball games this year. They completed their first perfor...
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Matthew Perry, Thomas Lennon Star In New 'The Odd Couple' Comedy On CBS
February 17, 2015
By Rick Bentley The Fresno Bee (TNS) "The Odd Couple," 8:30 p.m. Eastern, Thursday, CBS PASADENA, Calif. — Neil Simon's "The Odd Couple" has been produced on stage, in films and as a variety of TV programs since its Broadway debut in 1965. There was even a female version of the tale of two very di...
Newly Expanded IT Degrees Hold Many Opportunities For Students
Jackson Miller, Assistant Editor
November 6, 2014
With so many degrees on the Northeast Community College campus how does a students decide on just one. The newly expanded Information Technology (IT) department entices students to "Build their own degree." According to Richard Chrisman, information technology instructor, all freshman students enter the...
Whimsical 'Boxtrolls' Is Full Of Fun
September 30, 2014
By Rick Bentley The Fresno Bee (MCT) "The Boxtrolls" is an outlandishly funny tale brought to life through beautiful stop-animation photography. The film combines Monty Python-style humor with the sense and sensibilities of Oliver Twist and is presented in a wonderfully creepy animated style...
New Technology Provides Opportunities For Broadcasting Students
September 27, 2014
The Broadcast students on the Campus of Northeast Community College have just received a new innovative piece of technology to help them learn the duties and responsibilities of their field, called a tricaster. Brian Anderson, broadcasting instructor, defines a tricaster as an "all digital video switching...
CBS renews 'CSI,' 'Good Wife,' 'Two and a Half Men,' 15 other shows
March 17, 2014
By Scott Collins Los Angeles Times (MCT) LOS ANGELES — Sorry, Robin Williams, but you and your peeps at "The Crazy Ones" will just have to wait a little longer. CBS announced Thursday that it will return 18 series already on the schedule for the 2014-15 TV season, including old favori...
Northeast Community College To Celebrate Its 40th Anniversary
September 24, 2013
by James Curry NORFOLK - Forty years ago, the college that area residents know today as Northeast Community College began serving 14 counties of Northeast Nebraska. Northeastern Nebraska College and Northeast Nebraska Technical College merged on July 1, 1973. To mark its 40th anniversary, the Colleg...
Drowning Pool-Resilience
Brittany Hinkel, Shift Editor/ Cartoonist
April 10, 2013
The hard rock band, Drowning Pool, has had a stroke of bad luck after the death of their original lead singer, Dave Williams in 2002. Since then, they had recruited Jason Jones, who left the band in June 2005. After him, former Soil front man Ryan McCombs was recruited and, in 2011, also left. Now...
Meet the new judges for 'American Idol'
Rick Bentley
January 15, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. (MCT)--Country superstar Keith Urban had no problem saying "yes" when "American Idol" producers approached him to be one of the judges on the latest edition of the music competition series. After all, Urban and his wife, actress Nicole Kidman, are huge fans of the program. Plus, he...
Does Nebraska have a new state song?
Alberto Garcia, A & E Editor
February 9, 2012
"Something, something about my cool Nebraska guy, yeah something about, baby, you and I." We have all heard that song by famous New Yorker, Stefani Joanne Angelina Gemanotta, and better known as Lady Gaga. Her song, You and I, has become an international success, making Nebraska internationally...


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