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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
Persons Evaluated for 2019 Novel Coronavirus — United States, January 2020
Weekly / February 14, 2020 / 69(6);166–170
On February 7, 2020, this report was posted online as an MMWR Early Release.
Kristina L. Bajema, MD1,2; Alexandra M. Oster, MD3; Olivia L. McGovern, PhD1,2; Stephen Lindstrom, PhD4; Mark R. Stenger, MA5; Tara C. Anderson, DVM, PhD6; Cheryl Isenhour,, DVM2; Kevin R. Clarke, MD7; Mary E. Evans, MD8; Victoria T. Chu, MD1,4; Holly M. Biggs, MD4; Hannah L. Kirking, MD4; Susan I. Gerber, MD4; Aron J. Hall, DVM4; Alicia M. Fry, MD9; Sara E. Oliver, MD2; 2019-nCoV Persons Under Investigation Team (View author affiliations)
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What is already known about this topic?
During a 2020 outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection, CDC provided consultation to public health officials and health care providers evaluating persons at risk for 2019-nCoV infection.
What is added by this report?
During January 2020, CDC responded to clinical inquiries regarding approximately 650 persons in the United States and tested 210 for 2019-nCoV, one fifth of whom reported no recent travel-related risk but had close contact with a 2019-nCoV patient or a person under investigation for 2019-nCoV in the United States.
What are the implications for public health practice?
Health care providers should remain vigilant regarding possible 2019-nCoV exposure not only among returning travelers, but also among persons in close contact with 2019-nCoV patients in the United States.
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In December 2019, a cluster of cases of pneumonia emerged in Wuhan City in central China's Hubei Province. Genetic sequencing of isolates obtained from patients with pneumonia identified a novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) as the etiology (1). As of February 4, 2020, approximately 20,000 confirmed cases had been identified in China and an additional 159 confirmed cases in 23 other countries, including 11 in the United States (2,3). On January 17, CDC and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Customs and Border Protection began health screenings at U.S. airports to identify ill travelers returning from Wuhan City (4). CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center on January 21 and formalized a process for inquiries regarding persons suspected of having 2019-nCoV infection (2). As of January 31, 2020, CDC had responded to clinical inquiries from public health officials and health care providers to assist in evaluating approximately 650 persons thought to be at risk for 2019-nCoV infection. Guided by CDC criteria for the evaluation of persons under investigation (PUIs) (5), 210 symptomatic persons were tested for 2019-nCoV; among these persons, 148 (70%) had travel-related risk only, 42 (20%) had close contact with an ill laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV patient or PUI, and 18 (9%) had both travel- and contact-related risks. Eleven of these persons had laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection. Recognizing persons at risk for 2019-nCoV is critical to identifying cases and preventing further transmission. Health care providers should remain vigilant and adhere to recommended infection prevention and control practices when evaluating patients for possible 2019-nCoV infection (6). Providers should consult with their local and state health departments when assessing not only ill travelers from 2019-nCoV-affected countries but also ill persons who have been in close contact with patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection in the United States.
As part of CDC's Emergency Operations Center activation, CDC personnel assist state and local health departments with the evaluation of 2019-nCoV PUIs. Public health laboratories were not yet conducting 2019-nCoV testing during the period covered by this report, while awaiting Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization for the test. (The authorization occurred on February 4*). Therefore, all testing was conducted at CDC. A call center was staffed by a team of physicians and nurses 24 hours per day. During January 17–31, criteria used to determine whether a person was considered to be a PUI included presence of fever and symptoms of lower respiratory tract illness (e.g., cough or difficulty breathing) in addition to epidemiologic risk. Epidemiologic risk factors included history of travel from Wuhan City, close contact with a patient with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection, or close contact with an ill PUI. Given the evolving understanding of 2019-nCoV epidemiology, testing was recommended for some persons who did not strictly meet the PUI definition, based on clinical discretion. For clinical inquiries that resulted in 2019-nCoV testing, real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction testing was conducted at CDC using methods developed specifically to detect 2019-nCoV (7).
For this report, CDC reviewed inquiries regarding potential 2019-nCoV PUIs received by CDC through January 31, 2020, from state and local health departments, health care providers, and airport health screening personnel. Information was compiled from call logs and PUI forms to assess source of inquiry, PUI demographic data (including age and sex), clinical information, epidemiologic risk factors, and 2019-nCoV test results. To allow for delays in specimen shipping and testing, data for PUIs for whom an initial inquiry was received during January 2020 were collected through February 4, 2020.
During January 2020, approximately 30 CDC physicians and nurses responded to inquiries regarding approximately 650 persons. Testing was recommended for 256 persons (Figure) across 34 jurisdictions (the jurisdictions included states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and was completed for 210 persons. Testing of PUIs was not always performed because alternative diagnoses were made, or symptoms resolved. Among inquiries resulting in testing, six (3%) persons were identified through airport screening, 178 (85%) in a health care setting, and 26 (12%) through contact tracing (Table). Among 178 persons identified in a health care setting, the type of setting was reported for 125 (70%), including 79 (63%) who were evaluated at an emergency department or hospital, 22 (18%) at a student clinic, and 24 (19%) in other outpatient care settings. A total of 115 (55%) persons tested were male, and median age was 29 years (interquartile range = 21–49 years). Seventeen (8%) were health care workers, and 48 of 129 persons with available information were reported to be college students.
All 210 persons who were tested were symptomatic: 143 (68%) had subjective fever or a measured temperature ≥100.4°F (≥38°C), and 189 (90%) had cough or shortness of breath. Upper respiratory tract symptoms (i.e., sore throat, rhinorrhea, or congestion) were common and were present in nine persons who did not have cough or shortness of breath. Thirty persons were reported to test positive for another respiratory viral pathogen, including influenza or respiratory syncytial virus. Forty-two (20%) patients were hospitalized, and four (2%) were admitted to an intensive care unit. One patient was deceased at the time of notification; testing for this person was negative, and an alternative cause of death was established. Travel-related risk was identified for 148 (70%) persons, 42 (20%) had close contact with ill patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection or PUIs, 18 (9%) had both travel- and contact-related risks, and two (<1%) had possible contact with a laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV patient and were therefore tested.
Among the 210 persons tested, 11 (5%) were found to have 2019-nCoV infection. Nine of these persons had traveled to Wuhan City; two persons had not traveled but had been in close contact with patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV in the United States. All were symptomatic with fever (subjective or measured) or cough.
Quickly identifying persons at risk for 2019-nCoV is critical to slowing the potential spread of 2019-nCoV in the United States. This report describes CDC's current approach to facilitating recommended diagnostic testing of persons who might have 2019-nCoV infection. In response to the emergence of 2019-nCoV in China during a time of rapidly evolving understanding of the epidemiology and clinical presentation of 2019-nCoV infection, CDC has provided consultation regarding persons suspected of being at risk for 2019-nCoV to public health officials and health care providers throughout the United States.
Epidemiologic risk factors among the 210 persons tested for 2019-nCoV were not limited to travel: 20% of PUIs tested had not recently traveled to China but reported close contact with a person being evaluated for 2019-nCoV infection. Because person-to-person transmission is expected to continue, and as further travel restrictions are implemented, it is likely that the proportion of PUIs with such contact risk in the United States will increase among all persons evaluated for 2019-nCoV.
CDC mobilized early in the response and state and local health departments similarly increased capacity to provide clinical consultation regarding 2019-nCoV. The collection of clinical and epidemiologic data that described characteristics of persons tested for 2019-nCoV helped to inform changes to criteria for PUI evaluation.
On January 31, 2020, CDC published updated PUI guidance (8) in response to the evolving global epidemiology of 2019-nCoV, including the rapid geographic expansion and documentation of person-to-person transmission (9). Updated guidance emphasizes 2019-nCoV testing for symptomatic persons in close contact with patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection, persons returning from Hubei province in addition to Wuhan City, and persons from mainland China requiring hospitalization because of fever and lower respiratory tract illness. Additional refinements to this approach likely will be needed in the future as understanding of 2019-nCoV epidemiology continues to improve.
The findings in this report are subject to at least three limitations. First, the number of clinical inquiries received by CDC does not represent all inquiries received by health departments. Second, because the primary objective of this effort was to guide a timely public health response, some clinical and epidemiologic risk factor data might be incomplete. Finally, given the limited available epidemiologic information early in the outbreak, to provide some latitude for clinical decision-making regarding diagnostic testing, the PUI definition was not strictly applied in all cases.
A coordinated national effort to diagnose 2019-nCoV among persons at high risk for infection is important to facilitate appropriate management and limit transmission in the United States. CDC's website provides guidance for health care professionals on evaluating persons for 2019-nCoV (10). Clinicians should maintain a high index of suspicion for possible 2019-nCoV illness not only among persons with fever and lower respiratory tract illness who report travel from China in the past 14 days but also symptomatic persons who have had close contact with patients with laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV infection. Clinicians should consult their local and state health departments when they suspect possible 2019-nCoV illness to facilitate diagnosis and aid prevention efforts.
Laboratory and Epidemiology Task Forces; state and local health department partners; Chris Edens, Jessica Leung, Michael Wellman, CDC; David Hyung Won Oh, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts; Sean Stapleton, Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, Ithaca, New York; Emily Trautner, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
2019-CoV Persons Under Investigation Team
Glen Abedi, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; William Bower, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC; Kevin Chatham-Stephens, National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC; Laura Conklin, Center for Global Health, CDC; Laura Cooley, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; Margaret Cortese, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Aaron Curns, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Kathleen Dooling, , National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Runa Gokhale, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC; Jeremy Gold, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC; Gavin Grant, Center for Global Health, CDC; Julie Gutman, Center for Global Health, CDC; Elisabeth Hesse, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC; Shifaq Kamili, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Lindsay Kim, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Robert Kirkcaldy, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; Emily Koumans, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; Stephanie Kujawski, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Gayle Langley, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Joana Lively, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Xiaoyan Lu, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Brian Lynch, , National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Sheryl Lyss, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; Lakshmi Malapati, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Michael Martin, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; Sarah Mbaeyi, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Paul McClung, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; Claire Midgley, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Maureen Miller, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; Michelle Morales, Center for Global Health, CDC; Janna' Murray, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Amy Parker Fiebelkorn, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Manisha Patel, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Georgina Peacock, National Center for Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, CDC; Taran Pierce, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC; Brian Rha, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Senthilkumar Sakthivel, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Eileen Schneider, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; David A. Siegel, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC; Brittany Sunshine, , National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC; Megan Wallace, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Lijuan Wang, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; John Watson, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Brett Whitaker, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; Anna Yousaf, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC.
Corresponding author: Kristina L. Bajema, kbajema@cdc.gov, 404-639-1204.
1Epidemic Intelligence Service, CDC; 2Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; 3Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; 4Division of Viral Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC; 5Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, CDC; 6Division of Health Informatics and Surveillance, Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services, CDC; 7Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global Health, CDC; 8Division of Overdose Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC; 9Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC.
All authors have completed and submitted the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors form for disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. No potential conflicts of interest were disclosed.
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FIGURE. Number of persons for whom 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) testing was recommended, by date of initial inquiry (N = 256) — United States, January 2020*,†
* Confirmed cases were reported as of January 31, 2020.
† Public announcements of a confirmed 2019-nCoV case in the United States were made on the following dates: Jan 21, Jan 24, Jan 26, Jan 27 (two cases), Jan 30, and Jan 31.
TABLE. Clinical characteristics and epidemiologic risk factors among persons tested for 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection (N = 210) — United States, January 2020
Completed 2019-nCoV testing
No.* (%)
Age group (yrs), median (IQR) 29 (21–49)
<5 10 (5)
18–49 138 (66)
50–64 46 (22)
≥65 4 (2)
Male sex 115 (55)
Signs or symptoms
Subjective fever or measured temperature ≥100.4°F (≥38.0°C) 143 (68)
Cough or shortness of breath 189 (90)
Clinical Course
Hospitalized 42 (20)
Admitted to ICU 4 (2)
Died† 1 (<1)
Setting where patient identified
Airport screening 6 (3)
Health care setting 178 (85)
Contact tracing§ 26 (12)
Epidemiologic risk category
Travel from China¶ 148 (70)
Close contact with an ill laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV patient or a PUI in the United States** 42 (20)
Travel from China and close contact identified†† 18 (9)
Other risk§§ 2 (<1)
Abbreviations: ICU = intensive care unit; IQR = interquartile range; PUI = person under investigation.
* Numbers might not sum to total because of missing data.
† For this person, testing was negative for 2019-nCoV, and an alternative cause of death was established.
§ Additional persons who were being followed through contact tracing but initially sought treatment at a health care setting are not included in this category.
¶ Includes 113 persons who traveled from Wuhan City and 35 who traveled from areas of China outside Wuhan within 14 days of symptom onset.
** Includes 33 persons who were close contacts of an ill laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV patient and nine who were close contacts of PUIs. All contacts occurred within 14 days of symptom onset.
†† Includes four persons who traveled from Wuhan City and were close contacts of an ill laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV patient, 11 who traveled from Wuhan City and were close contacts of PUIs, and three who traveled from China and were close contacts of a PUI.
§§ Had possible contact with a laboratory-confirmed 2019-nCoV patient and were therefore tested.
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The work on the project was commenced in 2014 and nearing to completion. Reppi Waste to Energy project is the first of its kind in Africa with an installed generation capacity of 50MW.
Over the past two years, civil and electro mechanical works has been executed including completion of works on Boiler hole, steel structure, power house, equipment installation and filter room.
The raw material for the power plant which amounts 1400 tone waste per day, could be supplied by city administration of Addis Ababa.
Currently, 88 of the work on the project has completed and expected to be launch generation at the end of this year. The 2.6 billion Birr project is entirely financed by the government of Ethiopia.
Cambridge Industries Limited of England and C.N.E.E Ltd of China Company have been jointly runs the work on the project. 90 Ethiopians and 221 foreign personnel are deployed in the project work.
In addition to the above projects, Ethiopian Electric Power targeted to hand 17,000MW under the Second Growth and Transformation Plan mainly focused on hydro, wind, geothermal and solar energy sources including koysha, Dabus, Berbira, Genale Dawa 6th, Tams and Chemoga Yeda projects from hydro, Aysha I, Debre Berhan, Eteya projects from wind, Metehara, Mekele, Humera projects from solar, Korbeti, Tendaho and Abaya projects from Geothermal.
It also targeted to stretch high voltage transmission line from the current figure of 16,000km to 27,000km in this period including construction of 98 new substations.


The revelation came yesterday as the Nobel laureate gave a rare insight into the high-stake lobbying and negotiations that preceded the PDP's presidential primaries in which Atiku was highly favoured to win at the expense of his then boss Obasanjo.
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo knelt down for then Vice President Atiku Abubakar in his desperate bid to secure the ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the 2003 poll, according to Professor Wole Soyinka.
Besides, Soyinka spoke on how genuine efforts by Chief Bola Ige to reposition the energy sector as Power Minister between 1999 and 2000 were sabotaged by Obasanjo.
Soyinka was replying a question at a special reading session to mark the presentation of his latest book, "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?: Gani's Unfinished Business", at the Freedom Park, Lagos.
Speaking at the event, Mr. Louis Odion, one-time Edo State Information Commissioner and The Nation columnist, asked the literary giant whether he believed a sensational claim last year by Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose of witnessing Obasanjo going down on his knees in Tripoli before the late President Muamar Ghaddafi in his desperate bid to secure the Libyan strongman's support for an extension of his chairmanship of the African Union (AU), since the former Nigerian President has neither denied nor confirmed the account.
Fayose's account was published by an Abuja-based monthly magazine, The Interview.
Ghaddafi was younger than Obasanjo. Libya is smaller in size and population compared to Nigeria.
Responding, Soyinka said he had no cause to doubt Fayose, given his knowledge of how Obasanjo did the "unthinkable" when his aspiration for a second term in office was similarly threatened in 2003.
In the now famous BBC interview few days to PDP's 2003 primaries, Atiku had declared that he was under tremendous pressure from his supporters to contest the ticket against Obasanjo but was yet to make up his mind in what triggered panic in Obasanjo's camp.
"The pressure was intense," the literary giant recounted. "Of course, I could not have knelt before Atiku not to embark on a course of action that would lead to his boss' disgrace. But I can confirm to you that Obasanjo as President knelt down before Atiku so that he would not lose his job.
As expected, yesterday's book reading turned out a day of reminiscences of many bizarre dramas and unsavory episodes that characterised Obasanjo's reign as two-term president betweeen 1999 and 2007. The panel of disscussants included frontline rights activist-lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) and Mr. Sam Omatseye, author and Chairman of "The Nation" Editorial Board, and was moderated by Mr. Kunle Ajibade, award-winning author and Executive Director of "TheNews/Tempo".
The roll-call at the event included literary colossus Prof. J. P. Clark, Colonel Tony Nyiam (retd) and Mr. Jahman Anikulapo.
Dispelling the notion that the long-running disagreement he has with Obasanjo is personal, Soyinka said his motivation is the desire that those he described as cause of the nation's problems do not continue to recycle themselves as the solution.
He also dismissed Obasanjo as a hypocrite for denying that he did not have a hand in the third term agenda in 2006.
Said the playwright: "I remember I was invited to a conference in Germany around the time the third term game was unfolding in Nigeria. Then, I received this frantic call from officials at the Nigerian embassy who confided in me that they had been told to prepare for Obasanjo's third term in office. They expressed fears that should it succeed, the country might be plunged into a serious crisis. They were of the view that I could use my leverage to talk to him or help mobilise public opinions to dissuade him.
"At the conference proper, I made sure I continually made poignant innuendos in the direction Obasanjo sat that day. But, typically, he kept shrugging his shoulders and looking the other way.
Corroborating Soyinka, Falana said contrary to Obasanjo's continued denial, the former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice alluded in her book to how the former Nigerian leader prevailed on George Bush to support his third term bid. This, Falana said, Obasanjo never refuted.
On the parlous energy situation in the country, Soyinka recalled that Obasanjo did not only frustrate Ige but also humiliated him.
He said: "This was a man who said after Bola Ige died that we put somebody there, Bola Ige who did not know his left from right. He owes Bola Ige for maligning him, after humiliating him after sabotaging his genuine efforts to transform the power sector. It was sabotage and nothing less than a terrorist act against the electricity supply of the country.


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Navy women's basketball looks to rebound from disappointing season
By Katherine Fominykh
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Nov 05, 2019 | 10:31 AM
Navy's Sophie Gatzounas shoots and scores as Army's Madison Hovren guards her in the fourth quarter. The Navy Midshipmen were defeated by the visiting Army Black Knights, 48-60, in women's NCAA Basketball Saturday at Alumni Hall in Annapolis. (Paul W. Gillespie/Capital Gazette)
With a bulk of the same faces back for Navy women's basketball this winter, there's one way to contextualize last season's missteps and move on from it.
"We know how not to do it," senior Mary Kate Ulasewicz said.
After several winning seasons, the Midshipmen plummeted to a 10-19 mark last year − finishing on a five-game losing streak and falling in the first round of the Patriot League tournament. Navy put up just 45 points in that playoff loss against Loyola.
Navy held its own within the conference defensively. However, offensively, the Mids dwelled in the cellar. Navy ranked dead last in the Patriot League in 2018-19 with an average of 53.4 points per game, second-to-last in field goals (582 of 1723) and last in 3-point shooting (133 of 558).
This year's squad, which was picked to place fourth in the Patriot League preseason poll, carries an air of optimism that shines rays on last year's gloom. After a "good summer" and a promising preseason, senior Laurel Jaunich sees the "never give up" attitude she knew as a sophomore and freshman sparked up once again.
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"I think we have a chip on shoulder, a lot to prove after last season," Jaunich said. "We have a lot of people who are pretty competitive in practice and are trying to make the most out of every day."
Part of that renewed fight comes from letting go of the past, rather than pruning in it like cold bath water. Though the Mids graduated just one senior, Bianca Roach, the returners have put in the work both in practice and in their own heads to look unfamiliar to last year's team.
Part of that just comes with age, especially for a heavily youth-skewed squad of last winter.
"We talk a lot about being present," said Stefanie Pemper, who is in her 12th season as Navy's head coach. "Those things happen naturally. I don't think our women really want to dwell on the past. I think they're pretty forward looking.
"It's a new season. Everybody's a year older. For the (sophomores), they don't have to be freshmen anymore," Pemper added. "For the juniors, they just signed their '2 for 7' papers (commitment to devote seven years to the Navy). That's a big moment in their lives."
When a team falls as far as Navy did last winter, going from a Patriot League finalist in 2017-18 to a team with a losing record, there need to be more than changes of attitude.
After running the five-out offense for years, Pemper has reworked her offense to a more traditional arrangement with two posts, though she still expects plenty of moments with four guards out on the perimeter.
The switch excites Ulasewicz because it seems to fit a now far more balanced team and gives the post-like players the chance to excel where they're most comfortable.
One of those players is junior Sophie Gatzounas. The Massachusetts native's star rose during in the 2018 half of last season, named the Naval Academy Athletic Association Athlete of the Week in late November and December after leading Navy in rebounds and (in the contests for which she was recognized) scoring.
Around mid-season, her light petered out. In the second half of January, Gatzounas averaged just .100 on field goal attempts made − unable to complete any of her attempts in three of five games versus Patriot League rivals Army, Boston University and Bucknell.
This year, Pemper credits Gatzounas with her growth, both as an athlete and physically.
"She just has a nice level of confidence right now," Pemper said. "I think there was certainly some extra work in the off-season, but what there is for her is just really focused work with us. Two weeks into practices, we were like, 'Gosh. Sophie hasn't had a bad day yet.' She's making the most of every practice."
It was by the scrimmage against Howard that Pemper realized Gatzounas' physical development could make her a viable option at the post.
"Not that height is everything, but after that Howard scrimmage, you really solidify you have a skill set that you can succeed at the post at our level," the coach said. "It's understanding how to score inside, how to hunt for her 3-point shot. She moves off the ball so well. And then, of course, how to play defense, how to not be a liability defensively."
Still, the change from the bread-and-butter five-out has been an adjustment for the team.
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"We're not used to passing to the post and moving off of it," Jaunich, a forward, said, "but I think we're pretty excited about the new offense and everything that it brings to our whole team."
Four players comprise Navy's senior class on the roster this time around, and both players and coach believe quadrupling that veteran leadership will do wonders for keeping the group mentally focused.
Ulasewicz, Jaunich, guard Morgan Taylor and forward Montana Braxton each bring different qualities to the table, Ulasewicz said, which is their strength. That, and there's always strength in numbers – underclassmen have options for role models to look up to and to confide in with their own struggles.
There's also a shared memory between the oldest players, who know what it's like to succeed. Navy compiled two winning records in their sophomore and freshmen years, with 49 wins.
"We have higher expectations because our class in particular has had a lot of success here," Jaunich said.
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Along with the seniors, guards Kolbi Green and Jennifer Coleman, now sophomores, are expected to increase contributions this season. Coleman posted 379 points with an average of 13.1 per game while Green had 256 points and ranked fifth in the Patriot League in steals per game (1.7), making thefts in all but four of 29 games.
It won't just be the returning players shaping the Mids this winter. Pemper anticipates 5-foot-9 Mimi Schrader will be one of her top four guards and will quickly make an impact.
Schrader played five years for her Wayzata High team in Minnesota, talented enough to begin as an eighth grader, and surrendered just six losses in her final two seasons.
"She's just a smart, unselfish player," Pemper said. "Good 3-point range and moves the ball very well. She's also just a fun kid to play with."
While the 2018-19 season didn't breed too many perks at the time, it did provide one necessary tool to the Mids of now: context.
If a player makes a mistake that resembles one of last season, her teammate or coach can pull her aside and say, "Hey, we know not to do that."
Part of that ability streams through a new sense of team unity that seniors and underclassmen alike have worked hard to establish in the off-season. From teammate trips to a Washington Mystics game to casual hangouts, squad bonding has been a point of emphasis for Navy this year.
"One team, one family," Ulasewicz said. "Trying to unite the team, get to really know people and get everyone on board. We (build) good relationships so we can be honest with each other in stressful situations and be able to hype each other up and people will know that it's genuine."
That "one team" mindset casts a different overall look to the way Navy will move the ball this year. Because a small handful of players carried the brunt of the offense at any given time, the five on the floor less often moved as a unit and instead appeared discombobulated.
From Ulasewicz's perspective, that'll change this winter.
"Last year, we weren't quite sure where offense was coming from. We really needed specific people to really carry us," she said. "This year, we're pretty evenly-balanced in terms of people being able to score, people being able to pressure defense in the post and on the guard. It's a collective effort this year but we can have people who really step up and try to take over a game, if it's their night."
Despite the off year, Navy is not backing down when it comes to strength of schedule. Pemper views every non-conference game as a true trial, but most especially Saturday's tilt against Clemson.
As with any service academy-on-service academy duel, a November 27 bout with Air Force should promise a real test for her Mids as well, especially as a non-conference midpoint before Navy begins its Patriot League play in January.
"We want to play well. What we don't want to see is not playing well together," Pemper said. "It's more than just losing. We want to be as strong as the sum of our parts.
NAVY AT A GLANCE
Head Coach: Stefanie Pemper, 11th year (207-141)
2018-2019 Record: 10-19 overall; 5-13 Patriot League
Letter Winners Returning/Lost: 8/2
Top Returning Players: Lauren Jaunich (Sr., F); Sophie Gatzounas (Jr., F); Kolbi Green (So., G); Jennifer Coleman (So., G)
Top Newcomers: Mimi Schrader (Fr., G); Imani Edmonds (Fr., G)
Season Opener: Tuesday versus Stevenson at Alumni Hall (7 p.m.)

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An American man who loved Romania so much he wrote books about it has been deported from Romania.
Sam Reames left his native Orlando, Florida, for Romania's second largest city of Cluj a decade ago and became an unofficial ambassador, appearing on TV and running a website called kingofromania.com.
But in April Romania's Immigration Office began proceedings to remove him after saying his stay had not been legal for six and a half years.
He lost a court appeal, making national headlines as offcers drove him to the border with Hungary and told him not to come back until 2017.
The 41-year-old insisted he had simply fallen foul of red tape, forgetting to renew his visa, and wanted nothing more than to stay with his Romanian girlfriend and his possessions.
He was known in local media as 'Sam Cel Roman' (Sam the Romanian) because of his passion for the country, appearing on national television and joking: 'I'm more Romanian than you are'.
His wrote tourist guides and blogs about his adopted home for several years, including a 'Complete Insider's Guide to Romania' in 2011.
But the Romanian immigration service said that by forgetting to extend his stay, which would probably have been automatically approved, he qualified for a ban.
That meant armed officers dragged him from his home for violating immigration law. He complained he was not given time to arrange for anybody to care for his pet cats.
'I couldn't believe it when they turned up at my door and told me I was being deported,' he said.
'At first I thought the two people at the door were Jehovah's Witnesses due to the way they were standing in front of my door with paperwork in their hand.
'But when they identified themselves as immigration officers and said they were there for me, I thought it was a joke. It was only when they started to cart me off that I realised they were serious.
'I was told it was a minor matter but as soon as they got me in the car and took me to the police station, I was banged up in a tiny cell where I was surrounded by immigration officers including one guy that was shouting at me and demanding to know why was breaking the law.
Mr Reames complained that during his appeal - which he lost at the end of June - he was given a translator who did not speak English.
His pleas that he intended to marry his Romanian girlfriend Rodica Cangea also went unheeded, he said.
Explaining the alleged mix-up, he said: 'I came into the country on a tourism visa and then became part of a local company that gave me a permanent visa, but my trouble started when that got stolen.
The self-appointed Romania expert is now staying with friends in southern Germany.
Marius Ludusan, the chief commissioner of Cluj's immigration service, said: 'He legally entered the country six to seven years ago and forgot to leave.
'In order to stay in the country for so long, he should have contacted any local office and requested the extension of his stay.
As both nations are part of the European Union, Britons are free to live and work in Romania and vice versa after restrictions were lifted on January 1.
But Americans, Australians, Canadians and New Zealanders must apply for a visa if they are staying for longer than 90 days.


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Reforms registering on the Richter Scale demand fraud strategy re-think
Martin Stockdale
On Friday 26 February 2021 the rules providing the framework for how whiplash claims will be managed from 31 May 2021 were released. My colleague, Ian Davies, considered that these changes were "seismic" before predicting a frantic three months as insurers and compensators set about preparing themselves for a new system and new processes.
Ian went on to say that:
...the true scale of the challenge in preparing for 31 May will only become clear once we have absorbed the new practice direction, pre-action protocol and the detail around the new portal. There are bound to be grey areas and points of friction which will ultimately require resolution by the courts.
And when looking at this from the perspective of managing fraudulent claims, I couldn't agree more.
Over the years of civil justice reform in England and Wales - from the creation of the original MOJ Claims Portal for motor claims under £10,000 in 2010, through to the Jackson Reforms and now in these latest form of evolution (with some revolutionary elements thrown in) - reducing claims fraud, by reducing the size of the prize and thereby making it less appealing, has been at the forefront of thinking.
The reality is that fraudulent behavior is more complex than that. These issues were recently considered by a Civil Justice Council working group, commented on by my colleagues and myself in a number of articles. You can find my fraud-focused post, Agreeing to disagree, on this blog; or the full piece here, referencing the Insurance Fraud Taskforce and its wider recommendations.
But, here and now; how will these reforms impact the response to fraudulent claims and counter fraud strategies? I go back to what Ian said: "Make no mistake – these are seismic changes to low-value RTA claims in England and Wales." And this goes for fraud too.
These reforms require a shift in how fraud risk will be managed by insurers and other compensators. When looking at the reforms my initial reactions are:
1. The opportunity for fraud remains.
Fraud is a covert behaviour which is well-suited to low-value/high-volume environments where claims are not examined forensically. Whilst the prizes for all actors (claimants and enablers) are reduced, motor claims fraud will remain attractive with a defined process that demands early admission or disclosure of the defendant's position. The new rules make fraud prevention more difficult.
53% In a recent poll undertaken by Kennedys 53% of respondents from across the industry believed that the reforms would not reduce fraud frequency or cost of fraud.
2. The volume of fraudulent claims will remain.
Process efficiencies run counter to fraud controls and measures. The lack of process exit means compensators will constantly be seeking to strike the right balance. Fraud is just one of the challenges that claims departments need to account for.
21% In the same poll only 21% of respondents believed that the reforms would discourage fraud and reduce frequency.
3. Fraud will look like it always has done; but with opportunities for new areas to exploit.
False claims for injuries that never happened, crash-for-cash, credit hire fraud - will all continue to happen. At the same time we can see how there is more opportunity and incentive for exaggeration and inflating claims, whether by gaming the (new) system and/or layering claims with additional injuries and losses.
98% 98% of respondents to our poll believed that additional injuries will be presented alongside whiplash in order to push claims out of the new process...
79% …and 79% believed that we will see more rehabilitation claims as a result of the new rules
4. New rules on providing detail and evidence within 30 days will turn existing fraud strategies on their heads.
Compensators will now have to conclude investigations and provide detailed reasons with evidence within 30 working days. This creates enormous pressure when trying to reveal covert behaviour. Often early disclosure in fraud cases enables a fraudster to adjust their story. It will be imperative for insurers to invest in early fraud detection solutions and ensure they front-load investigations in order to detect and prevent fraudulent claims.
Whilst the rules have been published there is still a lot of dust to settle. In our sister blog, Behind the Wheel, my colleagues in our Motor Group will cover the developments between now and beyond the new rules coming into force on 31 May. For now, as Ian says, "There are so many questions to be answered!" and we will continue to follow the questions and their answers as they develop. My colleagues and I will also be on hand to provide our own thoughts as to the impact of these reforms on fraudulent claims and compensator fraud strategies.
Fundamentally Honest blog
More from the blog...
Court of Appeal provides further guidance on mixed injury cases, but what does this mean for fraud practitioners?
Justice Committee calls on government to revolutionise the way we fight fraud
Cost of living … a looming fraud crisis?
Opportunistic claimant attempts to defraud the public purse – a reminder of the benefits of fraud strategies


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The great California novel been written, in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy."—Gore Vidal One of the most highly. Kaleidoscopic Relationships: The Golden Gate. The Golden Gate. Vikram Seth's fourth book, was published in Appearing after two collections of poems. CHAPTER II. LOVE AND LIFE IN SANFRANCISCO. Vikram Seth's first novel The Golden Gate is novel, in the sense that this is a fiction in verse. Novel in verse is.
Reviews Idaho Folklife: Homesteads to Headstones. Edited by Louie W. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, Idaho Folklife: Homesteads to Headstones is a first-rate anthology of essays and scholarly articles about Idaho's complex and varied folklife. Edited and introduced by Louie W. Attebery, a professor of English at the College of Idaho, Idaho Folklife is also a model introduction to the folklore of a particuregion , in this case, the intermountain West. Students of folklife in America generally, and in the West particularly, should welcome this intriguing collection into their libraries and classrooms.
The novel ends when Byrne at goes back to London to face his illegal sons and we discover that there are five lyrical sonnets written by Michael Byrne him- self. These sonnets sum up all our annals, In five disjunctive but connective panels Burgess introduces his novel in a form full of irony and he intends to be very satirical concerning his unsuccessful life as writer and as a human being.
He decided to write a verse novel and to allow his characters to be poets so to accomplish his ul- timate dream. Wretches like Byrne are far from indispensable, A single puff will blow their dust away. Paronomasia is a needless joke: He needs no fire to turn him into smoke Thus, Burgess succeeded at last through his last novel, Byrne to be remembered as a pioneer in his field of literature. He is one of the most important American novel- ists of the second half of the twentieth century who tried the new form of verse novel 35 Ibid.
A Book Review of Byrne. The other important modern novelist of the twentieth century who wrote verse novels is Vikram Seth.
He was born in in Calcutta, India. He was educated at Oxford and Stanford Universities. He travelled widely and lived in Britain, California, India and China. He wrote very important English novels and critics consider him to be a great novelist as Tolstoy and Dickens. Seth is also a poet and a traveler who wrote books about his travels.
His ability as a poet makes him competent of trying the new verse novels because of his ability to manage the poetic tools in ease and in excel- lence. Vikram Seth wrote an important novel about the Indian Life in His novel is the longest novel in English literature.
His novel, A Suitable Boy, is situated on an Indian background and culture. It is about an Indian girl, Lara, and her search for a husband. The novel discusses the forbidden relationship between a Muslim boy and A Hindu girl to discover the post-independence conflict in India between the Muslims and Hindus.
What is amazing here is that Seth wrote his novel in Prose and verse. The novel has six volumes of poetry. It is a very satiric work of art of the Indian life ins. Critics consider it the English Epic of the twentieth century. However, Seth tried the verse novel.
His novel, The Golden Gate 41 is written in verse lines about some friends who live in San Francisco. The novel discusses in a poetic form the themes of loneliness and alienation which distinguish the twentieth century literature.
The main character is John who is very sad and lonely, and his friend Ed who is suffering because of his denial to his homosexuality.
The poetic lines in the novel make it very interesting with a fast rhythm which attracts the read- er and in particular the young men. The novel contains thirteen chapters; each chap- ter is forty poetic stanzas and each stanza is fourteen lines in iambic tetrameter, rhymed a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-f-f-e-g-g.
The whole novel is written in sonnets. Seth de- cides to use the Shakespearean sonnet to express his poetic romance. Ben Down- ing 42 says: Vikram Seth is mad about sonnets.
The Golden Gate consists of a stag- gering five hundred and ninety of them stung together to form a verse novel. Even the bio page, acknowledgments, dedication, and table of contents are written in son- net form.
Seth's sonnets depart, however, from the traditional English line laid down by Wyatt and Surrey. The novel is full of descriptions and witty suggestive words.
The novelist uses the sonnet form.
So the chapters are divided into stanzas with numbers. The novel is about four California friends. In this witty, poetic and compressed style, he gives fully delineated characters: John, a Silicon Valley executive seeking comfort in a meaning- ful love relationship; his friend and ex-lover Janet, an artist and musician in a harsh rock band; Liz, a cheerful Stanford law grad whose parents produce superior Califor- nia wine; her brother Ed, struggling between sin and religion; and John's friend Phil, deserted by his wife and left with his son, his moral vision and his scientific career at 41 Seth V.
The Golden Gate: a Novel in Verse. The plot of the novel is full of love and pain. It moves from the guilt to the reli- gious believe.
The novel describes social issues of homosexuality. It tells in detail how the life in California is at that time of chaos. Seth explains the struggle and the conflict of love relationship in his novel. He is not using the traditional triangle of love where a woman is loved by two lovers, but he is inventing his own love complex struggle. John misses out on love because his emotions are straitened by weapons work; Jewish Phil drops out of Silicon Valley and finds love, but his male partner, tormented by Catholic guilt, leaves him; Phil and his ex-lover's sister John's alienated woman friend marry.
The novel is full of powerful descriptive pieces; of love and of pain. In chapter 6, the first stanza Seth 43 says: How beautiful it is, when waking, To find one's lover at one's side, The delicate slow light is breaking Irresolutely through the wide Bay windows of their bedroom, falling On Liz's hair, and John's recalling How last night she untied it, how It flowed between his hands, but now She lies asleep, unswiftly breathing; Her thoughts are not with him, her dreams Traverse the solitary streams Of inward lands, yet her hair, wreathing The pillow in a mesh of light, Returns to him the fugitive night.
The novel of Seth does not only discuss love themes but also the themes of the crisis of modern Twentieth Century. It indicates these problems in a satiric way to highlight them in a smooth poetic style. He comments on Materialism that most people of this age are aspiring at and its effect on them.
Seth 44 says: John looks about him with enjoyment. What a man needs, he thinks, is health; Well-paid, congenial employment; A house; a modicum of wealth; Some sunlight; coffee and the papers; Artichoke hearts adorned with capers; A Burberry trench coat; a Peugeot; And in the evening, some Rameau Or Couperin; a home-cooked dinner, A Stilton, and a little port; And so to duvet In addition, we can easily see how Seth uses his verse in making very powerful speeches like the one by the priest against nuclear power: It takes a great deal of moral clarity To see that it is right to blitz Each Russian family to bits Because their leader's muscularity — Quite like our own — on foreign soil Threatens our vanity, or 'our' oil Thus, Seth tackles his themes in a very brave tone.
He uses his poetry in a narr- ative style to talk about the ideas of the young people of the modern age. This kind of objection and forgrounded form did not gain him fame as a verse novelist. Karly Mil- ler 46 explains this meaning: The Golden gate appeared in , five years after Midnight's Children. It is an emulation of Pushkin and Byron, and could be called a romantic but not a confessional work.
A regency of gaiety and mockery were applied to a sexual-revolutionary singles' San Francisco, where his teacher of the time, Donald Davie, at Stanford, is to frowned on the result… but The Golden Gate is designed to be disapproved of by the seniors, and it has given great pleasure.
Seth is a festive writer, with an unexpired boyish inno- cence and lots of allegros in what he gets up to.
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The novel of Seth is full of description written in a rhythm style to show his ability in telling stories using verse lines and untraditional metre four feet instead of the traditional five feet. The novelist uses the four feet metre to delineate the details of his characters and to discuss their problems.
So, in chapter five Seth 47 explains: Why, asks a friend, attempt tetrameter? Because it once was noble, yet Capers before the proud pentameter, Tyrant of English. I regret To see this marvelous swift meter Demean its heritage, and peter Into mere Hudibrastic tricks, Unapostolic knacks and knicks.
But why take all this quite so badly? I would not, had I world and time To wait for reason, rhythm, rhyme, To reassert themselves, but sadly, The time is not remote when I Will not be here to wait. That's why. This stanza is an explanation and an invitation to the reader to know more about these poetic qualities.
These feminine rhymes? My wrinkled muse? The loaves will surely fail to rise Or else go stale before my eyes. But as no shroud of critical terms Can save my corpse from boring worms, I may as well have fun and try it. They think that the development of the plot is not complete because the novelist deliberately violated the narrative technique for the sake of the rhyme and the rhythm of poetry. Downing 52 explains: Yet despite Seth's ambition, The Golden Gate is neither good poetry nor good fiction.
In attempting to bridge two genres, it falls between them. Instead of buttressing and enabling each other, the verse tends to hobble the narrative, the narrative to compromise the verse. The ge- nres, in Seth's hands are least, are like an arranged marriage: not deeply compatible. One is nearly always conscious of the story straining against its poetic leash.
However, readers call attention to the great ability of the novelist to create an interesting story full of events about the life of the young people at the Twentieth Cen- tury.
Edited and introduced by Louie W. Attebery, a professor of English at the College of Idaho, Idaho Folklife is also a model introduction to the folklore of a particuregion , in this case, the intermountain West.
Students of folklife in America generally, and in the West particularly, should welcome this intriguing collection into their libraries and classrooms. Unlike most anthologies of folklore, which set out their material by genre folk song, folk dance, folk food, etc. Three articles on family folk singing, a teller of tall tales, and the factors influencing the selection of homestead sites comprise the third section on "Folklife and Individual Style.
The fifth section, "Folklife and History," examines a local legend, the narrative of "Chief Bigfoot," the use of folklore in Carol Brink's regional novel Buffalo Coat, and land use attitudes and ethics. Atterbery's selection of both categories and illustrative entries is excellent.
Despite the variety and complexity of the subjects, each entry seems to fit naturally in its section, and there is never the feeling that the editor has arbitrarily selected a series of pigeonholes and squeezed the most interesting articles he could find into them. Rather, his overall approach is inductive, and the book has a natural, unforced ring about it.
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Would anybody? He tuned his thoughts to electronic Circuitry. This soothed his mind. He left irregular moronic He thought of or-gates and of and-gates, Of ROMs, of nor-gates, and of nand-gates, Of nanoseconds, megabytes, And bits and nibbles… but as flights Of silhouetted birds move cawing Across the pine-serrated sky, Dragged from his cove, not knowing why, He feels an urgent riptide drawing Him far out, where, caught in the kelp Of loneliness, he cries for help.
John's looks are good. His dress is formal. His voice is low. His mind is sound. His appetite for work's abnormal. A plastic name tag hangs around His collar like a votive necklace.
Though well-paid, he is far from reckless, Pays his rent promptly, jogs, does not Smoke cigarettes, and rarely pot, Eschews both church and heavy drinking, Enjoys his garden, like to read Eclectically from Mann to Bede. A surrogate, some say, for thinking. His boss, though, is well-pleased with him.
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Love's an Emergency, Too IRVING GAYNOR NEIMAN March 15 1948
IRVING GAYNOR NEIMAN
THERE PROBABLY aren't many private telephone companies left in these days of rapid progress, but the Fitchville exchange is one, and Mrs. Hatch owns it and runs it singlehanded along stem lines.
No calls are allowed after 9 p.m., when Mrs. Hatch retires, or between eleven Sunday mornings when Mrs. Hatch goes to church and six in the evening. An exception is made in the case of emergency calls, but Mrs. Hatch is seventy years old and feels that people with any consideration will have their emergencies during normal operating hours.
The water on the county road was three inches deep one Sunday in the spring when Mrs. Hatch shut down the switchboard and went off to church. She looked neat and sprightly in her Sunday best and the effect wasn't at all spoiled by the rubber boots she wore. Floods aren't a common thing in Fitchville, but now and again some town upstream will blast the ice out of the river without telling anyone about if and the rush of water flashes down on Fitchville, bringing more inconvenience than danger, as a rule.
"Let it. flood," Mrs. Hatch said crisply, "and
it will soon be done with and no reason to fret and fume, as some will." She spoke aloud, although she was quite alone, out of a habit she had formed from her long hours at the switchboard. A person can listen only so long and then a person has to talk. That's what Mrs. Hatch did, always with her key closed, and she had found that it was a solace.
SHE STEPPED into the swirling brown water and walked steadfastly down the road. Her shoulders were slightly hunched from bending over her switchboard, but she gave the impression of walking very straight and firm nonetheless. A light-blue sedan swished down the county road and swept past her, depositing a fine brown spray on her bonnet.
"That city feller," she said. "Like as not he'll come down again to tell me how to run my business, the way he did yesterday. City know-it-all, I'd call him." The light-blue sedan belonged to Walter Simms, from Toronto.
"City feller," she said darkly. " T can tell you how to run your business, Mrs. Hatch, because I ran the Canadian Army and I won the war.' "
The quotation was inexact, but it showed that Mr. Simms' interview the day before had left a strong impression. What he had actually said was, "I served in the signal corps during the war, Mrs. Hatch, and there are one or two suggestions I might make for improving your service, which
had better improve soon or my life will be blasted."
Mrs. Hatch had not deigned to reply but her granddaughter Sally answered for her.
"Stop picking on Grandma," she said. "The regular residents of Fitchville consider the service quite satisfactory."
"Satisfactory!" Mr. Simms said. He paced the floor excitedly and waved his arms. "You have to crank a handle before you can even speak to the operator and that is usually as far as you get."
"Stop picking on Grandma," Sally said.
"I'm not picking on Grandma," Mr. Simms said coolly, "Grandma is picking on me. She is destroying my childhood romance and putting me out of business."
Sally looked at him calmly. "Mr. Simms," she said, "just what is your trouble?"
She was really not interested, but felt that he should be put in his place. She felt this partly because he was obviously an outsider and partly because he was a handsome young man with curly brown hair—the kind of a young man most young women want to put in his place for fear he might get vain and not notice the young woman herself. This was unlikely in Sally's case, as she was as trim and nent a brunette as Fitchville or any other place has ever seen, but women are by nature conservative and cautious.
"It is a larger question than just my own troubles," Walter said, "which will nevertheless
serve by way of illustration." He held up his forefinger dramatically. "Item."
"Item?" Sally said.
"Item. I am known to you as the new local representative of the Excelsior Farm Machinery Company, manufacturers of the Little Atom Milking Machine."
"You are known," Sally said.
"It is essential to my sales campaign in this area to sell Mr. Roy Bartlett, who is the biggest farmer around. Sell Mr. Bartlett and the rest of the farmers will fall in fine." Walter spoke slowly, dropping each word carefully. "For the past two weeks I have been trying to get Mr. Barlett on the phone," he said. "I have yet to make a connection." Sally sighed and said, "Yep." The sigh and the word were executed on the same indrawn breath, lending the expression a poignantly said note. Walter had come to recognize the sound as native to the region. "Grandma does have trouble with the Benton Falls Exchange. She and the Benton Falls operator aren't speaking."
"Oh, no !" Walter said. He turned on Mrs. Hatch, who turned her back and self-consciously plugged into the Number 7 line. "Madam, you are an outrage to modern rapid communication!"
"Rapid communication, indeed!" Mrs. Hatch muttered to herself. "Folks who want to talk to each other get to talk to each otner and that is the purpose of the telephone."
You couldn't tell Grandma anything about a flood or a romance — she directed them both from her switchboard
"Stop picking on Grandma," Sally said. "Why don't you just drive over to Roy Bartlett's place and talk to him?"
He looked at her with some pity. "I made my reputation as a salesman entirely by telephone. Busy men appreciate having you phone. It saves time. You don't change a winning system, Miss
She smiled brightly. "Then, persevere, Mr. Simms," she said. "I'm sure you'll get your connection if you keep on trying."
He stopped his feverish pacing and held up two fingers. "Item!" he said.
"Oh," she said, "There's more."
"Miss Margery Mantón, my fiancée, has expected me to call her for three days. She is in Toronto. She probably thinks I have abandoned her."
Sally said, "Yep," with the same sad sigh. "Grandma hates talking to the Toronto operators. You can't get a friendly word out of them."
Walter looked about him with a wild expression.
"An anachronism!" he said.
"An anachronism. The atom bomb and the hand crank, side by side."
Sally looked at him with wonder and some regard. "Mr. Simms," she said, "are you a fugitive?"
"A fugitive? From what, for heaven's sake?"
"That was the next question. I was wondering
who is chasing you. In other words, what is the big rush?"
"The rush is not of my making," Walter said, "This is an age of speed. The fact apparently has not penetrated to Fitchville."
Sally sighed and said, "If you don't like it here, why don't you go back to Toronto? You can make the afternoon train with some of your native speed to burn."
"There is no turning back," Walter said. "There are no other vacant agencies. Besides, I'm going to make good here."
Sally looked at; his curly brown hair and said, "Perhaps you will. My number is six ring two, if you ever pause long enough to think of it."
THE LONG-DISTANCE line buzzed urgently at that moment. Mrs. Hatch settled herself firmly in her chair and plugged in. She waved her hand to the handset in the corner and said, "It's for you, Mr. Simms. Toronto is calling."
Walter lunged at the phone and said, "Hello? Yes. Yes. Margery? Darling, I . . . " And there he stopped.
He listened attentively for a while, then motioned for a chair and sat down. He made several unsuccessful attempts to break in, but it was a full five minutes before he could say, "But darling, I tried to call you. It's just (hat the local switchboard gets confused with calls that travel more than three miles."
He listened again. Tlis face grow red. Ho finally said, "All right, darling. Yes, dear. Without fail. I'll call you tomorrow afternoon. You know I love you, don't; you?"
When he had hung up Sally said, "You are a fugit ive at t hat, aren't you?"
Walter said, "My fiancée does not. believe that I couldn't get a call through this company. She says my home office has been trying to call me all week, to find out why I haven't sent in any orders." "Why not; write them a letter?" Sally said.
Walter leaped to his feet, seized his hat and walked rapidly to the door.
"Good day, Miss Hatch," he said.
"You'd better call me Sally," she said. "Six ring two."
He looked startled and said, "Good day, Sally."
THE SERVICE at the Fitchville church was unusually short. Mrs. Hatch mentioned this to Mr. Foster, the minister. She agreed that his text from Genesis, concerning the original inundation, might well give folks something to think about, but felt that it was shameful that the congregation was so small.
"It took fifteen cubits of water to worry them in Noah's time," she told Mr. Foster sternly, "and I'll bet there isn't even a single cubit on the county road right now."
Mrs. Hatch wasn't at all sure how deep a cubit was, but the water had risen during the service and was fully a foot deep as she stepped into it from the church steps. She had barely started on her way home when she heard a roar behind her and was once more splashed from head to foot with muddy water as the same light-blue sedan went by her, throwing fan-shaped spray from its rear wheels. The car travelled only twenty feet past her when the engine coughed wetly and died.
When Mrs. Hatch carne alongside, Walter Simms leaned down and waved a finger at her. "Why aren't you at your Cont'd on next page
switchboard?" he yelled. "The town is flooded."
'T know it is," Mrs. Hatch said.
"I have tried to call you for the past half hour," Walter said.
"Switchboard closes Sunday afternoons," she said.
"But this is an emergency," he shouted.
"Emergency my foot," Mrs. Hatch said. "All folks want to do on the telephone is tell each other that there's a flood going on and all a soul has to do is look out the window to see that."
"But the rescue . . . the relief. . ." Walter found that he was short ot words.
"Speak up," Mrs. Hatch said. "Can't hear a word you're saying."
It was just then that Evergood Hawkes came down the middle of the road in his row-boat. Evergood got his boat out any time there was barely enough water to float it, ever since a flood years ago when folks in every house he stopped at offered him a bit ot hard cider in appreciation of his visit. He was waving his hands talking, in a merry way, indicating that he had already made a few stops.
"Boats!" Walter yelled. "We will need boats, Mrs. Hatch. You'd better call the nearest towns and . . ." Then for the first time he seemed to realize that Mrs. Hatch was standing in the flood waters. He opened his mouth to speak, pointed a stern finger, then closed his mouth again.
"Your place is at the switchboard, Mrs. Hatch," he said severely. "No matter how high the waters go. That's a tradition."
"I got a tradition of closing up on Sunday afternoons," she said. Her little blue eyes twinkled. "If you've got a mind to go rescuing people who know perfectly well how to take care ot themselves, though, you might look in on Sally. No menfolk around our house. Situation is probably desperate."
"Of course," Walter said. "I'll go at once. But don't you think you should . .
"There isn't a minute to lose," Mrs. Hatch said. "I'm on my way home right now,"
Walter patted her on the hack. "Good," he said. He turned and ran swiftly up the road, stumbling now and then at a deep place in the water. Mrs. Hatch stood and watched him go.
"Don't know what they teach those young men in Toronto," she said aloud. "City teaching-—poor fellow doesn't even know enough to put on rubber boots when he's out in a flood."
Down the street Mrs. Ronald Russell, the veterinarian's wife, was leaning out from a second-story window, screaming for help. She had a clear, powerful voice and it carried for quite some distance.
"The way that woman hollers," Mrs. Hatch observed with some satisfaction, "she doesn't have any need of a telephone now or any other time."
She fixed her little hat more firmly on the smooth grey hair and started homeward through the rising water.
npFIE ADVANTAGE of Mrs. Hatch's X home lay in the view. People driving through Fitchville had often remarked on it.
From the window of her front parlor, that was also the telephone office, Mrs. Hatch had an unusually comprehensive view (if life in Fitchville, as it moved down the county read. And Mrs. Hatch always kept a careful eye on life. By listening judiciously to her switchboard and keeping a sharp eye on the county road, she heard and saw just about everything that was worth observing in Fitchville.
When she returned from church Mrs. Hatch helped Sally carry up from the cellar the few items that would be spoiled by wetting, and attended to some chores. Then she settled down in the platform rocker beside the switchboard and gazed through the window with interest. The water was approaching the second riser of her front steps.
Around the bend from the direction of Bell's store an improvised raft suddenly swung into view, poled along at top speed by a tall young man with a desperate air. Mrs. Hatch's lined little face broke into a wide grin and she leaned forward eagerly. The raft, obviously put together in a hurry, was a workmanlike piece of carpentry. Mrs Hatch nodded her approval. There was some good in the young man, if he would only slow down long enough to let it come out.
"Sally!" she called. "Company!"
"I see him," Sally said from upstairs. "Be right down."
There was a bumping noise on the front steps as the raft; swung in for a landing. Walter Simms appeared in the living room archway, breathing hard.
"1 see you got here all right," Mrs.
Hatch said. "Sit down a bit and rest yourself."
Walter swallowed and said, "Mrs. Hatch, you can feel perfectly safe. I've come in time."
"Good," said Mrs. Hatch.
"Get your granddaughter."
"She's coming."
"Good." He strode across the room and scooped Mrs. Hatch out of her rocker. He was starting for the front with the old lady in his arms when Sally came down the stairs dressed in her good blue dress.
"Young man," said Mrs. Hatch, "put me down."
"Put Grandma down, Walter," Sally said. "I'm glad you decided to stop by instead of phoning. The service is sometimes slow."
Walter said, "Sally, hurry out to the raft and I will bring your grandmother." "Put me down," Mrs. Hatch said. "The young men of Fitchville," said Sally, "usually don't take Grandma along when they invite me out." "You don't understand,"said Walter. "1 couldn't go along in any case," Mrs. Hatch said. "1 must stand by my switchboard, so you'd better put me down."
Walter set her down and said, "T admire your courage, Mrs. Hatch." "Thank you," said Mrs. Hatch.
"Don't you stay out late, Sally. You hardly know the young man."
"Now see here . . ." said Walter.
"It's perfectly proper to go boating in the middle of the day," said Sally.
"Boating," said Walter.
Mrs. Hatch sighed. "I knew you'd be set on it, Sally," she said, "so I packed you a few sandwiches to take along. They're in the hall."
"That was sweet of you, Grandma," Sally said.
"Ladies," Walter said. His voice was pitched low but it had a desperate note in it. "I came to effect a rescue. 1 intend to do just that. Please stop this social chitchat and let's get on with it." He reached to pick Sally up in his arms.
"Now-, now," Mrs. Hatch said sharply. "That w-ill be enough of that. If you can't act nice, I won't allow Sally to go out with you at all."
Walter stopped short. He looked at Mrs. Hatch with an expression bordering on total dismay, then turned on his heel and walked out.
Sally said, "You shouldn't have spoken to him sharply, Grandma. I think I like him."
SHE FOLLOWED Walter out the front door and Mrs. Hatch leaned out her window to watch as Sally stepped carefully on the raft and settled herself at one end. She held the lunch box carefully in one hand.
Walter shoved off and the raft drifted into the shallow stream flowing down the county road. Fie leaned hard on the pole and began pushing the raft against the slow, swirling current.
"Easy does it," Sally said. "Would you like a sandwich?"
Walter dug his pole into the dirt ot the county road without answering. He w-orked his way against the current with long firm thrusts and his breath came heavily.
"Miss Hatch," he said, fitting in his words between thrusts of the pole. "This may seem . . . very funny to you . . . but it involves . . . the end of my career ... on all fronts."
"I'm serry," Sally said.
"My fiancee . . . expects my call this afternoon . . . and she may not understand ..."
"Why don't you rest for a bit, Walter?" Sally said. "Then we can talk more easily."
Walter gave her a chilling glance and continued his labors. "Mr. Roy Bartlett . . . has probably equipped his farm . . . with the products of our
rival concern." He paused in his poling only long enough to say, "You and Grandma have effected my downfall, Miss Hatch."
"I'm sorry," Sally said. "Although you can't really blame us for the flood." As the raft labored past Bell's general store, townspeople on the porch waved a friendly greeting and Sally waved back. Walter poled all the harder.
"Try a cold turkey sandwich," Sally said. "They're really very good." "No, thank you," Walter said. He watched her for a moment as she helped herself to a sandwich. It occurred to him, irrelevantly, that she made a remarkably fetching picture sitting on the front end of the raft with her legs tucked under her, munching on a sandwich.
Walter considered this discovery and found it pleasant. A high-pitched yell broke through his thoughts. It was Evergood Hawkes, standing in the bow of his rowboat, and waving with such wholehearted enthusiasm that he seemed in imminent danger of going overboard.
"How ya doin?' " Evergood yelled. "Fine," said Walter. "You'd better stay clear with that rowboat."
Evergood, who was a little hard ot hearing at the best of times, said, "Eh?" in a high-pitched tone that sent distant echoes stirring in the mountains. He plopped back into his seat, seized the oars, and dug toward the raft.
"Hey! Look out!" Walter said. The rowboat's bow cut a neat path through the water on a direct line for the raft. Evergood naturally enough had his back turned and couldn't see how close he was to collision.
Sally called, "Evergood! Stop!" Evergood turned around biit it was too late. The rowboat caught the raft amidships,. Walte? tteoppedi Yñs pote and grabbed the air violently for support. Finding none, he fell backward off the raft and into the water.
"Careful, there!" Evergood yelled. Walter sat in the water, which was about bathtub height, and made no reply. Water dripped from his hair and ran in chilly lines down his face.
"That," he said, finally, "just about does it."
Evergood backed off the raft, which bobbed easily on the surface. A man in hip boots waded over and lifted Walter to his feet. Walter retrieved his pole and stepped carefully back on the raft.
"Got wet, did you?" the man in hip boots said.
"Yes," Walter said. "Wet."
"Hello, there," said Sally.
"Why, hello, Sally. Didn't notice you in the confusion," the man in hip boots said.
"Hello," Walter muttered bitterly. He blinked the water out of his eyes. "Hello. Hello. Lovely day."
"I'd like you to meet Mr. Walter Simms," Sally said.
"Oh, is this Mr. Simms?" The man took hold of a corner of the raft. "Hold on a minute."
"Delighted to meet you," Walter said coldly. "Let loose of the raft." "I've been checking into those milkers of yours," the man said. "Any good, are they?"
"Wonderful," Walter said. "Let loose."
"Thought they looked pretty good. Might send me over a dozen when you get a chance and I'll try them out." Walter said, "A dozen?"
"I guess this is no time to bring up business, though. Have a nice time, you two." He winked broadly at Walter and pushed the raft back into the current.
Walter said, "A dozen milkers? Is that what he said?"
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The raft, un pro pel led, drifted with the current, hack past the general store. The folks waved and Sally waved back.
"That was Roy Bartlett," she said. "He'll probably need more after a while."
Walter put down his pole.
"Roy Bartlett," he said softly.
"I mentioned to Roy that you were in town selling milkers," Sally said. "Roy hates the telephone. He says he won't buy anything from anybody until he can see him face to face. I guess he liked your face."
The raft rocked gently as Walter let out a large sigh and sat down in the small puddle at his feet.
"I'll have one of those turkey sandwiches now," he said, "if you can spare one."
Sally handed him a sandwich. He chewed it slowly, lost in thought.
"You know," he said, "it was very sweet of you to talk to Mr. Bartlett about me."
"Don't mention it."
"You're really quite sweet in many ways," Walter said. He seemed surprised at the discovery, but not displeased.
"Pretty, too. Very pretty."
"I was wondering if you'd ever find time to notice," Sally said.
"As a matter of fact, I've become quite fond of you, Sally," Walter said warmly, "if all this doesn't seem too fast for you."
"Speed," said Sally, "is not always out of place."
Walter drew a deep, happy sigh. A great peace seemed to have descended on him. He didn't even feel wet.
"Are those pickles?" he said. "Thank you."
THE RAFT swung gently in the current, keeping pretty well to the centre of the county road. Walter finished his sandwich and his pickle in d r ea m y co n t e m p 1 a t i o n.
He looked at Sally and said, "There's something . . . well, something calm and peaceful about you, Sally. It makes me feel wonderful."
"That's nice, Walter," Sally said. "But . . ."
"I think I've fallen in love with you." "Walter," Sally said. "Aren't you forget t i n g someth in g? "
"Forgetting?" He st opped and a look of pain crept slowly over his damp features. "You mean . . ."
"Your fiancee."
He sat still for a long moment. Then he drew in his breath in a long slow sigh and said, "Yep." Saying it that way gave the word a sad, poignant note. Walter felt, that he'd never experienced a more poignantly sad moment.
"You'd better take me back now," Sally said softly. "The water is going down."
Walter picked up his pole and began to push the raft toward the telephone exchange.
Mrs. Hatch was on the front porch when the raft pulled up. It lodged firmly in the gravel walk, for the water had receded swiftly and no longer provided clearance for the raft. Walter and Sally sat quietly on the raft, each absorbed in their own unhappy thoughts.
"Thought you'd be back soon," Mrs. Hatch said. "I held that call for you, Mr. Simms."
"What call?"
"Fall in, did you?" asked Mrs. Hatch?
"What call, Mrs. Hatch?"
"From Toronto, of course. We handle all kinds of calls here, you know."
Walter looked hopelessly at Sally, then walked into the living room and picked up the phone. He said, "Hello, Margery," and that's all he said for a long time.
Once he offered, "But, Margery . . ." which was as far as he got. But Mrs. Hatch noticed that he was grinning broadly as he said, finally, "I'm sorry, Margery. If you won't let me explain, then 1 guess there's no hope for it. Good-by."
When he hung up Mrs. Hatch said, "Sally is still on the raft if you're looking for her. You're dripping on my rug."
Walter reached out and kissed Mrs. Hatch, then dashed out to the raft to repeat the process, at greater length, with Sally. Mrs. Hatch sat down at her switchboard and prepared to resume service. The big clock on the wall showed five minutes to six.
"First Sunday afternoon call I've taken in twenty years," she said softly to herself and shook her head, "but I guess I know an emergency when I see one." ^
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THE RUSSIANS ARE SCARED, TOO
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TYCOON OF THE TALL TIMBER
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"SHOOT CLANCY"
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WHAT A HOSPITAL!
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THE NON TAXABLE LOVES OF MRS. OLLENBERGER
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Carrie Schreiner (born 14 September 1998) is a racing driver from Germany, currently competing for ART Grand Prix at the inaugural F1 Academy season.

Biography
Carrie Schreiner began her motorsport career in karting. Between 2011 and 2014 she drove in the ADAC Kart Masters, achieving her greatest success in 2012 when she won the X30 Junior championship title.

She then switched to single-seater racing and competed in ADAC Formula 4 in 2015 and 2016. At the same time, she drove in the British Formula 4 Championship in 2016, where she finished 17th overall.

In 2017, Schreiner moved up to GT cars via the Lamborghini Super Trofeo, competing in several of their championships over the next two years. She finished runner-up in the 2017 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Middle East and a year later won the Pro-Am category in the same series with Konrad Motorsport, having also contested the European Lamborghini Super Trofeo championship with the Austrian squad. At the same time, she competed with the FFF Racing Team in Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia in 2017.

In the DMV GT & Touring Car Cup she drove an Audi R8 LMS GT3 from 2017 to 2019, first with Aust Motorsport and later from 2018 with Rutronik Racing – winning the championship in 2018. As a result, she stepped up to ADAC GT Masters with the same team – scoring a best championship finish of 24th place in her first season in the series with co-driver Dennis Marschall.

From 2018, Schreiner has been a regular participant in the Nürburgring Endurance Series. After achieving her Class A licence, she became one of the founding drivers of the "Girls Only" program by WS Racing; attempting to encourage more women into the sport. Since 2019, Schreiner has contested four Nürburgring 24 Hours races with the team, winning her class in the 2021 edition. From 2021 she stepped up to the SP9 class for GT3 machinery, competing with Racing One and SchnitzelAlm Racing.

In 2021, Schreiner started in the newly founded BMW M2 Cup - a one-make series on the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters support bill. Simultaneously she drove in the Italian GT Championship with AF Corse, finishing second at the Vallelunga round with Antonio Fuoco.

She is in a relationship with former DTM driver Peter Terting, some 14 years her senior.

Racing record

Career summary

Complete Nürburgring 24 Hours results

References

External links

Official website
Driver Database profile

1998 births
Living people
German racing drivers
German female racing drivers
Racing drivers from Saarland
F1 Academy drivers
ADAC Formula 4 drivers
ADAC GT Masters drivers
British F4 Championship drivers
24H Series drivers
US Racing drivers
Double R Racing drivers
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People from Völklingen
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