The University of Vermont Medical Center is pleased to announce that Kristen Olsen Campbell has accepted a full-time position as an Audiologist at the Audiology Center at the Fanny Allen Campus. She comes to us from New Jersey. She graduated from Montclair State University with her ScD and received her Bachelor's degree from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland. She was voted one of New Jersey's Favorite Kids' Docs in NJ Family Magazine for 2014, 2015 and 2016!
The University of Vermont Medical Center is pleased to announce that Devin Lumbra is joining the Rehab Therapy Center team as a Medical Assistant. She will begin on Monday April 1st. Devin is coming to us from the Radiation Oncology Clinic where she currently works as a scheduling specialist. She has been an EMT for several years and has completed her LNA certification. Her patient care skills and ability to work in unpredictable environments will be an asset in helping to care for the patients at the Rehab Therapy Center. Please join me in welcoming Devin to Rehab Therapy Center team.
The University of Vermont Medical Center is pleased to announce that Terri Longo has officially joined the Rehabilitation Therapy team as an Operations Support Specialist (OSS). Terri comes to us with over 11 years of experience at the University of Vermont Medical Center (UVMMC). She began her career at UVMMC as a Registration Representative, but has worked for the last seven and a half years as a Practice Service Specialist (PSS) at South Burlington Family Practice (SBFP). Her recent responsibilities have mirrored those of our own TSS staff, including; check-in, check-out, scheduling, working referrals, covering phones, obtaining prior authorizations and editing master schedules. Terri was part of the Transforming Primary Care Initiative where she worked on a team to standardize PSS practices across primary care sites for easier cross-site coverage. Terri has also been instrumental in training staff at SBFP and showed great initiative by suggesting and implementing new procedures to streamline processes for prior authorizations. Terri has received accolades for her strong commitment to high quality customer service, her reliability and her willingness to help others.


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Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)
March 5, 2021 December 14, 2021 / Chwineka
With Captain America: The First Avenger, all 6 of the main Avengers have been introduced. Iron Man was introduced in Iron Man, Hulk in The Incredible Hulk, Black Widow in Iron Man 2, and both Thor and Hawkeye in Thor. All that's missing is the star-spangled man with a plan, leading us to this flashback movie. Welcome back to MCU March! Let's talk about the last movie leading up to The Avengers.
We open with the discovery of a big ass ship and Captain America's iconic shield in the Arctic. Flashing back to Norway during WWII, Nazi/Hydra agent Johann Schmidt (Mr. Hugo Weaving)–called the Red Skull by Hitler for reasons that will become clear later–finds a glowing cube called the Tesseract. Over in America, we meet Steve Rogers (Mr. Chris Evans), a man who probably weighs 40 pounds soaking wet. He really wants to go to war but a laundry list of ailments keeps him from being enlisted, made worse by his buddy, James "Bucky" Barnes (Sebastian Stan), getting shipped off to fight in Europe. But Steve's plight is overheard by Dr. Erskine (Stanley Tucci), a scientist who enlists Steve in a secret military program. Steve meets Agent Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) and Tommy Lee Jones (Tommy Lee Jones) there, and through determination comes out as the top choice for the super soldier program. Steve's given a cocktail of special drugs that turn him into an absolute slab of all-American beefcake. But a Hydra agent kills Erskine–the only person who knew the exact formula–so Steve's the only one to get enhanced. He's tasked with shilling for war bonds, but things get serious when in Italy he finds out that Bucky and a bunch of other soldiers were captured by Hydra. Steve mounts a one-man rescue with help from Agent Carter and Howard Stark (Dominic Cooper, not to be confused with Iron Man 2's Howard Stark, John Slattery), and in the end Bucky and the soldiers are saved! Captain America is a hero and has officially joined the war.
Meanwhile, Red Skull has been using the Tesseract to create super weapons that will bend the world to Hydra's will. He's gone rogue from the Nazis–so you know he's extra evil–but finds a rival in Captain America. See, Schmidt used a early version of Erskine's serum, giving him super strength but turning his skin hairless, red, and skeletal. The Red Skull name makes sense now. Back with the Allies, Steve gets his iconic vibranium shield (we'll get to you eventually, Black Panther) and, along with the Howling Commandos, engages in a series of raids against Hydra. One attack captures scientist Arnim Zola (Toby Jones), but Bucky falls to his death. Yup, he's definitely dead and will never come back. With Zola's information Captain America launches a final attack against Red Skull. The Hydra leader escapes in his big ass ship and plans on destroying the Eastern Seaboard, but Cap sneaks aboard and the two have a final fight. Red Skull tries to use the Tesseract but is disintegrated and/or teleported into… space? Yup, he's definitely dead and will never come back. Unable to stop the plane, Steve sacrifices himself by crashing it in the Arctic. His body is never found but while searching, Howard Stark recovers the Tesseract.
…except his body is eventually found, as the opening suggests. He wakes up in the modern day under SHIELD's watch, a man out of time. Nick Fury shows up in a post-credits scene and we get a commercial for The Avengers. Like, an actual commercial that could show up on TV or something.
One sticking point that keeps coming up with these movies and related shows is the question, "Are all Hydra agents Nazis?" It's a complex question, since the current origin for the organization goes back to the dawn of civilization. They preceded the Nazis and worked with them, but went rogue. So does that make them Nazis? Yes. Absolutely yes. To quote Jemma Simmons from Agents of SHIELD, "And for the record, Hydra? They're all Nazis." Just because you decided to out evil Hitler doesn't mean you didn't find likeminded individuals in the Nazis. Red Skull's a Nazi, Arnim Zola's a Nazi, a bunch of other people are going to be revealed as Hydra/Nazis in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and Agent Grant Ward is at the very least a Nazi sympathizer. So fuck those guys.
COMIC BOOK FUN FACT! Captain America's tragic hero origin has become a staple in explaining who he is–a WWII soldier frozen in time, found by the Avengers in the year… the actual year doesn't matter and is constantly changing, but still. Except that's not how it originally happened. Captain America fought the Axis in his comics, and after the war his story kept going. Hero comics waned in popularity once the war was over, and eventually Cap's comic was cancelled in 1954. After Marvel teases his return in 1963, Captain America made an official comeback in Avengers #4 (1964) when the team found him trapped in ice, last seen in 1945 and ignoring any adventures after that time. But those stories still happened, so who was that post-war Captain America? It was eventually decided that wasn't actually the real Cap, but instead a series of people pretending to be Captain America as not dampen American spirits. Originally the costume went to William Nashlund (AKA The Spirit of '76), but when he died in 1946 it went to Jeff Mace (AKA the Patriot) until he retired in 1950. The costume then went to William Burnside, a man so fanatic that he legally changed his name to Steve Rogers and got plastic surgery to look more like the original. It shouldn't surprise you to find out he went crazy and had to have the real Captain America eventually beat his ass.
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"America has become a disjointed, sectarian, broken land where neighbors don't last because nobody has neighbors anymore. Not really. Not like we did.
…The extent of our interaction with our neighbor is when we wave hello as we pull out for work in the morning. We don't know them. We don't know what brought them here to this community. We never find out where they're from in this country, or where their family is from in the world. We never learn their son's middle name and if it has some family history. We have never tasted their mother's homemade bread, or borrowed a cup of sugar, or shared a glass of tea on the front porch on a summer evening. Great people with great stories live 30 feet from us and we never find out anything about them until we read their obituary one day unexpectedly. Then we pause for a moment, wince at how we should have reached out to them, and wish we had that chance now. Then our cell phone rings and we are dragged back into the tyranny of the urgent and returned by our digital wardens to the prison of upward mobility.
…America was founded by neighbors. She was built by neighbors. She ascended to unbelievable heights because we were a nation of neighbors. We were a community. We were fiercely independent in the ways that mattered. We worked hard, got things for ourselves without the government helping us, took no handouts, but gave them when we saw a need.
…Nowadays, we live in the age of talk-radio, and social media. Nobody sees the face behind the voice and nobody really cares to. We can call Rush or Sean or watch MSNBC and become angry, bitter, and violent towards the other side –whichever side that might be- and we don't feel even the slightest twinge about the slow death of our human spirit because we are detached from everyone else. Our sense of humanity is slipping because we aren't interacting with humans anymore. We aren't neighbors anymore. Twitter and Facebook have become poor replacements for summer cookouts and get-togethers, and having a beer with your neighbor while sitting in lawn chairs in your driveway on a summer evening.
…We don't drive down the street at the end of the workday, and see the neighborhood, and attach a funny story to each address on each mailbox. Nobody waves to us as we pull up. If they do wave, it's reflexive like swatting a fly. They don't call out our name as we get out of the car. They don't amble over casually with a lawn rake still in their hands and ask us how we are and remind us that the big game is this weekend and oh yeah…Me and Jim and Pat are getting a truckload of manure for the gardens if you want to join in. They don't come over with a tray of cookies or a pot roast, or some free tickets to the circus that someone at work gave them, but they can't go and they knew your kids would just love the circus. And they knew those kids by name.
…I wish we were still like this…like neighbors. Because we'd have a much better America. We truly loved each other, and you simply can't be mean to those you really love.
…They were really our neighbors. We were a real community. We cared deeply about each other because we'd had so many years together. Time was our bond. It fostered love and endeared us to each other in ways that we have never found since. Ways that Social Media erodes.
…..If only we could somehow capture this again. If only we could somehow become friends like we were then. If it was safe enough to drop our guard and lower our defenses and let ourselves care deeply about the people whose houses we drive past each night as we pull up in our driveway…maybe we could see that America again. If we slowed down and learned the amazing stories that make up the people on our street, if we became their friend, maybe we could have a better America again. How could we not? How could we not make this place better for everyone if we returned to a place and a time when we knew each other…when we loved each other?
I wrote these excerpts and that book four years ago, in a Panera in Franklin, TN. I was homeless, lonely, lost, and desperate. I have a home now and a job. But in so many ways I still feel like the person I just described Homeless, lonely, lost, and desperate. I crash-landed on this new planet and found an America so different from the one I grew up in as to be foreign to me. I have allowed myself to crawl into my digital hovel, and sequester myself from the world. If the isolation and alone-ness are doing this to my heart, then surely it is doing it to us all. We're all isolated now. All digitized. We text message our kid because it's easier than going upstairs and knocking on her bedroom door. We have verbal fistfights and spew anger and venom because those "people" aren't really people to us. They're profiles. Avatars. Facebook accounts. People who would never hate anyone find it easy to hate someone online because to them…they aren't really real. And then, sadly, that worms its way into the real, tactile world. A President becomes an object of hatred and wrath and the target of assassination threats because he's no longer flesh and blood. He's just that guy with the "POTUS" Twitter account. He's not a dad…a grandad, an American. He's a series of internet code. I can hate him, or adore him and it means nothing in the real world because he's not real to me somehow. The same goes for everyone I disagree with. You think the first amendment allows Nazis to march? Then you MUST be a Nazi! Then I hate you!
That's easy when I'm just a miniscule picture in the corner of a thread on Facebook. It would be harder for you if you sat in my living room and flipped through my photo album and saw the picture of my best friend Rich, when we were just 18 years old and hanging out together at Wildwood NJ. You'd see my handsome friend happens to be black. You'd hear in my voice, the admiration and love I have for him, and you'd never even have to ask me –or yourself- if I was a racist or a Nazi. Because you'd know me…and you'd have your answer.
I decided this week to end my Facebook presence. I may also end my Twitter account. I'm not sure yet. I'm going to spend the time I spent on FB, writing more things like this. Searching for the America I grew up in and chronicling the expedition. I'm going to rekindle the friendships I had as a child and as an adult and maybe add a few faces to that list. I challenge you, gentle reader, to do the same.
"When the Psalmist saw the transgression of the wicked, his heart told him how it could be. 'There is no fear of God before his eyes' he explained, and in so saying revealed to us the psychology of sin. When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone." -- A.W.Tozer "The Knowledge of the Holy"
I was a freshman in college when I first read A. W. Tozer. My roommate was reading it for a class and he read one quote to me and I was sold. Tozer writes from a different perspective than today's Christian authors. He wasn't looking for fame or acceptance. He wasn't out there, writing his books and preaching his sermons, hoping to win friends and influence people. He was a clarion call. He was consumed by the Holiness of God and by the changes that automatically brings in the life of any who encountered it.
Tozer did not mince words or soften the blow of an encounter with a holy God. For him, it was a total surrender or it was nothing at all. I never met Tozer, he died the year before I was born, but I think he would have approved of my often-used description of the cross of Christ as a "head-on-collision." An inescapable totaling of your person. Your frame is bent and needs to be straightened. Your metal gets wrinkled. The outward skin that shone and gleamed is ruined. It all needs to be redone. That is the Cross. A place where humanity runs headlong into the face of Christ, dying a most vicious death, and realizes that it was for them He died, and that this death requires change. Total, complete, to-the-heart change.
Tozer would never have written books like "Your best day ever" or "The Shack." He never would have abided smiling, slick-haired game-show hosts, passing themselves off as pastors. He would be the first to address the heresy of Osteen and Hinn. He never would have approved of someone like Lentz Instagramming himself doing shots with Justin Bieber. In fact, he would have been the first to be in Lentz' face, thundering the enormity of his sin and the depth of his mockery.
He would not have remained silent while "Kanye West's pastor" hawked himself to Oprah and preached something that permitted West to continue to act like West.
They preached a Gospel that demands change. That commands different living. A Gospel that requires saying "yes" to all the Bible, not just the parts that speak of God's love and make us feel giddy. He would reject, entirely, this gospel that says it's okay if we sin and it's no big deal since Jesus covered that at Calvary and God is just a big old sugar daddy who shakes His divine head at the sin of his children and somehow thinks it's cute.
He doesn't. He is offended. It insults His holiness. Those who call The Name, and for whom the Cross has become a turning point, are obliged to live differently. Those who preach this Gospel are obliged to preach the holiness it produces and the expectation of that Holiness it demands. Obliged to preach it. You must.
This is a lengthy introduction for this article. This bears all the markings of a challenge to Holiness, but that is really the introduction. This is about Charlottesville.
Yesterday was a black-eye on America, but not in the way most folks see it. Yesterday, while a protest march became a war in the streets, I watch in horror as the left used this event to once-again attack President Trump. He instigated this, they said. He didn't condemn it strongly enough. When he issued a statement and it wisely and properly called for all people to unite, he was attacked again by the left. Why? Because he wanted unity and after eight years of a "president" preaching division, this message is dangerous. What if we really did unite? The game would be up.
I watched in sadness as certain voices from the Christian Left immediately started attacking The Church, as if latent racism is their fault. They immediately made statements like "Racism has no place in Christianity!' Who ever said it did? I know the fringe racists claim the Faith, but nobody takes them seriously. The leftists who claim Christianity is racist, do so only when they have nothing else to complain about. Yet they'll take the aid given by Christian churches as soon as the next disaster hits, and never notice whether it was delivered by a black hand or a white hand.
Only by choice. And so what? My preference in worship style and doctrine has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with personal taste. I love black Gospel music. The classics at least. I loved Andrae Crouch. I loved Sherman Andruss. I wish we had that style in the church I attend. But I love my pastor's teaching and doctrine and music is secondary to me where church is concerned. I don't go to church for the music, but there is music there when I go.
But what does all this have to do with holiness?
Yesterday I watched as Christian after Christian puked apologies all over social media. I saw the hand-wringing and the self-loathing for being born with white skin. I watched the same voices attacking the church again and the church responding from the defensive. Guilted into confessing some sin they never committed. The Church folk kept reminding everyone how the Church doesn't abide racists. The sad fact is…yes, they do. But not in the way the Left claims.
The Church hates racism. Let's be clear. They don't approve of racial hatred, bigotry, hate, or any such thing. The church is guilty of allowing racism to simmer under the surface because the church no longer preaches holiness.
The church no longer preaches about a God whose very presence would destroy such sinfulness. They abandoned the message that proclaims a God who will never abide anyone considering His handiwork something less. Something wrong. God created man. He created all man. His creation is Holy. His choice to make some men white and some black and some Asian and some Hispanic, was His Holy Decision. That makes race sacred. It's sacred. Nobody chooses their skin color. It is divinely chosen for them and that makes it sacred. A person with a healthy, correct view of the Holiness of God would not be able to permit himself to view anyone of any color as something different…something less. A person with a proper view of the holiness of God would never presume to speak ill of a man's race, because to do so is to speak ill of the man's Creator!
The church, in her recent mad dash for popularity, has long forsaken preaching about real personal holiness. The holiness that comes from a long, life-altering encounter with the Holiness of God.
Instead, she has taken to hip, trendy, man-made methods of integration, with the hopes that somehow familiarity will breed acceptance. But familiarity does not change a heart. Only a head-on collision with the Cross and the subsequent holiness it engenders can do that. My sinful human nature will never accept anyone or anything different than me or other than what meets my approval unless it is broken and rebuilt by the Holiness of God.
And there is no question that the true mind of Christ would never abide racism. Not from white nor black. But how often do we hear about this mind of Christ anymore?
She has become a boneyard full of glad-handing flock stars who refuse to preach the uncomfortable Gospel of Holiness and heart-change.
Until she gets back to the thundering voice of Holiness and righteousness, until the words of Tozer, and Ravenhill, and others of a different generation are heard, and accepted and until she repents in dust and ashes for her callous acceptance of a good-time Gospel…nothing is going to change. Nothing. Not racism, not fascism, not hatred, not greed or avarice or lust or adultery.
Racism is the result of a sinful, fallen heart. It's not a product of white skin. It's a product of a black heart. The same black heart we were all born with. It's a symptom…not a disease. The disease is sin. The cure is the Cross. The healing process is painful, as much medicine is. But there is only one cure for this and it is going to require…to demand, that the Church gets herself back to the beginning. Back to the Cross. Back to the call for holiness that says, "You cannot hold to this sinful ideal and call yourself by The Name!" Read Tozer's quote at the start of this article. The "psychology of sin" is that when men no longer fear God they transgress His laws without hesitation." Men -of any color- no longer fear being racist. Because they no longer grasp the Holiness of God. Because the Church has gone silent on the matter.
Until she once again stands against the tide, she will continue to be swept out to sea by it.
I moved to Nashville in 1997. I lived there 17 years, and in that time I only developed real, deep friendships with two or three folks. That is NO reflection on Nashville; it's a reflection on the truth of relocating in your thirties. About 35 years ago I read a book called "The Friendless American Male' and the author laid out the premise that men do not develop deep friendships after college. Why? Because we enter the business world, we compete with every other man in our sphere. Compete for a spouse, a job, a raise, a house. When we get those things, we encircle them and mark our turf. We don't let our guard down enough to build the friendships we had as children, or in young adulthood. In Nashville I only had two groups of guys I saw on a consistent basis, my hockey teammates and the Tuesday Morning Bible study guys at DW's house.
Hockey on Sunday evenings for about three hours, (including going to eat afterward) and an hour on Tuesdays with the DW gang. I developed what I would consider strong friendships with a few guys in each setting. A couple of teammates and a couple of guys from the Tuesday group became real friends. Outside of that, there was one couple who really became friends, that I talked with regularly and could open up to. I'm not saying no one else was friendly or cared. I'm talking about the people you could talk with until late into the night if you just needed to pour out your heart.
It's just not likely to happen after a certain point in life. You need a history with someone to be able to open up to them, and when you meet folks in your 30's and 40's and later...there is no history, and everyone is too busy to develop one.
I love the job I do. I love living in Lynchburg. The views are spectacular, and being the hunter / fisherman I am, I'm in an almost perfect place. But the sad truth is that other than the cursory interactions with my co-workers and business units at work, my entire human interaction occurs here on social media or with my daughter. I wasn't going to write this or admit to it, but I'm wondering how many others find themselves being dragged further and further into this same pit..."The only human interaction I have is on social media."
Sadly...this thing is insidious in that you eventually become so used to it that you prefer the controlled isolation. I find myself NOT wanting anyone to talk to me anymore. I look forward to fishing the James...alone. I come home from work and am thrilled when I don't have to go to a side job so I can just sit at home and not interact with anyone but my daughter.
When I was home last week, I felt alive again. I was surrounded by folks I have a long, deep history with, and who, I have no doubt, care. Not that others don't, but it's different somehow. I wanted to be around them. I didn't feel intruded upon, or uneasy. I wanted to be in a crowd of familiar faces.
The last four nights I have had strange dreams involving my home in Tennessee and other places I've lived. In each dream, I thought I was home and then I walked into a room or the back yard and found someone else living there and I felt like a trespasser. It wasn't hard to figure out what these things meant. I think this is what I feel inside.
The only people I talk to are the people here on Facebook, or those back home when I call them or visit. I'm okay with that...I'm an introspective guy who values "down time." But we aren't meant to be isolated for long periods. Otherwise prisons wouldn't use it as punishment. I've fallen victim to the notion that this interaction here is somehow a decent replacement for meaningful, deep, honest, HUMAN interaction in the real world. It's not. It's not even close.
I have given up on the possibility that a friendship like I seek is possible here where I now live. Not because people aren't friendly, but because we're all adults, with adult responsibilities and lives and families and demands. And we have no real history together. I don't know your mom and dad and you don't know mine and we didn't play little league together and fish in the summer sun and grow up slowly in a different America than exists now. I have no doubt that my co workers care, as I do for them. But our commonality ends within about 10 minutes of conversation...and then what?
Last week I called my friend Kevin while I was home. We didn't get the chance to meet face to face, but I had gone by the nursing home to see his mom and I wanted to make sure I said hello to him, and he knew I had stopped. We talked for an hour. We laughed. We remembered. We picked up right where we were about 25 years ago when I still lived there and we saw each other regularly.
The 20 years since I've been gone haven't been the kindest. I lost a marriage, half my fatherhood, a home, a career, and the middle part of my life. I have been stuck in the spin cycle and I am tattered inside. I want to go back to the last - the only- place where, no matter what was happening, I wasn't alone.
I am seriously considering shutting down my Facebook page. I go back and forth because there are so many people on this site that I have come to care for. But they aren't HERE. So many of them I haven't even met. On the one hand, it's a miraculous result of the age we live in. On the other hand it's a sad, almost pathetic statement on where my life is. Even more sadly, I think my life is a microcosm of what is becoming the reality more and more of us live each day. I think if I went home for good, I would probably never get on social media again. I would have the thing I am trying to use it as a substitute for and I would no longer need it.
Social media is not friendship. It's not interaction. it's not flesh and blood. It's scary how cleverly this thing conceals itself and before you know it...you're spending more time arguing with people you'll never meet, than you do loving people you really know.


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T.I. has a lot of things going on right now since his second release from prison including his music possibly collaborating with B.O.B, a new reality show T.I. and Tiny 'The Family Hustle' and getting back into his acting.
In a recent interview with Billboard T.I. salutes Eminem for helping him overcome his drug addiction. T.I. had been through a couple of oral surgeries in which he was prescribed pain killers which soon led to a heavy use of prescription drugs. T.I. talks about fearing he had developed a drug problem, reaching out to Eminem (who has famously dealt with addiction himself), for advice.
"I asked him how he knew he was an addict," T.I. told VIBE in 2010.
"[He said] basically, if you put yourself in harm's way… if you risk that, you've got to assume that there is something fundamentally wrong with your thought process."
T.I. continues to talk about what Eminem has got going on in the game right now giving him much love and respect. They have not been in contact since T.I. was just recently released but T.I. mentions the 'the dots just didn't connect.' I am sure we will be seeing and hearing more with T.I. and Eminem.
With T.I.back in the game and on the hustle, clean and sober that is, he has been giving words of wisdom to those suffering and battling drug addictions. Just this morning I caught this music video and thought it was very fitting. Here is Kid Rock feat Angaleena Presley and T.I. 'Care'!
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RedHawks hope Humphries can provide much-needed power
FARGO - Brian Humphries doesn't consider himself a home-run hitter, but the outfielder is expected to add juice to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks lineup.
Newly signed Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks outfielder Brian Humphries hit .310 with 15 home runs in 98 games last season for the Sioux Falls Canaries. Sioux Falls Argus Leader
FARGO – Brian Humphries doesn't consider himself a home-run hitter, but the outfielder is expected to add juice to the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks lineup.
"He's got the ability to carry the team a little bit and be in the middle of the lineup," RedHawks manager Doug Simunic said. "He's a run producer."
Humphries had a strong season with the Sioux Falls Canaries last summer, batting .310 with 24 doubles, 15 home runs and 58 RBIs in 98 games. Humphries ranked third in the American Association in total bases (197) and finished with 40 extra-base hits.
"I'm more a line-drive, gap (hitter)," said Humphries, who is from El Cajon, Calif. "I don't hit towering fly-ball home runs. I don't go into the box trying to hit home runs."
The 26-year-old Humphries spent four seasons in the Colorado Rockies organization before he played for Sioux Falls. The left-handed hitter has a .291 batting average over his five professional seasons. His 15 home runs with the Canaries were a career high for a season.
"I like that he plays with a lot of confidence," Simunic said. "He's a very confident player."
The RedHawks finished last season with a 44-56 record. F-M had a .267 team batting average last season, which ranked 10th in the American Association. The RedHawks finished with 55 home runs in 100 games. Humphries should help the team improve in those areas.
Simunic thinks Humphries can replicate, and even improve, on the power numbers he posted in Sioux Falls last summer.
"He's got the ability to do the same thing, maybe do a few more," Simunic said of the home runs. "The ballpark should fit him."
Humphries liked what he saw of Newman Outdoor Field in the games he played as an opponent in the ballpark last season. His focus is to build off last summer's production.
"My goal is to do better than that," Humphries said. "I want to do everything I can to help this team win."
The RedHawks acquired Humphries from the Canaries for cash during this offseason. F-M announced it had signed Humphries last week.
"It's a great opportunity. It's a very good organization," Humphries said. "It's an organization that prides itself on winning. It's a nice facility. ... I saw that when I played against (the RedHawks) last year."
Humphries is expected to play one of the corner outfield spots for the RedHawks, most likely right field.
"He's an all-around player, and when he's up at the plate, he means business," Simunic said.
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Peterson covers college athletics for The Forum, including Concordia College and Minnesota State Moorhead. He also covers the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks independent baseball team and helps out with North Dakota State football coverage. Peterson has been working at the newspaper since 1996.
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Q: Detecting USB port connection I am writing a console application in C++. So far my code can detect if my device (linux) has been connected to another device (usually windows) via TCPIP. Once I open Putty on my Windows to connect to my device that is running the console application, my code recognizes it and automatically sends data from my device(linux), to my computer.
I would like to do the same thing with USB. Right now, my console application can send/receive data from my Windows device, BUT only if I send data first. I want my console application to automatically detect if it has been connected to via putty or other application, and automatically start sending data to my microprocessor. I've read and played with libudev by running code that displays when a USB device has been connected and disconnected. I would like to know if there is a way for my device(linux) to know that it has been connected to my PC via Putty, and not a hotplug event. and if so, is there an example floating around somewhere I can use.
would it be a good idea to use sockets? Can I use sockets with usb devices?
Thanks in advanced.
Full disclosure, I am relatively new with Linux OS.

A: Well, there are some major issues with what you are suggesting.  A normal USB cable is master->slave, which means that one machine is the controlling machine, and the other is a slave.  Both a Windows machine and an Ubuntu machine, would both expect to be the host, controlling the USB operations as the USB-Master.  There is nothing off-the-shelf that would change this relationship (but many embedded designs that switch host-slave relationships).
HOWEVER, you can use a USB-Bridge (or Transfer) Cable to communicate over USB between two machines.  I found this one on Amazon "Plugable Windows Transfer Cable".  You should be able to use this to write a console application on both sides, but would require some experience with Windows and Linux drivers.  Not trivial.
I suppose one other idea, would be to use two USB network dongles, and connect them to each other with an ethernet cross-over cable, and setup a local network.  You could still use your networking capabilities to communicate between the two devices, but this would be detectable when the USB port is plugged in.
Ethernet cross-over cables and usb networking dongles are readily available, and the drivers well defined (obviously) for Windows and Ubuntu.

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India : Modi's black money move kept a closely guarded secret
NEW DELHI : Prime Minister Narendra Modi handpicked a trusted bureaucrat, little known outside India's financial circles, to spearhead a radical move to abolish 86 percent of the country's cash overnight and take aim at the huge shadow economy.
Hasmukh Adhia, the bureaucrat, and five others privy to the plan were sworn to utmost secrecy, say sources with knowledge of the matter. They were supported by a young team of researchers working in two rooms at Modi's New Delhi residence, as he plotted his boldest reform since coming to power in 2014.
When announced, the abolition of high-value banknotes of 500 and 1,000 rupees ($ 7.50 and $ 15) came as a bolt from the blue. The secrecy was aimed at outflanking those who might profit from prior knowledge, by pouring cash into gold, property and other assets and hide illicit wealth.
Previously unreported details of Modi's handling of the so-called "demonetisation" open a window onto the hands-on role he played in implementing a key policy, and how he was willing to act quickly even when the risks were high.
While some advocates say the scrapping of the banknotes will bring more money into the banking system and raise tax revenues, millions of Indians are furious at having to queue for hours outside banks to exchange or deposit their old money.
Labourers have also been unpaid and produce has rotted in markets as cash stopped changing hands. Not enough replacement notes were printed in preparation for the upheaval, and it could take months for things to return to normal.
With India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh, holding an election in early 2017 that could decide Modi's chances of a second term in office, there is little time for the hoped-for benefits of his cash swap to outweigh short-term pain. Modi has staked his reputation and popularity on the move.
"I have done all the research and, if it fails, then I am to blame," Modi told a cabinet meeting on Nov. 8 shortly before the move was announced, according to three ministers who attended.
Overseeing the campaign, with support from the backroom team camped out at Modi's sprawling bungalow in the capital, was Adhia, a top finance ministry official.
The 58-year-old served as principal secretary to Modi from 2003-06 when he was chief minister of Gujarat state, establishing a relationship of trust with his boss and introducing him to yoga.
Colleagues interviewed by Reuters said he had a reputation for integrity and discretion.
Adhia was named revenue secretary in Sept. 2015, reporting formally to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. In reality, he had a direct line to Modi and they would speak in their native Gujarati when they met to discuss issues in depth.
In the world's largest democracy the demonetisation was revolutionary: it called into question the state's promise to "pay the bearer" the face value on every banknote.
At a stroke, Modi scrapped money worth 15.4 trillion rupees ($ 220 billion), equal to 86 percent of cash in Asia's third-largest economy. The idea is backed by some economists, although the speed of its implementation is widely seen as radical.
"One is never ready for this kind of disruption – but it is a constructive disruption," said Narendra Jadhav, a 31-year veteran and former chief economist of India's central bank who now represents Modi's party in the upper house of parliament.
Modi, in his TV address to the nation, cautioned that people could face temporary hardship as replacement 500 and 2,000 rupee notes were introduced. Calling for an act of collective sacrifice, he promised steps to soften the blow for the nine in 10 Indians who live in the cash economy.
Immediately after the address, Adhia sent a tweet: "This is the biggest and the boldest step by the Government for containing black money."
The boast harked back to Modi's election vow to recover black money from abroad that had resonated with voters fed up with the corruption scandals that plagued the last Congress government. Yet in office, he struggled to keep his promise.
Over more than a year, Modi commissioned research from officials at the finance ministry, the central bank and think-tanks on how to advance his fight against black money, a close aide said. He demanded answers to questions such as: How quickly India could print new banknotes; how to distribute them; would state banks benefit if they received a rush of new deposits; and who would gain from demonetisation?
The topics were broken up to prevent anyone from joining the dots and concluding that a cash swap was in the offing.
"We didn't want to let the cat out of the bag," said a senior official directly involved. "Had people got a whiff of the decision, the whole exercise would have been meaningless."
Under Adhia's oversight, the team of researchers assembled and modeled the findings in what was, for it, a theoretical exercise. It was made up of young experts in data and financial analysis; some ran Modi's social media accounts and a smartphone app that he used to solicit public feedback.
Yet for all the planning, Modi and Adhia knew they could not foresee every eventuality, and were willing to move swiftly. The announcement caused chaos, with huge queues forming at banks when they reopened after a short holiday.
New 2,000 rupee notes were hard to come by and barely any new 500 rupee notes had been printed. India's 200,000 cash dispensers could not handle the new, smaller, notes and it would take weeks to reconfigure them.
Filling ATMs with the 8 trillion rupees ($ 117 billion) in new banknotes that the finance ministry reckons are needed to restore liquidity to the economy is even trickier.
In a best-case scenario, in which India's four banknote presses churned out new 500 and 2,000 rupee notes designed to replace the abolished ones, it would take at least three months to hit that target.
Secrecy was paramount, but clues had been left. Back in April, analysts at State Bank of India said that demonetisation of large-denomination notes was possible.The Reserve Bank of India, the central bank, also disclosed in May that it was making preparations for a new series of banknotes that were confirmed in August when it announced it had approved a design for a new 2,000 rupee note. The printing presses had only just started turning when the media finally started to run with the story in late October.
"The plan was to introduce it around Nov. 18, but there was a clear sign that it could get leaked," said one person with direct knowledge who, like others interviewed by Reuters, asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Some officials in the finance ministry had expressed doubts about scrapping high-value notes when the idea came up for discussion. They now feel resentment at the secrecy in which Adhia rammed through the plan on Modi's orders.
They also say the plan was flawed because of a failure to ramp up printing of new notes ahead of time. Other critics say the Adhia team fell prey to a form of "group think" that ignored outside advice.
In the words of one former top official who has worked at the finance ministry and central bank: "They don't know what's happening in the real world."
Ray Pierce
Ray Pierce is a Senior Market Analyst. He has been covering Asian stock markets for many years.
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Aveda Grooms Guys with Aveda Men Shop
By Katie Dickens	 October 24, 2016
While green beauty and grooming brand Aveda has been selling man-specific and unisex solutions for hair, skin and body for what seems like ages, it's hoping to lure more dudes with the launch of the aptly named Aveda Men Shop, which recently opened in St. Petersburg, Florida, and will eventually expand across the country.
Designed for the namesake sex, the space is done up in well-worn wood and black leather befitting of its masculine clientele–and the shelves are stocked with some of Aveda's greatest hits, like Rosemary Mint Shampoo, Dual Action Aftershave, and Shampure Body Lotion.
Beyond straight-up retail, the shop is really about what happens in the four chairs in the middle of the floor. It's in these stations where man-friendly treatments are administered. The offering on the grooming menu are designed based on the assumption that guys prefer to spend as little time as possible to look as good as possible. On offer are super speedy services, like a hair touch-up, wax, or scalp treatment, that take as little as fifteen minutes from start to finish. Or if you have a little more time to spare in the chair, you can get a haircut or even a facial.
To book said treatments, customers simply need to avail themselves of the self-serve kiosk, which informs them of wait time and offers the choice of next available barber or their preferred pro. A specially-designed app will inform them when it's time for their appointment. And when time is up, checking out is a matter of tapping away on iPad. All in all, it's these details that make it "much like a fast-paced barbershop," says Kevin Molin, Aveda Vice President of Global Education. It's a virtually stress-free process made even less so when the treatment concludes with the brand's signature Stress-Relieving Neck and Shoulder Ritual.
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Bureta Faraimo's first season in Super League and maiden term in a Black & White jersey saw him finish the campaign as the club's highest try scorer in all competitions, crossing the whitewash on 19 occasions in 2018.
The former Parramatta Eels winger also boasted a sterling record in the NRL, scoring nine in 15 appearances, two of those coming on debut against Cronulla Sharks.
Faraimo has previously been included in the New South Wales Cup Team of the Year in 2014 and the Intrust Super Premiership NSW Team of the Year in 2017.
The outside back is renowned for his power, pace and strength, as he is often seen busting tackles and bulldozing his way over the try line.
A regular USA international, Faraimo made his breakthrough at the 2013 Rugby League World Cup and is now a regular feature for the international side.
Previous Clubs: Mackay Cutters, Parramatta Eels, New Zealand Warriors.


Case interviews are great opportunities to showcase your smarts. They're designed to assess your ability to deal with complex problems, to approach an issue strategically and thoughtfully, and to reach intelligent conclusions with the available facts — in a short amount of time.
In other words, they're checking out your judgment, intellect and quick thinking. And those are pretty important skills, so it's wise to prepare yourself thoroughly for this kind of test.
With that in mind, here are some practical tips for a successful case interview.
Maybe this sounds obvious, but it's absolutely critical: listen very carefully to the problem or case. And make sure that you respond directly to the problem at hand, rather than a side issue. One of the biggest mistakes made in case interviews is misunderstanding the question or answering the wrong one. Try to stay focused.
To avoid any confusion, take the time to repeat the question back to your interviewer. This not only demonstrates your excellent listening abilities to your interviewer, but also ensures that you understand what they're asking you to do.
And during the case interview, listen closely for any extra information they give you. Chances are these are helpful clues — so pay attention!
Case interviews, as we mentioned, highlight your thought processes. The hiring manager wants to see that you follow a rational, structured approach to problem-solving.
How do you do this? Outline four to five major issues that need to be examined upfront before you can address the big issue. And then describe your overall problem-solving approach to your interviewer. This demonstrates to your interviewer that you can take a complex problem and break it down into manageable components.
The natural conclusion for your interviewer? That you're logical, thorough, and mentally organized.
As part of your explanation, share why you are addressing each point, and convey where it fits into the overall problem at hand. If any part of your approach is wrong or missing something, the interviewer has a chance to redirect you at that point.
If you find yourself needing more information — relax — it's perfectly acceptable to ask for clarification. In fact, most interviewers expect you to ask for it. Most of them want you to ask for it.
But, again, make sure you understand where each question fits into the overall picture. Don't make the mistake of firing off a bunch of questions without understanding where they fit into the bigger picture, or without explaining to the interviewer why you need the information.
And this is why you need to talk it out: because the employer is far more interested in your thought process than the actual solution. So do your best to verbalize your mental journey, to walk your interviewer through your problem-solving process.
In some cases, you'll run out of time before you even have the opportunity to present your conclusion. In these situations, it's even more important to talk through your reasoning out loud.
Take time to step back periodically and summarize the conclusions you have been able to form so far and what the implications may be.
This is especially helpful when you don't have the time to talk through all the key issues or the entire case. The summary demonstrates to your interviewer early on in the case that you can synthesize information and draw conclusions.
And remember that the whole point of the case interview is to understand your ability to think and reason logically — so don't get hung up on solving the mystery. Rather, pour your energy into demonstrating a logical thought process.
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require 'spec_helper'

describe "comments/new" do
  before(:each) do
    assign(:comment, stub_model(Comment,
      :title => "MyString",
      :content => "MyText",
      :parent => nil
    ).as_new_record)
  end

  it "renders new comment form" do
    render

    # Run the generator again with the --webrat flag if you want to use webrat matchers
    assert_select "form[action=?][method=?]", comments_path, "post" do
      assert_select "input#comment_title[name=?]", "comment[title]"
      assert_select "textarea#comment_content[name=?]", "comment[content]"
      assert_select "input#comment_parent[name=?]", "comment[parent]"
    end
  end
end

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