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CCSD Named Finalist for Governance Team of the Year Award
Posted On: Thursday, October 14, 2021
The Cherokee County School District has been named a finalist for the 2021 Governance Team of the Year Award presented by the Georgia School Boards Association!
Three awards are presented annually to recognize top School Boards and Superintendents of Schools for outstanding leadership and dedication to continuous improvement. One winner is selected in three categories based on school district enrollment: small, 1-3,000 students; medium, 3,001-10,000 students; and large, 10,000+ students.
The winners will be announced at the Georgia School Boards Association (GSBA) conference in December. CCSD is one of five finalists for the large system award.
"This award has set the bar for what high functioning school boards and superintendents should look like," said GSBA President Bryan Preston, who serves as Vice Chair of the Coffee County Board of Education. "Each year these governance teams showcase best practices and set an example for others to strive towards. We appreciate the hard work each of these finalists have showcased."
Finalists were selected through a rigorous process that included documentation of progress and success and review by an impartial team of educational experts. School districts' governance teams are measured in the following key performance areas: Teaching & Learning Resources; Governance, Leadership & Accountability; Human & Organizational Capital; Teaching, Learning & Assessment; Climate, Culture & Stakeholder Engagement; School Finance; Communications & Messaging; and Early Learning & Student Success.
The three overall winners will be chosen by a panel of national experts who serve in various leadership roles in public education.
"We are proud of what this award has come to represent, and it is an honor to recognize these finalists for all they have accomplished," GSBA Executive Director Valarie Wilson said. "While only one wins in each category, all have demonstrated success as high functioning governance teams."
School Board Chair Kyla Cromer said she's deeply proud of the work by her fellow School Board Members, Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower, all of CCSD's employees and the entire community to serve students.
"Successful governance cannot happen without the support of our entire community," Ms. Cromer said. "On behalf of my fellow School Board members, we're so grateful to have the opportunity not only to lead, but also to collaborate with stakeholders …. and, today, to celebrate this shared achievement."
The Governance Team of the Year Finalist honor follows three consecutive years of recognition for the School Board from GSBA.
The GSBA school board recognition program requires that governance teams consistently model best practices and meet specific high standards of excellence. In order to earn recognition, school boards must demonstrate its members meet or exceed specific criteria that shows their commitment to professionalism, including adherence to a code of ethics, effective use of strategic planning, annually assessing their own performance and progress, and continuous participation in professional development. The Cherokee County School Board earned the Quality School Board designation in 2018, followed by the next level of recognition – Distinguished School Board – in 2019. The School Board earned the Exemplary School Board designation, the highest designation awarded, in 2020.
Dr. Hightower said CCSD greatly benefits from the longtime, experienced leadership of its School Board members, noting they bring to their roles a strong and varied background as educators, business people, parents, and school and community volunteers.
"Our School Board is more dedicated to its role of serving our community's children than ever before," Dr. Hightower said. "The past two years have presented unprecedented challenges that many volunteers would not have endured, yet our School Board members have continued to serve and serve our community well."
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Luxembourg, March 26, 2019— Millicom announced today the launch of its latest datacenter in Nicaragua, which brings the total number of Millicom datacenters throughout the region to 10. By the end of 2019, Millicom will have built and deployed six state-of-the-art Tier III datacenters, expanding their reach from Colombia, Paraguay, and Bolivia to include Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. This, in addition to three existing datacenters in Panama stemming from the company's recent acquisition of Cable Onda. Including the latest datacenter in Nicaragua, Millicom's investment in improving data infrastructure in the region totals over $68 million.
The innovative hybrid data centers provide increased data protection measures, increased energy efficiency and integrated services such as cloud servers, applications, storage, backup and recovery, colocation, virtual desks, cybersecurity, IoT, big data and analytics and cloud environments –private, public or hybrid.
The datacenters increase Millicom's scope of B2B (business to business), cloud and infrastructure presence in Central and Latin America, linked together through the company's South American fiber-optic network. For businesses with a presence in multiple countries in Latin America, this means peace of mind when it comes to sharing information, supporting their own customers, and operating in an efficient and ubiquitous way.
"We are proud to be the leading operator investing in technology infrastructure in Latin America for the long term. The output of these projects is an end-to-end process experience for our customers running critical applications. Our continued investment in cutting edge datacenter solutions across Latin America allows us to bring superior service and the highest standards for security and data protection. At Millicom, we place the customer at the center of everything we do. We really believe that this strategy and investment will make us a premier provider of B2B solutions in all of the markets where we operate", commented Xavier Rocoplan, Millicom's Chief Technology and Information Officer.
-- Tier III Design and Facility certified by Uptime Institute, which means full reliability and availability. -- Energy efficiency - The Titanium datacenter is the first to be UPTIME Operational Sustainability GOLD Certified in Colombia. -- Built to meet the anti-seismic requirements in countries like Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador in addition to in-row cooling systems for higher density equipment installation. -- Industry leading advanced Datacenter Infrastructure Monitoring System allowing the entire facility to be monitored remotely and proactively for all new datacenters.
Datacenter visual available [ download ].
Millicom (NASDAQ U.S.: TIGO, Nasdaq Stockholm: TIGO_SDB) is a leading provider of cable and mobile services dedicated to emerging markets in Latin America and Africa. Millicom sets the pace when it comes to providing high-speed broadband and innovation around The Digital Lifestyle services through its principal brand, TIGO. As of December 31st, 2018, Millicom operating subsidiaries and joint ventures employed more than 21,000 people and provided mobile services to approximately 48 million customers, with a cable footprint of more than 10 million homes passed. Founded in 1992, Millicom International Cellular SA is headquartered in Luxembourg.


Sony Pictures has released the second trailer for their upcoming comedy sequel "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" which sees Kevin James reprising his role as an overly enthusiastic security guard.
In this outing he heads to Las Vegas to attend a Security Guard Expo with his teenage daughter Maya (Raini Rodriguez) before she departs for college. Whilst there, he inadvertently discovers a heist. The film is slated to op April 17th.


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Living Shadows: On Asma Naeem's 'Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now'
Nick Ripatrazone July 23, 2018 | 1 book mentioned 3 min read
"Southern gentle lady, / Do not swoon. / They've just hung a black man / In the dark of the moon." "Silhouette" by Langston Hughes rests on one of the middle pages of Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now by Asma Naeem, the poem's white lines centered against black background. "They've hung a black man / To a roadside tree / In the dark of the moon / For the world to see." The word silhouette appears only in the title, not the actual text of the poem. Its presence comes from its absence.
Black Out began as an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., but Naeem's examination extends to a consideration of how the silhouette rose as a powerful and economical art form—and how it symbolically, and sometimes literally, captures the way we see race in America. In her introduction to the collection, Naeem cites Emily Jackson from The History of the Silhouette (1911): "At its best, black profile portraiture is a thing of real beauty, almost worthy to take its place with the best miniature painting; at its worst, it is a quaintly appealing handicraft, revealing the fashions and foibles, the intimate domestic life and conventions of its day." In contrast, Black Out offers a more nuanced understanding of silhouettes through image and essay, history and analysis.
The silhouettist Auguste Edouart once received a letter praising his "shadow"—a 19th-century term for silhouettes—which the admirer said was "almost alive and breathing." For those new to the art form, Penley Knipe's essay from the collection, although placed last, should be read first. Her anecdote about Edouart begins an essay that offers readers a practical and historical understanding of the art form's early development—and its particular power. By the 1780s, silhouettes were popular in America, and affordable. "Much less expensive than the portrait miniature," these silhouettes "were often snipped for a few pennies." For the first time, "people could possess an inexpensive, nearly instantaneous likeness of themselves or a loved one—before the silhouette, portraiture was for the royal and the wealthy."
Even amateurs tried their hands at the art form, using "a candle to cast a shadow or a pencil to draw freehand before taking up scissors to create an instant likeness of the sitter." Whether skilled artist or hobbyist, techniques included full cutouts, busts, hollow-cuts, and the "conversation piece," where friends or family are collected in a domestic space. One example reproduced in the collection is Edouart's "Magic Lantern." Nearly a dozen people are arranged in the family parlor, transfixed by the image projected from the magic lantern—a precursor to the projector. A bandit flees, chased by men on horseback. Pigs and ducks scurry in the street.
Yet what is far more fascinating than the dizzying scene projected on the curtain are the black figures, whose dark bodies feel risen from the paper. Silhouette, performed with skill, is both exquisite and dizzying. In Edouart's creation, a woman holds a child in front of the image. An old man's peg leg points in the direction of the image, while an old woman sits, her profile stern. At the back of the room, the family's African-American servant has opened the door to peek at the show. He is half in the room, half out; his presence is nearly shadow.
Black Out expertly demonstrates that, as an art form and as a symbol, silhouettes have often been about race. Naeem writes that early American silhouettes "attempted to reconcile contradictory views on such pressing issues as colonial independence, slavery, and national identity. The cutting of the body and the head, the contour as a unit of meaning, the Spartan simplicity, and the cumulative uniformity of individuals from all walks of life as one black profile after another—all of these aspects of silhouettes registered highly charged debates of the day."
"Silhouette portraiture," Naeem explains, "can be seen as an elision between high art and popular culture wherein European conventions of portraiture—contrived poses and stylized mises-en-scènes—were demoted in favor of simplified profile forms with no accoutrements, illusionism, or artifice." Silhouettes were fast art, and since the sitter was the subject, silhouettes were instant affirmations of self. "No longer requiring rank or an oil commission to be imaged, lower and middle-class patrons could carry home images of themselves, their own medallions of greatness."
That power was not only personal. The silhouette style was used by abolitionist William Elford in his often-reproduced text "Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788." Naeem shows how Elford expertly used the silhouette style to make a political, and moral, point: "With the voiding of interior details of each person, the bodies inhumanely appear as cargo or things, even coffins, and the viewer quickly gathers the magnitude of the brutality from the cumulative effect of the graphic patterning."
Black Out documents the pre-Civil War heyday of silhouettes but also demonstrates how contemporary artists such as Kara Walker and Kumi Yamashita reinvent the art form. The result is a book that should serve as both introduction and inspiration; hopefully, even more scholars will consider the implications of the silhouette. As Naeem so appropriately writes, "shadows are always around us. Beyond manifestations of light and presence, beyond indicating the position of the sun, they encompass all of our unique places in the material and immaterial worlds."
Nick Ripatrazone is a staff writer for The Millions. He has written for Rolling Stone, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Kenyon Review. His newest book is Ember Days, a collection of stories. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and twin daughters. Follow him @nickripatrazone and find more of his writing at www.nickripatrazone.com.
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Turgeon and Wright have offered up scripts for a range of parenting struggles, from babies who pull their parents' hair to eye-rolling pre-teens.
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If you are going to make major claims for Updike as a writer, as Begley wishes to do, you must show how Updike's style and his cosmology correspond, and you must give an account of the effects that style produces.
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In person and on the page, the two men are as different as Laurel and Hardy: the one orotund, a gourmand, filling his mouth with the language of his forebears, digesting ideas with gustatory (sometimes dyspeptic) relish; the other lean, a scientific mind, cerebral, attenuated, his most pronounced feature a high forehead given to wrinkling in bemusement. I've been a student of both William H. Gass and E.L. Doctorow, and somehow have only now thought to compare them. But when I do, I see yin and yang, Epicurius and Zeno. (DeVito and Schwarzenegger?) Truly, the contrast here, in temperament and physiognomy, is like something out of a novel.Upon reflection, however, I'm discovering affinities. Gass and Doctorow are roughly coevals, celebrated novelists and essayists. Both attended Kenyon College as undergrads and finished in the Ivy League. More substantively, both go about their work – choleric or platonic – with a heroic seriousness that marks them as the product of the bygone moment of modernism. Both, that is, are unreconstructed believers in the religion of art. Notwithstanding reviewers' declarations that they are in the "twilight" of their careers, each has continued to produce vital work in his seventies.This year, each offers us a nonfictional map of his personal (and idiosyncratic) canon. If Gass' A Temple of Texts and Doctorow's Creationists diverge in temperament and taste, together they comprise a rich walking tour of world literature – and more importantly, an object lesson in committed reading.A Temple of Texts is by far the chunkier of the two books. Over 418 pages of dense, erudite, poetic prose, Gass covers American classics (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Gaddis, Gertrude Stein) and nominees for classic status (Stanley Elkin and Ernesto Sabato) and returns, again and again, to his beloved Europeans.The foundation of the book is the title essay, which accompanied an exhibition of Gass' "Fifty Literary Pillars" at Washington University's Olin Library. Here, we are treated to a highly personal take on the writer's favorite books; the net result has the compulsive fascination of one of those "Best 37 Novels of the Last 37 Months" lists, but is deeper, more varied, and in weird way more democratic. Gass makes no claim that Collette or Cortazar should be among everybody's literary pillars, but summarizes his relationship to their books with such gusto that we may be persuaded, at least, to add them to our reading lists, and to think about our own literary pillars. Along with "To A Young Friend Charged With Possession of the Classics" – Gass' Solomonic solution to the academy's "canon wars" – "A Temple of Texts" is the strongest thing here.The title essay also lends the book its canny structure: most of the other pieces here are pegged to a specific author. To sit and read the collection straight through is to subject oneself to a lot of Gass, which is to say a lot of philosophy, a lot of alliteration, a lot of wordplay. Characteristic Gass productions like the peevish "Influence" or "The Sentence Seeks Its Form" (the distillation of at least a dozen other essays from other books) may slow the reader down (as Gass no doubt means to do) or even trip her up (which can seem bellicose.) But those new to Gass can just as easily treat A Temple of Texts as a reference work, can dip into disquisitions on Rilke and Rabelais at will, and be rewarded. The accessibility of form, and the richness of thought, make A Temple of Texts a wonderful and unusually gentle introduction to Gass' extraordinary mind and, as importantly, to the works that formed it.Comparatively, Creationists is slender – 176 pages for $25, or 14 cents per page – and makes few claims for itself. Doctorow intends, he tells us, to stay close to the works he's writing about, rather than rising above them to make sweeping assertions. The word "modest" appears in the book's first sentence. But in its keen, almost surgical intelligence, in the sly insights smuggled into its readings, Creationists is a fraternal twin to A Temple of Texts. Where Gass' sensibility is European, Doctorow's is distinctly American – he is most convincing when discussing Twain, Melville, Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller. Especially in the Melville essay, we see the way a life of reading has informed Doctorow's own fiction."It is indisputable in my mind that excess in literature is its own justification," Doctorow writes of Moby-Dick. Perhaps it is this dictum that leads him to the book's many feats of restoration; Doctorow's attempts to rehabilitate the reputations of Poe (a "genius hack") and Stowe make Creationists more than a simple top-ten list. As do his literary analyses of Harpo Marx, Albert Einstein, and the Atomic Bomb. As does the peculiar tension between analytic coolness and immoderate passion; in this way, Creationists is of a piece with Doctorow's best novels.In the past, both Gass and Doctorow have invoked Elkin, quoting someone else: there are two kinds of writers, putter-inners and taker-outers. If Gass is the former, Doctorow's the latter, and many of his ideas – about the creative temperament, the value of writing, the fruitful democracy of contemporary culture – emerge only through implication. The subtlety and brevity of Creationists don't make it any less valuable, though. It may be far from novel for novelists to reflect on the works that influenced them. But the complementary traits of these American masters – their uncommon intelligence and reverence for literature – make A Temple of Texts and Creationists gifts for the reading public.Sidebar: Books these books made me want to check out: Man's Hope by Andre Malraux, Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis, Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katharine Anne Porter, On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato
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Mythology, Men, and Coonskin Caps: On Michael Wallis's David Crockett
Matt Hanson November 18, 2011 | 1 book mentioned 8 8 min read
"Biographies are but clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written" — Mark Twain
Born on the mountaintop in Tennessee
Greenest state in the land of the free
Raised in the woods so's he knew every tree
Kil't him a b'ar when he was only three
Day-Ve, Day-Ve Crockett! King of the Wild Frontier!…
I know this song, and you probably do to, and yet I can't quite say why or how. I think for some reason it started at least a couple decades ago in my grandparents' house, probably some Disney family movie night, or maybe I heard it by chance out in the ether somewhere and it just settled into my auditory cortex, like a disc in a jukebox waiting for the drop of memory's coin.
What's strange (to me, at least) is that even though I know this ditty decently enough, I couldn't really tell you much about the eponymous character it unabashedly celebrates. If pressed, I could probably make something up on the spot based on the hyperbolic verses, but what good is that? And why can't I get it out of my head now that it's on my mind? It might be that Disney's myth machine was more effective than I'd previously suspected. Apparently the song was dashed off in about 20 minutes, because Boss Disney needed something to get the kids' heads bobbing along as the opening credits rolled. Or, even more disturbing, it could be that Tennessee Ernie Ford is as much a crackerjack Americana propagandist as Woody Guthrie, Stephen Foster, or Francis Scott Key.
I'm grateful to Michael Wallis, author of the new biography David Crockett: Lion of the West, for giving me a bit of my childhood back. He was inspired to write his book by a similar experience, albeit from a perspective a little more specific and closer to the source:
"My first exposure to this inimitable American icon came, and I can vividly recall the date, on the frosty night of December 15, 1954 … The ABC television network had just aired "Davy Crockett, Indian Fighter", the first of three episodes produced by Walt Disney for his studio's then new series, which had premiered two months earlier … I was a goner … I headed straight to my room, where I pored over the World Book Encyclopedia entry for David Crockett, dreaming of the swashbuckler with a proclivity for dangerous behavior, a most commendable quality for any red-blooded American kid."
I'd like to say that Wallis's biography dispels the mythology which surrounds David Crockett once and for all, separating fact from fiction, the legend from the man, but that wouldn't be quite right. Wallis is a diligent, scrupulous historian; he's got his facts straight, he knows true from false, he's done his homework. He demonstrates a real love and understanding of the backwoods through which David Crockett roamed and rambled. This is all to the good, of course.
It is also significant, however, that Wallis doesn't seem to restrain his lyrical impulses when setting up his subject as early as the opening chapter: "David Crockett believed in the wind and in the stars. This son of Tennessee could read the sun, the shadows, and the wild clouds full of thunder." He continues in this vein, describing how Crockett knew the names of plants, trees, constellations, and treated the forests of Tennessee as both a cathedral and refuge. I don't mean to be crude or dismissive, but the voice I hear is more akin to the wizened, dreamy-eyed cowboy in The Big Lebowski than what I'd expect from a historian. Wallis isn't telling tall tales, but his history comes across as a sort of amiable yarn with footnotes and period illustrations. Romanticizing the subject at hand is a consistently close call. I'm still not sure, given the subject, how much it matters.
Wallis points out early on that Crockett was most definitely not "born on a mountain top" and only started wearing his iconic coonskin cap when he needed to boost his public visibility and stay politically relevant. Literally turn the page, and next thing we know our hero is describing mortal combat with a giant angry black bear, alone, at 39 years of age, soaked to the bone and nearly freezing to death on a January night near Reelfoot Lake in western Tennessee:
"'Imade a lounge (sic) with my long knife, and fortunately stuck him right through the heart', he later explained … Exhausted from the struggle, he calmed his pack of panting hounds and managed to pull the bear from the crevice in the frozen ground where they had fought. After butchering the animal, he tried to kindle a fire but could find nothing dry enough to burn. His moccasins, buckskin breeches, and hunting shirt were frozen to his numb body and he knew that unless he kept moving he would die. 'So I got up, and hollered awhile, and then I would jump up and down with all my might and throw myself into all sorts of motions … But all this wouldn't do; for my blood was now getting cold, and the chills coming all over me. I was so tired, too, that I could hardly walk; but I thought I would do the best I could to save my life, and then, if I died, nobody would be to blame.'"
Wallis adds a qualifying footnote suggesting that this story might be one of Crockett's much-beloved, enduringly exaggerated tales of derring-do, which were at least half of the reason the good-natured, generous Crockett seemed so well-liked. It needn't trouble us very much if this particular tale is exaggerated. Crockett was unquestionably a master hunter of all manner of wildlife for sport and survival. If the above story is untrue, it could fairly stand in for any number of actual pretty dangerous encounters which might have gone unmentioned, if for no other reason than sheer repetition. Such battles to the death were rather common and necessary for a woodsman like himself. There's not much reason to start interrogating him on the bear killing issue, either. Crockett soberly mused that he'd killed at least a hundred bears in one year's professional hunting, including 47 in one month. This would be annoying coming from someone who hadn't actually kept his fledgling family alive for much longer than he preferred by hunting and killing wild bears for food, clothing, insulation, and so on. His raw courage warrants a bit of blarney, if blarney there must be. I shudder to think what I would have eaten, if anything, had I been born in 1786.
And that's why it seems that David Crockett has become a mythological figure in American history. He was a survivor. I hate to pile mythology on mythology here, but there's some Huckleberry Finn at play in his story. Crockett, like Huck, gets his start at the economic and emotional mercy of a drunken, hapless pap who can't get his act together long enough to offer his resourceful, loyal son any leg up in the world besides learning independence and self-sufficiency pretty darn quick. It could also be that this theme contributes to quite a bit of other American mythology. As a culture, we do tend to venerate the innocence that overcomes initial squalor. This theme has its place in early colonial literature and persists in the work and legend of Whitman, Thoreau, Frost, and the Beat Generation on into the political sphere. Anybody who remembers the seemingly guileless genialities of Reagan, Clinton, and George W. Bush can see how electable a myth it is. It might just be that we as Americans take our own optimism as anesthetic for the wound of what Richard Slotkin, in a long study of the American West that Wallis refers to, called — and used as the title of his book — Regeneration Through Violence.
And violence there is in the story of David Crockett — not just of the grizzly kind, either. The world Crockett inhabited was, in many ways, fiercely up for grabs. As a young man, he set out to fight in The Creek Indian War, which broke out in 1813 after news of the killing and scalping of more than five hundred people at Fort Mims, a stockade then in southern Mississippi. He went off to battle with the words "remember Fort Mims!" ringing in his ears, leaving his wife and children behind to join in the fight for what may well have looked like survival itself: "When I heard of the mischief which was done at the fort, I instantly felt like going, and I had none of the dread of dying that I expected to feel" (italics mine). Once he'd seen and experienced enough of the fighting, which had begun over land, Creek civil wars and the prophetic outrage of Tecumseh ("Burn their dwellings! War now! War always! War to the living! War to the dead!"), he'd remember the gory ruin and devastation it caused years later when he served several terms in Congress as a representative of Tennessee.
Andrew Jackson, once a political mentor to Crockett and eventually an enemy, infamously demanded Indian removal essentially by any means — and trails — necessary. Crockett didn't back down from the ire of Old Hickory. He stubbornly voted against the punitive relocation measures of the vindictive and paternalistic Jackson, defying his party and alienating much of his voting base in the process. He was convinced that Indian Removal was not only a tyrannical move for Jackson but also fundamentally immoral: "They said this was a favorite measure of the president, and I ought to go for it. I told them I believed it was a wicked, unjust measure, and that I should go against it … I would sooner be honestly and politically d—nd, than hypocritically immortalized." There is, to extend the comparison little bit, a touch of Huck's stirring "alright then, I'll GO to hell" on a different, though equally historically relevant, issue of race. Wallis notes that some historians consider his stance more in the light of his anti-Jackson position, but it's as much of a matter of principle either way. It's encouraging to see that a figure so steeped in rosy Americana really could be as morally adventurous as he was by practice and disposition.
Crockett's death at the battle of the Alamo is alternately charming and surreal. He'd lost his seat in Congress by then, frustrated with all the snobbery and hypocrisy of Washington, and he'd always been "itchy-footed" anyway. Wallis cites the accounts of star-struck fellow soldiers who'd probably grown up reading the comics and stories already wildly fictionalized from his life: "It was said that Crockett and a Scotsman named John McGregor, who brought his bagpipes to the fight, amused the garrison, and perhaps even the surrounding Mexican troops, with their musical interludes in between skirmishes and repulsed assaults." No one knows precisely how Davy Crockett died, but the image of him, a merry old man by then, playing a fiddle to perk up his comrades as Santa Ana's troops routed the place is too strange and vibrant to ignore.
Wallis knows full well that the icon is not the man in full, nor should it be. The issue with a biography like this is that the legend is so much of the story that debunking myths means the subject loses some of what makes him unique. David Crockett was romanticized in the same way that classic film stars, athletes, and politicians are, and for a similar reason — the legend is inextricably entwined with the actual human being. Not only is there no urgency to demystify, there's almost no reason to. Sometimes the legend and the person are inextricable for perfectly good reasons. Late in his life, Crockett attended a loosely-based dramatization of his own exploits, where his stand-in character went by the swashbuckling name of Nimrod Wildfire. The actor playing him, decked out in fringe and a Wild West headpiece, ran to the front of the stage and made an elaborate bow to the guest of honor. The audience, initially shocked, stood up to applaud when Crockett himself rose from his seat and responded in kind. Life is sometimes larger than itself because people can be more than they appear.
Wallis's biography gracefully walks the line between acknowledging this dynamic contrast and letting the yarn of Crockett's life unwind in dynamic and fascinating ways on its own merit. This applies to the name on the cover, as well. It's "David" Crockett, thanks, not the chummily informal "Davy" that pop culture taught us to say generations ago. In fact, the man himself never used the diminutive. His people — friends, family, voting constituents — were the ones more apt to do so. It was more about the warmth of familiarity than the preference of the man in question. In the cozy distance of posterity, however, our friendly condescension might resemble affection enough for us to ignore the difference. Fair or not, the image seems to preside over the reality even for those, like Crockett, who happened to be the genuine article.
Image: Wikipedia
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SHOCK POLL: Everyone hates Wall Street
Wall Streeters track the latest polling about Wall Street or track money or something. (Mark Lennihan/AP)
Philip Bump
National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics
National correspondent
June 30, 2016 at 6:47 p.m. UTC
Wait. Not "shock." What's the opposite of shock?
Look, it's easy to understand why people don't like Wall Street. People like the idea of getting rich, and people know that Wall Street makes folks rich, but everyone also knows that Wall Street isn't making them rich. As we pointed out last month after the New York primary, people are skeptical of banks and they're more skeptical of big business, and Wall Street is essentially banks-times-big business.
But Wall Street has a lot of money, and that money offers a lot of influence over the economy, and that means that Wall Street has a lot of clout on Capitol Hill. The political influence of banks — which we'll use interchangeably with Wall Street, since most people do — isn't all campaign contributions. The bank bailout during the recession didn't happen because Goldman Sachs guys made big contributions to a few guys in the House; it happened because banks told people in power that if they weren't bailed out, the economy would collapse. If you had tried saying that to President George W. Bush, he probably wouldn't have believed you. When Wall Street bankers did, they got bailed out.
We were talking about this after the New York primary because of an interesting bit of exit poll data. A majority of Democrats told the exit pollsters that they believed Wall Street did more to hurt the economy than to help it. Perhaps more surprising, Republicans were also more likely to say hurt than help. This was an exit poll in New York, mind you, which also happens to be where Wall Street lives. (It lives in downtown Manhattan, but it also has a place in the Hamptons.)
This week, the public radio show "Marketplace" released a poll conducted by Edison Research (part of the same operation that does exit polling). That survey found that it wasn't just New Yorkers who viewed Wall Street as more harmful than beneficial; a majority of Americans in total felt the same way.
In fact, a majority of nearly every demographic group picked "Wall Street does more to hurt the lives of most Americans" over "Wall Street does more to help the lives of most Americans." More men chose hurt, more women, more white people, more black people, more Democrats, more Republicans. The only group for which a majority didn't choose hurt over help was people with post-graduate degrees -- and even then, a plurality picked hurt.
This, as much as anything, explains why Wall Street is such an effective punching bag in this election cycle. One of Bernie Sanders's most effective lines of attack against Hillary Clinton was demanding that she release transcripts from speeches given to Goldman Sachs. Donald Trump has tried to link Clinton to Wall Street, too, an effort made a bit trickier by Trump's decision to start fundraising from Wall Street himself. (Clinton, for her part, insisted that she would be tougher on Wall Street than anyone.)
Wall Street probably isn't sweating this too much, mind you. Sure, everyone hating it makes it a bit trickier to twist arms in the House and Senate, but Wall Street is the national arm-twisting champion for 50 years running. Oh, you don't like us? Wall Street sniffs as it boards its helicopter to start its weekend in Montauk early. That's a real shame.
At least that's what we think this anthropomorphized version of Wall Street said. The helicopter is loud.


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At its surface, this part is pretty easy. Follow the directions of whatever equipment you have, and set the tank up. Be sure to rinse everything you purchased, but do not use any cleaners. It's advisable to put the substrate in before putting the water in. Decorations should go in last, as the water will push them around when you fill the tank.
If you use municipal water, be sure to buy some sort of water conditioner to remove the chlorine and chloramine from the water. These chemicals' purpose is to kill off any bacteria in the water, and will work its magic on the nitrifying bacteria. They will also damage the gills of your fish, probably killing them quickly. If your city uses chlorine, you can also condition your water by aging it, letting it sit out for 24 hours or so. The chlorine will evaporate during this time. This will not work with chloramine, however.
If you have your own well, you may still want to use a conditioner that neutralizes heavy metals, which may be present in your water. Even if they aren't concentrated enough to harm you, they may be enough to harm your fish.
This is the point where the most fish are lost. The nitrogen cycle of your tank is a period where the nitrifying bacteria colony sets itself up. Fish produce waste in the form of ammonia. One type of bacteria consumes this ammonia, and produces waste in the form of nitrite. Another type of bacteria consumes the nitrite, and produces waste in the form of nitrate. The end result is that you want no ammonia and no nitrite in your tank.
To test this, you will need a water testing kit. The variety that uses vials of liquid is more accurate than the little test strips. Some fellow aquarists have had experiences where the test strips have been entirely wrong in a test.
The number one mistake that beginners make is to buy a bunch of fish and toss them into the tank. The fish produce ammonia faster than the bacteria colony can grow to handle, and the fish die of ammonia poisoning. Some very hardy fish have a chance of surviving this process, but it likely shortens their lifespan and is very uncomfortable for them. It is much better to carefully cycle your tank. There are several methods of doing so.
In this method, buy a couple of very hardy fish, such as zebra danios, and introduce them to the tank. This is NOT the preferred method, and this author considers it cruel to the fish.
Use an eyedropper to put 5 drops of ammonia per 10 gallons of water into your tank. Keep doing this daily until you get nitrite readings. After that, put 3 drops of ammonia per 10 gallons in daily. Continue until you get nitrate readings. At that point, do a 30% water change and you're ready to add fish.
Put a few flakes of fish food into the tank twice a day. As it decomposes, it will release ammonia, feeding the growing colony. Continue feeding the tank until you get nitrate readings.
Drop a 2"x1" chunk of raw fish or shrimp into the aquarium. As it decomposes, it will release ammonia. Remove when you get nitrate readings, do a partial water change, and add fish.
This method is this author's favorite method of cycling a tank. If a friend has an established tank and is willing to part with a bit of filter media (or gravel, if you're using a UGF), you can add it to your tank, add some fish food, and you should get nitrate readings in a couple of days. The biggest downside of this method is that there is a possibility of introducing parasites from the established tank into the new tank. If the established tank is healthy, however, this isn't likely.
This author has tried to keep brand names out of this guide, but in the case of Bio Spira, it is a necessity. There are many products that claim to have nitrifying bacteria, but these bacteria are not the aquatic variety, and will be harmful to your tank in the long run. As far as this author knows, Bio Spira is the only brand of nitrifying product that contains the aquatic bacteria. The product is expensive, and is made more so by the fact that it must be shipped express and packaged in a way to keep the heat out. Bio Spira claims to be able to cycle a tank in 24 hours, and the experience of some fellow aquarists seems to support this claim.
During your cycling process, test your tank's water once a day. Once you get to the point that your tank is producing nitrate readings, you are nearing the end of the cycle. At this point, it is a matter of opinion, as well as a matter of the hardiness of the fish you are adding to the tank, as to when to add the fish. In this author's opinion, it is safe to add one or two hardy fish, such as zebra danios. If all of your planned fish are more sensitive, it is probably best to wait until your nitrite readings are nearly zero.
This may seem like a lot of work to put fish in a tank, but the wait is definitely worth it. Aside from dying directly of ammonia or nitrite poisoning, there is a greatly increased possibility of your fish suffering from other diseases, as the stress of high ammonia and nitrite levels weakens their immune systems as well as damages their gills.
Once your tank is a ready home for its future denizens, it is time to purchase them. This author will not go over how to choose particular animals, or which ones are better for keeping in an aquarium, at least not in this article. However, one must take care when picking fish. Obviously sick or injured fish run the risk of contaminating a tank, and stand a good chance of dying. Still, there is something to be said for rescuing fish, as long as one knows what one is getting into.
Your fish will come in a plastic bag, most likely. This is actually better for fish than a hard-sided container, as it allows the fish to bounce off of the sides during the ride.
The intended result is to keep the fish in the bag for as little time as possible. To this end, plan your trip around getting the fish, and make sure that the fish going into the bag is the last thing that happens before you go to the register to pay, and that the pet store is the last stop before you head home. If the trip is going to be long, bring a cooler with some sort of soft material you can pack it with to keep the bag from rolling around.
Of course, if you are ordering your fish, they will be delivered. Try to be home when they will be delivered, but leave instructions to set the box in some sheltered area (if you have bushes along your house, between them and the house is a good choice), in case you aren't home. Plan on introducing between one and three fish at a time, give the nitrifying bacteria a week to catch up on the waste increase, and introduce one to three more.
There are a couple of different ways to actually introduce your fish.
The most simple method is to simply float the bag for about ten minutes, to adjust the temperature in the bag to the temperature of the water, and then move the fish into the tank. This method is very stressful to the fish, as there is more to the water than just temperature. The immediate change in water chemistry will be a shock to the fishes' system.
The other method is to add small amounts of the new tank water to the water from the bag in order to acclimate the fish more fully. This can be done in a couple of different ways. The bags can be floated, with the tops rolled over to create a sort of float for the bags, and small amounts of tank water poured in the bag every couple of minutes. Or the fish and bag water may be put in a container (this author uses one of the water change buckets) and add small amounts of water every couple of minutes. Just make sure that the bucket is small enough at the base that the water covers the fish, or the change will be just as stressful as dumping them in the tank.
A variation on this method is to use an acclimation kit. An acclimation kit is nothing more than a tube, some method of attaching the tube to the aquarium, and an adjustable outlet. This allows a steady drip of water to be transferred from the aquarium to the container. Just be sure to watch that the container doesn't fill too much, or the fish may leap out.
Once you've acclimated the fish, it's imperative that you not dump the water into the tank. First of all, this ride would be similar to a trip through rapids to most fish. Second, the water from the bag potentially contains parasites and diseases that you do not want to introduce to your aquarium.
Instead, use a net to move the fish, one at a time, to their new home. There are, inevitably, a few types of fish that do not do well with nets, but most of these are not good fish for beginners, anyway. In those cases, it is best to quarantine the fish (more on this in a moment) to be sure that it is not ill, and then move it in a small container, transferring as little water as possible.
When you get new fish, it is a good idea to quarantine the fish in a separate tank for a week or more in order to verify that the fish is not ill. This tank may be spartan, though it should have the basic amenities of a good aquarium (filter, heater, air stone if necessary). For smaller fish, many pet stores sell tiny 1-5 gallon aquariums that are too small for a permanent home, but make excellent quarantine and hospital tanks. These often are full setups, including a filter (though not usually a heater).
Quarantining may not be necessary when the fish are the first inhabitants of an aquarium. However, after anything other than plants are living in an aquarium, you will be playing Russian Roulette with your fish if you add fish directly from the store.
There are going to be certain supplies you will need to keep your tank happy and healthy. The most obvious supply you're going to need is Food. There are many different types of food out there. Flakes and pellets are the most common. When getting pellets, make sure that they are the proper size. It's better to get pellets that are too small than too big. Overly large pellets can choke a fish, or can get lodged in the intestine. As with many other things, you get what you pay for. Flakes are cheap and filling for a fish, but are mostly filler. If you are looking for high quality food, your best bet is probably frozen and freeze-dried foods.
One big warning: If you are buying carnivorous fish such as piranhas, it is best not to feed them "feeder fish." These are guppies or goldfish that are kept with hundreds of their kind in an under-cleaned, under-filtered, and under-fed tank. Nearly all of them will be packed with disease, and they are not very good for your fish, as their bodies have already used up all available nutrients in an attempt to keep them alive.
In addition to food made specifically for fish, there are many other things that your fish will likely eat, depending on its breed. Carniverous fish will likely love all sorts of worms, including the kinds sold in bait shops. Herbivores and omnivores will love nearly any vegetable you can think of. The harder vegetables should be softened a bit by parboiling them (get some water boiling, take it off the heat and drop the vegetables in). This author has fed his fish skinned peas, parboiled zucchini, slices of cucumber, spinach, and lettuce. Vegetables can be left to float, attached to the wall of the tank with a clip made for this purpose, or weighted down to the bottom of the tank, depending on the eating preferences of your fish.
Water Testing Equipment has already been covered, but it is a very important supply, and cannot be forgotten. Be sure to test your water frequently. Once everything is stabilized, once a week, or at least once a month, the water should be tested.
Actually, medication is on the list of things that you don't necessarily want to have on hand. Most antibiotics have a limited shelf life, and it would be better to purchase them as you need them. There are a few exceptions. It is this author's opinion that, if you are getting a betta, it would be best to have a betta-safe fin-rot cure available, as many bettas are poorly treated prior to purchase, and are susceptible to fin rot until they have a very stable home. Also, if there is no nearby store where medications are available, it may be best to keep a supply of a "treat-all" type medicine stored in your fridge, as your fish may not have the days it would take to order fresh medicine if they get sick.
You're almost there. You have enough information to give you a head start compared to how most people leap into the aquarist's hobby. The next (and final, in this series) article will cover the actual care of the fish and aquarium.
Sam started keeping fish when I inherited a tank from a friend's girlfriend. Have since purchased three other tanks, each with an entirely different setup and type of fish.


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Fabian Cancellara out of Tour de France with broken back after crash
Swiss rider involved in mass pile-up on stage three
By Matt Westby
Last Updated: 11/10/15 12:38pm
Fabian Cancellara sprawled out on the roadside after being involved in a crash on stage three
Fabian Cancellara's Tour de France is over after he broke his back for the second time in three months in a crash on stage three.
The 34-year-old Swiss rider had been in the race leader's yellow jersey but was catapulted over his handlebars in a huge pile-up with around 55km to go.
He immediately began holding his back and although he finished the stage, 11min 43sec behind winner Joaquim Rodriguez, he was later taken to hospital.
Fabian Cancellara was catapulted over his handlebars in the pile-up
Cancellara had already broken his left L2 and L3 vertebrae in a crash at the one-day classic E3 Harelbeke in March and a CT scan confirmed he had once again fractured two bones in his back, this time his right L3 and L4 vertebrae.
He said: "This is incredibly disappointing for me. The team was on a high with the yellow jersey and were very motivated to defend it. We have had a lot of crashes and injuries since the start of the season, and we finally had a great 24 hours but now it's back to bad luck.
"It was very hard to come back in shape after my crash in Harelbeke and getting the confidence. The yellow jersey gave me a huge boost for the cobblestone stage tomorrow. I guess I have to keep the positive and look forward to the second part of the season."
Fabian Cancellara finished the stage almost 12 minutes down
Cancellara had said before the start of stage three that this year's Tour would be his final appearance at the race.
During his career he has spent a total of 29 days in the yellow jersey and has led six Tours - a joint-record with Eddy Merckx.
Speaking at the finish line, and before being taken to hospital, Cancellara explained his version of the crash.
He said: "For sure, it's a big disappointment. I expected to defend yellow today, not be lying on the ground at 80kmh. One day you win, one day you lose. Like this, is for sure not nice.
The crash led to four riders abandoning the race
"It was on a slight downhill, and I saw the crash happening on the right side and I was hoping I could sneak between the riders in the field, but there was a drainage gutter and in the end I got hit from the back, and hit this drain thing and I don't even know what happened after that."
With all of the race medics needed to attend to the victims of the crash, there were none free should there be further falls and the race was consequently halted for about 10 minutes.
The crash saw riders piled up against a telegraph pole
Some riders complained about the decision, but Cancellara, who has been a vocal campaigner for rider safety, said it was a sensible decision.
He added: "Thank you to the race organisation to neutralise it. When you see so many people on the ground, it was the right thing to do."
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Firefighters from Huntingdon were called to various riverside spots over the weekend to tackle fires sparked by arsonists.
The crews were called to three separate fires on Saturday and again on Sunday to fires involving trees along the river, all of which were started deliberately.
Watch Commander Gareth Boyd said: "While it may be seen as simply a tree on fire, it takes a substantial amount of effort to put these fires out. Each of these incidents took around an hour to resolve, ensuring the surrounding area was left safe and damping it down.
"Deliberate fires such as these can not only get out of control and spread very quickly, but they also potentially take us away from other emergency situations.
The fires are being treated as arson. Anyone that may have seen anything should contact police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111 to report the information.
Group commander Kevin Napier, head of community fire safety, said: "The people responsible may think that what they are doing is just a bit of fun, but they need to realise there are serious consequences of deliberate fire setting. Fire can spread quickly and someone may get seriously injured or killed as a result of their actions.
Sunday, 1.02pm - tree on fire in Main Street, Hartford.


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Football: GHS caps conference title in spirited fashion
By Leland BarclaySpecial to the Times Record
There is winning a conference championship.
Then there is winning an outright conference championship.
Then there is winning an outright conference championship in dominating fashion.
That's what the Greenwood Bulldogs did in winning all seven of their 6A-West games by the 13-point tie-breaker margin, marking the second-straight season to do so.
Greenwood finished off its 7-0 season in the 6A-West with a 40-0 romp past Lake Hamilton on Friday night, to win its 31st straight conference game and 27th straight home game.
The Bulldogs breezed through the conference, applying the Arkansas Activities Association's Sportsmanship Rule with a 35-point lead in the second half in five games. They trailed in only one conference game after Benton took a 6-0 lead in the first quarter following a Greenwood fumble. Greenwood scored 87 seconds late to take the lead for good and go on to a 62-33 win.
Even though the Bulldogs had already wrapped up the conference's top seed in the playoffs and at least a share of the conference championship, there was still plenty of drama on Friday night.
Lake Hamilton and Greenwood combined for 18 penalties for 195 yards, including 10 personal foul flags. Lake Hamilton was responsible for six of the personal fouls that included a player ejection following unsportsmanlike conduct on an injury to referee Danny Meyers.
"It was spirited," Greenwood head coach Rick Jones said. "We do the best of ability to teach our players that we are responsible for our actions and we have to take ownership and accountability. I don't have any concern about what started it. Our responsibility is to respond to that stimuli in the proper way. They say E+R=O; an event plus your response equals the outcome. You may have no control over the event, but we have 100 percent control over the response. That's what we try to stress. It does not matter what anybody else does. We're responsible for ourselves. We have to respond the correct way."
Lake Hamilton had 11 penalties for 117 yards, Greenwood had eight for 78 yards.
"You have to play football within the confines of the rules," Jones said. "That means from snap to whistle you go as hard as you can. We try to play tough, physical football. We're going to play it until the whistle blows. After that, you get ready for the next play."
Greenwood was dominant on Friday, holding Lake Hamilton to 230 yards and 11 first downs and of course no points.
"It was exactly the way we expected it to be," Jones said. "You expect 14 possessions, and it was an eight-possession game. We were fairly efficient with our possessions. Our defense played awesome. I was really proud of the way the defense played against the Wing-T."
Aaron Ohl led Greenwood with 11 tackles. Travis Cox and Jayden Martin each had nine. Eli Martin and Austin Archer led the Bulldogs with four tackles for lost yardage. Martin also had 2-1/2 sacks and Archer two. Archer and Garrett Newman had fumble recoveries.
Greenwood received a first-round bye in the Class 6A playoffs and now awaits the winner of the first-round game between Searcy, the fourth seed out of the 6A-East, and Siloam Springs, the fifth seed from the 6A-West.
Vilonia and Greenbrier moved their usual Thursday night game to conclude the regular season to Friday night this season. That, of course, meant that the Airedales didn't know where they stood prior to going to Huntsville on Friday night.
"Somebody told me that their junior high was playing Thursday," Alma head coach Doug Loughridge said. "I didn't find out until Thursday night. I was going to be nervous if they played Thursday."
Alma left nothing to chance as the Airedales rolled to a 40-3 win over Huntsville.
Landon Blair had the passing game clicking on Friday night. He completed 13-of-18 passes for 226 yards and four touchdowns, including three to Grayson Bailey. He also threw one to Bobby Winfrey.
Keegan Rosebeary ran for 91 yards with scoring runs of 20 and 6 yards.
Defensively, Alma allowed just a second-quarter field goal.
Coltin Bowerman had 13 tackle with seven solo stops. Austin Fraley had 10. Zac Henson and Nathan Whalen had a sack. Karsten Beneux forced a fumble, which Fraley recovered.
Beneux, Gabe Jensen, Rosebeary, Adrian Vardaman, Colton Barenberg, and Matt Cox all had tackles for a loss.
With his emergence as the Airedales' main ground gainer on offense, Rosebeary's time on defense at linebacker has been limited.
"I'm not playing it as much as I was earlier in the year," Rosebeary said. "Honestly, I like offense, getting the ball and having the chance to make big plays."
The Airedales finished in a three-way tie with Greenbrier and Morrilton for second place in the 5A-West and ultimately fell to the fourth seed in the tie-breaking procedures. Alma will travel to Pulaski Academy on Friday night.
The final night of the regular season was a harrowing one in the 7A-West.
Friday afternoon, Springdale Har-Ber self reported using an ineligible player during three wins, including conference wins over Rogers Heritage and Van Buren.
That meant the game between Rogers and Rogers Heritage was for the sixth and final playoff berth and that Springdale and Van Buren were playing for the fourth seed and a home playoff game. The Arkansas Activities Association sent the official notification out shortly after Friday's kickoffs around the state.
"We didn't know until 7:15 when they put it on social media," Van Buren head coach Casey Dick said. "We didn't know any earlier than anybody else found out what was happening."
Van Buren led, 17-7, after scoring on the opening drive of the second half before Springdale rallied behind three fourth-quarter touchdowns to win, 35-24.
"There was a lot of improvement that was shown on Friday," Dick said. "Obviously, it's a game that stings a little bit because we should have won it. In all phases, we felt good going into that game. The kids played hard. They played tough."
Dylan Dye had 14 tackles for Van Buren on Friday with nine of those solo. Devin Swearingen had 11. David Evans had an interception. Dye recovered a fumble when Springdale failed to cover the opening kickoff and had a diving interception also in the first quarter wiped out with a penalty.
Still, the Pointers are headed to the Class 7A playoffs for the first time since 2008. They earned playoff berths in 2010 and 2011, but when Van Buren was classified as Class 6A.
"It means everything," senior left tackle Josiah Acorn said. "After going 0-10 last year, it's a big turnaround. Since my sophomore year, everybody's been talking about change. It feels good to finally be a part of something that changed."
Acorn started all 10 games for the Pointers in the regular season and has been a vital part of an offensive line that has been undersized every night in the 7A-West.
"We got that from the very beginning," Acorn said. "Even before Alma, they were so confident that Van Buren wouldn't be able to run the ball and really talking up their defensive line. I feel like ever since Alma, we've done a good job of establishing it. Just because we're small doesn't mean we're not going to be able to run the ball."
The opponent in 2008 was Northside, which is also Van Buren's opponent this year in the first round on Friday.


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Q: Bluetooth app crashed due to ArrayAdapter requires the resource ID to be a TextView Hi I trying to connect my bluetooth device using the bluetooth code sample. But after it said connected with bluetooth then the app crashed. Here are the error:
2-28 15:30:54.550    8431-8431/course.examples.healthapp E/ArrayAdapter? You must supply a resource ID for a TextView
12-28 15:30:54.560    8431-8431/course.examples.healthapp D/AndroidRuntime? Shutting down VM
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What does an ophthalmic examination involve?
Examination of the posterior segment of the eye (vitreous, retina, and optic nerve) using an indirect ophthalmoscope and condensing lens.
Performing any additional diagnostic tests that are indicated for your pet's eye condition.
Additional diagnostic tests may be required for your pet, such as Schirmer tear testing for dry eye, tonometry (measuring the intraocular pressure), refraction (to determine the optics of the eyes), gonioscopy (to determine the anatomy of the iridocorneal angle). These tests are usually performed at the time of the initial consultation. Other specialized testing (such as electroretinography (to test the electrical activity of the retina) or ocular ultrasound (to evaluate the eye or orbit when direct evaluation is not possible) may be recommended and can usually be performed the same day as the appointment or the scheduled day of surgery.
It is our goal that you are well-educated and have a clear understanding about your pet's eye condition. We will provide a diagnosis, describe the ocular condition in clear and understandable terms, discuss the necessary recommended medication(s) and treatment instructions to you, both verbally and in a detailed written "Discharge Instructions".
Timely communication with your veterinarian is also very important to us. A copy of the Discharge Instructions will also be faxed to your veterinarian on the same day that your pet was examined.
Although referral by your veterinarian is not mandatory, we do request their contact information so that we may keep your veterinarian informed of our findings and about the progress of your pet's eye problems.
Please realize that we make a sincere attempt to see you on time for your appointment. However, because of the limited options for animal ophthalmologists in the state of Michigan, we have to accommodate emergency appointments on a daily basis. Please understand that these emergencies may cause unavoidable delays in our schedule. We will provide you and your pet with the same careful attention devoted to others. Most new appointments can last 20-40 minutes. Medical and surgical re-evaluation appointments vary between 5 and 20 minutes. Early morning appointments and appointments immediately after lunch are most likely to be on-time.
No Show/No Call Policy: We understand that there are times when you must miss an appointment due to emergencies or obligations for work or family. However, when you do not call to cancel an appointment, you may be preventing another patient from getting much needed treatment. Conversely, the situation may arise where another patient fails to cancel and we are unable to schedule you for a visit, due to a seemingly "full" appointment book. If an appointment is not cancelled at least 24 hours in advance you will be charged an $85 missed appointment fee. We will forgive any weather related last minute cancellations at any time, as most of our clients must travel a distance. If you no show for your appointment it will NOT be rescheduled. If you disagree with this policy, please do not schedule an examination appointment at The Animal Ophthalmology Center.
Financial estimates provided by telephone, based on your description of the eye abnormality present, are approximate estimates. We reserve the right to modify any estimate provided by telephone once an examination has been completed. For most surgical procedures, we cannot provide you with a definitive financial estimate without first examining your pet. This is because each patient is different and the same abnormality may vary in severity or conformation, requiring different surgical treatments. For example, some eyelid surgical procedures are more complicated than others and require additional surgical and anesthetic times. If surgery is indicated for your pet, we will provide you with a complete written financial estimate for the surgical procedure immediately after the examination on the day of your appointment. It is also our policy that blood work (a CBC and serum biochemical Profile) must be performed prior to sedation or general anesthesia and surgery. You have your regular veterinarian perform blood work prior to the day of surgery, or we can perform it here on the day your pets surgery is scheduled. It is NOT an option to decline blood work. We can accept blood work that has been performed by your veterinarian within the last 3 months unless the results were abnormal. If blood work was abnormal, your pet is elderly, or diabetic, we may require that it is repeated as close to the surgery day as possible.
Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, personal checks and cash. Payment for services is due in full upon discharge of your pet. We do not offer in-house payment plans or financing (see below).
6 months no interest term for ANY amount over $200. WE DO NOT OFFER 12, 18 OR 24 MONTH INTEREST FREE OPTIONS.
Amounts from $1000 and up have a 24, 36 or 48 month term with 14.90% interest rate.
Payment plans are accepted through CareCredit only. See above terms. Please click here to apply now. By phone (800) 365-8295. If you already have an account, you may bring your card with two pieces of I.D. Cardholder MUST be present at time of sale.
If my pet requires eye surgery, when (which days) is surgery performed by Dr. Ramsey?
Surgical appointment drop-off times are scheduled between 9am-12pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We try to schedule your pet's drop-off time at least 2 hours before surgery is scheduled to allow for blood work, pre-medication, IV catheter placement, and other pre-surgical diagnostic testing and surgical preparation. Most pets are hospitalized for an average of 4-6 hours. PLEASE NOTE: This period of time can vary as we see emergency appointments almost daily, thus our surgical schedule may be later than anticipated or scheduled. Discharge times from the hospital are scheduled between 3-5pm. We will call you when surgery for your pet is finished. We will also provide you with a complete report on how your pet's surgery progressed, and what time your pet will be ready to be picked up. None of our surgeries require your pet to remain hospitalized overnight. We understand the importance of minimizing hospitalization, especially in older and anxious pets.
Can I schedule my pet's consultation and have surgery done the same day?
We understand that many of our clients must travel a great distance, so we set aside a few early morning (8-9:00am) consultation/surgery appointments for consultations on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. If surgery is recommended and we judge your pet to be a good candidate for general anesthesia and surgery, your pet will be hospitalized for the day, and surgery will be done as soon as possible. Please understand that these consultation/surgery appointments are limited, and some surgeries (cataract surgery) will require medical treatment prior to surgery. Therefore, we typically do not schedule initial consultation and surgery for the same day for patients with cataracts.
Does Dr. Ramsey guarantee successful medical treatment and/or surgeries performed?
Unfortunately, there are no guarantees in human or veterinary medicine with any medical or surgical treatment because the ultimate outcome of any medical or surgical therapy depends on the response of the patient receiving treatment. Although the same exact treatment can be done for many different patients, each patient may respond differently, and unpredictably.
My pet needs a medication refill, do I need an appointment?
By law, we must see patients once yearly to renew prescriptions. If your pet is on a life-long medication and we have examined him/her in the past year, you may call our office to arrange pick-up or we will mail it to you for a $6 mailing fee (this fee covers postage fees, postage equipment rental fees, and supplies fees) Please allow 4-7 business days for delivery via USPS. Some medications may be available at your local pharmacy and we are happy to call them in for you. Please understand that we are unable to refill prescriptions 1-year beyond your pet's last exam. If you are unable to return to our clinic, please call your regular veterinarian for refills.
What if my pet has an emergency and Dr. Ramsey is unavailable?
The Animal Ophthalmology Center is not a 24-hour emergency clinic. If your pet has an emergency after hours (business hours are Mon-Thurs 8am-5pm) or Fri-Sun (we are closed), please call your regular veterinarian immediately for guidance or an appointment/referral to another ophthalmologist closest to you.
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Clough, Co. Down in the Second World War became one of the safe havens for evacuees from Gibraltar who adapted to the language and climate of rural Ulster.
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The following places will be of interest to anyone wishing to explore more of the area's Second World War heritage.
Clough Camp, Clough, Co. Down
10 Ballydugan Road, Clough, Co. Down
Clough Camp was Camp 1 of the 16 established sites for Gibraltar evacuees who came to live in Northern Ireland during the summer of 1944.
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