UC San Francisco is preparing a second Ebola-specific isolation room and seeking additional volunteers to treat potential patients following the designation Friday of UC medical centers as the state's priority hospitals to treat Ebola cases.

The second isolation room designed for a patient with the deadly disease is being constructed at UCSF's Mount Zion facility, where one isolation room was already set up that can handle the extra precautions needed with an Ebola patient, said Dr. Josh Adler, chief medical officer at UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.

There have been no suspected or confirmed cases of Ebola in San Francisco, but hospitals in The City and throughout the U.S. have been preparing for that scenario.

In addition to San Francisco, the California Department of Public Health on Friday identified UC medical centers in Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles and San Diego as those positioned to accept patients with Ebola.

"Hospitals in California are much better prepared now than several weeks ago to provide the necessary screening and care for Ebola patients," Adler said. "That doesn't mean we're ultimately where we need to get to, but we're in a much better place than several weeks back."

The Mount Zion hospital has seven isolation rooms, but two will ultimately be designated and equipped to handle a patient with Ebola. They will also be attached to anterooms, where health care workers can put on and remove personal protective equipment.

More than 70 doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists and laboratory scientists at UCSF have volunteered to care for a confirmed or suspected Ebola patient, though the hospital is seeking at least an additional 30 volunteers.

UCSF's entire Ebola preparation effort is expected to cost several hundred thousand dollars, though an exact figure has not been determined, said Adler.

As of Saturday, there have been more than 10,000 Ebola cases and nearly 5,000 deaths in West Africa, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Travelers going through Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. now have a new dining option available to them. Concessions International (CI), one of the leading food and beverage concessionaires in the U.S., opened an American Tap Room location at Reagan National Airport at Terminal C, near Gate 36 on Wed. Oct. 23. The new restaurant is a joint venture between Concessions International and MBC Concessions, an Atlanta-based ACDBE partner airport concessions disadvantaged business enterprise. CI will also open Taylor Gourmet in Terminal B/C at Reagan National this winter.

Working with the local Reston, VA Thompson Hospitality, owner of American Tap Room and Be Right Burger (brb), CI also recently opened a brb at Dulles International Airport last month. The brb location is at Concourse C, Gate 18. The two restaurant openings mark the first Washington, D.C. airport locations for CI and the first airport locations for Thompson Hospitality.

American Tap Room offers travelers a finer dining experience, for those moments when you have more time to relax waiting for a flight, says Donata Russell Major, CIs Chief Executive Officer. Be Right Burger and American Tap Room are two different concepts that are both great additions to the Washington, D.C. airports.

American Tap Room is American regional cuisine at its classic, pub-inspired best. Guests can also enjoy some twists on the classics with taste-inspired ideas like the Dirty Caesar Salad featuring red onions, cherry tomatoes, crumbled blue cheese, hot sauce, parmesan and croutons, or the Greek Turkey Burger with hummus, tzatziki and a tomato-cucumber kalamata olive salad. And of course, all of the menu items go nicely with the many cold beer options available.

We are excited to introduce travelers passing through Reagan National Airport to our American Tap Room concept, stated Warren Thompson, President and Chairman of Thompson Hospitality. Restaurant guests now expect great tasting food no matter where they are, and that includes the airport. American Tap Room offers sophisticated food and premium beverages for the more discerning traveler.

This is Concessions Internationals 5th and 6th restaurant openings this year with plans to open six more in 2014.

About Concessions International, LLC Atlanta-based Concessions International, LLC, founded in 1978, is a dynamic food and beverage concessionaire with operations in eight airports. The company's portfolio includes franchised, licensed and proprietary concepts, including casual dining, quick service, snack, deli and bar and grill. The company is a franchisee of major national brands including Fresh To Order, Seattle's Best Coffee, and Einstein Bros. Bagels. CI operates Pemberton Caf at the World of Coca Cola, and Paschal's Restaurant in the historic Castleberry district of downtown Atlanta. Visit http://www.cintl.com for more information.

About Thompson Hospitality The American Tap Room and brb (Be Right Burger) brands are owned by Reston, Virginia-based Thompson Hospitality. Warren Thompson, a longtime foodservice industry veteran, founded Thompson Hospitality over two decades ago. The company operates a variety of contract services across a range of sites including universities, entertainment venues, hospitals and corporate offices. In addition to brb and American Tap Room, Thompson Hospitality owns and operates a variety of branded restaurant concepts including Austin Grill and Tequila Bar and Willie Ts Lobster Shack.

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A small fire in the Stark Hall residence tower on the Denton campus of Texas Womans University caused an evacuation Sunday night, according to a news release issued by the university.

The small fire occurred in the basement laundry room and sent smoke through several floors of the building.

The sprinkler system in the laundry room extinguished the fire within minutes, according to the news release. There were no injuries reported and no damage to the structure other than the laundry room.

In addition, one resident was taken by ambulance to a local hospital for a nonrelated medical condition.

The TWU Department of Public Safety received an automated fire alarm from Stark Hall and an emergency call from a resident assistant in the building at about 10:15 p.m., the release said. The Denton Fire Department was called at that time. The first TWU officer arriving on the scene saw students leaving the building and found smoke coming from the laundry room.

Residents were allowed to return to Stark Hall at about 11:30 p.m. The cause of the fire is under investigation by the Denton Fire Department.

2400 block of South Interstate 35E Denton police are on the hunt for a suspect who was carrying weapons during a domestic disturbance, reports state.

Officers were dispatched to the scene, but the suspect had already fled. He left before the victim was able to call 911.

Reports state that the suspect is the victims husband from whom she is currently separated.

The husband is reported to have exhibited two weapons and stated that he made them to use on the woman and her boyfriend.

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Wilson Elementary School in Lodi second-grade teacher Jacqueline Serek with one of the many murals she created at the school. Wilson School in Lodi's multi-purpose room has a mural with tropical fish paintings.

An octopus graces the wall at the school.

Wilson Elementary School in Lodi is brightening up its walls to create a positive atmosphere for students.

Second-grade teacher Jacqueline Serek has volunteered many hours to create bright and cheerful murals in several areas in the school.

Serek has a background in art, earning a B.A. in fine art in addition to her B.A. in elementary education.

On one wall of the school, Serek created two trees. One of the tree's branches resembles the contours of the brain, making a "brain tree." Its neighboring tree is a "child tree," made up of abstract children with their arms outstretched to form twig-like projections.

The second-grade teacher also transformed an old corkboard in another hallway.

Principal Christie Vanderhook explained how the corkboard was getting old and dry and buckling in the middle.

Serek peeled off the cork layer and painted on the remaining board with bright colors, flowers and an uplifting saying, transforming the old corkboard into a permanent sign.

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A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on 24 October 1929,[1] the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers of and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled "Women and Fiction", which was published in Forum March 1929,[2] and hence the essay, are considered non-fiction.[3] The essay is generally seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.

The title of the essay comes from Woolf's conception that, 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'.[4] Woolf notes that women have been kept from writing because of their relative poverty, and financial freedom will bring women the freedom to write; "In the first place, to have a room of her own... was out of the question, unless her parents were exceptionally rich or very noble".[5] The title also refers to any author's need for poetic license and the personal liberty to create art.

The essay examines whether women were capable of producing, and in fact free to produce work of the quality of William Shakespeare, addressing the limitations that past and present women writers face.

Woolf's father, Sir Leslie Stephen, in line with the thinking of the era, believed that only the boys of the family should be sent to school. Woolf encouraged the image of herself that because her father did not believe in investing in the education of his daughters, she was left without the experience of formal schooling. However, recent discoveries in the archive of King's College London show that Virginia and her sister Vanessa attended King's College London's Women's Department for classes in Greek and German over a number of years. In delivering the lectures outline in the essay, Woolf is speaking to women who have the opportunity to learn in a formal, communal setting. Woolf lets her audience know the importance of their education at the same time warning them of the precariousness of their position in society.

In one section, Woolf invented a fictional character, Judith, "Shakespeare's sister," to illustrate that a woman with Shakespeare's gifts would have been denied the same opportunities to develop them because of the doors that were closed to women. Like Woolf, who stayed at home while her brothers went off to school, Judith stays at home while William goes off to school. Judith is trapped in the home: "She was as adventurous, as imaginative, as agog to see the world as he was. But she was not sent to school."[6] Woolf's prose holds all the hopes of Judith Shakespeare against her brother's hopes in the first sentence, then abruptly curtails Judith's chances of fulfilling her promise with "but." While William learns, Judith is chastised by her parents should she happen to pick up a book, as she is inevitably abandoning some household chore to which she could be attending. Judith is betrothed, and when she does not want to marry, she is beaten and then shamed into marriage by her father. While Shakespeare establishes himself, Judith is trapped by the confines of the expectations of women. Judith kills herself, and her genius goes unexpressed, while Shakespeare lives on and establishes his legacy.

In the essay, Woolf constructs a critical and historical account of women writers thus far. Woolf examines the careers of several female authors, including Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, the Bront sisters, Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, and George Eliot. In addition to female authors, Woolf also discusses and draws inspiration from noted scholar and feminist Jane Ellen Harrison.[7] Harrison is presented in the essay only by her initials separated by long dashes, and Woolf first introduces Harrison as "the famous scholar J ---- H---- herself".[8]

Woolf also discusses Rebecca West, questioning Desmond MacCarthy's (referred to as "Z") uncompromising dismissal of West as an "'arrant feminist'".[7][9] Among the men attacked for their views on women, F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead (referred to as "Lord Birkenhead") is mentioned, though Woolf further rebukes his ideas in stating she will not "trouble to copy out Lord Birkenhead's opinion upon the writing of women".[10] Birkenhead was an opponent of suffrage.[11] The essay quotes Oscar Browning through the words of his (possibly inaccurate) biographer H. E. Wortham:[12] "' the impression left on his mind, after looking over any set of examination papers, was thatthe best woman was intellectually the inferior of the worst man.'"[10] In addition to these mentions, Woolf subtly refers to several of the most prominent intellectuals of the time, and her hybrid name from the University of Oxford and the University of CambridgeOxbridgehas become a well-known term, although she was not the first to use it.

The narrator of the work is at one point identified as "Mary Beaton, Mary Seton, or Mary Carmichael", alluding to the sixteenth century ballad Mary Hamilton.[7][13] In referencing the tale of a woman about to be hanged for existing outside of marriage and rejecting motherhood, the narrator identifies women writers such as herself as outsiders who exist in a potentially dangerous space. It is important to note that Woolf's heroine, Judith Shakespeare, dies by her own hand, after she becomes pregnant with the child of an actor. Like the woman in the Four Marys, she is pregnant and trapped in a life imposed on her. Woolf sees Judith Shakespeare, Mary Beaton, Mary Seton, Mary Carmichael, as powerless, impoverished women everywhere as threatened by the spectre of death.

In another section, describing the work of a fictional woman writer, Mary Carmichael, Woolf deliberately invokes lesbianism: "Then may I tell you that the very next words I read were these 'Chloe liked Olivia...' Do not start. Do not blush. Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women."[14][15] Woolf references the obscenity trial and public uproar resulting from the publishing of Radclyffe Hall's lesbian-themed novel, The Well of Loneliness published in 1928. Before she can discuss Chloe liking Olivia, the narrator has to be assured that Sir Chartres Biron, the magistrate of Hall's obscenity trial is not in the audience: "Are there no men present? Do you promise the figure of Sir Chartres Biron is not concealed? We are all women, you assure me? Then I may tell you..."[14] Woolf scholar and feminist critic Jane Marcus believes Woolf was giving Radclyffe Hall and other writers a demonstration of how to discuss lesbianism discreetly enough to avoid obscenity trials; "Woolf was offering her besieged fellow writer a lesson in how to give a lesbian talk and write a lesbian work and get away with it."[16] Marcus describes the atmosphere of Woolf's arrival and presence at the women's college with her lover Vita Sackville-West as "sapphic." Woolf is comfortable discussing lesbianism in her talks with the women students because she feels a women's college is a safe and essential place for such discussions.

In this paragraph, Woolf sums up the stark contrast her research has uncovered between how women are idealised in fiction written by men, and how patriarchal society has treated them in real life:

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NBC's celebrated medical drama "ER" debuted in the fall of 1994 and aired its series finale 15 seasons later. Along the way, "ER" helped launch the careers of George Clooney, Julianna Margulies and Noah Wiley among many others. Combining the extraordinary talents of multiple award-winning producer John Wells ("The West Wing" "Third Watch"), best-selling author Michael Crichton ("Jurassic Park") and the creative team at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Television, the venerated series "ER" explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room. The highly acclaimed drama series holds the distinction of being recognized as the most Emmy-nominated series in the history of television with 124 nominations. Crichton, Wells and Zabel served as executive producers, along with Christopher Chulack, Joe Sachs and Janine Sherman Barrois.

A winner of the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award, the series also earned 22 Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 1996, among many accolades. In addition, the cast was honored with four Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Ensemble Performance in a Drama Series.

In its final season, the staff at County General Hospital included Abby Lockhart (Maura Tierney), a recovering alcoholic trying her best to juggle a demanding residency and motherhood while everything around her seems to be falling apart; Dr. Greg Pratt (Mekhi Phifer), an attending fighting for the chief spot on the floor as well as for a firm grasp on his love life; Neela Rasgotra (Parminder Nagra), a skilled surgical resident committed to growing in her craft as well as in her place on the surgical team; Sam Taggart (Linda Cardellini), a spirited ER nurse who is finally getting some time to explore life and love both in and outside the hospital; Dr. Archie Morris (Scott Grimes), the quirky-yet-talented attending dedicated to his work but constantly distracted by his own world; Tony Gates (John Stamos), a paramedic-turned-doctor who has overcome numerous obstacles to take on the rigorous challenges of life in the ER; Dr. Simon Brenner (David Lyons) the newest attending physician with a penchant for stirring things up, and Dr. Cate Banfield (Angela Bassett) as a tough-as-nails attending physician whose arrival shakes up the ER.

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Richard Heidgerd, deputy chief of the Wallingford Fire Dept., shows new bunks for volunteer firefighters at the East Wallingford Volunteer Fire Station 8, Friday, April 4, 2014. | Dave Zajac / Record-Journal

Published: October 24, 2014 | Last Modified: October 24, 2014 01:25AM

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WALLINGFORD The Planning and Zoning Commission has approved plans for an addition to the East Wallingford Volunteer Fire Department which will include a meeting room and two small offices. The old meeting room was converted into bunks so that volunteers could stay overnight to improve emergency response times.

The next step s is to go out to bid for a contractor. Work could begin over the winter or by spring, said Fire Chief Richard Heidgerd.

Certainly as soon as possible, Heidgerd said. Were ready for that work.

The project will cost $150,000 and was already included in the 2014-15 budget. The 1,100-square-foot addition, which consists of a meeting room and two 10-by-11-foot offices, will effectively double the size of the 1,300-square-foot station.

Heidgerd said the room will be used for meetings and training. Construction will not interfere with emergency service.

The company has over 30 volunteers. Since the bunks were brought in last year Heidgerd said the company has been in very cramped quarters.

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A library and conference space are included in plans for an expanded museum at the Eugene Field House, the poets boyhood home in downtown St. Louis.

The expansion would be in a one-story, 4,000-square-foot addition connected to the house by an elevated, glass-walled walkway.

Members of the St. Louis Preservation Board voted Monday to grant the plan preliminary approval. The house, built at 634 South Broadway in 1845, is a National Historic Landmark and a City Landmark.

Architect Dennis Tacchi, of Eureka, designed the addition, which would be on the site of Walshs Row, a dozen attached houses demolished in 1936 except for the Field House. Its windows and stone sills recall the sites row houses.

Betsy Bradley, the citys cultural resources officer, pointed out to the board that the walkway is the only portion of the project covered by city and federal landmark preservation rules.

Fundraising for the $2.7 million project is underway. The Eugene Field House Foundation hopes to begin building the addition next year, said Kimberly Larson, the foundations director.

The addition would house an expanded version of the foundations Dred Scott exhibit. Eugenes father, Roswell Field, was a lawyer who had prepared a court appeal for Scott, a slave who had sued for his freedom.

Larson said in an interview before the board meeting the addition also would give the museum room to display a large collection of Fields poetry and writings its current owner plans to donate to the foundation.

Eugene Field was born in the Greek Revival-style house Sept. 2, 1850. He lived there only six years until his mother died. Eugene and a brother then went to live with relatives in Massachusetts.

He returned to St. Louis in 1876 to work for five years at the Evening Journal. He earned fame in 1888 for the poem Little Boy Blue. Newspaper readers knew him as a satirist. He was a columnist in Chicago when he died in 1895 at age 45.

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