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Equine Biomechanics & Exercise Physiology, Inc.
"we know and love horses,
and we play the game straight."
-- Jeff Seder, founder
We BOUGHT (not just listed on some huge supposed recommended list with mostly duds, and we did it well before they ever raced) horses that have won 41 GRADE ONE Stakes (highest level of racing there is, like KY Derby, or world championships. )
(scroll down for more)
{ EQB news - right column, or at bottom for mobile devices}
We've bought as youngsters at auction and been on the team of world champions, Ky Derby wins,
11 Eclipse Awards
and even a TRIPLE CROWN,
with our Thoroughbred racehorse
buying and management services
registered trademark since 1978 as
Big data based analytics,
and cutting edge sports medicine,
plus experienced market savvy, and
solid traditional horsemanship
{our principals have 35 years experience having done every job there is in a racing stable and barn; our researchers were luminaries in their fields}.
our analytics include:
patented heart and internal organ scans {we invented the technique, the equipment that dopes it, and published the major study on it in veterinary journals},
proprietary DNA tests {developed from our OWN proprietary huge data banks with markers no one else has or could have},
slow motion gait analysis {we invented it for real race horses back in the 1980's, and are the only ones with huge studies on real race horses at real race tracks published in prestigious veterinary journals} ,
our own large scale published research,
logarithm velocity decay fatigue curves {data bases going back decades- high reliability},
and more...
We know what works, and,
perhaps more important,
what does not.
(there's lots of pseudo science out there - we can show PROOF our methods and results to you }
HOW GOOD ARE WE at what we do ???
.... scroll down for more and more information ---
Year after year--- serious results
( a dozen Eclipse awards****)
and not just champions,
and not at sale-topper prices.
- high percentage good racehorses overall as well,
Is it just luck????
keep scrolling down for more info
summary statistics, and how we do it,
{ that is -- proprietary technologies (multiple patent rights) that we developed ourselves with leading trainers and with scientists, and veterinarians, at top universities, and that we've published on in major peer refereed veterinary and biomechanics journals. These studies cost millions of $, covered many thousands of racehorses -- and we have compiled, over 35 years, unique massive data bases, and 35 years of experience at the top of horse racing;
so -- keep scrolling down for more and more info
or scroll to the bottom right of this page for scientific journal publications by us,
or use the link in the main menu to go to the bottom left of the "Superior Technology" page for a short video on slow motion gait analysis, --
or click on "track record" in the main menu,
or click below on the magazine's name for
major industry articles about EQB:
{ Blood-Horse Mag. article-July-9-2011.pdf
Mid-Atlantic Thoroughbred Mag. Aug 2010 }
EQB large profits pinhooking with Zayat Stables, page 7,
Our track record includes buying un-raced at auction:
(with 5 Eclipse Awards)
(that is, USA national championships)
plus major clients with Three straight
and Three straight
Twenty-three SEPARATE HORSES WHO WON
41 GRADE ONE*** STAKES (2009 - today)
(Note definition of Grade One stakes , like the Kentucky Derby:
they are the world's highest level of horse racing competition,
and we've won many times that other major races for clients,
and we've been a part of many more grade one wins as consultants
keeping clients from selling them as youngsters --
-- see industry leading percentage statistics below )
{ note: beware !! there are unscrupulous bloodstock consultants out there peddling cheap imitations, unproven half-baked theories and techno-gimmicks without any independent refereed published scientific research studies to validate what they claim or the experience to do it correctly. Slick marketing literature, of course, is not real validated research nor is a good horse or two over many years a proven track record }
Some specific Grade One winning racehorse names
( those we purchased are in in bold font)
or heart scanned/consulted on for breeding and/or culling):
American Pharoah, Big World, We Miss Artie, Rightly So,
General Quarters, A Z Warrior, Jaycito,
Pioneer of the Nile (2 Gr 1's),
Informed Decision(3 Gr1s), Forever Together(4 Gr1s),
Slip Away, Zensational (3 gr 1s),
General Quarters, Mushka, Justin Phillip, Balance The Budget,
and Eskendereya, who was a heavy favorite for
the KY Derby until injury 4 days before the race.)
Big Blue Kitten, Admiral's Kitten, Real Solution,
Kitten's Dumplings, American Pharaoh
Bobbie's Kitten, Stephanie's Kitten,
Big Blue Kitten, Madcap Escapade, -- and more ...
{ see TRACK RECORD page of this web site }
plus -- seconds in the Kentucky Derby
(Nehro & Pioneer of the Nile ),
and leading owner at Saratoga Racecourse, and a
Steeplechase Eclipse Champion, etc.
As of Sept 2014 ---
from 14 horses bought
for an EQB client as yearlings
and 2 year olds that are now 3 year olds,
over 21% graded stakes winners
bought at auction for a major
EQB client, at an average price of
$65,000 and by mid 3 yr old year they've earned $2,200,000 in purses -- ask for details)
[AND --between 2006 and 2009 (see below)
over 20% GRADED* stakes
horses from EQB 2yr olds
auction buys that met all
our criteria -
- at a median purchase price
of less than $150,000 !!*
as opposed to 0.2% of USA runners that
earn over $200,000 a year** !]
[data sources:
* 3 year study of horses bought 2006 to 2009
** Thoroughbred Times magazine]
***GRADED STAKES (grades 1, 2 &3)
are the top approx 500 toughest and
most prestigious stakes races worldwide each year,
and GRADE ONE stakes are the top 100,
including Breeders Cup World Championships, Triple Crown classics, etc.
{see also "TRACK RECORD" section of this web site}
**** EQB client Eclipse awards with EQB horses:
1-4 Leading Owner and Breeder twice Ramsey Stable; 5+6 Leading Owner and Breeder Zayat Stables; 7 Forever Together - Turf Mare; 8 Informed Decision - Sprint; 9 Steeplechase; 10-12 American Pharoah - 2 yr old + 3 yr old, + Horse of the Year.
Experience and integrity at auctions:
Many in the business long enough can point
to a good horse or two they have been a part of
somehow. The percentage of their
successes is much more important,
and much harder to attain, let alone to do it
year after year.
"Experts" who were right once,
cannot usually deliver what you want now.
We are mindful of all the very good horsemen
at the top of the racing industry, and our goal
was always to be accepted as their peer,
-- but to do it our way.
Now, thank God, we've earned our way there.
Being full time scouts, and having unique tools,
EQB has proven it can add value to even
the most successful trainer's selection process.
Major owners, trainers, and stables — household names传奇sf in the sport — turn to EQB's singular union of traditional horsemanship and cutting-edge innovation to identify exceptional Thoroughbred talent at major auctions. Our ability to find overlooked, undervalued contenders empowers EQB clients to purchase top talent for less and ultimately train more breakout champions from fewer horses.
For consultation Thoroughbred evaluation and buying services at auction register with EQB today . . .
A True Edge . . .
Recent champions and grade one stakes winners like: American Pharoah, Eskendereya, Big World, Forever Together, Informed Decision, Zensational, Jaycito, Pioneer of the Nile, Nehro, Rightly So, General Quarters, Jacito, Madcap Escapade, A Z Warrior. Kentucky Derby winners like Monarchos and Thunder Gulch. Household names in the Sport of Kings. They are but a few of the graded stakes winners EQB has helped discover and continues to identify year after year - long before they ever run a single race.
Learn more about EQB's unique edge . . .
Superior Technology
Over the past 25 years EQB has a amassed a set of huge unique proprietary data bases behind a suite of unsurpassed equine evaluation technologies that include gait and (patented) cardiovascular analysis that can identify great champions long before they ever race. These were developed (and published in major refereed scientific journals) with the help of leading scientists at major universities including the head of Cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, a senior professor of statistics at Rutgers University, MDs, locomotion specialists from Harvard, and engineers from M.I.T. We invented the first accurate racehorse heart rate meters, first portable ultrasound exams, first aerodynamic jockey silks (2 years before Danskin), etc.
Learn more . . .
[ see below for more on research team involved. ]
This study [ and all our research ] was designed, executed and edited (and published in a major refereed scientific journal) with the direct extensive help of leading scientists at major universities, including the head of Cardiology at the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School, a senior professor of statistics at Rutgers University, a professor of Biomechanics who is also on the Olympic Sports Medicine Committee, and consulting Engineers and MDs from universities including M.I.T. and Harvard..
Thoroughbred Partnerships | Thoroughbred Services | Contact Us传奇sfPrivacy Statement | Terms of Use
© EQB Agents & Consultants - Equine Biomechanics & Exercise Physiology Inc.
传奇sfCorporate Office: 1055 Doe Run Road, East Fallowfield, PA 19320 USA - 1.800.223.7014


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Black Friday is nearly upon us, people, and while all those other fools will be out buying flat screen TVs, computers and trampling each other for a $5 DVD player, we pet lovers will be searching for the best possible gifts for our furry little friends. For now, we'll stick with fur because I'm not even sure there is a decent bird gift other than, well, freedom.
Don't worry, though, if you have a fussy little pooch or if you just can't think of what to get for the kitty that has everything. I've gone to the trouble of compiling a list of some of the most ridiculous and absolute dumbest gifts you could possibly imagine for Fido and Fluffy. As people who live their entire lives through their pets, this is the ideal list for you. Think of all the funny YouTube videos and Instagram photos your one follower (cough...mom...cough) will enjoy from you this holiday.
10. Electronic Butterfly in a Jar
Yes, let's torture your kitty with an imaginary butterfly. Brilliant! Bonus when the kids come in and think you caught a butterfly and you have to explain its not real. Fun Christmas morning, mom.
You notice there is no feline version because, well, people don't want their eyeballs clawed out when attempting to wrap a snuggie around their cat. If there is one thing dogs want, it's a crappy fleece blanket wrapped around their bodies.
I'm pretty sure this is exactly what Ted Nugent was singing about in "Cat Scratch Fever," except he hates rap and his version would look like a Confederate flag and have AK47s attached to it. I know you might think tricking your cat into being a dee jay is cute. It's not.
7. Best Friends by Sheri Chaise Lounge Pet Bed/Sofa
Years ago, a writer trying to find the words to describe the home of Ike and Tina Turner wrote that he didn't know someone could spend $30,000 at Woolworth's. If that is the look you are going for, I've found your pet bed...er...chaise lounge.
It never ceases to amaze me that people invent "upscale" furniture for cats as if any cat that wasn't actually glued to it would be caught dead inside a modern wooden ball chair. Congrats on purchasing the $150 dollar bamboo chair for no one. Well done.
5. Humunga Stache Ball Dog Toy
For all the hipsters in your life, it's the oh-so-clever mustache attached to a ball so when your dog plays fetch, HA HA, he picks up the ball and...oh whatever.
4. Catreesort
I realize not everyone can let his or her cats outside because of deed restrictions, dangerous outdoor animals or traffic, but do you honestly believe your cat wants to climb a tree so badly, you have to spend nearly a thousand bucks on a crappy plastic tree for your living room? Here's a secret: your cat doesn't care.
3. Believe Christmas Tutu Dog Dress
I know people just LOVE to dress up their dogs in all sorts of adorable little outfits, but when you are putting a tutu on your pup with the word "Believe" bedazzled on the back, you have gone from enthusiastic pet owner to borderline personality disorder.
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2. Here Comes the Bride Cat Harness Dress
You can call me from the hospital after you try to put this on your cat and we'll talk about why this was a bad idea.
1. Rear Gear Butt Covers for your Cat and Dog
Look, no one wants to look at a dog's butthole or anyone's butthole for that matter (don't go there, perv), but is drawing attention to it with a decorative cardboard cover really the right answer? If it was scented, sure. But, just as is, no thank you.

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While the media tries wring out every last drop of negative innuendos and distortion out of the more than decade old, false sexual harassment charges against Americans for Herman Cain has out, calls the left wing establishment out for their characteristic "lynching" of African-Americans who disagree with the Democrat Party's liberal agenda.
American's for Herman Cain is not affiliated with Cain's actual presidential campaign. It is a super PAC, that can raise and spend any amount of moneyh it can in support of Herman Cain. The ad uses such notable hypocrites and socialists and communists as Hollywood's Harry Belafonte, New York's Al Sharpton, and liberal academia's Professor Cornel West of Princeton University, or who I commonly refer to as Snagglepuss. Each of them chastise Herman Cain. West tells Herman Cain to get off the symbolic carackpipe, Belafoolte says Cain is denied intelligence, and in what ends up the most hysterical case of the pot calling the kettle black, Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton says that Cain is either ""socially ignorant, or playing games to get vote". Can you imaging that? Al Sharpton accuses others of playing games to get votes. That coming from a man who has taken part in conspiracies designed to inflame racial tension, inspire civil disobedience, and fuel class warfare, dares to blame another person, living or dead, of playing games to get votes. That says it all folks.
But to punctuate the point Herman Cain is conveying, the ad utilizes the famous remarks from the man who is the best living example of liberal hypocrisy and injustice there is…….. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Cain's ad closes with Thomas summing up the actions of the liberal media and the liberal senators who used Anita Hill's false accusations of him as a modern day form of a lynching of the black man who disagrees with them.
Up to now, Herman Cain has not helped himself in this sexual harassment matter. He has was unprepared to respond to a story that he knew was coming out about these past accusations and when he did start responded to the story, he did so in a way that seemed to consistently contradict with each answer previously given by him, was slow to reveal those facts which he did know, quick to claim he forgot facts that he suddenly remembered, and in general did little to make people confident in his total innocence in the matter. Cain had a chance to control this story before it came out. Instead he allowed Politico, then the rest of the lamestream media to control the story and possibly Cain's fate. I have to say that I am disinclined to support Herman Cain now, based just on how he handled this episode. And I believe that the accusation against Cain were false.
However, regardless of how Cain's campaign mishandled this, this new web ad is should be a hint as to how he should handle this from now on.
But the credit for the spot most likely goes to Jordan Gerhke, the campaign manager for Americans for Herman Cain and a political consultant with expertise in the area of direct messaging. I profiled Gerhke in a previous White House 2012 post that reproted the creation of the Herman Cain for America's "9-9-9 Fund".
Gehrke's ad should be an example that someone over at Team Cainshould follow. With Mark Blockhead running things, Cain seems to be atr a disadvantage and needs some of strategic intelligence. If Cain only had the money and talent to turn this ad in to a thirty second spot and air it in the most effective media markets in New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina, and Florida. If that were the case, he might be able to establish himself as a longterm frontrunner.
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Engineering Innovation for Ice Adhesion and Friction CONTROL
Last updated: March, 2018
Contact: Catharine Lamm
De-icing the world
Dartmouth Engineering Professor Victor Petrenko and his research team discovered that applying short pulses of electricity directly to an ice-material interface produces some novel and desirable effects. This discovery led them to invent an ultra-fast and efficient method of ice removal and prevention called pulse electro-thermal de-icing (PETD).
The heating effect of Petrenko's thin-film, PETD technology creates a melt-water layer with nearly perfect efficiency and, in the future, will be used to de-ice windshields, power lines, roofs, roads, walkways, runways, refrigerators, airplane wings, helicopter blades, and windmills, just to name a few.
United Technologies Corporation (UTC) has acquired three licenses to use PETD technology in aviation, wind power generation, and for marine applications. Betterfrost Technologies of Canada acquired a license to use PETD in refrigeration and automotive industries. Petrenko himself does personal consulting work through his company, Petrenko-Multiphysics, LLC.
How does it work?
Petrenko's PETD uses a thin, electrically-conductive film applied to the surface of, for example, an airplane or a windshield or almost any other object in need of ice protection. The film is then heated with a milliseconds-to-seconds-long pulse of electricity. The beauty of this method is that only a micrometer-thin layer of ice directly at the ice-material interface is heated and melted without having to heat the bulk of the object to which the ice is stuck. Even in extreme cold, PETD achieves nearly perfect efficiency because neither the object nor the air is heated—the heat simply does not have time to propagate into the environment. Just one single pulse of electricity melts the interfacial ice and instantly releases any additional build-up, which then easily slides off. Regular electric pulsing can keep surfaces consistently ice-free while maintaining low overall power consumption.
The de-icing film can consist of either a transparent conductor (such as indium tin oxide) for window or lens applications, or of a more durable coating (such as titanium or stainless-steel foil) when extra wear- and/or corrosion-resistance is needed. For protection of large surfaces, thin metal foil or carbon-fiber composites are most effective.
Energy-efficient refrigeration
The ability to quickly and efficiently release ice from any surface also has significant implications for refrigeration and ice making.
PETD provides up to a 90% reduction in energy use for residential ice makers, and up to a 40% reduction for commercial ice makers. The benefits of PETD are especially clear with commercial ice makers which consume enormous amounts of power as they cycle through a process of cooling to make the ice, and heating to release the ice as many as 100 times per day. PETD eliminates the need for the heating and re-cooling portion of the cycle, thus cutting energy consumption almost in half.
"The cost of electricity used in commercial icemaking is approximately $10 billion per year," says Petrenko. "Our technology can cut that number almost in half, by $4 billion, or approximately the entire annual budget of the National Science Foundation."
Several US and foreign companies are also adopting this technology to develop a "rapid evaporator defroster," which would significantly improve the overall efficiency of refrigerators.
Auto/aero de-icing
Almost no heat energy is lost or wasted in this process and this optimal energy-efficiency in melting ice from surfaces is what makes PETD energetically feasible for aerospace applications and automobile windshields. Resistive heaters, such as the heated wires on rear windows of cars, cannot melt ice from windshields or wings because strong convective heat loss prevents the wires from reaching ice-melting temperatures without unrealistically high energy usage.
This movie shows an aerofoil de-icing test in Dartmouth's icing wind-tunnel facility:
Goodrich Aerospace has completed the first in-flight testing of PETD on a small business prop-plane. The results were "outstanding," and Goodrich (which was aquired by UTC) is now developing a PETD system for large passenger airplanes. Betterfrost is developing PETD for instant de-icing of windshields.
De-icing of commercial buildings and bridges
Heat loss to the earth and air is the reason traditional heaters are impractical for de-icing roads, bridges, walkways, and roofs. But Petrenko's super-efficient PETD has demonstrated immediate effectiveness and saves between 90–99% of electric energy compared to conventional heaters.
A de-icer for an over 100,000 square foot glass roof in Moscow, Russia was installed and successfully tested during the '09–'10 winter, and is currently fully operational.
Petrenko's PETD method was also put to the test in Sweden where a 1712-meter-long "cable stayed" bridge is experiencing major problems with icing. The $250 million publicly-funded bridge currently must be closed down for significant periods of time during the winter months due to dangerous chunks of ice falling at random off the towers and cables from heights of up to 140 meters.
The first tests of PETD on a few cables and one pylon demonstrated instant de-icing action at very low energy consumption as compared with conventional de-icers.
Power Line De-icing
A more recent proprietary technology (different from PETD) is called a variable resistance cable (VRC) de-icing system. With only minor cable modifications plus some off-the-shelf electronics, the system switches the electrical resistance of a standard power line from low to high. The high resistance automatically creates heat to melt ice build-up or keep it from forming in the first place.
Co-invented by Dartmouth Engineering Professor Charles Sullivan, the VRC de-icing system was successfully installed and tested on a single distribution power line in central Russia, and full-scale installations in regions of Russia and China are now being planned.
The changes in manufacturing and installation required to implement the VRC system would result in a less than 10 percent increase in overall cost. Since utility companies normally replace 3 percent of their cables every year, the system could be installed as part of the regularly scheduled maintenance process and still achieve a significant portion of the installation by the time the next major storm hits.
Furthermore, the life span of the de-icing system would match or exceed the life-span of the utility cable, approximately 30–50 years. The system would pay for itself during the next storm by practically eliminating the cost of fixing downed cables and power outages due to ice and snow.
Another benefit to the VRC system is that utility companies using the system would have full control over its functionality. Time, temperature, and location can all be adjusted manually or set and controlled automatically with electronic sensors.
Overall, ice constitutes a major toll on society—airplanes downed, grounded, or rerouted, car accidents on icy bridges, power outages, ships capsized—so much so that it's difficult to quantify. "It's all very exciting and is keeping me very busy!" says Petrenko, "The Army Research Office (ARO) was the first to recognize that an investment in basic research was the place to start to solve this problem. Soon after, the National Science Foundation added its support, and that approach has worked very well!"
Non-slip grip for shoes, skis, and tires
For non-slip shoes, no-wax skis, and high-ice-traction car tires, the same concept of applying short pulses of electricity directly to an ice-material interface can be used to control whether ice is sticky or slippery. Electronic friction control for winter sports equipment—serving as electronic brakes or "electric wax"—is thus another application for Petrenko's ice-control technology
For skis equipped with a thin, electrically-conductive layer along the base, one pulse of electricity causes just a few microns of interfacial ice or snow to instantly melt and refreeze to the ski base—all within approximately 3 milliseconds (3/1000 of a second). This melting and refreezing forms a strong bond between ski and snow, increasing friction either to provide grip for kicking forward on Nordic skis, or to limit one's speed when going downhill.
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With this technology, cross-country and telemark skiers can finally be free from the unreliable performance of wax, "fish-scales," and climbing skins.
"Our system provides a skier with enormous gain in performance and convenience," says Petrenko. "With our electronics, a skier can get from three to four times stronger traction timed precisely with a kick-and-glide motion. He or she can forget about difficult and lengthy waxing procedures and not worry about choosing the right wax for a particular temperature or snow condition. Our system works well on any snow at any temperature below freezing."
The sticking effect is similar to what happens when a wet, warm tongue freezes and sticks instantly to a metal flagpole. The metal flagpole conducts heat away so quickly that the tongue freezes to it, even though it was warm an instant ago.
Since only one side of the interface needs high thermal conductivity, this system can also be adapted to car tires and shoe soles using electrically-conductive rubber which is already commercially available. Petrenko's team currently has a functioning shoe prototype that offers 40 times more traction on ice than a conventional lug sole. A tire-traction system that could eventually make snow tires obsolete is also in development.
"There's nothing like a 60-ton tank slithering around on the ice to make you think Professor Petrenko's technology is a good idea,"
—Herbert H. Dobbs, chairman of Torvec, Inc.
Winter Sports Competitive Advantage
- Nordic skiing
- Up to four times increase in kick force
- No need for wax
- Reduces ski size requirement up to 50% for manufacturer
- Production cost savings through design flexibility
- Snowshoes
- Up to 40X better traction
- Production cost savings through design flexibility
Endless applications
The incredible range of applications for PETD is partly due to wide flexibility for electrode materials and configurations. For example, for aerospace PETD, Dr. Lev Deresh, an electrochemist on Petrenko's team, co-developed a practical process for manufacturing light yet durable electrically-conductive coatings, while another team member, Mikhail Starostin, PhD, made working prototypes for windshield PETD using transparent electrodes.
The list of applications for this technological breakthrough will almost certainly continue to expand. Stay tuned!


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February 06, 2014
City News Service
Los Angeles police warned South Los Angeles residents to watch out for car thieves and burglars. Late model Hondas and Toyota appear to be the vehicle of choice, said Capt. Lillian Carranza, who heads the patrol division at the 77th Street Station. To avoid being a victim, Carranza suggested always locking your car -- don't leave a spare key in it -- and parking in well-lighted areas.
Motorcycle riders should avoid parking in the same place for an extended period, because motorcycle thieves typically ``watch'' a motorcycle for a while before loading it into a van, she said. A kill switch on the ignition or a brake-steering wheel lock can usually thwart thieves, too, she said.


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United States Death Records
Websites[edit | edit source]
- Step by step guide on how to find death records in the United States. You must know the state where the individual died.
- FamilySearch Record Search contains abstacts of indexed death records for many states. This collection continues to grow as more records are indexed. - Free
- Find A Grave has searches of inventoried cemeteries. Searches can be performed by the individual name or by the cemetery name. - Free
- BillionGraves.com - Free
- Social Security Death Index Government death index to all persons who collected Social Security payments or a Social Security death benefit. Be sure to look for women using their married name.
- Ancestry.com ($) indexes & images
- DeathIndex.com gives links to websites with online death indexes, listed by state and county - Free
- Familytree connection ($) has a search any of the insurance records listed, however, a subscription is required to access all of the information.
- Fold3.com ($) index & images
- WorldVitalRecords ($) has a large array of databases.
- Legacy An online newspaper and memorial database.
Death Records[edit | edit source]
Many experts recommend starting your research with the death records first. The death record is the most recent record, so it will more likely be available to you. Death records are kept in the state where your ancestor died, not where they were buried. However these records can provide a burial location. Death records are especially helpful because they may provide important information on a person's birth, spouse, and parents. Some researchers look first for death records because there are often death records for persons who have no birth or marriage records.
Early death records, like cemetery records, generally give the name, date, and place of death. Twentieth-century certificates usually include the age or date of birth (and sometimes the place), race, length of residence in the county or state, cause of death, name of hospital and funeral home, burial information, and the informant's name (often a relative). They often provide the name of a spouse or parents. Since 1950, social security numbers are given on most death certificates. Birth and other information in a death record may not be accurate because the informant may not have had complete information.
Prior to death registers being recorded at the local county court house, a record of burial may be found in Church records. The United States Social Security Administration Records is a database whose records reveal an individuals' full name and residence at time of application, birth and death dates and last known residence. For more information about the SSDI see the United States Social Security Administration Records wiki page. A death record is considered a primary source.
Death Certificates[edit | edit source]
The information on a death certificate is usually given by someone close to the ancestor called an informant. Death certificates may be filed in the state where an individual died and also in the state where he is buried. Other than the date, time and place of death, all other information on a death certificate is taken from what is supplied by the informant. This makes a death certificate a secondary source of information for things like the birth place and date, and the names of the deceased's parents.
For more information concerning death records by State see the United States Vital Records Wiki page listing links to each state's vital records page. To write for vital records see "Where to Write for Vital Records: Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces" [1]
Funeral home records are discussed in the Cemeteries wiki page. The death records of men and women who died in the military, or who are buried in military cemeteries are described in the U.S. Military Records Research Page.
Social Security Death Index contains records of deaths reported to the Social Security Administration since 1935. The bulk of the records are from 1962 to the present. The index provides the deceased person's birth date, social security number, state where the social security card was issued, month and year of death, state of residence at death, zip code, and state where death benefit was sent.
Information you may Find on a Death Certificate or Record[edit | edit source]
- Age at death
- Cause of death
- Date and/or place of birth
- Date and/or place of burial
- Details about the length of illness
- Disposition of cremated remains
- Exact time of death
- How long in this country or location
- Maiden name of deceased woman
- Marital status at the time of death
- Name of surviving spouse
- Name (and sometimes address) of informant, frequently a surviving spouse, child or other close relative
- Name and location of mortuary
- Names of parents
- Occupation and/or name of employer
- Residence of the deceased
- Religious Affiliation
- Signature of attending physician
- Whether single, married, widowed or divorced
- Witnesses at the time of death
Interpreting Cause of Death[edit | edit source]
To interpret a cause of death you can
- Consult a list of old medical terms such as the ones provided here, here, and here.
- Use a search engine such as Google or Bing. Search engines will often recognize spelling errors and search for the correct term.
- Use the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to interpret the code located on the death certificate. The ICD was first published in 1893. Version 10 (which went into effect in October 2015) is currently in use. Use the version that corresponds with the year the death was recorded. Learn more about using the ICD here and here. Copies of all versions can be accessed here.
How Information from Death Records can Help Research[edit | edit source]
Dates: birth date and year of immigration can be listed.
Places: birth place, address to help in the search for land records, city directories, locate on map and narrow un-indexed censuses.
Names: maiden, parent's, children, spouses, or witnesses help to find other relatives that you seek. The name of the cemetery and/or funeral home, leads to further information on you ancestor. If death is listed as an accident or killed, there might be a newspaper article about the individual. The mention of cause of death could develop a medical family history for your family.
To learn how to use death records effectively, click here.
Places to look for Death Records[edit | edit source]
- Church records of deaths and burials
- City and County civil registrations
- Family Bibles and personal histories
- FamilySearch in the Catalog Search, Records Search, and Historic Books
- Google and other web site search sites, and don't forget to search Google Books
- Locating United States Vital Records
- Mortality Schedules is a census that includes people who died between June 1st through May 31st in the year prior to the federal census.
- Newspapers often listed articles about deaths
- Obituaries
- Online U.S. Death Indexes & Records
- Online records sites like Ancestry, Fold3.com, WorldVitalRecords, Heritage Quest...
- Probate Records
- State Archives
- Submitted genealogies posted by others UsGenWeb, Genealogy links, Gengateway, Usgennet, FamGen, Rootsweb, Genealogy.com, MyTrees.com, Ancestry.......
- Tombstones usually give birth and death dates
See also: Substitute Records For United States Death Information.
Records at the Family History Library[edit | edit source]
Some death records are filmed and/or digitized and part of the Family History Library collection. To check the availability of death records in a particular state, go the vital records wiki pages for that state. In addition you may browse or search FamilySearch Record Search. This is a website which posts indexes to and some images from the Family History Library vital records collection. For more information about how to search the FamilySearch Catalog for death records, go to the vital records wiki pages for that state. To search for death records in the Family History Library collection perform a Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under each of the following approaches:
Sources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Leonard, Barry. Where to Write for Vital Records: Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces Published by DIANE Publishing, 2007. ISBN 1422314820, 9781422314821 . 47 pages. Full text is available at Google Books and Worldcat


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Teen charged with trying to blow up Chicago bar
Sat., Sept. 15, 2012
HILLSIDE, Ill. (AP) — Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday.
Adel Daoud, a U.S. citizen from the Chicago suburb of Hillside, was arrested Friday night in an undercover operation in which an agent pretending to be a terrorist provided him with a phony car bomb and watched him press the trigger, prosecutors said.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago, which announced the arrest Saturday, said the device was harmless and the public was never at risk.
Daoud is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to damage and destroy a building with an explosive. He remains in custody pending a detention and preliminary hearing set for Monday in federal court.
A person who answered the phone Saturday at the home where Daoud and his family live and identified herself as his sister, Hiba, declined to discuss Daoud, the family or the arrest.
"We don't even know anything. We don't know that much. We know as little as you do," she said. "They're just accusations. … We'd like to be left alone."
Later Saturday, no one answered the door of the family's two-story home, which had a well-kept garden in the yard and a basketball hoop in the driveway. The house faces a Lutheran church; a Greek Orthodox church also is nearby.
Next-door neighbor Harry Pappas said he was shocked by the arrest, calling Daoud's parents "wonderful" people and him a quiet boy who played basketball in the driveway with friends.
"I heard maybe he had a little trouble in school," Pappas said. "He was quiet, didn't talk much, but he seemed like a good kid."
Pappas said Daoud spent a lot of time at home and that months would go by sometimes before the teen would surface.
"But I was never suspicious," he said.
Then on Friday night, a dozen unmarked cars drove up to the family's house and several agents went inside, Pappas said.
The FBI began monitoring Daoud after he started using an email account to get and distribute material about violent jihad and the killing of Americans, prosecutors said.
In May, two undercover FBI agents contacted Daoud in response to the material and exchanged electronic messages with him in which he expressed an interest in violent jihad in the United States or abroad, according to an affidavit by an FBI special agent.
Prosecutors say one of those agents introduced Daoud to a third undercover agent who claimed to be a terrorist living in New York.
Over the summer, the third agent and Daoud met six times in the suburb of Villa Park and exchanged messages, the affidavit said. Daoud then set about identifying 29 potential targets, including military recruiting centers, bars, malls and tourist attractions in Chicago, the document said.
He is accused of settling on a downtown bar and conducting surveillance on it using Google Street View and visiting the area in person to take photographs.
Describing the target to the agent, Daoud said it was also a concert venue by a liquor store, the affidavit says.
"It's a bar, it's a liquor store, it's a concert. All in one bundle," the document quotes him as saying. It said he noted the bar would be filled with the "evilest people … kuffars." Kuffar is the Arabic term for non-believer.
The affidavit said that shortly after 7 p.m. Friday, Daoud met with the undercover agent in Villa Park and they drove to downtown Chicago, where the restaurants and bars were packed. They entered a parking lot where a Jeep Cherokee containing the phony bomb was parked, the document says.
Daoud drove the vehicle and parked it in front of the bar, then walked a block away and attempted to detonate the device by pressing a triggering mechanism, the affidavit says. He was then arrested.
Court documents don't identify the bar.
The FBI has used similar tactics in other counterterrorism investigations, deploying undercover agents to engage suspects in talk of terror plots and then provide fake explosive devices.
In a 2010 case, a Lebanese immigrant took what he thought was a bomb and dropped it into a trash bin near Chicago's Wrigley Field. In a 2009 case, agents provided a Jordanian man with a fake truck bomb that he used to try to blow up a 60-story office tower in Dallas.
Prosecutors said Daoud was offered several chances to change his mind and walk away from the plot.
The affidavit said Daoud was active in jihadist Internet forums and was accessing articles written by Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born radical cleric who became a key figure in the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot known as al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
Al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen last year.
The FBI says he also was searching online for information on making bombs and reading "Inspire," the English-language online magazine published by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
In his conversations with the undercover agent, Daoud explained his reasons for wanting to launch an attack, saying the United States was at war "with Islam and Muslims," the affidavit said.
According to the document, he said he was trying to recruit others and that he was confronted by leaders of his mosque who warned he should stop talking about jihad. The affidavit said Daoud's father also had been informed that Daoud was debating jihad and told Daoud to stop talking about it.
Daoud also told the agent he wanted an attack that would kill many people, the document said.
"I want something that's gonna make it in the news," he said, according to the affidavit. "I want to get to like, for me I want to get the most evil place, but I want to get a more populated place."
Keyser reported from Chicago.
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Environmental technology from Austria on global success path
Austria, with its extremely high innovative potential, is one of the leading countries in environmental technology. Thanks to the very successful "green technology", Austrian companies enjoy an excellent reputation worldwide. Both companies and research organisations can boast a high level of specialised know-how in sustainable construction, waste management, innovative energy solutions and resource efficiency.
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NASCAR won't penalize Kurt Busch for flip-out at 'Dega
- Kurt Busch was parked Sunday for driving away from a safety crew and not wearing his helmet
- The 2004 Sprint Cup champion also has driven for Jack Roush and Roger Penske
- NASCAR announced Tuesday it would not further penalize the driver
Kurt Busch will not be penalized for his actions Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR has announced.
After parking Busch for the remainder of the race and meeting with him afterward, NASCAR decided no further action was necessary.
Busch drove away from a NASCAR official and safety crew without his helmet after he ran out of gas and crashed while leading in his final event with Phoenix Racing. Busch said at the time he didn't heed NASCAR's call to stop because he wasn't wearing his helmet and couldn't hear.
When Busch drove away, one safety worker was leaning through the right side window opening. A safety worker's bag, which was on the trunk of the car, fell off.
It marks another auspicious ending for Busch and a NASCAR team. He left Penske Racing after six seasons at the end of last year after multiple altercations with reporters. The Las Vegas native announced in late September he was leaving Phoenix for Furniture Row Racing, starting this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Busch registered two top-10s with Phoenix Racing, including a third-place finish at Sonoma in June. He also had problems, starting in May in Darlington when a post-race incident with Ryan Newman's crew earned him a $50,000 fine and probation. That probation was extended after he verbally abused a media member at the June race in Dover.
After the incident Sunday, Busch blamed his competitiveness for his actions.
"That's the competitor in me, that's the desire that I have,'' he said. "That's what gets misconstrued all the time. This is the way my life works. Today is a perfect example. I'm leading, I wreck, I run out of gas. I'm still that competitive guy to try to get back in the race and now NASCAR is yelling at me because I don't have my helmet on and I'm trying to get it to the garage so the guys can work on it.
"This is my life. I'm not complaining. I've put myself in a lot of these situations.''
When Busch announced he was leaving the No. 51 for the No. 78, some speculated it was a lateral move for the 2004 Sprint Cup champion -- hopping from one one-car team to another.
At the time the deal was announced, he said: "That's a slap in the face to (team owner) Barney Visser. It really is. He has put together a program that is tiers above where James Finch is. James will admit to that, but Barney Visser and this program are committed."
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Blackstone, GE Weigh Dell Bids, and More
What's News: Blackstone Group and GE Capital discuss jointly pursuing Dell's financial services business. Federal authorities are weighing charges against a brother of Raj Rajaratnam. The BBC says its weather Twitter account was hacked. Photo: Getty
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Tip: Think of it as a review/deal aggregator like Groupon, but only fitness items are featured! Featured items range from gear like an Aero Hammock for your bike to Trailheads fleece mittens, and occasionally there are event discounts. For example, I got my dad (shout-out: hi dad, a loyal Fit Like Us reader!) to sign up for his first half-marathon when I saw a race in his city was 50 percent off!
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Tip: I'm a new member (membership is free) so I've only seen one sale, but the site describes itself as "the world's best outdoor gear, apparel and travel destinations at exclusive pricing." It's worth a shot!
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At the talk I gave on this subject to the conference on environmental justice [1] organised by the Environmental Law Centre [2] last Monday, I promised to post a synopsis of the issues discussed, and the handouts on ambit [3] and on appeal routes [4], here.
The background
There has since 2005 been a general right to freedom of information held by or on behalf of public authorities in the United Kingdom. The right to access to environmental information, however, long predates this, going back to Directive 90/313/EEC and its implementing regulations; although the scheme now in force, Directive 2003/4/EC [5]and its implementing regulations, the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 [6] and the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 [7] is tighter1 [8], the basic scheme has been in place since 1992. Nevertheless, this scheme has attracted far less attention than the general scheme of the two Freedom of Information Acts, the UK Freedom of Information Act 2000 [9] and the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 [10], which only came into force thirteen years later.
Here's the conference handout on the ambit of the various freedom of information schemes [3]2 [11]; the Data Protection Act, the two FOI Acts, and the two sets of EI regulations.
How important are the Environmental Information Regulations?
At one level, they are obviously important; the ability to access information is vital in challenging environmental and planning decision-making. Yet at another level, it is far from clear that the regulations actually make much difference, standing the general freedom of information scheme. We do not know how often information is sought or obtained under the Regulations3 [12]. DEFRA, in a 2009 report 'Public access to environmental information: Experience gained in the application of Directive 2003/4/EC [13]', seemed to estimate that only about 2% of all freedom of infomation requests made of UK central government were for environmental information4 [14]; this may be an underestimate, as the Scottish Information Commissioner's website, and the Information Tribunal website, suggest that about 7% and 9% respectively of all applications to them were under one or the other set of regulations. These still seem surprisingly low percentages.
There are issues as to the ambit and extent of the regulations, and their boundaries with general freedom of information rights, which I discussed at the conference but don't intend to go into here; in particular the question as to requests for 'mixed' information which may fall under either or both of the EI and general FOI schemes5 [15].
There are some substantial advantages for the applicant who can bring their request under the environmental information scheme rather than the general scheme. I see no disadvantages. A number of exemptions to rights under FOIA/FOISA don't apply, for example the exemption for about-to-be-published information; for others, the exemption is not absolute. These may affect the ultimate result; see Decision 182/2006 [16] (a case as to the escape of farmed salmon) for an example where information was ordered to be disclosed under EISR that would have been properly withheld under FOISA, because EISR trumps most statutory prohibitions on disclosure. In those cases in which the public interest test [17] is applied under either regime, it may be more favourable to the applicant under EIR/EISR; and so on. Standing the delays in handling of requests, the EIR/EISR provision that the right is to updated information, rather than simply the information available at the date of application, is also significant.
Nevertheless, it seems that few applicants care which scheme they apply under, and many authorities put little effort, or little skill, in establishing the correct scheme; it is noteworthy that a high proportion of EISR applications to the SIC were treated by the public authority to which they were made as FOISA applications, and correctly characterised only by the Commissioner on appeal.
Delays and the different appeal structures
There are real benefits to an applicant in seeking information under the Scottish schemes rather than the UK schemes. As environmental information is often held by more than one authority, there may be advantages in seeking it of both a Scottish and a UK authority. This handout [4], largely rewritten since the conference, sets out the appeal routes from January 2010.
The first benefit is that delays in the office of the SIC, although real, are far less than in the UK ICO. A depressing report [18] by the Campaign for Freedom of Information found that the ICO took, on average, 20 months to deal with an appeal; the SIC takes rather less than half this time.
The second may be that decision-making in the SIC is better, or at least more acceptable. About 1% of all SIC decisions are appealed; about 30% of all UK IC decisions are appealed. While this may be accounted for to some extent by the fact that the SIC appeal is to the Court of Session while the IC appeal is to the Information Tribunal, if one hypothesises that the latter is more attractive to applicants, the appeal rate by public authorities is still tiny in Scotland; there have been only 27 appeals to the Court of Session, of which 23 were by public authorities.
The third is that, if one has a significant test case, the rights of appeal are firmer in Scotland; especially with the merger of the Information Tribunal into the unified tribunal system which is expected to take place in January 2010 (see the handout [4] for references). Under the UK system, there are numerous levels of appeal; but after the first these are heavily restricted. There are no equivalent restrictions under the Scottish system.
I made a number of comments as to the appeal system which I won't clog this post up with; for example, delays in the Court of Session, legal aid issues, and the settlement of conceded appeals, of which there have been eight or nine.
Some concluding comments
- Consider other routes for seeking information; applications to the Ombudsman are very underused. An extremely effective method against local authorities, which avoids many obstacles such as claims of commercial confidentiality, is the right to inspect all books and vouchers in a fortnight-long window each year when accounts are rendered for audit; see Stirrat v City of Edinburgh Council 1999 SLT 11136 [19].
- There has not been a lot of pushing at the edges of the right to seek information in Scotland since Stirrat Park Hogg achieved satisfaction with their results. There have been, for example, few applications to the SIC in respect of quasi-public authorities which may be subject to EISR but not FOISA7 [20].
- The duty on public authorities actively to publicise environmental information they hold8 [21] has not received much attention; I suspect it is widely broken. The proposals for class actions in chapter 13 of the Civil Courts Review [22], if implemented as I hope they will be, may help remedy this by providing an effective remedy to communities rather than individuals.
- Following the Aarhus Convention [23] of 1998. See this paper [24] for a survey from an Irish perspective. [back [25]]
- Slightly revised from that given out at the conference. [back [26]]
- No statistics are generally kept of applications for information; it would probably be impracticable to do so, as information may be sought quite informally [back [27]]
- Page 4. [back [28]]
- See as examples Decision 218/2007 [29], the leading SIC decision, and BERR v Friends of the Earth [30], probably the leading Information Tribunal decision; and for some general discussion DEFRA's revised guidance [31] of February 2009 (see also this paper [32], which has a fairly full discussion of the authorities). [back [33]]
- This decision was reclaimed. The court refused the reclaiming motion, issuing no written opinion but stating that it fully agreed with the opinion of the Lord Ordinary. [back [34]]
- I had understood there had been none, but am informed that applications had been made against Forth Ports Authority and Balfour Beatty which were unfortunately settled or withdrawn before their status could be tested. [back [35]]
- EISR/EIR, regulation 5. [back [36]]


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NFL Week 4: A Look at the Undefeateds
Kevin Clark and Geoff Foster discuss which 3-0 team will keep their winning ways going and which will falter, plus upset picks.
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I ... it's great for the NFL season and through three games the Pittsburgh Steelers are the worst team in the NFL that opens might be that that's been me not to pick games this week is a median of the world I'm Kevin Clark with me is to foster and WSJ's sports editor ... Jeff ... we have a bunch of three new teams undefeated teams teams that look like they may never lose again let's talk about the team that story notes to make it go ... I'm a believer in the Kansas City Chiefs I mean I know everyone looks the last year and thanks in no way this team can be good but I think ... the change a quarterback ... you change or head coach and can do wonders noted that the pencil its ferocious I mean ... they smothered the Eagles haven't won the best house in offices and leader ... I certainly think they can keep going announcement you know it's not sexy it's not the greatest ... you know the fantasy quarterback and world but he manages the games that can keep them out of trouble ... right what about ... the ... Norman six the last to their defences just all for giving up twenty nine points a game pieces that I found that twelve points a game Rob Ryan came in from Dallas Rex is rather obviously has done wonders with packages are really creative are taking on the side of the tide and which basically takes the tide and out of the often supplied did in today's NFL that's a really big deal to take inside and out ... I think that they are Avici Drew Brees is going to bring off and so too are a plus level ... deep in snow before us and so it's looking like they could be suitable yet mentioning Trammell comes out so we will work with the office ... you know what a difference for a one that's the big thing ... about it in the free or announce its full part in either you know ... they had a good three thirteen but they may not ... they may not to sixteen hours ... I'm not a big believer in the New England Patriots ... I don't think they really deserve to be three now at this point it plans to close games of one pm the couple times ... the look of the plane axle and the Cincinnati new war a lens update its a lot harder ... everyone talks about the defense team with better than him look with a plaintiffs' lead to rookie quarterbacks and I'd I just remember this Losses Job ... and then the worst thing is that the passing of Kansas is not working I mean ... look in this number ... Tom Brady's averaging five point five yards in it and ... that's the worst and we believe quarterback has worsened matters blamed out all my gas so I mean that for Tom Brady that's worrisome I don't care you know who was receivers are curative this instances when Gavin layers and read it it's not what is it is awful ... ok so for one team that three are things to fail the Miami Dolphins there after you write analysts really good at the quarterback but they're averaging three point two yards per rush can you just simply can't do that the NFL the biggest problem with them ... is that the wide receivers are vertical threats Mike Wallace and Bernhardt line it you can't ... run the ball and get first downs lately game ... you really can't complete a pass to get a big third down or something like I think that ... you know they're they're big playoff and sticky paper and I went to Europe as ... it is a pure completions is a guard runs into a panic in the game that haven't been able to get that magical catch up to them ... and that maybe the open up to no surprise that reorg album maybe the contest ... was the Krotz beetle and as a prosecutor ... or upset staff ... the Jets ... the plane Tennessee there on the road ... so Nana sent some of the internet and but they tend to play Tennessee well think their defences really one the best when I know ... I know a lot of people monopoly happened at the scene was off to get to it yet but I did you know Marty Martin When islet Jenal Smith was the complete two long passes last week announced a difference and he's not afraid to throw that kind of fire the defences and ... emptied every team close and tell them that it's important Opel's ... Hamann Wilkerson really have a lot of playmakers on defense and I think ... with Jake locker adding to the deal to most of the Kansas City Chiefs pay ... their fines the scene of the cemetery Einsteins in the history the NFL started three now after losing more than fourteen games with secured succeeds to ... break now ... on reports the syrup ... I will ... tell her that's that what's that ... say that since ... the new division alignment ... there's always been a team that came in last place last are the main class next year when his tenure as a government led the Giants this week the Giants are up will take to running on fumes the kids were just above Eli Manning is so great sense of why I like the sciences week against Kansas City an incentive to one eventually


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Stocks Erase Postelection Losses
The Dow industrials rallied for a fifth-straight day, reversing losses since the election, as investors cheered signs of progress in budget talks and a reading on German investor confidence improved. Jonathan Cheng has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.
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... the ... J live you looking at the line show that the will of the son of the Dow up ... about seventy nine point five point six percent to ... we've also got the Nasdaq the tech heavy index up one percent forty four that's probably helped by Apple and the SNP up as well about twenty seven percent we got Jonathan Cheng on the set to tells all about it from ... Thanksgiving and ... down ... Apple about two percent but really helping things for ... that's right it was generally now the fiscal cliff side beat could see them ... the movements of basically based around remarks from my the time being are from Harry Reid ... these are of course the principals involved on Capitol Hill ... so ... that's what's going to continue to swing things an Apple was ... actually staying relatively quiet compared to in previous weeks with me no one is back again and I think ... the crazy parenting end of a quiet so they call ... them will progress the race ... for what you know it the look of our stock story line you can see there's ... exactly that about that you have investor St ... when you don't see these guys I mean that's a good thing ... and ... we heard from them but ... they weren't ... necessarily ... too harsh than in terms of the fragrances of wheat with ... a fifth straight day ... without running the the post election law says that we so we sold most of the press screenings in class today and then and now must rebuffed ... per person and I think the sentiment is this ... people know ... that these guys need to fight it out because of the team to compromise on this summer the first of the second ... Republicans that say well ... you know when ... we define ... the Democrats are still in fine art and this is just ... what needs to happen ... I think the people of realize that realizes across Wall Street here that ... one more ... little also is and isn't in a bus Abbasi's have to be overcome away Senate before Autonomy don't feel the degraded by the ... process of anyone ... with a vengeance the red light of my right ... but streaky write this a lot of psychological healing that needs to happen with this process um a lot of ... we remind teams have to take place so that's just part of the course ... and I say what you see with this reversal is that all of that uncertainty and fear that was that after the election I think people understand ... this is just when these have ... come to the let's let's hope summits of citizens on I carry much Jonathan Cheng ... all the Wall Street John


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Wendy Roby is too busy opening all of your valentine's cards to do the singles this week, so you're left with me and my misery...^
Single of the Week
The Kills 'The Last Goodbye'
This weekend - the one just gone - Alison and Jamie aka VV and Hotel, celebrated ten years of being The Kills. To do so they played a show in New York, the city which seems to crawl from their pores, even tho most of what they've done gestated in a petri-dish known as South London. Whatever you think about the grungy-disco-fi duo, it really is quite something for the pair to have stared so stubborning into the future and come out the other end of a decade with little more than some smudged make-up and a somewhat famous wifey. Sure, rather than smelling of roses there's probably more of a whiff of whisky on aged leather and a subtle hint of fags in the air but then you can't quite imagine the pair of 'em having it any other way. They've conquered all the world's major cities (their last London show was headlining Brixton Academy) but for some reason it doesn't seem like they've quite won over the world. I don't really understand why they've stalled with the fashionista's and the more dedicated fans of music because despite having the hooks and The Look to excite hordes of hormones in Ramones t-shirts bought from H&M, they seem to be considered by many in the biz as merely a solid band with a decent career, which is quite frankly bonkers. They should be at least as celebrated as The White Stripes but then maybe the decision to not compromise their creativity by lingering in the past and that desire to create something which has the thrum of the future whizzing through it hasn't helped them as much as it coulda done in this instra-filtered Retromania-obsessed world of distressed jeans we're living in.
We've not had a memo decreeing that The Kills are calling it a day so we'll presume 'The Last Goodbye' is not a literal parting shot (but the idea of them going did have me a bit don't-know-what-you've-got-til-tis-gorn just then). Instead, it's further evidence of what cracking aim they've got. This is one of their toned right down ballads - even moreso than 'Black Balloon' - and it sort of sucks you into the vortex you find in that space between the broken shards of a heart. 'The Last Goodbye' goes straight for that woozy little corner in my heart, stirrin' a sleeping Lou Reed by rubbing its leopard print slippers in all the right places. Y'know, the places only Sparklehorse or Ed Harcourt or Tom Waits or some sort of grainy ol' crooner from back in them so-good-they-named-it-twice days can usually touch. It's a superb under-stated song which shows off what a great voice Alison Mosshart has ifyousomehowhadntnoticed. This double underlines the fact The Kills are an act who should be far more treasured and revered than they currently seem to be. Oh, and I should probably mention the rest of the EP is really ruddy lovely too...
Here they is doing this song on Letterman:
First Aid Kid 'Emmylou'
I didn't know Emmy the Great had Bright Eyes-loving Scandinavian cousins with a slight American twang to their folksy twee. I didn't know Kimya Dawson and all that Moldy Peachiness had infected the smiley carefree young folks out in them snow-capped fjords but my oh my does it seem like they have. The title is obviously a reference to Emmylou Harris and the song itself uses various relationships of 'rock' royalty like Johnny Cash and June Carter to speak to their lover... and oh-my does it make me wanna stroll on down to the nearest barn dance and hoick my childhood sweetheart into my arms and whisper this sweet, sweet, sweet chorus. Or maybe just post it on her Facebook wall to show that despite the top bants, if you look deep into my soul I'm a sensitive lad really...
A Place to Bury Strangers 'Onwards To The Wall' (EP)
For a few afternoons last summer I really got into Cold Cave's crash-crash-CRASHING lashes of noize. They took me back to a time when I was obsessed with Icarus Line, and to summers before that when I loved Pitchshifter and bands like the Descendants who played a trillion times faster than I even knew was possible. In many ways, with their shoegaze-gone-REALLY-LOUD, A Place to Bury Strangers should be my favourite band (Dom Gourlay constantly informs me they're one of the greatest live bands in the world) but it's such an onslaught and I'm just not sure this was the right place to begin our noize-gaze affair. It's very good tho, if you like that BAHBABABABABABAAAAHHH-TSK-TSH-TSSSSHHH thing with lots of wobbly guitars and a dude's voice in a pit of reverb talking in enchantments about Armageddon or something... the title track with the lady singing is rather lush indeed.
M83 'Reunion'
Screw your face up. A little tighter than that. Squish your lips so tight that they open of their own accord. Now, start shouting football terrace wuh-wuh-WOAHS in the style of The Futureheads/Vic'n'Bob. Now, imagine you're in a forest and that bugs are crawling all over you. Some ugly creepy crawlies are trying to get up your nostrils and as you continue to uh-uh-OH they fill your mouth, Now, gurn. No, not like that, really GURN...... I love M83, and I've even learned to love Hurry Up, We're Dreaming as it has some good tracks but this, sadly, isn't one of them. I'm sure Maroon5 loving Proper Lads watching them goals in slo-mo love it but this just isn't the M83 I signed up for. ...no! Wait! Wait! Wait Anthony, please comeback, our love is not over...
Sleigh Bells 'Comeback Kid'
That moment when you switch the volume on and there's an unholy racket blaring from your laptop but can't work out which Firefox tab Atari Teenage Riot's playing in while you try to listen to some sweet little ditty by Au Revoir Simone...
Rusko 'Somebody to Love'
That moment when you want to climb inside the speaker and start giving an elocution lesson... That moment when you start to worry that dubstep really has succumb to cynical valentine's singles already. It's probably just a coincidence this came out this week, yeah?
Tennis 'Origins'
This is what I like to call Wendy Roby doo-wop-pop. It's got a cutesy swing to it but I'd rather it just crawled back into the Belle & Sebastian cardigan from whence it came (Sorry Wendy!)
Emika '3 Hours'
Did you read that report about what Chris Brown actually did for 40mins to Rihanna? Please note: that link is not for the faint of heart. Meanwhile, this song (and its spot-the-difference remixes) sort of wafts along and I can't really tell you much about it apart from it's making me want to listen to Ellen Allien and Kate Wax.
Honour Before Glory The Maison EP
This should be far higher up but Whiskas, once of iForward Russia! [fame] is an old friend of DiS' so it probably isn't right for me to pass judgement (I rather like it!), have a listen and leave your marks out of ten below if you so wish...
Also Out In The Shops This Week
DJ Format feat. Edan / Mr. Lif – Spaceship/Terror
Famous Flames – Pledging My Love
The Minutes – Heartbreaker
Master and the Mule – Kingdom
Lianne la Havas - Forget Falseheads
^ = Actually, Wendy is actually sickly. Send her a get well message via whichever medium you see fit.
Wendy will return next week...


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The Church is defined in terms of models. None of the existing models of the Church
have incorporated ecological concerns into it's theological framework. Therefore, there is
a lack of a model of the Church that incorporates ecological concerns of the time. `The
Green Model of the Church' fills a lacuna in Catholic ecclesiology. It is an appropriate
theological response to the ecological crisis of our times.
In other words, the book is an attempt to read the Church from the perspective of an
eco-theologian. It is a green reading of the Church dogmas. Theology is both, faith
seeking understanding and faith seeking intelligent action. Theology is not for showcasing
but for intelligent action aimed at social change.
The purpose of this scholarly work is to build a bridge between biological sciences and
theological sciences towards a meaningful social change. It will be of use to those who
function at the grass-root level, in the sphere of ecology and the Church.
1. The Contextual Basis of the New Model : Ecological Crisis
2. The Church and the Environment
3. The Five Waves of Eco-Philosophy
4. Biblical and Patristic Basis for the Green Model
5. The Green Model of the Church
6. Greening the Christian Life : Towards an Ecclesiological Praxis and a Remedial
7. General Synthesis and Conclusions
Dr. Jose Mathew Vayalilkalappura SJ is a Jesuit priest of the Kerala
Province of the Society of Jesus. He did his M.Sc in Botany at the University of Kerala
and his M.Phil in Plant Tissue Culture at the University of Bharathedasan,
Tiruchirappalli. He did his Licentiate in theology at the Oriental Institute, Rome. He has
a Doctorate in Ecological theology from St. Joseph's Pontifical Institute, Alwaye. He was
an Assistant Professor of Botany & Biotechnology at St. Xavier's College, Trivandrum
and retired as Principal from the same College in 2008. He is the founder Principal of St.
Xavier's College, Calicut.


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DOVER — Tobacco products will soon be restricted in portions of Henry Law Park after Youth to Youth addressed the City Council last week.
The Youth to Youth program, made up of more than 70 members in Grades 6-12 in Dover and surrounding communities, requested the City Council to change an ordinance, restricting the use of cigarette smoking in front of the Children's Museum of New Hampshire, by the Rotary Pavilion band shell and in the playground near the indoor pool. The City Council approved the resolution unanimously.
"Smoking can make the area very uninviting for the children and their families," Brian Eldridge, of Youth to Youth, said. The program contacted the Children's Museum, the Rotary Club and the Greater Dover Chamber of Commerce, who were all in favor of the ordinance change.
Last summer, Youth to Youth members picked up nearly 1,000 cigarette butts in 30 minutes at Henry Law Park, which led them to ask the City Council for an ordinance change.
The ordinance, under offenses in chapter 131-18, will be changed and the Youth to Youth members will post signs throughout the park this spring.
Youth to Youth coordinator Dana Mitchell said the fundraising for the signs and the design of the signs will be decided upon within the next few meetings.
Mitchell said signs may be wooden to fit the environment of the park, but nothing has been decided.
"There will be just enough signage so the public is informed," he said, adding that he does not think the police department will ever issue a summons in the park, "because most people will comply."
"I think what you will see happen is a sign at the playground that says, 'Thank you for not smoking in the playground area,' and signs at the access points to the park," Mitchell said.
For more information, contact Youth to Youth at (603) 516-3274.


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The universe has so many dazzling sights that it seems silly to waste time on optical illusions. But some are just too amazing to ignore, like this shot of Saturn's moons Dione and Rhea seemingly morphing together into one mega-moon.
The two moons are actually separated by about a half-million kilometers in this photo, but an amazing combination of factors makes them look like one continuous object. Dione, the top moon in the image, was 1.1 million kilometers from the Cassini spacecraft, which took the photo, and Rhea was 1.6 million kilometers away. Because Dione has a diameter of 1,123 kilometers and Rhea is a bit bigger at 1,528 kilometers across, the two look to be the exact same size from Cassini's perspective.
The two also have a very similar albedo, or reflectivity, which means they appear to have the same amount of brightness. That helps them look like a single object, as does a crater on Dione's south pole. The large, faint crater Evander smooths over what would otherwise be a fairly obvious dividing line between the two moons, making it very difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins.