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VOL. XIV NO. 28 FREEPORT, N. Y., FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1909 Official Paper of Nassau County •FREEPORT NEWS The rejKjrt of the Fretjiort lianr jiciU'.s in this issue. aj, That Airdome License Single copies of the Review f-ecured at H. (rolxt/.'s and the f.flice on Main St. and DaSilva's Merricli Roa'l. Su])ervi>or ("ox has )f retrradiiij.' Mhiu St. licyiin th can lie Review on W. ,ik .Miss Mills of Hrooklyn hin I gue.n of .Mrs. (). T. Philli];-. Ilobei-t H. Hum c;iterl;iiiiiii^,' lii.- Nniih Ocean .-\vi otil'.T I'l-MMl Ohji Willard, sun of Eugene W. Helland, i.s very sick, at his home on (Church St. The regular nieeting of the V'illage Board will he held this F'riday even¬ ing. The cake .sale which was to have heefl helfl to-day for the South Side Hospital ha.s been indefinitely jiost poned. .Stephen P. Pettit, auctioneer, will sell the household furniture, etc., of L. D. Amerman, West .Merrick Road, to-morrow, Saturday, afternoon; .see his adv. for particulars. .Ml-, and Mrs. Hamilton Merritt ha\u n-i.urned fi-on: stjcnding Lhe Wiuti.'r in the South. Mr. aiul .Mrs. Alva .J. lV-ar.<:tl! are entertaining their secoml horn .soji, who is to be called Clifford H. Mr. R. W. Hartt, with his mother and .sister are now at their (Jceaii Ave. cottage for the summer. Mrs. Wi ha.s returner! after an extended with her sister in Huntington. ."Vlr.s. Ida h. Powell has been spend¬ ing a few days at Northfield, Mas.-^a- chusetts, with her daughter Helen. .Merrick Road has been treated to its Little William CJhase, .son of Mr. and usual Spring coating of oil, which is j Mrs. .John Chase, of North Main Street, ;is disagreeable as usual when fresh ' is suffering from spinal meningitis. hut will soon .settle down and keep th(? dust from flying .so thickly. ^Ii'- I- Thomp.son of Pennsylvania has returneri home after sjiending two .\ certificate of incorjioration <if the months with her sister, .Mrs. Etta .1. Sigmond Amusement (Jompany of the Carman. Village of Freejiort has been liled with the Secretary of State. The cajiital stock is $15,(.MJ0, and the directors are Marie Sigmond, (J. .\. Sigmond and Edith R. Sigmond of Freejiort. .Murray Bros.' jirinting oflice has been moved back t<i make room, for the new garage and taxicab building of Jacob Post and Willet (-i. Smith. .Mur¬ ray Bros, have sold their lot east of Rovegno's fruit store to (Jscar Ivhofles, who is to erect a building and rent the bottom floor to them. The Fire Department was calle:l out last Friday morning. A barrel of pa¬ per in A. A. Webster's residence, •Merrick Hoad and Crove St., caught tire, but was discovered just. iTk time to prevent the building catching' lire. The alarm was very indistinct but the firemen rnatle ijuick time. When they arrived^the blaze had been extinguish¬ ed ; no damage. "Considerable smoke with no fire" seems the best way of speaking of the Miitter of irranting a license to the i.i.iprietor of the ".Airflonic" to run hiraiii this .Sunidnier. .\- far as the X'iJltme P-!oard was cor,CLT:iL'd tiic application went through the routine of similar reijuests. Mr. Nugent asked for a license to run liis moving jiicture show as was done last Summer, in the ".Airdome" opposite the Freeport Club House. The jietition was luid over till the next mec'ting of the Board in onler to oonsider the proji¬ er jirice for the liccn.^e, and has not been "held up" as some parties inter¬ ested in making a rumpus pretend to think. But in the nieaiitinie the "press iam Lewis of Raynor Street agent" for another local ainu;sement it house got busy and a pajier in a neigh- 'boring village took uj) the matter and urged all citi/.ens tried and true, "vvith the intere.st of the village at heart" to op[io.se the granting of this license when it came before the Board of Trustees for action, and stating that a special meeting of the Board was to be held last Friilay night to ."ettle the matter (which was not true as nil meet¬ ing was held and none called). The article claimed that Mr. Sigmond had made an expenditure of about ¦'i'll,0()() and should be jirotected at the expense of all other events, especially thi.s one, because it was run on a "cheap" scale. This was the same show given here last Summer wheti the same newsjiajier several times gave mention of its good shows and of the crowds attending. Then another interested party was indiscreet in taking around a jietition asking people to sign what we un¬ derstand was a recjuest to the V'illage Board not t(j grant the license. This of course, did not reflect the o|iiniun of the Village Board as a Board at all. We might say further that one of the members of the Board told us la.st week that there was no (juestion before the Board as to granting the license ~- it would surely be given. The Board of Trustees recognize the fact thu^ Mr. Nugent's show was here first,' that the performances were first-class, and that largo Freeport Wins Contest School Notes There were nearly eight hundred Herbert (lolding has been absent Jieople at Sigmond Opera Hou.se last from school for the past two weeks on Friday evening, on the occasion of the account of the mumps. Tickets are now on sale for the eu¬ chre at the Freejjort Club Hou.se next Wednesday evening for the laviefit of the .South Side Hopsital. A jirogressive euchre will be held under the auspices of the Nassau"La- dies' Aid Society at Fraternity Hall, Wednesday evening, .May 2(5. A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held at the home of .Mrs. .Maria Webb, corner of (Jrove and Smith .Sts., Monday afteriKion at .'I.Od o'clock, .May h). The chewing gum machines at the railroad depot were broken into .Mon- dy night. Instructions to compositor - Leave this item standing and change the date strictly to lit latest "hreaking. •Mr. and .Mrs. .-Mhin N. Johnson are back to their home in Freejiort after spending the winter in Long Island City. Mr. and .Mrs. E. E. Marks of Ave. are also back, for summer. The base-ball season in the .Jr. O. U. A. M. league ojjens May Illst, when Pennsylva'ni: FreefM)rt Council plays Woodmere, at ^^^ Woodmere. A laige number of the members responded to the call for can- lioard of frade daites, much interest is being taken, and Freeport's chances to win the The regular monthly meeting of "^hc handsome cup, donated by A. G. i Freeport Board of Trade will be held Spaulding, are considered exception- next Wednesday evening. May 12, in ally,'good. New uniforms have been Fraternity Hall, opjiosite the station. ordered, which will have across the Members anrl their frienils are request- ^y^ich he was assured would be done front "Freeport 57," ol being the ed to be on hand.at S o'clock sharp. ^g^^s were partly decided upon but Arrangements have Judge Frederick E. Crane of the Su- t,, ^.^^e not formally adopted until Athletic Park for jireme court has accejited an invitation ^^le regular meeting thi: crowds of peojile were entertained there during the summer months; and %vf^^"'*^I- we do not believe that any member of ^"'^ "^^'' the Board will vote against granting him a license, and at a reasonable price. A special meeting of tho Board was held Tuesday evening for an informal discussion of the matter. Counselor Fishel advised the Board that they must fix a rate for tfiis licen.se, the only fjuestion being as to the price to ¦ be charered. Counselor Hobbs apjieared in behalf of Mr. Nugent and urged the Board to decide the matter promptly, Council number, been made to use the games at home, the tirst of whi -h occurs on .June .'j, with Woodmere. The Public .Service Commission of the Second Department will meet Fri¬ day Jiifternoon at Fraternity Hall, to try the case of Elvin N. Edwards against the Long Island Railroad rela¬ tive to protecting the railroad cross¬ ings in Freeport. This is the matter, it will be re¬ called, that Counselor Edwards took up with the Public Service Commission after several jieople had been killed at Bayview Avenue. Counselor Ed¬ wards contends that in a village the size of Freejiort, all th^; crossings should be properly guarded during the busy parts of the day. The final concert of the Freejiort Choral Society for the seastm of I'.XiS- Oi) will be held sometime in June. The second event held in the M. E. Church Tuesday evening of last week was well attended. I 'these concerts are now recognized as musical events of the season in this village, and they also attract many visitors from neighboring villages. (Jauls* cantata "Israel" was well rendered, the singers displaying the marked progress they have made under Prof. Palamountain's instruction for three seasons. The excellent time and harmony of the choruses was very marked. After the cantata was con- to address-this meeting. .Judge (ZIrane is an interesting speaker and a large attendance is expected. regular meeting this evening, when it will be in legal form. The statement in a Brooklyn jia first annual contest of the Interscholas tic Prize Speaking As.sociation, of Nil-sau County, consisting of repre- .-entatives of the high schools of liock¬ ville Centre, Huntington, Hempstead and h'reeport. The two sjjeakers rejircsenting the Freeport High School, .Miss Florence C. Stiles, daughter of .Mr. and .Mrs. Esmond Stiles, of Freejiort, and Wil¬ liam F. Kraft, son of .Mr. and .Vlrs. W. F. Kraft, of Smithville .South, won the two lirst Jirizes, each of which was .'?2(» in gold, and the two .second prizes, $10 each, were divided between the repre¬ sentatives of the Hennistead and the Hockville Centre sciiools. Ttie girls second jirize was won by Miss Lulu Margaret Stowe from Hemjistead High, and the other second was won by Har- olfl Haegney, of the Ro kville Centre school. The tirst event of the tve;iiMg, al¬ though not on the jirograin, was the yells and school .songs from the Hemp¬ stead. Kockville (Jentre and Freeport sections. Owiiig to the distance from home there wa:s no Huntington cheer¬ ing suction. These sections were the feature of the evening. One section would start up their yells and atiother sertion would iittenijit to cheer thom down. .Another feature of the evening was the singing by the (lirls' (Jhorus of Freeport. There were aiiout fifty voices.' The first number on the jirograrn was music by Miss Marion Gildersleeve on the jiiano, and T. A. (Jardona, both of Hempstead, on the violin, followed by .Miss (."ora E. Dole, of Huntington, who recited "The ("hristnias Sub.stitute," by Packard. Miss (Jole sjioke in an excellent manner, but her voice was a little luw, so that some of the words were lost to the listeners in the rear of the building. There seemed to be the same trouble with Miss .Margaret Helen Fortescuc of Rockvilie Centre, who sjioke last. Miss Fortescue's subject was "Selected from the Per¬ fect Tribute'' of Lincoln, following his famous speech on the battlefield of y .Andrews. number, "A Violent Retnedy," .lohn Seymour Wood, was given by William Frederick Kraft jr., reprfesenting thu local school. Mr. Kraft's voice, jn-onunciation and jjosi- tion were all that could be desired. The other numbers on the program were: "The Chariot Race." Harold Haegney; "Herve Kiel," .Alfred (i. Eddy of Huntington; music, .Miss Gil¬ dersleeve and T. (Jardona; "Aux Ataliens," .Miss Stiles of Freejiort; "Gentlemen, the King I" Daniel Har¬ vey of Hemjistead; "The Governor's Last Levee," Miss Stowe. The judges, who were sitting in -separate sections of the building, and officers of the association, were : Prof. O. I). Humphrey, department of psych- Jamaica ; About Village Affairs When (leorge Wallace was village president several years ago a change was made in the rates for water where¬ by because a consumer used a large jiipe he had to jjfiy nmre for water —not more for a larger iiuantity but more per tlviusand gallons. Take for in>ta!Kc where consumer uses a half inch Jiijie, he has to pay ;50c Jier thousand gallons till ho buys Sli worth of water; then he can get it for 2Uc a gallon; if however he bajijicns to want a faucet on his lawn he must buy $14 worth of water at .'30c before he can get tho benefit of the reduction; that is not so bad however; but if he puts in a one-inch service jiijio wishing to use more water he must buy :i^l8 worth of water at .'^oc; then he can use as much as he wants at 2(ic. The way tho jirices for water was fixed seems a big humbug and the Jiresent village board -houid have them amended at once. As it stands now the more wator a man uses the mure he has to Jiay jier gallon, which we think all will admit is an "awfully fuiinv" way o!" doing iiu.-ines;-. .\ neighboring nowsiiajier says: "Not long ago the Village Boartl re¬ fused a trolley franchise for Brooklyn Avenue, alleging as thoir reason that it did not belong to the village; there¬ fore, they had no control. It was also authority It has lieen decided to hold the School play Friday, the 2sth of this month, at Sigmond's Opera House. Prof. Koy L. .Smith has moved to thv residence of .Mrs. (has. L. Jioe, 24 Porterfield Placo, for tho lest of the season. Arbor Day exorcises were held this niorning in the High SchiwI room. Both tho grades and the High .Scliool jiarticipated in this atl'air ami a very enjoyable hour was passed. Last Wednesday Freeport High School ba.se-ball team defeated the nine from Hemjistead High by tho score of (i to 2; and then again .Monday rubbed it in with a score of l'\ to 2. .Monday they will j'lay tho Rockvilie Contre team at Rockvilie Centre. A bulletin board enclo.-od in glass, with the heading Bulletin and tho words, "Presented by tlie class nf 1910" under it and having their class emblem, the fleur-de-lis, as decora¬ tions, was Jiresented to tho HiRh School last Thur.sday niorning. This is a very handsoUiO and much needed articlo for the High School. Several o\' tho i.{ra(Ie.s liave .formed base-ball teams ami many interesting and enthusiastic games are anitcipated asserted tho village had between these teams. The sixth grade as to sidewalks." of the.old school, and the sixth grade VVe challenge the (Jbservor to sh.iw of the now school played a gams, last where the Village Board ever made Saturday which was a victory for the such a reason for refusing a franchise, new school with a score of Ui to 8. Tho Observer also seems to ha\o doubts Miss Healy's class and Miss .Atkinson's as to whether Brooklyn Avenuo should have been graiied at tho exjien-^o of the Village. Whothor it should hn\o done class have also arrangoil for a game. Freeport High School played Janiai<'a High School at their home grounds Wednesday afternoon and wero defeat¬ ed by a score of (i to ."i. Freeport's catcher was not able to jilay and the substitute could not hold Peto Smith's swift balls, till .Melbourne Kastenhu¬ ber wei!t in the catcher's box and 17 men were struck out Iji tho last 7 in¬ nings. VILUOE CniRCH NOItS or not, the money was ajijiropriatod by a sjiecial vote of tho taxjiayers but if it was being spent on jirivate firoporty, any taxpayer had the right to object. If, as it seems, all wore willing that Brooklyn .Avenue should ho improved whether or no it is a village street, we do not seo any room f<ir fault finding. Freeport Club Notes The ('lull will .'^lart its ba.se-ball sea- Father Moore of the Ordor of tho -son at Babylon on Saturday, when they Holy Cniss will be at the Episcopal Church Sunday. This divine was hero several weeks ago and was well liked. A large class will bo received for Confirmation at the Ejiiscopal (church of the Transfiguration this Friday evening, by tho Bishcji of tho Long Island diocese. At the First Baptist Churcli, Stan¬ ley W, Roberts minister, there will be public worship of (Jod Sunday at 10.;50 a. m. antl l.-\h p. tn.; evening sermon theme, "The (ireat Divide." Bible School at 2.:i0, Y. P. S. C. E. meeting 7 J), m., mid-week service Friday even¬ ing at 8 o'clock. E\t:ryone is ihost cordially invited to all .services. Village Trustees jier that the rates for license was'fi.xed ?|"«/',1''^7 Ti-aining School Proi. 11. A. Nomer, department of de at this meeting and giving the amounts is not correct; the meeting was not At a special meeting of tho Village : called for that purjiose and was a Board of Trustees Tuesday evening i special meeting. President Morrison and Trusteo Pat- ' terson were made a committee to make ^ • i c U i M *• out a schedule of rates for the short ^peClBI .^CnOOl iUeeimg term light consumer and report at the 1''>^' «iw(^ial school meeting next next meeting and it was also decided Tuesday evening should be largely at¬ to change the dog ordinance so that tended,;as the matters to be discussed ma Sammons of this placo dogs will have to be muzzled from are imjiortant to all taxpayers. April 1 to Oct. 1, instead of from Jun« The lirst (juestion is as to the ad- l.'i to September 15. visability of jiutting a $8.">,()00 addi- The Village of Rockvilie (k'ntre, by tion to the present building; if this is A. B. Wallace, asked for the loan of not deemed best then three sites are offered for the location of an addition¬ al building, viz. : .southeast corner of .Archer St. and Long Beach Ave., tuirthoast corner Ro.se St. and Bay- view .Avenue, and northwest corner of the same streets. The price of those lots run from .?S0OO to SDOOO. In case one of these sites is .selected Sjiecial evangelistic meetings \vill be held at the "Saints (Jhajiel," .Mer- bating and public speaking. Polytechnic rick Road, every evening this week at Institute, Brooklyn, and A. W. Ward, 7:1.0. .Meetings will be hold over Sun- department of education, Jamaica High day. .May 9, at lu.:{0 a. m., :J..'5(J and School. Officers, President James E. 7.;{0 p. m. Mr. and .Mrs. G. H. Pye, Stiles of this jilace; vice-president, returned missionaries frdm British .Miss Margaret Fortescue of Rockvilie 'West Indies, and .Mrs. C. W. Hensel Centre; secretary, .Miss Hattie Wyckolf of Springfieltl, (Jhio, are among those of Hempstead and treasurer, .Miss .\or- jier.sent to jireach. .All are welcome. ladder truck while fixed; application the old hook and theirs was being granted. R. A. .M. Hobbs coniiaaiiicd of the Jirices charged by local li.n i.iikii. which he claimed wore excessive; this was referred to a cotumittoe to report l''ri- dav evening. HYMENEAL ELLISO-N'-VERITY Edna .May, tlaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willet t\ Elli.son of Bedell St., and Ed¬ ward Verity, were married last Thurs¬ day afternoon by Rev. K. P. Ketcham, formerly jiastor of the Presbyterian Church, at his residence in New York City. The bride's sister, .Miss Laura V, Ellison, and Frank C (iilbert of Hempsteaii, "stood up" with the bridal Firemen to Parade At a special meeting of the Fire Council on April 28th, the annual pa¬ rade and inspection was designated to be held on the evening of Saturday, May 21». The line of march adopted was as follows: Form on Church St. facing north. , , iiartv, who loft on a honeymoon trip to ^I'.l^^.'^ !..f'M.r.^''^."u^,."." u,. ,,^"^.T!l'.; Albany. On their return Moridayjthey "" were tendered a reception at the home tion to build a school house on the property at a cost of not over thirty- vfie thousand dollars. These questions are to be decided by the residents at thi.s meeting and should be thoroughly considered by ev¬ eryone before going to the meeting. The fire department was called out again Tuesday evening about a ijuar- of the bride's parents. The Boston Herald is booming a The man in the pew reasons about religious work in something id' the .same manner as he figures out busi¬ ness jirojio.'-itions. So it is a good thing to get his point of view.. Louis H. .Severance is a Preshyterian layman and philanthropist of national fame and he will speak upon "A Layman's View of .Missions" at the morning service o,-" the First Presbyterian Church. In tbe evening he will sjieak upon "Korea," a land well-known to him through his extensive travels, and a country of pe¬ culiar interest in the jiroblems of the Orient and of (Christianity. An invita¬ tion to bo jjreaent is extended to all persons of the community. The jiulpit ui the .Methoflist ' Epis- line up against the Babylon Field (Jlub. Leviness and Leviness will be the battery for F'reejjort and if they show anything of last years' forfn the (.'lub should will. The team tind ro<it- ers will leave on the 2.1(1 train. The Club will start the local base¬ ball season Saturday, May 2'.»; further details will bo given next week regard¬ ing the team, etc. The mixed bowling tournament i'u^ i.shed last Wednesday evening with he teams of .Mr. and Mrs. Hart and Mr. and .Mrs. Sjiroull tied for first jilace, with .Mr. and .Mrs. Betzig and .Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy. The tie will he rolled off Wednesdav, -May 12. The three men bowling toiirnainent tie was rolled off Wednesday night. First jirize was won by the team of Thomp.son, Krause and Lang. In the billiard tournament Knowles is still in tho lead, having won all his games to date. Won l.o-t Knowl'•• .¦> o LiUi^ '1 2 Lurl-.iKh 1 '1 • Jiunaii'- ¦> i M<Kiie :; '-'i .-^.iwyer :.' :'. Dorlon o I Walla-e o ('orby is trying to run awtiy with the duck pin tournament but there is jilen¬ ty of time foi the others to catch up; the standing: World's Fair to commemorate the tliree cojial Church will be occujned morning hundredth anniversary of The Landing of the Pilgrims and at their request we make announcement of the event, which will occur in 11*20. They say: "This early announcement has been deemed necessary in order that the eluded, the whole company concluded head of line resting at Fire Headquar- ter of eight fo'r a fifth district call the night's program with a splendid. ters (Wide Awake Engine House); The fire was at Charles Conklin'* or rendering of "The Heaven's Are Tell- west on Pine St. to Long Beach Ave.. Grove St., near Lena Ave., on the at- world shall know ing," from "The Creation." ' north to Lena Ave., east to Wallace St. tic stairs, probably caused by spon- States reserves the south to Brooklyn Ave., east to Grove ' taneous combustion. Mr. Conklin World's Fair; and and evening next Sunday by the pas¬ tor. Dr. W. .A. Richard. The/topic of the evening sertnon at 7 :1."> o'clock will be "Every Man an Author." The Ej)- worth League meeeting at i'l.i') p. m. will be led by Miss Lottie Parker.son; that the United subject, ".Making a Guest of Christ." year 1920 for a- The nnnual meeting of the joint that Boston and Official Board last Monday night dis- Won Lost t'orby , 1,' :{ I), uton ti :; l^ail*' V "i <tnTr .', :i Lown (i '.) .luKg^ ¦"> • Kaynor :'. ''• 'rii<imiis<iu 'I 7 MucCar-y I The jKiol tournaniei|it is (juite dose at the present ti.'ne with tho standing as follow.-.: Won IjOHt Hart and i^prouU ^ :: Keuuedy uud Sutherlainl 'i i Corby and Tlmmpsou > 'i Johnson and Brower I 't Smith and Walluw' 1 'i. Munziug'T and \joa- 1 :i* ^vluthard and .Ander*r.i 1 1 Ma<-,Carey and Cook ¦'• I I*^rle und .JoliuMiu '2 1 Finch and KnoM'les 2 Starr and Ma\.»ou " '¦'< Special for Friday ami Saturday: St.. north to Randall Ave., east to Main , with the assistance of his neighbors New Enlgand wiil give the interven- clo.sed an unusually jjroepenjus cor^dl- Butter peanut brittle, 10c lb.; coif ee St., south to Broadway, east to Colum- put out the blaze with a few pails of ing years to p'ans and preparations tion in the .VI. E. Church. l;oth a."* to .Mrs. James .M. Stiles has returned peauts creams. 10c lb.; home-made CO-i bus Ave., north to Grand Ave., west to water and the firemen were not need- for an Exposition on a scale and mag- membership, finances and benev- to her home at Bellmore after being coanut cakes. 10c doz. DaSilva. 15-17 i Graffig PL. south to Broadway, westied; the loss probablv will not exceed nitude commensurate with the imiwrt- lence.s. The following will be officers at Southside HoipiUl for the pa«t Merrick Rd. • to Brooklyn Ave., west to Ocean Ave. , south to Merrick Road, east to Church , If you play a stringed instrument j St., south to Smith St, east to Main $25. and have not known the fact which is told in Snith and B«kU> ad, it will be well to make a mentanu>to of it NOTICE.—Scotfff Remnant Store St, north to Railroad Ave., west to | opened on Thursday, May 6, with a sale front *\t Village OfFice. whfere inspec-. of lices, epibroideries and dress trim- ! tion will take place. [ mings. It ance of the event which was the birth during the ensuing year: Chairman, of The American Nation." , Dr. W. A. Richard; secreUry, W. B. —— Osterhout; treasurer. H. R. Smith; TYPEWRITER WANTED — and financial secretory, L. H. Ross-; assist- Office Assistant. Box 252, Freeport. ant H. L. Crandell; presiilent Board It |cf Trustees. Wm. G. Miller. week. The Phi Alpha base-ball team will play it3 opening game at Freeport Athletic Park Saturday afternoon, with the Belaire A. C. of Jamaica.
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|Nassau County Review 19090507
|Nassau County Review 19090507
Official Paper of Nassau County
The rejKjrt of the Fretjiort lianr jiciU'.s in this issue.
That Airdome License
Single copies of the Review f-ecured at H. (rolxt/.'s and the f.flice on Main St. and DaSilva's Merricli Roa'l.
Su])ervi>or ("ox has )f retrradiiij.' Mhiu St.
licyiin th
can lie Review on W.
.Miss Mills of Hrooklyn hin I gue.n of .Mrs. (). T. Philli];-.
Ilobei-t H. Hum c;iterl;iiiiiii^,' lii.-
Nniih Ocean .-\vi
otil'.T I'l-MMl Ohji
Willard, sun of Eugene W. Helland, i.s very sick, at his home on (Church St.
The regular nieeting of the V'illage Board will he held this F'riday even¬ ing.
The cake .sale which was to have
heefl helfl to-day for the South Side
Hospital ha.s been indefinitely jiost poned.
.Stephen P. Pettit, auctioneer, will sell the household furniture, etc., of L. D. Amerman, West .Merrick Road, to-morrow, Saturday, afternoon; .see his adv. for particulars.
.Ml-, and Mrs. Hamilton Merritt ha\u n-i.urned fi-on: stjcnding Lhe Wiuti.'r in the South.
Mr. aiul .Mrs. Alva .J. lV-ar.<:tl! are entertaining their secoml horn .soji, who is to be called Clifford H.
Mr. R. W. Hartt, with his mother and .sister are now at their (Jceaii Ave. cottage for the summer.
Mrs. Wi ha.s returner! after an extended with her sister in Huntington.
."Vlr.s. Ida h. Powell has been spend¬ ing a few days at Northfield, Mas.-^a- chusetts, with her daughter Helen.
.Merrick Road has been treated to its Little William CJhase, .son of Mr. and usual Spring coating of oil, which is j Mrs. .John Chase, of North Main Street, ;is disagreeable as usual when fresh ' is suffering from spinal meningitis. hut will soon .settle down and keep th(?
dust from flying .so thickly. ^Ii'- I- Thomp.son of Pennsylvania has returneri home after sjiending two
.\ certificate of incorjioration
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PHP is one of the worst languages to wrap your head around OOP and programming in general. There's too much inconsistencies and structure problems. Of course, one can dream to make it all right by making one's own layer on top of it (which mostly everyone at least attempts to do, with variable degrees of success), but I wouldn't start with it. Stay away from PHP as a learner.
Posted 04 January 2013 - 22:08
Ok, I will check it also and read it
It is probably best to understand the basics of procedural programming. Until you've fought with that, learning OOP might be lost on you.
I read this excellent book years ago on OOP in PHP 5: PHP 5 Objects, Patterns, and Practice
And will it be logically to go for java 1st then php?
I couldn't agree more. PHP is the go to language for web development, but learning OOP with it is a nightmare. However, PHP 4.4 and 4.5 have made good strides. Learning a language like Java first, would give you a very strong foundation of OOP.
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No. C#. C++ is problably one of the best languages but requires a steep learning curve while C# doesn't (note that you might lose some things along the way...)
You mean I should learn c++ 1st ?
I completely disagree and its people like you that keep putting these ****ty programmers out (Its not against you personally Ambroos as I understand you just want to help the OP)
I'd start with Java, it's an easy language that gets you going with Object-Oriented Programming pretty fast.
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A bed is a piece of furniture (or a location) primarily used as a place to sleep, and often used for relaxation.
To make beds more comfortable, a mattress is usually placed on top of it. The second layer is the box spring Inner-sprung Base. The box spring or "divan" is a large mattress-sized box containing wood and springs that provide additional support and suspension for the mattress.
The third layer is the bed frame. The bed frame lifts the mattress/mattress-box spring off the ground.
A dust ruffle, bed skirt, or valance sheet may be used to make the bed frame match the rest of the bedding.
For greater head support, most people use a pillow, placed at the top of a mattress. Also used is some form of covering blanket to provide warmth to the sleeper, often bed sheets, a quilt, or a duvet.
Also, some people prefer to dispense with the box spring and bed frame, and replace it with a platform bed style. This is more common in Europe.
The Egyptians had high bedsteads which were ascended by steps, with bolsters or pillows, and curtains to hang round. Often there was a head-rest as well, semi-cylindrical and made of stone, wood or metal. Assyrians, Medes and Persians had beds of a similar kind, and frequently decorated their furniture with inlays or appliqués of metal, mother-of-pearl and ivory.
The oldest account of a bed is probably that of Odysseus: a charpoy woven of rope, plays a role in the Odyssey. A similar bed can be seen at the St Fagans National History Museum in Wales. Odysseus also gives an account of how he crafted the nuptial bed for himself and Penelope, out of an ancient, huge olive tree trunk that used to grow on the spot before the bridal chamber was built. His detailed description finally persuades the doubting Penelope that the shipwrecked, aged man is indeed her long-lost husband. Homer also mentions the inlaying of the woodwork of beds with gold, silver and ivory.
The Greek bed had a wooden frame, with a board at the head and bands of hide laced across, upon which skins were placed. At a later period the bedstead was often veneered with expensive woods; sometimes it was of solid ivory veneered with tortoise-shell and with silver feet; often it was of bronze. The pillows and coverings also became more costly and beautiful; the most celebrated places for their manufacture were Miletus, Corinth and Carthage. Folding beds, too, appear in the vase paintings.
The Roman mattresses were stuffed with reeds, hay, wool or feathers; the last was used towards the end of the Republic, when custom demanded luxury. Small cushions were placed at the head and sometimes at the back. The bedsteads were high and could only be ascended by the help of steps. They were often arranged for two persons, and had a board or railing at the back as well as the raised portion at the head. The counterpanes were sometimes very costly, generally purple embroidered with figures in gold; and rich hangings fell to the ground masking the front. The bedsteads themselves were often of bronze inlaid with silver, and Elagabalus had one of solid silver. In the walls of some of the houses at Pompeii bed niches are found which were probably closed by curtains or sliding partitions. Ancient Romans had various kinds of beds for repose. These included:
In the 15th century beds became very large, reaching to 7 or 8 feet by 6 or 7 feet. The mattresses were often filled with pea-shucks, straw or feathers. At this time great personages were in the habit of carrying most of their property about with them, including beds and bed-hangings, and for this reason the bedsteads were for the most part mere frameworks to be covered up; but about the beginning of the 16th century bedsteads were made lighter and more decorative, since the lords remained in the same place for longer periods.
In the 18th century feather pillows were first used as coverings in Germany, which in the fashions of the bed and the curious etiquette connected with the bedchamber followed France for the most part. The beds were a la duchesse, but in France itself there was great variety both of name and shape. The custom of the "bed of justice" upon which the king of France reclined when he was present in parliament, the princes being seated, the great officials standing, and the lesser officials kneeling, was held to denote the royal power even more than the throne. Louis XI is credited with its first use, and the custom lasted till the end of the monarchy. In the chambre de parade, where the ceremonial bed was placed, certain persons, such as ambassadors or great lords, whom it was desired to honour, were received in a more intimate fashion than the crowd of courtiers. At Versailles women received their friends in their beds, both before and after childbirth, during periods of mourning, and even directly after marriage - in fact in any circumstances which were thought deserving of congratulation or condolence. During the 17th century this curious custom became general, perhaps to avoid the tiresome details of etiquette. Portable beds were used in high society in France till the end of the ancien regime. The earliest of which mention has been found belonged to Charles the Bold. They had curtains over a light framework, and were in their way as fine as the stationary beds.
Iron beds appear in the 18th century; the advertisements recommend them as free from the insects which sometimes infested wooden bedsteads. Elsewhere, there was also the closed bed with sliding or folding shutters, and in England - where beds were commonly quite simple in form - the four poster was the usual citizen's bed until the middle of the 19th century.
A king-sized bed differs from the other sizes in implementation, as it is not common to have a king-sized box spring; rather, two smaller box-springs are used under a king-sized mattress. It is a common misconception that on a U.S. Standard or Eastern King, the box springs are identical in size to a Twin Extra-Long, however Twin Extra-Long mattresses next to each other add up to 78 inches wide instead of the 76 inch width that is standard for an Eastern King.
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| 39 × 75 in
3'3" × 6'3″
97 × 191 cm
| 36 × 75 in
3' × 6'3″
91 × 191 cm
| 35 × 79 in
~2'11.43″ × ~6'6.74″
90 × 200 cm
|Double / Full
| 54 × 75 in
4'6″ × 6'3″
137 × 191 cm
| 55 × 79 in
~4ft 7.12in × ~6'6.74″
140 × 200 cm
| (US) Queen
(UK/Ire) King
| 60 × 80 in
5' × 6'8″
152 × 203 cm
| 60 × 78 in
5' × 6'6″
152 × 198 cm
| 63 × 79 in
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160 × 200 cm
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(UK/Ire) Super King
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6'4″ × 6'8″
193 × 203 cm
| 72 × 80 in
6' × 6'8″
183 × 203 cm
| 72 × 78 in
6' × 6'6″
183 × 198 cm
| 71 × 79 in
~5'11″ × ~6'6.74″
180 × 200 cm
These dimensions are for the mattress—the actual bed frame will be a little bigger in order to fully encompass and support the mattress. The thickness of the mattress may vary considerably.
Historically, Single referred to a bed size that was half the width of a Double, that is, approximately the width of one pillow. In Western nations, such beds have become quite rare, with a Twin bed becoming the standard for one-person sleeping. Without another common use for the term Single and with the term Double being widely used, Single has come to be another term for a twin bed in these places.
Portable camp beds are generally the size of original single beds.
In France, the length of older beds is sometimes 1.9 m instead of 2 m.
Most mattress sizes in the Netherlands are also available in extra long. Meaning 2.2 m instead of 2.0 m.
Types of bed frames include:
Though not truly parts of a bed frame, many people include headboards, footboards, and bed rails in their definition of bed frames. Headboards and footboards can be wood or metal. They can be stained, painted, or covered in fabric or leather.
Bed rails are made of wood or metal and are attached to a headboard and footboard. Wooden slats are placed perpendicular to the bed rails to support the mattress/mattress box spring.
Bed rails and frames are often attached to the bed post using knock-down fittings. A knock-down fitting enables the bed to be easily dismantled for removal. Primary knock-down fittings for bed rails are as follows:
The springs are made from metal, which are swirled for maximum comfort


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Bad Girl RiRi? More like Braless RiRi.
Miley Cyrus' nipples are becoming pretty recognizable at this point. The LGBT advocate and pop sensation bared the girls yet again, this time in a shoot for V Magazine.
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Dear Students:
As we approach the end of the semester, I am writing to remind you of the policy on Incompletes.
While most students complete the semester without incident - they take their finals, write their papers, and complete all work within the set deadlines – some students experience incapacitating illness or serious family emergencies. Students in these rare circumstances may request an Incomplete. Supporting documentation of the emergency situation is, however, required.


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So I have been using an old Sennhieser (dont know which ones, no markings on them) pair of headphones for awhile. For the last couple months it's kinda been dying, the sound can be varied, or off in one ear, I have to adjust the wire to make it work. Well it started sounding weird, and I am unable to fix it, so pretty much dying.
So I don't really have money to spend right now, but came across these headphones, which are quite cheap.
Anyone have suggestion on a better quality product at the same price? Will these do a good job, I do movies and shows for the most part, but some gaming.


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I hope the strange and personal aspects of the following won't put anyone off too much. It's a little more serious than I usually am on this blog. Apologies up front.
In the early eighties as a BYU student I had ear-marked part of my paycheck to help save the whales. Since then, 'save the whales' as become so hackneyed that even unswerving environmentalists smile at the kitschy phrase. But at the time I really was concerned with protecting these great creatures (and still am actually). It was being reported in the news at the time that the great blue whale and many other species of marine mammals were on the verge of extinction and urgent action was needed. However, at the same time that I became aware of the whales' crisis, a movement called Food for Poland had just been launched at BYU by one of my heroes, Eugene England, to alleviate Regan's suspension of aid to the bedraggled satellite of the Soviet Empire. Continue reading The current financial crisis as a symptom of our relationship with whales


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- Jah Kable
- Troy, NY
- United States
Thinker ready to be unleashed upon the world,
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Why are the alternate power sources not being implemented on a world-wide scale? There is a tipping point and we must be close by now!!!
Solar panels
Wind Turbines
We all see the signs of the world changing. Ice caps disappearing, mega storms, tempature rise, ect.
Yet we are more concerned with royal babies, wars, and profits.
We will have none of that if this planet stops supporting life as we know it.
This is a back burner issue always used for politics but never solved by politics.
Turn the heat up on this, the Earth is!
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Aug 21 2013: I don't now about fossil fuel subsidies in your country (the US, I presume?), but we don't have those where I live, and fossil fuels are still the cheapest option by a wide margin (on the order of twenty times cheaper for wind, in fact, and solar is even worse).
Nuclear is also not all that harmful, assuming the plant is built properly--they actually release less radiation than burning coal (which contains trace radioactive elements). Water draw is very dependent on reactor design, and is typically not much of a limiting factor, especially near the ocean.
I don't really see how it damages the locals either, except lowering property values somewhat; it also provides jobs to partially make up for it.
A bigger issue is that in a lot of countries, you can't build nuclear reactors without being blamed for trying to develop a weapons program.
Also, if you try to have every building produce half its power via solar panels, you'll suddenly find you don't even have enough electricity for the toaster and the boiler to work simultaneously--solar power has a piss poor output even during high noon, and power storage technology leaves a lot to be desired.
A solar panel does pay for itself over the course of a few years on lower latitudes, but the power output is nothing to write home about. Its useful for heating water (through direct heating, no electricity involved), but doesn't particularly shine at anything else.
I've covered electric cars responding to someone else bellow, and don't feel like repeating myself...
Natural gas cars may have potential, I honestly wouldn't know, and don't feel like doing the research at the moment.
Frankly, if the renewables were economical, we'd be using them already, environmentally friendly or no.
Aug 22 2013: Are fossil fuels cheaper than renewable? It depends. If the law was that you must clean up your own mess, so that all of the toxins put into the air, water and land must be cleaned up, and you are liable for all the damage done by those toxins whether it is asthma, cancer, or acid rain, or even global warming, then no, Fossil fuel is not cheaper. No one denies that asthma rates are a direct result of burning coal. No one denies that acid rain is a result of the burning of fossil fuel. No one denies that the increased CO2 in the air is changing the chemistry of the atmosphere and having a deadly effect on the ocean. The idea that people could argue that fossil fuel is cheaper while ignoring the costs of all the damage done and the costs of cleaning up the mess is extremely offensive.
Burning fossil fuel while not cleaning up your mess is akin to rape and pillage of the Earth. The Earth is 4,600,000,000 years old and in just the last 150 years of burning fossil fuel we have had a very dramatic effect on the environment of this planet.
This is also true of nuclear. Yes, on a whole nuclear seems much, much better than coal, yet then we have a Chernobyl, or a tsunami in Japan, or a 3 mile island and then we see how incredibly expensive one catastrophe can be with nuclear.
Aug 22 2013: I agree that burning coal comes with some nasty side effects, global warming or no, but natural gas is a lot friendlier in that regard. Aside from the CO2 and some water vapor, there are no byproducts at all.
Of course, at 20 times cheaper, you can still fund a lot of cleanup and still have it be less expensive...
As for nuclear, all those leaks you mentioned are a result of bad engineering, not some fundamental problem. Chernobyl was the only one that actually managed to do any major amounts of damage, and that's because it was an old Soviet era piece of garbage. By the way, in the current environment around the reactor, wildlife is actually doing better than in any comparable region in Eastern Europe, because apparently radioactive fallout isn't as bad for them as human presence...
Honestly, chemical plants working with dangerous materials have a much worse track record (and not half the regulations), and coal mines kill more people every year, and no one seems to bat an eyelash at those. Go figure.
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Aug 22 2013: Your view on the issue is very US specific.
I can tell on good authority in other countries, where fossil fuels aren't subsidized, they're still a lot cheaper. You could try to factor in air pollution for coal all you want, but natural gas burns very cleanly, and in most countries, is priced similarly to coal (often being slightly cheaper).
In many of those other countries, big business doesn't own half the government like it does in the states (there are always lobbyists, but in most of the world they haven't taken root quite as well as in the US), and yet most energy production is still in fossil fuel simply because renewables don't deliver any bang for your buck.
You can't suppress a technology, not on a global scale anyway. If there is profit in developing it, someone, somewhere outside your control will develop and implement it anyway.
Renewables aren't failing due to some conspiracy, or suppression, they're just uneconomical. Fossil fuel corporations don't have to do a thing, renewables are failing under their own power.
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Aug 23 2013: http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2012/system-effects-exec-sum.pdf
Grid level operating costs in cost per unit of energy. Cost for installation and/or replacement of existing infrastructure is not factored in.
You'll find that compared to fossil fuels and even nuclear, the renewables will put a hole in your pocket. In most countries, fossil fuel and nuclear aren't subsidized either, so you can't put the blame on that.
Hydro and thermal require you strike lucky on geography. They're great if they're available, but that's a big if.
Sun and wind are just plain ineffective.
Having no control over the on/off switch really hurts, and their output is just pathetic for price spent. They currently need a 500% improvement to match nuclear, and a 2,000% increase to match coal or gas, under a best case scenario.
Unless there is some exponential growth in the field I'm not aware of (and everything I know about engineering claims there isn't), they're just not realistic contenders. Especially in developing countries, which don't have such large sums of cash to throw away on inefficient electric production.
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I can appreciate your passion for renewable energy and the promises made by it's most outspoken proponents.
In the past, I too became a passionate spokesman for causes that portended great salvation for troubled humanity.
In old age comes the wisdom of .unintended consequences. Many comments in this conversation have addressed those perceived consequences. Are they all correct? Maybe not, however too many will be. I am not against renewable energy generation, in my own area, these resources have been integrated into a viable plan to provide power energy at a reasonable cost to consumers. That is the best one can hope. Maybe, in a few hundred years, technology will provide a new source of energy that will meet all the requirements of all. One can only hope.
Sep 9 2013: Well thank you very much Mike. I really do appreciate it and have given thought to such consequences, environmentally, of course. I can't put a monetary value on our survival or the earths survival. I immediately think solar panels would increase global temperatures due to the reflective surface. Tidal and Hydro-Electric would interfere with the ecosystem IF implemented in a plan that hasn't been thoroughly thought out. As for Wind, I don't really see anything besides one breaking to peices and crashing to the ground. Nature is strong and will work around the turbines without hesitation, as long as we don't use paint that is poison or materials that rust. Which is all possible we just have to stay committed to it.Aug 24 2013: Nadav Tropp,
I agree that nuclear compares very favorably to fossil fuel, even so it is a very hard sell and for good reason. The people living near fukushima have lost everything, likewise Chernobyl. No one ever considered the Japanese to be sloppy engineers.
Also, the fact that you could use the money saved using coal or natural gas to clean up the disaster they cause is irrelevant, the fact is they don't use that money to do that.
My mother lives in an area that was in the midst of a debate over whether to have fracking or not. Every day I was emailed one point of the contract. Never once did it say anything to the effect that they would clean up their mess. Once the water supply is poisoned the land is ruined. Who cares if you are getting royalty checks from the natural gas if your land is now ruined.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. The potential money from fracking and the protections the company was willing to agree for up front was woefully short of what would be fair compensation for the possible damage.
Aug 24 2013: in bhopal, a chemical plant released a gas that killed and injured thousands. in derweze, turkmenistan, a natural gas well burns for 40 years now, releasing sulphuric acid contaminated carbon dioxide. it is not dangerous to humans nearby only because there are no humans nearby.
unless you want to stop all chemical plants and all fossil mining too, lamenting about fukushima is not rational. it is a very minor accident that is merely an inconvenience for those that had to move.
and about japanese engineers. i assume you don't know too much details about the accident itself. i'm an engineer, and i followed the events in detail. fukushima was a mindbogglingly sloppy design, with at least 5 design decisions that i could not believe. i still don't understand how can anyone come up with such a design, or approve it.
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Aug 25 2013: expected number of deaths is zero.
if you would kind enough to actually read what other people write, you would have understood already that all industrial activities pose some risk. the people of a village had to move: this is not so terrible. i can repeat it many times, but it is getting boring.
or you say we need to stop all industry right away? also motorized traffic?
or you just don't understand probabilities. what is your education btw?
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Aug 25 2013: this is the case when i don't need to read the article, even this little excerpt stinks. how can an ongoing study have results? how can 12 confirmed case out of a few tens of thousands local inhabitants a "minor increase"? how could fukushima cause any effects worldwide if the radiation released were negligible at a distance?
you can cherry pick media attention whoreisms from all around the world if you so desire. it does not make you look particularly well informed in the matter.
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Aug 25 2013: maybe you should educate yourself on how radiation works. 99.999% of the human population got less radiation from fukushima than from eating a banana.
i don't have to be an expert. it is enough if i read the experts. which i did. i followed 3 expert blogs, one of them was a leading hungarian nuclear physicist.
health effects of fukushima are negligible. i'm not wasting more words on that, the material is out there, this is not up to debate.Aug 26 2013: You realise the 985000 is projected deaths that might possibly be attributable to Chernobyl up to 2056. That many people die because of natural disasters several times each year. I wonder how many deaths will occur due to wind turbine construction and operation in the same time frame.
This is a link to the actual paper to which your link is referring, rather inaccurately.
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Aug 25 2013: suddenly we are talking about chernobyl?
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Aug 25 2013: "Chernobyl was much more contained on land and the spread of contamination was limited to the surrounding areas"
i'm out
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Aug 26 2013: i want your self confidence. you have the audacity to educate me on nuclear accidents after i clearly explained to you that i'm an engineer and i specifically followed up on both cases. listen, i don't know how to break through the wall of chosen ignorance. so let me be brief. this is a message for you to carry with you everywhere, and remember. remember that i told you: your knowledge seems to come from new age / wildlife protecting websites, and it has no resemblance with reality. my job is over. you have been warned.
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Aug 27 2013: "You are aware that it is almost impossible to know how many deaths occur from a nuclear disaster because many of the people exposed may not develop a cancer for 10 years and may not die from that cancer and may die 20 years later."
It's not impossible you just need to do some science and compare cancer rates between equivalent populations. Even accepting the number from your new link 25000 deaths from the whole industry isn't that many. How many deaths do you think have occurred in agriculture in the same time period? Or in Mining?
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Aug 27 2013: You can get some information from his profile. I notice yours is blocked.Aug 27 2013: Pinter also said "i'm an engineer and i specifically followed up on both cases"
which somewhat proves that you don't read what i write. why would you? you are not here to read. you are here to feed your personality disorder.
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Aug 27 2013: On his profile it says he has a chemical engineering degree. I don't know if he does but I know what a degree in chemical engineering is. What exactly is a Health Education Specialist?
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Aug 27 2013: You don't need to track individuals to do statistical analyses. You compare cancer rates in exposed areas to cancer rates in similar populations that weren't exposed. Samples from the more densly populated parts of Australia would make a good control group
Radiation poisoning 101
Other than strontium radiation poisoning occurs as the accute effects of exposure to gamma and beta radiation. Damage to DNA may cause development of cancer susequent to acute exposure but the chances diminish with time as long as further exposure is avoided. Strontium is a special case as its chemical similarity to calcium causes deposition in bone tissue so exposure to strontium radio-isotopes must be monitored in the long term as it is hard to remove the strontium once deposited.
Thats from my own Physice text.
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Aug 27 2013: What about all the people that die each year from respiratory diseaes due to exposure to dust from agricultural land, how many people die from malaria from mosquitos that breed in irrigation ditches?. By isolating chernobyl you are cherry picking the one tragedy from an industry with an otherwise good safety record. The stakes sre high with nuclear as a single incident has dire consequences but you must balance that against the fact that incidents are rare. What your doing statistically is the same as claiming planes are dangerous because one crash kills so many people.
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Aug 28 2013: I have a combined science/education degree from the University of Newcastle with a major in chemistry and a minor in physics and have spent the last 13 years teaching both chem and phys in high school. I spent last year wriring a physics text for the NSW department of education. The study of electricity generation is one of the major topics in the course and another major topic is nuclear physics so I have a great deal of understanding of both sides of nuclear power generation and the effects of radiation.
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Aug 28 2013: A similar list for any industry would be just as bad. Coal mining kills around a thousand people a year directly and many thousands more from emphysema, from prolonged exposure to coal dust in areas around mines.
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Aug 28 2013: If you're tracking individuals you are doing case studies not statistical analysis. Case studies are of less scientific use as there are too many variables that cannot be controlled. That's why we do large study statistical analyses.
They are tracking the radiation from Fukushima. You just do a survey of the background radiation in the pacific and observe any variations from the expected readings or you could monitor the radiation in a particular species of fish and track the progress of contaminated water that way.Aug 28 2013: BTW caesium is a bad example because it doesn't bio accumulate as there is a biological mechanism for it's removal, it being a group I element.
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Aug 28 2013: Your own post below states that caesium doesn't accumulate
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Aug 28 2013: if the quality is lacking, try quantity
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Aug 28 2013: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale#Level_3:_Serious_incident
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Aug 29 2013: what are the health effects of 65 becquerels? research that, you expert.
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Aug 29 2013: quote it, if it is in the article.
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Aug 29 2013: quote again. once sentence. 65 becquerel radiation causes ...
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Aug 29 2013: last time you said 67. never mind. what are the health effects of 18700 bq?Aug 24 2013: Actually, Fukushima was badly engineered. It wasn't obvious until after the fact (mostly because no one was looking for problems too hard--after the fact examination shows the signs and even a warning or two were all there), but in retrospect, it had some serious design flaws, like the emergency generators being vulnerable to flooding.
Reactor design has come a long way since the 60's however.
Realistically though, I don't see most of the world adopting nuclear. Its an easy target for fear mongering politicians and the media, environmentalists hate it, and perhaps most importantly once the Fukushima scare had died down, it requires a very significant initial investment to construct.
Not to mention all those countries not allowed nuclear power because of politics.
This basically means that we're stuck with fossil fuels and renewables. Renewables are impractical aside from a few niche roles, so we better not run out of fossil fuels anytime soon.
Maybe some new technological development will change everything in a few years, but you can't count on those to come to your rescue at your convenience.
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Aug 25 2013: Hah, I wish. If you know where I can contact them though, I'd love to get paid for going on random forums and arguing with people. Sure beats some of the other jobs I've had.
Never mind that I'm backing nuclear as much as fossil fuel... They must both have me on payroll then. Apparently, I'm making more money then I knew.
Seriously though, its not about land. It never was about land--most countries have more useless land than they know what to do with, no one's trying to save it for anything, not should using it be a priority.
Saying we should switch to solar because we have useless land is like saying that I have a spare tire, so I should buy a car to install it in.
Same for the side of buildings. Covering a house with solar panels dramatically increases the house's cost, and takes a few good years to pay for itself. Add to that decreased solar output the farther away you are from the equator, and you're basically throwing money at an unproductive project.
Seeing as you need for everyone to have electricity on cloudy days, you still need all the non-solar infrastructure in place anyway, so you've basically installed twice the infrastructure.
Solar is good for heating bath water, not for making electricity. If you want to install a solar panel, I'm not stopping you, but don't except me to throw my good oil/nuclear spokesperson money at the problem--there are better solutions.
Its purely about cost per unit of energy.
If the price of energy goes up, the price of everything goes up, and everyone's quality of life deteriorates. Never mind all those the other things the money could have been used for: infrastructure, healthcare, defense, education...
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Aug 25 2013: calling for more education sounds incredibly ironic from your mouth :)Aug 25 2013: Aren't you lucky. I live in the best areas of the US for residential solar panels, but for me, in my circumstances, I could not meet the ROI. Just to the south of town is one of the largest solar farms in the country. Southeast of here is one of the largest nuclear plants in the country.
Northeast of here is a maze of windpower farms. I spent 4 years as a chief of utilities for a small town, 40K pop, including recycling, environmental programs, etc. I hold the appropriate academic credentials.
So, I think you are the one needing the education, I am qualified to do so, but you are not a worthy student.Aug 25 2013: That's not what I've said. At all--the points I've made aren't the ones addressed.
I think I'll just stop arguing at this stage, seeing as we're long past rational discussion.
Maybe if I was actually paid for it like insinuated, but alas, its not the case.Aug 22 2013: I agree whole heartedly Jah. I run solar at my home. Use my own well, We eat what we grow also. But with solar panels and wind turbines cost being so low to purchase, There should be more implemented. And not just buy money hungry power giants.
http://www.wilmington-wedding-dj.comAug 22 2013: Just a note to US citizens. In the US fossil fuals aren't subsidised to make them cheaper than renewables. they are subsidised to make US fossil fuel competative against imported fossil fuels. There are massive heaps of coal just sitting around waiting for buyers. If there were no subsidies the US would just import cheap coal from indonesia or Russia.
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Aug 22 2013: On a per kilowatthour basis the fossil fuel subsidies are a fraction of the renewable subsidies.Aug 22 2013: I think many scientists feel that 350 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere is the line over which we will hit a tipping point in the acidity and health of the ocean. (We just passed 400 ppm).
As for temperature we are very close to the scariest tipping point which is where methane hydrates begin to bubble up out of the ocean. Once that happens the Earth as a viable place to live for man is over, at least for a short term, perhaps a million or so years.
Danny Cahill
Aug 20 2013: The numbers aren't even close anymore. It's much cheaper to buy renewables, than it is to steal oil. Renewables will exponentially elevate everyones standard of living.
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Aug 20 2013: and of course you got your numbers from some green website. not financed by wind and solar, so i'm told.
Sep 1 2013: for a measly $25 billion:
Thank you for alerting me that some people believe that renewables do not compete with oil. They think that an electric car plugged into a house powered by sol/wnd somehow uses gasoline. Also, I didn't get my numbers from a 'green website.' I started with 3rd grade math and the retail price of solar panels. I'll show my math with some big round easy numbers.
In the U.S., it costs $15,000 to solarize 1 house (labor, Inverter, & panels). If we solarized 10 million houses (that's over 10% of U.S. houses, think of all those jobs), that would cost ($15,000 X 10,000,000 = $150,000,000,000) $150 billion. The govt. could pay for it all, but lets just offer a half-off rebate to the public and make it a 3 year project ($150B ÷ 2 = 75B, then 75B ÷ 3). That would bring the cost to the govt. down to a measly $25 billion per year, bad game over, good game starts. For the first time ever (fossil fuel) power plant usage would begin to decline, oil prices would plummet. So, America could say to the world and to itself, we are going forward, we are not self-destructing.
Sep 1 2013: two observations.
1. you did not even attempt to back up your original claim, namely that solar is cheaper than oil.
2. government paying something means people paying. government only redistributes, does not create. if something is economically viable, we don't need the government. people choose it for their own good. we need the government in cases when we want to push something that is not economical.Aug 21 2013: Actually, wind and solar aren't competing with oil, they're competing with coal, gas, and nuclear.
Oil's high demand as a motor fuel makes it far too expensive for electric generation, to a point that even some oil producing nations export the stuff and use the money to buy coal or gas instead.
Coal and gas typically come from stable countries, no need to "steal" them from anyone.
Never mind that wind and solar are both completely uneconomical. 20 times more expensive than coal or gas is a best case scenario.
Jah Kable
Aug 22 2013: Maybe 20 times more expensive to install.... then the only time you have to spend money is to upgrade them to more efficient models. I think that would beat spending money everyday to get fossil fuels, not to mention all the labor and equipment costs for the coal mines, oil wells, power plants and their power lines, pollution, ect. The change would be a nice little shot to the wallet today but it's like renting VS buying. Spend more at once to save in the long run.
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Aug 22 2013: http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/reports/2012/system-effects-exec-sum.pdf
Not install, but fully operate at a power grid level.
Renewable doesn't require any fuel, true, but you still pay for maintenance and staffing, and have a lower power output to show for it, which leads to higher operating costs per unit of power. 20 times more expensive than fossil fuels is a best case scenario for on shore wind. Off shore wind is typically worse, due to increased maintenance costs at sea and greater power transmission distance. Solar is the worst of the lot even close to the equator, and only gets worse the farther you get from it.
Also note that having mother nature in charge of the on/off switch is economically problematic, as you need a reserve to supply power needs in case the wind is slow or sky overcast (or just generally after sun down for solar).
As electricity storage technology as of today is rather poor (read: impractical on a mass scale), this creates all sorts of added technical problems, and increases cost overall.
Initial investment for installation is typically only an issue for nuclear, which is more sophisticated than the other technologies. At least fuel costs are negligible, as Uranium is dirt cheap for the amount of power it produces.
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Aug 22 2013: 1. I'll concede that coal is filthy, but gas doesn't pollute the environment with anything other than CO2 and water vapor.
2. the figure actually comes from an assessment of OECD countries, many of which don't subsidize fossil fuels. Granted, cleanups were not factored in, but again, that's only really an issue with coal.
3. good luck using solar or wind to replace oil. As bad as they are for electric generation, they're even worse for mobile applications--a car or aircraft can't run on sunlight or wind, after all.
You could try to make a switch over to electric cars I suppose, but batteries have an atrocious power to weight ratio. It barely scrapes by for cars, and is laughable for aircraft.
New capacitor technology might solve that, but as with all these yet undeveloped technologies, don't count your chickens before they hatch.
Dale Farnan
Aug 15 2013: Most businesses that put the environment before profit simply went broke, because they couldn't compete with those short-sighted businesses who put making money first.
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Aug 16 2013: business ought to be as shortsighted as the market demands. companies do not have valuations. only people have. if people don't care about the global warming, nor should companies.
Aug 18 2013: So, how do you propose forcing companies to "care"? Prison? Executions?
Aug 18 2013: i don't want to force them. i don't want them to care. i don't want my lawnmower to care about the grass or the noise. i don't want my knife to care about the vegetables, meats or my finger. i don't want corporations to care about anything other than delivering the product or service they are created for. i want the consumer to care. i want people to care.
that is the biggest problem we have. people don't care, but that's OK, because they blame it on someone else. they happily buy fish, and at the same time blame companies for overfishing, or governments for not regulating or badly regulating. all they have to do is not to buy wild fish, problem solved. but of course that won't happen. blaming someone else is so much easier, and we all love wild fish.Aug 18 2013: That is so true Dale! Thank you! That is the mentality that's going to ruin us. If i was rich i would try to solve it myself but I'm not.
Aug 18 2013: You don't have to be rich to help. One thing everyone can do is buy eco-friendly products like Krisztián suggested above.Aug 15 2013: Also:
Large-scale solar (Gemasolar):
Nuclear fusion (nearing feasibility):
Energy that costs little, is sustainable, or is incapable of raking in vast profits for huge corporations, will forever be of minor importance as long as capitalism remains the pervading ideology.
Sucking or hewing stuff out of the ground translates as a product that can be bought and sold. Anything remotely sustainable does not. That's the bottom line.
I'm afraid capitalism has to run its own course of blindness, denial and stupidity before it sees any need for change. When there's no more easy money to be made, it will disappear up its own fundamental orifice, taking all its filth and pollution with it. What a blessed relief that will be for everything that lives - though I doubt I'll be around to celebrate such a long-awaited spectacle.


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However, with bigger tires comes the problem of achieving adequate inner fenderwell clearance. And, that's especially true when you throw a set of lowered springs into the equation.
In the old days, you had a number of options. One, you could take a pair of tin snips and cut away the inner fender lip. In doing so you naturally create a "can opener effect," further necessitating the use of a body grinder to smooth out the rough edges.
Effective? Certainly, but in the process you also create a potentially explosive situation from sparks. You also stand a pretty good chance of bubbling the paint on the outside of the fender lip due to excessive heat buildup from the grinder.
Two, you could climb inside the fenderwell of your Camaro, Chevelle, Nova, or El Camino with a hacksaw, making a series of small cuts along the perimeter of the inner fenderwell lip-this often requires a ton of hacksaw blades. Then you could use a body hammer to pound the structurally weakened sheetmetal back out of harm's way. However, in the process those not experienced in body and fender work also stand a pretty good chance of tweaking the outer sheetmetal.
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Gosinski went on to relate that the Jimmy-which retails for $60, FOB, Torrance, California-also works great on Toyota Celicas, Mustangs, Hondas Isuzus, etc.
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For a century or two now, people have been predicting the eventual disappearance of religion. As education spreads and scientific knowledge increases, people were supposed to cast off their old superstitions and come into the light of reason. While that has happened in many places—basically, the developed countries of the West, with the exception of the United States—for the most part religion has stubbornly persisted. An interesting survey of religious belief in 30 countries just out from the University of Chicago shows overall religious belief is declining, but at a very slow rate. And even in countries with high rates of atheism, as people get older, they are more likely to become religious. There is evidence from the survey that this is both a cohort effect (older generations being more religious than younger generations), and an aging effect, that individuals may actually be changing their beliefs as they age, particularly as they hit senior citizenship. Why? Death, of course. Which helps explain why religion has such staying power.
As in so many other areas, we are more likely to believe that the thing we would like to be true is in fact true. As you age you see more and more of your family and friends die, and the thought that they are living in paradise and you'll see them again one day is enormously comforting (although I have to admit, as an atheist I've always found it odd that even deeply religious people who claim not a shred of doubt about the existence of heaven nonetheless feel profound sadness and grief when their loved ones die, despite the fact that those loved ones are supposedly not only not dead, but are experiencing a joy beyond imagining). Even more powerful is the thought of your own mortality, which becomes harder and harder to ignore with each passing year. And immortality is, after all, religion's killer app. The need to confront and overcome the horrible finality of death—grim, merciless, terrifying, bleak death— is one of the principal reasons religion came into being in the first place, and the reason it persists no matter how much its ground of explanation is encroached on by science. It's no accident that every religion that ever existed promises some form of immortality. People will tolerate an awful lot of cognitive dissonance to hold on to that promise.
But if that kind of elemental force was what made all the difference in whether people believe or don't, we'd see only small variations between countries. Yet as the Chicago study shows (here's the full write-up), the variations are enormous. In the Philippines, 83.6 percent of people say, "I know God exists and I have no doubts about it." In Great Britain it's only 16.8 percent. Even among some similarly developed countries there can be a wide variation; 38.4 percent of Spanish people have no doubts about God, but only 15.5 percent of French people feel the same. One fascinating result comes from Japan, where only 4.3 percent have no doubts about the existence of God, but only 8.7 percent say they don't believe in God at all. So almost nine out of ten Japanese are in the believing-ish category.
Then there's us. According to this survey, 60.6 percent of Americans say they have no doubt about the existence of God, and 80.8 percent agree with the statement, "I believe in God now and I always have." The United States is the most religious of the highly developed nations, and most scholars attribute this to our tradition of separation between church and state. Countries in Europe with state churches found that as they developed and education increased, people had a declining interest in the hidebound church that couldn't speak to the realities of modern life. In America, in contrast, the constant competition for adherents made religious institutions more varied and dynamic. It's the difference between going into a store that has only one old, tasteless brand of cereal, and going into a store with 1,000 different kinds. In the former case, many more people say, "Eh, maybe I'll have a muffin for breakfast." In the latter case, most people can find something they're happy to eat.
Fri, 2012-04-20 12:12
I think it's highly unlikely that our tradition of separation of church and state is responsible for our high level of religious belief in the US. What the current demographics, showing religious affiliation mirroring Culture Wars, is that the explanation is the huge and growing economic, and cultural, gap between an increasingly secular elite and a socially conservative, religious working class.
This mirrors a global pattern, in which affluent countries are as a rule highly secular while religion flourishes in the Global South. In the US, roughly the top quintile of the population (in terms of income, education and occupation) are to all intents and purposes Europeans, and are largely secular. The bottom 2/3, Americans who don't have at least a 4-year college degree, are in effect living in the Global South. This is why you see the "mainline" churches that have traditionally catered for the urban-coastal upper middle class collapsing while Evangelicalism, traditionally the religion of the poor and of the rural South flourishing.
Fri, 2012-04-20 15:02
A history major's quibble.
Mr. Waldman writes:
"It's no accident that every religion that ever existed promises some form of immortality."
This is false. To take one example, the ancient Jewish Sadducees did not belief in an afterlife: "[T]he doctrine of the Sadducees is this: That souls die with the bodies[.]" (Josephus, Antiquities of the Jews, Bk. 18, Ch. 1).
I suppose Mr. Waldman could argue that the Sadducees believed in "some form of immortality" for the Hebrews as a nation, but that does little to buttress his argument.
Fri, 2012-04-20 15:10
Agree with baber's skepticism regarding separation of church & state as causal. I do think church/state separation facilitates the kind of market-based approach America has taken to religious propagation.
As for cause, I'd point to the fact that so many of our earliest colonists were religious refugees who formed religious enclaves, like religious "rugged individualists". Deeply-held religious convictions were< foundational to the white man's chapter on this continent, and we're nowhere near shedding them. (It's why the Christian Nation myth persists among American believers.) Merge that with a capitalist framework and Manifest Destiny, and the rest is history.
Fri, 2012-04-20 16:24
Okay, I'm an atheist, and I think your argument is pretty lazy. It's an interesting question, but claims like "every religion promises some form of afterlife" are just obviously inaccurate.
Also, "although I have to admit, as an atheist I've always found it odd that even deeply religious people who claim not a shred of doubt about the existence of heaven nonetheless feel profound sadness and grief when their loved ones die, despite the fact that those loved ones are supposedly not only not dead, but are experiencing a joy beyond imagining?" I'd imagine for the same reason that high school seniors feel grief when they graduate: even if what comes after is magnificent, the act of separation is sad. Jeez. You're better than this, Paul.
Fri, 2012-04-20 19:40
Similar to what babar said, I think part of the reason the U.S. is so religious is that our hyper-competitive society combined with a weak social safety net creates a lot of stress and uncertainty for people, who turn to religion to cope. There is a strong corelation between having a strong social safety net and having low levels of religious belief.
Fri, 2012-04-20 21:18
Lots of empirical evidence too that a strong welfare state wipes out religion--not just from Europe but more recently from Brazil: http://news.yahoo.com/brazils-roman-catholics-shrink-secular-rise-071216935.html At the other end, where government is corrupt and civil society is a mess, people look to religion, even oppressive religion, as an alternative that's more trustworthy.
And I'm not cheering--I'm a Christian and wish things were otherwise.
Sat, 2012-04-21 16:03
The belief in an afterlife has existed for hundreds of thousands of years and spiritual practices are just as old. Neanderthals also buried their dead and had altars for their beliefs.
Here is the subject from Wackypedia:
Another article to support this with references:
I do not think spirituality will die out soon. Now the question of dogma and man made religious orders is another question.
Sun, 2012-04-29 19:09
Agree with Anstema: great question, lazy answer.
On why people might become more religious as they age, try this one on for size: fear of being alone. Religion offers the community of the church and, for many, it also implants a feeling of being constantly looked after and in good company, even when physically alone. That the author failed to take this into account seems like a pretty critical oversight.
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For many Vette lovers, it was the first-generation Corvettes that kindled their love affair with America's Only True Sports Car. That includes the '62 Corvette that Gerald Copeland, with the help of his son Daniel, took from a well-worn driver to the silver-toned gem you see here.
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Also going on the ZZ4 was an MSD ignition, an HEI Pro Billet distributor, and an exhaust system made up of 17/8-inch Hedman Hedders, two-chamber Flowmaster mufflers, and 21/2-inch pipes tying it together. Going behind the Six Shooter-ified 350 was a Borg-Warner T-10 four-speed, rebuilt by McKee's Repair in Tifton, and a C1 rearend with a 3.36-geared Posi-traction.
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Understanding NIDILRR Programs and How They Are Organized
NIDILRR programs are not social service programs; we do not provide services to individuals. Instead, we operate several applied disability research and development programs that provide money to various entities (e.g.institutions of higher education, state agencies, non-profit and for-profit organizations, and to a lesser extent individuals)to generate new knowledge and/or new solutions to problems that matter to people with disabilities, their families, and those who serve them.
Getting federal grant money under one of our programs, or funding mechanisms, is not easy. First, you have to locate the funding opportunity called Notice Inviting Applications (NIA) in the daily journal of the Federal Government known as the Federal Register. You must then submit a detailed proposal, outlining your ideas and plans for research and development work, that follow all of the requirements described in the Federal Register Announcement and the application materials that are available from http://www.grants.gov.
Submitting a completed application to one of NIDILRR's applied disability research and development programs does not guarantee that you will receive the grant money you requested from NIDILRR. You must earn the money you are requesting. "Earning the money" in the NIDILRR context means that your proposal must survive the scrutiny of our competitive peer review process that is required by federal regulation.
Assuming your proposal makes it through our competitive peer review process, it must then be recommended for funding by the Director of NIDILRR and the Director's recommendation must in turn be approved by additional individuals at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitation Services' level and ultimately at the U.S. Department of Education level. Once your application is officially approved by all required parties, you are officially a NIDILRR family member under the NIDILRR Program that you applied.
Like other programs in the Department of Education, the ten NIDILRR Programs, or funding mechanisms, are organized according to their Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance(CFDA) number. This number contains a number portion and a letter portion. All of our programs begin with the numeric stem 84.133 and are followed by a letter. The specific letter that follows the "84.133" stem corresponds to a specific NIDILRR funding mechanism or program.
Listed below, by CFDA number, are all of NIDILRR's programs or funding mechanisms. To view a list of the most frequently-asked questions and answers about our programs, just click on the program or funding mechanism that interests you. If you want information on all of the programs run by the Department of Education, you might consult the Department's Guide to Education Programs