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At about 8,000 feet elevation, Rocky Mountain Institute founder Amory Lovins' house (RMI's original headquarters) serves as an office and a showcase for green architecture and ultra-efficient housing. Though it was built in 1984, it was renovated and now includes additional solar panels that allow the building to produce more energy than it uses. The house is filled with a series of systems that are designed to get the most out of the building, and to make the space as liveable as possible. Lovins is apparently fond of saying that people who live in energy-efficient houses need not skimp on hot showers or cold beer. The Snowmass, Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute is a non-profit dedicated to promoting sustainability in three main areas: Energy, transportation and green buildings. Read below for Jeffrey Ball's article from the Wall Street Journal. (Scroll to bottom for additional resources.)
Wall Street Journal - A quarter-century ago, in the wake of America's first energy crisis, a young scientist named Amory Lovins came to the Rocky Mountains and built himself a radical house based on a radical idea. The country could save both energy and money, he believed, by combining common sense and unconventional technology.
Mr. Lovins did achieve substantial energy savings, and many of his innovations, from better insulation to multiple-pane windows to more-efficient refrigerators, eventually became familiar fixtures in American homes.
But on the second part of Mr. Lovins's ambition -- saving money -- the calculus has been more complicated. The advances that allowed him to create a roomy home with a tiny carbon footprint came with a hefty upfront cost.
Now, Mr. Lovins has completed a renovation that he hopes will demonstrate how much more energy-efficient houses can become. But the project also serves as a reminder of the still-enormous gulf between what is technologically possible and what society is able or willing to pay for.
The 4,000-square-foot structure Mr. Lovins and his then-wife completed in 1984 looked part-cave and part-spaceship. Its 16-inch-thick stone walls kept the interior temperature fairly constant. A book-lined interior was dimly lighted with electricity from solar panels on the roof. The greenhouse that formed the central living room let in light, and it stored heat in a small jungle of plants, from guavas to coffee to bananas.
The house, which Mr. Lovins dubbed the "Banana Farm," used one-tenth the energy of a typical U.S. house of its size. Lower utility bills quickly offset the higher construction costs, saving money on heating and cooling within a year.
Since then, Mr. Lovins has become perhaps the world's most famous apostle of energy efficiency. The recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," he co-founded the Rocky Mountain Institute, an energy and environmental think tank that has consulted with companies including Wal-Mart Stores and Ford Motor.
Energy efficiency expert Amory Lovin is putting the finishing touches on a state-of-the-art green home that produces more energy than it consumes. Jeffrey Ball reports from Aspen, Colorado.
Having seen many features the Banana Farm helped pioneer trickle down to the consumer market, the 61-year-old Mr. Lovins hopes his latest efficiency moves eventually will find widespread acceptance as well.
Most studies suggest energy efficiency is the cheapest way to start meaningfully limiting pollution by curbing growth in fossil-fuel use -- far cheaper than generating more wind or solar power.
A report last month by McKinsey & Co. concluded that the U.S. could cut its energy use 23% below the projected U.S. demand level in 2020 by boosting efficiency, and save $1.2 trillion in energy costs. But that would require immediately making expensive investments in new equipment. Other countries have subsidized and mandated those steps, and the U.S. is beginning to follow suit. But a recession is a tough time to make big changes.
Mr. Lovins is "pushing the envelope of what's possible," but "that's probably a step too far for what's practical," says Scott Nyquist, head of the global energy practice at McKinsey, which has worked with Mr. Lovins on research projects.
Mr. Nyquist is renovating his own 1930s-era house in Houston, in part to test what energy-efficiency goals are feasible and affordable. He decided that some features championed by Mr. Lovins, such as light-emitting-diode lights, remain far too expensive. "I'm being disciplined," Mr. Nyquist says. "I'm trying a different approach than Amory is."
Banana Farm 2.0, as Mr. Lovins calls his updated digs, was renovated largely with equipment donated by individuals and companies eager to be associated with the project. Mr. Lovins says he doesn't know what the two-year renovation would have cost had he had to pay the full tab. But just a few of the major items would put the retail cost of the project well beyond $150,000.
On a recent afternoon, Mr. Lovins climbed up onto his home's flat roof, an easy task because the back of the house is built into the side of a hill to take advantage of the earth's insulating power.
Laid across the roof are devices designed to capture solar energy: photovoltaic panels that convert sunlight into electricity, thermal panels that use the sun's warmth to heat water, and clear plastic tubes that funnel sunlight down into the house, where it illuminates the central hallway.
A bank of new photovoltaic panels nearly doubles the amount of solar electricity the house produces, to 9.7 kilowatts, enough for the house's needs. The panels, which were donated to Mr. Lovins, retail for about $30,000, not including installation, though tax breaks cut that price significantly.
"We are making no economic claims for Banana Farm 2.0," he says. "We deliberately brought in a bunch of cutting-edge, even bleeding-edge, stuff." Instead, he thinks that with the right government policies to spur market demand, even the most advanced green modifications could make economic sense. His role, as he sees it, is to push the limits of technology.
"Demand is the sum of a lot of negligible individual actions," he says. "When there are a lot of individuals, it isn't negligible. It adds up."
Banana Farm 2.0 isn't combustion-free. A wood-burning stove still sits near Mr. Lovins' office -- a backup heat source he hopes to abandon if the house works as planned this winter. But the new solar panels have allowed him to get rid of two devices that burned gas: a stove and a water heater.
Some of his proudest advances stem from mundane changes. He installed an electric stove made by a Swiss company that is 60% more efficient than other models he found. The savings stem partly from pots designed specifically for the stove. The pots eliminate warping that typically occurs with copper cookware, wasting heat.
He also has shaved energy use by insisting on an unconventional plumbing design. Typically, residential pipes that carry water would be ½-inch wide and turn at right angles. But that builds up friction, requiring electric pumps to work harder to propel the water. So Mr. Lovins had three-quarter-inch-wide pipes installed that run diagonally across ceilings and walls to minimize friction.
"If it looks pretty," he says, "it probably doesn't save energy."
For now, Banana Farm 2.0 is a showcase of what is technologically possible. Adopting some of the house's innovations on a wide scale would require huge investment and sweeping changes to governmental policy.
Still, Mr. Lovins knows that some of the most effective ways to reduce fossil-fuel use don't require groundbreaking science. As he headed out to dinner in his hybrid car on a recent evening, the Banana Farm's owner did something decidedly low-tech: He turned off the lights.
Building Strategies from RMI:
The 4,000-square-foot building is superinsulated and solar-heated. The building's designers wanted to create a building that was so good at capturing and retaining heat that it could offer livable conditions without a furnace.
It was insulated to double the requirements of the Pitkin County building code at the time of construction. The structure was also oriented to the south to better collect solar radiation, and it was built with a "tight" thermal envelope. While a less weather-tight house might experience a complete air change every hour, this building experiences a complete air change every ten hours or so (with the ventilators turned off, or up to considerably more than one air change per hour if they're all turned on).
The building is almost entirely lit by daylight. Its curved walls dampen interior noises and a central greenhouse humidifies the interior. These amenities make the building comfortable, and have significantly cut power demand and operational costs.
Much of the building's thermal performance is due to its advanced windows (often called "superwindows"), which were used here commercially for the first time. Virtually all are heavy-gas-filled Heat Mirror® windows. Heat Mirror® is a 0.002-inch (50-µm) clear polyester film with special, almost atomically thin, coatings that are transparent to visible light but reflect infrared (heat) rays.
The film is suspended between glass panes in a double-paned window unit and performs the way a third pane would perform—only better, because it keeps in more heat and lets in more light than a third piece of glass would. In fact, the type of Heat Mirror® film originally used in RMI's windows (Heat Mirror® 88, designed to maximize solar heating in cold climates) loses only about one-tenth as much heat as a single pane of glass, and lets in three-quarters of the visible light and half of the total solar energy.
During the 1990s, most of our building's original argon-filled, single-Heat Mirror® units were replaced with krypton-filled units having a double-sided film (Heat Mirror® coated on each side of a single suspended polyester film), and in some units supplemented by a low-emissivity (heat-reflecting) coating inside the outer lite of glass. The building's window configurations vary, but their light-reflecting and insulating capacities are keys to its efficiency.
The latest reglazing, in 2005–09, uses xenon fill and achieves center-of-glass R-values of 12.5 for all units except three that achieve R-20.0 via six selective surfaces.
The stone used in the walls is Dakota sandstone slabs harvested from the hillside a half-mile north of the site and hauled to the site in an old pickup truck. The walls were built using a technique called "slipforming," developed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
A pair of parallel, curving plywood forms was erected; insulating central foam, rebar, and any needed conduits, drains, structural pillars, etc. were placed inside; stones were placed inside up against the interior and exterior forms, and concrete was added in hand-scoops to fill in the space between the central foam layer and the forms, gradually building up each twenty-inch-high layer of masonry. When the forms were removed, excess concrete was removed with trowels, and the stones were washed. Overnight curing of the concrete permitted the forms to be raised twenty inches the next day in preparation for another "slip" the following day. The walls are constructed of two six-inch layers of this type of masonry with a four-inch layer of insulating foam sandwiched between.
Increasing insulation value in a house is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to save energy. These walls have an effective R-value of forty (~0.056 k), nearly double that of the wall of a conventional residential house. On the north side of the building, a solid concrete wall is predominately underground or "earth-bermed," which also helps to temper heat flow out of the building. The roof has an R-value of about eighty.
Tracking Photovoltaic Panels
The solar electric, or photovoltaic, panels on the building's roof turn sunlight into electricity for use inside the building. There are two PV panels at the west end of the building. They use tracking mechanisms to keep the panels pointed at the sun. Small electric motors turn the panels every few minutes (when you stand near them you can see and hear them turn). By tracking the sun, these PV panels (also called arrays) collect about 30–40 percent more energy than they would if they were stationary. The tracking mechanisms are turned off at night because they are so sensitive they would track the moon.
A 2009 modernization added a 6-kW Sunpower array on the east roof and made the PV system islandable, so it runs with or without the grid. Ordinarily it sells back surplus solar power to the grid to displace coal. At night, the building runs on certified-additional purchased windpower.
Photovoltaic Panels
The lower, main section of roof has two adjustable-tilt rows of photovoltaics (each with five panels apiece). These PVs don't track the sun, but they are raised and lowered seasonally to catch the sun's rays at better angles. They generate up to about two kilowatts of electricity. Their average annual output, about one-fourth as large, meets roughly a third of the building's electricity needs, nearly all of which are for the RMI office. Advances in PV technology enable today's panels to be much less conspicuous than these; indeed, modern PVs are designed so well they can be used as wall and roofing material.
Solar Hot Water System
There is a row of solar panels near the northern edge of the roof. They are one part of a system that heats water for domestic use. The water is first pre-warmed to about 68–105°F (19–40°C) as it passes through pipes in the concrete arch in the greenhouse below. These roof-mounted panels heat the lower layers of water stored in a 1,500-gallon tank under a closet in the residential part of the building. When someone turns on a faucet, water pre-heated in the greenhouse arch is drawn through a copper pipe immersed at the top of the tank, to which the hottest storage water rises. This secondary heat exchanger normally heats the domestic water to about 140°F (60°C). If needed, perhaps after a long period of winter cloud, a renewable-electric boiler in the workshop adds the last few degrees.
In 2009, the solar hot-water system was expanded to distribute hot water to radiant coils cast into the concrete floor slabs in 1983 but not previously connected. This is hoped to displace the woodstoves, which normally provide the last ~1% of space heating energy but were not used in the winter of 2009.
Following is an article written by Amory Lovins' aide, Bennett Cohen, 2008
Remodeling Amory Lovins' Home
Between 1982 and 1984, more than 100 volunteers and a dozen professional builders helped RMI cofounder Amory Lovins construct a state-of-the art energy-efficient home in Old Snowmass, Colo.
The house would draw almost all of its space and water-heat from solar energy, use about a tenth the usual amount of household electricity, and grow bananas passively over 7,000 feet above sea-level in the Rocky Mountains.
Way ahead of its time then, this private residence and RMI headquarters has just leaped forward another twenty years.
We are in the last throes of a major renovation of Amory's landmark home.
The project will have taken almost a year.
It could have been finished sooner, Amory says, save for the constant introduction of new ideas and technology for improvements and modernization.
Let me run through some of the major changes.
The building's photovoltaic system has been supplemented with a 6-kilowatt array of the most efficient solar panels on the market, courtesy of SunPower.
The system will be one of the first to be "islandable" -- able to run gracefully with or without the grid.
With new batteries sucking up the extra electricity, the house will have several days worth of energy stored. The building will also have two of the most efficient residential air-to-air heat exchangers ever constructed, capturing heat from the interior to heat incoming fresh air with peak flow efficiency around 95 percent and average efficiency close to 100 percent.
As Amory likes to say, "In God we trust, all others bring data." A total of 140 sensor points will feed a new Johnson Controls data acquisition system.
Information on solar power generation, electricity flows, and internal and external climate conditions will be available online, and to all visitors via a screen in the building's entryway. The data will allow the building's occupants and admirers to have a much better sense of the building's performance, and how to correct any problems.
Other updates include new xenon-filled windows (supplied by Alpen Glass at cost) with R-14 (or for one unit R-19) center-of-glass insulating value, improved insulation and air tightening, an LED-dominated fifth lighting retrofit, a daylighting retrofit, radiant solar floor heating, and a new highly efficient electric stove integrated with specially designed pots to save around 60 percent of the energy normally needed for cooking.
In 1983, the focus of the house was to use as little primary energy as possible, but our clearer understanding of climate change has altered Amory's set of design priorities to save carbon first, and primary energy second.
"This building is not a museum of 1983 state-of-the-art efficiency technologies," Amory says about his domicile.
"My objective now is to show the current stat-of-the-art, and to displace as much carbon as I can."
Since electric consumption peaks in the winter in the Rocky Mountains, the new solar panels are angled to maximize winter output and displace the most coal from inefficient intermediate load power plants.
At night, the house will run on 'additional' windpower built from our purchase.
Why be on the grid and use windpower rather than the stored solar battery power?
"We're already on the grid so we can sell back surplus electricity to save more carbon.
The reason we buy wind at night, use solar in the day, and stored solar only for backup when the grid is down is to displace the maximum amount of carbon. If we used stored solar at night we would pay for the in-out cycle loss from the batteries, which would amount to less solar to displace coal," Amory says.
Amory states the house will be fossil-fuel-free (no nonrenewable grid electricity or propane) and could be 'combustion-free' by the end of the remodel, though that remains to be seen.
So, what lessons can Joe Homeowner take from these renovations?
"Whether you're building or remodeling, go to the state-of-the-art technology and integrative design. You'll get many benefits from each expenditure and your building will work better, be a nicer place to live, and cost less," Amory says.
Relevant books:
The Complete Idiot's Guide Solar Power for Your Home
Earthship: Systems and Components Vol 2
AMORY LOVINS House WSJ Video Link


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ForeverGreen Enterprises Inc., today announced plans to construct a new high-technology hydrogen production facility in Dekalb County with the support and assistance of the state of Indiana through the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC). This new facility will provide employment for 150 Hoosiers.
Randy Cole '83 is co-founder and Chief Value Development Officer (CVDO) of ForeverGreen.
"The addition of a hydrogen plant in Indiana is a big win for Hoosiers," said Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. "This plant will add jobs to our state,prompt the purchase of hydrogen from a local producer, and create an environmentally friendly way to dispose of harmful waste materials."
Cole expects ForeverGreen's production capabilities to induce the development of a hydrogen business cluster in the surrounding area, where a high demand for hydrogen already exists.
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Gronk decided not to go to Las Vegas.
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Nobody from BSM responds to emails containing criticism of its activities nor publishes them so here goes.
Organising a celebratory boat trip to Fulham at a time of deep crisis would have been wonderful news for Kranky, Gazidis and co in particular as would be held up as evidence BSM generally supportive. Of course Red Action has been doing same activity for several years.
Now BSM wants to focus on creating atmosphere at Mickey Mouse cup games - hardly an original idea and again within the activities of Red Action.
The BSM letter to Gazidis was toothless.Why did you not challenge him on specifics eg the mindboggling incompetence in not checking the Suarez contract before making any offers.
Why has BSM not challenged Gazidis on the obvious conflict of interest arising from his bonuses being based exclusively on profit.
Why has BSM not demanded price reductions at home games esp as more TV money is coming in . Of course the pathetic answer has been -well the club would not agree to it so what is the point in asking -that is the whole point of protest - making demands for concessions that the other party should but wont grant without a fight.
Sadly BSM has gone the way of all the other groups - meetings with Gazidis being kudos and an end in itself.
I repeat this post is a direct result of nobody from BSM responding to emails sent through its website


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The Genesis of madanmohan.in
This Website is an effort to share with his fans all that our family knows and has discovered about him and his music.
The LegendAn insight into his life through information derived from his living family members and admirers.
His Music
Detailed Filmography & Songography of almost 700 songs composed by him till date, listed chronologically.
Features a PHOTO GALLERY, an AUDIO GALLERY with rare clips in Madanji's voice, and a new VIDEO GALLERY of rare moments
TributesFriends, peers and family members share their tributes on the musical legend.
Unreleased Songs
Two Albums of Unreleased Songs composed by Madanji - Tere Bagair & Kaise Kategi Zindagi (Mohd. Rafi) and other Unreleased Songs.
What's NewA JOURNEY THROUGH HIS TIMELESS MUSIC


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Opel/Vauxhall will build its latest model, an all-new car smaller than the sub-compact Corsa, at its Eisenach plant in the East German state of Thuringia, General Motors Company has confirmed.
Earlier this year the German government – facing a taxpayer revolt and big deficits – refused to provide €1.1 billion in subsidies GM wanted for Opel, saying the company had enough cash to keep Opel running by itself. The cash, of course, came from U.S. taxpayers, who along with the United Auto Workers Union now own the biggest stakes in the company, which employs about 24,000 people in a reunited Germany. The GM bankruptcy bailout by taxpayers remains politically unpopular in the U.S.
The €90 million investment announced by GM appears minimal since an existing production line will be used. Nonetheless, because it will be U.S. taxpayer financed, it could cause controversy during the upcoming U.S. Congressional elections.
"This is a further milestone in the growth strategy for our business," said Opel/Vauxhall CEO Nick Reilly, who is attempting to reverse precipitous drops in both sales and market share at the ailing maker.


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Please welcome Ellen Booraem to the virtual offices this morning. Ellen dropped by to chat about her latest release Texting the Underworld. She also brought along 2 copies of her new book for you to win!
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Describe yourself in 140 characters or less.
[Ellen Booraem] Lifelong daydreamer and late-bloomer, now living the dream.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Can you tell us a little about Texting the Underworld?
[Ellen Booraem] It's a hero's tale, featuring a fearful South Boston 12-year-old named Conor O'Neill. One school night, a young banshee named Ashling turns up in his bedroom, telling him that someone in his family is about to die. (Banshees are ancestral spirits who wail before the death of a family member.) Convinced that the death will be his beloved grandfather, Conor comes to believe that he must prevent it. He ends up visiting the Underworld, hoping to strike a bargain with the Lady who runs things there.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How did you come up with the concept and the characters for the story?
[Ellen Booraem] Reading Abbey Lubbers, Banshees & Boggarts by the late British folklorist Katharine Briggs, I discovered that banshees weren't always the ghastly old crones I'd thought they were. (I grew up in Massachusetts in a partly Irish household and neighborhood.) Briggs said that in some traditions they were maidens who'd died too young.
I got thinking about such a maiden and how she'd feel about losing her life and spending eternity as a harbinger of death. Inside of an hour, I had Ashling the banshee, killed by cattle raiders in fifth-century Ulster and offered a bargain by the Lady: Serve just once as a banshee, and she gets a new life. (In the universe of this book, we're all reincarnated.) Fearful Conor arrived in my head next, and two hours later this was his story, a kid who finds his courage trying to save his family.
At first, I figured the afterlife would be Celtic. But I soon realized that (obviously) the Irish aren't the only ones with an afterlife. So the Underworld became multicultural and a bureaucracy, with all these death gods wearily registering the Dear Departed and shipping them back to the world for their new lives.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three words best describe Conor?
[Ellen Booraem] Timid, smart, tortured.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If Ashling had a theme song, what would it be?
"Songs from the Heart: Walking the Night/Give Me Your Hand" by Celtic Woman. ("And the song that we once knew/ Brings me back to you./Pipes play within me once more.")
[Manga Maniac Cafe] Name one thing Conor is never without.
[Ellen Booraem] His cellphone.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things will you never find in Conor's pocket?
[Ellen Booraem] A fake spider, a hockey puck, a rock-climbing carabiner.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What are your greatest creative influences?
[Ellen Booraem] A shower, a nap, and a walk in the woods. (Since we're talking in threes.)
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What three things do you need in order to write?
[Ellen Booraem] A computer (totally addicted to the keyboard), a quiet room (no music, unfortunately), and a calm spirit.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What was your biggest distraction while working on Texting the Underworld?
[Ellen Booraem] The internet. Sometimes I turn off the modem, figuring that the time it takes to turn it back on will give me a chance to get my discipline back.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What is the last book that you read that knocked your socks off?
[Ellen Booraem] The Water Castle, by Megan Fraser Blakemore. Is it fantasy? Is there a fountain of youth, or is it all fakery and coincidence? You're never really sure, and that's a lot of fun. Also, the characters are utterly real and round.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] If you had to pick one book that turned you on to reading, which would it be?
[Ellen Booraem] I've been a reader since I first held a book in my hand. So I'd have to say Yertle the Turtle, by Dr. Seuss. Confirmed slightly later by Fair, Brown and Trembling (an Irish version of Cinderella).
[Manga Maniac Cafe] What do you like to do when you aren't writing?
[Ellen Booraem] Read! Also walk, garden, kayak in the summer, ski in the winter. Sit out and watch the trees move when it's warm enough. If not, sit inside and watch the fire in the woodstove. I also like to travel, but I don't do it as often as I'd like. The week has only seven days, unfortunately.
[Manga Maniac Cafe] How can readers connect with you?
[Ellen Booraem] Through my website (ellenbooraem.com) , my facebook page (Ellen Booraem's Books) or twitter (@EllenBooraem). I love hearing from readers!
These were very entertaining questions, Julie. Thanks for inviting me to Manga Maniac Café!
[Manga Maniac Café] Thank your for visiting today!
Ellen's blog tour for Texting the Underworld ends tomorrow (August 22) at We Do Write. See you there!
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About the book:
Texting the Underworld
A fantasy for ages 10 and older
Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers
In stores August 2013
Conor O'Neill always thought spiders—and his little sister, Glennie—were the worst kind of monsters life had in store. That was before an inexperienced young banshee named Ashling showed up in his bedroom.
The arrival of a banshee, as Conor soon learns, means only one thing: Someone in his family is going to die. Not only will Ashling not tell him who it is, it turns out that she's so fascinated by the world above that she insists on going to middle school with him.
The more Ashling gets involved in his life, the harder it becomes to keep her identity a secret from his friends and teachers—and the more Conor worries about his family. If he wants to keep them safe, he's going to have to do the scariest thing he's ever done: Pay a visit to the underworld.
If only there were an app for that.
About the author:
Ellen Booraem's TEXTING THE UNDERWORLD, a middle-grade fantasy about a scaredy-cat South Boston boy and a determined young banshee, hits bookstores in August (Penguin/Dial Books for Young Readers). Her earlier middle-grade fantasies are SMALL PERSONS WITH WINGS (Penguin/DBYR, 2011) and THE UNNAMEABLES (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008). A former weekly newspaper editor and reporter, she lives in coastal Maine with an artist and a cat, one of whom is a practicing curmudgeon. She's online at ellenbooraem.com, and also blogs at enchantedinkpot.com and scene13ers.wordpress.com.


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- A Board of Health was established for original City of Philadelphia and nearby townships and boroughs in 1794 composed of members from the City and these other municipalities. The Consolidation Act of 1854 designated the Board of Health a City agency of twenty four members, one chosen by the electors of each ward. A subsequent Act of 16 March 1855 clearly designated the new Board of Health as a branch of city government. In 1859 the Assembly reduced its membership to twelve, appointed equally by the District Court, the Court of Common Pleas, and Select and Common Councils. An ordinance of 1860 gave to the Board the power to appoint the City's Vaccine Physicians and Vaccine Case Collectors (since 1820 a function of the Mayor and/or Councils) and in 1869 it was vested with the responsibility for cleaning the City's streets, a function returned to the Department of Highways in 1881.
The Bullitt Bill of 1885 and a pursuant ordinance of 1886 placed the Board within the then-formed Department of Public Safety and reduced its membership to five mayoral appointees. After this date the Board was as often referred to as the Bureau of Health but the distinction was not made clear until several Acts of 1899 and an ordinance of May 26 of that year reduced the Board's membership to three appointees of the Mayor and officially organized the Bureau of Health to consist of all officers and employees of the Board directly concerned with enforcing health regulations.
The Board thus became the advisory and policy-forming body which it has continued to be until this date. In 1903 the Board and Bureau of Health were transferred to the Department of Public Health and Charities; this was in 1919 re-formed as the Department of Public Health and its Director made one of the three members of the Board; the Hospital for Contagious Diseases was then removed from the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Health and given to the Department's newly-formed Bureau of Hospitals. Throughout the period 1899-1951 many different inspectorial and enforcement divisions and sections were formed and re-formed within the Bureau of Health, chiefly to consolidate functions in a more efficient manner and to allow the Bureau to deal with changing developments in regard to public health. Upon the adoption of the City Charter of 1951, which continued the existence of the Department of Public Health, the Bureau of Health was abolished and its functions distributed throughout the various offices of the Department. The Board of Health, although officially abolished, was immediately replaced by a Board of Health composed of seven mayoral appointees and the Commissioner of the Department and continued in its policy-making role.
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I picked up some used ammo cans at a military surplus store in Brewer today and the boxes he was selling last week for $5 each were marked down to $2.50 and the larger ones were $4. They're a bit dirty, but clean up with a bit of elbow grease and windex . . . I thought these seemed like good prices for any one in the process of setting up a cache or switching over to a more durable cache container.


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So a fish with a penis on its head walks into a bar…
We don't know where we're going with that one, but a new species of fish with a penis on its head sounds like a joke, right? According to National Geographic, the Phallostethus cuulong is a tiny fish from Vietman with genitalia placed right near its mouth. It's like a two-for-the-price-of-one deal. These guys can eat and mate all in the same area. Every man's dream!
Believe it or not, there's actually a species of fish called Phallostethus, or "penis chest", but this Vietnamese species sets itself apart with the specific positioning of its manhood. The best news is that the female fish also have their genitals located in the same area, so no fish feels weird about mating head-to-head.
There are a lot of unanswered questions surrounding this evolutionary head-scratcher, but one thing's for sure: we need to figure out how to rig evolution and get a penis on our heads. Since we already think with the one in our pants, it would only make sense.


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ELKHART — Intent on growing sales in the high-volume entry-level travel trailer segment, Heartland Recreational Vehicles announced today it has bolstered its Trail Runner lineup with all-new floorplans and a full-body paint exterior look in a traditional aluminum-and-wood trailer.
"Over the last three years, we have positioned Trail Runner as an up-and-coming brand through great dealers, lower weights and aggressive pricing," said General Manager Nick Eppert, noting that the new Trail Runner would showcase seven new models during the Sept. 17 to 19 Elkhart RV Open House in the company's display at the RV/MH Hall of Fame. "This year, Trail Runner will again raise the bar with features and floorplans not currently offered at Trail Runner's aggressive price points."
Eppert reported that in addition to the upscale exterior appearance, Trail Runner's interiors have been significantly upgraded with a richer wood grain along with higher-end furniture, window treatments, countertops and flooring.
"Our goal in our entry-level product is to make it the best looking trailer on the market in terms of floorplans and eye appeal," said Heartland President Chris Hermon. "Nick and his team have done a fantastic job. Everyone builds a competitive stick-and tin, but the difference is in the details and the new Trail Runner is positioned to increase market share and grow sales for our dealer partners."
Stephen Guidry, president of Dixie RV Super Stores in Hammond, La., and Defuniak Springs, Fla., confirmed the brand's appeal at the retail level.
"Since picking up the Trail Runner line at Louisville 2011, Dixie RV Super Stores have seen a significant increase in retail sales of our stick-and-tin travel trailer business," he said. "After getting a sneak peek at the new Trail Runner product, I expect these increases in retail sales to continue."
SOURCE: Heartland Recreation Vehicles press release


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They Converted A School Bus Into A Home, Now They're On An Epic Adventure
Enjoying the adventure of a lifetime, a couple converted an old school bus into a luxury home and traveled across the county.
Making their way from Alaska with the destination of Argentina on their minds, Felix Starck and Selima Taibi (Mogli) along with their Bernese Mountain Dog, Rudi have been documenting their epic adventure.
Originally from Germany, the couple used to share a third-floor apartment in Berlin. They adopted their dog Rudi, but soon discovered that because of his breed he was at a risk of hip dislocation and the apartment wasn't suitable for their family any longer.
Unable to find a suitable new apartment, Felix who is a film maker, and Mogli a songwriter, decided to take to the road.
The couple bought an old school bus for their trip and started to convert it in a project they called "Expedition Happiness."
Felix was no stranger to the open road, having traveled 11,185 miles across 22 countries on his bicycle in June 2013, he made a documentary called "Pedal the World."
The couple bought a yellow school bus for $7,500 in Florida.
That's when they packed up their lives in Europe and flew to the States to begin their 3-month process of converting the bus into a loft-style home on wheels.
"We were gonna build a tiny home on wheels and travel through North America. Only 4 weeks later we were on the plane to the states with a lot of camera equipment to document everything," Selima wrote.
And the results are amazing!
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UMass Boston men's hockey coach Peter Belisle has been named the Division II/III New England Coach of the Year and Rob Florentino (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Travis Daniel (North Brunswick, N.J.) were each named to the Division II/III New England All-Star Team, the New England Hockey Writers Association (NEWHA) announced Wednesday afternoon.
Belisle led a freshman-laden Beacons squad to a 19-6-2 record and second place in the ECAC East Conference regular season standings, each of which represented the Beacons' best finishes in over two decades. The seventh-year head coach picked up his first career ECAC East Coach of the Year in late February and led the Beacons to tournament titles in both the P.A.L. Stovepipe Classic and Codfish Bowl Tournaments, despite dressing nine freshman every night.
"It's definitely a nice surprise to be honored with this award and I certainly didn't expect it," Belisle said. "I just want to thank the school, the administration, my players and my staff."
Florentino and Daniel become the first Beacons in program history to be honored by the NEWHA, after leading the Beacons high-octane offense.
Florentino, a Third Team USCHO.com and American Hockey Coaches Association All-American, finished third in the nation amongst defenseman with 1.04 points per game. In 27 games, the senior defenseman set new career-highs in goals (seven), assists (21) and points (28), while serving as the captain of the Beacons power-play.
Daniel picks up his first major regional award of the postseason, after becoming the first UMB player to finish with over 40 points in 16 seasons. The junior top-line right-winger paced the Beacons with 28 assists and 40 points in 27 games and set a UMB program-record with his five game-winning goals
"It means a lot (multiple players earning postseason awards), it means everything," said Belisle. "We want win to win an ECAC East Championship first and then we want to win an NCAA Championship-those are our ultimate goals. And all of these postseason awards show that we're getting closer, but we're not there yet.
I'm proud of Rob, the first All-American in our tenure, and Travis, another Joe Concannon Finalist honoree, and I'm really proud that we are ranked #14 in the country. It helps out on so many different levels, from recruiting to exposure, and we've got to use these awards to fuel us for more, because if we don't, this success isn't going to matter down the line."
This year's New England Hockey Writers Award banquet will be held on Tuesday, April 16 at the Prince Restaurant in Saugus, Mass. The banquet will start at 6 p.m. All awards and All-Star teams will be presented at the gala. All coaches, student-athletes, family members and friends are encouraged to attend Tuesday's banquet. Please contact Kristen Blake at (781) 245-2122 or by email at email@example.com for information on attending this event. Cost is $40 per person.


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Searching For A Slab On The Great Ocean Road - Part One
The Great Ocean Road is a 243 kilometre stretch of twisting tar and rock that snakes its way along the rugged Victorian coastline from Torquay to Warrnambool, and at every turn there's a new view, a new beach ... and a new wave to surf if you're willing to brave the cold waters of winter. And somewhere along this famous stretch of road lies a left-hand slab that has been taunting big wave charger Dean Bowen for months.
So with Surfing Life visiting Dean's hometown on the South Coast of NSW and a promising blip on the forecast charts, plans were changed, cars were packed and jet skis trailered for a 16-hour adventure south around the foot of mainland Australia to find this elusive wave with Laurie Towner and Dylan Longbottom.
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Macey Center To Close For RenovationsSOCORRO, N.M. August 2, 2011 – Macey Center will get a much needed renovation over the next six months.
New Mexico Tech will spend about $1 million on replacing the building's antiquated and inadequate cooling system. The project will begin mid-September and finish in March or April.
The building has been beset with problems caused by the evaporative cooling system – or swamp coolers – for more than a decade, said director Nowka Leviner. The excessive moisture in the building has caused mold and rot in carpet and walls. During summer months, the wooden stage has expanded and buckled, requiring regular maintenance.
"I'm so excited," Leviner said. "We've needed this for 10 years. The next few months will be a big hassle for everyone accustomed to using Macey Center, but in the long run everyone will be pleased."
The current system has only three thermostats for the entire building. The new system will have three temperature zones for the upstairs lobby alone and more than a dozen for the building, Leviner said.
The Performing Arts Series concerts and other large events, like the N.M. Science Olympiad, will be staged in Macey Center. However, most other events – First Responders Training classes, the Mineral Symposium and the Festival of the Cranes, for example – will be moved to the Fidel Center ballroom or other campus areas.
New Mexico Tech is advertising the bid package July 24 and 28. A pre-bid conference for interested contractors will be August 11. The bids will be opened August 25, with construction scheduled to begin September 12.
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Compete. Be your own advocate. Don't be afraid to say yes to opportunities that you may not think you're prepared for; don't even fear failure.
These were some of the messages delivered to students, alumnae, trustees, and faculty from the five remaining Seven Sisters Colleges—Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Smith, and Vassar—who participated in the launch of The Women in Public Service Project, a major initiative of the U.S. Department of State in partnership with these schools. More than 40 members of the Barnard community, including board members of the Alumnae Association, joined women from around the world at an all-day event on December 15, in Washington, D.C. The colloquium featured Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, elected women leaders from around the world, American women politicians, prominent women from the armed services, and founding second-wave feminists such as Gloria Steinem.
"We want to tackle this critical issue, to have more women inspired and empowered to participate fully in the governance of their nations," said Secretary Clinton. "There are many ways women can serve. You don't have to be president or prime minister or party leader to serve. There are many benefits of bringing more women into public service. We need a broader range of expertise as we work to solve our problems. We need more women at the table, expanding the pool of talented people."
The Women in Public Service Project is intended to develop a new generation of women leaders from around the world. There will be a major educational program, starting with a pilot summer institute to be held at Wellesley in 2012. This initiative, which will provide training in public speaking, leadership, and strategic thinking, will rotate among the other founding women's colleges in the partnership in future years. Other measures will include grants from the State Department for academic research into the issue of women in public service, an online mentoring program, and partnerships with businesses. As Clinton asserted, the project will "build a large, unprecedented public movement to support more women into public governance."
For the past several years, Barnard College has been at the forefront of the effort to promote and encourage women leaders with innovative programs, and with President Debora Spar's focus on Barnard's global presence. The College has been offering leadership training and opportunities to young women leaders around the world in a variety of ways. Some of its groundbreaking initiatives may prove to be models for the project and the other sisters. The Global Symposia bring together regional women leaders and students for all-day panels and discussions. To date these symposia have been held in Beijing, Dubai, South Africa, and this spring, in Mumbai. Also at Barnard, The Athena Center for Leadership Studies trains and develops women leaders from the earliest ages throughout their careers, and the Visiting International Student Program (VISP), offers Barnard's singular educational experience to young women from other countries.
"Graduates of women's colleges are disproportionately represented in public service and have entered public life from the beginning as pioneers in public service," said Vice President for College Relations Dorothy Denburg, at the Kennedy Center lunch for the participants. "We've produced a long and impressive list of firsts. We're focused on expanding the network of women in public service."
Still, there was no denying that simply being among such a critical mass of influential women in public service as well as meeting alumnae and student peers was a heady experience. "The accumulation of so many powerful, successful women yielded striking similarities across experiences, all of which produced advice that stressed a bolder, braver approach to the world that is so often lacking," posted Barnard student attendee Adair Kleinpeter-Ross '14. "It opened my eyes to a whole new realm of service that is powerful, as increased numbers of women in public service will change the decisions that are being made between countries, change policy, and really change the world."
As Malvina Kefalas '14 wrote, "Public service doesn't simply happen: committed, thoughtful individuals must enter into it to make an impact on society…. Even in an inaugural session, these resources were present. Being able to network with and, quite frankly, even to speak to some of the women in the room was a once-in-a-lifetime experience."
Alumnae responded similarly. "As an alumnae leader who is also a public servant, the event brought those two roles of my life together," said Peri Horowitz '96, chair of the Alumnae Association's professional and leadership development committee, who is the director of special compliance and policy for the New York City Campaign Finance Board. "The range of public service represented in the attendees was humbling and the barriers other women face are unimaginable to me. I was very proud to be part of Barnard's delegation to the event and I hope that Barnard will be able to involve the many alumnae who are quietly doing all sorts of valuable public service on their local levels in future project initiatives."
Reeva Mager '64, chair of the Project Continuum committee and director of a social services agency DOROT East in New York, added, "The opportunity to be together solidified my thoughts about the importance of volunteerism. I am proud of Barnard's role and was proud to represent us there."
For many of the students, seeing mentorship in action and networking at the highest levels was undeniably exhilarating. "I can say with conviction that this experience was, thus far, the highlight of my Barnard career," affirmed Shilpa Guha '12, who interviewed White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett on stage as part of the Colloquium program. "As a student, to be able to witness living proof of this 'pathway' that has been paved for us, the next generation, I [feel] really compelled to continue the legacy."
—by Merri Rosenberg '78
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April 30, 2012
Makeup Monday: Etsy Weddings
Today's Makeup Monday was specially created for the launch of Etsy Weddings. I'm a longtime shopper and occasional seller on Etsy, so I was really excited to be a part of this (and even more excited to see upcoming features)! You can read the step by step instructions on the site, but here are a few extra tips for your wedding day makeup:
– Don't stray too far from the makeup routine you are comfortable with; just perfect it. You want to look like you!
– Avoid products with SPF on your big day; it doesn't photograph well. If you've ever wondered why your face looks ghostly pale in flash photographs, it's probably because you had SPF in your moisturizer or makeup.
– Keep blotting papers nearby to soak up excess oil without having to cake on makeup.
– Do a test run before the day of your wedding. Check the makeup in natural light, artificial light, and with flash.
– And of course, go for the waterproof mascara and liner. That should go without saying;)


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge seemed skeptical Wednesday of the Justice Department's bid to dismiss a congressional lawsuit seeking records related to Operation Fast and Furious, a bungled federal gun-tracking operation in Arizona.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson sharply challenged the department's claim that federal courts have no jurisdiction in the dispute. Department lawyer Ian Gershengorn said the battle over the documents should be resolved by the checks and balances between the legislative and executive branches.
"I'm a check and balance," countered Jackson, an appointee of President Barack Obama. "The third branch exists."
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is seeking documents that might explain what led the Justice Department to reverse course after initially denying that federal agents had used a tactic called "gun-walking" in the law enforcement operation.
Obama has invoked executive privilege and Attorney General Eric Holder has been found to be in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over the documents sought. The GOP-led House sued to get the records.
The department has turned over thousands of pages of material on the operation itself. The continuing dispute is over documents describing how the department responded once Congress started investigating.
Gershengorn said that if the suit were dismissed, Congress had other powers at its disposal, such as the power of the purse. He said that negotiations and accommodation between the House and the executive branch are messy and contentious, but that the system allows for accountability with voters.
He argued that that process was distorted by the House's lawsuit, and that there was a danger of courts becoming "a tool of the political process."
Jackson questioned why an impartial third party wouldn't help, rather than hinder, negotiations. She also noted that she delayed an earlier hearing so the two sides could try to work out an agreement through mediation, but those efforts failed.
"If you could have worked this out yourselves, wouldn't you have worked this out yourselves?" she asked.
House lawyer Kerry Kircher called the notion that there haven't been meaningful negotiations and accommodations "preposterous."
"We've been negotiating for four months," Kircher said.
He also said the House was at a disadvantage.
"This is an asymmetrical relationship here," Kircher said. "They have the documents. We don't have the documents."
As to Congress' powers, such as reducing spending for the executive branch, he said, "All that means is they get less money" — not that the committee gets the documents.
Fast and Furious was a flawed gun-tracking investigation focused on Phoenix-area gun shops by the Justice Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Agents lost track of about 1,400 guns, and two guns in Operation Fast and Furious were found on the U.S. side of the border at the scene of a shooting in which U.S. border agent Brian Terry was killed.
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee: http://issues.oversight.house.gov/fastandfurious/
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Ray's Take What's the right portfolio balance for you? There are no stock answers (no pun intended). The makeup of your personal stock, bond and investment portfolio balance is as individual as your fingerprints. It depends on your age, the number of kids you have, your fixed and discretionary costs, your income, risk tolerance, your health, your spending habits, and much more – not to mention your specific financial goals.
However, people often just follow the general rule of thumb – accepting riskier investments when they are young and gradually moving to more conservative ones as they age. There's nothing inherently wrong with that approach, but it ignores a lot of the nuances that impact each household.
Determining your investment balance is the key to reaching your goals. If putting together a financial plan and determining what your balance of investments should be is a daunting task, consult with a financial adviser. It's too important to "wing."
Even after you have developed an investment portfolio balance that suits your particular needs and goals, you'll still have to make changes along the way. These variations will not only reflect changes in your current situation and age but will also be influenced by fluctuations in the capital markets. You'll need to occasionally make changes in order to maintain your investment plan balance. But don't overreact. If you're reallocating more than once or twice a year you're probably doing more harm than good.
Financial planning is a balancing act all around: balancing the diversity of your investments, balancing savings against current financial needs, and balancing short-term and long-term goals. When you keep everything in balance, your investment balance sheet should continue to grow.
Dana's Take Emotional balance is just as important when it comes to money matters. We all have complicated relationships with money, reaching back to our childhoods. The way we see money today – whether as a symbol of freedom, something to worry about, or a sign of materialism – has a lot to do with how we save and spend it.
Changing the emotional responses you have to money isn't easy. However, if you are at least aware of when your emotions come into play, it can help to make financial decisions less about your feelings and more about your actual needs.
It's not good to be the proverbial grasshopper, who has a great time spending everything but then faces financial ruin. Neither is it good to be the ant, who saves every cent but fails to enjoy life. The optimum position lies somewhere in between. Find the spot that balances your lifestyle and your hopes for the future, and money becomes a tool for you to use instead of something that rules you.
Ray Brandon is a certified financial planner and CEO of Brandon Financial Planning (www.brandonplanning.com). His wife, Dana, has a bachelor's degree in finance and is a licensed clinical social worker. Contact Ray Brandon at email@example.com.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The greatest fears of manager Robin Ventura were realized late in the 2012 season when the Chicago White Sox suddenly failed to hit in the clutch and became overly reliant on the home run that suddenly stopped in late September.
"Yes, it's something we want to address," general manager Rick Hahn said Monday night. "We want to find other ways to beat you than strictly power, and I think I talked about that during my opening press conference. Given the league we play in and the ballpark we play in, we have to have the ability to hit the ball out of the park to compete, and we're not going to shy away from power. It's wonderful to have a team that can hit 200 home runs.
"We'd like to do some other things too, have some speed, be able to hit and run and have the ability to go from first to third and score from second - do some of the little things that help you when your power is slumping or the wind is blowing in and you can't quite compete like that. And we have talked about a few possibilities via trade and free agency that could come in and complement our offensive attack, but we're going to need a power core in that ballpark."
The Sox ranked third with 211 home runs but were eighth with 109 stolen bases. Although they were more efficient in stolen base attempts than in past seasons, new first base coach Daryl Boston has spoken about the need for the Sox to be more aggressive on the base paths.
In addition, the potential departure of A.J. Pierzynski could leave the Sox without a productive left-handed hitter. Pierzynski produced 77 of the Sox's 277 RBIs by left-handed hitters, and Hahn knows that's a concern if Pierzynski leaves.
"It's not a necessity, but is it a priority? Yes," Hahn said. "It would be nice (to have another left-handed hitter). Again, we talked about this on a conference call last week. Many of our right-handed hitters hit right-handed pitching well. So I don't feel the lineup is fatally flawed if we have to have simply (Alejandro) De Aza and (Adam) Dunn as left-handed hitters in the everyday lineup. Ideally, though, there would be more balance. There would give Robin more options to play more effectively. Again, it's not a necessity but priority is a better way of putting it."
The Sox were 23-24 in games against left-handed starters and batted .252 against left-handers (compared to a .256 mark against right-handers).


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WASHINGTON – April 25, 2006 - A national poll released today at the National Press Club by the Real Women's Voices coalition shows that while 65 percent of Americans say they are familiar with the 1973 landmark abortion case, Roe vs. Wade, only 29 percent are able to select an accurate description of the ruling. Real Women's Voices is a coalition of national and state-based pro-life organizations bringing women from across the country to Washington on Wednesday to lobby Congress. The national survey of 1000 adults age 18 and over was conducted by the polling company,inc./WomanTrend on April 13-14, 2006. The margin of error is calculated at +/- 3.1 percent.
Sixty-five percent of respondents said they considered themselves familiar (23 percent very familiar and 42 percent somewhat familiar) with the 1973 United States Supreme Court case of Roe vs. Wade. Thirty-one percent said they were not familiar (19 percent just a little familiar and 12 percent not at all familiar).
Though 65 percent said they were familiar with Roe, when asked to identify which of four descriptions most accurately describes what the case provides as the law, only 29 percent selected the correct description:
29% Made abortion legal in essentially all circumstances throughout pregnancy
18% Made abortion legal but only in the first trimester
17% Made abortion legal but only in limited circumstances
15% Made abortion legal but only in the first and second trimesters
The majority (54 percent) agreed with one of three traditional pro-life statements:
- Abortion should be prohibited in all circumstances,
- Abortion should be legal only to save the life of the mother,
- Abortion should be legal only in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother's life.
Only 41 percent selected a pro-choice view. Notably, three-quarters of Americans (75 percent) say they believe abortions should never be allowed, allowed only in very limited circumstances, or not past the first trimester of pregnancy. The 18-34 year old group (especially 18-34 year old women) was more likely than respondents overall to identify with one of the three pro-life views of abortion.
"Roe is hanging by a thread that is increasingly being frayed by the American people's exposure to the facts of abortion. These numbers show that our abortion laws don't represent the beliefs of the vast majority of Americans, including American women." – Marjorie Dannenfelser, Susan B. Anthony List
"Not surprisingly, a majority (54 percent) of Americans do not agree with what Roe permits-- that is, unrestricted abortion for any reason, even as a method of birth control. And while a majority of those polled (65 percent) say they are familiar with Roe, only 29 percent actually knew that Roe made abortion legal in essentially all circumstances throughout pregnancy." – Karen Cross, National Right to Life
"True Feminism means listening to the voices of women, it is my hope that the Senators we visit this week will really listen to the message from Real Women's Voices." – Janet Morana, Priests For Life
"Women around the country want common-sense legislation on abortion. We hear senators claim they want to 'reduce the number of abortions.' Pro-life women will be presenting the opportunity for them to prove it, telling senators to pass laws restricting abortionists from taking advantage of young women." – Wendy Wright, Concerned Women for America
"This is the civil rights issue of our day, and women's voices are leading the way toward change. As we look ahead to the 2006 Congressional elections, we are here to tell Congress that real women want a real response to pro-life issues." – Charmaine Yoest, Family Research Council
For a list of Real Women's Voices sponsors and full poll results, go to www.sba-list.org.
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Top Chef's CJ: There Is No Bromance on Last Chance Kitchen!
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Top Chef's Chris "CJ" Jacobson is on a seven-challenge win streak on Last Chance Kitchen, which should feel good right now... except for those pesky online comments. On the weekly online series, in which ousted Top Chef contestants battle it out for… Read more


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EDU311 Middle School Philosophy and Organization
Students will study the history and rationale behind the middle school movement while they examine the middle school approach to education. This is an on-line course in which students will discuss with each other via a discussion link and turn in assignments via e-mail.
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For nearly 20 years running, Red Light Café's Open Mic Wednesday has been Atlanta's birthplace of stars. STARS! Are you ready for your 15 minutes of fame? Good – 'cause 15 minutes (or 3 songs) is what'cha got! Sign up sheet goes out at 7pm, performances start at 8pm, and all live performers are welcome (no tracks!). We'll be selecting a "winner" for the night who'll receive a $25 Red Light Café gift certificate!
So come on down, enjoy dinner and a drink, and show us what you're made of. We'll be proud to say we knew you before all that celebrity ensued...


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Title X is the only federal program dedicated solely to the provision of family planning and related preventive services. The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) administers the Title X program and serves as the focal point to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health on a wide range of reproductive health topics, including family planning, adolescent pregnancy, sterilization and other population issues.
The Office of Population Affairs operates under the direction of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Population Affairs.
Family Planning Mission
To assist individuals in determining the number and spacing of their children through the provision of voluntary, confidential and low-cost education, counseling, and related comprehensive medical services to eligible clients:
- To assist in making comprehensive, voluntary family planning services available to all persons desiring such services;
- To coordinate domestic population and family planning research with the present and future needs of family planning programs;
- To enable public and nonprofit private entities to plan and develop comprehensive programs of family planning services;
- To develop and make readily available information, including educational materials, on family planning and population growth to all persons desiring such information;
- To evaluate and improve the effectiveness of family planning service programs and population research; and
- To assist in training staff to effectively carry out family planning services
Embryo Adoption Program
The Office of Population Affairs also has overall responsibility for the Embryo Awareness Adoption Program. The program supports grants, cooperative agreements and/or contracts which aim to increase public awareness of embryo donation and adoption. The program may also support projects that provide services which make this family building option more attainable for infertile individuals.
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Need a New Bathroom Fixture? You Can Have a Trough from the Metrodome.
Add this to the list of things you can collect as part of the former Metrodome. A auction website has put a few troughs from bathrooms up for auction.
There is nothing that states whether or not the troughs were ever replaced at the Metrodome, but there is a chance you can own 30 years of pure stream history.
I mean, they have even labeled different uses for the throughs.
"Work great for livestock feeders or beverage coolers" - K-Bid
Whatever the case, you have the opportunity to own a piece of history.
Currently the bid is sitting at around $125. The company has a stack full of them available. You must be able to pick them up if you decide to bid. For the auction, click here.
I don't know about you, but as much as I like the team, there would be no way I would purchase one of those.


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$3.4 billion in grants to be announced for smart grid
We waste a significant amount of electricity due to an outdated and inefficient electric grid in the United States. Thus, this investment is significant.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce $3.4 billion in government grants to help build a "smart" electric grid that will save consumers money on their utility bills, reduce blackouts and carry power supplies generated by solar and wind energy, the White House said.
It marks the largest award made in a single day from the $787 billion stimulus package approved by Congress, and will create tens of thousands of jobs while upgrading the U.S. electric grid, according to administration officials.
The grants, which range from $400,000 to $200 million, will go to 100 companies, utilities, manufacturers, cities and other partners in 49 states.
This investment is only the first step, and part of the criteria here was the speed with which companies could implement the changes, as this money comes from the stimulus package. For example, the grants will not be used to build new power lines, but improve the capabilities of the electrical system. The funds will be used for a variety of projects, including approximately "18 million smart meters that will help consumers manage energy use in their homes, 700 automated substations to make it faster for utilities to restore power knocked out by storms and 200,000 smart transformers that allow power companies to replace units before they fail, thus avoiding outages." Companies had to bid and compete for the funds, and the winning companies secured an additional $4.7 billion in private money to match their government grants, resulting in a total of $8.1 billion in total investment in the smart grid.
The smart meters are critical, as they encourage consumers to use electricity more efficiently. If you can see on your meter that running the dishwasher costs you more during the day, you will consider running it at night instead when rates are cheaper. If you're costs are spiking during the day, you might realize that you can open the windows instead of running the air conditioner.
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Bishop`s Revenge by D.A. Williams
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This adventurous story is about a woman's strong will for vengeance, intertwined with a Pioneer mother's deep love and devotion. After being savagely attacked and rescuing her daughter from near death, Mayleen Bishop vows revenge against her attacker, but soon finds herself involuntarily entangled in a web of conspiracy involving the United States Cavalry.
Braving nearly insurmountable odds, she encounters grave danger, heartache, and unexpected romance during her relenting search for retaliation.
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As part of his plan, he randomly contacts an escort service to covertly gain help in obtaining critical information from the broker's files. That's when he and JUDY CARMELLE come together and immediately fall in love. Working (and playing) in concert, using fake identities and crafty disguises, Owen and Judy plot their own conspiracy. Traversing an extremely dangerous path, while putting their own lives in peril, they soon uncover a low-level syndicate committing high level crimes and murder. Yet, they move forward, vowing to stop the crime spree.
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HAROLD SMITH is quite content with his life, which has been nearly perfect for the past twelve years. He loves his wife, his two children, his home, his job, everything. Harold trusts everybody—when he should trust no one, because there are secrets he doesn't know about. He was furtively hand-picked for the job he loves, his wife has hidden skeletons in her closet and the company he works for doesn't really exist.
When Harold accidentally learns the truth about his employers, he also begins to discover many realities about those around him and he faces heart-wrenching decisions that create extreme danger, not only for him, but for those whom he loves as well.
While Harold persistently tries to uncover answers for why things are not as they seem, the deeper he gets, the deadlier it becomes. Still, he desperately searches to find an escape from the underworld existence he does not want to be a part of and in his search for the happy lifestyle he wants, he miraculously weaves his way into and out of one nail-biting, life-threatening situation after another.
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QUITE A TRIP by K. R. Williams
A severely broken ankle and a murder suspect evolve into Quite a Trip.
Kase Simmons is a promising young baseball player who is certain to go high in the major league draft, until he has his potential career abruptly ended by a freak injury. At the same time, he becomes infatuated with a beautiful woman he saw at the ballpark and who becomes his fantasy. Since a baseball career now appears to no longer be an option for Kase, he attends college, where he meets a friend and, after their schooling is finished they start their own accounting practice. Following that, additional schooling teaches Kase how to be successful in the stock market and he soon accumulates a small fortune.
Meanwhile, despite fantasizing about the woman of his dreams, another woman comes along and plays a huge role in his life. However, before long, a murder takes place in Chicago and Kase is alleged to be the prime suspect when the victim is found to be the woman of Kase's obsession. After fighting to clear himself, Kase learns of a surgical procedure which, if successful, might allow him to follow his dream to play baseball again.
Quite a Trip is a heartwarming love story that travels between many of the heartbreaks of failure and all the joys of success.
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Chicago Police Detective Galen Robertson and his long-time partner, John Atchison, answer the call to investigate the nude body of a girl found on the beach of Lake Michigan. In addition to a strange carving on her torso, she has a concealed blue butterfly tattoo. Soon, all of the evidence points to an obsessed ex-boyfriend...but did he do it? Or, could it be he`s been set up...and if so, by whom?
Before long, the bodies of two more young women turn up, each with the same crude etching and the same blue butterfly tattoo. It`s obvious there`s a serial killer on the loose and, besides the murderer, there`s only one connection to the three victims, which leads to another very unlikely suspect.
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Tommy by D.A. Williams
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Tattoo Ring DesignsGetting a tattoo in your ring finger is a technique to exhibit your love for any person endlessly. Like a marriage ring, a ring finger tattoo may be used to represent a dedicated relationship. Unlike traditional jewellery rings, tattoos with no trouble stay in position. Some folks may just get ring tattoos as a option to show buddyship, because the pronouncing goes, "friends perpetually," a tattoo ultimate a lifetime. there are numerous benefits to getting a tattoo in your finger instead of a jewellery ring:
1. Unique: a tattoo of a hoop in your finger shows off your distinctiveness. In distinction to traditional wedding ceremony rings, not everybody has a ring finger tattoo to indicate they are married. as a substitute of being like everyone else, finger tattoos let you stand out from the gang. Ring tattoos are normallytypically no longer limited to a definite design so which you can be as creative as you need to be. Some individuals have chosen coronary hearts, words, or marriage ceremony dates as a design for their finger tattoo. Don't restrict yourself to these ideas, along with your creativeness, the possibilities are endless!
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ring finger tattoos are unquestionably something to believe over conventional metal rings. they're distinctive, at ease, and inexpensive. Plus, a finger tattoo finals a lifetime! most folks get an initial concept of what design they want from looking at footage and produce an unique tattoo from their own introduction. Hope you are in a position to to find the tattoo that's perfect for you!