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- Baggie Chemistry
Household chemicals mixed in a baggie produce dramatic results.
- Boiling Point
This model allows you to explore why polar and non-polar substances have very different boiling points.
- Build and Test a Model Solar House
Construct and test the energy efficiency and solar heat gain of a cardboard model house.
- Ceramic Forces
Explore what happens when a force is exerted on a ceramic material.
- Charged and Neutral Atoms
Explore the role of charge in interatomic interactions.
- Comparing Dipole-Dipole to London Dispersion
Investigate the difference in the attractive force between polar and non-polar molecules.
- Comparing Motion to Trajectory with the Qualitative Grapher
Gain insight into the difficulties students face in learning to interpret graphs
- Competition
Use a model to study the effect of a consumer (rabbits) on two species of producers (grass and weeds).
- Describing Velocity
Learn about velocity-time graphs and their connection to corresponding position-time graphs, and determine velocity during different intervals.
- Dew Point
Figure out the dew point temperature for your classroom.
- Diffusion
Investigate how the random motion and collisions of particles results in diffusion.
- Diffusion Across a Semipermeable Membrane
Explore the role of pore size in the diffusion of a substance across a membrane.
- Diffusion and Molecular Mass
Explore the role of a molecule's mass with respect to its diffusion rate.
- Diffusion and Temperature
Explore the role of temperature in the rate of diffusion of a substance.
- Diffusion of a Drop
Explore the random molecular motion of a dye in water.
- DNA to Protein
Explore how the code embedded in DNA is translated into a protein. Transcription of DNA and translation of mRNA are modeled.
- Earthquakes Around the World
In this activity you will use a computer model to investigate earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
- Evaporative Cooler
How can the cooling effect of evaporating water be used for air conditioning?
- Factors Affecting London Dispersion Attractions
Explore the role of size and shape in the strength of London dispersion attractions.
- Graphing Quadratic Equations
Students learn to graph a quadratic equation using the coordinates of the vertex of a parabola and its x-intercepts.
- Greenhouse Effect in a Greenhouse
Relate changes in sunlight to the temperature of air trapped in a container.
- Greenhouse Light and Temperature
By using a temperature sensor, we can relate changes in sunlight to the temperature of the air being trapped in a container.
- Heat and Light from Electricity
How does energy change from one form to another?
- How Fast Am I Moving?
Investigate the relationship between slope and velocity on a position-time graph.
- How Loud, How High?
Explore the frequency, wavelength, amplitude and velocity of sound waves.
- Hydrogen Bonds: A Special Type of Attraction
Explore the polar molecule interactions known as hydrogen bonds.
- Intermolecular Attractions and States of Matter
Explore how states of matter are related to the strength of intermolecular attractions.
- Launching a Satellite
Study how to fire something into space.
- Leaf Photosynthesis
This NetLogo model of leaf photosynthesis shows the macroscopic outcome of the reaction.
- Linear Equations: Points, Intercepts, and Slopes, Oh My!
Students learn to graph lines using the x- and y-intercepts of equations, as well as how to graph a line when given an equation in point-slope form.
- Linear Equations: Ski Slope
Learn about the numeric representation of the slope of a line, including using rise and run to graph lines with a given slope.
- Making Waves
Investigate the creation of different wave shapes.
- Maria's Run
Show that the motion of objects can be described by position, direction of motion, and speed.
- Meiosis
Learn how meiosis and fertilization shuffle the alleles that offspring inherit.
- Melting Ice
What is the temperature of ice as it melts?
- Metal Forces
Explore what happens when a force is exerted on a metallic material.
- Modeling Earth's Climate
Examine climate data and models to explore what we might be able to predict about the Earth's future, and how sure we will be about it.
- Modeling Transcription
Explore how an mRNA copy is made of DNA.
- Modeling Translation
Explore how a protein is made from an mRNA sequence.
- Molecular View of a Gas
Explore the structure of a gas at the molecular level.
- Molecular View of a Liquid
Explore the structure of a liquid at the molecular level.
- Molecular View of a Solid
Explore the structure of a solid at the molecular level.
- Motion on a Ramp
Study the motion of an object as it moves up and down a ramp.
- Motion Toward and Away
Explore different ways of describing motion on a graph.
- Mutations
Explore how changing the DNA sequence can change the amino acid sequence of a protein.
- Oil and Water
Explore the interactions that cause water and oil to separate from a mixture.
- Our Solar System
Study the planets in our solar system using a computer model.
- Pendulum
Explore the factors that affect a pendulum's motion.
- Pendulum and Spring
Explore the motion of a pendulum suspended by a spring.
- Phase Change
Explore what happens at the molecular level during a phase change.
- Plastic Forces
Explore what happens when a force is exerted on a polymeric plastic material.
- Polarity and Attractive Strength
Explore the role of polarity in the strength of intermolecular attractions.
- Protein Folding
Explore how hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions cause proteins to fold into specific shapes.
- Quadratic Functions in Vertex Form
Students learn to identify the vertex of a parabola from the vertex form of a quadratic function equation, and then graph the parabola.
- Quadratic Word Problems Part 1
Students solve two problems involving the motion of projectile objects, modeling the motion using quadratic equations.
- Quadratic Word Problems Part 2
Students solve two problems each involving the motion of projectile objects, modeling the motion using quadratic equations.
- Radiant Energy Flow
Explore the energy balance between incoming and outgoing radiation on the earth.
- Relative Humidity Measurement
Measure relative humidity in the air by comparing the wet bulb and dry bulb temperatures
- Seeing Intermolecular Attractions
Explore different types of attractions between molecules.
- Seeing Motion
Investigate simple, straight-line motion.
- Solving Linear Equations with the Function Analyzer
Reveal the connection between symbolic and graphic representations of equation solving
- Spring and Mass
Explore the factors that affect a spring's motion.
- States of Matter
How do the forces and attractions differ between the states of matter?
- Sunlight, Infrared, CO2 and the Ground
Explore how solar radiation interacts with Earth's surface and atmosphere.
- The Temperature-Pressure Relationship
Explore the relationship between the temperature of a gas and the pressure it exerts on its container.
- The Temperature-Volume Relationship
Explore the relationship between the temperature of a gas and its volume.
- The Volume-Pressure Relationship
Investigate the relationship between the volume of a gas and the pressure it exerts on its container.
- Tire Forces
Explore what happens when a force is exerted on a rubber tire.
- Was Galileo Right?
Explore the effect of gravity on objects of various mass during free fall.
- Weaving a Parabola Web with the Quadratic Transformer
Explore how the graph of a quadratic function and its symbolic expression relate to each other
- What is Pressure?
Explore pressure at the atomic level.
- y=mx+b
Learn to graph a line using its slope and y-intercept, or to identify the slope and y-intercept from a linear equation written in slope-intercept form.


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Behavior Modification : Principles and ProceduresAuthor:
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Direct Marketers must determine how their brand remains relevant to regular buyers, instead of just continuing previously successful methods to stimulate interest. In the past, regular mailings of a multi-page catalog with very few changes brought a reasonable response rate. Today, communication devices are changing the landscape of how shoppers connect with marketers and their products. Many marketers have moved to email marketing as a way to keep their brand and products in front of busy consumer buyers. But direct mail remains a very strong influence that should not be discounted.
"Customer behavior is evolving more rapidly than retailer behavior," says Lou Weiss of The Vitamin Shoppe. "The proliferation of technologies gives consumers the opportunity to change how they interact with retailers. The consumer is getting further away from us everyday. They may not be able to hear us. That's not a comfortable place for a retail marketer to be."
It has been said printed direct mail pieces arriving in the mailbox bring greater effectiveness by actually placing a well-designed piece into the hands of the consumer. Marketer printed materials have better odds of being viewed. Consumers are constantly bombarded with emails and have become desensitized and conditioned to eliminate them before even opening them.
The reduced direct mail volume of late means a printed piece has less competition for attention in the daily mail pile. It is not necessary to mail multiple catalog pages, secured by three wafer seals to gain consumer attention. Rather, it is necessary to reach these consumers many times throughout the year, keeping your brand in front of them. Direct mail accomplishes this the way it always did. Finding a less expensive way to communicate through direct mail is something worth considering.
Combining direct mail efforts with the interactivity of the website experience with video, chat, QR codes, promotions, and special discounts are all necessary in this evolving market.


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June 29 was the day Susan Riley says she was fated to die, bleeding from the head as a fallen tree lay across her car roof, crushing it.
She was driving on Old Georgetown Road just south of the busy intersection with Democracy Boulevard in Bethesda when the powerful, violent storm that made national headlines swept through Montgomery County.
It was at that moment that a large tree limb slammed down on her car, crushing the roof of her Toyota and leaving her with a gash in her head that would later take 40 surgical staples to close.
It it hadn't been for a Good Samaritan coming to her aid in a pickup truck, Riley says she likely would have bled to death.
Ironically, the accident happened just yards from the cemetery where her mother, father and brother are buried, and on a day that would have marked her parents' 80th wedding anniversary.
"It was the most incredible thing," said Riley, 62. "This was meant to be the day I was going to die."
Now, recovering from her injuries, she's desperate to get in touch with the anonymous man who rescued her from her car and navigated treacherous roads to transport her to Suburban Hospital.
"There is nothing, absolutely nothing responsible for me being alive except for that man doing what he did," Riley told Patch. "I would have laid there and died. I've got to find him."
That evening, Riley said, she remembers she had been at a book club meeting in Rockville when she began to notice lightning -- at first assuming the flashes were fireworks. She decided to head home and began the drive down Rockville Pike back to Bethesda. She debated whether to visit the Bank of America in Wildwood to deposit a check, and at the last minute she decided to stop.
Her bank records indicate the time of the deposit – 10:31p.m. – just before she turned from Democracy Boulevard onto Old Georgetown Road and began heading south.
"Within a few seconds, I could see these things start coming up onto the road, like logs, just stuff blowing up and under the car. I was thinking, this is going to take out the underside of the car. Should I stop? Speed up? What should I do?"
Before she could make a decision, she saw a tree in the road in front of her taking up both southbound lanes and stopped. "That must be when the other tree hit me," she said. "I don't remember anything except the fact that I couldn't get my head up in the car because the roof was right down on me."
That's when she heard knocking on the car's window, and a man's voice telling her she needed to get out. The man who came to her aid couldn't open the doors, so he helped her out of the passenger side window and into his pickup truck.
Then, the two began the journey to Suburban. "Every time we turned around, there was another tree down," Riley said.
Bleeding but still coherent, the Bethesda native was able to direct the man through the darkened streets. "It still hadn't dawned on me I was in really bad shape," she said.
Eventually, Riley and the man arrived at Suburban, where he gave his name to a nurse. In the confusion of the evening, however, the slip of paper on which he wrote his name was lost.
It wasn't until later that Riley realized the extent of injuries – a gash that spanned from her forehead to the back of her scalp, exposing her skull.
More than a week after the accident, Riley still hasn't been able to track down the man who rescued her. Most importantly, Riley said, she wants to find out if he made it home safely.
"At this point, I just want to find him," Riley said. "I want to keep in touch with him for the rest of his life, and the rest of my life. I just want to find him and make sure he's OK."
Riley's story was first reported by NBC Washington.
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Meaning: Derived from Dubhagáin meaning dark or black
Origins: Celtic
Dugan or Duggan (Uí Dhúgáin) is an Irish surname that arose simultaneously in a number of areas, including Cork, Roscommon, Galway, Wexford and Fermanagh. The best known family of the name had its territory near the modern town of Fermoy in north Cork, and were originally the ruling family of the Fir Maighe tribal group which gave its name to the town. They claimed descent from Mug Ruith, the legendary magician of the Fir Bolg. They ceded pre-eminence to the O'Keeffe family in the eleventh century, but remained powerful in the area. Along with the other Fir Maighe families they lost their power when the Normans conquered the territory in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The Coat of Arms are azure with a crescent argent between nine stars of eight points. The motto, Virtve et Valore ("By Virtue and Valor") is derived from Old English rather than from the Irish translation of Ó Dubhagáin, meaning "dark" or "black." The motto is derived from the Old English word dūgan (preterite-present: dēag 'it is useful', dugon 'they are useful', dohte 'it was useful'). Other definitions include "to avail, to be of use, to serve"; Ðonne his ellea deah ("when his valour avails"); "to be fit or strong". In modern day, the name is found throughout Ireland. In the north, Dugan, Dougan, and Doogan are common, a large portion descended from families originally in County Fermanagh. Doogan is common in County Donegal. Duggan is most prevalent in Dublin, Munster, and the majority of County Cork, County Tipperary, County Wexford, and County Waterford. Dugan and Dougan are also common Scottish names. Throughout other English speaking countries, Dugan and its many variants, including Duggan, Dougan, Doughan, Doogan, and Duggin are widespread. Dugan ranked 1,705 in surname listings in the 1990 United States Census. In Great Britain, Duggan ranked 1,950 in surname listings from the 1881 Census, then surged to 1,025 in surname listings from the 1996 Electoral roll.
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Position Title: Education Internships (Summer Camp)Reports To: Academic Programs Manager and Program CoordinatorsDepartment: Education Summary: Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is looking for creative, enthusiastic, responsible and hardworking individuals with a passion for Environmental Education and working with children. Education interns take a leading role in all aspects of our program participants' experience, teaching diverse audiences from preschoolers to adults in the Zoo's education programs which include camps, tours, birthday parties and overnights. During educational programs, interns will provide a link between participants and nature, through experiences that inspire action, in support of the Zoo's mission "to connect people with wildlife and wild places through experiences that inspire action." This position includes extensive walking, spending time outside in all weather and working with children on a daily basis. Some heavy lifting and extended time standing may be required. The successful candidate for this position will have a personality and attitude that fosters a friendly environment by very proactively engaging our program participants and helps the Zoo achieve our vision: "Every kid. Every time. Goosebumps! Every kid of any age will have the experience of a lifetime with every visit."Summer Interns: We are looking for 8-10 interns this summer to help us with our summer camp program. A few select summer camp interns may be asked to also help with tours, overnights or birthday parties, as the need arises. The hours for this position will range from 25-40 hours per week and will include 2-4 overnights. Summer camp includes ages: 4-6, 6-10, and 10-14 year olds; applicants will be chosen based on experience within those age groups. Summer camp interns may be eligible for continuation into a fall/winter internship based on performance and evaluation.Resumes Accepted: December 2012 through March 2013You must be available for all datesPosition Begins: May 27, 2013 Position Ends: mid August 2013Minimum Requirements:• 18 years of age• Experience working with children (Pre-K through High School)• Coursework in education, biology or related field • Willingness to learn to work with a variety of animals including reptiles and invertebrates• Successful completion of a background check • First aid and CPR training required• Must be available for all dates of internship; time off will only be granted for "once in a lifetime" events; i.e. weddings, births, funerals & emergenciesResponsibilities: To include but not limited to the following.• Create and present exceptional and dynamic interpretive programs (formal and informal) featuring live animals, games, crafts and zoo hikes.• Follow all safety guidelines and demonstrate the ability to make good decisions regarding the welfare of animals and participants• Lead and supervise program participants, including children and adults, on a daily basis• Complete internal training programs including animal handling training • Assist in supervision of teen volunteers• Maintain cleanliness and organization of program facilities• Provide excellent and professional communication with all Cheyenne Mountain Zoo staff• Identify and demonstrate conservation efforts for all education programs.• Ability to multi-task and pay attention to detail in a fast-paced environment• Demonstrate a positive attitude and ability to work as a teamPlease answer the following questions in a maximum of 3-4 sentences each:1. What role do you think zoos play in the community?2. Why are you interested in being a part of the education team at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo?3. Do you have or anticipate any conflicts with the schedule (i.e. vacation, different start date)?4. Where did you hear about this internship?Pay: Starting at $8.00/hr, interns are eligible for an end of summer bonus based on performance evaluation and availabilityTo Apply: Please send resume, cover letter (applicant must indicate interest in the Summer CAMP Intern position), essay questions and 3 professional reference contacts to: Meg McDaniel, Academic Programs Manager Cheyenne Mountain Zoo 4250 Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Rd Colorado Springs, CO 80906Or email firstname.lastname@example.com (No phone calls please)Incomplete applications will not be considered.
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Vanderpump Rules and Shahs of Sunset get new seasons, with new scripted and unscripted series on the way!
The Top Chef Season 6 winner is honored with nine other of the country's best chefs.
Syfy is kicking off the new futuristic series 'Defiance' and we see some Real (Housewives) similarities.
The Real Housewife and her husband are still trying IVF.
Brandi's kids have never met any of her dates.
When WWHL ends, continue partying in the Clubhouse on Bravotv.com.
How closely were you watching Bravo this week?
Think you got what it takes to karaoke for Kandi? Submit your version of "You & Me" and you could catch her attention.
Anna spills on going from 'My Girl' to My Mom and her Housewife favs. Hint: They're as thick as thieves.
Oh, and Kim Zolciak's invited!
Tweets suggest the two former besties may have buried the hatchet.
The Househusband says he and his wife have nothing to hide.
Seriously, she has no idea which one.
The Real Housewives Instragrams inspiring words after learning of her divorce in the media.


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Join Lambda Legal and the legal community in celebrating one of the most important victories in the fight for civil rights for LGBT Americans, the anniversary of Lawrence v. Texas, Lambda Legal's Landmark Victory before the Supreme Court. For more information, please contact Carla McKinzie at 214-219-8585.
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Clinical Management of BRCA Mutation Carriers
A substudy of the NSABP-P-1 trial evaluated the effectiveness of tamoxifen in preventing breast cancer in BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers older than 35 years. BRCA2-positive women benefited from tamoxifen to the same extent as BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation-negative participants; however, tamoxifen use among healthy women with BRCA1 mutations did not appear to reduce breast cancer incidence. These data must be viewed with caution in view of the small number of mutation carriers in the sample (8 BRCA1 carriers and 11 BRCA2 carriers).[75]
Level of evidence: 1
In contrast to the very limited data on primary prevention in BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation carriers with tamoxifen, several studies have found a protective effect of tamoxifen on the risk of contralateral breast cancer.[76,77,78] In one study involving approximately 600 BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers, tamoxifen use was associated with a 51% reduction in contralateral breast cancer.[76] An update to this report examined 285 BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers with bilateral breast cancer and 751 BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers with unilateral breast cancer (40% of these patients were included in their initial study). Tamoxifen was associated with a 50% reduction in contralateral breast cancer risk in BRCA1 mutation carriers and a 58% reduction in BRCA2 mutation carriers. Tamoxifen did not appear to confer benefit in women who had undergone an oophorectomy, although the numbers in this subgroup were quite small.[78] Another study involving 160 BRCA1/BRCA2 mutation carriers demonstrated that tamoxifen use following treatment of breast cancer with lumpectomy and radiation was associated with a 69% reduction in the risk of contralateral breast cancer.[77] These studies are limited by their retrospective, case-control designs and the absence of information regarding estrogen-receptor status in the primary tumor.
The STAR trial (NSABP-P-2) included more than 19,000 women and compared 5 years of raloxifene with tamoxifen in reducing the risk of invasive breast cancer. [79] There was no difference in incidence of invasive breast cancer at a mean follow-up of 3.9 years; however, there were fewer noninvasive cancers in the tamoxifen group. The incidence of thromboembolic events and hysterectomy was significantly lower in the raloxifene group. Detailed quality of life data demonstrate slight differences between the two arms.[80] Data regarding efficacy in BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutation carriers are not available.
The effect of tamoxifen on ovarian cancer risk was studied in 714 BRCA1 mutation carriers. All subjects had a prior history of breast cancer; use of tamoxifen was not associated with an increased risk of subsequent ovarian cancer (OR = 0.78, 95% CI, 0.46-1.33).[81]
Level of evidence: 1
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Pregnancy and Lactation
In the general population, breast cancer risk increases with early menarche and late menopause, and is reduced at early first full-term pregnancy. (Refer to the PDQ summary on Breast Cancer Prevention for more information.) In the Nurses' Health Study, these were risk factors among women who did not have a mother or sister with breast cancer.[82] Among women with a family history of breast cancer, pregnancy at any age appeared to be associated with an increase in risk of breast cancer, persisting to age 70 years.
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Memorial Hospital Central1400 E. Boulder St.3rd Floor (use north elevators)Colorado Springs, CO 80909(map & directions)
Hospital operator: 719-365-5000
Learn More About Our Heart & Vascular Center in Five Steps:
Step 1. Our Heart & Vascular Center
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» Go to: Memorial General & Vascular Surgery
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For health questions, health classes or help finding a doctor, ask our nurses at HealthLink, 719-444-CARE (2273).
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The reason they're celebrating is because of the high quality and compassionate care they received at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs. Some proudly call themselves "survivors."
Here are a few of their inspirational stories...
George has always been an active guy, playing racquetball, hiking and skiing. One day, while at home, he began to feel a unique pain in his chest. As the pain continued, he realized that this could be something serious, so he went to the hospital, which was only a few blocks from his home.
The physicians and cardiologist in the emergency department quickly determined that George was having a heart attack. He was taken to the cardiac catheterization lab where his cardiologist opened the blockage in his arteries and restored the flow of blood to his heart.
While the angioplasty procedure was initially successful, George's cardiologist determined that the best treatment for him was heart bypass surgery. During his open-chest procedure, Memorial's cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Bryan Mahan, was able to create new pathways for blood to reach George's heart.
George graduated from the cardiac rehabilitation program at Memorial Hospital and now he continues to exercise four to five times a week at the gym, he works in his garden, hikes, and skis. "I am not limited at all... I'm doing anything I want to do," says George.
Stephanie didn't experience the typical symptoms of heart disease. She had extreme nausea and shortness of breath, but did not have chest pains, crushing pain, or pain down the arm.
She consulted a family doctor and was diagnosed with everything from being pregnant to having acid reflux to having a panic disorder. Following her intuition, Stephanie didn't give up. She called her insurance provider who granted her request for a stress test.
The test should have been easy. After all, Stephanie was active, a non-smoker, not diabetic, a healthy weight, and did not have a family history of heart problems.
A walk in the park, right?
Wrong. Stephanie collapsed on the treadmill during the test. Her cardiologist told her she might have a blocked artery and sent her to the cardiac catheterization lab at Memorial Hospital for further testing.
As soon as she arrived, her physician inserted a heart catheter and gave her the news: her left anterior descending (LAD) artery, a main artery of the heart, was 99 percent blocked. She would eventually be diagnosed with three blocked arteries and would need four stents to treat her heart condition.
Stephanie praises the care she received at Memorial, "I can't actually say enough good things about the cath lab staff! While I was scared, they were able to make me laugh. They made me feel good."
Now more than a year later, Stephanie has important advice: "If you are trying to make changes in your life to be healthy, keep it up because it kept me alive. To this day, I have no heart damage, I never had a heart attack. My heart is very healthy."
John, a college instructor, had a big scare on Halloween.
After not feeling well and experiencing difficulty breathing, his wife called an ambulance, setting in motion a powerful program for rapidly treating heart patients.
After John was transported by ambulance, he was surprised to find the cardiac alert team ready and waiting for him in the emergency department at Memorial Hospital. There, the team carefully orchestrated a complete assessment and sent him to the cardiac catheterization lab, where they would begin his treatment, all within our goal of less than 70 minutes.
John was to find out later he had what is commonly referred to as "the widowmaker"—a main heart artery was 100 percent blocked. This is serious stuff, and can be fatal. But even with the serious condition, he joked with the nurses and staff. "I just felt so comfortable in their care," he says.
Since that day, John has come away with five stents and heaps of praise for the Memorial team. He says quite simply, "They saved my life."
All of these people faced major heart conditions, but persevered. No one can ever guarantee the outcome of a medical condition. But these people took the right first step. They sought professional medical help from top cardiovascular doctors and specialists through the heart and vascular center at Memorial Hospital.
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If you have a cardiovascular condition, it is critical you get care as soon as possible.
» Find a doctor online, or
For health questions, health classes or help finding a doctor, ask our nurses at HealthLink by calling 719-444-CARE (2273).
To learn more about the heart and vascular center at Memorial Hospital, please keep reading.
At Memorial, our mission is to provide the highest quality health care. Therefore, it's our job to do everything we can to help you make the right health care decision. This web site guides you through important steps that help you understand the healing process and the programs we have available at our heart and vascular center.
The next web page explains how to contact our heart and vascular center and lists other important contact information.
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Congratulations, Amway Business Owners, you've made another Amway brand number one on the planet!
Thanks to you, eSpring is now the world's largest-selling brand of home water treatment systems according to a Verify Markets study of 2012 global sales. It's also the number one selling brand of water treatment systems in the Asia region – and in the individual countries of Taiwan, Malaysia and Thailand.
The study included systems sold through retail channels as well as through direct selling. With so many options for getting drinking water, why do so many consumers prefer eSpring?
One reason is that our eSpring system reduces more than 140 potential health-effect contaminants to deliver clean, safe drinking water. It also is certified by NSF to reduce more individual contaminants than any other carbon filtration and ultraviolet (UV) light treatment point-of-use system in the world.
People also love eSpring because of the smart technology that other water filtration systems don't have: electronic monitoring that tells the user when it's time to change the filter cartridge, and eCoupled™ wireless power technology that safely and efficiently assures that people are getting high-quality, clean water every time. That gives consumers peace of mind.
From water and air purification to products for safer cleaning, you can have confidence in Amway as your source for brands that help you transform your home for healthy living.


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RationalPlan Single Project is a powerful project management software designed to assist project managers in developing plans, allocating resources, tracking progress, managing budgets, and analyzing workload. You can use RationalPlan in the area of construction, engineering, services and consulting, business, software development, or even for a simple student project. It will help you to complete your project as scheduled, on time, and within budget. The application is an affordable alternative to Microsoft Project and it covers project management areas from WBS construction, project planning and scheduling to critical path management, detection of overallocated resources, progress tracking, cost estimation, and more. Gantt chart support as well as various time line reports are also provided.
TimeMachine Scheduler is a Java scheduler which can scale and run a high volume of jobs with many different types of schedules, such as repeating on a fixed interval or based on cron expressions. The scheduler can control the job executions with thread pools, and it can persist job data into different storage receptacles. Users may use the built-in schedule server with an easy-to-use configuration file, or developers may use it as a library to extend the scheduler and write custom jobs, schedules, or user services.
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I use chicken wire to keep squirrels out of my garden. They are always digging holes there and burying acorns. One thing I've noticed: they always go for open soil, and once plants are established there they don't seem to dig and bury stuff anymore. So you might try the mesh until you can get other vegetation better established.
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// Create a Random Date var randomMonth:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (11)); var randomDay:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (27)); var randomHour:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (23)); var randomMinute:Number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (59)); var thisDate:Date = new Date(); thisDate.month = randomMonth; thisDate.date = randomDay; thisDate.hours = randomHour; thisDate.minutes = randomMinute;
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By GATE on 11-13-12 @ 12:11 pm
FRAUD: 'Intentional deception, trickery, breach of confidence, perpetrated to gain a dishonest
By mitch on 11-13-12 @ 11:41 am
Only (unhinged) Gate could read this article and see a political stance You're grasping, give
it up. Take some of Moose's OCD meds and call us in 4 years.
By GATE on 11-13-12 @ 10:38 am
THEFT: " A criminal act in which the property belonging to another is taken without that persons
By mitch on 11-13-12 @ 10:30 am
Haven't heard about Ohio yet, but Yay!!!! Do know this about Philly tho.
"Mon Nov 12, 2012 at 07:46 AM PST.
In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes."
Cracks me up, these fools who think they'll get anywhere with their attempt to secede. Do not
forget, our President Obama was elected by the voters, over 50% and a landslide victory in
electoral votes. We won, your guy lost, get over it. All states have their nutcases, altho
Montana seems to have more than it's share.
By HRH Prince Michael on 11-13-12 @ 9:38 am
@Bopho: Firstly, "..prejudge these people as parasites"?! Please, do not project your own
prejudices onto me. Secondly, the figures which I accurately presented, are unquestionably
alarming. Finally, you know nothing of my historic Christian-lineage, so please refrain from
weak and so-very generic assumptions.
P.S. Perhaps, you should advise your Fascist Pharaoh that citizens in THIRTY-states have filed:
By GATE on 11-13-12 @ 9:31 am
Perhaps this is a glimpse of the Dbag's voters future:"Ohio Court orders woman to hold up 'Idiot' sign!
By bopho on 11-13-12 @ 12:25 am
So what's your point prince mike? Cuyahoga County has over a 1000 precincts. Romney got over
184,000 votes in Cuyahoga County. And if you knew anything at all about Cuyahoga County you
would know that the precincts you refer to were the areas of the county hardest hit by the foreclosure
crisis during the 2008 economic meltdown. There were plenty of people nationwide that were hurt
during that period through no fault of their own. You automatically pre judge these people as parasites
or some such when the vast majority wants what everybody else wants, a good life for themselves
and their family. For someone who appears through your links to call himself a Christian, you sure
have a low empathy for people.
By HRH Prince Michael on 11-12-12 @ 11:47 pm
@Bopho: YOUR Pharaoh received MORE than 99% of the vote in more than 100 precincts
in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Can you say "Revenge of The Hanging-Chads"?
"Nonsense", indeed, chumpster.
The 2000 Hanging-Chad "Election"?
The 2008 A.C.O.R.N.-fraud "Election"?
The 2012 Almighty God SELECTION:
By bopho on 11-12-12 @ 11:35 pm
You got your facts wrong prince mike. If you can find me a county in Ohio that voted 100% for
Obama I'll give you everything I own.
So if your leadoff fact is wrong the rest of your post is nonsense.
The rest of your post is nonsense anyway.
By HRH Prince Michael on 11-12-12 @ 10:06 pm
Firstly, today reports from Ohio indicate that the Pharaoh of The "United" States
received an unheard of ONE-HUNDRED PER CENT of votes in some counties.
Meanwhile, residents in at-least 20 states -including Montana- have filed to SECEDE.
"Men will ultimately be governed by Tyrants or by God" - Benjamin Franklin
The 2000 Hanging-Chad "election".
The 2008 A.C.O.R.N.-fraud "election".
The 2012 Almighty God SELECTION:
By Yodah on 11-11-12 @ 8:56 pm
You know you're right…I'd forgotten how upset I was when Clinton invaded…and that ridiculous "BUBBA GOT
'ER DONE" sign on the aircraft carrier…that was the topper…...
By GATE on 11-11-12 @ 1:45 pm
Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi…I would be more than happy to post their quotes!
By Yodah on 11-11-12 @ 12:11 pm
Didn't someone once trumpet WMD in Iraq….or is it a bad dream I had…..
By JB on 11-11-12 @ 11:44 am
Yeah, its also interesting that food stamp data was also released by the USDA nine days after the
semi-official deadline, far past the election…
Note the figures on the bottom row…can you say record number? Again?
Typical manipulation of government agency data - can't have the USDA say anything that might
affect election results, huh?
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 6:55 pm
Let's remember the Redmen's (Republicans) role in this too. Both sides agreed to this treaty. This is a
bipartisan effort and we can't now start calling it something else…that would be intellectually dishonest….
By GATE on 11-10-12 @ 5:54 pm
Since ol' Joe is so entertaining and the Misleader is a pretty good actor let's all encourage them to star
in the leading roll of my new Fiscal Cliff thriller. As the Country plunges into the financial abyss thanks
to Harry, Nancy, Barney and the gang, a Financial/Metro Cowboy drama titled BrokeBank Mountain
would bring the Country together in the 'healing' process. Ben Bernanke could even play himself!
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 5:01 pm
Ah…a glimmer of hope for you…hope it brings you a lot of joy. This is an important stage in the
healing process.
By GATE on 11-10-12 @ 4:42 pm
I guess on the bright side we'll have 4 more years of Gaffer Joe entertaining us every time he opens his
mouth and makes a fool out of himself!
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 4:20 pm
But you guys LOST…you've got to stop having this hissy fit and get back in the game…I know you can't believe
what's happened but it DID…you can ignore reality but it will come back to bite you eventually. This country is
no longer governed just by land owning white men or just people that pay taxes….might I suggest a time
machine to "self deport" yourself back to the "good (for some) old days".
By bopho on 11-10-12 @ 4:18 pm
Hey Gate and Mooseberryinn - -
You've got Four More Years. "Deceiver" and "Obozo" are so first term.
Please do come up with some new material for those of us hanging on your every word.
By GATE on 11-10-12 @ 3:58 pm
57 Million taxpaying Americans would rather pass kidney stones daily than see the Deceiver shred
what's left of the Constitution.
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 3:32 pm
Too bad Gate doesn't follow Blackfoot mourning rituals…tough on him…good for the Internet.
By RealDeal on 11-10-12 @ 3:28 pm
More Obama = more gun manufacturing! In this valley, that is a good thing! Gun manufacturing
has been through the roof nationwide since this socialist took office, and since the cities
voted him back in, everyone can expect a shiny new pistol to have to protect themselves. I
didn't vote for him, but I am sure glad he is back! He scares the pooh out of 50% of us, and in
the gun business, that is a great thing!
By bocephusj57 on 11-10-12 @ 3:23 pm
Gee. When dumbya won by lesser numbers in '04 his party declared that he had a mandate. I
wonder what the difference is this time?
Ohhhhhh yeah, Obama's a Democrat, and black.
Don't worry gate, your bitter tears of a loser will dry soon.
By GATE on 11-10-12 @ 2:48 pm
Since the Deceiver doesn't have a mandate we'll give him 2 years to finish wrecking the economy at
which time you'll see a repeat of the 2010 sweep that will keep him from doing much further damage to
the Country.
By Herc Driver on 11-10-12 @ 2:25 pm
Yes, Gate. As soon as the rules are changed from one vote per person to one vote per acre, the republicans will be
back in the game. Hang in there!
By GATE on 11-10-12 @ 2:03 pm
To get a real picture of how the country voted look at 'Election results by County'. A massive sea of
Red with splotches of Blue in the heavily populated inner Cities known as the obamanation
plantation(s). Unfortunately for America that's where the majority of 'Blue' 'voters' have sold their souls
and dignity for a few redistributed bread crumbs.
By Fast on 11-10-12 @ 2:00 pm
You Guys had an election with out me again? Let me know when Pat Paulson runs again and then I will turn out and
By Herc Driver on 11-10-12 @ 1:55 pm
Poor Moose and Gate… Like the rest of the republican base, they don't understand that the gop's brand is severely
tarnished. Their outdated stances on immigration, abortion, global warming, unfair advantages for the rich, rape,
energy, religion, education, and every other major issue, no longer appeal to the majority of Americans. If they don't
wake up and face reality, the party of the angry old white man will find they have also lost control of the House come
2014. Add in the 2 or 3 Supreme Court justices that President Obama will get to appoint and it's game over for
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 1:08 pm
Just announced that President Obama takes Florida too…we're in "LANDSLIDE" territory now….
By mooseberryinn on 11-10-12 @ 1:00 pm
Well ya see, when you understand that virtually all of Comrade Obozo's "advisors" are self-proclaimed
communists, and Chairman Obozo's "redistribution" of wealth is a basic communist belief, and big
intrusive gov't authority (like the old Soviet Union) comes to pass, and you've seen communist countries
first-hand, then ya might know what is going on. But - I doubt there's much hope for understanding
among obozo's worshipers. Too bad.
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 12:30 pm
Your automatic use of the word "Comrade" is raising some concerns…where were you raised…I think we may
have an old school mole on our hands…
By mooseberryinn on 11-10-12 @ 12:24 pm
Comrade Obozo's victory speech - "energy independence" If shutting down oil exploration, crippling
coal power etc. will lead to energy independence then I guess we'll be OK. Hmm, coulda used that
Keystone pipeline though.
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 12:12 pm
Are you the deshelved gent I've seen wandering the valley with "The End Is Near" sign? There's a messianic
quality in your posts.
By GATE on 11-10-12 @ 11:00 am
This doctrine the Deceiver and his deluders have hoisted on the gullible is fostered by their belief that it
is possible to pick up a buffalo chip by the clean end!
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 10:25 am
Feel your pain I do…feel your pain we all do…make sure of that you do.
By GATE on 11-10-12 @ 9:39 am
Under the Deceivers brilliant financial leadership America is about to enter a new Chapter: Chapter 11!
By Shamrock on 11-10-12 @ 8:47 am
I agree with Yodah. Regardless of how some of us don't like the results of the election, it is time to
get moving, and hope for the best. Live life and be happy.
By Yodah on 11-10-12 @ 8:35 am
It looks like getting over it and moving on…Who knows what the future may bring…you can live in the past but
sooner or later you will be unhappy.
By Mark W. on 11-09-12 @ 9:05 pm
Any chance you help us out with a picture of what #5 looks like?
Is it Detroit or California?
By Yodah on 11-09-12 @ 6:37 pm
Do you see a trend here…let hope our conservative brethren get to number five at their own pace.
By GATE on 11-09-12 @ 5:36 pm
By bocephusj57 on 11-09-12 @ 5:06 pm
Does corporate welfare get included in the leeching of tax dollars?
By bopho on 11-09-12 @ 5:01 pm
Montanans must be leeches since they receive $1.47 in federal spending for every dollar collected in
By GATE on 11-09-12 @ 4:54 pm
Merriam-Webster ; LEECH: ' a hanger-on who seeks advantage or gain..to drain the substance of..to
attach oneself to a [working] person…to bleed [a taxpayer] by the use of…....
By bopho on 11-09-12 @ 3:58 pm
Hey Mooseberryinn - Seems like you are a good follower. GOP sore losers throughout the country
today are using the phrase: "The maggots have voted".
How nice that you consider 60 million of your fellow citizens "maggots".
By GATE on 11-09-12 @ 3:30 pm
Who will the Deceiver blame for the mess of the last 4 years he's inherited from himself?
By Mark Phillips on 11-09-12 @ 2:59 pm
Us maggots can hardly wait 1460 days to elect Hillary! lol
By GATE on 11-09-12 @ 2:33 pm
1460 Days until Liberty is restored!
By cs1 on 11-09-12 @ 1:57 pm
There you go again JB, making assertions absent the facts.
By kalispelling bee on 11-09-12 @ 1:15 pm
"In all honesty, BiggerMig, the previous DECADE of Death and Destruction will look like
Woodstock, in-comparison to "America's" (non) future.
Consider yourself FOREWARNED, son."
I don't admire your posts, but I do enjoy your televison show, Long Island Medium.
By HRH Prince Michael on 11-09-12 @ 11:42 am
@BiggerMig: Contrary to your first-post, "The Good Lord" has nothing to do with the
"re-election" of your Pharaoh. Combine, over a half of a billion-dollars, the support of large
-"government"-subservient"- Media corporations, and blatant Racism by a group that once
screamed "Oppression!" the loudest.
Bafflingly, after thanking "The Good Lord" in your first-post, then suddenly, you cannot comprehend
"Ye shall reap, as Ye have sown"? O.K., If I planted and nutured seeds of Corruption, Immorality,
and Injustice, what -on a national level- type of Harvest could I expect?
In all honesty, BiggerMig, the previous DECADE of Death and Destruction will look like
Woodstock, in-comparison to "America's" (non) future.
Consider yourself FOREWARNED, son.
By Red Green on 11-09-12 @ 10:33 am
Jeez Mooseberry, why don't you tell us how you REALLY feel. And stomp your feet and hold your
breath while you're at it.
If you're going to be a poor looser, at least try not to look so childish in your comments.
By mooseberryinn on 11-09-12 @ 10:16 am
The maggots have voted. The cockroach has won. Americans have lost. Too bad. The worst is yet to
By BiggerMig on 11-09-12 @ 7:10 am
Wow! So oil spills and shooting sprees are now a result of Obama? You people are ridiculous.
By HRH Prince Michael on 11-08-12 @ 6:22 pm
@Emerson: Facts and Reality, you say? A petrified National Economy. The Worst Oil Spill in World
History. The "U.S." Poverty-level at a fifty-year high. Joplin. The Northeast. Shooting-spree, after
shooting-spree: "And Ye shall reap, as ye have sown".
By Clarity on 11-08-12 @ 2:10 pm
America chose wisely. What a relief. Democrats and Republicans if you want anyone to EVER vote
for you again in the future, I ask that you now start to actually do the job you were 'hired' to
do and work together with our President to help this country - instead of obstructing!!! We're
rapidly running out of road now… Grow-up, stop bickering and trying the make a 'point' and
instead work together to make this country strong again.
By JB on 11-08-12 @ 12:12 pm
@cs1: Nope - and I don't plan on it, either.
You sound as though you speak from experience…
By cs1 on 11-08-12 @ 9:14 am
The gimme generation? Ever tried to get food stamps?
By JB on 11-08-12 @ 6:30 am
Obama: the choice of the "gimme" generation.
By HRH Prince Michael on 11-07-12 @ 9:49 pm
Firstly, the 2008 "election" of the Pharaoh of The "United" States was due, in-part,
to A.CO.R.N.-fraud. This "election" was also "historic" - $1 Billion between both politicians.
While, the stock-market plummeted over 300-points, Today? Unmistakably, a Sign O' The Times.
2000 Hanging-Chad "Election"?
2008 A.C.O.R.N.-fraud "Election"?
2012 Almighty God SELECTION:
By great bear on 11-07-12 @ 6:49 pm
By inthemiddle on 11-07-12 @ 1:39 pm
A great day to be an American!
By hotfishmt on 11-07-12 @ 12:44 pm
Both parties need to stop this never ending bickering along with PORK BARREL projects.
Just like the "airport" in some remote Alaskan island….$35 ,000,000 was spent for a 5000 foot
long runway…and there are only than 100 full time residents. So, the only plane that flew there for
workers in a fish processing factory was a WWII sea plane…and after the runway was
rebuilt….sea plane can't use the ramp it used to use, due the rebuild??? This kind of nonsense
along with exiting from Afghansistan needs to STOP NOW. So, now a hovercraft, 86 foot long is
used to ferry people 35 miles to the un-usable runway to work at a seasonal fish factory.
By Constitutional Man on 11-07-12 @ 9:48 am
Wow….so much hate on this MB. Our Federal goverment has two directions they can take,either
work together for the good of ALL Americians or keep the status quo. We have made our choice for
President and Congress. What we need is for our Goverment to make HARD choices to cut
programs that are wasteful , narrow the focus from the feds while using the regulations in place to
deter Big Corporations from their own over-bearing Greed.
In a nutshell, what I see is that The United States gave Mr.Obama a second chance while they
also gave the House of Reps to keep things in check. Beings the House is a direct vote from the
people that speaks volumnes of the Mindset of Americia.
By Yodah on 11-07-12 @ 9:41 am
Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Gate, you need to come into the light…................
By GATE on 11-07-12 @ 9:17 am
While the UnderWorld rejoices with it's followers this misplaced joy will turn to horror as the financial
calamity about to be unleashed on America begins shatter whats left of the Elderly and middle class
By Herc Driver on 11-07-12 @ 8:52 am
I'm worried - we haven't heard from Moose this morning. Hopefully, the staff at the home remembered to take away
his belt, bedsheets and sharp objects…
By Herc Driver on 11-07-12 @ 8:43 am
Gate: Stocks plunged 5000 due to Bush's incompetence, then recovered under Obama. The 200 point drop this
morning is due fears over to the pending fiscal cliff - a situation created by the GOP' unwillingness to compromise.
By GATE on 11-07-12 @ 8:33 am
....'' Stocks plunge 200 Points at open..Get ready American as the deception is peeled away!
By Herc Driver on 11-07-12 @ 7:39 am
IF: You don't care about education. You have poor reading, writing, speaking, math, science and computer skills.
You dress, talk and act like a hillbilly, rapper, punk rocker, etc. You care more about hunting, NASCAR, drinking
beer, pickup truck tires and the who's on the cover of people magazine than what's going on in real world events.
You spend more money than you make. Etc., etc., etc…
Then it doesn't matter which political party is in control. You are destined for personal and economic failure. Stop
complaining about how the government is stopping you from reaching your potential. Everyone is responsible for
their own lot in life and can succeed under any administration. Take responsibility for your self!
By GATE on 11-07-12 @ 7:35 am
The dumbing down of enough dependents along with the deceit, lies and tricks of the Socialists will for
a time allow the Deceiver's Tyranny to continue it's destruction of America's sacred Liberties.
By BiggerMig on 11-07-12 @ 7:24 am
Start your naysaying now. I, for one, am relieved that Obama is still the Prez! Thank the Good
By JosephineDoody on 11-07-12 @ 7:15 am
When you have record numbers of voters on food stamps and other gov't programs, they will always
vote for the guy that hands out the "free stuff." It's no mystery why the biggest fraud ever has been
re-elected president.
By GATE on 11-07-12 @ 6:16 am
Four More Years of Tears. The parasites have sold their souls for a few bread crumbs. The House
controls the budget and it's now up to them to reign in the Socialist Beast!
By mitch on 11-07-12 @ 12:27 am
A great day! A great election! God bless America!
By emerson on 11-06-12 @ 10:43 pm
Two lessons for the Republican - er- Confederate Party:
1) You can't only be the party of old white people.
2) You can't continue to ignore the disaster your policies were the last time you held power. First,
acknowledge that you screwed up and, Second, don't come back to the table with the exact same
policies that screwed everything up in the first place.
3) You have to live in reality. Your party is sort of a faith-based religion. Facts and reality will
eventually overwhelm you.
By bocephusj57 on 11-06-12 @ 10:01 pm
nah nah nah nah
Hey Rom ney
Gooooood byyye
Four more years of effective leadership from the black man in the White House.
The Dems have picked up at least 3 seats in the Senate. The House remains a rightwingnut
tantrum center.


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If, under the spell of "Moby-Dick," you decided to run away to the modern equivalent of whaling, where would you go? Because petroleum displaced whale oil as a source of light and lubrication more than a century ago, it might seem logical to join workers in Arabian oil fields or on drilling platforms at sea. On the other hand, firemen, like whalers, are united by their care for one another and for the vehicle that bears them, and the fireman's alacrity with ladders and hoses resembles the whaler's with masts and ropes. Then, there are the armed forces, which, like a nineteenth-century whaleship, can take you around the world in the company of people from ethnic and social backgrounds unfamiliar to you. All these lines of work are dangerous but indispensable, as whaling once was, but none seem perfectly analogous. Ultimately, there is nothing like rowing a little boat up to a sixty-ton mammal that swims, stabbing it, and hoping that it dies a relatively well-mannered death.
Nor is there anything like skinning the whale's penis, "longer than a Kentuckian is tall," and wearing it as a tunic while you slice up the fat harvested from the rest of its body. Melville's narrator, Ishmael, claims that the mincer of blubber usually wore such a tunic, in a clerical cut that made him look like "a candidate for an archbishoprick." For "Moby-Dick," Melville drew on scientific, historical, and journalistic accounts of whales, but he had a reputation for blurring the line between fact and fiction, and scholars have noted that for this chapter "none of Melville's fish documents was particularly helpful." In other words, he may have made the tunic up, for the sake of the archiepiscopal pun and perhaps, too, as a symbol. In another chapter long suspected of symbolism, Ishmael falls into ecstasy while squeezing the lumps out of spermaceti freshly bailed from the head of a sperm whale: "I found myself unwittingly squeezing my co-laborers' hands in it, mistaking their hands for the gentle globules." But, fanciful as it sounds, sperm-squeezing is attested to by another source. In an 1874 memoir, the whaler William M. Davis recalled how "luxurious" it was to wade into pots of sperm and "squeeze and strain out the fibres," which would darken the oil unless they were removed, and added that, in the rich bath, "I almost fell in love with the touch of my own poor legs."
It is difficult to follow in Melville's footsteps if you can't tell when he's fibbing, but there is no shortage of whaling histories for a Melville aficionado to turn to. ("Though of real knowledge there be little," Melville wrote, "yet of books there are a plenty.") In the latest, "Leviathan" (Norton; $27.95), Eric Jay Dolin offers a pleasantly anecdotal history of American whaling so comprehensive that he seems to have harpooned at least one fact from every cetacean text ever printed. "Leviathan" is a gentle book about a brutal industry. By ending his story when America stopped whaling, Dolin omits the most gruesome years of international whaling history, when new technology increased killing capacity approximately tenfold. He presents whaling in a more innocent age, when it was the fifth-largest industry in America and a source of national pride—in the time before ecology, as well as before steamships, as it were.
It's hard to say who qualifies as the first American whaler. The Inuit hunted whales in the Canadian Arctic a thousand years ago, but Dolin isn't convinced that anyone in what is now the United States did so before Europeans arrived. Basque whale hunters reached Labrador in the sixteenth century, and in 1614 John Smith, unable to return to his beloved Virginia, tried to catch whales near what is now Maine. (They got away.) The day after the Pilgrims signed their 1620 compact, whales surrounded the Mayflower, but the Pilgrims lacked whale-catching equipment, and Dolin suspects that they lit their lamps with oil from dead whales they found on the beach. The first to hunt whales and actually catch them in waters that today belong to the United States were the Dutch, off the coast of Delaware, in the sixteen-thirties. The vagueness of this prehistory says a lot about Colonial America, which had few clear political borders, but even more about whaling, which throughout its history has tended to defy them. "In whaling the natural resource (the stock of whales) was owned by no one," the economists Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter noted in a definitive 1997 analysis of the industry. One theme to emerge from Dolin's book is the oblique angle the history of whaling forms with political history. To whalers, nation-states were usually irrelevant and sometimes a hazard.
Once a whale washed ashore, of course, it was bound to end up as someone's property, and whales entered early American law through the question of who owned them when they did. On Long Island, a town's householders divvied up the oil among themselves, after paying a few shillings to the finder and something to the butcher, and sometimes surrendering the fins and flukes to local Indians for ceremonial use. In Massachusetts, Plymouth Colony taxed towns by taking a barrel of oil from every drift whale. In the sixteen-forties and fifties, colonists began to sail a few miles to kill whales spotted from shore, and, not long afterward, Colonial governments were demanding a share of the profits from these whales, too.
Serious money was at stake. When two shallops of Rhode Islanders towed home a right whale in 1662, a contemporary commented that "they had earned more than a whole farm would bring us in an entire year." Besides oil, right whales contained baleen, a fibrous and feathery tissue in their mouths, which is probably responsible for the "strange, grassy, cutting sound" that Ishmael hears as he watches them feed. Flexible when heated, baleen, also known as whalebone, kept whatever shape it was cooled into, like plastic. It was used primarily in corsets, fashionable from the sixteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth, but it could be molded into items as various as umbrella ribs, fishing rods, and shoehorns.