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New on CD: Little Big Town's 'Tornado'
Little Big Town
Capitol Nashville
By the first chorus of opening song "Pavement Ends," Little Big Town makes it obvious they are taking a more modern, more adventurous approach on their fifth album, "Tornado." One of country music's most rousing live acts — they'll open for Rascal Flatts tonight at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine — the vocal group hasn't achieved the success at country radio that its reputation suggests. "Little White Church," from their 2010 album "The Reason Why," was only their third Top Ten hit, and the next two releases didn't crack the Top 40. So the four vocalists — Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Philip Sweet and Jimi Westbrook — switched producers to Jay Joyce, who has guided the albums of Capitol label mate Eric Church. The change works wonders: The band's recent single "Pontoon" has become the first No. 1 hit in the group's 10-year history. The musical sound is decidedly more modern. "Leavin' in Your Eyes" employs a rhythm-machine beat and swirling keyboards, which brings more focus to the warmth and emotion of Little Big Town's vocal arrangement. Amid all the out-loud transformations, the album's most stunning track is "On Your Side of the Bed," a quiet ballad about one member of a couple confronting the other about the growing distance between them. It brings out the timeless beauty in the group's individual voices and in their remarkable harmonies.
Michael McCall, Associated Press
The xx
Young Turks
It's been three years since The xx's last album. The wait was worth it. "Coexist" is note perfect. The South London trio, set to perform Oct. 12 at the Hollywood Palladium, has moved away from the slightly poppy direction of its Mercury Prize-winning self-titled debut in favor of a more stripped-down approach. The album is in parts so spare you wonder what makes it so spine-tinglingly beautiful. The opening track "Angels," which the band teased fans with before the album's release, almost whispers but sets the tone of the album as it builds in depth. "Sunset" introduces the vocals of Oliver Sim, allowing an intoxicating synergy between his voice and Romy Madley Croft's. The lyrics are still acutely melancholic. "We used to get closer than this / Is it something you miss?" Croft muses in "Chained," which is reminiscent of the constant questioning the group displayed on its debut record. And in "Missing," Croft muses, "Are we all we could be?" The answer is a resounding yes.
Sian Watson, Associated Press
Reach Records
Christian rapper Lecrae, who performs Nov. 3 at the Hollywood Palladium, doesn't fit the typical mold of a gospel artist. His arms are covered with tattoos, he normally sports his hats tilted to the side and often wears slightly sagging pants. Don't let that be a distraction. The Houston native is a true talent with a unique ability to deliver thought-provoking messages on life without sounding like a Bible-thumping preacher. His rap approach has earned him praise by many in hip-hop, from veteran rapper Bun B to Lupe Fiasco. On his sixth album "Gravity," Lecrae delivers a strong piece of work. He's not afraid to rap about his past mistakes, supplying inspirational rhymes filled with Christian values backed by well-produced secular hip-hop beats. One of the best songs on the 15-track album is the DJ Khalil-produced "Mayday," featuring rapper Big K.R.I.T. and 2011 American Idol contestant Ashthon Jones. Big K.R.I.T. is impressive on the soulful song, and Lecrae insightfully raps with substance: "Now I found true religion and it's not inside no denim / and the overpriced shades will never give you vision." Lecrae attempts to educate about the pitfalls of street life on the high-energy "Violence." On "Confe$$ions," he raps that having an abundant amount of money doesn't always equal happiness. Other standout tracks are "Free From It All," featuring Mathai, "Walk With Me," with Novel, and "Tell the World," including Mali Music.
Jonathan Landrum Jr., Associated Press
'Silver Age'
Bob Mould
Rooting for Bob Mould to sound like the old days can be a guilty feeling. It's an uncool itch you might not dare admit wanting to scratch. Because if anyone deserved slack while tinkering with techno and balladry for the past decade — and doing a half-decent job at it, really — it's the indie rock pioneer behind Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the '90s. But "Silver Age" is permission to come clean with that nostalgia. Mould's ninth studio album isn't merely for die-hards and apologists. This is all brawny guitars, power-pop melodies and unflagging drums. The arena rocker "Steam of Hercules" is about as ambitious and wandering as there's time for in 38 minutes that otherwise fly by before you know it. Mould is touring this year playing Sugar's heralded "Copper Blue" in its entirety on the album's 20th anniversary. Maybe the best compliment of "Silver Age" is that the new songs wouldn't feel out of place in that set. SoCal fans can check out Mould when he performs Oct. 30 at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles.
Paul J. Weber, Associated Press
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When Bob Knapp logged on to Danvers Patch last month, he was surprised what he saw.
Knapp, director of loss prevention for Gold Buyers at the Mall, read a story about the company's location at Liberty Tree Mall and saw that the location was facing accusations that it accepted an improper type of ID from a seller.
Last Tuesday night, after an extensive discussion, the Board of Selectmen decided to impose a seven day suspension that is being served this week in connection to that violation. The suspension, the board said, was actually a prior suspension that been held over the head of the business for a year following a prior infraction. The business had to avoid trouble for a year to avoid the penalty.
Members of the Board of Selectmen were split on how harsh the penalty should have been. Some suggested that the latest infraction - accepting a Brazilian ID from a seller - was minor. But others pointed to prior infractions last year that included accepting various forms of ID that were not allowed by the town bylaw, including a Costco membership card and Dominican Republic voting card, combined to be more serious.
Chairman Bill Clark said he has been a victim of a house break-in and "it's not something that is easily healable." Having the proper identification of people who sell jewelry and other items is important as part of police investigations, he said.
Selectman Gardner Trask said the town's bylaw about IDs that can be accepted by secondhand dealers is "very specific and very succinct" and favored the 7 day suspension.
Dan Bennett, a selectman, said the board was told last year that things would change yet the business had to return for accusations of another violation.
"The 7 days - we did that for a reason and I think that has to be served," he said.
Others, such as Selectman Keith Lucy, suggested that one infraction in recent months shows significant progress and the town has gotten the business' attention.
"We try to get these people to make progress and they have," Lucy said.
He also express concern for the Gold Buyers employees who would be out of work for a week and called a 7 day suspension "a little bit over the top" and "extremely excessive."
He suggested a two day suspension but the board voted that down 3-2.
Selectman Michael Powers also though a 7 day suspension was too much, calling it "significant overkill" and said the business had demonstrated a "cultural shift in support of our bylaw in a big way."
Police Chief Neil Oullette said the address listed in the passport - 85 Swan St. in Everett - does not exist.
Knapp said the store's employee was not sure if the Brazilian ID could be accepted, pointing to a stamp inside that said it was issued in the United States. A U.S. passport is acceptable ID. That manager took responsibility for making the decision to take the improper ID.
And Knapp later said that his surprise about the impending penalty was because of a lack of communication from a Gold Buyers employee. The local store was notified but Knapp, who works directly for the company's chief operating officer, was never notified.
In addition to the seven day suspension that began on Feb. 11, Gold Buyers also has a two day suspension hanging over its head - known as being held in abeyance - if it gets in trouble again in the next year.
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Service workers at Los Angeles International Airport went on strike Tuesday in conjunction with other May Day labor celebrations and protests and busloads of union workers joined a rally inside the airport and march onto Century Boulevard.
More than 1,000 union workers belonging to SEIU 1877 - United Service Workers West protested inside the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX and then marched onto Century Boulevard where a planned act of "civil disobedience" occurred.
There was a heavy police presence on Century Boulevard as several men and women sat in the middle of the intersection in a protest of civil disobedience.
Four men and six women were taken into custody about 2:15 p.m. and most of the protesters dispersed afterward.
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MCHENRY — Theft of a snowboard from the Wisp Ski Resort is being investigated by Maryland State Police.
A Saloman Ace 156cm snowboard with Burton bindings was stolen Saturday at about 6 p.m., police said.
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Health Disparities News and Announcements
If you have news, information, events, and research findings pertaining to health disparities, we want to know about it. We also welcome you to share your research as part of our Health Disparities Seminar Series. Please send information to Brandolyn White at email@example.com or contact 919-843-3539. Please forward your announcements by noon on Wednesdays. Announcements are sent out before COB on Mondays.
Early-onset baldness in African-American men may be linked to prostate cancer "Baldness was associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer among African-American men, and risk for advanced prostate cancer increased with younger age and type of baldness, according to data from the University of Pennsylvania (home of the Abramson Cancer Center) published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research."
Study links revamped primary care services to better A1C in Blacks
Heart Failure Doesn't Discriminate "Both black and white Americans have similar, higher than expected, lifetime risk of heart failure."
"Lifetime risk for heart failure is similar for blacks and whites and higher than expected for both groups — ranging from 20 to 45 percent — according to a new Northwestern Medicine® study."
Research Opportunity: Are you an African American breast cancer survivor or caregiver to someone with breast cancer? **New**
You may be eligible to participate in a focus group to share your opinions about peer support and provide feedback on how to take a training program and turn it into one that will best serve African American breast cancer survivors and caregivers. An incentive will be provided for participation.
You may qualify if you are: African-American, between the ages of 18-99 years, and received a diagnosis with breast cancer or is/was a caregiver to someone with breast cancer.
If interested, please call La-Shell Johnson at (919) 843-1479 or email at email@example.com
This study has been approved by the UNC-CH IRB (IRB Study # 12-1941).
Research Opportunity: Colorectal Cancer & African American MenA study is currently recruiting African American men (between ages 19-45) to better understand the intersection of male role norms, knowledge, attitudes and intentions to screen for colorectal cancer among young adult African American men.
If you are an African-American male between 19 and 45 years old living in the U.S., then you are qualified to participate by completing a survey at www.ChangeThaGame.com. It will take approximately 30 minutes of your time. Eligible participants who complete the will be considered for 1 of 4 incentives.
For more information and if you have any questions, contact Charles R. Rogers at email@example.com or (919) 438-2412.
This study has been approved by the Texas A&M University IRB (TAMU IRB2013-0088).
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Statement on National Minority Health Month
Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (2nd edition)
"The Encyclopedia Of Race And Racism, 2nd Edition provides critical information and context on the underlying social, economic, geographical, and political conditions that, gave rise and continue to foster racism. Religion, political economy, social activism, health, concepts, and constructs are explored."
Two New USPSTF Videos Available
"The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF or Task Force) released two new short videos about the role the Task Force plays in preventive medicine and its process for developing evidence-based recommendations."
View USPSTF Overview video.
View USPSTF on process for developing recommendations.
Health Coverage by Race and Ethnicity: The Potential Impact of the Affordable Care Act
"One of the key goals of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to reduce the number of uninsured through a Medicaid expansion and the creation of health insurance exchange marketplaces with advance premium tax credits to help moderate-income individuals pay for this coverage. Given that people of color are at disproportionate risk of being uninsured and having low incomes, the ACA coverage expansions could particularly benefit communities of color and advance efforts to eliminate disparities. This brief provides an overview of health coverage by race and ethnicity today to provide greater insight into the potential impacts of the ACA coverage expansions for people of color."
July 22-26, 2013
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
"This 2-credit course, titled Early Childhood Research with Tribal Communities, is offered to American Indian and Alaska Native tribal early childhood program directors and staff, health and education professionals and paraprofessionals, and others interested in tribal early childhood development and intervention research. The course will: 1) explore methods and theoretical approaches to early childhood development and intervention research in tribal contexts; 2) consider optimal systems of early childhood care in low resource settings; and 3) examine unique aspects of tribal research and culture, emphasizing the importance of community-based and community-engaged approaches."
Application Deadline: May 1, 2013
Date: July 21-24, 2013
To introduce planning doctoral study to selected outstanding students, the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy, in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, will host a four-day workshop to prepare students to apply to and succeed in doctoral programs. Students from groups that are underrepresented on planning faculties are particularly encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is April 26, 2013.
Racial Equity Institute, Anti-Racism Training
June 13-14, 2013
St. Paul Baptist Church, Greensboro, NC
The Anti-Racism training, delivered by the Racial Equity Institute, LLC is designed to build the capacity
of educators, health practitioners, child welfare advocates, judicial representatives, other professionals
and those persons who are interested in understanding and eliminating racial inequities
and disparities within our society.Learn more.
Location: Webcast and Tate-Turner-Kuralt building auditorium
Topic: "Early Childhood Development: Investing in our Children and Our Future"
To register a group viewing site: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2013/broadcast/
To register to view on your personal computer: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2013/register/
To register for the studio audience at the TTK auditorium: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2013/studio/
Answers to frequently asked questions: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2013/faq.cfm
Participant comments from a previous year: www.minority.unc.edu/institute/2011/eval/comments.cfm
The 19th National Health Equity Research Webcast is presented by the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health Minority Health Project and UNC Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, in association with Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute. Please consider becoming a cosponsor or providing an endorsement!
11th Annual Disparities in Health in America: Working Towards Social Justice Summer Workshop
Date: June 17-22, 2013
Location: Prairie View A&M University, College of Nursing
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center's Dorothy I. Height Center for Health Equity & Evaluation Research presents the 11th Annual Disparities in Health in America: Working Towards Social Justice Summer Workshop. 11th Annual Summer Workshop. The 11th Annual Disparities in Health in America Workshop: Working Towards Social Justice, is a six-day workshop that aims to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of health disparities, of means to enhance health equity, and of the bio-psychosocial approach in addressing health disparities in a minority and the medically underserved populations. The Summer Workshop will take place Monday, June 17- Saturday, June 22, 2013at Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing.
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*Tumor Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognosis
*Cancer Therapy and Outcomes
2013 Marci Kramish Campbell Dissertation Award
Deadline: Friday, May 17, 2013
The UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center announces the 2013 Marci Kramish Campbell Dissertation Award, a competitive $5,000 award to recognize excellence in dissertation research focused on cancer and the population sciences. This cash award goes directly to the recipient and can be used for any purpose. This award honors Dr. Marci Kramish Campbell, a leader in cancer prevention and control, disparities, and survivorship research at UNC-Chapel Hill and across the nation. Graduate students in any of the population disciplines (epidemiology, nutrition, behavioral sciences, health services and outcomes research, psychology, etc.) are encouraged to apply. Candidates should be in their final year with a dissertation defense that occurred or will occur between January 1, 2013 and December 31, 2013. The faculty sponsor must be a Cancer Center member. The application package must include: a curriculum vitae; a one- to two-page, (single-spaced) research description; and at least two letters of support: one from the Center member faculty sponsor and at least one from another academic reference. One of the two references should be the chair of the student's dissertation committee and that letter should state that the student will defend his/her thesis in the appropriate time frame. The application should be submitted as a single PDF. Selection will be based on academic record, quality of the research, and supporting letters. The deadline for application is 5:00 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013. Email the application to Sara Vandegrift (firstname.lastname@example.com). Please also mail or deliver a hard copy of the application to: Sara Vandegrift, Administrative Support Specialist, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1700 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, CB# 7294, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7294. A mid-June award date is anticipated.
This Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), issued as part of the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Opportunity Network (OppNet), encourages revision applications to incorporate basic research on behavioral and social mechanisms underlying stigma into active R01 research projects. For this initiative, projects may focus on stigma processes and mechanisms from the perspective of stigmatized individuals or groups and/or of individuals or groups holding stigmatizing beliefs. Projects may examine stigma in the context of specific health conditions; however, the focus of the work must be on the underlying mechanisms of stigma rather than on condition-specific manifestations of stigma.
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Applications now available for the 2013 Kenneth Cole Community Engagement Program!
Applications now available for the 2013 Kenneth Cole Community Engagement Program!
This exciting initiative serves to inspire and empower the next generation of community leaders, introducing a talented, dedicated and diverse group of Columbia undergraduates to the challenges and opportunities for community building in contemporary urban America. The program culminates in a summer living-learning experience, where fellows undertake paid internships at community organizations and live together in a University residence hall provided for by the program. The deadline for applications is October 21, 2012 at 11:59pm. The program is open to sophomores and juniors in CC and SEAS. Visit our website for more information.
Cory Booker to deliver Kenneth Cole Forum keynote address!
Newark Mayor Cory Booker will deliver the keynote address at this year's Kenneth Cole Forum, which will be held on Wednesday, October 17 at 7pm in Altschul Auditorium. This event focuses on important social issues of the day by highlighting innovative ways through which to address critical local problems, encourage social action, and build community capacity. More information about the forum and instructions on how to RSVP are available on our website.


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Delivering high quality code that fulfills every client requirement is one of the most vital aspects of a software consulting company's success. The technology industry is plagued with accusations of missing functionality, unmaintainable code and a lack of extensibility. The adoption and business-side buy-in of agile methodologies provides a remedy for many of these problems, but there are a lot of things that agile methodologies do not, nor purport to, address.
While upfront design is often overlooked and undervalued by a development team, focusing on design in the beginning of a development process will provide a homogenous solution, increase efficiency during coding and distribute knowledge during problem solving.
If you're like most software teams, you have coding and architecture standards, you try to make use of design patterns and you recognize the problem of code debt on long, evolving projects. We found that when you neglect the upfront design session, you tend to get solutions that don't conform to the code style of the project, or the team. As a result, you are often not reusing existing code, conforming to the design patterns, and potentially increasing the chance of creating regression bugs. In addition, any intuition a future developer may have about how and where a problem was solved, based on the rest of the code, could be completely wrong. For example, if you are designing a site using an MVC platform, and all of your functionality uses form POSTs and location changing GETs, it would probably be the wrong choice to add a new method to the controller that takes an Ajax request and doesn't alter the URL. The next person to develop on that project could miss the design caveat and make breaking changes, or, if they need to make a change to that feature, it would take more time to figure out how it was implemented.
Another issue created when upfront design is ignored, is the use of the 'quick fix'. While we have all implemented a 'quick fix' from time-to-time, the chronic use of short-term hacks can result in code debt, unexpected behavior and failure of regression tests when updating or refactoring the code. It can also make future changes take significantly longer - hurting your reputation and costing your client extra.
Recently, we encountered a problem where it appeared that our RESTful architecture would have to be violated due to the requirements from the business team. Our users wanted to search and sort a list of records, and then navigate through that data in based on how it looked in the table after the search. The problem was that the changes users could make to the records while navigating through them could (and often did) alter whether or not the record would still qualify for the search, making things disappear from the list unexpectedly. After a long internal discussion, we decided to treat the results of the search/sort as a static ordered list of records, defined when the user begins navigating through the data, and access that object in a RESTful way. Without that upfront discussion, our solution would have been to cram in a quick fix, resulting in bloated, complex, strongly coupled controllers, and future changes would undoubtedly have failed regression tests.
Ignoring upfront design and throwing architecture discussions and design solutions to the wayside to start speed-coding immediately can seem attractive, especially when a client needs software quickly. As developers and consultants, however, we should recognize that a few hours at a whiteboard to comb through design details and different solutions are not wasted. As we've experienced many times, passing over real problems and assuming the answer is self-evident creates a recipe for disaster. Design strategy takes discussion, hard problems take time to solve and a variety of viewpoints better inform solutions.
Forcing your team to adopt the discipline of 'design first' is absolutely worth it. It fosters an open environment, knowledge transfer, complete and a distributed understanding of the problem and solution and a less 'hacky' solution that will be easy to alter and extend in the future.


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Pacific University Music Department Presents The Wedding Planner
Featuring an all student cast!
Pacific University Music Department presents "The Wedding Planner", W.A. Mozart's Opera la finta giardiniera, with a contemporary spin: featuring an all student cast!
Written by an 18 year old Mozart, la finta giardiniera was not known in its complete Italian form until the 1970's…prior to its discovery, the opera was produced in German with spoken German dialogue. In this production, we present a new twist: Lush Italian arias, spoken English dialogue, and a contemporary setting to show that the trials and tribulations of Mozart's characters of the 18th century are viable and still laughable in the 21st Century…especially if you read the Tabloids!
When the curtain rises, Actress Violet Onesti has been knocked out by her lover in a jealous rage…as she goes undercover in the Hamptons searching for her fleeing lover, a string of mistaken identities and misunderstood love triangles tangle and untangle. Discover if the star-crossed lovers will end up together, and who else will find their perfect match along the way, all while hearing beautiful music!
Stage Direction by Andy Christensen, Music Direction by Anne McKee Reed, and performed with piano decadence by Janet Coleman.
Performances are Saturday April 26th and Sunday April 27th at 7:30 pm in McCready Hall. It is free to Pacific students with ID, $5 for children, and seniors, and $7 for general admission.
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Rivers career high 20 points helps Duke defeat #15 Michigan
By Mark Watson on November 22, 2011
It's not even Thanksgiving yet and the Duke Men's Basketball team is already 6-0 with wins over quality teams. The Blue Devils added to their March resume by defeating #15 Michigan 82-75 and in the process advance to the championship game of the EA Sports Maui Invitational. Austin Rivers scored the ball well with a […]
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Daniel Redwood, DC, is a professor at Cleveland Chiropractic College in Overland Park, Kansas. He joined the faculty in 2006 after 26 years in private practice in Virginia and Washington, DC. Redwood teaches three courses at the college – clinical nutrition for advanced students, and two theory and practice courses for entry-level students. He also writes and edits the college's web-based health and wellness newsletter, Health Insights Today.
Redwood's first chiropractic textbook, Contemporary Chiropractic, was published by Churchill Livingstone in 1997, and his second, Fundamentals of Chiropractic, which he co-authored with Dr. Carl Cleveland III, was published by Mosby in 2003. He has authored many textbook chapters, including the chapters on chiropractic in all editions of Dr. Marc Micozzi's Fundamentals of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Elsevier, 1996-2010), Dr. Michael Weintraub's Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Pain Management (Springer, 2008), Dr. Patrick Coughlin's Principles and Practice of Manual Therapeutics (Churchill Livingstone, 2002), Current Review of Alternative Medicine (Current Medicine, 1999) and the musculoskeletal disorders chapter in The Physician's Guide to Alternative Medicine (American Medical Consultants/Medical Economics, 1999). He also wrote the chapter on nutrition for Health Promotion and Wellness: An Evidence-Based Guide to Clinical Prevention Services (Springer, 2012), a textbook edited by Drs. Cheryl Hawk and Will Evans.
Dr. Redwood was the first chiropractor invited to be a guest lecturer at the National Institutes of Health and the National Museum of Health and Medicine. He has lectured on chiropractic at the Medical College of Virginia and Eastern Virginia Medical School, and was a 6-time winner of the Virginia Chiropractic Association's annual literary award. He was a founding editor of The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, an international, Medline-indexed scholarly journal now in its 18th year. He currently serves as the journal's book review editor. Redwood is also a member of the editorial boards of Journal of the American Chiropractic Association, ACA News, Topics in Integrative Healthcare, and the Korea-based TANG: An International Journal of Genuine Traditional Medicine. He has served as a frequent reviewer of articles for these journals, and has also reviewed submissions for Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics and Preventive Medicine. He has also been a reviewer for chiropractic's Research Agenda Conference (RAC), has been a RAC presenter, and has consulted and written for WebMD, Direct Medical Knowledge and the Integrative Medicine Consult.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, Dr. Redwood received his chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic, where he was student council president. He has served on various committees of his state and national chiropractic associations, and was Vice President and Legislative Chair for the District of Columbia Chiropractic Association. He is currently a member of the government affairs committee of the Chiropractic Summit (the unified voice of the profession's major national organizations), the federal policy committee of the Integrated Healthcare Policy Consortium, the Panel of Experts of the Scientific Commission of the Council on Chiropractic Guidelines and Practice Parameters, and the Clinical Working Group of the Academic Consortium for Complementary and Alternative Health Care. He also served on the steering committee for the Consensus Process to Develop a "Best Practices" Document on the Role of Chiropractic Care in Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Wellness.


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There were two recurring themes in the messages delivered by the three applicants bidding to take over management duties for the Paramount Center for the Arts Wednesday night.
The first one is that whoever takes over will not see an immediate profit in the first year. Second, it may take up to two years for the theater to begin producing the level program that it did in past years.
"We've got a big road ahead of us and a big mountain to climb, with what has happened before this," Kurt Heitmann, of Red House Entertainment, said during Wednesday night's Common Council work session. "This isn't going to be easy. Anyone who tells you that? They're lying. It's not going to be easy, but it's not daunting to us."
Red House Entertainment, along with the Tarrytown Music Hall and the Paramount Phoenix group, is bidding to lease and manage the Paramount. The theater, which is owned by the City of Peekskill, has been closed since September, when the last management team failed to raise the funds necessary to stay open.
All three groups gave a run-through of their plans for the theater during the work session, which was open to the public. About two-dozen crammed into the Paul Schwerman Conference Room in city hall to hear the proposals.
Peekskill Mayor Mary Foster said the Common Council is still in the process of considering each proposal. A special committee that was set up by the city to review the proposals had already given their suggestions to the Common Council prior to the work session.
"We are going to take the results of these interviews, the results of the recommendations from the review committee, any other comments we get from folks over the next week into consideration," Foster said. "We'll talk about it at our next work session, which will be Tuesday, the 19th, since we're not having a meeting on President's Day. Then we will take it from there, but we're trying to do a very deliberate process."
Here's a rundown of the proposals.
Paramount Phoenix Group
The Paramount Phoenix Group was represented by Arnie Paglia, owner of Division Street Grill in Peekskill; Antonio Ciacca, a jazz recording artist and professor at the Juliard School who once served as the director of Jazz at Lincoln Center; Dave Rocco, who played a role in getting Walkway Over the Hudson project completed; Mary Beth Becker and Wilfredo Morel, a local artist and gallery owner.
"We put this group together because we understand the priority of getting the Paramount up and running and the vested interest we all have in its functioning —both as it used to in terms of the type of programming that it did, and additional programming to have that facility be used as many days out of the week as possible," Paglia said.
Paglia said he see the Paramount as key economic engine in rebuilding retail and bringing business to Peekskill downtown area.
Ciacca, who would act as programming director, said his group's mission statement will be to make the Paramount the cultural engine of the city.
"This will be achieved by bringing in international diverse, performing artists and by giving platform to local artists and local community to express whatever their field of action is," Ciacca said. "I've seen many theater where the artists come in, they perform, someone pays the ticket and they just go. There's no cultural impact. Nothing happens."
Ciacca said who performs must leave some sort of impact on the city, whether it's visiting a local nursing home or inviting students to rehearsals.
Ciacca also said that he didn't simply want to present shows, but he wanted to produce and conceive shows that originate from the Paramount. He also wanted to make the Paramount a desirable place for rentals.
He also wanted to make sure that shows and educational programs at the theater are pertinent to the life of the city. The Paramount Phoenix Group would like to be up and running by April 30, to have a kick-off event on International Jazz Day.
Paglia said the theater would run movies and other safe programming after the kickoff until its financing and other legal issues involving the prior management group are worked out. He also plans to partner with local restaurants to try and leverage cross marketing opportunities.
Here are some other details from the proposal:
- Annual rent in the amount of $50,000, but the city would cover $75,000 in utilities for the first year.
- The group has $150,000 in cash ready and thinks it can leverage another $50,000 from sponsorships if the city can gives the group the go ahead.
- The group is also counting on a $50,000 performance based grant from the City of Peekskill and $10,000 grant from the Town of Cortlandt.
- $112,000 in outstanding ticket liability would be matched dollar for dollar
- The group plans to create a nonprofit organization that would sign the lease with the city
- Is offering to pay off the rest of a $100,000 loan from Key Bank that was used to purchase equipment for the theater.
Tarrytown Music Hall
Bjorn Olsson, executive director of the Tarrytown Music Hall, said that it was important for the Music Hall and the Paramount to join forces given the similarities both theaters have have.
The Music Hall is currently operated as 501c3 nonprofit.
Olsson said the Music Hall's budget has grown from about $130,000 in 2003 to about $3 million now. He also said attendance has grown from 15,000 annually to about 90,000 during that same time period.
"We estimate that the Music Hall generates about $1million every year for Tarrytown and nearby, just in dining money," Olsson. "Just in money spent at local restaurants. The overall economic impact is even bigger that."
Olsson, who is currently a board member on the League of American Historic Theatres, said his group is interested in the Paramount because of its history. The Music Hall is also expanding at a rapid rate and could use a second stage.
"We actually put out feelers to the Paramount a few years back, but the timing just wasn't right," Olsson.
Olsson said that it also makes sense for the two theaters to collaborate due to the increase in competition that's coming places such as the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester and the Levity Live Comedy Club in Nyack also make
"I feel the two theaters are so similar that we actually are a lot better off working on the same team than trying to compete against each other," Olsson said.
Olsson said that the Music Hall would operate the Paramount through it's existing organization at first.
"I think it's important that both of these theater, although they are regional in nature—the roots that we have are very local and people are very attached to their theater," Olsson said. "I think its incredibly important to retain that and not make it some sort of satellite."
Olsson said the Paramount would not be used simply as an overflow stage for the Music Hall.
"If a restaurant owner has a restaurant and he opens a second restaurant, he's not going to wait to send people to that second restaurant until he has his first restaurant full," Olsson said. "You're going to want to fill out both restaurants."
Here are some more details from the Music Hall's proposal:
- Olsson said his group would prefer to keep the one dollar a year rent agreement that the previous management team had. He said his group is willing to discuss this issue with the city during next few years. "Hopefully we're wildly successful and everyone is happy," Olsson said.
- The group would pay its own utilities, but the group could possibly ask for a deferral utility payments in the beginning.
- There wouldn't be a bigger kick-off event until the fall of this year.
- Programming will be considerably scaled at the Paramount compared the Music Hall in the early going.
- The Tarrytown Music Hall could create a separate, subsidiary board for the Paramount depending on how things go. For now, the Music Hall board will invite members from the community to its current board, but still retain control.
- The projected income for the Paramount in 2013 would be about $117,000 and $175,000 in 2014.
- The group would credit outstanding tickets that were purchased last year with credits to future shows.
Red House Entertainment
Kurt Heitmann, CEO of Red House Entertainment, presented his group's proposal along with partners Abigail Adams, who would serve as arts and non-profit manager and currently run the Hudson Valley Shakespear Festival ; Jonathan Close, who would be in charge of brand extension and marketing; and Ray Wilson, who would handle artist development and management, concert production and talent booking.
Heitmann, who has about 30 years of experience in audio/visual production, said he wanted to get the Paramount running 5 to 6 days a week. That programming could include films, concerts or festivals.
He said the most important thing is providing a consistent level of entertainment that draws people to the city. He also said it's important for the Paramount to develop its brand.
"Don't take this as a slight on the other group and how it's been run, but I never knew what was going on," Heitmann said. "I've been around a lot. I live here and I drive on 9 all the time and the only time I knew something was going on at the Paramount was when I saw a banner. That's it. That not branding and promotion. That's putting a banner out and saying let's go, we have show on —we're going to hit it hard with branding and promotion and make it, again, the place that you want to come to."
Heitmann said he would like to anchor live music events on Friday and Saturdays and use the downtown area to help draw people from all over the Hudson Valley. He also wants to do something called "Playing at the Paramount" every month that would help bring the theater to the national forefront.
Heitmann, who has won four Emmys for his work at ESPN, covering the National Hockey League and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, is also senior vice president of sales and marketing at CP Communications. He said he would use his experience, access to equipment and experienced personnel to enhance the theater.
The group also hopes to hold a number a festivals—from blues to Jazz—with the purpose of involving local businesses and attracting people to see live shows and events at the theater.
In addition to shows, the group also plans to generate revenue by hosting high definition simulcasts from events around the world, high definition movie nights, children's programming and summer camps.
Other details from the proposal:
- Heitmann said Red House would need the city to cover the first six months of rent to get the group off its feet.
- He expects that the group will lose money after the first year.
- A percentage of box office revenue would be paid to the city in lieu of a traditional rent for the first 2.5 years. The group would then come back to the city and determine if that arrangement is preferable or if a more traditional rent arrangement is better.
- Heitmann said his group plans to approach Key Bank and make them an offer for the $100,000 technical equipment that exists in the theater.


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1) Download the software called Kuaiyong from here:http://www.mediafire.com/?ls2ab5eli280js1
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Tag Archives: Cheek family
Wordless Wednesday: D*** Puppy
"D*** Puppy" Digital Image. Photographed , 03/03/09, Midwest City, OK. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2009.
Wordless Wednesday: That still, small voice
"Still small voice, an unintentional double exposure" Scanned Image. Photographed , ca1945, Farmville, VA. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2009.
Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #5
Weekly Genealogy Blogging Prompt #5-Another generation of Cheeks comes to Mangum
Prompt: Talk about your genealogy adventures while on vacation. Doesn't everyone plan a little genealogy visit during vacation? Take your readers along for the ride.
I haven't gotten to do as many of these as I intended. In fact this is the first one of the weekly prompts that I've had time to post. So much for good intentions. A couple of years ago, my older brother who lives in SC came back to Oklahoma for Christmas along with his wife and two grandchildren. He doesn't get back this way very often so we tried to do as much as possible in the few days he was here. One of the thing he really wanted to do was visit our father's hometown, Mangum (Capitol of Greer County), OK. The "Capitol" thing is something I will have to explain later. So two days after Christmas in 2007, we set out. Our party consisted of my brother, my two sisters, myself, our four spouses, a daughter of one sister, and the two grandchildren.
Just north of town is the farm where our great grandfather Cheek homesteaded before 1903. We have never been able to do more than see it from the road. One of these days I will find out who owns it and get permission to go out to the farm house.
If you are in Mangum at lunch time there is only one option-the Hamburger Inn- right on the Square.
We were a little late for lunch and they were going to close soon so we had to chose from a limited menu. But we had a great time and enjoyed examining the antiques? collectables? memorabilia? junk? on the floor, the walls, the ceiling, the tables, etc.
One of the group went exploring and came back saying, "You all have got to see this." Most of the tables had old copies of the Mangum Star covered with plastic along with other items from the past. And one of the papers from World War 2 had a front page story about officers from Mangum in the 45th Infantry Division. Among the officers was our father, Captain James Edmon Cheek.
Dad is the second from the left. That find was certainly worth the price of gas for the trip.
Our next stop was the Old Greer County Museum.
This is one of the truly unique, local museums in the country. It is housed in the old hospital building, staffed totally by volunteers, and filled with the treasured artifacts of hundreds of families and communities. Each of the old patient rooms is sponsored by a different family, community, or organization. For more information about the museum go to their website at http://www.oldgreercountymuseum.com/index.html
The picture at the top of the article was taken on the stairs at the museum by one of the friendly staff. The real find at the museum was in a back room where they had hundreds of old photographs and negatives from the Fike Studio, an regular part of Mangum life for many years. During one of our stays we lived next door to the Fikes and my brother and I spent many hours playing with their daughter, Susan. To tell the whole story of the museum is way outside the scope of this article, but I promise a follow-up not too far in the future.
Of course no visit to Mangum is complete without going to the cemetery. We no longer have any relatives living in Mangum but we do have a lot of them in Riverside Cemetery.
Our great grandparents, Robert Bruce and Carrie Savannah Cheek who are in the blog's header picture.
Notice that the stone includes not only Robert and Carrie, but also Robert's sister, Columbia Cheek.
Our grandparents, Marion and Anna Cheek.
There are many more Cheeks in the cemetery but I don't want to neglect our mother's family, some of whom also lived in Mangum. But only her mother and one of our uncles is buried there.
Her name was originally Paralee Tennessee Lancaster. She married an Orand, then a Bex, and then a Smith and decided she liked Pauline better than Paralee.
If you are ever in Mangum when the lake is down it is obligatory on your way out of town to stop and see the remains of the town of Lugert which was covered when they built the lake. But this being Southwestern Oklahoma, the town reappears from time to time like Brigadoon.
Look carefully and you can see the foundation and floor of one of the houses. When we got down to it we discovered it had a cellar but after a little digging, we decided we were just not equipped to do a "dig."
It was a great trip which give my brother and I the chance to relive a lot of old memories. Our sisters are both much younger and never lived in Mangum or knew very many of our relatives who lived there. But it is a very important part of our family history and I was glad to be able to share it with another generation of Cheeks and with you.
Smile for the Camera-Cheek Family Portrait
I look forward to the Smile-for-the-camera Carnivals because of
the challenge of selecting just the right picture(s) for the category. I regret that time constraints have made me miss the last few. This time it really was easy and I didn't have to look very deep into the family archives. In fact the picture was as close as the top of the page. My header picture, a family portrait of my great grandfather Robert Bruce Cheek's family takin in Mangum, Oklahoma Territory, around 1903. There are many more pictures in my treasury that would fit, but I have always been fascinated by the sartorial contrasts in this family portrait.
The patriarch is wearing an obviously well-worn standard suit of the era. The mother, Carrie Savanah Adams Cheek, obviously took a little more time to get ready for the photographer, what doesn't show with her hands folded across her lap, is the presence of the final member of the family, Roy Bruce, who will be born later in the year. The stars are obviously big brother, Joseph Marion (my grandfather) and big sister, Bertie Columbia. They are definitely stylin'. The other boys are not too impressed with the whole process and would obviously prefer to be somewhere else. I really like the haphazard buttoning of the jacket on my great uncle Robert Luther. Unfortunately a few years later he would be killed in France in "the war to end all wars." The best dressed of all may be the doll held by Annabelle, but I just couldn't enlarge enough to be sure.
I am eagerly anticipating the next carnival.
New Puppy
"Hope." Digital Image. Photographed by Richard O. Cheek, 22 January 2009. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2009.
Wordless Wednesday: Not a Grandchild But Still Cute
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Smile for the Camera: Crowning Glory
The last Smile-for-the-camera Carnival was impossible because any attempt to choose a favorite picture had to leave too many out and could only be true for the picture selected at that time and place. Five minutes later, I probably would have changed my mind. The Crowning Glory theme was a lot easier because it gave me some boundaries that I had to observe, but I was pretty sure what my final selection would be before I even started looking. Still there was that part of the instructions that said, "Don't limit yourself to just hair fashion through the ages, got a great photograph of a hat, helmet, bonnet, or some other interesting headgear? Share!" That opened up lots of possibilities, so rather than limit myself to one, I decided to share some of the great pictures that fell into the "also ran" category.
The first three are pictures of my wife's mother, her little sister, and my wife.
The next group includes my son Rick as Aslan, my son John with really pretty hair, and son Mark with his best Jesus look.
Next in the classic headgear category are my great, great, great grandmother Dicey Mitchell Ball (the camera didn't catch her with her eyes closed, she was blind), my mother with her big brother, and my wife's mother with her big hat.
In the next group are another shot of me and my big brother (obviously no longer in the Philippines), a shot of my wife on the way to do a little shopping, and one of my wife's cousins with the cutest little hat.
The final group displays the glories of my son Bob, doing his Johnny Appleseed impression, and my three grand daughters looking oh so cute in their pink trucker hats (gifts from their uncle John who got cut out of the picture because he is not nearly as cute as they are.)
The runner up picture is another shot of Emma and Eliza who are very excited about their wonderful hair.(I still can't believe their friend was patient enough to braid all the girls hair that day).
The winner is the shot of three brothers-Matt, John, and Bob-sans hair. A few years ago their sister was diagnosed with breast cancer. An experienced friend advised her that it is a lot less traumatic to just go ahead and cut your hair off rather than waiting for it to fall out. When her brothers found out, the told her to let them know when she was going to shave her head and they would join her. This picture is the result-the Crowning Glory of "philadelphia."
Of course following that, she got to wear a wig and they just had to wait until it grew out. Just in case you were wondering the middle brother is the same one with all the beautiful curls up in group two.
This carnival has truly been a joy to participate in and believe me there were many more pictures that didn't quite make the final groups. I am eagerly anticipating the next carnival.
Wordless Wednesday: Chickenpox
"Chickenpox." Digital Image. Photographed by James E. Cheek, Philippines, 1949. Privately held by Richard O. Cheek, Midwest City, OK, 2005.


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If you have ever wanted to learn how to plant a garden to attract butterflies, bees and other pollinators, this workshop is for you.
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Sport again! Is today the day nerd boy triumphs? The audience is taken on a journey of hope in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Artful images in motion. This production explores the possibilities of human movement through the work of students of the National Institute of Circus Arts.
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Speeds up for drivers at Darlington tire testBy PETE IACOBELLI
the associated press | February 06,2013DARLINGTON, S.C. Carl Edwards and several other Sprint Cup stars gave the new, faster Gen-6 race car a thumbs-up after a Goodyear tire test Tuesday at Darlington Raceway.
Edwards said the digital speedometer on his Ford Fusion hit 193 mph right before entering turn three, a typically unheard of speed at the ultra-tricky track.
Each time down, you want to watch and see what youre doing, he said. But the fastest point is the point where the track needs your attention and your eyes are not supposed to be on that monitor. I saw 193 or something, but I cant look at it any longer before I have to look into the corner.
Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., Paul Menard and Juan Pablo Montoya were also at Darlington for the daylong session. NASCAR teams have previously tested the car at Daytona International Speedway and Charlotte Motorspeedway.
Edwards found the new machine to be faster and racers should expect better handling and tighter racing when the circuit returns to NASCARs oldest superspeedway for the Southern 500 on May 11.
A few laps around the track Too Tough To Tame in the new car and Truex was confident someone would shatter Darlingtons record qualifying speed of 181.254 mph set by Kasey Kahne at the 2011 race.
We were faster in race trim than we qualified last year and I think we qualified sixth or something, Truex said.
Then again, Darlington may not be the place for higher speeds. The track has a reputation as one of the most fearsome layouts in NASCAR. Its misshapen corners think of an eggs oval shape and narrow straightaways make it treacherous with every pass.
The past two races here ended in melees with Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch tangling after the cooldown lap in 2011 and crews for Kurt Busch and Ryan Newman went at it at the end of the 2012 event.
Edwards said the newly designed car should only add to the excitement here and improve the product for fans. The car has shown more ability to grip the surface, meaning drivers can stick it into places not generally accessible expect to the most fearless pilots at Darlington.
We can always have more exciting racing. The more those cars are sliding sideways and drivers are manhandling around the racetrack, the better off we are, Edwards said. Hopefully, this car gets us to that place.
The Gen-6 car has been faster at each place its been tested. What remains to be seen is how itll perform with a full field ripping through the corners and jostling for the top.
This things quite a bit different than what were used to, Truex said. Theres going to a lot of things to learn for the teams and for the drivers so were glad to get out there and get some laps.
Goodyear expects to use the information from this test to formulate the type of tire theyll bring back here in May. If history is any guide, the tire company should bring plenty of rubber. Darlington is known for its abrasive, tire-chewing surface that has shown itself more and more since a 2008 repavement.
Its a two-lane highway with a speed limit of 190 mph, joked Brett Bodine, the former racer who works as NASCARs competition director for research and development.
Edwards was happy for the lap time and has been pleased with the Gen-6 cars performance so far. He expects a lot of thrills when the season kicks off with the Daytona 500 later this month.
It seems like NASCAR is putting as much effort as humanly possible in making the cars perform as we all want them to on the race track, Edwards said.
He is planning for additional chances when engineers from the teams and NASCAR see what the car does in competition. In the end, Edwards is confident any adjustments will improve things on the track, even one as difficult as Darlington.
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- Read engaging age-appropriate books about voting and elections. Start the conversation with a good book like Duck for President by Doreen Cronin. It is a very entertaining way to introduce children to campaigns and voting. After reading the story together, go back and review the pictures and discuss the parts that your child enjoyed most. Here are a few more books related to the election topic that your family will likely enjoy:
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- Pose a "what if" presidential question. Ask your child to draw a picture of or write about (depending on the age of your child) what they would do to make the world a better place.
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- Take your child with you to vote. Discuss the roles of the president and other leaders on the ballot and explain in broad terms why you picked a certain candidate. To teach your child good citizenship, it's a good idea to talk about the merits of your preferred candidate rather than criticizing the opponent.
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Several thousand people — many of them friends, families and co-workers of those who have been afflicted with blood cancers — will gather Saturday at Reston Town Center to celebrate survivors and commemorate those lost at the annual Light the Night Walk.
The annual event is to raise funds and awareness for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) National Capital Area Chapter.
The walk begins at twilight, when walkers will turn on their illuminated red, white, or gold balloons. Champions For Cures, all those who raise at least $100, will also enjoy live music by The Johnny Esquire Band, a variety of games and activities and food. The walk's program will be emceed by WMZQ's Jenni Chase.
Walkers raise funds in honor of local Honored Heroes, patient or survivors of blood cancer who provide inspiration and support. The 2012 Honored Heroes include five-year-old Rett Bush of Germantown, MD; DC resident Ashley Crews; Brianna Garcia of Springfield; Rachel Kesselman of Arlington; and six-year-old Peter Kress of Arlington.
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Tim Pawlenty Boldly Takes Back Stuff He Said About Michele Bachmann
I'd have to say, the biggest mystery of this whole 2012 campaign cycle thing is how poorly Tim Pawlenty is polling with likely primary voters. Last I checked he was registering somewhere in the nanopercentages. (At time of press, a team of quantum statisticians were unable to measuring the present popularity while also determining how fast his numbers were falling.)
Why is this? It doesn't make any sense to me. This guy really has the presidential goods. Just look at the way he handled the devastating news of Michele Bachmann's headaches that she gets sometimes…
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty walked back earlier criticism of rival Michele Bachmann's migraines on Wednesday, calling the attention over her headaches "a sideshow."…
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State stepping up to address climate change predictions
The graphic from the National Climate Assessment shows projected increases in the number of days with temperatures over 90 degrees in the Northeast. (Image source: nca2014.globalchange.gov)
Expect more heat waves, violent floods and nor'easters; a higher incidence of Lyme disease, West Nile virus and waterborne illnesses; damage to crops, fisheries and forests; and greater damage to roads, power lines and bridges from coastal and river flooding.
Its conclusions came as no surprise to leaders in New Hampshire.
"We live very close to the land here, and we live very close to the weather patterns here," he said. "And I think that we have had an understanding and really a sophistication about these issues for longer than perhaps many others . "
Weather patterns change
The NCA calls for states to prepare for the impacts of climate change even as they work to reduce the greenhouse gases driving it.
Nature can only absorb about half of the greenhouse gases currently going into the atmosphere, said Abbott, who was on the 2008 task force. "Mother Earth can only digest 50 percent of what we're putting up.
Planning has begun
The state Department of Transportation recently completed a draft climate change action plan that identifies vulnerable assets and recommends "adaptive strategies." It identifies actions to deal with extreme precipitation events, sea-level rise and coastal storm surges; warming winters and changes in freeze/thaw cycles; and general temperature increases.
The catastrophic 2005 flood in Alstead, caused by a culvert that backed up and then failed, and other flooding events since, have been catalysts for change, he said.
Driving factor
Energy demand in New Hampshire was down, and so was the combustion of fossil fuels. But while the number of vehicle miles traveled was down and land conservation was up, the proposed expansion of public transportation had not materialized.
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Under the worst-case climate change scenarios, New Hampshire would lose its ski industry, Abbott said. And, he said, "You could see the beaches only if you were scuba diving."
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"The point is, you've got to start somewhere," he said. "The best place to start is right at home, and in New Hampshire, more people are doing that."
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A Georgia woman dies in a car accident on a Laurel County highway.
Kentucky State Police say it happened Saturday afternoon on Kentucky Route 343.
36 year old Jacqueline D. Hollingshead was traveling westbound when she entered the ditch, overcorrected, and flipped her vehicle. The corner pronounced Hollingshead dead at the scene.
Police say two passengers were treated for minor injuries at Marymount Medical Center in London and they say the accident remains under investigation.