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Smoky Mountain Rowing Club (SMRC) is offering a free Discover Rowing class from 9 - 11 a.m., Saturday, Aug. 30, to introduce non-rowers to the sport of rowing and rowing club.
The class is held at the SMRC boathouse located at 3498 Rankin Ferry Loop at Lashbrooke Nursery in Louisville. The two-hour class is led by SMRC coaches and members of the club's masters program. Discover Rowing participants learn about the history of rowing and are instructed on basic rowing terminology, physiology and technique. Participants will also receive on-the-water instruction and how to practice rowing technique using an ergometer.
For more information about Discover Rowing, contact Adam Stoermer at 865-256-2739 (CREW) or e-mail him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit www.rowsmoky.com to learn more about rowing and SMRC.


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Computers, televisions, cell phones – old, broken or unwanted?
On Saturday, October 20, the Fountain Valley Community Foundation will be hosting an electronic waste (e-waste) collection event for local citizens to drop-off their unwanted electronic items.
The event will take place in the parking lot next to the Fountain Valley Recreation Center at 16400 Brookhurst Street from 9am to 4pm. This is a free service offered to residents to properly dispose of their e-waste and help divert waste from landfills.
Hundreds of millions of retired computers, cell phones, and electronics sit idle or are discarded by Americans every year, eventually contributing to landfill waste. Toxic substances like lead, cadmium, and mercury that are commonly used in these products can contaminate the land, water, and air. We need to make good choices about what to do with our e-waste to help ensure a clean environment for future generations.
Acceptable household e-waste items include televisions, PC systems, laptops, monitors, home entertainment systems, cell phones, desktop copiers, printers, fax machines, keyboards, DVD and VCR players, audio devices, and loose wires in working condition or not. Items not accepted are fluorescent lamps, microwaves, vacuums, and cooling units such as refrigerators.
For more information, visit www.monitorheaven.com or call Orange Coast Computers & Recycling at 800-574-5944.

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Aww, I've always enjoyed their skating. They will be missed and I wish them all the best with whatever comes next for each of them.
Aww, I've always enjoyed their skating. They will be missed and I wish them all the best with whatever comes next for each of them.
An MLB.com reporter asked what one thing Votto couldnt do. I cant skate or play hockey, Votto said. Well, I can skate ... but I cant stop.
"I guess I'm just...I'm not used to someone putting me first." -Emma, Once Upon a Time, episode 2x3, Lady of the Lake
They were so good. I think their Requiem for a Dream was the best of all.
When you are up to your arse in alligators it is difficult to remember you were only meant to be draining the swamp.
NONONONONONONONONONONOOOOOO! I'm just going to pretend I didn't hear that. They had an exquisite style and connection with each other; it just sucks that there were injuries and illinesses that held them back from collecting more medals. I, too, was hoping they'd stick around for another year or two. . . :
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They are by far my favorite American pairs team. I wish them the best as they go forward to the next chapter of their lives.
Like Navboms, this announcement was expected but it makes me sad all the same. C&O never had the chance to really reach their potential due to all the lost time caused by the injuries and illnesses. I wish them both all the best in whatever they do in the future.
Many of my favorite skaters/teams won't be around next season.
ugh another retirement that I was hoping against. I really enjoyed them as a team and hoped for them to have an injury free season.
I wish them the best of luck in everything they do
Not surprising but still . I agree with what's been said here re potential and injuries. If only....
I'm glad I had the chance to see them live in Cleveland (although it wasn't their best competition) and at Kimmie's charity show a few summers ago. I would love to see them skate again in a show, somewhere....(Disson?). Best of luck to them as they move on to the next phase of their lives.
Aw, rats. I liked their skating, too.
The fastest thing out of New Jersey since Tricky Nicky in a Muscovian handbasket
I loved their musicality, their speed, and their positions. Sad they couldn't get past the injuries. That Claire de Lune was amazing. Good luck to them in the future.
In my spare time, I like to interview figure skating legends.
Just re-watched some of their performances. I'll miss them.
2007 Nationals Free Skate - Requiem for a Dream soundtrack
2010 Nationals Free Skate - Claire de Lune
I was really surprised they came back for this past season. I thought they were gone a year earlier, but....
I wish them good luck in the future.
They are going to continue to be my favorite amarican pair for a long time, i'm not really fan of the past and actual champions in US, they don't have the what Brooke and Ben have (I can explain wjat haha).
Good luck to them now
Sad to hear this. This pair has such a smoky connection to each other, even when jumps did not work. Their programs were beautiful, intricate, dramatic. They even had the best looking costumes and right music for their temperaments
It seemed that injuries, illness conspired against them.
The Clair de Lune FS and the Ennio Morricone short were my favorites


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The Jonson family of Pasco was changed irrevocably two years ago when Sandy Jonson, 43, was diagnosed with neuromyelitis optica, a rare and terminal disease of the central nervous system.
Sandys husband Dave, 44, has spent those two years caring for his wife as she degenerated and became partially paralyzed. She takes 40 different medications three times each day at a cost of about $3,000 per month and thats after insurance pays a share.
The familys fortunes took another turn for the worse about two months ago when 5-year-old Landon, one of the couples five children, collapsed after complaining about a tummy ache.
After a battery of tests, a doctor discovered during an exploratory surgery that Landons intestines and other internal organs were twisted and their blood supply had been cut off a relatively rare medical condition that Landon had since birth, but only recently caused him problems.
About 1 in 500 are born that way, but they very rarely have issues, Dave Jonson told the Herald. Somehow something happened and those organs got twisted up.
Landons initial prognosis was only about a 5 percent to 10 percent chance of survival, although that was upgraded to 95 percent after five surgeries and weeks in the hospital.
A nurse walks out of the operating room and ... is saying the best case is we have to take out all of your sons intestines, bowels and colon, remove three-quarters of them, he said.
Dave Jonson then was faced with the prospect of having to be in Seattle for weeks with his son who might not make it while leaving his terminally ill wife at home with no one to care for Landons 5-year-old twin brother. Sandy cant walk. Her left arm is paralyzed and she has partial paralysis in her right arm.
She is a person who was very active active in the community. She always did everything for all the kids, all the kids friends, Dave Jonson said. Now she depends on me to eat, to administer medications. She cant drive. She depends on me to get her to Seattle to see her doctors.
When a Pasco preschool offered to donate child care for Landons brother, Dave Jonson was able to temporarily juggle the demands of caring for his wife and child, but now the preschool is closing.
And Dave Jonson is running out of available time off from his job at Bechtel, and hes worried about losing his job altogether.
Now here I am faced with being over here with no way to find or afford day care, he said. Im having to go home with a son who will need full-time nursing care. I have a wife who needs care. No day care. No preschool. No income coming in.
Friends hope the Tri-City community will help cover some of the familys ongoing medical costs by donating to the Jonson Family Medical Fund at Chase Bank, a bank account set up by one of Dave Jonsons colleagues.
Dave Jonson said anything would help, but in the meantime, hes trying to focus on the positive.
My wife being alive is a miracle. My son being alive is a miracle. Dont ever take those blessings for granted, he said.
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t's shaping up to be another big fall festival weekend for the region. Area residents looking for something to do should consider attendance at one or more of these popular gatherings.
The fun gets underway today with the 18th annual Southern West Virginia Italian Festival at the Bluefield City Auditorium. The gathering opens this evening with a special dinner and dance. The activities continue on Saturday with a full-day of fun and great food at the city auditorium.
The festival will feature live entertainment, including Willie Nelson tribute artist Casey Ferguson and friends, as well as crafts, treats, vendors and plenty of Italian pasta sure to please all tastes.
Proceeds from the festival support Lodge 2631 programs, including the college scholarships the lodge presents annually.
Also Saturday is the 17th annual Bramwell Oktoberfest. The festival runs from 2 to 8 p.m. in historic downtown Bramwell. Dozens of area musical acts will be performing at the celebration, which includes good food, fellowship and micro- and home-brewed beers. Visitors to the new Pocahontas segment of the Hatfield-McCoy Trail are expected to participate in this year's Oktoberfest as well.
Also Saturday is the second annual Food Festival at St. Mary's Orthodox Church off of U.S. Route 460 in Bluefield. The festival gets underway at 11 a.m. and continues until 4 p.m. It includes authentic foods from Lebanon, Greece, Eastern Europe (Slavic, Polish Czech, Hungarian), Ethiopia and Romania. Father Mark Tyson will host tours of the church during the festival, while Daniel Adams along with Rick Olivarez and Court Stewart will present Slavic music and other ethnic favorites.
The Seed To Soul Festival 2012 also is Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Mansion at Fort Chiswell. Admission to the grounds and the entertainment is free. Events include the grand opening of the new Key Ingredients restaurant; a rock climbing wall; copper kettle apple butter making; local artisans and growers; a wine bar with tasting; mansion tours; games; horse and buggy rides; and live musical performances.
Also Saturday, the Rocket Boys of McDowell County will be landing in Raleigh County for the debut of the Beckley-edition of the annual October Sky Festival. A mainstay in the small Coalwood community for more than a decade, Rocket Boy Homer Hickam created a stir earlier this year when he decided to move the popular fall gathering to Beckley. But everything seems to be coming together very nicely for a bigger October Sky Festival in Raleigh County. The weekend activities will be centered around the Exhibition Coal Mine in the New River Park, and will conclude with a bus ride to Coalwood. So in a way, McDowell County is still a part of the festival — in a somewhat smaller way.
So regardless of whether you travel to Bluefield, Bramwell, Beckley or Max Meadows, take time to get out this weekend and enjoy some great fall festival fun.
Fall festival fun — Plenty of events this weekend
t's shaping up to be another big fall festival weekend for the region. Area residents looking for something to do should consider attendance at one or more of these popular gatherings.
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Snow and sleet are expected by 10 p.m., followed by snow, freezing rain and sleet. A low of about 28 is predicted. Snow and sleet may accumulate up to one inch.
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The City University of New York
Applied Mathematics Seminar
The City University of New York
Applied Mathematics Seminar
Department of Mathematics
Graduate Center of CUNY
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Fridays 4:00PM-5:00PM
Room: 8405
Organizers: Faranak Pahlevani, Jesenko Vukadinovic, Hüseyin Yüce
Spring 2012
Feb 10: Organizational meeting
Threshold Phenomena for Symmetric Decreasing Solutions of Reaction-Diffusion Equations
We study the Cauchy problem for nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation (u_t = u_xx + f(u), u(x,0) = \phi (x), x \in R, t > 0), with different nonlinearities. By using energy functional and exponentially weighted functional, for symmetric decreasing initial conditions, we prove one-to-one relation between long time behavior of solution and limit value of energy. Then we study the threshold phenomena. This is a joint work with Cyrill Muratov.
Feb 24: No meeting today
Mar 02: TBA
Mar 09: Keith Promislow (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI)
Network Formation and Ion Conduction in Ionomer Membranes
Many important processes in the physical world can be described as a gradient (overdamped) flow of a variational energy. We present a broad formalism for the generation of new classes of higher-order variational energies with a physically motivated structure. In particular we reformulate the Cahn-Hilliard energy, which is well know to describe the surface area of mixtures, into a higher-order model of interfacial energy for mixtures of charged polymers (ionomers) with solvent. These materials are important as selectively conductive membrane separators in a wide variety of energy conversion devices, including polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells, Lithium ion batteries, and dye sensitized solar cells.
Our reformulated energy, called the Functionalized Cahn-Hilliard (FCH) energy, captures elastrostatic interactions between the charged groups and the complex entropic effects generated by solvent-ion interactions, and allows us to unfold the bilayer and pore networks formed by the solvent phase imbibed into the polymer matrix. We discuss sharp interface reductions of the FCH energy, its gradient flows, and sharp interface reductions of the gradient flows that give rise to higher-order curvature driven flows. We also describe extensions to models that couple to ionic transport and as well as to multiphase models suitable to describe a wide range of membrane casting processes.
[1] N. Gavish, J. Jones, Z. Xu, A. Christlieb, K. Promislow, submitted to Polymers Special issue on Thin Membranes (2012).
[2] H. Zhang and K. Promislow, Critical points of Functionalized Lagrangians,
Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, A to appear.
[3] N. Gavish, G. Hayrapetyan, Y. Li, K. Promislow, Physica D, 240: 675-693 (2011).
[4] K. Promislow and B. Wetton, PEM fuel cells: A Mathematical Overview, Invited Review Paper to SIAM
Applied Math. 70: 369-409 (2009)
Mar 16: No seminar today
Mar 23: Levent Kurt (The Graduate Center of CUNY)
The Higher-Order Short Pulse Equation
We derive an equation, the higher-order short pulse equation (HSPE), from the nonlinear wave equation
to capture the dynamics of ultra-short solitons in cubic nonlinear media using both multiple
scaling technique and re-normalization group. The multiple scaling derivation will be presented. The
numerical solution of the HSPE as the exact one- and two-soliton solutions of the short pulse equation
(SPE) being the initial conditions and its comparison to the numerical solutions of the SPE and
original equation will also be demonstrated.
Mar 30: Christina Mouser (William Paterson University, New Jersey)
The Control of Frequency of a Conditional Oscillator Simultaneously Subjected to Multiple Oscillatory Inputs
The gastric mill network of the crab Cancer borealis is an oscillatory network with frequency ~ 0.1 Hz. Oscillations in this network require neuromodulatory synaptic inputs as well as rhythmic inputs from the faster (~ 1 Hz) pyloric neural oscillator. We study how the frequency of the gastric mill network is determined when it receives rhythmic input from two different sources but where the timing of these inputs may differ. We find that over a certain range of the time difference one of the two rhythmic inputs plays no role what so ever in determining the network frequency while in another range, both inputs work together to determine the frequency. The existence and stability of periodic solutions to model sets of equations are obtained analytically using geometric singular perturbation theory. The results are validated through numerical simulations. Comparisons to experiments are also presented.
Apr 20: Peter Gordon (New Jersey Institute Technology, New Jersey)
Local kinetics and self-similar dynamics of morphogen gradients
Some aspects of pattern formation in developing embryos can be described by nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. An important class of these models accounts for diffusion and degradation of a locally produced single chemical species and describe formation of morphogen gradients, the concentration fields of molecules acting as spatial regulators of cell differentiation in developing tissues. At long times, solutions of such models approach a steady state in which the concentration decays with distance from the source of production. I will present our recent results that characterize the dynamics of this process. These results provide an explicit connection between the parameters of
the problem and the time needed to reach a steady state value at a given position. I will also show that the long time behavior of such models, in certain cases, can be described in terms of very singular self-similar solutions. These solutions are associated with a limit of infinitely large signal production strength.
This is a joint work with: C. Muratov, S. Shvartsman, C. Sample and A.Berezhkovskii.
Apr 27: Ionut Florescu (Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey)
Solving systems of PIDE's coming from regime switching jump diffusion models
In this talk we consider an underlying model where constant parameters are switching according to a continuous time Markov process. The times of switch are modeled using a Cox process. In addition the model features jumps. We examine the option pricing problem when the stock process follows this process and we find that a tightly coupled system of partially integro-differential equations needs to be solved. We exemplify the solution on several case studies. We also analyze two types of jump distributions the log double exponential due to Kou and a new distribution which we call a log normal mixture which seems to be useful in precisely modeling the jumps and distinguishing them from sampled variability.
May 04: Kasia Pawelek (University of Oakland, MI)
Mathematical Modeling of Virus Infections and Immune Responses
The first part of the talk is about mathematical models for the HIV infection. Such mathematical models have made considerable contributions to our understanding of HIV dynamics. Introducing time delays to HIV models usually brings challenges to both mathematical analysis of the models and comparison of model predictions with patient data. We incorporate two delays, one the time needed for infected cells to produce virions after viral entry and the other the time needed for the adaptive immune response to emerge to control viral replication, into an HIV-1 model. We begin model analysis with proving the local stability of the infection-free and infected steady states. By developing different Lyapunov functionals, we obtain conditions ensuring global stability of the steady states. We also fit the model including two delays to viral load data from 10 patients during primary HIV-1 infection and estimate parameter values.
The second part of the talk deals with mathematical models for the Influenza infection. The mechanisms underlying viral control during an uncomplicated influenza virus infection are not fully understood. We developed a mathematical model including both innate and adaptive immune responses to study the within-host dynamics of equine influenza virus infection in horses. By comparing modeling predictions with both interferon and viral kinetic data, we examined the relative roles of target cell availability, and innate and adaptive immune responses in controlling the virus. This study provides a quantitative understanding of the biological factors that can explain the viral and interferon kinetics during a typical influenza virus infection.
May 11: Kia Dalili (Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey)
Modeling network evolution
Networks constructed out of real world data often exhibit a number of properties not normally seen in random graphs. Amongst them are a tendency to have a modular structure and a small average shortest path length. We will introduce a model of network evolution using benefit-maximizing independent agents as nodes, and use it to explain how modularity emerges in complex networks and how the environment within which the agents interact controls the degree of modularity.
Fall 2011
Sept 02: Organizational meeting
Sept 09: No meeting today
Sept 16: No meeting today
Sept 23: No meeting today
Sept 30: No meeting today
Oct 07: No meeting today
Oct 14: Philippe G. LeFloch (Université Paris VI and CNRS)
Undercompressible shocks and moving phase boundaries
Regularization-sensitive wave patterns often arise in continuum physics, especially in complex fluid flows, which may contain undercompressive shock waves and moving phase boundaries. I will review here the theory of solutions to nonlinear hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, in the regime when small-scale effects like viscosity and capillarity drive the selection and dynamics of (nonclassical) shocks. The concept of a kinetic relation was introduced and provides the proper tool in order to characterize admissible shocks. The kinetic relation depends on higher-order terms that take additional physics into account. A general theory of the kinetic relation has been developed by the author and his collaborators, which covers various issues such as the Riemann problem, the Cauchy problem, the front tracking schemes, and several numerical strategies adapted to handle nonclassical shocks. Relevant papers are available at the link: philippelefloch.org.
Oct 21: Robert Numrich (College of Staten Island-CUNY)
Computer Performance Analysis and the PI Theorem of Dimensional Analysis
This talk applies the Pi Theorem of dimensional analysis to a representative set of examples from computer performance analysis. It takes a different look at problems involving latency, bandwidth, cache-miss ratios, and the efficiency of parallel numerical algorithms. The Pi Theorem is the fundamental tool of dimensional analysis, and it applies to problems in computer performance analysis just as well as it does to problems in other sciences. Applying it requires the definition of a system of measurement appropriate for computer performance analysis with a consistent set of units and dimensions. Then a straightforward recipe for each specific problem reduces the number of independent variables to a smaller number of dimensionless parameters. Two machines with the same values of these parameters are self-similar and behave the same way. Self-similarity relationships emphasize how machines are the same rather than how they are different. The Pi Theorem is simple to state and simple to prove, using purely algebraic methods, but the results that follow from it are often surprising and not simple at all. The results are often unexpected but they almost always reveal something new about the problem at hand.
Oct 28: No meeting today
Nov 04: No meeting today
Nov 11: Joab Winkler (The University of Sheffield, UK)
The computation of multiple roots of polynomials whose coefficients are inexact
This lecture will show by example some of the problems that occur when the roots of a polynomial are computed using a standard polynomial root solver. In particular, polynomials of high degree with a large number of multiple roots will be considered, and it will be shown that even roundoff error due to floating point arithmetic, in the absence of data errors, is sufficient to cause totally incorrect results. Since data errors are usually larger than roundoff errors (and fundamentally different in character), the errors encountered with real world data are significant and emphasise the need for a computationally robust polynomial root solver.
The inability of commonly used polynomial root solvers to compute high degree multiple roots correctly requires investigation of the cause of this failure. This leads naturally to a discussion of a structured condition number of a root of a polynomial, where structure refers to the form of the perturbations that are applied to the coefficients. It will be shown that this structured condition number, where the perturbations are such that the multiplicities of the roots are preserved, differs significantly from the standard condition numbers, which refer to random (unstructured) perturbations of the coefficients. Several examples will be given and it will be shown that the condition number of a multiple root of a polynomial due to a random perturbation in the coefficients is large, but the structured condition number of the same root is small. This large difference is typically several orders of magnitude.
A method developed by Gauss for computing the roots of a polynomial will be discussed. This method has an elegant geometric interpretation in terms of pejorative manifolds, which were introduced by William Kahan (Berkeley). The method is rarely used now, but it will be considered because it differs significantly from all other methods (Newton-Raphson, Bairstow, Laguerre, etc.) and is non-iterative. The computational implementation of this method raises, however, some non-trivial issues – the determination of the rank of a matrix in a floating point environment and the quotient of two inexact polynomials – and they will be discussed because they are ill-posed operations. They must be implemented with care because simple methods will necessarily lead to incorrect results. I will finish the talk by giving several non-trivial examples (polynomials of high degree, with several multiple roots of high degree, whose coefficients are corrupted by noise), and the results will be compared with other methods for the computation of multiple roots of polynomials whose coefficients are corrupted by noise.
Nov 18: No meeting today
Nov 25: No meeting today
Dec 02: Pam Cook (University of Delaware)
Complex (wormlike micellar) fluids: Shear banding and inertial effects
Pam Cook (University of Delaware) {with Lin Zhou, New York City College of Technology and Gareth McKinley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Concentrated surfactants in solution, depending on the concentration, salinity and temperature, self-assemble into highly entangled wormy cylindrical micelles. In solution these "worms" entangle, exhibiting visco-elastic properties like polymer solutions. In addition to reptative and Roussian relaxation/disentanglement the worms break and reform and are thus known as "living" polymers. When sheared, as the applied shear rate increases experiments show that the steady state velocity profile across the gap of the shear cell transitions from a single shear-rate to a two banded profile. The transition to the two banded state is accompanied by a strong viscous thinning. The VCM (Vasquez, Cook, McKinley) model is a rheological equation of state capable of describing these fluids which specifically incorporates the rate-dependent breakage and reforming of the worms as well as non-local effects arising from coupling between the macroscopic stress in the deformed elastic network and the microstructure. The constitutive equations describe the evolution of the number density and stresses of two micellar species (a long species 'A' which breaks to form two worms of a shorter species 'B' which can then reform). The resulting system of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations includes conservation of mass, momentum, and the constitutive relations. Tracking of the spatio-temporal evolution of flow shows that this "simple" two-species description does exhibit many of the key features observed in the deformation-dependent nonlinear rheology of these wormlike micellar solutions. The model has been studied in detail under several flow conditions including elongational flow, pressure-driven channel flow, and in Large Amplitude Oscillatory Shear (LAOS)). In those studies the flow was assumed to be inertialess, so that boundary information travels throughout the sample at infinite speed.
In this talk, the predictions of the VCM model incorporating the effect of fluid inertia are presented as the flow evolves to steady state in a Couette cell following a controlled ramp in the shear rate. The presence of fluid inertia results in short time transient propagation of elastic shear waves (which damp and diffuse over longer time scales) between the boundaries and, as a result of the interaction of these shear waves with the spatio-temporal development of the shear-bands, the model predicts multiple shear banded states in steady shearing deformation over a wide range of parameter space. The dependence of the region of multiple banding on model parameters (elasticity, diffusivity, shear rate) and on initial conditions (ramp speed) is analyzed. Both three-band and four-band solutions are observed.
Dec 09: No meeting today
Dec 16: No meeting today


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If you follow national news at all, odds are you've heard of Amy Chua by now. She's a Yale professor who wrote a memoir about how she raised her two daughters the "Chinese way." Because the "Chinese way" basically boils down to "don't screw around," a lot of other parents were puzzled and outraged at her methods, some even calling her the "worst mother ever."
What most people don't realize, however, is that coddling kids and boosting their self-esteem no matter what—the more American way—really doesn't help them in the long run. You can either raise your kids more like Chua did and end up with a daughter who maybe debuts at Carnegie Hall at age 14, or spend all your time validating their feelings and maybe end up with A.J. Soprano for a son. In short, we really don't think Chua is so bad, and has been unfairly demonized.
In her honor, we compiled this list of six other famous moms who aren't as bad as you remember.
Mama Boucher (The Waterboy)
Bad Mom: As the story goes, little Bobby Boucher didn't have what they call, *ahem*, the "social skills." Most of this is attributed to the fact that his redneck mom kept him isolated on a bayou compound during his formative years when he should've been playing doctor and lighting ants on fire like a normal growing boy.
Instead, he learned that little girls were the devil. If that's not being psychotically overprotective, we don't want to know what is.
Good Mom: Without his mom keeping him insulated and unwittingly contributing to his dangerously-suppressed rage, Bobby would've never been able to elicit the deep-seeded anger necessary if you want to start drop-kicking dudes in the end zone and take The Fonz all the way to the Bourbon Bowl. We think they call that a blessing in disguise.
Sarah Connor (Terminator II)
Bad Mom: Right away in T:2, we find out that the future savior of mankind is a little prick who likes to boost ATMs and gets away with riding a crotch-rocket despite the fact that he's ten years old. It stands to reason that not having a father around was part of the reason.
Literally, he got sent back to the past and died before he was born, so…he technically never existed in the first place, right? Right? Yeah, we have no idea, either. Add to that a mom more interested in teaching him how to blow stuff up than taking him to the park or telling him to go play doctor, and you got a recipe for disaster.
Good Mom: Speaking of disasters, roughly 99.9999999% of the population has no idea that a robot apocalypse is coming, except Sarah Connor. We say a little arrested development is worth not leaving the fate of mankind in Keanu Reeves' hands.
Queen Alien (Aliens)
Bad Mom: The queen mother from Aliens is probably the reason you're glad you're not smart enough to be an astronaut, and therefore not privy to exotic space travel. She's big, black, scary and lethal beyond imagination because she rips apart androids like gingerbread cookies and breeds like a gall wasp. Technically, she's a bad mother because she spends more time reversing the order of nature, i.e. killing pretty much anything, than tending to her young.
Good Mom: Can't really blame a mom for defending her offspring and being a little pissed off when somebody incinerates them, right? Because that's exactly what Ripley did before she nuked the whole planet—killed all the Queen's children. This is the same Ripley who—as revealed in a deleted scene—lost her own daughter while she was in hyper-sleep for 57 years, and should have some kind of sympathy for a mom looking out for her own, even if that mom is literally filled with acid.
Mrs. Robinson (The Graduate)
Bad Mom: Not only did Mrs. Robinson cheat on her husband, she did it with a guy half her age who happens to be the son of one of her friends. When that same guy happens to fall in love with her daughter, and vice-versa, her maternal instincts are called into question. Out of jealousy, she more or less forces her daughter to marry some other rich dude in spite of her true feelings.
Or maybe she just didn't like the idea of how insanely awkward all future Christmas & Thanksgiving get-togethers would be. Either way.
Good Mom: Mrs. Robinson may very well have invented cougarism. Before her, middle-aged broads seducing guys half their age was tragically looked upon with scorn and intolerance. Somebody had to step up to the plate and make the world safe for other moms with no conceivable way to deal with a midlife crisis. On behalf of all twentysomething males, we salute you, Mrs. Robinson.
Bad Mom: Madonna almost tops the list of most pretentious, holier-than-thou pop stars, so there's already a pretty healthy dislike working against her. As a mother, she didn't exactly garner a ton of goodwill when she kept up with the trend of celebrities hoarding black babies from shitty African countries when she adopted two orphans from Malawi.
In a nationalistic sense, she touched a raw nerve among Malawians who didn't take kindly to the idea of one of their own being airlifted to greener pastures. In a social sense, she touched a raw nerve with everybody else who doesn't see parenthood as a pet project for the ultra-rich.
Good Mom: Before her adopted son David could even speak, he'd survived tuberculosis and malaria, and his mother and three siblings had died of HIV. For him, it was either take his chances in an overcrowded, dilapidated orphanage, or live with the wealthiest female singer in the world. So…yeah, talk to him when his trust fund matures, and see if he's complaining.
Bad Mom: By all historical indication, the mother of Alexander the Great was the kind of mother little league coaches pray they never have to deal with – manipulative, overbearing and with a fetish for snake orgies and murder. She wanted Alexander to be king…badly. Some mothers would've been content with just making him do his homework, drink his milk, say his prayers and hope he'd make something of himself. Not Olympias.
She went the extra mile by allegedly having Alexander's father assassinated, and (not so allegedly) making his second wife kill herself and having her two children killed, thereby freeing up the throne for her son. When Alexander did start wearing the crown, she constantly underminded his professional advisors and had him do pretty much whatever she wanted.
Good Mom: It's worth questioning whether Alexander would've been as successful as he was had mommy dearest not been oedipally whispering into his ear all those years. Without mom telling him what to do, just maybe Alexander doesn't stem the rising tide of the Persian Empire and allow Greek culture—the very seedbed of Western civilization, to flourish.


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RALEIGH — Gov. Pat McCrory signed legislation Wednesday that rejects major components of the federal health care law, denying about 500,000 low-income people health care coverage under an expanded Medicaid program.
The measure also prevents North Carolina from establishing a state-sponsored marketplace for health insurance, giving the control to the federal government, which will begin selling policies on the exchange in October.
McCrory voiced support for the controversial measure as it progressed through the General Assembly and reiterated his concerns about the state's current system and inability to absorb new participants, particularly after a state audit showed misspending and administrative troubles in the system.
"In my first eight weeks as governor, I've had to make some difficult decisions," McCrory said in a statement released by his office after he signed the bill in private. "Before considering Medicaid expansion, we must reform the current system to make sure people currently enrolled receive the services they need and more taxpayer dollars are not put at risk."
The Republican's signature on the measure puts North Carolina in the minority of states that oppose extending government-paid health care coverage in 2014 to those below 138 percent of the federal poverty line, one of the key provisions of President Barack Obama's health care law.
A number of prominent Republican governors who opposed the federal law, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a close McCrory ally, have agreed to expand Medicaid. At this point, roughly 28 states plan to expand coverage or appear likely to do so, while 17 states are not participating or leaning against it. Another five are undecided.
McCrory and GOP state lawmakers made clear they are willing to reconsider the state's position in the future if changes are made to the current system and the federal government softens its rules for expansion.
But such a move would cost the state more money without the current federal incentives, and administration officials said it is unlikely to happen in the next couple of years.
Under the Affordable Care Act, the federal government would pay the entire cost for newly eligible Medicaid patients for the first three years, declining on a sliding scale to no less than 90 percent after 2019.
The number of state residents who receive Medicaid is already expected to increase as those currently eligible but not covered seek coverage because of the federal insurance mandate. Those people "coming out of the woodwork" will cost the state roughly $900 million over eight years.
Republicans' concerns
In opposing the expansion, Republicans cited the cost and doubts about the sustainability of future federal money. They also voiced overall objections to "Obamacare."
Republicans also feared a large portion of newly eligible people would move from private insurance to the government-paid plan, but studies and industry experts say the number of people that might do that is much smaller, ranging from 10 percent to 30 percent.
Democrats fought the measure by emphasizing that 1.5 million people in the state don't have insurance.
Rep. Verla Insko, a Chapel Hill Democrat, said the state's system is solid, despite administrative challenges. The problems cited "are not a good reason not to expand," she said. "If they are waiting for perfect, they are not going to get there."
The decision not to expand hits hardest those who aren't currently eligible but fall below the federal poverty level. This group is not able to receive subsidies to buy health coverage through the exchange, like those between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
"In the short run, it means hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians will remain uninsured, and they are not going to get adequate medical care," said Jonathan Oberlander, a health policy professor at the UNC School of Medicine. "Research shows it makes significant health difference for people who get coverage. ... There is mounting evidence that it saves lives."
The director of the state's Medicaid program, Carol Steckel, a McCrory appointee, said she doesn't believe an expansion would help the uninsured get better care because there are not enough providers. "If I gave 700,000 people who don't have health care coverage a Medicaid card in North Carolina, do you really think they would get healthier?" she recently told Stateline News Service.
In the same interview, she disputed that low-income people don't have options for coverage, saying they can use rural health centers, as well as free clinics and state health departments. "Right now, all they're talking about is Medicaid or emergency rooms like there's nothing in between," she told the publication. "Well, there is this whole system in between."
The jobs angle
A state report estimated that expansion would add 25,000 jobs in the health care industry and infuse $1 billion into the state to help meet the growing number of insured patients.
Democrats touted the study as a reason to extend Medicaid coverage. "This is a jobs bill," Insko said, using a familiar political refrain. "A lot of the issues we are dealing with are not jobs bills, but this is."
Without the expansion, hospitals warn job cuts are possible. The federal health care law cut billions of dollars paid to hospitals to help defray the cost of uncompensated care because more patients would be covered under an expanded Medicaid program. N.C. hospitals totaled $3 billion in uncompensated care in 2011, according to the industry's state association.
David Herman, the CEO at Vidant Health, which owns 10 hospitals in Eastern North Carolina, said he remains optimistic about expansion in the future and will try to prevent deep cuts.
"We will do everything we possibly can to insulate (our patients) from the reduction in payments we are going to get because those funds are being diverted to other states for Medicaid expansion," he said in a recent interview. "And make it safe and rational for the state of North Carolina to consider Medicaid expansion sometime in the future."
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Matt Kisber, commissioner of the state Department of Economic and Community Development, had toyed with the idea of running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. But he won't.
"I'm going to go with my mentor," Kisber said last week in a brief conversation.
His mentor, Kisber said, is former Gov. Ned McWherter, who is, of course, backing his son, Mike McWherter in the gubernatorial race.
While Kisber did not go into details, it is reasonable to expect expect some more substantive and more publicized commentary on the Kisber endorsement in the future.
Isn't this a blow for Roy Herron? He served in the House with Kisber.
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Happy Valley was perfect for Joe Paterno, a place where "JoePa" knew best, where he not only won more football games than any other major college coach, but won them the right way: with integrity and sportsmanship. A place where character came first, championships second.
Behind it all, however, was an ugly secret that ran counter to everything the revered coach stood for.
Paterno, a sainted figure at Penn State for almost half a century but scarred forever by the child sex abuse scandal that led to his stunning dismissal, died Sunday at age 85.
His death came just 65 days after his son Scott said his father had been diagnosed with a treatable form of lung cancer. The cancer was found during a follow-up visit for a bronchial illness. A few weeks later, Paterno broke his pelvis after a fall but did not need surgery.
Mount Nittany Medical Center said in a statement that Paterno died at 9:25 a.m. of "metastatic small cell carcinoma of the lung." Metastatic indicates an illness that has spread from one part of the body to an unrelated area.
The hospital says Paterno was surrounded by family members, who have requested privacy.
Paterno had been in the hospital since Jan. 13 for observation after what his family called minor complications from his cancer treatments. Not long before that, he conducted his only interview since losing his job, with The Washington Post. Paterno was described as frail then, speaking mostly in a whisper and wearing a wig. The second half of the two-day interview was conducted at his bedside.
His family released a statement Sunday morning to announce his death: "His loss leaves a void in our lives that will never be filled."
"He died as he lived," the statement said. "He fought hard until the end, stayed positive, thought only of others and constantly reminded everyone of how blessed his life had been. His ambitions were far reaching, but he never believed he had to leave this Happy Valley to achieve them. He was a man devoted to his family, his university, his players and his community."
Two police officers were stationed to block traffic on the street where Paterno's modest ranch home stands next to a local park. The officers said the family had asked there be no public gathering outside the house, still decorated with a Christmas wreath, so Paterno's relatives could grieve privately. And, indeed, the street was quiet on a cold winter day.
Paterno's sons, Scott and Jay, arrived separately at the house late Sunday morning. Jay Paterno, who served as his father's quarterbacks coach, was crying.
Paterno built a program based on the credo of "Success with Honor," and he found both. The man known as "JoePa" won 409 games and took the Nittany Lions to 37 bowl games and two national championships. More than 250 of the players he coached went on to the NFL.
"He will go down as the greatest football coach in the history of the game," Ohio State coach Urban Meyer said after his former team, the Florida Gators, beat Penn State 37-24 in the 2011 Outback Bowl.
Paterno roamed the sidelines for 46 seasons, his thick-rimmed glasses, windbreaker and jet-black sneakers as familiar as the Nittany Lions' blue and white uniforms. He won 409 games and two national championships.
The reputation he built looked even more impressive because he insisted that on-field success not come at the expense of high graduation rates.
But in the middle of his 46th season, the legend was shattered. Paterno was engulfed in a child sex abuse scandal when a former trusted assistant, Jerry Sandusky, was accused of molesting 10 boys over a 15-year span, sometimes in the football building.
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---- — As sectarian strife continues to rock the Middle East, it seems increasingly difficult to remind ourselves of the power of religion to bring diverse spiritual tribes together in worship. We cannot despair. We must remind ourselves over and over again that the dream of a world united in celebration and praise is repeated and emphasized countless times within our great classical religious texts. This dream is not a post-modern creation or a fantasy born of the '60s. It is rather a foundational premise of the Hebrew Bible.
Isaiah in one of the most famous passages (Isaiah 2:4) from the Bible tells us, "It will come to pass in the end of days that God's house shall be established as the top of the mountains … and all the nations shall flow towards it. And many nations will go and say: 'Come! Let us go up to the mountain of God … and we will walk in way of God … and they shall beat their swords into plowshares … and they shall not learn of war anymore."
Tzephaniah, another of the great ancient prophets of Israel, writes, "I will transform the peoples to a more beautiful language that they all will call upon the name of God and serve Him with one purpose."
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The Bible is telling us not only does particularism (a focus on one people/tradition) not preclude universalism, it is in fact the only vehicle by which the world can achieve common purpose! Can 7 billion individuals morph into one way of life, one ideology, one religion? Probably not. Can thousands of "tribes" unite together in common purpose and common destiny? Perhaps. This is the "Abrahamic" vision. A world in which Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and every other spiritual pathway dedicated to the notion of a One God/Spirit/Power/Force that binds us all together, work and walk together as they beat their "swords into plowshares."
We need not dilute our unique religious traditions to achieve a united world; just the opposite. The deeper we delve into our texts and the stronger our connection is to the Infinite, the more likely it is that we will feel the pull of the Spirit that surrounds us and flows through us all.
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Isabelle Albanese, Principal and Founder of Consumer Truth Ltd., is a nationally known marketing and communications expert, a leading marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and the author of The 4Cs of Truth in Communications: How to Identify, Discuss, Evaluate, and Present Stand-out, Effective Communication (Paramount Market Publishing). Her Web site is: Consumer Truth Ltd.After earning her BS in business from DePaul University and attending business school at DePaul and the University of Chicago, Albanese earned her real-world chops at the venerated Ted Bates Advertising Agency in New York, where she started out as account manager on the M&M Mars confection brands.
Later, she served as senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson Advertising, where she spent 11 years in both the New York and Chicago offices, playing a key role in the strategic communications efforts of leading consumer packaged goods brands such as Nestle, Helene Curtis (Unilever) Hair Care, Miracle Whip (Kraft Foods), and Trident Gum (Warner-Lambert/Pfizer).
Since 1999, Albanese has led the highly regarded consulting firm, Consumer Truth Ltd., which has earned a global reputation for its consumer insight– driven approach to strategic messaging. She and her business partner and husband, Ken Quaas, a former advertising agency veteran, have actively applied the 4Cs model hundreds of times to objectively validate and optimize consumer response to communications efforts of top American brands, as well as those of many other brands for advertising agency partners such as J. Walter Thompson, Foote Cone & Belding, Leo Burnett, Element 79, and Ogilvy and Mather.
She has presented the 4Cs model to rave reviews at international conferences among both client and colleague audiences. Through conducting upwards of 1,000 group discovery sessions, one-on-one interviews, and in-home/on-site ethnographies, Albanese has developed an expertise for hearing and innately understanding consumer truths.
Albanese is certified by the Marketing Research Association at the "Expert" level as a Professional Research Consultant (PRC), and is an active member of the Qualitative Research Consultants Association (QRCA) and the American Marketing Association. She lives in suburban Chicago with her husband, Ken Quaas, and their three children.


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The Cortez Area Chamber of Commerce recently held a grand opening and ribbon cutting at the Cell Phone Nurse Gaming & Gadget Repair located at 326 W. Montezuma in Cortez. The Cell Phone Nurse fixes all makes and models of cell phones, all console and handheld gaming systems, digital music players, tablets, e-readers, and GPS units, even if they have liquid damage.
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Overview: A 409-mile-long strip of land called the Upper Peninsula is surrounded by lakes Michigan, Superior and Huron. It is majestic leaf country in Fall. The Ottawa National Forest is located in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan and offers some of the most spectacular fall colors available in the nation. Golden aspens and tamarack mix with northern hardwoods to insure unlimited opportunities for enjoying Fall color.
A favorite drive along the Black River near Bessemer MI, sometimes called the "jewel of the forest", is now a National Scenic Byway. Part of that byway is Ottawa Forest Service Road 2200. You also want to visit nearby Porcupine Mountain Wilderness.
The Hiawatha National Forest is located in Michigan's central and eastern Upper Peninsula. The leaf season starts a little later here and a Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore visit is recommended during the autumn color change.
Viewing Dates: Early viewing begins in mid-September in the Ottawa NF. The Hiawatha NF fall viewing season is usually a little later and peaks the first and second weeks in October.
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A jury trial in Halifax County Circuit Court for John Phillip Martin, accused of attempted capital murder and related charges stemming from a police chase in October 2011, has been continued, according to court records.
The trial for the 34-year-old Scottsburg resident was due to start Wednesday, but the court delayed the trial one day in order for Martin's counsel, which had just been hired weeks ago, to better prepare for the case, according to Halifax County Commonwealth's Attorney Mike Freshour.
The court continued the trial Thursday morning after it was made aware of a Facebook posting that seemed to indicate some of potential jurors might not be impartial, Freshour explained.
"On Thursday, just before jury selection began, the court was made aware of a posting on Facebook that seemed to indicate that some of the potential jurors might not be impartial," Freshour said in a statement late Thursday.
"The post was in response to someone indicating the trial was to start on Wednesday morning and hoping that justice would be done."
That by itself would not appear to cause a question regarding juror impartiality, Freshour said.
"However, someone posted in response that he/she had spoken to some potential jurors, and that the poster believed those individuals would make sure justice was done," the commonwealth's attorney continued.
"The court determined that this gave the appearance that the defendant may not receive a fair trial as some potential jurors may have made a decision about the outcome of the case before hearing any evidence.
"The appearance of impropriety resulted in the court continuing the matter to a date in the future with another jury pool."
"I am very disappointed that this trial had to be continued, especially for this reason," Freshour said.
"However, it is important that each and every defendant is afforded a fair trial.
"Unfortunately, it has become increasingly common for social media to impose its presence in the courts resulting in mistrials and continuances in many jurisdictions in the commonwealth."
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In a case heard last Tuesday, Steven Lee Brooks, 31, of South Boston was convicted of a charge for failing to register as a sex offender.
Sentencing for Brooks was continued to a date in the January court term.


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Dr. Bowers - Trinidad CO
Marci Bowers is a Gynecologic Surgeon who in January 2003 joined renowned SRS surgeon, Dr. Stanley Biber in Trinidad, Colorado. A 1986 Medical School graduate from the University of Minnesota, she served as class and student body President. She is a former Department Chairperson at Swedish Medical Center (Providence) in Seattle and had consistently been one of the busiest surgeons in Seattle until her move to Colorado. Dr. Bowers brings 20+ years of pelvic surgery experience to her work in gender surgery. She was voted as one of America's Best Doctors for 2002-2003 and was recently elected to the European Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Bowers performs a highly modified version of the penile inversion technique originally developed by Dr. George Burou, also a gynecologist. Dr. Burou performed GRS in Casablanca from the late 1950's until the 1970s. His original description of the procedure found its way to Johns Hopkins' gender program, where Dr. Stanley Biber requested these original drawings in 1969. He then applied his general surgery experience and modifications to the technique.
When SRS succumbed to politics in the 1970's, university based SRS programs withdrew their support and began to close. This left Dr. Biber as the premier SRS surgeon in the world, eventually resulting in Trinidad, Colorado's coronation as the "Sex Change Capital of the World"
During her nearly 8 years in Trinidad, Dr. Bowers made substantial improvements and innovations to the surgery. Most notable was the move to an entirely one-stage procedure with a high degree of esthetic refinement.
"Many have come here to Trinidad to learn the surgery...some didn't have the hands, some didn't have the confidence, and some didn't have the heart. Marci is the first to have all three"
"Make no mistake...Marci IS the future of Transgender Surgery"
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The move to California late in 2010 has had its challenges. First and foremost, Dr. Bowers had to consider the needs of patients. Although costs are higher, not surprisingly, here in San Francisco, Dr. Bowers was able to keep costs to patients virtually flat compared to Colorado. This took sacrifice on the part of Dr. Bowers, shortening of the hospital stay (compensated by extra time in the recovery facility), and a very cooperative administration here at Mills-Peninsula Hospital and at the San Mateo Surgery Center (SMSC), located adjacent to the new office.
An extremely pleasant aspect of the move has been the excellent staff, colleagues and superb post-op facility called the RCI (Recovery Care Inn). It is part of Mills Hospital and is served by full nursing care in a loving, private, dedicated portion on the top floor of the hospital, views of San Francisco Bay.
Another plus is the proximity of the clinic, hospital and Residence Inn Marriott to the San Francisco International Airport. Everything is within 10 to 15 minutes of the airport. The Bay Area is beautiful, and offers wonderful food, weather, shopping, and sight-seeing. Exciting San Francisco is located just 30 minutes north of San Mateo. We have found the people in California to be so warm and welcoming...we know you'll enjoy your stay!
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The annual Meet in the Street St. Patrick's Day celebration in Canton's O'Donnell Square is sponsored by the square's resident Irish bar and restaurant, Claddagh Pub. The other Canton Square bars and restaurants join in, and the result is Baltimore's most raucous St. Patrick's Day celebration. O'Donnell Street is shut down to traffic, so pedestrians - with beers in hand - rule the square. Outdoor beer tents, live music, and an Irish good time rule the weekend.
***St. Patrick's Day 2010 in Baltimore***
Meet in the Street
March 12-13, 2010
Where: Canton's O'Donnell Square
When: Friday, March 12 and Saturday, March 13, rain or shine
Bars: Claddagh Pub, Looney's Pub are the primary participants. Other square bars, like JD's, Speakeasy, Mama's on the Half Shell, Nacho Mama's, and Coburn's also join in the festivities.
Free parking will be available Friday, March 12 after 5 p.m. and all day Saturday, March 13 at the Brewer's Hill parking lot on O'Donnell St., just past Conkling St. The lot is seven blocks east of the square.
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Looking for a hybrid rental car? "Pick Enterprise," the company says.
Enterprise Rent-A-Car has doubled the number of gas-electric hybrid cars in its fleet and added two hybrid branch locations in the Portland metro area.
The rental car company said it had designated two branches -- one at Portland International Airport and one at 1623 W. Burnside St. -- as hybrid branches, with a high concentration of new gas-electric vehicles available for rent online or by phone.
Enterprise said it recently added nearly 5,000 hybrids to the national fleet, doubling the number it previously owned.
"The ability to choose an environmentally friendly and fuel-efficient vehicle is important to many of our customers here in Portland," said Sabrina Rokovitz, vice president and general manager for Enterprise in Portland.
Rokovitz added that Portland had a high demand for fuel-efficient vehicles, which led the company to increase hybrid availability in this market.
Enterprise will offer three hybrids, the Toyota Prius, Nissan Altima and Ford Escape, with local rates starting at $45 per day.
The company plans to open some 80 other neighborhood and airport hybrid branch locations across the U.S. in coming weeks.


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Via NRSC: ObamaCare is a train wreck; so much so that the Obama Administration – in unprecedented fashion – last week delayed the implementation of a key provision in the law, the employer mandate, until 2015 (conveniently just months after the midterm elections).Selective implementation of the law aside, where does Bruce Braley – who spent the last four years championing ObamaCare stand today? Week after week, families, workers and businesses learn more about the disastrous implications that ObamaCare will have upon them and the economy. Bruce Braley didn't care.
Now that the ObamaCare reality is far from Bruce Braley's promise of "legislation [that] will provide much-needed relief for thousands of businesses," he's silent.
After four years of celebrating ObamaCare, Washington Democrats face a choice of two political evils ahead of the 2014 midterms: implement the train wreck or, delay it – and desperately try to protect weak Senate candidates from the political backlash over the taxes, fees, mandates and penalties scheduled to take effect the same year voters will head to the polls.
In hopes of pulling their trial attorney pal Bruce Braley up to the Senate, Washington Democrats have chosen the latter. And after his now ludicrous assessment of ObamaCare, it's no wonder Bruce Braley seems so uncertain.
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Egberton Rulove "Roelly" Etienne-Winklaar first came to national prominence in the US with his overall win at the 2009 NPC Arnold Amateur Championships, displaying a rare combination of massive size and shredded conditioning that heralded big things to come. After earning his pro card, Roelly returned for the 2010 IFBB Arnold Classic and turned plenty of heads with an eye-popping physique that earned him a strong seventh-place finish in a deep field in his IFBB debut. After placing third at the 2010 IFBB Australia Pro Grand Prix, Roelly shocked the bodybuilding world by winning the 2010 IFBB New York Pro. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new star was born.
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Professor Richardson on Recycling Paints
Professor Richardson will give a talk on recycling paints used in the Plastics Lab in the AB 2-225 (Cribathon) on May 27 during lunch on behalf of GEO (Green Engineering Organization).
Professor Richardson will give a talk on recycling paints used in the Plastics Lab in the AB 2-225 (Cribathon) on May 27 during lunch on behalf of GEO (Green Engineering Organization).
The Q3s is an ATD (or crash test dummy) that represents a 3-year-old-child. It was developed to evaluate injuries to children in side impact crashes.
2013 was a great year for new and ongoing research projects at Kettering.
The grant that Dr. Jaerock Kwon received will support the hardware and software components of the Knife-Edge Scanning Microscope.
Justin Young (principle investigator), Terri Lynch-Caris, Mehrdad Zadeh, Girma Tewolde and Giuseppe Turini co-sponsored a program.
The work of Dr. Janet Brelin-Fornari, Kettering University professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Crash Safety Center, supports the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) notice of proposed rulemaking on a side-impact standard for automotive infant and child safety seats. The NHTSA work is due to be released later this year.
This fall, Brelin-Fornari, among the foremost scholars in the field of vehicle crash safety, will deliver a lecture to TRW executives, explaining the new rules from NHTSA.
Kettering University researchers presented a prototype of an electric scooter to students and faculty of Harvard University and MIT in Boston this month.
The Celebrate Achievement Expo May 18 will display some of Kettering University's most innovative research.
Did you know that Swedish Biogas currently saves Flint $200,000 a year? Come hear Dr. Nartker talk on the newest partnership between Swedish Biogas International and Kettering University via an engaging lunch discussion. 7th Wednesday! Food is provided!
Kettering Haptics students are introducing new innovations into Flint's medical community.