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Aggie Villanueva
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Media specialist, photographer and author, Aggie Villanueva, will discuss her recent publication, "The Rewritten Word: How to Sculpt Literary Art no Matter the Genre". She is also the founder of Promotions A La Carte.
My first art fair: A zero or a hero?
in Art
In the beginning art fairs were created and artists and art buyers flocked to attend. You were one of them. Your mother and your friends thought your work was wonderful and maybe they were right, so off you went to the marketplace. How did it go? Was it a triumph or a humbling experience?
A panel of beginner and experienced artists from various media discuss their "first time." What you will learn:
how they prepared
where they were, big or small fairs
how it impacted their lives
their biggest disappointments and their biggest surprises
learning from their own mistakes vs learning from other's mistakes
what they wish they had known then and how they used that information
the good, the bad and the really ugly
how to do three shows in three days and other extreme adventures
their #1 tip for a first time show
Happy Birthday Episode! Art of Love -The Book is 1! Host Ashley Davene
in Spirituality
Join host Ashley Davene with a special Birthday episode of Art of Love Radio. Ashley will be sharing a few passages from the book, and sharing her story to becoming an Author.
Drop into a conversation of the heArt Xo
MUSE: The Art of Transformation and Healing with Edie Hartshorne
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Art 4 All People has a conversation with with Edie Hartshorne, a pioneer in the arts and healing field. Edie is one the featured artists in Art 4 All People's latest group exhibtion MUSE: The Art of Transformation and Healing. Which is three month exhibtion at Commonweal in Bolinas. MUSE is an enchanting offering of the art of healing, that inspires all to dance in the realms of art as form of empowerment and knowing. The intention for this Arts and Healing Exhibition is to harness the power of art, to create a deeper engagement and to shift the world's attention towards empowerment, transformation and healing through Arts. The ultimate goal of the MUSE exhibit is to inspire, activate, educate and integrate Arts and Healing into our daily lives and systems. We inspire you to become an active participant and to ignite your genius in the art of life
In this radio show we will explore the power of art and healing through the MUSE and all its layers.
Lounging in "The Living Room" on ART Imitates LIFE with Tanya M. Dixon
Join host Tanya M. Dixon for another exciting edition of ART Imitates LIFE Radio Show as she takes time to do a special edition of "The Living Room" highlighting the topic, "What Is Your Idea of the American Dream: Are You Living Your Dream & Should You Have A Plan B?" Special guests and the AIL Team will weigh in on the topic on a very special live call-in show.
Tanya Dixon along with Chris Dickerson will bring us "Hot Off the Press" and Fitness Mike Porter will do the "Healthy Lifestyles" segment as well.
Call us during the live show at (347) 945-7191!
Art of Love Radio Season 2 Finale Host Ashley Davene & Special Guests!
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Join us this week for our final episode of season 2! Our topic is "Love Spectacular Spectacular" we will be recapping the season & sharing thoughts, visions, and songs about love!
Host Ashley Davene, Author, Spiritual Relationships Counselor, Media Personality, Lover.
Special Guests:
Zachari Vandyne, Oracle, owner of Casa Shanti, gifted visionary & the creator of Peace Day in the Park a SWFL celebration of Peace & Love.
Daniel Tyler Pohnke & Mai Segev-Pohnke creators of Full Moon Rising Project... inovators of blissful sound, spreaders of peace and love and the crafters of Art of Love Radio's Theme Song "Give Love"
Drop into a conversation of the heART, and celebrate a beautiful second season. Xo
Art of Love Radio Host Ashley Davene
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Welcome back from Spring Break! Fresh from the heat of summer Ashley will host this weeks episode solo! The topic is "Pleasure Part 2" an add on to the popular episode from last season Ashley explores the importance of pleasure as a part of everyday life, and enjoying the heat and the pleasure of this sunny season! Experiencing life through your senses, enjoying, while staying true to yourself.
Host Ashley Davene, Author of the book "Art of Love" available on Amazon.com, Ranked amongst the top journalists in the country for her healthy living column via Examiner.com, Spiritual& Relationship Counselor, Media Personality, Recording Artist & lover of life.
Drop into a conversation of the heART. We'll be chatting! Xo
Interview with Actor, Art Bonilla!
Art's latest Short, "Contrapelo," where he plays a proud Mexican barber who is forced to shave the leader of a drug cartel. As he faces the man who is destroying his country, he is confronted by a difficult decision: to become a killer, or to let this man continue to kill. By the end of the shave, the Barber will find out that he and the Capo are not very different.
For more on Art Bonilla, check out our Blog at http://www.TheSashaMarinaShow.com
DEBRA PONEMAN: The Art of Living a Life Beyond Happy
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For over 30 years, Debra Poneman, a pioneer in the world of personal growth, taught principles of success that transformed the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world creating millionaires, billionaires, and household names. And then one day, she asked herself: But are these people really happy?
The answer she received lead her to search for the truth behind happiness During this interview, Debra will share her amazing discovery of how it is not only possible for you to be happy, but it is possible for you to move beyond happy to live a life that is truly miraculous.
In this interview, you will:
~Hear what researchers have discovered happens when you don't make your dreams come true
~Understand why obstacles are your greatest allies
~Discover the simple shifts you can make so that happiness is effortless – no matter what is currently going on in your life
~Learn how to make miracles the order of the day - every day
Cindy and Linda are delighted to welcome her back to the show. Learn more about Debra and her amazing work by visiting her website at: www.yestosuccess.com
Art of Love Radio Host Ashley Davene Guest Co/Host Jeremy Bhimji
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This week's topic is "Wealth Principles & Financial Freedom" exploring the power of positive thinking, looking at success as a path, goal setting, living the life of your dreams.
Host Ashley Davene, Author of the book "Art of Love" available on Amazon.com, Ranked amongst the top journalists in the country for her healthy living column via Examiner.com, Spiritual& Relationship Counselor, Media Personality, Recording Artist & lover of life.
Special Guest Co/Host Jeremy Bhimji, Business Owner, Entrepreneur, Marketing Guru, and Motivational Speaker, born and raised in the South, Jeremy always saw the value of financial freedom & building self worth. Originally taking a corporate business path Jeremy made a life change towards empowerment after an awakening moment on a beach in the Spanish Riviera. He realized that life is too short to allow opportunities to pass you by and that you are the creator of your own destiny.
"Your goals should be so large that everyone around you can feel it" –Jeremy Bhimji
The Rebirth of Romance and The Art of Seduction
Zan Perrion is internationally recognized as one of the most original and insightful voices on relationships and seduction in the world today. A regular media commentator, he has been widely featured in the international press. Zan is the founder of the Ars Amorata philosophy--a celebration of the art of seduction, the rebirth of romance, and a lifelong quest for beauty and adventure. He is also a co-founder of the Amorati network of men. Zan divides his time between Canada and Romania
Art of The Red River, RRR
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Join artists and show hosts, Mike Dubisch, Carolyn Watson Dubisch, and Wade Zahares as they talk to artists, sculptors and other members of the art world. Our first guest is an artist from Tucson, Arizona. Matt Cotten is the artistic director of Puppets Amongus. He writes, fabricates and performs puppet presntations. His passion for puppetry grew out of his rich history as a visual and performing artist. He is one of the original artistic directors of Tucson's famous All Souls Procession, as well as being the co-founder and co-director of his past troupe, Tucson Puppet works. He is also a painter and for more than ten years taught painting and drawing at the University of Arizona. Our second guest is painter Pam Akins from Sparks, Maryland. Pam is a graduate from the Maryland Institute College of Art and has a masters degree in painting from Queens college in NY. She has been teaching art in the Baltimore county school system for nearly 30 years. While raising 2 children with her husband and artist, Jeff, she has been painting the Maryland landscape. She shows her work in several galleries in the Baltimore area. Listen in for your window into the world of art.
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MENOMONEE FALLS, Wis. (AP) -- Kohl's Corp. said Thursday it has reached a property agreement to keep its headquarters in Menomonee Falls.
The department store chain will take ownership of about 100 acres in Woodland Prime, a Menomonee Falls business park. Kohl's will also acquire a small office building adjacent to the land.
In exchange, Menomonee Falls will assume ownership of Kohl's former distribution center in the village. The company says it plans to build a second corporate campus on the vacant land and continue to operate it current headquarters in Menomonee Falls. Currently, nearly 3,000 people work at Kohl's headquarters.
Kohl's CEO Kevin Mansell says the company has always preferred to stay in Wisconsin, but needed time to study options, including a move outside the state. The transaction is expected to close this fall.
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6 Confirmation Questions For Ben Bernanke
Before his second stint at the Fed, let's learn what we don't know about all those bailouts
It's not surprising that Ben Bernanke is getting a second round as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Had President Obama bounced Bernanke after one four-year term, it would have sent an unsettling message just as the economy appears to be turning the corner. And history may show that Bernanke's aggressive intervention in the economy over the last 18 months has been much more prudent than the hands-off approach his detractors would have preferred.
But Bernanke has been a key player in a gargantuan government-aid regime that now totals nearly $10 trillion in money lent, spent, or pledged to aid the economy. We know very little about where that money has gone, and when answers come they tend to be unsatisfying. Bernanke's confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee this fall will be an excellent chance to get some answers. Here are six of the top questions on my list:
When will taxpayers get their money back from AIG? So far the government has spent $85 billion on this bottomless bailout, in exchange getting a 79.9 percent ownership stake in the wrecked insurance company. The Fed has bought an addition $47 billion worth of troubled AIG securities, which it hopes to sell for a profit at some point in the future. AIG has probably been the biggest single problem in the whole financial meltdown, and to the Fed's credit, it had no good options when it stepped in to rescue AIG last September. The whole mess is Exhibit A in the case for a new regulatory structure that provides an effective way to deal with huge non-bank companies that could singlehandedly trash the economy if they fail, which is AIG's claim to fame.
[See 9 firms least likely to pay back their bailout money.]
But now, taxpayers deserve to know if they're ever going to get back their investment in AIG. The answer is probably no, at least not all of it. Bernanke should explain why, and then tell us what we got for our $85 billion, or however much we end up burning on AIG. That money needs to be accounted for and now's the time to start doing it. (Other bailouts that will probably go unredeemed include Chrysler, General Motors and GMAC, but those are mostly Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's responsibility, not Bernanke's.)
Why did Goldman Sachs get AIG bailout money? Six months after the beginning of the AIG bailout, we learned that $12.9 billion worth of AIG bailout money actually went to Goldman Sachs, which had multiple deals with AIG that the government basically redeemed at 100 cents on the dollar. Three European banks got more than $30 billion in AIG bailout money, with other AIG trading partners getting lesser amounts. There may have been a sound reason for passing through so much money to AIG counterparties. So what was it? And why didn't those trading partners even take a haircut on their deals with AIG, when the government itself will probably lose a bundle? This deal is especially fishy given that former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson came straight to Washington from Goldman, where he was CEO. Bernanke has the standing to put conspiracy theories to rest—if there's a convincing explanation for the Goldman payouts that for some reason we haven't heard so far.
[See why a housing rebound could take 20 years.]
Why is Citigroup still in business? By most accounts, this rogue bank made so many bad bets with its money—and other people's—that it would have gone out of business five times over without massive government aid. The feds have given Citi $45 billion, plus guaranteed the better part of $301 billion in dodgy assets, with no payback plan in sight. Smaller banks in such bad shape have been summarily taken over by the FDIC and sold off, but Citi is apparently a special case. Why? Just because it's huge? Last fall, when the financial system was at the edge of a cliff, it may have made sense to treat the biggest banks with kid gloves. But the government gave Citi more money in January to keep it solvent, and now it effectively owns one-third of the bank. So why not devise a plan to break up Citi in an orderly way, sell it off and send the message that size doesn't inoculate a bank against repercussions for horrendous decisions?
Why Bear Stearns and not Lehman Brothers? Wall Streeters love to gripe about how the Fed and the Treasury screwed up by failing to rescue Lehman Brothers last September, which triggered a meltdown that quickly spread throughout the financial system. There are some plausible reasons for why the feds didn't broker a deal to save Lehman; for instance, there was no buyer for the firm as there was in the case of Bear Stearns six months earlier. But the real question may be why did the government rescue Bear Stearns in the first place? That bailout, in March 2008, created a very clear expectation that any other financial firm that stumbled would get a similar bailout, which was clearly a factor in some decisions Lehman made before realizing the feds were going to let the firm fail. With 18 months of hindsight it would be nice to know whether Bernanke would do the whole thing again the same way.
[See 10 cities facing the next real-estate bust.]
What was your biggest mistake over the last 18 months? The whole bailout regime has been a wild affair, with no playbook, some risky audibles and a few fumbles. Bernanke deserves credit for helping calm panicky markets and forestalling a depression, but there have been some ugly moments, too. It would be nice to hear what he thinks his biggest flub has been. Extra points for candor (which, in the hellfire environment of political Washington, he probably won't earn.)
[See 8 industries that will sit out a recovery.]
Is the American public smart enough to understand what's been going on? Obviously Bernanke would say yes, but the government has in fact acted like hundreds of taxpayer-funded bailouts are none of our business—even though we're paying for them. Bailout details have been scarce. In some cases New York State attorney general Andrew Cuomo has forced release of sensitive info—on banker bonuses at AIG and Merrill Lynch—that the feds wouldn't divulge. And the government doesn't like to talk about when it's going to get that bailout money back. If Americans are smart enough to understand the bailouts and what's behind them, then the government should give us the information straight. And if we're not smart enough, then we get the bankers we deserve.


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Dan Irwin
New Castle News
New Castle looked a lot different in 1913, even before it was overwhelmed by the raging waters of the Shenango River.
That flood – the worst in the city's recorded history – resulted in an estimated 1,000 homes being swamped from the city's First Ward all the way to Mahoningtown, with many lifted from their foundations and washed downstream. "Scores Homeless," the March 26 New Castle News proclaimed.
"We're not used to a lot of people living in the downtown area; it's more of a business district today," noted Robert Presnar, local historian and program director at The Hoyt Center for the Arts. "If this happened today, it would cause transportation problems, you'd have to shut buildings down, things like that. But there wouldn't be the residential evacuations you saw back in 1913.
"It got so bad at the height of it that homes were just torn from their foundations, and they looked like dollhouses that were just thrown on their sides."
The disaster started 100 years ago this week when an unusually powerful and widespread storm system arrived in Lawrence County after pummeling the Midwest. On March 24, 25 and 26, The New Castle News reported, "the day and night had been marked with intermittent showers with great volumes of water pouring down from the clouds."
The Neshannock Creek was the first to crest its banks, but it began to recede the afternoon of March 25. That's when the Shenango River stepped up, spilling over about the same time at "a height never before attained, spreading out over the entire low-lying course of the stream throughout the city."
Water backed up from the river to Mill Street, with The Diamond "under water four or five feet deep," The News reported. On West Falls Street, water was "six, seven and eight feet high around some buildings," and "the lower part of Mahoningtown was almost completely submerged."
"The downtown," Presnar noted, "was accessible only by rowboats, and some of those boats were borrowed from Cascade Park (where a lake existed until the 1980s). Anyone who had a rowboat was asked to bring it in, and they started to do evacuations."
Indeed, the March 28 edition of The News noted that in the areas of Grant and Lawrence streets and Mahoning Avenue, "police, firefighters and volunteers worked night and day, rescuing families from flooded homes."
Those evacuation efforts accounted for one of the two deaths blamed on the flood: city police officer Thomas Thomas, who drowned near the area of the Shenango Tin Mill. Thomas, The News reported, had been in a rowboat "working all day long rescuing persons" when the craft overturned. Alderman J.H. Gross, with whom Thomas had been working, reportedly reached the roof of a Preston Avenue home and was able to climb inside through a second story window. Thomas' body, though, was later found near the tin mill.
The other flood-attributed fatality is that of 5-year-old Peter Chirozzi, who was playing atop a wall along the Neshannock Creek when he fell off and was drowned. The tragedy, though, did not occur until April 10, two weeks after the flood waters were at their zenith.
Still, stranded residents weren't the only problems New Castle faced.
The city went dark when water submerged the generators of the power plant, and New Castle's water supply plant also had to be shut down. Neither service was restored for days. Schools, businesses and industry closed as well, and all transportation – including the railroads in and out of town – came to a halt.
Mayor Walter Tyler, Police Chief Norris Mitchell and Fire Chief Frank Connery and members of their departments remained on continuous duty from midnight Monday until late Thursday.
And still the Shenango raged.
On the morning of March 26, the historic Black Bridge, a wooden, covered span that connected the city to Union Township near the confluence of the Neshannock and Shenango waterways, was swept away.
The same day, The News said, water was "running over the Grant Street Bridge a foot high (and) the bridge was roped off yesterday and declared unsafe." Eventually, it too would be lost, along with the Gardner Avenue Bridge and a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge that had been weighted down with "seven or eight loaded coal cars" in a futile attempt to save it.
Though there wasn't anything that could be done for the bridges, various groups and organizations sprang into action to assist those who had to flee – or be plucked from – their homes. "Several churches were thrown open," The News reported. "The school houses were open and the city hall, together with several moving picture theatres.
"Food was supplied at the Second United Presbyterian Church, and many of the homeless were cared for at private homes throughout the city."
Local author and historian Anita Devivo is impressed by the way in which "foreigners," as The News called them, were assisted at the Lawrence School at the west end of Mahoning Avenue.
"The principal of the school, she went over on the day they set it up for the 'foreigners' and she knew so many languages she decided she'd stay through the flood," Devivo related. "So they had the boss there the whole time. I thought that was a nice thing for her to do. We don't really know who the 'foreigners' were, but maybe they'd been in the country a short time and didn't speak English at all."
Ultimately, New Castle wasn't the only Lawrence County community ravaged by floods in March 1913.
"Volant was hit pretty hard, Wampum was hit pretty hard," Presnar said. "It affected all of our water systems, from the Mahoning to the Beaver; the Little Neshannock, the Big Neshannock and the Connoquenessing, too."
The March 26 News reported that Clyde Elder of Ellwood City experienced a close call when he "fell into the rushing waters of the Connoquenessing and was swept away." Elder, though, was able to grab a tree root and pull himself to safety
Even residents of New Castle's West Side, unaffected by the flood waters per se, "were suffering for lack of gas, and food" because their section of town had been cut off from the rest of the city.
Finally, on Friday morning, the town awoke to sunny skies and the initial receding of flood waters. However, the nightmare still wasn't over.
"Then there was the awesome job of rebuilding and just cleaning up," Presnar noted. "It would be a pretty stinky town."
(Tomorrow: Aftermath and reaction.)


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Money managers under the microscope
Got those Great Recession blues
Given the amount of money central banks have been pumping into the global economy you'd be forgiven for thinking we should be getting a pretty decent recovery right now. And whilst that seems true for emerging markets, market participants and consumers just can't rid themselves of the feeling that there is another shoe yet to drop.
Citi's Matt King encapsulated this general nervousness in his presentation at the CFA Institute's European Investment Conference in Copenhagen on Tuesday. And according to King, there are some very good reasons why corporates and households just can't bring themselves to load up on more debt.
"We've had the worst recession since the 1930s, but it doesn't feel like it, because we haven't taken all the pain yet," he said. "We've simply shuffled the debt around – that's why markets are still so volatile and correlations are so elevated."
King argued that if this is a normal cycle, corporates will soon come under pressure from shareholders to start borrowing again in order to invest and expand. "The risk is this is not a normal cycle, but something different," he said.
CQS upbeat on credit
It's not often that the bigger hedge fund firms share their market positioning, especially at a time when funds are struggling to find decent investment ideas.
So it's interesting to see CQS, which runs $7.5 bln, offering its views on credit markets.
From Reuters TV: PB's fishing, but are Hedgies biting?
In a desperate attempt to win market share, prime brokers are courting blue-chip hedge funds with offers of cheap credit. But are hedge funds biting?
Counting sheep
By Lorraine Turner
Speakers at the Reuters Hedge Fund and Private Equity summit this week were asked "what keeps you awake at night" and the answers were wide-ranging, from "my 7-week old daughter" to "the next meteorite".
Some executives are left counting sheep over the heavyweight questions that are plaguing our economies such as how low investment markets will fall or how the credit crisis can be eased as businesses remain stymied by a lack of credit.
Blowin' in the wind
The timing of the Alternative Investment Management Association's hedge fund disclosure initiative indicates just how strong the winds of change are blowing in hedge fund land.
Coming just a day after ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet called the credit crisis "a loud and clear call" for extending hedge fund regulation, the move shows the hedge fund industry feels it must be more active in deciding the future shape of regulation.
A loud and clear call
It may not have been a massive surprise, but ECB President Jean-Claude Trichet had an unwelcome message for hedge fund managers today.
The current crisis is, apparently, "a loud and clear call" to roll out regulation to all important market players, "notably hedge funds and credit rating agencies".


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Hi guys struggling to find a performance air filter that isn't a panel filter.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Hi guys struggling to find a performance air filter that isn't a panel filter.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
IMO Audi doesn't design their cars to be air restricted. The best intake for our cars is the stock OEM one. Just add in a pipercross filter and your set.
Unless it's just the sound of an intake your after...
It is really just the sound to be honest lol, but i would prefer performance over sound, and also what is best for the engine.. Thanks for your help!! Panel filter it is :-)
There is also a sound deadener inside the air box, it looks like foam. Just yank the plastic retainer off and remove the foam, give you a little bit more sound. It's what I done in mine, along with a pipercross and it sounds nice, a little whoosh sound.
I went with a "green" filter and the sound is the same. I read a lot and most people found no significant benefit to something like the carbonio intake due to the existing oem design being good at keeping heat out.
I'll try mine without the deadening foam some time too!
I have a BSR intake sounds great fitment is spot on and cheaper than carbonio.
Thanx guys!! All your help is appreciated!! Seems I have a few options to play with now


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1,000 drivers stopped at government checkpoints Friday yielding 27 arrests
Evelyn Santiago, 37, of Hyde Park, was arrested for aggravated driving while intoxicated and disobeying a police officer. Police said Santiago drove through the checkpoint on Route 28, nearly striking a trooper before police were able to stop her a short distance later and take her into custody.
State and local police stopped 150 vehicles at the Salem checkpoint, arresting eight, giving numerous warnings and issuing one summons for operating without a license.
Those arrested were: Thomas Brisendine, 26, of Salem, and Matthew Debreceni, 20, of Londonderry, each for transportation of a controlled drug; Kyle Dowd, 32, of Lawrence, Mass., and Ashley Church, 22, of Derry, each for possession of a controlled drug; Linda Fagerstrom, 64, of Salem, for DWI; Sean Oakes, 48, of Seabrook, for DWI subsequent offense and transportation of a controlled drug; and John Silva, 51, of Salem, for DWI subsequent offense.
At a checkpoint on Route 1A in Seabrook, police stopped 688 vehicles, arresting 18 people and placing six teenagers in protective custody.
Others arrested were Rachel Preston, 19, of Dracut, Mass., Devin Murray, 19, of Groveland, Mass., and Jordan Guditas, 19, of Newburyport, Mass., each for transporting alcohol by a minor; Darren Englelke, 17, of Groveland, Mass., and Marrissa Dellacroce, 18, of Newburyport, Mass., each for unlawful possession of alcohol; Frank Cirone, 36, of Woburn, Mass., and Karen Batten, 21, of Dracut, Mass., each for open container; and Robert Silva, 18, of Reading, Mass., for internal possession of alcohol/prohibitions.
In Portsmouth, police screened 219 drivers at a checkpoint on Lafayette Road, near Mirona Road, netting one arrest. Bradley Birkenfeld, 48, of Rye Beach, was arrested for DWI. He will be arraigned on Aug. 1.
Those charged in Seabrook were given a court date of Aug. 14 or Aug. 15 in the 10th Circuit Court-Seabrook Division. No arrest date was released for those arrested in Salem.
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National media seeks informed answers concerning Amish
The October 2 tragedy at the Nickel Mines Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pa., renewed national interest in the Amish community. In the weeks following the shooting, David Weaver-Zercher, associate professor and chair of the Biblical and religious studies department, fielded inquiries from dozens of news publications, radio stations, and television networks, including the BBC, MSNBC, and The Washington Post, to provide commentary about the Amish.
Weaver-Zercher, whose research has dealt extensively with the interface between Amish culture and mainstream culture, said that initial questions focused on how the Amish community would respond to the attack which left five young girls dead and others critically injured. Would they make changes in their school security measures? Would the event change the way they relate to the non-Amish world around them?
It wasn't long before interest centered on the "radically counter-cultural" response of forgiveness, says Weaver-Zercher, who saw his role in the media as one of educator. The author of two books on Amish life—The Amish in the American Imagination and Writing the Amish: The Worlds of John A. Hostetler—Weaver-Zercher sought to help the public understand the way that Amish practices "are motivated by their Christian faith commitments."
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September 13, 2007Compromise on Oil Law in Iraq Seems to Be Collapsing By JAMES GLANZBAGHDAD, Sept. 12 — A carefully constructed compromise on a draft law governing Iraq's rich oil fields, agreed to in February after months of arduous talks among Iraqi political groups, appears to have collapsed. The apparent breakdown comes just as Congress and the White House are struggling to find evidence that there is progress toward reconciliation and a functioning government here.Senior Iraqi negotiators met in Baghdad on Wednesday in an attempt to salvage the original compromise, two participants said. But the meeting came against the backdrop of a public series of increasingly strident disagreements over the draft law that had broken out in recent days between Hussain al-Shahristani, the Iraqi oil minister, and officials of the provincial government in the Kurdish north, where some of the nation's largest fields are located.Mr. Shahristani, a senior member of the Arab Shiite coalition that controls the federal government, negotiated the compromise with leaders of the Kurdish and Arab Sunni parties. But since then, the Kurds have pressed forward with a regional version of the law that Mr. Shahristani says is illegal. Many of the Sunnis who supported the original deal have also pulled out in recent months. The oil law — which would govern how oil fields are developed and managed — is one of several benchmarks that the Bush administration has been pressing the Iraqis to meet as a sign that they are making headway toward creating an effective government.
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NORMAN — Haley Robin Hudson and Benjamin Scott Sherrard were united in marriage March 2, 2013, in an evening ceremony at McFarlin Memorial United Methodist Church in Norman.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Hudson, of Norman. The bride is the granddaughter of Margaret Bradley, of Norman, and the late Clyde Bradley, formerly of Drumright, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hudson, of Pittsburgh, Penn.
The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott Sherrard, of Arlington, Texas. The groom is the grandson of Melinda Guinn, of Arlington, and the late Jim Guinn, formerly of Graham, Texas, and Jerrye Sherrard, of Winter Haven, Fla., and the late Charles Sherrard, formerly of Denison, Texas.
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Dec Press: 30 lb x 10, 35 lb x 10, 35 lb x 10, 40 lb x 10
Inc Press: 30 lb x 10, 35 lb x 10 , 35 lb x 10
these machines are the ones where you load plates on either side
i forget the exact name of them:
Isolated Chest Machine: 70 lb x 10, 70 lb x 10, 70 lb x 10
High Isolated Chest Machine: 45 lb x 10, 45 lb x 8 , 45 lb x 8
2 different kinds of machine flys. one is sort of fixed, the other has free moving bars.
Machine Fly: 5 plates x 10, 5 plates x 10, 5 plates x 10
Machine Fly: 75 lb x 10, 90 lb x 10, 90 lb x 10
thursday - back
Machine Row: 90 lb x 10, 110 lb x 10 x 2, 130 lb x 10
Bent Over Row: 35 lb x 10 x 2, 40 lb x 10
Lat Pull Downs: 8 plates x 10 x 3
Wide Grip Lat: 7 plates x 10 x 2
Cable Row: 6 plates x 10, 8 plates x 10, 10 plates x 10 ( struggled )
Machine Lat: 130 lb x 10, 150 lb x 10 x 2
Friday - Triceps and Shoulders
Arnold Press: 12.5lb x 10, 15lb x 10 x 2
Military Press: 15lb x 10 x 3
Front Raise: 17.5lb x 10 x 3
Lateral Raise: 17.5lb x 10 x 4
Tricep Cable Press Down: 3 plates x 10 x 3
Shrugs: 35 lb x 10 x 3
Close Grip Bench Press: 25lb x 10, 35 lb x10, 45 lb x 10 x 2
Skull Crushers: 10 lb x 10, 15lb x10 x 3
Dumbbell Kickbacks: 17.5 lb x 10 x 3
Thanks for the feedback. sorry if the post is too long.
You should scrap that entire routine because it's awful. You should start out with something basic, like the WBB #1 Routine ~> http://www.wannabebig.com/article.php?articleid=25
After you've been doing this for a while and you get really comfortable with the important lifts, you can the decide if you want to move onto something more advance. Given your weight, height, and body fat percentage...I think your main focus should be shedding the fat. There's lots of people with great knowledge on that matter that can help you out.
You'll appreciate the fact that it doesn't have a ridiculous amount of volume like yours.
You need to structure yourself good diet and stick with it just like your routine. You need to read as much as you possibly can on this site.
Here's some helpful links to get you started ~>
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Also, sign up for a free account on www.fitday.com and start tracking EVERYTHING you eat. You need to know what you're eating and how to change your diet if you want to see the progress that you are striving for. Ask questions and learn a lot. We're all here to help you reach your goals. Stay dedicated, stay consistent, don't give up and good luck!
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i have trouble with some of these excercises like dips because my left elbow flares up and hurts sometimes. any recommendations to switch it with? also im afraid of deadlifts. i know theyre important but even after I asked some guys at the gym to show me, i feel like im gunna break myself.
finally, is there a way to add hiit cardio while losing very very little from my muscle gains. id rather gain all the muscle i can than do cardio right now.
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Don't be afraid of deadlifts. Start with the bar. If you need to stay with the bar for a month or two until you build confidence, then do it. If dips are causing your elbows to flare up, cut them out of your routine. Maybe stick with dumbbell bench press variations/movements until you strengthen your muscles and surrounding joints and whatnot. Slowly work up your strength and adapt to the progressive load. Take your time to learn the proper form on every exercise and take things slow at first until you build confidence. Good luck.
If you don't want to lose anything, eat more. Are you tracking everything you eat? If you're not, start by signing up at www.fitday.com and log everything you eat into the site. It's free.finally, is there a way to add hiit cardio while losing very very little from my muscle gains. id rather gain all the muscle i can than do cardio right now.
Also, check out this link on when to do cardio ~> http://www.wannabebig.com/article.php?articleid=292
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Earlier this week, the 911 phone call of a nurse refusing to help an elderly woman at an assisted living facility in California sent shock waves through the country.
At the Gardens of Calvary in Columbus, however, things work differently. Executive director Lisa Dodgen says that they go by state rules when it comes to giving care to people at their facility.
"We must upon move-ins discuss advanced directives with elders moving into the personal care homes or the assisted living so that gives an opportunity right up front to explain what their wishes are," Dodgen said.
Dodgen says that they have to respond accordingly because of specific requests that each patient may have. She says staff must act immediately if any patient is in distress.
"If we walk in and an elder is having chest pains or shortness of breath we are going to call 911 and take care of that," she said.
The facility in California originally said they did not allow its staff to perform CPR because of possible lawsuits. The parent company clarified this on Wednesday, stating that they do provide care by waiting with a distressed patient until further assistance arrives.
In Georgia some are protected from that by the Good Samaritan law. It protects you from liability when you lend a helping hand, as long as you're not getting paid to help.
Dodgen told News Leader 9 that their reactions are based on a patient's DNR, or Do Not Resuscitate file.
"If we have a valid do not resuscitate order in a personal care home or in an assisted living facility in Georgia, we are able to honor that," Dodgen said.
This law applies at all facilities throughout the state of Georgia.
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By Conor Walsh
---- — ROCKPORT — No team feels good after a loss.
There are certain losses, though, that sting a little more than others.
The Rockport softball team can attest to that after yesterday's 7-3 loss to Georgetown at Rockport High School. After spotting the Royals an early two-run lead, the Vikings clawed their way back in and took their first lead of the game in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Georgetown responded with two home runs — a two-run shot by Shannon O'Brien and a three-run homer by Allie Newbury — to completely reverse the game's momentum in the top of the seventh inning.
The Vikings went down in order in the bottom of the seventh and fell, 7-3, in dramatic fashion.
"I felt confident (heading into the seventh)," Rockport coach Dianne Parisi said. "There was just a couple of little things today, some physical errors and a couple of walks, and not hitting the ball. We hit the ball well the other day, what can you do?"
Georgetown (6-1) manufactured two runs — one in the first, one in the second — as Rockport pitcher Jessica Collins settled in.
Once she did, the game became a pitcher's duel as Collins and Georgetown pitcher Jane Erlandson kept bats quiet for much of the game, and it appeared that early 2-0 lead might be enough for the Royals.
That was until the Vikings' bats came alive for the first time all game. With two outs in the bottom of the fourth inning, Kayla Parisi (2-3, run) notched Rockport's first hit of the game, giving a spark to a scuffling lineup.
Collins followed with the game's first big blow, as she stroked a line drive over Georgetown left fielder Maggie Noelk's head for a two-run home run to tie the game and swing the momentum.
Rockport finally took its first lead of the game in the bottom of the sixth when Hannah Lorden started the inning with a bunt single. A sacrifice by Megan Tupper moved Lorden to second base, and with third base abandoned by the Georgetown infield, Lorden smartly took the extra base.
A groundout by Mollie Watson plated Lorden and gave the Vikings an improbable lead in a game they'd been largely outplayed in.
The softball gods were just with Georgetown, however. After a leadoff single and a popout to start the top of the seventh, O'Brien stepped to the plate representing the go-ahead run and laced the first of the inning's two home runs to right-center field.
An error and a walk sandwiched another popout and Newbury stepped to the plate with two runners on and two outs and hit a towering three-run homer to left field to completely blow the doors off the game.
"Any coach would be nervous down by one in the top of the seventh and you're playing Rockport," Georgetown coach David Tullgren said. "We have a battle cry: 'Fight for it.' I just told them, 'Stay focused and fight for it. The sign of a good team is a team that can come from behind and take a game under adversity,' and they did it. They stayed focused and they came out on top."
Erlandson was the star of the game for Georgetown despite all the offensive fireworks, going the distance while surrendering just four hits and striking out seven.
The Vikings went out without much of a fight in the bottom of the seventh inning, falling to 2-3 on the season with their second straight loss.
"I think we have a very solid team, it's just a matter of finding the niche and bringing it all together," Parisi said. "It's just a matter of time until everything clicks at once."
agateHed:Georgetown 7, Rockport 3
agateText:at Rockport High School, Rockport
agateText:Georgetown: Crateau rf 5-1-2, Nutter 1b 3-1-1, Cudmore cf 4-0-2, O'Brien ss 4-1-2, Erlandson p 4-1-2, Fraser c 4-0-0, Terban 2b 3-1-0, Newbury dh 3-2-2, Noelk 4-0-3. Totals 34-7-12
agateText:Rockport: Lorden ss 3-1-1, Tupper 2b 2-0-0, Watson c 3-0-0, Parisi 1b/p 3-1-2, Collins p/rf 3-1-1, Faulds rf/1b 3-0-0, Nelson lf 3-0-0, Davis cf 3-0-0, Wonson 3b 2-0-0. Totals 25-3-4
agate_MLB_linescore9:Georgetown: 110 000 5 — 7
agate_MLB_linescore9:Rockport: 000 201 0 — 3
agateText:RBI: G, Newbury 3, O'Brien 2, Cudmore, Noelk; R, Collins 2, Watson.
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Races of Eberron ExcerptBy Jesse Decker, Matthew Sernett, Keith Baker, Gwendolyn F.M. Kestrel
If you have a shifter, changeling, kalashtar or warforged player character (or nonplayer character, for that matter), Races of Eberron can be a helpful resource for you! New options and rules abound in this rules supplement for both the D&D game and Eberron setting. (Note: Enterprising DMs definitely can use this book in any setting if they choose. You won't need the Eberron Campaign Setting book!) Our sneak peek of this book includes a look at warforged, shifters, changelings, kalashtar, drow, sample feats, and a couple of prestige classes.
Changeling Leisure
"You can be poor and miserable or rich and miserable. Only a fool would think that there isn't a choice in that statement. The wealthy can afford to be comforted in their misery."
-- Changeling adage
Almost all changelings would prefer to live a life of ease. They work just as hard as they need to in order to ensure fine comforts they crave. Changelings enjoy fine food, drink, clothing, equipment, and accommodations. Why make do with just the necessities when you can have luxury? When possible, changelings live in the finest style available, often gaining things on credit (their own or that of an assumed identity).
Pets: Changelings of all types tend to have pets that change their forms. Creatures such as frogs and caterpillars fascinate them.
Collections: Most changelings manifest their individual passions and proclivities in collections of items. Some like quantity; others go to great lengths to acquire specimens of the best quality. Almost every changeling has something that he prizes and for which he is willing to make sacrifices.
For example, Fel collects shoes and keeps a sizable collection on display, decorating his two-story home. He owns more than two hundred fifty pairs. While he prefers a male form most of the time, he will change his gender for the sole purpose of showing off some of the daintier and more feminine shoes in his collection to the best advantage.
Roleplaying Application: Pick something to collect. It could be a single feather from many different types of birds (leading you to seek out achaierai and rocs), jewelry (driving you to find long-lost heirlooms), or books (inspiring you to build a huge stronghold just to store your impressive library).
Experiential Indulgences: In addition to possessing the finest things, changelings enjoy supremely extravagant activities. Hot, herbstrewn baths, relaxing massages, stylish haircuts, manicures, pedicures, servants, and any other life-enhancing services are sought and enjoyed. Changeling adventurers would rather not camp "in the rough."
Roleplaying Application: Why camp in the woods if an inn is an option? Why eat trail rations if a restaurant is nearby? Indulge yourself as often as you can. Life is short; fill it with good things.
The "I'm You!" Game: Almost all changeling children have played the "I'm You!" game. It's such a universal, natural game for members of the race that it can be found even among isolated groups or communities of changelings.
A child uses his minor change shape ability to impersonate someone else. Usually, the game begins with impersonating a peer, such as going to a friend's home for dinner disguised as the friend and trying to fool the adults or other children not in on the deception. Knowing the other child well, the changeling finds it easy to play the part for short durations. Success tends to embolden the child into impersonating one of his parents. This often leads to stressful encounters and repercussions, even if the exact nature of the deception isn't found out.
Passers strenuously discourage children from playing this game. It puts the passer's life in jeopardy. Often, a child will be punished or even sent away for a time until he outgrows the urge.
Becomers and reality seekers both encourage their children's experimentation with assumed identities. A becomer parent views this type of game as a manifestation of growth toward adulthood. The becomer adult uses the skills the game teaches as part of his daily life. One might even say that an adult becomer plays a version of the "I'm You!" game every day of his life. A reality seeker parent regards a game such as this as part of a child's immature phase, rather like the activity of playing with dolls.
Roleplaying Application: When playing a becomer or a reality seeker, occasionally impersonate an ally or one of your ally's friends. This is usually done in a spirit of fun and generally without maliciousness and in circumstances that would not cause harm. Why not take advantage of an invitation to a party that your ally turned down? If you have a shy friend, why not break the ice by having a first date with a prospective romantic partner for the friend? Of course, it can be quite convenient to visit exclusive places to which your ally (or enemy) has a membership.
Sample Changeling
The Spy Master of the Royal Eyes of Aundair employs several changelings as agents. She often assigns specific personas to her changeling spies. Frequently, even when working as a team, they don't know the real identities of their allies.
Royal Eye of Aundair: Female or male changeling rogue 3; CR 3; Medium humanoid (shapechanger); HD 3d6; hp 11; Init +6; Spd 30 ft.; AC 17, touch 12, flat-footed 15; Base Atk +2; Grp +3; Atk or Full Atk +4 melee (1d6+1/19-20, short sword) or +4 ranged (1d6/x3, shortbow); SA sneak attack +2d6; SQ changeling traits, evasion, minor lore, racial substitution levels, social intuition; AL N; SV Fort +1, Ref +5, Will +0; Str 13, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 14, Wis 8, Cha 12.
Skills and Feats: Balance +8, Bluff +7, Diplomacy +7, Disguise +5 (+7 acting in character), Escape Artist +8, Forgery +5, Gather Information +8, Intimidate +7, Jump +3, Knowledge (local) +8, Listen +5, Sense Motive +6, Spot +5, Tumble +8, Use Rope +2 (+4 involving bindings); Improved Initiative, Weapon Finesse.
Changeling Traits (Ex/Su): +2 bonus on saves against magic sleep and charm effects; minor change shape.
Evasion (Ex): If a Royal Eye of Aundair is exposed to any effect that normally allows her to attempt a Reflex saving throw for half damage, she takes no damage with a successful saving throw.
Minor Lore (Ex): A Royal Eye of Aundair gains a +1 bonus on all Knowledge checks.
Racial Substitution Levels: Changeling rogue 1st, changeling rogue 3rd.
Social Intuition (Ex): A Royal Eye of Aundair possesses an uncanny awareness of the tone of any social situation in which she finds herself. See the changeling rogue substitution level class feature in Chapter 6: Character Options.
Possessions:+1 studded leather armor, masterwork buckler, short sword, shortbow with 20 arrows, vestment of many styles*, oil of magic weapon, 2 potions of cure light wounds, potion of invisibility, 2 potions of shield of faith +2, 34 gp.
*New magic item described in Races of Eberron.


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Stephen Weiner's seminal Rise of the Graphic Novel has had a second edition. Rise builds on Weiner's influential work in cataloging and charting a course through the field of graphic novels for librarians around America and the world, spinning out a compact, fascinating narrative of the history of graphic novels, from the Yellow Kid to the modern explosion of Pulitzer-winning, "respectable," multi-media, highly lucrative graphic novels of today. For such a short book -- 70 pages -- Rise covers a huge amount of ground, from The Spirit to R Crumb, from indie comix to Cavalier and Clay, from Death Note to Understanding Comics and Sandman. Even Boing Boing's own Elfquest gets a chapter.
This is a perfect book for anyone trying to wrap her or his head around the field of comics, a quick and smart overview of the field that spans both decades and genres. Whether you're developing a syllabus, improving your library's collection, or just trying to get a better sense of the field and the good stuff you might have missed, Rise is well worth a read, and worth keeping around afterwards for reference.
Plus: there's a dandy introduction by Will Eisner himself!
Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of Graphic Novel (Second Edition) Discuss
10 Responses to "Rise of the Graphic Novel: everything you need to know about the comics field in 70 pages"
Andrew Singleton says:
Adding to my to-read list.
Paul Renault says:
I sure hope that "The complete history of this popular format" include non-anglophone examples. I'll just assume it include non-US example.
/.."paging Captain Canuck"
Sekino says:
Since Death Note is manga, I'm hoping it means that they do cover the non-US stuff (and even then not just Tintin, Tintin, Tintin and some Asterix…). Looking forward to check it out though.
Seg says:
If anyone's making a lesson plan with comics, I would also like to remind people that "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud is also a very good read! This book focuses on the language and conventions of comic books — and visual art in general — and how it applies to storytelling though sequential art.
Frank Lee Scarlett says:
Hear, hear. "Understanding Comics" is also an excellent primer for interaction design in that it deftly explores and explains human response to visual stimulus.
It's a classic, and I always recommend it to students as a companion to Tufte's works, which are also essential, but which ignore some very fundamental aspects of human cognition.
euansmith says:
Graphic Novel? Is that like one of them big thick comic books?
sockdoll says:
I hope there is at least a nod given to Lynd Ward's work.
aperturehead says:
When long-form comics became "graphic novels" that's when I bailed on most of the genre. The experimental side of graphic novels should have lasted three maybe four years max, but here we are in 2013 still allowing comic artists to fill entire 128-page graphic novels with stories that could have been edited down to 12-pages. Experimentation is great in any art form, but experimentation without self-editing is kinda dull
Arys says:
wow… I hope that's sarcasm….
MikeMoranJr says:
*Kavalier & Clay, not Cavalier. (Chabon fan, sorry)


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If, like many people, you labor under the idea that for "real" writers, plot comes effortlessly, dismiss that illusion now. While some writers were born with a sense of how to tell a story effectively, more of them do study the elements of plot and pay serious attention to how other writers successfully construct a narrative.
Playwrights have this stuff drilled into them, but fiction writers often get away without basic instruction in what makes something dramatic. It's not magic. The elements of a good story can be studied and learned.
In fact, you've probably already studied them in your high school literature classes. It doesn't hurt to review them now, from the perspective of a writer and not a student. They may seem simple, but without them, your other skills as a writer -- your ability to imagine believable characters, your talent with dialogue, your exquisite use of language -- will come to naught.
Start, of course, with a protagonist, your main character. The protagonist must encounter a conflict -- with another character, society, nature, himself, or some combination of these things -- and undergo some kind of change as a result.
"Conflict" is also known as the "major dramatic question." Gotham Writers' Workshop puts it this way in their guide Writing Fiction: The major dramatic question "is generally a straightforward yes/no question, one that can be answered by the end of the story." What will happen to King Lear when he divides up his empire and estranges himself from his one faithful daughter? Will Elizabeth Bennet of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice get to marry for love, and will she or one of her sisters marry well enough to save the family from financial humiliation?
What sorts of changes do these conflicts bring about? Elizabeth Bennet learns the dangers of letting prejudice interfere with judgment. King Lear acquires humility and learns to recognize superficiality and sincerity. Both are wiser at the end of the story than they were at the beginning, even if this wisdom, in Lear's case, comes at a dear cost.
Elements of Plot
A story will hit various landmarks on its way from the story's beginning to the fulfillment of the dramatic question. The introduction presents the characters, the setting, and the central conflict. Involve your protagonist in that conflict as early as possible. Today's readers will generally not wade through pages of exposition to get to the point. Don't make them wonder why they're reading your story or novel. Hook them in the first page or pages.


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Woodward, Okla. —
If you've been putting off a flu shot, the Woodward County Health Department encourages getting one during National Influenza Vaccination Week, Dec. 2-8.
"Many people are at risk from complications caused by the flu and that's why the vaccination is recommended for everyone 6-months of age and older," said Terri Salisbury, administrative director of the Woodward County Health Department. "The flu can cause serious illness, or even death, so it's better to protect yourself and loved ones by getting the vaccination."
Flu shots are available at the health department, with Mondays set aside as vaccination days, where clients do not need to make an appointment to get their inoculation.
The Health Department clinic is open from 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m., but is closed for lunch from noon to 1 p.m.
Salisbury said while the flu can make anyone sick, there are certain people who are at greater risk of suffering serious complications from the illness.
These high-risk individuals are especially encouraged to get vaccinated, including:
- Persons at least 50 years old.
- Those with a chronic lung disease, like asthma and COPD.
- Type I and II diabetics.
- Persons with heart disease.
- Sufferers of neurological problems, and other long-term health conditions.
- Pregnant women.
Shawna Elwood, the health department's vaccination specialist, said health care workers are another group that should make sure they have their flu shots.
"People who are taking care of others should be immunized," Elwood said.
This is because health care workers are often at centers or in homes where there are patients who are at high risk of getting complications or dying from the flu, Salisbury said.
However, she said the Centers for Disease Control conducted research and found just 52 percent of health care workers in long-term care facilities got a flu shot last year.
She said this is troubling since health care workers can spread the virus before they know they are even sick, because of the incubation period.
That's why Salisbury, too, encouraged all health care workers to get the vaccine.
Elwood said the health department is committed to doing its part to cut down on the spread of the flu, as each of its employees has been vaccinated.
The health department does charge a fee for flu shots, but also offers to waive that fee for certain patients, including:
- Seniors over age 65, including for those on Medicare and don't belong to an HMO.
- Clients on SoonerCare.
- Children who are qualified for the Vaccines for Children program.
- Persons who meet income requirements.
- Those who are enrolled in HealthChoice and the Oklahoma Public Employees Health and Welfare insurance programs.
For more information about the fee amount and waivers, contact the Woodward County Health Department at (580) 256-6416.
In addition to the health department, several pharmacies in the area also offer flu shots. Contact your preferred pharmacy for details.


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Allen West To Obama: 'Get The Hell Out Of The United States of America'
"This is a battlefield that we must stand upon. And we need to let President Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and my dear friend, chairman of the Democrat National Committee, we need to let them know that Florida ain't on the table,"
The audience was booing by the time West got to Pelosi's name.
"Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else," he continued. "You can take it to Europe, you can take it to the bottom of the sea, you can take it to the North Pole, but get the hell out of the United States of America."