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Ethanol-free fuel finds niche market in North Hills
It costs up to 80 cents more per gallon than other grades of gasoline.
But regular users of ethanol-free EZero 89 gas — at $4.59 per gallon — reportedly say their cars perform better on the hard-to-find fuel.
"We sell more of that — EZero 89 — some days than we do regular, unleaded (gas)," said Chris Rudolph, lead mechanic and manager at Rudolph Auto Repair in Richland.
"I think a lot of people just don't know about it," Rudolph said. "This is the first summer that we've sold it.
"There's no ethanol — ethyl alcohol — in the gas, so it doesn't dry out the fuel lines and the gaskets in carburetors," Rudolph said. "It's much better for off-road vehicles, lawn mowers, boats and snowmobiles.
"We probably have 10 to 12 people who get it in their cars," Rudolph said. "Everybody has said their (cars') performance is much better.
"We had a guy who did all the calculations and said it saves him money to buy the EZero." Rudolph said.
Rudolph's grandfather — Charles Rudolph — opened Rudolph Auto Repair nearly 60 years ago.
St. Barnabas Health System now operates the station because of the bequest, and all profits go to St. Barnabas Charities Free Care Fund, which last year provided $6 million in free care to needy patients served by the St. Barnabas Health System.
St. Barnabas Health System officials decided to offer ethanol-free gasoline at Rudolph Auto Repair because "we thought there would be a market for it and we were right," said Robin Taylor, spokeswoman for St. Barnabas Health System. "It's selling extremely well."
Owners of classic cars and landscapers especially like EZero gas, Rudolph said.
"There's a guy that come in and owns a landscaping company and cuts grass," Rudolph said. "He said his mowers run so much better (on EZero gas), and that it has cut his mowing time."
Rudolph doesn't know of any places in north-suburban Pittsburgh where people can buy ethanol-free gas, other than Rudolph Auto Repair and Purvis Brothers in Adams Township, Butler County.
"Essentially, this is the same gas you would have bought five or 10 years ago — before they started pushing ethanol into the gas," said Mac Purvis, president of Purvis Brothers.
"It's mandated by the government," Purvis said about the 10 percent level of ethyl alcohol that oil refiners now must put in other gasolines.
"There is more energy content in a gallon of non-ethanol gasoline than gas with ethanol," Purvis said. "Ethanol itself does not have as much energy as gasoline."
Ethanol-free gas costs more than other gasoline because consumers must pay the extra cost incurred by oil refiners to produce gasoline lacking ethyl alcohol, Purvis said.
"Most branded stations would not be allowed to sell it because it's not made by Exxon or Sunoco," Purvis said.
As an independent gas station, Rudolph Auto Repair can offer ethanol-free gasoline purchased through Purvis Brothers from independent oil refiners.
Chris Rudolph said he uses EZero 89 gas in his lawn mowers.
"I don't put it in my car. It's too expensive," he said. "I have five kids, and we get 'fuelperks!' at Get-Go."
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Summer Slim-Down Challenge Day 3: Drink Plenty of Water
By Lisa D'Agrosa, M.S., R.D., April 17, 2014 - 9:32am
Water definitely does a body good. In one 2010 study, people who drank 2 cups of water before meals lost more weight than those who didn't. Plus, drinking water can help edge out calories from calorie-laden beverages like juice, soda and even sweetened tea or coffee. Unsweetened tea, coffee and seltzer are all good zero-calorie options to try. Try adding a squeeze of lemon or lime juice to iced tea and seltzer to make them more flavorful.
Find out how much water you should drink each day.
Do This Today: Carry a reusable water bottle with you or pack other calorie-free options (seltzer or unsweetened tea or coffee).
Dinner Tonight: Seared Salmon with Sugar Snap-Fennel Slaw
TAGS: Lisa D'Agrosa, M.S., R.D., Diet Blog, Diet, Diet Challenge, Nutrition, Slim Down for Summer Challenge
Lisa D'Agrosa is EatingWell's associate nutrition editor. She earned her master's degree in nutrition communication from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University and attended the dietetic internship program at Massachusetts General Hospital to become a registered dietitian.

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A Recipe of Antibiotic Juice
This juice recipe acts as antibiotic and strong antiseptic, and when being drank regularly could oppose the infection.
A Recipe of Antibiotic Juice
Fresh juice could rescue your life. Juice and luxurious vegetables have the strength of recuperation and rejuvenation that could help the person with various problems of the health. Since it is in the liquid form, juice is easy to be digested and absorbed, so it is good for the person with bad appetite, experience digestion problem or the intestines problem. Drink juice is easier than digesting vegetables. Juice contents nutrients and increase the body strength to prevent disease.
People who suffered chronic infection usually consume antibiotic. Consuming antibiotic in the long term could damage the function of the heart and the immune system. Also consuming it continuously would be ineffective because it will enhance the immune of microorganism that causes infection. To control our body we must stimulate the infected network and oppose microorganisms with natural antibiotic. We can try this recipe of antibiotic juice.
This antibiotic juice is good for people who suffers for below diseases:
1. Bronchitis or chronic asthma.
2. Influenza.
3. The ears infection and sinusitis.
4. Bad microorganisms in the intestines.
5. Tiredness.
6. The skin infection.
7. The chronic wound.
8. Cyst caused by infection.
9. Dandruff on the scalp.
10. The pimple.
11. Hepatitis A/B/C.
12. The gums infection and chronic teeth disease.
13. Herpes.
14. Tuberculosis.
This juice recipe acts as antibiotic and strong antiseptic, and when being drank regularly could fight the infection directly.
One glass (300-400 ml) must be drunk everyday by people with chronic illness.
* One carrot
* One beet
* One apple
* 1/2 cm ginger
* 1/2 cm radishes
* A half glass of water celery
* Ten cm slice of pineapple
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Keith Haring: 1978-1982 at CAC in CincinnatiJuxtapoz // Tuesday, 08 Feb 2011
The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in Cincinnati, Ohio is set to open a groundbreaking exhibition of Keith Haring's early works, titled Keith Haring: 1978—1982. The exhibition. The show chronicles the Haring's arrival in New York City from his native Pennsylvania and his immersion in New York's dynamic downtown culture.
The show opens February 26, 2011, and runs through September 5, 2011. Since our cover retrospective on Haring in June 2010, we have been consumed even more with the career of Haring. He is both inspirational and an original. This show, especially focusing on his arrival in NYC, definitely fascinates us.
Here is the summary from CAC:
The public has a right to art. Art is for everybody.
-Keith Haring
Keith Haring ranks among the most iconic, influential and popular artists in the world. Twenty years after his death, this is a rare and in-depth look at the prolific early years that established Haring's language as an artist, his politics and social conscience, and his open homosexuality. This historic exhibition of rarely exhibited early work chronicles Haring's arrival in New York City (from his native Pennsylvania) and his immersion in New York's dynamic downtown culture. It explores the vibrant and experimental years when Haring first enrolled in the School of Visual Arts, started a diligent and vigorous studio practice, began making public and political art on the city streets and subway stations, and enjoyed a frenetic social life. Joining an art community outside the institutionalized art system, Haring quickly befriended fellow artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as many of the most innovative musicians, performance artists and graffiti writers of the period.
The exhibition delves into aspects of the artist's life and production that have received insufficient attention to date: Haring as a thinker and facilitator, and his work as highly experimental and performative. It includes drawings and sketchbooks, videos, flyers, posters, photographs and subway drawings, as well as word collages, texts, and diaries. The exhibition offers an impression of Haring's manifold maturation process, traces the development of his visual vocabulary and influences, and shows the artist as a philosopher and untiring initiator of artistic and political activities.
Here is a sample of Haring's work from the era... probably not in the show, but just a sample:
Keith Haring artwork: ©Keith Haring Foundation
Keith Haring: 1978—1982
February 26—September 5, 2011
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MULLINS PRAIRIE, TEXAS. Mullins Prairie is located on Farm Road 155 about six miles southeast of La Grange in eastern Fayette County. Farmers first settled the fertile lands near the Colorado River in the late 1800s. Early pioneers in the area included the Mercer, Riser, and Walker families. In the 1890s a one-room school served the children of the region, and by the early 1900s Mullins Prairie also had a school for African-American students. A school census for the year 1934–35 recorded 46 white students, but Mullins Prairie closed in 1947 and eventually consolidated with the La Grange Independent School District. Highway maps in 1936 showed a church, factory, and scattered farms in the area. Resident Anton Elias operated a store and cotton gin in 1939. Edward Naiser purchased the store and constructed a larger business in 1950. The establishment became a social meeting place in Mullins Prairie with such events as domino tournaments and turkey shoots. The area also supported gravel and sand industries. Realtors promoted the River Colony subdivision just down the road from the general store in 1969, which consisted of a few homes, clubhouse, swimming pool, and office but ultimately experienced very modest expansion. By the mid-1990s the Mullins Prairie store was the only business in the community, which reported a population of 52 in 2000. Mullins Prairie Cemetery is located two miles south of town.
Fayette County History Book Committee, Fayette County, Texas Heritage (2 vols., Dallas: Curtis Media, 1996). La Grange High School, Fayette County: Past and Present (La Grange, Texas, 1976).
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Two Healthy Chicken Breast Recipes To Mix It Up At Dinnertime
Two Healthy Chicken Breast Recipes To Mix It Up At Dinnertime
Chicken is probably the most consumed meat in my house. No matter how I cook it, it's usually a big hit. But as much as we love the classics, it's a new year. Time to spice it up! If you're looking to add some delicious healthy chicken breast recipes into your weekly repertoire, here are a few home runs that'll do the trick.
Almond Crusted Chicken Fingers:
1 pound chicken cutlets or breasts
Honey Dijon mustard
3 tbsp. olive oil
2 cups of almonds crushed
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Chicken Breasts with Artichokes:
1 pound chicken cutlets or breasts
½ cup breadcrumbs
½ cup grated cheese
1 wedge of garlic
¼ cup olive oil
1 can chopped artichokes (or you can sub in broccoli or spinach)
In a mixing bowl mix together breadcrumbs, grated cheese, olive oil, salt/pepper, chopped artichokes. Lay the chicken on a baking sheet and top with the mixture. Bake in preheated oven 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until chicken is cooked through. This recipe can be modified and use a broccoli or spinach instead.
For more chicken recipes you can eat today, tomorrow, and the day after, click on the slideshow above.
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Total electron content
Total electron content (or TEC) is an important descriptive quantity for the ionosphere of the Earth. TEC is the total number of electrons integrated between two points, along a tube of one meter squared cross section, i.e., the electron columnar number density. It is often reported in multiples of the so-called TEC unit, defined as TECU=1016·m−2.[1]
TEC is significant in determining the scintillation and group and phase delays of a radio wave through a medium. Ionospheric TEC is characterized by observing carrier phase delays of received radio signals transmitted from satellites located above the ionosphere, often using Global Positioning System satellites. TEC is strongly affected by solar activity.
To first order, the ionospheric radio effect is proportional to TEC and inversely proportional to the radio frequency f. The ionospheric phase delay reads:[2]
while the ionospheric group delay has the same magnitude but opposite sign:
The proportionality constant κ reads:[3][4]
where q, me, re are the electron charge, mass, and radius, respectively; c is the vacuum speed of light and ϵ0 is the vacuum permittivity. The value of the constant is approximately κ ≈ 40.308193 m3·s−2;[5][6] the units can be expressed equivalently as m·m2·Hz2 to highlight the cancellation involved in yielding delays τ in meters, given f in Hz and TEC in m−2.
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INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION AND CREW AWAITING ATLAS 5 LAUNCH OF CYGNUS - Lending a helping hand to resume the stalled U.S. supply chain to the International Space Station, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will send a commercial Cygnus cargo craft in pursuit of the outpost Thursday.
With Orbital ATK's Antares rocket and the SpaceX Falcon 9 both grounded by failures, a pair of Atlas 5 boosters stand ready as gap-fillers to launch Cygnus vessels over the next 100 days from Cape Canaveral, Florida. More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 30)
ATLAS V TARGETING THURSDAY LAUNCH OF ISS CARGO - United Launch Alliance plans to roll its 12th and final rocket of the year to a Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch pad this week.
The Atlas V rocket is targeting a 5:55 p.m. Thursday liftoff from Launch Complex 41 with a Cygnus cargo module carrying International Space Station supplies.
The exact time could change slightly and will be confirmed early in the week after the space station adjusts its orbit to put itself in the proper position for Soyuz crew vehicles coming and going next month. More
(Source: Florida Today - Nov 30)
NOAA WEATHER SATELLITE BREAKS UP IN ORBIT - A U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration satellite retired in 2014 has suffered an apparent breakup, the second time in less than a year that a polar-orbiting weather satellite has generated orbital debris.
The Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) announced Nov. 25 that it had identified a possible breakup of the NOAA 16 satellite. The center, which tracks objects in orbit and warns of potential collisions, said it first detected the breakup at 3:41 a.m. Eastern time and was tracking an unspecified number of "associated objects" in the orbit of NOAA 16. More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 30)
US SPACE ROCKET DEBRIS FOUND IN SEA OFF SCILLY - A large chunk of an American space rocket has been found in the sea off the Isles of Scilly.
The section of the spacecraft, measuring about 10m (32ft) by 4m (13ft), was spotted on the surface between Bryher and Tresco.
Coastguards believe it is from the unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 which exploded after take-off in Florida in June.
However many astronomers believe it is from a different mission due to the size and markings.
Local boatmen towed the section to Tresco where it has now been removed from the beach. More
(Source: BBC News - Nov 30)
CHINA LAUNCHES LATEST YAOGAN WEIXING SATELLITE VIA LONG MARCH 4C - China launched another satellite in the military's Yaogan Weixing series via the use of a Long March-4C (Chang Zheng-4C) rocket. The "YG-29" mission began with liftoff at 21:24 UTC on Thursday, from the LC9 launch complex at the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center (TSLC). The Chinese media reference satellites in this range as "new remote sensing birds that will mainly be used for scientific experiments, land survey, crop yield assessment, and disaster monitoring". More
(Source: NASASpaceFlight.com - Nov 27)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, FROM SPACE! - Aboard the International Space Station, Expedition 45 Commander Scott Kelly and Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren KO5MOS send Thanksgiving wishes to all on Earth
The pair also shared their plans for the holiday - including an early sampling of their Thanksgiving Day meal. Kelly is heading into the ninth month of his year-long mission aboard the complex, while Lindgren is wrapping up his flight and preparing for a landing in Kazakhstan in a Soyuz spacecraft Dec. 11. More
(Source: Southgate - Nov 26)
JEFF BEZOS' ROCKET LANDS SAFELY AFTER SPACE FLIGHT - Jeff Bezos' rocket ship achieved a breakthrough Monday by traveling 329,839 feet into outer space and then landing upright upon its return to earth. In the past, rockets were disposed of after launching space craft into outer space. Reusable rockets would substantially reduce the cost of space flight. Amazon founder Bezos started his space company, Blue Origin, in the hopes of using his New Shepard rocket to carry tourists into space. More
(Source: CNN Money - Nov 26)
CYGNUS PREPARED FOR ATLAS LAUNCH TO SPACE STATION - Preparations for the first launch of a Cygnus cargo spacecraft in more than a year, and the first on an Atlas 5 rocket, have gone smoothly despite some changes in timing of loading cargo on the spacecraft, an Orbital ATK executive said.
An Atlas 5 is scheduled to launch the Cygnus craft from Cape Canaveral, Florida, Dec. 3. The launch will be the first for the Cygnus since the October 2014 failure of Orbital's Antares rocket shortly after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia. More
(Source: SpaceNews - Nov 26)
US, CHINA SET UP SPACE HOTLINE TO AVOID SATELLITE WARFARE - The United States and China have set up a space hotline between them. This connection will be used to facilitate the exchange of information between the two countries and prevent satellite-related conflicts and misunderstandings.
There have been fears of the possibility of warfare in space after China blew up a satellite during one of its test runs of its anti-satellite technology back in 2007. Military operations and intelligence-gathering efforts that are dependent on satellites could be severely derailed by such weapons. More
(Source: Tech Times - Nov 25)
DEORBITSAIL SATELLITE UNSUCCESSFUL IN DEPLOYING SAIL - Following its July 10, 2015, launch, the DeorbitSail satellite has achieved some, but not all, of its mission objectives, including contact with the satellite, solar panel deployment, and taking pictures of Earth. The satellite, a University of Surrey research project, carries a 1200 bps BPSK beacon transmitting on 145.975 MHz. DeorbitSail is a 3U CubeSat with a deployable sail to demonstrate rapid deorbiting.
"[W]e have struggled to accurately determine the satellite tumble rate and get it under control," said an update from DeorbitSail Project Manager Chiara Massimiani, and Surrey Space Center (SSC) Director and DeorbitSail Principal Investigator Guglielmo Aglietti. More
(Source: ARRL - Nov 25)
JAPANESE-BUILT H-2A ROCKET LIFTS OFF CARRYING FIRST COMMERCIAL SATELLITE - An H-2A rocket carrying a Canadian communications satellite lifted off from Tanegashima Island in southwestern Japan on Tuesday, marking the first time a commercial satellite has been launched into space by the Japanese-built platform.
The rocket, launched at 3.50 pm. from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Kagoshima Prefecture, has an improved second-stage engine aimed at carrying satellites farther in distance and closer to the Earth's geostationary orbit during its four-and-a-half-hour flight.
The payload on Tuesday's launch is Telesat Holdings' broadcast and communications satellite named Telstar 12 Vantage, which is expected to provide coverage to Europe, Africa and South America. More
(Source: South China Morning Post - Nov 24)
IMPROVED H2A TO LAUNCH SATELLITE - Japan's H2A rocket No. 29 carrying a Canadian communications satellite will be launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture on Tuesday afternoon.
The plan is for the improved H2A to send a satellite into stationary orbit. If the operation is successful, it will be the first time for a Japanese rocket to put a commercial satellite into orbit.
For the No. 29 rocket, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) for the first time made major changes to the H2A's engineering design in the hopes of attracting more orders for commercial satellite launches. More
(Source: The Japan News - Nov 23)
NASA ORDERS FIRST COMMERCIAL CREW MISSION TO SPACE STATION FROM SPACEX - Restoring America's ability to once again launch US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from US soil on US rockets took another significant step forward when NASA ordered the first the agency's first commercial crew rotation mission from the Hawthorne, California based-company SpaceX. NASA and SpaceX hope that the blastoff with a crew of up to four astronauts will take place by late 2017.
The new Nov. 20 award from NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) office to launch the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule follows up on an earlier commercial crew rotation mission award this past May to the Boeing Company of Houston to launch its CST-100 Starliner astronaut crew capsule to the ISS. More
(Source: Universe Today - Nov 23)
CONTACT LOST WITH ISRAELI COMMUNICATION SATELLITE AMOS 5 - Contact has been lost with communications satellite Amos 5, starting at 6: 45 AM Saturday, its operator, Spacecom, announced in a statement Saturday evening. "The Company wishes to clarify, based on the preliminary examinations it carried out, that even if there will be a 'total loss' (complete failure) of the satellite, this would have a negligible effect on the equity of the company," Spacecom stated.
The Amos 5 satellite was built by Russian manufacturer NPO PM. The four earlier satellites in the Amos series were built by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). More
(Source: The Jewish Press - Nov 22)
RUSSIA'S GLONASS-M NAVIGATION SATELLITE PLANNED FOR LAUNCH IN LATE DECEMBER - The Russian navigation satellite Glonass-M is planned for launch from the Plesetsk space center in north Russia in late December, the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems, the satellite developer, told TASS on Friday.
The satellite will be orbited by a Soyuz-2 carrier rocket with the Fregat booster. The Glonass-M satellite, which has No. 51, will replace the satellite that has operated for three years above the warranty term in the Russian navigational orbital grouping, the company said. More
(Source: TASS - Nov 21)
EUROPE TO DEVELOP SATELLITE TO MAP PLANT FLUORESCENCE - The European Space Agency has selected a satellite mission to monitor the health of global vegetation over an atmospheric research project to track carbon in Earth's atmosphere, officials announced Thursday.
The competition pitted the Fluorescence Explorer, or FLEX, against CarbonSat to be the eighth satellite in ESA's Explorer mission line for a launch in 2022.
Scientists recommended ESA proceed with the FLEX mission in September, and the space agency's Earth observation management board approved the selection this month, according to a press release Thursday. More
(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Nov 21)
ASTRONAUTS IN SPACE HONOR PARIS ATTACK VICTIMS - The crew of the International Space Station and flight controllers worldwide held a moment of silence this week for the victims of the Nov. 13 Paris terrorist attacks, and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly shared some remarks in a new video.
The space station personnel joined a stunned and grieving world in the wake of Friday's attacks in Paris, which killed 129 people and injured 352. The space station's six-man crew took part in the tribute on Monday (Nov. 16), NASA officials said. A NASA video chronicling the moment shows American astronaut Kjell Lindgren floating in weightlessness as he paused his science work to observe the moment of silence. More
(Source: Space.com - Nov 21)
LAOSAT-1: CHINA LAUNCHES FIRST SATELLITE FOR LAOS ON LONG MARCH 3B - China has launched the first satellite for the Southeast Asian country of Laos on a Long March 3B rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre.
Laosat-1, which was designed, developed and delivered on-orbit by China, blasted off from Xichang in Sichuan Province at 16:07 UTC Friday (00:07 Beijing time on Saturday, November 21).
29 minutes after lifttoff the satellite had separated from the rocket upper stage and deployed its solar panels. The launch was declared successful at 16:44. More
(Source: gbtimes? - Nov 20)
OA-4 CYGNUS ENCAPSULATED IN PLF IN PREPARATION FOR FLIGHT - Orbital ATK's Cygnus advanced maneuvering spacecraft has been encapsulated into its Payload Fairing (PLF) and is scheduled to launch Dec. 3 on an International Space Station (ISS) resupply run. The mission, called OA-4, will launch from Cape Canaveral's SLC-41 and will be boosted into orbit aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V 401 rocket. The cargo freighter is scheduled to rendezvous with the space station two days later.
(Source: SpaceFlight Insider - Nov 20)


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Marine Policy
Project Manager and Lead Scientist: Judith Kildow
Judy Kildow has proposed to support a high-profile ocean policy event on the tenth anniversary of the White House Conference in Monterey that opened the Year of the Ocean. The three-day event in 2008, timed to coincide with a one-day Field Hearing in Monterey, will be co-hosted by MBARI and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The purpose is to inform Members of Congress and their congressional staff on key issues such as ocean acidification, rising sea level, and reduced oxygen, and how their combined effects could impact ecosystems and economies. A number of events are planned at Monterey Bay venues, including the National Marine Sanctuary, Elkhorn Slough, and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.


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Just over one hundred years ago, this small country town of Clun could provide enough work for as many as ten tailors. Despite ever-growing competition from clothing factories, it seemed that their skills were still in demand. Three of the ten were journeyman tailors seeking employment where they could find it; seven were well established in the town. These seven were the Jones brothers, Richard and Edward, the three Tudors: William Senior and his two sons, William Junior and Thomas; together with George Davies and John Thomas. Their stories are very different but do reveal that opportunities for making a living out of the tailoring trade were slowly fading away.
Richard and Edward Jones were the sons of a Clun tailor, Edward Jones, who was living in Church Street with his family when Clun's first census was taken in 1841. Edward senior had a third son, John, and he trained all three to follow him in the tailoring trade. Ten years later the family circumstances were quite different. Richard, at 25, was married with a young daughter and he was running the business with his brother, John, who was already a tailor at 15 years of age. They lived and worked at 8 Church Street, the property Richard referred to as, 'My House and Tailor's shop in Church Street' when he made his Will in 1898. Still to be seen there today are his shop window and his two front doors, one for the shop and one for the house, with their stone steps leading down to pavement level.
Richard described himself as a Tailor and Draper in 1861 and working with him then were his wife, Ellen, and two apprentices. Another ten years on, found Edward back in Clun living next door to his brother's family at 6 Church Street and training his own eldest son in the trade. Richard was employing two men and a boy and had an apprentice. So, in 1871, this one business was supporting two families and had four employees. By an amazing chance, a black three-piece suit made by Richard Jones has survived and has been treasured through the years. It belonged to William Harding, a farm worker and a great grandfather of the present Ellis family of Clun. Possibly, it was made for his wedding day sometime in the 1860's, and later worn only for special occasions. The material is serge, a durable, twilled worsted cloth, and it has been tailored with great care and detail. The jacket has narrow piping, covered buttons, imitation cuffs, and two capacious, flapped, side pockets. It is lined, partly with serge, partly with quilted cotton. The waistcoat is piped and fastens high with six covered buttons. The trousers narrow to the ankles and their buttons bear the tailor's name, 'R. Jones Clun'. As with modern suits, most of the work was done on a sewing machine. Early models of these were available at this time for tailors' shops and factories, but they were very expensive.
By 1891 Richard Jones, then 65, was running the business on his own, but a few years later he was joined by Joseph Moreland. The two traded together as 'Jones and Moreland, Tailors and Drapers', until Richard died in 1900. Joseph stayed at 8 Church Street until about 1911, when he moved across the road to larger premises at Number 3. He lived and worked there for several years, employing two men and his daughter, Lesley, a tailoress. He was described as, 'A just-so man who did a thorough-going job'. He was strict and worked to time.' Joseph lived till 1946 and, by then, Lesley had been joined by her sister, Miriam. The sisters continued tailoring ladies' suits and coats until the 1950's. The Jones family business, extended in time by Joseph Moreland, had traded for well over a century in Church Street. Like the Jones family, the Tudors were tailoring in Clun for a very long time but, as the years passed, they turned to other trades to supplement their income. William Tudor, Senior, was born in Pembridge, Herefordshire, and probably came to Clun as a journeyman tailor. His name first appeared in the 1841 Census, when he had lodgings in the High Street. Ten years later he had a wife and young family and his own home, possibly with a shop, in the same street. He described himself as a Tailor and Draper and had an apprentice. Like Edward Jones Senior, he trained three sons to follow him in his trade, William, John and Thomas. John disappears from Clun's records after 1861. William Junior and Thomas spent all their working lives in Clun and can be traced well into the 20th Century. By 1871 William Senior had moved his family to The Sun Inn, where he remained as Innkeeper until he died in 1901, aged 87. Tailoring was carried on from there until first Thomas, and then William Junior married and settled elsewhere in Clun. Thomas continued to describe himself as a Tailor for the Census classification and for Kelly's Directories, but he has been remembered delivering the post in the mornings and tailoring in the afternoons.
He moved house several times but lived finally at 16 Church Street with his daughter Mary, a post woman. A photograph in 'Memories of Clun' shows them both standing, with other Post Office staff, in front of 9 Market Square in 1907. Until at least 1929, Thomas was employed by the Parish Council as Collector of Water Rents, perhaps a job easily done when delivering the post.
When William Junior married he took over a property in the High Street and named it 'The Tiled Tavern'. He became a Beer Retailer, while continuing with his tailoring. Later, he and his wife moved to The Crown Inn in Church Street where he combined tailoring with inn keeping. By 1909, they were living in Newport Street and William, then in his early sixties, returned to full-time tailoring. Their final move was to 19 Ford Street where William died in 1925.
The remaining two of the seven tailors, George Davies, from Clunbury, and John Thomas, from Knighton, first appeared in Clun records in 1861. They were of similar age and both were married with a young family. Both worked in Clun for the rest of their lives, and settled finally in Castle Street, but there the likeness ends. George Davies soon moved to Castle Street, possibly to Number 14, and worked there until at least 1909. He had several children but only one, Elizabeth, took up his trade. She described herself as a Dressmaker in the Censuses of 1881 and 1891. In contrast, John Thomas came to Clun already with a second trade. He was a Tailor and Newsagent in 1861 and ten years later a Tailor, Bookseller and Newsagent. By 1891 he was living at 6 Castle Street and had added Income & Land Tax Collector to his occupations. One of his sons, Horatio, did take up tailoring but, like Thomas Tudor, he may have combined it with postal work. He was a Rural Postman in 1881 when he was 20 years old. Unfortunately, he leaves Clun's records for many years and re-appears only once, when the Kelly's Directory for 1926 listed him, as a Tailor living at 4 Bridge, Street. He was remembered trading under the name of 'My Tailor' and working in the High Street at shop premises, now long gone. Belonging to The Sun Inn, and built right against the east wall of what was then The Malthouse, There used to be a narrow, two storied building with a small shop on each floor. F. C. Lancaster, from Knighton, was the last trader to use it, selling leather goods there until the 1940's.
The building is shown on the 1885 OS map of Clun. Perhaps it was built by William Tudor Senior, Innkeeper, as a tailoring shop for his two sons. There is one more Clun tailor, and perhaps the last, whose name has lingered on in some memories. His name was Jim Jones and he worked a small farm at Woodside with his wife in the 1940's. On Tuesdays he drove a horse and cart around Clun, collecting household rubbish. In his spare time he returned to the trade, which could no longer provide him with a living and mended the Livery Gowns of the Trinity Almsmen.
Sources not mentioned in the text: Memories of the late Bob Davies, Mary Edwards and Jack Luther. With thanks to Mary Ellis for allowing The Suit to be photographed and to Nancy Jordan for modelling it. Thanks also to Mary Ellis and George Edwards for information about Jim Jones.


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|Evidence supporting the role of calpain in the α-processing of amyloid-β precursor protein.
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|Amyloid plaques are a hallmark of the aging and senile dementia brains, yet their mechanism of origins has remained elusive. A central issue is the regulatory mechanism and identity of α-secretase, a protease responsible for α-processing of amyloid-β precursor protein (APP). A remarkable feature of this enzyme is its high sensitivity to a wide range of cellular stimulators, many of which are agonists for Ca(2+) signaling. This feature, together with previous work in our laboratory, has suggested that calpain, a Ca(2+)-dependent protease, plays a key role in APP α-processing. In this study we report that overexpression of the μ-calpain gene in HEK293 cells resulted in a 2.7-fold increase of the protein levels. Measurements of intracellular calpain enzymatic activity revealed that the calpain overexpressing cells displayed a prominent elevation of the activity compared to wild-type cells. When the cells were stimulated by nicotine, glutamate or phorbol 12,13-dibutylester, the activity increase was even more remarkable and sensitive to calpeptin, a calpain inhibitor. Meanwhile, APP secretion from the calpain overexpressing cells was robustly increased under both resting and stimulated conditions over wild-type cells. Furthermore, cell surface biotinylation experiments showed that μ-calpain was clearly detected among the cell surface proteins. These data together support our view that calpain should be a reasonable candidate for α-secretase for further study. This model is discussed with an interesting fact that three other deposited proteins (tau, spectrin and crystalline) are also the known substrates of calpain. Finally we discuss some current misconceptions in senile dementia research.
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United Kingdom VHS Volume 2.8 from July of 1997] is "The Ultimate Computer." This story was developed by a mathmetician named Lawrence Wolfe who
loved Star Trek
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on M-5, the computer tells him to "forget it." The captain is forced to dream up a
dilemma to regain control of his ship."
If Dorothy had a clunky line that made made Commodore Wesley sound like he wasn't the model commander or tactician, my hunch is that the original script was pretty much devoid of any jeopardy for Kirk, and, like a pendulum, she might have erred a bit in the other direction, by making Kirk look threatened when no starfleet commander would "actually" jump to the conclusion that Wesley jumped to. "Just bad writing?" Meh. I cut her a litle slack for writing a clunky line in an episode that I think is one of the strongest of the series.
Of course, if I could be one tenth the writer Dorothy is--either in quality or prolificness--I'd be a happy camper.
Hail, Dorothy!
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Top 10 Horror Movies of All Time
The Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Horror Films of All Time
When I first sat down to create a list for the top 10 horror movies of all time, I thought it would be a fun assignment. And while it was enjoyable, it was so much damn harder than I thought it would be. After whittling the phenomenally long list down to 23, it became harder still, as I love all the movies on the list and, frankly, felt bad about leaving the rest off. All the filmmakers in question made remarkably good films, and deserve kudos for doing so (the 13 that did not make the final cut are included as honorable mentions, and all are worthy of viewing at least once).
In the end, I had to use other facts, such as what the films meant to me personally and the memories associated with them. I usually try to stay away from personal viewpoints like that, but I had no choice in this case. So, if a film you truly love is not on this list, don't take it to heart. It was far harder on me than it will be on you, that I guarantee. And, just for the record, the last two to be cut were "Halloween" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." And, at that point, it was kind of luck of the draw.
That being said, let's take a trip to the best places our mind can go to get shriveled into paralysis. Here's the Geek Smash list for the top 10 horror films of all time.
10. The Birds (1963)
I do have a confession to make. As a horror fan, I must admit that I've never seen "Psycho." Everyone keeps telling me I must, but, perhaps due to that, I never do it. However, I did see "The Birds" with my father when I was a kid, and realized how great Alfred Hitchcock based on this little film alone. The plot is interesting, as Hitchcock and co-writer Evan Hunter decided to make the beginning of the film feel like a screwball comedy. This way, even though the audience would know the birds attack from the poster and title, they would never know when. And this is something admirable in itself, as Hitchcock knew that twist endings were good, but nothing compared to audience apprehension (a lesson that has been lost over time). The film has been linked to woman's sexuality (which I'm not entirely convinced of), but whatever its metaphorical purpose, it did make birds SCARY. This is due not only to the bird attacks themselves, but to the ambiguity of the situation. No one really knows why these birds started attacking and killing humans, and the ending leaves that open. This not understanding makes the film scarier. The acting, led by Tippi Hedron, Rod Taylor and Jessica Tandy is top-notch, as were the effects. When Hollywood thought of doing a remake, with George Clooney and Naomi Watts, Hedron stated "Why would you do that? Why? I mean, can't we find new stories, new things to do?" I love her for that alone.
9. Let The Right One In (2008)
This is a story I can't get enough of. I love both this film, and its American remake (titled "Let Me In"), as well as the novel, which adds even more to the story. "Let The Right One In" is a rare breed, as it's a romantic horror film, which is a hard feat to pull off. The 2008 film was directed by Tomas Alfredson ("Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"), who really did a fantastic job not only with storytelling, but also with the atmosphere of the piece. The screenplay, written by John Ajvide Lindqvist (who also was the book's author), did a fantastic job of putting the novel's story to screen. The story revolves around a 12-year old boy named Oskar, who is bullied at school and thought of as weird for his interest in grisly murders. He befriends a new, pale child in the neighborhood named Eli, who appears to be female, but who we find out later is androgynous. Eli, it turns out, is a vampire, who becomes Oskar's protector as well as his friend. I don't want to go too much into the story from there, but it's really cool in the fact that the love in the story is very innocent, and is mixed well with the oftentimes brutal violence. One of the best vampire films ever put to screen, "Let The Right One In" deserves to be in the top 10 horror films of all time due to the emotion it brought to a genre that oftentimes lacks it. A must watch film, even for those who aren't fans of horror in general.


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When people in healthy relationships offer me advice, they'll usually mention that "no one is perfect" somewhere in their story. People in unhealthy relationships will also claim that they've stayed because, "no one is perfect." Okay, I get it, no one is perfect, but how do you know when to walk away?
Being heartbroken was one of the most painful seasons in my life. I've been through physically painful experiences, but nothing could even compare to the gutted feeling of being left behind. There are two very different people involved in every break up, the one who wanted out and the one who got dumped. This is a reflection of when I got thrown away. Too dramatic? It's always a Taylor Swift song on repeat in the mind of Scenario B: the girl (or guy) who got tossed back into singledom.
It's been nearly three years since I experienced the rock bottom of my first real heartbreak. These days, I laugh when I hear Taylor Swift's "Back to December". It was the song that I kept on loop while I sat at my dining table sobbing, wishing that my ex would regret the day he left me. It got so bad that my neighbor would pound on my paper-thin wall and scream, "That's enough!"
It was never enough. I would just pop in my ear buds and continue crying sans pants on the floor next to a thicker wall. Looking back, my sadness didn't have much to do with my ex, but rather the emptiness I mistakenly thought he left behind. In reality, I was finally confronted with the voids I've always had, but used relationships to fill.
He was my best friend. He made me laugh and we got along well. He didn't steal money from me or try to prostitute me. He was much better than the usual scum I dated and I thought "better" meant he was destined to be the one. I was wrong. We both used each other. He wanted casual intimacy and I wanted someone to make me feel pretty. For men, sex requires very little intimacy. If I wasn't in the picture, I'm sure his sock drawer would've provided an equally suitable candidate. "Better than before" is hardly a title to translate to "forever".
We inevitably parted ways because he found someone he actually wanted as his girlfriend. I was gutted. Instead of seeing him as a selfish jerk that led me on for months, I could only focus on my own inadequacies. I stalked his FB page like a maniac and constantly compared myself to his girlfriend. After much deliberation in the confines of my own broken-hearted insanity, I concluded that I was a hideous beast!
The sadness acquired during a breakup has a hallucinogenic tendency. No matter how many times I tried to be positive, I had a horrible habit of focusing on everything I lacked. "I'm not pretty enough." "It was probably because of my walker." "I don't blame him for not wanting his family to know about me." "Of course he could do better than me, I suck at life." "Was it was because he felt judged by my reaction in regards to the finger-in-the-butthole request?"
It was my fault. I'm a horrible, selfish bitch and I don't deserve love!
Now that I've had time to heal from the sadness, I'm utterly embarrassed of my behavior. I'm forever indebted to my friends who allowed me to soak their sweaters with tears as I verbally shitted all over myself. I never believed them when they tried to affirm that I was indeed (insert anything pleasant here) and would find love again. To me, they were all horrible liars! Now, I realize that the hallucinogenic power of sadness heavily influenced everything I felt and said.
Time eventually healed my emotional wounds. Well, time plus the work it took me to fill my voids with a more truthful sense of myself. My sadness was wrong. I wasn't a complete shit who didn't deserve love. I just needed to figure out why I had such a negative self-image and why I only looked to relationships for validation.
I am particular humiliated that I begged my ex to give me another chance. As he packed his things, I remember holding onto his arm pulling all of my weight in the direction opposite of the door. I pleaded with him to stay with me because I couldn't take the pain of losing him. I ugly-cried like a lunatic as he picked up his belongings and walked out of my life.
It was so silly to beg him. What did I really think would happen? His affections for me had obviously disappeared and at that point, he'd just be with me out of pity. I'm so grateful he walked away. Had he felt an ounce of sympathy for me, he would've continued to live a double life and I would've accepted it. At the time, I didn't mind living in a delusional bubble as long as it protected me from the reality that I didn't know how to love myself.
At the moment, I still have loads of issues. I have a better sense of self, but I still notice several insecurities when I get involved in a new relationship. I actively try to separate myself from my fears, but it's a work in progress. I've since dated a few people and each person was an improvement from the last. The true delight of dating is allowing yourself to discover great qualities you never realized you wanted. It's also a great way to come to terms with characteristics that you definitely DO NOT need in a partner.
Since my first break up, I've improved in many ways. I no longer feel an intense pressure to be in a relationship. While it would be nice, I don't want to settle for someone who isn't ready to invest in the relationship. Like over-indulging on an entire package of Oreos, I just can't binge on any more garbage. I don't just want a relationship for the sake of having one. I want a partner. Someday… when the time is right.
No one is perfect, but the right person will move mountains. He/she won't just use you as a hiatus until he finds someone better. I think that's the difference.


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What Does It Mean to Be a Woman?
Vatican Conference Commemorates 25th Anniversary of Mulieris Dignitatem
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"God entrusts the human being to the woman," is the title of a Vatican conference underway to mark the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II's 1988 apostolic letter on the dignity of women, Mulieris Dignitatem.
The three-day conference is being hosted by the Pontifical Council for the Laity until Saturday. The title is a quote from the document, written after the 1987 synod on the role and vocation of laity in the Church.
A fuller sense of the title can be grasped from the entire passage from which it was taken: "The moral and spiritual strength of a woman is joined to her awareness that God entrusts the human being to her in a special way. Of course, God entrusts every human being to each and every other human being. But this entrusting concerns women in a special way -- precisely by reason of their femininity -- and this in a particular way determines their vocation" (Mulieris Dignitatem 30).
With this passage as a starting point, the aim of the conference was to examine changes throughout history in how women have been perceived; what has led women to oftentimes renounce their role; and the many aspects that have arisen as a result of the current cultural crisis.
"The conference has brought together an incredible group of gifted women who are serving the Church," Dr. Vicki Thorn told ZENIT.
Thorn, who was one of the keynote speakers during the gathering, is the founder of Project Rachel -- a ministry which seeks to provide healing and support to mothers and fathers who are grieving after abortions -- and is executive director of the National Office of Post-Abortion Reconciliation and Healing.
She noted how such gatherings are critical for those women who feel discouraged in their ministry to encounter others who are working for the Church in similar ways. "To be in the same place together is a great grace because one, you see the other women," she said. She also said that "the opportunity for networking is really critical -- especially because we have so many countries represented -- to know what other people are doing that we could take back [to our own countries], or to share the things that we're doing [with them] that they can take back."
In her talk, Thorn noted how she drew from her "experience of talking to a lot of young adults, and not-so-young adults, in terms of a different approach to talking about our sexuality, which is the science that undergirds Humanae Vitae and the Theology of the Body."
"My experience is that people are very open to hear this, because they haven't been told," she said.
She went on to say how men and women have been conditioned to think they are "sort of sexual animals" without self-control, and for this reason are simply given what is necessary to prevent STDs.
What men and women are not taught, Thorn said, is about "the awesomeness of how we're made."
She went on to explain how, for example, "women carry cells of their child for the rest of their lives, which they pass on to the other kids; we carry our mother's cells." She also spoke about "what happens when on the [birth control] pill in terms of causing [a woman] to choose the wrong biological partner, which then may lead to divorce; the changes in women's brains, in how a woman's brain grows like a man's brain, when she's on the pill."
"These are critical things," she said, "but they're science."
These facts, Thorn continued, allow those "whose lives may have been a mess because of sexual choices to make sense out of things."
Citing her own experiences working with post-abortive mothers, she noted how receptive these women are to her message.
"The wounds are there," she said, "but they only know a little bit. They don't know enough to work through what's happened to them."
Natural law
Meg McDonnell works for the Chiaroscuro Institute, a non-profit which aims to support marriage and the well-being of children among what might be referred to as the working class (lower and middle-class America). A colleague of one of the keynote speakers, Helen Alvaré, McDonnell noted how the international presence at the conference demonstrated the similarities and differences between women of different nations.
"What struck me most," she told ZENIT, "was being able to see the similarities, see the differences, and put together how the Church can weave together, through its teachings, an approach that can be applied in the extreme differences in a way that captures what it means to be a woman: how woman cooperates with man, how man cooperates with woman, and how the family continues to be the bedrock of any civil society."
Speaking about applying the principles of Mulieris Dignitatem to her work, she noted how "none of us can teach if we are not witnesses."
"On a personal level," she said, "there's a lot of my own reflection as they speak about Mary, as they speak about the virtues of women."
She cited how in the United States, one theme that is often discussed is the working mother vs. the stay-at-home mother. For the Catholic woman, the struggle "is to identify as gentle, but strong -- as we perceive in Mary -- the feminine genius, the pursuit of motherhood while also applying my capabilities, my gifts, my talents to the professional life."
McDonnell cited the challenge of articulating these principles on a professional level to a secular audience "in a way that resonates."
"How can I talk about the being of Mary," she said, "and the virtues she displayed ... her strength, her humility, her radical 'yes'?"
The conference, McDonnell said, offered a reflection on how to bring these principles "to those who are not with us in Church teachings, but who could be with us in what we would believe is natural law, and a natural understanding of the human person."


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Former Patriot receiver Donte' Stallworth has called the public to arms (or Tweets, as the case may be here) in an effort to help Haiti.
He declared earlier today that for every new person to follow him on Twitter (click here to join in) by midnight, he'd donate a dollar to the relief effort. Within about an hour, he had 19,104 new followers.
Then, later in the afternoon, he brought this to the table ... That Wes Welker, his old Patriot teammate, has agreed to match Stallworth's donation.
This is obviously a great cause, and a wonderful gesture by both Stallworth and Welker. So hop on board, if you have a minute, and help chip in.
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Excela pitches outpatient facility
Excela Health on Monday disclosed preliminary plans for a proposed 114,000-square-foot outpatient medical facility on a 27-acre parcel south of Route 30 in Unity — a project it hopes to start building by summer.
The medical mall concept that Excela is proposing for the Unity site behind Arnold Palmer Motors on Route 30 would make health care more easily accessible for patients by placing their primary care physicians, specialists, rehabilitation and diagnostic services under one roof, Michael D. Busch, Excela's chief operating officer, told the township planning commission. The outpatient facility would consolidate services offered patients in about 20 locations in the Latrobe area, Busch said.
"This project is consistent with our strategic plan of two years ago. We will provide patients a level of coordinated care," under one roof, Busch said.
The preliminary plan allows for the possibility of expansion.
But it was the accessibility to the site that most concerned planning commission members who viewed the plan for the three-story facility. Motorists would be able to access the complex from a road off Route 30 adjacent to the Mountain Laurel Plaza and from a new road off Arnold Palmer Drive, about 500 feet east of Palmer's Springhill Suites hotel.
The plan, however, does not include improvements to Giffin Drive, an access road from Route 30 into the medical facility, said Daniel Schmidt, township engineer. The road should be made a two-way street from the Burger King restaurant to the facility, Schmidt said. The road is one-way from the Burger King into the parking lot for Lowe's and Wal-Mart Stores, Schmidt said.
Planning commission members questioned why a road would not be built connecting the medical facility site to Mountain Laurel Plaza, but Bryan Clement, an engineer with H.F. Lenz Co. of Johnstown, said the plaza owner and Giant Eagle Supermarkets Inc., a major tenant, rejected the idea of connecting the two developments.
Planning commission member Gabe Monzo suggested that Excela design a plan for a road connecting the Mountain Laurel Plaza to the medical facility.
The township supervisors could consider using eminent domain to take the necessary right-of-way to connect the medical facility site with the shopping plaza, Monzo said.
"There's not been a hammer for 15 years of dealing with the issue," Tom Baumann, planning commission chairman, said in reference to using eminent domain.
But, Baumann added that he believes Excela does not "want to be the guinea pig" to go through the potentially long court process to have eminent domain approved.
"We don't want it to be held up for reasons out of our control," Clement said.
The cost of the project has not yet been determined, Busch said. He said previously that the health system has the ability to finance the project. The health system still is negotiating to buy the property from Colony Associates, Busch said.
Excela is expected to return to the planning commission in December with a final site plan that could be reviewed for possible recommendation for approval by the township supervisors.
Joe Napsha is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 724-836-3562 or firstname.lastname@example.com
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