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- September 16, 2002
- Vol. 58
- No. 12
A Year of Loss, a Year of Love
Tim Soulas Is Gone, but His Widow, Katy, and Their Six Children Embrace Life with the Help of Friends and Family—and with Amazing Grace
On the night of Sept. 11, when Tim, 35, who worked on the 105th floor of Tower One, didn't make it home, Katy, 36, who was then three months pregnant, gathered her five young children in her king-size bed and lulled them to sleep by saying the rosary. Then, she recalls, as she looked out her windows to a bright, starry sky, "a glow took over my room, and I knew he was with me. It was peaceful and beautiful. I said, 'Honey, where are you? I hope you're okay.' And he said, 'I am okay. I'm with God. And I don't want you to think about what it was like for me today.' "
The guiding light in Katy Soulas's sky is now gone. But for the past 12 months, despite unimagined hardships and the most profound grief, she has done her best to follow what she believes was a directive from her husband that fateful night. "What he was telling me was that I needed to step up to the plate," she says, using one of her sports-loving husband's favorite metaphors. "Because now, the pitches were going to come at me."
Some of those pitches have been almost too much to handle—such as the questions her son Andrew, 10, asked: "Where is Daddy's body? Is it in pieces?" But there has also been joy. On March 30, surrounded by photos of Tim in the delivery room, Katy gave birth to Daniel, their sixth child. "I was afraid," she says. "But I felt that he was holding my hand."
In fact, comfort has come from all quarters. In Basking Ridge, which lost 18 residents on Sept. 11, neighbors have rallied, making sure that she rarely has to cook meals, pay babysitters or worry about ferrying her older boys to countless football games. "We don't wait for her to ask," says friend and neighbor Amy Haskel, 41. "We just say, 'Katy, how many want to see the movie?' or 'We're going to the pool. Who wants to come?' "
Her extended family has also stepped up to the plate. Tim's widowed father, Fred, 65, drives 130 miles from Ocean City once a week to help around the house and teach the kids poker and rummy. Tim's brother Stephen, 40, comes up from Philadelphia every Wednesday to give his nieces and nephews "a regular night with someone who looks and smells a little like their dad." And when Katy's brother-in-law, Rick Soulas, 42, of Greensboro, N.C., announced to his own three kids that they were going to spend a month in school in Basking Ridge so that they could attend classes with their same-age cousins, "they looked at me, like, 'Are you kidding?' But when I told them why, they said, 'Okay, that's what we'll do.' "
In fact, the kindness—not just of family and friends, but of an entire nationwide community in mourning-has been one of the most sustaining sources of strength for Katy. "It touched my heart that so many people we don't know have been so good to us," she says, recalling the gifts sent to her by complete strangers. "It reminded me, after such a terrible thing, that people really are good."
Even more than that, it is her kids who have given her solace. "I look in Tim's eyes every day," says Katy, recalling the man who had been her sweetheart since their high school days in Pennsylvania. "It's the sparkle in Nicole, or his wisecrack from Chris's mouth, or his dedication to hockey that I see in Timmy." Her children have also provided her with a resolute sense of purpose. "I'm determined that the nightmare of Sept. 11 won't overshadow the childhood memories Tim and I created," she says firmly. "I want us to be a story of hope and courage."
They are, it seems, well on their way. There are still heartbreaking flashbacks—for Katy, "the many times that Tim is in my dreams, and I want to sleep again so that I can be with him;" for Timmy, 12, the daily memories of his father, especially "his funniness." The kids cuddle teddy bears that a neighbor made from Tim's old T-shirts and still pile into their mom's bed most nights because, as she says, "they're afraid of waking up and not finding me."
Still, Katy manages to soldier on, despite a host of worries. She is grateful for two $100,000 checks she has received—one from an insurance policy, the other from the Red Cross—as well as Cantor Fitzgerald's promise of $100,000 more over the next 10 years. She also plans eventually to return to work as an emergency room nurse. Even so, "I'm 36 years old with six children," she says. "Is there going to be a magic number that will make sure my kids have clothes and Santa Claus?"
She has put on a brave front, speaking before lawmakers on behalf of victims' families, lobbying in Washington for a victims' compensation fund and serving as a spokeswoman for a nondenominational support group that meets regularly in her home parish of St. James's. "Katy and her family are so compelling," says Susan McDermott, 35, a mother of three whose husband, Matthew, also worked for Cantor Fitzgerald and died Sept. 11. "It was wonderful having someone in a similar situation to talk to."
Far tougher are the day-to-day trials—like bath time for six without a ready helpmate. "I'll have two kids in the tub, two will start to quarrel, Nicole climbs into the sink and all of a sudden I'm having a flood," she says. "Not having a second set of eyes around is really hard." One night when the pressure got too great, "I went into the bathroom, shut the door and yelled at God: 'How could you leave me like this?' " When the kids heard, she chose not to hide her emotion. "They were angry at God for taking their daddy away, and to see that I was angry too was healing for them."
In fact, Katy has been honest with her kids from the start. When they asked, "I said, 'I think Daddy died from smoke,' " and added, "We have to count on each other, because it's not going to be easy." Now, when baby Danny starts to cry in the car, one of the other kids pops a pacifier into his mouth. Andrew has taken on the job of walking Boomer, the chocolate Lab that Katy gave Tim last year for his birthday. And while Timmy at first didn't want to play hockey after Sept. 11 because it was always something he shared with his dad, "to his credit, he got back out there and gave it everything he had," says Tim's brother Rick. "I remember wondering, 'Where does a kid so young get the strength and determination?' "
One obvious source: his mother. At the moment Katy is trying to learn to throw spiral passes and jump from the high board at the local pool. "I know I can't be their father," she says. But according to the kids, she's not doing half bad. "When we were washing the car, she had the hose and she started spraying us," says Andrew. "And then we took the soap and we poured it on her, and she kept splashing us."
Those small flashes of joy—the moments when Katy thinks, "We're going to be happy again. We will survive"—are coming more often these days. Not long ago on one of her morning runs, Katy pondered how to mark the first anniversary of her husband's death. Suddenly, "I thought, Sept. 11 is Daddy's birthday in heaven, and it should be celebrated." Then she remembered the August day last year when the Soulases took a trip to the Jersey Shore. "Tim just loved the beach," she says. "He lived for it."
And so this Sept. 11 will find Katy packing her kids into the SUV and heading back to the beach, on a mission. On a day when the country will honor the memory of its lost loved ones, Katy and the Soulas kids will be doing that too.
They'll be the ones splashing in the ocean.
Answering the call
Tywana Key lost no one on Sept. 11, but she found out something about herself. As she watched the TV in disbelief, "I felt a hole in me," says the 27-year-old. "I knew I had to get in a position to help people." On Oct. 1, Key, a former administrative assistant, enlisted in the Army. A Long Islander who had rarely left New York, she felt homesick and physically stressed during basic training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina, where she kicked her 11-year smoking habit on the spot. In the middle of the night she would hide in the bathroom and cry. But "every time the drill sergeant said I was going to fail," she says, "it just made me more determined. Every test I passed took me one step closer to being a soldier." Today the hardest part is living apart from her son Christopher Roberts II, 5, and the boy's father, Christopher Roberts, 31, a disc jockey, whom she married on Feb. 8. "My friends thought I was crazy to try to do something about 9/11 by myself," says Key, now stationed in Ft. Lee, Va. "But it's not all about me."
Ready for the next rescue
Just after the attacks on New York City, Bill Callinan, the fire chief of Southfork, Ky., his wife, Roswitha, and fellow firefighter Ron Luster jumped into his car and drove nonstop for 13 hours to offer whatever help they could to the rescue crews at Ground Zero. Though the experience brought the Callinans face-to-face with unspeakable tragedy, it has strengthened their marriage immeasurably. "When you're married, you can drift in different directions," says Bill, 49, who has been fighting fires for 19 years. "She didn't really understand what I do. Then we worked side by side. Now she knows."
After four days at Ground Zero, the trio could think about only one thing during the drive back. "We all kept saying, 'What more can we do?' " recalls Callinan. They went to work forming a highly trained volunteer rescue squad, ready to travel anywhere in the country to assist at catastrophes. "People out here—we just have an overwhelming desire to help," Callinan says. The Southfork Tactical Rescue unit, an 11-member team that includes EMTs, MDs, RNs, firefighters and police officers, is designed to be able to mobilize within two hours of news of a disaster. So far, so good. "If we never go out, that's okay," Callinan says. "It will just mean that nothing bad has happened."
Linking lives one stitch at a time
Sometimes beauty is born from frustration. That was the case for Alexis Owen, a freelance writer who watched the towers collapse from her balcony in Brooklyn. Wanting to help, she rushed to give blood but none was needed; she tried to volunteer her services but found a long waiting list. So Owen, 26, came up with her own way to pitch in. She moved back to Denver to be closer to her family, and with her mother, retired Realtor Pamela Moye, 55, quilted a huge American flag out of small panels inscribed with personal messages (including one from Laura Bush). "It was my way of not only helping other people heal but of healing myself," she says. "I realized what I needed was to reach out and not feel so alone and scared about what happened."
The project also brought Owen and her mother closer together. When their 60-by-120-ft. flag—made up of more than 3,000 panels received from people in nearly every state—was unfurled for the first time in New York City on July 4, "we hugged for a long time," she says. "We were totally speechless." On Sept. 11 the flag will grace the Capitol lawn and after that may be taken on a national tour. "It helps people share their emotions with thousands of other people," says Owen. "When it comes to Sept. 11, we're all in this together."
Filling his brother's boots
Both brothers dreamed of being New York City firefighters. But when Michael Cammarata scored two points higher on the entrance exam, he was able to join the department months earlier than his older brother Joseph, an NYPD officer. Then on Sept. 11, Michael, 22, became the youngest fireman to lose his life. "I was never gonna let that stop me," says Joe, 25, who joined Staten Island Engine 157, Ladder 80, in March. "It was the last thing [Michael] knew I was gonna do," he says, adding, "Although I lost my blood brother, I feel I gained 12,000 brothers."
The hand of fate, and friendship
One man was drenched in blood and gasping for every breath. The other, a stranger, lent a handkerchief and an arm to lean on. Together they made their way down nearly 60 flights of the burning south tower. "Once this is over," the bloody man promised, "I'll buy you a beer."
The two emerged only minutes before the building collapsed, and, a few weeks later, finally shared that beer. Today Silvion Ramsundar, 31, and the man who helped him, Doug Brown, 55, share something else: a powerful, life-affirming friendship. "I'll forever be indebted to him," says Ramsundar, one of only 16 people from above the 77th floor of the south tower to survive the attacks. "I can't forget what he did for me."
Then an assistant vice president for Mizuho Capital Markets, Ramsundar was on the north end of the 78th floor—one of the impact floors—when the second plane hit the tower's south side. A fist-sized piece of metal lodged near his heart and his left lung collapsed; still, he hobbled down the only serviceable stairway. Around the 60th floor, Doug Brown, an executive director at Morgan Stanley, held a handkerchief to Ramsundar's bleeding chest and stayed with him the rest of the way. Without Brown, Ramsundar believes, he might not have survived.
They are of different generations and hail from separate parts of the world—Ramsundar was born in Guyana to Indian parents, Brown is from South Bend, Ind.—but their journey to safety that day forged an instant bond. Their families (Brown and his wife, Alice, 56, have two grown children, while Ramsundar and wife Nimmi, 30, have a 5-year-old daughter, Mariah) also felt an immediate closeness when they met. "We all hugged," Alice recalls. "Lots of hugs, lots of tears."
And lots of changes too. Brown says he is now "doing things I've always wanted to do," such as tutoring an inner-city child. Ramsundar has trouble using his left arm and faces many more months of rehabilitation. Now when the two men look back on Sept. 11, they focus not on what was lost but on what was gained. After Nimmi quit working as a teacher to be with her husband, Brown helped her find a job at Morgan Stanley. Brown's sister also raised $1,500 for Ramsundar's family. On holidays their two clans come together, as if they were all old friends.
In this way, two men weather the worst crisis of their lives. "It's bad that we met under those circumstances," says Ramsundar, "but maybe it was meant to be that we become friends."
Where his son died, a father finds strength
The last time Michael Flocco saw his son Matthew, 21, was on Sept. 9. They had their usual exchange. "I remember saying, 'There's only one thing better than you.' And he said, 'I know—two of me,' " Flocco, a Newark, Del., sheet metal worker, recalls. "He gave me the high five."
After the Pentagon attack claimed the life of their only child, Michael and his wife, Sheila, lost their way. "I was drinking a fifth of whiskey every night," says Flocco, 54; Sheila, 47, was too distraught to work and quit her job as a grocery-store cashier. Then, in January, Michael was hired to help repair an interior ring of the Pentagon. On his first day he headed straight to the spot where Matthew, a Navy meteorologist, was killed. Since then he has reported to the site daily, swinging a sledgehammer in an act of remembrance and healing. "It's been an honor helping to rebuild the Pentagon," Flocco says. "I've found strength there."
While on the job, Flocco has been living temporarily in a Winnebago in Maryland, but he will soon head home, bringing with him a new peace of mind. "I'd have gone crazy without the work," says Flocco, who with Sheila started a high school baseball scholarship in Matthew's memory. "And I feel like my son's still there, helping me."
He took the calls. Always
Last February, Wallace Miller, the coroner of Somerset County, Pa., arranged a meeting for all the families who lost relatives in the crash of Flight 93, which plowed into a field just outside Shanksville. He wanted to explain the process of recovering and identifying remains but also to help the families set up a network of support and remembrance. Miller worried, though, that someone would break down during the meeting—and someone did. "Turns out I was the first person who was overcome," says Miller, 45, who also runs two local funeral homes. "I'm an emotional guy. I have a tendency to get involved."
That's been a saving grace for all those who lost loved ones on Flight 93. "He has treated us with the utmost compassion," says Lisa Beamer, whose husband, Todd, died on the plane. "I would put him in the category of hero." From the moment Miller first glimpsed the crash site—just burning trees and a huge crater—he realized his was going to be more a job for a funeral director than a coroner. There was no mystery about how the 44 aboard Flight 93 died. His duty was to bring comfort to the survivors. "He knows how to handle death," says friend Mike Shealer, who coaches track and field with Miller at the local high school. "That's what those people needed."
So Miller, who is married and has an 18-year-old stepdaughter, made himself the point person for the grieving families. He gave them his office, home and cell phone numbers and invited them to call any time of day or night. (They did.) Countless times he escorted families to the crash site. He listened and tried to help them with their heartbreak. "I just tried to think of what I would say if my daughter was killed out of town," he says. As the Sept. 11 anniversary approaches, the crash site remains—at the families' urging—under Miller's tender jurisdiction. He had the county spread topsoil over the ground, and fresh grass was planted. Recently, during a visit there with one of the families, he found a flock of wild turkeys cozily roosting in the field. "It made me feel," he says, "like nature has returned."
On the front line against hate
Marine Staff Sgt. Jamal Baadani, in uniform, and a buddy were at the Tampa airport in April when a man who had been randomly searched gestured toward them and said, "Get those two, they look like terrorists." Baadani, 36, was saddened but hardly surprised. In recent months Baadani—born in Cairo to Muslim parents—has discovered that even the uniform he first put on at 17 offers little defense against post-Sept. 11 prejudice. "I knew in my heart that I had to speak up to educate others," he says, "so people don't think anyone Middle Eastern is a terrorist."
Baadani has been doing just that, through lectures across the country and his new group, the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in the Military (which now has more than 300 members from all military branches). Says Baadani: "I am a proud American."
Flying in the face of danger
Thomas Heidenberger, a pilot for US Airways, keenly feels the loss of his wife, Michele, but he also feels her spirit more strongly than ever. Michele, 52, a flight attendant, died aboard American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon. Married for almost 30 years with two children, Thomas, 16, and Alison, 21, the Heidenbergers had been planning a trip to Italy to celebrate their anniversary at the time Michele died.
In this year, Heidenberger, 56, has discovered resources he never imagined. "The biggest surprise," he says, "was how strong my kids are. If it weren't for that, I don't know what I would do." Then there's his own resilience. At first he was understandably anxious about flying again. But within a month of Sept. 11 Heidenberger was back on the job. "Just going to work shows that I'm not going to let the bastards win," he says. Heidenberger is also fighting back in a more public forum. He has lobbied lawmakers on Capitol Hill to pass legislation allowing pilots to carry guns. An avid jogger and marathoner, he took part last fall in several segments of a coast-to-coast run organized by pilots to honor fallen crew members by carrying an American flag from Boston to Los Angeles. Since then he has taken to carrying a flag almost every time he competes in a race, and he says he feels his wife's presence at the finish line. "Michele and I had a good run," says Heidenberger. "My children had a mother. I had a wife. I had a lover. And I had her for 30 years."
A legacy of love
Jeff Collman and Keith Bradkowski, who had been together for 11 years, were officially registered as domestic partners in California. Yet when Collman, 41, a flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11, died without a will, a family feud erupted. As next of kin, Collman's father, Dwayne, staked a claim to the estimated $250,000 available from the federal victim's compensation fund. Since only a single survivor is eligible to collect for each victim, that would have left Bradkowski out in the cold.
From the initial ugliness, a sort of harmony has emerged. Although they were never close, Bradkowski, 46, called Collman's mom, Beverly Sutton (who is divorced from Dwayne), in April, and they talked for an hour. She agreed with Bradkowski that he should inherit her son's estate. That led to a face-to-face visit in Illinois and regular chats and e-mails. "It meant a great deal when she acknowledged who I was," says Bradkowski, a Bay Area hospital administrator. Even Dwayne Collman may be coming round; lawyers working on behalf of the two sides now say an agreement about the estate could be finalized soon, perhaps in time for the first anniversary of the tragedy. In the meantime, Beverly Sutton has discovered she has a son-in-law. "What better way to honor Jeff than to become a family again?" she says.
The last survivor
Roger McMillan won't be at work on Sept. 11. "I'm going to stay home and enjoy what I almost lost," says the 39-year-old New York City print-shop employee. Last year his girlfriend Genelle Guzman—the last person to be pulled from the World Trade Center alive—was working as an administrative assistant for the Port Authority on the 64th floor of Tower One. When the attack occurred she scrambled down 51 flights of stairs before the building collapsed, burying her in concrete and metal. "It felt like an earthquake or a hurricane," says Genelle, 31, who spent 27 hours in the rubble before rescuers reached her. "I was thinking, 'I'm going to die.' "
Her right leg was crushed, her head swollen to three times its normal size. She was hospitalized for just over a month, and at one point doctors feared they would not be able to save her leg. But one thing in Genelle's life was certain. "Every minute I opened my eyes in the hospital," she says, "Roger was at my side." After four operations and months of physical therapy, she can walk again unaided, although she has a permanent limp.
From her hospital bed Genelle, a native of Trinidad who moved to New York in 1999, asked Roger a question that had been on her mind for years. "I said, 'Honey, when I come out, let's go to City Hall and get married,' " she says. They did, and on July 13 the couple repeated their vows before friends and family—including Genelle's 13-year-old daughter from a previous relationship—at a Manhattan restaurant. For Genelle McMillan, who says she no longer has nightmares about Sept. 11, that was the happiest day she has had since being released from the hospital. "I was given a new life," she says. "I feel like nothing is impossible."
Stronger by the day
In loss, five widows (as seen above, left to right) have risen to the challenge—and have made an impact.
Ginny Bauer
With the death of her husband, David, 45, a brokerage-firm sales director, Bauer successfully lobbied Congress for a two-year federal tax break for victims' families. Now raising three teens on her own, Bauer, 46, says, "The old adage, Adversity brings you strength, is true."
Monica Gabrielle
In tribute to her husband, Richard, 50, an insurance executive, Gabrielle persuaded Washington lawmakers to fully investigate why the burning WTC buildings fell to the ground. "It won't bring back Rich," says Gabrielle, 50, "but it's empowering to see changes."
Monica Iken
A Bronx schoolteacher, Iken, 32, has led the fight to delay reconstruction at Ground Zero until plans are in place for a memorial honoring the nearly 3,000 victims, who included Iken's husband, Michael, 37, a bond broker.
Marian Fontana
Mobilizing the families of firefighters, Fontana, who is the mother of a 6-year-old son and lost her firefighter husband, Dave, 38, seeks to win financial help for the survivors and respect for their fallen loved ones. Says Fontana, 36, an actress and writer: "I felt like I didn't have a choice."
Beverly Eckert
Eckert, 51, an insurance executive like her late husband, Sean, 50, has created a Web site for civilian victims' families, pushed for safer skyscrapers and demanded a blue-ribbon investigation of events on and before Sept. 11. "We need to learn from this," she says. "We need to make sure that the deaths of 3,000 were not in vain."
Healing herself, helping others
About a month after her brother-in-law Terence Manning, a New York City computer consultant, died at the World Trade Center, Carolyn Manning was leafing through the newspaper in her Scottsdale, Ariz., home. She wasn't searching for a way to lift herself out of her grief—but that is exactly what she discovered in the pages of the Scottsdale Tribune. It came in an article about refugees from Afghanistan who had recently come to America to escape persecution. "We are different socially and economically," Manning, 37, recalls thinking, "but we share a common enemy."
Manning, who has five children with her husband, Philip, 39, a UPS driver, created the Welcome to America Project, a group that has helped some 150 immigrants from countries like Iraq and Albania to furnish their new homes with goods donated by individuals, churches and corporations. "When people have a sense of belonging," Manning says, "they're much less likely to hate." While her work hasn't erased her pain, it has helped. "This," she says, "is my memorial to Terence."
Love among the ruins
It was New York City firefighter John Mraz's first-ever massage, and he needed it. "I felt his neck and shoulders shiver with relief," says Dawna LoPiccolo, a masseuse who frequently volunteered at Ground Zero and had come there on Christmas Day because she couldn't bear to stay away. "At the end, we hugged. I felt it down to my toes. Our bodies sighed." Says Mraz, who had lost 25 buddies on Sept. 11: "I didn't want to let her go." Less than two weeks later LoPiccolo, 36, and Mraz, 43, arranged to meet at a hotel bar in Uniondale, N.Y. "We were there for 11 hours," says LoPiccolo, then a single mother to Gillian Rose, 3. "We just sat there talking, crying, hugging. I came home and told my mom, 'I met my forever guy.' "
Today, "Love, Your Forever Girl" is engraved on Mraz's gold wedding band. Still, getting to the altar wasn't without complications. Mraz, a firefighter with Engine 248 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, was a widower with an 8-year-old son, John James; Rosemary, his wife of nearly 20 years, had died of a heart attack at age 39 in May 2001. When he proposed to LoPiccolo two months after their first date, "some of the guys in the firehouse wondered why I was rushing into it," says Mraz. "I never thought I'd get remarried. But on that Christmas Day, we connected."
On June 5 the pair wed at a memorial near Ground Zero. "It was just immediate family—we didn't want to appear to be overcelebrating," says LoPiccolo, whose 1993 marriage ended in divorce. Today they are raising their blended family at Mraz's home in Brooklyn. "My son told Dawna, 'Mom sent you,' " says Mraz. Adds LoPiccolo: "For all the children who lost a parent [on Sept. 11], a little boy gained a mommy and a little girl now has a daddy. It's humbling."
It's not about the paycheck
He was about to begin a lucrative career at Morgan Stanley with a $75,000-a-year job and a window office. Then the planes struck, and he barely escaped Tower 2. Days later this 23-year-old son of immigrants from Ecuador contacted the CIA. "I want to work for you guys," he told them. "If there's anything I can do to speed up the process, let me know."
A computer whiz and jujitsu black belt, Javier (not his real name) now earns about half what he would have made at Morgan Stanley. But at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., where he works in a cubicle on classified systems, he is "in the game," he says. "We need a world where everyone feels protected. This wasn't a difficult choice."
A diary of Ground Zero
He made unforgettable images of twisted beams and dirtcaked workers-"whatever moved me," says Joel Meyerowitz, 64, who became the unofficial Ground Zero photographer. During nine months in the pit, Meyerowitz gave up his other photography work to produce an archive of thousands of photos, which have been exhibited in more than 160 cities. "People tell me, 'I'm shocked, but they're beautiful,' " he says, adding that "seeing different races and creeds come together at Ground Zero was the most moving thing I've ever seen."
A boost from the Boss
They were major Bruce Springsteen fans, Stacey and Joe Farrelly, two New Jerseyites who had seen him perform 15, maybe 20 times. Then Joe, a New York Fire Department captain, died in the attacks. A few weeks later Stacey, 44, was surprised to pick up the phone and hear Springsteen's familiar voice. "We talked about Sept. 11, about our children, about Joe," she says. "I was on a high for a good month and a half from that." Springsteen, who wrote several songs about Sept. 11 for his album The Rising, also invited Stacey and her three children to a few concerts. Seeing him play "was hard," she says. "I could see Joe there, singing and dancing." But knowing Springsteen cares "really does help," she says. "It makes you feel less alone."
An act of kindness, a gift of thanks
The pilot announced an emergency landing due to a minor malfunction. But the 218 passengers on Delta Flight 15 learned the awful truth when they touched down in Gander, Newfoundland: All U.S. flights had been grounded because of the terrorist attacks. "We were all in shock," says Shirley Brooks-Jones, 66, a retired college administrator flying from Frankfurt, Germany, to Atlanta. "We were worried about our safety and families."
It was then, in the darkest of hours, that goodness prevailed. All told, 6,500 people from dozens of planes were stranded in Newfoundland. Flight 15's passengers were bused, without their bags, to Lewisporte, a small fishing town of 3,300 people. Despite the region's bleak economy (unemployment in Newfoundland exceeds 16 percent), the townspeople opened their homes to the passengers, stacked tables with food, converted schools and churches to sleeping quarters and provided banks of telephones and piles of free toiletries and medicine. "We have a tradition of helping our neighbors," says the town's mayor, Bill Hooper, who hosted Brooks-Jones in his home. "We treat our guests the same way."
The passengers found a way to say thanks. On the flight back to the U.S. three days later, Brooks-Jones and others collected $15,000 in pledges for a scholarship fund for Lewisporte high schoolers; Delta and other donors soon upped it to $50,000. This June, 14 seniors each received a small award upon graduation. Brooks-Jones, who oversees the scholarship program, returned to Lewisporte to watch the ceremony. "They were so excited," she says. "I thought my heart was going to burst."
A born New Yorker
Many Americans love New York, but few are as hooked as Trish and Christopher Coyne. While they were courting, says Trish, a videographer, New York was a place the Houston couple found "magical." Sept. 11 didn't deter them from their planned October honeymoon in the Big Apple—but, as it did for many Americans, it changed the way they thought about their future. "We realized you could just walk out the door one day and not come back," says Trish, 29, who, with Chris, 37, a retail-inventory manager, vowed to start living more fully in the here and now. "So we decided we would try to start a family while we were in New York for our honeymoon."
Two months later a queasy Trish learned she was pregnant. On July 1 she gave birth to a healthy baby girl, Nicole Yvette Coyne. "You can never take back the tragedy," says Chris. "But you have to rebuild. This is our way of rebuilding. When she's old enough to understand, we'll explain to her why her initials are N.Y.C."
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Manchester City face their toughest test of the season so far at Tottenham, says Jamie Redknapp.
Matt Le Tissier picks a combined Tottenham and Manchester City - but there's no room for Harry Kane or Vincent Kompany...
Tottenham v Manchester City, Burnley v Arsenal... Sky Sports pundit Paul Merson gives his Premier League predictions.
Jamie Carragher says it is time for Ross Barkley to become Everton's main man and make the most of his "special talent".
If Chelsea fail to win at Hull City this weekend, they could be set for a campaign like last season, according to Paul Merson.
Norwich to bounce back? Newcastle to win again? Ian Holloway returns with another round of Sky Bet EFL predictions...
With the Ryder Cup almost upon us, we have challenged the Sky Sports football experts to predict who will star in Minnesota.
We asked the Soccer Saturday pundits to predict who the FA will appoint as the next England manager following Sam Allardyce's departure.
Everton manager Ronald Koeman opens up about life at Goodison Park with Sky Sports' Jamie Carragher ahead of Friday Night Football.
How would the Premier League table look if matches finished at half-time? Are Man City breaking goal-scoring records?
Arsenal forward Theo Walcott is currently in the middle of a purple patch, says Charlie Nicholas.
Football Association bosses have been left "with egg on their face" over the appointment of Sam Allardyce, Alan Smith says.
Jamie Carragher discusses another slow start to a Premier League season for Sunderland.
The Sky Bet EFL is back for some midweek action and Ian Holloway returns too with his predictions.
Charlie Nicholas provides us with his latest round of Champions League predictions with Arsenal and Man City in action.
Andy Walker reflects on Aberdeen's win over Rangers and what the result means for Mark Warburton's side.
Niall Quinn looks ahead to Celtic's Champions League clash with Manchester City and reflects on the challenges facing Scottish football.
Cristiano Ronaldo can only be upset with himself after being subbed during Real Madrid's draw at Las Palmas, says Guillem Balague.
Jamie Redknapp says West Ham's show against Southampton as "shambolic", and the new stadium is not an excuse.
Neil McCann says Mark Warburton has failed to manage Joey Barton properly after the player was suspended by Rangers.

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Handguns: General Discussion
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January 24, 2010, 02:32 PM
I am considering laser sights for my Beretta 92/96,any suggestions on brand,quality? What about activation,front vs side? Thanks!
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January 24, 2010, 02:51 PM
Crimson Trace is the only brand I'm familiar with -
I have this in a model for the 1911, and the front activation is quite natural. By that I mean it doesn't take any conscious effort to turn on the laser. A normal grip does it. (There is a slide switch on the bottom of one grip panel for turning the laser off, and it's recessed and not easy to do. This means it can't be accidentally turned off. You have to want it off.)
There is a battery holder in each grip panel, and the whole assembly is remarkably rugged and water resistant.
The offset position of the laser isn't a problem, IMO. You use the supplied Allen wrenches to adjust elevation/windage to match some point of impact, say at a distance of 10 yds. There will be differences between POI and POA (laser dot) at different ranges, but only on the order of an inch or so. Most consider this insignificant for self-defense. The laser isn't a replacement for a competition red dot sight, in other words.
There can be a problem with tight-fitting holsters. If you have a holster that is wet-molded to your pistol's shape, the "bump" at the top of the R grip panel may cause some problems. Sometimes retention straps won't snap.
There can also be a problem with holsters that are too loose. If the holster allows the front-activation button to contact the holster edge, it can turn on in the holster. Not a good idea...
So, there are some things to watch for. In general, Crimson Trace is excellent. Expensive, but excellent.
January 24, 2010, 03:57 PM
Handled the bump on the CTL with a little massaging of the holser with my Dremmel tool.....I have the 401 Pro on my Combat Commander and Love'em.
Alao like the on/off option switch..............
January 24, 2010, 04:01 PM
I have several handguns with the Crimson trace laser grips , I'm always impressed with how dependable they are and how long the batteries last , the only person I know that goes thru batteries very fast uses the red dot to tease his cat . I have used customer service only once and I have been very satisfied so far. The CT sights are a great help to visually impaired folks and in low light situations . Make sure that you don't rely on them exclusively though , anything made by man can and will fail at the worst time . Continued practice with your regular sights will keep you sharp and able to respond if your laser fails .Most holster makers have a model to fit your gun with CT sights . I use a Galco B919L for my Glock 26 and it works great !
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Monday's 27th annual adoptathon raised $63,888.
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When Nashville's golden girl Lynn Anderson cut her lachrymose 1971 hit I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, she never imagined her life story would become a tearjerker too. "I was called the Grace Kelly of country music," she observes. "I figured I could own the world." But now, at 35, and about to revive her showbiz career by appearing this week in the CBS-TV movie Country Gold, Lynn has lived the experiences she once only sang about.
Just a year ago Lynn filed a counter-suit for separation from Harold "Spook" Stream, the estate manager for and scion of a prominent Louisiana family. According to news reports at the time, Anderson charged that Spook had abused her physically and once attempted to run over her with a car. "When angry, people say and do things they wouldn't normally do at other times," she says. "We were both hurt and striking out at each other." They had met four years earlier, when she was performing at a rodeo. "We hit it off immediately," Lynn says. Already once divorced, Lynn soon moved in with Spook, sanctifying their love with formal vows on Valentine's Day, 1978. They also shared a passion for horses and traveled extensively.
For Lynn the promise of wedded bliss was such that she walked away from her performing and recording career to devote herself to her husband and family. She has a child (Lisa, now 10) from her 10-year marriage to songwriter-producer Glenn Sutton, and she and Spook would have two of their own (William Gray, 3, and Bunny, 1). "I had been in the music business all my adult life," she says. "I had won the awards and had a million-selling record, so I thought it was a natural progression for me at that point to change my priorities."
But domesticity within the rigidly structured Stream clan (whose wealth is based mainly on oil and ranching) presented problems. "To them," Lynn says with obvious disappointment, "showbiz was a little less than respectable." And, she allows, "It bothered me some to be known only as Mrs. Stream." Furthermore, her husband became increasingly involved in the breeding and showing of cutting horses. "He was on the road all the time, and I couldn't keep up," Lynn says. Their quarreling intensified until Lynn picked up and left their Lake Charles estate to return to Nashville. Her one-line farewell note to Spook read: "The end of a fairy tale."
In retrospect, Lynn claims she really didn't want the divorce. "We loved each other and still do," says Lynn who, in fact, has begun to date her ex-husband again. But Spook filed court papers barely two weeks after her departure, presumably to insure that their case would be adjudicated in Louisiana. "I heard about it sitting at home with my 6-month-old baby watching the 10 o'clock news. I couldn't believe it," she says. To avoid a potentially devastating public custody fight, she and Spook came to an agreement (she retains custody of their children).
Anderson's singing success contrasts sharply with her failed marriages. Born in Grand Forks, N.Dak., she grew up in Sacramento, Calif., where her dad worked as a used car salesman. Hers was a music-loving family, particularly her mom, Liz, a songwriter on the side (she penned Merle Haggard's big hit All My Friends Are Gonna Be Strangers). Lynn, singing professionally by her late teens, appeared regularly with Lawrence Welk and guested on the Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin shows. Her peak came in 1971, the Rose Garden year, when she was named top female artist by the Country Music Association.
Now she must pick up the pieces and start anew. In addition to her TV movie role, she expects to have a new LP out (Permian label) next year. Because she once abandoned the music scene, Lynn admits, she has met with skepticism on her comeback attempt. "People think I don't really care, but that's not the case," she says. "I'm at the point now where I have to make it."
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20 GHD Sit-ups
5 Push jerk @ 133# (my shoulders were spent from Presses last night so I went with a low weight)
5 minutes AMRAP of 24kg Kettle bell snatches - 87
And once again KB snatches beat the shit out of my forearms. Going to have big ugly, nasty purple arms by the end of today. Worst exercise ever. I could have done over 100 if not for having to shed a tear each time the KB snapped back onto my forearm. It's ok -- it builds character and toughness. And yes I know this shouldn't happen; and yet it inevitably does.
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Fifteen pilots participated in a poker run called "Takeoff for Kids" Saturday.
The event involved landing at five different airports to receive a playing card. They all finished at the Bentonville Municipal Airport, where the pilots laid their hands on the tarmac.
Organizers said the poker run is a way for pilots to give back to the community.
"This year's charity is the Children's Miracle Network, and we hope to generate about $9,000 to give back to the charity," said David Powell, owner of Summit Aviation.
All the fees and proceeds collected at the event will go to the Children's Miracle Network.


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Handguns: Autoloaders
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August 30, 2007, 09:04 PM
Are Hk's really that good? I was in one of my local gunshops yesterday looking at 9mm pistols. :uhoh: I handled just about every 9 in the store. I'm seriously looking at a P2000. Whatcha think? Thanks
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August 30, 2007, 09:15 PM
I think they are good guns but over-priced and they really gouge on spare mags.
If you really like the gun and the price is not an issue I doubt you'd be unhappy.
August 30, 2007, 09:27 PM
Don't know about the P2000, but the USP's are.
August 30, 2007, 09:29 PM
I'm sure its a fine weapon.
But for the service to which most people apply any major-caliber handgun, the HK can only hope to be as good as a Glock.
Just out of curiosity, did HK let their lawyers write on the side of the gun?
From the pics I have seen, it would appear not.
Does it have a magazine disconnect "safety?" :barf:
August 30, 2007, 10:18 PM
They are very nice pistols; they also are more expensive than many other makes. I feel like I can find something similar for less. If money was not an object, I would purchase one.
August 30, 2007, 10:53 PM
They are very well made and have a reputation for reliability that rivals Glocks IMO. They have been making polymer pistols longer than any other major manufacture and know what they are doing. If it feels good in your hand there is no reason not to get one.
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Richard Novotny, Corry Industrial Benefit Association
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Arthur R. Martinucci, Quinn Law Firm
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Fukushima-type reactor in Vermont gets the axe, concerns remain
A nuclear power plant near the town of Brattleboro is being shut down thanks to local environmental activism.
Harvey "No Nukes" Wasserman warns about nuclear nightmares
"The thyroid cancer death rate for children in the Fukushima area is 40 times higher than normal; tuna caught near California have signs of cesium traceable to Fukushima."
Today in women's history: Three Mile Island nuclear reactor overheats
Since the 1979 accident, there has been an ongoing controversy over whether the radiation released at Three Mile Island led to an increase of cancer and infant mortality in the surrounding areas.
Fukushima now a global disaster
More than two years after the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl and after more than two years of denial and cover-up, the Japanese government on Oct. 6, through Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has requested global aid.
Japan withdraws goal of no nukes by 2040
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POPs Review Committee Adopts 12 Decisions, Sets Up Working Groups for Emerging Issues
14 October 2011: The seventh meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC 7) of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) addressed a number of emerging concerns, in addition to reviewing substances nominated for listing in the Stockholm Convention's annexes, and established intersessional working groups to address the emerging issues that go beyond the Committee's usual scope.
POPRC 7 took place from 10-14 October 2011, in Geneva, Switzerland. The Committee adopted decisions on, inter alia: advancing chlorinated naphthalenes and hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD) to the risk profile stage; recommending that parties consider listing hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) in Annexes A, B, and/or C of the Convention; effective participation in the Committee's work; the assessment of alternatives to perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) in open applications, DDT, and endosulfan; and the implications of climate change on POPs.
POPRC 7 also established nine intersessional working groups to address HBCD, HCBD, chlorinated naphthalenes, pentachlorophenol (PCP) and its salts and esters, alternatives to endosulfan and DDT, alternatives to PFOS in open applications, the draft risk profile on short-chained chlorinated paraffins, consideration of toxic interactions, and the impact of climate change on the Committee's work. These working groups will report back at POPRC 8, which is scheduled for October 2012.
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Looking at the refined Crimson Text version of our Web page, it looks like we're done, but we're not. What you can't tell by looking at my screen, because I'm on a Mac using Firefox, is that the way Google Web Fonts tells you to use their system doesn't work correctly on Internet Explorer 7 or 8. Take a look at this screenshot of the same page, viewed on Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8. Look at the italics in the quote about libraries. They are fake.
If you're new to looking at fonts, you may not realize they are fake, but the A and E give it away immediately. Most true italics have a single-decker A, not the double-decker one like we can see here, and Crimson Text E is softer and rounder. The fake italics has neither of these things. It uses the regular version of the text, and just slants it over. You can also see the difference in the Y and F very clearly. Let's toggle back to our Web page.
There is the F with the tail, and the Y with the curved stroke, and the fake italic has neither of these things. There are two reasons why fake italics aren't good; one is aesthetic. If we just spent ten minutes getting the italics to look good, it's frustrating that people using Internet Explorer 7 and 8 can't see them. The second reason, and perhaps more importantly, is legibility. Now, it doesn't matter quite as much with Crimson, because quite frankly, Crimson's italics are pretty narrow, and not that easy as italics to read.
But later, as we move out of the older style fonts, and into more contemporary fonts, you'll see some italics are actually quite open, and very easy to read. When those italics convert to the fake italic, legibility is compromised. The change in the italics is more immediately recognizable, but the bold is fake too. Internet Explorer just makes the font look bold by slightly stretching the vertical strokes, so they are a bit lighter. The semi-bold italic sentence about the Bay Road businesses has both a fake bold and a fake italic.
It has been both stretched and slanted, and the results are not delightful. So why does this happen? We'll open the file from the last lesson, and let's look at the code. See how the Google code surfs up all four versions of Crimson Text in the same line of code? Internet Explorer 7 and 8 only recognize one font surfed up; the first one. All the other weights and styles are then faked by the browser. Fixing this is relatively easy. First, immediately following the current code, let's put in a return here, and we're going to add the following conditional comment.
We're going to say a conditional comment of if, Internet Explorer, and then end if. Then what we're going to do is go back to Google Web Fonts, and get the code for each individual weight and style. So now we have normal 400 selected, copy; back in our document, I'll paste that in. Toggle back to Google Web Fonts, choose the Normal 400 italic, copy that, paste it, choose just the semi-bold, copy that, and paste it into my document.
And now the semi-bold italic, select that, copy it, toggle back, and paste it, and then we'll save this. Go back into the browser and refresh this, and if you're not using Internet Explorer, you didn't see anything change, but it's now working in both Internet Explorer 7 and 8. I'll show you a screenshot of the fixed version. And this is what you'd see if you were using Internet Explorer 7 and 8.
The italic is fixed, as is the bold. Unfortunately, we also see that there is a bit of a spacing problem in the Crimson italic on Internet Explorer 7 and 8. Now, you might wonder why I had you use a conditional comment, and only serve the individual weights and fonts for Internet Explorer. Wouldn't that approach work in all other browsers? Not necessarily. If you didn't use the conditional comment, the fonts wouldn't work properly in Opera. When faced with multiple weights and styles of a single font, Opera always uses the last weight and style of the font pulled in from Google.
I can show you what that would look like as well. So if we didn't use the conditional comment, Opera would have pulled in the last weight and style, which was the semi-bold italic, and Opera would have used it for all the text on the page. In doing it the way that we did, Opera also works correctly. So now our old style font works properly across every srowser that supports Web fonts. Even though Google Web fonts takes care of most of the technological aspects of using Web fonts, it's still good to keep track of how things are working cross-browser, and be willing to make changes to how you use their service.
- Explaining the history of text fonts, from Old Style, Transitional, and Modern to Slab Serif and Sans Serif
- Understanding font classifications
- Setting up a Typekit account
- Choosing a quality font based on forms, spacing, and weights and styles
- Accessing fonts from various sources
- Implementing fonts with the @font-face syntax
- Looking at how fonts affect the look and feel of a web page
- Changing font styling to improve readability
- Making various font weights and styles work correctly across multiple browsers
- Pairing fonts (headline and text, two fonts in text, and so on)
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I looove pasta. Usually I go for a good whole wheat spaghetti or penne, but lately I have been loving shells. Small shells, big shells, whole wheat or not, I have a major obsession. This is a healthier recipe for large stuffed pasta shells. It was one of the "husband's choice" dinners that Ben made for me last week. He found the recipe here.
This is a great Sunday night dinner recipe. It is hearty and and cheesy, with a little sweetness from the butternut squash. Ben used queso fresco instead of mascarpone cheese. We would have preferred whole wheat shells, but couldn't find them.
My favorite part of this dish is the light bechamel sauce that is poured all over these delectable stuffed shells. Ben served the pasta with a raw beet salad with raisins. If beets aren't your thing, a nice green salad is the perfect way to balance out this meal.
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Are your dancing shoes warmed and your feet ready to move? Then find a nightclub in Billings, Montana and get your groove on. Find the best dance clubs based on the scene, average age and music by reading the Billings nightclub descriptions below along with reviews and maps.
Located in the Carlin Hotel in downtown Billings, this martini bar and nightclub features live music on Fridays and Saturdays, nightly specials, appetizers and trendy cocktails. Patrons who wish to eat but still enjoy the music can dine on-site at the Patio at the Carlin. Open Monday through Saturday from 4pm to 2am.
This bar and nightclub in downtown Billings caters to the gay, lesbian and transgender community and offers regular DJ and live music, Karaoke and Wii sessions. The establishment is open daily and also offers on-site sports bar and casino sections.
Those looking for some country tunes for a little two steppin' can head to Desperados in Billings. The Western dance bar features DJ and live music, along with mechanical bull riding and drink specials. Situated just off Central Avenue, the establishment is located under the same roof as Jim's Smokehouse.
Jim's Smokehouse
Located just off Central Avenue with Desperados is Jim's Smokehouse, a nightclub and bar offering live music, drink promotions, dancing and summer events. Country and western enthusiasts can head for Desperados while fans of the 80s can dance the night away at Jim's.


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Clarkston Animal Medical Center
5904 S Main St | Clarkston, MI 48346Call 248-274-4998
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- Animal Flea Control
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Clarkston Animal Medical Center is a full-service veterinary medical and surgical facility located in Clarkston, MI. The professional and courteous staff at Clarkston Animal Medical Center seeks to provide the best possible medical, surgical, and dental care for their highly-valued patients. We are committed to promoting responsible pet ownership, preventative health care and health-related educational opportunities for our clients. Clarkston Animal Medical Center strives to offer excellence in veterinary care to Clarkston, MI and the surrounding areas. Please take a moment to contact us today, to learn more about our veterinary practice and to find out more information about how Clarkston Animal Medical Center can serve the needs of you and your cherished pet. We are an American Animal Hospital Association accrediated facility.
Robin E Krieger , DVM
Dr. Robin Krieger and Dr. John Krieger, II took over Clarkston Animal Medical Center from Dr. Bruce Harlton March 2008.
Dr. Robin Krieger graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Honors degree from Michigan State University in 1997 and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree from Michigan State University in 2001. She then completed a Internship in Small Animal Medicine, Surgery (soft tissue and orthopedics), and Emergency in 2001-2002. Dr. Robin then went into small animal general practice in Redford, MI for the next year before returning to emergency medicine full-time for the next 5 years in Ann Arbor, MI. Her special interests include surgery, both soft tissue and orthopedics, neurology and ophthalmology. She spends most of her free time with their son, Jackson, and 2 wonderful dogs. Matisse, a catahoula (the crazy one), and Mulligan, a wolfhound-malamute mix (the calm one). Other interests include ice hockey (Go wings!), reading, traveling and trying to get a work out in.
Dr. Robin is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Michigan Veterinary Medical Associal, American Animal Hospital Association, and Southeastern Michigan Veterinary Medical Association.
John J Krieger, II , DVM
Dr. John Krieger, II graduated with a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree from Michigan State University in 2002. He has worked full-time since graduation in small animal emergency medicine. He regularly worked small animal general medicine relief for southeastern MI clinics. His special interests include surgery, both soft tissue and orthopedics. His hobbies include anything related to playing or watching golf or actually everything sport related, but particularly football.
Dr. John is a member of the American Veterinary Medical Association, Michigan Veterinary Medical Association, American Animal Hospital Association, and Veterinary Emergency and Critical Care Society.
Sarah C James , D.V.M.
Dr. Sarah James received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1992 and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Michigan State University in 1997. She joined our staff at Clarkston Animal Medical Center in 1999. She is married with 3 children and has a golden retriever and a cat. She has a special interest in internal medicine. She enjoys spending time with her family, camping, and outdoor activities.
Jeffrey Fortna , D.V.M.
Dr. Fortna received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from Cedarville College in 1995 and a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Michigan State University in 2000. He has been practicing small animal medicine and surgery for the past eight years. Since joining our staff in 2006, he has continued to develop his professional interest in ophthalmology, internal medicine, soft tissue surgery, and shelter medicine. In addition to his part-time position at CAMC, Dr. Fortna is employed at the Oakland County Animal Contral facility in Auburn Hills where he cares for the stray, neglected, and abandoned animals of Oakland County. Dr. Fortna shares his home with one pampered pooch, Cody, an Australian shepherd, and he spends his limited free time enjoying running, cooking, and traveling.
Dr. Rhonda Bierl , DVM
Rhonda graduated from MSU in 2000. She currently lives in Pontiac with her husband (Adam) and 2 year old son (Alexander). Rhonda has a german shepherd named Raine and a cat named Virginia. Her interests include soft tissue surgery and ultrasound.
Bruce Harlton , DVM
Dr. Harlton officially retired from Clarkston Animal Medical Center February 2008. He is enjoying traveling up north and spending time with his first grandson.
Dr. Harlton founded North Oaks Animal Clinic in 1976. The facility was upgraded and expanded in 1992 and the name Clarkston Animal Medical Center was adopted. In 2001, the facility was again upgraded and expanded.


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Pennsylvania's Ultimate Haunted Experience, Cave, Trail & Hayride
Pennsylvania's Ultimate Haunted Experience!
In the CAVE…Through THE WoodS & ON THE WAGON!
Fridays & Saturdays October 7 & 8, 14 & 15, 21 & 22, 28 & 29, 2016
Our 33rd Annual Ghosts & Goblins Tours promises to bring new themes & new surprises, creating a memborable experience for first time and repeat visitors alike, including our newest addition - The Haunted Hayride! Three Unique Experiences for the Price of One!
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ADVANCE TICKETS WILL BE HELD AT THE DOOR, unless requested otherwise. An e-mail cofirmation will be sent upon receipt of your ticket order.
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Enjoy a very special family tour through two beautiful crystal caverns, one haunted and one natural, followed by the a Family Hayride around Warrior Ridge Farm. 90 minutes of fall family fun!
Come experience 90 minutes of terror! All Scary Haunted Caverns PLUS Haunted Trail & HAUNTED HAYRIDE!
Especially for children through age 12 - Saturday morning Halloween Party! Enjoy a Halloween craft, prizes for costumes, pizza lunch, panning for real gems, and a very special Ghosts & Goblins tour followed by a hayride on Warrior Ridge Farm!
FRIDAY NIGHT GROUP SPECIAL - Special pricing for groups of co-workers, teens, college students and others purchasing advance tickets!
The BEST OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS are BOO-TACULAR BIRTHDAY PARTIES at Ghosts & Goblins 2016! Party room and tour packages available!
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Howell Edges Uihlein in Dunhill Links Championship
After tying third-round leader Peter Uihlein in regulation, England's David Howell sank a 12-foot birdie putt on the second sudden-death playoff hole to win the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship. The European Tour event was completed Sunday at the Old Course at St. Andrews.
Howell closed with a 5-under 67 to tie Uihlein, who shot a 69, at 23-under 265. Both players parred the first playoff before Howell sealed his first victory since the 2006 HSBC Champions. His latest title was worth $800,000.
"To nail that birdie putt to win is pretty sweet," the 38-year-old said. "I was 0-5 in playoffs so I felt as though I deserved one.
"All week I was nervous, I can't explain why. We all know it's a big week and we've all got lots to play for, but today I found a little more inner strength," added Howell. "I still struggled a little bit to get the pace on the greens under the intense pressure and all in all, I was really pleased with how I stayed in control and kept controlling my swing and holed the ones that I had to right at the end. It's been an interesting seven years. I lost my way in life and on the course, as well, but now things are really good at the moment and I'm in a really happy place."
"Hats off to David, (he) played great, made a nice birdie," said Uihlein, who with his runner-up finish moved to 10th on the Race to Dubai. "He made more putts than I did at the end of the day."
Tom Lewis (64) and Shane Lowry (68) tied for third at 266, while another stroke back was Tommy Fleetwood (67).
The victory by Howell moves him into the world's top 100 and to 12th in the Race to Dubai. "It's a dream to be back in the big time, as it's been a long, long road from the depths of despair to get here today," he said.
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That there is still plenty of room for improvement in the medical profession can scarcely be doubted. If, indeed, we consider the matter carefully we must reach the paradoxical conclusion that the medical profession of the United States ranks at the same time the highest and the lowest among the great civilized nations. In technical skill our leaders, especially in surgery, are probably the best in the world. On the other hand, owing to the low standards of medical education that have prevailed in this country during the past century, it must be frankly confessed that the rank and file of our medical practitioners average low in proficiency. As a single
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New nanoparticle electrode could bolster large-scale storage of renewable energy
There's no doubt that sources of renewable energy such as wind and solar are critical to a clean energy future, but just as important is a way to store the energy generated for use when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. Researchers at Stanford University are reporting the development of a new high-power electrode that is so cheap, durable and efficient that it could enable the creation of batteries that are big enough and economical enough for large-scale storage of renewable energy on the grid.
The new electrode was made using crystalline nanoparticles of a copper compound called copper hexacyanoferrate. Most batteries fail because of accumulated damage to an electrode's crystal structure caused as ions - the electrically charged particles whose movements either charge or discharge a battery - move in and out of the electrode. In comparison, the atomic structure of the crystals found in the new electrode have an open framework that allows ions to easily move in and out without damaging the electrode.
Laboratory tests saw the electrode survive 40,000 charging/discharging cycles, after which it could still be charged to 80 percent of its original capacity. This is a huge improvement over an average lithium-ion battery, which can handle around 400 charge/discharge cycles before it deteriorates too much for practical use. And because the ions can move so freely, the charging and discharging cycles of the new electrode are extremely fast.
"At a rate of several cycles per day, this electrode would have a good 30 years of useful life on the electrical grid," said Colin Wessells, a graduate student in materials science and engineering who is the lead author of the study.
"That is a breakthrough performance - a battery that will keep running for tens of thousands of cycles and never fail," added Yi Cui, an associate professor of materials science and engineering, who is Wessell's adviser and a coauthor of the paper.
To maximize the benefit of the crystal's open structure, the researchers had to find ions of just the right size. Too large and they would get stuck and damage the crystal structure and too small might see them sticking to one side of the open spaces between atoms instead of passing through. Hydrated potassium turned out to be the perfect fit.
Additionally, because the particles of the electrode material are a mere 100 atoms across, the ions don't have far to travel to react with active sites in a particle to charge the electrode to its maximum capacity, or to get back out during discharge, which further enhances the speed of the electrode.
While energy density has been a major focus for researchers working to build a better lithium-ion based battery for use in portable electronic devices, such as mobile phones and laptop computers, such concerns aren't as important as cost when it comes to developing an energy storage solution for the gird. Since the battery doesn't need to be portable, it can be big, as long as it is cheap.
As some of the components used in lithium-ion batteries are expensive, scaling them up to a point where they could be used in the power grid isn't economical. Instead of the organic electrolyte used in lithium-ion batteries, the researchers opted for a water-based electrolyte, which Wessels says is "basically free." They also used readily available precursors such as iron, copper, carbon and nitrogen to make the battery electric materials, which are all much cheaper than lithium.
But it's not all good news for the new electrode. Its chemical properties make it only usable as a high voltage electrode and every battery needs two electrodes - a high voltage electrode for the cathode and a low voltage electrode for the anode - in order to create the voltage difference that produces electricity. This means the researchers will have to find another material to use for the anode before they can build an actual battery. However, the team says they are already investigating various materials and have some promising candidates.
Cui and Wessells admit that other electrode materials have been developed that show great promise in the laboratory but say these would be difficult to produce commercially - unlike their electrode material which they've already synthesized in gram quantities in the lab in a process they say should be easy to scale up to commercial levels of production.
"We put chemicals in a flask and you get this electrode material. You can do that on any scale," said Wessells. "There are no technical challenges to producing this on a big-enough scale to actually build a real battery."
The Stanford team's paper describing their research was published this week in the journal Nature Communications.