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Festivals to mark the International Year of Astronomy
Following the opening ceremony of the astronomy project that took place in Paris in January, many other functions related to the global project to celebrate astronomy are taking place worldwide in some 130 nations.
One of the global campaigns, the 100 hours of Astronomy Project (100HA) involves 24-hour observation of the night sky with 80 telescopes around the world. It took place in early April, covered by a live webcast (www.astronomy2009.org).
The Galileo telescope project involves teaching how to use a telescope to at least 10 million people around the world, so that more people can enjoy more of the night sky. An ongoing project called "Make it happen" calls for donations to educate the general public about science and astronomy and alert the world about light pollution of the night sky.
Astronomy celebrations in Korea
In Korea, the Korea Astronomical Society, the Korean Space Science Society and the Korean Amateur Astronomical Society are leading the way in a global starlit campaign.
Korea recently completed its celebrations of the 100 hours Astronomy Project from April 2 to 5, with the participation of astronomy departments from seven universities, 32 public and private astronomical observatories, two science museums, public libraries and camping sites.
Separately, the associations also set up a dedicated webpage in Korean (www.astronomy2009.kr) to publicize the history of astronomy, information on space technology and the development of telescopes, together with forthcoming exhibitions, lectures and parties. Here are the major functions to come.
The next celebration is the Kumdori Science Festival 2009 (April 10-12) at K-zone in Expo Park, Yuseong-gu Daejeon. The festival will have a commemoration ceremony, concerts, science quiz, observatory watch and sci-fi movies for the next three days at Science Expo Park, National Science Museum, Daejeon Education & Science Research Institute, Daejeon Public Observatory and other places. Children will particularly have fun with live space experience programs together with magic shows and contests. (These events are mostly Korean language only.)
The National Science Museum will also open its celestial hall this coming weekend on April 11 and 12, to allow observation of the sun, to study the Seven Wonders of the Natural World, to provide a special lecture on astronomy followed by a concert.
The same museum is also holding an exhibition titled ?WAN: The World At Night?/strong> that features exceptional photos of the night sky contributed by 29 professional photographers around the world, such as Fred Espenak in the United States, Babak A. Tafreshi in Iran and Aleksandr Yuferev in France.
On till April 26, the exhibition is part of a series of shows being held by U.S. non-profit organization Astronomers Without Borders. The same photos can be found on the TWAN homepage and Naver, the most popular search engine in Korea. The website displays heavenly scenes of the night with sun, moon and stars against the backdrops of the mountains, forests and other familiar landmarks around the world, such as the Taj Mahal, the peaks of the Andes and the Parthenon in Greece.
Separately, K-zone in Daejeon Expo Park will from April 10 to 12display photos of the 20 night sky taken by Korean astro-photographer Kwon O-chul. He further contributed six of his works to the above TWAN project.
Another photo exhibition titled From Earth to the Universe (FETTU) is also on display at Goguryeo Astronomical Observatory (Korean) in Chungju city, Chungcheongbuk-do (North Chungcheong Province). A total of 20 pictures of the night sky captured by the Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories around the world will be displayed from April 7 to 22. The observatory is opened from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. each day.
The photos will then be displayed at Jangheung Jeongnamjin Observatory (Korean) in Jeollanam-do (South Jeolla Province) from April 23 to May 5. This observatory is also open from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. For more information call 042-865-8763 (Korean) or e-mail (email@example.com).
The organizing committee is preparing for events such as a Campus Starlight Festival in May, observation of the solar eclipse in July, Korea Science Festival in August, UN space technology workshop in September and Korea Starlight Festival in for October.
Also in October, there's the 60th International Astronautical Congress in Daejeon from the 12th to the 16th. Titled ?pace for Sustainable Peace and Progress,?there will be workshops, technical sessions, plenary speeches, lectures, fairs and news about all the latest in the field of astronomy.
People will be able to enjoy concerts, sci-fi movies and hands-on activities like a space playground.
Finally, SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) will be a highlight in November and in December a time capsule will be buried, containing present information on astronomy to be excavated in 2019.
For more information visit:
International Year of Astronomy 2009 official website: www.astronomy2009.org
International Year of Astronomy 2009 Korean website: www.astronomy2009.kr
By Kim Hee-sung
Korea.net Staff Writer
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Relationship Building Through Social Media: It's a Love Story
With the realisation of many marketers that relationship building is (again) very important to actually get the most out of your marketing efforts they have started to reach out to influentials more than ever. Social Media is a good tool for that, but for many the question is how to actually built that relationship. Hubspot compares it to a love story.

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Update, 3 p.m. -- Syracuse police now say the man at the shooting scene, who was identified in police reports as Antwan Aiken, was misidentified in the police report. The man at the scene of the shooting was not Aiken, Sgt. Tom Connellan said this afternoon.
Syracuse, NY -- A man who told police "my girl" was shot when police arrived at the scene of a fatal shooting Sunday on Syracuse's Southside was arrested on drug charges an hour later and about five blocks away, according to Syracuse police records.
Syracuse police records detail the two encounters with police Sunday.
When police investigating a shots-fired call arrived about 6 p.m. at Glahn Avenue and West Colvin Street, a man was yelling his girl was shot. When police went to a car there, they found Morgan McMahon, 25, of Fairfield Avenue, unconscious and with a gunshot wound to her head.
McMahon died Monday at Upstate University Hospital from her wound.
Police identified the man yelling as Antwan Aiken, 26, of Glahn Avenue. When police tried to question Aiken, he said all he could remember was hearing a shot and seeing smoke.
Aiken then declined to cooperate more, saying "I ain't talking," and walked away, police said.
About 7 p.m., officers investigated a disabled car, parked at South Avenue and West Castle Street, that could have a connection to the shooting. When officers approached, they found Aiken standing next to the vehicle, a tan 1988 Buick Century.
Because there was a possible connection to the shooting, police towed the vehicle. Before towing, they asked Aiken if there was anything illegal in the car. Aiken, according to police, said there was marijuana in the vehicle's center console.
Police found two bags of marijuana in the car, weighing more than 25 grams, and charged Aiken with criminal possession of marijuana, a misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation.
Police also found $839 in cash in Aiken's pocket.
Syracuse police declined to comment on the arrest.
"We are not discussing anything in this case," Sgt. Tom Connellan said.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (21Alive) – Residents on the Southeast side of Fort Wayne are rallying for the development and completion of urban trails to parks and downtown sites.
The group held a meeting Saturday morning and has composed ideas to complete existing trails in the area as well as suggest putting trails along Hanna Street connecting to Tillman Road.
Trail organizers say there is at least a million dollars available in Legacy Funds for trail development.
Though city officials have suggested other routes, like putting a pathway along Smith Street, organizers say they need something that better suits the needs of the citizens in the area.
"We're suggesting that it could go a little further and I think from Wallace Street to go out to Tillman is less than five miles. So if we could get something like that it would actually enhance the health, bring the family out, and beautify the community. We just want to be practical in the whole thing," said Officer Diane Rogers, Liaison for the Fort Wayne Police Department.
For more information on the urban trails project, call Linda Brooks at (313) 434-6549.
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The never-ending saga surrounding the projected super-fight between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao continues to be just that, and with no end in sight to the incessant dramatic thespian antics from all parties concerned, whose side of the story should the ever trusting fans believe?
Ever since the proposed mega-fight between the aforementioned made headline news back in early 2010, everyone and I mean everyone has had their take on when it will transpire and why it won't happen and everything else in between.
Those at the nucleus of this "he said and she said" farce are always on hand to relay the latest in a long line of what has turned out to be falsehoods to the media—which in turn is fed to the boxing masses.
The same boxing contingent, who as always, excitedly digest the new information, only to unearth more deceit and lies for what must seem like the umpteenth time in the "Money" vs. "Pac-Man" yarn.
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Feedback 2012 at Founders Brewing
The Crane Wives, The Fuzzrites, and The Honeytones All Star Revue are headlining Feedback 2012 at Founders Brewing beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday. The event benefits Access of West Michigan's food pantries.
If you haven't heard The Crane Wives, you're missing out. Their sophomore album was just released and they were the winner of three Jammies, including the coveted 2011 WYCE Album of the Year with "Safe Ship, Harbored." Event details are available on Facebook.
"Fiddles on Fire" at Forest Hills Fine Arts Center
You don't have to go "down to Georgia" to find a solo worthy of a wager for a fiddle of gold. The Grand Rapids Symphony is dedicating Sunday to the instrument Charlie Daniels made immortal in song.
From Bluegrass to Classical and Jazz to Celtic, violinists will cover these genres with a 3 p.m. show at Forest Hills Fine Arts Center, 600 Forest Hill Ave. SE, featuring the fiddle. Conducted by John Varineau, the concert showcases guest artists "Fiddle Fire: The Panning Family."
Tickets are $15 for adults and $9 for kids with free pre-concert activities, including an instrument petting zoo starting at 2 p.m. More information can be found at grsymphony.org.
Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang at the Orbit Room
Two Grammy winners on one stage — it's hard to beat that level of talent. The Orbit Room, 2525 Lake Eastbrook Blvd. SE, is bringing Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang to the stage Sunday for one night of rock and blues starting at 6:30 p.m.
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - The CEO of this organization is Christine DeLisa, whose 30-year-old son spent nine years in the U.S. Army. He was shipped to Iraq in 2003. "This (the group she heads) is my second baby," admitted Ms. DeLisa. "He's my first." Ms. DeLisa said her son returned with "shrapnel throughout his body, hearing loss in his left ear and he may lose his left leg," though doctors don't know why. As a result, she is also involved with the Disabled American Veterans Auxiliary.
How you can help
Ms. DeLisa collects supplies to send to troops and helps families of servicemen and women who are in need. Last month, members of the Staten Island Grandmothers Club #899 donated food, which, in turn, was donated to the aunt of a soldier about to be deployed. The aunt is to take care of the young soldier's child, but the family was burned out of its home, so the food went to them, reported Ms DeLisa, to applause.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. – More than 6,700 students will spend part of their summer taking the next step by taking classes at Clark College. Summer quarter begins on Monday, July 2.
Space is still available for continuing students in classes including chemistry, English 101 and intermediate algebra. New students should pursue class offerings for fall quarter. For information about classes and programs, visit http://www.clark.edu/academics/.
During July and August, college offices and services will be closed to the public each Friday at noon. This is a pilot project designed to help college programs manage workloads during the next academic year when a temporary leave program required under the state's mandatory 3% wage reduction will reduce the number of available full-time staff hours.
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AL.com Auburn football analyst Cole Cubelic answers five questions for us heading into this week's season opener between Auburn and Arkansas.
Q: What are your memories of the Auburn-Arkansas rivalry from your time as an offensive lineman at Auburn?
CC: The first word that comes to mind is 'physical'. I remember some of their defensive linemen were tough as nails and really liked to talk too. One year they knocked our quarterback Ben Leard out of the game and I remember them shouting "Mission accomplished!" Part of it too is that I always found Razorback Stadium one of the most unusual places to play in all of the SEC. Playing there was so different to any other experience in the league. It was so far away so the travel was really grueling, the weather was always bad, the grass was too tall, the "Woo Pig Sooie" thing. It was just different, and not in a fun way.
Q: Much has been made of the personal rivalry between Bret Bielema and Gus Malzahn. How accurate is it to portray them as personal rivals and do things like that have an effect on the players of the two teams involved?
CC: I don't think it's really as personal as the media wants you to believe. I think they're two guys who disagree about things like style of play but also about the way to handle themselves in public. Do I think they would like to hang out with each other on vacation? No, but I think this business about them not liking each other has been sensationalized. They're professionals. Malzahn likes to be quiet and keep to himself, and that's basically the complete opposite of what Bret does. Their personalities contrast just like their philosophies on football and I think that's what makes this game interesting. My guess is that they both keep all of that stuff away from the players. I know Gus keeps it away from his guys.
Q: How will the Auburn offense change this season compared to what we saw on the field in 2013?
CC: I think when you look at where this offense was at the end of last season, they were really a pretty simple, repetitive offense. They didn't have to be diverse and they didn't have to be creative, because what they were doing worked. It was the power play, the zone read, some screens and some shots downfield and that was basically it. You'll still see a lot of that but I think there will be new dimensions to this offense that are revealed pretty early. Some of that is just the result of the coaches having more time with the players to teach and develop the offense. Gus Malzahn is remarkably good at building his offense to highlight his team's strengths and hide its weaknesses. This year, Auburn has tremendous talent at running back and wide receiver and you'll probably see them find more ways to take advantage of that. Auburn's got some new starters on the offensive line and they don't have Jay Prosch anymore at fullback so you'll probably see them do some things to protect those areas as well, at least early on.
Q: Speaking of hiding weaknesses, what do you think are the primary weaknesses of this team heading into the 2014 season?
CC: The back end of the defense is probably one of the top concerns early on. There's quality athletes in the secondary but we just don't really know what they have yet in terms of execution. Gus understands when to take necessary risks on defense but that's still going to be a concern early on in the season. The offensive line is also obviously going to be green in a couple spots but it's no so much about talent there as it is about continuity. One of the things you can do to help that is to make their lives easier early in the season until they start to develop chemistry with one another. Arkansas is an aggressive, physical defensive front and they'll attack that Auburn offensive line. It's important to keep that in check and not allow pass rushers to get loose in the backfield because all it takes is one hit and it could affect the entire season for Auburn.
Q: Several true freshmen are likely to see some action perhaps as early as this weekend's season opener. How is the preparation for the first game of the season different for these newcomers?
CC: You didn't see it a lot 10 or 15 years ago when I was playing but it's so much more competitive now. Kids are better prepared when they reach college because of things like these All-American games and offseason camps. Some of it depends on the position you play also. Defensive line is one of the easiest places to make an early contribution. Cornerback can also be a spot where you can come in early and play. Auburn will need some of its young players to contribute at both of those spots.


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Or Miami.
Or better yet, Jacksonville.
Which backup do you think is better?
McCown has to be playing the best of any current QB backup right now. I like we have him playing. I don't sweat Cutler being out. I just want him to get all the way healed this time.
Not a single one of those EXPERTS unequivocally stated Culter IS 100% health....it's a bunch of IF he's 100%...he SEEMS to be 100%...he's TELLING me/us he's 100%....
I don't necessarily blame Culter for going in when he knew he was only 90 something %...just don't tell me he was 100%...not the way he was moving and crouch grabbing almost from the first snap....
Exactly. I saw it many times after the play and I'm sure it showed up on tv too. He was hurting in the second half from BOTH. The Bears may not want to say it but eyes don't lie.
I keep Cutler and Briggs out until Dallas in early December. Ratliff will be ready then too. If we can't beat St. Louis and Minnesota then we don't deserve a playoff spot anyway IMO.
Okay, let's take 100% out of the argument for just a second: I posted somewhere else, quarter by quarter stats of Jay Cutler, and the stats show he was not only accurate for the first half, but he was also able to throw deep AND drive down the field multiple times. The Chicago Bears organization has flat out said that he suffered an ankle injury in the second quarter, and his dip in play in the second half (mostly the 4th quarter) gives credence to this. SO, let's say for a second that his groin WAS still bothering him going into the game, why then, was he still very effective until his ankle injury? All you have is anecdotal evidence to support your claim that the groin injury was the reason for his dip in play (he was holding his groin), without being able to reconcile the fact that he was playing very well until he suffered an ankle injury.
I have said nothing of the sort...how well he was statistically playing is NOT relevant to my point and I have never even mentioned it...my whole point was and remains that playing injured or not a 100% opens a greater possibility of other injuries occurring...I have no way to prove that is what happened; just as you have no way to prove it didn't...if he was 100%, then I have no argument...however, if you coincide he wasn't 100% (which you appear now to have done), then my argument/opinion has just as much validity and possibility as yours...
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The last time the Dolphins played the season's final game in New England it was 2010, and the lasting memory for me was the realization that someone sabotaged one of the team's tailbacks. Who remembers the $500,000 bonus Ronnie Brown would have been owed in 2010 if he'd have reached 750 rushing yards?
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OutCast Productions in Langley presents "Greater Tuna," the first in a series of four comedic plays, each set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas. The series was written by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard and has since become somewhat of a cult hit in American theaters.
The show opens Friday, Nov. 9 at the Black Box Theater at the Island County Fairgrounds and runs until Sunday, Nov. 18.
On this day in Tuna, the third smallest town in Texas, life begins as it always does with Thurston Wheelis and Arles Struvie at the microphones of Radio OKKK, broadcasting at a whopping 275 watts. (Well, at least when they remember to turn the transmitter on.)
In the headlines that day is the winning entry in the American Heritage Essay Contest, titled "Human Rights, Why Bother?"
The comedy continues with Petey Fisk of the humane society talking about the duck problem and "Yippy," the pet of the week.
Enter Phineas Blye, perpetual losing candidate for city council announcing he's running again and revealing his plan to tax prisoners: "It would be easy, 'cause everyone knows where they are," says Phineas.
Of course, a day in Tuna isn't complete without the high school football report from coach Raymond Chassie, who explains why his football team lost 48-0: "We lost mainly because we couldn't score."
The day continues, as Tuna's citizens parade across the stage in all their outrageous and irreverent glory, commenting on life, politics and what makes them (and sometimes us) tick.
The OutCast cast includes Gabe Harshman, Ethan Berkley and Lars Larson. K. Sandy O'Brien directs, Jeff Fisher created the sound and Alex Wren is the lighting designer.
The play runs for two weekends only at the Black Box Theater at the Island County Fairgrounds in Langley at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and at 2 p.m. Sundays, Nov. 9 to Nov. 18.
Tickets cost $16 for adults and $12 for seniors/students at www.brownpapertickets.com.
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The pH levels in the St. Lawrence County lake, once considered so acidic it could harm fish and invertebrates, has dropped to acceptable levels, the state Department of Environmental Conservation said.
"What it indicates is that we are seeing places in the (Adirondack) park that are experiencing chemical recovery," said John Sheehan, spokesman for the nonprofit Adirondack Council. "The lakes that were on the cusp of being critically acidified are starting to recover."
The DEC and Sheehan credited the cleaning up of Cranberry Lake to stricter regulations that reduced pollution from land and air. New York has imposed restrictions on power plants in the state and pressed for regional efforts to reduce smokestack pollution blamed for the acid rain and mercury in its waterways, notably in the Adirondacks.
Cranberry Lake was among 62 water bodies in New York that were recently "delisted," or removed from the list of impaired water bodies. The lake was put on the list in 1998.
About 80 water bodies were added to the list, however, which now contains 590 lakes, ponds, streams and rivers. DEC spokeswoman Maureen Wren said most new listings are water bodies that had not previously been assessed for pollution. They come mainly from the lower Hudson basin, the Niagara River/Lake Erie basin and the Atlantic/Long Island Sound basin, she said.
Cranberry Lake has a large watershed — the area of land that drains into the lake — and a constant flow of water, so it's likely to be among the lakes that recover quickly, Sheehan said. It will take longer for the mercury bound up in the flesh of fish to work its way out, he said.
"Chemical recovery is just the first step," he said. "After that we need to see biological recovery."
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Zarqa, Jordan's second largest city, is a rundown, industrial metropolis and birthplace of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the notorious mastermind of al Qaeda's terror operations in Iraq who was killed by American forces in 2005.
Recycle reveals the distinct yet intertwined stories of three native sons of Zarqa: al-Zarqawi; Abu Ammar, an ex-Mujahadin fighter who now supports his family of 11 by collecting cardboard to recycle; and filmmaker Mahmoud al Massad who, from behind the camera's lens, coolly unravels the knotted threads of poverty, humiliation, and strict religious doctrine that have made the city a continuing source for jihadist recruits.
The central story is Ammar's; his attempts to build a normal life in the impoverished town are thwarted at every turn. He cannot afford his rent; a scheme to sell used vehicles in Iraq fails when he is almost killed by extremists and American soldiers, and the book he is writing — a moderate interpretation of jihad — goes unfinished.
Inscrutable, undaunted, and ever-devout, Ammar labors alone at night in an abandoned storefront transcribing his personal interpretations of scripture from slips of paper stuffed in garbage bags onto an old desktop computer. But, when the war on terror strikes close to home, he is swept up and forced to deal with the reality that his life is falling apart. His surprising decision to try something completely different suggests that, when push comes to shove, desperate acts can emerge from the most ordinary of circumstances.
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TRENTON — The state last year paid out $2.3 million for clothing allowances to "white collar" workers who do not wear special clothes or uniforms to work, a report released Wednesday by the state comptroller concludes.
"The state spends millions of dollars every year to cover the cost of uniforms for state employees who don't actually wear uniforms," Comptroller Matthew Boxer said in a statement. "It's absurd."
The report found the state paid $22 million for clothing stipends to 27,000 employees in the fiscal year that ended last June 30, and $4.8 million of that went to those with office or desk jobs. Of those employees, who each received $700 a year, a survey determined 48 percent do not wear special clothes to work. Only 18 percent of white collar workers are required to wear special clothes to work, the report concludes.
The payments are to employees identified by title in union contracts that have been in place for more than a decade, the report found. Gov. Chris Christie is now negotiating new contracts with state workers unions.
Boxer recommends reviewing the stipends and only providing them to those employees who need special uniforms for work.
"Figuring out who exactly is entitled to these payments should not be so complicated," he said.
Christie on Wednesday blasted the payments, calling them part of the "crap" hidden in union contracts to hamstring future governors from making reductions.
"I wonder if the CWA is willing to negotiate that," Christie said, referring to the Communications Workers of America, the largest state workers union.
Hetty Rosenstein, New Jersey director for the CWA, dismissed the report as "inaccurate and misleading." She said Boxer surveyed human resource employees to determine who needed clothing stipends but didn't talk to any of the employees receiving them.
"Public workers who have received a modest clothing stipend have been carefully negotiated on a job-by-job basis through the collective bargaining process between the state and its workers," said Rosenstein. "Many wear uniforms. Many others need the right clothing to do what are often dangerous and dirty jobs."
Comptroller spokesman Peter McAleer said in the survey to determine which employees needed uniforms, each human resources representative was asked to consider each job title and determine whether that title needed a uniform or special clothes.
In addition to the "white collar" payouts detailed in the report, the comptroller found $8 million went to corrections officers, $6 million to employees in health fields and $2.6 million to security, maintenance and similar job holders. The report did not provide specifics for these workers.
A Star-Ledger analysis of state payroll records shows corrections officers and other law enforcement personnel receive larger stipends than other state workers, with most rank-and-file members receiving $1,733 during 2010.
Last year, 476 captains and lieutenants working in the adult and juvenile corrections systems each received a clothing stipend of $6,222.50, according to payroll records.
In the health field, about 9,000 employees identified in payroll records as health care and rehabilitation services workers received an average of $700 in clothing stipends last year.


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HUNTSVILLE, AL. -- It may seem a stretch to go from selecting the best college football player in America to the purchase of glow-in-the-dark rubber snakes, but bear with us. There are only a few degrees of separation to maneuver.
The Heisman Trophy Trust, whose electorate is now pondering this year's most outstanding player, presents each of its voters a gift card to donate to DonorsChoose.org, which assists school teachers with special projects.
Among the beneficiaries of the Heisman contribution this time around was a reading project for April Draine's fifth-grade class at Morris Elementary School. With improvement comes reward. Students collect points in Accelerating Reading. They can cash in the points for valuable prizes or Christmas gifts for family. Like bubble-gum machines, balls and keychains.
And, yes, rubber snakes.
What more generous gift could a fifth-grade kid give a young sibling for Christmas than a glow-in-the-dark snake?
But this is a story about broader generosity and a selfless young teacher. It takes us on a drizzly morning to Morris Elementary.
Draine is in her seventh year of teaching there. She grew up in Huntsville, attending Lincoln Elementary, "the best thing ever for me." It's where she was inspired by her own teachers. From there to Chapman Middle School, Lee High School and Alabama A&M University.
She was searching online about two years ago for grant-writing opportunities to assist a classroom project and came across DonorsChoose.org.
The organization is in its 10th year since being founded by a Bronx high school teacher named Charles Best. Because funding for anything but the most basic educational tools is often limited, teachers often dig into their own pockets or rely on donations for extras. Best came up with the idea that would enable donors to have a closer connection to the classrooms they helped.
Since then, more than $57 million has been contributed through DonorsChoose.org.
"The Heisman Trophy Trust has a charitable mission to provide greater opportunities to the youth of our country," said Rob Whalen, executive director of the Heisman Trust.
"Through DonorsChoose.org, the Heisman Trophy Trust is able to make a difference in the lives of students by making sure they have access to the supplies needed to further their educations. We are proud to be involved with this charity and to see students in the Huntsville area benefit from this donation that will help enrich their learning experiences."
The majority of students in Draine's class "are not proficient on tests," she said. Two of her students are still learning English.
Her plan was to couple the written word with the spoken word. She wanted to purchase mini-cassette players with headphones so students could listen to books on tape and follow along in the books.
Draine goes to the Huntsville Library every two weeks, checks out as many books on tape as they'll allow and the students take turns using the machines and headsets.
The whole program was funded by $400 from DonorsChoose.org. She even purchased the equipment at discounted prices from the website. It's something that "can be used with next year's group and the group after that," Draine said. "It's going to pay off."
It already has. There's been bang for the buck. For example, one student's reading level has been gauged at somewhere between the 3.4 and 4.0 level. Tuesday morning, while listening to a cassette, she was reading a book at the 4.7 level. "And she'll make an 80 or better on her test," Draine predicted.
That means more points that can be cashed in for a Christmas gift or a treat.
And it means so much more.
"I didn't love to read until middle school," Draine said. "My goal is for them to read because they want to and because they can. I want them to be able to recommend to other students, 'You should read this.' That's a big deal in the fifth grade.
"If you can read, you can do anything," Draine said. "And if you can love to read, I think you're set for life."
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Folk icon Pete Seeger performs at Habitat Greater Newburgh's July benefit concert, which raised much needed funds and awareness for the affiliate's efforts. Photo by Hilary Duffy
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PETE SEEGER If I Had a Hammer: Concert for a House
On July 4, musician and activist Pete Seeger lifted his voice in support of Habitat's efforts right in his own backyard. "If I Had a Hammer: Concert for a House" was held just across the Hudson River from Seeger's homestead in Beacon, N.Y, a wooded spot where Seeger and his wife Toshi built their own house all on their own more than 30 years ago.
Asked why he decided to undertake the construction project, when he admittedly had enthusiasm but little building experience, he replies with trademark simplicity: "Didn't have any money."
Seeger started in the only place that made sense to him. "The main thing I learned is there's a thing called a library," he says. "I went down to the New York Public Library, looked up L-O-G C-A-B-I-N, and it saved me from making some very bad mistakes."
Following the instructions he gleaned from the books he found, Seeger and Toshi — "she really was a complete hero," he says — did the lion's share of the building themselves, benefiting from a reuse-recycle ethic and the generous expertise of others in a way that will sound very familiar to Habitat stalwarts.
For example, the couple was moving from New York City's Greenwich Village, and Seeger spied a house demolition taking place across the street from their old residence. "The windows and doors were just sitting on the sidewalk for anybody to take who wanted them," he recalls. "We had a Jeep station wagon, and I tied them on the roof. So I got the windows and doors for our cabin."
And when it came time to begin construction, Seeger says, "we didn't know how to use trowels. We were using pancake turners. We had a neighbor who was a mason, showed us how to mix cement and what kind of cement."
The Seegers eventually finished the cabin and have lived comfortably there with their growing family for many years. It's an experience he remembers fondly, a memory that fuels his ongoing interest in Habitat as "an idea that grew into a movement." The biggest lesson learned from his own construction experience? "You'd be surprised how much you can do with just a little."
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Seabird nesting sites around the McIvers waterfront have gained some new additions through the passing of the Mother's Day weekend.
Birdwatchers take pleasure in the annual spring migration of common and Arctic tern to McIvers Island, near the community shore where their kind have bred for generations. Newer species are also flitting into the area this year.
The kingfisher tern colony in recent years has also come to share the local coastal habitat with other species of shorebirds.
This year, the appearance of a unique red-breasted flyer among the returning salmon swallows — likely a product of the last breeding season in local nesting boxes — and at least one mating pair of mullet-headed cormorants which have been spotted among other shags.
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Area basketball and ball hockey enthusiasts, among other people interested in amateur sport and in maintaining healthy lifestyle pursuits, will have some new digs to try out in hometown McIvers come next month.
This month, current volunteers and new recruits joining the sophomore McIvers Recreation Committee will begin groundwork for new installations and proposed upgrades at existing facilities on the adjacent local ballpark and playgrounds.
Committee president Amanda Lovell affirmed this week that the group, formed last year, is happy to be able to get a quick start on the playground improvements compliments of a recreation capital works grant from the provincial government.
Lovell says the grant compliments proceeds from some interim fundraisers undertaken by the committee.
With volunteer support, the $15,000 project is hoped to get underway by May 24.
New people wishing to add their names to the free labour pool can register with the committee Facebook site or simply show up with rakes and shovels that first weekend.
She said the project will see a 50x80-foot concrete playing surface poured and made ready for practices and games this summer. A small dual-purpose event canteen and utility building is also to be erected at the site.
The project additionally involves restoration of the softball field, including a refit of the fencing and backstop, as well as the installation of a large service gate capable of allowing easier access to the grounds.
"A lot of people are excited we are doing this and we have support from all around who say they can make use what we're putting here," Lovell said.
The work is expected to be completed in time for the summer holidays, in time for the McIvers Fire Department's annual TattieFest to hit the old potato grounds here in late June.
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The Town of McIvers' annual municipal spring cleanup of household refuse and bulk trash takes place next week.
As well, the 2014 Mayor's March, a municipal undertaking in support of heart disease and stroke prevention also happens this month in McIvers.
Residents intent on joining Mayor Warren Blanchard for the event or anyone desiring to participate can obtain a sponsor sheet from the town office. The deadline for registration is May 26.
This Saturday, a benefit card game will be held 2 p.m. at the senior citizen's hall in Cox's Cove in support of Sharon Payne, who has to travel to St. John's for medical reasons.
On Sunday, a merchandise bingo will take place 1 p.m. at the Summerside Lions Club, the benefit in aid of D'Andre Osmond, who required medical treatment in St. John's.
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Anna Wintour's Letterman Appearance Racked Up Viewers; Sex and the City Makes Manolo Blahnik 'Sick'
Also, a new study in obviousness shows women wear uncomfortable shoes if they're fashionable.
• Anna Wintour's August 24 late-night appearance on David Letterman's talk show drew in 3.46 million viewers. The average number of viewers that week was only 3.32 million. [WWD]
• Manolo Blahnik: "If people talk to me about Sex and the City, I get sick. The taxi drivers recognize me now. It becomes too much and I don't feel comfortable. I have never wanted to be a celebrity designer." [Racked]
• Designer Marc Bouwer is doing a virtual presentation for his spring 2010 show featuring Lydia Hearst as the sole model. It will debut on the designer's website on September 16 at 9 a.m. [Modelinia]
• Results of a survey of 2,000 women said that four in ten women will buy shoes they know don't fit, and 37 percent will wear uncomfortable shoes as long as they are stylish. In other news, the sky is blue. [StyleList]
• From Fashion's Night Out (which is tomorrow, OMG) through Saturday, Club Monaco will host a cupcake truck outside its Soho store. On Fashion's Night Out they'll serve Champagne inside. [FWD]


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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. -- Traffic on the Beach Express toll bridge is on pace to fall for the third straight year, putting the city's taxpayers in a pinch and forcing them to borrow millions of dollars to meet their obligations in a revenue-sharing pact with the span's owners.
Nearly 250,000 cars would have to cross the Intracoastal Waterway this month to meet last year's traffic count of 2.5 million. But more importantly, it would take more than a million trips -- the equivalent of three busy summer months plus one December -- to generate the returns the city needs to match the $1.2 million it pays the owners each January.
There's no hope of seeing that kind of traffic: 145,000 crossings is a typical December. So the City Council this month agreed to enlarge the credit line it uses to finance its end of the deal from $5 million to $7.5 million.
"We're crossing our fingers," Finance Director Clara Myers told council members Tuesday. "We may not have asked for enough."
In 2004 the city entered a 60-year pact with the group that built the bridge, a partnership that included gubernatorial candidate Tim James and his brothers. For $12 million, paid in 10 annual installments, Orange Beach would receive a royalty for every car that crossed the span.
During the deal's first decade the city's take depends on how many cars use the bridge. If less than 2 million vehicles cross, the city gets 10 cents for each one. The royalty escalates to 21 cents for traffic counts between 2 million and 3 million, which will be the rate this year -- just as it has been all but one of the first five years of the arrangement.
Between 3 million and 4 million cars bumps the rate to 36 cents per car and any total exceeding 4 million pays 46 cents per car. It takes 3,333,334 vehicles under those terms for Orange Beach to break even on its annual $1.2 million payment. That happened once, in 2006, when 3,376,211 cars used the bridge.
Eventually the arrangement should pay off for the city. From 2014 to 2064, taxpayers, with no further obligation to the bridge's owners, will collect 25 cents for every car that crosses the span.
But until then the deal has put a strain on the city's finances. To date, Orange Beach has paid the bridge owners $7.2 million while collecting slightly more than $3.8 million in royalties.
After striking the deal with Orange Beach, James and his partners sold the bridge for about $70 million to an Australian bank, which then bundled the Beach Express with three other Alabama toll roads in a sale to a subsidiary of the multibillion dollar Alinda Infrastructure Fund.
Early next year, two things will happen. The bridge's current owners, American Roads LLC, will pay the city for December traffic and reconcile the difference between the 21-cent rate and the 10 cents it pays throughout the year. Orange Beach, meanwhile, will write its next $1.2 million check. The accounting will then look something like this: American Roads: $8.4 million; Orange Beach: $4.3 million.
When municipal leaders were negotiating the deal in 2003, they were guided by the assumption that traffic would steadily increase, eventually yielding enough, if not more, than they needed each year for the $1.2 million obligation. With that in mind they secured a $5 million credit line from Vision Bank.
Those assumptions proved faulty. As of Dec. 10, the credit line had dwindled to $776,000. And with the December payments and reconciliation on pace to amount to less than $250,000, the city had to ask the bank for more money.
A bit of good news for taxpayers: Orange Beach, which has so far paid $851,299 in interest on the credit line, will see its rate lowered from 4 percent to 3 percent under terms of the new $7.5 million loan.
City officials say that while summer traffic counts, attributable to tourists, are strong, off-season use has plummeted. Part of that can be blamed on the near shutdown of the city's construction industry, which drew not only workers but deliveries and equipment over the bridge every day, said City Administrator Ken Grimes.
There's also strong evidence to suggest that American Roads' March 2007 toll hike caused some regular users to skirt the now $3 fee by using the Ala. 59 bridge a few miles to the east.
American Roads Chief Executive Officer Neal Belitsky said in an e-mail that traffic on the Beach Express and the company's other Alabama toll roads has simply "followed national economic and road travel trends." The company has rejected Orange Beach's pleas to reduce the toll to its original $2. But Belitsky said American Roads has regularly rolled out promotions, like short-term memberships for tourists and temporary residents, and discounts to generate traffic.


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This word — meaning roughly deep-bosomed — may be described as a companion to callipygian, which I investigated some time ago, though it is an even more rare and learned term.
One of the few writers to have used it was Oliver Wendell Holmes, who wrote in his Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table in 1858 that "The bathycolpian Heré ... sent down Iris".
It derives from Greek bathus, deep, and kolpos, often translated as cleft or gulf (actually, by an indirect route through Italian, and following some mangling, it is the source of English gulf). It is sometimes written bathukolpian in an attempt to more closely represent the Greek spelling.
The Greek root kolpos had various senses, not only referring to the cleft between the breasts (and so the breasts themselves, as here), but also the cleft of the vagina and so by association the womb (hence the English medical prefix colpo–, as in words like colposcope for a surgical instrument used to examine the vagina and the cervix of the womb).
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Rick Lorenz doesn't know what he'll do with his Marv Levy football card after coaching Central Catholic to the Class 6A volleyball title Saturday night.
Lorenz, whose teams have finished runner-up eight times, likes to call himself the Marv Levy of volleyball, after the former Buffalo Bills coach known for losing Super Bowls.
Finishing second has festered with Lorenz over the years, but part of the sting is gone after what happened Saturday night before a packed house at Liberty High School.
The top-ranked Rams (44-1) beat No. 2 Jesuit, the reigning champion, 25-22, 21-25, 25-22, 25-22 for Lorenz's eighth state title. The championship -- the first for Lorenz and Central Catholic since 2000 -- ended a five-year run in which the team finished second three times (2004-06) and third twice (2007, 2008).
"It's unbelievable," junior middle blocker Kara Barkdoll said. "I'm just so happy to do it for our seniors because it's been a really long time since we've been here. Especially the last two years, being stuck with third. We just wanted to break that and get it this year."
Class 5A: Crook County
Class 4A: Sisters
Class 3A: Santiam Christian
Class 2A: Blanchet Catholic
Class 1A: Imbler
Bettendorf, who had three kills and combined with Barkdoll for a big block of Jesuit junior Elizabeth Brenner during the surge, said she fed off the intensity of the crowd.
"All of the sudden I just felt it all come in me, and I was like, 'It has to happen now. We have to win it right now. It's got to be done,'" she said.
Lorenz called a timeout to set up the last play for Bettendorf, who set off a celebration with an emphatic slam.
"She's long and lean and she gets up," Lorenz said. "She's only a sophomore, so she's got a pretty good future."
Lorenz, 60, figures to be around to see it. The coach -- 973-167 in 34 seasons with St. Mary's Academy (five titles), Lake Oswego (one season) and Central Catholic (three titles) -- said he plans to continue coaching the Rams for the immediate future.
Central Catholic has nine players eligible to return in 2010, including two Mt. Hood Conference first-team hitters in Bettendorf and junior Cheyne Corrado and a first-team libero in junior Katie Mardesich. The junior varsity finished 36-0 and the junior varsity II team went 24-1.
Brenner excels: Central Catholic's win overshadowed another brilliant performance by Jesuit's Brenner. The 6-1 junior middle blocker was a force with a match-high 23 kills.


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Sidney Crosby has scored a number of important goals in his career such as the overtime winner in the 2010 Olympic Gold Medal game and the shootout winner in the 2008 NHL Winter Classic.
Highlight reels of his offensive prowess can be found across the Internet.
Unfortunately, Crosby is also the source of a number of pathetic displays on the ice.


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I strayed off of the primal diet, and got hit with pneumonia (lesson learned). After weeks of coughing, I ended up fracturing my rib. Besides eating primally, what are some additional steps I might take to recover quickly (beyond the doctor's orders to rest)? My first thought is bone broth, as I am trying to heal a bone. Are there other foods that may help my recovery? Supplements? What about fasting?
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Frank Morrison visited the Louvre Museum in Paris while touring with his dancing group and was inspired to choose painting as his new path. He is the winner of the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award for New Talent for Jazzy Miz Mozetta by Brenda C. Roberts, and he has illustrated Queen of the Scene by Queen Latifah.
Frank Morrison visitó el Museo del Louvre en París cuando estaba de gira con su compañía de danza; así fue como se inspiró para empezar a pintar. Ha ganado el premio Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe a nuevos talentos por su trabajo en Jazzy Miz Mozetta, de Brenda C. Roberts, y ha ilustrado Queen of the Scene, de Queen Latifah.
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Happy all's well
-- My family was on our way home coming from I-65 North, and I told my husband I hope nobody was killed in that wreck. Thank God that person is alive. I thank God that person is alive, and thank God for the person who helped your dogs until family came and got them.
Azalea would be better
-- I also agree that it should be an azalea that drops from the RSA Tower, to mark Mobile's New Year. The Moon Pie drop would probably be best suited to mark the beginning of Mardi Gras.
Misunderstood message
-- I think you kind of missed the boat there on the message at the House of Horrors. I don't think they told gays and lesbians to go kill themselves. I think the message was if you have God in your life, you can make it through any challenges that come your way.
How will they save you?
-- All people who vote Tuesday, remember this: If a person wouldn't want you to have unemployment compensation, how are they going to save your job? Save your mortgage? Save your future? When you are already unemployed and can't get unemployment to make it over the hump? They don't want to see you have health care without employment. But they are going to save your house? Save your job? Save your family? Give me a break.
It's morning in America
-- Aren't you excited? When we wake up Wednesday morning after the election we are all going to have jobs, the economy will be booming and only honest politicians will be in office.
First time for everything
-- I'm 73 years old and I've voted all my life, and Tuesday I'm going to do something I've never done before. I'm going to vote a straight ticket, a Republican straight ticket.
But will it count?
-- If you plan to write in Bradley Byrne's name Tuesday, what is the procedure? Does the ballot allow for that? Will the vote be counted? And most importantly, I assume you have to have the name spelled correctly.
Bronner's motive seems clear
-- David Bronner's primary mission for defeating Amendment 3, which would take $1 billion from the Alabama trust fund over the next 10 years, is very clear. He wants to retain this money as a nest egg for the state employees retirement system. This money belongs to all citizens in the state, not just him and state employees.
Vote no on amendments
-- Vote no on all the amendments. If you vote for the highway program for $100 million a year, all that is for lawyers who just fill their pockets full, and you don't get none of it. Just like Social Security, it's just about broke and they ain't putting nothing back in it.
It just occurred to me
-- I've never seen a worse case. I just watched the whole interview by Chris Wallace with Sarah Palin. Chris Wallace was blushing and smiling, and they were giggling. Now, Sarah Palin will give her analysis Tuesday. Now wait a minute — she's been out campaigning for her so-called Tea Party candidates. How can you be out raising money, and then come in to Fox News ... oh, that's right.
Looking for pavement
-- I live on Gunning Way Drive in Saraland. I've been down here for nine years. We have a road that is about 500 yards long. Everybody puts their name on a big sign, pay as you go, and we still haven't got any pavement on that road. I'm going to vote against pay as you go, and I'm going to get everybody I can to vote against it.
State can't handle normal times
-- In response to George Altman's front page article, that Alabama needs to be more prepared to handle disasters on the coast, I would like to inform him that the people of Alabama are doing everything we can to help our state. With unemployment at 9 percent, to quote Ronald Franks from USA's health and science program, we are barely able to address problems that exist currently, let alone during a disaster.
Very bad form
-- Regarding an incident that just happened to me, down here on Dawes Road near Ware Road, there is a creek that runs through there, and some non-considerate non-hunter idiot, has killed a deer and left the carcass down here by the creek. It isn't even hunting season yet, so I don't understand the reason. You are giving other hunters a bad name, hunting out of season and showing no sportsmanship whatsoever.


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Come Blow Your Horn
Released: 1963
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Come Blow Your Horn
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Temperatures are forecasted to hover around zero degrees with wind chills at 25 below or colder the next coupled of days.
This extreme cold can be very dangerous.
"Now is the time to prepare and to take the proper precautions," said Capt. Chris A. Kelenske, Deputy State Director of Emergency Management and Homeland Security and commander of the Michigan State Police, Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division.
"Citizens are encouraged to monitor local weather reports and follow the appropriate steps to stay safe during these extremely cold and potentially life-threating temperatures," Kelenske said in a statement.
To stay safe during cold weather:
- Stay indoors if possible. If you must go outside, wear protective gear, such as hats, mittens and gloves, in addition to a warm coat. Always protect your lungs with a scarf.
- Watch for signs of frostbite, which include loss of feeling or pale appearance of fingers, toes or face.
- Understand the hazards of wind chill. As wind speed increases, heat is carried away from a person's body more rapidly and could lead to severe hypothermia.
- Weather-proof doors and windows to trap heat inside your home.
- Check heating units. Poorly operating or damaged heating units can release carbon monoxide gas. Test carbon monoxide detectors for proper operation and battery life.
- Check on family, friends and neighbors who are at risk and may need additional assistance.
- Watch pets closely and keep them indoors when possible. Animals can suffer from hypothermia, frostbite and other cold weather injuries.
- Check and restock your emergency preparedness kit. If you don't have a kit, make one.
- Minimize travel. If travel is necessary, keep a full tank of gas and an emergency preparedness kit in your vehicle. Put warm clothing - such as gloves, blankets and hats - in your kit in case you become stranded.
Hypothermia, the loss of body temperature, is a serious concern this time of year.
It is dangerous and is the most common reason for outdoor deaths listed as "caused by exposure." Hypothermia is not literally freezing to death because serious and even fatal cases of hypothermia can occur at temperatures well above freezing.
As with all warm-blooded creatures, the human body requires a certain body temperature to function and can maintain that temperature - about 98.6 degrees - under "normal" conditions.
When body heat is lost more rapidly than the body is generating it, hypothermia occurs.
At 96 degrees - just two degrees colder - one begins to shiver and shortly loses the ability to perform complicated tasks.
At 91 degrees, the victim is uncoordinated, he stumbles, slurs his speech and can't think well.
At 86 degrees, the victim begins to act irrationally.
At 81 degrees, the victim is in a stupor; a bit colder, he is unconscious. At 78 degrees, death is near.
This is not solely a concern of Arctic explorers and ice fishermen.
Even at temperatures in the 40s and 50s, an unprotected, unprepared person caught in the wrong set of conditions could be in serious trouble in less than six hours.
Think of the people you notice wandering around town in hoodies or thin jackets. Now think what would happen if they became stranded on a lonely back road.
It stands to reason that an unprepared individual will have real problems in today's weather.
Preventing hypothermia is, of course, the best treatment.
Older people especially must beware of the cold even when they are inside their homes because they are more susceptible to hypothermia. They are advised to layer their garments even indoors, if necessary.
Other individuals venturing outdoors must prepare accordingly.
- Dress in layers. Layers of clothing trap more air and keep you warmer than one heavy garment.
- Carry enough clothing to keep you comfortable under the coldest conditions expected. Wind resistant outerwear should be part of the day's wardrobe.
- Remember adequate headgear. You can lose up to half of your body's heat through an unprotected head and neck.
- Stay dry. Getting wet greatly accelerates heat loss, and most fabrics lose insulating properties when wet. Wool is preferred because it retains a measure of its insulating ability when wet.
- Take along high-energy snack food such as candy or trail mix to help your body generate heat.
- Learn the signs of oncoming hypothermia - shivering, clumsiness, slurred speech.
Should someone show these symptoms, take immediate measure to get him warm - into shelter, away from wind and insulated from the cold ground. Get the victim's wet clothes off and put him into a sleeping bag or blanket near a source of heat.
Give a conscious victim warm liquids and food. Do not give alcohol as it impairs the body's heat regulatory mechanisms.
Additionally, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention research reveals one out of three adults, age 65 plus, will annually experience a fall leading to orthopedic challenges, closed head injuries, or even death.
"The slip and fall occurrence rate dramatically increases when winter weather arrives with common sense and caution not being adhered to," said Michigan State University and Michigan Primary Care Consortium member, Linda J. Keilman, DNP, GNP-BC, a Gerontological Nurse Practitioner.
When walking outside and the sidewalks feel dangerous, you may consider walking on the covered grassy area adjacent to the sidewalk.
When exiting a vehicle be sensitive to the parking lot pavement in that it may be slippery or covered with black ice.
"It's much safer to move your car to a well-lit and marked area versus taking a chance on slippery pavement," Keilman said.
Residents who need assistance or guidance are encouraged to call 211.


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A bipartisan bill to draw down more federal Medicaid dollars for Louisiana hospitals passed in the House Civil Law and Procedure Committee on Monday. The proposed constitutional amendment, previously OK'd by the Appropriations Committee, would need approval from Louisiana's voters before being implemented.
House Bill 532, co-sponsored by House Speaker Chuck Kleckley,
R-Lake Charles, and Speaker Pro Tem Walt Leger, D-New Orleans, would allow hospitals to deposit money into a "stabilization
fund" that would be used as a match for federal Medicaid dollars.
Currently, for every 35 cents the state puts into the Medicaid program, the federal government kicks in 65 cents. To increase the state's match without tapping taxpayer dollars, Kleckley's bill would allow hospitals to pool their own cash in a state-operated fund that would then be submitted to the federal government for matching dollars.
According to current estimates, participating
hospitals could see another $170 million in federal Medicaid dollars if
they contribute
around $110 million to the fund. The money would go straight to the
investor hospitals based on the amount of care they provide to
Medicaid-insured patients and those without insurance, according to the
The legislation comes as lawmakers grapple with whether to force Gov. Bobby Jindal's hand on opting into expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Several bills have been filed to mandate the state opt into the expansion of the federal program.
Speaking April 15, Leger said the best option would be to set up the stabilization fund while also opting into Medicaid expansion, which would open eligibility for the program to more than 400,000 Louisianians, according to current estimates.
House Bill 533,
also sponsored by Kleckley and meant as a complement to 532, would constitutionally protect existing
fees paid by nursing homes, pharmacies, intermediate-care facilities and
others from mid-year rate cuts.
Both bills unanimously passed in committee and now proceed to the House floor for debate.
To receive updates on all Louisiana legislative session news from the Capitol in Baton Rouge, follow @brnola on Twitter or "Like" the NOLA.com | Baton Rouge Facebook page.


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Jay Wornick, the Fulton man who lost 198 pounds on a bet with his wife, has collected his due.
Wornick's wife, Angela, had agreed to have her husband's name tattooed on her body if he lost a greater percentage of weight than she did in their New Year's weight challenge. Jay won the bet by losing 198 pounds in 10 months, and Monday afternoon Ron Perry of Halo Tattoo and Bodypiercing in Liverpool tattooed Jay's initials, JMW2, on Angela's back. Jay further celebrated his win by having Angela's name tattooed on his bicep. Perry did both the tattoos for free.
After the story of Wornick's dramatic weight loss appeared in The Post-Standard and on syracuse.com, he was contacted by the "Today" show, the "Dr. Oz Show" and "Good Morning America," as well as other media. The entire Wornick family appeared on "Good Morning America" Thursday.
Jay continues to field inquiries from media about his dramatic weight loss and he is considering offers from book publishers.
Video: Fulton man tells national TV audience of how he lost 198 pounds