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Parks & Natural Areas
Tennessee is a rich and varied place with mile-high mountains in the east, the grand Mississippi River in the west and 19,000 miles of sparkling rivers in between. Parks, forests, birding, hunting, camping and water, water everywhere--Tennessee has a mind-boggling array of natural resources.
Investigate the beauty and mystery of Reelfoot, a cypress-filled natural lake in Tennessee's northwest corner, created by a series of earthquakes, where dozens of species of fish and shore and wading birds are harbored, including golden and bald eagles. Grab your binoculars and explore the diversity of habitats, stretching 65 miles alongside the Tennessee River, on Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge which provide ample feeding, nesting and resting areas for 301 bird species. Get spritzed by the highest waterfall in the eastern United States, Fall Creek Falls, laced with cascades, gorges, streams, and lush stands of virgin hardwood timber. Stride a celebrated riverfront greenway, Chattanooga's Riverpark, and cross America's longest pedestrian bridge, the Walnut Street Bridge, spanning the Tennessee River as it flows south-southwest. World renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, and its remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the largest national park in the east and America's most visited. A tour of the Smokies, by any means of locomotion, offers panoramic views, tumbling mountain streams, weathered historic buildings and uninterrupted forest stretching to the horizon.
Sleepy John Estes House
"Sleepy John Estes, an American bluesman, was also a legendary guitarist, songwriter and vocalist. Born in Ripley, Tennessee, Sleepy John's family moved to Brownsville, Tennessee, when he was 16. His father was a sharecropper who also played guitar, and Sleepy John took a cue from him. Due to an accident in a baseball game, Sleepy John lost sight in his ...more
City: Brownsville, TN
Phone: (731) 779-9000
Soldier in Grey
"Dedicated on April 6, 1905, on the 43rd anniversary of the Battle of Shiloh. The hand-chiseled granite monument stands guard on the courthouse lawn at the center of Historic Court ...more
City: Dyersburg, TN
Phone: 731-286-7800
South Cumberland Recreational Area State Park
"South Cumberland protects 25,000 acres of land, 90 miles of hiking trails, and natural and historic treasures. The visitor center is one of the most visited sites on the plateau, providing information to visitors and a social hub for area ...more
City: Monteagle, TN
Phone: (931) 924-2980
Southeast Tennessee Civil War Trail
"Southeast Tennessee's Civil War Trails, Fighting for the Rails brochure provides a designated path for southeast Tennessee travelers to follow as they explore sites associated with the American Civil War in Tennessee. The brochure has 47 sites and covers 10 counties. Southeast Tennessee Tourism Association (SETTA) worked in conjunction with Middle Tennessee State University's Center for Historic Preservation and ...more
City: Chattanooga, TN
Phone: (423) 424-4267
Spring Hill Battlefield
"Interpretative walking trail at site of one of the most controversial events of the Civil ...more
City: Spring Hill, TN
Phone: 888-852-1860
Standing Stone State Park
"Standing Stone State Park takes its name from a huge, dog-shaped rock monolith that once stood nearby. The stone may have belonged to a prehistoric native people; Native Americans in the area later regarded it as a religious icon. When railroad workers blasted the remainder of the rock into small pieces, local tribes incorporated a piece of it into a ...more
City: Hilham, TN
Phone: 800-713-5157
Stones River National Battlefield
"The Battle of Stones River was one of the bloodiest and most significant battles of the Civil ...more
City: Murfreesboro, TN
Phone: 615-893-9501
Surrender House/Dover Hotel
"Site of the surrender of Fort Donelson. Original structure built in 1851 was formerly the Dover ...more
City: Dover, TN
Phone: 931-232-5706
Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area
"Nature, as well as history, is in full view at Sycamore Shoals. A prime example of an East Tennessee river valley, the park sits beside the Watauga River. Bottomland forest is an excellent habitat for sycamore trees, annuals, many bird species, two butterfly gardens, and colonial ...more
City: Elizabethton, TN
Phone: 423-543-5808
T.O. Fuller State Park
"T.O. Fuller State Park, the first park east of the Mississippi River and the second in the nation to be open to African Americans, is named in honor of Dr. Thomas O. Fuller, who spent his life empowering and educating African Americans. Fuller was a former North Carolina legislator and Baptist minister who came to Memphis as pastor of ...more
City: Memphis, TN
Phone: 901-543-7581
Tennessee Museum of Early Farm Life
"The museum is housed in two salvaged barns, one made of American chestnut. Many antiques on display including carriages, tractors and ...more
City: Spring Hill, TN
Phone: 931-215-2359
Tennessee River Gorge
"The only large river canyon bordering a mid-sized city, the Tennessee River Gorge is a unique carving of the river through the Cumberland Plateau, encompassing 27,000 acres. Habitats for more than a thousand varieties of plants, trees, grasses and flowers as well as a diversified wildlife population exist in this scenic terrain. The Gorge is referred to as "Tennessee's Grand Canyon," ...more
City: Chattanooga, TN
Phone: 423-266-0314
Tennessee State Capitol
"Finished in 1859, the historic Tennessee State Capitol is one of the oldest working capitols in the country and designated as a civil engineering landmark for its innovative construction. The distinctive tower is designed after the monument of Lysicrates in Athens, Greece. The architect, William Strickland, died in 1854 and is entombed above the cornerstone. The exterior and interior walls ...more
City: Nashville, TN
Phone: 800-407-4324
Tennessee State Library & Archives
"A multi-purpose institution that offers historical information on Tennessee, special services to local libraries, archives, and the blind and physically ...more
City: Nashville, TN
Phone: 615-741-2764
Tennessee Technological University
"TTU offers academic excellence at an exceptional value. Tour our picturesque, historic campus or shop for unique items in our craft ...more
City: Cookeville, TN
Phone: 800-255-8881
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
Site marks the home of the 17th president, who succeeded Lincoln and oversaw Reconstruction. Contains a ...more
City: Greeneville, TN
Phone: 423-638-3551
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Great Smoky Mountains National Park offers access to the Tennessee portion of the Appalachian Trail, or ...more
City: Gatlinburg, TN
Phone: (865) 436-1200
Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
The Big South Fork of the Cumberland River passes through 90 miles of scenic gorges and valleys containin ...more
City: Oneida, TN
Phone: 423-286-7275
Cedars of Lebanon State Park
Cedars of Lebanon State Park is named for the dense cedar forest that existed in the biblical lands of Le ...more
City: Lebanon, TN
Phone: 800-713-5180
Cherokee National Forest
Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest stretches from Chattanooga to Bristol. The 640,000-acre Cherokee ...more
City: Cleveland, TN
Phone: (423) 476-9700
Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge
Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge lies in the Lower Mississippi River floodplain along the Chickasaw Blu ...more
City: Ripley, TN
Phone: (731) 635-7621
Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge
Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge is located four miles east of Dover, in Stewart County, Tennessee, ...more
City: Dover, TN
Phone: 931-232-7477
Fort Donelson National Battlefield
The site of the first decisive Union victory of the Civil War. A visitor center explains the importance o ...more
City: Dover, TN
Phone: 931-232-5706
Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge
This refuge along the Hatchie River puts wildlife first. A drive around O'Neal Lake features wetland hab ...more
City: Stanton, TN
Phone: 731-772-0501
Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge
Wildlife viewing and nature walks available. Hiwassee Refuge is closed from Nov. 1-Feb. 28, except at des ...more
City: Birchwood, TN
Phone: 800-262-6704
Kyker Bottoms Refuge
Kyker Bottoms Refuge is a 350-acre area in southern Blount County owned and managed by the Tennessee Wild ...more
City: Maryville, TN
Phone: 865-856-8691
Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuge
Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuge was established as an inviolate sanctuary for wintering waterfowl in 1 ...more
City: Union City, TN
Phone: 731-538-2481
Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area
Nestled between Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. Native wildlife abounds as well as a maintained herd of e ...more
City: Golden Pond, TN
Phone: 800-525-7077
Laurel-Snow Pocket Wilderness and Buzzard Point
Natural wilderness area with waterfalls, forests, unique rock formations, deep gorges and trails for hiki ...more
City: Dayton, TN
Phone: 423-566-2229
Lower Hatchie Wildlife Refuge
Lower Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) sits along the lower 17 miles of the Hatchie River in wester ...more
City: Henning, TN
Phone: 731-738-2296
Lucius Burch Natural Area
The natural area is a remnant of historic river meanders, bald cypress-water tupelo swamps, bottomland ha ...more
City: Ellendale, TN
Phone: 901-382-0235
Manus Road Cedar Glade
Manus Road is a 15-acre natural area in Rutherford County about 10 miles east of Murfreesboro. It support ...more
City: Rutherford County, TN
May Prairie
May Prairie boasts one of Tennessee's most diverse plant communities, with more than 300 species, 25 of ...more
City: Manchester, TN
Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park
Bordering on the mighty Mississippi River, two-thirds of this 13,467-acre park are bottomland hardwood fo ...more
City: Millington, TN
Phone: 800-471-5293
Natchez Trace Parkway
The 444-mile Parkway commemorates the "Old" Natchez Trace, beginning as an animal path and progressing ...more
City: Pasquo, TN
Phone: 800-305-7417
Obed Wild & Scenic River
Recreation includes whitewater kayaking, canoeing, rock climbing, hiking, fishing and picnicking. A sceni ...more
City: Wartburg, TN
Phone: 423-346-6294
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail
The Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail follows the Revolutionary War route of Patriot militia m ...more
Phone: 864-936-3477
Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge
Reelfoot National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1941 to manage the northern third of Reelfoot Lake a ...more
City: Union City, TN
Phone: 731-538-2481
Savage Gulf State Natural Area
Savage Gulf, a 15,590-acre natural area, is carved into the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau in Gru ...more
City: Palmer, TN
Phone: 931-779-3532
Sequatchie Cave State Natural Area
Sequatchie Cave is a 10-acre, biologically significant, natural area where Owen Spring Branch flows from ...more
City: Jasper, TN
Phone: 423-942-2552
Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge
Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge is a wildlife sanctuary with recreational use by the general public. The 31 ...more
City: Knoxville, TN
Phone: 865-525-9400
Shiloh National Military Park
Established in 1894 to preserve the scene of the first major battle in the Western theater of the Civil W ...more
City: Shiloh, TN
Phone: 731-689-5696
Short Springs Natural Area
Beautiful, peaceful nature preserve with wildlife and walking trails located on the edge of the city. ...more
City: Tullahoma, TN
Phone: 931-455-5497
Stillhouse Hollow Falls State Natural Area
Stillhouse Hollow Falls is a 90-acre state natural area named for its most significant feature, 75-feet S ...more
City: Summertown, TN
Stinging Fork Pocket Wilderness
Natural wilderness area with forests, unique rock formations, deep gorges and trails for hiking. ...more
City: Spring City, TN
Phone: 423-566-2229
Stones River National Battlefield
The Battle of Stones River was one of the bloodiest and most significant battles of the Civil War. ...more
City: Murfreesboro, TN
Phone: 615-893-9501
Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge
Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge has more than 50,000 acres on Kentucky Lake in Northwest Tennessee and ...more
City: Paris, TN
Phone: 731-642-2091
Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge
Nature walks, lakeside areas, open horseback riding, hunting, boat ramps, migratory bird sanctuary, eagle ...more
City: Camden, TN
Phone: 800-225-7469
The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area
Partners with organizations and individuals across the state to tell the whole story of America's greate ...more
City: Murfreesboro, TN
Phone: 615-898-2947
Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 ...more
City: Multi-city, TN
Phone: (505) 988-6888
Twin Arches State Natural Area
Twin Arches state natural area is approximately 1,500 acres located in parts of Fentress, Scott, and Pick ...more
City: Oneida, TN
Phone: 865-569-9778
Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness Area
Trail features a 317-acre natural area, 110-foot falls, two lesser falls and cave, eight mile round trip, ...more
City: Sparta, TN
Phone: 931-836-3552
Walker Branch Natural Area
Walker Branch is a 225-acre natural area located just miles south of Savannah in Hardin County. The prope ...more
City: Pittsburg Landing, TN
Walls of Jericho
The Walls of Jericho is a 750-acre natural area that is within the 8,943-acre Bear Hollow Mountain Wildli ...more
City: Pitcher Ridge, TN
Phone: (615) 532-0431
Walterhill Floodplain
Walterhill Floodplain State Natural Area is a 34-acre natural area located in Rutherford County. It is un ...more
City: Walterhill, TN
Phone: 615-898-2523
Washmorgan Hollow
Washmorgan Hollow, a sheltered ravine on the Eastern Highland Rim in Jackson County, is an excellent habi ...more
City: Gainesboro, TN
Phone: (615) 383-9909
Watauga River
Watauga River Bluffs is a 50-acre natural area located in Carter County along the Watauga River. Its most ...more
City: Johnson City, TN
Phone: (800) 238-2264
William B. Clark Conservation Area
William B. Clark Conservation Area is a 460-acre natural area along the Wolf River in Fayette County loca ...more
City: Rossville, TN
Phone: 731-512-1369
William R. Davenport Refuge
William Davenport Refuge is 120-acre natural area located in Polk County. It was named after the previous ...more
City: Ducktown, TN
Phone: 931-484-9571
Sunk Lake
Sunk Lake supports excellent examples of bald cypress swamp, bottomland hardwood forest, and emergent marsh aquatic habitat. The diversity of wetland and upland communities offer a wide range of habitat for waterfowl and other birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and rare plant species ...more
City: Lauderdale, TN
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Old Man River
The French Broad River is the world's third oldest river, joining the Holston River near Knoxville.


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CHARDON, Ohio – Wearing a T-shirt with killer scrawled across it, a teenager cursed and gestured obscenely as he was given three life sentences Tuesday for shooting to death three students in an Ohio high school cafeteria.
T.J. Lane, 18, had pleaded guilty last month to shooting at students in February 2012 at Chardon High School, east of Cleveland. Investigators have said he admitted to the shooting but said he didn't know why he did it.
Before the case went to adult court last year, a juvenile court judge ruled that Lane was mentally competent despite evidence he suffers from hallucinations, psychosis and fantasies.
Lane was defiant during the sentencing, smiling and smirking throughout, including while four relatives of victims spoke.
After he came in, he calmly unbuttoned his blue dress shirt to reveal the T-shirt reading killer, which the prosecutor noted was similar to one he wore during the shooting.
At one point, he swiveled around in his chair toward the gallery where his own family members and those of the slain teenagers were sitting and spoke suddenly, surprising even his lawyer.
The hand that pulled the trigger that killed your sons now masturbates to the memory, he said, then cursed at and raised his middle finger toward the victims' relatives.
A statement released later to local media by the court on the judge's behalf said that he wasn't aware of the shirt and that if he had noticed it he would have halted the proceedings and ordered Lane to wear proper attire.

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Most of the credit for this should go to Chris McMurtry over at Hockey Country for pointing this out....
The crack staff at ESPN.com apparently doesn't know the difference between Jason Spezza (pictured on top) and some dude in the minors.
According to their boxscore of the Ottawa-Boston game on Thursday night, it was not Spezza who got secondary assists on both of Heatley's goals. Instead, they gave credit to Daniel Paille.
Yeah, I know. There's nobody by that name on the Sens roster. In fact, there's nobody by that name on any NHL roster.
Daniel Paille plays left wing for the Rochester Americans, the AHL squad for the Buffalo Sabres. He was selected by Buffalo with the 20th overall pick in the 2002 entry draft, and has not played in any NHL games.
I don't have any idea how ESPN screwed that up so badly. The two players are nothing alike.
#20, Rochester Americans Left wing.....shoots left.....6'0"...197 lbs
born: 04.15.84 in Nelland, Ontario
#19, Ottawa Senators Center ..... shoots right ..... 6'2"....206 lbs
born: 06.13.83 in Mississauga, Ontario
I could understand if they had mistaken one fourth line winger for another, but this is silly. Jason Spezza is one of the biggest names in hockey, and they confused him with a dude in the minor leagues for a different team.
Oh boy.
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I'm on the run today, dealing with a malfunctioning air conditioner and the expected arrival of 14YOD's replacement cell phone. Yep, right now I'm sitting in a hot house waiting for her new phone because she managed to lose the old one (one month old, that is) on a trip to Six Flags. If it doesn't arrive before I'm overcome by the heat, I'll have to go pick it up at the shipper's office. "But Mommy, it's not my fault! It fell out of my pocket on the Superman ride." 14YOD, meanwhile, is sleeping the day away in an AIR-CONDITIONED hotel room.
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Anyway, while I'm taking care of details, you can enjoy (using the word loosely) the first two parts of a four-part Washington Post profile on Dick Cheney. The Post promises lots of details from current and former associates. Perhaps one of them will explain how Cheney has the chutzpah to claim that the VP isn't part of the executive branch.


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Residents Asked to Bring Stafford 'Treasures from the Attic' to Belmont on Sunday
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This Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m., area residents are encouraged to bring historical items associated with Stafford County's past to Belmont, Gari Melchers' Home and Studio in Falmouth.
To help record the tales such objects and documents can tell during Stafford's 350th anniversary, "Stafford Treasures from the Attic" is sponsored by the county Historical Society, the Stafford Museum and Cultural Center Foundation, and Gari Melchers' Belmont.
Experts will help people determine what they have and how to better preserve items. This might mean old photos, postcards, letters, journals/diaries, Stafford business letterhead or ledgers, furniture made in Stafford or from Stafford homes, artwork by Stafford artists or artwork of Stafford, dug-up relics and militaria from any period.
The society doesn't want to obtain these items. With permission, they will be scanned or photographed and given right back to the owners as they wait.
"At our first public event, the Stafford Museum is striving to connect with longtime residents to explore the historical treasures that may be hidden from public view," museum President Scott Mayausky said. "We are hoping to document artifacts, letters and photos. We also are eager to help solve mysteries that may accompany items or images."
The museum foundation, which does not yet have a physical facility, will launch a virtual museum in a month or two, said local historian Jane Conner, vice president of the Stafford Museum and Cultural Center.
"We're trying to assemble and better access the full volume of historical treasures in the county, which would help us illustrate our rich history," Conner said. "It would be useful to use some of these items in our virtual museum in our forthcoming website. The website will compliment the highly successful Facebook page we launched last year. This is an important part of the process to eventually gain an actual Stafford Museum."
Conner said she hopes Sunday's offering "will be a wonderful community event."
Boy Scouts in Belmont's parking lot will guide visitors to the historic site's conference center and help carrying in artifacts, she said. At the center, members of the historical society and museum foundation will meet residents and help them fill out forms. People from Brooke Point High School's Learn and Serve will scan and photograph items.
A panel of experts will help the community identify objects and help them care for their artifacts. Scott Harris, director of the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library; Owen Conner, curator at the National Museum of the Marine Corps; and Al Conner, an expert on military history, will take part.
"We may ask them if they would loan an item to the museum, once we have a physical building," Jane Conner said. "If not, we will ask if we could use the photograph that we take of it for our virtual museum."
"Artifacts, which can be precisely located, can help us reconstruct the historical archeology of the Union troops in Stafford," Al Conner said.
For example, a Vermont button found in the right place in the White Oak area could show the location of the Union army's Vermont Brigade camps, he said.
If people have questions beforehand, Jane Conner said, they can email firstname.lastname@example.com.
"The museum is excited to work with Gari Melchers Home and Studio and the Stafford Historical Society on this special event," Mayausky said. "The museum board hopes that this might become a regular offering to our community."
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This refreshing recipe from Michele Savoldi of Delaware, Ohio is a tempting twist on traditional lemon bars. With a nutty crust and smooth lime filling, the yummy treats are elegant dusted with powdered sugar and cut into triangles.
18 Servings
Prep: 25 min. Bake: 35 min.
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup finely chopped flaked coconut,
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup finely chopped pecans
1/3 cup butter, melted
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup lime juice
1-1/2 teaspoons grated lime peel
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
Additional confectioners' sugar
In a small bowl, combine the flour, 1/4 cup coconut, confectioners'
sugar and pecans. Stir in the butter.
Press into a greased 8-in. square baking dish. Bake at 350° for
15 minutes. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk the eggs. Stir in the
sugar, lime juice, lime peel, baking powder and remaining coconut.
Pour over crust.
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool
on a wire rack. Dust with confectioner's sugar. Cut into squares;
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The 1,220-hour pilot lost control of the single-engine airplane while maneuvering at a low altitude over an area leased for deer hunting. No flight plan was filed, and the airplane was not reported missing until the following day. No radio transmissions or distress calls were received, and there were no reported eyewitnesses to the accident. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, with more than 10 miles of visibility. The airplane came to rest in a near vertical position with the engine and nose section driven into the ground. Flight control continuity was established at the accident site, and no evidence of preimpact mechanical failure or malfunction was observed.
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Lush Hollywood venue Bardot was all about drawing out a crowd of young beautiful people and modern sounds this past Monday evening. Themed "School Night", the rebel factor was at the Ultra notch. And with strong enough drinks, high enough spirits, and the music a sufficient enough fusion of the two, it was a welcome place to see some acts, the up-and-coming and established alike.
New York-based band Ivy were the headliners of the evening, a one-night-only event, at least at that present moment. Preceded by local acts Duniven (featuring vocalist Gavin Turek) and Races, the room was adequately warmed up and ready for bass-thumping and perhaps some a slight electro-ambient undertone. All the better to stay up past one's bed time.
Once taking the stage, the energy in the room was punctuated by eager eyes and a surge of cameras. Fans of the indie pop-rock band audibly considered the evening in part to be a big deal, considering the last time Ivy was working their charms on LA was six years ago. Of course, this was in conjunction with their then-latest album release, In the Clear. With their most recent album, All Hours, set for release the following day The small stage was rounded out to its edges by the trio -Dominique Durand on vocals, mild, commanding, yet personable in all black; bassist Adam Schlessinger; guitarist and songwriter Andy Chase. For the night, however, three became five on keyboard and drums, strictly for upping-the-ante purposes, one can only assume.
To the audience's delight, featured was a fair mix of not-so-new material from their earlier albums to their newest of new material from their latest album, All Hours, which was released this past Tuesday. They all seemed genuinely excited to be performing new tracks, some of them they had only played for live reception a few times. Understanding the phenomenon referred to as 'relatively first-time jitters', they carried it off without a hitch, the more acoustic and raw elements of earlier works blending into more electro- inspired tracks on their newer albums – all of which sat well with most all in attendance, the occasional "I love you" to the heart and bright flash of a camera through the tender parts of one's brain, all in the name of adoration. (And we must say, intimate venues are some of the best to find oneself in. On that same token, we applaud Durand for not losing her eyesight upon eager front-rowers inconsiderate of their flashing brights. Mid-note, she continued along like a pro. Which, naturally, she is.)
Their repertoire filled the spacious but cozy venue quarters. "Thinking About You", from their album before last entitled In the Clear - was followed by one of their more prominent singles entitled "Edge of the Ocean", which played in a number of films and television shows, including but not limited to Shallow Hall, Music and Lyrics, Grey's Anatomy and Alias. Throwing in songs like "Suspicious", "Fascinated", and "Distant Lights" – from their then to-be-released album, their first in five years- resulted in an incorporation of newness and fresh appeal as far as growing anticipation.
And the crowd, baring much more than their hipster/scenester best, showed their support, appreciation, and good taste in the band that, when not venturing in the solo realm, are simply referred to as Ivy. Punctuating the evening with sing-along smiles and various head motions of rhythmic acknowledgement all throughout the set, they composed themselves just enough so as to not beg for an encore. We would have understood if they did, though. Behold the power of willpower.
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BU men's golf posts sixth-place finish at Rutherford Intercollegiate
Katz tallies 10th career runner-up performance
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STATE COLLEGE, Pa.—The Binghamton University golf team finished with a sixth place performance out of 16 teams at the Rutherford Intercollegiate, hosted by Penn State at the 7,202-yard par-71 Blue Course on Sunday afternoon. The Bearcats registered a 54-hole total of 906, finishing one shot behind Delaware University, who swept the team and individual title at the Wildcat Invitational last weekend.
The host squad Penn State prevailed to capture the team and individual titles in a tournament that featured cold and windy conditions, including a washout on the opening day. For the 22nd time in the 35-year history of the Rutherford Intercollegiate, the Nittany Lions earned the team triumph. T.J. Howe fired a 54-hole total of 216 to edge Binghamton's Jake Katz by one shot for medalist honors.
"It was little bit frustrating that first day because I think our team is right where it needs to be," head coach Bernie Herceg said. "But 36 holes in one day under tough conditions is never an easy task. Especially, because this is the first 36 holes we've had to play in one day. Overall, it was good to see a little bit of a comeback today and it was good to see the improvement. A couple scores were down there where we should be and I think the team will be able to build off this heading into next weekend's event."
Katz, a senior co-captain, tallied his 10th career runner-up performance with a two-day total of 4-over-par 217. With his 24th career top-10 finish, Katz moved into sole possession of second-place on the program's all-time list for top-10 finishes. He passed four-time PING All-Region selection Jeff Wolniewicz, (2003-07) who amassed 23 for his career.
Entering Sunday's final round in fourth place, Katz fired a 1-over-par (72) to climb the leaderboard and nearly post his fifth career individual title. Following two bogeys through seven holes, Katz hit an excellent shot into the 215-yard par-3 eighth, leaving himself 15 feet for birdie. He missed the putt but made his par. At the 518-yard par-5 ninth, Katz boomed a great drive and hit a 3-wood to about 18 feet on his second shot. Katz read the putt along with head coach Bernie Herceg and he knocked down the eagle putt to make the turn at even-par. He later bogeyed the 10th and 14th to give back the shots he earned with his eagle. However, Katz landed a precise iron shot from the par-3 17th to 20 feet and drilled the curling putt as it caught the edge and dropped in the cup.
"He was hitting the ball so well today that a 68 wasn't out of the question," head coach Bernie Herceg said. "He's such a great competitor for our team and he's so consistent."
Playing in the individual portion of the event, senior Mike Lemp carded BU's next best 54-hole total with a 23rd place finish. Lemp posted rounds of 74-80-73 as he nearly earned a top-20 showing.
Sophomore David Cellura lowered his score each round en route to a 33rd place finish. Junior Mike Surdey fired a 2-over (73) in the final round to move one shot behind Cellura at 40th.
The Bearcats are back in action next weekend at the Wolfpack Spring Open, hosted by NC State.
Binghamton Totals:
2 Jake Katz 72-73-72 (217)
T33 David Cellura 79-76-75 (230)
T40 Michael Surdey 76-82-73 (231)
T49 Bryce Edmister 76-81-77 (234)
T58 Trevor Fiedler 77-78-81 (236)


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ATLANTA — Georgia defeated Georgia Tech for the 10th time in 11 tries under football coach Mark Richt, but the latest state championship was followed by the quickest celebration yet.
Minutes after the No. 13 Bulldogs downed the No. 25 Yellow Jackets 31-17 Saturday afternoon at Bobby Dodd Stadium, Richt said there is more to this journey and he was not in a reflective mood. Georgia won its 10th consecutive game to clinch its first 10-win regular season since 2007, but Richt and the Bulldogs displayed brief euphoria on the field and were already talking about No. 1 LSU and this week's Southeastern Conference title game in the Georgia Dome.
"We're thinking about LSU right now," said Branden Smith, a cornerback who was needed at tailback against the Jackets. "This win is over."
Aaron Murray completed 19 of 29 passes for 252 yards and four touchdowns to extend Georgia's stranglehold in the in-state rivalry. His scores went to Michael Bennett, Chris Conley, Tavarres King and backup tight end Aron White, but starting tight end Orson Charles was his top target with five receptions for 95 yards.
The Bulldogs played without starting tailback Isaiah Crowell (ankle), and Ken Malcome and Carlton Thomas combined on three first-half carries for minus-1 yard.
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AMIA Board white paper: definition of biomedical informatics and specification of core competencies for graduate education in the discipline
- Casimir A Kulikowski1,
- Edward H Shortliffe2,
- Leanne M Currie3,
- Peter L Elkin4,
- Lawrence E Hunter5,
- Todd R Johnson6,
- Ira J Kalet7,
- Leslie A Lenert8,
- Mark A Musen9,
- Judy G Ozbolt10,
- Jack W Smith11,
- Peter Z Tarczy-Hornoch7,
- Jeffrey J Williamson12
- 1Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- 2Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, and New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- 3School of Nursing, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, USA
- 4Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
- 5Center for Computational Pharmacology, University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA
- 6Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- 7Departments of Pediatrics and of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
- 8Departments of Medicine and of Biomedical Informatics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- 9Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- 10School of Nursing, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- 11School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
- 12Division of Education and Academic Affairs, American Medical Informatics Association, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- Correspondence to Jeffrey J Williamson, AMIA, 4720 Montgomery Lane, Suite 500, Bethesda, MD 20814, USA; jeff{at}amia.org
Contributors The authors of this report are members of an Academic Forum committee charged with addressing the definition and core competencies for graduate education in biomedical informatics. JS chaired the committee. CK took the lead in writing the paper with ES contributing extensively as well. All authors reviewed, commented, and approved the content.
- Received 20 April 2012
- Accepted 3 May 2012
- Published Online First 8 June 2012
The AMIA biomedical informatics (BMI) core competencies have been designed to support and guide graduate education in BMI, the core scientific discipline underlying the breadth of the field's research, practice, and education. The core definition of BMI adopted by AMIA specifies that BMI is 'the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving and decision making, motivated by efforts to improve human health.' Application areas range from bioinformatics to clinical and public health informatics and span the spectrum from the molecular to population levels of health and biomedicine. The shared core informatics competencies of BMI draw on the practical experience of many specific informatics sub-disciplines. The AMIA BMI analysis highlights the central shared set of competencies that should guide curriculum design and that graduate students should be expected to master.
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Introduction and background
In 2005, the Board of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), as the leading professional and academic organization in biomedical and health informatics, endorsed the AMIA Vision, Mission, and Goals as part of the AMIA Strategic Plan.1 Goal III specifically called on AMIA to expand the size and to strengthen the competencies of the biomedical and health informatics workforce in the USA, while supporting the continued development of the informatics profession. These goals built on the prior work of the AMIA Education Committee which had already started defining biomedical informatics (BMI) roles and competencies in 2001–2002.2 While there was also considerable earlier work on defining BMI competencies by many organizations such as IMIA, ACMI, ANA, PHI, MLA, and ACM (a more complete listing with references and an explanation of the acronyms is provided in table 1), none of these specifically covered competencies aimed at graduate education in BMI. The AMIA Academic Forum took up the task in 2009, and formed the committee that has generated this document.
The present articulation of BMI core competencies is intended to support AMIA and its members in promoting the discipline as a career choice, and to provide guidance to students and curriculum developers when choosing, designing (and implementing), or re-designing graduate-level academic BMI programs. We recognize that the core competencies for certificate programs, undergraduate training, or non-degree fellowships in BMI would likely include only a subset of the skills that we have addressed here. In addition, the competencies identified are intended to communicate to others what BMI professionals know and do, serving as a guide for career development, and will help human resource personnel and chief information officers to understand better the basic skills and knowledge that are expected of a BMI professional. Finally, the development of the competencies as defined here expresses the maturity of the profession and increases the understanding of its deep scientific foundations and contributions, while recognizing the broad professional diversity covered by the discipline.
Defining BMI as the scientific core of a discipline that has broad applications across health and biomedicine3 highlights its foundational role and refutes the kind of reductionism that superficially explains BMI simply as the application of information technology (IT) to biomedical and health problems. The phrase 'biomedical and health informatics' is often used to describe the full range of application and research topics for which BMI is the pertinent underlying scientific discipline. A recent paper 'What is Biomedical Informatics,'4 focusing on the effects of defining information as 'data+meaning,' led to much discussion in the Core Competencies Committee, and helped in the formulation of the definition of BMI used in the present paper, with important implications for the core competencies in the field. Also strongly influential were the AMIA program requirements for fellowship education in the subspecialty of clinical informatics5 6 and an article describing the process of clinical informatics board certification.7 These serve as useful context for understanding the clinical objectives and focus on health information that characterizes our field, where even basic bioinformatics work (translational bioinformatics) is motivated by developing insights and solutions for addressing issues in human health and disease.
Although we have identified, organized, and codified competencies in BMI as part of this work, we stress that these are intended neither to discourage diversity across training programs in the field, nor to establish a set of prescriptive guidelines for exclusion of topics or programs. On the contrary, identifying new competency areas on an ongoing basis is especially important for a field that is rapidly changing in both its informatics and its biomedical and health aspects. Only through consensus followed by iteration can we further facilitate the continuing development, and promote a greater understanding, of a discipline with an unusually wide scope. The process of defining BMI competencies affects all of those who are, aspire to be, or work with informatics professionals, including current and prospective students, faculty, employers, practitioners, researchers, clinicians, and managers. The definition of core competencies also serves those who do not have a degree or formal training in informatics but who can use these competencies to identity areas for additional study or experience.
There is a clear distinction between accrediting programs and certifying individuals. This document lays the foundation for AMIA's role in endorsing the development and subsequent use of competencies as a basis for program design, evaluation, and accreditation. In addition, the competencies could be used by educational programs to position their curricula and course offerings as they apply for funding, develop marketing materials, or evaluate the performance of their graduates. It is intended to supplement, and not to replace, related documents from related groups and disciplines, such as clinical or nursing informatics, which already have been developed, some under AMIA sponsorship such as the clinical informatics documents referred to above.5 6 Thus this work is primarily intended to assist AMIA and informatics training programs as they track and guide the evolution of core BMI competencies for the field of BMI in general, especially at graduate levels of training (masters and doctoral levels).
Definition of biomedical informatics
The term 'biomedical informatics' began to emerge in the 1990s as the Human Genome Project and the expanding investigation of issues in data analysis for basic biology led to a greater awareness that the methods and processes of what had been known as 'medical informatics' were broadly applicable across all of biomedicine. Over the last decade an increasing number of academic programs have embraced this broader range of application topics and have changed the names of their academic units to replace the term medical informatics in favor of biomedical informatics. This transition is not complete, and organizations such as AMIA and IMIA still have the former name of the discipline embedded in their own names (the American Medical Informatics Association and the International Medical Informatics Association), but the emphasis on biomedical informatics as the name of the field is now widely accepted. For the purposes of this paper, accordingly, we adopt a newer, more limited view of the term medical informatics, using it solely to refer to that component of research and practice in clinical informatics that focuses on disease, and predominantly involves the role of physicians. Thus AMIA now uses medical informatics primarily as a parallel notion to other subfields of clinical informatics, such as nursing informatics or dental informatics.
The committee's first task was to develop a definition of BMI that could be adopted for ongoing use by AMIA and would capture the field's scope and focus without inappropriately over-emphasizing the role of computers and IT. After extensive deliberations, we developed the following brief consensus definition, which is complemented by four corollaries that refine the explanation of the field's characteristics:
Definition: Biomedical informatics (BMI) is the interdisciplinary field that studies and pursues the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, driven by efforts to improve human health.
Scope and breadth of discipline: BMI investigates and supports reasoning, modeling, simulation, experimentation, and translation across the spectrum from molecules to individuals and to populations, from biological to social systems, bridging basic and clinical research and practice and the healthcare enterprise.
Theory and methodology: BMI develops, studies, and applies theories, methods, and processes for the generation, storage, retrieval, use, management, and sharing of biomedical data, information, and knowledge.
Technological approach: BMI builds on and contributes to computer, telecommunication, and information sciences and technologies, emphasizing their application in biomedicine.
Human and social context: BMI, recognizing that people are the ultimate users of biomedical information, draws upon the social and behavioral sciences to inform the design and evaluation of technical solutions, policies, and the evolution of economic, ethical, social, educational, and organizational systems.
BMI is the core scientific discipline that supports applied research and practice in several biomedical disciplines, including health informatics, which is composed of clinical informatics (including subfields such as medical, nursing, and dental informatics) and public health informatics (sometimes referred to more broadly as population informatics to capture its inclusion of global health informatics). There are related notions, such as consumer health informatics, which involves elements of both clinical and public health informatics. BMI in turn draws on the practical experience of the applied subspecialties, and works in the context of clinical and public health systems and organizations to develop experiments, interventions, and approaches that will have scalable impact in solving health informatics problems. However, it is the depth of informatics methods, shared across the spectrum from the molecular to the population levels3 8 9 that defines the core discipline of BMI and provides its coherence and its professional foundation for defining a common set of core competencies. Figure 1 illustrates the relationship among BMI and its major areas of applied research and practice, addressing individuals and populations through health informatics (defined as spanning clinical informatics and public health informatics), and molecular, cellular, and organ systems through bioinformatics and structural (or imaging) informatics. As noted above, clinical informatics covers the practice of informatics in healthcare through medical, nursing, dental, and other forms of informatics that are applied to patients or to healthy individuals. Figure 1 illustrates how basic research in informatics applied to biomedicine is the natural purview of BMI, since it provides the methods, techniques, processes, and theories that are used across all the subspecialty areas. The different BMI application areas, meanwhile, provide the research motivations and the practice goals that interact with the core of BMI and provide feedback for the generalization of methods and theories as the discipline evolves. An example of this is the recently emerging subfield of translational bioinformatics,10–12 which bridges bioinformatics, structural informatics, and clinical informatics in seeking genomic and cellular mechanisms to explain and predict clinical phenomena. It then overlaps with the recently defined field of clinical research informatics, which addresses data and information management and analysis in support of clinical trials and population studies.13
In defining the core competencies for professionals in BMI, one must place the above definition of the field into the context within which scientific, technological, and healthcare practices are developing. Figure 2 illustrates how BMI and health informatics (HI) interact synergistically. Basic research in BMI is carried out largely in academic institutions, research institutes, and corporate research labs that typically work with academic centers on specific HI projects within hospitals, clinics, and practices, often in collaboration with the corporate healthcare industry. The clinical systems provide the test-beds for experimentation with BMI methods, techniques, and theories through the exchange of people, ideas, and software that makes for a 'virtuous circle' of feedback between BMI and HI. A similar diagram could be drawn for the interaction of BMI and translational bioinformatics in the burgeoning applied world of drug discovery and biotechnology.
In defining the core competencies needed by BMI practitioners, one must focus primarily on this feedback, and the practical experience with which it supports education in BMI, so that theory informs practice, while practice and experience influence the evolution of theory. As a result of this feedback, BMI research not only advances knowledge in BMI but also advances knowledge in contributing foundational fields such as computer science and information science as well as advancing knowledge in the application domains such as biomedical research, clinical care, and population health.
Core competencies in BMI
Most of the recommendations for BMI core competencies have been structured according to Bloom's cognitive process dimension terms14 into categories of (a) Prerequisite Knowledge and Skills; (b) Fundamental Knowledge; and (c) Procedural Knowledge and Skills. The process dimension terms are: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. Because BMI is a scientific as well as a technological field, individual core competencies always assume that practitioners will show creativity in asking the right questions, demonstrate scientific skepticism in questioning past approaches, and apply methods with rigor for experimental design, data analysis, and theory formulation. And, it will be up to each BMI academic program to convert the terms into objectively measurable outcomes based on the program level and goals (eg, applied MS, research MS, PhD).
What follows is taken directly from the document presented to the AMIA Academic Forum and approved by the Forum members at their meeting of June 17, 2010.15
Fundamental scientific skills: Faculty should design BMI graduate programs so that every student attains the following competencies, expected of practitioners in any scientific discipline:
Acquire professional perspective: Understand and analyze the history and values of the discipline and its relationship to other fields while demonstrating an ability to read, interpret, and critique the core literature.
Analyze problems: Analyze, understand, abstract, and model a specific biomedical problem in terms of data, information, and knowledge components.
Produce solutions: Use the problem analysis to identify and understand the space of possible solutions and generate designs that capture essential aspects of solutions and their components.
Articulate the rationale: Defend the specific solution and its advantage over competing options.
Implement, evaluate, and refine: Carry out the solution (including obtaining necessary resources and managing projects), evaluate it, and iteratively improve it.
Innovate: Create new theories, typologies, frameworks, representations, methods, and processes to address biomedical informatics problems.
Work collaboratively: Team effectively with partners within and across disciplines.
Educate, disseminate, and discuss: Communicate effectively to students and to other audiences in multiple disciplines in persuasive written and oral form.
Scope and breadth of the discipline: BMI investigates and supports reasoning, modeling, simulation, experimentation, and translation across the spectrum from molecules to individuals to populations, from biological to social systems, bridging basic and clinical research and practice, and the healthcare enterprise.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills: Students must be familiar with biological, biomedical, and population health concepts and problems including common research problems.
Fundamental knowledge: Understand the fundamentals of the field in the context of the effective use of biomedical data, information, and knowledge. For example:
Biology: molecule, sequence, protein, structure, function, cell, tissue, organ, organism, phenotype, populations.
Translational and clinical research: genotype, phenotype, pathways, mechanisms, sample, protocol, study, subject, evidence, evaluation.
Healthcare: screening, diagnosis (diagnoses, test results), prognosis, treatment (medications, procedures), prevention, billing, healthcare teams, quality assurance, safety, error reduction, comparative effectiveness, medical records, personalized medicine, health economics, information security and privacy.
Personal health: patient, consumer, provider, families, health promotion, personal health records.
Population health: detection, prevention, screening, education, stratification, spatio-temporal patterns, ecologies of health, wellness.
Procedural knowledge and skills: For substantive problems related to scientific inquiry, problem solving, and decision making, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create solutions based on biomedical informatics approaches.
Understand and analyze complex biomedical informatics problems in terms of data, information, and knowledge.
Apply, analyze, evaluate, and create biomedical informatics methods that solve substantive problems within and across biomedical domains.
Relate such knowledge and methods to other problems within and across levels of the biomedical spectrum.
Theory and methodology: BMI develops, studies, and applies theories, methods, and processes for the generation, storage, retrieval, use, management, and sharing of biomedical data, information, and knowledge. All involve the ability to reason and relate to biomedical information, concepts, and models spanning molecules to individuals to populations:
Theories: Understand and apply syntactic, semantic, cognitive, social, and pragmatic theories as they are used in biomedical informatics.
Typology: Understand, and analyze the types and nature of biomedical data, information, and knowledge.
Frameworks: Understand, and apply the common conceptual frameworks that are used in biomedical informatics.
A framework is a modeling approach (eg, belief networks), programming approach (eg, object-oriented programming), representational scheme (eg, problem space models), or an architectural design (eg, web services).
Knowledge representation: Understand and apply representations and models that are applicable to biomedical data, information, and knowledge.
A knowledge representation is a method of encoding concepts and relationships in a domain using definitions that are computable (eg, first order logics).
Methods and processes: Understand and apply existing methods (eg, simulated annealing) and processes (eg, goal-oriented reasoning) used in different contexts of biomedical informatics.
Technological approach: BMI builds on and contributes to computer, telecommunication, and information sciences and technologies, emphasizing their application in biomedicine.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills: Assumes familiarity with data structures, algorithms, programming, mathematics, statistics.
Fundamental knowledge: Understand and apply technological approaches in the context of biomedical problems. For example:
Imaging and signal analysis.
Information documentation, storage, and retrieval.
Machine learning, including data mining.
Networking, security, databases.
Natural language processing, semantic technologies.
Representation of logical and probabilistic knowledge and reasoning.
Simulation and modeling.
Software engineering.
Procedural knowledge and skills: For substantive problems, understand and apply methods of inquiry and criteria for selecting and utilizing algorithms, techniques, and methods.
Describe what is known about the application of the fundamentals within biomedicine.
Identify the relevant existing approaches for a specific biomedical problem.
Apply, adapt, and validate an existing approach to a specific biomedical problem.
Human and social context: BMI, recognizing that people are the ultimate users of biomedical information, draws upon the social and behavioral sciences to inform the design and evaluation of technical solutions, policies, and the evolution of economic, ethical, social, educational, and organizational systems.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills: Familiarity with fundamentals of social, organizational, cognitive, and decision sciences.
Fundamental knowledge: Understand and apply knowledge in the following areas:
Design: for example, human-centered design, usability, human factors, cognitive and ergonomic sciences and engineering.
Evaluation: for example, study design, controlled trials, observational studies, hypothesis testing, ethnographic methods, field observational methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods.
Social, behavioral, communication, and organizational sciences: for example, computer supported cooperative work, social networks, change management, human factors engineering, cognitive task analysis, project management.
Ethical, legal, social issues: for example, human subjects, HIPAA, informed consent, secondary use of data, confidentiality, privacy.
Economic, social and organizational context of biomedical research, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries, medical instrumentation, healthcare, and public health.
Procedural knowledge and skills: Apply, analyze, evaluate, and create systems approaches to the solution of substantive problems in biomedical informatics.
Analyze complex biomedical informatics problems in terms of people, organizations, and socio-technical systems.
Understand the challenges and limitations of technological solutions.
Design and implement systems approaches to biomedical informatics applications and interventions.
Evaluate the impact of biomedical informatics applications and interventions in terms of people, organizations, and socio-technical systems.
Relate solutions to other problems within and across levels of the biomedical spectrum.
Theory and methodology issues: relationship of BMI core competencies to background education in the underlying sciences and technologies
The preceding discussion illustrates that BMI uses and develops a wide range of mathematical, scientific, technological, heuristic, and cognitive methods for modeling and solving its complex and heterogeneous problems. Defining BMI core competencies is accordingly complex. Graduate education in BMI draws—and is likely to continue to draw—students with correspondingly diverse prior specializations. As illustrated in figure 3, most current MS or PhD candidates in BMI will come from either (a) clinical, public health, or biological backgrounds, (b) mathematical, computational, physical sciences, information sciences, or engineering backgrounds, or (c) cognitive or social science backgrounds. The core competencies that can be considered as prerequisites will vary accordingly, but regardless of this, the fundamental and procedural competencies with which graduate students leave a program should be sufficient for them to carry out advanced work (either basic or applied research) in BMI successfully.
The relationship of BMI to its component sciences and technological disciplines (computer science, information science, decision science, statistics, cognitive science, organizational theory, etc) varies from institution to institution, usually reflecting the way in which a BMI program has developed and the strengths or expertise of its faculty.4 10 A critical function of a good graduate program is to identify foundational components that are essential for a student with one major type of background so that the core competencies can best be personalized to their needs and career goals. Based on the BMI core competencies listed above, one can select a subset that best complements an individual's prior experience and future directions.
For example, a graduate student with a primary background in the biological sciences and a medical, dental, or nursing degree will need to be taught about the distinctions between syntactic and semantic representations and about cognitive, social, and pragmatic theories as they are used in BMI—much more so than would be the case for a student with a primary background in the mathematical and computational sciences (who is more likely already to know about these concepts and distinctions). Similarly, an incoming student with technical computing skills will instead have to learn much more about typologies of biomedical data, information, and knowledge, with which the biomedical student will already be familiar. Students of both backgrounds will need to learn about knowledge representations and frameworks for modeling in the context of practical problems, such as the analysis of genomic or clinical datasets, or the integration of signal and imaging data with patient electronic health record (EHR) data. The identification of substantive problems where different representations, algorithms, and methods are possible assumes that BMI graduates will acquire a degree of sophistication in identifying the most relevant existing approaches, adapting them to a specific test problem, and validating the results using the best methods (eg, cross-validation for machine learning prediction problems). As students proceed through a BMI program, they should mature in their understanding of the ways in which information (ie, meaningful data) is converted into knowledge (ie, a justified, true belief) and how they both contribute to posing hypotheses, developing theories, and proposing experimental tests of new questions suggested by the theories (that is, the kind of understanding that is usually seen as 'wisdom', as in Ackoff's hierarchy16).
Scientific and technological issues: relationships to information and computer science
As indicated in the BMI core competencies, the discipline both builds upon and contributes to computer science, communications, and the information sciences and technologies.
Historically, biological modeling of neural networks inspired cybernetics approaches to decision-making,17 and later, BMI pioneered new representations of knowledge within fields such as artificial intelligence (eg, rule-based systems18), where the first generation of expert systems were predominantly for clinical application.19 Likewise, medical imaging has been the catalyst for many multi-resolution representations of visual objects and robust methods for estimation and segmentation that have been widely adopted in computer vision.20
However, it is fair to say that the most influential application of BMI methods has been in the library or information sciences, where the MEDLINE (and PubMed) systems for biomedical literature indexing and retrieval have revolutionized the science of biomedicine, made the Genome Project possible, and enabled countless discoveries in both basic biosciences and medicine.21 The Unified Medical Language System and subsequent ontologies on the web are now making it possible to scale-up discoveries through efficient social networking among those in biomedical computing.22 Telecommunication in medicine has also been notable in bringing the latest diagnostic and treatment skills to the care of patients in remote locations, while the use of informatics methods for the monitoring and rehabilitation of patients with multiple, chronic conditions is becoming increasingly important for the aging societies of developed countries.23 All these factors make it important to include among the BMI core competencies the underlying technologies of networking, security, and databases upon which information documentation, storage, and retrieval now depend. In addition to the established methods of machine learning, imaging, and signal analysis, the challenging areas of natural language processing and the semantics of information provide windows into a future that will be transformative for healthcare as well as biomedical research, and to which BMI graduates have the opportunity to make valuable contributions.24 Figure 4 illustrates some of the relationships of BMI to the underlying disciplines that enable the science and technology that it builds upon, and to which it contributes.
Human factors and social issues in BMI core competencies
Since the ultimate goal of all BMI research and education is to produce methods for supporting biomedical research and improving healthcare, both of which depend critically on human and social context issues, it is important for BMI practitioners to include in their core competencies a familiarity with the fundamentals of social, organizational, cognitive, and decision science insights (as is indicated in figure 4). The rapid development of computer-supported cooperative work, social networks, and cognitive task analysis is added to the more traditional methods from human factors engineering as well as change and project management.
Large-scale systems increasingly require team-based approaches to software engineering, design, and implementation. BMI practitioners should become familiar with the current approaches to collaborative design and the challenges of coordination and system testing and validation that these entail. Cognitive modeling of tasks and human–machine interaction methodologies (increasingly related to neuroscience and economics insights) are also important aspects that can benefit developers of these socio-technical BMI systems. Cognitive studies of decision making, usability evaluations, team performance and communication, plus system failures and challenges to patient safety are also crucial components in the training of BMI graduate students.
The ethical, legal, and social issues involved in complex healthcare systems design, implementation, testing, and evaluation require that BMI graduates be knowledgeable about the boundaries of individual and group responsibility and how the interaction with a wide range of stakeholders in biomedical information systems means that they must be sensitive to ethical and legal considerations. The implications of introducing informatics methods and systems in large-scale public health settings add to these challenges. With recent discoveries of the critical role of the microbiome, and its relationship to other biological ecosystems affecting human health, the scope and depth of what a responsible practitioner in BMI must appreciate across the biomedical spectrum has grown substantially; BMI graduates must know how to place such new information into context when solving difficult informatics problems.
Other related HEALTH INFORMATICS competency reports
The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has recently published a summary of recommendations on competencies for education in medical informatics25 that focuses, in light of its international emphasis, on a much wider range of competencies than the present report, which concentrates on the foundations of BMI as a scientific discipline for graduate study. Several other studies and proposals for informatics curricula have been developed by a variety of organizations, as is summarized in table 1, but none has focused solely on graduate study and the core science issues in the same way as this current effort. Note, as previously discussed, that the current work does not propose a curriculum per se, but rather focuses on competencies that can be acquired through a variety of different courses or teaching methods. Our focus on core competencies and graduate education distinguishes this paper from the other efforts that are listed in table 1.
The AMIA BMI core competencies described in this paper are designed as a broad and dynamic set of recommendations or guidelines for graduate education in BMI. AMIA and its Academic Forum invite comments from the community. We fully recognize that the guidelines here will evolve with time and will need to be improved and refined to keep them current with the rapidly changing science and technology of the field.
This paper was formally approved by the AMIA Board on April 17, 2012.
Competing interests None.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.


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On July 3, 2006, the Covina Police Department laid to rest Sergeant Scott Hanson. Sergeant Hanson was the first Covina Police Department officer to die in the line of duty as the result of a collision that occurred on August 14, 2003. Sergeant Hanson fought valiantly for almost three years before succumbing to the injuries he sustained in the collision. He was a 20 year veteran of the Covina Police Department.
Scott Hanson was a true hero. He participated in the many events at Barranca Elementary School that included The Egg Drop, The Family Camp Out, and Reading with the Kids. He also helped organize the disaster training for the staff in the auditorium and encouraged participation between the school and police department. He often showed up in uniform as he could only stay a short time; however his presence was always welcomed by the children and parents. He had a group of kids he called his "lambs". He watched out for them like a guardian. Since his children, Andrew and Sarah, both attended Barranca School, he often showed up to games or school projects in uniform. His presence instilled in the children that the sight of a police officer was a friend and not a threat. His gentle nature welcomed everyone, including the homeless. One day, at a local church, Scott assisted a homeless man into the bathroom to get cleaned up. Actions such as these captured the compassion of a man who was dedicated to serving the community with honor and integrity.
There are many organizations that support fallen officers...
National Peace Officers Memorial
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Vintage photos of:
November 5, 1940. "Sachs Quality Furniture Inc., 150th Street & Third Avenue, New York. General exterior, daylight. Morris Lapidus, Ross-Frankel Inc., clients." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.
Visible at the upper right corner is some of the track structure for the late lamented Third Avenue El. This would be just north of the 149th Street station, where a free transfer was available to the Third Avenue station of the White Plains Road/Dyer Avenue subway lines, today's 2 and 5 trains.
Although the Manhattan and southern Bronx portions of the El closed in 1955, in anticipation of the (sarcasm alert) coming real soon! (/sarcasm alert) Second Avenue Subway, the Bronx portion from 149th Street north to the Gun Hill Road terminal remained in operation for another 18 years. It used 1920's-era "Lo-V" cars until the late 1960's. For the last few years of the line's existence R-12 "Redbird" cars from 1948 operated on the line.
On April 28, 1973, revenue service finally ended on the Bronx portion of the Third Avenue El, although there was a "fantrip" for rail enthusiasts the following day. The R-12's went to Flushing 7 line, where they ran for about another decade before being scrapped. Unlike the Manhattan portion of the Third Avenue El, which came down almost as soon as service ended in 1955, the Bronx section north of 149th Street wasn't demolished until several months after the end of service. Some of the old line's steelwork is still visible at the Gun Hill Road elevated station on the 2 line.
Aware that the Bronx Third Avenue El's closing could be a financial burden for the residents of the mostly lower-income neighborhoods along the line, who normally would have to pay separate fares to ride buses to the nearest remaining subway stations, the Transit Authority created a new bus line following the El's route and offering free transfers to the subway. This arrangement lasted until 1996, when the MetroCard fare card allowed free subway-bus transfers systemwide.
I just spoke to a 92-year-old friend of mine who grew up a few blocks away from this location in the Bronx and he immediately recalled Sachs' radio jingle with its phone number: MElrose 5-5300.
Even though it was constructed in the late 1930s, the Sachs storefront has many of the elements that defined "googie" coffee-shop architecture of the mid to late 1950s, from the lazy roof edge curves and tall skinny columns to the vast expanses of glass and the "floating" inner roof of the showcase.
[This is actually classic Streamline Moderne. -tterrace]
Melrose 5-5300 was the telephone number that Sachs Quality Furniture used in its radio commercials. It was sung in a jingle that became instantly recognizable. Glen Miller's Pennsylvania 6-5000 it wasn't, but it did deliver the message efficiently. Please don't confuse Sachs Quality Furniture with Saks 5th Avenue, the upscale Department store or Saks 34th Street of "Miracle on 34th Street" fame.
In Manhattan, Third Avenue terminates at 128th Street to become the Third Avenue Bridge. This street corner is in the South Bronx. It's now occupied by a pawn shop.


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Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Yorkshire Wildlife Park
70 acres of animal encounters, with some walk through sections to get up close and nose to nose with creatures like lemurs and wallabies.
Great range of well kept animals and birds including the most endangered carnivore in Africa, the Painted Hunting Dog!
Very recently Yorkshire Wildlife Park has officially opened both a purpose built giraffe enclosure plus Leopard Heights, the ground-breaking open topped enclosure that will bring you eye to eye with the Amur Leopard, the most endangered carnivore in the world! From the 100 sq m viewing platform visitors come face to face with the leopards as they scale their 10m high climbing frames.
At ground level of the 6000 sq m enclosure there is a viewing area with a 10m long glass wall to complete the spectacular creation, which is the largest leopard enclosure in the world.
Earlier in the summer holidays, we went to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park - it was expensive, but plenty of wildlife to see, and we were particularly pleased to see lots of information boards about British Wildlife and conservation to try to engage families with nature on our doorstep. The lemur walk was great, and a South American enclosure that both allowed visitors to go in and get closer to some of the animals there.
- Jo Williamson | Sept 2012
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Coastal Parents of Multiples Reunion
As the auntie to 4-year-old triplet boys, I truly don't understand how parents of multiples handle all the different stresses. Emotional. Financial. Physical.
It's so important that support groups like Coastal Parents of Multiples are around. The group offers a social network of support to moms of multiples from pregnancy on through each stage of development of their children.
Coastal Parents of Multiples is hosting a 2008 reunion, 7 pm Tues. May 6 @ the Mercer Auditorium @ the Hoskins Center, Memorial Health University Medical Center. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served. A Mother's Day basket will be raffled off. Parents are asked to bring an old and new picture of their family for a multiples families picture display. Click here for more info. RSVP to email@example.com.
Moms interested in attending the group's regular meetings can do so for free. Meetings are the first Tuesday of each month, 7 pm @ Memorial Health University Hospital's Conference Rm 1323. Even moms expecting multiples are encouraged to attend.
The group offers guest speakers who provide professional expertise in areas of particular interest to members; many events and activities for moms, children and families; various fund-raisers throughout the year which support the organization.


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