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This Plan is intended as a guide. The College reserves the right to modify its actions both prior to and during an emergency to ensure the proper functioning of the College.
This document refers to emergencies and disasters that occur on property owned, leased, or operated by Barnard College only.
Statement of Purpose
This document and associated materials constitute the Emergency Management and Disaster Preparedness Plan (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") of Barnard College.
This Plan is to be implemented in the event of a major emergency or disaster (as defined in Section C and/or as declared by the President of the College.)
The purposes of this plan are:
- To protect the lives and property of the Barnard College community during emergencies.
- To preserve the orderly functioning of the College community during emergencies.
- To establish clear lines of authority and communication among College departments and with external constituencies during an emergency.
- To coordinate decision making and effective use of available manpower and resources in the event of an emergency.
- To identify the College's role in coordinating emergency operations with outside agencies.
Emergency Plan Activation
This Emergency/Disaster Plan shall be activated under the following circumstances:
- When civil authorities declare a State of Emergency that affects the College, either local, citywide, regional, statewide or national.
- When the President or her designee declares a College Emergency.
- When an occurrence, potential or actual, seriously disrupts the overall operation of the College or threatens the health or safety of members of the College community.
Note: Unless otherwise directed by the President of the College, operational management of minor emergencies, i.e., incidents, potential or actual, which do not seriously affect the overall functioning of the College, depending upon the nature of the incident, rests with either the Public Safety and Emergency Management Department, or the Facilities Services Department, in consultation with related department heads and in accordance with established protocols.
Types of Emergencies
Types of emergenices and disasters covered by the Emergency/Disaster Plan include but are not limited to: bomb threats; significant breaks in heat, power or water services, contagious illnesses; contamination of air, water or food; violent crime; explosion; fires; natural disasters such as severe snow storms, hurricanes and earthquakes; external disasters such as train or airline crashes; chemical spills, and civil disturbances.
Activation of the Plan
In the case of a perceived College-level emergency Public Safety should be notified. The Public Safety Department supervisor must notify the President of the College or her successive designees in the order that appears below. The President or the designee reached will declare if a College-level state of emergency exists and activation of the Plan is in order. If the College declares a state of emergency, the first designee reached activates the communication tree. The first designee reached is responsible for maintaining a log of who on the Emergency Management Committee has been reached and who has not been reached. All members of the Emergency Management Committee, if reached, must report back to the designee within one half hour of activation of the tree.
Emergency Management Team Contact List – Attachment A
In the case of a State of Emergency declared by civil authorities, all designated emergency personnel should attempt to report for duty and assume their defined roles if permitted by civil authorities, whether or not they have received official notification from the College.
Note: The College has the right to expect employees to make themselves available for work in the event of an emergency, to report promptly, and to remain as long as is deemed necessary.
Successive Designees for Determination of College Emergency:
- President of the College
- Chief Operating Officer
- Vice President for Campus Services
- Provost and Dean of the Faculty
- Dean of the College
- Chief of Staff and General Counsel
- Executive Director of Public Safety
- Executive Director of Facilities Services
- Other Officers of the College
Implementation of the Emergency Response Plan
The President or her designee has the responsibility to decide if the emergency response plan is to be activated, including the establishment of the Emergency Command Center, the recall of College officials or their alternates to campus during non-work hours, and the identification and recall of other College administrators who could assist in the emergency response effort.
Emergency Management Team
In the event that a campus emergency is declared, the President or her designee will initiate the notification of the Emergency Management Team. At the earliest possible time, all available members of the Emergency Management Team are to assemble at the Emergency Command Center or, if not accessible, at the Secondary Emergency Command Center. Once assembled, the Assistant to the President, if present, or a person designated by the President will assume the responsibility of keeping an accurate log of all actions taken by the Team.
The Emergency Management Team consists of:
- President or her Designee
- Provost and Dean of the Faculty
- Dean of the College
- Chief Operating Officer
- Vice President for Campus Services
- Vice President for Public Affairs
- Vice President & Counsel to the President
- Vice President for Development and Alumnae Affairs
- Vice President of Human Resources
- Executive Director of Public Safety*
- Executive Director of Facilities
- Associate Dean for Student Life
- Executive Director of Health Services**
- Associate Dean of Campus and Residential Life
- Associate Dean of College Activities
*The Director of Public Safety is responsible for informing the Columbia University Public Safety Department of a campus emergency.
**During the summer recess, Barnard's Health Service is closed. Medical assistance should be requested from the Columbia Health Service, or from St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital.
In addition, the Assistant to the President will be contacted along with the Emergency Management Team, and will provide administrative assistance to the Committee.
First Administrator on the Scene
If the emergency occurs during non-office hours, the individual(s) assuming the most responsibility will be in the following descending order.
- A member of the President's Council
- The Executive Director of Public Safety
- The Executive Director of Facilities
- The highest ranking administrator present from the Public Safety Department
- The highest ranking administrator present from the Facilities Services Department;
- The highest ranking administrator present from the Residential Life area.
The first member of the Emergency Management Team to arrive on the campus assumes responsibility for directing activities after reporting to the Security Supervisor on duty until the President, her/his designee or a senior officer arrives. Alternates or staff of other senior officers will report to the Team member and/or senior officer on the scene. Once notification of the President or her designee has occurred, full responsibility for directing College efforts rests with the President or her designee
Emergency Command Centers
The primary Emergency Command Center is located:
Elliott Hall, 49 Claremont Avenue
In the event that the primary site is inaccessible, a secondary Emergency Command Center is located:
Milbank Hall, Campus Services
Both Primary and Secondary Emergency Command Centers will include:
- Copies of the Emergency Management Plan
- Access to four or more phones, one of which is a not a Columbia University Rolm phone
- Access to a computer (w/email and internet access)
- Barnard College Press Release Stationery
- Access to photocopying equipment
- Access to radio and television
- Fax Machine
- Copies of the following:
- Contact Information for Emergency Management Team Members
- Directors/Department Heads/Chairs Contact List
In addition, the College Offices designated below shall maintain the following current information which can be made readily available to the Committee in the event of a campus emergency:
Contact Information on the following:
College Insurers
Campus Services
College Bank affiliates
Local Media Contacts
College Attorneys
General Counsel
Reasonably up-to-date lists with home address, telephone and emergency contact information for:
All Students by Resident/Commuter
All Faculty, Staff and Administrators
Human Resources
Available information on all campus buildings including:
Access/Egress (who has keys for what)
Facilities/Public Safety
Primary and Secondary Emergency Equipment Storage Sites
In addition to the Command Center, emergency supplies will be stored in the basement of 600 West 116th Street.
Stored at these sites are the following materials:
- Battery-Operated Lighting
- Bull horn
- Generator
- Pump
- Emergency Medical Equipment Bag
- First Aid Kit
- Sign-Making Material
- Tape/Tacks/Rope
- Food and Water
The Director of Public Safety, Public Safety Supervisors, Director of Facilities, and Facilities Managers/Supervisors shall have access to these sites.
Operations Plan Priorities
The Emergency Management Team will, upon assembly:
- assess the situation
- determine resources needed and/or available to address the emergency
- issue staff assignments
- establish necessary communication with outside agencies and civil authorities
- monitor progress and continue assessment
- when appropriate, declare end of emergency status
- designate one of its members as keeper of a Log of Events/Actions. This person will normally be the Assistant to the President.
Priority Goals
The essential goals of the Emergency Management Team will be, in order:
- preservation of human life and welfare
- preservation of human health and safety
- protection of College property and, where possible, personal property
- maintenance of College programs and operations
- respond to external community needs.
Priority Locations
The campus buildings and areas that will receive priority attention with regard to normal operation (restoration of services, maintenance, and use), in order, are:
- Emergency Command Center
- Public Safety and Maintenance Areas
- Residence Halls
- Health Service (during the academic year)
- Facilities housing animals
- Administration Building and Other Administrative and Academic Facilities
- Recreational Facilities
The Emergency Management Committee will prioritize locations within these categories and among all remaining locations.
Priority Objectives
The objectives outlined below relate to the Priority Goals above. "Priority I Objectives" relate to preservation and safety of human life; "Priority II and III Objectives" relate to preservation of property and restoration of normal operations. Effort and action will focus on Priority I Objectives until substantially met. Priority II and III Objectives will be addressed as resources are available.
Priority I Objectives
- Establish emergency communications.
- Assess damage, injuries, and location of major problems.
- Evacuate affected locations pending additional assessment.
- Isolate dangerous areas until judged safe for reentry.
- Establish medical triage and first aid areas and transport seriously injured to medical facilities if necessary.
- Repair utilities and lifelines to prevent further life/safety hazards.
- Identify and Rescue persons trapped in damaged facilities.
- Control secondary hazards.
Priority II Objectives
- Communicate critical information and instructions to campus, the public, families and students.
- Shore up damaged facilities that pose safety hazards.
- Provide emergency food and shelter as needed.
- Conduct rapid structural engineering assessment of campus facilities.
- Track status of all injured and missing College students and personnel.
- Restore College telecommunications systems as soon as possible.
- Assess local transportation conditions and advise campus regarding viable routes.
- Secure closed facilities.
- Contain/control/preserve animals and critical research areas.
- Begin documentation of damages.
Priority III Objectives
- Initiate Data Recovery Plans.
- Identify and secure valuable College materials.
- Normalize flow of supplies and equipment from off campus.
- Provide psychological and personal assistance to staff, faculty, students and others impacted by the event.
- Re-allocate residential, academic and administrative operating space, if necessary.
- Provide space to external agencies, if necessary and possible.
Unit Responsibilities
Under a declared emergency, the Emergency Management Team will assign responsibilities to operating departments and offices. Departments and offices may be directed to suspend day-to-day operations that do not contribute directly to emergency management. Individuals not in specified emergency areas, may be temporarily reassigned to assist in emergency operations.
Job Assignments
Job assignments to College departments and offices defines the specific responsibilities expected to be assumed by specific personnel.
Security Department
- Maintain communication with local public safety agencies.
- Maintain liaison with fire protection services to assist in their operations.
- Request initial fire protection services, rescue operations and emergency medical services and provide assistance to them in obtaining access to emergency sites.
- Coordinate crowd and traffic control.
- Provide and/or coordinate protection for life and property at emergency and related sites.
- Provide emergency access to buildings and offices for College administrative staff.
- Provide or coordinate transportation services.
- Provide general safety advisories.
- Collect, inventory, and secure personal property left at the emergency site and return such property to the rightful owners, unless needed as evidence.
- Maintain liaison with utility providers to coordinate continuation of services.
- Maintain and provide as needed information on building infrastructures, maps, construction descriptions, etc.
- Coordinate any surveys of utilities or buildings for damage and/or securing of buildings and areas.
- Direct services restorations, cleanup operations.
- Compile and submit reports required by federal or state law, regarding hazardous materials, etc.
- Provide health and safety assessments to the Emergency Management Team.
- Provide emergency repairs and fuel supplies for College apparatus and equipment in use during an emergency.
- Identify, evaluate and monitor the presence of hazardous materials and other public health hazards.
- Act as site liaison with regulatory agencies as necessary during hazardous materials incidents.
Administrative Computing
- Assure the integrity of the telecommunications infrastructure and data systems and implement data disaster recovery plan.
- Provide Emergency Management Team with evaluation and assessment of communications and data retrieval capabilities.
Dean of the College/Director of Student Life
- Manage all student services.
- Provide information and communication to students and their families in coordination with the Office of Public Affairs.
- Direct and manage housing and food service programs for both emergency and non-emergency related students and personnel.
- Provide and/or direct counseling and psychological support and services to students and other members of the College community dealing with immediate and longer-term emergency generated trauma.
- Assist other College units in field triage, evacuation, and cleanup or wherever the Emergency Management Team identifies manpower needs.
- In consultation with members of the Emergency Management Team, coordinate and provide information about the College's situation and response to the emergency to the College community and the general public.
- If necessary, establish and maintain, with the assistance of authorities, if necessary, appropriate, restricted "press areas" to provide regular information updates to the media.
- In consultation with the Emergency Management Team, coordinate and provide information to the media.
- Assist the Dean of the College and the Residential Life staff with the provision of information to students and the families of students and staff.
Health Services
- Provide and/or coordinate first aid, either at the Health Services facility or at alternate campus locations, as necessary.
- Provide psychological support to campus community in conjunction with other student affairs personnel.
- Provide liaison services with area hospitals, re: medical records of students, lists and conditions of those hospitalized, etc., as needed.
- Treat minor injuries at Health Services, if necessary.
General Counsel
- Review and clear all Public Relations and student affairs statements or reports concerning the possible cause of accidents or emergencies, potential liability for accidents or injuries, and all other legal concerns or problems.
- Assist the Office of the Controller in the processing of all personal and property insurance claims arising from the emergency.
- Coordinate the College investigation and reporting on the probable cause or nature of the emergency and the College's response to it.
Supplementary Procedures and Policies
This document sets forth the operational and governance responsibilities in the event that the President of the College declares a campus emergency. Existing protocols, policies and procedures that address safety, campus access, campus disturbances, notification of parents, students in distress, and the like, remain in force unless otherwise specified as "suspended due to emergency" by the President, his/her designee, or the Emergency Management Team. These existing Procedures and Policies include, but are not limited to:
In addition, the Public Safety Department, Barnard Hall Room 104, has operational responsibility for the College's Security and Fire Safety Procedures. A member of the Public Safetymanagement staff has been designated as the College's Fire Safety Officer.
Development and Implementation of Supplementary Emergency Procedures
Whenever necessary, departments shall develop supplementary emergency procedures based upon the priorities and responsibilities outlined in this document.
Reporting to Campus
In the event of an emergency, administrative directors of departments should be prepared to report to the campus, if during non-working hours, unless directed otherwise by a member of the Emergency Management Team. Other administrators and faculty should await notice from their department directors, unless supplementary plans indicate otherwise.
Emergency Management Team
- Provide and/or coordinate first aid, either at the Health Services facility or at alternate campus locations, as necessary.
- Provide psychological support to campus community in conjunction with other student affairs personnel.
- Provide liaison services with area hospitals, re: medical records of students, lists and conditions of those hospitalized, etc., as needed.
- Treat minor injuries at Health Services, if necessary.
- Residence Hall Evacuation Plan and Drill Procedures
- OSHA Chemical Hygiene Plan/Hazardous Chemical Releases and Spill Procedure
- Hazardous Materials Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures Plan


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The Child That Wouldn't Be Born, and the One That Was
I must have been eight or nine years old. We were living in Caracas, Venezuela, where I was born and grew up. I was looking down at my cold pasta dinner in the half-remodeled kitchen of my dad's house, facing him across the table.
I was staying with him for the weekend, as I did a couple of times a month. On that last dinner before he took me back to my mom's place across the city, I brought up the fact that she could no longer afford my school tuition on her own anymore. She needed him to pay up.
"She says you never help out," I told him, sheepishly relaying the message in her words. "It's in your divorce settlement."
My dad was furious. My parents had been divorced since I was a baby, but the arguments between them continued for years, back-and-forth. If the culprit wasn't his failure to pay alimony, it was my mom's dislike of his ever-changing roster of girlfriends. He resented her badmouthing him, and our growing bond. I would often repeat what one said about the other, sometimes without giving it much thought.
That evening, I suppose I got what I was looking for: My dad's furrowed brow and piercing eyes; that look of quiet anger I knew all too well. We sat still, looking down at our food, for what felt like 20 minutes.
"You know, you could have had that brother or sister you always wanted if it wasn't for your mom," he said, straight-faced but staring at the wall behind me. "But she got rid of them before they were born. And then you came."
His words left me cold, alone.
I confronted my mom about it as soon as I saw her that Sunday evening. She looked sad, ashamed, confused.
Years passed before I could comprehend what those two abortions had meant for my mom, for my parents' marriage, and for me.
By the spring of 1995, my mom and I were four years into a new life in the United States. I was a freshman at Rutgers College in New Jersey; an idealistic teenager, if not terribly naïve, desperately hoping to belong and feel loved. One day, my roommate invited me to a meeting of the campus chapter of NOW, the National Organization for Women, where I was recruited into what I foolishly thought would be the easiest volunteer task of all.
I was an "abortion clinic safety escort." That's where you stand outside of an abortion clinic and lend moral support to the women making their way in and out of the building, while protesters try to intimidate them and get them to change their minds about going through with the procedure.
For someone still guilelessly unaware of the politics surrounding abortion in this country, the job seemed straightforward, perfect for a fledgling feminist unwilling to give up too much of her leisure time. It turned out to be far more difficult than I had ever imagined.
The protesters yelled terrible things at the women, things like "Baby Killer!" and "One Dead, One Wounded!" while waving posters with blown-up pictures of bloodied, dismembered fetuses. A couple of times during my early morning volunteer shifts, I remember seeing young women who were headed into the clinic turn back in shame once they witnessed this spectacle—and themselves, in the middle of it—which was exactly what the protesters were aiming for. Needless to say, I didn't last long at my volunteer gig, either.
A couple of years later, on a gray, chilly morning, I was the young woman walking past the picketers and into a clinic. I was 21 and two months pregnant.
"Are you sure about this?" Jay, my partner at the time, asked, upon seeing the graphic posters. I was not—I was terrified, really—but I told him yes. There was no doubt in my mind about not wanting to become a mother at that point in my life; not while I was totally broke, still in college, and a kid myself. Jay came from a Catholic immigrant family and opposed abortion on tradition alone. "You can still change your mind and we'll figure it out somehow," he said, over and over again, as we sat in the waiting room for over 45 minutes, browsing through fashion magazines.
Part of me wanted to believe him, in the way my mom believed my father when he told her everything would get better between them if they simply had a child. Over the years, I would try to dig up, to no avail, any details about the circumstances of my mom's abortions, and speculate about why, just two years before their divorce, I was spared from becoming one, too.
All I can assume is that these were painful decisions for her—with or without a child, sharing part of her life with my father had left her broken and resentful. It takes a certain kind of relationship to go through an abortion and get over it; and perhaps, a certain kind of individual to not see it as a sign of failure, a source of shame.
As I sat there in that waiting room with Jay, I realized this abortion would be a turning point for me. It would force me to grow up quickly, to become independent, and it would keep me from making some of the same relationship missteps my mother had. It would force me to come to terms with being alone. Within weeks of finding out I was pregnant, Jay and I noticed we had surprisingly little to talk about. His affections suddenly started to feel contrived, and we knew we wouldn't be able to survive this.
The procedure was quick and painless, save for the trauma of walking past the gauntlet of protesters into the unmarked clinic. I was taken into an examination room by a friendly nurse, given a gown and full-body anesthesia, and after, left to rest in a small room for a couple of hours. The whole thing cost us $300, which we paid in cash and split two ways. I came home that afternoon and slept into the evening.
When I woke up, I cried. The next day, I told my mother about it.
"Are you feeling OK?" she asked. She hugged me tightly, and that was that. There were no words of encouragement. No questions from either of us.
In the 17 years since, we haven't discussed our abortions much. Our abortions were, for better and worse, the one experience that totally changed the course of both of our lives, the one shared experience that strangely taught both of us how to be alone.
There isn't a week that goes by when I don't think about the child that wasn't born, and the the little girl who eventually was. And when that happens, I can't help but also think about my mother, who had to end two pregnancies, in shame, while stuck in a bad relationship and living in a country where abortion was criminalized. I think about many of my friends, who have told me of having to cross state lines, or having to lie to family members and borrow money to get the procedure done. I think also about cousins, neighbors, and friends-of-friends in the U.S. and elsewhere, who have self-prescribed with pills they weren't certain were safe.
And then, relieved, I think back to my own abortion. When my baby girl grows up, I will tell her all about it, hoping that we'll be living in a place and time where that freedom is still within her reach, regardless of the trauma, regardless of her mother's experience, regardless of the situation.
Ruxandra Guidi is an independent journalist currently based in Boulder, CO, focused on immigration, human rights, and Latin America. She's originally from Caracas, Venezuela, and collaborates regularly with her husband under the name Fonografia Collective.
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Under the Railway Labor Act, there is no "deauthorization" procedure (a procedure by which employees can simply get rid of the "union shop" forced unionism clause in a contract between a union and their employer), but there is a way to possibly "decertify" or entirely get rid of the union from the work place:
Railway and airline employees have the right to oust a union as their exclusive bargaining agent if a majority of the employees in a "craft or class" sign cards authorizing a fellow employee to serve as their "representative" and that employee files an application for "Investigation of Representational Dispute" with the National Mediation Board (NMB). Once all of this is submitted (further instructions on this are below) the NMB then would hold a vote that allows for:
a) Representation by the individual employee representative mentioned above,
b) no representation by any representative or union, or
c) to keep the current union.
This process is the only way to bring about a vote on a new representative or no representative at all.
The following link is to a public NMB case file of railroad employees who went through with this process. A majority of employees signed cards in support of a fellow employee being their representative, and then voted for no representation in the subsequent election: (Source)
A majority of the craft or class need to sign authorization cards in support of an election for the employee representative. They are then free to vote however they like (including for "no representation") in the subsequent election. Details about the cards are below and so is a sample authorization card.
"Authorization cards: An authorization card is a card or document signed by the employee which states that the employee desires to be represented by an organization or individual for collective bargaining purposes.
Authorization cards must have the name of the organization or individual seeking to represent the craft or class, and must be signed and dated by the employee. Typically, authorization cards also include the following information: employee address, telephone number, job title, and employee number….. The NMB compares the signed authorization cards to the List of Potential Eligible Voters supplied by the carrier to determine the percentage of employees signing authorization cards (generally referred to as the "showing of interest").
The language on authorization cards must be unambiguous and the NMB must be able to determine the employee's intent." (Source)
After the cards are signed, this form along with originals of the signed authorization cards would need to be submitted by the new potential employee representative to the NMB at the following address (certified or traceable mail is advised and copies should be made of the authorization cards for safe keeping):
National Mediation Board
1301 K. St. NW, Suite 250 East
Washington, DC 20005-7011
Furthermore, the individual who would be the representative should also send in a one page "notice of appearance" with their information and the role that they are playing in the process to the above NMB address. This notice of appearance must include name, title, address, telephone and fax number (if applicable), and e-mail address.
A detailed account of the whole procedure is available here, but remember that an individual employee representative would be in the role of the union:(Source)
The case that established the right of railway and airline employees to opt for non-representation is Russell v. NMB, 714 F.2d 1332 (5th Cir. 1983), in which a Foundation attorney represented the employees who wanted no union representation. If you would like a copy of the Russell decision, please let us know (include your postal address), and we will mail it to you.
Also, if you want legal advice in pursuing "decertification" under Russell, please notify us and your request for assistance will be referred to a Staff Attorney.
Sample of an authorization card:
Signing This Authorization Is NOT A Vote For Or Against Any Representative or No Representation. It Simply Authorizes The NMB To Hold An Election. You Are Free To Vote, By Secret Ballot, For Whomever You Wish.
Authorization Card
I, _________(Name of Employee)______________, authorize ______(Name of Potential New Representative)________ to petition the NMB on my behalf for purposes of holding a representation election under the Railway Labor Act for the craft or class of_______("Craft or class" at issue)_______ employed by _________(Employer)__________.
Date: ___________________ Signed: ________________________________
(Written by Employee) (Signed by Employee)
Employee #: _____________ Address: ________________________________
Phone # _________________ City, ST Zip: _____________________________
You are not casting a vote either way by filling out the above Authorization Card. You are simply calling for the National Mediation Board to hold an Election. The signed card is valid for one year. Fifty percent plus one is needed to petition the NMB for an election.


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Jack McGreevey, Chairman
Albert Martis, Vice Chairman *
Ben Roth, Vice Chairman
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MG Glenn K. Rieth, The Adjutant General
NJ Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
COL (Ret) Stephen G. Abel,
Deputy Commissioner for Veterans Affairs
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Anna M. Hoffman
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Albert A. Hujdich
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
James W. Manning
Martin T. Runyon
Eric Spevak
Louis Spinelli
E. Larry St. Laurent
Diane T. Donahue, Recording Secretary
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Different from physical-vital energy, emotional energy creates the feeling impulse to move toward our goals; we call it motivation. When emotional energy flows through us freely, without obstructions, we feel naturally motivated. There is no force more powerful than a motivated human being We've all heard success stories about underdogs who produced miracles from the stuff of motivation. Motivation serves as a key to any process of training and beats at the heart of emotional talent.
Nothing great was ever achieved
without enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration and motivation can make the difference between victory and defeat, success and failure, or even life and death. The energy derived from motivation carries distance runners past the "wall of pain" when their physical energy reserves are exhausted. On the other hand, strapping athletes bursting with vital physical energy who lack a directed emotional impulse to strive for their goals may wander aimlessly and arrive nowhere in particular.
We all appreciate the importance of self discipline but think of discipline as doing what we don't really feel like doing. With sufficient motivation, we're so inspired that we don't even think about discipline. As a young gymnast, for example, I was so inspired and excited that I trained six days a week for more than four hours a day for years and never felt as if I were "working" or that I needed discipline. They key for me was to keep my eye on the shining goal that inspired me.
Once released, the power of emotional energy can work magic: It smothers fear and steam rolls over obstacles. An obstacle is just something we worry about when we've taken our eyes off the goal.
I've seen athletes who were long-shots develop into national champions through directed emotional energy. Eric, a teammate of mine, had had polio as a child. His legs were so atrophied that when I first saw him he had to walk with braces or on crutches. He became a specialist on the rings. He simply worked harder than anyone. It wasn't enough to develop superior strength; he also began to practice a dismount from the rings that took him about nine feet in the air. He performed a full-twisting somersault and, by some incredible feat of will, landed unassisted on those spindly legs. Over and over I'd see him crash to the floor. His brother told me he used to go home and cry, the pain in his legs was so intense. After three years, Eric was able to run around the gym without leg braces, and he placed second in the national championships.
In daily life, little tasks that require only a modest amount of energy do not require great motivation for their completion. The world of athletics, however, demands much more of us.
Most of us relate to motivation passively, as if it were something that descends upon us without our control. We might feel motivated on one day but not on another day. The message of this chapter is that all the motivational energy we'll ever need is within us.
Emotional talent is the capacity to stimulate and draw upon one's natural fountain of energy. Developing emotional talent is learning to blow into our own sails.
When we speak of emotions, we often refer to "positive" emotions like joy, serenity, and elation, and "negative" emotions like fear, sorrow, or anger. The latter are not true emotions at all but emotional obstructions that block the free and natural flow of motivation. To understand this better, let's look beck to our infancy:


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When is a new Ferrari worth four times its retail price?
When the proceeds go to charity.
Ferrari auctioned off the very first F12 Berlinetta over the weekend for $1.125 million – almost four times the list price of $315,888. The proceeds went to the American Red Cross to help communities affected by Superstorm Sandy.


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TALLAHASSEE� The state�s Joint Legislative Auditing Committee on Monday ordered a countywide audit of all Okaloosa County finances as well as an audit of the Clerk of Court�s Office.
TALLAHASSEE� The state�s Joint Legislative Auditing Committee on Monday ordered a countywide audit of all Okaloosa County finances as well as an audit of the Clerk of Court�s Office.
The action came during a hearing in Tallahassee attended by four of Okaloosa County�s five commissioners as well as Clerk of Court Don Howard.
Commissioner Wayne Harris did not attend the hearing and will be subpoenaed to appear before the committee next week, members indicated. Also facing subpoenas are a majority of the county�s Tourist Development Council members, none of whom attended Monday�s hearing despite being requested to by the Auditing Committee.
Auditing Committee Chairman Sen. Joseph Abruzzo told the county that on Wednesday it would finalize a list of people who are to be subpoenaed to appear before the committee next week.
County Commission Chairman Don Amunds told the committee that four of the TDC members likely did not attend because they were asked by the county to resign Feb. 5 and are no longer on the council.
Abruzzo, D-Wellington, said he was skeptical of the county�s timing and questioned why the board waited until last week to ask for the TDC members� resignations.
�It seems like a deliberate attempt by your board to ensure they didn�t have to come up and (testify) today. � To me, it looks extremely disingenuous.� Abruzzo said.
Amunds disagreed.
�It was not a deliberate attempt at all,� he answered.
The audits of the county government and clerk�s office will be conducted by the state Auditor General�s Office, the same entity that documented mismanagement of millions of dollars in TDC bed taxes and BP oil spill grants. The Auditing Committee, composed of six state representatives and five senators, has direct oversight of the Auditor General�s Office.
The committee questioned County Administrator Jim Curry, Commission Chairman Don Amunds and Commissioner Dave Parisot about the misuse of the bed tax money and BP oil spill grants for more than two hours during Monday�s hearing. The county officials who spoke at the hearing were sworn in before they were questioned.
Two members of the Northwest Florida legislative delegation � Rep. Matt Gaetz and Rep. Doug Broxson � also attended the hearing and participated in the questioning.
Amunds summarized for the committee the timeline of events that have occurred in Okaloosa County since May 2012, when officials discovered the fraud scheme put in place by former TDC head Mark Bellinger. But his presentation, which included a list of policy changes commissioners have implemented in the past nine months, was interrupted by Abruzzo, who began taking questions from lawmakers.
Many of the committee members questioned county officials about which specific county employees and attorneys approved various expenditures, checks and other payments that later turned out to be illegal or unauthorized. They expressed surprise and frustration when Curry confirmed that no employees have been fired or suspended in connection with the fraud scandal.
�How could this happen? It�s just incomprehensible to me,� said Rep. Gayle B. Harrell, R-Stuart.
In response, Curry said there had been �a catastrophic failure of controls at all levels, across the board� within Okaloosa County government, allowing Bellinger�s fraud to take place.
Gaetz told the committee that the county�s response to the scandal � especially the corrective action plan it submitted to the auditor general � has been inadequate.
�It�s inadequate to the people in my community and to me as a legislator,� Gaetz said.
He said he and Okaloosa County residents have been left to wonder if the fraud is the result of �complete and utter incompetence� or if it indicates �criminal culpability.�
Abruzzo and other committee members said they wanted to understand the broader impact of the scandal on Okaloosa taxpayers.
�We would like to get an overall economic impact of what this cost the residents of Okaloosa County,� he said.
Gaetz questioned Amunds and Curry about the $1 million in promotional debit cards provided to the county by BP after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
�What human being made the decision to give Mr. Bellinger (the debit cards)?� he asked.
When Amunds referred the question to Curry, Gaetz said he found it �somewhat disconcerting� that Amunds didn�t have an answer.
Curry told the committee that he believed the Clerk of Court�s Office received the debit cards and gave them to Bellinger.
�That may have been the route,� he said.
Gaetz asked Amunds about a debit card that was provided to the Special Olympics as a prize for a golf tournament fundraiser. Amunds works part-time for the Special Olympics. He said he didn�t direct Bellinger to give the organization a debit card and didn�t find out about it until after the Sheriff�s Office began investigating Bellinger�s tenure at the TDC.
Gaetz also asked Amunds to explain what he thinks his responsibility should be in the fraud scandal.
Amunds said he and the rest of the board have a responsibility to �oversee Okaloosa County.�
�If you see an issue and you believe it�s wrong, you come up with an action plan, as we have done,� he said.
Abruzzo ended the committee meeting with a harsh rebuke of Okaloosa County leaders, telling them they had an obligation not to take advantage of the �national tragedy� that was the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of April 2010.
�What has occurred here is really a travesty,� Abruzzo said.
Contact Daily News Staff Writer Kari C. Barlow at 850-315-4438 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @KariBnwfdn.


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Filibuster compromise pitched
Hoping to defuse a brewing showdown over the filibuster, a bipartisan group of senators on Friday outlined tentative changes to Senate procedure rules designed to ease persistent gridlock in the chamber.
The plan's main changes would allow the majority leader to skirt the filibuster on motions to proceed while guaranteeing two amendments for the minority party or allow the Senate to move on to bills more quickly once procedural hurdles are cleared. It would also make it easier to go to conference with the House and move some presidential nominations through the Senate.
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The proposal, laid out privately to colleagues during party lunches Friday afternoon, doesn't go as far as that pushed by a younger coalition of senators. But it is an effort to build a compromise while preserving some key minority rights that distinguish the Senate from the House, lawmakers said.
"Democrats in the majority, understandably, wants to move forward with legislation," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). "Republicans in the minority want to have amendments. We think that this proposal will provide a path for both of those concerns and priorities can be satisfied."
"We believe very strongly that we must reform the Senate procedures if it's going to do business more efficiently and more fairly," added Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.).
The changes would last for two years, according to the proposal.
The effort involved eight senators — Levin and fellow Democratic Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Ben Cardin of Maryland; and McCain and fellow Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Jon Kyl of Arizona and John Barrasso of Wyoming.
In January 2011, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) headed off an effort by Sens. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) to change the filibuster rules by 51 votes, rather than by 67 votes. Instead, Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reached a handshake agreement to avert a showdown over the filibuster.
But that agreement quickly broke down, and Reid later said he made a mistake by blocking the Udall-Merkley effort. Reid has said he's prepared to go through with the 51-vote option, a move critics call the "nuclear option" because they warn it would forever change the Senate as a body designed to protect minority rights.


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Concern over image of training sessions in Las Vegas prompted policy change.
An abrupt decision in late July to deny employees previously approved travel funds to attend a training conference for black aviation employees in Las Vegas has left many at the Federal Aviation Administration disappointed and confused, Government Executive has learned.
A directive from the top levels of the Transportation Department -- handed down, a spokeswoman confirmed, as the Obama administration seeks to reduce conference budgets in the wake of this April's scandal over lavish spending in Las Vegas by General Services Administration employees -- required more than 200 federal employees to either cancel plans for the annual black aviation event or attend using their own money and annual leave.
"They created a mess," said Roosevelt Lenard Jr., national president of the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees, after his board and staff were sent scrambling to quash rumors that their 36th annual conference had been canceled. The Rev. Jesse Jackson of Operation Push was called in to mediate. "Now every association in the FAA is beginning to raise issues about whether they'll be able to do their training," Lenard said.
The NBCFAE national training conference, held at the Las Vegas Hotel and Casino July 31 through Aug. 3, had been planned for months by an array of groups under the umbrella of the International Black Aerospace Council. Besides the NBCFAE, which has held some 200 training conferences since its founding in 1976, other private nonprofit groups participating included the Negro Airmen International Inc., Black Pilots of America, the Bessie Coleman Foundation, Tuskegee Airmen Inc., U. S. Army Black Airmen Association and the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals.
The type of training offered, according to Lenard, has long met congressionally mandated approval processes and uses the same trainers and skill sets that FAA leaders tap. "It gets more bang for the buck than other training because it is diversified and happens all at one time, in one place," he said.
In May, FAA officials approved federal employee participation in the conference, and on June 19, an FAA human resources officer, Isa Campbell, acting executive director of the FAA Office of Corporate Learning and Development, sent the association a letter saying she had reviewed the conference agenda and concluded that it qualified under the U.S. code as a legitimate expense for employees because more than half the schedule consisted of training sessions. Whether individual FAA employees could attend at government expense, however, would depend on departmental supervisors, she said.
Some 275 people then registered for the conference, Lenard said, about 95 percent of them federal employees.
But on Friday, July 27, at 3:30 p.m.-- just three days before the event --he said, he got a call from acting FAA Administrator Michael Huerta giving him advance notice, without explanation, that permission for travel to the conference was being withheld. Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari then called to confirm.
The timing was such that some employees and all of Lenard's board members were already en route to Las Vegas, and some of them were forced to turn around and head home.
Lenard, who by day is an air traffic operations supervisor based in Jacksonville, Fla., said that while explanation was given, he knew "the bouncing ball" of conference policy in the wake of the GSA embarrassment was complicating his group's planning. President Obama originally had encouraged employees to "reach out for training opportunities," he said, "but then GSA happened."
A subsequent conference call with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, Porcari and FAA managers in which civil rights leader Jackson participated, reviewed the issues but did not produce any "mitigating" compromises, Lenard said. The officials cited concerns about the image of Las Vegas and the GSA precedent and the fact that Huerta's confirmation hearing was approaching and argued that the conference did not have direct relevance to the employees' jobs, according to Lenard.
Asked for a response, an FAA spokeswoman said in a statement, "The Office of Management and Budget recently issued new policies regarding travel and conferences to help reduce administrative costs. Based on these new policies, the Department of Transportation, like the rest of government, has taken a fresh look at travel and conferences planned for the rest of the year. . . . The FAA has canceled its regional airport conferences planned for the remainder of 2012, and reduced employee participation at various conferences across the country."
In the end, the black aviation workers conference was attended by some 225 people -- all of whom paid for their own airfare, room and board -- and it came off without any mishaps, Lenard said. "It's ironic," he said, because among those who canceled were seven FAA leaders who were expected to appear on panels as well as attend a banquet ceremony honoring the Tuskegee Airmen, whose organization continues to work closely with the agency on youth outreach.
Lenard said he agrees that "training is a privilege" and that his group took pains to make sure that time at the conference was focused on that purpose. But he disagreed with the knock on Las Vegas. "It's one of the greatest opportunities to be good stewards of the taxpayer's dollar," he said, because the city offers good deals on accommodations in the middle of the summer.
His group has joined with the National Hispanic Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees to address shared concerns about future conferences. He said he worried that other projects will be canceled, citing an FAA managers conference scheduled for October, while events put on by another group he's involved in, Blacks in Government, retains the government's "blessing" for its approaches to training.
What bothers Lenard most, he said, is the "inconsistency. We're comfortable with these changes, but just tell us where the bar is."
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Old photo taken when we were so proud that we managed to squeeze the piano in
NB. LOVING the rain....... but slept here on the couch. That's all I'm going to say about the 'bongo drum awnings' outside our bedroom...... for fear of further reproach. Note to self: go to storage shed and get fold up bed.
Happenings? not much really.
Looks like poor old Brian (lizard) is on his last legs. Two very distraught lads.
Nigel is thriving and twice the size of Brian. Nigel eats everything in sight... every last lovingly prepared grated morsel of carrot and zucchini, delicately chopped strawberries and heaps of live crickets thrown in for good measure. He bolts down his calcium powder and specially prepared 'lizard food' mulchy stuff. Big son, budding scientist/medico, is meticulous about lizard dietary balance and has researched the topic to death.
Speaking of death, Brian is not good. He hides under the heat rock and never comes out. He's half the size of Nigel. He was never good from the start. There's always one isn't there. Brings back memories of the traumatic passing and touching burial of 'Pocket', our first and much cherished Graceful Tree Frog. Brian falls on his back and makes no attempt to roll over. It's heartbreaking to watch... well actually I don't, I can't, I'm just informed of every painstaking movement of the poor blighter. So big son has force fed him, as per lizard manual instructions... (a procedure also not for the faint hearted... so I hear).... with no success.
So despite hubby's ginormous workload, following his trip to Melbourne, he is making a mercy dash, Brian in arms, to the Pet Superstore this morning to have the 'Lizard Specialist' have a look at him. Yes there are 'Lizard Specialists'... and even 'Lizard Food Reps'.... I spoke to one last time we were there... sort of like a 'Lizard Dietitian' of sorts... fascinating.... if you are 12 years old. I pretended.... to be fascinated. You have to.
So it's Friday.. apparently my big boy's favourite day...not because it's the end of the week... but because good subjects happen on Friday... like drama.. yep, my budding scientist is embracing drama with gusto... and chapel ("'cause it's a bludge"). We're off to watch Mr A-M play soccer tonight... another thing I can't watch.. really... after 7 knee reconstructions and implicit directions from Orthopaedic Surgeon NEVER to play soccer again, I feel we are all being 'really naughty' partaking in this activity. Kids have fun though... totally ignoring their Dad's match ("did you see my goal, did you see my goal"... aaah... "nope") and running around madly with all the other kids, searching for lost soccer balls in the bush... in the dark.
Nothing else to report really.
Have a great weekend.


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Climate change is strongly linked to human conflict, and even minor changes in temperature or rainfall can increase violence, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University.
Researchers conducted an analysis of studies across multiple fields, including climatology, archaeology, economics, political science and psychology, and found patterns of conflict linked to climate change worldwide.
"We collected 60 existing studies containing 45 different data sets and we re-analyzed their data and findings using a common statistical framework," said lead author Solomon Hsiang. "The results were striking."
"Examples include spikes in domestic violence in India and Australia; increased assaults and murders in the United States and Tanzania; ethnic violence in Europe and South Asia; land invasions in Brazil; police using force in the Netherlands; civil conflicts throughout the tropics; and even the collapse of Mayan and Chinese empires."
For the three types of conflict analyzed -- personal violence, intergroup violence, and institutional breakdown -- all three were affected by climate change, with the effect on intergroup violence most pronounced.
"We found that a 1 standard deviation shift towards hotter conditions causes the likelihood of personal violence to rise 4 percent and intergroup conflict to rise 14 percent," said Marshall Burke, the study's co-lead author.
The authors suggest that by 2050, with a global temperature increase of just 2 degrees Celsius, intergroup conflict could rise by more than 50 percent in some parts of the world.
While the findings, published in the journal Science, show that climate change increases conflict, the authors point out that climate is not the only or even a primary cause of conflict -- just that a heat will likely make it difficult to keep a cool head.


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WASHINGTON: The liberal President who emerged from the election and reintroduced himself at last month's inauguration reappeared at the State of the Union address, outlining a second-term agenda that would tax the rich, boost the minimum wage and force action on climate change.
With damaging automatic spending cuts set to begin in just over a fortnight, Barack Obama ignored Republican demands to cut the deficit, instead promising policies to stabilise spending, while increasing revenue by closing tax loopholes for the wealthy and maintaining benefits.
"We can't ask senior citizens and working families to shoulder the entire burden of deficit reduction while asking nothing more from the wealthiest and most powerful," Mr Obama said.
Mr Obama was even more aggressive on climate change, insisting that if Congress failed to pass legislation to cut carbon pollution, he would direct cabinet to come up with executive actions his office could take.
As he spoke, he was repeatedly interrupted by ovations from Democrats, while the Republican Speaker of the House, John Boehner, glowered over his shoulder, offering only occasional applause.
As expected Mr Obama detailed immigration reforms, calling for changes to allow many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants a chance to become citizens – a measure the Republican Party has embraced.
More controversially, he said he would pursue an increase in the minimum wage to $9 an hour.
"Working folks shouldn't have to wait year after year for the minimum wage to go up while CEO pay has never been higher," he said.
On foreign policy, Mr Obama announced a further 34,000 troops would be withdrawn from Afghanistan by the end of the year and signalled the US would continue its war against terrorism with a far smaller commitment of troops, suggesting drone strikes would remain crucial.
"We will need to help countries like Yemen, Libya and Somalia provide for their own security, and help allies who take the fight to terrorists, as we have in Mali," he said.
Mr Obama promised to "maintain the best military in the world". Tellingly, in the next breath, he spoke of reducing waste, suggesting the Pentagon would face budget cuts.
The strongest rhetoric of the speech was reserved for gun control. Mr Obama introduced the parents of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, who was shot dead in a park in Chicago last week, as he addressed his proposed gun reforms.
Sitting with the first lady, they were among two dozen people affected by gun violence invited to attend, including a police officer shot 12 times responding to a shooting in a Sikh temple.
"They deserve a vote [in Congress]," Mr Obama said. "Gabby Giffords deserves a vote.
"The families of Newtown deserve a vote.
"The families of Aurora deserve a vote.
"The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence – they deserve a simple vote," he said to swelling tears and cheers within the chamber.
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The best thing about a party full of openly gay and gay-friendly people is that flamboyance isn't considered a bad thing.
Former America's Next Top Model contestant Isis—now a post-op MTF—looked amazing in sequins and leather.
Empress Pepperica Swirl and Emperor Vanity Society looked like royalty—or Queenie.
Jay Manuel looked uncharacteristically subtle. Johnny Weir showed off his ankles. Carson Kressley wore a busy smoking jacket.
Shining in sequins: Tracy Gold, Dakota Fanning, and Laverne Cox.
Some of the more reserved attendees: Wendy Williams, Padma Lakshmi, and La La.
I loved how loud Jamie Clayton's striped dress was, and I can't hate on Javier Ceriani because he looks like Ke$ha. But yikes to Dr. Marci Bowers's shawl.


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Many thanks to Geneablogie for this great meme. Many people are very generous to offer assistance with brick walls. In this spirit, I am going to look carefully at all of these lists posted by fellow genea-bloggers to find common names or places, and I will try to keep those names in mind when I am doing research in the relevant areas.
Surnames and locations:
Moore: South Carolina (Greenville and Anderson), Texas (Dallas and Baylor)
Lewis: South Carolina (Anderson), Texas (Dallas, Wilbarger)
Brinlee: Texas (Collin, Fannin, Red River), Oklahoma (Atoka, Garvin, Oklahoma), Kentucky (Christian), possibly Virginia (Rockingham)
Smith: Tennessee
Floyd: Texas (Dallas, Baylor), Illinois (Greene, Jersey), New York, Vermont
Tarrant: South Carolina (Greenville)
Poole: South Carolina (Anderson)
Dalrymple: South Carolina (Anderson)
Norman: Texas (Hunt, Fannin), Alabama (Talladega), Arkansas (Garland)
Sisson: Texas (Hunt, Fannin), Alabama (Talladega)
Finley: Illinois (Greene, Jersey), South Carolina
Matlock: Texas (Dallas), Kentucky (Warren), South Carolina (Pendleton)
Clark: Kentucky (Warren), South Carolina (Pendleton)
Dyer: Kentucky (Warren), South Carolina (Pendleton)
McKinney: Texas (Collin), Kentucky (Christian), New Jersey
Harris: Kentucky (Warren), Pennsylvania
Most wanted ancestors: parents of Susan Elizabeth "Lizzie" Smith, born ca 1868 in Tennessee; parents of Emily Tarrant, born ca 1813 in South Carolina; wife and parents of Samuel Moore, born 1756-1765, died 1828 in Greenville, South Carolina; parents of George Floyd, born 1807 in Vermont; mother of George and Hiram Brinlee (their father may have been John T. Brindley of Kentucky and their mother may have been his (unknown) first wife).
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Blackhawks top Canucks; Quenneville moves upby Kevin Woodley
VANCOUVER -- The Chicago Blackhawks made coach Joel Quenneville wait for his historic win, but not too long.
Chicago overcame a two-goal deficit with three goals in a span of a little more than four minutes midway through the second period to end a four-game losing streak with a 5-2 win against the Canucks on Wednesday night at Rogers Arena.
It was Quenneville's 693rd win in the NHL, moving him into sole possession of third place on the League's all-time list, one ahead of Dick Irvin and behind only Al Arbour (782) and Scotty Bowman (1,244).
"Took a little while to get this last one," Quenneville said with a smile.
It didn't take long to secure it.
After making their coach wait through a 0-2-2 drought that included a 5-4 overtime loss against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night, the Blackhawks didn't need long to take over against the Canucks.
Marian Hossa started the comeback with a pretty power-play goal 6:30 into the second, then Brandon Saad tied it at 9:39. Jonathan Toews put Chicago ahead for good 68 seconds later, and Patrick Sharp made it 4-2 with 5:49 left in the period.
Saad scored his second of the game into an empty net with 38 seconds left.
"The confidence is always there," said Toews, who also set up Sharp for his 27th goal. "We know what we are capable of as a team."
The captain was quick to credit Quenneville for the consistency that helped the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup in 2010 and 2013 and has kept them near the top of the NHL standings again this season.
"Dealing with a season like this where everyone is coming at you -- everyone wants to talk about the so-called hangover -- I think Joel brings that consistency to our lineup where we know what to expect every single night," Toews said. "And if we start making mistakes and dropping points we shouldn't be, we are quick to correct the errors."
Chicago made a few early in Vancouver.
Chris Higgins scored 16 seconds into the game, and Tom Sestito put the Canucks up 2-0 early in the second period. The two-goal lead didn't last long against the NHL's top-scoring team, though, and Vancouver fell to 2-3-0 through five games of coach John Tortorella's 15-day suspension.
"They haven't won a couple Stanley Cups for no reason," said goalie Roberto Luongo, who finished with 36 saves. "We've got to play 60 minutes against teams like that. For the majority of the game, I thought we played really well, but we had a little lapse, and it's game over."
The Canucks are 4-9-1in 2014, and will head out on the road for their final five games before the NHL breaks for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
"Guys are discouraged," said Mike Sullivan, who will serve as interim coach one more game before Tortorella returns. "We've hit a bump in the road, and we've got to dig ourselves out of it. There's no sense putting your head down and shrugging your shoulders. This is an unforgiving league."
That's especially true against the Blackhawks.
Chicago also overcame a two-goal deficit against the Flames, but this time they finished off the comeback. Corey Crawford, back in goal after coming on in relief the night before, finished with 29 saves, and the Blackhawks moved back into sole possession of the Central Division lead with 79 points.
"We always have confidence in our guys to score goals," Crawford said. "We're never out of a game. It doesn't matter what the score is."
The Blackhawks fell behind early as Higgins scored on the opening shift, stopping Ryan Kesler's shot alone in the slot and slipping a backhand between Crawford's legs. But Chicago took over from there, outshooting the Canucks 12-2 over the next 15 minutes and forcing Luongo to make several spectacular saves.
"Get scored on the first shift is never a good feeling, but we knew that wasn't going to be the difference," Toews said.
Sestito doubled the Canucks' lead at 2:44 of the second period with a one-timer from the slot after a nice cycle by the Canucks' third line. But the floodgates opened with David Booth off for bumping Crawford.
Hossa finished off some perfect power-play passing with his 24th goal. Saad moved the puck out of the right corner to Kris Versteeg at the left faceoff dot; Versteeg sent it back across to Hossa, who had time to settle the hard pass and fire over a sprawled Luongo.
"We know we didn't play a good bunch of games before, but we didn't panic after it was 2-0, and we find a way to win," said Hossa, who also scored twice in Calgary on Tuesday.
Saad tied it a little more than three minutes later with a nice deflection in the slot of a point shot from Sheldon Brookbank, who was back in the lineup in place of Michal Rozsival after sitting out in Calgary.
Toews was left untouched atop the crease to tip in a bouncing puck thrown to the net by defenseman Brent Seabrook less than a minute later. He set up Sharp's insurance goal with a nice drop pass off the rush before the period ended. The pass left Sharp with time and space to beat fellow Canadian Olympian Luongo with a glove-side wrist shot.
"When you get Sharpie with the puck and a little time in a scoring position, it's rare he's going to make a mistake," said Toews, who has 34 assists.
The Blackhawks, who are two games into a six-game road trip that will take them into the Olympic break, made a couple lineup changes after the overtime loss against the Flames. Forward Bryan Bickell, who is in the first season of a four-year, $16 million contract, was a surprise scratch for the second time in three games; veteran Michal Handzus took his place in the lineup after sitting out Tuesday.
The moves paid off for the Blackhawks, who improved to 10-1-3 in the second half of back-to-back games this season.
"Rolling four lines for a whole game, we haven't had stretches like that over a recent period, and I think it's night and day when it works," Quenneville said. "That makes us a better team. We had it tonight."
It may also make it tougher for Bickell to get back in the lineup.
"When he's at his best, he's doing things at a high rate of speed and he's physical and he's playing our team game," Quenneville said. "We're looking for those ingredients. We know he has them."


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Some of us do not have the gift of sight or are able to communicate with them, but still feel the presence of spirits
One is a feeling coming up in your legs from your feet if there is a spirit present,
Two is a tightening of the skin on one's face and also the tightening of the scalp on your head. sometimes only one half of your face or head
Of course the feeling almost every one has is the shudder up your spine, the raising of the hair on your arms and goosebumps
But I wish we could learn and communicate better and have a better knowledge of the spirit world, not all are bad or scary.
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Monday, September 6, 2010
My New Toy
Ever since I started planning my research trip to Greenville I have been thinking about getting a wand scanner for scanning documents. I had also heard recommendations on using a camera on the "Macro" setting for this purpose.
Helpful Husband said he would buy a wand scanner this weekend as an early anniversary present, but first I decided to see what I could do with my camera. I used a printout of a will typescript as my sample specimen. The ultimate results with a camera were pretty good, but clarity definitely depended on amount of light; the first image was rather fuzzy, and I had to have strong overhead light to produce the results you see below.
So, being a "belt and suspenders" type of gal, I decided to take Husband up on his offer.
To my delight, the first experiment produced the two images you see below. The first is the jpeg image that comes up in Preview, and the second is a photographic image that comes up in iPhoto.
Some of the documents and images I will be scanning/photographing are bound to pose challenges, but I'm hoping that the combination of methods will ensure some readable results.
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OOOO, neat, now, full details, name, purchased from, etc!ReplyDelete
Greta, A woman after my own heart! Looks like a great new toy - enjoy and I'll be "watching" to see how the research trip goes with it!ReplyDelete
OH, now there's a new toy I'm going to put at the top of my list! Looking forward to more posts by you with scans from your wand scannerReplyDelete
Greta, Thanks for your report. It is nice getting to see how it works. I'm wondering, do you have to have a steady hand when you move the wand down the document? Always nice to see a new toy.ReplyDelete
Carol, Karen, Mary, and Barbara - Due to the interest, I'll post more details tomorrow. But, to answer Barbara's question first - having a steady hand is not quite so much an issue because you actually place the scanner on top of the document and slowly move it across the document (a red light will flash if you are moving it too quickly). It's probably best when the document lies flat on a surface. My husband bought it for $99 at Brookstone. He knows I prefer "basic" to "lots of features (= usually things I don't need), so this costs less than others, which were in the $160 range. But it does color & B&W. It needs (and does not come with) two AA batteries and a microSD card.ReplyDelete
My husband bought me one a few months ago and I loved it. He found mine one night a 2 AM on home shopping.ReplyDelete
BUT, I have lost the instructions and I have not told him this yet. Or possibly the batteries are dead and that is why I can not get it to operate.
I love it though.
Great copy, I want one!ReplyDelete
Yes, that looks like it would be my new favorite toy as well! One of my cousins has a nice, big, fancy scanner with bells and whistles, but then also has a smaller scanner (Canon, not sure of #) that is powered by USB. It is about 3/4" to 1" thick and he carried it with his laptop when he goes to libraries. So, another option for some. It is well under $100, and seems to do a great job.ReplyDelete
Claudia - It could be the batteries or perhaps the card is full?ReplyDelete
Linda - It is so light and easy to use; I hope I get an opportunity on this trip!
Sherry - I also need to look into a high-quality photo scanner, but that will have to wait a while. There were fancier wand scanners for more $, but this one is all I need.
Claudia - It could be the batteries or perhaps the card is full?ReplyDelete
Linda - It is so light and easy to use; I hope I get an opportunity on this trip!
Sherry - I also need to look into a high-quality photo scanner, but that will have to wait a while. There were fancier wand scanners for more $, but this one is all I need.
I may have arrived late, but I am still impressed. How nice to have so you don't have to copy and then scan. Saved a step! I am drooling. Considering.ReplyDelete


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While the big-name builders and shops on the scene often get credit for being the most influential sources of innovation, some of the most creative thinking in the hot rodding community is born out of the garages of everyday enthusiasts like you.
This year for our annual Reader's Projects feature, we took a slightly different slant inspired by our annual Trendsetting Builders special, and cherry picked a few readers pushing boundaries and expectations—and possibly defining their own trends.
So are we looking at trendsetting readers? Only time will tell, but there is one conclusion that's obvious: PHR's readership harbors some of the most creative minds in the hobby.
1962 Dodge Dart
Jerry Stewart • Wayne, MI
Despite the surreal amount of work involved in bringing to life something like this dream Dart that appears to have escaped from a gearhead time vortex where Vipers and second-gen Darts exist simultaneously, Jerry wants PHR readers to know first and foremost that this is a budget-oriented, family man project coming together in his garage. Actually, this will be the second time Jerry has built it, though the first time it was a custom scale model. A friend convinced him that the concept was too cool for plastic, so Jerry began collecting parts and determining where the cuts would have to happen to morph a real '62 Dart as closely to the model as possible. The D.H. 500 Special, named for Jerry's son, Daltyn, and daughter, Hailey, will serve as a rolling billboard for Jerry's All American Auto Upholstery business as well as sunny day stress relief. We love pretty much everything about this thing—the surprisingly appealing blend of Dart and Viper style, the dramatically shortened wheelbase, the V-10 underhood. Do it right, and this is the kind of build that can really make a mark. We've only seen one other project successfully pull off a morph of this magnitude: Murray Pfaff and his gorgeous Imperial Roadster. Could we be witnessing the birth of a trend—reshaping curmudgeonly cars into a sexier style? Let's hope! We like where this is going so far.
1958 Chevy Corvette
Greg & Nancy Taghon • South Bend, IN
You know how some projects just get back-burnered indefinitely as the plans and ambitions of the owner change or progress? That's where Greg Taghon and his '58 Corvette are. Originally the plan was for a showroom stock restoration to be completed on the car in time for Greg and wife, Nancy, to drive away in it on their wedding day. Well, they're celebrating their 26th anniversary this year. The reason for the derailment? Somewhere along the way, Greg decided a Pro Touring build with an emphasis on performance and driving enjoyment was what he really wanted. PHR may or may not have been partially to blame. It's all OK with his ever-understanding wife; however, she thinks Greg made the right decision because he's having so much fun with the build now.
1965 Ford Falcon
Pierre Wessels • Abbotsford, BC, Canada
Pierre Wessels started his project with a question: "Is it even possible for an average guy to build an innovative, cool, non-rat rod, mid-'60s two-door anything for under $10,000?" Then he decided to do it for almost half that. By plumbing the depth of Craigslist and eBay, Pierre turned up everything he needed to build a big-block '65 Falcon with an airbagged Mustang II–style frontend, mini-tubs, and an eight-point 'cage. He's even powering the 390 FE with a killer retro Tri-power EFI setup using Honda CBR1000RR throttle bodies and an old 3×2 manifold. Budget can be the mother of invention. So far, Pierre is on target to complete the car (including paint) for around $6,000. He says the only drawback is that sometimes there are delays in finding the right deals, but he's he says the hunt for parts and doing the engineering is very rewarding.
1967 Ford Mustang
Shane Bowman • Blountsville, AL
Shane Bowman found his dream shop in Alabama, and it just so happened to come with a house, so he bought it. Soon he was trolling the back roads looking for a new project. He finally spotted a familiar profile of a '67 coupe—like he had in high school—sitting out in a field. The owner was tired of moving it to cut the grass, so for $25 and dinner at a local diner, it was his. Shane restored the body and had it nearly ready to run with a 289 and three-speed, until an intriguing idea occurred to him. He hated everything about his daily driver Mercedes-Benz except the straight-five diesel engine, and he'd sure like to drive the Mustang everyday with good mileage. You can see where this is going; the diesel dropped right in with just custom mounts and a bellhousing spliced together from the original Mercedes-Benz and a Ford toploader.
1964 Ford Falcon
Chuck Kretsinger • Idyllwild, CA
Gassers are retro, but right now the revived interest in them is as high as the stance. We have seen guys gasser-izing nearly everything lately, but next to Tri-Five Chevys, the '60-65 Falcons are probably our second choice as the best-looking cars to shove a straight axle under. For this one Chuck Kretsinger is going full '70s style, which is appropriate for this particular car since it had been residing in a scrap yard in Long Beach, California, since 1973. How it survived intact we'll never know, but the body is remarkably straight; most of the bodywork has consisted of welding up dozens of trim holes. Our favorite touch so far, though, is the '65 Mustang rear wheelwells. This gasser won't be a car show cruiser, though; when finished this summer in Candy Apple Red, Chuck plans to drive it during the week and race it on the weekend.
1955 Chevy 210 Wagon
Tony L. Morse • Pellston, MI
When 17-year-old Tony Morse cruised this '55 to high school back in 1974, it had a 396 and a Muncie four-speed with 4:11s. It was cool, but a '72 Chevelle SS soon occupied his time and money, followed by marriage and a family. After 30-plus years of being set aside, it's time to get the Handyman back on the road with all the touches Tony dreamed about back then, such as flares, fenderwell headers, and a retro-cool one-piece fiberglass frontend. The radiused rear wheelwells, Ansen slots with M&H Racemaster slicks, and the big teardrop hoodscoop will remain—just like the old days. The Chevelle that originally caused the wagon to slide from the limelight will donate its 454, TH400, and posi 12-bolt with 3:73 gears. With Hedman headers, Cherry Bombs, and 18×4 resonators, Tony says it sounds like the '70s again when he fires it up.
1971 Ford Ranchero
Clark Watkins • Carmel, CA
We love basing PHR projects on distinctive platforms, and Clark Watkins' track-prepped '71 Ranchero is right up our alley. The '70-71 body has a rakish and aggressive frontend styling, and since it's essentially a Torino, there are good suspension parts and tricks available. Clark's main focus so far has been removing weight and enhancing the aerodynamic profile of the already decently sleek Ranchero. Custom ground effects and front air splitter, a bellypan, and a lightweight aluminum bedcover help him reduce drag and lift and take full advantage of the 620hp 408ci Cleveland underhood. He didn't get specific on his goals for the Ranchero, just the simple mandate of "drive, show, race." Actually, that sounds just right to us.
Trendsetting Watch!
For this year's reader project roundup Detroit-based Equipe Watches donated one of their bitchin' Big-Block watches to the reader with the best combination of cool concept, good photography/artwork, and solid construction technique. Jerry Stewart's '62 Dart is bold and ambitious, and he deserves a timepiece that reflects those qualities! The automotive-themed Big-Block timepiece Jerry wins is a full-function chronograph ($449) with a stainless steel body and piston-themed push-buttons. Congrats to Jerry and thanks to Equipe for making our contest a reality!
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Post Civil War Books
In 2013, the Joseph T. Simpson Public Library received a grant to digitize three post Civil War books, and put them online for convenience and ease of viewing for the public, as well as to protect the original material from wear and tear. Researchers, teachers, students, and anyone with an interest in Civil War history can now access these one-of-a-kind resources from the Internet Archive website.
Two of the books are ledger books of meeting minutes from the meetings of Post 415 of the Grand Army of the Republic that met in Mechanicsburg, PA. The Grand Army of the Republic was the veteran association for Civil War Veterans.
Adjutant Reports of GAR Post 415, Volume 1 (1887)
Adjutant Reports of GAR Post 415, Volume 2 (1892)
The third book, Personal War Sketches, contains military service narratives for each member of Post 415 of the Grand Army of the Republic. There is a list at the beginning of the book which lists the name of the member and the page which contains the member's narration.
These books are primary documents of information on the military service of Civil War veterans and their lives after the war, including the movement of veterans to other parts of the country.
For more information, take a look at our Civil War Books Brochure (PDF, 757KB, 2pgs).