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EPA, PUSH Buffalo and Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper Announce Green Infrastructure Initiative on Buffalo's West Side
Release Date: 03/11/2013
Contact Information: John Martin (212) 637-3662, firstname.lastname@example.com
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck, along with representatives from PUSH Buffalo, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper, the Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, the New York State Environmental Facilities Corporation and other public officials will announce an expansion of Green Infrastructure projects on Buffalo's West Side on Wednesday, March 13.
On Thursday, March 14, the EPA and the University at Buffalo are co-sponsoring a conference in Buffalo to discuss how Western New York communities can utilize green infrastructure projects. The event, called the Western New York Green Infrastructure Forum, includes a special welcome address from EPA Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck and Dennis Black, Vice President for University Life and Services, University at Buffalo. It includes guest speakers, such as Buffalo Sewer Authority Commissioner Dave Comerford and representatives from Buffalo Riverkeeper and other key community groups.
Discussions at the Western New York Green Infrastructure Forum include:
• Acquiring Resources for Green Infrastructure
• Community Action in Green Infrastructure
• Innovations in Green Infrastructure
• Green Infrastructure Public Private Partnerships
Green infrastructure provides solutions to run off pollution using vegetation, soils, and natural processes to manage water and create healthier urban environments. At the scale of a city or county, green infrastructure refers to the patchwork of natural areas that provides habitat, flood protection, cleaner air, and cleaner water. At the scale of a neighborhood or city, green infrastructure refers to stormwater management systems that mimic nature by soaking up and storing water.
West Side Green Infrastructure Announcement
WHO: Judith A. Enck, EPA Region 2 Regional Administrator
Jenifer Kaminsky, PUSH Buffalo
Jill Jedicka, Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper
Dave Comerford, Buffalo Sewer Authority
WHAT: Formal remarks, photo opportunities
WHEN: Wednesday, March 13, 2013 at 11:00am
WHERE: 460 Massachusetts Avenue, Buffalo
EPA & UB Western New York Green Infrastructure Forum
WHO: Judith A. Enck, EPA Region 2 Regional Administrator
Dennis Black, VP for University Life and Services, University at Buffalo
Representatives of various government agencies and community groups
WHAT: Presentations, panel discussions and featured speakers
WHEN: Thursday, March 14, 2013, 9:30am – 4:30pm
WHERE: UB Clinical & Translational Research Center, 875 Ellicott St., Buffalo
For more information, please visit https://www.ubevents.org/event/epaconference2013
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Russell Johnson, the actor best known for playing the Professor on the sitcom hit "Gilligan's Island," died Thursday at age 89.
The main joke about the Professor, one of the seven castaways stuck on the tropical island somewhere in the Pacific, was that he had the genius to create anything from two coconuts and bamboo, but he couldn't fix a hole in a boat. But setting aside the inability for some to just accept the show's basic premise, let's look at what magnificent inventions the Professor was able to create during the show's three seasons.
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Frank Cady
Character actor was on 'Green Acres'
Frank Cady, 96, a character actor who played Hooterville general store proprietor Sam Drucker on the TV sitcoms "Green Acres" and "Petticoat Junction," died Friday at his home in Wilsonville, Ore., said his daughter, Catherine Turk. No specific cause was given.
Like Mr. Haney, Eb Dawson, Hank Kimball and Arnold the Pig, Cady's Sam Drucker was a supporting cast member on "Green Acres" to lawyer Oliver Wendell Douglas and his socialite wife Lisa, played by Eddie
and Eva
who had ditched the high life in New York City for the charms of a farm in Hooterville.
Cady played Drucker for the entire run of "Green Acres" on CBS, from 1965 to 1971, when it was canceled. The show continued to air for years in
He also portrayed Drucker on "Petticoat Junction" and "The Beverly Hillbillies," programs that shared some secondary characters. He reprised the role for the 1990 TV movie "Return to Green Acres."
Cady had a recurring role as Doc Williams on "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" and had guest roles in TV series beginning in the early 1950s. He also had small parts in films, most notably Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window," and appeared in Southern California stage productions.
He was born Sept. 8, 1915, in the Lassen County town of Susanville and studied speech and drama at Stanford University. After serving in the Army Air Forces during World War II, he worked as a radio broadcaster before landing acting jobs.
Cady and his wife, Shirley, moved to Oregon in the '90s. She died in 2008.
Reflecting on his TV career, Cady told the Portland Oregonian in 1995, "You get typecast. I'm remembered for those shows and not for some pretty good acting jobs I did other times. I suppose I ought to be grateful for that. Because otherwise I wouldn't be remembered at all. I've got to be one of the luckiest guys in the world."
Don Campbell
'Mozart Effect' author
Don Campbell, 65, an author and entrepreneur whose best-selling books on "The Mozart Effect" helped popularize the notion that listening to the composer's music could enhance mental and creative abilities, died June 2 of pancreatic cancer in Colorado, according to his publicist.
His theories grew out of a scientific study at UC Irvine in the early 1990s that found listening to Mozart briefly boosted undergraduates' spatial reasoning. Later researchers were largely skeptical of the results but some credited "The Mozart Effect" — a term Campbell trademarked — with bringing wider attention to the cognitive benefits of music.
He argued his case in the 1997 best-selling book "The Mozart Effect" and a subsequent book, "The Mozart Effect for Children" (2000), which prescribed different pieces of classical music for various stages of a child's growth.
The music of Mozart was particularly effective, he told Australia's Sydney Morning Herald in 2001, because of "the tidiness of his form. Mozart is not overemotional; he doesn't surprise you."
In a 2010 article that examined his theory, the Los Angeles Times noted that Campbell had been dubbed the "P.T. Barnum of the Mozart Effect" and observed: "Campbell's sales pitch melds seemingly scientific claims with breathless hype."
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Campbell was classically trained in piano. As a teenager, he studied at a conservatory in France.
In 1988, he founded the Institute of Music, Health and Education in Boulder, Colo., and served as its director until 1997. He wrote more than 20 books, mainly about the health benefits of music, and built a thriving online business selling CDs with such names as "Mozart to Go."
Frank Arciero
Developer and motor sports figure
Frank Arciero, 86, an Irvine-based real estate developer and pioneering presence in U.S. motor sports, died May 23, his family announced. Arciero, who resided in Laguna Beach, had an aneurysm two months ago and died at an Orange County hospital.
After watching a race in 1954 in Palm Springs, Arciero bought a Ferrari and started racing but turned to building teams when an insurance agent pointed out that Arciero was putting his life at risk.
His teams included such Indianapolis 500 legends as Al and Bobby Unser, Parnelli Jones, Michael Andretti and Roger Penske. Two of Arciero's drivers were named rookie of the year at the Indy 500, Randy Lanier in 1986 and Fabrizio Barbazza in 1987. Arcierio's sons, Frank and Albert Arciero, are top off-road drivers, and grandson Ryan Arciero is a championship-winning driver.
Born in Italy, Arciero immigrated to the U.S. in his early teens with his brother Philip and eventually moved to Southern California. The brothers did manual labor before establishing a cement subcontracting business that made them a fortune.
"The postwar boom was on, and I was there," Arciero told The Times in 1983. "I expanded from driveways and garages to supermarket foundations; then I landed a contract to build a sea wall at Huntington Harbor."
The brothers reportedly built parking garages at Los Angeles International Airport, buildings at Cal State Fullerton and subterranean garages at Bunker Hill. They also built much of Diamond Bar and by the early 1980s were building about 200 tract homes a year in such places as Palm Springs and Calabasas.
On his way to a race, Arciero came upon Paso Robles and in 1985 established Arciero Winery on Highway 46 near the town. It became one of the region's top wine producers but struggled before being rebranded as Eos, for the Greek goddess of dawn. The winery was sold for an estimated $35 million in 2007.
F. Herbert Bormann
He helped discover acid rain
F. Herbert Bormann
, 90, one of three Dartmouth College geology professors who helped discover acid rain, died Thursday in North Branford, Conn. With colleagues Noye Monroe Johnson and Gene Likens, Bormann analyzed drainage from watersheds and discovered high levels of sulfates. They concluded the chemical came from the atmosphere via a phenomenon they called acid rain. Bormann was a Yale University professor from 1966 to 1992.
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Another Judge Blasts Copyright Trolls
from the swarms dept
Judge Baer clearly understands what's going on here. He notes early on the very serious potential problem of IP addresses not being particularly good identifiers of who has done the actual infringement:
Particularly troubling for courts is the high probability of misidentified Doe defendants (who may be the bill-payer for the IP address but not the actual infringer) settling a case for fear of the disclosure of the allegations against them or of the high costs of litigation.He notes that he's not ready to "wade into" the question of whether or not joinder is appropriate, especially in cases where all of the IP addresses are part of the same BitTorrent swarm, but he is clearly worried about a different kind of "swarm":
Ironically, there are swarms on both sides, for copyright locusts have descended on the federal courts, exacting low-cost settlements from embarrassed John Does and then moving on to the next DistrictYes, Judge Baer seems familiar with the M.O. of these trolls, and how they've effectively been "run out of" other districts after judges realized what they were up to. In fact, he quotes a ruling in the Central District of California approvingly:
... the federal courts are not flexible enough to be shaped into "cogs in a plaintiffs copyright-enforcement business model. The Court will not idly watch what is essentially an extortion scheme, for a case that [Plaintiffs have] no intention of bringing to trial."He also worries that the plaintiffs have already pressured defendants into settling, noting "that some Doe defendants have already been voluntarily dismissed at this early stage in the litigation." For that reason, he's decided that joining all the cases together at this stage is inappropriate, and has (like many other courts) severed and dismissed all but one Doe.
He then goes back to talk about his overall concerns with how copyright trolling is a troubling development, and quotes a bunch of other cases from other district courts around the country:
The Plaintiffs' tactic, if left unchecked, could turn copyright protection on its head. Congress intended to incentivize the creation of useful arts by providing a statutory right and a means of enforcement that would reward authors for their labors, hardly the Plaintiffs' strategy here.... In the BitTorrent pornography cases, settlements are for notoriously low amounts relative to the possible statutory damages, but high relative to the low value of the work and minimal costs of mass litigation. Cases are almost never prosecuted beyond sending demand letters and threatening phone calls. Severing the Doe defendants does not destroy the incentive to prosecute infringers who use peer-to-peer protocols; it merely restores the balance that Congress intended, not to mention that it ensures that courts receive the filing fees that Plaintiffs otherwise avoid.And one final point, since he already allowed for discovery, he wants the plaintiffs to destroy the info, and if he finds out that they pursue those people anyway, it sounds like there may be trouble:
Plaintiffs shall not contact any Doe defendant who does not remain in this or a subsequently-filed case, and any pending settlement not with John Doe 1 in each named case shall immediately cease. If after 14 days Plaintiffs have not reinstituted cases against the remaining Doe defendants, Plaintiffs shall destroy whatever personal information they presently have for those defendants and shall not use the information for any purpose. Ifany Doe defendant no longer named in a case is contacted following entry ofthis Order, I encourage them to contact the Court.Elsewhere, he orders the plaintiffs to pass along this order to all the ISPs they've subpoenaed, and to have them distribute it to all the people in question, so (hopefully) they understand to contact the court if the plaintiffs violate the order and continue to go after them.
One really good thing here: Judge Baer clearly spent time looking into these cases, and seeing just how common they are and what's happening in them. Above, we've already noted that he cited a few such cases -- but in a footnote that takes up about half the page, he goes on to name a whole bunch of them, noting that "this is but a sample" and pointing out:
It is difficult to even imagine the extraordinary amount of time federal judges have spent on these cases.Hopefully other judges are beginning to recognize the same thing. It seems clear that more and more judges are putting these cases into the proper context, understanding what's really happening and how the copyright trolls are abusing the court system as a part of a business model, rather than for any legitimate legal reason.


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March 13, 2012
CROI 2012 featured a number of noteworthy presentations highlighting new research on HIV antiretrovirals in development, the treatment of HIV/HCV coinfection, and metabolic complications and malignancies in people with HIV. In this video, Jeff Berry of Positively Aware interviews Cal Cohen, M.D., and Richard Ellion, M.D., to get their perspectives on this breaking research.
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The music industry studies program at Loyola University New Orleans presents Jim Gabour, extraordinary professor of video technology, in "Jockomo-fee-nahnay," a forum highlighting the history of the Mardi Gras Indians today, Feb. 13 at 5 p.m. in Nunemaker Auditorium in Monroe Hall. The forum, which features never-before-seen footage and interviews of some of New Orleans' most legendary Indian tribes, is free and open to the public.
Gabour is an award-winning film producer and director whose work focuses primarily on music and the diversity of cultures. In the late 1970s, he began shooting interviews and footage of the various Mardi Gras Indian tribes and chiefs, famous for their elaborate feathered costumes and Carnival performances.
In celebration of the Mardi Gras season, Gabour will screen and discuss excerpts from several of his clips, including a 1986 interview on beading and costumes with Bo Dollis, Big Chief of the Wild Magnolias; a "meeting of the tribes" at Tipitina's in 1985 with the Big Chiefs of the Wild Magnolia, Golden Eagle and Creole Wild West tribes; and the Wild Magnolias performing with the Neville Brothers at the 1984 World's Fair jazz and gospel tent.
The forum will also feature footage of street runs, performances and interviews with three different chiefs of Wild Tchoupitoulas between 1978 and 1984, including Big Chief Jolly, the late George Landry, who inspired and sang on the legendary Neville Brothers album, "Wild Tchoupitoulas."
"These men and women are a deep cultural treasure for the city of New Orleans," Gabour said. "I am grateful for the opportunities I have been allowed to document their lives and art."
During his career, Gabour has earned five Cable ACE Awards, as well as medals at the International Film & Television Festival of New York and the WorldFest Film Festival. Gabour was the featured director of the year at the International Broadcasters Conference in Amsterdam in 2004, 2007 and 2010.
He has produced multi-platinum DVDs for Norah Jones, documentaries on famed soul singer Al Green, and the 25th anniversary concert film for the mockumentary trio Spinal Tap. The DVD for Gabour's feature-length documentary film, "Flow: Living in the Stream of Music," was nominated for a 2007 Grammy Award. An official selection of film festivals around the globe, the film was added to the permanent collection of the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City, Mo.
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Just wish you guys could put up some decent opposition. You seem to prefer the short wise cracks. And I don't think its off topic at all. I actually think its a pretty accurate assessment. Of course, you could try and prove me wrong. :-) So far, I don't see any evidence to the contrary. I mean look how long you guys have been here and you're still banging on with the same old stuff. Don't you get bored? Or do you like the feeling you get from being "right". Plato would class that as prideful behaviour, me thinks. :-) :-)


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Tiny Furniture (IFC Films), the second film made by its 24-year-old director, writer, and star Lena Dunham, couldn't be more aptly titled. Dunham plays with the accoutrements of her own life like a child with the contents of a dollhouse. The dolls are members of her own family: Dunham's mother, the artist Laurie Simmons, plays the artist mother of Dunham's character, Aura; her real-life younger sister, Grace Dunham, plays Aura's sister Nadine. Their dollhouse is a pristine, snow-white TriBeCa loft where Dunham's parents actually do live. And the "tiny furniture" Dunham-the-director moves around consists of elements from her life, cunningly rearranged to tell a story about someone who may or may not be the director herself.
Aura has just graduated from college in Ohio to move back temporarily into the apartment of her mother, Siri, a successful artist whose work consists mainly of photographed miniatures. Aura (unlike Dunham, who managed to make and release her first feature film while still in college) is a drifting, directionless sort, given to masochistic affairs with callous and self-involved men. She has desultory encounters with two such men over the course of the movie, a thin-skinned sous-chef at the restaurant where she works (David Call) and a freeloading performance artist, Jed (Alex Karpovsky). Jed's work consists of posting YouTube videos of himself riding a rocking horse and spewing philosophical non sequiturs as "the Nietschian cowboy." (The misspelled name is either a joke on the character or by him; it's never clear.)
Aura also has a childhood friend, Charlotte (Jemima Kirke), a blond British party girl who, to those of you familiar with the series My So-Called Life, is sort of the glamorous Rayanne to Dunham's plumper and plainer Angela Chase. The girls trade outfits and prescription pills, paint fake tattoos on each other, and bond over their "asshole" mothers, but it's not clear that Charlotte is really Aura's friend. When Siri sternly tells her daughter that "Charlotte is such an incredibly bad influence," the viewer can't help but agree (though Kirke is wicked fun company, the most accomplished performer in this mainly nonprofessional cast). But Charlotte is also Aura's ticket into the depressing-but-prestigious world of downtown art openings and awful hipster parties where people earnestly ask, "How have you been?" then glaze over and walk away midsentence.
In its sendup of New York bourgie-boho culture and its precise portrait of a close but conflicted mother-daughter relationship, Tiny Furniture recalls Nicole Holofcener's Please Give. Granted, it's not as good a movie as that wise, luminous comedy, but Holofcener has been making films for nearly 20 years. For a DIY second feature from a very young director, Tiny Furniture feels surprisingly assured, even elegant. There are those who will accuse Tiny Furniture of wildly inconsistent tonal shifts, and it is guilty of some, but I appreciated the way this movie kept upending my expectations. One minute it's a kind of Cinderella story, with Aura's mother and sister ganging up on her and events seeming to conspire to make her miserable; the next minute, our sympathies shift from the protagonist to her mother as Aura makes yet another dumb, self-destructive mistake.
Though it's paced like a comedy (sometimes too much so, when Dunham ends a scene on a punch line, ba-dum-bum), Tiny Furniture has a way of suddenly delivering moments of unexpected emotional power. One whole scene consists of a long static shot of Aura sobbing and berating her mother—"Did you ever have a job that wasn't taking pictures of stupid tiny crap?"—while her teenage sister snickers. The character of the mother, though, remains unsatisfyingly opaque. She does seem a chilly sort, but nothing she says or does to her daughter is objectively that unreasonable. Siri's apparent shortcomings as a mother may spring from Laurie Simmons' shortcomings as an actor; her line readings sound stiff and unintuitive. (Or is her own director/daughter telling her to speak that way? The meta-self-referential plot thickens.)
Starting in 2011, I resolve no longer to use the term "mumblecore." If it ever meant anything specific, the category's been stretched too thin to mean that thing anymore. Not only that, the term tends to have a derogatory usage that doesn't describe how I feel about many of the movies awkwardly bunched under that label. But I'll use it one last time in this review in order to disown it, and to note that, though their style may not yet have a name, moviemakers including Noah Baumbach, Lynn Shelton, the Duplass brothers, and Andrew Bujalski have been making worthwhile, sometimes wonderful low-budget films in which young, affluent, well-meaning white people treat one another with shocking cruelty, bantering passive-aggressively all the while.
Tiny Furniture belongs somewhere in that general still-unnamed category, but its bright primary colors and flat, formal compositions, pleasingly shot by Jody Lee Lipes, also owe something to Wes Anderson. Dunham takes Bujalski's trick of ending on an unexpected beat—a moment that somehow doesn't feel "important" enough to be a movie ending—and pushes it to the extreme, with the film seeming to cut off abruptly after a random line of dialogue. I rewatched the ending of Tiny Furniture a couple of times, trying to decide a) whether I knew what the ending was trying to do and b) whether I liked it. I'm still not sure I know the answer to either of those questions, but it's noteworthy when a movie comes along that even makes them worth asking.
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Cinematographers, the camera operators who film motion pictures, compose shots that accurately capture scenes according to a director's vision. In larger films, the cinematographer is also called the director of photography, or DP.
The Work
A cinematographer works with the director on set or location during filming. He or she makes decisions that affect the look and feel of a movie. Cinematographers choose the film stock, lenses, filters, lighting, aspect ratio, depth of field, and camera mount (stationary, steadicam, cranes, or rolling) to achieve the shot that helps tell the story. Cinematographers also give input on other aspects of filming and editing to improve scenes.
In larger productions, cinematographers manage the camera, grip, and lighting crews.
Location shoots can be uncomfortable or, depending on the location, even dangerous. But most cinematographers and camera operators do not suffer unduly harsh conditions. Many, however, must work long and irregular hours to meet production schedules. And if the filming is done outside, there can be long waits in inclement weather.
Education & Training
A bachelor's degree -- often in film or cinematography -- is necessary for most cinematography positions.
Coursework should cover videography, digital imagery, computer technology, camera equipment and techniques, and some business areas. General film training will also cover the artistic aspects of filmmaking, which is helpful to cinematographers in working with directors.
Along with a degree and experience, sucessful cinematographers and other camera operators need good eyesight, artistic ability, hand-eye coordination, good communication skills, patience, and accuracy.


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Free agency isn't even 48 hours old, but with so many key players signed it's already time for us to start handing out awards. Here's a look at who won and who lost during the first day and a half of the new league year…
Winner: Denver Broncos — Are you kidding me? Replace Dominique Rodgers Cromartie with Aqib Talib and then add support for Von Miller with DeMarcus freakin' Ware. Oh, and T.J. Ward. They'll get over the loss of Eric Decker. Imagine this defense now, especially with Miller back. They're jacked.
Loser: Oakland Raiders — The gap between good and bad in the AFC West widens by the day. Not only did the Raiders let Jared Veldheer, Lamarr Houston and Rashad Jennings walk despite having more than $60 million in cap space, but then they overpaid Austin Howard and Rodger Saffold, who they ended up losing anyway after a failed physical. What a mess.
Winner: New England Patriots — All it took was Darrelle Revis, who at a reasonable price comes as a huge upgrade over Talib. Anything else is gravy.
Loser: Dallas Cowboys — No cap space means they'll likely enter 2014 without Ware, Anthony Spencer and Jason Hatcher. That hurts.
Winner: Tampa Bay Buccaneers — Revis wasn't worth $16 million, and now they've replaced him with Alterraun Verner, who is a Pro Bowl-caliber player. They also bolstered the front seven with Michael Johnson, who had 11.5 sacks in 2012, and could have a new starting quarterback in Josh McCown.
Loser: Kansas City Chiefs — After such a big 2013 offseason, they're low on cap space. As a result, starting offensive linemen Branden Albert, Jon Asamoah and Geoff Schwartz are gone, as are Dexter McCluster and Tyson Jackson. They're young, but they've taken a step backward.


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Notice this is just 16 deep breaths, not a great deal of time out of your day. For a super brief, nevertheless remarkable, dose of the most profound medicine we can get. Cut this sequence to 6-8 breaths with a whole body scanning and release of tension. Apply it while waiting in the line at the bank, while on hold with the insurance company, sitting in the dentist's chair, and while at your work. It happens fast, no one knows but you and the benefits over time are significant.
Application Suggestions:
This procedure includes 16 stations or points of awareness and is very
simple and brief. It can be done with many more awareness points and
may include focusing on each finger and toe, segments of the arms and
legs, joints, individual organs, etc. (30 to 70 stations). In the
Chinese tradition where energy pathways and points are accepted
aspects of the body, attention is drawn to specific energy areas as
the rhythm of the breath continues. In India the chakras or energy
centers related to the endocrine organs and neurological complexes are
the focus of attention as the practitioner goes deeper into a state of
When you have been through each station and feel you could benefit from a deeper level of relaxation, go through again. When you feel you have attained a significantly deep state of relaxation turn your attention to inner healing. If the gastrointestinal system is a part of your health challenge then to bring awareness to that area of the body will add to the benefit of the relaxation session. Imagine and picture the gastrointestinal system operating optimally.
Acknowledge that the stomach and the intestines are charged with the life-force that they need. See them, in your mind's eye, glowing radiantly with vitality.
Following the initial relaxation process, if you have cold hands or if discomfort in your hands is more severe as in Raynaud's disease or Scleroderma, bring your awareness to your hands. Imagine that your hands are in the sun. resting beside you as you rest comfortably at the beach. Actually feel heat in your hands. In your mind's eye see the capillaries, small blood vessels, become large tubes that carry large volume of warm blood from the center of the body to the periphery. Patients with serious circulatory disorders have, with this simple technique, learned to control the blood flow to various parts of the body.
If your heart needs healing then, following the preliminary
relaxation, bring your awareness to the heart. If headaches are your
major discomfort, bring the focus to the head. Or, if it is clear to
you that the head pain is caused by too much tension or blood flow in
the upper body, then bring the awareness to the hands and feet. See
the veins, arteries and capillaries as big as pipes, rather than as
tiny vessels. While the image of pipes carrying massive amounts of
blood to the hands and feet may seem extreme, it is a powerful image
that has helped many people. The ability to consciously remove blood
from one part of the body to another, slow heart rate, warm the hands,
reduce oxygen consumption, etc, are called "voluntary physiological
controls". These are skills that are typical to yogis, fakirs,
magicians and Qiagong masters, It has been found, by scientific
research that learning to apply the preliminary levels of these skills
is a profound healing tool that has a significant effect on some major


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I just came home from the Doctor who claims my 12 week old girl may be allergic to breast milk. She has had blood in her stool in early July. I have since taken out all forms of dairy and soy in addition to peanuts, tree nuts, shellfish and eggs. Her acid reflux and mucousy stools seemed to improve by mid July but now we are dealing with a horribly gassy baby! She is in such pain especially after a feeding that she screams and goes from sitting to standing with her arms outstretched and you can't sit her down to burp her. These swells of gas come on throughout the day and are very rarely alleviated successfully. She also is passing very smelly gas that makes it seem like she has a dirty diaper. and went from going number two a few times a day to going once or twice every couple of days. Anybody experience this? The doctor wants to put her on formula but I simply do not want to go that route unless there are no other options. Help me...please!


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2008 Graduates in the Spotlight
As Western Connecticut State University prepares for our 110th annual Commencement ceremony, we pause for a moment to look back at our past — and ahead to our graduates' futures.
Depending on the year they passed through our gates, our students have received a degree from the Danbury Normal School (1903 – 1936), Danbury State Teachers College (1937 – 1959), Danbury State College (1960 – 1967), Western Connecticut State College (1967 – 1982) and Western Connecticut State University (since 1983).
We've grown from early graduating classes of several dozen students to close to 1,000 in recent years, conferring undergraduate, graduate and starting this year — doctoral — degrees.
In the class of 2007, our graduates hailed from 13 U.S. states and 104 Connecticut cities and towns. The average age was 26 for those obtaining a bachelor's degree and 35 for those obtaining a master's degree. The mean grade point average in 2007 for WestConn students receiving a bachelor's degree was 2.98. For graduate students, it was 3.31.
The numbers for the class of 2008 are still being written. Here is a glimpse at what some of our graduates' futures hold.
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing
|Frank LaBanca
Ed.D. in Instructional Leadership
|Nancy Caron
M.S. in Education - Reading
|Jillian Lane
M.S. in Counseling Education - Community
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Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
|Michael Lombardi
Bachelor of Science in Meteorology
|Marisa Corti
M.S.N. - Adult Nurse Practitioner
|Charles Mastroni
Master of Business Administration
|Amy Crupi
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts
|Irene McKinney
B.S. in Secondary Education - English
|Fletcher Dean
Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing
|Todd Milano
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
|Rebecca Devine
Master of Arts in English - Writing
|Laura Neville
Bachelor of Science in Music Education
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Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design
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Master of Arts in History
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Master of Health Administration
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing
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Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry
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Bachelor of Business Administration
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Bachelor of Science in Education
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Bachelor of Arts in Professional Writing
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Bachelor of Arts in Relational Communication
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Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
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Master of Arts in History
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Dual Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry/Biochemistry and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish
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B.S. in Secondary Education - Spanish
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Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing
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Master of Science in Justice Administration
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Linked by David Adams on Fri 18th Jun 2010 19:17 UTC
Linux Magazine has a profile of Daniel Fore and the Elementary project. Elementary is a Linux distro that's committed to a clean and simple user experience, but it's more than a distro - it's actually a multi-pronged effort to make improvements to the user experience for a whole ecosystem of components, including icons, a GTK theme, Midori improvements, Nautilus, and even Firefox. The work that elementary is doing isn't limited to their own distro, and some of their work is available in current, and perhaps future, Ubuntu releases. The results are really striking, and I think it's probably the handsomest Linux UI I've ever seen.
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by SonicMetalMan on Sat 19th Jun 2010 01:26 UTC
I've said this before, the biggest reason I see for so many damn flavors of Linux is that NOBODY gets it "just right". Current Linux vendors just can't throw the manpower at UI designs and get every aspect of the look and feel right. I have tried many Linux FOTM releases and I end up tweaking every one of them to overcome some deficiency. I might die of a heart attack if I ever installed a new Linux OS that didn't require hands-on attention.
Apple gets it right because they have virtually unlimited resources to make the user experience a pleasant and consistent one.


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One sign is that competition is getting fiercer.
Cisco, for instance, upped the ante against rivals like Riverbed, Packeteer, Juniper, Expand, and Blue Coat (to name just a few), by announcing today the 1000th customer for its Wide Area Application Services (WAAS). (See Cisco Widens WAN Optimization.)
Cisco's statement is a jab at Riverbed, which announced its 2,000th customer in April 2007 -- 300 percent over the 500 customers the supplier announced in January 2006. (See Riverbed Gets 2000 Customers.)
Cisco's solution, offered as both an appliance and a card for Cisco's ISR routers, has shipped in its present form since September 2006. (See Cisco Intros Services and Cisco Backs Into Optimization.) But Cisco says it added 100 customers in April 2007 alone.


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Allen Temple A.M.E. in Annual Women's Day
The Rev. Dr. John A. Foster, pastor, and the Allen Temple A.M.E. Church Women invite you to "Women's Day 2012." Ms. Justine Boyd, Executive Director for Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Atlanta Affiliate, and former Chief Executive Officer of the YWCA of Greater Atlanta, will bring the message. The theme is "Women of Allen: Called, Committed, Compelled to Serve God." Services begin at 10:30 a.m., Sunday, October 14th. The Church is located at West Lake Avenue and Joseph E. Boone Boulevard, NW, Atlanta. Come share this uplifting experience.
A Celebration Held for Director Safiyyah Shahid
A celebration was held Sunday, Sept. 30, for Director and Principal of Mohammed Schools of Atlanta Safiyyah Shahid, at the Grand Overlook Ballroom of the Atlanta Mohammed Schools and the Atlanta Masjid of Al-Islam. A former Muslim Woman of the Year, Safiyyah Shahid has been married to businessman Hammam Shahid for 33 years and together they raised six children. Several tributes and honors were paid the honoree, who made brief comments. A graduate of Spelman College and holds a masters from Troy University, Safiyyah Shahid was honored for her 40 years of service, legacy and leadership in the community.


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I have a question about my top case.
I sold my R1200RT.....
I am buying another one in about a year.
I still have my top case off the bike.
When I purchase a new R1200RT do I need to order a new lock for the top case at the same time so that it will match my bikes ignition key? Or.....?
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Tabletalk Magazine, February 2010: What N. T. Wright Really Said by Ligonier Ministries
The February 2010 issue of Tabletalk looks at the current controversy surrounding N.T. Wright and the doctrine of justification. Contributors include R.C. Sproul along with D.A. Carson, Sinclair Ferguson, J.V. Fesko, Paul Helm, Michael Horton, Albert Mohler, John Piper, and Cornelis … more


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Syphilitic aseptic meningitis is a complication of untreated syphilis. Itinvolves inflammation of the tissues covering the brain and spinal cord.
Alternative Names
Meningitis - syphilitic
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Syphilis is a sexually transmitted, infectious disease caused by the spirochete Treponema pallidum. Syphilis has three main stages:
- Primary syphilis
- Secondary syphilis
- Tertiary syphilis
Syphilitic aseptic meningitis is a form of meningovascular
The disorder is similar to
Risks for syphilitic aseptic meningitis include previous infection with syphilis or other sexually transmitted illnesses such as
Changes in vision, blurred vision, decreased vision
- Fever
- Headache
- Mental status changes, including
confusion,decreased attention span, and irritability
- Nausea and vomiting
- Neck pain
- Sensitivity to light (
- Sensitivity to loud noises
Sleepiness, lethargy, hard to wake the person up
- Stiff neck
- Stiffness of shoulders, other muscle aches
Signs and tests
The doctor or nurse will examine you. This may show problems with how your nerves work, including those that control eye movement.
Tests may include:
Cerebral angiography
- Electroencephalogram (
EEG) Head CT scan
- Spinal tap to remove a sample of
CSF (cerebrospinal fluid) for examination VDRL blood testor RPR blood test(to screen for a syphilis infection)
If screening tests show a syphillis infection, more tests are done to confirm the diagnosis. One such test is the
The goals of treatment are to cure the infection and stop symptoms from getting worse. Treating the infection helps prevent new nerve damage and may reduce symptoms, but it does not reverse existing damage.
You will receive:
- Penicillin or other antibiotics (such as tetracycline or erythromycin) for a long time to make sure the infection goes away.
- Spinal tap to remove a sample of spinal fluid for testing to see if the antibiotic worked.
- Medicines for seizures.
Some people may need help eating, dressing, and caring for themselves. Confusion and other mental changes may either improve or continue long-term after antibiotic treatment.
Expectations (prognosis)
Late-stage syphilliscan cause nerve or heart damage, which can lead to disability and death.
Persons with late syphilis infections are more likely to get otherinfections and other health disorders, such as seizures.
- Inability to care for self
- Inability to communicate or interact
- Injury caused during seizures
- Stroke
Calling your health care provider
Go to the emergency room or call the local emergency number (such as 911) if you have seizures.
Call your health care provider if you have a severe headache with fever or other symptoms, especially if you have a history of syphilis infection.
Proper treatment and follow-up of primary syphilis infections will reduce your risk of developing this type of meningitis.
If you are sexually active, practice safe sex and always use condoms.
All pregnant women should be screened for
Workowski KA, Berman S; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Sexually transmitted diseases treatment guidelines, 2010. MMWR Recomm Rep. 2010 Dec 17;59 (RR-12):1-110.
Hook EW III. Syphilis. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 327.
Tremont EC. Treponema pallidum (Syphilis). In: Mandell GL, Bennett JE, Dolin R, eds. Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. 7th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier; 2009:chap 238.
Thigpen MC, Whitney CG, Messonnier NE, et al. Emerging Infections Programs Network. Bacterial meningitis in the United States, 1998-2007. N Engl J Med. 2011 May 26;364(21):2016-25.
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Linda J. Vorvick, MD, Medical Director and Director of Didactic Curriculum, MEDEX Northwest Division of Physician Assistant Studies, Department of Family Medicine, UW Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington. Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc.


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Greater Visakha / Greater Visakha Municipal Corporation
GVMC decides to hire Information Technology consultants
To be hired on three year contract terms
GVMC to development of prime land for multiplexes, malls
Panel to tour major cities to study the implementation of PPP
Mobile Tax Collection Vans setup
Commissioner Meena inaugurates the services
Flat owners to launch campaign
Seeks modification in Government Order
GVMC approves Rs.1,700 crore budget
Dues worth over Rs.610 crore to be realized
Building Regularization and Land Regularization scheme put on hold
Beleaguered buildings owners gets a sign of relief
GVMC presents Rs. 1702 crore budget
Mayor postpones meeting to January 29 for discussion
Mayor calls upon builders and house owners to take advantage of the GOs
Directs residents to regularize building plans by paying penalty
GVMC gets good response for GO Ms No. 901
Regularization of irregular structures
Forum for Better Visakha opposed Government decision
Asks Government not to legalize illegal constructions
Fire Department identifies unauthorized constructions
Vigilance and Enforcement of Fire department identified 89 buildings
City builders and flat owners gets sigh of relief
State Cabinet decides to regularize unauthorized constructions
NGO Praja Spandana urges Governor to reject proposed ordinance
Regularization of unauthorized structures
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Specialist EMRs: Pros and Cons
Anne Zieger is veteran healthcare consultant and analyst with 20 years of industry experience. Zieger formerly served as editor-in-chief of FierceHealthcare.com and her commentaries have appeared in dozens of international business publications, including Forbes, Business Week and Information Week. She has also contributed content to hundreds of healthcare and health IT organizations, including several Fortune 500 companies. Contact her at @ziegerhealth on Twitter or visit her site at Zieger Healthcare.
Right now, the bulk of well-known vendors are fighting for hospital and multispecialty/primary care group business.
But specialist EMRs are a thriving market, too, and one analysts like myself don't cover often enough. To get an idea of how many specialist EMRs are out there, check out this list of EMR specialties my colleague John Lynn compiled. Though it's from 2009, it should give you an idea of what we're dealing with here.
Is it really necessary for specialty physicians to buy an EMR dedicated to their profession? One specialty vendor offers a thoughtful argument as to why their approach is better:
Clinical content is required to sufficiently document exam findings, diagnoses, and medical plans. To be truly effective, an EMR must possess a comprehensive library of information that alleviates the need for physicians to document from scratch. Otherwise, both the workflow efficiencies and the documentation improvements touted by EMR vendors suffer.
But, according to [Peter] Waegemann, "most medical specialty societies simply are not ready to 'come up with the data' around which vendors can design specialized systems." Therefore, most generalized EMR vendors put the responsibility for developing clinical content on the shoulders of their customers. But, therein lies the problem.
Writing a comprehensive, usable library can take up to 400 hours of a physician's time – time that is already in very short supply and very expensive. The sheer amount of time required for such a task oftentimes delays implementations, frustrates users, and is one of the top reason behind EMR failures. Some vendors rely on third party resources to sell libraries to specialty customers, but doing so oftentimes raises the overall cost and complexity of the solution to unacceptable levels.
On the other hand, I can think of at least a few reasons why a specialty EMR might not be the best choice for a practice:
* Interoperability: If your practice joins a health information exchange (and let's face it, that day is coming for most physicians) will your specialty EMR be able to link up comfortably with mainstream systems?
* Connections with hospital systems: Another interoperability issue. If the hospital where you do most of your business is an Epic shop, and you're using, say, the
* Workflows that don't fit with major systems: It's all well and good to be really comfortable with your specialty EMR, but how will that work when you're forced to "switch gears" and use mainstream systems in settings outside your practice.
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Used 2010 Subaru Impreza WRX STi Review
Edmunds expert review
The 2010 Subaru Impreza's impressive performance and range of styles make it an appealing small car choice. But it's not an overall class leader in any of the niches it occupies.
What's new for 2010
Vehicle overview
Few vehicles have such a wide breadth of body styles, engines and target buyers as the 2010 Subaru Impreza. From a mountain-visiting outdoors enthusiast who desires the extra ground clearance of the Outback Sport, to the track-addicted driving enthusiast who desires the high-tech mechanicals of the WRX STI, there's an Impreza for practically everyone.
The Impreza is available as either a four-door sedan or a four-door hatchback. In base 2.5i form, it competes with compact cars like the Honda Civic, Hyundai Elantra, Mazda 3 and Volkswagen Golf. Though not as fuel-efficient as those models, its standard all-wheel-drive system sets it apart for those who live in areas where rain and snow are a way of life. The Outback Sport hatchback shares the 2.5i's engine but adds features like increased ground clearance and rugged body cladding, making it a unique offering in this segment.
There are also several performance-oriented Imprezas with increasing levels of spice. The 2.5GT provides considerably more punch than the base car, thanks to a turbocharged engine, but with its automatic transmission and moderate suspension tuning, it's designed for those who desire speed without any compromises in comfort. The performance-tuned WRX is a card-carrying member of the sport compact club along with the Chevy Cobalt SS, Mazdaspeed 3, Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart and VW GTI -- and a strong member too, with swift acceleration that tops all comers in the class.
The Impreza WRX STI is a rally-bred performance machine. Though tamed a bit when redesigned a few years ago, it remains a compelling choice for "Fast & Furious" types drawn to big turbos, all-wheel drive and limited-slip diffs. Of course, the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X is an omnipresent thorn in its side and arguably more appealing considering its sharper handling.
Certainly, there's plenty to choose from in the lineup of 2010 Subaru Imprezas. We're fond of the Impreza, and each variant deserves a look from interested small car buyers. However, drawbacks like lackluster fuel economy, a quirky navigation interface and poor stereo sound keep it from being a clear-cut leader in any of the classes it competes in. Cross-shopping with one of the previous mentioned rivals is certainly a good idea.
Trim levels & features
The 2010 Subaru Impreza is available in four-door sedan and four-door hatchback body styles. Both are available in 2.5i, 2.5i Premium, 2.5GT, WRX and WRX Premium trims, while the hatchback also comes in Outback Sport and WRX STI trims.
The 2.5i comes standard with 16-inch steel wheels, full power accessories, keyless entry, air-conditioning, cruise control, a 60/40-split-folding rear seat, a tilt steering column and a four-speaker stereo with CD player. The 2.5i Premium adds 16-inch alloy wheels, leather-wrapped steering wheel and a 10-speaker stereo with six-CD changer, auxiliary audio jack and steering-wheel controls.
Opting for the 2.5i Premium's Special Edition package adds foglights, sunroof and the contents of the All-Weather package (heated side mirrors, heated front seats and a windshield wiper de-icer). The Navigation & Power Moonroof package, meanwhile, further equips the Impreza with a sunroof, an automatic transmission, Bluetooth, a touchscreen navigation system, satellite radio and an RCA audio/video jack.
The Outback Sport is similar to the 2.5i Premium trim level but has 17-inch alloy wheels, a raised suspension, foglights, roof rails, bumper under-guards, different exterior trim special interior upholstery, the 10-speaker stereo and a standard All-Weather package. The 2.5GT adds to the 2.5i Premium a turbocharged engine, an automatic transmission, 17-inch alloy wheels, larger brakes, a mildly sport-tuned suspension, a hood scoop, a tilt-and-telescoping steering wheel, automatic climate control, electroluminescent gauges and the All-Weather package.
The WRX is essentially a higher-performance version of the GT with a mandatory five-speed manual transmission, a more powerful engine, summer tires, a more aggressively tuned suspension, special WRX trim and aerodynamic body pieces. The WRX Premium adds the extra items from the 2.5i Premium. The Navigation and Power Moonroof package is optional. The WRX Limited adds to the Premium a sunroof, leather upholstery and satellite radio.
The WRX STI is equipped similarly to the WRX, but ups the performance ante even more. It gains a six-speed manual, 18-inch wheels, high-performance tires, Brembo brakes, front and rear limited-slip differentials, SI-Drive vehicle settings, an even more aggressively tuned suspension, a bigger hood scoop, xenon headlights, sport seats and faux-suede and leather upholstery. The STI's BBS Package adds multi-reflector foglights and 18-inch BBS wheels in either silver or gold (the latter not available with all colors). The BBS + Navigation Package adds the previous items, plus a navigation system, Bluetooth, RCA audio/video jacks and the single-CD player. The STI Special Edition brings with it the wheels and suspension from Japan's STI spec C model, and decontents the car with halogen headlights, a four-speaker stereo, a single-CD player and manual climate control. In addition to the normal STI colors, the latter will also be available in a limited run (125 units) wearing Aspen White paint.
Performance & mpg
Every 2010 Subaru Impreza comes standard with all-wheel drive. The 2.5i and Outback Sport models are powered by a 2.5-liter horizontally opposed (boxer) four-cylinder engine that produces 170 horsepower and 170 pound-feet of torque. A five-speed manual with hill-start assist is standard and a four-speed automatic is optional. In performance testing, this engine with the manual went from zero to 60 mph in 8.2 seconds. Estimated fuel economy is below average for a small car -- the manual gets 20 mpg city/27 mpg highway and 22 mpg combined, while the automatic drops the highway number to 26 mpg.
The 2.5GT is powered by a turbocharged version of the 2.5-liter engine producing 224 hp and 226 lb-ft of torque. The four-speed automatic is the only transmission available. Its 0-60 time should be about 6.5 seconds. Fuel economy estimates are 19/24/21. The WRX has a revised version of the 2.5GT's engine that cranks out 265 hp and 244 lb-ft of torque. A five-speed manual is the lone transmission choice. Its 0-60 time in testing was a snappy 5.2 seconds, while fuel economy estimates are 18/25/21. The WRX STI gets even more boost for 305 hp and 290 lb-ft of torque. With its standard six-speed manual, the STI achieves fuel economy of 17/23/19 and, more importantly, reaches 60 mph in a blazing 4.5 seconds.
Standard on all Impreza models are antilock disc brakes, stability control, front-seat side airbags, side curtain airbags and active front head restraints to help mitigate crash-induced whiplash.
In government crash tests, the 2010 Subaru Impreza scored a perfect five stars for frontal crash protection, five stars for front occupants in a side crash and four stars for rear occupants in a side crash. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave the Impreza its highest-possible rating of "Good" in the frontal-offset and side-impact crash tests.
The base 2010 Subaru Impreza rides and handles satisfactorily for a compact car, and its tenacious all-wheel-drive grip is a boon for wet-weather driving. The naturally aspirated 2.5-liter boxer has more aural character than your typical economy-grade four-cylinder, and it delivers adequate punch when called on. The 2.5 GT is decently fast in a straight line, but its performance is perceptibly blunted by the lazy four-speed auto. Moreover, the GT is uninspiring when the road gets twisty, owing to its incongruously soft suspension.
The WRX, however, is an impressive performance machine for the money, featuring upgraded power and considerably more athletic and confidence-inspiring moves through the corners thanks to its firmer suspension and summer performance tires. The WRX STI kicks it up a few more notches via its twin limited-slip differentials, powerful Brembo brakes, six-speed manual transmission and potent rush of acceleration whenever the throttle is wide open. Ride quality on the WRX models is acceptable considering the performance, but some drivers may object to the extra levels of road noise.
Whether you opt for the sedan or hatchback, the Subaru Impreza provides a spacious cabin with loads of head- and legroom. The hatch obviously provides more cargo room, with a maximum 44 cubic feet of space. Seat comfort in the 2.5i models is only so-so, and the driving position suffers from the lack of a telescoping steering wheel (it only comes on the 2.5GT trim level and higher). The seats are also much better on the performance-oriented models, though the STIs lack lateral support relative to their rivals.
The interior design is pleasant enough and materials quality is about what you'd expect for the compact class, though it starts to seem cheap when you're paying $35,000 for the STI. Stereo and especially climate controls are simple and straightforward. Opting for the navigation system increases the complexity of the stereo, as its menus and graphics aren't the cleanest around. Sound quality, regardless of stereo, is notably poor.
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This review was written by a member of Edmunds' editorial team of expert car reviewers. Our team drives every car you can buy. We put the vehicles through rigorous testing, evaluating how they drive and comparing them in detail to their competitors.
We're also regular people like you, so we pay attention to all the different ways people use their cars every day. We want to know if there's enough room for our families and our weekend gear and whether or not our favorite drink fits in the cupholder. Our editors want to help you make the best decision on a car that fits your life.


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I remember several people telling me that only our souls go to heaven, we have no bodies, and that the trials of earth are forgotten. If that were true, I can't imagine what the point of being on earth was supposed to be.
Quote from: Traveler on September 19, 2013, 11:24:16 AMI remember several people telling me that only our souls go to heaven, we have no bodies, and that the trials of earth are forgotten. If that were true, I can't imagine what the point of being on earth was supposed to be.Someone told me that very thing at work today. She also said she could "sense her soul" especially when she is saying something that is coming out wrong but "deep inside" she knows what she means - in her soul. I asked if she knew what organ was responsible for this activity, but she was lost in babblespeak... I also asked how that was distinguished from her thoughts, but again nothing coherent. I never espoused this stuff as a believer... where does it come from, other than SPAG?
Quote from: junebug72 on September 19, 2013, 05:26:48 AMHow am I supposed to know that? I believe it is our spirits not our flesh that move on. It certainly wouldn't be heaven if our spirits were crippled.I wasn't asking about people crippled in the flesh. I was asking about mental states i.e. infantile, senile, and retarded.Do our "spirits" retain any characteristics of who we are in this life - our personas, our names, memories of our loved ones, and experiences? Quote from: junebug72 on September 19, 2013, 05:26:48 AMI don't see how a spirit could be crippled.Okay fine I get that, lets move beyond crippled. Could a person with dissociative identity disorder have multiple spirits who all end up in Heaven? Would the spirits be linked into one, or separate? Would they recognise each other? What if one of the split personalities on earth was a real badass, and the other a complete sweetie? Could sweetie get right away from the badass in Heaven?
How am I supposed to know that? I believe it is our spirits not our flesh that move on. It certainly wouldn't be heaven if our spirits were crippled.
I don't see how a spirit could be crippled.
Again....theists may not believe the soul is body-less. Heaven is whatever they want it to be.
Even an atheist should be able to come up with some sort of celestial paradise.
That is an antagonizing question. I don't think you have put any deep thought whatsoever into how Heaven would be.
Quote from: junebug72 on September 20, 2013, 06:15:25 AMThat is an antagonizing question. I don't think you have put any deep thought whatsoever into how Heaven would be. Actually, I think the exact opposite is true. I think you, Junebug, have put so little actual thought into the concept of heaven that you can't truly assess whether or not it would be good or bad to go there. You simply let your emotions tell you how great it would be. The problems that William brought up can only be considered if you think deeper. You basically responded with, "heaven is great, that's all you need to know." What is less deep than that? The questions asked are real questions that deserve an answer. There are many more.
Quote from: junebug72 on September 20, 2013, 06:15:25 AMEven an atheist should be able to come up with some sort of celestial paradise. But that would just be making it as I go along. I'm trying to find truth.
What is the imagination for?
Did you ever think if we knew the truth about heaven we'd flock there like birds and never go through this part of life? There have been many times I felt like going not even knowing with absolute certainty but believing it is better than here. What stopped me, I'll tell you what, the unknown.
That's what. If we had tour guides and brochures we'd all take that one way trip to peace. We don't though and that is why,IMO. We would not care to cure disease it would be a different life. It would have a profound effect about the way we don't live this life.
I wish I could help you find your truth I really do.
Every now and then, particularly after reading heaps of theist posts on WWGHA, I get to thinking "What if there IS a god?" But then I immediately dismiss the idea like a good atheist, the notion is ridiculous. But one thing has been bugging me for a bit now, what if there not only IS a god, but a heaven as well, and we ALL get to go there and live forever? I'm thinking, that would be awful, just plain terrible. Now don't get me wrong, I don't want to die anytime soon, I certainly don't have any sort of death-wish, but I was kinda looking forward to the eternal rest that comes with, well, being dead. Like really dead. No heaven, no hell, no limbo, no eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, just... plain... dead. Restful.Is that weird? Has this idea occurred to anyone else?
I always say what I mean. But sometimes I'm a sarcastic prick whose tone can't be properly communicated via text.
Our imaginations will find the answer if it is even findable, right?
Seems we would be in the same boat with Darwin, Einstein and Newton - our levels of experience and knowledge would be far different than theirs that we would not be happy in their company. I am in a similar situation with a Chinese wife. She does not have any common experiences before we met and there are long periods of silence, which would be filled in another relationship with an American wife.
So all this talk of seeing loved ones, at least in the sense of a loved one being a spouse - appears to be part of the erased data from our future robot memory sticks.
Natlegend, just remind her that you morally deserve that punishment. It's justice, and she should feel good that divine justice is being served to someone who, in God's eyes, is evil enough to deserve eternal torture.
neopaganCan you show me where that is it stated your memories are wiped out.


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Friday 15th December 2017
Book Club Discussion: How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes
The aim of this group is to expand your mind, be transformed by great books, great role models and positive psychology.
Book Club Guidelines
-Must source your own copy of the book (Kindle, Amazon, BookDepositiory, Audible,or library)
-Must read the book in preparation for the monthly meeting
Fee: No joining fee.
Start Time: 7.30am – 8.45am (may go longer)
Location: La Maison Café Lincoln Causeway, Gateway Island 3690
Food: Pay for your own breakfast or coffee.
What you get:
- Opportunity to discuss key learning points
- Opportunity to brainstorm ideas from each other
- Supportive safe space for you to express your opinions
- Share your story of implementing one key "ah-ha" moment
- A one page summary of key learning points to develop your own action plan
-Supportive network of likeminded people
-Investment in your personal development
-Friendly discussion on topics from the book
-Accountability of actually reading a book a month
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- Notepad and pen
- A copy of the book being reviewed.
-Supportive Attitude
- Your positive attitude and sense compassion for other entrepreneurs.
Who is the Entrepreneurs' Book Club for?
-Small business owners
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Skip to comments.'Simpsons' Producer Corrects Vatican: 'Homer Simpson is Not Catholic'
Posted on 10/22/2010 7:33:25 AM PDT by WebFocus
D'oh! The producer for television show "The Simpsons" had a holy cow after learning that the Vatican considered Homer Simpson a Catholic.
Executive producer Al Jean told Entertainment Weekly on Monday he was in "shock and awe" when he heard the assertion, saying, "I guess it makes up for me not going to church for 20 years."
The headline in the semi-official Vatican newspaper, the Osservatore Romano, recently read: Homer And Bart Are Catholic, and backed it up by arguing the family prays before meals and that the show explores issues such as family, community, education and religion in a way that few other popular television programs do.
Father Francesco Occhetta, writing in La Civilta Cattolica, said the series is not without its dangers, but that if the show is taken with a grain of salt, parents should not be afraid to let their children watch it.
The Simpsons remains one of the few TV programs for kids in which Christian faith, religion, and the question about God are recurring themes, Occhetta wrote.
But Jean told Entertainment Weekly the Vatican's analysis was a stretch.
"We've pretty clearly shown that Homer is not Catholic. I really don't think he could go without eating meat on Fridays -- for even an hour."
He also said the Simpson family attends the First Church of Springfield "which is decidedly Presbylutheran," and pointed out that Homer and Bart only considered converting in the 2005 episode.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
The Pope probably assumed Homer "mmmm beer" Simpson was Irish Catholic.
The Pope has nothing to do with this. The leftstream media wants you to gullibly think that L'Osservatore Romano speaks for the Pontiff. It doesn't. This is just the latest example of why Giovanni Maria Vian should be terminated.
No way. When have the Simpsons ever shown any guilt?
At least this article calls the paper "semi official".
Both throw their lot in with EVERY faith in a "feel good" sense and take home NONE of the messages from ANY faith.
Barack Obama holding his pocket full of idols:
Obama's lucky charms ----^
Homer quotes:
As he's walking into church (in the Simpsons' movie) "Relax, those pious morons are too busy talking to their phony-baloney god."
You are much more informed on this than I. But I was just making an Irish drinking joke, TGIF.
RE: As he's walking into church (in the Simpsons' movie) "Relax, those pious morons are too busy talking to their phony-baloney god."
I saw one episode where Homer actually repented and had the chance to speak to God.
Homer: "Lord, can you tell me what the meaning of life is?"
God: "You'll know it all when you die"
Homer: "Aww, 'cmon, why can't I know now?"
God : "You can't even wait six months?"
One of the funniest Simpsons episodes ever was when Bart and Homer started going to a Catholic Church.
Another Homer quote (when he is stuck on a plane with missionaries to a remote land):
"I don't even believe in Jeebus!"
Didn't Homer and Bart convert to Catholicism in one episode? In this episode Marge was annoyed that Heaven was boring and she demaned to speak to Jesus. Meanwhile Jesus was over in "Catholic Heaven" having the time of his life with all the great Italian food and wine, Mexican dancing and pinatas, etc.
Homer IS different than the deceiver in chief. Homer is NOT a Unitarian.
"Well, not the Unitarians. If that's the one true faith, I'll eat my hat"
Ak: "If the Lord is all-powerful, why does He care..."
2004 Interview: Obama Talks about Jesus, Heaven and Sin June 3, 2008
GG: Whos Jesus to you?
OBAMA: Right. Jesus is a historical figure for me, and hes also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And hes also a wonderful teacher. I think its important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.
GG: The conversation stopper, when you say youre a Christian and leave it at that.
OBAMA: Where do you move forward with that? This is something that Im sure Id have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. Theres the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people havent embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell.
GG: You dont believe that?
OBAMA: I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I cant imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity. Thats just not part of my religious makeup.
Jean doesn't seem to know that the no-meat-on-Fridays rule was relaxed decades ago (now it's only for Fridays in Lent).
That reminds me of the joke (from when the rule was still in effect) about the missionary who was trying to convert a tribe of cannibals. When someone came to visit and asked him if he had persuaded them to stop eating people, he said, "No, but now they only eat fishermen on Fridays."
Homer and Bart are dumb enough to be CINOs.
How DARE you insult Homer in that fashion.
Exactly! Failing that he should at least be fired.
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Sophomore running back Joe Tegan ran for a career high 131 yards and a touchdown on 21 carries, and sophomore quarterback Robbie Moyer completed seven of 19 passes for 60 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions in his first collegiate start to lead the Moravian College football team to a 24-12 Centennial Conference win at Dickinson College Saturday.
The Greyhounds earn head coach Jeff Pukszyn his first career win and improve to 1-3 overall and 1-2 in Centennial Conference action. Moravian returns home to host Ursinus College next Saturday, October 1 in the NCAA Take a Kid to the Game at Rocco Calvo Field with a 1:00 p.m. kickoff. The Red Devils fall to 1-3 overall and 1-2 in conference play as well.
Moravian received the opening kickoff and picked up two first downs including a 24-yard pass from Moyer to senior wide receiver Ray Olivo. However, two plays later, Moyer was intercepted by Dickinson senior defensive lineman Corwyn Gordon on a ball that bounced off of a Moravian player and into the air.
Dickinson would take the ball at its own 35-yard line and drive into the red zone before the Moravian defense stiffened. Senior kicker David London came on and connected on a 33-yard field goal to put the Red Devils ahead 3-0 with 7:10 to go in the first quarter.
The Greyhounds started their second drive of the game at their own 17-yard line, and Moravian looked to be stopped after three downs but a penalty kept the drive alive. The Greyhounds used Tegan on five plays during the drive as Moravian drove into the red zone. Facing a fourth-and-six at the Dickinson 13-yard line, senior kicker Ian Heck, pictured at left, came on to make a 31-yard field goal and tie the game at 3-3 with 15 seconds left in the first quarter.
Dickinson would retake the lead with another field goal on its next possession. Red Devil sophomore quarterback Todd Smolinsky completed a pair of passes on its drive, and he also picked up a first down running before London came on to make a 36-yard field goal and give Dickinson a 6-3 lead with 11:57 to go in the second quarter.
Moravian ran just three plays before junior Tyler Thompson came on to punt for the first time in the game.
The Red Devils started at their own 11-yard line and drove down to the Moravian 23-yard line. On a second-and-11, Smolinsky threw towards the end zone but Moravian sophomore defensive back Dalton Petit intercepted the pass in the end zone for a touchback.
On the fourth play of Moravian's ensuing drive, junior running back C.J. Billera fumbled the ball over to Dickinson. However, the Greyhounds would get the ball back in one play when Petit forced Red Devils' senior running back Shea Licata to fumble, and Moravian junior linebacker Jake Hildebrand covered the ball at the Dickinson 45-yard line.
The Greyhounds put together an eight-play drive to take the lead on a ten-yard touchdown pass from Moyer to Billera, Moravian's first touchdown pass of the season. Heck connected on the extra-point to put the Greyhounds ahead 10-6 with 36 seconds left before halftime. During the drive, Moravian picked up a first down on a fourth-and-four play in the red zone when Billera was stopped but flipped the ball back to Moyer, who ran for ten yards.
Dickinson started the second half with the ball and was forced to punt after picking up one first down.
Moravian's first possession of the second half began at its own 41-yard line. Tegan would carry the ball on seven of the eight plays the Greyhounds ran including a two-yard touchdown run to cap off the 59-yard drive. Heck's extra-point pushed Moravian ahead 17-6 with 8:16 to go in the third quarter.
The Red Devils ran just three plays before London came on to punt, and the Greyhounds took over at their own 45-yard line. Dickinson would get the ball back three plays later when freshman defensive back Mitch Helmadollar stepped in front of a Moyer pass and returned the interception to the Moravian 25-yard line.
The Greyhounds' defense stood up and forced Smolinsky into a pair of incomplete passes on third and fourth downs to give Moravian the ball back at the Moravian 20-yard line.
Moravian punted on its next two possessions while Dickinson's possession was ended when Smolinsky was intercepted by Greyhound junior defensive back Travis King, who returned the ball 29 yards.
The Red Devils started their first possession of the fourth quarter on the Dickinson ten-yard after a punt by Thompson. On the second play of the drive, Smolinsky was intercepted by Greyhound junior defensive back Rees Judge at the Red Devils 47-yard line, Judge's third interception of the season.
The Greyhounds went three-and-punt on their next drive, but the defense would put points on the scoreboard three plays later. Senior linebacker Doug DiMatia intercepted a pass from senior quarterback Ricky Martz at the Dickinson 31-yard line and returned it for a touchdown. Heck added the extra-point to give Moravian a 24-6 lead with 9:59 left in the contest.
Dickinson started at its own 37-yard line and put together an eight-play drive to cover the 63 yards to the end zone. Senior running back Mike Shimkin scored on a 19-yard run but London's extra-point was wide right to cut Moravian's lead to 24-12 with 7:08 to go.
The Red Devils tried an on-side kick that Moravian junior wide receiver Ryan Onushco at the Dickinson 43-yard line. The Greyhounds drove into the red zone but faced a fourth-and-five from the seven-yard line. Heck came on to attempt a 25-yard field goal but it was blocked by Gordon.
Dickinson would drive onto the Moravian side of midfield before the clock ran out on an incomplete pass by Smolinsky.
The Greyhounds ran 65 plays for 283 yards including 223 yards on 46 rushing attempts with Moyer adding 67 yards on 13 carries. Billera picked up 31 yards on ten attempts for Moravian, and he caught the touchdown pass. Olivo had three receptions for 31 yards while Onushco grabbed two passes for 12 yards.
The Red Devils gained 305 yards on 69 plays and controlled the ball for 30:07. Smolinsky completed ten of 18 passes for 90 yards, but he was intercepted three times while Martz was nine-for-11 for 56 yards with one interception. Shimkin ran for 45 yards on five carries while Smolinsky had 32 yards on seven attempts. Sophomore running back Luc Vernerey added 32 yards on six carries while sophomore running back Mike Capone added 24 yards on eight attempts. Junior wide receiver Matt Wood caught four passes for 43 yards while senior wide receiver Cam Di Fede had four catches for 42 yards.
King and junior linebacker Tyler Potterton led the Moravian defense with nine tackle with King adding an interception. Senior defensive lineman Allen Petros had eight tackles with two and a half for loss to raise his school record total to 50, and Petros added a sack to increase his career total to 23.5 sacks. Petit had seven tackles with his interception and forced fumble while Hildebrand also had seven stops with a fumble recovery and a half a tackle for loss. Senior defensive back D.J. Wacker made six tackles to go with a tackle for loss and a pass break-up.
Senior defensive back Scott Sullivan led the Dickinson defense with a game high 14 tackles with a half a tackle for loss and a break-up while sophomore linebacker Mike Miller had 13 tackles. Junior defensive back Marek Laco had seven tackles for the Red Devils.


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"Mortal Instruments" author Cassandra Clare was right.
In the week leading up to the Aug. 21 release of "The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones," the author of the series was skeptical that a sequel -- which had already been greenlighted and was supposed to begin production this month -- would actually start shooting. After all, the first film had yet to prove itself at the box office.
Sure, director Harald Zwart was already scouting locations in Toronto for "The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes," and preproduction offices were up and running. But Clare had her doubts.
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The Triangle Club is a strip club located in Northern Gardens, Bohan, in Grand Theft Auto IV.
The club was owned by Dwayne Forge before he went to prison. However, after he was arrested, the club was taken over and by 2008, it is managed by the Trunchez brothers, Javier, Jose and Jesus, who are business associates of Playboy X.
The club features two stages with poles where girls dance and a back room where the player may receive lap dances. Behind one stage there is a changing room with a pistol and a Health pick up. However, if the player enters this room, the dancers and clients will flee and the guards will attack him. There is also a shotgun in the room to the left of the entrance.
The radio station that plays inside the club is The Vibe 98.8, however, in Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, it is changed to Electro-Choc (The Crookers mix). The private room music is also changed, featuring songs from Vice City FM.
As Dwayne Forge describes: it is "a real classy place". The club have already been visited by famous internet mogul Tony McTony (who severely beat one of their strippers during sex), as well as DJ Green Lantern and the cast of America's Next Top Hooker, both part of commercial promotions.
It is one of Niko Bellic's options for outings with friends or by himself. It is also one of only two strips clubs accessible to the player (the other being the Honkers Gentlemen's Club in Alderney).
It's possible that the club is based on the Sin City Cabaret Club, a famous strip club in The Bronx, NY.
Prominent appearances
The Triangle Club is the setting of the Mission, "Undress to Kill". In this mission, Niko Bellic offers to ambush the Triangle Club and kill the managers for Dwayne Forge. After Niko returns ownership of the club to Dwayne, he becomes grateful to Niko. However, since the Trunchez brothers were associates of Playboy X, he becomes angry at Niko after this mission.
- "Triangle" is a slang term for vagina.
- If the player walks next to the changing room or near it, the strippers will still run out, but the security guards will not attack the player.
- The building that the strip club is based in is presumably a refurbished series of commercial/industrial buildings, on which painted signage from its previous owners are still visible, albeit faded. The signs include "Discount Wholesale (est. 1899)", "Richard Bros." and "You'll like our finest ointment and cure all creme! It's Hana's Relief, try it!" (a pun on the sexual act of a handjob).
- In Undress to Kill, since the Trunchez Brothers are killed, the club is returned to Dwayne. However, it is unknown who assumes ownership of the club if Dwayne is killed in The Holland Play.
- Both the neon signage on the side of the building, and the pole mounted sign resemble the lower half of a female torso (just below the breast line, which is formed by the upper part of the sign) and the upper thigh area (formed by the lower part of the sign). On both sets of signage, there is a triangle situated around the 'groin' area which denotes a manicured area of pubic hair. Note that this area of 'pubic hair' on the signs is identically shaped to the Triangle Club's official logo. This proves that the Triangle reference is, in fact, cued to a given style of the female genitals.
- The dances at the Triangle Club are slightly more intricate than the ones at the Honkers Gentlemen's Club. The woman there use the poles more often and in an acrobatic fashion. The reason for this is unknown, but the building's larger layout may contribute to this.
- In TBoGT, if the player is attacking the FDLC building down the hill from the strip club, guards from the strip club will come attack the player along with the Police.
- In the beta version of GTA IV the logo was different, however in Chinatown Wars it remains the same as it was in the early versions of GTA IV.
- The security guard outside of the club will often go out of his way to attack the player far away from the club, should the player fire a weapon or get into fights with local gang members.


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Max Exposure Combine - Shane has speed
Here's a brief rundown of the Adidas Maximum Exposure Combine at SilverDome. Shane had some position struggles but surprised everyone with his speed for a pocket passer. 4.7 forty ... not delithium, but great for a pro-style guy and 4.06 in the shuttle.
Nate Bossory (Manchester, MI) opens some scout's eyes. May be some future Big 10 battles with Shane.


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Image courtesy of Shelby County Register of Deeds
An aerial view of Barret's Chapel Cemetery
I've never met Tom Leatherwood, the Register of Deeds for Shelby County, and that's a shame because it's obvious that the man (or somebody on his staff, at least) is a history buff.
Now normally, you go to the Register of Deeds website to look up records of births, deaths, marriages, divorces, and other legal documents. But over the years, Mr. Leatherwood has supplemented these important resources with an astonishing array of photographs, books, and other documents of great interest to local historians.
For example, you can find photos of old Shelby County schools, listen to transcripts of the courtroom trial of James Earl Ray, pore through pages and pages of city directories from the late 1880s to the mid-1940s, and so much more. Heck, you can even look over the "Shelby County Milk Supply Reports, 1920-1958" or read the journal entries of the time that Hugo Dixon (of The Dixon Gallery and Gardens) was in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II.
But now, you can even "fly over" every cemetery in Shelby County, large and small, because somebody has taken the trouble to add these images to the Register's website. I have to admit that I wasn't familiar with all of these burial grounds. Who knew there was a graveyard called "Holly Hills Country Club Cemetery," for example? But now that I've seen these places from the air, I plan to hop in my Auto-Gyro and visit each and every one of them, just to see what interesting gravestones can be found in them.
And believe me, an aerial view of a graveyard is much better than seeing it from the opposite direction.
Go here to explore all that Tom Leatherwood and his hard-working staff have to offer. And on behalf of all the historians in Shelby County, I say THANK YOU, TOM.


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Wind for Schools Project Enters 2013 with 124 Turbine Installations and Lessons to Share: A Wind Powering America Success Story
January 28, 2013
On January 14-15, 2013, Wind Powering America hosted its Sixth Annual Wind for Schools Summit at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Forty-six attendees representing the 11 official Wind for Schools states and various stakeholders met to discuss ways to further improve the Wind for Schools network in the established states and to increase the overall impact of the program.
Wind for Schools project states had a productive year in 2012. The Wind Applications Centers helped to install 30 small wind turbines at schools across the country, resulting in a total of 124 installations in the project's fifth year. Nebraska, one of the original six Wind for Schools states, installed seven turbines, increasing the state's total to 25 public school installations since 2008. According to Associate Director Joel Jacobs of the Nebraska Wind Applications Center, the Nebraska Wind for Schools project has had an estimated impact on 8% of the state's public school students since its implementation in FY08. Facing the end of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) funding, the Nebraska team will take a different approach, focusing on communications for the installed turbines rather than new installations.
"We're working on building code through LabView and trying to get that deployed," Jacobs said. "We'll see how far that goes and how successful that is. If we get that done, it will be a great benefit. It will take a lot of weight off our shoulders."
Arizona also had multiple installations in 2012, with eight turbines installed at four schools, bringing the state's total installations to 13 in a 2-year period. According to Karin Wadsack, state facilitator for the Arizona Wind for Schools project and research assistant at Northern Arizona University, multiple factors are involved in establishing a successful project. These factors include funding and teacher participation, but perhaps most notable, the proximity of the Wind Applications Center to the host schools plays an important role.
"Proximity is a big thing," Wadsack said. "I have university students helping with the education component. When they have class, we can't go to a school that's 3 hours away. When a school is close, it's much easier to be in the classroom. At Ponderosa High, which has a turbine and is in Flagstaff, I probably spent 2 weeks last semester teaching in their classes."
Colorado's Wind for Schools project accessed Supplemental Environmental Project (SEP) funding that ensured an additional four installations in the state. The SEP was designed as a mechanism to provide entities with an alternative to paying fines for noncompliance with environmental laws. Instead of paying the entire fine amount, the entity can choose to fund environmentally friendly projects. While SEP funding is not a guaranteed annual source of funding, it is a success for the Colorado Wind for Schools team, which also faces the end of DOE funding.
Michael Kostrzewa, director of the Colorado Wind Application Center, worked with the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to submit a proposal that would eventually secure $112,000 in funding.
"I had proposed that we could put a turbine in for $25,000," Kostrzewa said. "The CDPHE informed me that a violator (an entity in violation of environmental standards) with $112,000 was interested in our program, and they asked us to work out a formal budget for that amount. It was the right match of something in place and knowing how the system worked and a desire to do something. It worked well for this case, but it's not a consistent long-term plan."
In addition to state updates and sharing lessons learned, the Summit featured a session focusing on the need for and future of reliable data logging, which will allow schools to utilize historical and live data from all turbines in the Wind for Schools network. Other agenda topics included business development for Wind Application Centers, a wind industry and Production Tax Credit update, applying social media, and student and teacher curricula.
The group also discussed the future of the Wind for Schools project, including a possible program expansion and changes that may be implemented to aid in the success of new Wind for Schools states.
Established in 2005 to raise awareness in rural America about the benefits of wind energy while simultaneously developing a wind energy workforce and knowledge base in future leaders of our communities, states, and nation, the Wind for Schools project was originally supported through funding and technical assistance from DOE. It is currently supported in 11 states (Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Carolina, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Virginia).
More information about the Wind for Schools project is available on the Wind Powering America website.


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