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Trying to explain your passion for aviation to someone who doesn't share it is a lot like trying to describe being in love to someone who has never been there. Words just can't convey the depth of the emotion.
Brian J. Terwilliger, producer/director of the full length documentary "One Six Right, the Romance of Flying," comes about as close as a person can get to showing the romance of aviation without strapping the audience into a cockpit and firing up the engine.
The feature-length documentary tells the story of Van Nuys Airport (VNY) near Los Angeles, touted as the busiest general aviation airport in the country.
"Van Nuys is my home airport. It is where I got my ticket and did all my training and I still fly out of there," explains Terwilliger, who is part owner of a Cessna 182. "I'm just fascinated with that airport. It's got quite a diversity of airplanes, from T-38s to 1930s-era biplanes to business jets and everything in between. It is like an air show every day. Also, there is a lot of history at the airport and it was worth telling the story."
The name of the film comes from one of the runways at the airport.
Terwilliger spent the past 10 years in the movie industry exploring all the jobs that take a movie from an idea to a feature on the silver screen.
"I want to learn as many aspects of the craft as I can to be an intelligent and effective producer," he says. "I have learned you have to have good relationships with people."
Those good relationships are key, he says, because they help you obtain the financial backing you need to make a movie.
"Movies are an investment," Terwilliger explains. "In order to make 'One Six Right' I had to convince people that I needed a lot of money and that this was a good investment. You also need to be able to make the money back. That is the most important part of the process."
Terwilliger vowed that he was not going to cut corners on the movie, something that is easy to do when you are producing a documentary.
"I never wanted to say 'I ran out of time or I ran out of money' because I worked too hard on this," he said. "I put five years of my life into it."
He managed to raise half a million dollars.
The next step was finding people to appear in the film. He wanted not only pilots, but also air traffic controllers, airport officials and mechanics. He also invited many "celebrity" pilots, such as actor/pilot Lorenzo Lamas and local television news personalities to appear in the movie.
"The ones who were more accessible are the ones you see in the film. Some didn't even get back to me!" he says with a laugh.
Because it is a documentary, there was no script. The people who appear are asked questions, similar to the way television news interviews are done. That made it challenging to film, says Terwilliger, "because I don't think a lot of people understood what I was doing. They didn't know what the movie was going to be like at the end or if I was going to use their interview or what. Unlike an actor in a movie who has a script and plays a part, there was no script. I tried to give them a sketch of what I was going for, but a lot of them were in the dark."
The movie delves into the history of the airport, which was actually shut down for a time during World War II as a security precaution, the post-war reopening and evolution into a general aviation hub.
One of the more controversial aspects of the film is how noise issues are addressed.
It is understood that noise is part of an airport. This is demonstrated as several people stop mid-interview, interrupted by aircraft noise.
"It is a very sensitive subject," Terwilliger says. "People who saw earlier cuts of the film were concerned that I included that, but I said 'it's honest!' To me it was a big deal because it acknowledges that airplanes make noise. Noise is the factor that people who don't appreciate the value of the airport or misunderstand it will harp on. Part of the solution is airport users admitting that there is a problem and trying to see the other side of the issue."
Terwilliger sees the movie as a way to open up channels of communication between airport users and airport detractors.
"The feature is very good at communicating what we love about aviation," he says. "I want people to watch it with the decision-makers in their communities, like their congressmen, city council, whoever.
"The noise scene is necessary because it acknowledges the airport detractor's point of view. If that scene was not in there, they would resent the movie as a puff piece."
The movie does such a good job of explaining airport operations and the role general aviation plays in the world that the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association bought a copy of the DVD for every private pilot in Congress.
"They also bought 1,700 copies for all Airport Support Network volunteers in the country and will be sending them out soon," says Terwilliger.


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Indigos is a label associated with recent generations of individuals born around the globe. They were originally seen and identified by Nancy Ann Tappe (1931-2012) as a part of the color system which evolved from her synesthetic perceptions. Nancy's lifetime work with the science of color has persuaded her and thousands of others that color is one language that can be used to distinguish and identify elements of the human personality.
Indigos bring change to every level of the human experience through their universal task: to globalize humanity through technology. Their energy today is constantly changing and fast, almost hyperactive. Technology is an innate talent and skill for them; cellphones are an extension of their body.
There are four groups or types of Indigo: Humanists, Artists, Conceptualists, and Catalysts. Each type is described more fully on this site.
Indigo was only one of twelve life colors that Nancy Tappe has seen her entire life in the human electromagnetic energy field. Originally Nancy saw eleven colors, but that changed in the late 1960's and early 1970's when she noticed another color among infants. She called it indigo, a color between blue and violet in the color spectrum. It took her forty years to identify and clarify consistent patterns of Indigo behavior and influence. Her information system about life colors came from her study of color and the human personality.
Nancy's form of synesthesia was very rare; she saw color and tasted shape. The reader can find more information about Nancy herself and her perceptions on her own website. Another fascinating synesthete is Derek Amato, recently featured on Ingenious Minds. Derek crosses sound and shape, seeing / composing his music via a constantly streaming series of black and white squares.
Today scientists around the world are studying synesthesia to determine how it affects the minds and bodies of those who have this strange and wonderful brain trait. They are finding that synesthesia is becoming more common, now affecting as many as one in twenty people. Neuroscientists are racing to find the genetic link since it usually runs in families.
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Patrick Wilson is a dapper gentleman while attending the 2013 Critics' Choice Television Awards held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday (June 10) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 39-year-old actor was seen posing on the red carpet with his wife Dagmara Dominczyk.
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Patrick is nominated for his appearance on the HBO show Girls, going up against Melissa Leo, David Lynch, Bob Newhart, Patton Oswalt, and Molly Shannon.
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Misty May-Treanor said it was surreal to return to Ensign Intermediate School in Newport Beach on Thursday, where she spoke to students and answered questions.
The three-time Olympic gold medalist had not been on the campus since graduating to Newport Harbor High School, "many moons ago."
The school holds a special place in her heart, she said. Ensign was the first school she attended when her family moved to Orange County from Muscle Beach in Santa Monica.
"From the moment we moved to Orange County my eighth-grade year, I felt like an outsider," May-Treanor says in her 2010 autobiography, "Misty: Digging Deep in Volleyball and Life."
The beach volleyball legend told Ensign students how sports played a valuable part in her transition and helped her establish lifelong friendships.
There was a time when May-Treanor wasn't all about beach volleyball. She also excelled in soccer. At Ensign, she began competing in track and field, which she said was fun.
"I'm here today because you never can forget where you come from," May-Treanor, 35, said in a brief interview before speaking to students. "To be able to come back where my transition to Orange County happened is special."
Joey Fuschetti, a physical education teacher at Ensign and a local club volleyball coach, asked May-Treanor to speak at Ensign.
May-Treanor, who teamed with Kerri Walsh Jennings to win three straight Olympic gold medals in beach volleyball, first arrived at the school's office, where she posed for photos with office staff and a few students. A girl from Aliso Viejo said she ditched class to go to Ensign to meet May-Treanor.
"I don't think you should tell these people that," joked May-Treanor, who brought an apt photo prop: her gold medal from last year's Olympics, held in London.
She later showed the medal during one of two school assemblies in the gym, saying, "This is some serious bling. Flava Flav has nothing on this."
Eighth-grader Bobby McCracken, the school president, along with seventh-grader Claire Covina, helped organize a few questions to ask May-Treanor, known as the most successful female beach volleyball player ever. She has 107 championship wins in domestic and international competition.
"It's a huge honor," said Bobby, who plays water polo and was excited to meet an Olympic gold medalist. "I was very nervous. I'm glad I got the opportunity to ask her questions."
Among the questions the students asked was this one: What was it like to win that third gold medal?
"It was quite emotional," said May-Treanor, who has retired from competition and is pursuing a coaching career. "I'm not usually a loud person, mostly quiet. But when we won I let out a primal yell. I think it was more about relief than anything. I knew it was over and time to start a new chapter in my life."
May-Treanor offered different types of advice, ranging from, "cherish every minute you have," to "if you're going to jive with anybody, be sure to stretch."
The latter was in reference to her stint on "Dancing with the Stars" in 2008, when she ruptured her Achilles tendon while practicing the jive. She also came back from a knee-ligament tear in 2001. Injuries don't mean the end for a sports career, she told the students.
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In an older post I just came across over at The Sexist, there's a great discussion about the idea of "having a thick skin" in the context of male-dominated workplaces as well as street harassment. We've talked about this stuff before; it relates to the dismissing tactic of calling women "over-sensitive." Sexist reader Chloe Angyal writes about her graduate research into women working on Wall Street trading floors. I'm having a tough time not just copying her whole post over, it's really great…. but here's the final point, which really hit home for me:
The irony is that these women don't need to call attention to the fact that they're women — they're being sexually harassed for that very reason. Women who accept sexual harassment, be it at work or on the street, have "thick skin†and are "reasonable.†Women who don't are "victims†who "can't hack it.†At work women are faced with two equally unpleasant choices: suffer harassment or discrimination in silence, or speak up and be branded a thin-skinned victim who makes all the other women look bad. On the street, speaking up comes with the added danger of a physical attack. It's a no-win situation that we face on the way to work, on the way home, and every moment in between. "Thick skin,†as handy a survival method as it might be, is not a solution: the solution is to change the acceptability of harassment and discrimination.
In the comments, Occam makes a great point about how this relates to the policing of women's boundaries:
This is a great point about how the choice is between "thick skinned†women or women who "make themselves the victimâ€. This cast actually punishes women who set and define their boundaries as "victimsâ€, when in fact setting and defining boundaries is the opposite of victim behavior. In fact, those rewarded in a male dominated environment are the people who refuse to draw a line at objectionable behavior. It's another case of rewarding women who allow themselves to be dominated, and punishing women who expect to be treated with respect.


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"With extreme specialization, have we created our own professional prisons, locking ourselves in chains of boredom? Engineers are by nature curious creatures and you need only look at most IT resumes for evidence. The two-year job-hopper is common in this field, because an individual will simply run out of challenges in most IT departments."
We definitely live in interesting times!
"...the security industry needs to do more to connect with children in primary and secondary school, as well as expand partnerships with universities. In addition to providing more mentoring, internships, and apprenticeships, the security industry needs to work with universities to create curricula that are nimble enough to respond to a rapidly changing industry."
In a similar vein, Dave Piscitello, VP Security at ICANN wrote recently about the need for more liberal arts education on the resumes of InfoSec job candidates:
"I work in InfoSec alongside respected colleagues who earned philosophy, physics, psychology, and political science degrees. I recently met former concert and improv flautists who are rock-solid privacy experts. STEM-centric education won't fill the short-horizon shortfall of cybersecurity talent -- and my head spins when I imagine the unintended consequences over the long term."
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Let me start out by stating that the CCC does its best to maintain a level playing field. They log many hours of research, calculation and discussion and they don't make rule decisions lightly. Whether we like it or not there will be "casualties" after every whack-a-mole exercise. And yes you could consider it an honor to have you car whacked IF you're the one who drove it to that fate. The converse, well not such an honor.
In order to shed some light on the mole whacking effects to the CRX here are my 2014 classification calculations:
- My 1991 CRX 2013 Car Classification was T1 @ 58.7 Final PI
- At the same prep-level according to 2014 rules my CRX is in T1 @ 55.5 Final PI (starting PI of 52.9 + 1.5 Pips for whack-a-mole + 1.1 Pips fudge factor)
- I cannot make my CRX faster without a swap or forced induction so I would be forced to put the passenger seat and door panels back in to drop 1 Pip for a T2 classification @ 54.5 Final PI
- I think I could be competitive in T2 for a top 10 Overall finish and maybe if I'm lucky contend for an Overall win sometime during the season.
So despite the whacking to my CRX I still benefit from the new classification approach. Sadly, the CRX and I will most likely part ways next season since I plan to run in a Scion FRS.
Keep up the good work guys.
CarGuy - Subaru BRZ #57
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I think this is what Corey was asking for and requesting his car be data logged so it could be taken into account per the calculations. I have actually done real calculations and posted the trends in graphs which although did not change the power index, at least added weight giving a similar effect.
What is this years research and calculation based on that validates the changes? Acceleration, handling? If God came down and drove a stock mazda 2 to victory in sgt3, would it be whacked? I think that is the question that desperately needs a clear answer so people can stop complaining and accept the series and how it works as a lot of anger stems from the false perception that cars are categorized for their undisputable actual performance capability.
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Instead, I believe (let a CCC member correct me if I'm off base here) the calculations that occur every year involve some sort of regression analysis on the results for the top drivers in each class. If you draw a line through the results by class for each track then the resulting line(s) should have a slope that is almost the same as a line with pax factors by class. So for a given class, driver and car combination if there are results way above the line on a consistent basis then you have a mole because there is a driver seriously beating the class pax factor on a regular basis. After finding a mole you have to test the assumption that the performance potential of the mole car is in fact greater than the performance potential of the other cars in that class (here you have to make sure the prep-level of the compared cars is known i.e. optimized or not). It isn't perfect but it helps level the playing field.
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Good discussion guys, but shoukd move this off the FAQ thread.
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Pierre, I am with you except for the part of too time consuming to compare datalogs. I was forced to use the cc data logger in 2012 at Shanny to see if I was cheating or if the mustang was a mole. That information never was used to my knowledge presumably because it was already decided to bump it 10hi...
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I agree with Ujjwal that it is a relevant FAQ, and that closing perception / reality gaps is going to be a positive outcome for participating members.
For example, two participating members have just have described techniques such as datalogger analysis and regression analysis that they believe are considered relevant for between season car adjustment. In reality, neither technique is used, and "overperformance" is currently defined solely by relative score for a weekend weighed against how much credit the car setup or driver gets.
Keep up the discussion - we need to have this thread deleted so someone that still lives in the region can re-make it
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Data logging is great if you want to see what a car's acceleration is and is a very good alternative to dyno pulls and MEG calculation.
OTOH it is pretty useless at coming up with a car's overall PI. How many of you folks thing a Dodge hemi in a 4200 lb car is going to do well? How about compared to a similar wgt AMG Mercedes or S series Audi?
If the basic car classification was so simple, I'm quite sure there would be no mole whacking and the adjusting index (Handling Index) would seem more appropriate. (I would remind you that in many series including AutoX to CTCC to Grand Am, cars are arbitrarily assigned a class and yet some cars seem to shine more than others). Our aim is to take the shine off some of these winning cars and make other cars more competitive so that hopefully we don't have repeats of crazy dominating CAR performance (SN95 Mustang in T1comes to mind).
The point is, the deciding factor for mole whacking is results, not data logging. One driver in a car doing well, may well indicate a wonderful driver. Two drivers in the same car doing well makes the base car classification look much more potentially erroneous. In the case of Fox bodied Mustangs, in 2011, if Salmaan had run one more event, we would have had 3 similar Mustangs in the top 7 cars. Could be all 3 were exceedingly well prepared and driven but I'm not aware of any other cars coming close to that sort of distribution with the possible exception of the C5Z. (Do any of you remember the whining and complaining about raising the SN95 base PI from T1 ,just to find that an SN95 car won overall and GT4 the next year and despite being whacked again could STILL stay in GT4 but with fewer mods for 2013?)
Obviously looking at results only means we are always looking in the rear view mirror but we occasionally try to anticipate that if one car needs to be whacked, then other similar cars do as well. Hence the increase to ALL Mustangs and Camaros for 2013, not as much as the still very competitive SN95 Mustang but at least a move in the right direction.
The final point is that in reality, moving a car a few points rarely makes that much difference unless a car is at very top of a class in which case moving it up is precisely the aim of the CCC. None of the mole whacking done this year forces anyone to move classes.(They might have to add back in a bit of removed wgt etc but nothing drastic to get down to the same class as last year).
And as for those of you who are Obsessive Compulsive about this, 1.5 PIPs is equivalent to about 0.3 to 0.4 seconds per track and I am quite sure that is within your lap to lap delta, at least over the day.
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Frank - OTA #259 retired. I'm in BC now!
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I'm coming out this year to at least some events, and I'm starting to think through how I'm going to prepare the heap I'm going to run. One thing I'd like to get sorted is a car number. Who can assign me one - Region office or the Series Director? I'd like to keep the number I use in winter for Ice Racing (149), but I guess you take what you can get. Can someone let me know?
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Welcome! You will need to get the number from Gwoody27, registrar. Or ontariotimeattack [at] gmail [dot] com
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Thanks, I'll send a PM. Stay tuned for more questions, as I am going to get started once ice race season is over in a couple of weeks.
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Sleek & Sexy E-Cigs Appeal to Women More Than Their Stat's & Spec'sThe cover of the inaugural issue of VAPE News Magazine caught my eye more than anything else at Vapefest, the vaping convention held in Las Vegas last weekend (Sept. 20-21, 2013).
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Forget the e-cig spec's. Show me more women who vape.
A gorgeous woman with long dark hair and a knowing smile holding a personal vaporizer (PV) stared back at me.
She was proud, confident, beautiful, sexy. She epitomized what I think is so cool about vaping: it's appealing to young women, many of whom are social smokers who are trading traditional cigarettes for the hipper, healthier (and cheaper) alternative.
Now I'm a woman (and yes, I'm heterosexual) and yet this image really appealed to me. And I'm pretty sure that it doesn't just appeal to other women, but to men, too.
Yet at Vapefest, what I mostly saw were lots and lots of gizmo's – gizmo's with spec's. I glazed over and tuned out. Now I'm not stupid, but as a woman, what appealed to me the most were the pretty colors. And the beautiful women there who were catching onto vaping.
What's also fascinating about Vapefest was that it was largely male-dominated. I felt like I fit in here about as well as I did the last time I was in Las Vegas for the community banking convention. NOT well.
|This is more typical of what I saw at Vapefest. Gadget-overload!
Both conventions attracted mostly men, but the Vapefest participants were largely young, brawny, tattooed and pierced, with huge PV's the size of bongs hanging from lanyards around their necks.
My boyfriend had nothing to be worried about.
As a casual vaper whose mission is to reach young women who are social smoking and offer them the best e-cigarette starter kits for casual smokers, I was a bit of an anomaly at Vapefest.
So is the Vaping Vamps product: an elegant black e-cigarette you can hold between your index and middle fingers, just like the cigarettes we're trying to rid the world of. I didn't see any of the smaller, lighter 510 e-cigarette batteries for sale here.
And these guys were speaking a whole other language.
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sweet and dissipated immediately into the air.
We could've been at an engineering or an electronics convention. These vapor-spewing gear-heads loved to boast about how many PV's they had, and would gladly regale you with the specifications of the latest and greatest PV's they were buying: eGo-C Twist 1000 mAh, etc.
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You should definitely read the book called "The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google" by Nicholas Carr.
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The book is about the change landscape of the web, how computing is becoming a utility that is done more and more on the cloud computer or world wide computer (as opposed to using your personal computer software, etc.). He talks a lot about how the transhumanists promote these changes as utopian (no single authority, information freely available to everyone), but how in fact people subconsciously self-select their information. The result is greater segregation and less tolerance and understanding of opposing viewpoints, etc.
It's scary, really. I think this explains why the Christian theological, apologetic, and politcal landscape and community is becoming more divided rather than unified.
The book is about technology rather than science, per se. However, I think it would be worth discussing this list.
As much as I usually like your comments here, I have to object a bit. We already had over 2000 denominations in this country even before the internet. How much more fragmented could we really get, on the one hand?
On the other hand, doesn't the Babel story tell us that bigness and unity is what we should fear, if we fear anything? (Personally I've pretty much had it with fear - I stood at a plate glass window 40 stories up the other day and I felt that twinge of natural fear that you feel when you are 400 feet high with nothing under you. I decided to stand there and look down until it went away - after a few minutes, it did. Then I wished I had a key to the roof and my old hang glider.)
If the Christians got united, wouldn't they likely unite around some strange attractor, some charismatic (in the general, not theological sense) person who would lead them on some weird crusade?
Unless of course the one who united them was Jesus. But you get that kind of unity by praying for it and going about doing what you're led to do. A little persecution would go a long way in inducing it, but I'm not crazy enough to ask for that.
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The Institute for Supply Management's report on the U.S. factory sector is due at 10:00 a.m. ET. Economists expect the sector to have expanded at a slightly slower pace in November than it did the month before. As with many economic reports this one could be distorted by Hurricane Sandy, which ravaged the densely-populated Eastern Seaboard.
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But back to Tanning Mom. There's no doubt that TM looks older than your average 44-year-old. But there are other factors besides the sun involved how one ages. Hollywood is filled with spectacular-looking women in their 50s, who likely wouldn't have used SPFs during tanning sessions in their teens.
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A Q-tip couldn't push Montee Ball further inside Peyton Manning's head.
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"Playing with No. 18 back there, he is capable of making any check at anytime with two seconds on the play clock," Ball said. "You have to be able to comprehend it and react to it. I am really studying the playbook, and watching film and making my own checks to see what he might do."
Thinking along with Manning carries the risk of frustration. Paint with Van Gogh, and it's not easy to connect the dots without blotching colors. As a rookie last year, Ball realized in training camp that he could handle the physical nature of the NFL. The mental challenge jarred him, though, and the light bulb did not stop flickering until Week 12 of the season. He began anticipating Manning's audibles, a necessary skill to not only exploit off-balance defensive fronts but pick up blitzes.
"I started playing better then," said Ball, knowing that allowing free shots on Manning is a free pass to the Denver bench. "I wish that it had happened earlier. I always tell myself, imagine what it would have been like had I begun like this."
Ball, 23, lost three fumbles last season — but only one after Week 3. He scored four times over his final nine regular-season games, and posted a career-best 117 yards rushing against the Chiefs on Dec. 1. The glimpses of production explain why the Broncos have faith in Ball and didn't pursue a veteran replacement for Knowshon Moreno, who signed with the Dolphins as a free agent.
"He made big strides," Gase said of Ball. "He'd probably be the one guy who made the most improvement. And to see him make the next jump in his second year, we're looking forward to that. We do have a lot of confidence in him. He brings that full package of a good running back. Running the ball, catching the ball out of the backfield, and protecting."
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ARCHITECTURE- Gulf Coast rebuild: Form should follow function
Like reports from a war zone, the news from New Orleans and the rest of the Gulf Coast doesnt quite capture the reality on the ground.
You cant exaggerate the situation down there, says UVA architecture professor John Quale. I thought I would be prepared when I visited Mississippi in March, but I was not at all prepared. It looked like the storm had just gone through.
We hear a lot about celebrities raising money for the Gulf Coast, about architects dreaming up fantastic new ways to rebuild New Orleans, but not much about what actually needs to be done.
Fixing sewer systems, inspecting buildings, doing paperwork, connecting traffic lights, figuring out budgets, digging ditches, working through the legislative process– all the jobs that civil servants do to make a community run just arent as exciting as Bruce Springsteen dissing the prez and singing a special song for the Crescent City.
How do you take the ordinary things and make them seem glamorous? UVA architecture professor William Morrish wonders. If you dont have basic services, you cant get things done. As an architect, Im thinking, Wow, I could design a lot of nice, beautiful buildings down here, but who's going to deliver the materials? Whos going to inspect the building? How do I get a building permit?
We should be saying we have to totally rebuild New Orleans, and it will cost billions, and it will take us 10 years, Morrish says bluntly. Thats the scale of the disaster. Thats the kind of commitment needed to truly address the situation down there.
Quale and Morrish, along with other UVA architecture faculty members, have been doing a lot lately to address those realities. Morrish shot to fame two years ago when he was a finalist for the design of New York's Freedom Tower. An urban and environmental planner as well as an architect, he now serves on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagins rebuilding committee, while Quale and his students are set to build an experimental modular house in Mississippi.
In addition, lecturer Elizabeth Roettger has led students on a trip to help clear debris in the devastated area, while faculty members Maurice Cox and Robin Dripps took their graduate students down to survey the situation and come up with design solutions.
Processes were destroyed, not just houses, says Morrish. Its still just a carcass of a city, and theres no one there to do the ordinary things to make a community work.
Morrish points out that the sewer and water system is still not functioning well, and that water supply itself could be an issue. And then theres the leveestrying to figure out how to rebuild them and where to get the money.
So far, its Quales project, though small in scale, that seems the most hopeful. Instead of studying the situation, or coming up with designs that may or may not get built, Quale and his students are actually building a house in Gautier, Mississippi in late May in coordination with Habitat for Humanity.
In fact, its a project that got its practical start right here in Charlottesville. As the Hook reported last December, Quales ecoMOD design-build project resulted in the construction of a modular low-cost, high-efficiency home in the Fifeville neighborhood. The 1,290-square-foot, three bedroom modular house on 7-1/2 Street was put together in UVA's Milton Airport hanger by Quale and his students, then trucked to the location and craned onto the foundation.
"Unlike most architectural programs," Quale says, "in which students pursue their own design goals and rarely see their work leave the page, this project required them to check their egos and work as a team." Over the course of a year, Quale's students collaborated on the design, then actually built it last summer.
In addition to an open, light-filled floor plan, which makes it seem bigger than it actually is, the house also has structural insulated panels that bolster its energy efficiency. Now, Quale and his students plan to use the same idea, and the same practical, can-do attitude, to build a similar kind of house in Mississippi.
After Katrina hit, says Quale, We got to expand the ecoMOD project. I came up with some schematic designs, then handed them off to my students.
Working within the strict budget that Habitat gave them, Quale and his students set about designing a modular house that would feel larger than it was, withstand the elements, and save energy. By increasing ceiling heights to give a perception of largeness, inserting exterior space into the mass of the building, and using a new insulated panel material called thermasteel, Quale believes theyve come up with a winner.
The thermasteel panels are very lightweight, but very strong, says Quale. They can resist hurricane winds and wont rot if the house gets flooded. In addition, the lightweight steel bays are filled with a foam that makes the house very energy efficient.
Though Habitat isnt accustomed to building such contemporary looking houses, Quale hopes the organization will come around to seeing the benefits, both aesthetic and practical, of building these kinds of modular houses, especially since Habitat is planning to build a warehouse where modular housing is assembled, says Quale.
Habitat told us that people dont want these contemporary designs, says Quale, but I think they do. The project in Fifeville proved that.
Still, Quale thinks that architectural solutions should have their limits when its comes to the larger task of rebuilding the area. For example, he is critical of those pushing an aesthetic agenda on the people of Mississippi, of turning the devastated areas into an experiment in new urbanism.
He singles out new urbanism co-founder Andres Duany, whose firm Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour has asked to coordinate the rebuilding of 11 Gulf Coast towns. Indeed, a press release on Duanys website describes a taskforce of 100 New Urbanists descending on the Mississippi coast to improve Mississippi built landscape and revamp building and development codes.
Theyre trying to impose this new design on Mississippi, says Quale, instead of letting people decide what they want. Tying in aesthetics with urban planning is a recipe for disaster.
John Quale
PHOTO by dan addison
ecoMOD2: UVA architecture faculty and students hope their modular house design will help rebuild the Gulf Coast
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|Contest 2: Meaning of 72 Virgins, Deadline February 3rd, 2007
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Subject: Meaning of 72 Virgins
Contest Deadline: February 2nd, 2007
I have had many people joke about the idea of getting 72 virgins in trade for committing an act of martyrdom or fighting in the cause of Allah. On a recent network TV show about Heaven, Barbara Walters interviewed a suicide bomber whose bomb turned out to be a dud, he said the translation of "72 virgins" is like saying "Hundreds" of virgins"...
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What is the real meaning of 72 virgins?
"Each time we sleep with a houri we find her virgin. Besides, the penis of the Elected never softens. The erection is eternal; the sensation that you feel each time you make love is utterly delicious and out of this world and were you to experience it in this world you would faint. Each chosen one [ie Muslim] will marry seventy [sic] houris, besides the women he married on earth, and all will have appetizing vaginas."
Al-Suyuti, 16th Century Orthodox Muslim theologian
Though the unfettered, gratifitory appeal undoubtedly ensued by that of eternal erections and appetizing vaginas may be too side-strickingly, dumbfoundingly, gloriously brimming with beautiful prominence for some to second guess such a grandiose portrayal of ones celesensual patriarchal brownie-point badge redemption system; let us delve further shall we? Why, be it with appetizing vaginas in play one scarcely need tell the good doctor twice! Hold close unto me thus reader, such truths must be uncovered, they must be grasped and squeezed and fully inspected as some succulent fruit; penetrated to their very center for the intellectual qualities held within their folds. Heed my call, come with me dear reader, let us come together, let us venture forth on a magical journey, digging deep into the splayed contents of fact and myth. It will be kick-ass.
A houri refers to that of a dark-eyed, pure, female being. According to The Koran all good Muslim Slaves of God will be rewarded with seventy-two of them when they enter heaven along with eighty-thousand servants. Eighty-thousand. Yeah. Considering these guys are mastered by a horny towel-rod with a perpetual boner and a lions share of divinely spawned sex nymphets, Im betting they see a lot of downtime. Anyway, as it would turn out, blowing yourself up into a million perfume-oiled, fleshy pieces isnt a pre-requisite. What it is, however, is an honorable death and a clever little shortcut to ensure the prize of your worldly/unworldly desires. Leave it to human ingenuity to find a loophole.
Heres the catch though- the ancient texts all state seventy-two hurs- nothing is mentioned of seventy-two houris. Accordingly, this is seen as some sort of typographical error or misinterpretation as the case might be by those who would choose to do so What is a hur you ask? Well seeing as the Islamic heaven is often referred to as a garden this would make a little more sense- A hur is interpreted as, in a great many instances of it appearance in The Koran, (get this) a white raisin. Thats right, seventy-two (or a much larger, countless number depending on who you ask) damn raisins. Nothing is mentioned of a juice box and a bib. Of course, white raisins were considered a high delicacy in the ancient Arabic world. Chaste young women or pale, dried-up, wrinkled fruits; allow me to let you draw your own conclusions on that one.
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I remember at various times in the not-so-distant past keeping a watchful eye on the stat lines of players such as John-Ford Griffin, or Robinson Diaz, or Brian Dopirak, or even Chad Mottola, with the full expectation that at some point they would translate their minor league excellence into a career as everyday players with the Jays.
In more recent years, the mark of the more sophisticated baseball connoisseur was the ability to scoff at such middling organizational filler and rattle off the long list of more pertinent and exciting prospects within a system and throughout the game. A new surfeit of readily available resources that rate and rank and analyze ballplayers and teams allowed us to form opinions from our couches on athletes that we might not see at the top level for years...if at all.
Actually, that last part is the one that increasingly preoccupies me. Having indulged in so-called "prospect porn" for the last few years, the one thing that increasingly impresses itself upon me is the high failure rate of prospects. And this isn't limited to your garden variety organizational filler. I'm talking about the number of "blue chip", "can't miss" prospects. The top five percentile that fill the top ends of those perpetual speculative top 100 lists based on the gaudy numbers they post against their peers in the lower, developmental levels. The players who make their way onto a Major League Baseball roster to all matter of hoopla and frantic fantasy baseball waiver wire activity.
All this new information gives us some alleged sense of knowledge on players about whom we know very little beyond the blurbs. But what has been striking over the past couple of seasons are the number of top-flight young players who simply cannot make a go of it once they face real live big leaguers.
Previously, there were players like Jeremy Hermida or Brandon Wood, who stood out because they seemed to be the exceptions as top 10 prospects who never were able to convert that promise into something more tangible. Lately, though, it seems like this list is getting longer in a hurry. This includes premier minor league players like Mike Moustakas, Eric Hosmer, Justin Smoak, Jesus Montero, Dustin Ackley, Gordon Beckham, and yes, Travis Snider.
This failure rate for young players is quite unlike anything you see in the other major professional sports. Basketball, hockey, and football all draft impact players from the amateur ranks and have them producing at the highest level within a year or two. They slide into the professional game seemingly by sheer virtue of their athletic prowess.
Which brings us to this month's whipping boy, Brett Lawrie.
There's little question that Brett Lawrie is an exceptional athletic specimen, and that certainly helped him push his way into the major league lineup ahead of schedule, at 21 years of age. He made the leap into MLB after just 326 minor league games. That's fewer games than it took for Roberto Alomar to make it to the big leagues. It's almost a full season less than it took for Tony Fernandez to make it and it is about half as many games as it took for Carlos Delgado to crack the premier lineup.
It probably helped that the Jays needed to show some return from their trade of opening day starter Shaun Marcum while a mixed bag of third baseman barely held the spot warm for him. Meanwhile, Lawrie posted numbers in Las Vegas that were otherworldly, and beyond what he'd ever posted before in his minor league career.
Lawrie's debut with the team in the latter stages of 2011 was something of an astrological event. New-found plate discipline and a hell-for-leather approach to all other aspects of the game made him appear to be something more than an all-star. Lawrie appeared destined to become a transcendent sports figure in Toronto, and one who brought non-baseball fans into the fold. One needed only look at the names and numbers on the backs in the crowds at the Rogers Centre to see whose stardom shone above all others.
But like those many other phenoms before him, Lawrie began to struggle as the league became more acquainted with him. In 162 games in the two seasons following his sparkling debut, Lawrie has posted a .710 OPS (.311 OBP) and an OPS+ of 91. While his defense has been sterling and continues to improve, the more difficult to master tool of hitting seemingly continues to slip away from him.
Which brings me to my point, as much as I'm talking concentric circles around it: Baseball is hard. Really hard. It's harder than we as fans realize. Even more so, harder than some players realize.
And if there is an existential quandary that is leading Brett Lawrie to mow further down into his nail beds, throw equipment hither and yon, pout intensely and point fingers at his teammates, it's might just fact that this game which he had mastered (well, somewhat) at most every level is suddenly beyond him at this point.
Okay, let's slow down for a moment. We're moving into an area of speculative, long-distance psychology, and I'll cop to being on the shakiest of ground in proceeding down this train of thought. But given that Brett Lawrie's name has been often accompanied with a question mark in recent days, indulge me for a moment as I hypothesize on what's going on in his head, and where he needs to go to get through the other side.
Here's the short form of how I think Brett Lawrie's mind works: "I want something, and if I want it bad enough, I've gotta go get it. Take it. It's mine if I want it." I base this on the "Never Surrender" tattoos, the times when he's been thrown out on the bases like a nincompoop, and often, the defiance in the post-game interviews when it all goes wrong.
All of this adds up - in my mind, anyways - to a player who attacks the game. Takes no prisoners. Lays the smack down.
But baseball is a game that doesn't cotton to being attacked.
It requires a quiet, steady approach. A marksman's still hand and slow heart beat, not the furious anger of a shootist. It requires patience, not haste. An ability to let the game unfold as it will. A sense of perspective, and an ability to fail with grace.
You gotta be chill, bro.
The problem with this is that Brett Lawrie has been consistently rewarded for his unbridled enthusiasm. From the fans to the front office to his own father, Lawrie's single-minded competitiveness seems to be the attribute for which he is admired and rewarded.
He became something close to a folk hero for throwing his body over barriers, regardless of the damage he caused to himself. People laugh at the notion that he pumps himself up with unhealthy amounts of caffeine in anticipation of a game, figuring that his jacked-up athlete's body will insulate him mood-altering doses of substance that affect the neurological and nervous systems.
And then we wonder he's jumping at pitches.
It could be that the most recent onslaught of negativity could provide the impetus for Lawrie to reevaluate his approach. Maybe this is a learning experience, and somehow, he can learn from the bad times and adapt his game appropriately.
It wouldn't surprise me if he does. In spite of his dude-bro exterior, I've always suspected that there is a very clever and quick mind underneath it all. I think he can adapt, and I think he can transcend from the player that he has become to the player that he could very well be.
But to get there, Lawrie has to want it. And you can't find stillness of mind with the body's hustle.


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Andrew222 needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 135 designs submitted by 32 freelance designers.
Max Publications
We sell young adult and adult fiction, action/adventure novels that incorporate themes of emergency communications and disaster preparedness.
Update (4/10): You can also consider a space on the front or back cover for text such as "Bonus Material: Incudes over 50 emergency preparedness tips!"
Title: The Road Home
Author: Andrew Baze
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This is the first book in a series of at least two, and first time publishing, so there are no others to compare with.
The quick version of the story -- boy goes out on a camping trip in the Cascade Mountains (east of Seattle) with his dad, big earthquake happens, they have to get home. They use handheld radios frequently in the story to communicate with each other, people on their route home, and with mom at home.
If possible, I'dd like to incorporate one or more themes of:
1) Amateur (ham) radio - a handheld ham radio, radio waves, communciation in general -- a good example of a handheld radio (which is used in the story) is a Yaesu VX-8R, which I can take a picture of if you can't come close - here is an example (it's not my image): http://www.vxstd.com.hk/products/am…dheld.html
2) Earthquake -- partially-collapsed buildings, buildings on fire, maybe a seismograph reading as a break between story summary text and author info on the back page?
3) The Cascades in Washington State, mountains, trees, and I-90 headed west
4) An independent, smart 14-year-old boy, who has to learn how to drive that day, rescues his father, defeats the bad guy in the end.
I want a cover that will catch people's attention, something simple and cool, that will make people want to know what's inside.
You can use sample text for the summary and author bio areas for now. You can put in a silhouette for author picture.
I've uploaded an example picture of a handheld ham radio -- it doesn't need to be hi-res or close-up - I don't think I could use that logo anyway.
If you have any questions, please ask! (If there's a way to do that.) I'll be checking in frequently.
Demographic: Young adult males (getting the interest of girls would be good too, but that's definitely Pri 2), and their parents/grandparents (who will probably be buying them this book, although I expect they'll like reading it too). This book will appeal to the "Boy Scout" type, the more adventurous type.
I would also like a set of artwork that will render well on Kindle (grayscale? I don't know what will work best there...) if that's possible.
Size: This will likely be sold as 8"x5.25" paperback.
Some examples of covers I like: Cody Lundin's "When All Hell Breaks Loose", John Ringo's "The Centurian" (although my name is unknown - I don't want it that big), and "The Dangerous Book for Boys" (yes, that style is quite different). Regardless of the style, I'd like to see some representation of a radio somewhow. And one of my biggest favorites -- "The Hunger Games" and "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins (here: http://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Games-…023521/ref and here: http://www.amazon.com/Catching-Fire…023491/ref


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We live in a day when many longstanding, widespread and deeply held moral presumptions are no longer widespread or deeply held. One of the most crucial of these now-challenged presumptions is the right to live one's faith according to the dictates of one's conscience.
This nation was founded as a wild effort of Christian reformers to free themselves of Old World godlessness and establish a New Jerusalem in America. This state, in turn, became a haven for pioneers who, 167 years ago this week, sought refuge from violent religious persecution.
While religious beliefs have always differed by sect and denomination, many who believe in God find it is hard to remember a time when basic rights to religious freedom have been as openly contested in American society as they are today.
This past Thursday, for example, the U.S. Senate narrowly defeated an attempt to undercut the recent Supreme Court decision affirming the religious freedom of the retail chain Hobby Lobby. As a matter of sincerely held religious conscience, Hobby Lobby's owners objected to paying for a handful of administratively mandated contraceptives that prevent implantation of a fertilized egg. We applauded the high court's ruling and said that it "accentuates this country's longstanding commitment to religious liberty."
Contrast last Thursday's close call with the original vote on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, rallied their colleagues to support the measure 97-3, which unanimously passed the House and was championed by President Bill Clinton.
To interfere with the free exercise of religion, RFRA says, the government must both demonstrate a compelling interest and show that it is using the least restrictive means to achieving that purpose. The Supreme Court held that the government did not meet its burden in the case of a religiously motivated family-run business that objected to the contraceptive mandate. Not all religious claims will meet that test.
Senators pressing to curtail RFRA seem to be taking the view that religious practice is intruding upon other claims for liberty. Many commentators believe that the Hobby Lobby dispute will be tame compared to the battle between religious freedom and claims of those seeking same-sex marriage.
Whether or not the U.S. Supreme Court accepts Utah's efforts to uphold the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, it is clear, in the words of University of Virginia professor Douglas Laycock: "The conflict between religious liberty and gay rights is bad for both sides and dangerous for the American tradition of individual liberty."
The test of wills stems from a contest of self-definition. Many who believe in God define themselves, in large part, through a religious identity. For others, sexual identity has become a defining characteristic of how they see themselves. How can both identities be reconciled in the public square?
The respectful coexistence each identity seeks will come through recognizing the dignity intrinsic to all men and women.
The word "dignity" captures the desire all have to live in an environment free from discrimination, intimidation or harassment.
In the Christian tradition, the concept of dignity stems from the creation of man and woman in the likeness of God. During the Catholic Church's Second Vatican Council in 1965, its Declaration of Religious Freedom was titled "Dignitatis Humanae (Of the Dignity of the Human Person)."
This document teaches an important truth: "It is in accordance with their dignity as persons — that is, beings endowed with reason and free will and therefore privileged to bear personal responsibility — that all men should be at once impelled by nature and also bound by a moral obligation to seek the truth, especially religious truth.
"However, men cannot discharge these obligations in a matter keeping with their own nature unless they enjoy immunity from external coercion as well as psychological freedom. Therefore, the right to religious freedom has its foundation [in the very nature of personhood.]" This natural religious freedom, Dignitatis Humanae continues, "continues to exist even in those who do not live up to their obligations of seeking the truth and adhering to it."
Those who seek to follow the rocky road to religious freedom must remember that coercion and mistreatment will not deliver anyone to a promised land. Knowing something about persecution from their own lived experience or the historical experience of their forbears, they themselves must abhor persecution of any kind while claiming equal dignity for their own conscientious life choices.
Laws can be framed in such a way that they balance the free exercise of religion with respectful coexistence of those with differing values. We believe that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, judiciously applied, helps to achieve such a balance, while helping to avert zero-sum conflicts that would impinge on any other's dignity.


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Study Concludes South Dakota Sobriety Program Works
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - An independent study of South Dakota's sobriety program for drunken drivers concludes it has reduced repeat DUI cases by 12 percent and domestic violence rates by 9 percent.
The 24/7 Sobriety Program was started in 2005, giving people convicted of alcohol-related crimes a chance to stay out of jail as long as they are monitored daily for alcohol use.
Attorney General Marty Jackley says the study done by the RAND Corp. was funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. He says he hopes the results will open the door to funding for future highway safety projects.
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Debra Wood, RN
Pemphigus is a group of disorders that affects the skin. The attacks cause blisters and burn-like wounds on skin and mucous membranes (like mouth). There are 3 forms of the disease:
Pemphigus is an autoimmune disorder. The immune system attacks healthy skin and mucus membranes. The attack causes the sores on the skin.
It is not clear what causes the immune system to attack normal body tissue. It is likely due to a combination of genetic and environmental factors. For some, medication may be the cause.
Factors that may increase your chance of pemphigus include:
Pemphigus may occur over a small or large section of the skin. Itching and pain are common symptoms. Other symptoms will vary according to the type of pemphigus:
Pemphigus vulgaris may cause:
Pemphigus foliaceus may cause:
Paraneoplastic pemphigus may cause:
The doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. This will include a thorough skin exam. Special care is given to examining the lesions.
Tests to look for signs of an autoimmune disorder may include:
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There is no cure for pemphigus but treatment may help control your condition. If left untreated, pemphigus can lead to death.
Treatment aims to control the disease and prevent infection of the blistering lesions.
If a drug triggered pemphigus, the doctor will stop that medication. In some cases, stopping the drug is all that is needed for recovery.
Wound care is important to prevent infections. The wounds are treated similarly to severe
burns. They will be cleaned and protected from further contamination. Antibiotics medication will also be applied to the wounds to prevent infections.
Medications can usually help control symptoms. However, these medications can also produce serious side effects. Your doctor may order blood and urine tests to check for adverse effects.
Medications to help control pemphigus include:
It takes some time for the immune system to clear. In fact, it may be several months or years for the skin sores to disappear. Some may have a complete remission after a period of medication treatment. Others will need to continue smaller doses of medication between outbreaks.
Sores in the mouth can make eating and dental care difficult. It is important to maintain good dental hygiene. If you cannot brush because of mouth sores, talk to your dentist. They can provide alternative ways to keep you mouth clean.
Lesions in the mouth can also make it difficult to eat. Soft diets may help until the lesions heal. Talk to a dietitian if you are having trouble getting adequate nutrition with a soft diet.
Avoid foods that can cause irritation in your mouth. This includes foods that are high in acids, spicy, or hard.
Good overall nutrition helps the body heal and fight disease.
Some foods may also make your symptoms worse. They may also trigger the onset of more sores. Foods that have been linked to these problems include garlic, onions, and leeks. Keep track of the foods that seem to cause a reaction in your skin. Read the labels of all foods to make sure they do not contain foods that can set off a reaction.
Paraneoplastic pemphigus may require the removal of a tumor. The removal may improve the disorder or decrease symptoms.
There are no guidelines for preventing pemphigus because the cause is unknown.
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Last reviewed December 2014 by Michael Woods, MD
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Data Sources
- The State of the Nations Children (SONC)
The first report on children's lives in Ireland brings togeather published data from many sources across a variety of areas of children's lives. The report contains infromation about children's outcomes (including health, educational and social, emotional and behavioural outcomes), relationships with families and friends and support services available to children
- Irish Social Science Data Archive (ISSDA)
From the Geary Institute at University College Dublin (UCD) and managed jointly by University College Dublin and the Economic and Social Research Institute an archive of machine readable data sets from surveys and official statistics, including the Central Statistics Office, Economic and Social Research Institute, Eurobarometer, SLAN, opinion polls and more. Some data sets also include links to all published reports.
- Central Statistics Office The CSO's main function is the collection, compilation, extraction and dissemination for statistical purposes of information relating to economic, social and general activities and conditions in the State. It is also responsible for co-ordinating official statistics of other public authorities and for developing the statistical potential of administrative records. The Office exists primarily to meet the needs of Government for quality statistical information. It also serves the needs of the wider national and international community for impartial and relevant information on social and economic conditions.
- StatCentral.ie StatCentral is the portal to Ireland's official statistics. Official statistics in Ireland are those produced by the Central Statistics Office, along with government departments, agencies and other state bodies. The portal provides a description of these statistics and links to where they can be found.
- Department of Health and Children Health Statistics
- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Ireland
Reports and data on Ireland, documents in chronological and topic order.
- UNICEF Ireland Statistics
Europe and International
- Australian Institute of Family Studies Trends and Statistics
Links to all major sources of Australia data on children's and families issues.
- Canada Statistics
- EuroStat
- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development Statistics
- UK National Statistics Office
- United Nations Statistics Division - Includes demographic and social indicators statistics.
- US Census Bureau
- US ChildStats
US statistics and reports on children and families, including: population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behaviour and social environment, and education.
- US FedStats
Gateway to statistics from 100 US federal agencies. Browse by topic, search or link to specific agencies.
- US KIDS CountA national and state-by-state statistical effort to track the status of children in the United States sponsored by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
- World Health Organisation Statistics
Includes links to children's environmental health statistics and immunisation and vaccination data.