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Wis. basketball team wants to honor boy, 8, who died in fire
A little boy's death in New York, is touching hearts across the country.
A college basketball team in Manitowoc is now reaching out to his family.
Tyler Doohan, 8, died a hero.
VIDEO: College basketball team reaches out to New York family
Firefighters in East Rochester, N.Y., said after helping several family members, including two children escape a burning trailer, the brave boy ran back in for his disabled grandfather and uncle.
The boy's mother said the three died together.
"They were laying in the bed together trying to get to the window," Tyler's mother, Crystal Vrooman said.
Tyler's act of selflessness has inspired people across the country to help the family.
In Manitowoc, Silver Lake College men's basketball Coach Phil Budervic was brought to tears after reading about Tyler's death.
"It hit me so strongly, and when I brought it up to the players, they didn't look at it as something that happened far away, they looked at it as something that happened next door, and they wanted to rally around it," Budervic said.
The coach reached out to Tyler's family, telling them his players wanted to be pallbearers at the boy's funeral.
Budervic said giving back is part of the college's foundation.
"Our mission is compassion and community, and one of the things we try and teach the players is compassion has no end, community has no borders," Budervic said.
The team should know this weekend if they'll go to Rochester. It's a trip every player is hoping to take.
Budervic said even if the team does not get to go to New York they still want to do something here to honor Tyler locally.

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The Jack Martin Fund Clinic provides primary outpatient and inpatient treatment for adults and children with infectious diseases. It is a New York State Department of Health Designated AIDS Center.
The Jack Martin Fund Clinic is housed within the Center for Advanced Medicine (CAM) at 5-17 East 102nd Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues. A beautiful, state-of-the-art facility, CAM provides and welcoming, supportive environment for our patients.
As medical advances transform HIV into a treatable and chronic disease, the program works to provide treatment and services to those who are infected while providing preventive services to those at risk. The Jack Martin Fund Clinic is staffed by primary-care physicians, nurse practitioners, infectious disease fellows, sub-specialty providers, nurses, and social workers. Infectious-disease physician-led teams provide direct service and case management to ensure comprehensive and continuous care.
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- Urgent Care Program for ill patients who do not require hospitalization ( call in appointments: 8:30 - 4 PM, Monday to Friday)
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It's not often a journalist writes about a competing paper, but many of you seem interested in what I think about the Times series on the 2000 Rose Bowl team.
Many things. Many contradictory things.
First, holding big-time college sports accountable is always good. Stories like this remind us of the behind-the-scenes compromises programs often make.
So kudos.
You probably expect me to again defend Rick Neuheisel, but most fair readers recognize that the series failed in its attempt to dump the predominant blame on Neuheisel, starting with the damning fact that he didn't recruit any of the players they profiled and the majority of transgressions detailed either 1) didn't happen on his watch (Curtis Williams); or, 2) He was unaware of (Jeremiah Pharms).
The Times scored a point with Neuheisel's coddling of Jerramy Stevens, but Neuheisel's enabling was enabled by law enforcement and the prosecutor's office.
As for academics, I would encourage you to e-mail the Times and ask them how graduation rates under Neuheisel compared to Don James and Jim Lambright.
This time, my prime concern is… me.
The Times dragged me into this fight. But my karate is better.
Here's a line from the Times story on Pharms.
In January 2004, a P-I sportswriter wrote a lengthy story about Pharms and his time in prison. The story raised a series of questions that suggested Pharms might be innocent.
Hey… that was my story.
Here's a line from it:
What happened next remains an unresolved issue, a question not of innocence but of degree of guilt.
"…not a question of innocence."
What was and remains questionable is what happened on March 14, 2000, inside a drug dealer's apartment.
Here's the short version of my quibble: The Times presentation of what happened that day added nothing new — ZERO — but it did willfully subtract significant issues.
You decide.
The Times goes entirely with the "official" version: that Pharms and an unnamed accomplice burst in with guns draw and shot and robbed this "small-time" drug dealer, Kerry Sullivan, who was, ahem, studying calculus.
Here's something from my story that wasn't in the Times story:
Defense attorneys contend the then-24-year-old Seattle Central Community College student made approximately $60,000 a year from selling pot and kept large stashes of cash and drugs on hand.
His criminal record extended to 1991 and included convictions for theft, forgery, felony trespass and assault.
By every fair measure of their lives to that point, the so-called victim in this incident was the criminal in that room and Pharms was not. That's why Sullivan's background is material, and it's negligent that the Times reporters and editors didn't include it.
Let's continue.
Wrote the Times:
(Sullivan) saw a masked man with a silver automatic, jumped up and grabbed for the gun.
The two men wrestled, then the robber pulled away and pistol-whipped Sullivan. As Sullivan fell, the robber fired a shot that went through Sullivan's right thigh and lodged in his chest, just missing his liver.
All that was in my story. Oh, I didn't mention the gun was silver. Sorry.
Pause, though, and imagine the scene with me: Pharms, a buffed 250 pounds, stands before the slightly built drug dealer with a gun drawn.
Two words: Paralyzing fear.
How can you possibly believe said drug dealer's next move was to attack Pharms?
Or, just maybe, that silver gun, which was never recovered so we really don't know its color, didn't start off in Pharms' hand?
The Times opted not to smell the fish, writing "Prosecutors called the evidence against Pharms 'overwhelming.'"
From my story:
"It wasn't a slam-dunk case by any means," (King County Prosecutor) chief of staff Dan Satterberg said.
Hopefully, Satterberg's legitimacy here won't be questioned, considering he is now the King County Prosecutor.
Despite that, er, "overwhelming" evidence, for which guilt could mean 20 years in prison, prosecutors handed Pharms a extremely sympathetic plea deal. From my story: "if he pleaded guilty, the firearm enhancement would be dropped and he'd get no more than 3 1/2 years with the possibility of parole in 29 months."
Pharms also, despite "overwhelming" evidence, was allowed to enter an "Alford plea" (not admitting guilt but acknowledging there was sufficient evidence for a conviction) and to begin his sentencing statement by asserting: "I am not guilty of this crime."
When I asked Satterberg about issues in the drug dealer's story and the police report he said this:
"You're speculating, which is what jurors would do, particularly when the main prosecution witness is from a less-than-trustworthy background," said Satterberg, of the King County Prosecutor's office. "That's why we made a deal."
I also interviewed the drug dealer's roommate and other acquaintances of the drug dealer. If the Times did the same, it's unfathomable to me that a red flag didn't at least flicker in their mind's eye.
The Times then wrote this about the prosecutors' reaction to my story:
The story steamed the case's two prosecutors. They drafted a letter to the P-I's editor, but decided not to send it. The letter said the story vilified the victim "while glorifying the man who shot him." It added: "Mr. Pharms is a lucky man: lucky that his victim didn't die, lucky that his victim wasn't permanently disabled, lucky we had mercy on him."
Er, no. They know very well what I did: I presented the prosecution and defense cases. They're angry that both sides got aired.
The Times includes this unsent letter among its lists of "revelations".
Think about that: An angry, unsent letter to its rival newspaper.
Holy Woodward and Bernstein!
The prosecutors were so enraged by the P-I story that they… didn't mail us a letter. That's equivalent to writing a diary entry about how unfair things are.
Why was the letter unsent?
I'll answer for the prosecutors, who turned down multiple requests for interviews from me at the time (shuttling me to Satterberg instead).
They didn't send the letter because I would have called them to respond and then they'd have to defend their case on the record.
Ah… but why produce the letter now FOUR YEARS LATER?
Naturally, because Pharms apparently is in the midst of another self-destructive spiral.
The beginnings of that self-destructive spiral was first reported in the P-I due to a now embarrassing column I wrote: This hurts to read. Needless to say, during our interview Pharms didn't mention he'd been arrested for DUI, which I reported after an email tip from an administrator in King County Superior Court.
So, yes, I was duped by Pharms while he was in jail (and again afterward) into thinking that he wanted to become a responsible, mature father, husband and member of society.
But at least I didn't try to dupe you, fair reader.


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A virtual environment, with multiple levels, produced for Philadelphia's Extra Extra Gallery.
Tip: Also see Tabor Robak's Mansion, another virtual environment created by the artist.
A virtual environment, with multiple levels, produced for Philadelphia's Extra Extra Gallery.
Tip: Also see Tabor Robak's Mansion, another virtual environment created by the artist.
Founded by curator Michael Connor in 2009, Marian Spore was a limited-duration art space that closed on December 18, 2010. Rather than organizing group or solo shows per se, the gallery was a perpetual work in progress; Connor added pieces irregularly, leaving them on display so that repeat visitors would find an accumulation of works. Connor has put the acquisitions into storage and will continue looking for buyers, considering the works on loan until they find a permanent home. Situated in a 16,000 ft loft on the fourth floor of a building in the gargantuan Sunset Park industrial complex Industry City and named after an artist who believed she was in communication with spirits of dead artists (and who was the third wife of Industry City's founder), I visited Marian Spore for the first time only a week before the closing. Connor looked surprised when I referred to the "current exhibition" of all thirteen works he had gathered over the past months; after all, as the collection grew, each object had been on view continuously.
I'm in the Bay Area this week, and I stopped by Important Projects in the Rockridge area of Oakland. Started by SAIC grads and recent Chicago transplants Jason Benson, Sean Buckelew and Joel Dean, Important Projects is run out of the top floor of their house. It reminded me of some of New York's pocket-sized exhibition spaces I've discussed here on Rhizome, like Art Since the Summer of '69. All the exhibits at Important Projects last for four weeks, and so far, they've organized seven shows in total.
They are currently showing Michelle Ceja's M O M E N T U M until September 10th. A fully immersive installation accompanied by a continually building ambient sound loop, the work seemed to deliberately intensify one's sense of claustrophobia and confusion. In that sense, it felt like an enclosed physical version of Ceja's project Silicon Velocity for Jstchillin, while the use of black paint, lights and mirrors recalled Banks Violette's sculptures, but on a smaller scale. I took some shots of the show, see below.
Montreal's art and science organization the Daniel Langlois Foundation announced a new collection of online materials for Canadian artist David Rokeby's work Very Nervous System (1983-), an interactive sound installation that reacts to the movement of visitors. The work has developed over the years, and has exhibited in many contexts. This particular collection of documentation is interesting because they bring in the audience's response to the work, through a series of interviews. You can read more about the project and their approach in the excerpt below from the "Introduction to the Collection" by Caitlin Jones and Lizzie Muller.
This is the second documentary collection that we have created for artworks by David Rokeby. In 2007 we produced a collection for the artwork Giver of Names (1991-), through which we developed a documentary approach to media art that captures the relationship between the artist's intentions and the audience's experience or, as we have described it, "between real and ideal" (1). The aim of this strategy is to acknowledge the fundamental importance of audience experience to the existence of media artworks and to create a place for the audience within the documentary record.
We believe this approach offers a productive way to reconcile how media artworks exist in the world and how they are represented in an archival context. In recent publications, we have begun to refer to the product of this approach as an "Indeterminate Archive": a collection of materials that provides multiple perspectives of the work, as well as multiple layers of information, held together with—but not secondary to—the idea of the artist's intent (2). This indeterminate archive, we have argued, captures the mutability and contingency of the artwork's existence, creating a more, not less ...
Displacements is an immersive film installation. An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture camera on a slowly rotating turntable in the room's center. After filming, the camera was replaced with a film loop projector and the entire contents of the room were spray-painted white. The reason was to make a projection screen the right shape for projecting everything back onto itself. The result was that everything appears strikingly 3D, except for the people, who of course weren't spray-paint white, and consequently appeared very ghostlike and unreal.
In 1931, Sergei Eisenstein described montage as "an idea that arises from the collision of independent shots" wherein "each sequential element is perceived not next to the other, but on top of the other." This layering of images allows them to combine, producing a third meaning that was not present before their combination. "Ouroboros" - a video exhibition currently on display at the ISE Cultural Foundation - takes the aesthetics of early montage and hits fast-forward in 3D. By modifying a version of chromadepth into a process they call COLORSPACE, art collective SWEATSHOPPE achieves a layered 3D effect in which red, green, and blue (RGB) are each visible at a different depth from the surface on which they are projected. The effect is a complex sequence of images projected simultaneously and layered on top of one another to create an almost literal manifestation of Eisenstein's montage aesthetic.
The sequence combines over 30,000 images selected by artist Ali Hossani, and is meant to tell the story of cosmic evolution, "from the Big Bang to Lady Gaga." The images read more like the infamous montage sequence in A Parallax View (1974) than a statement on the rejoinder of art and science where "knowledge, desire, and energy meets the limits of human freedom," as the artist's statement suggests. Still, the effect is mesmerizing, and showcases one of several new possibilities for 3D technologies in the creation of a new digital aesthetic.
This clip of protesters in Bil'in, Palestine dressed as Na'vi from James Cameron's Avatar circulated widely across the internet this week, and that, paired with the recent announcement that Avatar is nominated for 9 Oscars, made me feel that it was about time to present a round-up of the more thoughtful articles I've collected on Avatar. Feel free to post links in the comments section - I'm hoping this post can become a resource for those who might be interested in additional reading concerning the film.
► "Avatar and Invisible Republic" by Rob Horning [From PopMatters]
By coincidence, I began reading Greil Marcus's Invisible Republic, which in part is about the demise of the 1960s folk movement and Bob Dylan's role in destroying it after having come to exemplify it. The folkies, in Marcus's depiction, had the same patronizing attitude toward Appalachian poverty and civil-rights injustices (the Other America, as Michael Harrington dubbed it) that the makers of Avatar seem to evince about colonization. Capitalism sullied and exploited the pure rural people, as clear-headed bourgeois liberals can best recognize. To adherents, folk music (and Avatar) offers us glimpses of pre-capitalist America, a "democratic oasis unsullied by commerce or greed" in which art seems "the product of no ego but of the inherent genius of a people." The Avatar planet is such a product, for the race occupying it and the film-industry execs who made it.
The substance of this fantasy about indigenous people at harmony with their appropriate environment is the denial of individual subjectivity (the overriding value of the folk revival, according to Marcus), which is rendered unnecessary and impossible. Everyone is at one and merged with one another. Just look at the blue people in the movie sway to the unsounded ...
A large installation in the Grand Entrance of London's Victoria and Albert Museum clatters away, registering its presence in this historic hallway. Jointly commissioned (by the V & A and SAP), bit.code (2009), by Julius Popp, consists of a large panel of black and white blocks which appear to represent a curious, indecipherable code as they rotate around their frame. Periodically its units align, clearly depicting popular terms streamed live from news site feeds. In this physical form and location, this is real-time made somehow more timely. Looming over visitors, a literal staging of data being decoded, the work asserts itself as an apt entry portal to "Decode", the V & A's inaugural exhibition of contemporary digital and interactive design.
A joint initiative between the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Engineering and School of Art & Design, the Electronic Visualization Laboratory has long operated as a center for interdisciplinary research in art and computer science. Founded in 1973 by artist Daniel Sandin (creator of the Sandin Image Processor, a crucial tool for video artists in the 1970s) and computer scientist Tom DeFanti (developer of the GRASS programming language), over the years EVL has sponsored pivotal research and development in the field of visualization, resulting in output such as the virtual reality theater CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) in 1992, the GeoWall in 2001, Varrier in 1999 and the LambdaTable in 2004.
Admittedly, one day of videos is not enough to cover the breadth of EVL's work from the past 36 years. That said, today we will post selections by EVL's faculty and students from the first decade. These clips capture the playfulness and excitement of their creators, as they experiment with new tools and techniques. All of these videos were sourced from EVL's YouTube account, which includes original work and documentation up to the present day.


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Texarkana Dog Park Contest – Find Out If We Won
Did we win? Here are the results of all the hard work Texarkana put forth to win a $100,000 grant from Petsafe in the Bark For Your Park contest.
Yes! We won! Texarkana is the winner of the 2012 Petsafe Bark For Your Park Contest. We have a $100,000 grant to build a dog park in Texarkana.
The dog park will be included in Jefferson Park on the Arkansas side of Texarkana. There is a lot of planning to be done now that we know that Texarkana has the grant from Petsafe. To follow the progress, keep an eye on the Texarkana Dog Park website.


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Not long ago I blogged about the various books where I research the music of our ancestors. There is a lot out there, but for those who are notably challenged - i.e., unable to read the melody lines - it may not be very helpful. Of course, in this 21st Century, the most obvious option (and I use it a lot) is "Google" (for lyrics and MP3s) and "YouTube" (to hear arrangements and melodies). It seems that almost everything has been recorded . . . well, it seems that way, but that's really not the case. If you are looking for the music of your ancestors, you might want to see what
has to offer (click the logo above). Many of their vinyl collections have been reissued on CDs and cassettes, and are even available in MP3 format for easy downloads (and you don't have to download an entire album; you can download just the song/songs you want). Most of their earliest recordings have been remastered for the best quality possible. So what should you do with this information? Try this:
If your family came from Louisiana, you might look under the "genre" drop down menu on the left for "Jazz" or "Cajun" music, then you can listen to a sample and download (for a fee) what you might like to have on your computer or even to include in your genealogy program (you can add audio files to most genealogy software programs, like RootsMagic, Legacy, FamilyTreeMaker, PAF, etc.). Putting a sample of the type of music your ancestor probably listened to (or played, or sang) would add a personal touch to your family history.
The genres on the Smithsonian Folkways label cover many different cultures, ethnicities, religions, and geographic locations around the world. Beyond that, many of their recordings include word booklets (they come with the CDs, but you can download them in PDF format, whether or not you purchase the recording). There are also some DVDs in their on-line catalog, many of them that teach how to play various instruments (just think, you can learn to play banjo and carry on a family tradition . . . or, not).
There is also a quarterly magazine for Smithsonian Folkways, highlighting some of the music genres that were probably part of your family's life in some generation(s) in the past. Learn about how that element of your culture is being maintained today:
So there are some ideas of adding music to your family history research, and you don't even have to sing a note! Check out Smithsonian Folkways, join their mailing list, and get 10% off a Smithsonian Institution membership!!
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(Feb. 2, 2005) - The East Tennessee State volleyball squad will host its annual summer camps to be held on the ETSU campus in the summer of 2005. Three sessions will be held, including a team camp, a setter/hitter day camp and a new all skills camp. In addition, the volleyball office has announced a free clinic to be held every Tuesday and Thursday throughout May 2005.
The clinic will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday during the month of May in Brooks Gymnasium, the home of Lady Bucs volleyball. The clinic is open to all ages. The summer camps will be held three different dates throughout the month of July. Beginning with the team camp July 21-24, the following will be the setter/hitter day camp July 25-26 and the final all skills day camp will be held July 28-29. The team, and setter/hitter camp is open to all ages, while the all skills camp is open to athletes ages 10-18.
The team camp will cost $250 for an overnight camper, while the commuter fee is just $220. Both the setter/hitter and all skills camp are day camps and cost $100 each. For more information contact head coach


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Can I Stop Being Abusive?
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Can I Stop Being Abusive?
"I've Been Abusive. How Can I Change?"
If you're being abusive toward your partner, the first and hardest part of changing is admitting your behavior is wrong. It's very important to take responsibility for the problem and get help to end it. If you've already taken this step, you're on the right track.
What Do I Need to Know?
Changing abusive behavior is a long and challenging process that you cannot do alone. You may rely on some of your beliefs to justify your abusive behavior. But with help, you can change and learn how to treat your partner with true respect. It's extremely important that you get professional help through this process. Chat with a peer advocate to find services in your local area.
Remember that physical and sexual violence aren't the only types of abuse. You may be harming your partner in verbal or emotional ways, like through intimidation, threats, isolation or other means of control. You should take steps to end ALL the types of abuse now. Addressing the roots of your behavior will take time, but if you want a healthy relationship, you need to make the commitment to change immediately.
At loveisrespect, we believe change is possible. Regardless of your past, you can have healthy, rewarding relationships in which everyone is treated with respect. We're here to help you get there and support you every step of the way.
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- Remember, violence is always a choice. There are no excuses and no one else to blame for being abusive.
- Focus on how your abuse affects your partner, family and/or children. Fully accept how seriously you have hurt the people you care about.
- Accept the consequences of your actions. Your partner has the right to get help from police or the courts. You may face legal consequences for being abusive, either with jail time or a restraining order.
- Remember you are not alone. Your friends and family can support you through the difficult process of changing.
- Get help from a program that focuses on abusive relationships. A good program will help you stop being abusive and create a better relationship for you and your partner.
- Respect your partner's right to be safe and healthy as you work toward change, even if it means you can't be together.
- Because change is hard, there may be times when you may justify your actions or feel like giving up. Remember your original commitment to change and you'll be more likely to succeed.


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One of the more memorable architectural evolutions in recent years, not to mention in terms of sustainable design, has been the re-use of shipping container to become born-again structures, whether for houses, coffee shops, guest bedrooms, play pen for kiddies, etc. Due to their convenient sizes and simplicity, shipping containers are on just about every second homebuilder's mind these days.
But nothing is ever so straightforward as stacking two blocks on top of each other and calling it a home, and container homes are no exception. Let's have a look at a few facts you need to know first…
Would you just walk into a stainless steel box and start living there? Precisely. Insulation is essential, as well as high-quality glazing solutions to ensure that a comfortable living temperature is maintained inside your container home.
Shipping containers are not all built the same. You have high cube, regular and refrigerated to name but a few types of containers. Do your research on each variety and speak to the relevant manufacturers about the pros and cons.
Every country has its own sets of rules and standards when it comes to building, which means a container house in South Africa differs from one in Europe. Sure, the container might be a generic product, but climate, fire regulations etc. are not the same.
Why does it sometimes take so long to build a house the traditional way? Because people keep changing their minds!
It's incredibly expensive and time consuming to replace that shipping container's wall once you've decided it needs to be cut out. Make sure you do as much research as possible and ideally, visit several container homes before you commit to your design.
Whenever you cut steel out of your containers, it costs both time and money. Not only do you have to pay someone to remove steel from your containers, you will likely also need to pay for the opening to be reinforced with a steel beam.
Thus, save a lot of money by not removing large sections of the container.
This isn't a shirt you're buying – don't just order that shipping container because it looked good in a photo on the company's website. You never know when "good condition" actually means "horribly neglected".
A one-trip container (which means a shipping container that has only made one round in its lifetime) is practically brand new. And it doesn't cost that much more than an older one.
Research a container's structural integrity to know what you're getting yourself into. For example, the two long walls are both load-bearing and bracing, which means if you were to cut a hole in one, it needs to be compensated.
Sure, you might dream about placing your new container home on a little hill overlooking the sea, but don't forget to factor in the elements, like wind. That container's made of metal, which means a large gust of wind is going to make noise – a lot!
As they say: location, location, location!
Check out The Cape Town container home.


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October 23, 2012, [Chapel Hill, NC]…………3 Birds Marketing, a software developer offering an integrated digital marketing platform and professional services to the automotive industry and other business verticals, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with OneCommand, the leading Customer Marketing & Loyalty Automation Platform™ for the auto industry.
"OneCommand is a technology leader, and we look to partner with organizations that offer specific capabilities that we can incorporate into our world class platform," said Jeffrey Hart, CEO of OneCommand. Hart added that "These are two great technology companies that will collaborate to build business and support our customers. We were impressed with the innovative and robust nature of the 3 Birds' software platform, and we believe that by adding the Newsletter Connect™ product to our already impressive voice, email, mobile, text and social platform, we will drive additional client value," he noted.
"OneCommand sends over 1,000,000 communications a day on behalf of its clients. The software platform they use has to be scalable, secure, well-tested, fast and easy-to-use," said Layton Judd, Co-Founder and CEO of 3 Birds Marketing. "We're not the kind of company that rests on its laurels. We've developed a best in class integrated marketing platform for automobile dealers and other business verticals and we continue to invest in our technology by enhancing and extending our application. When a company of OneCommand's stature selects our software that speaks volumes about what we have developed. We look forward to a strong partnership with OneCommand," Judd added.
OneCommand's Newsletter Connect™ is the next generation newsletter that drives SEO, web traffic, and strong customer communications. Auto dealers will appreciate the turnkey application of Newsletter Connect™'s robust capabilities. One Command's partnership with 3 Birds Marketing delivers the only product serving auto retailers that combines an advanced newsletter engine with SEO benefits that drive prospects to a dealership's website.
About 3 Birds Marketing ( www.3birdsmarketing.com)
3 Birds Marketing is an interactive marketing company based in Chapel Hill, N.C., specializing in email, web, and social media marketing. 3 Birds offers an integrated marketing and communications platform that creates a comprehensive digital marketing loop for clients that promotes customer engagement, delivers better qualified leads, increases conversions, and provides marketing analytics and data. To find out more, visit www.3birdsmarketing.com or call (877) 285-1094.
About OneCommand (www.onecommand.com)
OneCommand is headquartered in Mason, OH and provides the leading Customer Marketing & Loyalty Automation Platform™ for the auto industry. For over a decade, OneCommand's proven platform of voice, email, mobile/text, direct mail, and social communications have been delivering results for auto dealers' sales and service departments. OneCommand's AutoIntelligence™ maximizes marketing results by taking advantage of the company's proven best practices that give dealerships an edge. Every day, OneCommand sends over 1,000,000 personalized messages on behalf of it over 4,000 clients throughout North America. For more information call (800)-814-6820, or visit www.onecommand.com.
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QuiltNSW proudly presents two guest exhibitors at the Sydney Quilt Show 2017- Carolyn Sullivan and Rhonda Pearce.
Carolyn will present an artist floor talk each day during the show from 12noon - 1pm. Hand stitching is what she loves to do. Indian kanthas and the tradition of close, straight stitches have formed the majority of her work, however, she is also interested in finding other ways of stitching that expresses what she sees. She covers large expanses of her own plant dyed cloth with stitching that describes the vastness of the Australian landscape. Follow Carolyn on her textile artist Facebook page.
Rhonda will present her floor talk from 2-3pm on Thursday and then 1-2pm on Friday- Sunday. The special exhibit includes her award-winning hexagon quilt Insanity that has its very own Insanity Quilt Facebook Group.


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It's vacation time and thoughts of relaxation and anticipation may be first on your mind. Remember if you or a household member has allergies it is important to prepare ahead. Certainly the following strategies are helpful to many of our patients:
- Bring an adequate supply of daily medications and go onto the National Allergy Bureau Web site to check out the pollen levels at your desired destination. Take a vacation by the sea (i.e., by the beach, lake or shore), often pollen counts are lower.
- Plan your outdoor activities wisely, especially when pollen levels rise and consider doing the "indoor thing" if you are particularly affected by air pollutants such as ozone.
- Make sure your favorite sunscreen is "kind" to your skin before using it on yourself and children. Do a patch test and learn if you may be "sensitive" to the components in your sunscreen product. Often, a physical sun-blocker (titanium dioxide, micronized zinc) may be another option.
- Take the sunglasses (the bigger the better) to block pollens from entering into the eyes and eyelids.
- Determine if the hotel you will be visiting has "green rooms" that are more environmentally and allergy friendly.
- Take your dust mite-proof allergy covers for pillows and mattresses to provide top notch indoor protection from pesky (but invisible) dust mites.
- Don't let the bugs bite! Avoid excess fragranced products, creams, hair care products and colognes which attract stinging insects especially if you have a history of reactions to them (bright colors may also attract them).
- Get a pre-trip allergy "tune up" and review your "go to" allergy medications before leaving home.
- If you suffer from pet allergies request an animal-free hotel room as well as talking to your host when visiting friends.
- Be a label detective when eating out of the home if you have food allergies (bring safe snacks for those affected).
- Bring along some moisturizing nasal saline spray, especially for prolonged air travel (cabin air inside the plane is dry and may irritate nasal passages).
Plan ahead for an allergy free vacation!
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Affiliation: Faculty, NYU School of Medicine and Long Island College Hospital Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine - SUNY Fellow, American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. For more allergy and asthma tips you can visit his website: www.nyc-allergist.com
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You might have heard about this already, but there was a hurricane on the East Coast this weekend. The eye of the storm didn't result in the five boroughs becoming an archipelago somewhere near Greenland, and as a result the Monday Morning Meteorologists have spent much time debating whether New York City overreacted.
And while it's true that plenty of Manhattanites who were able to get back to enjoying brunch early yesterday, there was enough flooding and property damage to hit the outer boroughs and points south before the storm rolled upstate and into New England to justify all the hype.
The 24-hour weather cycle of storms like this can indeed grow tiring, as if there's something new to glean from seeing another TV reporter driving through rain-slicked streets at some distant shore point for the 15th time. But another way to look at this is to consider what the reaction might have been had the devastation been a lot worse while the city did not at all prepare. Caution was called for, and the city's warnings and closures were prudent. Now let's move on.
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INDEX — An 18-year-old man drowned Monday in the Skykomish River near Index.
The man had gone fishing with friends in the Eagle Falls area and went for a swim, Index Fire Chief Ernie Walters said.
Witnesses told rescuers that the man almost immediately began suffering breathing problems due to the cold water, Walters said. He went under about 11:40 a.m.
The man's friends tried to rescue him but had to turn back due to the cold water. A couple of kayakers in the area also searched for the man.
Rescue crews poured in from throughout east Snohomish County and Skykomish, as well as the county sheriff's marine unit and rescue helicopter. The helicopter crew helped find the man in the water about 12:30 p.m.
He was found about 200 feet from the base of the falls. He was in about eight feet of water, about 20 feet from the shore, the chief said.
Crews worked for more than an hour trying to resuscitate the man but were unsuccessful. They don't believe he was wearing a life jacket.
The man's body was expected to be taken to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner's Office. His name was not released Monday.
Meanwhile, rescue crews also pulled at least eight people out of the Stillaguamish River on Monday evening in the area of River Meadows Park near Arlington.
The incident was believed to be related to a rafting mishap. The people involved were wearing life jackets, according to the sheriff's office.
The drowning Monday was the second in the county in as many days. On Sunday, a 10-year-old boy drowned in the Stillaguamish River at Arlington.
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GREENWICH >> Gun control advocates say they plan to hold a peaceful demonstration outside a Connecticut Republican Party fundraising event featuring New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
The groups are upset with Christie's recent veto of legislation that would have reduced the legal capacity for ammunition magazines from 15 rounds to 10. Christie said the bill didn't make sense to him as a way to curb gun violence.
The Newtown Action Alliance and Connecticut Against Gun Violence are also upset Christie did not meet with the parents of children killed in the Newtown school shooting. Christie said he already signed the veto by the time they arrived, and that it would have been "hypocritical" for him to sit down with them at that point.
Monday's fundraiser will benefit state constitutional and legislative candidates.