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edit Welcome!
Hello, P e r f e c t A t h l e t i c i s m, and welcome to Uncyclopedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If not, the door's right over there... no, a little more to your left... Yes. You seem to have a sense of humor, but to be sure that it corresponds to the kind of humor that is accepted on this site, I suggest checking out the following links:
Now that that's out of the way, just continue reading and you'll notice some more links. These ones are about help in general:
At Uncyclopedia, writing articles is not a requirement, but I do recommend it, it can be quite enjoyable, and it's a good chance to let others take notice of your writing. To write an article, it's recommended that you start it in your userspace (for example, User:P e r f e c t A t h l e t i c i s m/Article about stuff) so you can edit it at your leisure. If you decide to create it in the cold world of mainspace, make sure it is in accordance with the policies laid out above, and if you're not done put the "Work-In-Progress" template - {{construction}} - onto it as well.
If you want to write and don't know where to begin, consider contributing to Uncyclopedia's current colonization of the week, a group writing project to improve a single popular article. Anyone is welcome to contribute, so come help out! If the current colonization doesn't suit your fancy, then browse our rewrite and idea categories. We have lots of articles just sitting around for someone to improve, so don't be afraid - dive right in!
If you need help, ask me on my talkpage, ask at the Dump, or ask an administrator on their talkpage. Additionally, the Adopt-a-Noob program is there to bring experienced editors straight to you. Simply leave a message on an adopter's talkpage to join. I hope you enjoy editing here and being an Uncyclopedian, and remember: Have fun with it. We're all here to have a good time and a good laugh. Please sign your name on talkpages using four tildes (~~~~) or use the "sign" button () above the edit box. Again, welcome!
—Sir Socky (talk) (stalk) GUN SotM UotM PMotM UotY PotM WotM 01:55, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
edit Thanks for logging in
--and sorry for the revert! Spıke Ѧ 00:54 3-Jan-14
edit Carolina
A few comments on the article emerging in your userspace, which you didn't ask for:
- Please go easy on the lists! They may make the page resemble Wikipedia, but the problem is that lists tend to tell the same joke over again, and they also induce anonymous users who can't write add Just One Thing until they get really ponderous. In particular, the list of 25 wealthiest places is a long way to either tell 1 joke or 0. Instead, write funny paragraphs. In the following section, the list of colleges, I'm pretty sure the number is 0.
- The assumption that something is dirt-poor, or slutty, or gay, is not funny automatically, though if you have a joke to tell or a witty way of writing, we don't mind.
- Don't emphasize ciphers, especially nonsense numbers. More such tips are in How To Be Funny And Not Just Stupid and its sequel, Choice of Words.
- Resist the tendency to acquaint us with South Carolina, and make everything you write move toward the goal of getting the reader to laugh, though at times this will require real-world hints to make your assertions funny.
We already have an article on South Carolina, though it is not an award-winner. When you believe your article is ready for the encyclopedia, either find a way to make it coexist with the current one, or ask us to help you do so, or take the existing one to Votes for deletion and get a vote to delete it, specifying your article as the text that would replace it. Happy editing! Spıke Ѧ 02:27 3-Jan-14
edit What about an alternative reality
Thanks for the wealth of information, I will definitely figure out how to work those changes in. However, I was actually looking to the Kentucky article for inspiration. Though that article in its current form is a little messy, I enjoy how that article presents an altered reality of Kentucky called Kentuckistan: a Communist, Central Asian, Soviet bloc, country within the confines of the United States. I was looking to portray an altered reality of South Carolina called The Kingdom of South Carolina: a wealthy, ultra-modern, monarchy which arrived at success via a particularly advanced tribe of Native Americans living there for thousands of years (virtually the opposite of reality). Thoughts?-- 20:50, January 3, 2014 (UTC)
- Always! Portraying a state as a Soviet republic is so overworn that we mention it at How To Be Funny And Not Just Stupid (section 9). It is not inherently unfunny; it has just been done an awful lot. I make an exception myself for Massachusetts.
- An altered reality is a "comedy theme," but to maximize the humor, make it relate to your reader maximally, by basing it on something real, which it seems you are doing. Please ensure that a reader who knows little about S.C. can tell that you are using irony, and always be sure it's clear that your alternate reality is a springboard to humor and not just allegory designed to lead the reader to a stereotype of your own, as many of our articles on Southern states do.
- Don't interpret an article's mere existence on the website as proof that it is suitable for emulating. That an article became a Featured Article on the main page (the result of a vote) is more compelling. Spıke Ѧ 21:23 3-Jan-14
Welcome back! Looking at your edits of today, please demote all your headings by adding an equal sign to the start and the end. Our articles don't use =LevelOne= heads because they look too big. Instead, ==LevelTwo== is the top level. You are free to pursue your own style in your userspace, but when Carolina makes the main encyclopedia, it would be nice if it looked like the other articles. Cheers! Spıke Ѧ 03:12 16-Feb-14
edit Get a Pee Review
I see that you are counting the South Carolina article as finished on your user page. You have gotten my reactions, above (and I think it still relies too heavily on numbers and lists). Why don't you go to UN:PEE and file a request for someone else to look at it and give you comments? The step after that (and after appropriate edits to deal with the comments) would be to propose at Votes for deletion to delete the existing South Carolina article in favor of yours.
PS--I also see, listed at the bottom of your user page, both pages that are on your Watchlist. If you regard this as a privacy violation, you can switch it off using the My preferences button at the top of any page. Spıke Ѧ 02:15 19-Feb-14
- I'm sorry, this article isn't supposed to be showing as completed yet. I too think that the article relied to much on lists. I'm looking at replacing the lists with tables and paragraphs, before I send it to pee review. Also, I was wondering if I could just modify the current South Carolina article? Because, if anyone looks back in its history, they will see that it had the same idea before it was chopped and screwed.-- 02:39, February 19, 2014 (UTC)
Then it's my fault for jumping to that conclusion. You seem like a good writer, and last week I gave you
autopatrolled so that our chimpanzees are not alerted to each of your edits as though you were anonymous. But so is Xamralco, who two years ago "cleaned up" the article to one-quarter of its former size. Both he and Extra Ordinary (2 edits in the last year) have left the building. So, yes you may, and if you do it gradually that way, there is no need for a vote of VFD; but it is still a good idea to seek additional feedback from others. Spıke Ѧ 03:14 19-Feb-14
- Ha, good writer, thanks for noticing. However, I have been hitting a bit of a creative wall lately (See:Myrtle Beach, South Carolina). As one may noticed there are several mentions throughout my South Carolina article about a gay paradise (Myrtle Beach in Gay Parish) located within the confines of an extremely homophobic (at least in real life) territory. My problem is that, I may not have 100% of what it takes to write about a gay paradise. However, the writer of Gaytopia seems to be able to be able to envision what I am after with my Myrtle Beach article. Is there anyway that NoNamesLeft (I think?) and I, can tag team this Myrtle Beach article?-- 22:01, March 5, 2014 (UTC)
By all means, invite NoNamesLeft to collaborate! Spıke Ѧ 22:36 5-Mar-14
edit Templates
So, I was trying to transfer a template over from Wikipedia, like I've done successfully in the past in it seems that they are far more complex than they used to be. Do you know of anyway to create a sortable table with percentage change and with out?-- 22:01, March 5, 2014 (UTC)
- I have been watching this with horror. EpicWinner was the last Uncyclopedian to realize that, to get some Wikipedia templates to work here, you have to import all of them. I don't know of anyone who has done a sortable table here, except using DPL to present a sorted list of Uncyclopedia pages using a predefined sort order; and I wish you would change focus to humor rather than statistics, technical tricks, and detailed emulation of Wikipedia. An article without such tables can be virtually 100% as funny as an article with; maybe funnier, as numbers aren't terribly funny. Spıke Ѧ 22:34 5-Mar-14
- Speaking of Templates, I noticed that when I removed South Carolina from the United States and made it a territory, I didn't place it in alphabetical order under the territories (maybe that's what you meant by utility). Upon seeming that there was a state named Katrina in the United States, I believed it was alright to make South Carolina a territory (so that it fits my article better). Please explain to me why this isn't fine?
- I don't like having Katrina where it is; the author may have written about the hurricane as though it were a state, but few people will look for it under a list of states. Perhaps Southerners who want to read various articles about the South will see it there and jump in. Likewise, no one will look for South Carolina in "territories." (Nor, for example, Kingdoms.) Templates should help the reader and present a superficial impression of a serious encyclopedia, until the reader looks closely. Spıke Ѧ 01:04 31-Mar-14
edit Kingdom of South Carolina
I have made some edits and links on your article. I want to do that first before giving it a Pee Review. Is that OK? --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 08:25, March 17, 2014 (UTC)
- Totally ok with me...-- 18:18, March 30, 2014 (UTC)
- Ok. Thanks. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 07:06, March 31, 2014 (UTC)
edit South Carolina Highway Patrol
I have sent the rewritten South Carolina article back to Pee Review and I have also sent a brand new article (South Carolina Highway Patrol) to Pee Review. I was wondering if you would give some feedback on South Carolina Highway Patrol? I would greatly appreciate that.-- 14:17, May 28, 2014 (UTC)
- An attractive and well-composed article. The Intro's use of your personal themes — the Sultanate and the Gay Parish — sort of demands that the reader enter your personal fantasy universe, at a time you should be trying to induce him to read further. Censorship doesn't help; it wouldn't appear in a "real" encyclopedia and the gimmick of having an article include "secret" messages is worn out here. Uncyclopedia is not a seamless alternative universe but a set of articles — famously written by unrelated individuals — where each article usually amuses by itself. I don't know anything about South Carolina, but the tone of this text makes me wonder if you are flogging personal grievances. When I get to Rachel Maddow, I really don't see what the point is. Winking references to things that happened in real life wander toward advocacy. Better to just be funny.
- I saw your request to Romartus, and expect he will get back to you. Several other users like doing Pee Reviews, and several very new users have begun doing them, though not with the same degree of gentleness. It is an assumption that when you post to your talk page, it was so that I would read it; but any other Uncyclopedian is welcome to add his comments too. Spıke Ѧ 14:33 28-May-14
- I will definitely try to make this article more independent from the main South Carolina article. I did try to stick to the common thread that runs through most of the Uncyclopedia police related articles, Police shouldn't be trusted (this might make it seem like I am flogging grievances). I can definitely eliminate future use of censorship, however, there used to be a template that one could use at the top of censored articles that would legitimize redaction, without that template I feel censorship really doesn't work in a comedic sense. My big question here is how might the "Encounters with South Carolina Highway Patrol" section be considered advocacy? The last section was intended to be a sort of reward for making it to the end of the article (It was intended not to fit with the rest of the article). It was between Rachel Maddow scoring the digits of a sexy SCHP officer or Stephen Colbert getting robbed (or escaping robbery) on the freeway by the "old" South Carolina Highway Patrol. Would the later have leaned less toward advocacy?-- 00:34, June 1, 2014 (UTC)
- First and foremost, there is no line you need to hew to when writing Uncyclopedia articles. There are pro-police and anti-police articles and it is simply because they are written by Uncyclopedians of different temperaments. And deliberately, there is no requirement that any two related pages be consistent with one another.
- On the template, I don't recall it. But one problem with the censorship template is that it implies that the article's author is not the usual impartial-though-maybe-clueless encyclopedia writer but a spy or something, and selling an alternative viewpoint is always difficult and sometimes conflicts with the jokes you're trying to sell.
- I do not indeed know what "advocacy" you are trying to achieve; I'm only saying that pulling Rachel Maddow into this article made me think you were trying to achieve some advocacy. That is, it seemed there were real-world undercurrents and I didn't get the joke. Spıke Ѧ 03:17 1-Jun-14
edit Florida
I've deleted three sections of long lists, but this article is still in desperate shape and perhaps you are well situated to contribute. Spıke Ѧ 16:16 31-May-14
- Good call, I think I can definitely improve that article, but it will take a while because I don't visit uncyclopedia very often. -- 01:24, June 1, 2014 (UTC)
edit QVFD
Nice to "avoid the last-minute rush," but I am not going to delete a photo so as to leave a hole in a mainspace article. Edit it out first, then request deletion. (There is no need to change your post at QVFD this time.) Cheers! 15:07 30-Jun-14 PS--To refer to a photo without depositing the photo in the page, precede it with a colon, like this: File:MyrtleBeachcircu.jpg. Spıke Ѧ 15:10 30-Jun-14
You're welcome! Looking at your edit, please note for the future:
[[File:...]] needs to go at the start of a paragraph, with Enter afterward. If it is embedded in a paragraph, MediaWiki doesn't compose the paragraph correctly. Spıke Ѧ 15:22 30-Jun-14
edit Kentuckistan
I think that I should also rewrite the Kentucky article. I feel like I can see what the original author was up to and there are things in that article that I can really run with. Therefore, I would like to keep the eastern bloc theme (someone put a lot of work into making it like that). I think that I could get that article to its potential (it also looks abandoned). What do you think?-- 00:59, July 3, 2014 (UTC)
- I think you won't make it worse. Again, casting a U.S. state as a Soviet republic is officially regarded as way overused, but perhaps you can show that you are using the device deliberately and cleverly. Ditch the Cyrillic, as articles ought not be written in code. The article also chats too much with the reader and degenerates to lists at the end. No major editor has played with it since Mnbvcxz. Go wild. Spıke Ѧ 01:07 3-Jul-14
- I know this is a risk because the Soviet theme is officially regarded as over used, but I'm also counting on the fact that I haven't seen too many of those articles, therefore, I will not be tempted to draw any inspiration from them. Also, I was wondering whether or not it is ok to edit this template. The reason I ask is because it appears to be inside of Tom mayfair's userspace. It also appears that someone else did edit it, but they may have been invited..-- 15:08, July 4, 2014 (UTC)
- Again, I think you won't make the article worse. HTBFANJS emphasizes at the start that all our hard-and-fast rules melt before excellent writing. A statement that something has been overused to the point of being unfunny is inoperative on a page where skill makes it funny. But just realize that no one is going to laugh at the mere comparison of Kentucky to a Soviet satellite; ideally, find stuff in real-world Kentucky you can use with cleverness to flesh out the theme.
- On the template: "Tom mayfair" and the user who edited his space are long gone. But please neither further edit his template nor use Template: space at all for something that seems like it will be used in a single article. If you can't use one of the existing, generic templates, then copy the code from the Mayfair template and insert it into Kentucky. Spıke Ѧ 15:15 4-Jul-14
edit Carolina and South Carolina
Hi Perfect Athleticism (sorry for not spelling your name with all the spaces)! I see you requested a Pee Review for both User:P e r f e c t A t h l e t i c i s m/Carolina and South Carolina, while their content is very similar. So which one do you need reviewed? Anton (talk) 17:57, November 16, 2014 (UTC)
- I meant to delete User:P e r f e c t A t h l e t i c i s m/Carolina from Pee Review, but I was looking for South Carolina to be reviewed.-- 00:03, December 4, 2014 (UTC)
edit Locked out of my account
I was wondering if anyone knew how I could get back into my account. I signed up in 2009 and I don't have the email address that I originally used to sign up. Therefore, any attempts to get back in to my account to this point have been futile. If one checks IP addresses, one can see that this IP address was used to make an edit in my user space when I was accidentally signed out.--184.108.40.206 12:40, July 21, 2015 (UTC)
- Hi, we all are in the same boat at the moment I'm afraid, except Romartus and it seems Squidfest. This is happening at the same time as a Wikia user database merge. More info is at Forum:Uncyclopedia logins. EStop:--188.8.131.52 13:08, July 21, 2015 (UTC)
- I have already flagged this a couple of times with Wikia. It started over the weekend. So far I and 'the Squid' have not been affected...at least for now. --RomArtus*Imperator ITRA (Orate) ® 13:23, July 21, 2015 (UTC)


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AUBURN, Alabama -- Freshman quarterback Kiehl Frazier says he doesn't get to work with the first-team offense much, but he's seeing a little more action as Auburn's Wildcat quarterback.
Though he mostly runs or hands off out of the Wildcat formation, he threw a pass in last Saturday's win over Florida Atlantic. Perhaps that will give South Carolina something else to think about before hosting Auburn this Saturday.
Frazier barely plays compared to starting quarterback Barrett Trotter, and he says he's not sure what offensive coordinator Gus Malzahn has planned for him in the games ahead.
Coach Gene Chizik said weeks ago that the freshman's role would grow by Games 3, 4 and 5.
Saturday is Game 5.
"Whatever Coach Malzahn thinks," Frazier said. "He's going to go in with the guy he has the most trust in, and that's been Barrett so far. Barrett's been doing a good job. Whenever we watch film, the mistakes that seem glaring, it's just little things that happen. I think as the season progresses, we'll get a lot better."
Frazier has four carries for 33 yards.
**Chizik didn't have many kind words about his offense in post-game comments Saturday and Sunday.
But he talked about potential. Here's why: The Tigers have scored 56 times on drives that lasted six plays or fewer since the start of last season, including one time Saturday, and 10 other times in four games this year.
**Auburn's game at Arkansas next week will be a 6 p.m. kickoff. Stay tuned to find out what ESPN network will show it.
ESPN has three games set aside for 6 p.m. on Oct 8. The network will announce whether Auburn-Arkansas is on ESPN, ESPN2 or ESPNU either Saturday night or Sunday.
Auburn's game at South Carolina this Saturday will kick off at 2:30 p.m. on CBS.
**Auburn took its usual day off Monday. The Tigers return to practice late this afternoon.
**The Tigers had two interceptions before playing Florida Atlantic.
Now, they have five. That's a trend defensive coordinator Ted Roof can live with.
"When we made the cutup of the tape, that enthusiasm was contagious," Roof said. "When our guys made a play, you saw four or five guys on top of him right away, enjoying playing the game. That's a big deal.
"We knocked a couple balls out that we didn't get, too, so we could have had five."
**Roof said defensive end Corey Lemonier is coming off his best game.
"He was much more active, much more sudden," Roof said. "I thought he cut it loose this week, and it was good to see. That's what we've got to all do, cut it loose and not worry about making mistakes and perfect our fundamentals and techniques in practice. Swarm to the ball and get after it. And he did that."

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When most people think of worm-fishing they normally think of painstakingly crawling a piece of plastic along the bottom waiting for a strike. Because of this stigma as being a "slow" presentation, many river fisherman shy away from plastic worms, preferring faster power techniques. After fishing Florida's natural lakes for the last 15 years, I've become somewhat proficient at fishing plastic worms…it's THE # 1 lure in my neck of suburbia. If I have learned one thing after years of worm fishing it's to, "keep things simple". I learned to keep the blinders-on when walking down the worm aisle at the local tackle shops, just sticking to the standard 8 to 10-inch curly-tail junebug worms. However, once I discovered river fishing I quickly realized that it is much more dynamic than fishing natural lakes. I had to rethink my "standard" worm presentation and adapt the technique to river fishing. So one day walking down the worm aisle the blinders came off and I found a worm that has quickly become my "go to" river fishing lure, the Zoom Bait Company's Ultra-Vibe Speed Worm.
If I had to use one worm on a river, this is it. The Ultra-Vibe Speed Worm is the most versatile worm I've ever used! Compared to other plastic worms it's fairly compact, but at the same time big enough to catch lunker bass as well. If you've never fished one of these you owe it to yourself to try it out. The action of the Ultra-Vibe tail is incredible…as the name says, the tail and worm vibrates. It screams "Swim me like a spinnerbait and let my tail catch the fish!"
My normal presentation is casting to my target, let it sink like a worm while the tail (slowly) vibrates down to the bottom. If a fish is there, the strike will usually occur on the fall (you've heard that before). If no strike, reel it back like a spinnerbait letting it fall in and over structure. Unlike a spinnerbait, when worked over a log, per se, the blades may or may not rotate to the bottom where they'll lie lifeless on the bottom. With the Ultra-Vibe, bring it over a log and it'll vibrate all the way to the bottom and stand up, enticing a strike. In addition, the ultra-vibe is deadly when swimming through submergent grass and lily-pads.
To get the most effective presentation use the lightest weight possible. I usually prefer to a 1/16 oz or 1/8 oz sinker depending on the wind, current, and bottom composition. On the some local rivers, it seems no matter where I cast I get hung up in on bottom, so I use a 1/16 oz. weight regardless. I like to peg my sinkers, but have been equally successful with unpegged sinkers (your preference). As for hooks, any good 3ought off-set hook will work. I prefer Mustad Ultra off-set and Lazer off-set red hooks…I'm relying on the Lazer red hooks these days, because they are lighter. Go-to color choices are, #1 watermelon seed/red flake, #2) plain watermelon seed, # 3 junebug/red flake. Zoom has recently introduced a range of new colors. I'm going to try black/red flake soon. It's debatable, but I think red is important, whether it's a red hook or red flake in the worm. One rigging tip: to avoid line twist, align the hook with the mold-seam. It does not matter if the tail is up or down…it will not affect the presentation.
What I like about the Ultra-Vibe is that on a single cast you can worm-it on the bottom, slow roll it like a spinnerbait, or raise the rod tip and bring it to the surface and its tails flaps the surface like an injured baitfish. Not only does the tail vibrate but the entire worm vibrates too…just one awesome effective presentation. I'll start out fishing with the swimming technique just under the surface and let the tail occasionally break the surface. If I don't any strikes with that I just slow down to a slow roll past targets. Then if they are still not biting, I'll "worm" it on the bottom.
Oh, and if that's not enough, do not throw away the used worms (as the only weakness of this worm is the tail will break off when fighting a fish, or on a short strike. With the tail cut off, the Ultra-Vibe turns into a 5-inch stick-bait (senko). Tie it onto a spinning reel weightless or a baitcaster with a little weight. Also, use them on a Carolina-rig 18" behind a 3/8 oz. Lindy no-snag sinker…it's a killer presentation. If you love worm fishing as much as I do or want to try it more, try these techniques. I'll bet you catch a bunch on your local river.


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In a Poll About 'Promiscuous' Clothing, Men Found Pencil Skirts Sluttier Than Miniskirts
Which just further proves why these "what men think about women's fashion" polls don't matter at all.
A website in London conducted a survey to find out which fashion trends men think make women look "promiscuous." The results just prove that the people polled know nothing about fashion — quite possibly life, as well:
1) The 'Bodycon' Dress - 57%
2) Crop Tops- 53%
3) Corset Tops- 51%
4) Lace - 45%
5) 'Underwear as Outerwear' - 43%
6) Pencil Skirts - 38%
7) Knee-High Boots - 32%
8) Stiletto High Heels - 29%
9) Mini Skirts - 22%
10) Hipster Jeans - 19%
There should be a too-easy "sky is blue" joke in here, but no, they had to go and ruin that for us by coming up with all the wrong answers. Everyone knows a miniskirt is sluttier than a pencil skirt. And how did underwear as outerwear come in at No. 5? Perhaps the men answering this poll don't know what these fashion terms mean, which is why the results came out this way. Then again, 24 percent said they "wouldn't allow" their significant others to go out on the town in something they "disapproved of," which further exhibits the delusion of this bunch, if they believe they function romantically as walking dress-code czars. This is why it doesn't matter what the men who do these polls think of women's clothes.
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MOBILE, Alabama – The University of Mobile will present its piano ensemble fall concert Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. in Moorer Auditorium in Martin Hall on the university campus, located at 5735 College Pkwy.
The free event will feature combined performances from student and faculty pianists.
Student performers include Will Carpenter, Regan Jennings, Hunter Batley, Emily La Force, Walton Green, Heidi Little, Daniel Moore, Jennifer Gonzalez, Catherine Chen, and alumnus Kassy Wooley.
Faculty include Dr. Charise Lindsay, Vicki James, Wendy Lockhart, Carol Evers, Duane Plash, Becky Fox, Barbara Laurendine, Sharon Hudson, Kadisha Onalbayeva, and Rachael Counselman.


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TORONTO -- Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista tacked on the exclamation point at the end of a testy confrontation with the Yankees on Monday night, flipping his bat away so he could watch his game-winning solo homer sail into left field seats.
Bautista's long homer, his second of the game, came in the eighth inning off reliever David Robertson and proved to be the deciding run in a 3-2 Yankees loss in which both benches and bullpens emptied.
No punches were thrown after the sixth-inning staredown, which started when Bautista thought rookie Ivan Nova's 92 m.p.h. fastball was too high and tight. Bautista, who put the Jays on the board with a two-run homer off Nova in the third inning, jawed at the 23-year-old right-hander.
Nova, making his first major league start, seemed to give it right back. Bautista began walking toward Nova but was intercepted by Yankees manager Joe Girardi. That prompted coaches and players to rush onto the field.
Nova left shortly after the incident, though he was impressive in allowing just two runs in 5 1/3 innings, raising questions about whether he pitched well enough to earn another start.
Jays starter Brandon Morrow had it easy by comparison, keeping the Yankees to just two runs while striking out 12 in six innings. Meanwhile, Nova endured a bumpy start and gave up the two-run homer to Bautista that gave the Jays a 2-1 lead.
Jorge Posada tied the game with a double to score Robinson Cano in the sixth, all after Cano battled back from an 0-2 count to work a two-out walk.
But Bautista, the first major leaguer to 40 homers this season, decided it with one swing.
The loss knocked the Yankees back into a first-place tie atop the American League East with the Rays, who knocked off the Angels 4-3 later in the evening.


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So what would you do with $500 million?
With a record jackpot up for grabs in tonight's Powerball drawing, players across Genesee County already have the money spent in their minds.
"Oh I've got it all planned out," said Paula Pethers, 66, of Davison. "I wrote it down."
Walking away from the counter at a Speedway on M-15, Pethers said she would build a center for at risk children and abused women to come and learn horse care and riding skills as part of their therapy.
Bryan Chapin, 49 from Otisville, said he'd remodel his kitchen, install an in-ground pool in his backyard and take his wife, Kelli, 48, on a cruise to Alaska.
At a recently opened BP gas station at the corner of Bristol Road and Dort Highway in Burton, manager Peramjad Singh, 34, was helping Lisa Blanton fill out a Powerball number sheet for her first time.
"I'm not really a gambler," said Blanton, a Burton resident.
She chose a set of numbers inspired by her parent's birthdays, her wedding day, the year her husband born and their firstborn's birthday. The Powerball number is her husband's father's birthday, she said.
Blanton, part owner of a towing company, said she would use the money from the Powerball jackpot to expand her business with a couple new trucks. She'd also like to be able to hire at least 10 more people, she said.
Anna Pelch, 47, bought her ticket from the same Lapeer gas station that sold the winning $337 million Powerball ticket to Donald Lawson in August.
Lawson told reporters at his check acceptance ceremony that he was going to take all that money and go somewhere safe and figure things out from there.
Pelch said she'd approach her winnings with the same level of concern.
"I'd faint, and then I'd find an attorney," she said. "I won't tell my kids first. This is serious."
What would you do? Let us know in the comments below.


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Medical History:
3000 BC - AD 400: The ancient Egyptians up to the time of the Roman Empire believed that gods and spirits caused and cured diseases. As a result, priests and temples became the first doctors and hospitals. The Greeks believed that the god Apollo invented healing and that his knowledge was passed on to Asclepius, the god of healing, who was a doctor during the same period as Hippocrates. The worship of Asclepius began around 500 BC. The followers of Asclepius believed in supernatural causes and cures for diseases. Hippocrates, however, stressed the importance of observation, diagnosis and treatment, and developed the theory of the body having four humours; black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood.
1543: Andreas Vesalius wrote de Humani Corporis Fabrica (the Fabric of the Human Body), describing the anatomy of the human body for the first time.
1590: Modern microscope invented by Dutch spectacle makers Zaccharias and Hans Janssen.
1616: William Harvey announced his discovery that blood circulated around the body, challenging Galen's view, popular for 1400 years, that blood was continually being made and used up.
1847: American Medical Association is founded.
1848: Indiana Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis opens as the first state-supported mental facility in Indiana.
1849: Indiana State Medical Society (later Indiana State Medical Association) forms "to educate physicians about science and clinical developments in medicine." Livingston Dunlap becomes its first president.
1860: Indiana State Medical Society adopts a resolution to investigate the use of a microscope to study diseased cells.
1861-1865: Nearly 500 of Indiana's physicians care for wounded during the Civil War.
1867: John Stough Bobbs, an Indianapolis physician, performs the first surgery to remove gallstones.
1876: Mary Frame Thomas, a physician in Richmond, Indiana, becomes the first female member of the Indiana State Medical Society.
1879: Louis Pasteur demonstrates value of vaccine to protect sheep against anthrax.
1880: Moses Baker, a pioneer physician-surgeon in Stockwell, Indiana, performs Indiana's first successful Cesarean section.
1880: John Shaw Billings publishes the first U.S. Surgeon General's medical index catalog, which provides the foundation for the National Library of Medicine.
1881: Indiana State Board of Health established. Also, at the annual Indiana State Medical Society meeting, a paper identifies tobacco as a serious health threat and theorizes a connection to cancer.
1882: Robert Koch isolates microorganism responsible for tuberculosis (TB), then a leading cause of death.
1883: Indiana's first nursing school, the Flower Mission School (later Wishard Memorial Hospital School of Nursing) opens.
1884: Sarah Stockton becomes the first female assistant physician at the Indiana State Hospital for the Insane.
1883: Robert Koch isolates the microorganism responsible for cholera, a major epidemic disease in the nineteenth century.
1885: Louis Pasteur develops first rabies vaccine.
1893: The Johns Hopkins University Medical School, the first modern American medical school, opens in Baltimore.
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen, a German scientist, discovers X-rays.
1896: George Edenharter, superintendent of Central State Hospital for the Insane, dedicates a building for the Pathological Department, the largest facility of its type in the state and only the second of its type in the U.S. The building now houses the Indiana Medical History Museum.
1897: Aspirin is invented in Germany.
1897: William Niles Wishard, an Indianapolis physician, writes the Indiana Medical Practices Act, which creates the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination.
1898: The Indiana Board of Pharmacy is created.
Political Struggle
The first years of the School of Medicine were so uncertain that IU's authority to operate such a school was almost lost to Purdue. The political intrigue and behind-the-scenes maneuvering that occurred during this time make this one of the most dramatic periods in the School's history.
Medical History:
March 1903: William Lowe Bryan proposes the establishment of a Medical Department to the University trustees. Proposal is approved. This event marks the beginning of the Indiana University School of Medicine.
May 1903: The Indiana University Bulletin announces the new department.
July 1903: Burton D. Myers, M.D., previously at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, is hired to head the Department of Anatomy in Bloomington.
1903: The State Anatomical Board is created. It is the forerunner of the Anatomical Education Program at IU School of Medicine, which accepts donated cadavers for use in teaching.
September 1903: Courses in anatomy and physiology begin in Lindley and Owen Halls in Bloomington.
1904: The first African American is admitted to IU School of Medicine. His name was Clarence Lucas Sr., and he graduated in 1908.
1904: English physicians William Maddock Bayliss and Ernest H. Starling propose that hormones act as chemical messengers through which organs regulate bodily functions.
May 1904: The University Bulletin outlines the 2-year medical course requirements and 2-year collegiate premedical requirements.
May 1904: IU School of Medicine is admitted to membership in the American Association of American Medical Colleges.
May 1904: IU School of Medicine is recognized by the Indiana State Board of Medical Registration and Examination.
September 1905: Medical College of Indiana and Central College of Physicians and Surgeons merge to become the Purdue University Medical Department.
1906: Indiana's Senator Albert J. Beveridge and physician Harvey Washington Wiley help secure passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, regulating the production of drugs and food.
January 1906: To compete with Purdue, a group of individuals in Bloomington raises funds to acquire title to the building of the Central College of Physicians and Surgeons in Indianapolis. Renamed the State College of Physicians and Surgeons, this facility enabled the commencement of the last two years of medical education in Indianapolis.
1907: Clemens Von Pirquet introduces skin test for tuberculosis in Vienna.
1907: At Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Dr. Reuben Ottenberg performs the first blood transfusion using cross matching.
May 18 1907: IU confers first medical degrees on 25 students.
April 7, 1908: After 2 years of struggle, an agreement is reached regarding the consolidation of the Indiana Medical College (Purdue Medical Department) with the State College of Physicians and the Bloomington Medical Department of Indiana University. The agreement called for all four years of the medical curriculum to be carried out in Indianapolis, while the first two years would continue to be taught also in Bloomington. This event was so important that April 7, 1908 has been characterized as "the second founding date" for Indiana University.
May 1908: Allison Maxwell is named dean of the newly consolidated School of Medicine.
May 20 1908: Graduates of the schools that had just become part of IU receive diplomas in Bloomington.
February 26 1909: Indiana General Assembly passes the Enabling Act that officially authorized the IU School of Medicine to possess a medical school in Marion County. Up to this time, Indiana law prohibited IU to operate any department outside of Monroe County. Therefore, the medical unit in Indianapolis had to be operated without state appropriations. Bryan told the IU Board of Trustees that passage of the Enabling Act opened a "new chapter" in the School of Medicine's history.
November 1909: Abraham Flexner visits the IU School of Medicine. Flexner concluded that "the situation in the state [was], thanks to the intelligent attitude of the university, distinctly hopeful, though it will take time to work it fully." "In order to make the school attractive to highly qualified students, it will be necessary (1) to employ full-time men in the work of the first two years, (2) to strengthen the laboratory equipment, (3) greatly improve the organization and conduct of the clinical courses," Flexner said of the IU School of Medicine in his famous report.
1909: Willis D. Gatch, future dean of the IU School of Medicine, invents the Gatch adjustable hospital bed; with the aid of a crank the patient's head and feet could be raised or lowered.
Great Expectations
In 1908, Purdue's president Winthrop Ellsworth Stone, surrendered the right to operate a medical school to IU. However, the future success of the IU School of Medicine was far from assured. The School's facilities in downtown Indianapolis and in Bloomington were inadequate and outmoded. It was saddled with a "preposterously large" faculty made up of men who had been affiliated with the old Indianapolis proprietary schools. Moreover, IU president, William Lowe Bryan, and the first deans of the school, Allison Maxwell and Charles P. Emerson, had to contend with old rivalries between the different factions that existed among faculty members and could not count on their loyalty to Indiana University.
According to the beliefs that dominated at the time, the School of Medicine also needed its own teaching hospital. Early in 1911, a gift from Indianapolis physician, Robert W. Long, made this possible. However, Indianapolis residents objected to the location in Military Park that the state legislature chose for it. As a result, only three years after the resolution of the prior controversy with Purdue, Indiana University again found itself engaged in conflict over the School of Medicine. After considering a number of alternatives, in 1912, the Board of Trustees finally settled on a site close to Indianapolis City Hospital on West Michigan Street. The Robert W. Long Hospital would be the first building on what would become the Indiana University Medical Center.
Medical History:
1910: The Flexner Report revolutionizes medical education in the U.S. and Canada. The Indiana University School of Medicine received a positive report, unlike many other schools studied.
January 1911: Gov. Thomas R. Marshall transmits Dr. Robert W. Long's offer to give $200,000 for the erection of a hospital building for the use and benefit of IU School of Medicine.
1911: Casimir Funk proposes term "vitamine" for substances that prevent deficiency diseases such as scurvy.
June 1911: Decreased freshman enrollment at Indianapolis causes the School of Medicine to abandon the sophomore year at Bloomington and the freshman year at Indianapolis.
July 1911: Charles P. Emerson (MD, Johns Hopkins University 1899), named dean to succeed Allison Maxwell. At Johns Hopkins, Emerson was a student of William Osler.
January 1912: Willis D. Gatch (BS, 1901; MD, Johns Hopkins, 1907) begins his career at IU. At Johns Hopkins, Gatch studied with the eminent surgeon William S. Halstead. He is the inventor of the Gatch adjustable hospital bed (1909).
February 1912: Property for Long Hospital acquired, establishing the area on West Michigan Street as the future site of the IU Medical Center.
1912: Elmer V. McCollum and associates isolate Vitamin A at the University of Wisconsin.
June 15, 1914: Long Hospital dedicated. First patient admitted, June 19, 1914. Also, the Training School for Nurses was established at Indiana University, and seven students are admitted.
1914: One of IUSM's first faculty members, George Bond was perhaps the first individual to operate an electrocardiograph in the U.S. The Indiana native was employed at Johns Hopkins when he was hired by Dean Charles Emerson in 1914.
1915: John F. Barnhill, M.D., starts annual course in Indianapolis in head and neck anatomy, marking the beginning of Continuing Medical Education at the IU School of Medicine.
September 1915: Emerson hires the first full-time head of the Department of Pharmacology, Dr. B. B. (Bernard Benjamin) Turner. At Hopkins, Turner worked with John Jacob Abel and Leonard G. Rowntree on pioneering experiments in the field of renal dialysis.
June 1916: Committee named to formulate plans for new medical school building near Long Hospital.
June 1918: Governor James P. Goodrich invites public-spirited citizens to advance credit to the School of Medicine so that construction could begin on a new medical school building and asked the 1919 Indiana General Assembly to appropriate funds for the project.
September 1919: New Medical School Building (Emerson Hall) opens.
Difficult Times
Plans developed for the Indiana University School of Medicine had to be put on hold during the Depression because of budget and personnel constraints. At the height of the Depression, Willis D. Gatch, dean of the school from 1932 to 1946, even worried about meeting the payroll. However, with such programs as the Works Project Admmistration, expansion did not come to a standstill. In 1937 and 1938, the School of Medicine opened new buildings -- one in Bloomington and one in Indianapolis.
Across the country, medical school faculty enlisted in the armed forces at a much higher rate than did the general profession, and the Indiana University School of Medicine faculty proved no exception. Like others schools, Indiana University sponsored one of the country's 52 general hospital units, the 32nd General Hospital, which was among the first to be sent to France. At home. the School of Medicine was extremely short staffed; and, at the same time, demands on the Medical Center increased significantly. War conditions called medical schools to produce greater numbers of physicians for both military and civilian needs. During the War, the Indiana University School of Medicine participated in a national, accelerated education program that permitted new doctors to graduate in three rather than four years.
Although the staff was overloaded with teaching and clinical work, some faculty members were able to dedicate some time to war-related medical research. For the first time, the IU School of Medicine sought research contracts from federal agencies, setting important precedents for the post-war period.
Medical History:
1930: Kiwanis Unit added to Riley Hospital for Children. Indiana Kiwanis Clubs raised $150,000 to build this unit, the beginning of the Kiwanis association with Riley.
1931: Rotary Building opens as a children's convalescent home. Indiana Rotary Clubs raised over $275,000 to build this unit.
1932: Researchers discover riboflavin, or vitamin B3.
June 1932: Willis D. Gatch, M.D. is named dean of the IU School of Medicine.
June 1932: Clyde G. Culbertson, M.D. organizes and becomes head of the IU School of Medicine's Central Laboratory.
June 1932: J. O. Ritchey, M.D. became head of the Department of Medicine.
1933: As part of Indiana's Executive Reorganization Act of 1933, the State Board of Health combined its laboratories with those of the university hospitals. Culbertson became director of the two laboratories. Thurman B. Rice, M.D. who had been a member of the Department of Pathology and Bacteriology since 1920, was appointed assistant secretary of the state agency and was given the title professor of bacteriology and public health at the IU School of Medicine.
1933: Dean Willis B. Gatch establishes the Department of Medical Illustration. To head the department, Gatch hired James Glore, an Indianapolis resident and recent graduate of The Chicago Art Institute. By 1965, Glore had built the one-man shop in Emerson Hall to an eight-person unit, complete with photographers, chartists, and a medical illustrator. Today the 27-member department, now known as the Office of Visual Media, provides video, electronic media and specialty printing services to the school.
1935: Hydrotherapeutic Pool for the treatment of polio added to Riley Hospital for Children. President Franklin D. Roosevelt visits patients at the facility in September 1936.
1936: The School of Medicine's Indianapolis campus officially became known as the IU Medical Center.
1936: Food and Drug Administration's Division of Pharmacology begins first animal testing to determine risks from lead arsenate.
1937: Rolla N. Harger donated patent for the 'Drunk-o-meter' to the IU Foundation -- the first ever held by this organization. The Drunk-o-meter was the predecessor to the modern Breathalyzer developed by Harger's student Robert F. Borkenstein.
1937: Clinical Building in Indianapolis completed using Public Works Administration (PWA) funds.
1937: Myers Hall in Bloomington completed using PWA funds.
1938: Indiana State Medical Association endorses nonprofit hospital insurance, which becomes known as Blue Cross.
1939: Faculty member Harold M. Trusler, Sr. receives national attention for his pioneering work in the treatment of burns
1939: Dr. Sid Robinson, from the Department of Physiology in Bloomington, begins important studies in the physiology of exercise and temperature regulation in collaboration with Harvard physiologists.
1939: Native Hoosier Louis Mazzini develops a test for syphilis.
1939: State Board of Health Building (Fesler Hall) completed on the Medical Center campus.
Growing Pains
Between 1914 and 1919, the School of Medicine continued to hold classes in the Indiana Medical College building in downtown Indianapolis. Built in 1895, this building had become outmoded and was a firetrap. Two fires broke out in the building during 1916-1917. Its location away from the new teaching hospital was also inconvenient. The School of Medicine struggled to get the funding necessary to build a new Medical School Building adjacent to Long Hospital. When it opened in September 1919, the IU Medical Center was born.
Following Robert W. Long's donation, which enabled the School to build its own teaching hospital, the School of Medicine attracted a number of other large gifts that resulted in the construction of such facilities as the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children (1924) and Coleman Hospital for Women (1927). Ironically, because each new building required an operating and maintenance fund, the Indiana University School of Medicine's success caused financial difficulty. In 1927, Burton D. Myers, who was then serving as assistant dean, reported to the American Association of Medical Colleges that the university finding it increasingly difficult to carry out its educational program.
Medical History:
1921: Friends of beloved Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley establish an association to memorialize his legacy. The James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association formalizes plans to build a children's hospital and enters a partnership with the Indiana University School of Medicine to operate the hospital. The group is now known as the Riley Children's Foundation and still raises funds to benefit the hospital.
1921: In Toronto, Frederick G. Banting and C. H. Best isolate insulin, which is first used to treat a person with diabetes a year later.
1922: Elmer V. McCollum and associates identify Vitamin D.
1922-1924: Riley Hospital fund-raising campaign. More than 44,000 Hoosiers contributed. The New York Times estimated that this amounted to "one person in every hundred" Indiana residents.
1923: Eli Lilly and Company begins distributing insulin as a treatment for diabetes.
October 7, 1924: Riley Hospital for Children dedicated on James Whitcomb Riley's birthday. The hospital admitted its first patient, Mark Noble, a ten-year-old polio victim.
December 1924: William H. Coleman donates $250,000 for the erection of a women's hospital in memory of his stepdaughter, Suemma Coleman Atkins, who died in childbirth.
1926: Researchers describe vitamins B1 and B2
October 1927: Coleman Hospital for Women opens. It is the first hospital in Indiana exclusively dedicated to obstetrics and gynecology.
1928: Addition to Emerson Hall completed.
1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin, although it does not become available in a therapeutically usable form until 1940.
1928: Ball Residence for Nurses completed. Built from funds donated by the Ball brothers of Muncie, Indiana, as a matching challenge grant during a Riley Hospital for Children fund raising campaign in 1926.
New Directions
In 1947, John D. VanNuys officially became the first full-time dean of the School of Medicine. Under VanNuys's administration, all four years of the undergraduate medical course were consolidated in Indianapolis. Following national patterns, external research funding increased dramatically, from $11 thousand in 1946 to $5 million in 1963. Full-time faculty members replaced an older generation of physicians who had continued their private practices while teaching part-time at the school.
Despite rapid expansion of the campus during this period, some of the School's facilities could not keep up with growth. Adult clinical facilities at Long Hospital became dangerously inadequate. Caseloads in some medical categories dropped below that required by specialty boards for resident experiences. In 1964, VanNuys died suddenly of a heart attack before plans for a new university hospital could be completed.
Medical History:
1942: World War II accelerated medical school curriculum begins.
May 1942: Activation of the 32nd General Hospital, led by Cyrus J. Clark. Forty-seven doctors and seventy-two nurses from the IU Medical Center took commissions in this hospital, which would be "among the first to be sent to France." The Thirty-Second General Hospital followed the allied forces as they drove eastward, moving from France to Liege, Belgium. During the last stages of the conflict in Europe, the hospital became the "first major Army medical installation to be established in Germany," opening in Aachen on March 3, 1945.
1942: Annex added to Ball Residence. This was the only construction project that IU carried out during World War II.
1946: Willis D. Gatch resigns as dean of the School of Medicine as a result of a disagreement with Indiana University president Herman B Wells over the vision for the School.
July 1946: John D. VanNuys (MD, IU, 1936) accepts position as executive secretary of interim committee designated to administer the School of Medicine following Gatch's resignation as dean. In September 1947, VanNuys is officially named dean.
1946: Clinical clerkships instituted in senior curriculum.
1947: Medical Research Building expansion begins with a $250,000 five-year grant from the Riley Memorial Association (now known as the Riley Children's Foundation).
1948: IU School of Medicine Alumni Association is organized.
1948: Harris B. Shumacker hired as chairman of the Department of Surgery. A leader in cardiovascular surgery, in 1954 Shumacker performed the first open-heart surgery in Indianapolis using a heart-lung bypass machine. He also brought distinction to the IU Medical Center by perfecting procedures to correct congenital heart defects. Under his direction, IU School of Medicine surgical research teams pioneered the use of synthetic grafts to replace damaged blood vessels, experimented with renal transplants, and tested surgical glues. Shumacker played a significant role not only in strengthening his department but also in the drive to enhance the school's research funding.
1949: Fesler Hall added to university facilities as Laboratory-Science Building
1949: Addition to Clinical Building expands the Department of Radiology.
1950: A research unit opens at Riley Hospital for Children.
1951: A major study at IU Bloomington documents flouride's role in preventing dental cavities.
1952: Boston cardiologist Paul M. Zoll develops external cardiac pacemaker.
1952: Roudebush VA Medical Center opens, staffed by IU School of Medicine physicians.
1952: Jonas Salk produces polio vaccine and mass inoculation of school kids begins in 1954.
1952: LaRue Carter Hospital opens. Staffed by IU School of Medicine physicians, this hospital provided a long-awaited psychiatric facility at the IU Medical Center.
1952: C. Walton Lillehei performs first successful open heart surgery using heart-lung machine at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
1953: Student Union and Food Services Building opens at the Indianapolis campus.
1953: James Watson and Francis Crick decode the mystery of DNA. Watson received his doctorate in zoology from Indiana University in 1950.
1954: Cancer Research Wing opened at Riley Hospital for Children.
1954: Camp Riley for youth with physical disabilities is established at Bradford Woods at a cost of nearly $400,000.
1954: First successful kidney transplant performed at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston
1954: First Renal Dialysis Unit opens at the IU Medical Center under the direction of George T. Lukemeyer, M.D., and Hunter Soper, M.D.
1957: Institute of Psychiatric Research opens under the direction of John I. Nurnberger, Sr., M.D.
1958: Medical Sciences Building (VanNuys Building) opens, which finally enabled all four years of the School of Medicine to take place in Indianapolis.
1958: John Hickam, M.D. replaces J. O. Ritchey as chairman of the Department of Medicine. Hickam became a national figure during his tenure at IU. Charles Fisch, M.D., founding director of the Krannert Institute of Cardiology, characterized him as a "genius" and always thought of him as "bringing 20th-century [academic medicine] to Indiana."
1958: Kiwanis Diagnostic and Outpatient Clinic opens at Riley Hospital for Children. Because it made significant changes in the provision of pediatric services, this clinic brought national attention to the School of Medicine.
1959: Medical Sciences Program, which offers the first two years of medical school, begins on the IU Bloomington campus.
1959: Division of Allied Health Sciences established. Programs continue today in IUSM's Health Professions Programs and IU's School of Health and Rehabilitation Services, both on the Indianapolis campus.
New Horizons
VanNuys's successor, Glenn W. Irwin, Jr. fought to get a new adult clinical facility built, adding nearly 250 new adult patient beds. In 1970, University Hospital received its first patients, helping to meet the growing needs of clinical care driven by the passage of Medicare and Medicaid. A new addition to Riley Hospital followed in 1971. During this period, the number of basic science and clinical faculty increased; and departments were encouraged to develop their own practice plans.
In 1969, the School of Medicine became part of IUPUI. As the oldest and largest component of Indiana University located in Indianapolis, the School of Medicine has played a leading role in the development of the Indianapolis campus.
Irwin also oversaw implementation of a new medical school curriculum and piloted the Indiana University School of Medicine through the so-called national doctor shortage of the mid-1960s. Concerned that Indiana was producing and keeping too few physicians, the Indiana State Legislature repeatedly demanded that the School of Medicine increase its admissions. However, the Medical Center's facilities limited this expansion. Communities such as Muncie, Terre Haute, South Bend, and Evansville vied for the privilege to open a second medical school in Indiana. At one point, a legislative study group recommended development of a new medical school at Ball State University.
In response, the Indiana University School of Medicine developed the "Indiana Plan" which called for a coordinated statewide system of undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. Conceptualized to create "a medical school without walls, both in space and in time," the system developed under Irwin's direction was "the first comprehensive program to use all of the resources for medical education within an entire state, and to develop an integrated system of medical education which serve[d] physicians as well as medical students" anywhere within that state's borders. This innovative system has been so successful that many other institutions have adopted facets of it.
Medical History:
1960: FDA approves first oral contraceptive.
1961: The first federal grant from the National Institutes of Health comes to IUSM when the school receives $4.3 million from the NIH to establish a heart research center, with a specialized cardiopulmonary laboratory. The School also receives over $800,000 from the National Institute for Mental Health to establish a center for the study of schizophrenia in children.
1963: Dr. Harvey Feigenbaum develops the echocardiograph, a device that detects heart disease with sound waves. He then taught physicians around the world to use what is now the most common, non-invasive diagnostic device.
1963: Krannert Institute of Cardiology dedicated.
1964: Eli Lilly and Company develops the first cephalosporin antibiotic, introducing a new class of drugs for serious infections.
1965: Medicare and Medicaid are signed into law by President Johnson
March 1965: Glenn W. Irwin, Jr., M.D. becomes dean.
June 1965: Ground is finally broken for the new Indiana University Hospital.
April 1965: Indiana's first kidney transplant is performed at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
1965: U.S. Congress passes law requiring a warning label on cigarette packages: "Warning: Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health."
1965: Krannert Institute's Harvey Feigenbaum, M.D. draws national attention for his pioneering research in the use of echocardiography.
April 1966: The faculty Committee to Study Future Medical Education in Indiana presents its plan for a Statewide Medical Education System to a special state Legislative Study Committee on Medical Education.
1967: Regenstrief Institute for Health Care established with funding from Hoosier Samuel Regenstrief.
1967: Dr. Christian Barnard performs first human heart transplant.
1967: Indiana General Assembly approves Phase I of the Statewide Medical Education Program, which established internship/residency programs throughout the state and a statewide communications network.
1968: First human bone marrow transplant is conducted at the University of Minnesota.
1968: Statewide Medical Education pilot programs established at West Lafayettte and South Bend.
Continued Growth
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the School of Medicine continued to increase the number of faculty to provide comprehensive, expert care in every subspecialty of medicine and surgery. With rapid developments in science and medical technology, additional clinical and research centers opened. These facilities have helped to make the Indiana University Medical Center part of a medical education and health care system that is second to none.
In 1975, instead of permitting Marion County General Hospital (renamed Wishard Memorial Hospital) to languish, as did many municipal charity hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s, the School of Medicine stepped in and took over its management. In the process, the School integrated and coordinated the operation of Wishard into its own programs of teaching, research, and patient care. While keeping an important health care facility open, IU's management of Wishard has also improved the School's research and education programs.
Medical History:
January 1970: Indiana University Hospital opens.
1971: National Institutes of Health (NIH) funds the Hypertension Research Center at the IU School of Medicine.
1971: Statewide Medical Education Centers established. They allow students to do their first two years of medical school at one of 8 centers around the state: Fort Wayne, Evansville, Gary, Terre Haute, and Muncie, in addition to programs already in West Lafayette, South Bend, and Bloomington.
1971: Phase II of Riley Hospital for Children opens. This addition included the Parent-Care Pavilion, which provided housing for parents to live with and share in the care and therapy of their own children -- a revolutionary concept developed by Morris Green, Chairman of Pediatrics and Physician-in-Chief, at Riley.
1973: Otis Bowen (BA IU 1939, MD IU 1942) becomes the governor of Indiana, the first physician to assume the state's top position.
March 1974: Steven C. Beering, M.D., succeeds Glenn Irwin as dean.
1974: Faculty member Lawrence Einhorn, M.D., treats the first patient with cis-platinol, instituting a cure for testicular cancer.
1975: Patent granted for diagnostic x-ray system known as Computerized Axial Tomography, or CAT scan.
1975: Marion County General Hospital renamed Wishard Hospital. Marion County Health and Hospital Corporation vote to have the IU School of Medicine manage the facility.
1977: NIH funds the Diabetes Research and Training Center at the IU School of Medicine.
1977: NIH funds Multipurpose Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases Center.
1978: First test tube baby, Louise Brown, is born.
1979: Douglas Zipes, M.D., in collaboration with Medtronic Inc., invents the automatic cardioverter, a device that corrects heart arrhythmia. Dr. Zipes was the first in the world to implant it in patients with recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
1979: Richard Miyamoto performs Indiana's first cochlear implants in an adult. He performs Indiana's first cochlear implant in a child in 1983.
Increasing Complexity
In 1983, the School of Medicine was awarded a new contract with Wishard Memorial Hospital in which it was given fiscal and medical control of the facility. Patient care facilities enlarged with an addition to Riley Hospital (1986) and an Adult Outpatient Center (1992). The opening of a new Medical Research and Library building (1989) and several research institutes facilitated significant growth in research funding, from $17 million in 1983 to more than $78 million in 1993.
However, at the same time, the School was undergoing new stresses. Between 1991 and 1993, the state legislature drastically reduced the School's budget resulting in a $7 million deficit. This deficit threatened to close down part of the Statewide Medical Education System and led to the decision to merge the School's teaching hospitals with Methodist Hospital of Indiana.
Medical History:
1980: The 33rd assembly of the World Health Organization declares small pox eradicated.
1980: AIDS first recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
October 1982: First heart transplant takes place in Indiana at Methodist Hospital. Surgeon is Dr. Hal Halbrook.
1983: IU School of Medicine awarded fiscal and medical control of Wishard Memorial Hospital.
1983: Elks Cancer Research Center opens.
1983: Researchers at Dr. Luc Montagnier's lab at the Institut Pasteur, in France, isolate the virus that causes AIDS.
1983: In collaboration with the Harvard University School of Medicine, the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics uses DNA markers to locate the first human disease gene (Huntington Disease).
July 1983: Walter J. Daly, M.D. becomes dean.
1985: The world's first DNA bank is established at Indiana University Medical Center.
1985: Dr. Jan Jansen performs Indiana's first bone marrow transplant at Riley Hospital for Children. The IU School of Medicine bone marrow transplant program was the first in Indiana.
1986: Riley Hospital for Children Phase III completed.
1987: Walther Oncology Center established through funding from Joseph E. Walther, M.D.
1987: Prozac approved for the treatment of depression in the United States.
1987: NIH funds the Alcohol Research Center at the IU School of Medicine.
1987: The International Olympic Committee accredits the Department of Pathology's Drug Screening Laboratory.
1988: National Institute for Fitness and Sport (NIFS) established, providing a home for IU's sports medicine program.
1988: First liver transplant performed in Indiana at the IU Medical Center. The surgeons were Dr. Peter Friend and Dr. Ronald S. Filo.
October 1988: First pancreas transplant performed in Indiana, by Dr. Mark D. Pescovitz and Dr. Stephen Leapman.
1989: Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research is established, honoring the long-time Riley Memorial Association board member and Indiana University president and chancellor Herman B Wells. The association pledges $12 million to the center.
1989: Medical Research and Library Building opens, which houses the Ruth Lilly Medical Library and the Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics.
April 1989: First infant heart transplant takes place in Indiana. The patient was 10-month-old Megan Stedman. Dr. John Brown, on faculty at the IU School of Medicine, performed the surgery.
1989: The Indiana State Medical Association adopts an AIDS policy, stressing education and providing guidelines for care and testing.
New Challenges
The Indiana University School of Medicine and Methodist Hospital agreed to join forces in 1995. Completing the merger to form Clarian took two years, and the process was complicated. The Indiana University School of Medicine's challenge with Clarian is to carry off the same kind of success with this consolidation as it had when it integrated community hospitals into the Statewide Medical Education System.
Despite the Indiana University School of Medicine's difficulties, in the 1990s, it continued to advance, receiving national recognition in various research fields. Most recently, in 1999, the IU Cancer Center received National Cancer Institute designation as a clinical research center.
Responding to problems in medical education, the Indiana University School of Medicine initiated a curriculum review in 1992. Critics of the current situation stated that medical schools have taken on a corporate mentality. They complained that the country's medical schools have lost sight of ideals set in place at the beginning of the twentieth century. With the challenge "to do better" in preparing new physicians for medical practice in the twenty-first century, the School's faculty collectively designed a competency-based curriculum called "The Indiana Initiative." This curriculum moves away from the traditional subject-oriented curriculum toward a more integrated learning experience that emphasizes not only basic clinical skills and medical diagnosis but also the social and community contexts of health care, moral reasoning and ethical judgment, and effective communication. This curriculum was implemented during the 1999/2000 academic year. The first class to graduate under this system was the class of 2003.
The Indiana University School of Medicine has the opportunity to take a leading role in helping to determine the future of medicine in the United States through its research institutes that cross traditional specialty and School boundaries to join faculty who share an interest in advancing preventive medicine, health care cost containment, and the health care delivery system.
Medical History:
1990: Otis R. Bowen Research Center opens.
1990: Indiana University School of Medicine joins with the Moi University Faculty of Health Sciences in Eldoret, Kenya, to build a unique exchange program.
1990: NIH funds Midwest Sexually Transmitted Disease Collaborative Research Center.
1990: Herman B Wells Center for Pediatric Research opens.
1990: IU Surgeon John Brown performs the world's first twin-to-twin heart transplant. Paige Whisman, born with an uncorrectable heart defect, received her brother Tyler's heart after he was pronounced brain dead at birth.
1991: University Hospital Ambulatory Care Center opens at IUSM.
1991: NIH funds Alzheimer Disease Center.
1991: Breast Care and Research Center established.
1992: Congress passes the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) which imposed standards for mammography personnel, equipment, record keeping and regular FDA inspections of mammography facilities.
1992: National Cancer Institute awards planning grant to the IU School of Medicine for a comprehensive cancer center.
1993: Radiology Oncology Linear Facility opens.
1994: Discovery that autologous bone marrow transplant can improve survival rates for patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML).
1994: The Riley Hospital for Children Cancer Center opens.
1994: New food labels required providing clearly readable information on fat, cholesterol, fiber and key nutrients.
1995: NIH establishes one of three National Gene Vector Laboratories at the IU School of Medicine.
November 1995: Robert W. Holden, M.D. becomes dean.
1996: Indiana Cancer Pavilion dedicated, with $10 million in federal funding.
1996: FDA approves chicken pox vaccine.
1996: Advanced Research and Technology Institute (ARTI) is established to nurture research and economic development at Indiana University.
1997: Dolly, the first clone of an adult sheep, is born.
1997: Clarian Health Partners, Inc. created, leveraging the expertise of IU School of Medicine faculty at three Indianapolis hospitals: Methodist, Riley Hospital for Children, and Indiana University Hospital.
1997: IU Cancer Research Institute opens with $10 million in federal funding.
1997: IU Center for Aging Research opens.
1997: Department of Health and Human Services funds a National Center for Excellence in Women's Health at Indiana University School of Medicine.
1997: First hospital in the world to successfully transplant all intra-abdominal organs.
1998: Department of Public Health is established.
1998: Addition to VanNuys Medical Science Building complete.
1998: Lilly Clinical Research Facility moved from Wishard to University Hospital.
1998: NIH funds Mid-American Adolescent Sexually Transmitted Disease Cooperative Research Center.
1999: IU Cancer Center receives National Cancer Institute designation.
1999: Core Center of Excellence in Molecular Hematology funded by National Institute of Diabetes and Kidney Diseases.
1999: National Institute for Fitness and Sport (NIFS) Research Centers open.
1999: Addition completed to Roudebush VA Medical Center for IU School of Medicine research.
July 2000: D. Craig Brater, M.D. named dean.
2000: Riley Hospital Outpatient Center opens.
2000: Lilly Endowment awards the IU School of Medicine $105 million for the Indiana Genomics Initiative (INGEN).
2000: World's first blood and marrow transplant using genetic testing on an embryo to find a suitable cord-blood donor.
2001: Clarian Cardiovascular Center opens.
2001: Radiology Education and Research Center opens on North Senate Avenue.
2001: IU Center for Bioethics established.
2002: Lilly, Purdue University, and IU form the Proteomics Consortium.
2002: Central Indiana Life Sciences Initiative (CILSI) established. This non-profit partnership brings together IU and its School of Medicine, Purdue, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, the City of Indianapolis and members of the Indiana Health Industry Forum.
2002: The IUSM Division of Nephrology receives NIH funding to establish a George M. O'Brien Research Center for Advanced Renal Microscopic Analysis.
2003: Center for Bioinformatics opens, headed by A. Keith Dunker, Ph.D.
April 2003: Dedication of the Biotechnology Research and Training Center (BRTC)
September 2003:The Research II building is opened and dedicated.
September 2003: The Stark Neuroscience Research Center opens, directed by Gerry Oxford, Ph.D. The center, located in the Research II building, is the gift of Dr. Paul and Carole Stark.
2003: The People Mover monorail from Methodist Hospital to the IU Medical Center opens.
July 2003: First small bowel transplant in Indiana is performed at Riley Hospital for Children. The lead surgeon was Joseph Tector, M.D., assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
August 2003: The first 4-organ transplant in Indiana is performed at the IU School of Medicine. The procedure is one of the first ever performed in the United States. A 14-month-old Clayton, Ind., child received new intestines, stomach, liver and pancreas. Lead surgeon Joseph Tector, MD, and Jonathan Fridell, MD, performed the nine-hour procedure. Both are assistant professors of surgery at the IU School of Medicine and members of the Clarian Transplant Center. The child later died.
August 2003: Dr. Daniel Wurtz is among a handful of surgeons to implant a growable bone prosthesis. A nine-year-old Zionsville, Ind., girl received the prosthesis in her femur. The prosthesis is called Repiphysis and marks a huge advance for children with bone cancer. It extends the limb of youngsters during normal growth cycles.
September 2003: "The Indiana University School of Medicine DNA Tower," a 19-foot sculpture by glass artist Dale Chihuly is unveiled in the Morris Mills Atrium of the VanNuys Medical Science Building. The artwork symbolizes the spirit of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the double-helix molecule that holds the secret of life.
September 2003: The Stark Neuroscience Research Institute is dedicated. The institute focuses on applying advances in molecular, genetic and imaging technologies to fundamental questions about brain function, dysfunction and development. The SNRI was made possible by a $16 million bequest from Dr. Paul and Carole Stark in November 2000. Its first executive directer is Gerry Oxford, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology.
September 2003: Research II building is dedicated. The 128,215-square-foot facility houses the Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Walther Oncology Center, Indiana Center of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging and the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy. Construction was made possible by a $16 million gift from Dr. Paul and Carole Stark to establish the Stark Institute; Clarian Health Partners contributed $10 million and the Riley Children's Foundation donated $2 million.
September 2003: The IU School marks its Centennial school year on September 23. Highlights include a 4-foot by 8-foot, Indiana-shaped cake and a videoconferencing hookup that allows all eight centers to celebrate together.
January 2004: IUSM Biochemist Roger Roeske, PhD, is the first IU faculty member to discover the compound for a drug that made it to the market. The drug, Plenaxis (tm), received FDA approval for the treatment of prostate cancer.
Medical History:
July 2000: D. Craig Brater, M.D. named dean.
2000: Riley Hospital Outpatient Center opens.
2000: Lilly Endowment awards the IU School of Medicine $105 million for the Indiana Genomics Initiative (INGEN).
2000: World's first blood and marrow transplant using genetic testing on an embryo to find a suitable cord-blood donor.
2001: Clarian Cardiovascular Center opens.
2001: Radiology Education and Research Center opens on North Senate Avenue.
2001: IU Center for Bioethics established.
2002: Lilly, Purdue University, and IU form the Proteomics Consortium.
2002: Central Indiana Life Sciences Initiative (CILSI) established. This non-profit partnership brings together IU and its School of Medicine, Purdue, the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, the City of Indianapolis and members of the Indiana Health Industry Forum.
2002: The IUSM Division of Nephrology receives NIH funding to establish a George M. O'Brien Research Center for Advanced Renal Microscopic Analysis.
2003: Center for Bioinformatics opens, headed by A. Keith Dunker, Ph.D.
April 2003: Dedication of the Biotechnology Research and Training Center (BRTC)
September 2003:The Research II building is opened and dedicated.
September 2003: The Stark Neuroscience Research Center opens, directed by Gerry Oxford, Ph.D. The center, located in the Research II building, is the gift of Dr. Paul and Carole Stark.
2003: The People Mover monorail from Methodist Hospital to the IU Medical Center opens.
July 2003: First small bowel transplant in Indiana is performed at Riley Hospital for Children. The lead surgeon was Joseph Tector, M.D., assistant professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
August 2003: The first 4-organ transplant in Indiana is performed at the IU School of Medicine. The procedure is one of the first ever performed in the United States. A 14-month-old Clayton, Ind., child received new intestines, stomach, liver and pancreas. Lead surgeon Joseph Tector, MD, and Jonathan Fridell, MD, performed the nine-hour procedure. Both are assistant professors of surgery at the IU School of Medicine and members of the Clarian Transplant Center. The child later died.
August 2003: Dr. Daniel Wurtz is among a handful of surgeons to implant a growable bone prosthesis. A nine-year-old Zionsville, Ind., girl received the prosthesis in her femur. The prosthesis is called Repiphysis and marks a huge advance for children with bone cancer. It extends the limb of youngsters during normal growth cycles.
September 2003: "The Indiana University School of Medicine DNA Tower," a 19-foot sculpture by glass artist Dale Chihuly is unveiled in the Morris Mills Atrium of the VanNuys Medical Science Building. The artwork symbolizes the spirit of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the double-helix molecule that holds the secret of life.
September 2003: The Stark Neuroscience Research Institute is dedicated. The institute focuses on applying advances in molecular, genetic and imaging technologies to fundamental questions about brain function, dysfunction and development. The SNRI was made possible by a $16 million bequest from Dr. Paul and Carole Stark in November 2000. Its first executive directer is Gerry Oxford, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology.
September 2003: Research II building is dedicated. The 128,215-square-foot facility houses the Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Walther Oncology Center, Indiana Center of Excellence in Biomedical Imaging and the Indiana Center for Biological Microscopy. Construction was made possible by a $16 million gift from Dr. Paul and Carole Stark to establish the Stark Institute; Clarian Health Partners contributed $10 million and the Riley Children's Foundation donated $2 million.
September 2003: The IU School marks its Centennial school year on September 23. Highlights include a 4-foot by 8-foot, Indiana-shaped cake and a videoconferencing hookup that allows all eight centers to celebrate together.
January 2004: IUSM Biochemist Roger Roeske, PhD, is the first IU faculty member to discover the compound for a drug that made it to the market. The drug, Plenaxis (tm), received FDA approval for the treatment of prostate cancer.
2005: IUSM-South Bend opens new center with University of Notre Dame.
IU School of Medicine and Clarian Health begin expansion of IU Simon Cancer Center.
2006: The Fairbanks Institute is established by BioCrossroads with IU School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute.
2007: Health Information and Translational Sciences building dedicated; this extends the IUSM campus to the Indianapolis Central Canal. The first class of PhD students enter the Indiana BioMedical Gateway Program.
2008: The Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center opens a new patient care facility. IUSM Dean's offices move to Richard Fairbanks Hall on the Indianapolis
Central Canal.
2009: Joseph E. Walther Hall building is dedicated. IUSM-Fort Wayne opens the Medical Education and Research Building. The Simulation Center at Fairbanks Hall opens.
2010: Lilly Endowment Inc. boosts research at IUSM with a $60 million grant for the Indiana Physician Scientist Inititive


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Castleton is located in Hope Valley, in the heart of the Peak District National Park.
The Hope Vallley is justifiably one of the most popular tourist locations in the Peak District National Park.
At the head of the valley lies Castleton, and the area around here has numerous caverns and deep valleys (or 'dales') carved out of the local limestone rock. The caverns are a famous and popular visitor attraction.
On the north side of Hope Valley there is a ridge of low hills including Mam Tor, Back Tor and Lose Hill, which are also excellent places for a walk, and beyond this lies Edale - the starting point of the Pennine Way - and Kinder Scout, which is one of the finest of the gritstone moorlands for which the Peak District is famous.
Cheshire House is the perfect base for walking, leave your car behind and start your walk from the village.
The Peak District is also a wonderful area for many other activities, such as cycling, rock-climbing, pot-holing and hang-gliding.
There are many historic houses within easy reach and which are well worth a visit. These include Chatsworth House, Haddon Hall, Lyme Hall and Park and Hardwick Hall.
There are several interesting towns within easy reach. Buxton is famous for its Opera House and Festival, while Bakewell has a thriving weekly livestock market.
If you prefer Theme Parks then Alton Towers is a little over an hour away by car, and the many attractions of the Matlock area (such as the Heights of Abraham) are closer still.
Visit Castleton is the official website of the Castleton Chamber of Commerce and has more information on the village - www.visitcastleton.co.uk
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Mark's Pizzeria Supports Geneva 2020
Posted on Friday, August 23, 2013
As the Geneva 2020 initiative expands throughout the community, Rich Malec, owner of Mark's Pizzeria and generous supporter of the initiative, has witnessed firsthand the impact civic engagement can have on the entire community. Through the Geneva 2020 partnership, Mark's Pizzeria, and other local businesses and organizations share the common goal of engaging civically to foster the continuous improvement of the lives of children in the community and the enrichment of their educational experience.
"The Geneva 2020 program is right in line with what we are trying to accomplish in terms of reaching out to the community," says Malec, who contributes to the Geneva School District's P.A.W.S program. "As part of the community, I feel businesses should go above and beyond the normal operations and do what we can to support the community. The community shows us a great deal of support and we want to give back as much as we can."
P.A.W.S, a program designed to "catch" children demonstrating positive behavior, falls into four behavioral categories: patience and kindness, academic excellence, working together and safe and in control behavior. Many local businesses have teamed up with the Geneva 2020 initiative to provide rewards for the students involved in the program.
"I think it's very important to reward kids for good behavior," Malec says. "I look at programs, such as P.A.W.S, as a way to plant seeds for our future. I feel it's up to the leaders in the community to display that kind of leadership and pass it down to the children."
The P.A.W.S. program is an afterschool program for elementary students and families on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:15 - 7 p.m. at West Street School. P.A.W.S. activities focus on health and wellness, academic and technology connections, family connections and homework support. Special workshops using technology, literacy and math games, and game time in the gym are just some of the activities offered.
Launched in March, the Geneva 2020 initiative seeks to harness the resources of the entire Geneva community - nonprofit organizations, businesses and individuals - to provide assistance in three key areas identified by the Geneva City School District as being critical to the future of Geneva's children: graduation rate, career and college readiness and literacy.


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The Onondaga language could be heard throughout Hanover Square in Syracuse late Friday afternoon as Sid Hill, one of the chiefs of the Onondaga Nation, opened the Stage of Nations Blue Rain ECOfest with a Thanksgiving address. The second annual event celebrates Native American culture and eco-friendly sustainability with two days of music, dance and exhibitions.
Soon afterward, Micco Sampson, a Seneca and Muskoke Creek dancer who specializes in hoop dancing, performed and spoke about the importance of taking care of the environment. There were also vendors and performances by Los Blancos and The Fabulous Ripcords.
Attendees said they enjoyed being around other Native Americans and celebrating the culture.
"To meet friends and family and the music and the whole cultural thing, about Native Americans getting together and enjoying the festival without drugs or alcohol," said John Arquette, a Mohawk of Phoenix.
His wife, Margaret Arquette, said she appreciated the Thanksgiving address.
"When he (Sid Hill) was praying the Thanksgiving prayer, I, in my heart, was in reverence to the prayer," she said. "You give honor and thanks to the creator before you do something else."
Mary Ellen Conway, a student nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital, has always been connected to the Native American culture. She brought her children to the festival last year to expose them to different viewpoints.
"I expose them to different cultures as part of their upbringing, and I have a real heart for the Native people as the foundation of our country, as the first people."
Sampson, who is also co-owner of Native Style Embroidering and Art, a T-shirt print shop, said that at last year's festival, he was a background dancer but that this year, he was given the chance to speak.
"The ECOfest is definitely very industrious," he said. "To me, it's simple knowledge and taking care of the Earth is a simple thing and everyone should know that."
Indeed, many appreciated the festival's emphasis on taking care of the environment -- in particular, Sampson's speech about the state of the environment.
Theresa Burns, a Mohawk, has a stand at the festival for her Mohawk Bear Soaps & Crafts shop where she sells soap. They are vegetable-based and do not contain any petroleum products or by-products, she said.
Burns said that it was good for Sampson to speak about the need to take care of the environment as opposed to an elder.
"He's enlightening the community in general at large," she said. "He does it in a really non-threatening way. It's just like, 'Oh by the way, did you know,' and that's good for all of us."
"We're trying to encourage a lot of the environmental support, environmental ideas and efforts, trying to bring attention and concern to the pollution of Onondaga Lake and all the waterways," Hill said.
"I kind of grew up here in the city of Syracuse and you see all this garbage on the Westside and Route 81, 690," said Kirk Hughes, a Mohawk. "You see all the garbage and it's really sad."
The festival, which is part of Syracuse ArtsWeek, will conclude Saturday with performances by Sampson, Haudenosaunee singers and dancers and other bands such as Morris and the Hepcats.


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Curaçao adheres to the EU regulations which has harmonised its regulations in accordance with the EU regulation regarding international travel with dogs, cats and ferrets.
Note: Pit Bull terriers (and any pit bull terrier cross breeds) are not allowed into .
The Curaçao veterinary certificate signed by your veterinary doctor must include the following information:
country of dispatch of the animal;
owner/responsible person accompanying the animal including their name, address, country and telephone number;
description of the animal including the species, breed, sex, date of birth, coat (colour and type);
identification of the animal either a microchip number or tattoo number, location of microchip/ tattoo and date of micro chipping/ tattooing;
rabies vaccination information including the manufacturer and name of vaccine, batch number, date of the vaccination and expiration date of the vaccine.
The EU form of the veterinary certificate is then certified by the State USDA veterinarian. Once signed by the veterinarian and endorsed by the competent authority, the certificate is valid for four months, or until the expiration date of the vaccination, whichever comes first.
The United States, Canada and the EU countries are included in Annex II EC regulation 998/2003, which means that both countries are considered low risk regions for rabies. Other countries that are considered low risk rabies regions are:
Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino Vatican, Ascension, Antigua en Barbuda, Netherlands Antilles, Australia Aruba, Barbados, Bahrain, Bermuda, Canada, Fiji , Falkland Islands, Croatia Jamaica, Japan, Saint Kitts en Nevis, Cayman Islands, Montserrat, Mauritius New-Caledonia, New-Zealand, French Polynesia, Saint-Pierre en Miquelon Singapore, Sint-Helena, United States of Americano Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Vanuatu, Wallis and Tutuna, Mayotte
Territories of the EU-member states – Greenland, Faro Islands, The Balaeren, The Canaries (without Ceuta and Melilla), French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique en Reunion, Gibraltar, de Azores, Madeira.
Dogs, cats and ferrets must be vaccinated against rabies. The first vaccination is valid 21 days after the vaccination protocol has been finished. Also the rules regarding the frequency of the rabies vaccination have changed: the rabies shot will have to be repeated either annually or every two years in accordance with the type of vaccine used.
Dogs, cats and ferrets less then 12 weeks old are permitted to travel to Curaçao without prior inoculation against rabies (however the pet does need the chip or tattoo). In addition, the animal must travel with a statement from a veterinary doctor, which declares that the animal resided at the birthplace until travel date and has not been in contact with any animals possibly infected with rabies.
For travel to Curaçao with your dog, cat, or ferret, a tick treatment or a echinococcus treatment is not required.
Note: The above requirements apply to dog, cats and ferrets, travelling with their owner/ care taker. Any dog, cat or ferret travelling alone is considered commercial trade, and is subject to an additional requirement.