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I am frequently asked questions about Indy, my Freedom Guide Dog . People want to know where he was trained and if I had any difficulty learning to work with him. I had always used a cane to get around and never saw the need for a guide dog in the first place. After all, my cane was extremely low maintenance. It never needed to be fed, or cleaned up or taken to a vet. I always liked dogs, but I was a little skeptical about trusting one with my life. It wasn't until after being discharged from a year of physical therapy following my surgery that I even entertained the thought of acquiring a dog. Because of all the complications during my surgery and after it, I lost a great deal of strength and coordination in my arms and hands. Even after intense physical therapy, I only regained about forty percent use of my left arm. The cane that I had relied on for so long was now totally useless for me. If I were to regain any amount of independence and self-reliance I had two choices: either wait for others to assist me or break down and look into a guide dog. I chose the latter. It turned out not to be as easily accomplished as I had imagined.
Because of my physical limitations, all of the well-known schools for training guide dogs that I had contacted turned me down. It wasn't until I came in contact with Eric Loori, the trainer for Freedom Guide Dogs, that my hope of independent travel was restored. He assured me that he could find a dog that could be trained to work with my limitations.
In April 1998, Eric came to my house with Indy to begin the two-week training program. It didn't take long for Indy to work his way into my heart and life. Six months later, we were a great working team, and I was sorry that I didn't look into guide dogs thirty years ago Now I can't imagine what my life would be like without him.
Before I had Indy, I needed someone to drive me to the barbershop and after getting my hair cut, I would sometimes walk the mile or so trip back home using my cane. The walk home would take me about an hour. Now, Indy and I can make the trip in fifteen minutes. Since I no longer need to have someone drive me to the shop, we often make it a round trip excursion. We even made it there and back during a snowstorm. With several inches on the ground and more falling, it would have been an impossible task using only my cane. Indy and I made it in forty minutes.
I have my lighthearted moments with Indy too. As part of his training, Indy follows commands such as "find outside" where he will look for a door with a handle, or "find a seat" leading me to an available chair. Unfortunately, he is indiscriminate in his selections of either. At a restaurant located in a mall, the "find outside" command led me to a freezer door with a handle and "find a seat" found me in an empty chair at a table of strangers having dinner. Even buying a lottery ticket caused a few chuckles when Indy, not knowing the concept of waiting your turn, given the command to "find the counter" did just that. The people waiting in line just laughed about it and told me to go ahead of them when they realized what had happened.
Indy also possesses a keen sense of awareness. A friend's mother had passed away and my friend was having a difficult time dealing with the loss. At the funeral, Indy kept watching her from across the room because she was crying and so upset. When it came time to pay final respects, Indy took me straight to her instead of following the line up to the casket. It was like he wanted to let her know that we both came to express our sympathy and support.
When I walk down the street I often can hear people saying, "Here comes Indy." -- somewhere along the line I lost my identity. People open doors for Indy; something they seldom did when it was just my cane and me. With Indy, I don't need as much outside help and I'm getting it in abundance. When I did need the help, I didn't get enough of it.
In talking about Indy and other guide dogs, either to individuals or to groups, I stress how important it is not to approach a guide dog while he is "working." People are constantly coming up to Indy trying to give him a treat or pet him while he is in harness. In fact I joke about changing his name to "Babe Magnet" because of all the females he attracts. They all want to pet him or talk to him. There are even some who try to hug and kiss him when he is supposed to be working. A guide dog has an awesome responsibility to the blind person he is with. Their lives literally depend on that dog's judgment and concentration. Being distracted in any way could result in horrific consequences. Most of the general public is not consciously aware of this and need to be educated in this regard.
I believe that Indy is truly part of God's plan. He was born about two weeks prior to my surgery and was in training about the time I decided that I truly wanted a guide dog. Also it was a strange circumstance that I found Freedom Guide Dogs and their wonderful timing to expand into Pennsylvania. I don't believe that the timing of these events are just a coincidence but part of a great master plan.
Below are two pictures of Lenny McHugh with his Freedom Guide Dog, Indy.
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Today I'm writing you about The Beetles in Japan. No no not the band the beetles but actual beetles and the popularity of keeping them as pets. The Kabutomushi also known as Trypoxylus Dichotomus is many boys' and even some girls' pets. These critters are so popular that Japan even has a Holiday for them in some parts of Japan. Also they often appear in advertising as cute little cartoons, just as a bear, mouse, cat or dog would in the USA. In the USA you might see a kids TV show with robot space dinosaurs. It is the same in Japan except they are robot space beetles.
In the spring, bug nets, bug tanks, mulch, food, and bate appear for sale, and kids all around Japan buy into bug hunting. You could just be a geeky boy or girl who is interested in catching a bug to observe, but for most boys the motivation for catching these critters is for battle. The Kabutomushi is able to lift hundreds of times it's own body weight, and it's shell is very hard. Kids love to battle these bugs. Kids think it is so much fun and looks cool, one beetle lifting another above its head and tossing it down to its defeat. Many Japanese mothers protest this and forbid their boys from participating. I believe it isn't cruel to the animal. They aren't pinching each other to death. In the whild they do this fighting over a mate. Up in the tree tops if you can toss all the other males to the ground, you win. Their pincers don't squeeze the live out of each other and the hard shell protects them. Plus the lifespan of the beetle in the while and in captivity is only a few months. They are more likely to die from you not feeding them properly than in battle. So am I pro beetle fighting? You bet I am. It is a good competitive active activity for young boys. If they are out catching bugs and battling their friends, it means they aren't sipping soda in front of the TV.
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Believe it or not they are really good models. most of the time they have no desire to go anywhere. (pretty lazy bugs) The just sit where I put them. if they try to move they can't get traction on the paper i set them on so they still don't go anywhere. Note, they can fly, but mime have yet to try. I think you would agree they look pretty cool photographed on the endless white background. Today I plan to shoot them with my large format camera.
In the next day or two I will let them go in the wild. I'm sure customs won't let me bring them home alive and it would just be a pain to try packing them. They belong in Japan. They were fun to shoot, watch, and play with.
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The Appealing of the Passion
Print Version April 13th, 2007
I don't know whether this will be a lone post, the first of a coherent series, or just the start of some jottings but I thought in the shower this morning that it is about time I tried to write about the experience of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome as a person of faith and, indeed, an erstwhile theologian.
Suffering is an important issue for Christian theology. All religious belief systems hold out some kind of promise of some kind salvation from suffering; but Christians have had to contend from the beginning with the fact that the founding figure of our faith suffered, died, and was buried. We have had to make sense of the Passion and Resurrection. How do we say that suffering can be the locus of God's own activity without making God a monster or an incompetent?
The title of this post comes from Gerard Manley Hopkins 'Wreck of the Deutschland'–a fellow Jesuit's reflection on suffering, in his case the conspiration of natural disaster and human persecution as 'five Franciscan Nuns exiles by the Falk Laws drowned between midnight and morning of Dec. 7th. 1875′. The middle section of his long poem is tussling in tortured language to understand the report that one of the nuns was heard calling 'O Christ, Christ, come quickly'. 'The cross to her she calls Christ to her, christens her wild-worst Best': this is Hopkins' problem–what is she doing calling God into her suffering, naming the worst that can happen to her the best? He argues one way and another but in the middle of his flow he writes 'the appealing of the Passion is tenderer in prayer apart'. And he is right: it is easier to be moved by the Passion when you are not in it! In it's midst suffering can sabotage prayer so that only afterwards can it seem graced. And theories born in prayer apart have little purchase on one's experience while suffering.
I suppose I want to say some theological things from the heart of my particular experience of suffering–not from 'prayer apart'. Suffering? I'm not talking about earthquake, holocaust, or cancer. CFS isn't dramatic, isn't terminal, and none of its symptoms on their own are unusual in healthy people but their combined effect over time is debilitating, life-changing. Whatever I write it won't be theodicy. It won't be anything so grand as a theology of suffering, not even a theology of illness, but I hope it might be a chance for me to make explicit to myself who the God is I have met here in this particular experience.
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1. crystal | April 13th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
I hope you do have a series on the subject – it will be relevant to many.
2. dave | April 16th, 2007 at 9:18 am
I'm a catholic with fibromyalgia (not unlike CFS). I've often wondered about suffering, too. Especially when i can't go to Mass. Once keeled over sideways whilst genuflecting. Certainly looking forward to your thoughts (and the odd prayer….will reciprocate if memory loss allows!)
3. Rob | April 16th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
dave: Thanks. I had to give up genuflecting a while ago 😉 Rest assured of the odd prayer!
4. Ann | August 28th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
I have just come across your website while searching for a "theology of Chronic fatigue".
Have you any thoughts on coping with the seemingly ineveitable selfcentredness of the almost constant monitoring of diet, activity etc and of the frequent refusal of invitations?
(i am mostly housebound)


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We are saddened to hear of the retirement - if that is the word - of J.K. Baltzersen from The Monarchist, of which I have been a humble scribe for some years now. I am far more sadden by the author's pessimistic reasons for leaving the field of battle:
Along the way, although there of course are exceptions, I have met very little understanding for the worldview which I advocate. I find that I am standing still. I am not moving. Not forward. Not backwards. Not anywhere.
This world consists of people – almost of all ages – proudly exhibiting their underwear in all sorts of public places, successfully asserting their right to political equality, but at least the world is moving forward.
Yes, forward over the cliff. The coarseness of the age is appalling. It is an obvious and trite thing to say, but one which needs to be said. It is the obvious things which need to be repeated, they are so easily forgotten. We accept it too easily. The cheapening of the human soul. Chesterton, Belloc, Ortega y Gasset and Rand all denounced it, each for their own reasons. What linked these minds - who would have disliked each other intensely - was their aversion to the modern. They were born in that last twilight of the liberal era, which ended in the barrel of Gavrilo Princip's pistol, nearly a hundred summers ago. The modern they despised was the levelling tendency, its worship of what Whitman sadly called the "divine average."
Statistics is not conducive to divinity. In its widest sense, divinity is never average. It is an aspiration. The average may possess it, but the desire is transcendent. The ordinary looking up. The Cult of the Modern is the Cult of the Average, it is anti-aspiration. The age before 1914 was distinguished not so much by its small and unintrusive government, its manners or arts. It was the last age in which ordinary people deferred to those in authority. Partly out of ignorance, but also out of respect for what such an authority represented. The university professor was a repository of, and skilled guide to, knowledge. He was not an otherwise unemployable crank. The minister of state was a guardian of the security and freedom of the realm, not a charlatan in a frock coat.
The human clay was no better then than now. No age suffers from a shortage of the wicked, the conniving and the morally lax. Same clay, however, different aspirations. People wanted to believe that those in authority lived to higher standards. They understood that some failed the ideal, yet the dream was all important. Somewhere, men are decent and noble and do the right thing. In her first television Christmas broadcast, made in 1957, Her Majesty warned us not to succumb to the "subtle corruption of the cynics." The rot was pretty well set in even then. The message is still relevant. If we don't try, we'll never be. This process of corruption has always had an especially obnoxious villain to my mind, Lytton Strachey. His Eminent Victorians sought to, and largely succeeded, in placing feet of clay on the giants of 19th century British history. The American critic Edmund Wilson said of Strachey:
Lytton Strachey's chief mission, of course, was to take down once and for all the pretensions of the Victorian age to moral superiority... neither the Americans nor the English have ever, since Eminent Victorians appeared, been able to feel quite the same about the legends that had dominated their pasts. Something had been punctured for good."
Hallelujah! We are all back in the mire! Rejoice! Strachey made generations of intellectuals, and those further down the effluence of thought, feel comfortable in their mediocrity. No one is better than anyone else, which is really saying that no one is better than me. My little vices, my little betrayals, my little failings are acceptable, I have no need to fight them, because the eminent men are just as bad as me. Men are not so much prone to evil as to sloth. Eminent Victorians was a license to moral sloth. What is first done with wit and grace, is soon enough done with vulgarity and obscenity. A typical British High Street is proof enough of that. Without discipline an army is a rabble. Without discipline, of some sort, the soul of man is no better than a rabble, driven by sudden emotion and instinct. Thought, consideration and foresight are the products of a disciplined mind. Of a mind that aspires to better than what it is and, through discipline has the tools to move in that direction.
I hold onto the monarchy for many reasons, one of which I will honestly admit is a perverse streak of the reactionary within me. It is a mad impulse which sometimes becomes irresistible. I am the only person I know who does not own a pair of jeans. This causes some discomfiture to friends and co-workers. I do not explain why. It may well be an irrational impulse. I recall one of my teachers in high school, in a fit of honesty, admitted that his father thought him immature. Exhibit A in the father's case was that said son still wore jeans. The aged veteran of HM's forces thought only teenagers, children and workmen should wear jeans. Men wore pants, you see. The thought was a bracing one. A bit of reactionary rebellion. It is logically nonsense to imagine that an item of clothing confers on one any sort of superiority, yet the concept of a fashion statement is perfectly understandable. Clothing is symbolic. The wearing of jeans was once a militant statement of youthful and proletarian solidarity. The rebels having taken over, it is now a uniform. Jeans are "comfortable" we are told. Not really. The material is more rigid than that which is typically used for trousers. Jeans are comfortable only in the psychological sense. They telegraph to wearer and viewer than the wearer is "off duty" and not in a serious frame of mind. "Please don't take me seriously, I'm not really trying." They are the dress of militant informality.
The monarchy is like the bespoke three piece suit. A piece of militant formality and defiant aspiration. The Queen is the epitome of propriety and dignity. There is an ordinary human being beneath the crown, one that behaves as we all do at our worst. Yet she has dedicated herself to a certain code of being, a sense of duty higher than ordinary. With discipline and application you can be better than you are. That was part of the point of monarchy, as Victoria and Albert re-imagined it, a model for the nation. We are told, with the smug assurance of a wise man explaining the dawn to a simpleton, that monarchy is out of date. The modern age admits no hereditary privilege. Most of those who say that plan on bequeathing to their children as large an inheritance as possible, as well as a first class education (if they can still get it). What irks the republican is not some strict constitutional principle, it is a political as well as spiritual egalitarianism. They are too vain to admit that anything is better than they. Today it is a monarch, but the levelling tendency is fanatical and will seek new victims. The Australians have a saying about cutting down the tall poppies. The Queen is simply the tallest poppy.
We began by mourning the pessimism of some toward the modern world. The jacobins are now very busy indeed. They are headlong into bankrupting the United States. They have, through stealth, rendered Queen and Parliament no longer sovereign in Britain. The popular culture is utterly obscene, so much so that to mention its nature is to invite boredom. Yes, yes, decline and fall and all that. Part of the ether. Protesting is pointless. There is nothing inevitable about today or tomorrow. The world of a century ago was the product of centuries of preceding effort. The Britain of the 18th century looked a lot like the Britain of today. The future is always contestable. You just have to say. A thousand acts of small defiance. A refusal to accept the well accepted. We must be outrageous for the sake of restraint. We must be radical for the sake of propriety. No, madam you do not have a different lifestyle, you are a slut. No, sir, you are not being pragmatic, you are being dishonest. Insist that sophistry is not a sign of sophistication. It is a sign of cowardice, as it was when Aristotle patrolled the agora. We lose only by accepting that what is is right. Our opposition is strong only in numbers. Sloth, when it is revealed plainly as sloth, is a weak rallying cry. Aspiration is a strong call forward. We have only to call their bluff and never, ever, surrender to the "subtle corruption of the cynics."


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If by , you mean to say: ionization?
Is not a highly ionized field of gases also subjected to high temperature and pressure? In other words, a plasma? Does not a plasma want to expand? If so, it wouldn't want to expand due to a temperature and pressure decrease or while maintaining a state of equilibrium, would it? Or, would it?
And the iron or other catalyst used in the Haber-Bosch process (ruthenium), for example, is an electron intermediary serving in a capacity similar to an equivalent result obtained from sustaining a high positive voltage field producing mono-atomic nitrogen and hydrogen ions?
I think your use of water is another way to mono-atomize the nitrogen and hydrogen. It conforms to Sir Humphry Davy' quote, oft used by Aaron, that...
A catalyst is an electron donor and/or receptor, used over and over. But a high voltage is a field sustained by the driving mechanism surrounding the field. So long as the field is sustained, catalysis will continue regardless of how it is sustained: whether chemically by the presence of iron, or electrostatically by a high voltage, positively charged field.
The only objective method of settling this difference of opinion is to test out any design in an environment free of nitrogen. In other words, the air intake for the engine has to be fed pure oxygen, and the air gap in the fuel tank and fuel lines - aka, where ever there is a gaseous gap or the presence of gaseous bubbles in the fuel - has to also be exclusively pure oxygen, and the water has to be pre-boiled and resuffused with oxygen alone while allowed to raise to room temperature before filling the fuel tank with it and also before running the test.
This test would have to be the most common grueling test for any so-called water fed engine - the same test for any other standard car: idled with an inertial load to replicate the condition of driving up a steep hill for a lengthy period of time.
For ammonia production you need hydrogen and nitrogen. Old method Haber-Bosch use high pressure and high temperature. The only way for another method of ammonia production from water is use an catalyst (or two) and an NEW method for water dissociation. Stan Meyer with the latest fuel injector patent was near to understand the process but don't have sense use the air
as electron absorber like an catalyst.. air isn't an catalyst!! And in fact I can't se at today an car working with the Stan Meyer technology. My vision is that in the near future we can use water molecules in an loop mode device for the energy creation similarry to Lyne furnace for production of electricity and heat at the same time.
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Cecelia H. Kroposki, a lifelong area resident, passed away on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at St. Anthony's Hospital in Warwick, NY.
The daughter of the late Francis and Josephine (Ciak) Myruski, she was born November 15, 1913 in Goshen, NY.
Cecelia was a retired Office Manager for Park Lane Furniture in New Windsor and was a parishioner of Sacred Heart Church in Monroe.
She was the widow of Walter E. Kroposki. Survivors include her son, Eugene E. Kroposki of Monroe; daughters: Marcella K. Hopwood of Monroe, Lorraine Kroposki of Monroe, and Joan Sedivec of New Mexico; brother, Vincent Myruski of Goshen; sisters, Irene Roach of Chester and Helen Lloyd of New Hampton; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by brothers: Frank, Andrew, Alonzo, Stanley and Edward Myruski, and sisters, Elizabeth Guzzetti and Martha Myruski.
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In 2008 I got the opportunity to shoot this amazing musician, Susanna Brandin, back then going by the name of Winter Took His Life. I remember her being very kind and patient all through the shoot on and around Ramberget (which is a small mountain and park, with a view over central Gothenburg, Sweden).
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Gut Reactions: Microsoft E3 Press Conference
Find out what the GameSpot editorial team thought of Microsoft's E3 event.
It's not even the first official day of E3, but things are already starting to heat up in Los Angeles. Microsoft just completed its E3 2010 press conference where the company finally took the wraps off its new hardware, called Kinect. It is a camera that lets you interact with games and the Xbox 360 dashboard without the aid of a controller. We saw a variety of games that will support the new device, including a rhythm game called Dance Central, a new version of Ubisoft's Your Shape: Fitness Evolved, an interactive animal adventure called Kinectimals, and more. Of course, Kinect wasn't the only big thing on display. Various developers took to the stage to show off their latest and greatest, including Call of Duty: Black Ops, Gears of War 3, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Halo: Reach, and Fable III. So with all of this on display, what did the GameSpot editors think of the show? Read below to find out.
Brian Ekberg, Senior Editor
Some highlights and a few "meh-lights" (is that even a word?) from the Microsoft press conference for me. Thumbs-up to the Call of Duty: Black Ops demo, which sets a new standard for South Asian explosions-per-minute. Gears of War 3 delivered just the kind of bloody thrills I was anticipating (though more Baird would have been a good thing). Chopping up watermelons (and bad guys) in Metal Gear Solid: Rising looked surprisingly fun.
As for the "meh" demos, I'd lump a good chunk of the Kinect-specific games in there. In fact, after what we've seen, I'm less interested in Kinect as a way to get me off the couch and more interested in it as a way to keep me on the couch as much as possible--using voice chat or simple gestures to control video and music playback, for example, or watching ESPN coverage.
Finally, and this is of utmost importance: I want a kitty named Skittles!
Justin Calvert, Senior Editor
After watching the Microsoft press conference from the GameSpot booth, my first reaction at the end was that--after registering and RSVPing--I should have actually gone to it. That way I'd be getting one of those redesigned consoles for free, and I'd feel a lot better about the fact that my regular Xbox 360 red-ringed just a week ago. As for the rest of the conference, I'm now significantly more excited for both Gears of War 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops than I was before, and all of the cutting going on in the Metal Gear Solid: Rising demo definitely piqued my interest. Otherwise, I thought the event was underwhelming. Molyneux was only onstage with Fable III for about a minute, Kinect Sports looks a lot like a game I already own on the Wii, and Microsoft's reluctance to confirm a price for the Kinect hardware suggests that perhaps it's rethinking it in a hurry. Honestly, I think the highlight of the press conference was the performance of the little girl who demoed Kinectimals.
Sophia Tong, Associate Editor
Microsoft started its press conference with an impressive list of games that many of us are really excited about. It kicked off with a ton of violence and blood, and I couldn't help but feel all giddy after watching the demo for Gears of War 3 and the trailer to Metal Gear Solid: Rising. I was also looking forward to Fable III, but seeing images of the game didn't really do much for me. I need to play it. Kinect was obviously the star of the show and was a continuation of last night's Cirque du Soleil presentation. Even though I'm looking forward to shooting berserkers in the face, I have a soft spot for that adorable tiger kitty and can't wait to virtually cuddle with my exotic zoo animal. If Kinect is as responsive as it seems, then I will gladly put away my controller and bark orders at my Xbox 360 all day.
Jane Douglas, Section Editor | GameSpot UK
Surprise: Kinect's showing at the conference was all casual. The new
Guy Cocker, Editor | GameSpot UK
Microsoft's E3 2010 was always going to be headlined by Kinect (previously Natal), and there's no doubt that it impressed from a technical perspective. The body recognition worked flawlessly in a stage environment, which bodes well for the finished product. Some of the new games looked really fun, too, particularly Dance Central and Forza Motorsport 4, although many seemed boring and predictable.
On the traditional games side, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Metal Gear Solid: Rising, Halo: Reach, Fable III, and Gears of War 3 all looked great, but they're based on existing AAA franchises. It was disappointing to see no real shock announcements--something that Microsoft has frequently delivered over the past few years. I was also surprised at the lack of Xbox Live Arcade content. Microsoft has made a big thing about the Summer of Arcade over the past two years--is it now dead?
Finally, as a European, I was also pretty disappointed about the lack of Euro-specific info on the big announcements (Xbox 360 Slim, Natal launch date), I hope to find out more over the next few days.
Randolph Ramsay, Editor | GameSpot AU
Remember Microsoft's Natal presentations at last year's E3? You know, those demos where they showed you could have a natural conversation with a virtual character (where are you Milo?), working with a system that could seamlessly track movement in 3D space? Well, that's not what they had at this year's press conference for the newly renamed Kinect. What they showed was a bunch of games that have already been seen on the Wii, with very little of the innovation promised in 2009. So, yes, I have yet to be convinced of Kinect's worth (although Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II has potential). But when it comes to core games, the 360 has a solid lineup. Halo: Reach looks great, Gears of War 3 looks brutal, and I'm excited to see what Crytek is working on with Codename Kingdoms. As an Australian, though, I'm extremely worried that the slow-motion, methodical limb chopping of Metal Gear Solid: Rising will have a tough time getting past our stringent censors. Better have a good argument heading into the Australian Classification Board, Konami.
Giancarlo Varanini, Editor-at-Large
Wow. I think this was one of the few press conferences where I was genuinely still entertained despite the fact that most of the pertinent stuff either leaked or we've already seen it in some form. But let's start with the elephant in the room--Kinect. I don't care for the name at all, and the games we've seen thus far are mostly derivative of the stuff we've already seen on the Wii, but there's real promise to the technology that I can't quite put my finger on. I guess you could say that there were genuine flashes of brilliance in each Kinect demo, but on their own terms (and even though that little girl playing with the tiger in Kinectimals was adorable), the games did nothing to impress. That doesn't mean I'm down on Kinect. I just suspect that we'll see the more amazing stuff a bit down the line.
Otherwise, it was an all-around impressive showing. I'm not a huge Call of Duty fan, but Black Ops looks great, and more Gears of War is always a good thing. But I think I was most impressed by Metal Gear Solid: Rising. When Kojima announced the project at last year's conference, I immediately had dreams of a game similar to Ninja Gaiden II, but in the Metal Gear Solid universe. And from the looks of that brief presentation, I'll be getting my wish--plus, the super-focused slash attacks are just plain awesome.
Kevin VanOrd, Editor
I admit it: I am a core gamer, probably not one of the sort Microsoft is trying to recruit with all these Kinect games we saw at the company's E3 2010 press conference. Yet I am still charmed by Kinectimals. I like the idea of a Nintendogs: Best Friends-type game with animals you can't (or at least, shouldn't) raise in real life--at least, not in a suburban California apartment. Your Shape: Fitness Evolved also intrigues me, not because I need to shed a few pounds (I need to shed more than a few), but because if the one-to-one motion works well, the game could truly change what we expect from fitness games. As for the rest, well, color me unenthused, which is a dull shade of tan. Watching Kinect Joyride in action, I couldn't help but think, "Well that could be fun if only I had a controller in my hand while I did it." The "flail about in your living room" revolution has yet to sweep me up in its furor.
Fortunately, Microsoft showed off enough core games to make me happy--though not enough to get me giddy. There were a few nice highlights, however. First, we saw the world's best watermelon-slicing sim in Metal Gear Solid: Rising, which has me very excited to see Raiden carrying an entire game on his own. (For what it's worth, I liked the Raiden half of Metal Gear Solid 2!) I'm also digging Halo: Reach's dark art style, and I was as excited as anyone to see the ship combat that ended the brief demo. Gears of War 3 and Call of Duty: Black Ops made strong showings but not unexpected ones. Aside from the exciting announcement that the
Tom Mc Shea, Associate Editor
I don't want to be the cynical guy who is negative about every new announcement, but Microsoft really left me no choice. First, I'll talk about the good stuff. Halo: Reach looks incredible, and I cannot wait to see how Bungie tackles ship-to-ship battles in space. Fable III also looks like top-drawer entertainment. I have always loved Lionhead's artistic design, and this looks like it captures the Fable charm well and has plenty of dark elements to boot. Plus, who doesn't like battling on the high seas? I'm sure Gears of War 3 will be fun, but nothing mind blowing was shown today.
Everything else left me feeling cold. As much as Microsoft is preaching that the Kinect is for everyone, I didn't see one game that I would like to play. Yes, Kinectimals is amazingly cute, but it looks like an HD kitty version of Nintendogs, a game I got tired of after an hour. Kinect Sports could be the beginning of the end for Rare, an uninspired clone of Wii Sports four years after the party. I was a lot more excited for Kinect Joyride when it was free and could be played with a controller, and Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II looks like it would struggle to hold my attention for one level. And though my sedentary ways may argue otherwise, Your Shape: Fitness Evolved and Dance Central are not exactly for me.
With two massive games this fall and one more next year, Microsoft should have a good future. But its focus on casual games and non-game applications today made this an underwhelming press conference.
Dan Chiappini, Associate Editor | GameSpot AU
I'd wager dollars to doughnuts there were more than a few concerned head scratches and double takes at the conference schedule as Microsoft took fans on an emotional roller-coaster ride to launch E3 2010. A far sight from the star-studded cavalcade rolled out at last year's show, the event came frontloaded with key franchises like Halo: Reach, Fable III, Call of Duty: Black Ops, Gears of War 3, and Metal Gear Solid: Rising. Latecomers and those who stuck around were treated to the bevy of inevitable motion-sensing minigame compilations, fitness titles, and a cautionary tale of the very real dangers of wild animal ownership.
Periphery services like Kinect video chat, ESPN's free sportsgasm, and virtual tours of cars you'll never afford to own are all well and good, but it will be the design aesthetic and hardware configuration of the
Laura Parker, Features Editor | GameSpot AU
Given that last year's E3 kicked off with an appearance by the two surviving Beatles, this year's start has let me down. More than 50 percent of Microsoft's press conference was dedicated to its new motion-sensing system, Kinect, which is dishearteningly simplistic. Nintendo is probably still trying to shake off the feeling of déjà vu, while the rest of us sit and wonder why it feels like we've just taken a giant step backward. Microsoft promised innovation and leadership when it first announced Natal, but what we got instead was a party sports game, a DDR rip-off, and a realistic-looking yoga instructor.
There were some good bits though: Kojima debuting the new Metal Gear Solid: Rising trailer, the hot blonde from Gears of War 3 (women soldiers FTW), and the new Tetsuya Mizuguchi game Child of Eden, which looks like it will actually be doing something cool with Kinect.
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Friday, March 9, 2012
Frontier Soup's Chicken and Noodle Review
Some of you may be wondering why I haven't blogged any yummy recipes this week. This week my house has been undergoing a little construction/renovation project. My heater died and had to be replaced. I know that doesn't sound like a huge deal, but my old heating beast was a floor heater (giant antique, grate in the floor, old beast). The new heater is a forced air unit. Holes had to be sawed in my ceilings. The old unit had to be removed, floor filled in, and repaired. There were men everywhere, dust flying, insulation, sawdust, and all sorts of grossness going on. It was not exactly the environment that I enjoy cooking in....so I didn't.
On the first day of the project one of the workers knocked on my door bright and early at 7:15 to get started. I let him and and ask him how he was, his reply, " well not too good, I threw up before I came." Ummmmmm super!! That was SO what I wanted to hear (insert lots and lots of sarcasm). He worked in my house for 2 days touching all sorts of door handles, leaving germs and such. Needless to say yesterday my muscles were hurting and I was exhausted. I chalked it up to stress from the project and all the cleaning to get the house back into shape after they left. This morning I woke up more sore than yesterday and with other lovely symptoms (see the symptoms the worker guy had).
There would be no cooking taking place today either since I felt like crud. However, I remembered that I had a little packet of chicken and noodle soup in the kitchen from Frontier Soups . I thought that this would be the perfect opportunity to try out their soup mix and share a review with you. Chicken and Noodle soup is supposed to be the healer of all things.
In order to make the soup you needed the soup packet, 6 cups of broth, 2 T. of butter, and a chicken breast. I didn't have any chicken breast un-thawed so I just used a can of chunk chicken (like tuna, but it's chicken). I also added a can of carrots, 1/2 C. Minute Rice, and 1/3C. Celery. I'm not a big fan of soupy soups. I'm more of a chunky soup person. So I added the extra veggies. Plus, more veggies equals more healing vitamins!!
The soup was very easy to make. I think that using the canned chicken made it even easier. The only utensils I needed was my can opener, a spoon, and scissors to open the soup packets.
I love that the soup mix didn't require many extra ingredients to purchase. I really hate to spend money on a mix only to find out that you have to buy 10 other ingredients to put WITH the mix. This soup didn't require that. I also love that it was a "quick fix". I wasn't feeling much like standing in the kitchen for a long period of time to make the soup and it didn't require me to. It took maybe 30 minutes to cook. It would have taken a little longer if I had used fresh chicken breast.
The soup smelled very good while it was cooking. Like I said before I'm not much for a soupy soup, so I served my soup over some mashed potatoes. It tasted very good.
I would definitely buy this mix again. It was so nice to have a simple quick meal to fix.
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There were almost 6 million people living in New York City in the 1920s. The period was one of great change for the city, and one which saw it become a centre of construction, consumerism and culture. The 'roaring twenties' have become synonymous with glamour and excess — so how was this reflected in the Big Apple?
After the end of the First World War, a boom in real estate led to a sharp increase in the number of skyscrapers being built. This was particularly true in New York, where one quarter of the Financial District was rebuilt between 1928 and 1931. Construction workers braved huge heights and risked their lives in the process; it is said that one person died for every $1 million spent.
Harlem Renaissance
During the 1920s, the 'Great Migration' saw around 200,000 black African Americans travel from southern states to New York, eventually making Harlem their home. This resulted in the area becoming a centre for jazz and blues music, and was something of a safe haven for aspiring musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith. Though many older people objected to jazz, believing it crude and vulgar, for lots of young people it marked a new kind of freedom of expression.
Flapper girls are probably one of the things most people think of first when it comes to the 1920s, and New York City definitely wasn't short of them! These young women wore their hair in short bobs, adorned short dresses and skirts, but most scandalously of all, drank, smoke and cursed like men. Women were also more sexually liberated during this period, and with birth control methods such as the diaphragm more readily available they had more choice over the size of their families.
One thing that wasn't so great about the '20s was the introduction of the ban on alcohol. In January of 1920 every bar in the US was closed down, and selling liquor of any kind became a punishable offence. However, New York City was far from 'dry' during the period; in fact it became a hotbed of speakeasies; there were around 30,000 in the city, and an estimated 50,000 locals were making money by illegally making wine.
One undesirable effect prohibition had on the city was the increase in crime committed by dangerous mobsters and bootlegging gangs, including Charles "Lucky" Luciano and the notorious Gambino family.


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#144 Friday, March 10, 2006
CenterLines is the bi-weekly e-newsletter of the National Center for
Bicycling & Walking. CenterLines is our way of quickly delivering news
and information you can use to create more walkable and
bicycle-friendly communities. Check online for additional stories.
CenterLines is also available as a podcast.
Go to: http://www.bikewalk.net/podcasts
|Walkable Community Workshop – Reminders
|Communicating Physical Activity and Health Messages
|Chicagoland Bicycle Fed. Safe Routes Pgm to Hit 10 Schools
|Pro Walk/Pro Bike Proposal Avalanche
|Land and Water Conservation Fund in Danger Again
|Arlington (MA) Folks Want Year Round Path Access
|Transport Research World Conference Call for Abstracts
|Georgia Mayors & Cyclists Ride to State Capitol
|Active Living Resource Center Adds New Elements
|EPA/USDOT Publish Final Rule on Pm10, Pm2.5 Emissions
|Nat'l Trust Honors 12 "Distinctive Destinations"
|Add Your Items to the National Training Calendar
|Prevention Announces 100 Best US Walking Cities
|Madison (WI) Walks onto Another "Best of" List
|2010: 1/2 of N. American Kids Will Be Overweight
|Safe Routes Push Under Way in Denver (CO)
|US Census Report: More Seniors Active, Healthy
|Saucier (MS) Lays Plans for Walking, Biking Town
|Denison (TX) to Address Lack of Sidewalks for Kids
|Oswego (IL) Reviews Ped-Friendly Comprehensive Plan
|Canadian Architects Offer Prescription for Health
|Sidewalks Few and Far Between in Danville (KY)
|By 2030, 1/2 of New Development - Sprawl
|Billings (MT) Plans Hearken to Era When People Walked
|Rebuilding Mississippi -- Life After Katrina
-> Mark Plotz, NCBW Program Manager, wants to thank everyone
who has visited the Walkable Community Workshop website
www.bikewalk.org/WCW and requested additional information
about the workshop series. He would like to add these reminders:
-> According to the Mar. 3rd CDC One-Way Physical Activity listserv,
presentations from the "Communicating Physical Activity and Health
Messages" conference, held in Whistler 2001, are now available. "The
conference was convened to consider Dose-Response implications for
physical activity messages and improved strategies to promote physical
activity and to create 'activity friendly' environments."
Go to: http://tinyurl.com/fbdcl
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-> According to a Mar. 9th release, "Elementary schools in Lansing,
Crete, Dolton, Harvey and Midlothian next month will begin creating
safer walking and biking routes - and safer walkers and bicyclists --
with the help of the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation. Southland Safe
Routes to School, a program recently launched by the South Suburban
Mayors and Managers Association and the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation,
is steering the $1 million project...
"The program will unfold in two stages:
-> 1. The 10 schools will form teams of administrators, teachers and
parents to evaluate the physical walking and biking environment around
each school and work with CBF to develop a menu of improvements that
can be done.
-> 2. Five schools will be chosen based on need, bicyclist/pedestrian
injury rates, municipal cooperation, and existing facilities to receive
up to $130,000 for improvements such as bicycle parking, new sidewalks
and bike paths, and traffic-calming. Safety instruction and walking and
biking encouragement programs such as 'Walking School Buses' are
included in this stage.
"Southland Safe Routes to School covers 80 percent of costs under a
grant from the federal Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality fund.
Participating school districts and their communities provide the
remaining 20 percent match..."
Source: http://tinyurl.com/oybu6
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-> John Williams, program director for the Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2006
conference, reports that the avalanche of proposals for
presentations at the September conference has subsided.
"Once again, we have an embarrassment of riches," reports Williams.
"When we closed the online submission form on March 1 and started
'digging out,' we found that once again we had received more than
200 proposals for presentations. These proposals show the level of
expertise, and, more importantly, the willingness of the staff
professionals, advocates, and volunteers to share good ideas, best
practices, and 'war stories' from the trenches."
Williams is now cataloging the proposals into the proposed "tracks"
under the conference theme of "Making Connections." He said the
proposals will be reviewed and selected by a panel that will convene
near the end of March. Potential presenters will be notified by April 1
as to whether or not their proposal has been selected as a presentation,
workshop, or poster session.
"In April, the selected presentations will be placed into a matrix of
time slots for the conference, and the schedule will be posted on the
NCBW web site," he said. "Then we'll begin working with the individual
presenters to help them prepare for the conference, which will be
hosted in Madison, Wisc., Sept. 5-8. For more information about the
Pro Walk/Pro Bike 2006 conference, visit the NCBW web site at
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-> According to a Mar. 7th National Recreation & Park Association
Action Alert, the President has proposed to terminate the Federal Land
and Water Conservation Fund State Assistance Program, which funds park
and trail programs around the country. At this point, a number of U.S.
Representatives and Senators are signing on to separate letters
requesting $100 million to continue the program.
For more information, go to:
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-> According to an article in the Mar. 3rd LivableStreets E-Bulletin,
"The Clear the Trail Initiative launched its official website last
week. Dedicated to the goal of year-round access for all users of the
Minuteman Trail, Clear the Trail Initiative had a guest editorial in
the March 2 edition of the Arlington Advocate:
"'We live in an age of obesity, where pushing a shopping cart around
the ubermarket once a week is considered regular exercise. Parents
drive their kids to schools six blocks from home. People drive to the
gym to ride stationary bicycles. Enter multi-use trails. These
converted railroad beds have gotten communities back walking, cycling,
inline skating, interacting.
"'Sadly, in many communities, Town Managers refuse to maintain these
trails year round. The result is a trail that is unusable for months
out of the year. Such is the case with Arlington's Minuteman Trail.
Despite overwhelming demand for winter trail use by all trail users,
the Town of Arlington keeps trotting out the same old reasons to let
the trail ice over. Several active partners both within Arlington and
without have joined to galvanize and mobilize trail users to get
Arlington to plow the Minuteman Trail'..."
For more info, go to:
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-> In a recent note, Professor Elizabeth Deaken of the University of
California at Berkeley wrote, "The World Conference on Transport
Research 2007 will be held in Berkeley on June 24-28, 2007 at the
University of California. This is the first call for abstracts and
session proposals. Forms for electronic submission of abstract and
session proposals are on the website.
"I hope you will be an active participant, and that you will help us
publicize the conference by forwarding this message to your colleagues
and associates. Please note: Abstracts are due April 28, 2006 (THIS
The conference website is here:
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-> According to a Mar. 8th Georgia Bikes! news release, "Over 1,000
cyclists including Roswell Mayor Jere Wood and Atlanta Mayor Shirley
Franklin took to the streets of north Georgia yesterday. They bicycled
to the State Capitol in support of improved conditions for all types of
bicycling in Georgia. The bike ride, called Georgia Rides To The
Capitol, started at Roswell City Hall and traveled 21 miles...before
stopping at the State Capitol in downtown Atlanta. The riders had a
full police escort including a lead group of 14 police motorcycles and
a police helicopter overhead.
"'The ride was a show-of-force raising the voices of cyclists in
Georgia. Our Governor and state legislators needed to be reminded that
bicycling is an important form of transportation; a good economic
development and tourism tool; a great way to maintain health and
fitness; and a superb sport and family recreation activity. It is key
that the state support improved facilities and programs' said David
Crites, Executive Director of Georgia Bikes!..."
For more information, go to:
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-> According to Gary MacFadden, program director for the Active
Living Resource Center (ALRC) web site operated by the NCBW,
the project team has added a number of items to the site during
the past three months.
"We've maintained our focus on materials for individuals and
members of small community groups," said MacFadden. "We've
added items to the Get Started Studio, a series of success
stories contributed by communities across the country, and a
series of "how-to" documents for community activists."
MacFadden said the "how-to" documents include an action plan
for safe routes to school campaigns, a guide to doing "walkabouts"
in the local community, and step-by-step instructions for building
simple bicycle racks for a downtown area.
"The Get Started Studio looks at common problems like a street
that carries speeding traffic through a residential area, and
suggests before and after solutions," said MacFadden. "The
element has about a dozen items on it currently, but we're
looking for new submissions. The link to the Get Started Studio
Another place where CenterLines readers can share items is
through the Success Stories database on the ALRC site. These
are simple "what worked for us" types of stories. Those
submitting items are encouraged to include an image of a
successful project or facility; images can be uploaded and sized
through the submission form at:
MacFadden added that the Experts Directory on the ALRC web
site now lists nearly 150 individuals who are willing to help
answer questions on a local, regional, or national basis. The
Experts Directory is found on the ALRC site at:
-> According to a Mar. 3rd EPA News Brief, "The [Environmental
Protection Agency], in consultation with U.S. Department of
Transportation, finalized procedures to help state and local
transportation and air quality agencies ensure that future transportation
projects support state and local efforts to meet and maintain federal
air quality standards for fine (PM 2.5) and coarse (PM10) particles.
"The final rule provides criteria for determining which transportation
projects must be analyzed for local particle emissions impacts in PM2.5
and PM10 nonattainment and maintenance areas. This project-level
analysis will allow transportation project sponsors to project future
air quality impacts that will result from their transportation project."
Go to: http://tinyurl.com/edsc5
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-> According to a Mar. 7th news release, "The National Trust for
Historic Preservation, the country's largest private, nonprofit
preservation organization, today announced the selection of its 2006
Dozen Distinctive Destinations, an annual list of unique and lovingly
preserved communities in the United States...The 12 winning communities
met the following criteria: well-managed growth, a commitment to
historic preservation with a protected historic core and meaningful
context, interesting and attractive architecture, cultural diversity,
activities for families with children, an economic base of
locally-owned small businesses, and walkability for residents and
"In each community, residents have taken forceful action to protect
their town's character and sense of place. Whether by enacting a local
preservation law to protect historic buildings against demolition,
rewriting zoning codes to prevent commercial sprawl, removing
regulatory barriers to downtown housing, making downtown areas more
walkable, enacting design standards, or taking some other major step
that demonstrates a strong commitment to their town, residents have
worked hard to preserve the historic and scenic assets of their
communities, with rewards that transcend town limits..."
Source: http://tinyurl.com/zzz2g
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-> "Jobs have followed people to the suburbs, and suburban residents
now commute to other suburbs. It's no longer the 'Leave It to Beaver'
model, which is let's send commuters back into the central business
district, or let's send commuters from Westchester to Manhattan."
-- Bruce Katz, Brookings Inst. Metro Policy Program Director
-> "One concern that I hear from people is that they can't let their
kids walk to school because they would have to walk in the street,"
-- Mike Wrob, Del Rio (TX) City Council
-> "Decades of urban sprawl development threatens the unity of our
city. While we have seen a 72% increase in area since 1970, our
population has only grown by 3%. Urban sprawl has placed a tremendous
strain on our infrastructure and older neighborhoods leading to urban
decay with more abandoned and boarded-up homes..."
-- Larry Morrissey, Mayor, Rockford IL
"In the United States where over four million miles of roads cross the
landscape, an animal is killed on the road every 11.5 seconds - with
one million vertebrate animals falling victim to automobile collisions
-- From "Caught in the Headlights," film from High Plains Films
-> If you've got training programs, workshops, or education
conferences scheduled for 2006, don't forget to take a moment
to add them to the on-line National Training Calendar hosted on
the web site of the National Center for Bicycling & Walking. (And
a quick note to those of you who have tried to enter your spring
training rides on the calendar: while we salute you for your
physical efforts, those aren't the kinds of training venues we're
talking about.) Be sure to include the title, dates, and contact
information for you event. Also, don't forget to send your event
particulars to John Williams, CenterLines editor, for inclusion in
this very newsletter. John's e-mail is firstname.lastname@example.com. The
National Training Calendar is at: http://tinyurl.com/85n4w
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-> According to a new article in Prevention magazine, "When Prevention
and the American Podiatric Medicine Association (APMA) evaluated the
country's 100 most populous cities for the ranking, the criterion that
counted most was the percentage of people who regularly walked --
either for fitness and health, or to get to and from work. APMA
President Dr. Harold Glickman has said that 'The Best Walking Cities
Competition recognizes those cities that don't just "talk the talk" but
literally "walk the walk."' Other criteria included various
walker-friendly attributes such as low crime rates, mild year-round
temperatures, the number of cultural attractions, participation in
recreational sports and pet ownership.
"The overall survey included over 18,000 topics of information about
the top 100 cities from sources including the census bureau, other
government agencies, and market research surveys. In addition to the
top 10 walking cities, other major U.S. cities ranked as follows: New
York (26); San Francisco (35); San Diego (17); Los Angeles (44);
Seattle (23); Boston (27); Phoenix (34); Philadelphia (32); Chicago
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-> According to a Mar. 9th Capital Times article, "For most in the
bike-ped community, it's like winning a Golden Globe and then getting
nominated for an Oscar. First, Madison was named the top cycling city
of its size in the March issue of Bicycling magazine. Now, it's being
rated the third-best walking city - behind only Portland, Ore. and
Colorado Springs, Colo. The American Podiatric Medical Association and
Prevention magazine announced the 10 best walking cities in the U.S.
for 2006. The list will run in the magazine's April issue.
"Factors included the percentage of active walkers, the total amount of
parkland, the number of adults who play golf, the percentage of people
who own dogs and the number of residents who walk to work. The ranking
is a great indicator of health, said Ald. Robbie Webber, a bike and
pedestrian advocate who sits on the city's pedestrian/bicycle/motor
vehicle commission. Madison has built a community that makes it easy to
walk and bike, she said. People can walk to rent a video and easily get
to school or work by foot or bike, she said. 'That's good -- good for
everybody's health.'..."
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Title: "Madison walks its way onto another 'best of' list"
Author: Samara Kalk Derby
-> According to a Mar. 5th Washington Post article, "The number of
overweight children worldwide will increase significantly by the end of
the decade, and scientists expect profound impacts on everything from
public health care to economies, a study published Monday said. Nearly
half of the children in North and South America will be overweight by
2010, up from what recent studies say is about one-third, according to
a report published by the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity.
In the European Union, about 38 percent of all children will be
overweight if present trends continue -- up from about 25 percent in
recent surveys, the study said.
"'We have truly a global epidemic which appears to be affecting most
countries in the world,' said Dr. Philip James, chairman of the
International Obesity Task Force and author of an editorial in the
journal warning of the trend. The percentages of overweight children
also are expected to increase significantly in the Middle East and
Southeast Asia. Mexico, Chile, Brazil and Egypt have rates comparable
to fully industrialized nations, James said. He estimated that, for
example, one in five children in China will be overweight by 2010.
'They're being bombarded like they are in the West to eat all the wrong
foods. The Western world's food industries without even realizing it
have precipitated an epidemic with enormous health consequences,' he
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Title: "Study Predicts Rise in Overweight Children"
Author: Danica Kirka
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-> According to a Mar. 4th Rocky Mountain News article, "Every morning
between 8:15 and 8:20, 150 students board buses bound for Valdez
Elementary at West 29th Avenue and Zuni Street in Denver. The longest
travel time is five minutes. The distance traveled is between two and
eight blocks. This unusual arrangement began in 1997 after 10-year-old
Cecilia Lamas was hit by a truck and severely injured while crossing
Speer Boulevard at Bryant Street. School officials concluded that Speer
is too dangerous for students to cross on foot. Across the region,
streets around schools are filled with rushing motorists and distracted
children, many of whom are unable to properly judge traffic dangers.
When kids and cars mix, there's always a chance for tragedy.
"Last April, for instance, a 9-year-old Valdez student was hit by a car
behind the school, losing three teeth and breaking a bone next to his
eye. On Tuesday, an 11-year-old boy collided with a car outside
Thornton Elementary and suffered a broken leg and head injury. Although
such accidents are not common, a new push is under way to make streets
around schools safer for children. Last week, parents met with Denver
officials at Mitchell Elementary, East 33rd Avenue and Humboldt Street,
to request flashing speed-limit signals. They were turned down. Earlier
in February, dozens of school districts and municipalities in Colorado
applied for almost $6 million in federal funds designated for building
sidewalks, striping crosswalks, and installing pedestrian signals and
other traffic safety measures around selected schools..."
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Title: "Danger: School crossing"
Author: Myung Oak Kim
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-> According to a Mar. 9th Christian Science Monitor article, "Each
spring, Erdman Palmore celebrates his birthday by completing his own
special version of a triathlon. He bicycles his age in miles -- this
year, that means 76 -- then does just as many push-ups and sit-ups. 'It
is to counteract the assumption,' says the professor emeritus at Duke
University, 'that growing older means inevitably going downhill' --
unless it is on his bicycle. Seniors like Dr. Palmore are helping
redefine notions of 'getting older.'
"Forgotten by the media, passed over for promotions, and teased by
birthday cards, they have long struggled for dignity in a
youth-obsessed society. But increasingly active and independent
seniors, and the baby boomers who will follow, are helping to chip away
at the ageism that spans Hollywood to Hallmark. Seniors today are
healthier, wealthier, and more educated than their predecessors -- and
their population will double in the next 25 years. Those are the
highlights from a US Census Bureau report released Thursday on
Americans 65 and older..."
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Title: "Census report: for more seniors, rising well-being"
Author: Sara Miller Llana
The Census Bureau report (8.3mb) is here:
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-> According to a Mar. 9th Sun Herald article, "Residents will get a
chance to hear about a draft of Saucier's development plan during a
public meeting March 21. The draft has many of the elements advocated
by New Urbanists, including walkable communities and town centers. The
meeting is 6 p.m. at the Saucier Elementary School gym. A steering
committee of six members began working in December with a team of
planners and planning students from Ohio State University, led by
Jennifer Cowley. The Ohio team said the focus of the upcoming meeting
will be to work with residents on strategies for implementing the
community plans based on input from previous meetings and public
"The Ohio State team wants to assist unincorporated communities in the
rebuilding and development efforts. It's working with the Harrison
County Board of Supervisors and other community leaders as part of a
grant secured by Cowley. Results of a survey of residents show they
agree Saucier's small-town, laid-back quality is an especially
important characteristic of the community. Respondents encouraged the
development of a walkable town center that is pedestrian and bicycle
friendly. They would like to see a focal point for the town center that
includes a multifunctional community space for public gatherings and
recreational activities, a planned town square..."
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Title: "Draft of Saucier plan to be revealed"
Author: Staff
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-> According to a Mar. 2nd Herald Democrat article, "Denison City
Councilor Bill Malvern is concerned for the school children of Denison
who may be walking amid unsafe conditions to get to and from school.
Watching youngsters head home from Terrell Elementary School last week,
it appears that those students could use some sidewalks to keep them
from walking in the street. Malvern pointed out that he'd like to see a
sidewalk constructed from the school drive going west along the south
side of Martin Luther King Boulevard. Terrell is not his only concern.
Malvern wants to see improvements around Mayes Elementary and B.
McDaniel Middle School as well. The 77th Texas Legislature created the
Texas Safe Routes to School Program in 2001 during the 77th Legislature.
"The new law, which required the Texas Department of Transportation to
establish the program, did not fund it. The initial program was funded
using Federal Transportation Enhancement money. Twenty-seven projects
totaling more than $5 million were funded. Since 2003, there has been
no funding available for the program. President Bush signed the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act Aug. 10. The
new law provides for a federally funded Safe Routes to School Program.
The federal program is similar to the Texas SRS Program with two
notable differences: The new program is 100-percent federally funded
which means there will be no required match from the local government.
The new program is limited to schools serving kindergarten through
eighth grade. Under the federal program, high school level schools will
no longer be eligible for funding..."
Source: http://tinyurl.com/oe97z
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Title "Denison official concerned about lack of sidewalks for school kids"
Author: Joyce Godwin
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-> According to a Mar. 9th Beacon News article, "Envisioning what
Oswego could look like decades from now is a simple matter of
understanding the philosophy of the big rock and the little pebbles. At
least, that's the best way to describe the urban design principles
employed by Chris Lannert, whose firm has spent the last two years
updating the village's comprehensive plan. The big rock, Lannert
explains, is the traditional downtown core with its higher population
density and commercial focus. The rest of the village radiates outward
from the center like ripples in a pond. As each ripple moves farther
from the center, the houses become more spread out, and open space
"But then, toss in the little pebbles, a smattering of smaller town
centers throughout the village that provide a focal point for each of
seven sub-areas identified in the plan. The end result is a series of
'walkable communities' with their own shopping and school options.
'It's a different model than what people have used in the past,'
Lannert said. 'Lots of people are doing 'walkable community' types of
projects. Our idea is to mirror (those projects) in a comprehensive
plan.' The last comprehensive plan was published in 2000, but it was
limited to Oswego Township and didn't project population densities,
which, along with the 'walkable community' concept, makes Oswego's plan
unique, Village President Craig Weber said. 'We think it's the planning
document of the future,' Weber said..."
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Title: "Oswego's future is set down on paper"
Author: Matthew DeFour
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-> According to a Mar. 6th Daily News article, "The Royal Architectural
Institute of Canada applauded recent findings in a report from the
Canadian Population Health Initiative (CPHI) at the Canadian Institute
for Health Information (CIHI). 'Helping Canadians fight the 'battle of
the bulge' involves more than simply prescribing diet and exercise --
social and environmental factors can also play a role in promoting
healthy weight,' states the CPHI report. 'The reality is that there are
many social and environmental factors that can make it easier -- or
harder -- for Canadians to make healthy choices. The community where we
live may make a difference to our health; being able to walk or bike on
safe streets is just one example of this.'
"'We've got the prescription that will give Canadians better health,'
said RAIC President Yves Gosselin, FIRAC. 'Creating healthier
communities is the crux of our proposed Model Architecture Policy. It
will help ensure Canadians create walkable, transit-oriented, mixed-use
communities of resource efficient, healthy buildings with careful
consideration of the social fabric that makes vibrant living places,'
he added, quoting the Institute's document..."
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Title: "Architects offer prescription for better health"
Author: Staff
Copies of the Model Architecture Policy can be found at:
The CIHI report can be found at:
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-> According to a Mr. 5th Advocate-Messenger article, "Joni Morgan
takes off with her running group on West Lexington Avenue before the
sun rises. Before they have one mile under their sneakers the sidewalk
ends. Danville's sidewalks start and stop all around the city. Many
neighborhoods have no sidewalks. A light trek to the grocery store,
library or church is plausible only for downtown dwellers. There are
groups of people who would rather exercise in Wal-Mart than risk
walking in the street. In places where there are sidewalks, runners
like Morgan say it is safer to run in the street then risk tripping on
a crack.
"Where the 'cement pops up, you catch your toe and there you go ...'
Morgan said. No paths, disjointed sidewalks and cracked cement are all
tell-tale signs of a community that isn't walkable. More than
one-quarter of all the trips made by Americans in their cars are one
mile or less, short enough to have been made on foot, according to the
Surface Transportation Policy Project. 'If you make the environment
more walker-friendly then people will walk,' said Roger Trent, director
of the Boyle County Health Department. From Indian Hills to Paula
Heights, the urban landscape doesn't include neighborhoods with
sidewalks. It makes a hop-scotch game nearly impossible and pedestrians
have to choose between uneven turf and the street..."
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Title: "Broken Path: Danville sidewalks start, stop all around the city"
Author: Liz Maples
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-> According to a Mar. 9th NBC17 story, "The typical American suburb is
comprised of new homes on large lots of land with no banks, markets or
shops anywhere in sight. Dr. Daniel Rodriguez, of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been studying urban planning for
more than a decade and said that urban sprawl is part of America's
growing obesity problem...'If you think about how we live our lives, we
wake up, we microwave our food, we get in our cars, we reach our
destinations, we type on our computers, we get in our cars, we go back
home, microwave our food again and we entertain looking at the
television,' Rodriguez said.
"Rodriguez rides his bike to work at UNC every day. Students walk from
home to class and everywhere in between. If the trend toward more
sprawl and fewer 'walkable' communities continues, Rodriguez fears the
choice will be gone. 'I am fine if other people love to live in
suburban environments that don't have walking, but the problem is if
all development becomes like that,' Rodriguez said. Research indicates
that by the year 2030, about half of all new development will be urban
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Title: "Researchers: Urban Sprawl Could Contribute To Obesity"
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-> According to a Mar. 7th Gazette article, "Members of the McCall
family have a lot of experience building houses. Sometime this summer,
they hope to start building a community. The project they have on the
drawing board is the Josephine Crossing Subdivision, a
traditional-style neighborhood near the Yellowstone River that will
feature a range of affordable housing options, complete with front
porches, garages on the alley and walkable streets with tree-lined
"They also plan to have mixed zoning in one portion of the
neighborhood, hoping to attract businesses that could include a small
grocery store, cafes, coffeeshops, retail stores and professional
buildings. They would also like to build some 'live-work' units with an
office on the ground floor and an apartment upstairs. 'We're not trying
to just sell a house,' Brad McCall said. 'We're trying to sell a whole
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Title "Builder plans riverside subdivision with range of affordable options"
Author: Ed Kemmick
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-> According to a Mar. 7th Herald Today article, "Mississippians don't
want to say it, but they may be lucky that Hurricane Katrina left them
with bare slabs rather than piles of toxic rubble as in New Orleans.
For much of the 120-mile Mississippi Gulf Coast scoured by Katrina
amounts to a blank canvas for rebuilding better communities. And
Mississippi has risen to the challenge with an enthusiasm that we in
Manatee County can only envy as we struggle to implement 'smart
growth,' especially north of the river...Katrina wiped out vast
stretches of the 11 cities on the 120-mile Mississippi Gulf Coast,
leaving large chunks of the cities with little more than concrete slabs
where neighborhoods once stood.
"The state has seized this rare opportunity to start over from scratch.
Manatee County, which has had two charrettes in recent months on
transportation issues, doesn't have to endure the wrath of Katrina to
create a blank canvas on which to design the kinds of towns Mississippi
is envisioning. The groves and ranches in North Manatee being grabbed
up by developers are empty templates for new towns that could epitomize
the kind of smart growth we've talked about for years. It comes as a
surprise that 21st-century thinking is occurring in what most consider
a backward southern state. That's a credit to Mississippi Gov. Haley
Barbour, who returned to his roots after serving as Republican National
Committee chairman and advising politicians in Washington for years..."
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Title: "Life After Katrina: Rebuilding"
Author: Staff
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-> A Mar. 9th Charlotte Observer article asks, "Do you want to help
make Kannapolis a more walkable community? The city is conducting a
survey during its yearlong project to help create a healthier
community, with options for alternative transportation such as walking
and cycling to local businesses, schools and stores."
Interested in the survey and related maps? Go to:
-> "There are a third fewer supermarkets in low-income neighborhoods
than middle-class or affluent ones because grocery retailers find the
customer base less attractive, according to a study by the Food
Marketing Policy Center at the University of Connecticut..."
-> "'Get Fit on Route 66' is an interactive site that let's you convert
exercise minutes to miles along this scenic 'Mother Road.' It's a fun
way to track your activity and find fitness and nutrition tips along
the way..."
-> "James D. Coleman told deputies today that while riding his bicycle
on 30th Street East someone in a pickup reached out and snatched a
rented hedge trimmer from his hand..."
-> "With the childhood obesity epidemic, having our children walk or
bike to school rather than being driven around town is a huge positive
investment that will reduce our society's long-term costs. Neighborhood
schools are a key foundation of neighborhood livability and quality of
"Why a Walgreens on Murray-Holladay Road? And why near three other
pharmacies? 'Explain to us why this location is better than the old
Dee's location,' said commissioner Brad Scott. 'We'd give you a parade
if you opened up down there.'..."
-> "If you're like most people, it can be especially hard to exercise
in the winter months. Don't let the cold weather stop you. Check out
this creative list of indoor spots for walking and tips for dressing
right when walking outside."
-> "'The main idea is that the sensors will recognize pedestrians and
if a pedestrian has a high probability to collide with the vehicle then
automatic braking will be initiated by the system,' says Marc-Michael
Meinecke of Volkswagen..."
-> "In some state toxicology laboratories, Ambien shows up in the top
10 list of drugs found in impaired drivers..."
-> "The success of mixed-use projects, particularly [Traditional
Neighborhood Developments] blending homes, offices and retail in a
walkable area, is no longer an experiment. The Wall Street Journal
reports this morning about 500 TNDs with tens of thousands of homes are
under construction in the U.S. TNDs, which were first built on the
outskirts of town, are now popping up as infill developments..."
-> "A sticker on a bicycle that said 'this bike is a pipe bomb' caused
a scare Thursday at Ohio University that shut down four buildings
before authorities learned the message was the name of a punk rock
band, a university spokesman said..."
-> The band's website: http://tinyurl.com/k8rju
-> "A typical carbonated soft drink will have 200 calories in a
16-ounce serving. All of those calories come from sugar, and sugar
contains 16 calories per teaspoon. By this measurement, a 16-ounce
serving contains 12.5 teaspoons of sugar..."
-> "Reversing fringe development trends would reduce traffic congestion
by 50 percent and save taxpayers between $1.6 billion and $4.8 billion
in road improvement costs, Hamilton says..."
"...Active Living Research Conference;" includes many papers presented
at the 2nd annual Active Living Research Conference; Feb. 2005.
Article in Winter 2006 "CTRE en route" newsletter; discusses the
research of Iowa State University doctoral student Hillary Isebrands.
March 27-28, 2006, Urban Street Design, Orlando FL. Info:
March 28-30, 2006, Transportation and Economic Development 2006,
Little Rock, AR. Info: Mark Norman at <email@example.com>
March 29-30, 2006, Traffic Impacts of Land Development, Orlando FL.
April 19 -21, 2006, Pro Bike/Pro Walk Florida 2006, St. Augustine, FL.
Info: Lyndy Moore, Florida Bicycle Association, P O Box 780371 Orlando,
FL 32878-0371; phone/fax: (407) 282-3245; email: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
April 24-25, 2006, Designing and Implementing Roundabouts, Madison WI.
Info: Keith K. Knapp, Program Director, Univ. of Wisconsin College of
Engineering, Dept. of Engineering Professional Development; phone:
(800) 462-0876; email: <email@example.com>.
April 30-May 3, 2006, 8th Annual Virginia Bike Walk Conference:
"Creating Walkable Communities...One Step at a Time," Lynchburg, VA.
Info: Stephanie W. Smith, BikeWalk Virginia, PO Box 203, Williamsburg,
VA 23187-0203; phone: (757) 229-0507; email:
May 9-11, 2006, Thunderhead Training, Washington, DC. Info:
June 1-4, 2006, Congress for New Urbanism, Providence, RI. Info:
July 14-16, 2006, Thunderhead Training, Denver, CO. Info:
The City of St. Petersburg is seeking a responsible professional person
for technical work in planning; directing and coordinating the bicycle
Benefits include a substantial health, dental, and life insurance,
annual and sick leave, and paid holidays. Annual salary range is
$48,315 to $74,672 depending on qualifications and experience. Apply on
line at: http://tinyurl.com/qrrpv
Lead Instructor needed for the Safe Routes to Schools program to teach
students bicycle and pedestrian safety. Must have experience teaching
children in a classroom setting, have an outgoing personality,
extensive bicycle expertise including mechanics, first aide, and
experience riding with youth. Should be able to teach youth of all ages
and adults. Self-starter who can work independently. Experience with
outdoor leadership, LCI and Bi-lingual a plus. Salary: $20/hour, 4/5
time, variable hours Mid-June to mid August. Position starts in Fall
2006, training in spring 2006.
Send resume, cover letter and three references by March 25 to SR2S P.O.
201, Forest Knolls, CA 94933 or to <email@example.com>
The Eastern Shore Land Conservancy seeks an experienced professional to
manage its Land Use Planning programs. The overall purpose of this
effort is to help make the Eastern Shore one of the best planned
regions in America. Specific responsibilities include management /
supervision of: 1. public communications and outreach; 2. land use
planning education efforts including conferences, workshops, and
research; and 3. build up of a regional advocacy effort. ESLC's Land
Use Planning programs are planned to grow from 2 full time professional
employees now to 5 by 2010.
Candidates should have land use planning, law, or related experience, a
history of strong teamwork, and a commitment to rural landscapes, small
towns, and clean rivers. Salary commensurate with experience. Full
benefits available including health, dental, generous leave, retirement
plan, and a cafeteria plan. ESLC currently has ten full time staff
positions and is housed at a research farm on the beautiful Wye River.
The Eastern Shore Land Conservancy is a highly successful regional land
trust on Maryland's rural Eastern Shore and is responsible for
preserving 201 properties on over 37,000 acres. ESLC's land use
planning programs enlist our communities in protecting land through
public planning processes.
Please respond ASAP. Strategic Plan available at http://www.eslc.org.
Please email, fax, or mail a resume asap to: Nina White, Director of
Administration, Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, P.O. Box 169,
Queenstown, Maryland 21658; fax: 410-827-5765; email:<email@example.com>
Submit letter of interest and resume to: Project Director Search, Parks
& Trails New York, 29 Elk Street, Albany, NY 12207, <email@example.com>.
Editor: John Williams
Send news items to: <email@example.com>
Director: Bill Wilkinson
National Center for Bicycling & Walking, 8120 Woodmont Ave, Suite 520,
Bethesda, MD 20814. Phone: (301) 656-4220; fax: (301) 656-4225; email:
Web: http://www.bikewalk.org
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