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The nine-month renovation of LSU's game day locker room in Tiger Stadium was revealed to football team on Friday — the first time the squad has seen the area since last year's season finale against Arkansas.
Since that game, LSU's game day locker room was completely gutted with the renovation totaling over 8,000-square feet. The renovation included the moving of walls, the raising of the ceiling and a transformation of an area that has been LSU's game day Tiger Stadium locker room for decades.
The Tigers will use the locker room for the first time on Sept. 6 when 13th-ranked LSU opens its home schedule against Sam Houston State.
LSU coach Les Miles took part in Friday's locker room reveal and addressed the team after each player had a chance to walk through the new facility.
"This is a special place that has been home to many great LSU players and many great LSU teams," Miles said to the team. "You are the first group that gets to represent our program in this locker room. There's a responsibility that goes with that. It requires great commitment, great effort and an understanding of what it means to wear the LSU uniform."
The facility, which also features updates to both the head coach and assistant coach dressing areas, consists of 126 lockers, an automated state-of-the-art sound system, along with numerous HD televisions, illustrative team graphics and a sophisticated lighting system.
Some of the other highlights of the renovation include an area dedicated to LSU's first-round NFL draft picks, a wall listing every Tiger that has been active for an NFL game, plus a list of LSU's all-time graduates.
"This place is beautiful," Miles said. "We have to thank a great school for providing another super facility for our program. They did a wonderful job of highlighting the traditions and some of the great moments in LSU history with the graphics. Our players will enjoy calling this home on Saturdays during the fall."


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Diabetes is a condition which results in too much sugar in the blood. Also known as Diabetes Mellitus, it occurs because the body does not produce enough of the hormone, insulin, which controls the blood sugar levels.
There are two types of diabetes:
Type 1 affects children and young adults and is often referred to as Insulin Dependant Diabetes (IDDM).
Type 2 comes on in later life, especially in the overweight and often runs in families. This is also referred to as Non Insulin Dependent diabetes (NIDDM).
The symptoms of diabetes are drinking a lot and thirst, passing a lot of urine, weight loss and a tendency to get minor infections e.g. boils or thrush.
If you have any of these symptoms you should consult your doctor so he/she can do a blood test to check whether you are diabetic.
Diabetes can be caused by various factors:
It can be genetic, meaning it is in your family history.
It can be caused by a disorder of the pancreas which is the organ which produces insulin.
It can be drug-induced e.g. by steroids and certain diuretics.
Obesity or remaining overweight is a contributory factor in type 2 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes requires the use of regular insulin injections. This will need to be taught to you but most people manage it themselves after a very short time. You will develop an understanding of the different doses needed when more activity takes place or in situations where you are unable to eat.
Type 2 diabetes can often be controlled by diet alone. It is important to get your weight down to a reasonable level. You will need to take medication if diet alone is not sufficient and this usually involves one or more tablets per day.
Diabetes can affect the blood vessels, the eyes, the heart, the nervous system and the kidneys but this usually follows years of poor blood sugar control.

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2013: Played in and started 18 games during her senior year … was part of the strong MIT defensive line that only allowed nine goals all season and a .40 goals against average … CoSIDA Academic All-District … CoSIDA Second Team Academic All-America … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … NSCAA Scholar All-East Region Honorable Mention.
2012: Played in 18 games and started 16 … NEWMAC Academic All-Conference … first team CoSIDA Academic All-District … second team CoSIDA Academic All-America … she is the first MIT women's soccer player in program history to be named CoSIDA Academic All-American twice in her career.
2011: Played in 21 games, started 15 … recorded an assist at Roger Williams (9/20) … first team CoSIDA academic all-district … NEWMAC academic all-conference … third team CoSIDA academic All-America.
2010: Played in 13 games.
Off the Field at MIT: Majoring in mechanical engineering with a minor in biomedical engineering and a concentration in economics … starter on the women's lacrosse team … interned at Ethicon Endo Surgery during the summer of 2013 … held a position at Shire Pharmaceuticals where she was a Human Genetic Therapies Intern working in Strategic Product Management during the summer of 2012 … conducted a UROP in the MIT Bioelectronics Lab … physics teaching assistant … new member educator for Alpha Phi.
High School: A 2010 graduate of Somers High School … four-year starter … four-time all-league … named all-section twice … four-year starter on lacrosse team and was all-league twice … salutatorian … Excellence in Math … Excellence in AP Chemistry and Honor Chemistry … Rensselaer Medal Award … Weinstein's Chemistry Award.
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clintsurfeast wrote:you are all just as sad as the 40 year old virgins who sit at home and spend 15 hours a day on call of duty. Here's an idea get out more, get in the surf, quit bitchin n please stop tonguing each other.
And some more points, I am 43, I never play CoD for more than 6 hours in a row and I have only tongued one or two members of this forum. So there


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Hollywood icon Samuel L. Jackson is concerned the popularity of historical drama 12 Years A Slave has distracted audiences from the racism that is still prevalent in modern America.
Steve McQueen's film is based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was captured and sold into slavery in the 19th century.
The movie has been a critical and commercial hit and is tipped for glory at the 2014 Academy Awards in March (14) after receiving nine nominations.
But while Jackson is pleased at the response to the film, he worries that it limits American racism to the past and allows audiences to avoid confronting the discrimination that plagues the country to this day.
He tells Britain's The Times, "America is much more willing to acknowledge what happened in the past. We freed the slaves! It's all good! But to say, 'We are still unnecessarily killing black men' - let's have a conversation about that."
The Avengers star suggests that last year's (13) Fruitvale Station, a film about the real-life events that led to the death of young African-American Oscar Grant at the hands of California police in 2009, makes more relevant points about the issues of racism.
He says, "It (Fruitvale Station) explains things like the shooting of Trayvon Martin, the problems with (popular police practise) stop and search, and is much more poignant."
Florida teen Martin hit headlines in 2012 when the unarmed black youth was shot by Neighborhood Watch volunteer George Zimmerman. The shooter was acquitted of murdering the kid during a high-profile trial last year (13).


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Witness the amazing fusion of two opposing elements in the 30" Sumaco Manual Ignition Fire & Water Bowl. Bright, dancing flames are created by the gas burner as a gentle waterfall flows from the mouth of the bowl. The unprecedented class offered by this magnificent item will make a great addition to your outdoor area, especially on your patio or around your pool.
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Elite European football is over for another season and fans are heading into the desert of the transfer window, with its unbearable hot air, cruel mirages and unquenchable thirst.
It really can be a place of pure misery for followers of certain clubs, so GMS have decided to lighten the mood and revel in the brilliance of the actaul football we watched last season.
GMS have considered the football played throughout Europe's top five leagues (if you don't know which we are referring to you've not been keeping up) this season and have decided to hand out a few awards.
The categories will relate to positions and one for the best manager – so there's best goalkeeper, defender, midfielder and attacker.
GMS realises certain players will fit into more than one category or some will struggle to be defined by any of the categories – that's just tough luck.
Democracy will not feature in these awards – the GMS end of season gongs will be decided by GMS alone.
The award will be for consistent performance in the player's respective domestic league and in Europe, if applicable.
If you don't agree with the GMS picks, we want to know about it – leave a comment below and join the debate!
So, click on to see who won what…
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Thousands disrupted in Darien gunman search
DARIEN -- A search for a man seen with a handgun at an I-95 rest area Wednesday morning disrupted thousands of residents and Metro-North commuters.
Residents were told to stay in their homes, elementary school openings were delayed, two other schools put on lockout and Metro-North service delayed.
In the end, the alleged gunman was never found.
According to police, at about 7 a.m. State Police received a report of a male with a handgun in the bathroom at the northbound Darien I-95 rest stop. Officers responded but did not locate anyone. A Metro-North worker reported a black male with camo shorts on the train tracks near the Darien/Norwalk line, police said. A search was conducted with a police canine toward Norwalk, and Norwalk officers also set up a perimeter of the train tracks ahead of the canine track, but no suspect was located or observed.
The search ended with nothing found. Officers have also checked Rowayton and South Norwalk stations as well as the surrounding areas of the tracks and still nothing was located. Officers remained in the areas as a precaution.
Metro-North service was suspended at the request of the state police, railroad spokesman Aaron Donovan said. "There were 15 trains affected during that hour, with delays of about 10 to 15 minutes,'' he said.
At 8:10 a.m., Darien police tweeted: "The search for a man with a gun in the area of Tokenenke Road area has concluded.The Darien Police are confident that the subject is in the Norwalk area. The Connecticut State Police are continuing their investigation as the incident originated in their jurisdiction (I-95 N/B Rest Area.). Tokeneke School will remain on a 90 minute delay and there will be a heavy police presence in the area as well as at Tokeneke School. Thank you for your cooperation."
An alert was made to Darien residents at 7 a.m. through the town's reverse 911 system asking them to stay in their homes.
The search also affected thousands of students and staff in Darien public schools.
In a statement on its website, the school administration said: "The Darien Police informed us through a Code Red Alert that an armed man was seen walking in the area of Tokeneke Road. At approximately 7:25 am, a decision was made to put Darien High School and Middlesex Middle School on lockout. It was also determined that all elementary schools would operate on a 90-minute delay. We believed that it would be best not having students waiting for buses or walking to school when there was a fugitive at large in the town. Shortly after 8:00 am, a follow-up Code Red message was received. At that time, we were informed by the Darien Police that Darien was "all clear" and the lockout could be lifted. All elementary schools will be in session, but on a 90-minute delay."
The northbound rest area opened less than two weeks ago after more than a year and $10 million in renovations. The revamped rest area reopened with more fuel pumps, a wider selection of restaurants and other amenities.
The Darien rest plaza is the latest highway rest facility renovated as part of a $230 million investment by Project Service LLC to overhaul 23 rest areas and plazas on I-95, the Merritt Parkway and Interstate 395. In 2010, Project Service, a partnership between Milford-based Doctor's Associates, owner of the Subway sandwich chain, and the Carlyle Group, was awarded a 35-year contract to operate the state's highway rest plazas.
The McDonald's at the stop has historically been one of the chain's busiest nationwide.
Hearst CT Digital News Editor Jim Shay contributed to this report.


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San Luis Valley's rich culture is shared through free lecture series
Over the centuries the unique culture of the San Luis Valley has remained vibrant. Impressed by a heritage they share with family and community, a group of Adams State staff and faculty organized the Title V Hilos Culturales lecture series, "Lifeways of the San Luis Valley."
Community members are invited to attend the free lectures, which begin at 7 p.m. Tuesdays through November 12 in McDaniel Hall room 201.
Donna Griego, Bernadette Torres, Mark Pittman, Michelle Romero, Andrea Benton-Maestas, and Barbara Griego-Jones attended the 2012 Hilos Summer Institute and became inspired to offer a course focusing on the culture of the San Luis Valley. The course, taught by Dr. Reyes Garcia, Fort Lewis State College professor emeritus of philosophy, brings the richness of the San Luis Valley to students. "We want to share Hilos with our students and community, Griego said.
Lecture Line-up
- September 3: Language and Autobiography, Southwest History and Mythology, Dennis Lopez on Upper Rio Grande Spanish/Bless Me Ultima;
- September 10: Bruja or Curandera; La Virgen de Guadalupe or The Golden Carp, Dr. Devon Pena on Revitalizing Agro-Ecological Traditions in the SLV;
- September 17: San Ysidro, Rancheros and the Practice of Querencia, Armando Valdez on Ranching/The Land;
- September 24: Original Instructions, Antepasados y Vecinos, Angie Krall on the archeology of the SLV; and Carey Vicenti J.D. Jicarilla Apache, on the Worlds Before and After This One.
- October 1: La Musica de la Gente Concert in Leon Memorial Hall by Frank McCulloch;
- October 8: The Evolution of Culture, Dr. Jose Barrera on the Hispanic Northern Frontier;
- October 15: La Sociedad and Local History, Zachary DeHerrera and Miguel Sisneros on La Sociedad Proteccion Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos (SPMDTU) Concilio Superior.
- November 12: "In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was Made Flesh…," Aaron Abeyta, Adams State professor of English, on the survivance of the SLV Indo-Hispano culture.
Last year the group, with support from the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area, premiered the film, "Bless Me, Ultima," at Adams State. "We created the lecture series in response to the attendance of the film," Romero said. "It became obvious to all of us that our community desires a venue to learn and discuss topics about the valley's culture. Our campus is perfect for that."
The class "Lifeways of the San Luis Valley and the American Southwest," was developed last spring and explores the cultural richness of the San Luis Valley within the context of the multitude of Southwestern and Upper Rio Grande traditions. During the process of creating the course, the group decided to open up an hour of class time to anyone who would like to attend for the guest lecture session.
Garcia, an Antonito native and Vietnam veteran, brings a diverse background of teaching in higher education including teaching southwest studies at Colorado College and teaching in several departments at Fort Lewis. "We developed a list of presenters that speak to the issues of each class period."
Torres said: "The class exposes students to aspects of the San Luis Valley they might not otherwise experience in their academic career."
Benton-Maestas agrees, "We have incorporated film, lecture, field trips and more into the course to share our appreciation and passion for this culture to others."
For more information, contact Griego at 719-587-7436.


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The Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved video game by Disney Interactive and Harmonix Music Systems will include multi-player gameplay, an all-new realm, and new songs from award-winning artists, including Lorde and David Bowie. The two-player game is played in cooperation through friendly competition. Players can collaborate and choose unique remix paths to discover new melodies and beats in the songs.
Disney and Harmonix have also revealed "The Hollow," an all-new interactive discovery realm. When users perform songs, they will interact with the world to add light, color, and characters to the forest environment.
Disney Fantasia: Music Evolved is a musical motion video game and will be available for the Xbox One and Kinect this year.


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1-24-13 - Several MEA-MFT members testified yesterday at the hearing on HB 13, the state pay plan.
Members Jill Cohenour (DPHHS) & Rich Aarstad (Historical Society) wait in line to testify for HB 13.
Along with other state and higher education employees, they did an excellent job of making the case for passing HB 13 and lifting the salary freeze.
"It may have been the best pay plan hearing ever," said MEA-MFT President Eric Feaver.
"There was no way members of the committee could not have been moved by the stories hard working, underpaid Montana state employees shared."
Now it's your turn. Here's how you can help:
1. Contact members of the House Appropriations Committee. Say, "Please pass HB 13, the state pay plan. No slicing, no dicing. 5/5 percent for all."
It takes just seconds to e-mail the whole committe with the legislative e-mail system.
2. Plan to attend our 2nd Pay Plan Day of Action, Monday, Feb. 18 (Presidents Day), state capitol, Helena. Meet on north stairs at 10:30 a.m.
Talking points on HB 13
Read news story on the pay plan.
Watch TV news coverage.
Testify, brothers & sisters
MEA-MFT member and state officer Rich Aarstad was one of several state employees who gave eloquent testimony on HB 13 at Jan. 23 hearing. Here is his testimony:
Chairman, Committee members, my name is Rich Aarstad. It is my honor and pleasure to work at your Montana Historical Society. But this afternoon, I am on my own personal time to testify in support of HB 13, the state employee pay plan.
As a Montanan, I grew up understanding that there is honor and pride in the work we do, whether it is bucking bales, washing dishes, planting trees, cutting firewood, or working as the Senior Archivist at the Montana Historical Society. I understood also that while not all work is satisfying, there is satisfaction and pride in doing the job well.
As state employees, we are expected to enforce the laws and implement the policies adopted by the Montana Legislature, and we do. We serve the residents of Montana. For that service we receive recompense. When times are tough we are the first to sacrifice for the good of the people as we did in 2009.
Yet it seems entirely too easy to use state employees as a biennial punching bag. Where is the pride, where is the respect for those people who do the work this august body legislates?
I'm proud of the work I do for the State of Montana. I'm proud of the work all state employees do every day to move Montana forward. So it is with frustration that I stand before this committee today, because we as state employees have followed the law; we adhere to the policies; but yet once again we are faced with an uphill battle on the state employee pay plan. We find ourselves caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.
I ask this committee to throw us a life line. Acknowledge the importance of the work we do every day for Montana. Honor the fact that we have stood firm in our commitment to the people. Allow us some pride in a job well done. Pass HB 13 from this committee and encourage your fellow legislators to support the pay plan.
Thank you Chairman Ankney and committee members for your time and consideration in this matter, and I appreciate your support on HB 13.
Excerpts of other testimony in favor of HB 13:
Paula Stoll, State Human Resources Division Administrator and governor's chief labor negotiator:
Montana has seen huge delines in the number of qualified applicants for state jobs since the four-year pay freeze.
Private sector wages have increased by 8% since 2008, while state employee salaries remained frozen.
"Montana is no longer competitive at either end of the pay scale."
A record number of state employees are taking a second job. "Fewer people are choosing to work for state government."
Turnover is at 13 percent. That costs the state a lot of money for retraining, lost productivity, etc.
State employee base pay is 14.5 percent behind the private sector and 14.5 percent behind government employees in neighboring states.
Even if HB 13 passes, Montana state employees will trail the regional market in pay by 12.2 percent.
"We are at a precipice."
Read Ms. Stoll's full testimony here.
Ed Jasmine, retired Helena banker:
"As a retired bank president, I know the importance of having motivated employees."
Clayton Christian, Chair, Montana Board of Regents:
"Industry demands high quality of us." HB 13 is "vital to our competitiveness to attract the best faculty."
Ronda Wiggers, Helena Chamber of Commerce
"State employees are not only our customers, they are our friends and neighbors."
Waded Cruzado, President, Montana State University
"HB 13 is essential to MSU and our four campuses."
Jill Cohenour, MEA-MFT member & chemist at the state lab:
"Your workers have done more with less for five years."
"This is a jobs bill. Invest in these workers and they'll invest in their communities."
Steve Eckels, MEA-MFT member, mental health worker and former correctional officer at Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge:
Steve told of a pregnant colleague who was called to help an inmate who spat in her face and gave her hepatitis C. It required months of treatment.
"Mothers and fathers (working at the prison) qualify for state aid. They're subject to feces and urine tossed at them. Female officers are constantly exposed to inmates that flash them."
Tami Ellis, Montana Highway Patrol dispatcher, MPEA member:
Tami is a single mom with four kids. Two of them want to go to college."My only hope was to take a second job. I get up in the cold at 3:30 in the morning to deliver newspapers, walking four miles every day before work."
In 2009, "when we decided to do the state a favor and not ask for a raise, we're patted on the back and told, 'It was so nice of you to rebuild the coffers.' Can't you do the same for us?"
Eric Feaver, President, MEA-MFT:
"The Montana Nurses Assoc. also supports HB 13."
Timm Twardoski, President, AFSCME:
"We're losing people (state employees) to the Bakken oil fields."
While average state employee turnover is 13 percent, it's even higher (26 percent) among the state's public defenders, AFSCME members. "Those folks have already given up."
Al Akblad, President, Montana State AFL-CIO
Private sector wages have increased in Montana. "Those are dollars in the private sector because state employees got no increase."
Rep. Kathy Swanson, D-Anaconda, sponsor HB13:
Swanson said state workers in her district make so little that they qualify for reduced price school lunches.
"This is your opportunity to tell state workers they have worth."
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Underground Psychology
Researchers have been spying on us on the subway. Here's what they've learned.
Spend enough time riding the New York City subway—or any big-city metro—and you'll find yourself on the tenure-track to an honorary degree in transit psychology. The subway—which keeps random people together in a contained, observable setting—is a perfect rolling laboratory for the study of human behavior. As the sociologists M.L. Fried and V.J. De Fazio once noted, "The subway is one of the few places in a large urban center where all races and religions and most social classes are confronted with one another and the same situation."
Or situations. The subway presents any number of discrete, and repeatable, moments of interaction, opportunities to test how "situational factors" affect outcomes. A pregnant woman appears: Who will give up his seat first? A blind man slips and falls. Who helps? Someone appears out of the blue and asks you to mail a letter. Will you? In all these scenarios much depends on the parties involved, their location on the train and the location of the train itself, and the number of other people present, among other variables. And rush-hour changes everything.
So it's no surprise that, over the years, subways have regularly been the scenes of applied psychology experiments. Indeed, for a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s, as theories of "personal space" percolated through sociology, Edward T. Hall's study of "proxemics" was having its heyday, and the field of environmental psychology was coming into its own, it seemed that any New York City subway rider might be some psychologist's "confederate" and everyone else a possible bellwether of la condition humaine. A banal note from a 1969 article titled "Good Samaritanism: An Underground Phenomenon?" from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology captures the spirit: "About 4,450 men and women who traveled on the 8th Avenue IND in New York City, weekdays between the hours of 11:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. during the period from April 15 to June 26, 1968, were the unsolicited participants in this study."
Although subway studies had their heyday in the '70s, they're as old as public transit itself. The seminal urban sociologist Georg Simmel, in a famous passage from his 1912 volume Mélanges de Philosophie Relativiste, was struck by the new spatial and sensorial regimen that transit provided. "Before the appearance of omnibuses, railroads, and street cars in the nineteenth century, men were not in a situation where for periods of minutes or hours they could or must look at each other without talking to one another."
By 1971, Erving Goffman, in his book Relations in Public, was noting that a ritual of what he called "civil inattention" had taken hold on the subway as in other spheres of city life: We acknowledge another person's presence, but not enough to make them "a target of special curiosity or design." Or, as the authors of the essay "Subway Behavior," (in the book People and Places: Sociology of the Familiar) put it, "subway behavior is regulated by certain societal rules and regulations that serve to protect personal rights and to sustain proper social distance between unacquainted people who are temporarily placed together in unfocused and focused interaction."
What much subway psychology seeks to understand, however, is what holds these rules in place, and what happens when they are violated. In one of the most well-known studies, social psychologist Stanley Milgram had students spontaneously ask subway riders to give up their seats. As Thomas Blass recounts in The Man Who Shocked the World, this experiment arose from the seeming erosion of a subway norm. As Milgram's mother-in-law had posed it to him: "Why don't young people get up anymore in a bus or a subway train to give their seat to a gray-haired elderly woman?"
Milgram wanted to know: What if you simply asked them to? And so students in his experimental social psychology class took to the underground to ask for seats, under a number of conditions (either with no justification, or offering a rationale like "I can't read my book standing up"). People were surprisingly compliant—a total of 68 percent either got up or moved over in the "no justification" condition. The more justification that was offered, however, the less likely people were to stand up. Curiously, Blass notes, the most striking thing for many of the participants was just how difficult it was to ask for the seat ("I actually felt as if I were going to perish," recalled Milgram). It's not hard to imagine why; asking for help on a subway exposes one to both the risk of a certain stigma—and to the possibility of rejection. When the New York Times later replicated the Milgram study, less scientifically, compliance rates were higher. (Maybe New York really is the world's most polite city!)
The crucial context for many of the 1970s studies was the Queens murder of Kitty Genovese, whose cries for help were purportedly ignored by her neighbors. The Genevose story became the ur-narrative of uncaring urban pathology (even if its details were later called into question). The subway offered a perfect testing ground for the emerging subfield of "bystander studies." The aforementioned "Good Samaritan" paper, for example, had a Columbia University student stagger and collapse on a subway train, "looking supine at the ceiling." In some trials, the subject acted drunk; in others, ill. (People were more likely to help in the latter condition.) Interestingly, that study found no support for the so-called "diffusion of responsibility" effect—the idea, per the Genovese murder, that the more bystanders were present, the less likely it was that any one person would help. In fact, the reverse was found.
Another Milgram classic was the "lost-letter technique": Approach a stranger with a letter (sometimes stamped, sometimes not) and ask her to mail it for you. The number of mailed letters provides the success rate. One 1975 study by psychologist Roy Feldman stationed experimenters (both locals and foreigners) in the subway stations of several cities (Boston, Athens, Paris) and had them ask the postal favor. One interesting (if limited) finding: Greeks were less likely to mail a letter for fellow Greeks than for a foreigner.
One of the key tenets of "civil inattention" is the scrupulous avoidance of direct eye contact, and a number of studies have examined this variable. In one 1974 study, experimenters actively stared at people, then asked for help. Subjects were more likely to help when the person hadn't been staring (echoing a long line of studies finding that people generally become uncomfortable in the face of an unprovoked or inappropriate gaze—unless, of course, the gazer is an attractive woman). Another paper, by Clark McCauley, et al., published in 1978 in Environmental Psychology and Nonverbal Behavior, looked at the overall willingness to make eye contact in a commuter train setting in a city environment (Philadelphia) and its suburbs. Commuters were more gaze-shy in the city (only 13 percent of passersby were willing in Philly, as opposed to 31 percent in Bryn Mawr). The authors attributed the results not to rudeness but to the overabundance of information available to process—as they put it, "interpersonal overload leads to social withdrawal."
Of course, a passenger's responses may depend on how long he's been on the train: A study by Gary Evans, et al., linked the length of the commute to stress levels. The longer the voyage, the higher the levels of cortisol in the saliva of test subjects, and the worse they did on a "performance task" (proofreading). Other studies have shown that simply not having to make a transfer reduces stress.
Crowding levels matter too, though not necessarily in the way you might think. In another study by Evans and Richard Wener, higher stress levels were linked less to overall subway car crowding than to how densely the seats were occupied. More crowded trains also increase the chance of physical contact; a study by David Maines looked at seating position (specifically, elbows: "Elbow manipulation also becomes one way of expressing sentiment concerning the person sitting next to you") and hand position on the straps, and found that incidental touching was more likely to occur among same-race, same-sex passengers. "Race and sex redefine physical distance," he wrote. (With gender, it's the lack of this distance, of course, that has led to "women-only" subway cars, from Mexico City to Mumbai.)
Has the era of the electronically immersed commuter, oblivious to all around him, lost in his playlists, signaled a decline in subway psychology? Not that I can find. One recent study conducted by officials at the Paris Metro—which looked at "missed connection" ads placed by urbanites looking for love in the city—found that the Metro "is without doubt the foremost producer of urban tales about falling in love." The seats closest to the door, it seemed, offered the best opportunities for falling in love with the proper stranger. "The Metro is not the emotional desert, the social vacuum, that we sometimes believe it to be," observed the chief of the Paris Metro. Indeed, whether bystanders or participants, we're all part of an ongoing experiment.


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Thomas Tyner Decommits from Oregon
-Rivals100 RB decommitted from Oregon last night. He is currently second in the entire country in rushing this season.
-How does this affect Michigan? Derrick Green. Oregon is looking for three RB's in the class. Now that Tyner decommitted, they're at one RB. Many believe that they will now pursue Green much harder. Experts do think Oregon has much to do to surpass Michigan and Auburn, but it just got a lot more interesting.
-Tyner didn't mention anything about Michigan. UCLA is a school he definitely wants to visit though, among other California schools.
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Scientists Observe: Wiggly Worms Day 1
Lesson 9 of 13
Objective: SWBAT make observations in order to understand the patterns of a life cycle.
Big Idea: Give 'em what they want-- students make observations... of real, live animals! Mealworms are an awesome wiggly way to explore natural phenomena of life cycles!
In this unit, my class has practiced making observations and recording to communicate. We've talked about living versus non-living and how external parts help animals meet their needs for survival. It's time, my friends, to bring in some wiggly mealworms!
Mealworms are pretty easy to keep alive in your classroom. You can pick them up at pet stores, then get some oatmeal to keep them in. Mealworms are not actually worms, they are darkling beetle larva! Over the coming days with your mealworms, students will construct an evidence-based account of the natural phenomena that young are like, but not exactly like their parents (1-LS-3-1). Are you wondering if you could get something less gross? Sure, watching caterpillars turn into butterflies would work well, if you're teaching this standard in the spring. But really, mealworms aren't slimy or gross, and they are cheap at pet stores. Really! You can do it... it's for the kids.
Today is going to focus on observations and recording. In the next lesson, I bring in texts and life cycle images.
- 5-10 Mealworms (You can get them at a pet store!)
- Petri dishes, or little tupperware containers (You don't want mealworms on desks)
- Popsicle sticks, in case students need to move a mealworm
- Mealworm Observations
- Hand lenses (optional)
- Science Journals (optional) I use marbled composition notebooks, but you can print out the Mealworm Observations worksheet instead.
- Square Inch Tiles or another nonstandard measurement tool (paperclips are fine too)
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To warm-up, I come back to our two Essential Question Anchor Charts: What does a scientist do? and How do animals meet their needs for survival?
These are Anchor Charts we've created as a class over the unit. The Essential Question Anchor Chart: What does a scientist do? is important because I want students to connect our activities to the Science and Engineering Practices, so that they begin to see that indeed, they are scientists! We add to this chart throughout the unit, and it will remain posted in the classroom throughout the school year. If you are looking for a good book to read aloud in order to start this anchor chart, try What Is a Scientist? by Barbara Lehn. The second question, How do animals meet their needs for survival? is directly related to the NGSS Life Science standards and helps us arrive at the big ideas that animals have external parts and behaviors that help them survive.
We have talked about a lot of things that a scientist does, like make and record observations. One of the reasons scientists do this is to look for patterns in nature. We've also looked at how animals meet their needs for survival and how sometimes their external parts help them. Today we will make and record observations about the external parts of a live animal. Then, over the coming days, we'll continue making observations as we look for a pattern in this animal's life cycle.
Next, I talk about how we handle live animals and respect nature.
When we observe live animals, it's important to handle them very gently. We want to take care of them, and we want to make sure not to hurt them. Today, the mealworms will be in dishes. I will give each group a popsicle stick, and you may use it to gently flip a mealworm over. Do not squish or stab at the mealworms. They are very fragile.
It's also fun to have the mealworms in a small box, tell students there are live animals inside, and have them try to guess what the animal could be!
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I put 2 or 3 mealworms in petri dishes on each group of desks. I also give out hand lenses so students can get up close and personal with the mealworms! Today, their task is to observe and accurately record the mealworms. I distribute a Mealworm Observations recording sheet to help guide them along and focus their observations. To incorporate measurement skills and comparing items, I have out square inch tiles. Students will circle one of the following: the mealworm is shorter than, the same length as, or longer than a square tile.
You will work with the friends at your table. It is important to share and take turns. I will give you plenty of time to observe, so it's okay if your turn to look really closely isn't first. As you observe the mealworm, you will draw it accurately in the box. Look closely at your mealworm. What external parts does it have?
I also want you to write details. Read the sentence starters with me, "My mealworm looks..." and "My mealworm has..." Ask a friend for help if you forget them. I also want you to put a square inch tile next to one of your mealworms and check whether your mealworm is longer than, shorter than, or the same size as the tile. Here on the easel, I will write your task:
1) observe
2) draw accurately
3) write
4) measure
During the observations, I circulate and keep students focused on answering their recording sheet questions. I also make sure that they are drawing accurately-- there are no smiley faces on mealworms! I guide students to look at the checklist of communication strategies we've made in previous lessons too, so that they will be able to see whether they are recording successfully. Our checklist includes: drawing what we see, labels, accurate color, and diagrams.
Here are some video clips of students working:
Students Observing #1 ~ an "aha" moment for me! This video was an "aha" for me! On his paper, you see he has a large mealworm drawing erased. Once he found the size was a square-tile, he drew a new diagram at *actual* size. I need to discuss how sometimes we draw a larger version to help us see details.
Students Observing #2~ Measuring Students share how and what they observed. You also see the measurement technique of holding the square tile right next to the mealworm. It was actually a bit hard to judge, because the mealworm stretched out longer than the tile, but was usually the same size.
Students Observing #3~ Antlers? This clip shows how working in a group helps with vocabulary development. One student says the mealworm has antlers, and another corrects her by saying, "antennas." The student corrects her vocabulary and also wrote it as antennas later on her diagram.
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In closing, I have a few students share what they recorded in their journals. I am especially looking today for accurate drawings. It's really important for all students to listen and learn from one another. I'm hoping students will compare these samples to their own work, and use it to improve their own work!
Then, I ask, "What did we do today that scientists do?" By asking this question, we are coming back to the science practices and helping students see that they too are scientists! Students turn-and-talk, then share answers like, "We observed, drew what we saw, and measured with tools."
When assessing student work today, I will ask myself, "Was the student able to accurately observe and draw the mealworm?"
Here are some samples of student work:
Student Work #1 See how this student erased his long drawing of a mealworm and drew a new one at actual size once he had measured.
Student Work #2 One of our communication strategies was to draw a diagram of external parts. Here is a good example of a diagram!
Student Work #3 One of our communication strategies was to draw a diagram of external parts. Here is a good example of a diagram!
Student Work #4, a beginning writer Here, we have a picture at actual size, but no labels or diagram. The sentences are on the worksheet to encourage students to write *more* details. However, this friend cannot read the sentence starters and therefore only completed one as a friend read it to him. My best guess for his writing, without speaking to him, is "ses os" or "six legs."
Student Work #5 This is the friend who was unsure in the video clip if the mealworm was the same as a tile or longer. When the mealworm moved, it got longer than the tile. At rest, it was the same length. I want to call out this problem in tomorrow's lesson and ask how other students grappled with this problem.
Student Work #6 Here is our antlers/antenna friend's work. You can see that once she was corrected, she did indeed write the word antenna on her diagram!


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The Whitfield-Murray Historical Society is headquartered in the 1890's Crown Cotton Mill office building in Dalton, Georgia. Our headquarters, best known as "Crown Gardens & Archives," and more recently called the Whitfield-Murray History Center, serves as a depository for historical records and research material relating to the history of Whitfield and Murray counties.
The archives contain many one-of-a-kind documents that are unavailable elsewhere. Holdings include original ledgers, stock certificates, employee payroll records, and other historic documents relating to area businesses that no longer exist; documents and photos relating to the history of the local chenille and carpet textile industry; genealogical research materials, including local family files, history books, local records, histories of Whitfield, Murray, Gilmer, Catoosa, and surrounding counties; regional marriage and cemetery indexes; and other research material, including the Georgia Death Index on microfiche.
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December 10, 2012 - Smutty Shout-Outs
Becky! Happy Birthday with love from Lisa who calls you her fiercest supporter and the most wonderful friend. She's lucky to have you, the roller derby girl, on her side. Have the best, best year ahead, and I hear you're starting it off properly -- and sometimes the tea leaves are wrong and Jonas says Happy Birthday too but separately because she typed and they're not one person...
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London (PRWEB) October 07, 2013
This comprehensive report has detailed assessments and forecasts for all the sectors using and likely to use traction batteries. There are chapters on heavy industrial, light industrial/commercial, mobility for the disabled, two wheel and allied, pure electric cars, hybrid cars, golf cars, military, marine and other. The profusion of pictures, diagrams and tables pulls the subject together to give an independent view of the future ten years. Unit sales, unit prices and total market value are forecast for each sector for 2012-2022. The replacement market is quantified and ten year technology trends by sector are in there too, with a view on winning and losing technologies and companies.
This is the essential reference book for those who are anywhere in the hybrid and pure electric vehicle value chain. Those making materials, cells, battery sets or vehicles, researchers, legislators and market analysts will find it invaluable.
The whole picture
With vehicle traction batteries it is important to look at the whole picture and this report does it for the first time. The rapidly growing market for traction batteries will exceed $55 billion in only ten years. However that spans battery sets up to $500,000 each with great sophistication needed for military, marine and solar aircraft use. Huge numbers of low cost batteries are being used for e-bikes but even here several new technologies are appearing. The largest replacement market is for e-bikes today and the value market for replacement batteries will not be dominated by cars when these batteries last the life of the car - something likely to happen within ten years. The trends are therefore complex and that is why IDTechEx has analysed them with great care.
Vehicle manufacturers are often employing new battery technology first in their forklifts or e-bikes, not cars, yet there is huge progress with car batteries as well - indeed oversupply is probable in this sector at some stage. The mix is changing too. The second largest volume of electric vehicles made in 2010 was mobility aids for the disabled but in ten years time it will be hybrid cars. The market for car traction batteries will be larger than the others but there will only be room for six or so winners in car batteries and other suppliers and users will need to dominate their own niches to achieve enduring growth and profits. Strategy must be decided now.
In this report, researched in 2010 and 2012 and frequently updated, we analyse the successes, the needs, the statistics and the market potential for traction batteries for all the major applications. This has never been done before. It is important to look at the whole picture because traction battery manufacturers typically sell horizontally across many applications and electric vehicle manufacturers increasingly make versions for many applications - heavy industrial, on road, leisure and so on. Indeed, the smarter putative suppliers will choose the sectors that best leverage their strengths rather than join the herd and be obliterated by corporations of up to $100 billion in size enjoying prodigious government support.
1.1. The decade of hybrid vehicles
1.2. Market 2012-2022
1.2.1. Strong numbers growth
1.3. Replacement business
1.3.1. China
1.3.2. Replacement market
1.4. The IDTechEx analysis of 138 lithium-based rechargeable battery manufacturers
1.4.1. Lithium-ion or something else?
1.4.2. Lessons from geographical spread
1.4.3. Lessons from market positioning
1.4.4. Cathode chemistry
1.4.5. Anode chemistry
1.4.6. Solid or gel polymer or glassy inorganic electrolyte
1.4.7. Containment cases
1.4.8. Most Li-ion manufacturers being outflanked by supercapacitors
1.4.9. Where will we be in ten years' time?
1.4.10. Making lithium batteries safe
1.5. Price war
1.5.1. $30 billion industry - two thirds vehicle traction
1.6. Massive investments
1.6.1. Government support
1.6.2. Stronger value growth, hybrids pull ahead
1.6.3. Mark ups through the value chain
1.7. Largest sectors
1.7.1. Trends
1.7.2. Battery chemistry
1.7.3. Battery shape and photovoltaics
1.7.4. Ribbon and conformal batteries
1.7.5. Heavy industrial sector
1.7.6. The light industrial and commercial sector
1.7.7. Mobility for the disabled
1.7.8. Two wheel and allied vehicles
1.7.9. Cars
1.7.10. Golf
1.7.11. Military
1.7.12. Marine
1.7.13. Other
1.8. Market for EV components
1.8.1. Timelines
1.8.2. Watch Japan, China and Korea
1.8.3. Full circle back to pure EVs
1.8.4. Range extenders
1.8.5. Envia breakthrough in 2012
1.8.6. Winning strategies
1.9. Who is winning in lithium-ion traction batteries - and why
1.9.1. The needs have radically changed
1.9.2. Winner will be Toyota?
1.9.3. Laminar structure
1.10. Choice of electrolyte chemistry
1.11. Boeing Dreamliner: Implications for electric aircraft
1.11.1. Lithium-ion batteries: Further GS Yuasa troubles
2.1. Definitions, scope, history
2.2. The EV value chain
2.3. Pure electric vs hybrid vehicles
2.4. Battery cells, modules, packs
2.5. Construction of battery packs
2.5.1. Changing factors
2.5.2. Molten salt - GE Durathon
2.5.3. NiMH vs lithium
2.5.4. Replacement traction battery pack market 2011-2021
2.5.5. Plug in hybrids take over from mild hybrids
2.6. Pure electric and hybrid converge
2.6.1. Two options converge
2.7. Fuel cells
2.8. The ideal car traction battery pack
2.9. Traction batteries today
2.10. First generation lithium traction batteries
2.11. Second generation lithium traction batteries
2.12. The future
2.12.1. Third generation lithium traction batteries
2.12.2. Trends in energy storage vs battery pack voltage
2.12.3. Companies wishing to make the new batteries
2.13. How to improve lithium traction batteries
2.13.1. Basic needs
2.13.2. Life
2.13.3. Energy density
2.13.4. Safety
2.14. USA and Europe play catch up
2.15. Technological leapfrog
2.16. Academic research and small companies
2.17. Industrial leverage
2.17.1. Major funding can have strange impacts
2.17.2. Rapid profits for some
2.17.3. Impediments
2.18. Benefits of EVs
2.19. Traction battery design considerations
2.20. Future evolution of hybrids and pure electric cars
2.20.1. Specification changes
2.20.2. Move to high voltage
2.20.3. Battery performance over time - battery life
2.20.4. Battery state of charge
2.20.5. Depth of discharge affects life
2.20.6. Capacity rating
2.20.7. Daily depth of discharge
2.20.8. Charging and discharging rates
2.21. Requirements - hybrids vs pure electric
2.21.1. Plug in requirements align with pure electric cars
2.21.2. Hybrids need power and pure electrics need capacity - for now
2.21.3. Parallel hybrids differ
2.21.4. Plug in hybrids try to be the best of both worlds
2.21.5. Watt hours per mile
2.21.6. Charging rates
2.21.7. Custom packaging
2.22. Fast charging batteries and infrastructure
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Lithium manganese
3.3. Lithium iron phosphate
3.4. Lithium air and lithium metal
3.5. Lithium sulfur
3.6. Other challenges
4.1. Examples of battery suppliers to this sector
4.1.2. East Penn Manufacturing Corporation USA
4.1.3. Furukawa Battery Japan
4.1.4. Nissan lithium forklift Japan
4.1.5. Balqon lithium heavy duty vehicles USA
4.2. Listing of manufacturers
4.3. Market size
4.4. Heavy industrial traction battery market forecasts 2011 to 2021
5.1.1. Sub categories
5.1.2. Buses
5.2. Examples of battery suppliers to this sector
5.2.1. A123 Systems now part of Wanxiang
5.2.2. Axeon UK
5.2.3. Eaton Corporation USA
5.2.4. KD Advanced Battery Group Dow USA Kokam Korea
5.2.5. Lithium Technology Corporation/GAIA USA
5.2.6. MAGNA STEYR AG & Co KG Austria
5.2.7. Valence Technologies USA
5.2.8. Lishen Power Battery China
5.3. Market drivers
5.3.1. Governments get involved
5.4. Importance of batteries and power trains
5.4.1. Freightliner and Enova
5.4.2. China Vehicles Company
5.4.3. Ford Transit
5.5. EVs for local services
5.6. Airport EVs
5.7. Small people-movers
5.8. Light industrial aids
5.8.1. Heavy duty on-road trucks become hybrids
5.9. Listing of manufacturers
5.10. Light industrial / commercial traction battery market forecasts 2011-2021
6.1. Examples of battery suppliers to this sector
6.2. The sector with the most compelling and enduring need
6.3. Laws make mobility easier
6.4. Interchina Industry Group China
6.5. Market drivers
6.5.1. Geographical distribution
6.5.2. Zhejiang R&P Industry China
6.6. Listing of manufacturers
6.7. Mobility aid traction battery market forecasts 2011 to 2021
6.7.1. Growth by creating new markets
7.1. Examples of battery suppliers to this sector
7.1.1. Advanced Battery Technologies (ABAT) China
7.1.2. Leyden Energy USA
7.1.3. PowerGenix USA
7.1.4. Toshiba Japan
7.2. Batteries and specifications for two wheelers
7.2.1. Electric two wheelers prices and performance
7.2.2. Yamaha lithium Japan
7.2.3. Eko Vehicles lead acid scooters India
7.2.4. Honda lithium motorcycle Japan
7.2.5. Peugeot lithium scooter France
7.3. Hybrid motorcycles
7.3.1. YikeBike lithium New Zealand
7.4. The big winners in western markets
7.5. Listing of manufacturers
7.5.1. 70 examples of manufacturers
7.5.2. China
7.6. Two wheeled and allied traction battery market forecasts 2011 to 2021
8.1. Examples of battery suppliers to this sector
8.1.1. Change of leader? Ingersoll Rand and Textron USA
8.1.2. Suzhou Eagle and many others in China
8.2. Listing of manufacturers
8.3. Golf car and caddy traction battery market forecasts 2011 to 2021
9.1. Examples of battery suppliers to this sector
9.1.1. Automotive Energy Supply Japan
9.1.2. Panasonic EV Energy, Sanyo Japan
9.1.3. Blue Energy, Lithium Energy Japan - GS Yuasa Japan with Honda, Mitsubishi
9.1.4. Bolloré France
9.1.5. Boston Power
9.1.6. BYD China
9.1.7. China BAK in China
9.1.8. Coda Battery Systems, Yardney USA, Tianjin Lishen China
9.1.9. Continental Germany and ENAX Japan
9.1.10. Envia Systems USA
9.1.11. Hitachi Japan
9.1.12. IBM and National laboratories USA
9.1.13. Inci Holding Turkey
9.1.14. LG Chem Korea with Compact Power
9.1.15. LiFeBATT Taiwan
9.1.16. Li-Tec Evonik Industries Germany and Daimler
9.1.17. Mitsubishi Japan with Sumitomo Japan
9.1.18. Next Alternative Germany, Micro Bubble Technology Korea
9.1.19. Planar Energy Devices USA
9.1.20. Sakti3 USA and General Motors USA
9.1.21. SB LiMotive Co. Ltd - Samsung Korea with Bosch Germany
9.1.22. SmartBatt project Europe
9.1.23. Sony Japan
9.1.24. Superlattice Power USA
9.2. Rapid increase in number of manufacturers
9.2.1. Examples of manufacturers
9.2.2. Recharging points
9.2.3. Battery changing points
9.2.4. Can the grid cope?
9.3. Car traction battery market forecasts 2011 to 2021
9.3.1. Total car traction battery market value 2011 to 2021
9.3.2. Battery pack market by car type 2012-2022
9.3.3. Hybrid battery prices
9.3.4. Replacement car traction battery pack market 2010-2020
10.1. Electricity solely for traction
10.2. Examples of pure EV cars
10.2.1. Nissan Leaf lithium Japan, UK, USA
10.2.2. Here come the Chinese - BYD, Brilliance, Geely, Chengfang
10.2.3. Jianghsu lead acid China
10.2.4. High performance pure lithium EVs - Tesla USA
10.2.5. Lightning lithium UK
10.2.6. Subaru Stella lithium Japan
10.2.7. REVA lead acid or lithium India
10.2.8. Club Car lead acid USA
10.2.9. Tara Tiny lead acid India
10.2.10. Mitsubishi iMiEV lithium Japan
10.2.11. Renault Nissan lithium France
11.1. Construction and advantages of hybrids
11.1.1. Evolution
11.1.2. Frazer Nash Namir lithium UK
11.1.3. Chevrolet Volt lithium USA
11.1.4. Toyota Prius NiMH, lithium Japan
11.1.5. Fisker Karma lithium USA
12.1. Examples of battery suppliers to this sector
12.1.2. Altair Nanotechnologies (Altairnano) USA
12.1.3. Electrovaya Canada
12.1.4. Hummer
12.1.5. Chrysler
12.1.6. Saft France, Johnson Controls USA
12.2. Examples of military EVs
12.2.1. Manned land vehicles.
12.2.2. Hummer lithium USA / China
12.2.3. Quantum Technologies lithium USA
12.2.4. US Army trucks etc - ZAP, Columbia ParCar USA
12.2.5. Oshkosh Truck Corp USA
12.2.6. Plug-in trucks - BAE Systems UK
12.2.7. Electric robot vehicles USA
12.3. In the air
12.3.1. Disposable surveillance aircraft
12.3.2. DARPA insects USA
12.3.3. COM-BAT lithium robot bat USA
12.3.4. Aerovironment electric aircraft USA
12.4. Examples of military EVs - in the water
12.4.1. Robot lithium jellyfish USA and Germany
12.5. Manufacturers of military EVs
12.6. Military traction battery market forecasts 2011 to 2021
13.1. Examples of battery suppliers to this sector
13.1.1. Gavia Iceland
13.1.2. PolyPlus Battery USA
13.1.3. ThunderPower USA
13.2. Market segments
13.2.1. Total market
13.2.2. Underwater
13.2.3. On the water
13.3. Commonality with land EVs
13.4. Market drivers
13.4.1. Pollution laws back electric boats
13.5. Energy harvesting superyacht UK
13.5.1. Cleaner yachts - Valence, Bénéteau
13.6. Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
13.6.1. Swimmers
13.7. Leisure and tourist submarines USA
13.8. Manufacturers by country and product
13.8.1. Examples of companies making electric water craft
13.9. Marine traction battery market forecasts 2011 to 2021
13.9.1. Surface and subsurface boat markets
14.1. Market drivers
14.2. Listing of manufacturers by country and product
14.3. Companies in the mobile robot and leisure sector
14.4. Electric aircraft for civil use
14.4.1. Sion Power USA - Aircraft batteries
14.4.2. Aircraft - Renault, Piccard
14.5. Other traction battery market forecasts 2011 to 2021
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Traction Batteries for Electric Vehicles Land, Water & Air 2012-2022
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The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico reportedly reached shore early Friday morning, and wildlife specialists are preparing for what the government is calling "a spill of national significance" that may reach the fragile Louisiana coast as early as Thursday night.
Some 5,000 barrels a day, or 200,000 gallons (more than five times more than earlier estimates) are pouring into the ocean from a broken pipe 5,000 feet below the surface following the Deepwater Horizon rig incident. So far, efforts to stem the flow have failed, and controlled burns haven't eradicated the slick. Wildlife officials are preparing for what may be the worst oil spill in history (Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar, and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson are heading to the Gulf Coast on Friday.)
"The terrible loss of 11 workers may be just the beginning of this tragedy as the oil slick spreads toward sensitive coastal areas vital to birds and marine life and to all the communities that depend on them," said Melanie Driscoll, an Audubon bird conservation director, who is monitoring the situation from her base in Louisiana. "For birds, the timing could not be worse; they are breeding, nesting and especially vulnerable in many of the places where the oil could come ashore."
"As the encroachment of oil into coastal zones appears imminent, primary concerns include potential impacts to 20 coastal national wildlife refuges within the possible trajectory of the spill," said Tom MacKenzie, a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Cleanup teams are putting in place booms to try and protect the areas most at risk, including Breton National Wildlife Refuge. "Refuge staff have estimated more than 34,000 birds, including 2,000 pairs of pelicans, 5,000 pairs of royal terns, 5,000 pairs of caspian terns and 5,000 pairs of feeding, loafing and nesting gulls and other shore birds," says MacKenzie.
Here's a look at some of the wildlife experts are most concerned about:
Brown Pelican: Louisiana's state bird nests on barrier islands and feeds near shore. Their breeding season just began and many pairs are already incubating eggs. Removed from the Endangered Species list only last November, brown pelicans remain vulnerable to storms, habitat loss and other pressures. Their relatively low reproductive rate means any disruption to their breeding cycle could have serious effects on the population. Photo: Gary M. Stolz, FWS
Reddish Egret: Populations of these large, strictly coastal egrets have dwindled due to habitat loss and disturbance. As specialized residents of coastal environments, they have nowhere else to go if their feeding and nesting grounds are fouled by oil. Photo: James C. Leupold, FWS
Roseate Spoonbill: Like many herons and egrets, the roseate spoonbill feeds in marshes and along the coast and nests in large colonies that will be vulnerable if oil comes ashore. Photo: NASA
Black Skimmer: Along with other beach-nesting terns and gulls, like the least tern and royal tern, black skimmers nest and roost in groups on barrier islands and beaches. They feed on fish and other marine life. Roosting and nesting on the sand and plunging into the water to fish, they are extremely vulnerable oil on the surface or washing ashore. Photo: Gary Kramer, FWS
Snowy Plover: This bird and other shorebirds nest on the ground on barrier islands and beaches. They feed on small invertebrates along the beach or, in the case of oystercatchers, on oysters. They're at risk if oil comes ashore or affects their food sources. Photo: BLM
Mottled Duck: Many marsh-dwelling birds are extremely secretive, hindering understanding of their population dynamics. Recovery efforts would be difficult or impossible if oil accumulates in the coastal salt marshes where they live.Photo: Peter Wallack, Wikimedia Commons
Sea turtles: Several species of threatened sea turtles live, breed, and migrate in the Gulf. Although surprisingly robust when faced with physical damage such as shark attacks or boat strikes, these creatures are highly sensitive to oil. Oil causes increased egg mortality and developmental defects, direct mortality due to oiling in hatchlings, juveniles, and adults; and negative impacts to the skin, blood, digestive and immune systems, and salt glands. Photo: Cyril Gicquel, Deeper Blue
Blue fin tuna: The spill is near the fish's spawning grounds, which they inhabit from mid-April to June each year. The highly migratory tuna's numbers are already quite low, in large part due to overfishing.Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Whale sharks: These polka-dotted fish can grow to be 40 feet long and sometimes gather in large numbers to feast on seasonal plankton blooms, as happened last summer when more than 400 appeared in the northern Gulf, baffling scientists. Photo: Cyril Gicquel, Deeper Blue
Sperm whales: As of Wednesday, NOAA had received reports of at least seven sperm whales seen in the oil-impacted area. These mammals are endangered. Photo: NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Oysters: The spill is nearing the rich oyster beds at the mouth of the Mississippi River. "When the oil starts to settle, it'll smother the oyster beds. It'll kill the oysters," said Gregory Bossart, chief veterinary officer for the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta. Bossart points out that oil smothers plankton, which are fed on by crabs, mussels, oysters, and shrimp.
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The Heidelberg Project has put a $3 million capital and operational campaign on hold following unsolved arson fires that have destroyed six of the project's house art installations since last May.
Rather than focusing on construction of new installations on its namesake Heidelberg Street and adjacent Elba Street, the Detroit nonprofit is in an introspective mode following the fires.
It's reassessing what it does and what it should do to continue to meet its mission to change communities through art.
"We don't know where the fires are coming from," said Executive Director Jenenne Whitfield, who is married to the project's artist, Tyree Guyton.
"Do people think that because we had these fires, we no longer exist? We need to help people understand we are more than just an art installation."
The Heidelberg Project has an international reputation as a pioneer in creative placemaking, which the National Endowment for the Arts defines as the collaborative efforts of the public and private sectors, nonprofits and communities to shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood.
People in other countries seem to have a better understanding of what the nonprofit does than people locally, Whitfield said.
"We want Detroit to have that same understanding," she said.
The first order of business, however, is securing the Heidelberg Project installations. Whitfield said four remain.
After losing a security camera to the extreme cold and intense heat from the latest fire on March 7 and hiring patrolling security to monitor the site, the nonprofit is trying another approach.
It plans to add new solar energy streetlights on Heidelberg and Elba as part of an enhanced security plan, funded through $54,000 raised from donors around the globe to help secure the art installations, Whitfield said.
The organization is also planning new amenities for Heidelberg Street, she said. Those will include benches and a sculpture garden aimed at engaging visitors who come for lectures and talks.
Those efforts will be aimed at protecting the installation for the 50,000 per year who come to see the art and hear Guyton's lectures.
At the same time, the nonprofit continues to provide art programs for K-12 students and do community volunteer and project outreach with young volunteers. It ended a program that showcased emerging artists in October because other organizations were doing that better, Whitfield said.
Central to the project's sustainability is strengthening its brand and raising awareness about its role as a creative placemaking pioneer, Whitfield said.
In June, the organization plans to launch "Heidelbergology," a series of blogs and podcasts that will tell the history of the project. The effort will cost about $45,000, a third of which Heidelberg is hoping to secure through the Michigan Humanities Council, Whitfield said.
The project is also working on a new full-length film and a book with professors at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University to tell its story, she said.
The Heidelberg Project has been around for 28 years, but it didn't get its first grants until about five years ago, said Jodee Fishman Raines, vice president of programs for the Bloomfield Hills-based Fred A. and Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation, which may have been the first to give one.
The project's budget has expanded and contracted the past few years as new grants have come in to boost the money it gets from individual contributions and revenue from tours and the sale of T-shirts, hats and children's books. Its 2013 tax filings are not yet complete, but the project's unaudited revenue number for last year was $348,000, according to its independent accountant, Heidi Coffman. It ended the year with an estimated loss of $52,000.
That compares to revenue of $193,502 and a loss of $132,182 in 2012 and $594,758 in 2011 revenue buoyed by a $300,000 grant from the Los Angeles-based Annenburg Foundation.
At the end of 2013, Heidelberg had $365,000 in assets, Coffman said. That's down from $409,080 in 2012 and $541,262 in 2011.
Grants can only carry a nonprofit so far, Raines said, which is why the majority of the $350,000 in grants Erb has made to the project over the past five years required it to raise a matching amount from individual donors.
Heidelberg also has had support from the Washington, D.C.-based John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Troy-based Kresge Foundation and the Community Foundation of Southeast Michigan.
"We believe strongly enough in them as artists and innovators that we believe they have a continued role to play," Raines said.
"We don't know what it is yet, but we believe they are thinking about it and will find a way to continue."
Sherri Welch: (313) 446-1694, [email protected]. Twitter: @sherriwelch


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Nina Dobrev and Nick Braun's summer jam gets you all lathered up with some lotion music.
- July 02, 2012
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Starring - Nina Dobrev & Nicholas Braun
"Man" - Scott Baumgartner
Song By - Nina Dobrev, Nicholas Braun, Erica Lancaster, Bashir Salahuddin & Diallo Riddle
Music By - Jules Kilpatrick
Directed By - Erica Lancaster
Edited By - Pat Bishop
Special Effects By - Joe Dietsch
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Girl One: [Giggles] What is this?
Girl Two: Lotion music.
Girl One: I like this lotion music.
Girl One Girl Two: Suede!
[Music Playing]
Nina Dobrev: Nina Dobrev!
Nick Braun: Nick Braun! Not Nina Braun!
Nina Dobrev: Or Nick Dobrev. Swagged out in the hot hot summer sun.
Nick Braun: [Slow Motion] This track feels like a hot hot [Mumbling]
[Music Playing]
Nick Braun: Oh! No! Summer joint here we go!
Nina Dobrev: What. What. What?!
Nick Braun: Rubbing lotion into your skin real deep.
Nina Dobrev: Boy, it's hot! Ninety-five degrees.
Nick Braun: Steamy!
Nina Dobrev: I think I'm staying home today. What?! Bi**h please! See, I got the notion to head up to the ocean. Stop! Forgot my suntan lotion.
Nick Braun: Summer summer summer always gets me very nervous.
Nina Dobrev: Yikes.
Nick Braun: 'Cause the largest organ on my body is my epidermis.
Nina Dobrev: Skin.
Nick Braun: I'm putting so...
Nina Dobrev: Skin.
Nick Braun: Much lotion up, just tell me to stop it. Hello Banana Boat, no Hawaiian Tropics!
Nina Dobrev Nick Braun: All I need. All I need. All I need is my S. P. F.
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Nina Dobrev: Call me a chicken but I hate a roastin'. Yeah, I'm tan but I'm easily toastin'. I'm tan because I'm Bulgarian.
Nick Braun: Oh!
Nina Dobrev: [Speaking Bulgarian] Don't mistake it for Hungarian!
Nick Braun: I keep tanning.
Nina Dobrev: Tanning.
Nick Braun: I keep fanning.
Nina Dobrev: Fanning.
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Nina Dobrev: The sun is like a drought. I love my complexion so I gotta use protection! I'm not talking about Trojan, it's not a secret potion. [Slow Motion] I just need my lotion.
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[Music Playing]
Nick Braun: What. What.
[Music Playing]
Nick Braun: It puts the lotion on it's skin.
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Your weekday morning blend from Instant Tea:
1. A prominent opponent of Uganda's "kill gays" legislation has been beaten to death at his home in the African country, according to Human Rights Watch. Gay activist David Kato's murder comes a little more than three months after he was outed on the cover of a tabloid magazine that called for him and others to be hanged (above). Then again, violent rhetoric shouldn't be blamed for murder, right? So this item is probably just another example of "blood libel."
2. Speaking of magazine covers, Harps Food Stores issued a statement Wednesday saying it has removed a shield that was placed over a magazine cover depicting (gasp!) gay parents at one of its stores in Arkansas. The company says it removed the shield from a US Weekly cover featuring Elton John and his family in response to complaints received at its corporate office. Watch Anderson Cooper discuss the controversy with Dr. Phil below.
3. Disgraced televangelist Ted Haggard says he's "bisexual" in a new GQ interview but claims he only used the meth he bought from escort Mike Jones for masturbation. C'mon, does Haggard really think he can get into Heaven with that lame excuse?


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The current leaders are are -11 with Ross six shots back.
Crookston native Travis Ross fell back to t-10 after a 72 in the second round at the Spring Creek Classic in Gordonsville, Va.
The 24-year-old was tied for the lead after round one with a -6, 65, but his +1, 72 dropped him back in the field.
Ross' second round front nine was better than his first round, posting three birdies in the first four holes and finishing with a -3, 33. His back nine was not so special as he had two bogeys and a double bogey to shoot a +4, 39.
The current leaders are are -11 with Ross six shots back.
The 54-hole event was cut down to the low 46 players after the second round with the final round today.


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The Poetry of the Everyday
In my high school sophomore English class, our desks were separated along the two long sides of the room facing each other, half of us with our backs to windows that looked out into a courtyard. A walkway passed between the desks, and it was here one morning after the second bell rang at 7:35, that my teacher stood and read What the Living Do by Marie Howe. Before the last lines I was in my seat, facing two different boys I had crushes on, crying before 8AM.
That was seventeen years ago. How little we change, really. I thought of this recently when I climbed onto the brown leather seat of my bike and was filled with the same thrill I had on the sidewalks of Drexel Drive, streamers flying from my handle bars. We love what we love, and what we hold dear we hold dear, from the first moment on and on.
And so it is with Marie Howe. Each Friday, I have a long stretch of rote, yet time-consuming tasks to accomplish at work. I listen to On Being each week while I go through them. And guess who was on recently, speaking in a voice I never imagined would be so round and robust. She read her poems, and I was back in moment just like that one in 1996, breath caught in my throat like so much rushing life. Listen to it.
I had no idea that the gate I would step through
to finally enter this world
would be the space my brother's body made. He was
a little taller than me: a young man
but grown, himself by then,
done at twenty-eight, having folded every sheet,
rinsed every glass he would ever rinse under the cold
and running water.
This is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me.
And I'd say, What?
And he'd say, This—holding up my cheese and mustard sandwich.
And I'd say, What?
And he'd say, This, sort of looking around.
This is why I love On Being so much, and why, when I am programming modules on a webpage while I listen, it is an especially welcome distraction. I imagine Krista Tippett sitting in a dark studio with her guest, and Minnesota's bright snow-sun or mosquitoes outside the room. There they talk about what we don't always have time or energy or even the language to ask when we're meeting someone for a coffee. What's at the heart of meaning in your life? How do you create beauty and change and delight?
Or: Folding sheets, rinsing glasses, mustard sandwiches. What makes a thing suffused with so much more than it is? Why does it matter so much?
Later in the talk, Marie explains an assignment she gives her writing students. They must write ten observations. No metaphors, no interpretation, just life as it is.
It's very hard for them. Tell me what you saw this morning, like in two lines. I saw a water glass on a brown tablecloth, and the light came through it in three places. No metaphor. But to resist metaphor is very difficult because you have to actually endure the thing itself, which hurts us for some reason. We want to say it was like this, it was like that, we want to look away. And then they say, well there's nothing important enough, and that's the whole thing. The this, whatever it is.
Weeks later, everything's changed.
The fourth week or so, they come in and clinkety, clank, clank, clank, onto the table pours all this stuff, and it so thrilling. I mean it is thrilling. Everybody can feel it. Everyone is just like wow, you know. The slice of apple, and then that gleam of the knife, and the sound of the trashcan closing, and the maple tree outside, and the blue jay. I mean it almost comes clanking into the room. And it just, it's just amazing, you know […] On the fifth or sixth week, I say OK, use metaphors. And they don't want to. They don't know how. Why would I? Why would I compare that to anything when it's itself?
Why are the details of our world so important? Why do I love Marie Howe's poetry, and care so much about the table set with low candles and sweet williams in jam jars, the begonias I planted on Mother's Day, and the streaks of mud still on my calf two days later? January's soft-bright winter light, that the coffee is hot in its little white cup, and that the cherry trees down the block erupted in ruffles of prom dress pink and a few weeks ago turned into a thrash of green leaves just as suddenly.
Here's the best I've come up: our lives are speeding forward on a timeline we may or may not find agreeable. Either way, there will never be a moment just like this one. Just as soon as we notice the light hitting the water glass in three places, we'll be off: onto the late train, the to do list, the minutes on the clock. But if we can first just notice that thing, whatever little reality it is, the world around us becomes more animated and our connection to it moored there for a moment. Clinkety clank clank clank. Is that grace? I don't know. Whatever it is, when I notice it, I feel alive from hair to heel.
Which brings me to this, as close to gentle instruction as I can come. I was returning home to Brooklyn after planting those begonias in a shady spot in front of my mom's porch. We were saying goodbye in the dark cool of the TV room. "Don't take anything for granted," she told me as we hugged, and I answered into her shoulder, "That's hard." And she said, "Enjoy. It's the same thing, isn't it?"


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The fall 2009 TV season opens up its floodgates this week and lets loose a tsunami of new shows. We've got everything from tough cops to hilariously dysfunctional families to mopey teenage vampires to rodent-eating space invaders. But you never can tell which shows will be good and which will suck so hard they'll pull the remote out of your hand. Nonetheless, you can always make an educated guess ... or a rash pronouncement based on innate prejudice. Either one's good by me. So, here's my snap judgment for the best and worst of the upcoming TV season.
"Glee" (FOX, already airing): It's hard to tell what "Glee" has more of: buzz or advertising. Either way, it's gotten a head start this season. And its clever conceit—wedding high school geek empowerment with "American Idol"-style musical numbers—is winning major praise. "Community" (NBC, debuts 9/17): Joel McHale and Chevy Chase as instructors at a low-rent community college? Sounds like a recipe for funny to me. Plus, it's a sitcom that does not involve wacky, dysfunctional families. Bonus! "Bored to Death" (HBO, debuts 9/20): The quirky cast (Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis and Ted Danson) is enough to pique interest in this oddball "noir"-otic comedy about a frequently stoned writer who rents himself out as a (not very good) detective on craigslist. "FlashForward" (ABC, debuts 9/24): A mysterious event makes everyone on Earth black out and see the future. But can their destinies be avoided? Even though the mythology sounds dense on this one, it's written by David S. Goyer (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight) and Brannon Braga ("24," "Star Trek: Enterprise"), so the potential for smart sci fi is sky-high. "V" (ABC, debuts 11/3): You can't lose with this one. Whether this sci-fi reboot is "Battlestar Galactica"-sharp or a total lizard-faced alien cheesefest, it'll make for a fitting tribute to the much-loved '80s original.
"Mercy" (NBC debuts 9/23): A medical drama with doctors, nurses, emergency rooms. I'm bored already. "NCIS: Los Angeles" (CBS, debuts 9/22): CBS's Navy cop drama goes the "CSI: Location" route with Chris O'Donnell and LL Cool J in tow. (Yikes!) It's just like "NCIS"—only, you know, cheaper for the studio to shoot because it's set in exotic Los Angeles. "Eastwick" (ABC, debuts 9/23): If you've been waiting patiently for a spin-off of 1987's Witches of Eastwick, here it is. Cher has been replaced by Rebecca Romijn, which is kind of an improvement, and it could wind up being campy fun; but the commercials look like nothing more than "Desperate Housewives" crossed with "Charmed." "Parenthood" (NBC, scheduled for midseason replacement): So, apparently, TV programmers haven't been to the movies since Bush I left office. Remember the 1989 movie starring Steve Martin and Keanu Reeves? No reason you should. Here, 20 years later, is the sitcom spin-off. Believe it or not, they tried this in 1990 with Ed Begley Jr. and Leonardo DiCaprio. It failed miserably. Somehow, unlike fine French wine, I don't think this dysfunctional family sitcom has aged well. "The Sing-Off" (NBC, scheduled for midseason): I don't even need to explain this reality show competition, do I?


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Last Updated on Thursday, 05 August 2010 21:42 Written by Deb Egenberger Thursday, 05 August 2010 21:41
Project restores yard, play area.
A service project at the Parent-Child Center in Lexington this month not only provided the center with a refurbished yard and play area but it also offered some young attorneys an opportunity to build leadership skills.
Members of the Nebraska State Bar Association 2009-2010 Leadership Academy recently spent a day rehabilitating the yard, fence and swing set for the Parent-Child Center.
Swing set and fence materials were donated by Hicken Lumber and Home Center Inc. along with a sandbox and picnic table. Sod was donated by the Gothenburg FFA chapter.
Leadership Academy members who assisted with the project include: Linsey Bryant of Fremont, Michael Cameron of Lincoln, Tag Herbek of Omaha, Lisa Jorgenson of Gothenburg, James Korth of Ogallala, Kendra Ringenberg of Omaha, John Sharp of Omaha, Tara Stingley of Omaha and Mathew Watson of Lincoln.
The leadership academy exists to develop the leadership skills of participants to allow them to make greater contributions to the legal profession and their community.
NSBA members who will be in their third to 15th year of practice can apply and are selected to ensure diversity in geography, practice type, employment setting, gender and ethnicity.
The goals of the organization are to nurture effective leadership with respect to ethical, professional and community service issues; to build relationships among legal leaders from across the state and from across disciplines within the profession; to raise the level of awareness among lawyers regarding the broad range of issues facing the legal profession; and to enhance the diversity of leaders within the legal profession and the community as a whole.
More information about the Leadership Academy may be obtained from the Nebraska State Bar Association at 800-927-0117.


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Control Arms Coalition reaction: Arms Trade Treaty text
In response to the release of the revised text last night (Friday), Anna Macdonald, Oxfam's Head of Arms Control, said:
"We are extremely disappointed and don't believe this is the best that diplomats can come up with after years of negotiations.
"The President of the Conference stated repeatedly he would listen to the voice of the majority but instead has spent too much time listening to the P5.
"This text is still not good enough and has major loopholes in it. The range of weapons covered in the previous draft is now even narrower and ammunition is still poorly covered. The criteria for assessing whether to go ahead with an arms transfer also remains too weak. These gaps – and others - must be urgently fixed.
"We need a treaty that will put in place tough rules that send a clear message to unscrupulous arms dealers that their time is up. Now is the moment to stand up to Human Rights abusers and dictators around the world and say 'enough is enough'."
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This current attitude is evident in popular TV shows and other media where the "genealogists" are pushed into the background as if they have no real part in the interesting and stimulating parts of "family history." So where did the stories and photographs come from?
In my own experience, for the past thirty years or so, I have been accumulating thousands of photographs and documents that would have been thrown out as trash long ago. Boxes and boxes sitting in basements and garages that were on their way to the dump because no one was interested enough to look at them. I heard another story, just yesterday, of a "genealogist" who could find no one in her family who was interested in her work and it went into the trash. Fortunately, we were able to find a manuscript copy of her work that had been preserved in a library and digitized online. But throwing away history is not uncommon. Do we broaden the appeal of "family history" by ignoring or even downplaying the role of the preservationists among us? Again, where do the stories and photographs come from?
In my rescue efforts, I presently have the following documents sitting in a box under my desk waiting to be scanned and transcribed:
1. A typed transcript of a Journey to St. George apparently written by Margaret Godfrey Jarvis Overson
2. Handwritten Sketch of the Life of Margaret J. Overson
3. Handwritten diary probably by Margaret J. Overson from 1905.
4. Handwritten diary dated June 1896 by Maggie Overson
5. Handwritten diary and expenses of H.C. Overson written by Margaret J. Overson dated July 1896
6. Handwritten diary of Henry Christian Overson dated December 9, 1898 to January 17, 1899 to Mesa City, Arizona (Mesa)
7. Handwritten original of Journey to St. George.
8. Handwritten Journal of Henry Christian Overson of mission from June 12, 1894 to April 7, 1895
9. Daily Record of H. C. Overson from March 30, 1893 to June 11, 1894
None of these documents have been previously published or available to family members. Without the efforts of the "keepers" also known as genealogists, where would these documents be today? What chance would they have of being preserved? I can tell you that this is only the barest beginning of the documents that would have been lost to the trash without the interest of a genealogist.
So, I am dumbfounded that somehow family history becomes interesting because of the photos and stories to the very people who would have thrown those and other documents away because they were of no interest. Mind you, I am not at all in any way, shape or form against gaining the interest of a wider audience for genealogy. What I am concerned about is throwing the baby out with the bath water. Instituting "new" programs that ignore the actual way these stories and photos were and are preserved; by a cadre of dedicated genealogists who have worked, despite apathy and actual opposition, to preserve our collective family history.
Yes, family history is more than names, dates and places, but the genealogists have known that all along. Those very same people in my own family that spent their lives gathering family history, were some of the most unpopular people in that same family. Is there something deeper here that needs to be addressed, rather than just a repackaging of the merchandise? Meanwhile, I will keep teaching, helping, fixing computers, collecting, scanning, writing and doing my own genealogy until I get carried off to the Care Center.


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Sporty sweatshirt made from soft black cotton. "Karl loves Fendi" signature embroidered in shades of red and blue-gray. The sleeves are decorated with prints and appliqués inspired by the iconic Karlito. Ribbed round neck, cuffs and edging. The Leisurewear model is perfect for both leisure and fitness activities.
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