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Check Your Hearing
Identifying and addressing hearing loss allows you to improve your quality of life—because dealing with it enables you to stay involved in the things you love and to stay connected with the people you love.
So go ahead. Join millions of others in taking that first step. In the privacy and comfort of your own home—at a time that is right for you—take the confidential, online BHI Hearing Check at no charge. Just click here at any time to start. We'll walk you through it.
Online Hearing Check Results
Congratulations! You have taken the first step toward discovering a world of better hearing.
Your hearing loss would be described as: . No action needed.
Your Check Score: You scored 4 out of a possible 60 points. The remainder of this report will tell you what your score means.
Your Check Norm: Your score of 4 is at the 3 percentile of people with hearing loss in the United States, where low percentages mean lower hearing losses and high percentages mean more serious hearing losses compared to other people with hearing loss.
Predicted Hearing Loss: Objective hearing loss is measured in what is called decibels (dB). This is a unit of measure that indicates the extent of your hearing loss as defined by the field of audiology. Perhaps it is first best to consider the relative intensity of some sounds in decibels to understand this measure. Here are some everyday sounds and their measured intensity in decibels (dB): whisper (10 dB), light rain or faucet dripping (20-30 dB), rustling of leaves (40 dB), normal conversation (50 dB), singing birds (60 dB), air conditioner (80 dB), MP3 player (100 dB). If your results, for example, show a dB loss of 35, that means you will not be able to hear any sounds below your hearing loss, such as whispers or the rustling of leaves. But it also means that you will have extreme difficulty in understanding sounds in a range close to your dB loss, such as normal conversation at 50 dB.
Your predicted hearing loss in your better ear in the speech range (500, 1000, and 2000 Hz) is 19 dB, while your predicted hearing loss in both ears at five key frequency ranges (500, 1000, 2000, 3000 and 4000 Hz) is 28 dB. The chances that you have a significant hearing loss (defined as 40 dB or higher) is estimated at 29 percent.
Subjective Hearing Loss Description: Based on the responses of more than 10,000 people with hearing loss and their family members, they would describe your hearing loss as: .
What Your Hearing Loss Means for Your Quality of Life: Research has shown that the higher your predicted hearing loss, the more likely the following quality-of-life factors may be negatively affected:
- irritability, negativism and anger
- fatigue, tension, stress and depression
- avoidance or withdrawal from social situations
- social rejection and loneliness
- reduced alertness and increased risk of personal safety
- impaired memory and ability to learn new tasks
- reduced job performance and earning power
- diminished psychological and overall health
What should you do next? Based on your score, we recommend the following: No action needed. Now hearing loss is situational, and the next step you take is dependent on your need to hear in various listening situations. Some people can live with mild hearing losses. Others, such as teachers and therapists whose auditory skills are very important for their everyday work, require corrective technology — such as hearing aids — even when their hearing loss is at mild levels. It becomes important for them to do something about their hearing loss so they can function adequately in their work environment.
Good luck in your journey toward better hearing.
You should hear what you are missing!
To review the study this report is based on visit:
To review research on hearing loss and quality of life visit:
www.betterhearing.org/hearingpedia/counseling-articles-tips/impact-treated-hearing-loss-quality-life as well as the following publication conducted by the National Council on the Aging (NCOA):
Hearing Aids and Quality of Life

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Listen to Miley Cyrus on New Borgore Track 'Decisions'
Miley Cyrus is all about sweeping, drastic changes. Not only did the former teen pop queen and onetime 'Hannah Montana' star chop off her normally long locks in favor of a short, punk-inspired pixie (which we've not come to love after living with the photos for a few days, even though Cyrus is naturally beautiful and can wear her hair anyway, we still don't love it.) She also added her voice to 'Decisions,' a new track by Borgore, a few months ago, but it's finally landed online for your listening pleasure.
The newly-shorn Cyrus tweeted a note to her millions of followers, pretty much demanding (in a cute way way) that they check our her vocal handiwork on the track.
Cyrus sings background vocals on the hook of the synthed out, dub-heavy, hip-hop track.
She's not a prominently featured element of the song. In fact, she blends in and if she didn't tell you, you might not have known to look for this catchy song. The lyrics are hilarious, about eating the whole cake and not wanting to share it. It's all metaphor, though. We get it.
A couple months ago, the newly engaged superstar hit the studio, making music just for fun. The song is an example of said fun.
Below is Cyrus' tweet.
Yo check out Decisions me & @borgore new track
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 20, 2012
Listen to Miley Cyrus on Borgore's 'Decisions'


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Diane Ducey is a Tolono native who graduated as a Unity Rocket in the mid 80's then graduated from EIU and landed a gig at K-104 in 1989 as her first paying gig as a DJ. She's worked on various stations here in the C-U area and in Lafayette, LA where her daughter Gabrielle was born towards the end of the 90's. She came back to Illinois to do radio in Chicago at The Eighties Channel until it went to a Latin format of Viva 103.1 and was hired by Stevie Jay to be on the air as that hometown girl done good, always smiling.
Diane met Mike Anderson and fell in love, marrying in September 2001 with their honeymoon in NYC. The happy couple was do to fly out on 9/11, which proved to be challenging. Daughter Anna came in 2002 and their son Aidan in 2003. Having a couple of dogs and rabbits fill her home with fun adventures and laughter. Diane serves on many committees as an active parent in Unit 7 and volunteers frequently at St Patrick's Parish in Tolono as well as the festival called "Tolono Fun Day" the last Saturday in June. With kids involved in sports, dancing, scouts, show choir, acting and the park district programs, Diane and Mike love to see them in action. You'll often see her working the microphone at various events with charities asking her to emcee various events and benefits like 5K runs or walks.
When Diane graduated from college she started to DJ at clubs and got her own mobile DJ equipment for parties, weddings and reunions. She loves to keep the those attending in a good mood with great music choices for all. Music has always been part of her life, especially seeing LIVE shows like The Eagles, Eric Clapton and Michael Jackson! Going to see sporting events is another passion in case you see her at a game, yell out "Duce!" As the youngest of 6 kids, when everyone gathers for a family affair, there's 27 present.
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AUGUSTA — Rep. Mark Eves, 35, D-North Berwick, was formally sworn-in Thursday as the 101st Speaker of the Maine House during the swearing-in ceremony of the 126th Legislature.
Eves was elected in a unanimous vote. Rep. Peggy Rotundo, D-Lewiston and Republican minority leader Ken Fredette, R-Newport both gave nomination speeches in support of Eves.
During his floor speech accepting the nomination, Eves told the 151 members of the House of Representatives that they would have to work together to strengthen Maine's economy.
"The people of Maine have asked us to be their voice and to build a blueprint for a stronger Maine — this is both an opportunity, and a challenge," said Eves. I am proud to lead us to this great opportunity. I am honored to have earned your support. And I ask for your help in meeting this challenge. We must work together. The challenges we face are too big for one party to solve alone."
Eves will be entering his third term in the Maine House. For the past four years, he served on the Legislature's Health and Human Services Committee, most recently as the ranking House minority member.
"We must lay out a blueprint for a better Maine — and that blueprint is ours to draw together," said Eves. "We should not turn the clock back. If we are truly going to begin to rebuild the middle class in our state, we must move forward with strong and effective solutions that address the very real problems we face."
Eves is a marriage and family therapist by training and serves as business development director for Sweetser, a statewide behavioral health care organization for children, adults and families. Eves and his wife, Laura, have three young children, ages 7, 5, and 3.
The 151 members also unanimously elected Millicent MacFarland of Augusta to serve as House Clerk and Rob Hunt of Yarmouth to serve as Assistant House Clerk. Macfarland served as Clerk from 2000-2010. Hunt is a former lawmaker from Buxton.


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Andy Dessel, a junior Schreyer Honors College student majoring in public policy at Penn State Harrisburg, has been selected as Penn State's only representative to the year-long Presidential Fellows Program in Washington, D.C.
The Presidential Fellows Program, operated by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, offers up to 75 top undergraduate and graduate students from colleges and universities nationwide to participate in the study of the U.S. Presidency; the President's relations with Congress, allies, the media and the public; and the public policymaking process. Presidential Fellows are selected by their colleges and universities with guidance from the Center. Since the program's creation in 1970, slightly more than 1,000 students have participated.
As a participant in the Presidential Fellows Program, Dessel has attended policy workshops in Washington, D.C., networked and interacted with other Fellows and national leaders, and completed a 30-page research paper to compute for future publication in the yearly anthology, The Fellow Review. Dessel's research examines the influence of social media on presidential elections, a topic that combined his interest in both politics and communications.
Dessel, who is a student representative on the University Faculty Senate, is from Chambersburg, Pa. He is president of Penn State Harrisburg's Lion Ambassadors and co-founder of the Current Affairs Club.


text: Episode 220: First Ride Up the Divide Posted on August 22, 2016 by James Reazor Episode 220 August 17, 2016 Standard Podcast [ 1:04:25 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download This week we talk to Steve Grasso of The Cafe Racer Podcast all about his trip up the continental divide with a group that included two brand new riders. You don't want to miss this one, folks. Be sure to check out The First Ride Up the Divide on Facebook and on The Gear Dude's site. The ride's sponsors are listed below. Big Agnes Tents, sleeping bags, pads, and Helinox camp chairs BestRest Products CyclePumps, tire repair kits, MRS bike recovery kits, BeadSetR, TireIron BeadBrakR, EZ Gauges. Twisted Throttle Hard protection parts for the KLR's and SW Motech racks for the 1290 Sena Communications and Prism cameras Outback Motortek Crash bars and skid plates for the KLR's Kate's Real Food Snacks and food bars Mosko Moto Soft bags for hard travel - all of our luggage Nexx X.D1 Adventure Helmets Mountain House Freeze dried food Klim Rider gear Rottweiler Performance Performance Air Filter systems for the KTM's Konflict Motorsports Suspension for the KTM 690 Wolfman Luggage Tank bags Black Dog Cycle Works Hard armor for the KTM's Voltaic Systems Solar battery charger Forma Boots Adventure and Terra riding boots Pakpod Adventure tripod


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I too was an intern in the J.F.K. White House. I was. This is not one of those humor pieces where the writer pretends to some experience related to the news in order to make an ''amusing'' point. It was 1961, and I was hired by Pierre Salinger to work in the White House press office, the very same place where Mimi Beardsley, later Fahnestock, was to work the next year. And now that Mimi Fahnestock has been forced to come forward to admit that she had an affair with Kennedy, I might as well tell my story.
I notice that all the articles about poor Mimi (whom I never met) quote another woman in the press office, Barbara Gamarekian, who fingered Ms. Fahnestock in the oral history archives at the Kennedy Library. Ms. Gamarekian cattily pointed out, according to the newspapers, that Mimi ''couldn't type.'' Well, all I can say to that is: Ha. In fact, Double Ha. There were, when I worked there, six women in Pierre Salinger's office. One of them was called Faddle (her best friend, Fiddle, worked for Kennedy) and her entire job, as far as I could tell, was autographing Pierre Salinger's photographs. Fiddle's job was autographing Kennedy's. Typing was not a skill that anyone seemed to need, and it certainly wasn't necessary for interns like me (and Mimi, dare I say), because THERE WAS NO DESK FOR AN INTERN TO SIT AT AND THEREFORE NO TYPEWRITER TO TYPE ON.
Yes, I am still bitter about it! Because there I was, not just the only young woman in the White House who was unable to afford an endless series of A-line sleeveless linen dresses just like Jackie's, but also the only person in the press office with nowhere to sit. And then, as now, I could type 100 words a minute. Every eight-hour day there were theoretically 48,000 words that weren't being typed because I didn't have a desk.
Also, I had a really bad permanent wave. This is an important fact for later in the story, when things heat up.
I met the president within minutes of going to ''work'' in the White House. My first morning there, he flew to Annapolis to give the commencement address at the Naval Academy, and Pierre invited me to come along with the press pool in the press helicopter. When I got back to the White House, Pierre took me in to meet the president. He was the handsomest man I had ever seen. I don't remember the details of our conversation, but perhaps they are included in Pierre's reminiscences in the Kennedy Library. Some day I will look them up. What I do remember is that the meeting was short, perhaps 10 or 15 seconds. After it, I went back to the press office and discovered what you, reader, already know: there was no place for me to sit.
So I spent my summer internship lurking in the hall near the file cabinet. I read most of the things that were in the file cabinet, including some interesting memos that were marked ''top secret'' and ''eyes only.'' The file cabinet was right next to the men's room, where one day the speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, got locked in. Had I not been nearby, he might be there still.
From time to time I went into the Oval Office and watched the president be photographed with foreign leaders. Sometimes, I am pretty sure, he noticed me watching him.
Which brings me to my crucial encounter with J.F.K., the one that no one at the Kennedy Library has come to ask me about. It was a Friday afternoon, and because I had nowhere to sit (see above) and nothing to do (ditto) I decided to go out and watch the president leave by helicopter for a weekend in Hyannisport. It was a beautiful day, and I stood out under the portico overlooking the Rose Garden, just outside the Oval Office. The helicopter landed. The noise was deafening. The wind from the chopper blades was blowing hard (although my permanent wave kept my hair stuck tight to my head). And then suddenly, instead of coming out of the living quarters, the president emerged from his office and walked right past me to get to the helicopter. He turned. He saw me. He recognized me. The noise was deafening but he spoke to me. I couldn't hear a thing, but I read his lips, and I'm pretty sure what he said was, ''How are you coming along?'' But I wasn't positive. So I replied as best I could. ''What?'' I said.
And that was it. He turned and went off to the helicopter and I went back to standing around the White House until the summer was over.
Now that I have read the articles about Mimi Fahnestock, it has become horribly clear to me that I am probably the only young woman who ever worked in the Kennedy White House whom the president did not make a pass at. Perhaps it was my permanent wave, which was a truly unfortunate mistake. Perhaps it was my wardrobe, which mostly consisted of multicolored dynel dresses that looked like distilled Velveeta cheese. Perhaps it's because I'm Jewish -- don't laugh, think about it, think about that long, long list of women J.F.K. slept with. Were any Jewish? I don't think so.
On the other hand, perhaps it's simply because J.F.K. somehow sensed that discretion was not my middle name. I mean, I assure you if anything had gone on between the two of us, you would not have had to wait this long to find it out.
Anyway, that's my story. I might as well go public with it, although I have told it to pretty much everyone I have ever met in the last 42 years. And now, like Mimi Fahnestock, I will have no further comment on this subject. I would request that the news media respect my family's privacy.


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The often overlooked men in the trenches took center stage in the first round of a NFL Draft bereft of glamor quarterbacks and lacking star power at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Thursday.
Three of the top four picks, headed by Kansas City's No. 1 choice Eric Fisher of Central Michigan, were offensive tackles and a massive eight of the first 20 players will be manning offensive lines in their new professional careers.
Only one quarterback was taken in the first round at the art deco palace and even that pick was a surprise, as Buffalo took E.J. Manuel of Florida State at No. 16, rather than West Virginia's Geno Smith, who was considered the best of the signal callers in the draft.
The first offensive skills position player taken was Smith's collegiate teammate, wide receiver Tavon Austin, who was also selected by the Bills with the eighth pick.
Austin and Manuel were the only featured offensive players chosen through the top 20, before a pair of wide receivers and a tight end joined them. Not a single running back managed to break into the first round.
Another potential shining light of the draft, Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, whose stock dropped after a fake girlfriend hoax and disappointing workout performances, was a no-show as he slid all the way out of the first round.
The Chiefs, selecting first by dint of having the worst record in the league last year at 2-14, made the 2.01m, 139kg Fisher just the fourth offensive tackle ever tabbed as top overall pick of the draft.
Fisher added his name to a select list that included Jake Long (2008, Miami), Orlando Pace (1999, St Louis) and Ron Yary (1968, Minnesota).
"This is so surreal. This is a dream come true," Fisher said from the stage after being congratulated by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.
Picking second in the worst-to-first order of the draft, which is the primary way NFL teams build their rosters, the Jacksonville Jaguars made it back-to-back tackles at the top by taking Luke Joeckel of Texas A&M.
Joeckel, winner of the Outland Trophy awarded to the best college football interior lineman by the Football Writers Association of America, was followed two picks later by tackle Lane Johnson of Oklahoma, taken by the Philadelphia Eagles.
"Three tackles in four picks. That's a lot of love for the big boys up front, which we usually don't get," said Fisher, who rocketed up draft charts with his late season performances and eye-catching workouts.
When tackles were not tabbed, teams looked to pass rushers at the start of the draft.
Miami traded their first-round pick (No. 12) and second-round pick to Oakland for the third choice, which they used to snare defensive end Dion Jordan of Oregon.
The fifth and sixth picks were also on the defensive side, with Detroit taking defensive end Ezekiel Ansah of Brigham Young, a native of Accra, Ghana, followed by Cleveland's selection of defensive end/linebacker Barkevious Mingo of LSU.
Ansah, who began playing the sport just three years ago after coming from Ghana to attend college, was flabbergasted at how far he had come.
"I can't be any more humble than I am today," he told reporters. "I never envisioned myself five years ago being here talking to everybody here."
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RTC 2010-11 Impact Players – South Atlantic RegionPosted by rtmsf on October 11th, 2010
It's October. The leaves are starting to turn colors. Halloween candy is already in the stores. There have been a few nights where you may have even turned on the heat. Midnight Madness is imminent and RTC is full bore into the 2010-11 Season Preview materials. For the second October in a row, we're bringing you our RTC Impact Players series. The braintrust has gone back and forth on this and we've finally settled on a group of sixty players throughout ten geographic regions of the country (five starters plus a sixth man) to represent the who and where of players you should be watching this season. Seriously, if you haven't seen every one of these players ball at least once by the end of February, then you need to figure out a way to get a better television package. As always in a subjective analysis such as this, some of our decisions were difficult; many others were quite easy. What we can say without reservation is that there is great talent in every corner of this nation of ours, and we'll do our best to excavate it over the next five weeks in this series that will publish on Mondays and Thursdays. Each time, we'll also provide a list of some of the near-misses as well as the players we considered in each region, but as always, we welcome you guys, our faithful and very knowledgeable readers, to critique us in the comments.
You can find all previous RTC 2010-11 Impact Players posts here.
South Atlantic Region (VA, NC, SC)
- Kyrie Irving – Fr, G – Duke. To get an idea how highly touted Kyrie Irving is, consider this: coming off a season where Duke won the national title and only lost one key playmaker on offense, most people believe that the Blue Devils will run their offense through the talented freshman from New Jersey who many recruiting experts rank among the best to ever come from the state that has produced so many great college players, including Duke legends Bobby Hurley and Jason Williams. His development during his sophomore year of high school when ESPN analysts stated that he "would be a top 300 player nationally in the 2010 class" and then said a few months later "could be an impact player in the Atlantic 10 or a high-major role player" to his senior year when he was a top five recruit (#1 according to some services) and those same recruiting analysts were stating "it will be shocking if he isn't an all-conference performer and possible all-american his freshman season" portends the potential for his development into a truly special player. Irving is one of the rare players who arrives on campus with the ability to both score and distribute the ball to his teammates. After all the talk about how Coach K had lost his edge in recruiting, Irving might be his most dynamic recruit since Williams arrived in Durham back in 1999. Despite only being on campus for a few months, his Blue Devil teammates have probably already begun to appreciate his high basketball IQ, competitiveness, and all-around ability. Even though many will question his inclusion on our Impact Player team over his more proven teammate Nolan Smith, Irving has demonstrated a skill set in high school that goes beyond what Smith has demonstrated even with three additional years of experience under the watchful eye of Coach K. If Irving is able to make a smooth transition from the high school game to the college game (and having Singler, Smith, Seth Curry, and the Plumlees around should help), his game could make the Blue Devils heavy favorites to repeat when March arrives. With Irving's game we don't think it will be question of if but rather when he feels truly comfortable at the college level, so all the Duke haters should be preparing for a long season ahead.
- Malcolm Delaney – Sr, G – Virginia Tech. If you're a Hokies fan and a Twitter fiend, back on May 8th you were probably just a little surprised but very happy that Malcolm Delaney tweeted that he was going to put off NBA riches for a year and return to school for his senior season. Nobody, however, could have been happier than Virginia Tech head coach Seth Greenberg. We shudder to think at the number of blood pressure medications that man must be taking these days, having seemingly been the victim of more last-second heartbreakers and burst NCAA Tournament bubbles (are we allowed to refer to "the bubble" in October?) than any one man should ever be expected to endure, but the return of Delaney to Blacksburg should have lowered Greenberg's systolic by about 20 points. It probably went back up over the summer, though, after Greenberg lost two of his forwards for the season — specifically presumptive sixth man J.T. Thompson to a left ACL tear and Allan Chaney to viral myocarditis (a condition slightly less than 0.6% of all people in America have) — and has another one in Cadarian Raines recovering from surgery in March to repair a re-fractured left foot. The importance of Delaney, then, and the impact he'll have in this geographical region become obvious. VT will have to go small, and that means more touches for Malcolm, who we're guessing will have no problem taking on more responsibility in terms of both scoring and rebounding, and we're saying this about the top scorer in the ACC last season (20.2 PPG). He played an average of 35.8 MPG last year (4th ACC, 58th nationally) and we wonder if he'll even sit at all this season. Most importantly, if the Hokies are going to attempt to return to only their second NCAA Tournament in the last 15 years (and what would be Delaney's first), Greenberg will be counting on emotional and vocal leadership on the floor and in the locker room from Delaney, his RTC South Atlantic Impact Player and ACC Player of the Year candidate.
- Kevin Anderson – Sr, G – Richmond. Richmond's Kevin Anderson will in 2010-11 put the finishing touches on a remarkable collegiate career in which the slightly built guard from Atlanta, Georgia, will have become the most accomplished UR player since the school joined the Atlantic 10, and one of the program's best-ever. Anderson has scored 1,552 points in his three seasons at UR, and assuming he remains healthy and at least matches his junior year scoring average of 17.8 PPG, he'll be in position to make a run at Johnny Newman (2,383 points) as the all-time leading scorer in Richmond history (or, at worst, finish second). But it's not just about his scoring — Anderson, the 2008 A-10 Rookie of the Year and 2010 A-10 Player of the Year, has led the renaissance of Richmond basketball from a continual conference also-ran to three straight top five conference finishes and postseason appearances. This culminated last year in UR's 26-9 season and #7 seed in the NCAA Tournament, the first trip back to the Big Dance for the program in six long years. Anderson is expected to lead the Spiders to even greater heights this season; perhaps even garnering the program's first NCAA win since the John Beilein era (1998). He does his damage with the bounce — few players in the conference or nationwide are as quick with the ball as Anderson, who can drive past any defender to find open seams in the paint for floaters or kickouts to the wing. If you play him to drive, he has the ability to nail the three (although with a career 31.0% conversion rate from downtown, he could stand to be more selective), and even though he bears a score-first mentality he can drop dimes when warranted (8 against VMI; 7 against GW; 5 against Missouri in 2009-10). Two other starters return for the Spiders this season, the multi-talented forward Justin Harper (11/5) and former star big man Dan Geriot (14/6 prior to his knee injury in 2008) — if Geriot can regain his confidence to become anywhere near the player he was two years ago, Richmond should be well-equipped on both the inside and the perimeter to make a move toward the top of the Atlantic 10 once again. One thing you can count on is that Anderson will do everything within his powers to get them there.
- Harrison Barnes – Fr, F – North Carolina. For three of the past four seasons a freshman has been the dominant player in college basketball with Blake Griffin being the lone exception in the era dominated by Kevin Durant, Michael Beasley and John Wall. If you are looking for a freshman to take that role this year, look no further than Chapel Hill where Harrison Barnes should lead Roy Williams and the Tar Heels back to the NCAA Tournament after their noticeable absence last season. If there is a light of hope for Tar Heel fans this year in the sea of Duke repeat (or three-peat) hysteria it should be Barnes' play. Barnes may not be as polished as Irving is in terms of his passing or perimeter game, but his raw athleticism should make him among the most exciting players in the country to watch and has made him the projected #1 pick in most 2011 NBA mock drafts. Unfortunately for Barnes he may have to do much of the work for the Tar Heels on his own, unlike Irving who will have ample support from a cast of potential All-Americans. Barnes will be forced to work with a decent but uninspiring pair of guards in Larry Drew, II and Dexter Strickland while relying on the rail-thin John Henson and the talented but often injured Tyler Zeller on the inside. If Henson can start to show some of that potential that made him a McDonald's All-American and Zeller can make it through the season without missing significant time for injuries then Barnes very well could lead the Tar Heels into the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament. If that doesn't happen, the Tar Heels should still be a NCAA Tournament team and their fans will spend the rest of the season enjoying the Harrison Barnes Show while wondering how their team feel so precipitously in such a short period of time.
- Kyle Singler – Sr, F – Duke. By the end of his senior season, it's a distinct possibility that Kyle Singler departs Duke leaving a legacy that few of his predecessors on Tobacco Road can duplicate. The chance to play key contributor on a team that wins consecutive national championships would place Singler on a pedestal with the likes of Christian Laettner, Grant Hill and Bobby Hurley in the annals of Blue Devil history. Taking a step back and looking at his senior campaign from a national perspective, many view Singler as the prohibitive favorite to take home the National Player of the Year award, win ACC Player of the Year and make First-Team All-America. Although his statistics may be tempered a bit given a loaded supporting cast and potential to play in a large handful of blowouts, Singler's importance to the Blue Devils cannot be understated. His willingness to shift back and forth from both forward positions gives Mike Krzyzewski plenty of options, whether it is to feature Kyrie Irving, Nolan Smith and Seth Curry with Singler as a slightly undersized power forward or go bigger with the Plumlee brothers and create a height advantage for Singler as a small forward. The Oregon native's skill level just keeps rising with every collegiate season and he's molded into the top inside/outside threat in the ACC, complete with the ability to play any role from penetrator to defensive stopper to charge-taker to scrappy rebounder. His stardom doesn't just come out on one end of the floor, either. Singler plays solid man-to-man defense and grabbed over eight rebounds per 40 minutes pace adjusted as a 6'8 forward on a strong rebounding team in 2009-10. He's an extremely focused, dedicated and fearless young man who's never afraid to take the big shot, shining brightest on the biggest stage last March and April. A nagging right wrist plagued a good portion of Singler's junior season and offseason minor knee surgery over the summer was a slight setback, so avoiding the injury bug is a legitimate question for him heading into 2010-11. What isn't a question is the impact a healthy Singler would have on a team that could rank as an all-timer under the Krzyzewski reign in Durham. The leader of that unit is a floppy-haired, northwestern boy with a sheepish grin named Kyle Singler, quite possibly your next Duke National Player of the Year.
- Tracy Smith (6th) – Sr, F – NC State. This is the season of great expectations in Raleigh as head coach Sidney Lowe has rounded up the nation's fifth ranked recruiting class with power forward C.J. Leslie and guards Lorenzo Brown and Ryan Harrow bringing plenty of excitement with them to campus. But it is Smith who is already the known entity here, and a very effective one as well. Smith averaged 16.5 PPG as a junior and did so in a consistent manner, failing to score in double figures just three times. He also pulled down over seven rebounds a night and was the team leader in a variety of other statistical categories, ranging from minutes played to fouls drawn to field goal percentage, a category in which he led the entire ACC. Smith is a 6'8, 255-pound beast, capable of overpowering defenders and dominating with his strength, but last season Smith proved himself to be more than just a power player, showing a capable face-up game, a set of polished post moves and some excellent footwork. In his senior season, with a significant infusion of talent on the Wolfpack roster, Smith should see fewer double-teams and better chances on the offensive end. His scoring average may not improve, since he'll have to share touches with those more talented players (especially Leslie as his frontcourt running mate), but the already efficient Smith may prove even more adept at the offensive end. There are a couple areas where Smith needs to improve, however. First, while he is quite accomplished at using his skills to draw fouls and get to the line, he needs to continue to work on his stroke from the charity stripe. As a junior he improved to a 65% free-throw shooter (from just 59% as a sophomore), but given the rate at which he gets to the line, another little bump in accuracy could be huge. Second, while his 7.3 RPG ranked ninth in the ACC, Smith is capable of far more on the glass. While he was a monster early in the season (in his first 10 games he never failed to grab less than seven rebounds), he faded late, grabbing only ten total rebounds in the Pack's final three games and never grabbing double-digit rebounds after January 23. Smith needs to be a double-double threat on a nightly basis, a role he is perfectly capable of playing. As the accomplished veteran on a young Wolfpack team that is trying to break its NCAA Tournament drought (they last received a tournament bid in 2006, the longest such drought in the ACC), Smith will need to be not only the go-to offensive player, but also a team leader, providing an example to the younger players of the hard work that is necessary to succeed, and there is no better place for him to begin that task than cleaning the glass on a regular basis.
- Nolan Smith – Sr, G – Duke. It's not often that a potential all-american will be on the outside looking in on a list like this, but that says more about the talents of the guards above than it does about Smith. Mr. Consistency was huge in Duke's Elite Eight win over Baylor in last year's NCAA Tourney (29 pts).
- Andrew Goudelock – Sr, G – College of Charleston. This lights-out shooter who has hit 41.7% of his three-point attempts in three seasons returns to continue his assault on the CofC record books — he stands only 442 points away from becoming the school's all-time leading scorer.
Others Considered (* denotes injury or suspension)
- Donald Sims – Sr, G – Appalachian State
- Jamarco Warren – Sr, G – Charleston Southern
- Shamari Spears – Sr, F – Charlotte
- Demontez Stitt – Sr, G – Clemson
- Chad Gray – Sr, F – Coastal Carolina
- Jeremy Simmons – Sr, F – College of Charleston
- Jake Cohen – Soph, C – Davidson
- Seth Curry – Soph, G – Duke
- Brock Young – Sr, G – East Carolina
- Amu Saaka – Sr, F – Furman
- Cam Long – Sr, G – George Mason
- Nick Barbour – Jr, G – High Point
- Denzel Bowles – Sr, C – James Madison
- CJ Leslie – Fr, F – NC State
- Malik Cooke – Jr, F – South Carolina
- Cameron Wells – Sr, G – The Citadel
- John Henson – Soph, F – North Carolina
- Tyler Zeller – Jr, F – North Carolina
- John Williams – Sr, F – UNC-Asheville
- Joey Rodriguez – Sr, G – VCU
- Jeff Allen – Sr, F – Virginia Tech
- Dorenzo Hudson – Sr, G – Virginia Tech
- Austin Kenon – Sr, G – VMI
- CJ Harris – Soph, G – Wake Forest
- Noah Dahlman – Sr, F – Wofford


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Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a hand-gesture recognition system that lets doctors manipulate digital images during medical procedures by motioning instead of touching a screen, keyboard, or mouse. This could replace touchscreens now used in many hospital operating rooms which must be sealed to prevent accumulation or spreading of contaminants and requires smooth surfaces that must be thoroughly cleaned after each procedure -- but sometimes aren't.
The vision-based hand-gesture capture and recognition system called "Gestix" interprets in real-time the user's gestures for navigation and manipulation of images in an electronic medical record (EMR) database. Navigation and other gestures are translated to commands based on their temporal trajectories, through video capture. Gestix has been tested during a brain biopsy procedure. In the in vivo experiment, this interface prevented the surgeon's focus shift and change of location while achieving a rapid intuitive reaction and easy interaction. Data from two usability tests provide insights and implications regarding human-computer interaction based on nonverbal conversational modalities.
Helman Stern, a principal investigator on the project, explains how Gestix works: "[There is] an initial calibration stage where the machine recognizes the surgeons' hand gestures, and a second stage where surgeons must learn and implement eight navigation gestures, rapidly moving the hand away from a "neutral area" and back again. Gestix users even have the option of zooming in and out by moving the hand clockwise or counterclockwise." To avoid sending unintended signals, users can enter a "sleep" mode by dropping the hand. To activiate the system, the user waves the hand in front of the camera.
The gestures for sterile gesture interface are captured by a Canon VC-C4 camera positioned above a large flat-screen monitor, and Windows XP-based 600-Mhz Intel Pentium system and a Matrox Standard II video-capturing device. Ongoing research is targeting system expansion to include additional control modes (e.g., voice) so as to create a multimodal telerobotic control system.


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We are going to be playing on the Spatalos server and of course the Asmodian faction. If you want to play with us then reply to this thread and let us know! Don't forget even if you are not playing with us you're still more than welcome to hang out in Ventrilo and have a chat!
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After nearly seven hours of preparation, Dr. Joseph Madsen turned on the laser at Boston Children's Hospital that would burn a tiny hole in the brain of 13-year-old Justin Griffin.
The laser was on for only a minute, but scored a direct hit on the area Madsen thought was causing Justin's weekly epileptic seizures. Twice more the surgeon pulsed the laser, and then concluded the operation was a success: The left hippocampus of Justin's brain had been effectively destroyed and with it the catalyst for the boy's disruptive seizures.
Once a last resort for epilepsy because it was so difficult and risky, surgery is now a more viable option for patients of all ages. Recent advances in imaging have enabled Madsen and other surgeons to be more certain where seizures originate in the brain, which tissue they can cut safely, and how to minimize damage along the way. To be a candidate for surgery, a patient must have seizures that originate in one or two spots that doctors can clearly identify and cut out or disconnect from the rest of the brain.
"Advances of imaging have really changed the way we think about things, turning children we didn't think about as surgical candidates into surgical candidates — and surgery can be a cure," said Dr. Elizabeth Thiele, director of the pediatric epilepsy program at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder in which patients suffer multiple seizures from electrical disturbances in the brain. The Epilepsy Foundation estimates that about 3 million Americans — about 1 in 100 — suffer such seizures.
The scanning machines include a 7-tesla magnetic resonance imaging machine, which provides much higher level of resolution than a conventional MRI — like high-definition television compared to a conventional display. The 7-tesla image shows the internal structures of the brain in striking detail. Another technique, MEG, or magnetoencephalography, shows in three dimensions where spikes in brain waves are clustering in order to pinpoint the source of seizures. MRI tractography is another form of 3-D imaging that doctors use to determine the location of important functional areas of the brain, and whether the source of the seizures can be safely removed.
The combination of those tests provides doctors with a much more complete picture of where seizures originate in the brain and how to get at them.
"If you have one piece of data, you're a little uneasy, but if you have three or four, you're more confident," said Dr. Ann-Christine Duhaime, a professor of neurosurgery at Harvard Medical School and director of pediatric neurosurgery at Mass. General.
The Cleveland Clinic in Ohio is one of many hospitals around the country that is performing more surgeries for epilepsy because of advances in imaging technology. Imad Najm, the director of the clinic's epilepsy center, predicted scanning technologies will continue to improve.
"We believe that we have not reached our plateau yet," Najm said. "We continue to get better resolutions for our machines."
Najm uses an MEG scanner and an MRI that can record the brain's electrical activity, providing him with a more three-dimensional view than is available with other scanners. Najm and the Cleveland Clinic also have technology imported from Europe that enables him to robotically thread an electrical recording device deep into the brain. Used with other scans, this "stereotactic EEG" shows Najm electrical activity that otherwise is not detected at the surface, allowing more patients to undergo the surgery.
"It's extremely important to us to look at these new technologies and use them all together," he said.
Anastasia Nickole, 10, benefited from that combination before — and during — her epilepsy surgery last fall at Massachusetts General Hospital. An MEG scan of her brain helped doctors find a focal point of her seizures, and her surgery was conducted in a surgical suite fitted with an MRI, so doctors could scan her brain as surgery began, and again afterward, to check whether they had taken out all the offending tissue.
Before the surgery, the Saugus girl had as many as five seizures a day; in the four months since, she has not had a single one. She has also made great progress in school, and her voice is clearer and steadier.
"Her focus, her ability to sit and listen is unbelievable," said her mother, Kellie Nickole.
At Children's Hospital in late March, Justin Griffin became just the third epilepsy patient in New England to receive laser surgery, which researchers say is more precise than conventional surgery and has fewer complications and a quicker recovery time.
Instead of peeling back a piece of skull, as with the traditional approach, surgeons drilled a tiny hole in Justin's skull and, guided by the sophisticated imaging, threaded the laser along a safe path through his brain.
Justin's seizures originated in his left hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for verbal memory. Madsen and other members of the medical team believed Justin would be fine without it, because their tests showed that the hippocampus on the right side of his brain had taken over most of its functions.
The operation went so smoothly that Justin went home to Chester, N.H., the next day feeling a little dizzy, but with just three tiny Band-Aids covering the drill hole used for the laser and a frame to stabilize his head. Last Tuesday — only four days after the laser surgery — Justin was back among friends in his eighth-grade classroom.
His mother, Keren Griffin, said Justin has not had any seizures so far, and she does not think he has lost any memories or motor skills.
"I would highly recommend it to anybody," Griffin said.


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Robotic EDM and Hard Milling Promote Press Uptime
Die complexity and size, and the quest for prolonged life of die components, are some of the issues keeping the toolroom at Wiegel Tool Works, Wood Dale, IL, on its toes these days. All the while, the company's pressroom continues to require its dies to run at faster speeds and provide a higher degree of accuracy. With the acquisition in 2006 of a new 450-ton variable-stroke press—with a 120-in.-long bed—the firm now finds itself quoting numerous projects requiring more complex and larger dies.
Wiegel is fully committed to designing, building and maintaining all of its tooling inhouse, and invests as needed in new technology to ensure it meets the needs of its customers—internal and external. Among the equipment in its tooling department are vertical and horizontal machining centers. But what earns the most applause is a climate-controlled wire-EDM department boasting eight machines, including two working in a robot-tended workcell. EDM tolerances on die inserts are measured down to ±0.0001 in.
Recent Expansion
Wiegel works out of a 68,000-sq.-ft. facility, including a recently built 20,000-sq.-ft. addition. It also, in September 2011, acquired a nearby 25,000 sq.-ft. building to house shipping and receiving, as well as warehousing of finished goods and raw materials. The acquisition allowed the company to increase manufacturing capacity in its main building, evidenced with the addition, in December 2011, of a new state-of-the-art high-speed stamping line. The new line features a 180-ton variable-stroke Minster press and a high-end leveler-straightener. The straightener powers 13 rolls and backup rollers, designed to relieve stresses from higher-strength steels. More capacity means more dies. And, when making large capital investments such as a new press line, ensuring optimum press uptime is critical.
"We're focused on developing tooling that will run faster and longer without maintenance, to optimize the uptime of our presses," says Jerry Hampton, Wiegel Tool Works' sales and marketing manager. "This directive drives our tooling department to develop new ideas and new technologies. If you outsource your tooling, you don't get that dedication to continuous improvement and creativity. We find this a key to staying globally competitive, particularly challenging in our core electronics market."
As an example, toolroom manager Rich Wiess describes a die that the Wiegel toolroom built in 2008 for another stamper/customer. The 90-in.-long die comprises 18 stations and runs plated copper-alloy components for electrical circuit boards that go into automotive transmissions. When the customer began to struggle with quality and on-time delivery, Wiegel took the die back, added some proprietary technology and saw immediate returns —uptime was increased by 35 to 40 percent, due to improvements such as changing the tool coating and engineering new features to better contain slugs.
"Each month, we look at all of our active jobs and identify five sets of tools to focus on," says Wiess. "We investigate all sorts of options to retrofit new features to the tools, to increase their efficiency."
"This is a key benefit to maintaining an inhouse state-of-the-art toolroom," adds Aaron Wiegel, company vice president. "We can conduct research and development projects and realize huge gains in productivity. If a press goes down for die maintenance, we need our toolroom to get us back up and running in 24 hr. or less. In addition, some of the design enhancements we have made to our dies are truly unique —I've never seen some of these enhancements outside of our shop. So, we can keep that intellectual property inhouse, incorporate it into new tools—for us and for our key customers—and also retrofit the technology into existing tools. Turnaround and technology are the keys."
Hard Milling, Automated EDM
Wiess and his crew boast that "there's nothing we can't make here," noting most importantly its investments made a few years ago in hard milling. Before hard milling, the toolroom would machine die steels soft and send components out for heattreat.
"Again, our biggest cost here is downtime in the pressroom," Wiegel reiterates, noting that the toolroom doesn't generate much profit, if any. But, its level of performance sure can make a difference in pressroom productivity and profitability. Inserts that might have once taken two or three days to pre-machine, heattreat and wire-EDM now are hard-milled, tapped and wire-cut in an hour or two.
The Wiegel toolroom performs hard milling primarily for new dies—punch plates and strippers, for example. Describing the benefits of hard milling, Wiess points to the process of counterboring for pilot holes as an example.
"Before, the dimensions of the counterbores in a block would vary depending on how much the block bowed during heattreating," says Wiess. "Then we'd put the pilots in and grind the heads, and have to mark the pilots so that they would go back in the same counterbore. Now, with hard milling, the counterbores are identical, which allows us to place inserts in any position in the tool. Also, if we make any die changes—adding stripper inserts, for example—we can hard-mill that out, add a few tapped holes, make the separate stripper insert and install it into the stripper."
Adding a robot to its EDM department, to form a two-machine production cell, also fits the bill when it comes to on-demand replacement of tools for the Wiegel pressroom. "If we need to get an insert made ASAP for one of our presses that's in production," explains engineering manager Joe Manschula, "we can quickly fixture a block and immediately insert the job into the cell's production schedule."
The automated cell comprises two Mitsubishi EDM machines (an FA10P and FA20P) and a System 3R WorkMaster robot.
Waterjet Cutting and Other Lead-Time Reducers
What's coming down the pike for the Wiegel toolroom? Most likely, the firm will add a waterjet-cutting machine in 2012, "to relieve capacity issues from our wire-EDM department," says Aaron Wiegel. "We need to increase capacity, and it makes more sense to add a waterjet-cutting machine than a new EDM. We'll use waterjet to rough-out tooling and carve large openings in the blocks, which ultimately will reduce cycle times even more than they already have shrunk."
Lead-time reduction has many faces at Wiegel, beginning with an investment made in 2005 into new 3D solid-modeling die-design and simulation software—Siemens' NX. It also has standardized on die-plate thicknesses and tool steels.
"When die-design drawings are approved," says Manschula, "rather than ordering blocks of steel from our suppliers, we can keep on hand large steel plates, cut them to the size specified and store remnants for future use. The plate then would be squared up and ready for tapping, minor machining, heattreat, and a final skim pass on a wire-EDM machine."
Wiegel was, back in 2003, a beta site for NX and Siemens' optional Progressive Die Wizard module. The module significantly reduces modeling time from hours to minutes, says Wiegel, and also displays strip-layout simulations for immediate feedback when making design and process changes. Design time, he says, was reduced by about one-third when the software became fully functional, and his pending investment in waterjet cutting is expected to reduce lead times by another 15 to 20 percent.
"Waterjet cutting will increase the speed at which we execute roughing cuts," says Wiegel, "by a factor of 10 to 15 when compared to EDM."
"The we do it now," adds Wiess, "adds three to five days to our lead times by the time we order material after having received a final die design. Then we have to pay for squaring of the blocks. Waterjet will eliminate that process, and our heattreating costs will drop, since we pay by the pound."
Not only will faster turnaround of new dies help its own pressroom, but Aaron Wiegel finds that customers are getting used to paying a premium for speed. He counts about 20 key stamping customers that source his company for tooling."We see OEMs dragging their feet when launching new programs, for a number of reasons," he says, noting that while a project's launch date may get delayed, the date of first-part off rarely if ever moves accordingly. "When this happens—and it happens quite a lot—the quoted lead times of our customers can shrink by as much as 60 percent, and they often must pay expediting fees to meet the original target date. If we can continue to reduce our lead times to help our customers meet their goals, that makes us that more attractive." MF
See also: MC Machinery Systems, Siemens Industry, Inc.
Related Enterprise Zones: Tool & Die


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For about a year now, I have been working as physicist for the Quantum Design European Service Center at LOT-QuantumDesign in Darmstadt. My aim is to help customers with technical problems, provide application solutions and to always make the most of the Quantum Design systems. I work on both the PPMS and MPMS series with the main focus on MPMS3 magnetometers.
Before I joined the QuantumDesign team I received my PhD from the University of Augsburg on "Orbital ordering and charge ordering in manganites". Using a modified oven for electron spin resonance (ESR), I obtained information on the high-temperature behavior of the order in various manganites. One basis for the interpretation of the ESR measurement data was the susceptibility of LaMnO3, measured with an MPMS3 oven from Quantum Design. The high precision of data beyond 800 K revealed effects that had formerly been hidden by measurement inaccuracies.
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The Poultry industry drives the economy of the Delmarva. It is the predominant source of agriculture and the primary reason that the relatively small family farms of the Eastern Shore can continue to grow grain crops competitively. But poultry— and more specifically poultry litter- has also been identified as a major source of nutrient pollution for the Chesapeake. Chesapeake Semester students would meet with Jim Perdue in his Seaford based Agri-Recycle Plant, followed by a farm tour of a poultry operation in northern Kent County.


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(Phoenix, Ariz. – Jan. 11, 2005) Attorney General Terry Goddard is warning Arizona consumers about fake cashier's checks that are circulating in Arizona. Several Arizona residents have received unsolicited cashier's checks in amounts ranging from $3,000 to $6,000.
The fake cashier's check scam can take many different forms. In some instances, the checks were accompanied by letters notifying recipients that they had won a lottery or a sweepstakes and provided directions for depositing the checks into their accounts and then wiring a lesser amount outside the country to collect their prize. In another case, the recipient sold an item over the Internet, and the alleged buyer paid with a fake cashier's check in an amount much higher than the price. The alleged buyer asked the consumer to deposit the check and wire the excess funds back to him.
"These cashier's checks look so real that even bank employees have been fooled," Goddard said. "Consumers should not cash unsolicited cashier's checks in connection with unsolicited prizes or awards. With any cashier's check, consumers need to verify that the check is valid and should wait until funds are actually deposited and available before withdrawing funds."
Goddard offered the following tips to protect consumers from falling victim to these scams:
- Remember, in order to win a lottery, you must buy a ticket.
- Do not cash or deposit a cashier's check from a source you do not know. If you are instructed by the sender to deposit the check and then wire money back to a third party, this is a scam.
- Consumers cannot rely on the fact that the check was accepted for deposit by their financial institution as evidence of the check's authenticity. It can take several days for a financial institution to determine whether a check is good, especially if the bank is located outside the United States.
- Consumers are responsible for deposited checks. When a check bounces, the bank deducts the amount originally credited to the account. If there isn't enough money to cover it, the bank may take money from other accounts.
- There is usually no legitimate reason for someone who is giving you money to ask for money to be wired back.
- Never wire money in response to a telephone call informing you that you have won a lottery or award prize. Never send or wire money in response to a mail solicitation to "claim your prize."
- Throw away "junk mail" solicitations and hang up on persistent callers.
- If the calls become threatening, hang up and call local law enforcement.
If you believe you have been a victim of fraud, please contact the Attorney General's Office in Phoenix at 602.542.5763; in Tucson at 520.628.6504; or outside the metro areas at 1.800.352.8431. To file a complaint in person, the Attorney General's Office has 18 satellite offices throughout the state with volunteers available to help. Locations and hours of operation are posted on the Attorney General's Web site. Consumers can also file complaints online at www.azag.gov.


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Photograph, Methodist Church, Topeka, Kansas
Author: W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car
Date: c. 1860
The Methodist Church, 523 Quincy Street, Topeka, Kansas. The photograph was taken by W. P. Bliss, Photographic Car.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: FK2.S5 T.71 Met.Fir *1
Item Number: 100023 Number of images: 1
Keywords: Bliss, W. P.; Cartes de visite; Churches; Methodist Church; Photographs and Illustrations; Shawnee County, Kansas Territory; Streets; Topeka buildings; Topeka, Kansas Territory
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