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Conversation, The (US - BD RA)
Gabe revisits one of Francis Ford Coppola's best films on Blu-ray disc...
Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is a highly respected private surveillance expert in San Francisco, CA. Harry's job has left him obsessed with his own security and privacy, and as a result he lives a lonely life. One day he and his colleague Stan (John Cazale) are tasked with monitoring the private conversation of a couple (Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest) as they walk through a crowded Union Square. Harry is able to cull a coherent recording of the conversation, all the while doing his best to ignore the content of the recording, and takes his work to his employer for payment. But a specific phrase catches his attention, and touches a nerve that warns him against sharing the tapes. As his employer's aide (Harrison Ford) pursues him, Harry falls into a cycle of angst and paranoia.
There is no doubt in my mind that the period between late 1960s and the late 1970s were the best, most vital time in American cinematic history. The post-studio/pre-tent-pole era is rich in experimentation, frustration, nostalgia and revolution, and produced a deluge of classic motion pictures. A master list of the era's best efforts is often easily divided along lines of popularity. There are wildly popular films like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Taxi Driver, Rosemary's Baby and 2001: A Space Odyssey, along with a collection of critical favourites that never seem to cross over into the mainstream consciousness, like Five Easy Pieces, Mean Streets, The Last Picture Show and Badlands. Francis Ford Coppola came into his own in the era, and with the arguable exceptions of Rumble Fish and The Outsiders (both films I've never really liked), his career lived and died between 1970, when he won an Academy Award for his Patton screenplay, and 1979, when he nearly went insane making Apocalypse Now. His output in this period is mostly placed in the wildly popular. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II sit only below Star Wars and Jaws in enduring, era-defining popularity, and are often listed on an equal number of Joe Public and Joe Critic's best lists. Between these two beloved classics, however, Coppola produced a film I'd hesitantly argue was his finest filmic achievement – The Conversation. The Conversation isn't as dramatically satisfying as The Godfather films, and doesn't feature any of the same operatic tension, but it's expertly crafted, patiently intelligent, and it begs its audience to participate without any easy rewards.
The Conversation is a thematic and stylistic brother of Brian DePalma's Blow Out, another classic film in a beloved filmmaker's canon that tends to operate under the pop-culture mainstream's radar. Both films were made thanks to capital earned on surprise box-office hits ( The Godfather and Dressed to Kill, respectively), and neither film reached the same level of notoriety with the general public upon release. More importantly for this comparison, both films were made in reference to Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup (a film that was also a major influence on Dario Argento's Profondo Rosso). Both DePalma and Coppola took Antonioni's themes of perception versus reality, and applied aural surveillance techniques to the photography-based story concept. All three films are also built rather stringently around a single protagonist that loses himself to his obsessive urge to solve an arguably rhetorical mystery. Blowup is more of an art film, and purposefully offers little in the way of answers to its questions. DePalma takes a more mainstream approach to narrative, and lead his protagonist through a mystery to a logical conclusion (though he ends his film on a non-mainstream, some would say cruel downer), but Coppola finds more of a middle ground between the Blowup and Blow-Out approaches. Watching the three films in a row according to release date – Blowup (1966), The Conversation (1975), Blow Out (1981) – creates a slow movement towards giving the protagonist closure.
The big difference in Coppola's approach to the themes set forth by Blowup is found in characterization. Blowup's Thomas (David Hemmings) and Blow Out's Jack Terry (John Travolta) are relatively well adjusted human beings with some degree of emotional support surrounding them. Thomas is introduced as almost a caricature of the swinging '60s playboy, and Jack, though clearly disaffected, has a sense of humour, and has a solid romantic interest in Nancy Allen's character. Harry Caul is, in contrast, a social misfit obsessed with privacy, and a thoroughly depressing character before the plot even begins to unravel. He expresses little interest in his cohort's joys, he has something like seven locks on his apartment door. We then discover it's his birthday, because his landlord has given him a gift, a gift which he accepts by calling the landlord and passive aggressively berating him for intruding on his privacy. Harry revels in his paranoid loneliness, even refusing to discuss himself with his 'love interest'. This tone is asphyxiating, and builds to a nauseating crescendo as the story progresses, but Coppola and Hackman never press the issue too loudly, or with exceedingly heavy hands (even if the script does a bit). I hesitate to call this Hackman's greatest role (especially since The French Connection exists), but it's certainly among his bravest, and most unlikely.
Coppola's direction is brilliantly studious. The Conversation's mise en scene is regularly swimming in subtext. The opening sequence is a tour de force of editing, and deceptively naturalistic camera work. This sequence is then replayed through Harry's mind's eye as he listens to the recordings, and is haunted by the situation he has participated in. This stands in contrast to the bulk of the rest of the film, which is minimalist, often even stifled. The camera is often fixed in place, allowing Coppola to bask in the loneliness of Harry's surroundings. The idea here being that the camera, and in turn the audience, is a surveillance device. The still frame also helps cultivate the paranoia, as even the slightest background movement draws the audience's eye. The Conversation is often compared to Alan J. Pakula's '70s thrillers [I]Klute, The Parallax View and All the President's Men, but I find its political subtext pretty incidental (the Nixon and Watergate implications notwithstanding), and find the tone and themes more comparable to Scorsese's Taxi Driver. Scorsese's film, which was released two years later, meditates more on violence, but both films are psychological deconstructions of the various obsessive aspects of 'God's Lonely Man'. Neither The Conversation or Taxi Driver are horror films, strictly speaking, but both are among the most haunting real world accounts of intellectual terror ever put to film, and slowly spin their audiences into hypnotic dread.
Coppola went through two cinematographers on The Conversation. He started with Haskell Wexler ( American Graffiti, Days of Heaven, Mulholland Falls), and after a series of creative differences moved on to Bill Butler, who ironically enough took over for Wexler on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when he was fired from that production two years later. Coppola claims on the commentary track that the problems between he and Wexler mostly pertained to the incredibly stoic nature of the film's visuals. Apparently Wexler saw it as a more 'romantic' film, but at its base The Conversation is a cinéma vérité style production. The final effect of this new 1080p, 1.78:1 transfer isn't exactly what most video quality enthusiasts would consider outstanding, but for all proper intents and purposes this is exactly what the film should look like. It should be dark, it should be grainy, and the bulk of the colours should be relatively dull. There isn't cause for fans to rush out and replace their DVD releases, but from what my memory can recall this is an upgrade in terms of detail levels and general clarity. I do not own the DVD, so I am unable to do a direct comparison, but looking around the internet I've found some screen caps from Paramount's original DVD, and they seem to reveal a more saturated colour palette. The colours here are pretty subdued, with brown and grew being the basis of most scenes, but there are poppy, standout hues throughout many scenes, usually pertaining to an article of clothing or prop, and these are presented in a relatively clean, solid manner. Flesh tones are natural, and black levels are rich and deep. Grain levels are not really a problem, but there is a relatively high level of film artefacts (compared to many recent releases of high profile films), and some sure signs of minor print damage over some sequences. Compression nose is minimal, and edge enhancement is mostly a non-issue.
Though much of the plot of The Conversation revolves around the technical aspects of sound recording, it was originally released in monaural sound. This DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 remix, which was co-supervised by sound designer/editor Walter Murch, takes the relatively complex single channel original mix, and spreads it subtly across the stereo and surround channels without any awkward shifts or blank spots. Murch's brilliant surveillance-based sound design, which phases in and out of clarity, and is nervously wracked with analogue distortions, is warm and crisp, with all the proper bits in their place, and clearly represented. Sometimes the levels and stereo involvement are a little inconsistent, such as the moment where we're introduced to Harry's saxophone abilities. Here the production tries to move the sound of the sax to the right channel, and creates an echo effect as the sound isn't entirely erased from the center channel. Still, for the most part, especially during scenes where Harry explores his recordings, the stereo additions work very well. The sound effects often meld in a psychologically abrasive manner with David Shire's piano-based score, and create a nightmarish wash over some scenes, which this uncompressed remix also treats quite effectively. The score itself juxtaposes crisp melodies with brooding dissonance, and lesser mixes have flattened these differences in the past.
The extras start with two familiar commentary tracks, one with writer/director Francis Ford Coppola, and the other with editor/sound designer Walter Murch. Both have been available with almost every DVD release of the film. Coppola's track is the better of the two, and follows the film's production from beginning to end almost like a book on tape. Coppola runs us through production, writing, directing, influence, historical significance and subtext in such a natural, cohesive manner it's impossible to assume he didn't heavily prep for the track. The down side is that Coppola's focus isn't so consistently scene specific, and I can imagine some listeners may having trouble keeping up with the discussion, which flows in bursts throughout the track (followed by brief chunks of silence). This is the kind of track I could see myself listening to on my iPod without the benefit of the screen. Murch's track is the lesser of the two, but is far from a waste. He covers a lot of the same general ground, he has a different take on some of the material, and offers more technical expertise, including discussion pertaining to the real life applications of the film's technology. Murch leaves a bit more blank space, and is a little less inviting in tone, but is easy to understand and very informative. The vintage extras also include 'Close-Up on The Conversation' (8:40, SD) a EPK shot during the filming of the movie including interviews with Coppola, and Hackman.
The new Blu-ray extras start with Cindy Williams and Harrison Ford's screen tests (5:00, 6:50, HD). Ford apparently tested for Mark. 'No Cigar' (2:10, HD) features footage from Coppola's early 16mm short, complete with interview footage with the director walking us through the silent short, and its place in his filmography. 'Harry Caul's San Francisco: Then and Now' (3:40, HD) is made up of comparisons between shots in the film and stills of the current locations (some of the still feature a pseudo-look-alike). Next is an interview with composer David Shire, composed by Coppola (11:00, HD) concerning the film's piano heavy score, and its place in the film. The extras end with an archival interview with Hackman (4:00, HD) taken on set in 1974, six script dictations from Coppola recorded while he was developing the script, including footage from the film and of the text itself (49:20, HD), a trailer, and trailers for other Lionsgate releases.
Fans of Tony Scott's Enemy of the State (if there is such a thing) should be made aware that that film is a semi-sequel to The Conversation. The films are tonally complete opposites, and it could easily be argued that Scott's film entirely misses the point of Coppola's film, but it's fun in a sort of fan-fiction sense of the word to watch Hackman develop the character for a mainstream action movie. Everyone else needs to see The Conversation for the simple fact that it's absolutely brilliant. I haven't seen it in nearly a decade, and am happy to report it only gets better with age. This Blu-ray release isn't overtly impressive, but its 'shortcomings' are all true to the source material, and likely the ideal way to watch the film, and the extras are plenty informative, including some new entrées and two classic audio commentaries. The price is, in the Lionsgate tradition, pretty darn affordable as well.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
jp orestes Senior Member Join Date: April 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 1,081
I'm a fan of Enemy of the State! (Well not enough to purchase it) but I like it. I've never seen this one though and not because I never knew about it but I've never came across it on tv or video nor have I actively sought it out. I suppose now is the time!
elvis68 Member Join Date: July 2006 Location: United States Posts: 54
Sadly, The Conversation is an often overlooked classic
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Disc Details
Release Date: 25th October 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DTS-HD Master Audio Mono English
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Editor/Sound Designer Commentary, Close-Up on The Conversation, Screen Tests, No Cigar, Harry Caul's San Francisco: Then and Now, David Shire Interviewed by Francis Ford Coppola, Interview with Gene Hackman, Script Dictations, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford, Robert Duvall
Genre: Drama and Thriller
Length: 113 minutes
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This site is dedicated to the memory of Harry Chapin. There are approximately 752 pages in this wiki.
On this day
- 1980 - Harry performs Sequel on the The Midnight Special
Coming soon
- January 21 - Steve Chapin Band performs a A Night of Chapin Music in La Plata, MD at the College Of Southern Maryland. Tickets are available at email@example.com or call 301-934-7828.[1][2]
- April 20 - The Chapin Family performs An Evening of Chapin Music featuring a Tribute to Harry Chapin with Jen Chapin and The Chapin Sisters in Sterling Heights, MI at WCS Performing Arts Studio. Tickets go on sale February 1st.[3]
- August 19 - The Chapin Family perform the annual "Chapin Family Concert By The Sea at Ovens Natural Park. the announced performers include Tom Chapin, Steve Chapin, Jen Chapin, Abigail Chapin, Lily Chapin, Jessica Craven, and Jonathan Chapin
Recent news and events
In 2011 Harry's song Cat's in the Cradle was selected for inclusion in Grammy Hall of Fame.[5]. Also in 2011, Rolling Stone readers selected Cat's in the Cradle as the second best song about dads.
Why does the Harry Chapin Wiki exist?
In 1999, Marty Acks started a Harry Chapin fan website. By 2008 the website was in need of updating. A wiki style update was chosen to simplify editing, provide built in searching, and for overall modernization of the website. Being a wiki, this web site now allow others to share what they know of Harry Chapin, his body of work, and the people and organizations he touched.
While Wikipedia is a great resource for information about famous people such as Harry, it also has notability guidelines. Much of the information in this website would not pass he notability test appropriate to a general purpose on-line encyclopedia, however it would be welcome here. Therefore, this wiki exists.
Contributions to the website are welcome and encouraged. This site uses the same software as wikipedia (mediawiki), so if you have updated wikipedia the process should be the same. If you have ideas for content but would prefer not to enter it yourself feel free to e-mail me directly. Trivia is encouraged, mind your manners, respect copyrights, and be reasonably Chapin related.
Should you have any questions feel free to contact me at martyacks at anyoldkindofday.com.
- ↑ "Upcoming shows" Steve Chapin Official Web Site. Retrieved 2011-12-27
- ↑ "CSM Arts Professional Series presents The Steve Chapin Band: A Tribute to Harry Chapin" College Of Southern Maryland Events Calendar. Retrieved 2011-12-27
- ↑ "An Evening of Chapin Music" Hope Center in Macomb. Retrieved 2011-12-28
- ↑ "Upcoming Appearances" the Chapin Family website. Retrieved 2012-01-07
- ↑ The Recording Academy (December 7, 2010). "The Recording Academy Announces 2011 Grammy Hall of Fame Inductees". Press release. Retrieved 2010-12-07 .

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BRISTOL, Tenn. - The soccer doubleheader scheduled for Wednesday afternoon between King College and North Greenville University have had its game times changed. The women's match will begin at 2:00 p.m. with the men to follow at approximately 4:00 p.m.
The Lady Tornado (4-6-0, 3-3) will begin play at 2:00 p.m. against the Crusader's women soccer team (4-6-1, 3-4-1). NGU comes off a 5-0 loss to Limestone College on Oct. 8. The Lady Tornado have lost their last two matches against non-conference opponents but have won their last three matches against Conference Carolinas teams by a combined score of 10-2, including two shut outs.
The Tornado (2-7-1, 2-4) will follow with a tentative start time set for 4:00 p.m. King has lost its last five matches with a tough one-goal loss to NAIA defending National Champion University of Rio Grande on Satuday. North Greenville (6-5-0, 5-3) had a four-game win streak snapped in their last action against Limestone on Saturday.
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Thrills in Jackson Township is replacing its scantily clad female dancers with other forms of live entertainment and no longer calling itself a "go-go" bar, its managers say.
Thrills in Jackson Township is replacing its scantily clad female dancers with other forms of live entertainment and no longer calling itself a "go-go" bar, its managers say.
"The dancers are no longer important," Thrills night manager Anastasios Adamides testified Friday during the last of a two-part hearing on the township's request to close the bar again.
"We now have an upstairs nightclub with a dance floor and DJ, and we plan to bring in live bands."
But it doesn't matter if Thrills is now obeying the state statute by no longer having erotic female dancers give customers private dances.
Monroe County Court Judge David Williamson now must decide if the bar was in violation of the state statute in April, when Jackson Township filed the petition that led to this latest hearing on the township's request to close Thrills.
Thrills featured nude and bare-breasted female dancers when it illegally opened without a township permit in March 2010 at Route 715 and Doll Road.
Thrills attorney and day manager Ira Weiner has said all along that the bar needs no permit because it has the same restaurant-and-bar use that occupied that location under previous ownership, without erotic dancers.
The township discovered Thrills was violating the state statute, which forbids an "adult cabaret" use from having erotic dancers give dances in areas closed off from the view of others in the establishment's common areas.
The township took Thrills to court, and Ronald Vican, county president judge at the time, ordered the bar in July 2010 to obey the state statute.
After the township found Thrills was still in violation, Vican in October 2010 ordered the bar to close for one year, apply for a township permit to reopen and open up its private dance areas to common-area view.
Thrills illegally reopened with no permit last October.
This time, however, the private dance areas had been made more open to common-area view, Weiner, Adamides and others testified Friday.
Township attorney John Dunn's cross-examination led to contention over whether these private dance areas had been made open enough.
Also, the dancers were now required to cover their nipples and aureoles, with either flesh-colored body paint or tape to "simulate" bare breasts.
Dancers were not allowed to touch their own or each others' vaginas or use any parts of their bodies to touch customers' genitals, according to testimony.
And customers were not allowed to touch dancers' breasts, buttocks or vaginas.
Weiner and others said cameras were installed in the now less-enclosed private dance areas to film the dances.
In addition, cocktail waitresses acted as chaperones, sitting nearby in the private dance areas and watching to ensure the rules were followed.
Dancers or customers seen breaking the rules were warned once. Backed up by security, the chaperone stopped the dance if the rules were broken a second time, though one former Thrills employee who had been a chaperone testified the dance was stopped on the third "strike."
Customers eventually stopped requesting private dances, finding them no longer enjoyable with stricter rules now enforced, and business has been hurting ever since.
So, Thrills stopped offering private dances in May, after the first part of this latest hearing, according to Weiner and Adamides.
The judge expects to issue a written decision within the next five business days on whether Thrills was in violation of the state statute in April.
Once this issue is settled, Thrills will be back in court sometime before the end of the year on whether it should be allowed to continue operating at all.
Under the township zoning ordinance, businesses featuring erotic adult entertainment are allowed only in an industrial zone.
The township last November rezoned Thrills' current location from commercial, where erotic adult entertainment is illegal, to single-family residential, where now even a bar or restaurant without such entertainment is illegal.


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Voters in Laurie will select a mayor in the April 8 election. Incumbent mayor Herb Keck has filed for election and is challenged by Scott Fahrer. Here, the candidates address the future of Laurie.
Voters in Laurie will select a mayor in the April 8 election. Incumbent mayor Herb Keck has filed for election and is challenged by Scott Fahrer. Here, the candidates address the future of Laurie.
*Editor's Note: Candidates were given a word limit to adhere to. Meet the candidates for Laurie Board, Ward 2 in the Wednesday Lake Sun.
1. Please give us a little bit about yourself including background, education, public service, volunteer work and of course, your family.
Scott Fahrer: With his dad being a builder who later went into the ministry, Fahrer moved 27 times before going into the military at the age of 20. He was in the Air Force from 1994-1999. When he moved to Laurie after getting out of the service, he says he never wanted to move again and has been here ever since. He has owned property here since 1995 and has been in business at the lake for 15 years now. He owns and operates Comfort Zone Heating & Cooling.
Political Experience: None
Family: Wife Christy and two children
Outside activities: He is a trustee at First Baptist of Laurie and chairs their budget and finance committee. Through the church, he helps with Awanas, similar to kids' Sunday school but held on Wednesday evenings.
Vote For Me Because: As a business owner, I know how to manage and budget. I think my business experience can help the city. I believe in very little debt whether for my company or in my personal life.
Herb Keck: From St. Joseph, Mo., he spent 4 1/2 years in the Marine Corps during the Korean War. After leaving the Corps, he and his wife relocated to the Kansas City area where he attended St. Benedict's College then graduated from William Jewell College in Liberty, Mo. He worked for the Vendo Company for 20 years and became a regional vice president, relocating along the way to Los Angeles, Denver, Dallas and then back to Kansas City. After Vendo was dissolved in the 1970s, he got into the machine tool manufacturing business. Handling the company's international marketing took him to many countries before he retired in 1996. After buy property at the Lake in 1966, the Kecks became full time residents in 1996 and moved into the city in 2004.
Political experience: Has served one term as Laurie alderman and one term as Laurie mayor
Family: Wife Joyce and three children
Outside activities: He and his wife and are both elders at West Lake Christian Church, and he is a member of the American Legion. He also assists his wife with charity work through Community for Christ.
Vote For Me Because: I have no personal agenda. I'm here to serve the community and citizens of the city.
2. How do you feel about the purchase of a new city hall and adjacent property?
Fahrer: I would not have made that purchase if it were up to me, but the mayor does not vote unless there's a tie. I have an extremely conservative view [fiscally].
Keck: We were maxed out at the old city hall. The thought has been there, but we didn't plan to do anything immediately. When the opportunity came, it was one of those times when you could see you must either act or wish that you had. We found a way we could act on it. It was a good deal and will satisfy the city's needs way into the future. There's room for expansion if needed. There was some criticism at the time, but I think in 10-20 years people will say it was a wise move.
3. Do you think the city needs to do more to attract businesses?
Fahrer: Depleting of businesses within the city is something I'd like to address. I don't know 100 percent of how to fix the problem, but it is something I will definitely look at. I do want to implement a friendlier business environment.
Keck: We have seen a number of businesses leave, but I think this year as the economy slowly climbs back we'll some businesses reopen or relocate here. We've seen some evidence it will get better this year, but there haven't been any applications yet. There are indications that things will improve this year. We have infrastructure - the latest being broadband service. So everything is here for the city. I think personally that the greatest thing we can do is reflect a pride of image. If you make it more attractive, you make a better impression so you become more than a place people have to slow down for while driving through. We can't tell private owners what to do and we know they have limited resources, so through our enhancement committee, we're trying to help build that pride by dressing up the community. The city doesn't collect real estate tax or have much in the financial way to entice business. We can't offer a tax abatement. We can only make the city an attractive place for them by building a good citizen population to show we have the traffic flow for business.
4. Should or could sewer and water rates be cut?
Fahrer: I'd like to see the city bring down water and sewer bills. As I've campaigned through the neighborhoods, I've gotten a huge response on that. The first thing I want do is try to look at ways to cut costs to try and save money for the people paying the bills. I have a few ideas, but I'd like to do some more research on it. I believe in fiscal responsibility. You can't spend more than you take in, and when small business or families have to cut back so does the government.
Keck: We're regulated by our loan structure what we must charge for water and sewer rates. The reserve money is dictated by lenders through USDA Rural Development. [While sewer reserve funds were used to purchase city hall,] the reserves are still there in assets. We're repaying the loan from the sewer reserve through rent. We can't use it to lower rates. We do careful analysis at least annually, and this year we plan to do it quarterly, to make sure things are being done efficiently. Not to say there isn't room for minor adjustments from time to time, but I think the city is functioning very well. The work [of the public works department for sewer and water and for other jobs] is tracked and separated appropriately. I think if people look at their bills versus other communities in the area, they'll find our bills are comparatively low and reasonably priced.
5. What do you think of planning and zoning restrictions?
Fahrer: I'd like to decrease some of the restrictions we put on new business. There are
some things within planning and zoning I think we could change to make it less restrictive.
Keck: I don't think planning and zoning inhibits business in any way. If we thought it was, we would make adjustments, and there have been some. I think planning and zoning is flexible and should be reviewed on a continuing basis, making adjustments where necessary.
6. Final thoughts:
Fahrer: There's no animosity on my part for the people in office. It's a disagreement over policies. It's not personal. And for residents and business, I want them to know I'm available to take questions or concerns anytime. I welcome any kind of suggestions people might have.
Keck: I'd like to emphasize that the city is being run very well. Our staff is very efficient and well experienced. We're trying to make the city a better place for citizens and businesses to thrive and grow.


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SUMMIT, N.J. - Less than one month after winning a New Jersey state football championship, Summit head coach John Liberato announced his "retirement" as the varsity coach on January 8.
During his six seasons as the Hilltopper head coach, Liberato oversaw two state championship teams and a state runner-up, making the postseason five consecutive years after going 3-7 during his first campaign.
More importantly, he was able to coach his two sons, Sal and Nick, during their time at Summit High School.
Sal, the oldest of Liberato's sons, is currently a sophomore wide receiver at Monmouth University.
Nick is currently a senior outside linebacker at Summit High School. According to sources, he will sign a national letter of intent to play at Sacred Heart in the fall.
"I'm very proud of both of them," Liberato said. "They are tireless workers, not only on the field, but in the classroom as well. I'm very excited. They are scheduled to play each other next year. I want to see if they match-up against each other [in college], Sal is a slot receiver and Nick an outside linebacker."
Despite leaving the program for three months, it appears he will not go very far.
Liberato will remain a part of the Hilltoppers athletic department, retaining his position as a physical education teacher.
"There's no better place to coach than Summit High School," he said after announcing his retirement. "I am so thankful for the opportunity that Summit gave me."


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Flocks of runners will pass through Washington County on Friday afternoon into Saturday morning, as the Bourbon Chase returns this year.
Governor Steve Beshear's commission studying tax reform should encourage economic growth through job creation and capital investment, the Kentucky Association for Economic Development Association (KAED) president said recently during the commission's meeting at Bryan Station High School in Lexington.
At the Alltech production facility in Springfield, five American bison graze serenely in the large, rolling pasture adjacent to the plant, oblivious to the production going on inside.
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Safety and Efficacy Study of Ethanol Locking to Prevent Central Line Infection in Premature Neonates
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01365312
Recruitment Status : Terminated (Primary investigator relocated)
First Posted : June 3, 2011
Last Update Posted : October 3, 2014
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Appropriate delivery of adequate nutrition and medications in premature infants often requires central venous access in the form of a special IV called a PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter). While a necessary feature of neonatal intensive care, PICCs pose significant risk: among the most serious of these is infection. One common, successful infection control practice used in older children and adults involves the use of a lock, in which a fluid-filled syringe is attached to the end of an IV when it is not in use in order to prevent and/or treat clotting or infection. The solution is left for some period of time and is then either withdrawn from the line or flushed into the patient. The solution could be saline, antibiotics, other antiseptics, or any combination of these. However in the premature infant, use of antibiotics as a locking compound risks leaving behind organisms resistant to treatment; antiseptics can irritate vessels and cause breakage to sensitive premature skin; saline has neither sterilization nor anti-infective properties. By contrast, ethanol neutralizes or kills most bacteria, viruses, and fungi without the risk of resistance, and because it is not externally applied there is no risk to baby skin. Ethanol-based lock protocols have been used safely and effectively in both adult and pediatric populations without adverse effects, but this has not been tested in premature babies because fluids and medication are delivered continuously: placement of a lock traditionally requires an extended pause (hours or days) in fluid and medication administration.
To overcome these key limitations, a periodic, brief ethanol lock protocol was designed such that both infant exposure and interruptions to fluid and medication delivery would be minimized. The lock is practical, cheap, easy to place, and takes advantage of an existing daily pause during which IV tubing and fluids hooked up to the PICC are changed. The objective of this study is to test the hypothesis that use of a 70% ethanol lock, every 3rd day, for 15 minutes, will safely and effectively reduce PICC infection in our unit.
|Condition or disease
|Infection Associated With Catheter Bacteremia Sepsis
|Drug: Ethanol lock Drug: Heparinized saline
|Not Applicable
PICC infection is of particular concern in the NICU because of the need for long term intravenous access in many very-low and the majority of extremely-low birthweight infants, the very populations at highest risk for infection in the first place. Central lines are a mainstay of treatment in these babies because of the need for extended parenteral nutrition, which itself has been associated with blood stream infection, not to mention the increased use of anti-infectives, added hospitalization costs, longer length of stay, and negative impact upon nutrition delivery when infectious complications occur.
Existing infection control practices differ by unit and region, and include hand washing, sterile precautions at insertion and dressing changes, elimination of mandatory scheduled dressing changes, minimizing port access to the extent permitted by clinical care, prophylactic antibiotics, and closed medication systems. Success is variable: there is no standard highly effective, safe approach to infection control, and central line infection remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the NICU.
A standard practice to maintain central line patency when it is not in use is to lock it with a syringe containing a heparinized solution. Locks containing antibiotics have been used to prevent infection of central lines and to treat already-infected lines, but this approach confers risk of development of organisms resistant to treatment. External chlorhexidine-impregnated dressings have been used but can harm premature skin and do not achieve sterilization of the lumen or hub, where most infections originate.
Medical grade ethyl alcohol (ethanol) is a widely used compound with uses as a disinfectant, preservative, antidote to ingested ethylene glycol (anti-freeze), and anti-microbial. The FDA lists no specific approval or indication though it's use is widely recognized. Multiple studies have been conducted in sheep, children and adults, using 0.5-2 mL 70% ethanol locks to successfully prevent and/or treat catheter related infection without development of resistant organisms, adverse side effects to patients, or disruptions in catheter integrity. Though the ethanol lock approach has not yet been applied to premature neonates, safe and successful precedent in humans as young as 3 months is established; ours is the first trial of ethanol locking in a NICU setting.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|10 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Prospective, Randomized, Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Periodic, Brief Ethanol Locks to Prevent Peripherally-Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) Infections in Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
|Study Start Date :
|February 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|June 2011
Experimental: Ethanol
Assigned intervention is a 70% ethanol lock, placed every 72 hours for 15 minutes, for the duration of the PICC line.
Drug: Ethanol lock
Placement of 0.5 cc 70% ethanol, every 72 hours, for 15 minutes, into PICC lines randomized to ethanol intervention
Placebo Comparator: Heparinized saline
Intervention is to place a heparinized saline lock every 72 hours for 15 minutes, for the duration of the line.
Drug: Heparinized saline
0.5 cc heparinized saline to be placed once every 72 hours for 15 minutes, in PICC lines randomized to placebo
- Incidence of PICC-related sepsis in infants with ethanol-treated vs. Placebo treated lines [ Time Frame: Study Day #28 or sooner if PICC is discontinued before day #28 ]Primary endpoint of the study is to compare the incidence of PICC-related sepsis in infants with ethanol treated vs. Placebo treated lines by study day 28. PICC-related sepsis is defined by any 2 clinical signs or symptoms plus one positive peripheral blood culture for a recognized pathogen in this population other than coagulase-negative staphylococcus, or 2 positive peripheral blood cultures for coagulase-negative staphylococcus within 48 hours.
- Evaluation of PICC colonization following ethanol locking [ Time Frame: Duration of PICC use, average of 3 weeks ]PICC colonization is reflected by growth of >15 CFU from a 5-cm segement of the PICC tip by semiquantitative (roll-plate) culture, or growoth of >100 CFU by quantitative (sonication) broth culture in an otherwise asymptomatic patient.
- Whether the primary and secondary endpoints differ by birthweight strata [ Time Frame: Duration of PICC use, average of 3 weeks ]Birthweight stratification will use a 3-tiered subset (<1000g, 1000-1250g, and >1250g) consistent with existing neonatal literature.
- To determine whether ethanol lock treatment impacts incidence of clinical evaluations for suspected sepsis [ Time Frame: Duration of PICC use, average of 3 weeks ]Other evaluations for suspected sepsis are those not defined by the primary endpoint but meeting criteria for infection of some other sterile body fluid (urine or CSF).
- To determine whether antibiotic use for any indication (including non-bacteremia) alters the incidence of PICC-related infection or colonization as defined in the primary and secondary endpoints [ Time Frame: Duration of PICC use, average of 3 weeks ]See above
- Determine side effects of ethanol locking in premature babies [ Time Frame: Duration of PICC use, average of 3 weeks ]To determine the side effects of flushing ethanol locks into premature infants following lock therapy, if any
- To determine effect of ethanol locking on neonatal PICC lines [ Time Frame: Duration of PICC use, average of 3 weeks ]To determine how ethanol locking affects central line function and integrity in vivo, if at all.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|up to 32 Weeks (Child)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Preterm infants < 32 weeks gestation at birth who require a PICC
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any baby with a positive blood culture less than 48 hours prior to PICC placement; any infant who requires pressors in excess of >5 mcg/kg/min
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01365312
|United States, North Carolina
|East Carolina University
|Greenville, North Carolina, United States, 27834
|Responsible Party:
|Amber Fort, Amber Fort, DO, MPH, MS, East Carolina University
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01365312 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|June 3, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|October 3, 2014
|Last Verified:
|October 2014
Keywords provided by Amber Fort, East Carolina University:
Central line associated infection
PICC associated infection
Neonatal central line associated sepsis
Central line colonization
Ethanol Lock
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Communicable Diseases
Catheter-Related Infections
Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome
Pathologic Processes
Bacterial Infections
Anti-Infective Agents, Local
Anti-Infective Agents
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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Real Salt Lake signs GK Attinella
Sandy, UT – Real Salt Lake announced late Monday that the club has signed 24-year-old goalkeeper Jeff Attinella.
Attinella was selected by RSL in the first round (14th overall) of the 2011 MLS Supplemental Draft. The club released him prior to the season and subsequently joined the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the NASL.
"Jeff's a talented young 'keeper coming off a great season in NASL," RSL GM Garth Lagerwey said. "We're excited to bring him back to the club."
Per league and club policy, terms of the deal will not be disclosed.


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What started like a regular day at Kathleen High School for 18-year-old Maurice Knight ended at the Polk County Jail.
LAKELAND | What started like a regular day at Kathleen High School for 18-year-old Maurice Knight ended at the Polk County Jail.
He spent four days there in October on charges ranging from drug possession to carrying a concealed firearm. But it turns out the Lakeland Police Department arrested the wrong person.
The State Attorney's Office never filed formal charges after Lakeland detectives said the next day that the wrong man was arrested, but it took two more days before Knight was released from jail.
The morning after Knight's arrest, members of his family and a neighbor brought information to police that they said exonerated Knight and implicated another man, William Monroe.
A State Attorney's Office memo stated that a detective was told Knight was at school the day of the offense, and he could have been riding a school bus when the crime took place.
The ordeal started Oct. 17. Lakeland police Officer Gordon Franz was training and riding with another officer, checking license plates, Assistant Chief Mike Link said.
The officers were alerted that the owner of a vehicle traveling on the 1800 block of Olive Street had a suspended driver's license. The officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but the man got out of the vehicle and ran.
The officers caught a glimpse of his face, according to an arrest affidavit.
Inside the vehicle, officers found a wide range of drugs and a loaded firearm, according to the affidavit.
As a perimeter was set up around the neighborhood where the suspect fled, the same area where Knight lives, Knight got off a school bus. He said he spoke to an officer but was never questioned.
Link said the police reports didn't state that officers saw Knight as they searched for a suspect.
A detective pulled mug shots and showed them to Officer Franz, who identified Knight as the suspect, Link said.
The next day, Oct. 18, Knight was arrested during his lunch period at Kathleen High School.
"I asked what the charges are, and they wouldn't tell me," Knight said earlier this month. "They wouldn't let me call anyone."
When news of Knight's arrestmade it to his family, his aunt, Diane Booker, said the family knew he was wrongfully arrested.
Booker, along with Knight's mother, Sherell Williams, and neighbor Demondra Fisher went to the police station the morning of Oct. 19.
Fisher said the correct suspect had stormed into her house the day of the incident and changed his bloody clothes.
She took the clothes to the police station, and officers said the items matched what the suspect was seen wearing.
She also filed a citizen's complaint stating she tried to call officers after the man left, but no one responded to her home. She said the suspect has threatened to shoot at her house.
"Man is really crazy, he (doesn't) care," she wrote. "He would really do what he say he (is going) to do and I'm just telling you I'm scared for real."
According to the State Attorney's Office memo, the detective came forward later that day with information about the department's doubts that Knight was the correct suspect.
Link said detectives pulled mug shots of Knight and William Monroe, who neighbors say is the correct suspect, and asked Franz whether there was a possibility he could have confused the two. He said yes.
Link said detectives worked with the State Attorney's Office into the weekend to have Knight released from jail.
"It was a good-faith effort on his part," Link said. "There wasn't any malicious attempt. We tried to correct it as quickly as we could."
Monroe, 23, has short black hair in his last 2012 Hillsborough County mug shot. He did have dreadlocks in a previous mug shot from 2007. He stands at 5 feet 5 inches and weighs 150 pounds.
He was released from prison in 2011 after serving time on charges of manslaughter, attempted robbery and aggravated battery, according to the Florida Department of Corrections website.
Knight, who has turned 19 since the time of his arrest, is 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs 170 pounds. He has dreadlocks and small stars tattooed under his eyes.
Link said there is an on-going internal investigation looking into whether any department policies were broken during the criminal investigation.
A warrant has been issued for William Monroe, who police say is the correct suspect.
Booker said Franz regularly patrols her neighborhood and said she has heard complaints about him. She said she would like to see Franz removed as a patrol officer.
"How many more people has he done like this?" Booker said. "If (Knight) wasn't in school, he would have been another black man lost in the system."
Booker said although Knight has been in trouble with the law before, it doesn't justify arresting him for a crime he didn't commit. He currently has a pending case in Polk County on charges of possession of marijuana and carrying a concealed weapon.
Booker said she has seen her nephew try to improve his life by doing better in school, but she worries the arrest will set him back.
The State Attorney's Office decided to not formally file any criminal charges, but the mug shot of the arrest remains public on the Polk County Jail's website.
Knight, who played football for Kathleen High School, said the arrest caused him to fall behind in some of his schoolwork, and he couldn't play during the rest of the football season because of practices he missed.
"No one wants to be locked up for something you didn't do," Knight said.
[ Elvia Malagon can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 863-802-7550. Her Twitter is @ledger911. ]


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Your Rights or the Lack Thereof
There are a couple of things that I go over before the throw down hoe-down every week, but I need to restate them over and over again for safety's sake. Firstly, we reserve the right to kick you out of the game and/or off of our friends lists at any time and for any reason - this, unfortunately, is not up for discussion so mind your manners, please. Possible reasons for bootage include but are not limited to: an inordinate amount of swearing or other forms of epithets relating to sexual orientation or mental disability (if you can't make it through a match without dropping an f-bomb or calling someone an r-tard, mute your mic), unsportsmanlike conduct (gloating or otherwise insulting other players - especially team-killing in games that allow that sort of thing) and anything that might generally make you come off as a jackass. Keep in mind, these rules do not necessarily apply to the GameSpy staff, and you may be subjected to ruthless mocking during the game itself or in the subsequent column documenting the matches (though you have my word that we'll make our finest effort to refrain from such chicanery).
As a quick aside, we will run a routine purge of our friends lists in order to keep the matches open to all. As you may already be aware, Microsoft enforces a strict 100 friend limit and so we need to make an effort to ensure that everyone gets a chance to gun us down in cold blood. This purge is nothing personal, and we invite you to reapply before the next match.
GameSpy reserves the right to commit your gamertag to video, so if you want to maintain your relative anonymity, I do not recommend participating in this event. In the week that follows the match, I'll write up our violent little encounters and give nods to those that deserve them. Specifically, that means that I'll do a rundown of highlights from the match and I may use your gamertag in the column. I'd like to think of this as an incentive, but if you don't you can consider this fair warning. I also plan on issuing awards based on some random criteria that I just plain make up; although, some will be standards like an award for who killed the most people. Again, we are going to be recording an HD video feed of these matches, so be aware that you may be filmed doing something ridiculous or unflattering and I will take that opportunity to poke fun at your n00bness.
There you have it. This Wednesday. December 5, 2007. Four o'clock post meridian pacific standard time. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare on the PS3.
It's not that I have anything specific against you, but we got the call from our boss: it's time to pwn phaces!


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*Monday - Thursday 9;00 - 5;00 Friday 12:00 - 3:00 {Youth Program} Saturday - Closed
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* December will be closed and will be reopened January
* December will be closed and will be reopened January
* Private appointments can be made through Linn or Darla Jensen at 403 653 3314 {H} or cell 403 929 1089
* Private appointments can be made through Linn or Darla Jensen at 403 653 3314 {H} or cell 403 929 1089
* or Dienna Hogg cell 403 330 8731
* or Dienna Hogg cell 403 330 8731
* If you want to make private bookings you should have your own consultants to assist in research
* If you want to make private bookings you should have your own consultants to assist in research
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Indexing classes will be offered the
Indexing classes will be offered the of each month from 7pm at the Cardston Family History Centre, as long as there is enough interest in learning about indexing.
Contact Verla Campbell 403 653 1404 or
Contact Verla Campbell 403 653 1404 or Beazer 403 for information and registration.
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Family History classes for the general public will be offered on a continuous rotation as long as there is interest and teachers available.
Family History classes for the general public will be offered on a continuous rotation as long as there is interest and teachers available.
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|This article describes the services and resources available at a Family History Centre, a branch facility of the Family History Library.
- 1 Centre Contacts and Hours
- 2 Calendar and Events
- 3 Centre Resources
- 4 Hardware and Equipment
- 5 Links
- 6 Group Activities
- 7 Volunteer at the Centre
Centre Contacts and Hours
- 138 - 4 AVE WEST, CARDSTON AB T0K 0K0 Canada
- Building is located adjacent to Cardston High School parking lot (east of the high school)
- Location on Map
Phone: FHC: 403 653 3288
FHC Hours:
Hours for Jan- May 2018
- Monday - Thursday 9;00 - 5;00 Friday 12:00 - 3:00 {Youth Program} Saturday - Closed
- December 7 will be closed and will be reopened January 7 2019
- Private appointments can be made through Linn or Darla Jensen at 403 653 3314 {H} or cell 403 929 1089
- or Dienna Hogg cell 403 330 8731
- If you want to make private bookings you should have your own consultants to assist in research
- July and August Tuesday and Wednesday 9:00 - 12:00 By Appointment
Help for Patron Visits
Visits to the Centre will be most successful by filling out the information you have on a "Family Group Sheet" and bringing it with you to the Centre. We have "Family Group Sheets" available at the Centre, or the booklet entitled "My Family" may be purchased for $1.00 at the Cardston Distribution Centre across the street from the Temple. The booklet has pages for short stories, pictures, personal data and a pedigree going back to great-grandparents.
Holiday Schedule for 2018
* The Centre will be closed: Saturday and Monday of Long Week-ends throughout the year.
* It is also closed the first Saturday each year in April and October for General Conference broadcasts from Salt Lake.
- The Centre will be closed on the following dates in 2018
- May 22
- July - August Tuesday and Wednesday 9:00 - 12:00 AM By Appointment only
- Sept 3
- Oct 8
- Nov 12 in observance of Remembrance Day
- Closed from Dec 7 - January 7 2019
Calendar and Events
Indexing classes will be offered the first Tuesday and Wednesday of each month from 5:30 - 7:00 pm at the Cardston Family History Centre, as long as there is enough interest in learning about indexing.
Contact Verla Campbell 403 653 1404 or Patricia Beazer 403 894 4480 for information and registration.
Family History Classes
Sept 27 Thursday 7:00 PM - Merging duplicate names
Oct 4 Thursday 7:00 PM - Adding Photos and Stories
Oct 11 Thursday 7:00 PM - Searching other countries and records
Oct 18 Thursday 7:00 PM - Unindexed records
Oct 25 Thursday 7:00 PM - Partner sites
Family History classes for the general public will be offered on a continuous rotation as long as there is interest and teachers available.
Anyone in the community and surrounding area is welcome to attend the classes, as well as do personal family research during hours of operation. Consultants are available on each shift to assist patrons.
"Family Tree" sessions
Please contact Linn Jensen or Darla Jensen for information:
403 653 3314 or 403 929 1089
Please use a flashdrive to save your personal information while working on computers at the FHC.
Computers are wiped clean regularly of any personal information left on them, and your information will be lost.
The church discontinued any further support of the "Personal Ancestral File" ("PAF") program on
15 July 2013.
Members are encouraged to use the online family history program "Family Tree" for recording their family histories and preparing names for temple ordinances.
For those who wish to keep a personal record on a home computer, the Family History Department has recommended three third-party programs that integrate with Family Tree - Ancestral Quest, Legacy or RootsMagic.
These programs are available for download in free and paid versions from the Internet. Ward Temple and Family History consultants and the staff at the Family History Centre are available to help you transfer your PAF files to one of these programs of your choice.
Staff training meetings will be held on the second Wednesday of each month from 5:00 - 6:00
Centre Resources
Databases and Software
- FHC Portal This centre has access to the Family History Centre Portal page which gives free access in the centre to premium family history software and websites that generally charge for subscriptions.
- Genealogy database software (Ancestral Quest, Family Insight, Legacy, RootsMagic)
- Word processing, spreadsheet and presentation software such as OpenOffice
- Free access to several subscription sites through the FamilySearch Portal such as:
- Ancestry.com
- Access Newspaper Archive
- Alexander Street Press - American Civil War
- ArkivDigital (Swedish)
- British Newspapers
- Find-My-Past
- Fold3.com (Footnote)
- Genealogist
- Heritage Quest Online
- Historic Map Works
- Paper Trail
- World Vital Records.
- Free internet access to the New England Historical and Genealogical Society (NEHGS) website
Hardware and Equipment
- 21 networked computers with printer access
- 1 microfiche reader
- 2 computers set up with dual monitors
- Copy Machine
Multimedia Centre
Cardston Family History Centre has an area where you can work with equipment consisting of a computer, and printer. Scan photos and transfer them to a flash drive or to a DVD. You can also make printed copies. Use the software to edit, enhance, correct, add to, or delete unwanted material from a photo-graph. Scan pictures and print them, or transfer them to your flashdrive or DVD.
Centre Services
Staff Research Specialties
Resources in the Local Area
Cardston Public Library 25 - 3 Ave West - Phone Number: 403 653 4775
Cardston Historical Society visits by appointment.- President: Noel Burt 403 653 3431 or Maxine Rogers: 403 653 2746
Group Activities
The Cardston Family History Centre offers the opportunity for individuals, organizations, and other groups to schedule a group visit to our Centre. We offer a variety of options that are sure to provide interest to your group - Youth, Adult, Church, Organization, Club, etc. Please review the following guidelines for scheduling a group visit.
Group Size
If you would like a tour of the Centre, groups should be 10 or fewer to avoid distrubing other patrons who are working. If you want to schedule a time for instruction, we have 2 options - Our large classroom has 12 computers, a projector and screen, and our smaller classroom has 9 computers and 1 with dual monitors and screen for group instruction where all patrons don't need a computer. A film-reader room also a computer with dual monitors, and a microfilm scanner with printer access.
Reservation Procedure
Determine the date you would like to come by checking our Online Calendar for available dates.
Determine the goal for you visit. You may want to check the list of suggested activities below for ideas.
Call the Centre - 403 653 3288 or 403 653 3314 Linn or Darla Jensen to reserve the date.
Available Times
In order to use the Centre as efficiently as possible, we suggest the following times:
Evening group visits: Tue., Wed., and Thur. -- schedule appointments beginning at at 7:00 PM.
Adults accompanying youth groups should prepare to actively participate with their youth.
Local ward temple and family history consultants are an excellent resource and should be brought with your group. They will provide continuity after your visit.
Copies of any black and white documents found during your visit can be printed at the Centre for $0.10 each. (B/W 81/2 "x 11"). Documents could also be scanned and saved to your flash drive.
Guidelines for a Successful and Rewarding Visit
The Cardston Family History Centre computers have been recently updated and upgraded to allow patrons easier and enhanced access to many of the exciting new genealogy programs and websites provided by the Church Family History department.
Please DO NOT bring food or drink into the main computer area of the Centre.
Personal Family History Information: Except for Indexing visits, please have everyone bring a personal Pedigree Chart with as much family information as possible.
Specific Goal or Objective to Accomplish: Each group should have an idea or goal, before they arrive, of what they would like to accomplish during the visit to our Center.
LDS Account Registration:
Each LDS member of a group visiting the FHC needs to have an LDS Login Account BEFORE coming to the Centre.
Please log in to https://ldsaccount.lds.org or another church account site to make sure their username and password are working. For members who don't have a current account, register for one prior to your visit. This may be done by going to https://ldsaccount.lds.org and clicking on the Register for an LDS Account button on the right side of the screen and entering the necessary information, which includes their church membership number and birth date. The membership number is on the temple recommend or can be provided by their home ward clerk.
Personal Family History Information:
Except for Indexing visits, please have everyone bring a personal Pedigree Chart with as much family information as possible.
Specific Goal or Objective to Accomplish:
Each group should have an idea or goal, before they arrive, of what they would like to accomplish during the visit to the Centre.
Suggested Activities at the Centre
While most of the activities below can be done at the Centre, we've also tried to give you the forms, websites, etc. needed so you could prepare these activities for your own groups - Youth groups, Family History classes, Relief Society mini-classes, etc.
Children 8-11
Youth 12-18
Introduction to the Family History Centre: A tour and overview of the Centre, including the resources, tools, equipment, computers, multimedia & oral history center available for use by our patrons. "History Activities for Children: familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Family History Activities for Children:"
Introduction to FamilySearch / Family Tree:
Finding an ancestor on FamilyTree, or doing research on FamilySearch, to locate historical documents about that ancestor and learn more about him/ her.
To learn more about using Family Tree,
- sign in to your account
- click on "Family Tree"
- click on "Get Help" in upper right area
- click on "Learning Centre Video Courses"
View these videos which allows you to learn how to navigate on "Family Tree."
Youth may also like to create a 9-generation "Fan Chart" in pdf format which they can save to a flashdrive and get printed at a local print shop (our printers do not print large enough to make the chart readable). (Local drug stores or businesses may offer this service.)
Introduction to Indexing - An overview of the why and how of indexing with hands-on practice.
- go to FamilySearch Indexing and take the 2 minute "Test Drive" (button in upper right).
- youth may also enjoy the Indexing App for their phone or tablet.
Research Quick Start - A focused presentation demonstrating popular research websites to find specific information on your ancestors.'
Cemetery Scavenger Hunt - "Find a Grave" is an excellent research site where volunteers post information about their deceased ancestors in cemeteries around the world. You may find birth / death dates, tombstone pictures, links to other family members, photos and even biographical information.
This scavenger hunt type activity will help you learn how to use the site and inspire you to contribute as well.
Access is free at the Family History Centre
- View video "Search for Historical Records on Ancestry.com" (7:42 min.) stopping periodically to practice the techniques discussed.
- Starting your own Database Begin by viewing the video - Family History - Made Simple (2:19)
- Create a new database (Ask leader ahead of time, which program their group would like to use.)
- Enter their own personal information.
- View the video - "Finding Easy Information" (3:07) pausing after the memory section (1:18) and have them add their family members and information they know.
- Open a new tab and View the video "Step 2 Discover a Family Record" (2:23)
- Search for records about an ancestor on "FamilySearch.org"
- Add the information they find to their database.
- Continue the video - "Finding Easy Information" (at 1:19), then challenge them to go home and gather what records they can find and start interviewing relatives to learn more.
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Since January, O'Lenick , director of public relations at Florida Hospital in Orlando, has held all her staff meetings on the move in fresh air. When O'Lenick informed her staff that all future meetings would convene on the sidewalk instead of a conference room, "they said, 'You've got to kidding.' I told them I was serious. People really love it now."


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SILC Showcase
Showcase November 2011: Perceiving slope: With the body or with the eyes?
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Perceiving slope: With the body or with the eyes?
Steven Weisberg, Daniele Nardi, Nora S. Newcombe (PI), & Thomas F. Shipley
Temple University
For the archival version of this research, and the preferred citation, see:
- Weisberg, S. M., Nardi, D. N., Newcombe, N. S., & Shipley, T. F. (2014). Up by upwest: Is slope like north? Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 67(10), 1959-1976. [DOI]
- Readers also may be interested in similar work with children:
Holmes, C., Nardi, D. N., Newcombe, N. S., & Weisberg, S. M. (2015). Children's Use of Slope to Guide Navigation: Sex Differences Relate to Spontaneous Slope Perception. Spatial Cognition & Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 15(3), 170-185. [DOI]
As humans, we rely on many different types of cues to successfully navigate around our environment. Completing even an everyday task like getting to the grocery store requires using cues in the environment to determine the first direction to walk. For example, you might remember to walk toward the deli while keeping the post office on your right. This process, establishing a position and direction in space, is called reorientation. Some cues, like tall buildings, are primarily visual, while others, like sloped terrain, provide multi-modal information. Accordingly, slope can be used as a reorientation cue (i.e., the grocery store is downhill and to the right). Using a stable cue like slope is ecologically adaptive, as terrain is unlikely to change drastically.
Studies have shown that, indeed, human and non-human animals can use this cue successfully for reorientation and navigation (Miniaci, Scotto, & Bures, 1999; Restat, Steck, Mochnatzki, & Mallot, 2004). Unlike other cues, slope is not only seen and processed visually, but also has a kinesthetic component. We are able to feel slope with our feet and body position in space. Previous research has not addressed which type of sensory information is important, and how that information (visual and kinesthetic) is integrated. In fact, the kinesthetic sense has largely been ignored in human navigation research; a surprising oversight given the ecological relevance and importance of feeling how one moves through space (e.g., Klatzky, Loomis, Beall, Chance, & Golledge, 1998).
Humans can easily perceive slope visually (Proffitt, Bhalla, Gossweiler, & Midgett, 1995) and can use slope to reorient when both visual and kinesthetic cues are available, but men perform significantly better than women (Nardi, Newcombe, & Shipley, 2011). Although sex differences are not uncommon in spatial navigation tasks (e.g., Chai & Jacobs, 2009, Galea & Kimura, 1993), previous research has not addressed whether such sex differences may be accounted for by a female bias for visual cues (or a male bias for kinesthetic cues). The study presented here addresses two main questions. First, are certain types of sensory cues more important in using slope to reorient? Second, are there gender differences in the types of cues used?
Current Study:
We designed a study based on the paradigm of Nardi et al. (2011), described in a previous SILC Showcase (July 2009). Participants entered a square, curtained room with four identical bowls, one in each corner. All features of the room rendered each corner identical to all others, with the exception of the floor which was tilted 5o (see Figure 1). The general procedure was this: for each trial, participants were shown a dollar bill that was hidden under one of the bowls. Their job was to remember where it was and point to it after being blindfolded and disoriented on a swivel chair. Each participant completed one practice trial followed by four test trials.
Participants were randomly assigned to one of three sensory modality conditions: visual, kinesthetic, or visual + kinesthetic. In the visual condition, participants could see where the target was hidden, but were never allowed to stand up (on the chair they could not feel the slope with their feet). In the kinesthetic condition, participants stood up but remained blindfolded, feeling where the target was hidden with a three-foot pole. Finally, in the visual + kinesthetic condition, participants stood up and took off their blindfold – this condition uses the full set of sensory cues available in natural conditions. Encoding time was measured as the amount of time participants took to learn where the target was after they were shown where it was hidden. After this encoding phase, the participant was disoriented by being spun slowly in a chair with a blindfold on while performing a shadowing task (e.g., "Count backwards from 350 by 3.") After a few spins, the chair stopped and the experimenter placed a pointer in the participant's lap, and said "Point to where the target is.You are facing downhill (or uphill)." Reaction time and accuracy were recorded (reaction time was measured by how long the participant took to respond after being told which direction he was facing).
During encoding, participants took the most time per trial to learn where the target was hidden in the kinesthetic condition (M = 30.22 seconds), less time in the visual condition (M = 21.86 seconds), and the least time in the visual + kinesthetic condition (M = 17.21 seconds). Figure 2 demonstrates the difference in encoding time. Encoding the goal location in the kinesthetic condition took significantly longer time compared to visual + kinesthetic conditions F(2, 45) = 4.75, p = .01. There was no gender effect for encoding, and no interaction between gender and condition. This result was expected, and can be explained by the uneasiness of moving blindfolded in order to encode the goal relative to the slope of the floor. The interesting result is that the encoding time is not significantly different between the visual and visual + kinesthetic conditions, suggesting that the contribution of kinesthesia to slope perception at encoding is not critical.
Figure 2
Next, we considered accuracy between conditions. When both visual and kinesthetic cues were available, men made an error 15.6% of the time, while women made an error 28.1% of the time. Although this difference was not statistically significant, it shows a trend in agreement with the female difficulty in using slope found in our previous study (Nardi et al., 2011). However, comparing the error rates for the two conditions in which only one cue was available, revealed a significant interaction between sex and condition F(1, 28) = 5.66, p = .03. Men made fewer errors than women when only the kinesthetic cue was available, but made more errors when only the visual cue was available (see Figure 3). This finding suggests that the modality in which slope is encoded has different implications for males and females. The sex-specific advantage with vision for females and with kinesthesia for males indicates possibly different sensory attunements for the perception of a tilted floor – this might underlie sexually dimorphic representations of a goal location on a slope.
Figure 3
♦ Chai, X. J. & Jacobs, L. F. (2009). Sex difference in directional cue use in a virtual landscape. Behavioral Neuroscience, 123, 276–283. doi:10.1037/a0014722.
♦ Galea, L. A. & Kimura, D. (1993). Sex differences in route-learning. Personality and Individual Differences, 14, 53–65. doi:10.1016/0191-8869(93)90174-2.
♦ Klatzky, R. L., Loomis, J. M., Beall, A. C., Chance, S. S. & Golledge, R. G. (1998). Spatial updating of self-position and orientation during real, imagined, and virtual locomotion. Psychological Science, 9, 293-298.
♦ Miniaci, M. C., Scotto, P. & Bures, J. (1999) Place navigation in rats guided by a vestibular and kinesthetic orienting gradient. Behavioural Neuroscience, 113, 1115–1126.
♦ Nardi, D., Newcombe, N. S. & Shipley, T. F. (2011). The world is not flat: Can people reorient using slope? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37, 354–367.
♦ Proffitt, D. R., Bhalla, M., Gossweiler, M. & Midgett, J. (1995). Perceiving geographical slant. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2, 409–428.
♦ Restat, J. D., Steck, S. D., Mochnatzki, H. F. & Mallot, H. A. (2004). Geographical slant facilitates navigation and orientation in virtual environments. Perception, 33, 667–687.


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SnowSport HD 7' Snow Plow 80660&ACI-40112
- Blade is 84" wide x 18" tall
- Includes aluminum blade, push frame, angling interceptor, & 2" front mount receiver hitch
- Includes blade markers
The SnowSport HD utility snow plow is made to be effective, efficient, and lightweight. Its simple, no nonsense design gets the job done without any hassle. Durably constructed and covered by a one year warranty from Agri-Cover, the manufacturer, this personal plow is an investment you can feel good about making. It will make life in the wintertime a lot easier for years to come.
Whether you own a truck, Jeep, or SUV, there's a SnowSport HD snow plow for you. Take your choice of either a 7' or 8' blade, and once you receive your order, installation is a breeze and requires no drilling into your vehicle. The blade also features a rubber edge, keeping your plow safe to use on a variety of surfaces including gravel, cement, or black top. It also won't damage grass surfaces.
Less of a pain than a snow blower and much less strenuous than shoveling by hand, the SnowSport HD utility snow plow makes snow removal easier and more enjoyable. Rather than braving the cold, you can sit in the comforting heat of your driver's seat. The included angling interceptor allows you to set the blade at your choice of three different angles without worrying about blocking your headlights.
Keeping your path clear in the winter is made simple with the SnowSport HD utility snow plow. It's capable of moving even the highest drifts and is equally effective against light powder, heavy slush, and everything in between. Get yours today and be prepared before the next snow storm hits.
|180 Utility Plow
|LT Utility Plow
|HD Utility Plow
|Blade Width
|6'10" (82")
|6'10" (82")
|7' (84")/8' (96")
|Blade Height
|Blade Material
|Blade Weight
|68 lbs
|68 lbs
|114 lbs/129 lbs
|Push Frame Size
|23" Wide x 18" High
|31" Wide x 18" High
|31" Wide x 23" High
|Trip Springs
|Cutting Edge Material
|1" Thick Rubber
|1" Thick Rubber
|1" Thick Rubber
|Attachment System
|2" Front or Rear Receiver Hitch
|2" Front or Rear Receiver Hitch
|2" Front or Rear Receiver Hitch
|Lift System
|Angling System
|Fixed to Center
|Fixed to Center
|3 Position Manual Angling Blade
|In-Cab Control
|Blade Markers
|Snow Deflector
|Skid Shoes
|Light Kit
|Wings (Box Ends)
|No, Assembly Takes Approx 1 Hour
|No, Assembly Takes Approx 1 Hour
|No, Assembly Takes Approx 1 Hour
|Anodized Aluminum
|Anodized Aluminum
|Anodized Aluminum
|Storage System Not Included
|Storage System Not Included
|Storage System Not Included
|1 Year on Plow / 3 Years on Rubber Components
|1 Year on Plow / 3 Years on Rubber Components
|1 Year on Plow / 3 Years on Rubber Components
Order NotesThe SnowSport HD requires 8"-16" of clearance from the bottom of your receiver hitch to the ground for optimal performance.
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Frequently Asked Questions
- How does the SnowSport Install to my vehicle? The SnowSport utility snow plow attaches to a 2" front or rear receiver hitch. The push frame for the plow just hooks up like a ball mount. Note the hitch needs to be from 9" to 16" off the ground for ideal operation.
- Is a front or rear 2" x 2" receiver hitch needed? Yes: If you don't already have a 2" hitch, A SnowSport brand 2" front hitch can be included with your order. Note: for Jeep & Ford F250+ SuperDuty applications, if you want to use a front mount - the SnowSport brand is required. For 2" rear receiver hitches, any 2" receiver hitch will work provided it is between 9" to 16" off of the ground.
- How difficult is it to assemble and install the snowSport snow plow? The SnowSport blade and push frame are easy to assemble. Plan about 30-45 minutes depending on your mechanical skill.
- How difficult is it to install a front receiver hitch mount? The front end hitches are designed to bolt in place on most models - occasionally, certain models my require drilling. The instructions are clear cut. The front receiver hitch is mounted to the vehicle and the push frame is plugged into the front receiver hitch. The plow simply hangs on the push frame.
- Can I install the SnowSport plow myself? Yes: The instructions are clear cut. If you do need assistance, call 1-877-216-5446 or 701-253-5906. Our customers overwhelmingly say "it was simple and easy to install". The front hitch varies from vehicle to vehicle.
- How is the SnowSport plow shipped? It is shipped via UPS/ Fed Ex ground. The blade is in one box, the push frame is in one box, and the angling interceptor is in another box. We select the best shipper possible depending on where you live.
- How easy is the SnowSport plow to hook-up or un-hook between jobs? It's very easy. Just insert the push frame into the front receiver hitch and secure with pin. Then hang the blade one end at a time onto the push frame (can be done in less than a minute). Unhooking is just a easy. You can also leave the blade in the transport position on the push frame all winter long.
- How do you switch from transporting to plowing or from plowing to transporting? The operator must manually unhook the plow and lower it for plowing. For transporting simply lift the blade, one side at a time, onto the push frame. You can also leave the blade in the transport position on the push frame all winter long.
- How can the SnowSport plow operate without hydraulics? The blade is secured by the push frame. As you push the snow, the blade travels up and down as needed by gravity pushing the snow with the rubber cutting edge and aluminum blade. The rubber cutting edge is designed to cut through the snow but pass over the harder ground surfaces below and be gentle on grass. When you back up, the blade automatically lays back, skimming over the surface. Then you drive forward and the blade re-engages for plowing.
- How well does the rubber cutting edge hold up? The rubber cutting edge is 1" thick 6" tall - made of a hard rubber compound. This has been tested and proven to provide years of service. It can be replaced relatively inexpensively.
- What is the warranty? The plow has a 3-year limited warranty. See the owners manual for details.
- Can I move the SnowSport from one vehicle to another? Yes, the plow can be easily transferred to another vehicle, all you need is a front or rear receiver hitch installed on that vehicle.
- How do I know if the Snowsport plow will work for my vehicle? The SnowSport plow will work on virtually any compact or full size SUV or pickup. All you need is a front or rear 2" receiver hitch. Please note we recommend for the front hitch you use the SnowSport brand. If a front hitch is not available in the SnowSport brand, you can use a rear 2" hitch or have a hitch shop build you one. The 2" hitch just needs to be between 9" to 16" off the ground.
- How much does the plow weigh? The aluminum blade is about 100 lbs. The push frame is about 65lbs and the angling interceptor is 35lbs.
How It Works
1 Year Warranty on Plow/3 Year Warranty on Rubber Blade Portion
SnowSport® Snow Plow Limited Warranty
Agri-Cover, Inc. extends the following limited warranty on its SNOWSPORT snow plow to the original retail purchaser of any SNOWSPORT Utility Plows purchased after April 1, 2010:
Agri-Cover, Inc. warrants its SNOWSPORT Utility Plow to be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use for one (1) year from date of manufacture unless accompanied by proof of purchase and separately warrants only the Rubber Blade Portion of the SNOWSPORT Utility Plow to be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use for three (3) years from date of manufacture unless accompanied by proof of purchase.
ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY APPLICABLE TO THE SNOWSPORT UTILITY PLOW IS LIMITED IN DURATION TO ONE (1) YEAR FROM THE DATE OF MANUFACURE UNLESS ACCOMPANIED BY PROOF OF PURCHASE AND ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY APPLICABLE ONLY TO THE RUBBER BLADE PORTION OF THE SNOWSPORT UTILITY PLOW IS LIMITED IN DURATION TO THREE (3) YEARS FROM THE DATE OF MANUFACTURE UNLESS ACCOMANIED BY PROOF OF PURHCASE. Agri-Cover's sole obligation under this warranty or any implied warranty is limited to the repair or replacement at its option, of defective parts only. No labor or service allowance is given or implied. IN NO EVENT SHALL AGRI-COVER, INC. BE LIABLE FOR INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES. Some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts or exclusions of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations and exclusions may not apply to you.
For warranty performance call our Customer Service Department at 877-216-5446 to determine if a replacement part is needed or if the product needs to be returned for inspection and repair. Warranty registration must be on file and/or proof of original purchase (detailed and dated receipt) required for warranty to be effective. Goods to be returned must have a pre-authorized RA # (Returned Authorization Number) – obtained by calling the number above. Agri-Cover will pay freight to return goods to sender.
This limited warranty does not cover any failure due to abuse, misuse, alteration, neglect, improper assembly or installation, or improper maintenance.
This limited warranty gives you specific legal rights and you may have other rights which vary from state to state.
|SnowSport Snow Plow Warranty
The SnowSport HD plow offers an easy, at home no drill installation (some front hitch mounts may require minor drilling). The installation manual is clear cut and easy to read. For additional information, please see the installation instructions and videos below. You can always give us a call toll free if you have any questions or if you just want to chat.


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First, go play all the way through this Google Doodle. Then come back. Okay, now that you've got your childhood adventure time in, let's talk.
Yesterday's Google Doodle celebrated the 107th anniversary of Little Nemo in Slumberland, a comic strip by Winsor McCay that hit the presses for nine years. McCay's work might look familiar, even if you've never seen it, because it inspired people like Maurice Sendak and Alan Moore. McCay's drawings are whimsical, colorful and, well, just go look at them.
The Los Angeles Times say that McCay's drawings were inspired by the inner workings of his mind:
McCay, born in Canada in 1867, is best known for "Little Nemo," the fantastical and magical Sunday comic strip that began in October 1905. Nemo was created during an eight-year period when, propelled by "inner demons," McCay "was compelled … to draw and draw and draw."
After Little Nemo, McCay went on to create "The Story of a Mosquito," in which a mosquito encounters a drunk man, and to experiment with the beginnings of animation.
Here's the full Doodle, although you have to click through it to see the animations.
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Never use a small plastic container to house your hermit crabs. They need plenty of room to climb and move around. The smallest enclosure you should use for two small to medium sized hermit crabs is a 10 gallon aquarium. Housing multiple medium sized hermit crabs or two large hermit crabs can require an aquarium as large as 30 or 40 gallons.
Hermit crabs are good escape artists, so the enclosure will need a secure lid. If your house is humid and warm, you can use a wire mesh lid with latches. However, if there is a chance that the dry air in your home will affect the humidity levels of the habitat, we recommend the use of a glass or Plexiglas lid. You could also use a wire mesh lid with most of the lid covered by plastic wrap.
Though it is important to keep the enclosure warm, never place it on a windowsill or anywhere else that it will be in direct sunlight. This will raise the temperature dangerously high, and you run the risk of actually baking your hermit crabs.
You should choose a substrate that is easy to clean and that will allow your hermit crabs to tunnel and burrow in it. The two preferred substrates are sand and coconut fiber substrate. You can purchase special terrarium sand or play sand. Coconut fiber substrate works well also, and is especially good for tunneling and burrowing. Many hermit crab owners elect to use a combination of the two. Crushed coral is also an option for substrate. Avoid gravel, wood chips, or other substrates that are unsafe or do not allow them to dig.
Decorations and Accessories
Hermit crabs love to climb, so they will need plenty of accessories in their cage for entertainment. The following items work well as decorations in a hermit crab enclosure:
In addition to the above accessories, you will also need to place two water dishes in the habitat - one for fresh water and one for saltwater. They should be big enough that your hermit crabs can submerge themselves, but set up in such a way that it is easy for your crab to get in and out of them. The fresh water container should hold spring water or de-chlorinated water. The saltwater container should be a mixture of de-chlorinated or spring water and a special aquarium salt mix (regular table salt is not acceptable). We recommend putting these dishes in a low area of the habitat to mimic a shoreline, as hermit crabs would generally live near the ocean.
You should also place extra shells around the habitat for the hermit crabs to change into. There should be at least three shells per hermit crab, and the shells should be at least as big as or slightly larger than the crab's current shell.
Humidity levels are very important to the survival of hermit crabs. Hermit crabs have modified gills that allow them to breathe, but to be able to breathe, they need to breathe moistened air. Air that is too dry will actually dry out their gills, making it increasingly difficult to breathe until they finally end up suffocating. This is why their habitat needs to have a moist, tropical feel and a relative humidity that is no lower than 70%.
To help keep humidity levels where they need to be, keep the substrate damp, and avoid using substrates that do not retain moisture well. However, the substrate should not be soaking wet, as humidity that is too high can cause health issues as well. We recommend moistening the low and middle areas of substrate while leaving the higher hills dry. You can also mist the entire enclosure daily to provide plenty of moisture in the air.
Another way to maintain humidity levels is to use bubble bowls made from airstones, airline tubing, and air pumps typically used for aquariums. Simply put an airstone in the bowl of water and use the tubing to connect the airstone to the pump. This will cause the water in the bowl to bubble and circulate, increasing humidity as well as helping to keep the water fresh.
Always have a hygrometer in the habitat to monitor humidity levels. Guessing or approximating humidity levels can result in the death of your hermit crab. Be sure to check whether your hygrometer measures relative or actual humidity. Relative humidity levels should be 75% to 90%. Actual humidity levels will be approximately 50% to 60%.
Keeping within your hermit crab's temperature range is equally as important. Temperatures that are too high will cause irreversible heat damage, and improperly low temperatures will alter a hermit crab's metabolism. You may need to use outside heat sources to maintain temperatures within the habitat, especially during colder winter months. Primary heat sources can include under tank heaters and 15 watt reptile heat lamps. The temperature of the habitat should always be monitored with a thermometer.
Many people do not use special lights for their hermit crab's habitat, but lights can be very beneficial, both for providing healthy daylight and for maintaining proper temperature. When choosing lights, pay close attention to wattage. Lights with a high wattage over a small tank will cause the humidity to drop below proper levels as well as raise the temperatures into a dangerous range for your crabs. We recommend the use of a 15 watt bulb for a 10 gallon tank. The bigger the tank, the higher the wattage can be, such as a 60 watt bulb for a 55 gallon tank.
Lights that you can use include fluorescent bulbs that provide UVB and UVA light, incandescent bulbs, nighttime heating lamps, or a combination of these. You should use a timer to make sure that the light cycles are maintained appropriately.
Regular cleaning is necessary to keep your hermit crabs healthy and their environment safe. The following tasks should be part of your cleaning routine:
A Note about Safety
Always set up the enclosure before bringing home your hermit crabs. It is crucial that you stabilize the temperature and humidity levels before putting any crabs in the habitat. The hermit crabs you bring home will already be under stress, and putting them into an enclosure with improper or fluctuating temperatures and humidity levels can cause serious adverse side effects including lethargy, loss of limbs, and even death.
Setting Up the Habitat
Now that you know what should go into the habitat, it's time to learn exactly how to set it up! The following list will give you a step by step guide to setting up your crabitat.
Once the temperature and humidity levels are stable, you can place your hermit crabs in the habitat.
As you can see, properly caring for hermit crabs takes time and effort. Though they are often purchased as pets for children, we recommend that they remain a family pet with the responsibility of day to day care and habitat maintenance falling on a parent.