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One type of diagnostic imaging we provide at Envision Radiology is MRA Scans (Magnetic Resonance Angiogram). MRA scans are obtained using the same kind of scanning machine as an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan. The machine combines radiofrequency waves with a strong magnetic field to generate images with incredible detail of your body’s blood vessels.
MRA scans are most often used to take a look at the vessels in your neck, kidneys, legs, and brain. Once the scans are obtained, the information they provide gives your doctor information about the health of your blood vessels and blood flow. These scans can be kept on film or a computer and are examined to find any abnormalities. Sometimes, a contrast dye is injected into the vein of your arm to make your blood vessels easier to see in the resulting images.
Do not eat or drink for at least four to six hours before the test.
Change into MR appropriate attire, such as medical scrubs (top and pants) or a hospital gown provided at the facility.
Remove all metallic objects, such as hearing aids, jewelry, hairpins and the like.
If you have any questions, consult with the technologist before you enter the MR suite.
During an MRA, the area of your body being studied is placed inside an MRI machine. You may be injected with contrast dye intravenously before the imaging begins. Then, you will lie on a padded bed that fits into a large, enclosed cylinder. This is what contains the MRI magnets. Throughout the procedure, you will be asked to remain as still as possible as movement can distort the scan. The whole time you’ll be able to talk to the technician via a microphone that is inside the machine.
When the scan is working, the machine will make loud thumping sounds. If you need to block the noise, ask for earplugs or headphones so you can listen to music. The whole procedure usually takes only 30 to 90 minutes, but it can last longer if you had a contrast dye injected.
You can find Envision Radiology imaging centers in Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Louisiana. Be sure to check ahead of time to see if MRA services are offered since each location has its list of imaging procedures it provides.


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Updated February 23, 2019. Congratulations to Richard Beyma tournament winner.
*Round 4 ended on February 22, 2019.
*Round 3 ended on January 3, 2019.
*Playing as eliminator. **Round 2 ended on October 17, 2018.
* Playing as an elimintor. **Resigned or forfeited game. ***Round 1 ended on August 13, 2018.

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Ottawa Real Estate Update: Our Phones Are Ringing!
Ottawa Real Estate is on the minds of many.
Although many took time to be thankful and spend time with loved ones, some were Real Estate planning for the week ahead. While taking in the beauty of the Ottawa valley and enjoying the holiday weekend our phones were ringing and we were making appointments to show homes for sale in Ottawa and appraise properties for this week. Our web site hits were up and our curb side marketing was well visited over the last few days. The people we spoke with feel the market has settled and they are moving forward in the buying and selling process comfortable knowing they will be doing so thinking clearly and enjoying the experience. “I was told that the HAMRE TEAM marketing strategy is what attracted these people to call us” says John Humphreys, sale associate with Hamre Team at RE/MAX metro city in Ottawa.
For knowledgeable, experienced Real Estate guidance call the HAMRE TEAM today and experience the difference.

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The Hall Johnson Spirituals Competition will be held in 2020 for college undergraduates, offering a $2,000 first prize to the winner with the best performance at the NATS National Conference in Las Vegas. The competition will then be held biennially until 2036. The next NW Region Hall Johnson Competition will be held in March 2022. The purpose of the competition is to restore authenticity to the performance of the classically arranged Spiritual, one of America's unique contributions to world culture. Characteristics of Gospel and Jazz, styles that developed later but are far more popular and ubiquitous, have so corrupted Spiritual performance that authentic practice is in danger of being lost. The competition seeks further to promote the truth that Spirituals, like Art Songs, can be successfully performed by all people, not only by the African-Americans who created them, and require only the same study that one devotes to any art song or aria. Complete details, including a repertoire list and other resources, are available here on the national NATS site. Video Submission and Registration Deadline for the Northwest Regional round is March 10, 2020.
All interested performers will apply for this category as part of regional student auditions with the top five regional singers advancing to the NSA Hall Johnson rounds.
This competition will only take place in years leading up to a national conference in the summer of even years. Region auditions are by video in the Northwest with a deadline of March 10th, 2020.
Repetoire: All repertoire is sung from memory Three contrasting selections from Official Hall Johnson spiritual repertoire.

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Acting DOE Deputy Commissioner Suzan Beaudoin told the Education Committee Thursday she could not say when districts will be getting spreadsheets (ED 279s) showing what they can expect in state aid next year based on the far reaching changes in the funding formula proposed in the governor’s budget.
“At this point I don’t know what to give them,” Beaudoin said, adding state law requires the department to give districts an estimate of their funding levels in February. Official funding levels are not set until the budget is passed by the full Legislature and becomes law, which in a biennial budget year can be as late as July 1.
While on paper the budget cuts General Purpose Aid by $9.5 million from current year levels, there are much greater impacts imbedded in the proposal because more funding is targeted and pulled out from general distribution.
Beaudoin categorized the governor’s budget as making “major reforms” to the Essential Programs and Services funding formula. The governor’s budget makes 48 changes to EPS – policy proposals that many feel do not belong in a budget and should be discussed separately.
Chief among them is the elimination of any funding for system administration that includes central office functions and support staff, superintendents and assistant superintendents, the business office and support for School Boards.
The budget proposes taking $5.5 million each year in GPA that would have been distributed to districts and using it to fund regional education service agencies that school districts can contract with for services.
Nationally the model is called BOCES or Boards of Cooperative Education Services, which was created in the 1950s in New York State. There is mixed reaction in that state on whether the model saved money over time or simply added a layer of bureaucracy between the state and its school districts.
The budget also proposes another $5 million each year be made available to fund grants for more grassroot efforts to reduce costs and regionalize services.
The DOE also is proposing eliminating the declining enrollment adjustment for school districts who under the current formula are given more time to absorb the loss by averaging student counts over a longer period of time.
The budget slightly increases funding for minimum receivers, from 30 percent of special education costs to 33 percent.
The Education Committee is expected to get a more detailed briefing, possibly next week. Public hearings on the biennial budget have not yet been scheduled before the Appropriations Committee, but the expectation is sometime early February.


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Many people look forward to owning a boat for years. If your dream of purchasing a water craft has finally come true, it’s likely you can’t wait to get out on the waters ASAP. Well, before you do that, you need to do a few things first to keep your boat safe and get the most out of your boating experience.
You’ve invested a significant amount of money on your boat, and it’s wise to keep your investment in the best shape possible for as long as you can. The first thing you need to do is protect your boat from things that would threaten its body, such as the harsh elements. Buy one of those high-quality custom pontoon boat covers and keep your boat covered when not using it.
Operating a boat is an exciting experience, but it can also be hazardous. Before you get out on the waters, it is imperative that you receive the necessary training, pass the required tests and obtain a boater’s license. Without proper boating skills, you put the occupants of your boat at great risk if you operate the vessel. Plus it is illegal to maneuver a boat without a license.
Proper boat maintenance is by far the best way to keep your water craft functioning safely and efficiently for a long time. Consider taking boat maintenance lessons now that you’ve purchased your first vessel. In these classes, you learn how to take care of the engine, clean the hull, and so on. It’s worth the time and money.
Your boat is a substantial investment, and it ’s so you enjoy it for as long as possible. It’s something you can do by taking just a few deliberate steps.

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When Blogger Jenny Wu, of Good, Bad, & Fab, threw her own baby shower, we knew it would be something special! The metallic winter baby shower is covered in shining silver and gold and mixed with modern furniture and lounge vignettes. It’s as good as gold! Here, she shares not only the day-of photos, but also her design inspiration.
It took us a while to find the perfect location for our co-ed baby shower. We wanted a space big enough to accompany about 60 to 70 guests but that still felt warm and cozy for our white, silver and gold wintery theme. In the 11th hour, I booked a two-story loft penthouse with a rooftop in Santa Monica! The space was already nicely decorated with warm copper and woodsy hues. It just needed some finishing touches to make it feel like a baby shower. Finally, we were able to transform the space into a festive wintery wonderland! Thanks to the help of my event planner Cynthia Alexander of An Enlightened Event and my florist Drew Rios of Rogue + Fox Floral Co.
Floral Design: Rogue and Fox Floral Co.

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In 1984, Jim Haslam, founder of Pilot Travel Centers, started a program called Leadership Knoxville. The idea was to bring together local leaders for a 10-month learning experience to explore community issues and make connections that would lead to a stronger Knoxville. In the 23 years since, some 1,300 leaders in business, education, healthcare, government, religion, nonprofit, and arts organizations have participated in the program.
Every fall, a new Leadership Knoxville class takes an overnight retreat to kickoff the program. The trip is designed to break the normal routine and provide an opportunity for new class members to meet each other, and forge friendships that will build a greater community. For the past 20 years, the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts has hosted the Leadership Knoxville retreat at its serene campus tucked into the woods in Gatlinburg.
The Leadership Knoxville Class of 2017 retreat was special in many ways. We worked in teams to survive a simulated desert airplane crash. We painted and sculpted under the tutelage of the Arrowmont masters. We participated in the long-standing tradition of a group square dance, meant to instill a sense of teamwork and accomplishment. And we stayed up into the wee hours enjoying fellowship and building friendships that will last a lifetime.
The dorms where we talked and slept burned to the ground exactly three months later.
It was a terrible night last November 28. The fire raced through Gatlinburg, taking a dozen lives and injuring hundreds more. Heroic first responders from across East Tennessee saved thousands of lives and structures. Once the smoke cleared, we learned that the fire caused more than $500 million in damage. Among those structures lost were the two dorms where we stayed for the Leadership Knoxville retreat.
What could we do to help? My classmate Beth Haynes, news anchor for WBIR, reported live from Gatlinburg during the fires. She joined Dolly Parton a month later on the Smoky Mountains Rise telethon to share personal stories from the fire. Another classmate Lee Tramel, deputy chief of the Knox County Sheriff’s Office, coordinated people and aid during the fire, and shared tips for helping victims. Other classmates gave generously of their time and money to aid our neighbors in Gatlinburg.
My class, together with all Leadership Knoxville alumni, want to show our appreciation to Arrowmont for its long-standing partnership. We want to help it rebuild so that it can continue its decades-long reputation around the world as a visual arts education showplace. Tammi White, Daryl Brady, and the team at Leadership Knoxville had an idea for our class project to do just that: a community-wide effort to break the record for the World’s Largest Square Dance. All proceeds would benefit the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.
So, on behalf of the Leadership Knoxville Class of 2017, I want to invite you to grab your boots and join us for The Smoky Mountain Hoedown. It’s happening Thursday, May 25, from 6:00pm to 8:30pm at 510 Center, McGhee Tyson Airport. We need your help to break the record for World’s Largest Square Dance. More importantly, we need your support to help Arrowmont rebuild and rebound after a devastating fire. Your ticket purchase and any additional donation is tax deductible as a charitable contribution.
Tickets are available online at leadershipknoxville.com or by calling 865-523-9137. Grab a partner and I’ll see you there!


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DUI - State v D.F.
Client charged with DUI and DUI drugs after being found by police passed out in his vehicle in the middle of a roadway. Negotiated a dismissal of the DUI and DUI drug charges in exchange to a plea of guilty to a civil traffic violation. Client avoided jail, a suspension of his license and mandatory fines.

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I love your blog; you are a true inspiration! Thank you for all your hard work in coming up with great recipes for us.
Yes I've been trying to leave a comment for about two months now! When it asks if you are a robot or not, somehow I can never seem to type the correct words in! I just love love love your blog and the way you just sit down and write about the recipe. Very easy to understand and helpful hints. Your Christmas dinner was gorgeous looking!
Looks amazing! Loving everything I've made on here. I do have a request :) I'm in Colorado and Saturday is a huge party day for Broncos fans. Do you have any wheat/grain free appetizer recipes to share? I can't think of anything to bring and totally committed to eating this way. Thank you!
Hi Kimberly -- you could always make little meatballs or little skewers with cubed cheese, veggies, meats...you could bring a homemade ranch dip (with fresh herbs) and veggies to dip...someone has posted a sausage ball recipe on the WB page before -- just like regular sausage balls only they substituted almond flour for the normal biscuit mix you mix the sausage with...are you thinking a hot appetizer or cold or what kind of thing do you like?
YUM!! I only made a half batch, but will definitely make again! I forgot the parmesan until after it was out of the oven, so just sprinkled it on top. I dry fried a bag of the skinny dip fettucine noodles and loved the entire thing! Now the hard decision - which of your other recipes do I try next????
They are 0 carb, 0 calorie, 100% gluten free noodles by a company called skinny dip. Another company that makes them is called miracle noodle, but those have to be refrigerated, while the skinny dip brand don't. They are made from the root of the konjac plant. The texture takes a little getting used to, but for 0 calories, 0 carbs, and gluten free, I will take it! They also don't have any soy in them. This company also sells a couple other shapes, along with rice pearls. Their website is www.skinnydipnoodles.com.
This sounds wonderful - we will be having this one night this week! I just found your blog about a week ago and just love it. My husband is diabetic, and we just found out our son & I have wheat/grain sensitivities, so I am really just learning how to cook/eat grain & sugar-free. Your blog is so helpful. The pics are great, and your tips really help. I've already tried a few of your recipes, and my family loved them. Thank you so much for sharing your creations and knowledge.


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South America’s Chile has it all; From mountains and forests to deserts and beaches. Bounded by the Andes mountain range Chile has a geography like no other.
Out-of-this-world landscapes, a mysterious remote pacific island, heart pounding activities in the Lake District and cathedrals of rock and Ice in Southern Patagonia.
Whether you love outdoor activities like mountaineering or more leisurely pursuits like wine tasting or exploring cities; let me show you the amazing places to visit in Chile.

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text: Visiting The Dunes Cafe will be an unforgettable culinary experience! Our restaurant, nestled inside our impressive gallery, overlooks beautiful gardens, fountains and water ponds. Chef Norman Day, award winning Island Chef, creates tantalizing dishes featuring fresh local produce and seafood, Island beef and homemade desserts, that are beautifully presented on Dunes handmade pottery, made in our studio by Peter Jansons, potter and owner. Open June 8 to October 14.


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Eric: Hey Mom. I'm sorry about tonight.
Lily: Oh, we'll talk about it in the morning. After you had a good night sleep in your own bed.
Lily: I'm not sure exactly how this is gonna work, you know.
Eric: I'm not worried. (smiles) It's a good thing I didn't unpack.
Blair: Okay, I have a problem. I have a big problem! It starts with a capital RX.
Nurse: What drugs have you been taking?
Blair: Caffiene, Nicotine, Cadimine, Disprine, LSD, Driazapam, Flurazepam. All the pams really, I don't discriminate.
Nurse: Code yellow, floor six. Why don't you wait right here? I'll get a doctor.
Blair: And I'd love a cappuccino!
I'm sorry. I don't know why I just said anything like that. I have, I have this thing, like a nervous tick. My mind never stops speaking, in like, ever. In fact when I was a little boy, my mom used to say there was never a word I met that I didn't like. You know what else I like? Your daughter. I, I really like your daughter.
Spotted on the steps of the Palace -- Cinderella stepping onto a pumpkin instead of her carriage. Lucky for Lonely Boy, there's more than one stable filling our inbox.
Blair: Alright, who's ready for a game of Truth or Dare?
Jenny: Oh, I love Truth or Dare. Once, I had to eat an entire bag of marshmallows.
Alright, alright. (loosening his tie) Well, then. If it's a real Dan Humphrey date that you want, then it's a real Dan Humphrey date that you're gonna get. Let's go.
Rufus: (answering the phone) This better not be my wife.
Lillian: Rufus! You always answer the phone like that?!
If Blair has got to watch her back, Serena needs to keep an eye on her heart. We hear it may have been stolen by Lonely Boy.
I figured social climbing would be more fulfilling.
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Gossip Girl: Too bad no one told him: you can't save a damsel if she loves her distress.
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Welcome to www.sethaweinstein.com. The official website of Seth A. Weinstein Licensed Professional Counselor. Specializing in addiction, trauma and codependency.
I provide a full range of counseling services for individuals and couples. I specialize in the treatment of addictions, trauma and codependency issues and utilize a unique combination of therapies including EMDR and Post Induction Therapy, to unlock the greatest potential for healing, transformation and growth.
If you have concerns for yourself, a family member or friend, I would be happy to speak with you and answer any of your questions or set up an initial appointment.
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Chris Bohjalian is a highly acclaimed American author of nine New York Times best-sellers and fifteen books in total. Chris’ Swedish-Armenian background has deeply influenced his work and his close study of the human psyche is frequently praised by critics. Chris’ work ranges from re-imagining Romeo and Juliet in the Second World War to fiction based on the Armenian Genocide.
As a prolific author, Chris has been awarded the ANCA Freedom Award for his work educating Americans about the Armenian Genocide as well as being nominated as a Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. Chris’s work has also been featured in the Washington Post, Cosmopolitan, Reader’s Digest, and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. His ability to use modern day themes within historical events has made Chris a top listed author in the US. His newly released books consistently gain positive reviews for their plot and themes.
Chris studied at Amherst College and has written a weekly column for the Burlington Free Press newspaper since 1992. Chris’ work is varied and inspiring. His novel “Midwives” was chosen by Oprah Winfrey to be part of Oprah’s Book Club. Chris’ ability to cover a broad range of topics makes his work engaging and informative.
"Chris' work has a unique ability to comment on human relationships within a variety of complex settings. Chris is a well respected commentator on the Armenian Genocide and a prolific author with vast experience of the literary world."

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Physiotherapy is a long and difficult process for people who need rehabilitation. Mira is designed to make the dull and painful physiotherapy fun and engaging.
Many patients are reluctant to perform physical therapy after an injury or a surgery, because it’s often painful or boring. However, physiotherapy after surgery is the key to a full recovery. Mira is a medical software application which turns physical and cognitive exercises into interactive video games.
The only requirement is a compatible computer and Microsoft Kinect for XBOX 360 Sensor, which detects movements of the patients and transfers them to a screen. The software is designed as a therapist tool for neurological or orthopaedic conditions and can be used with patients aged 3 to 102 year.
The application can be fully customized and tailored to the patient’s needs. Mira also tracks the patient’s progress, allowing therapists to adjust the treatment accordingly. All data gathered by Mira are available to the therapists, that can easily see the patient’s performance. This keeps them motivated, as they feel more responsible for their progress.
At MIRA, our goal is to motivate people to get better in a faster, easy and fun way.
How Did the Founders Come up With This Idea?
The CEO and co-founder of Mira, Cosmin Mihaiu, realized that many patients hated physiotherapy. In fact, he had to go to physical therapy after an injury as a young boy. He found the exercises boring and barely followed the treatment. In result, the whole process of recovery took him twice longer. The majority of the patients simply don’t do their exercise, because they lack the motivation as they don’t see the results immediately.
He and his three friends thought: “Wouldn’t it be great if patients could play their way to recovery?” That’s when they started to build Mira. They further plan to develop exercises also for children with autism, mental health or speech disorders.
Check out Mira’s website or their Facebook for more details.
Magdalena is writing about innovations and recent investments in the startup world. Originally coming from Slovakia, Magdalena has been writing for one of the largest consumer electronics retailers in Europe and has now immersed herself into the world of startups. Her educational background in Finance and Business Informatics has given her a broad base from which to approach many topics. In addition to that, she is a tech geek, passionate photographer and a lifelong dog lover.


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When it comes to government housing projects on the African continent, plenty of planning and provision of necessary services will be required to make these bulk housing schemes a success. The South African government has come up with an infrastructural programme that will provide access to modern and effective services like electricity, water, telecommunications, transport, health, education and training for its entire people. A mass housing programme can help generate employment, sills and economic activity, both directly and indirectly and should help ensure peace and stability.
Apart from working with town planners, landscapers and architects, engineers play a huge role in providing bulk housing projects with services such as water, sanitisation, waste management, etc.
Across Africa there has been lack of experience in tackling such huge public housing projects, but in South Africa, with the help of highly skilled professional engineers, the N2 Gateway is the biggest public housing project in South Africa’s history to date. The project is ambitious and far sighted. It seeks to develop sustainable human settlements for the future rather than focusing purely on the delivery of masses of tiny identical homes in only poor communities. The aim has been to deliver houses that provide security, comfort and dignity to many low income families and to provide them all with a sense of pride and focus.
Some engineering services include bulk water supply which includes providing water to each erf and water reticulation should be installed with meter connections to each stand. Fire provision services would mean incorporating fire hydrants to appropriate stands.
Bulk collector sewers and pump stations would need to be constructed. This would include the installation of low-flush toilets in suitable housing structures. Measurement of night flow and protection from storm water ingress, construction of ablution facilities in public areas are all integral services that makes an engineer’s job on government housing projects so important.
Waste Management would include providing all families with refuse bins and the construction of transfer stations to compact waste for transport. There would also need to be local offices equipped so that residents can contact the service provider, lay complaints, collect refuse bags, etc.
Electrical services street lights, aesthetic public open space lighting and pre-paid meters all need to be taken into account as well as surfacing of roads and construction of sidewalks for pedestrians to improve traffic and pedestrian safety.
Transportation studies would need to be studied by the engineer for access to railways, roads and facilities. Traffic management measures which includes the construction of speed humps, road constrictions or even the closure of certain of the long, narrow downhill roads to reduce speeding, improve safety and prevent the practice of trenches or dangerous speed humps constructed by residents as well as the construction of taxi ranks all make engineering services an absolute must in the construction of government housing projects.
The last few years saw marked improvements in housing developments in integrated human settlements. The approach contributes to the improvement of living conditions of the beneficiaries. Challenges, however, remain but they are being steadfastly confronted as government try and contribute to the creation of a nonracial, nonsexist and socio-economically integrated societies.


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The property PA-16163 is a 190 square meter new house with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms that is available for sale. It is part of the Baan Panalee Banna project in Huai Yai, Pattaya and was completed in 2014 Dec. You can buy this house freehold for a base price of ฿7,543,630 (฿39,703/Sq.M).
I am interested in unit PA-16163 at Baan Panalee Banna. Please send me more details.
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Since 1998, the Moss Research vision has remained the same, to create the ideal surfing experience through intuitive and dynamic design. Our purpose as craftsmen, is to provide our customers with the highest level of performance and reliability; this should not come at an expense to human health or the environment. The historical model of toxic and disposable, petrochemical-based surfboard manufacturing is outdated, un-sustainable and increasingly obsolete. As an environmentally dependent global surfing community of 16 million and growing, it is imperative we become the catalyst for change by supporting sustainable practices, conscious consumerism and local industry.
Moss Research Surfboards is a grassroots organization with global reach, committed to producing the highest quality products, whose mission is to minimize our environmental impact by innovating and implementing the most sustainable practices possible. Thus, we only build surf-crafts the eco-friendly way. By utilizing our close relationships and feedback from brand ambassadors and professional test pilots, we implement a manufacturing process that balances our core values of sustainability and our devotion to achieving the highest level of performance. Support healthy environments and healthy systems while taking your surfing to new levels of stoke and sustainability.


text: Damage to left hemisphere cortical regions can variously disrupt lexical-semantic and sublexical procedures for reading and spelling. Ideally, treatment for these impairments should be well-suited to the specific deficit(s) and support a progression toward maximal recovery. In this study, we implemented a diagnostic and treatment algorithm to address written language impairments in a heterogeneous group of individuals with acquired alexia and agraphia. Following syndrome classification, participants were entered into the appropriate stage of a treatment continuum that included lexical, phonological, and interactive approaches. Outcomes from 20 individuals characterize the therapeutic effects of each treatment relative to specific alexia/agraphia profiles.


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WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined concerns regarding several proposals aimed at addressing the growing debt crisis in Puerto Rico and said Congress must first have access to clear and thorough information regarding the territory’s financial health before charting a course forward.
Mr. President, I rise today to speak on Puerto Rico’s financial and economic challenges.
The government of Puerto Rico tells us that the territory has more than $73 billion in debt that is, to use their words, “not payable.” On top of that, Puerto Rico has tens of billions of dollars in unfunded pension liabilities and very few real assets to back its pension promises.
The economy in Puerto Rico has persistently registered double-digit unemployment rates, staggeringly low labor force participation rates, and a bloated public sector. And there are growing strains on Puerto Rico’s health care system, some of which reflect the way the so-called Affordable Care Act was written to treat Puerto Rico and other territories. And some of which reflects differing treatment between Puerto Rico, where residents do not pay federal personal income taxes, and states, where residents are included in the federal personal income tax system.
In short, Mr. President, there is very little good economic news coming from Puerto Rico these days.
As a result, we’re seeing an ongoing debate about what the federal government can or should do in order to help the American citizens residing in Puerto Rico. And, to me, this debate boils down to four relatively simple questions.
Question Number One: Should the federal government allow Puerto Rico access to Chapter 9 of the Bankruptcy Code or to even broader debt-resolution tools?
Question Number Two: Will providing fresh tax incentives to Puerto Rico help boost the island’s economy by creating jobs and stimulating growth?
Question Number Three: Should Congress increase federal resources to help ease Puerto Rico’s strained healthcare system?
And, Question Number Four: Should we take steps to exempt Puerto Rico from burdensome federal regulations – including labor, transportation, and energy regulations – that may be contributing to the territory’s ongoing economic struggles?
To date, we’ve seen a number of proposals that attempt to address these and other questions, though, in my opinion, many of them do so in some pretty awkward ways. I want to take time today to address each of these four major questions in turn, and, hopefully, shed some light on what we have to consider as we try to address the growing crisis in Puerto Rico.
So far, the majority of the discussion among policymakers with regard to Puerto Rico has focused on Question Number One, allowing access to Chapter 9 bankruptcy relief. As we all know, Chapter 9 applies specifically to financially distressed municipalities who are seeking protection from creditors as they develop and negotiate plans to adjust their debts. Puerto Rico is NOT currently eligible for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, meaning that granting them access to this type of relief will require a legislative change to the Bankruptcy Code, which may come with its own set problems.
Some proponents of a bankruptcy solution for Puerto Rico have argued that the clear language preventing the island from accessing Chapter 9 reflects some sort of drafting error. They argue further that, once Puerto Rico is eligible for Chapter 9 protections, it should apply to debts already incurred.
Now, whether or not the exclusion for Puerto Rico from Chapter 9 was intentional or not, we should keep in mind that there are potential rule-of-law issues at stake when we talk about legislative action to retroactively alter the terms of debt contracts.
Puerto Rico’s creditors entered into their contracts with the various existing risks priced into the agreements in the form of interest rates and other terms. If the island been eligible for Chapter 9 bankruptcy prior to entering into those agreements, creditors would have formed different expectations, likely leading to different terms, including differing interest rates that could have reshaped the demand for Puerto Rican bonds.
This isn’t rocket science, Mr. President, this is Finance 101.
We should be cautious about any legislative action that would alter the terms of existing contracts. At the very least, we should consider what impact extending Chapter 9 to existing Puerto Rico obligations could have on credit transactions moving forward, given that parties set credit agreements based on the laws they expect to apply.
If parties believe there’s a real possibility that Congress might retroactively change those laws in the future, they’re likely to seek different terms or to reevaluate a contract’s potential worth.
Even so, it’s not at all clear that amending Chapter 9 to allow access for Puerto Rico will solve Puerto Rico’s debt problems. Officials from the Obama Administration have argued that Chapter 9 would only cover around 30 percent of Puerto Rico’s outstanding obligations and, as a result, even broader debt-restructuring authority is necessary. Therefore, those in Congress with proposed solutions that center only on Chapter 9 bankruptcy are apparently not aware of the administration’s position.
However, the other non-bankruptcy proposals we’ve seen, which would allow Puerto Rico to handle its debt on its own, are also lacking.
For example, we have seen proposals to allow the Federal Reserve to purchase debt issued by Puerto Rico, and to authorize the Treasury to guarantee bonds issued by the government of Puerto Rico or any of its instrumentalities. Of course, this approach would run the risk of setting very bad precedents for future insolvent entities and is fraught with moral hazard.
Ultimately, those pushing to restructure Puerto Rico’s debt as the sole solution tend to want to simply blame the problems on the creditors, using loose terms like “hedge funds” or “vulture funds.” For these people, punishing the creditors is their desired focus, not because it is a viable solution, but because, at the end of the day, an opportunity for populist rhetoric is itself a valuable commodity heading into a contentious election cycle.
While that approach may help some around here appeal to their political base, it does precious little to help the people of Puerto Rico and ignores the fact that a number of the creditors are middle-class investors and retirees from virtually every U.S. state and territory from Utah to New York to Puerto Rico itself.
Ultimately, whatever case can be made for restructuring authority for Puerto Rico’s debt, there may not be an urgent need for that authority to be granted right away. This is evidenced by the fact that, despite several months of debate surrounding these issues, Puerto Rico has only recently begun negotiating with some of its creditors.
I would hope that, if the need for relief is in fact dire, the government of Puerto Rico will waste no time negotiating and working toward private solutions. If there is no urgency on that front, it will be hard to argue that there is urgent need in Congress to consider proposals relating to Chapter 9 bankruptcy or broader restructuring authority.
So, that’s Question Number One, Mr. President. Let’s talk about Question Number Two, which deals with tax incentives to boost Puerto Rico’s economy.
On the tax front, we’ve seen proposals in Congress to allow residents of Puerto Rico to claim the Earned Income Tax Credit and the refundable portion of the Child Tax Credit on the same basis as other U.S. taxpayers. Likewise, the Obama Administration has indicated support for a similar approach, though they have not provided any real details as to what their proposal would look like.
Proposals like these are problematic for a number of reasons.
As I mentioned, the residents of Puerto Rico are exempt from the federal personal income tax system, meaning they do not pay any personal federal income tax. Therefore, offering these refundable tax credits wouldn’t reduce their tax burden because you can’t reduce a tax burden that is already zero. In other words, these tax credits would ultimately be cash payments offered directly to lower-income residents of Puerto Rico.
On top of that, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit are already rife with fraud and overpayments when they are offered to taxpayers who are required to file a return and can, at least theoretically, incur a tax burden at some future date if their income goes up. Extending these same credits to Puerto Rico could very well introduce a number of threats to the integrity and administration of our tax system.
Those who issue these types of proposals rarely have a solution to these inherent concerns. Moreover, we haven’t seen any public information from congressional scorekeepers as to how much these proposals would cost. I also haven’t heard any proponents of this approach offer so much as a hint about how they would plan to offset the costs, or if they intend to offer any offset at all.
Long story short, Mr. President, most of the tax-related proposals to the Puerto Rico situation leave much to be desired. That’s not to say we shouldn’t do anything in this area. There are, quite likely, tax incentives we could offer to better incentivize growth and labor force participation, and perhaps investment, in the Puerto Rican economy. I think it would be safe to say that Republicans would be open to such a discussion. But, to date, I haven’t seen anything that resembles a serious solution that focuses on the tax code.
This brings us to Question Number Three, dealing with healthcare policy, which has been the primary focus of a number of our colleagues when it comes to these issues.
Here in Congress, we have seen some poorly constructed proposals that, when boiled down to their essence, would allocate more than $30 billion from the general fund directly to Puerto Rico. Of course, that’s not how the proponents describe their ideas. Typically, these proposals are couched as changes to the way Puerto Rico’s share of federal health dollars is determined under existing programs. However, while the issues are admittedly complex, the result is fairly simple: fiscal irresponsibility would be rewarded to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
Don’t get me wrong. We will very likely have to consider ideas to alter the means by which we allocate federal health funds to Puerto Rico. However, if we decide to go that route, it is essential that we move forward in a fiscally responsible manner. To date, I have yet to hear any concrete thoughts from proponents in Congress or from our federal health agencies about how this can be done.
I have heard, however, that the so-called Affordable Care Act is the source of some of the healthcare-related problems faced by Puerto Rico. I’ll leave it those who wrote that law and forced it through Congress on a partisan basis to explain why that is the case.
We now come to Question Number Four, the possibility of providing Puerto Rico with relief from various federal regulations.
We’ve heard a number of ideas in this area, including reforms or exemptions from regulations governing labor markets, shipping, energy costs, and others. While I am inherently sympathetic to proposals to scale back federal regulations, the issues here are very complex, and would become very political in a hurry.
For example, while I haven’t taken any straw polls, I think it is safe to assume that many of my friends on the other side of the aisle would reflexively oppose any attempt to mitigate the application of federal minimum wage regulations to Puerto Rico. This would be puzzling, given that Congress has offered similar relief to other ailing U.S. territories in the relatively recent past. On top of that, the Krueger Report, which was commissioned by the government of Puerto Rico, along with a host of economic analysts across the political spectrum have argued that allowing Puerto Rico the flexibility to set minimum wages that differ from the federal levels would have a positive economic impact and that the current minimum wage levels do not fit productivity conditions on the island.
Still, even in the face of all this evidence and precedent, my guess is that many of my colleagues would take issue with this idea. I’d expect that they’d similarly reject out of hand to any proposals to scale back environmental regulations or rules governing transportation, even if it could be shown that their regulations were having a negative impact and contributing directly to Puerto Rico’s fiscal and economic predicament.
Unfortunately, Mr. President, for a number of our colleagues here in Congress, commitment to ideology too often does not allow room to admit when your policies aren’t working. And, while the situation in Puerto Rico isn’t the first time we’ve seen that come up, I expect we’ll see that happening a lot if we get a chance to consider regulatory relief as a potential solution.
Those are the four main questions we face with regard to Puerto Rico, Mr./Mme. President. While they each come with their own sets of difficulties, those are the basic categories of solutions we’ve seen come to light so far.
Of those four categories, two of them – the tax and the healthcare categories – are interrelated insomuch as members of Congress and administration officials have made them the focus of various ideas to help Puerto Rico improve its fiscal situation and perhaps its economy. While those putting the tax and health proposals forward have largely been silent about what our official scorekeepers – the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation – will say about the costs of their ideas, I have done some of my colleagues’ homework for them.
Adding up the refundable tax credits – including the EITC and the CTC – and health-related resource flows – including changes to Medicaid allocations -- the overall cost looks to be well north of $30 billion, and likely around $40 billion over the next 10 years.
Those are hardly insignificant figures, Mr. President. Questions of funding and resource allocation are always difficult, and they implicate a number of issues. It isn’t as simple as just deciding to give more health funds to Puerto Rico or access to refundable tax credits, because doing so would necessarily mean reduced funding for other federal priorities or increased taxes or yet more federal debt.
True enough, Puerto Rico’s problems are multi-dimensional and complex. And, I don’t know anyone in Congress who is indifferent to the plight of these American citizens. Sadly, those facts don’t make our unpleasant budget arithmetic any easier. If anything, they make it all the more complicated.
That said, regardless of how we move forward, we need to have a clearer picture of what’s going on in Puerto Rico. We need to have the fiscal facts regarding the island’s indebtedness, funding levels, and needs.
Yet, to date, we have not seen any recent audited financial statements from Puerto Rico. Instead, we are being asked to rely on statements and cash-flow analysis commissioned by the government of Puerto Rico. As of right now, finances in Puerto Rico remain extremely opaque and difficult to monitor. Congress should demand independent verification of the territory’s finances before moving forward on any kind of relief package.
Moreover, while we’re hearing horror stories of inadequate cash flow and a liquidity squeeze in Puerto Rico, it’s difficult to ascribe much urgency to the situation when we are still seeing and reading about relatively large outlays for questionable expenses. Indeed, it is hard to believe an entity is in danger of running out of cash when it is paying for a broad public relations and lobbying campaign and when officials are talking about protecting hundreds of millions of dollars in year-end bonuses for government employees.
This brings us to yet another difficult question. I suppose you could call this Question Number Five: What can we do to ensure that Puerto Rico changes its clearly unsustainable fiscal course?
No matter what we do with regard to debt restructuring, tax policy, healthcare policy, or regulatory relief, the solution will ultimately be meaningless if we don’t take steps to ensure that Puerto Rico doesn’t simply continue on the fiscally irresponsible path that brought them here in the first place. Even if every creditor gets a massive haircut and all the requested resources are channeled directly to the island, steps need to be taken to avoid getting into this situation in the future.
Puerto Rico, for some time, has spent more than it takes in from revenues and receipts, and has covered the difference with debt. The debt that has been issued has tapped out virtually every possible expected future receipt of the government, and basic budget arithmetic has caught up with this unsustainable fiscal recipe, and has effectively shut Puerto Rico out of funding markets. In short, Puerto Rico must move to policies that are fiscally sustainable.
Mr. President, that is not me trying to impose on Puerto Rico’s sovereignty.
That is not an agenda of “austerity” at work.
It is just the simple budget arithmetic of the situation. And, before we undertake any effort to provide relief or assistance to Puerto Rico, we need to give this simple math its proper consideration and demand a workable plan for the future.
For its part, the Obama Administration has chosen to remain relatively vague on this issue.
In October, we a saw a joint statement from Treasury, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Economic Council outlining a general plan, which they called a “Roadmap for Congressional Action.” This roadmap contained many of the same general proposals I’ve discussed today with regard to bankruptcy relief, tax credits, and health spending. Conspicuously absent were any proposals for regulatory relief for Puerto Rico. Also absent were any real cost estimates or proposed offsets, just some lip service to the need to undertake these changes in a “fiscally responsible” way.
I’ve made inquiries to various agencies, including Treasury and HHS, with little in the way of detailed response to many of the issues at stake here. It remains puzzling to me that, in the midst of what some in the administration are calling a “humanitarian crisis,” we’re seeing very little engagement from the our health agencies, particularly when so many have been arguing that the crisis stems, in large part, from a lack of healthcare funding in Puerto Rico.
It also seems that provisions of taxpayer-funded technical assistance, which I would think would be considered in any package aimed at Puerto Rico, may be rendered moot given that, as I understand it, Treasury officials are working to wedge such assistance on the sidelines into appropriations vehicles.
Needless to say, before Congress can even begin to consider a significant legislative package to address the situation in Puerto Rico, we need more information from the administration about what it is now doing and what it plans to do in the near future. Put simply, it would not be productive for Congress to move forward on a legislative vehicle costing billions – if not tens of billions – of dollars without knowing beforehand if that legislation contradicts or conforms to the plans of federal agencies.
Long story short, Mr. President, this will likely be a significant undertaking. There are a lot of ideas floating around. Some may work, others clearly won’t.
As the Chairman of the Senate committee with jurisdiction over our tax code and most of the relevant health programs, I am more than willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to find a bipartisan path forward.
To accomplish that goal, we need everyone involved to be upfront and willing to work together. That goes for members of Congress, the administration, and the government of Puerto Rico.
Everyone needs to come clean about the current state of affairs, the specific needs and amounts requested, and the actual costs of any legislative or administrative proposal, and whether they want to offset costs or simply incur more federal debt.
Right now, too many people are willing to throw out demands and vague proposals – with a price tag as high as thirty to forty billion dollars – accompanied by a lot of political rhetoric.
That’s precisely what we do not need.
It will be very easy to play politics with this issue, Mr. President. My hope is that enough of us will be willing to set that aside to allow Congress to do right by our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico.

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Let’s face it: sooner or later you might need to cite to a tweet, as a news source or an attributed quote, or for some other purpose entirely. But the Blue Book or the Maroon Book or whatever book law students use these days probably doesn’t have proper citation style for tweets. So what do you do?
Sperry, Martha  @advocatesstudio “Research Suggests Technology Distracts 2Ls Most During Lectures feedly.com/k/A19xpk hmm. Really?” 8 Mar 2012 10:50 a.m. Tweet.
Simple enough. And now you know.
Finding the needle in your content haystack can be a troublesome affair. I have thousands of old messages in my Gmail, over 11,000 tweets, and lots of other stuff that I have collected over the past few years and have shoved into the virtual shoebox at the back of the closet. The difference between efficiency and wandering aimlessly often comes down to how fast you can retrieve that bit of information you need for a particular matter at a particular time. That is where CloudMagic comes in.
CloudMagic is an Android (and iOS) application that indexes your Google and Twitter content and can retrieve it for you instantaneously with predictive search suggestions as you type. It retains search history for when you may need to come back to your search. It works with Gmail correspondence, calendar events, Google Docs documents, contacts, and tweets and sports some very effective filtering tools. It comes in an Android app and browser extensions for on-line, desktop use. And it’s free.
The application reminds me of Greplin on iOS, but falls short in terms of services it can access. However, it is more than a decent start, particularly if you are tied to an Android platform.
Check out the video below to learn more about this great, cross-platform mobile search tool.
A novel social media / legal experiment is taking place a few miles and minutes from where I am sitting. As of yesterday, anyone with an internet connection can “see” what is happening in the Quincy District Court. Cameras and microphones are operating in the court’s criminal session and proceedings are being streamed live over the Internet at the new website created solely for the project. The project is run by NPR local affiliate WBUR and is being funded by Knight Media and is called, appropriately enough, OpenCourt.us. The goal is to improve transparency and understanding of the judicial process and, hopefully, strengthen “ties” between the public and their courts.
These “ties” include court reporting. In the courtroom there is an operating Wi-Fi network and a space reserved for “citizen bloggers” to share the news with the Internet via blogs, tweets, even Facebook.
The project is not without limitations. The Judge can decide when to shut the camera off, when the need arises. Or to comply with existing court rules or maintain privacy in domestic violence cases. To protect attorney-client communications, there are “privacy” zones in the court room, free from electronic eyes and ears.
If matters proceed positively, the Project partners plan to extend it to other sessions, civil matters and small claims. Because everyone needs to know what is happening in small claims.
All sarcasm aside, I find this project fascinating. In an age where we are constantly admonished not to tweet or reach out where court is concerned (or even are barred from bringing smartphones and laptops into the court room in parts of New York), the Quincy Court’s about-face is somewhat startling. My short answer is that I am all for openness and transparency. But I do wonder what indirect effects the knowledge of constant, anonymous on-line viewing might have on the parties, their counsel and court personnel.
Seems anything can be the subject of scientific study. “Augmented social cognition” researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center are groping for automated ways to cull the “meaning” behind tweets, per MIT’s Technology Review (link here).
The problem: users want to be able to scan a timeline to get the gist of what is going on without having to read every single tweet. This is a real problem when you have more than a 100 follows.
A portion of the study has been devoted to developing a recommendation system, not dissimilar to my6sense, which determines which tweets are most relevant to a user based on that user’s interaction with various tweets and with other users.
Borrowing imagery from a real-world stream and it’s eddies, the Eddie project is also working a “topic browser”, a machine aided inquiry into a Twitter stream that should enable the viewer to get more than simply the keywords; to reach the actual “gist” of the stream.
The topic search aspect is more problematic to implement in that natural language searches apparently rely generally on more text than the 140 character space limit allows. Additionally, there is simply such a vast amount information that it becomes logistically difficult to parse.
The method the research team has developed for dealing with these challenges is to treat a tweet like a search query. Tweets are filtered by removing unnecessary terms (like “RT”). Then the significant terms are pulled using the algorithm, and then run through a search engine, in this case Yahoo’s Build your Own Search Service interface.
In essence, tweets are matched with search results, allowing for a “best guess” as to what the tweet means. Given, however, that the major search engines are now indexing tweets, there is a real possibility that the tweet topic browser could return search results that mirror the original tweet.
The researchers anticipate that the topic browser may be online for live testing this summer. I look forward to playing around with this interesting combination of tweets and search in the pursuit of Twitter-meaning.
Do you save your Twitter tweets? Maybe you don’t have a need to keep all your posts about your last meal or Foursquare check-ins or latest calamity. If you primarily tweet your own blog posts, there are other ways to save that content within your own CMS. But if you use your Twitter stream as a business development tool and frequently save or retweet valuable links, you might want to keep a record of the cool stuff you find and share.
Sure, Twitter has a search function and you can peruse your own profile page to see your latest tweets. But, did you know that Twitter does not store your tweets much past a few days to a couple weeks? If you are relying solely on Twitter, you are missing a great deal of your back story. Friendfeed, for as long as it lasts, offers a fantastic means of saving and searching your own content – simply feed your tweets into the service and use their awesome filter-able search to quickly pull your desired link.
But maybe you aren’t so sure that Friendfeed will be around for the long haul and you still want to be able to put your finger on your Twitter content. As I am always looking for the quick, simple way to store, I feed my tweets into Google Reader. You can find your own Twitter feed RSS towards the bottom right of your page. Anything with an RSS feed can be sucked into Reader. Simple, cloud-based storage that is also searchable within the Reader app.
There are other third party means of archiving your content – Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb has a great list of these tools (link here). The one I find most intriguing (but haven’t yet used) is Twistory (link here) an app that integrates with your calendar to show your tweets over the span of days, months and years. You can even use it to feed in other people’s tweet streams, if you are so interested. Another application, The Archivist (link here) offers a desktop option for saving and storing tweets generated by saved searches. Pretty cool!
If you are like me and share tons of articles, as well as retweet others’ great content, on a regular basis, you might want to consider implementing one of these back-up systems. You never know when an old tweet might contain the precise answer you are looking for.
Need grammar advice in 140 characters or less? Check out ThatWhichMatter ( @thatwhichmatter ) on Twitter for helpful grammar hints. Because sometimes it helps to be reminded whether “between” or “among” is more appropriate in your context before you ask the question.


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I was looking through the narrative (Part II) that I had sent to you earlier and discovered that there were three places where my computer did not change my daughter’s name to Beth, in the photo section, so I changed that. I am trying to keep the spotlight off of my family since this is “the Aden genealogy”. I only tried to mention how I was able to apply what I had learned from doing this genealogy and from having spent so much time with the various Aden families to raising my own daughter and how it helped me become a better parent. Hopefully, other people who read this genealogy might find material and inspiration in it that will help make them better parents too.
If you have not put my Part II — The Narrative — on the Internet yet, can you replace it with the one that I have attached? They are basically the same except my daughter’s real name does not appear in this copy.
This entry was posted in Paul Olson - Aden Genealogy on July 21, 2011 by gregg.
I hope I am not too late to give you my latest version of the Part II narrative to the genealogy. It is the only part that slowly evolves and hopefully improves over time as I occasionally find spelling and grammar errors, computer corruptions, or receive additional information from some source. Here is the latest and most recent version. It is little different from the others, just a tiny bit more up to date and perhaps with a few less errors.
This entry was posted in Paul Olson - Aden Genealogy on June 21, 2011 by gregg.
It is nice to hear from you again. I hope that means that you are feeling better and your foot is also better. I am sending the genealogical chart section again. I must apologize for not following an official genealogical format. I am far from being an expert in those details. I collected my information from various members of the extended Aden Family in the Pacific Northwest and from many other sources including many on the Internet. I tried to record what I wanted in a logical order and sequence, and to give credit to the various sources.
One reason that I continued working on this genealogy was that I found that it was possible to trace it all of the way back to Adam and Eve and to many famous early kings and emperors. That was rather exciting and I learned so much about history and many of the famous leaders of ancient history. I hope that the readers will find it to be as interesting as I did. I found that it also raised many questions, few of which I have answers for or the expertise to answer. I found many mistakes in the works of others that I was using as references and I am sure that people will find some errors in my work also, but I made a special effort to be as accurate as possible and to point out a few problems when I was unable to satisfactorily resolve them.
I hope that the bright sunshine of spring finds both your health and spirits equally as bright and happy and the same for your family. The attachment is my part II of the Aden Genealogy — the short narrative. The narrative is the only part that seems to slowly evolve over time as I discover new information or I receive new information about the Aden family from others. I saved it in Microsoft Word 93 as you requested. It contains quite a few photos, newspapaer clippings, and a letter. I think it is in pretty good order now.
Other than its non-standard format, I think you will find it interesting. It shows that the wife of John Ennen Aden — Freda Gertrude Bryant — was descended from several famous people and from early European royalty. But when you go back a thousand years and more in time, probably most of us are descended from most of those who lived and had children that long ago.
This entry was posted in Paul Olson - Aden Genealogy on May 21, 2011 by gregg.
I followed your directions. Here is the charted genealogy put into Word 2003 format. I hope I was still able to maintain the various links in active status. Since this is in the form of a huge genealogy chart, it is necessary to maintain the various line formats which vary throughout the document. If the line lengths or formats are changed in any way, the whole thing is likely to fall apart and become a useless mess of gibberish. I do not know if you can define it as an “object” rather than a document in order to maintain it intact as it is. I hope that you can use it as it is reasonably good research although I will admit that I left a lot to be desired in terms of proper citations for my sources which I did try to list.
This entry was posted in Paul Olson - Aden Genealogy on February 21, 2011 by gregg.
I am a little concerned about the information that I sent to you. Some of it is genuine genealogical information, but many of my notes are for your eyes only or may be shared only with other close members of the Aden family but not put on the Internet for the general public, because they can not be taken back. My “Points of Interest and Notes” is such an example, where it exposes some of the problems of the western Aden family. Since they are still alive, the notes should not be made public. I have sent you a replacement attachment where the offending notes have been removed. You can make this one public, but please keep the information contained in my other notes and emails to yourself.
To give you an idea of what I did with / for the Adens, they did most of the research and supplied most of the information. Being an engineer, I looked at numbers and looked for inconsistencies. I have some genealogical rules that I made up myself. (1) mothers must be not less than 13 nor more than 40 years older than their children. (2) fathers must be not less than 15 nor more than 60 years older than their children. (3) husbands and wives must be within 40 years of age of each other. (4) marriages must take place when both the husband and wife are at least 15 years old. (5) The mother was pregnant when they got married if the first child is born less than 8 months after their marriage. This may sound like common sense, but you would be surprised at how often these simple rules are violated in established genealogies. If I find parents are too young relative to their children, I suspect that they are siblings rather than parent-child relationships. If they are too old, I suspect that there is a missing generation. At one spot in the early Aden genealogy, I have a situation where the father is listed as being 300 years younger than his daughter. I should not have been the first to have spotted this glaring error.
When we got into biblical times, I found all kinds of genealogical errors which I highlighted in the long Aden genealogy. But I preferred to follow genealogical and numeric logic rather than calling every error a religious miracle. I learned a lot from doing this project and helping out the Aden family with their genealogy project.
The most important thing that I learned is that genetics predicts the potential in accomplishment and achievement that one is capable of but without super-parenting and the nurturing of friends, relatives, neighbors, and family, the greatest part of that potential is likely to remain forever undeveloped. Thus, a family of more average genetic potential, like my own, can often rise above social expectations for them if they are supportive and nurturing of one another in an extreme manner.
I cite my own case as an example. Mrs. Aden wanted her daughter, Nancy, to break off her friendship with me in June 1962 because she though I would never amount to anything more than a bum and would always be an embarrassment to the family. I got a bachelors and a masters degrees in college and married an MD. Our daughter played first chair clarinet in middle school and high school band and orchestra, competed in downhill ski racing for five years, won the state beauty pageant, and graduated from the University of Michigan with honors. She did some professional advertising modeling in magazines and newspapers even though she is only 5′- 4″ tall — a full 4 inches shorter than Nancy. If Nancy would have worked as hard as I did and would have been provided the support that I provided for our daughter, she would have been Miss Washington and competed in the Miss America pageant in the 1960’s. She would have been in the US Olympic swimming tryout finals. She would have been a professional model. And she would have had many friends there to help her and support her. And she would have done the same for her son, Michael.
I think Gary and I could have become good acquaintances as he probably would have enjoyed the challenge of picking up the Aden family as an extended case study and comparing notes and conclusions with me.
I will close at this point. I just want to request that you please be careful what you place on the Internet as it cannot be retracted once it is out there. I have three versions of the genealogy. My public version does not contain any derogatory information or hint that any even exists. The second version says that there are secrets within the family, but does not spell them out, and the third version, which may go to the grave with me, spells out everything I know about the family and is more than 100 pages long. I would appreciate if you did not make any derogatory information about the Aden family public, but instead just keep it to yourself or share it with only those Adens whom you are close to. Since you are also an Aden, you too are probably also genetically gifted as are most of the descendant family. That makes your family special.
You see, it was your ancestors who led us out of the caves hundreds of thousands of years ago, and into the light of day. It was your ancestors who led mankind to where we are today. They were the great thinkers, the idea men, and the scientists. But it was my ancestors and millions of others like them who took the ideas of your ancestors, put bricks and mortar to them, and made them into reality. Today, more than ever before, we need great and gifted people like those of the Aden families to develop themselves to the fullest extent possible and to lead humanity forth once again. That is why I have always nurtured and helped gifted kids and gifted friends of my daughters, taking them on day trips with us and otherwise providing a nurturing environment for them whenever they were with us.
Paul, I will add this stuff to the website and I’m glad you got my email. Everything that you sent me has been put on there except the email I got from you today.
I’ll let you know when I add it as it may take a couple of weeks since I’m working full time now.
You can certainly refer anyone interested to our website www.garycaden.com. I will gladly respond to any inquiry I get.
The other questions you have about the connection between the 2 Aden families I don’t have an answer for and since no one is currently doing any further research in our family, I’m not much help.
Congratulations on finding and getting that new job. With your working now, that must mean that your foot is better now. So all in all, you must be feeling pretty good now. This past week we went to visit a friend of my wife’s who lives east of Savannah, Georgia near the ocean. The water was almost bathtub warm, but because of the wave action stirring up the sandy bottom, viability within the water was only 12-18 inches. We saw about four container ships passing by every day, heading to or from Europe, and found a dead, 2-foot long stingray on the beach. All in all, we had a good vacation.
I am sending you an attachment of what is mostly the genealogical work of Carlin Aden. He was good because he wrote narratives about those relatives where stories had been handed down through family lore and legends over the years. Only an insider Aden would have that kind of information which is rarely included in genealogies. I also added my two-bits worth. The information and data is still raw in the sense that I have not checked the dates against previous information or to see if they were reasonable. I have already found a couple of obvious mistakes in his work, so it is not foolproof.
I translated his work into descendant charts because they could fit on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper. I included about 95 percent of those listed in his index. I have not yet included everyone, but am still taking a look at it. Can you tell me yet how or where the two Aden families are connected? Also, can you tell me how to preserve this work and keep it accessible so if any of the Aden descendants form the Washington / Oregon Aden clan ever wants to pick it up, they will be able to find it?
Phil, I am sorry I haven’t gotten back to you. I just had to stop everything and do nothing but look for a job.
I finally found a job here after 4 months and just started 2 weeks ago.
I have added everything you sent me to our website at www.garycaden.com.
Thanks again so much for sending it to me. I really appreciate it, and I again I apologize for taking so long to get this done.
Note to Aden family: I have added new information to the website thanks to Paul Olson on the Aden Genealogy and also an email from Richard on his ancestor BradleyThomas Bradley of Walton Co., GA whose stepson was William Barkley Allen.
If there is anyone I’m forgetting, please forward to them.
I was happy to receive your reply and to hear that your foot is slowly getting better. I hope your recovery continues at a steady pace with no problems, setbacks, or infections.
I have sent you virtually everything I know about the Aden Genealogy. I worked primarily on the genealogy of the mother of Clifford Aden, Freda Gertrude Bryant, because there was much information available on that line and very little on the Aden name line. Freda was descended about four generations from the family of Daniel Boone, and his genealogy was well researched and written about by most everyone.
I did not do much in the way of serious genealogical research for the Aden’s but instead mostly compiled and consolidated the information that they provided to me. It turns out that two older Adens – Carlin Aden and “T. Sheldon” who was also “Z. Hunter” who were probably Carlin’s younger sister, Wanda Aden Sutich were the only ones of the family clan who were seriously interested in their genealogy. Since no one else had much interest in their work, and I did, they worked with me, I sort of became their hard drive storage device. They grew old and all have since passed on. That leaves me holding the bag with their genealogies and no one who is really interested. Clifford asked that I pass a copy on to his grandson, Michael, and I told him I would – which is much easier said than done. He is 25 now and lives in New Zealand. His mother, Nancy Aden, gave up her US citizenship and fled to New Zealand in the mid 1970’s with her new husband to escape and get away from all of those who knew some of her family secrets, especially those where she disgraced herself in her teen years — and I know more of their family secrets than anybody else outside the family.
I found some of Gary’s genealogical work on the Internet. He was very thorough and possessed expert genealogical skills. His outstanding work makes mine look like that of a third rate piker and a real amateur. I hope you folks are completing anything that he left unfinished and will preserve his masterful work so that all who are on that family line can access it and make use of it for many years into the future.
I hope that we might continue to stay in touch so that we both can tie up the loose ends that connect the two Aden clans. As for me, I am interested in closing out my work on the Washington / Oregon Aden clan and passing it on to those to whom it rightfully belongs — or at least making it eternally available to them in the future. I am closer to 70 now than to 60 and am beginning to realize my own mortality. That plus my wife forever telling me to clean out my junk in the basement means that I must start getting serious about finishing up and closing out all of my various open projects of which the Aden genealogy is one. Another is to go though all of my photos for the past 65 years and either throw them out or write on the back of them what they are. I have books to get rid of, and of course a whole lot more – like my fishing and camping stuff – after I am sure I will not be using them any more. I suppose you many see similar problems among some of your older relatives.
Some friends and I were reminiscing about the past and I found our many memories to be very interesting and wrote them down. Over time, each of us added a few more, and I am sending you the final result as an attachment. I hope you will find something to smile at as you read through it while waiting for your foot to get better.
Take care and may your week ahead be even better than last week.
See below from Gary’s wife about the information you provided. She’s had time to look at it. I haven’t. Looks like their might be a connection between the Aden’s you knew and our family.
Sorry I haven’t gotten back to you. Still looking for a job so that’s consuming all of time right now.
Karla: Just finished reading the research you received and looked at the genealogy listings. The John Aden listings from Woodford County, Illinois correspond to the research I did one time for Gary when I visited my brother near Peoria, Ill. If you look at some of the names of the women and men, they correspond to many of the names that Aunt Elda gave us from her family records. It appears that the step relatives moved onto the West Coast and were lost to the Nebraska relatives. I don’t know about any of his other stories, but he definitely has dates and records that sound authentic.
This entry was posted in Paul Olson - Aden Genealogy on August 21, 2009 by gregg.
I have enclosed part of what I have. The first part is a narrative which will be of little interest to you. It tells mostly which I stuck with this genealogy. The Aden genealogy is actually a single page chart within the narrative. It is but a tiny part of what you have because we quickly ran out of gas (information) on the Aden side. It was the mothers side, the mother of Clifford and Carlin Aden, Freda Gertrude Bryant where all of the family magic occurred. She is descended from the family of Daniel Boone. The Boones are descended from all of the early royalty of Europe. They are descended from the Holy Family and the Roman Emperors, and on back to Adam and Eve. I found all of that on the Internet and in various encyclopedias.
I think Z Hunter and T Shelden are pen-names for the same person, very likely Wanda Aden Sutich or maybe Dorothy King Aden. It could possibly be the daughter of Carlin Aden, Karla Aden. Wanda and Carlin have both passed on and Dorothy is 95 now and no longer into genealogy. Z Hunter was intimately familiar with the family of Clifford Aden and told me several of the family secrets and closet skeletons, which I can not pass on. I have spent about 700 hours with the Adens over the last 50 years.
The narrative explains why I was interested to pursuing this particular genealogy even though I am not a member of the family. Specifically, all of the members of the family are highly gifted genetically, and my hypothesis was that if multiple descendents of Daniel Boone are similarly gifted, could that reflect back on him about 250 years ago? So I developed it as a genetic genealogy. I am unusual in that respect in that I am really sticking my neck out on this one. As an unbiased observer, you can take a look at it and let me know among other things, if I am full of crap, or if I might have a case, albeit a weak one.
Since I am the only one who has ever done this that I know of, I am bound to be off track in some areas. So far I just have not had any critical review. Thank you for just taking a look at it.
Comment: This guy contacted me through the website. This information may or not be relevant for any future genealogy enthusiasts in the Aden family. I am adding it for the soul purpose of possible new information regarding our family.
This entry was posted in Paul Olson - Aden Genealogy on April 21, 2009 by gregg.


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The FAA’s Flight Standards District Office recently added two agents to its permanent team whose responsibilities include Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Edward Santa Elena is the office’s Principal Operations Inspector and Timothy J. Cislo is an Aviation Safety Inspector for Maintenance.
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Salcido founded the Hawaii Drone Club earlier this year, which has hosted several monthly club meetings already. At the June meeting, local drone expert Ted Ralston gave a presentation on a proposed Pan-Pacific quadcopter event, and attendees discussed supporting Community Emergency Response Teams, quadcopter racing, and the need for an advocacy chair.
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