Entries from December 2006

December 20, 2006

North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics

SCHS collects, analyzes, and publishes North Carolina health statistics including vital records (births, deaths, marriages, and divorces), county level information, data on cancer and birth defects, and the North Carolina Health Atlas.
http://www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/

December 10, 2006

Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History

The most visited site in the National Parks system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to popular myth, the Parkway was a New Deal “godsend for the needy,” built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their uniform [...]

December 1, 2006

Using Our Blog’s RSS Feed

Since RSS is a fairly new type of technology, here is a short tutorial on using the RSS feature to receive blog updates.
First, you need to access what is known as an RSS feed reader. There are web-based readers and desktop readers. We would recommend a web-based reader, because these readers allow you to access [...]