This Week's Facts:
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EPA Offers Tips For
Wood-burning Appliance Safety
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Census to Soon Release
Preliminary Data for Indiana
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Help Raise Heart Defect
Awareness Next Week
Celebrate Hoosier Women
Artists in March
Lt. Governor Becky Skillman is
celebrating Women’s History Month in March by highlighting and
acknowledging the contribution Hoosier women artists have made
to Indiana. Female artists from Indiana are invited to submit
their original artwork for consideration. Winning artists will
display their work in the Lt. Governor’s office for one year.
Materials must be submitted by February 18, 2011 and the winning
artwork will be displayed beginning in late March 2011. For more
details and information, please check out the
Celebration of Hoosier Women Artists site.
Submit your artwork and become a part of Indiana’s women’s rich
history!
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Elisabeth
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Federal Documents Librarian
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EPA Offers Tips
for Wood-burning Appliance Safety
 The
storms that swept through the country this week took out a lot
of power lines. In preparation for this, many people bought
generators or stocked up on firewood so they could use
fireplaces or wood-burning stoves for heat. While firewood can
be a great source of heat (and we all know it smells good!), the
EPA wants to be sure that citizens are burning the right types
of wood under the right circumstances. That’s why they’ve
created their
Burn Wise website. Burn
Wise seeks to educate people on what wood to burn and how to
burn it in order to protect your health, your home and the
environment. Their website is full of great tips. For example,
make sure that the wood you burn is
dry – this produces less
smoke and burns more cleanly. You should also make sure that
your chimney is clear of creosote and that your wood-burning
appliance is
installed and maintained
properly. There are also wood-burning stoves that are
EPA approved. If you’re in
the market for a new one, make sure to check for EPA labeling on
it. The Federal Government isn’t the only one with good
information; be sure to also check out IDEM’s
Clean Air Indiana homepage. this is full of clean
air tips as well as information about where to go to report a
problem.
Census to Soon Release Preliminary Data
for Indiana
 The
U.S. Census Bureau released its first wave of 2010 Census data
Thursday to the first four states to receive data for
legislative redistricting – Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey
and Virginia. Each week, the Census Bureau will announce one
week ahead of time which states will be receiving their data.
Indiana will be in the next group of four states to receive its
numbers, along with Arkansas, Iowa and Maryland.
Here is Wednesday’s media
advisory from the Census Bureau’s online
Newsroom, posted after the 2:00 p.m. media
briefing with Census Bureau Director Robert Groves. State
leaders will receive the Indiana redistricting data sometime
next week. On the following day, the Census Bureau will verify
that Indiana has received the data and issue a press release.
Within 24 hours after this, Indiana data will be available on
American FactFinder. An explanation of the process is available
at
Census 2010 - Redistricting Data, First
Look at Local 2010 Census Results, one of the
Census 2010 press kits.
Earlier on Monday, the Census Bureau’s Redistricting Data Office
held a webinar specifically about the new local census data. The
public can view presentation slides
here, made available
through the press kit link above. On the fourth slide, you can
see that based on the census, Indiana had no change in its
number of U.S. Representatives. This first phase of data is only
a small portion of the 2010 Census data that will be released
during the coming year and beyond. As more data is released,
more information on Indiana will become available on the new
version of
American FactFinder and
through the
Stats Indiana and
Hoosiers by the Numbers websites. Here is an
interactive timeline for
Operational Milestones
during the 2010 Census and a descriptive
timetable from the
Population Reference Bureau.
Data available next week will include the following:
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The basic count of all people for certain geographic areas in Indiana -
State -> County -> School district -> Voting district -> City or Place -> Census
tract level -> Census block level
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The basic count, separated by Race and
Hispanic/Latino origin.
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The basic count, separated by voting age
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The basic count of all housing units.
Information on Redistricting Data and its release to the public
is available on the Census Bureau’s official
Redistricting Data website. The Indiana State
Data Center, the Indiana Business Research Center, and Indiana’s
statewide network of affiliates are here to help with any
questions you and your patrons may have. You can contact our
Data Center Desk phone at 317-232-3733 or ask a question via our
Ask-A-Librarian service on
the Indiana State Library website.
Help Raise Heart
Defect Awareness Next Week
  The
week of February 7-14 marks
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week.
According to
Medline Plus, a congenital
heart defect (or CHD) is when there is a problem with the
heart’s structure that is present at birth. These are the most
common type of major birth defects. Heart defects can affect the
walls or valves of the heart or the arteries and veins in the
area. They often disrupt the normal flow of blood and can cause
it to go in the wrong direction, go to the wrong place, slow
down or even be blocked completely. CHD Awareness Week is
sponsored by the
Congenital Hearth Information Network.
The goal is to create awareness in the public through
individuals, local support groups, national and local
organizations and cardiology centers. The Network has tips on
how you can
volunteer to help with this
effort, including starting your own proclamation signing and
using existing social networking to promote it.
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