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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former mayor of a financially troubled Rhode Island city who's imprisoned in Maryland on a corruption charge has been ordered back to his state by a federal judge.
U.S. District Judge John McConnell doesn't explain in an order he signed on Tuesday why he wants U.S. marshals to take former Central Falls mayor Charles Moreau to a Providence courtroom on Jan. 29.
Moreau is less than halfway through a two-year sentence he was given for pleading guilty in the corruption case in September 2012. He admitted he accepted a furnace and home renovations from a businessman who received a lucrative city contract, and he was sentenced by the judge in February 2013.
Moreau's lawyer, Anthony Traini, didn't immediately return a message seeking comment on Thursday. Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office wouldn't comment.
But a decision from an appeals court in a similar but unrelated case last year found that the charge to which Moreau pleaded guilty, corruptly accepting a gratuity by an official receiving federal funds, is not a crime.
The decision, by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, was issued on June 26, 2013, in a case involving a lawmaker in Puerto Rico. It found that it is not a crime for a government official to accept gratuities.
The U.S. Supreme Court has said that a gratuity is different from a bribe because it is not a quid pro quo meant to influence the official but rather is a reward for a future or past act.
Other appeals courts have said accepting gratuities is a crime, but the U.S. District Court in Providence, where Moreau was charged and pleaded guilty, is in the 1st Circuit.
Central Falls, just north of Providence, in 2010 was taken over by a state-appointed receiver and in 2011 became the first city in Rhode Island to declare municipal bankruptcy.
The receiver addressed the shaky finances in the state's smallest city, including a massive budget deficit and an unfunded pension liability officials said was $80 million.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee, in his State of the State speech this week, listed the emergence of Central Falls from bankruptcy as one of the state's recent achievements.
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After watching Republican senators' shameful performance in this week's Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, I'm more certain than ever that it is a moral imperative for Democrats to take back control of Congress this November and the White House in 2020.Shameful? What was shameful?
Chuck Grassley shouldn't be chairing a congressional committee. People like Lindsey Graham shouldn't be Senators.People like Lindsey Graham? What does that even mean?! There's a heavy moralistic tone here, but it's so conclusory that I see they're only trying to reach me if I happen to have already taken umbrage and am up for conclusory statements and slurs.
People like Donald Trump shouldn't be appointing anyone to a lifetime term on our nation's highest court., Lindsey Graham and their Republican colleagues...That's how it looks in the original. Something got cut. I don't know why the DNC is centralizing Graham (other than that he made the most fiery statement during the hearing).
... have shown that they have no interest in seriously investigating the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh -- and Donald Trump has demonstrated time and again that he lacks the temperament and judgment to make an appointment to our highest court.I thought Trump was making very sober choices, deferring to the experts on the conservative judiciary. I can't think of anything he's done wrong in picking Supreme Court nominees (other than that he's picking conservatives).
My promise to you as CEO of the Democratic National Committee is that I will do every last thing in my power in the next 39 days to fight back against these Republicans. Right now, I'd like to ask for your help."Every last thing"?
This Sunday is the final end-of-quarter deadline before Election Day, and every contribution made before Sunday at midnight will help Democrats take back Congress this November. If we do that, we can exert some real checks on this president and stop him from pushing through more extreme Supreme Court nominees.And that's the problem, distinctly admitted. The Democrats oppose conservative Supreme Court nominees, and they need to win in the midterms to block them, and they're ready to do anything they can toward that goal.
ADDED: I used the word "umbrage" and felt motivated to look it up in the OED. I'm using it correctly. It has meant "Displeasure, annoyance, offence, resentment" since the 1600s. One of the examples in the OED comes from George Washington:
1796 G. Washington Let. in Writings (1892) XIII. 263 Unless my pacific disposition was displeasing, nothing else could have given umbrage by the most rigid construction of the letter.But the older meaning is shade or shadow, and it's still not obsolete to use it to mean, specifically, the shade created by a tree:
1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ii. 34 She would spend a sunny afternoon in lying stirless on the turf, at the foot of some tree of friendly umbrage.

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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – U.S. adults repeatedly rate bullying as a major health problem for U.S. children. But a new poll from the University of Michigan shows adults have different views about what bullying behaviors should prompt schools to take action.
The University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health recently asked a nationwide sample of adults what behaviors should be considered bullying and what behaviors should spur school officials to intervene.
The vast majority of adults (95 percent) say schools should take action if a student makes another student afraid for his/her physical safety. Eighty-one percent said schools should intervene when someone humiliates or embarrasses another student and 76 percent call for intervention when someone spreads rumors.
But only 56 percent said isolating a student socially should prompt school intervention.
"The key finding from this poll is that adults don't see behaviors across the bullying spectrum as equivalent," says Matthew M. Davis M.D., M.A.P.P., director of the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.
"This is concerning because isolating a student socially is considered to be a form of bullying, and a dangerous one," says Davis, associate professor of pediatrics and internal medicine at the U-M Medical School and associate professor of public policy at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
"Isolating a student socially may be linked to episodes of school violence and also teen suicide."
Since year 2000, 46 states have passed laws related to bullying and 45 of them require schools to have bullying policies. But not all states have the same definition of what constitutes bullying, and the poll indicates that adults don't agree on this either.
In the poll, nearly all adults (90 percent) say threatening another student's physical safety is bullying and 62 percent also say embarrassing or humiliating a student is definitely bullying.
But just 59 percent say spreading rumors about a student is bullying and only 48 percent say isolating a student socially should be considered bullying.
Since the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999, and with subsequent school shootings and teen suicides linked to bullying, public concern about bullying has grown considerably in the U.S. In the last several years of the Poll's 'Top 10' list of greatest child health concerns, bullying has been rated by the public as a major problem for kids. The latest national data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 2011, reported by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, indicate that 20% of high school students report that they have been the victims of bullying.
"As school starts, this is the perfect time of year to have conversations about how each school can find solutions to the problems of bullying and address this important childhood health problem," says Davis.
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Full report: http://mottnpch.org/reports-surveys/bullying-when-should-schools-take-action
Website: Check out the Poll's new website: MottNPCH.org. You can search and browse over 60 NPCH Reports, suggest topics for future polls, share your opinion in a quick poll, and view information on popular topics. The National Poll on Children's Health team welcomes feedback on the new website, including features you'd like to see added. To share feedback, e-mail [email protected].
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Purpose/Funding: The C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health – based at the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit at the University of Michigan and funded by the Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases and the University of Michigan Health System – is designed to measure major health care issues and trends for U.S. children.
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When 30-somethings Robert Hammond and Joshua David first proposed that a derelict 1-1/2 mile stretch of elevated railway in Manhattan be re-imagined as an urban park, there were certainly doubters.
Would busy New Yorkers use it? What would be the real "return on investment" for benches, bushes, and public art in a city with plenty of all three?
Thirteen years later, High Line Park – which just opened its second section over the summer – clearly demonstrates the power of the arts and the potential of public space. It draws countless visitors, has transformed neighborhoods, far exceeds projected tax revenues and private investment, and has generated thousands of jobs. And it's not even complete yet.
At a time when America is facing severe unemployment, it turns out that a bench, a bush, and a vision – when infused with the arts – can be economic game changers.
Art and design, while often positioned as luxuries, are actually big, underutilized economic drivers. A new consortium called ArtPlace knows that, which is why they recently announced an unprecedented public-private funding effort, focused squarely on the arts' unique ability to fuel economic development in locales nationwide.
Backed by a veritable who's who of public and private partners, the move rightly flies in the face of congressional calls to defund the $150 million National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), which has spearheaded the new effort.
Last year, the NEA dispatched its age-old slogan, "A great country deserves great art," in favor of a two-word tagline: "Art works." It's a blunt, seemingly unsexy statement, though one backed up by hard numbers.
Based on data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, NEA researchers estimate a nearly 17 percent increase in arts-related jobs between now and 2018. That figure is about seven percentage points more than projected overall jobs growth in the US during the same period. Meanwhile, in 2009, the arts accounted for $250 billion of the US economy – a thriving sector that includes subsets as wide-ranging as the performing arts and the motion-picture industry.
The arts unite all kinds of people in a time of deprivation and competition. ArtPlace counts nearly a dozen leading foundations, a handful of federal agencies, and half a dozen major banks among its backers. This level of coordination is usually reserved for post-disaster times, not forward-thinking, proactive initiatives of this sort.
The initial $11.5 million being invested by ArtPlace will fund collaborative projects proposed by communities, developers, museums, small businesses, universities, and many combinations thereof. The 34 projects hail from an equal number of cities as far and wide as Boise, Idaho; Detroit; Honolulu; and New Orleans – representing 20 states, red and blue alike. This is precisely the kind of post-partisan, public-private partnership that America needs more of.
Critics of such art projects may be tempted to point to the Census Bureau's devastating announcement that more than 2.5 million people slipped into poverty last year, adding to the approximately 44 million counted the year before.
Why invest in art when many Americans don't have enough to eat? However, it is in these trying times that we need more and better public spaces for people to gather, in which to lift our spirits and imagine a brighter future. And more than that, art and public space projects can create jobs, build new skills, and revitalize strained communities.
The visionary financial institutions, foundations, and federal agencies backing the High Line and ArtPlace should seize this moment by redoubling their investments. They can start by restoring arts education in schools, supporting individual artists and entrepreneurs driving the creative economy, and funding cultural institutions and museums so vital to public life in this country.
John Cary is editor of PublicInterestDesign.org and author of "The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients."


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Hands On With Twitter's Social Video App, Vine
Twitter launched Vine on Thursday — an app that lets you share 6-second video clips.
Currently iOS-only, the stop-motion videos can include as many scenes as you can fit in. Video stops and starts when you press on your device's screen. Your finished product can then be shared just on Vine, or with friends on Twitter or — in theory — Facebook.
Still in its infancy, the service isn't without drawbacks. Sharing for instance can only be done when the video is initially uploaded. So if you forget to select that Twitter button when you upload your followers will be out of luck forever.
Thursday at least, uploading those videos to social networks also takes a bit of time. Some of our videos went up immediately, while others took close to an hour.
SEE ALSO: Vine Mania! 10 Creative Vines on Twitter
Sound is also recorded along with each video clip. While that's not a huge deal if you're recording in a quiet location, video recorded where there's a lot of noise can sound choppy and be jarring for viewers. (Videos play automatically in Twitter, but the default setting appears to be on mute.)
And then there's Twitter's relationship with Facebook. A few hours after the app's launch Thursday Facebook blocked the service from being able to access your friends lists.
Knowing which of your Facebook friends are using Vine isn't essential to the service, but it does tend to make finding those friends –- who you might not be connected to on Twitter –- that much harder.
Have you tried Vine out yet? Let us know what you think about the app in the comments.
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Evolution Hoax
The Burgess Shale region in the Canadian province of British Columbia contains a fossil bed now regarded as one of the most important paleontological discoveries of our time. The fossils in this region belong to very different species and appear suddenly, with no forerunners in earlier strata.
As we know, the theory of evolution maintains that all living species evolved in stages from other species that lived before them. The Burgess Shale fossils and similar paleontological discoveries, however, show that in contrast to this claim, different species actually emerged suddenly on Earth, with no forerunners preceding them.
It might seem odd that fossils from one small locality, no matter how exciting, should lie at the center of a fierce debate about such broad issues in evolutionary biology. The reason is that animals burst into the fossil record in astonishing profusion during the Cambrian, seemingly from nowhere. Increasingly precise radiometric dating and new fossil discoveries have only sharpened the suddenness and scope of this biological revolution. The magnitude of this change in Earth's biota demands an explanation. Although many hypotheses have been proposed, the general consensus is that none is wholly convincing. 61
In this context, the journal refers to two famous evolutionist authorities Stephen JayGould and Simon Conway Morris. Both have written books in order to account—according to evolutionary theory—for the sudden appearance of species in the Burgess Shale. Gould's book is titled Wonderful Life, and Morris's, The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals. However, as stressed in Trends in Genetics, neither of these authorities is able in any way to account for either the Burgess Shale fossils or other fossils dating back to the Cambrian Period.
The picture revealed by the Cambrian Period fossils refutes the assumptions of the theory of evolution, while also providing significant evidence that living things were brought into being through a supernatural creation. The evolutionist biologist Douglas Futuyma describes this fact:
Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-existing species by some process of modification. If they did appear in a fully developed state, they must indeed have been created by some omnipotent intelligence. 62
Therefore, the fossil records show that living things did not follow a path from the simple to the complex, as evolution maintains, but instead appeared suddenly and perfectly formed. This, in turn, is evidence that life came about not through unconscious natural phenomena, but through a sublime creation. In "The Big Bang of Animal Evolution," an article published in Scientific American, the evolutionist paleontologist Jeffrey S. Levinton admits as much, albeit reluctantly: "Therefore, something special and very mysterious—some highly "creative force"—existed then [at the Cambrian period]." 63
61 Trends in Genetics, February 1999.
62 Douglas J. Futuyma, Science on Trial, New York: Pantheon Books, 1983, p. 197.
63 Levinton, Jeffrey S.,"The Big Bang of Animal Evolution," Scientific American, 267:84, November 1992.


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The Anna Nicole Baby Daddy Tournament
In the aftermath of Anna's death, several people have come forward saying they could be the father of her baby, Dannielynn. Now a website is looking to settle the matter by using college basketball for inspiration.
You can play "Anna Nicole Paternity Madness" by filling out a bracket of 64 possible baby daddies on celebrityhack.com. Larry Birkhead, Howard K. Stern and Prince von Anhalt are among the favorites, but there are some potential dark horses.
Over in the Trailer Park Region, watch out for the 15 seed, Alf. Meanwhile, in the TRIMSPA Region, the first round matchup of Mary-Kate vs. Ashley Olsen should be a good one. But the ultimate sleeper is the 14 seed in the First Cousin Region -- Satan. The Prince of Darkness is capable of anything -- how else do you explain "Glitter?"
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Happy New Year 2013..!
I hate this..! i'm 23 Now.. sob3..
Resolution? Nothing.. Heee..
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Got a question in from one of our parents this week – it is a question we're getting quite often and one I'm answering in my own home as well. A parent asked this:
I've been researching online because of a dilemma I have. I have 3 boys, a 9 yo. a 6 and a 1 yo. my 2 elder boys love to play Call of Duty. I know it is a violent game, but I just don't know the right words to say to discourage them from playing it. I tried my best to say that its a violent game and its not going to do them any good but I end up losing the argument when they start saying that they are the only ones in class/group of friends that doesn't play it.
I asked Parker to reply (he's the resident game along with myself), and thought what he shared was excellent. He gave me permission to reprint it here on the blog in case it would be helpful to you!
Hi Parent!
Great question! First and foremost, you're completely right. If you feel like a game is too violent, you have every right to restrict your son from playing it. He may kick and scream, but you're not doing anything wrong by being a parent. In fact, I'm really happy that you're not just snatching the game away and enforcing BMSS Law (Because Mom Said So). That would probably cause more issue with him. I love that you're looking to encourage him to do the right thing rather than force him. So here are my three thoughts on restricting teenagers from violent video games:
1. Explain more about how you don't feel: Sounds strange, but when you only explain how you do feel and your teenager doesn't agree with you, he'll start filling in gaps on your side to justify why he's right and you're crazy. So, rather than just saying, "I don't want you playing these games because…", add "Don't get me wrong, I don't think you're going to shoot up a school because you're playing MW3. It's not that I think it makes you a bad kid. I don't even think it's the worst game ever that's going to corrupt your mind." Every point you make about how you don't feel is less ammo for him to complain about later. He won't be able to say, "My mom's crazy! She thinks a video game is going to corrupt me!" In reality, you're trying your best to raise a Godly son and you want him to make good choices in what he does in his life. You don't feel like violent games are a choice that honors God, so you want him to find an alternative.
2. Let him choose alternatives: Some parents are okay with games like Halo because you're fighting aliens instead of humans (that's your own comfort level). Let him know that you're completely okay with other games (just don't restrict them to LeapFrog games!). If he gets to choose other games, he'll be less resistant because you're partnering with him, not controlling him. Just feeling that ownership of decision making can make a huge difference. So, you're setting the game boundaries because you're the parent, but he's free to play whatever game he wants (as long as they're inside your boundaries). When you talk, focus more on the games he can plan, not the games he can't. Make it a discussion, not a lecture.
3. Buy him a replacement: If you're going to take away one of his games, I'd suggest offering to replace it. Remember, he didn't do anything wrong by playing MW3. It's just something you're not comfortable with. So, instead of taking away something he enjoys and saying, "Tough luck", consider buying him a new game that you do approve of. If he reacts well, reward him with a newer/better game of his choice. If he blows up on you, don't get him a game at all, but make it very clear that it's because of his reaction, not because he likes playing MW3.
The big thing is to work with him, not drop a bombshell on his gaming life. This stuff is important to teenagers and it helps them to know that you understand the impact it makes on their lives when you remove a game from their archive. Remember, you're still the parent and what you says goes. Just give him and support the opportunity to deal with this on a mature, win/win basis. Hopefully things go well and he doesn't get his whole Xbox taken away!!!
I'll be praying for you! Keep me updated!


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Betrayal of Faith
Betrayal of Faith
By Cris Foehlinger
Sunday News [Pennsylvania]
January 16, 2005
LANCASTER COUNTY, PA – Patricia Cahill is overcoming a life of abuse and secrecy at the hands of the Catholic church.Her childhood was destroyed by the sexual abuse of a priest and later when she was a teenager by the very nun in whom she confided the abuse.
Through alcohol, drugs and a position of authority, Sister Eileen Shaw determined, in large part, the woman Cahill is today. One with no sexuality and no understanding of normalcy, yet one with a strong drive to right the wrongs of a church that molded her into a quagmire of guilt.
Although the nun's ministry has since been restricted, Cahill, now 52 and living in Lancaster, is angry at the church for stealing her childhood, her family and her dreams.
She has found support through the nationwide Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP. And, in turn, she is trying to focus on the future. Later this week she will launch a support group in Lebanon to help local survivors. (See related story.)
Child of faith
Cahill and her five siblings were born into a wealthy Ridgewood, N.J., family and attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel elementary school. Their father sold cars at his dealership and their mother sold real estate between bottles of vodka, Cahill said.
She said she was in first grade when a priest took her to his bed, the clergyman always wearing pieces of his priestly garb.
"He never took the white collar or stole off," said Cahill. "He said it was a mortal sin to talk about anything we did while he had them on. Catholics are taught that if you commit a mortal sin you will go to hell." So Cahill wouldn't breathe a word of the abuse.
At home, she'd pick up empty liquor bottles before her father's return from work. "I took over for Mom raising three younger siblings," said Cahill, whose parents are now deceased.
"I remember cleaning Dad's bathroom when I was 7. He made a big deal about it and I thought, "Wow!' " Craving that kind of positive attention, Cahill set her sights on the rest of the house.
"I was the chief bottle washer and surrogate housewife," she said. "I was very strict and rigid like my Dad. I demanded a lot of my siblings and I regret that now, but I didn't know anything else." Cahill said her father was abusive. He was not an alcoholic, but the disease is a family one. "He would rule with an iron fist and for no reason," she said, "he would pick out one of the three oldest and send them upstairs for a beating." Meanwhile, the priest's abuse continued until she was 13. It stopped because Cahill said, "No." "I felt 100-percent responsible because all I had to do was say "no,' " she said. "I don't know if his abuse was widespread, but I know of some victims and am looking for others."
From priest to nun
Although Cahill was able to remove herself from the priest's grasp, she couldn't escape the need for the love and support she didn't get at home.
At age 15, she confided the priest's abuse in a family friend: the nun.
"She said, "He was a sick man so it wasn't his fault'," Cahill recalled. "Looking back, I see a lot of conflict with what she said." Cahill said Sister Shaw, a member of the Sisters of Charity at Convent Station, N.J., saw that she was in dire need of love and attention. Shaw offered encouragement, spent time with her and told her she was special.
"She took me out of a dysfunctional home and promised me the world," Cahill said. "She said no one would ever hurt me again." By age 16, Cahill spent summers at the shore with Shaw and the nun's family and friends. "All of them were 20 years older than me," Cahill said. "What were they thinking? Why didn't they think it was odd?" The sexual advances didn't start right away, Cahill said.
"She became my mother figure but," Cahill said with obvious fury, "you don't sleep with your mother.
"I had kept secrets my whole life. I thought I was a sinner. Then Eileen told me I was. She also said it was my job to keep her vows because I was the stronger of the two of us." Cahill said she was 15 when Shaw introduced her to alcohol and drugs, namely Valium and Librium.
And Shaw gave Cahill a medallion to wear only when the two were intimate. Cahill calls it her "medal of shame" as she was never to speak about what went on while she wore it.
One night when Cahill was 17, she remembers crying and asking Shaw to let her go. "She should have let me go, but she wouldn't," Cahill said.
"She made me call her "Sister Eileen' in bed and told me that she loved me," Cahill said.
"No one had ever loved me before."
Search for justice
That love, however, cost Cahill a chance to have a family and children of her own, she said. Because of internal conflicts caused by the relationship, she said, it cost her a chance to join the Sisters of Charity in her teens.
And it cost Cahill her sexuality. Since she's been away from Shaw, Cahill said, she has never been attracted to another woman. Because she remembers fear and pain from the priest, she won't get involved with men.
For her, the guilt and shame blend with anger and bitterness.
Cahill, who is no longer a practicing Catholic, said one of the biggest obstacles to healing is trying to understand why so many nuns turned their heads and allowed the abuse to continue.
Ten years ago Cahill received help from the Sisters of Charity, who did "everything they are legally obligated to do," according to a recent statement issued by Mother Superior Maureen Shaughnessy.
At the time, Cahill received treatment and about $46,000, Cahill said.
She is seeking additional treatment costs, a request she and members of her support network see as a moral obligation of the church.
Part of her larger mission now is to make sure nuns are punished for abusive actions. Because they are part of a religious order, they are more insulated and protected, Cahill said.
"We (Shaw and Cahill) would sleep in convents up and down the East Coast," Cahill said. "Nuns would turn their heads when I ran up the back staircases." Yet the conflict for Cahill remains.
Shaw encouraged her to go to college, something no member of Cahill's family managed to accomplish. Her first teaching job was at St. Cecelia's in Kearny, N.J. Shaw was the principal of the now-defunct school.
Shaw gave Cahill a ring during that first year of teaching, one that was identical to one the nun wore. "It never dawned on me what that ring was supposed to mean," she said. "But it's pretty clear now." The nun even selected Cahill's apartment, one where Shaw's car could be parked undetected, Cahill said.
"During the day, she was extra authoritative with me in front of other people," Cahill said. "Away from school, she would tell me not to befriend the other teachers and not to bring my home life into work." Brief trips were routine.
"One weekend, we went to a convent in Connecticut and got snowed in," Cahill said. "I think it was a bit obvious when we both didn't show up for school, but she wouldn't talk about it." After a year of teaching under Shaw, Cahill realized she needed to get away and took a job in Hasbrouck Heights, N.J. "I really liked teaching and made friends," she said. "Shaw would still come on weekends, which wasn't a problem since no one knew her." By this time, Cahill said she was sick with drugs and alcohol. "I would drink on my way to school," she said.
Cahill shared an apartment with a friend. "She was very indiscriminate with sex and would entertain men at night," Cahill said. "After walking in on her one night, she came up with a system where she would put the man's shoes outside her door to let me know she was with a man.
"So I would leave Shaw's shoes outside my door and hang her veil on the doorknob," she said. It's an image that still haunts Cahill and one that will become the title of her book, "Veiled Threat." Cahill said the nun thought the roommate's conduct was immoral. But as Cahill's questions persisted, Shaw refused to answer or make any sense out of her relationship with Cahill.
"What happened at night, happened at night," Cahill said. "What happened during the day saved my life.
"She helped me out in lots of ways that I felt indebted to her so much that I kept her secret for too many years." Cahill viewed everything as her fault. But then her emotional struggle becomes evident and contradictions reemerge.
"She was 36 and I was 15," Cahill said of their early relationship. "It couldn't have been my fault."
Path to peace
By 1979 Cahill sought help through a 12-step program. It cost her any hope of a relationship with her siblings; they felt Cahill betrayed them by airing the family's laundry, she said.
In her 30s, Cahill again studied to become a member of the Sisters of Charity, Shaw's order. "I have learned since then that victims almost always return to the scene of the crime," she said.
Cahill could not complete her quest because of internal conflicts that centered on the relationship with Shaw.
By 1992, Cahill knew she was in trouble and approached the Sisters of Charity for help. "I was very foolish," she said. "I wanted therapy and nothing else." Yet she also asked that Shaw be removed from her position as school principal. "They took her out and promoted her," Cahill said.
Shaw is now the administrator of the Caritas Community in Jersey City, N.J., a retirement home for nuns. Repeated attempts to reach her were unsuccessful. Nuns who answered the phones said Shaw was on "holiday." Caritas Community is in a convent that sits next to an elementary school.
When recently questioned about Shaw's duties, Jim Goodness, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J., said that the nun "is not allowed in the school." She does attend Mass in the local parish, but is not part of the spiritual team. She is not involved in parish functions.
"The community has dealt with the issue and she is restricted in her ministry," he said. "There has never been an incident where she broke her assignment since this came to light." Goodness clarified that the Sisters of Charity is not officially part of the archdiocese. "But the sisters work in the archdiocese under the spiritual direction of the archbishop," he said. "Religious communities operate under their own rules and authorities." This is part of the problem as far as Cahill is concerned. "Priests are defrocked when they are exposed for abuse," she said. "But there is no punishment for nuns." Shaughnessy, Sister of Charity's mother superior, said there was a confidentiality agreement at the time the sisters offered Cahill help. "I'm certainly not going to break that, and I have nothing to say about it." Shaw has been cleared to serve in her new position, Shaughnessy said recently. "I don't want to talk about this." In a letter dated July 1, 1994, the Sisters of Charity agreed to pay for "certain professional services" from July 1, 1994, through June 30, 1996.
"In order to qualify for payment by the Sisters of Charity, the services: (a) must have been provided by a licensed psychiatrist, psychologist, or social worker, and (b) must, in the provider's professional judgment, have been made necessary by the alleged inappropriate conduct of a member of the Sisters of Charity of St. Elizabeth, who is alleged to have had sexual contact with Patricia Cahill at various times between the years 1968 and 1992," the letter states.
The letter goes on to say that all charges must be included on an invoice mailed to Sister Mary Canavan, general superior, in an envelope marked "personal and confidential." "The Sisters of Charity consider this letter and the information contained herein to be confidential," the letter, signed by Canavan, states.
"I never healed because they made me sign a gag order not to talk about it," said Cahill, who is now recovering from alcohol and drug addictions.
She moved to Lancaster in 1997 to get away from her family and Shaw.
She thought about suicide. Reaching rock bottom, she again turned to the nuns she had grown up with.
By this time, the order had established a response team, made up of nuns, priests, lawyers and psychologists.
Shaughnessy encouraged Cahill to meet with them. She agreed.
Lancaster friend Donna Wilcox accompanied her to the session held at the Mother House in New Jersey. While the two were greeted cordially, Wilcox said, "The building was imposing and it was dark and empty. The surroundings felt very big and I felt very small." Cahill wasn't intimidated by the familiar atmosphere. But at the meeting there with two lawyers and two therapists, she said, " "I feel like I need a lawyer,' and they said, "No dear, we're here for your healing."' Cahill described the exhausting 3-hour session as "interrogation with a smile." "I was impressed by one nun who seemed compassionate," Wilcox said. "Patricia was so articulate and focused while my composure was gone. When you hear her story, it's very humbling.
"They seemed caring and supportive," Wilcox said. "I left thinking help was on the way." Two weeks later Cahill received word that there would be no further therapy from the sisters, but "we will pray for you." That's all it took.
The anger that roared through Cahill catapulted her on the road to healing.


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function NewPing(trigger_pin, echo_pin, max_cm_distance=MAX_SENSOR_DISTANCE)
NewPing(int trigger_pin, int echo_pin, int max_cm_distance = MAX_SENSOR_DISTANCE);
I think of false as not the same as zero
---------------------( COPY )--------------------------#ifndef NewPing_h#define NewPing_h#endif #if defined(ARDUINO) && ARDUINO >= 100 #include "Arduino.h"#else #include "WProgram.h"-----------------( END COPY )----------------------
#ifndef NewPing_h#define NewPing_h #if defined(ARDUINO) && ARDUINO >= 100 #include <Arduino.h>#else #include "WProgram.h"#endif
Agree with AWOL's proposal , especially as the original code mixes type (false=bool and ints)you can even make it a macro:#define convert_cm(echotime) ((echoTime) / US_ROUNDTRIP_CM)
I'm not really sure the "volatile" qualifiers are necessary, except for "_echoInput", either."pulseInNew" may as well be "inline"
... if (time > MAXTIME) return -100; if (other error) return -200; // etc return time;}
unsigned int NewPing::convert_cm(unsigned int echoTime){ return (echoTime + US_ROUNDTRIP_CM/2) / US_ROUNDTRIP_CM; // added rounding}
Without the "volatile" it won't compile, which is why I used it.
An echoPing can only be positive as any distance is positive .That makes it ideal to use the negative values as error codes, but those should be in the primary ping function
QuoteWithout the "volatile" it won't compile, which is why I used it. Except for the echo pin, you could cast it away.It isn't necessary for the data direction registers or the trigger pin.
error: invalid conversion from 'volatile uint8_t*' to 'uint8_t*'
No-one said you added them on a whim, but you can get rid of the error message with a simple cast.The only reason to have volatile qualifier is for polling loops on registers, and the only register you poll is the one associated with the echo pin.
True, but the logic is not with the ping echo, it's with the conversion to inches and cm. And this is where it can be zero as the sensor can read something closer than an inch, which yields a zero. Technically, it should never happen with cm. But, I'd rather go the safe route.
void setup(){ Serial.begin(9600);}unsigned int x;void loop(){ for (int i=0; i<=30000; i+=1000) { Serial.print(i); Serial.print(",\t"); x = convert_cm0(i); Serial.print(x); Serial.print(",\t"); x = convert_cm1(i); Serial.print(x); Serial.print(",\t"); x = convert_mm(i); Serial.print(x); Serial.print(",\t"); x = convert_cm2(i); Serial.print(x); Serial.println(); } while(1);}// referenceunsigned int convert_cm2(unsigned int echoTime){ unsigned long us_roundtrip_100meter = 587734; unsigned long distance = (echoTime*1e4 + us_roundtrip_100meter/2)/ us_roundtrip_100meter; return (unsigned int) distance ;}// original with roundingunsigned int convert_cm0(unsigned int echoTime){ return (echoTime+29)/ 58; // added rounding}// using 59 ?unsigned int convert_cm1(unsigned int echoTime){ return (echoTime + 29)/ 59; // added rounding}// use millimeters unsigned int convert_mm(unsigned int echoTime){ return (echoTime*10L + 294)/ 588; // added rounding}
QuoteTrue, but the logic is not with the ping echo, it's with the conversion to inches and cm. And this is where it can be zero as the sensor can read something closer than an inch, which yields a zero. Technically, it should never happen with cm. But, I'd rather go the safe route.thats why you should include rounding in the conversion functions (or do mililmeters, or 1/16th)I had a closer look at the conversion functions and you should revisit them:Speed of sound is 340.29 m/sec => US_ROUNDTRIP_CM = 58.77 that means that US_ROUNDTRIP_CM should be rounded to 59 iso 58 and US_ROUNDTRIP_IN 149 iso 148?These rounding errors add up !!
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------// Ballpark numbers for US_ROUNDTRIP_CM and US_ROUNDTRIP_IN were used. Feel free to change if more// accurate readings for your testing temperature and situation are needed. The values don't need// to be integers. But, using integers will save program space. And honestly, we're talking// microseconds here. If we're off by a few dozen microseconds one way or another does it really// matter? The HC-SR04 isn't that accurate to begin with to fuss too much with this.// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------


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By Jack Kim
SEOUL, Dec 14 (Reuters) - When North Korea's Kim Jong-un
commemorates a year of his rule next week, he will be able to
declare he has fulfilled the country's long-held dream of
becoming a "space power".
Sharing the limelight with the 29-year old will be three
civilians who have grown stronger in the past year and have
helped Kim exert control over the country's powerful military,
which may be an advantage in edging the country closer to an
attempt to reopen dialogue with the United States.
Wednesday's successful rocket launch, in which North Korea
put a satellite in space for the first time, may have helped
cement the position of Kim's uncle Jang Song-thaek and Choe
Ryong-hae, the military's top political strategist, as well as
Ju Kyu-chang, the 84-year-old head of the country's missile and
nuclear programme.
"The rocket launch is a boost politically to the standing of
Jang Song-thaek and Choe Ryong-hae, who have been around Kim
Jong-un," said Baek Seung-joo of the Korea Institute of Defense
Analyses, a government-affiliated think tank in South Korea.
While Washington has condemned the rocket launch and called
for tougher sanctions on North Korea it was, as recently as
February, willing to offer food aid to Pyongyang. At that time
it was just over a year since the North shelled a South Korean
island, killing civilians, and sank a South Korean warship.
The rise of Jang and Chae especially, once ridiculed as
"fake" military men by army veterans, together with the
country's aging chief missile bureaucrat, could also mean the
renegade state will try its hand at using what is now stronger
leverage in negotiations to extract aid and concessions.
Jang is the brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il and was the chief
promoter of his son Kim Jong-un when the elder Kim died on Dec.
17 last year. Jang has further increased his prominence in
recent weeks with high-level public appearances, at times in
unprecedented proximity to the leader of a country where
appearance and formality are rigidly controlled.
Jang accompanied Kim to the rocket command centre to watch
the successful launch on Wednesday, the North's state news
agency KCNA said.
He is officially a vice chairman of the ruling National
Defence Commission and an army general in name only, but is
widely believed to be the North's second-in-command in reality.
Jang is considered a pragmatist who is willing to engage
both allies and enemies abroad, but also one who understands the
challenge of cementing the position of the young and relatively
untested grandson of the state's founder.
Baek noted that comments by the North's Foreign Ministry,
customarily the channel used by the leadership to wage war of
words with the United States, had been tempered recently,
indicating Pyongyang may seek a way back into negotiations.
"The North may start to send active indications to the
United States and China that it is wiling to talk, even to go
back to the six-party talks, and to say that its pledge for a
missile test moratorium still stands," Baek said.
The six-party talks are aimed at halting North Korea's
nuclear programme and involve the North, the United States,
China, Japan, Russia and South Korea. They have been held since
2003 but have stalled since 2008.
Choe is another Workers' Party faithful now donning army
uniform. He is head of the General Political Department of the
North's 1.2-million strong Army, and is seen as the other major
beneficiary of this week's rocket launch.
Jang and Choe are anomalies in a country that claims its
roots in the armed struggle against Japan, in that they have not
risen through the army's ranks but have received military titles
that are said to be a source of ridicule among their opponents.
"Choe and Jang will benefit from the launch because they are
the ones who will have undermined the military's influence and
strengthened the party's status," said Moon Hong-sik of South
Korea's Institute for National Security Strategy, a
government-linked thinktank.
The surprise success of Wednesday's launch after a failure
in April will be credited to Jang and Choe while Kim will boost
his credibility as a leader who gets the job done, said Suh
Choo-suk, who was chief national security advisor to former
South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
"I think Kim Jong-un's overall control is already solid. His
control will be even stronger through the rocket launch."
The technical aspects of the North's longstanding missile
programme and possibly its nuclear project are led by a quiet
and elderly engineer Ju Kyu-chang, another civilian in army
Ju has been around since the North first tested its
long-range missile technology in the summer of 1998 and is still
believed to be in charge of the day-to-day running of the
project to develop missiles and possibly nuclear weapons.
Recognition appears to have come relatively late in life for
the silver haired technocrat Ju, who is believed to have trained
as a metal alloy specialist, as he started to appear in public
with the country's top leader only when he turned 70.
Officially, Ju is the head of the ruling Workers' Party of
Korea's oddly named Machine-Building Industry Department. He was
also named to the National Defence Commision, the country's top
military body, after the North's 2009 long-range missile test.
Ju is among the North's most heavily sanctioned individuals,
personally named in several government blacklists.
"His rise coincided with the escalation of pace in the
North's missile and nuclear programmes," said an expert with a
South Korean state-run think tank who did not want to be named.
"It could very well have been as a reward for his


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- The North Texas Food Bank, a member of Feeding America, has worked since 1982 to address hunger in the region. Each year, they distribute 33 million meals to kids, seniors, and families. The group estimates that there is a need for 300,000 nutritious meals in North Texas each day - they provide about 90,000. Their kids programs provide healthy food for after-school programs, during the summer, and over the weekends.
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March 29, 2012 – by Richard Band
Bargains are coming. All you need is the patience to take advantage of them.
For now, start your shopping via defensive, dividend-rich issues.
Two good Anglo-Dutch dividend payers recently got taken down a peg: Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE:RDS.B) and Unilever (NYSE:UN). Both companies posted decent fourth-quarter earnings, but there were minor warts on both reports.
Shell tallied a $278 million loss on its refining and marketing operations, somewhat more than the consensus was projecting. I'm not alarmed, though, because RDS is paring back its refining business — with its notoriously volatile profit margins — in favor of a greater commitment to exploration and production.
By 2017-2018, Shell hopes to boost its daily oil-and-gas output to 4 million barrels of oil equivalent, about a 25% increase from 2011. Assuming the company comes anywhere close to that target, the stock should provide an annualized return in the low double digits for folks who buy the stock now.
The current yield, based on the new quarterly dividend rate (86 cents per share) is 4.7%.
Unilever, one of the world's largest makers of foods, soaps, and other household goods, chalked up a 4% gain in operating profits for the year — O.K., but nothing to shout about.
However, I'm encouraged that sales to emerging markets jumped 10.5% in 2011, almost triple the company's growth rate in developed markets (Europe and North America). Over the next decade, I expect UL's emerging-market outreach (now 43% of total sales) to trigger a renewed growth surge for the company. Current yield is 3.7%.
There's no foreign withholding tax with either Royal Dutch Shell or Unilever as long as you buy the London-sourced shares, thus providing an even juicier after-tax return on both stocks.


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NEW YORK -- Jason Castro may have been the most anonymous man in the room. He's not quite a superstar, and he toils for the Astros, who do not get a lot of national media attention.
And because he's a catcher, his faced is covered for half of the game.
So it didn't help at Monday's All-Star Media Day that his space on the podium was the only one without a sign identifying him.
"I don't know," Castro said. "They just told me to sit here."
Castro may not be a household name, but the emerging star caught the eye of Tigers manager Jim Leyland, who is leading the American League All-Star team and selected him as a reserve.
Every team needs an All-Star, but Leyland could have gone with a number of worthy candidates from Houston. Second baseman Jose Altuve, an All-Star a year ago, is in the middle of another strong season, and pitcher Bud Norris is having a career season, but Castro set himself apart. Statistically, he's been one of the top catchers in the AL. He leads his team with an .806 on-base-plus-slugging percentage and ranks behind only Joe Mauer among everyday AL catchers in that category.
He's an up-and-coming talent, if a bit of an unknown, just two years removed from a potentially devastating injury.
Castro missed all of 2011 after tearing his right ACL in his second Spring Training game while gearing up for his first full season. Catching is already taxing on a player's knees, so this setback could have been major.
"I'd really just started to get my feet wet and understand the whole process of what I needed to do on a daily basis from an offensive standpoint, from a defensive standpoint," he said.
He had a strong 2012, batting .257 with six home runs in 87 games, before breaking out this season. He's doubled his home run total in six fewer games and raised his average by 12 points and his slugging percentage by 73.
His defense hasn't let up, either. He's by no means one of the game's best defensive catchers, but he's been above average, throwing out 23 percent of would-be basestealers.
"It's definitely kind of a milestone for me in that process of coming back," Castro said. "Obviously, not only being injured and missing that whole season is tough, but having to catch up on all those repetitions and experiences you missed playing on a daily basis."
Two years ago was the first time he can remember being away from baseball for a full season. At Citi Field he has a chance to make himself known.
"It's definitely an honor to be able to be here and represent the Astros and kind of show people where we're headed and the kind of direction that our franchise is going," he said. "In the next few years, people will start to pay more attention to the Astros and what type of baseball we're playing."
About 10 minutes into the media session, an All-Star Game staffer swooped in behind Castro to post a nameplate behind him.
It took some time, but he was finally as easily identifiable as the rest of the superstars in the room. He's not here just as Houston's mandatory representative -- at least that's what the numbers suggest. When he's introduced on Tuesday, there will be some people who don't know who he is, but one day they will. For now he just smiles and enjoys being here and the little things that come with it.
"I've got my sign now."
The final phase of All-Star Game voting will again have fans participating in the official voting for the Ted Williams All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award presented by Chevrolet. During the Midsummer Classic, fans will vote exclusively online at MLB.com via the 2013 All-Star Game MLB.com MVP Vote, and their voice will represent 20 percent of the official vote determining the recipient of the Arch Ward Trophy.
The 2013 All-Star Game will be played at Citi Field on Tuesday. Come to MLB.com for extensive online coverage of the All-Star Week festivities.
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Obama campaigned on ending the war in Iraq but had instead spent the past few months trying to extend it. A 2008 security deal between Washington and Baghdad called for all American forces to leave Iraq by the end of the year, but the White House — anxious about growing Iranian influence and Iraq's continuing political and security challenges — publicly and privately tried to sell the Iraqis on a troop extension. As recently as last week, the White House was trying to persuade the Iraqis to allow 2,000-3,000 troops to stay beyond the end of the year.
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That impasse makes Obama's speech at the White House on Friday less a dramatic surprise than simple confirmation of what had long been expected by observers of the moribund talks between the administration and the government of Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, which believes its own security forces are more than up to the task of protecting the country from terror attacks originating within its borders or foreign incursions from neighboring countries.
The White House said Obama was pleased with the coming troop withdrawal because it kept to his "core commitment" – frequently enunciated during the campaign – of pulling all U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of the year. "We never wanted a residual force in Iraq," a senior administration official insisted.
In Washington, many Republican lawmakers had spent recent weeks criticizing Obama for offering to keep a maximum of 3,000 troops in Iraq, far less than the 10,000-15,000 recommended by top American commanders in Iraq. That political point-scoring helped obscure that the choice wasn't Obama's to make. It was the Iraqis', and recent interviews with officials in the country provided vivid evidence of just how unpopular the U.S. military presence there has become — and just how badly the Iraqi political leadership wanted those troops to go home


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Starting off the latest range of new tablets is the ViewPad E70 (pictured above). The Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablet comes with a 7-inch touchscreen display, 1GHz processor and 4GB storage, all for £129.
The budget model will also have a front-facing camera, Wi-Fi connectivity and microSD expandable storage up to 32GB. It will be available in Europe before the end of June.
Those looking for something higher up the range can double down on their cash and go for the ViewPad G70 at a cost of £260.
As we exclusively revealed last week, the ViewSonic ViewPad G70 is a 7-inch Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, packing 1GB RAM and 4GB storage. Users will be able to expand the storage by a further 32GB using the integrated microSD card slot.
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Those into screen specs will be pleased with the G70's 1024 x 600 resolution, 8-bit colour, 250 nits brightness and 500:1 contrast ratio.
Unlike some previous ViewSonic tablets, it will be fully Google certified - meaning you'll have access to the Android Market. The ViewPad G70 is launching in Europe before the end of June.
The ViewSonic ViewPad E100 also boasts Google's latest operating system, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and comes with a 9.7-inch 1024 x 768 resolution, IPS display and a 1GHz Cortex processor. It is 9.1mm thick.
Specs include Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi, HDMI, USB and microSD support with a 3G version available for full wireless access when on the move. The ViewPad E100 will cost £260 for Wi-Fi and £325 for the 3G model. It will launch in Europe before the end of June.
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- One-Hour Documentary PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED Premieres on Friday, December 7 at 10 PM (E/P) --
(Silver Spring, MD)- The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, have often been called this generation's Pearl Harbor. But unlike the attacks on the Twin Towers 60 years later, it is shocking what little film documentation there is surrounding the surprise Japanese attack on that infamous December day in 1941. On this upcoming 71st anniversary, the Military Channel presents the world premiere documentary, PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED, a new and compelling look at an event that galvanized the country and led to America's entry into World War II. Using personal stories and new, state-of-the-art image stabilizing techniques, PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED provides viewers with a dramatic look at the pivotal first 15 minutes of the bombing on Pearl Harbor and the devastating aftermath. PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED premieres on the Military Channel on Friday, December 7 at 10 PM (E/P).
PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED showcases the clearest and sharpest images ever seen of the first wave of the attack, combining rare aerial film taken by Japanese attackers with home movie footage captured from the harbor by a Navy doctor, who was on the hospital ship USS Solace, anchored just a quarter of a mile from the USS Arizona. This extraordinary footage captures the instant the USS Arizona blew apart - an explosion that instantly took the lives of 1177 Americans. The analysis of these films utilizes new stabilization techniques to provide a frame-by-frame timeline of events that builds into a mosaic of chaos, courage and inspiration, telling the real behind-the-scenes story of that day of infamy as it has never been told before.
"The Military Channel is proud to present this new look at the events which changed the course of world history," said Ed Hersh, senior vice president of content strategy for the Military Channel. "By focusing on the first 15 minutes of the attack through this unique footage, we are able to tell some of the untold stories of Pearl Harbor. We also honor the USS Arizona as she sits today, under 40-feet of water, serving as the final resting place of 900 men."
The film takes viewers from the shocking arrival of the Japanese aircraft over the harbor at 7:52 AM on December 7, 1941, to 15 minutes later, when a single 1750-pound bomb destroyed what would become the iconic symbol of the attack, the USS Arizona. The attack would go on for another hour, but it was within this first wave that the most damage was done - ships were sunk, lives were lost, and the face of the United States would change on the world stage forever.
PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED intertwines interviews with Pearl Harbor survivors aboard historic battleships, recalling their personal horror of that day of infamy, alongside an immersive look back at the perspectives of the four men whose futures hung in the balance -Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin and Hitler. In addition, a guided underwater tour by the National Park Service reveals the secrets of the USS Arizona as it lays to rest in the harbor.
PEARL HARBOR DECLASSIFIED is produced for Military Channel by Creative Differences. For Creative Differences, Erik Nelson is writer and director and Dave Harding is executive producer. For the Military Channel, Sara Kozak is executive producer and senior vice president of production, Ed Hersh is senior vice president of content strategy, and Henry Schleiff is president and general manager.
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The Military Channel brings viewers compelling, real-world stories of valor, heroism, and courage from pivotal moments in American history, whether they were on the battlefield, in popular culture, or behind closed doors at the White House. Currently available in more than 60.5 million homes, the network incorporates the best state-of-the-art CGI animation, never-before-seen footage, and gripping interviews to offer in-depth explorations of the armed forces as well as seminal world events and iconic figures that shaped our nation's history, including the Cold War, the struggle for Civil Rights, and the Space Race. For more information, please visit Military.Discovery.com, facebook.com/Military, or twitter.com/MilitaryChannel. Military Channel is part of Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK), the world's #1 nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers in 209 countries and territories.