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Royal Pains Bosses, Cast Spill on the Season Premiere Shocker
[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from the season premiere of Royal Pains. Read at your own risk.]
Oh baby!
Royal Pains Season 5 premiere ended with a stunning reveal: Divya (Reshma Shetty) is pregnant!
In the final moments of the episode, Divya tells Paige (Brooke D'Orsay) that the real reason HankMed couldn't get insurance coverage was because she was expecting. Because she's still pretty much in shock, Divya will take a beat before she tells Hank (Mark Feuerstein) and Evan (Paulo Constanzo) the truth. But when she finally does, her surrogate family will be there for her.
"When they get involved it's needed because she needs some support," Shetty told TVGuide.com at the ATX Television Festival. Added Feuerstein: "We're like a little family, the HankMed group, and so we'll try to take care of her."
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Given Divya's past troubles finding love (she's broke off an engagement with Raj and had her heart broken by Rafa) and her struggles with her own parents, why did the producers decide to make Divya a single mom? Executive producer Michael Rauch said it was all about doing something unexpected. "We came back from Season 4 and had a two-season pickup for the first time, so we began thinking about bigger stories we could tell over both seasons," he said. "We felt like the easy way to go was to make Paige pregnant - so we had to go the other way and find a character that would be more surprising. It felt like the type of complication that would resonate throughout all various stories."
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Will Divya get the parental support she hasn't in the past? Viewers will find out in Episode 10 when Rubina (Anna George) returns. "We know the long history between Divya and her parents. So, one of the things that freaks Divya out is her reticence to have yet another thing come between them," creator and executive producer Andrew Lenchewski told us. "What she's doing so rubs against the values of what they believe in." Added Shetty: "It's definitely a situation that South Asian women are faced with today. You just don't do that."
While Divya will only begin to show a tiny baby bump by the end of the season, Lenchewski said the pregnancy will begin to affect everyone immediately. "This will now be a living, breathing dynamic within the show," he said. "Nothing will ever be the same for her or the characters around her. The past four seasons have really been about coming together as a family, and this season we're going to see things that threaten to start pulling the family apart - whether it's tension in a marriage or someone having a baby and having to reprioritize."
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And finally, how will Divya be as a mommy? "She'll be an amazing mother," Lenchewski said. "She is so nurturing, so loving and has such an incredible attention to detail. On top of that, she's surrounded by all this love and support from Hank and Evan and Jeremiah and Paige, and that seems like it will make up for her being a single mother and then some."
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text: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this articleShare via Email Print this Page Book Mon, Mar 1, 1982 The Hidden Agenda of World GovernmentG. Edward Griffin by G. Edward Griffin Banking , Foundations , History , NWO "Transcript of Norman Dodd Interview" 1982 A.D. with G. Edward Griffin Rowan Gaither was, at that time, President of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Gaither had sent for me when I found it convenient to be in New York, asked me to call upon him at his office, which I did. On arrival, after a few amenities, Mr. Gaither said, "Mr. Dodd, we have asked you to come up here today because we thought that, possibly, off the record, you would tell us why the Congress is interested in the activities of foundations such as ourselves." Before I could think of how I would reply to that statement, Mr. Gaither then went on to say, "Mr. Dodd, all of us who have a hand in the making of policies here, have had experience operating under directives, the substance of which is, that we use our grant-making power so as to alter life in the United States that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union." Warning! You are about to enter the Reality Zone -- a place were truth is stranger than fiction -- where knowledge is king -- where myths are shattered and deception exposed. It is a place where the lessons of history are found, and where true-life adventures reveal the hidden nature of man. If you proceed, you will not be able to return to the twilight zone from which you came. You have five seconds remaining to escape. 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5. Welcome to the Reality Zone. I am Ed Griffin. The story we are about to hear represents a missing piece in the puzzle of modern history. We are about to hear a man tell us that the major tax-exempt foundations of America, since at least 1945, have been operating to promote a hidden agenda. That agenda has nothing to do with the surface appearance of charity, good works or philanthropy. This man will tell you that the real objective has been to influence American educational institutions and to control foreign policy agencies of the Federal government. The purpose of the control has been to condition Americans to accept the creation of world government. That government is to be based on the principle of collectivism, which is another way of saying socialism; and, it is to be ruled from behind the scenes by those same interests which control the tax-exempt foundations. Is this a believable scenario? Well, the man who tells this story is none other than Mr. Norman Dodd who, in the year 1954, was the staff director of the Congressional Special Committee to investigate tax-exempt foundations -- sometimes referred to as the Reece committee, in recognition of its chairman, Congressman Carroll Reece. I conducted the interview we are about to hear, in 1982. I had no immediate use for the material at that time, but I realized that Mr. Dodd's story was of great importance. Since he was advanced in age and not in good health, I wanted to capture his recollections on videotape while he was still with us. It was a wise decision, because Mr. Dodd did pass away just a short time afterwards. In later years there was a resurgence of interest in Mr. Dodd's story, and we released the videotape to the public in 1991. And so, what now follows is the sound track taken from the full, unedited interview, broken occasionally only for a tape change, or to omit the sound of a passing airplane. It stands on its own as an important piece in the puzzle of modern history. [begin interview] Griffin: Mr. Dodd, let's begin this interview by a brief statement, for the record, telling us who you are, what your background is, and your qualifications to speak on the subject. Dodd: Well, Mr. Griffin, as for who I am, I am just as the name implies -- an individual born in New Jersey and educated in private schools, eventually in a school called Andover, Massachusetts, and then Yale University. And, running through my whole period of being brought up, growing up, I have been an emphaticable [sic] reader, and I have had one major interest and that was this country, as I was led to believe that it was originally founded. I entered the world of business knowing absolutely nothing about how that world operated. And, I realized that the only way to find out what that world was, and consisted of, would be to become part of it. And I then acquired some experience in the manufacturing world, and in the world of international communications, and finally chose banking as the field I wished to devote my life to. I was fortunate enough, to secure a position in one of the important banks in New York. I lived there. I lived through the conditions which led up to what is known as the crash of 1929. I witnessed what is tantamount to a collapse of the structure of the United States as a whole. Much to my surprise, my superiors, in the middle of the panic in which they were immersed, confronted me. I was confronted with the question, "Norm, what do we do now?" I was thirty at the time, and I had no more right to have an answer to that question than the man in the moon. However, I did manage to say to my superiors, "Gentlemen, you take this experience as proof of something that you do not know about banking." And you better go find out what that something is, and act accordingly. Four days later, I was confronted by these same superiors, with a statement to the effect that, "Norm, you go find out." And I really was fool enough to accept that assignment, because it meant that you were going out to search for something, and nobody could tell you what you were looking for. I felt so strongly on the subject that I consented to it. I was relieved of all normal duties inside the bank and, two and a half years later, I felt that it was possible to report back to those who had given me this assignment. So, I rendered such a report and, as a result of the report I rendered, I was told the following: "Norm, what you are saying is, we should return to sound banking." And I said, "Yes, in essence, that's exactly what it is that I am saying." Whereupon, I got my first shock, which was a statement from them to this effect: "We will never see sound banking in the United States again." And they cited chapter and verse, to support that statement. What they cited was as follows: since the end of WWI, we have been responsible for what they call the institutionalizing of conflicting interests. And they are so prevalent inside this country, that they can never be resolved. This came to me as an extraordinary shock because the men who made this statement were men who were deemed as the most prominent bankers in the country. The bank of which I was a part was spoken of a Morgan bank. Coming from men of that caliber, a statement of that kind made a tremendous impression on me. The type of impression that it made on me was this: I wondered if I, as an individual, as what they call a junior officer of the bank, could with the same enthusiasm foster the progress and the policies of the bank. I spent about a year trying to think this out, and came to the conclusion that I would have to resign. I did resign. As a consequence of that, I had this experience. When my letter of resignation reached the desk of the president of the bank, he sent for me. I came to visit with him and he stated to me, "Norm, I have your letter, but I do not believe you understand what has happened in the last ten days." I said, "No, Mr. Cochran, I have no idea what's happened." "Well," he says, "the directors have never been able to get your report to them out of their minds and, as a result, they have decided that you, as an individual, must begin at once, and you must re-organize this bank in keeping with your own ideas." He then said, "Now, can I tear up your letter?" And inasmuch as what had been said to me, what he was offering me, at the age of (by then) thirty-three, was about as fine an opportunity for service to the country as I could imagine. I said, "Yes." And they said they wished me to begin at once, and I did. Suddenly, in a span of about six weeks, I was not permitted to do another piece of work. And, every time I brought the subject up, I was kind of patted on the back and told, "Stop worrying about it, Norm. Pretty soon you will be a vice-president and you will have quite a handsome salary, and ultimately be able to retire on a very worthwhile pension and, in the meantime, you can play golf and tennis to your hearts content on weekends." Well, Mr. Griffin, I found I could not do it. I spent a year, figuratively, with my feet on the desk, doing nothing. I just couldn't adjust to it. So I did resign. This time my resignation stuck. Then, I got my second shock, which was the discovery that the doors of every bank in the United States were closed to me and I never could get a job, as it were, in the bank. So I found myself for the first time since I graduated from college, out of a job. From then on, I followed various branches of the financial world, ranging from investment counsel, to membership in the stock exchange. I finally ended up as an advisor to a few individuals who had capital funds to look after. In the meantime, my major interest became very specific, which was to endeavor, by some means, to get the educational world to actually, you might say, teach the subject of economics realistically, and move it away from the support of various speculative activities that characterized our country. I have had that interest and you know how it is, if you generate a specific interest, you find yourself gravitating toward persons with similar interests. Ultimately, I found myself kind of at the center of the world of dissatisfaction with the direction in which this country was headed. And, I found myself in contact with many individuals who, on their own, had done a vast amount of studying and research in areas which were part of the problem. Griffin: What point in your career did you become connected with the Reece Committee? Dodd: Nineteen hundred and fifty-three (1953). Griffin: 1953. And what was that capacity, Sir? Dodd: That was in the capacity of what they called "Director of Research." Griffin: Can you tell us what the Reece Committee was attempting to do? Dodd: Yes, I can tell you. It was operating and carrying out instructions embodied in a Resolution passed by the House of Representatives, which was to investigate the activities of foundations as to whether or not these activities could justifiably be labeled "un-American" -- without, I might add, defining what they meant by "un-American." That was the Resolution and the committee had, then, the task of selecting a counsel, and the counsel, in turn, had the task of selecting a staff; and, he had to have somebody who would direct the work of that staff, and that was what they meant by the "Director of Research. " Griffin: What were some of the details, the specifics, of what you told the committee at that time? Dodd: Well, Mr. Griffin, in that report, I specifically -- number one -- defined what was, to us, meant by the phrase "un-American." And, we defined that, in our way, as being a determination to effect changes in the country by un-Constitutional means. We have plenty of Constitutional procedures, assuming that we wished to effect a change in the form of government, and that sort of thing. And therefore, any effort in that direction, which did not avail itself of the procedures authorized by the Constitution, could be justifiably called "un-American." That was the start of educating them, up to that particular point. The next thing was to educate them as to the effect on the country, as a whole, of the activities of large, endowed foundations over the then past forty years. Griffin: What was that effect, Sir? Dodd: That affect was to orient our educational system away from support of the principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence, and implemented in the Constitution; and to educate them over to the idea that the task now was to effect an orientation of education away from these briefly stated principles and self-evident truths. And, that's what had been the effect of the wealth which constituted the endowments of those foundations -– foundations that had been in existence over the largest portion of the span of fifty years -- and holding them responsible for this change. What we were able to bring forward was -- what we had uncovered was -- the determination of these large endowed foundations, through their trustees, actually to get control over the content of American education. Griffin: There is quite a bit of publicity given to your conversation with Rowan Gaither. Will you please tell us who he was, and what was that conversation you had with him? Dodd: Rowan Gaither was, at that time, President of the Ford Foundation. Mr. Gaither had sent for me, when I found it convenient to be in New York. He asked me to call upon him at his office, which I did. Upon arrival, after a few amenities, Mr. Gaither said, "Mr. Dodd, we have asked you to come up here today, because we thought that, possibly, off the record, you would tell us why the Congress is interested in the activities of foundations such as ourselves." And, before I could think of how I would reply to that statement, Mr. Gaither then went on, and voluntarily stated, "Mr. Dodd, all of us who have a hand in the making of policies here, have had experience either with the OSS during the war, or with European economic administration after the war. We have had experience operating under directives. The directives emanate, and did emanate, from the White House. Now, we still operate under just such directives. Would you like to know what the substance of these directives is?" I said, "Yes, Mr. Gaither, I would like very much to know." Whereupon, he made this statement to me, "Mr. Dodd, we are here to operate in response to similar directives, the substance of which is that we shall use our grant-making power so to alter life in the United States, that it can be comfortably merged with the Soviet Union." Well, parenthetically, Mr. Griffin, I nearly fell off the chair. I, of course, didn't, but my response to Mr. Gaither then was, "Oh, Mr. Gaither, I can now answer your first question. You've forced the Congress of the United States to spend a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to find our what you have just told me." I said, "Of course, legally, you're entitled to make grants for this purpose. But, I don't think you're entitled to withhold that information from the People of this country, to whom you're indebted for your tax exemption. So why don't you tell the People of the country just what you told me?" And his answer was, "We would not think of doing any such thing." So, then I said, "Well, Mr. Gaither, obviously, you forced the Congress to spend this money, in order to find out what you just told me." Griffin: Mr. Dodd, you have spoken, before, about some interesting things that were discovered by Kathryn Casey at the Carnegie Endowment. Would you tell us that story, please? Dodd: Sure, glad to, Mr. Griffin. This experience you just referred to, came about in response to a letter which I had written to the Carnegie Endowment Center, National Peace, asking certain questions and gathering certain information. On the arrival of that letter, Dr. Johnson, who was then President of the Carnegie Endowment, telephoned me and said, "Did you ever come up to New York?" I said, "Yes, I did, more or less each weekend." And he said, "When you are next here, will you drop in and see us?" Which I did. And again, on arrival, at the office of the Endowment, I found myself in the presence of Dr. Joseph Johnson, the President, who was the successor to Alger Hess, two vice-presidents and their own counsel, a partner in the firm -- a fellow by the name of Cromwell. And Dr. Johnson said (again after amenities), "Mr. Dodd, we have your letter. We can answer all those questions, but it would be a great deal of trouble. We have a counter-suggestion. Our counter-suggestion is that, if you can spare a member of your staff for two weeks, and send that member up to New York, we will give to that member a room in the library, and the minute books of this Foundation since its inception. And we think that, whatever you want to find out or that the Congress wants to find out, will be obvious from those minutes." Well, my first reaction was they had lost their minds. I had a pretty good idea of what those minutes would contain, but I realized that Dr. Johnson had only been in office two years, and the vice-presidents were relatively young men, and counsel also seemed to be a young man. I guessed that, probably, they had never read the minutes themselves. And so, I said that I had somebody and I would accept their offer. I went back to Washington, and I selected the member of my staff who had been a practicing attorney in Washington. She was on my staff to ensure I did not break any Congressional procedures or rules. In addition to that, she was unsympathetic to the purpose of the investigation. She was a level-headed and very reasonably brilliant, capable lady, and her attitude toward the investigation was this: "What could possibly be wrong with foundations? They do so much good." [Start of side 2] Well, in the face of that sincere conviction of Kathryn's, I went out of my way not to prejudice her in any way, but I did explain to her that she couldn't possibly cover fifty years of handwritten minutes in two weeks. So, she would have to do what we call "spot reading." I blocked out certain periods of time to concentrate on. Off she went -- to New York. She came back at the end of two weeks, with the following recorded on dictaphone belts. We are now at the year nineteen hundred and eight, which was the year that the Carnegie Foundation began operations. And, in that year, the trustees meeting, for the first time, raised a specific question, which they discussed throughout the balance of the year, in a very learned fashion. And the question is this: Is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people? And they conclude that, no more effective means to that end is known to humanity, than war. So then, in 1909, they raise the second question, and discuss it, namely, how do we involve the United States in a war? Well, I doubt, at that time, if there was any subject more removed from the thinking of most of the People of this country, than its involvement in a war. There were intermittent shows in the Balkans, but I doubt very much if many people even knew where the Balkans were. And finally, they answer that question as follows: we must control the State Department. And then, that very naturally raises the question of how do we do that? They answer it by saying, we must take over and control the diplomatic machinery of this country and, finally, they resolve to aim at that as an objective. Then, time passes, and we are eventually in a war, which would be World War I. At that time, they record on their minutes a shocking report in which they dispatch to President Wilson a telegram cautioning him to see that the war does not end too quickly. And finally, of course, the war is over. At that time, their interest shifts over to preventing what they call a reversion of life in the United States to what it was prior to 1914, when World War I broke out. At that point, they come to the conclusion that, to prevent a reversion, we must control education in the United States. And they realize that is a pretty big task. To them it is too big for them alone. So they approach the Rockefeller Foundation with a suggestion: that portion of education which could be considered domestic should be handled by the Rockefeller Foundation, and that portion which is international should be handled by the Endowment. They then decide that the key to the success of these two operations lay in the alteration of the teaching of American History. So, they approach four of the then most prominent teachers of American History in the country -- people like Charles and Mary Byrd. Their suggestion to them is this, "Will they alter the manner in which they present their subject"" And, they get turned down, flatly. So, they then decide that it is necessary for them to do as they say, i.e. "build our own stable of historians." Then, they approach the Guggenheim Foundation, which specializes in fellowships, and say" "When we find young men in the process of studying for doctorates in the field of American History, and we feel that they are the right caliber, will you grant them fellowships on our say so? And the answer is, "Yes." So, under that condition, eventually they assemble twenty (20), and they take these twenty potential teachers of American History to London. There, they are briefed in what is expected of them -- when, as, and if they secure appointments in keeping with the doctorates they will have earned. That group of twenty historians ultimately becomes the nucleus of the American Historical Association. And then, toward the end of the 1920's, the Endowment grants to the American Historical Association four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000) for a study of our history in a manner which points to what this country look forward to, in the future. That culminates in a seven-volume study, the last volume of which is, of course, in essence, a summary of the contents of the other six. The essence of the last volume is this: the future of this country belongs to collectivism, administered with characteristic American efficiency. That is the story that ultimately grew out of, and of course, was what could have been presented by the members of, this Congressional Committee, and the Congress as a whole, for just exactly what it said. But, they never got to that point! Griffin: This is the story that emerged from the minutes at the Carnegie Foundation? Dodd: That's right. Griffin: And so? Dodd: It was official to that extent. Griffin: And Kathryn Casey brought all of these back, in the form of dictated notes, or verbatim readings, of the minutes? Dodd: On dictaphone belts. Griffin: Are those in existence today? Dodd: I don't know. If they are, they're somewhere in the archives, under the control of the Congress, the House of Representatives. Griffin: How many people actually heard those? Or, were they typed up, transcripts made? Dodd: No. Griffin: How many people actually heard those recordings? Dodd: Three maybe. Myself, my top assistant, and Kathryn. Yeah, I might tell you this experience, as far as its impact on Kathryn Casey is concerned. Well, she was never able to return to her law practice. If it hadn't been for Carroll Reece's ability to tuck her away in a job with the Federal Trade Commission, I don't know what would have happened to Kathryn. Ultimately, she lost her mind as a result of it. It was a terrible shock to her. It is a very rough experience for her to encounter proof of this kind. Griffin: Mr. Dodd, can you summarize the opposition to the Committee, the Reece Committee, and particularly the efforts to sabotage the Committee? Dodd: Well, it began right at the start of the week of the operating staff, Mr. Griffin. It began on the day on which the Committee met for the purpose of consenting to, or confirming, my appointment to the position of Director of Research. Thanks to the abstention by the minority members of the Committee from voting, that is, the two Democratic members – that is why, technically, I was unanimously appointed. Griffin: Wasn't the White House involved in opposition? Dodd: Not at this particular point, Sir. Mr. Reece ordered Counsel and myself to visit Wayne Hayes. Wayne Hayes was the ranking minority member of the Committee, as a Democrat. So, we -- Kathryn and I -- had to go down to Mr. Hayes' office, which we did. Mr. Hayes greeted us with the flat statement, directed primarily to me, "I am opposed to this investigation. I regard it as nothing but an effort on the part of Carroll Reece to gain a little prominence. So, I'll do everything I can to see that it fails." Well, I have a strange personality, in the sense that a challenge of that nature interests me. Our Counsel withdrew. He went over and sat on the couch in Mr. Reece's office, and pouted. I, sort of, took up this statement by Mr. Hayes as a challenge, and set myself a goal of winning him over to our point of view. I started by noticing that, on his desk, there was a book. The book was of the type – and there were many in those days -- that would be complaining about the spread of communism, and Hungary. That type of book. This meant to me that, at least Hayes had read the book. So, I brought up the subject of the spread of the influence of the Soviet World. For two hours, I discussed this with Hayes and, finally, he ended up by rising from his desk and saying, "Norm, if you will carry this investigation toward the goal that you have outlined to me, I will be your biggest supporter." I said, "Mr. Hayes, I can assure you. I will not double-cross you. Subsequently, Mr. Hayes sent word to me that he was in Bethesda Naval Hospital, with an attack of ulcers. He asked if would I come and see him. Which I did. He then said, "Norm, the only reason I've asked you to come out here is that I just want to hear you say, again you will not double-cross me." I gave him that assurance, and that was the basis of our relationship. Meanwhile, Counsel took the attitude expressed in these words, "Norm, if you want to waste your time with 'this guy' (as he called him), then you can go ahead and do it, but don't ever ask me to say anything to him, under any conditions, on any subject." So, in a sense, that created a deck for me to operate in relation to Hayes, on my own. As time passed, Hayes offered friendship, which I hesitated to accept because of his vulgarity. I didn't want to get mixed up with him socially, under any conditions. Well, that was our relationship for about three months. Eventually, I had occasion to add to my staff. As a result of adding to my staff a top-flight intelligence officer, both the Republican National Committee and the White House resorted to stopping me from continuing this investigation in the direction Carroll Reece had personally asked me to go. Mr. Griffin, that direction was to utilize this investigation to uncover the fact that this country had been the victim of a conspiracy. That was Mr. Reece's conviction. I eventually agreed to carry out that direction. I explained to Mr. Reece that his own Counsel wouldn't go in that direction. He gave me permission to disregard our own Counsel and to set up an aspect of the investigation outside of our office -- more or less secretly. The Republican National Committee got wind of what I was doing, and they did everything they could to stop me. They appealed to Counsel to stop me. Finally, they resorted to the White House. Griffin: Was their objection because of what you were doing, or because of the fact that you were doing it outside of the official auspices of the Committee? Dodd: No. The objection was, as they put it, my devotion to what they called "anti-Semitism." That was a cooked-up idea. In other words, it wasn't true at all. But, any way, that's the way they expressed it. Griffin: Excuse me. Why? Dodd: Then they made it stick. Griffin: Why did they do that? How could they say that? Dodd: Well, they could say it, Mr. Griffin. But, they had to have something in the way of a rationalization of their decision to do everything they could to stop completion of this investigation, given the direction that it was moving. That direction would have been exposure of this Carnegie Endowment story, and the Ford Foundation, and the Guggenheim, and the Rockefeller Foundation -- all working in harmony toward the control of education in the United States. Well, to secure the help of the White House in the picture, they got the White House to cause the liaison between the White and the Hill -- a major person -- to go up to Hayes and try to get him, as it were, actively to oppose what the investigation was engaged in. Hayes, then, very kindly, would listen to this visit from this major person. Then he would call me and say, "Norm, come up to my office. I have a good deal to tell you." I would go up. He would tell me he just had a visit from this major person, and he wants me to break up this investigation. So then I said, "Wayne, what did you do? What did you say to him?" He said, "I just told him to get the hell out." And he did that three times. I got pretty proud of him, in the sense that he was, as it were, backing me up. We finally embarked upon hearings at Hayes' request. Hayes wanted to get them out of the way, before he went abroad in the summer. Griffin: Why were the hearings finally terminated? What happened to the Committee? Dodd: What happened to the Committee, or to the hearings? Griffin: The hearings. Dodd: The hearings were terminated. Carroll Reece was up against such a furor in Hayes, through the activity of our own Counsel. Hayes became convinced that he was being double-crossed; and he put on a show in the public hearing room, Mr. Griffin, that was an absolute disgrace. He called Carroll Reece publicly every name in the book. Mr. Reece took this as proof that he couldn't continue the hearings. He actually invited me to accompany him when he went down to Hayes' office and, in my presence, with the tears rolling down his face, Hayes apologized to Carroll Reece for all he'd done, and his conduct. He apologized to me. I thought that would be enough, and Carroll would resume. He never did. Griffin: This charge of anti-Semitism is kind of intriguing to me. What was the basis of that charge? Was there any basis for it at all? Dodd: The basis used by the Republican National Committee was that the intelligence officer I had taken on my staff -- when I oriented this investigation to the exposure of, and proof of, a conspiracy -- was known to have a book, and that book was deemed to be anti-Semitic. It was childish, but it's what the second-in-command at the Republican National Committee said, and he told me I'd have to dismiss this person from my staff. Griffin: Who was that person? Dodd: A Colonel Lee Loraine. Griffin: Lee Loraine. And what was his book? Do you recall? Dodd: The book they referred to was called Waters Flowing Eastward. It was a very strong castigation of the Jewish influence in the world. Griffin: What were some of the other charges made by Mr. Hayes, against Mr. Reece? Dodd: Just that Mr. Reece was utilizing this investigation for his own prominence inside the House of Representatives. That was the only charge Hayes could think up. Griffin: How would you describe the motivation of the people who created the foundations -- the big foundations -- in the very beginning? What was their motivation? Dodd: Their motivation was, well, let's take Mr. Carnegie, as an example. His publicly declared and steadfast interest was to counteract the departure of the colonies from Great Britain. He was devoted just to putting the pieces back together again. Griffin: Would that have required the collectivism to which they were dedicated? Dodd: No. No. No. These policies are the foundations' allegiance to these un-American concepts; these policies are all traceable to the transfer of the funds over into the hands of Trustees, Mr. Griffin. Those Trustees were not the men who had a hand in the creation of the wealth that led to the endowment, or the use of that wealth for what we would call public purposes. Griffin: It was a subversion of the original intent, then? Dodd: Oh, yes! Completely so. We got into the worlds, traditionally, of bankers and lawyers. Griffin: How have the purpose and direction of the major foundations changed, over the years, up to the present? What are their purposes and directions today? Dodd: 100% behind meeting the cost of education, such as it is presented through the schools and colleges of this United States, on the subject of our history -– to prove that our original ideas are no longer practical. The future belongs to collectivistic concepts. There is just no disagreement on this. Griffin: Why do the foundations generously support communist causes in the United States? Dodd: Well, because, to them, communism represents a means of developing what we call a monopoly -- as the organization, we'll say, of large-scale industry into an administrable unit. Griffin: Do they think that they will? Dodd: They will be the beneficiary of it, yes. [end interview] # # # This is an edited transcript of a program from the Audio Archives of the Reality Zone. If you are a subscriber to the Audio Archives, you are entitled to make as many duplicate copies as you wish -- to share with your friends. There is no additional charge for this, as long as you are a subscriber, and the copies are given freely and not sold. If you would like to become a subscriber, please ask for our free introductory tape, which provides the details. "Zone" dwellers receive three cassettes each month in an attractive binder, suitable for book shelves. 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Homer resident Louis J. Landry, 92, died Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Friendship Terrace in Homer. No services are planned at this time.
Mr. Landry was born July 1, 1920, in Abbeville, La., to Giles and Mamas Landry. He was raised on a farm in Henry, La., and graduated from Henry High School in 1937 along with six other students. He had attended welding school in New Orleans and was working in the shipyards when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He immediately joined the U.S. Marine Corps. During the war he participated in the Treasury-Bougainville operation, the Bismarck Archipelago campaign, the defense of Piva Yoke and the consolidation of the Northern Solomon Islands.
After being discharged from the Marine Corps, he met and married his wife, Ruth Voss. They moved to Flagstaff, Ariz., but after a short time, finally settled in Williams, Ariz.
Louis enjoyed bowling as a participant and coach. He helped his great-grandsons with fishing. One of his earlier favorites was the Bill Williams Mountain Men of Williams, Ariz. He was a charter member of this group that was Arizona's designee for Pres. John F. Kennedy's inauguration.
Mr. Landry worked as a welder, auto body repairman, a U.S. Forest Service firefighter, and a high school vocational teacher.
Continuing his life of change and adventure, he moved to Homer. He made many friends, bowled and fished with the relish with which he lived life. He loved his family and was proud of his Cajun heritage.
He finally met his life's goal of meeting his Saviour, Jesus Christ. Semper Fi to God, family, country and friends.
Louis was a member of the United Methodist Church of Homer.
Louis was preceded in death by his parents, Giles and Mamas Landry, and his wife, Ruth.
He is survived by his daughter and son-in-law, Tonia and Duane Landry Parlow of Homer; son and daughter-in-law, Kit and Lee Landry of Manito, Ill.; grandchildren and spouses, John and Renee Parlow Courtney of Peoria, Ariz., Joshua and Carin Landry Watson of Manito, Ill., Chad and Cheryl Hickman Landry of Tremont, Ill., Jason and Katie Landry Troha of Bedford, Texas; Ben and Lauren Landry Cosgrove of Honolulu, Hawaii, and Chad and Pam Perkins Parlow of Beaverton, Ore.; great-grandchildren, Dillon and Dalton Hesselschwerdt of Peoria, Ariz.; and step-great-grandchildren, Thomas and Sophia Especiale of Tremont, Ill.
Memorial donations may be sent to Homer Senior Citizens, 3935 Svedlund St., Homer, AK 99603.
Arrangements were made by Peninsula Memorial Chapel.
Louis J. Landry
Homer resident Louis J. Landry, 92, died Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Friendship Terrace in Homer. No services are planned at this time.


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A group of Jersey Shore fishermen had an up-close and personal encounter with a great white shark.
Rob Pompilio, Mike Long and another friend left from Little Egg Harbor Township on Sunday afternoon and were about 30 miles southeast of Atlantic City when they spotted the shark.
"Unspeakable. Like nothing I've ever seen before," said Pompilio. The great white was about half the size of Pompilio's 28-foot boat.
Long, who says "Jaws" is his favorite movie, was quick to hit "record" on his cell phone to make his own short movie of the great white shark circling the boat.
The friends say the shark hung around for about 10 minutes and seemed more curious than aggressive.
"The teeth were huge," said Long. The great white left scratch marks from its sharp teeth on the boat. "It came up, just grabbed the boat, saw it wasn't edible, went back down," said Pompilio.
The founder of Brigantine's Marine Mammal Stranding Center says great white sightings have become more common off the coast of New Jersey in recent years because of an increase in the number of seals, one of its main prey.
"You should keep an eye out. If you see fins in the water, common sense should tell you to get out of the water," said Bob Schoelkopf, Marine Mammal Stranding Center.


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LONDON — Lady Gaga broke a record at auction on Wednesday night, paying $133,075 for an Alexander McQueen dress from the wardrobe of Daphne Guinness that went under the hammer at Christie's South Kensington here.
The singer bid by phone from the U.S. for the ivory silk tulle empire line gown from the Girl Who Lived in the Tree collection from fall 2008, according to industry sources. It was the highest price paid for a McQueen dress at auction.
Meanwhile, a Europe-based bidder paid $208,003 for a portrait of Guinness shot by Mario Testino for the March 2008 edition of British Vogue. It was the highest price paid for a Testino photo at auction.
The Christie's sale broke a third record: A U.S.-based buyer paid $25,366 for a Christian Lacroix Spanish style white lace dress with a black matador jacket.
The auction, to benefit the Isabella Blow Foundation, which Guinness founded after the death of her friend in 2007, raised $744,285 or four times the presale estimate. The fashion stylist and muse committed suicide after years of battling depression.
"I should have put more in the sale," said a buzzing Guinness the morning after the auction, which she did not technically attend. "I was hiding at Christie's on King Street [across town in St. James'] in my friend's office. I'm not very good at social gatherings — I'm slightly agoraphobic."
Shy or not, Guinness was busting with excitement during a telephone interview with WWD on Thursday. "This auction was the culmination of a plan, the completion of a circle. I wanted to celebrate Isabella — she was one of the most interesting funny people I have ever known.
"And I feel so great that all of these things will go on to have lives with other people. There has to be a certain flow to life — you can't hang on to things. The sale was so freeing."
Christie's said nearly 90 percent of the 102 lots sold. Highlights included a sculptural Alexander McQueen dress in metallic silver, a selection of Lacroix gowns and a pair of towering Noritaka Tatehana boots.
The Isabella Blow Foundation will offer support to young designers and fund research into depression and mental illness. Guinness also confirmed that Blow's wardrobe — which she purchased in 2010 shortly before it went to auction — would go on a world tour, beginning at Central Saint Martins next year.
And while Guinness declined to confirm early rumors that Lady Gaga had purchased the McQueen dress, she did pay tribute to her pal. "She was an absolute brick, so supportive during the whole process," she said of Blow.
Guinness said she's hoping to divide the money "fairly evenly" between the two different causes, and added that she's all fired up to raise more funds for the foundation.
"All of this started out as a shot in the dark, but I'm glad I followed by gut instincts," she said of the sale.
"I really hope the foundation can help students and people who are struggling with mental illness. I'm not Mother Teresa, but I hope we can help people to know that life is worth living."


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Crackdowns reach epicenter of Wall Street protests
NEW YORK - Crackdowns against the Occupy Wall Street encampments across the country reached the epicenter of the movement Tuesday, when police rousted protesters from a Manhattan park and a judge ruled their free speech rights do not extend to pitching a tent and setting up camp for months at a time.
It was a potentially devastating setback. If crowds of demonstrators return to Zuccotti Park, they will not be allowed to bring tents, sleeping bags and other equipment that turned the area into a makeshift city of dissent.
But demonstrators pledged to carry on with their message protesting corporate greed and economic inequality, either in Zuccotti or a yet-to-be chosen new home.
"This is much bigger than a square plaza in downtown Manhattan," said Hans Shan, an organizer who was working with churches to find places for protesters to sleep. "You can't evict an idea whose time has come."
State Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman upheld the city's eviction of the protesters after an emergency appeal by the National Lawyers Guild.
The protesters have been camped out in the privately owned park since mid-September. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said he ordered the sweep because health and safety conditions and become "intolerable" in the crowded plaza. The raid was conducted in the middle of the night "to reduce the risk of confrontation" and "to minimize disruption to the surrounding neighborhood," he said.
By early Tuesday evening, some protesters were being allowed back into the park two by two. But they could each take only a small bag.
Later Tuesday, the protesters held a general assembly where they discussed topics including where and how to retrieve their belongings that had been swooped up in the raid and options for going forward, including appealing the judge's decision.
Still, some protesters believed the loss of Zuccotti Park may be an opportunity to broaden and decentralize the protest to give it staying power.
"People are really recognizing that we need to build a movement here," Shan said. "What we're dedicated to is not just about occupying space. That's a tactic."
But without a place to congregate, protesters will have a harder time communicating with each other en masse. The leaders of the movement spent most of Tuesday gathering in small groups throughout the city - in church basements, in public plazas and on street corners - and relaying plans in scattered text messages and email.
Robert Harrington, owner of a small importing business in New York, stood outside the barricade with a sign calling for tighter banking regulations.
"To be effective it almost has to move out of the park," Harrington said. "It's like the anti-war movement in the '60s, which started as street theater and grew into something else."
"The issues," he added, "are larger than just this camp."
Protesters milling around Zuccotti Park said they were dismayed by the ruling.
Chris Habib, a New York artist, said he hoped the group could settle on a new protest site during a meeting later Tuesday evening. He was confident the movement would continue even if its flagship camp was dismantled.
"A judge can't erase a movement from the public mind," he said. "The government is going to have to spend a lot of time in court to defend this."
Pete Dutro, head of the group's finances, said the loss of the movement's original encampment will open up a dialogue with other cities.
"We all knew this was coming," Dutro said. "Now it's time for us to not be tucked away in Zuccotti Park and have different areas of occupation throughout the city."
The aggressive raid seemed to mark a shift in the city's dealings with the Wall Street protests. Only a week ago, Bloomberg privately told a group of executives and journalists that he thought reports of problems at the park had been exaggerated and didn't require any immediate intervention.
The New York raid was the third in three days for a major American city. Police broke up camps Sunday in Portland, Ore., and Monday in Oakland, Calif.
The timing did not appear to be coincidence. On Tuesday, authorities acknowledged that police departments across the nation consulted with each other about nonviolent ways to clear encampments. Officers in as many as 40 cities participated in the conference calls.
When New York police began their crackdown at 1 a.m., most of the Occupy Wall Street protesters were sleeping.
Officers arrived by the hundreds and set up powerful klieg lights to illuminate the block. They handed out notices from the park's owner, Brookfield Office Properties, and the city saying that the plaza had to be cleared because it had become unsanitary and hazardous.
Many people left, carrying their belongings with them. Others tried to make a stand, locking arms or even chaining themselves together with bicycle locks.
Dennis Iturralde was fast asleep on a cot when the shouting woke him up. Dark figures were running through the tents in the dim orange light of streetlamps. Something slammed into the cot, flipping him to the ground.
"They came in from both sides, yelling, 'You have 20 minutes to vacate the premises!'" said Iturralde, a Manhattan cook.
Within minutes, police in riot gear had swarmed the park, ripping down tents and tarps. The air was filled with the sound of rustling tarps, rumbling garbage trucks, shouts and equipment crashing to the ground.
"They were tearing everything apart," Iturralde said. "They were hitting people, spraying people if they didn't move fast enough."
Around 200 people were arrested, including a member of the City Council, at least a half-dozen journalists covering the confrontation and dozens who tried to resist the eviction by linking arms in a tight circle at the center of the park.
The arrested journalists included a reporter and a photographer from The Associated Press who were held for four hours before being released.
Freelance radio journalist Julie Walker, who works part time for the AP on the weekends, said she was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge while walking several blocks north of Zuccotti Park after covering the raid. She said an officer grabbed her arm twice and arrested her after she asked for the officer's name and badge number.
"I told them I'm a reporter," said Walker, who was working for National Public Radio. "I had my recorder on before he ripped it out of my hand."
Earlier in the day, another judge had issued a temporary restraining order that appeared to bar the city from preventing protesters from re-entering the park, but it was unilaterally ignored by the police and city officials.
In contrast to the scene weeks ago in Oakland, where a similar eviction turned chaotic and violent, the police action was comparatively orderly. But some protesters complained of being hit by police batons and shoved to the ground.
City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who has been supportive of the Occupy movement, was among those arrested outside of the park on charges of resisting arrest.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said Rodriguez was trying to get through police lines to reach the protesters. Rodriguez was released Tuesday night with visible scrapes on his left temple and right forehead. He said an officer assaulted him two blocks from the park as he went to observe police action. Police had no immediate comment.
Several journalists were detained or manhandled by police while trying to cover the eviction.
"The law that created Zuccotti Park required that it be open for the public to enjoy for passive recreation 24 hours a day," Bloomberg said. "Ever since the occupation began, that law has not been complied with, as the park has been taken over by protesters, making it unavailable to anyone else."
The police commissioner said officers gave the crowd 45 minutes to retrieve their belongings before starting to dismantle tents and let people leave voluntarily until around 3:30 a.m., when they moved in to make mass arrests.
"Arresting people is not easy," he said, adding that he thought the officers showed great restraint in the face of "an awful lot of taunting, people getting in police officers' faces, calling them names."
The ouster at Zuccotti Park came as a rift within the movement had been widening between the park's full-time residents and the movement's power players, most of whom no longer lived in the park.
Some residents of the park have been grumbling about the recent formation of a "spokescouncil," an upper echelon of organizers who held meetings at a high school near police headquarters. Some protesters felt that the selection of any leaders whatsoever wasn't true to Occupy Wall Street's original anti-government spirit: that no person is more important or more powerful than another person.


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Story #1 Uninvited Dorm Room Guests
Oh, E-Hell, I need advice on how to deal with a perpetually rude "friend".
My roommate Sarah and I are in our first year of college and live in the dorms. During the very first week we were here, we met Kayla, who lived in our building. We got along okay and ended up frequently sitting in the dining hall together by default, since we didn't know many other people. About a month or so in, we started noticing certain habits of Kayla's that made us a little irritated and uncomfortable.
Kayla is from a very big city thousands of miles away. Now, the town we go to school in isn't exactly a bustling metropolis, but it's an extremely diverse, good-sized college town in the mid-west, and it's never boring. Apparently, this isn't what Kayla expected. "This city doesn't have a train system? Wow. Are there really farms outside of town? Gross. You guys call it pop? Uh, it's definitely called soda." Constant bashing! Having lived most of my life in this area, some of her comments really strike a nerve.
Kayla also takes it upon herself to be the social chair of our group of friends. Sarah and I are more homebody, keep-to-ourselves types, and in the fall Kayla decided she was going to change that and have a dinner party. At Sarah's house (about 30 minutes away). Using Sarah's kitchen. Sarah and I, along with about 5 of Kayla's friends (who we have met, but aren't particularly close to) received a text telling us we were invited to this party and we each needed to contribute $20 or so to cover the cost of food. I'm not sure if this is reasonable or not, but because I come from a poor family and can only afford college on a lick and a promise, I told Kayla that I wasn't able to attend because I could not afford it. She made fun of me, telling me that I was using that as an excuse to not have to socialize.
Although Sarah and I have been dealing with Kayla inviting herself into our room unannounced for hours at a time all year, the kicker came last night. Kayla, along with her roommate and a friend, came into our room (which we still haven't figured out how to politely deal with!) and announced that we were all ordering pizza. Sarah and I already had some leftover Chinese and weren't really in the mood for company, so we politely declined. Kayla said, "Oh, okay, we'll just get one for us, then!" and ordered a pizza for the three of them, which they ate in our room after spilling a glass of water on our carpet (which Kayla did not offer to help clean up, but her friend and roommate did).
She stayed and chatted with her friend for the next two hours or so, while Sarah and I were quite obviously studying. At one point, Kayla seemed to notice and said, "Oh, you guys are studying, maybe we should get out of your hair" to which we agreed, but she still did not leave! Her friend and roommate even started lounging on Sarah's bed!
Our room smells like pizza, Sarah's sheets have a light coating of shoe dirt, our carpet is damp, and we're very confused. Unfortunately, this is not the first time something like this has happened! Should Sarah and I confront Kayla about her presumptuous behavior? How do we deal with her constant unwanted comments and "parties"? 0422-13
I can imagine a plethora of Ehell readers crying in unison, "GROW A POLITE SPINE!" You and Sarah might as well have "Doormat" tattooed across your foreheads and a sign on your dorm room door that says, "Spineless Doormats Live Here".
First, who cares what Kayla thinks about your home town? Confident people who are secure in their beliefs are not going to be bothered one iota with someone who disagrees with them. "Hitting a nerve" only exposes the fact that you have a nerve that can be manipulated and tweaked by people who take pleasure in getting a rise from others. I do my darnedest to make sure no one places me in that kind of vulnerable position of reacting emotionally to their opinions.
Second, if you and Sarah are studying, close your dorm room door. Lock it. An open door is an open invitation to enter and socialize whereas a closed door sends the message that you are serious about studying with no distractions. If you choose to answer a knock on the door, promptly tell your guests that you are in the midst of studying and can only take a short break to socialize and then you will have to get back to work. Chit chat for 10 minutes and then look at the clock and say, "I'm sorry, I have to get back to studying for this exam. I enjoyed this brief break with you. Perhaps we can meet at the dining hall at 7 for dinner?"
Story #2 The Frazzled, Spineless Secretary
Our company secretary, "Janie," was late to work today. Why? Because her late husband's brother's ex-wife (got all that?), "Dolly," had phoned her at 9:00 last night and did not hang up until 11:30, after a conversation so emotionally toxic that Janie was unable to get to sleep until after 3 a.m.Janie told me the story during our coffee break.It seems that three years ago, Dolly's husband, "Rick," cheated on Dolly and Dolly asked him to leave. Rick promptly went to his elderly and ill parents' house and has been sleeping there ever since."Sleeping" is the correct description, because even though Dolly and Rick are "separated," Rick still drops by:*Whenever he wants to see the grandchildren;*Whenever he wants a home-cooked dinner;*Whenever he wants to pick up some clothing, most of which is still stored there;*Whenever he wants Dolly to update the books for his business.In other words, Dolly is still providing access to their grandkids, feeding him, keeping his clothes and mementos stored, and doing his books. But they're "separated." And Dolly wonders (seriously!) why Rick won't leave Her and come back home.That's not the issue.The issue is that Dolly, who grew up in foster care, is 60 years old and unable or unwilling to take responsibility for her own actions and their consequences. She has a well-used lineup of blame dolls all standing in a row behind her and she will stick a pin into whichever doll suits.It's Rick's fault that Dolly is a wreck.It's Rick's fault that Dolly's finances are a mess.It's Janie's fault that she stayed up talking on the phone for 2 1/2 hours.It's their 30-year-old daughter's fault that she had five children and criticized Dolly for not being available for free 24/7 child care and made Dolly feel guilty.It's Rick's parents' fault that they are giving aid and comfort to their son.It's Rick's fault that he won't file for divorce.Etc.Janie, our secretary, is tired, sick, and worn-out after approximately the six thousandth time of being put through the emotional wringer. Why is Janie always the sounding board? Because neither Rick nor their two grown children are willing to put up with Dolly's insecurity, need for control, fear, and manipulation. Dolly seems to be afraid that if she ever made a decision, she would have to live with the consequences.Janie asked for my advice.I advised her to grow a Polite Spine. I even gave her a little script."Dolly, how nice to hear from you. I'm sorry, this isn't a good time to talk. It's getting late and I have a few chores to do before I go to bed. I'll talk to you later. Bye!" And hang up. Repeat as needed, even if that means 30 or 40 repetitions.I advised Janie to interrupt Dolly or talk over her … simply talk while Dolly is talking … because Dolly sounded to me like one of those very experienced kvetchers who is capable of talking in such a way that she never pauses for breath, never comes to the end of a sentence, and never lets a word in edgewise."Do you object to hanging up on or interrupting telemarketers?" I asked. No, Janie didn't."This is like that," I said. "Dolly is taking your time to bend your ear about something you have been over with her many times before, and you're not interested in buying. She won't take your advice and she won't change her behavior. Just like you feel OK with hanging up on a telemarketer, it's OK to hang up on Dolly."Janie said: "Then she'll bad-mouth me to (other relatives)."Who are they going to believe, I asked, you or Dolly?Janie was grateful for a sympathetic ear, but I'm not sure she'll quite be able to grow that Polite Spine.Tell me, fellow E-hellions, was my advice on target? Is there anything more I can do, short of possessing Janie during these phone calls and cutting Dolly off myself? 0417-13
Story # 3 Doubting The Polite Spine
I'm wondering what the admin and the fellow Ehellions would have done in this situation.
My mother-in-law is someone who is known for requesting odd things. She and her siblings were throwing together a huge birthday bash for her father's 80th birthday who lives over 1500 miles away. The weeks leading up to the party she had asked my husband a couple times if she could have some pictures of me and my husband as they were planning on putting framed pictures up at the party of her father's children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren etc.About a week or two before she left, I e-mailed MIL a couple different pictures of myself and her son. Despite this, one day before she left to fly across the country she asks me, "Can I borrow the wedding picture of yours already framed in the living room?" I proceeded to ask "in my living room?" I knew she had her own framed wedding picture of me and her son because we had given her one after our wedding, so for some reason I thought maybe she was asking permission to take that. She said, "Yes, the one sitting on your end table."I basically proceeded to tell her that I was sorry, but could not accommodate her request. I felt a little bad about it, but I also told myself (and her) that the frame our wedding picture was in was an expensive one from a family member and I wouldn't want anything to happen to it during extensive travel. It is also one of my home decorations. The fact that she requested to borrow a displayed, framed wedding picture, fly it across the country and give it back to me who-knows-when, seemed odd.I later asked my husband if it was rude that I told her no, but he reminded me that I already sent her pictures of the two of us a week or two before and that her lack of planning did not justify her traveling across the country with one of my favorite home decorations!Should I have just given it to her?


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Escort destroyers
Hunt (Type II) class
36 ships
Technical information
|Escort destroyer
|85.3 m
|164 men
6 4" AA guns (3x2) 4 2pdr AA (1x4) 2 20mm AA (2x1)
|Max speed
|29 knots
|Geared turbines, 2 shafts
|Notes on class
Modified Hunt (Type I)-class escort destroyers. Their beam was increased to overcome stability problems so that the 3rd twin 4" AA guns could be mounted as originally designed.
All ships of the Hunt (Type II) class
|HMS Avon Vale (L 06)
|HMS Badsworth (L 03) (To the Royal Norwegian Navy as Arendal)
|HMS Beaufort (L 14)
|HMS Bedale (L 26) (To the Polish Navy as Slazak)
|HMS Bicester (L 34)
|HMS Blackmore (L 43)
|HMS Blankney (L 30)
|HMS Blencathra (L 24)
|HMS Bramham (L 51) (To the Royal Hellenic Navy as Themistocles)
|HMS Brocklesby (L 42)
|HMS Calpe (L 71)
|HMS Chiddingfold (L 31)
|HMS Cowdray (L 52)
|HMS Croome (L 62)
|HMS Dulverton (L 63)
|Lost on 13 Nov 1943
|HMS Eridge (L 68)
|HMS Exmoor (ii) (L 08)
|HMS Farndale (L 70)
|HMS Grove (L 77)
|Lost on 12 Jun 1942
|HMS Heythrop (L 85)
|Lost on 20 Mar 1942
|HMS Hursley (L 84) (To the Royal Hellenic Navy as Kriti)
|HMS Hurworth (L 28)
|Lost on 22 Oct 1943
|HMS Lamerton (L 88)
|HMS Lauderdale (L 95)
|HMS Ledbury (L 90)
|HMS Liddesdale (L 100)
|HMS Middleton (L 74)
|HMS Oakley (i) (L 72) (To the Polish Navy as Kujawiak)
|HMS Oakley (ii) (L 98)
|HMS Puckeridge (L 108)
|Lost on 6 Sep 1943
|HMS Silverton (L 115) (To the Polish Navy as Krakowiak)
|HMS Southwold (L 10)
|Lost on 24 Mar 1942
|HMS Tetcott (L 99)
|HMS Wheatland (L 122)
|HMS Wilton (L 128)
|HMS Zetland (L 59)
|HNoMS Arendal (L 03)
|ORP Krakowiak (L 115) (ex. HMS Silverton)
|ORP Kujawiak (L 72) (ex. HMS Oakley (i))
|Lost on 16 Jun 1942
|ORP Slazak (L 26) (ex. HMS Bedale)
|RHS Admiral Hastings (L 52) (ex. HMS Cowdray)
|RHS Aegion (L 06) (ex. HMS Avon Vale)
|RHS Kriti (L 84) (ex. HMS Hursley)
|RHS Themistocles (L 51) (ex. HMS Bramham)
See all Escort destroyer classes.
Hunt (Type II) class ships hit by U-boats (3)
|12 Jun 1942
|HMS Grove
|20 Mar 1942
|HMS Heythrop
|6 Sep 1943
|HMS Puckeridge
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A long silence on the old blog. It is a well-known fact that an idle blog is a dead one, but this has been more of a medically induced coma. It's not that I've been lazy, just preoccupied.
I submitted my resignation on Wednesday and am leaving the Museum of Science, some thirty-odd years after I first walked through the doors as a very junior Junior Volunteer. And the planning, worrying and waiting that accompanies leaving an institution after so long has consumed most of my brainpower. It's exciting, scary, and very odd to think of myself going somewhere different every day. Grad school feels like a walk in the park compared to the prospect of diving into a new job, and a completely new culture. But, dive I will.
I have accepted the job of Associate Director of Integrated Media at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA, and for the next four years will be managing a wide range of media projects projects for their temporary exhibitions *and* preparing for the 2017 reopening of the museum, which will entail 175,000 square feet of new exhibit space and a complete reinstallation of the collection! They don't lack for ambition at PEM, and that's exciting! My interest in the intersection of the digital and museums is pretty obvious if you're reading this blog for more than the first time, and my position at PEM will be a great opportunity to turn ideas into practice. A trifle overwhelming right now, but invigorating.
Which doesn't make leaving any easier. When you're engaged in project-based work, there's never a good time to leave other than at the end of a project, and like so many other colleagues, I rarely work on only one project at a time any more. So I'll be leaving loose ends that my coworkers and friends will have to tie up. That's a hard thing to come to terms with, but that's the reality of it. I won't see the final version of that interactive. I won't be at the opening of that exhibition. I will have not any stake in who the Museum hires to fill vacant positions, including mine.
Time to mount up and move on.
And arriving
I'll be at Museums and Web representing my my new employer, so if you're in Portland, do come by and say, "Hi!" I've been going to MW since the late 90s and always gotten something out of the experience. I'm really looking forward to going in my new role, to see the conference with a fresh perspective and different questions and hopes for what I can learn there. It'll be fun to be an oldish newbie.
Which brings me to my first question for you:
What resources would you recommend I check out, as a freshly-minted art museum professional, to get a start on understanding the state of art museum educational theory and practice?
Anything is fair game; books, articles, websites, people, places outside the field worth looking at, etc… I know it's a broad question, but it's intentionally so. I'm in the divergent phase of my research and I like to throw the net wide and gather as many data as I can. There'll be time later to process and converge. For now, I'm hungry and I hope you'll feed me. And don't limit yourself to technology. As an example, I'd been dabbling a bit in Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) at the Museum of Science and wondering how they might apply in a science museum context.
I'm also an experiential learner, and like to immerse myself in places. I've always got a list of museums I'm dying to go visit, but I'd like to ask one more question of you:
Which art museums are on your top ten list of institutions doing interesting work?
I know, I know… It's another stupidly broad question, but bear with me, OK? I'm new to this! 😉 If you could tell me a museum that's on your list and what about it puts it there, I'd be grateful. As an example, my personal list includes Cleveland Museum of Art because of the philosophy behind Gallery One, as well as the technological details of implementing it. The list also includes Dallas Museum of Art for their "DMA Friends and Partners" program. Ditching paid admission and membership for an interaction-based economy is endlessly fascinating to me and I look forward to seeing how it plays out.
As always, I look forward to your thoughts and input.


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Rick Astley
"THE HILLS, JERSEY SHORE, and the Aesthetics of Class"
Over the last two years I have found myself writing a lot about MTV reality shows, including The City, Teen Mom, Jersey Shore, and The Real World. And a solid chunk of the text in this blog is devoted to The Hills. What the hell is wrong with me?
Rather than trying to end my MTV addiction, I've decided instead to try to pinpoint what is so fascinating to me about these programs. And I think what interests me the most is how popular, MTV-produced reality shows address their target teenage audiences. I'm interested in how these programs and their paratexts—including companion websites, message boards, tabloid news stories, and the various pet projects of its celebrity cast members—shape and encourage not only consumer choices, but lifestyle choices as well.
If MTV describes itself as "the world's premier youth entertainment brand" and "the cultural home of the millennial generation," then I'm interested in how programs like The Hills, Teen Mom, Jersey Shore, and The Real World work to educate and instruct this Millennial generation about appropriate sex, gender, race, class, and consumer roles. I'd also like to start looking at versions of these programs on other channels, like BET (Baldwin Hills, Harlem Heights) and the UK's ITV2 (The Only Way Is Essex).
I also want to write about how the aesthetics of these reality programs serves to frame the viewing experience. To that end, I've published a piece over at FLOW that examines the visual style of The Hills and Jersey Shore. If you'd like to read it, click here. Otherwise, you should click here.


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* 1940 Census Release Reveals Family History of Tourist-Favorite Barn: From around the world, people are flocking ...http://bit.ly/HXc0Hu
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@Ancestrydotcom: need help finding Annie Laurie Price in 1940census. She died in FL in 1946 #acomchat"
#seniorwomen 1940 Census Questions: If unmarried, are you a virgin? Are you a blonde or brunette? Do you own a...
* The complete 1940 census has been released?! I'm for big data analyses. But privacy implications should be considered.
@Ancestrydotcom Am I missing something? Why is 1940 a diff. search from other censuses? Thanks! #acomchat
* Exploring amazing site http://directme.nypl.org/ which helps you find people in 1940 NYC census.
* Recluse J.D. Salinger Found Using NYPL's 1940 Census Tool!
* 'Hello. You've reached the 1940 Census Whisperer. Who can I help you find?' http://some.ly/I7JKk0 via
@someecards #1940census
* If you access Ancestry through your mobile browser on your iPad, you can access the 1940 census images.
* I still have not found one family member on the 1940 census.
* Interest in 1940
@uscensusbureau data paralyzes national archives website http://yhoo.it/HhhEoJ. YES! #CensusLove #Census4Life
* The 1940 census data is amazing. I looked up my grandmother, who was eight that year. I learned her father earned $864 that year.
* Recent release of the 1940
#census records is "most important disclosure of ancestral secrets in a decade" http://ow.ly/a6wnZ #geneaology
#1940Census When is the 1940 Census coming out for Utah Since that is where most of my family is at #FamilySearch
* Downloading the 1940 census
* I am the 1940 San Diego census WHISPERERRRRR
* Ok, I've got to get to work. I've spent the entire morning searching through the 1940 census to find my grandparents. Found all but 1 so far
* I have started indexing the 1940 census, and came across my great-uncle, Jake Brownlee. He worked as a janitor...
@thematthewshow: The 1940 U.S. Census is now online:http://1940census.archives.gov Pretty damned cool. #1940census
* Thank you, Census Bureau & Google Maps, for letting me find dad's1940 railroad flat in Jersey City. Look on his face, stories, priceless.
Those are all within the last six hours. Some people are clueless, some knowledgeable, some are amazed, many are happy. I'm intrigued by the San Diego census whispererrrrrr! Who's that?


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June 6, 2010 (References Last Updated June 7, 2010)
Answering the Question – What can I do with SQL? A Handful of Errors Tarnish a Great Book
Last November I pre-ordered this book, hoping that it would pick up where the "Mastering Oracle SQL and SQL*Plus" book ended (at roughly Oracle Database release 10.1.0.3). The expectations were very high, and this book delivers for the most part. Some parts of the book left me scratching my head, thinking that this SQL statement or paragraph just cannot be correct. Even when taking those sections into account, this book conveys a significant amount of practical, useful information.
The book's format of problem statement, solution, and how/why the solution works is the key to the success of this book. You will not find page after page of SQL statement syntax. The range of problem statements covered in this compact 500 page book is impressive, touching on a wide range of topics:
- Basic SELECT statements
- Manipulating numbers, dates, and character data
- Transaction management
- XML data
- Partitioning
- Analytic functions
- Regular expressions
- Performance tuning
- Database troubleshooting
- Creating databases, tablespaces, tables, indexes, and constraints
- Thoroughly answers the question of why it is important to learn Oracle's dialect of SQL. The book provides 233 problem situations, most with more than one variation of the problem along with the SQL statement for each variation.
- Includes interesting side stories that are not necessarily related to SQL coding, but help to keep the reader interested in the book contents. For example, a side story titled "Beer and Statistics Do Mix" that describes the invention of T-Tests.
- Typically states when a feature requires the Enterprise Edition or an additional cost license beyond the Enterprise Edition (Tuning Pack, for example).
- Most, if not all of the code samples from the book may be downloaded from the Apress website.
- Describes the LEAD, LAG, RANK, DENSE_RANK, ROW_NUMBER, SUM, MIN, MAX, NTILE and a couple of the other common analytic functions. Does not cover all of the analytic functions, for example: RATIO_TO_REPORT, FIRST_VALUE, LAST_VALUE, PERCENTILE_DISC, etc.
- Recipe 5-8 shows how to create a PL/SQL function that converts from base 10 to binary, octal, and hex.
- Recipe 11-9 shows an impressive example that creates a HTML chart from a SQL statement. It might be interesting to see this example extended to use floating objects with absolute positioning rather than HTML tables.
- Recipes 12-3 and 12-4 include PL/SQL functions that help to determine if a VARCHAR2 value can be safely converted to a NUMBER or DATE.
Problems (in order, not all code samples tested):
- In recipe 1-1, retrieving data from a table, the authors mentioned "currently set schema," a concept which probably would have been much better to introduce in a later recipe. Especially in the early sections of the book, it seems that the authors struggled with what concepts to introduce early and what concepts required a more establish foundation. As such, people just learning SQL, or even just Oracle's dialect, will struggle with the early sections of the book.
- Several recipes (1-4, 2-11, 2-14, 2-15, 2-16, 6-5, 6-14) use implicit date conversions, or explicit varchar to date conversions without specifying the format of the date contained in the varchar. This is a very poor practice to teach to people who are just beginning the process of learning SQL. A change in the NLS parameters, or even a change in the connection method from Oracle's ODBC driver to Oracle's OLEDB driver is sufficient to cause such SQL statements to fail. Unfortunately, the TO_DATE function was not introduced until chapter 6.
- Page 26 incorrectly stated, "for performance reasons, Oracle will implicitly sort the data to match the grouping desired." As of Oracle Database 10.1 [edit: probably should state 10.2 for hash group by, previous releases did not necessarily need to perform a sort], more often than not a hashing algorithm will be used to perform GROUP BY operations, which means that there will be no implicit sort of the data. [Reference/Test Case] [Reference/Test Case]
- Recipe 3-5 attempted to explain when to use three different syntaxes to delete rows from a table (IN, EXISTS, and SELECT with USING clause). As may be confirmed with a 10053 trace file, the optimizer will often automatically re-write SQL statements from one form to another, for example from an IN clause to a standard join, or an EXISTS clause to a standard join. The authors probably should have mentioned the automatic query re-write capability of the cost-based optimizer, rather than stating something like this about an EXISTS clause example "this is not as elegant as the first solution, but might be more efficient." [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipe 5-11 demonstrates how to use the FOR UPDATE clause of a SELECT statement and demonstrates that the second session will be blocked until the first session commits or issues a rollback. At this stage of the book the NOWAIT clause is not introduced. Unfortunately, such a demonstration might be an invitation to "lost" updates.
- The query output for recipe 6-6 does not match the expected output, which may lead to confusion. The book shows that the result of the timezone conversion is "13-AUG-09 06.00.00.000000 PM AMERICA/LOS_ANGELES" when it should be "13-AUG-09 06.25.00.000000 PM AMERICA/LOS_ANGELES"
- Recipe 6-12, which uses the EXTRACT function, will produce incorrect/unexpected results, resulting in the MONTHS calculation increasing by one up to 15 days earlier than should be expected if used to determine the length of time an employee has worked. That recipe would have been the perfect time to introduce the MONTHS_BETWEEN SQL function (not included in the book). [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipe 7-1 states that Oracle will never use a non-function based index on a column when that column appears inside the INSTR function that is present in a WHERE clause. That statement is incorrect, a hint, covered in recipe 19-12, is sufficient to allow Oracle to perform an index full scan operation on that column when the only predicate in the WHERE clause includes that index's column wrapped in an INSTR function (tested on Oracle releases 10.2.0.4 through 184.108.40.206). [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipe 8-2 states, "With the value one-third stored in each column (BINARY_DOUBLE and NUMBER datatypes), we can use the VSIZE function to show it was much more complicated to store this with decimal precision, taking nearly three times the space." There are a couple of problems with this statement. First, a BINARY_DOUBLE column will always require eight bytes to store any number, while it takes a variable amount of space to store a number in a NUMBER column (for instance, the number 1,000,000 requires fewer bytes to store than the number 333). Second, the BINARY_DOUBLE column only maintained 16 significant digits to the right of the decimal point, while the NUMBER column maintained 40 significant digits to the right of the decimal point (the bytes required can be decreased by specifying a smaller number of significant digits to the right of the decimal point). [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipe 8-6 states "The final two implicit defaults (of a CREATE SEQUENCE clause) cause Oracle to cache 20 values and not force strict first-come, first served ordering on those who call NEXTVAL." This statement is either misleading or incorrect. The default will force the sequence numbers to be assigned to calling sessions in the sequential order specified by CREATE SEQUENCE – Oracle will not provide the numbers out of sequential order. There can be some degree of out of sequential order assignment in a RAC environment.
- Recipe 9-2, which includes a SQL statement that is intended to show the objects which are locked that are blocking other sessions, has a number of problems. 1) It is not RAC aware – it should be selecting from the GV$ views, rather than the V$ views. 2) The SQL statement explicitly looks for the BLOCK column to be equal to 1 – in a RAC environment it could potentially show a value of 2. 3) When performing a self-join on V$LOCK, the query is only joining on the ID1 column of V$LOCK, while the documentation shows a self-join on that view using the ID1, ID2, and TYPE columns. 4) There appears to be a missing join condition between V$LOCK and V$LOCKED_OBJECT that results in objects being identified as contributing to the blocking of the second session, when in fact that may not be the case. 5) The query seems to assume that all locks acquired are full table locks. [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Page 436 suggests checking Metalink (My Oracle Support) Doc ID 555284.1 for a script to identify indexes that should be rebuilt. I suspect that that document looked very different prior to the last modification date of May 13, 2009. The script in the document does not detect indexes that are candidates for a rebuild – the script simply outputs SQL statements to rebuild every index that is not owned by SYS or SYSTEM (and a small number of other users) into an INDX tablespace with a specified initial, next, and maxextents clause.
- Recipe 18-13, in the Note section, states that when a primary key constraint is created Oracle will create a unique index with the same name as the constraint. That statement is true unless a unique or non-unique index already exists for the column or a composite index that has that column as its leading column exists. Later in the recipe it was stated that the DBA could pre-create the index that will be used to help enforce the primary key constraint, but the Note section might cause a little confusion. [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipe 19-1, the join between V$SQL_MONITOR and V$SQL is incomplete and will result in repeated rows if there are multiple child cursors for a SQL_ID, which seems to happen frequently starting with Oracle Database 126.96.36.199 due to adaptive cursor sharing, and 184.108.40.206 due to cardinality feedback. Additionally, V$SQL_MONITOR will only be populated if the CONTROL_MANAGEMENT_PACK_ACCESS initialization parameter is set to DIAGNOSTIC+TUNING to enable the extra cost licenses (Tuning Pack, for example). [Reference/Test Case]
- Recipe 19-3 states "the V$SESSION_LONGOPS view gives you a rough idea of how long a currently running query has left to finish." Technically, this statement is both correct and incorrect. The view provides a rough idea, based on the execution plan estimates, of how much time is left for a specific stage (step/line) in the execution plan. Entries in the V$SESSION_LONGOPS view will appear and disappear as the different stages in the execution plan execute. Most index type accesses will likely complete in less than six seconds per access, and probably will not appear in this view. [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipe 19-4, the query may produce misleading results as the query is not time-scoped. The query does not consider that the database may have been up for several years – a query that on average consumes one second of CPU time, but was executed 100 million times since the library cache was last purged will likely be flagged as a problem, while a query that on average consumes 1,000 seconds of CPU time but has only executed 1,000 times in the last 24 hours probably will not appear in the SQL results.
- Recipe 19-7 states that a PLAN_TABLE must exist, and that if it does not exist the utlxplan.sql script should be run to create a PLAN_TABLE in the user's schema. As of Oracle Database 10.1.0.1 [Edit: it appears that this change happened prior to 10.1.0.1] user schemas should no longer have a PLAN_TABLE in their schema – a global temporary table owned by the SYS user is used instead. [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Chapter 19 demonstrates the use of EXPLAIN PLAN, AUTOTRACE, and the EXPLAIN option of TKPROF, but the chapter does not mention that using those methods for displaying the execution plan could show the wrong execution plan. [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipes 19-10 and 19-12 suggest that a goal of tuning is reducing the calculated COST value that appears in the execution plan, and this was accomplished in the recipes by adding an index or using an index hint. This is not a good approach to tuning; it is much better to rely on actual response time rather than the calculated cost estimates. [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also] [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipe 20-1, the SQL statements are not time-scoped, and even if the database has only been open for a short period of time, the SQL statement could yield incorrect results because the "CPU used by this session" statistic is not updated in real-time, only when a SQL statement completes, or a fetch completes. [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Page 500 suggests inspecting V$SESSION to determine the type of block contention that causes buffer busy waits. It would have been nice to see the authors provide a demonstration of this technique because from what I am able to determine, the chances of a success are extremely small using V$SESSION (I assume that the authors might be suggesting to look at either the combination of P1, P2, and P3 or the combination of ROW_WAIT_OBJ#, ROW_WAIT_FILE#, and ROW_WAIT_BLOCK#).
- Page 500 states that the "SQL*Net message from client" wait event indicates possible network or middle-tier bottlenecks. Client-side "think time" is probably the most significant contributor to this wait event, and I think that it would be very difficult to demonstrate that this wait event indicates network bottlenecks. [Reference/Test Case] [Reference/Test Case] [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Recipe 20-8 suggests an approach to identify those indexes that are safe to drop by enabling monitoring of the indexes. One of the problems with this approach is that the index may still be used by the cost-based optimizer even when monitoring reveals that the index is never used. [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also] [Reference/Test Case – Check the Comments Section Also]
- Very few cross-recipe (forward and backward) references were provided, which makes the sections of the book appear to be disconnected and stand-alone.
The book attempts to cover a lot of ground. While it probably requires the authors between one and eight hours per page to research, write, proof-read, test, and format a typical page in an Apress book, the authors probably could have controlled the scope of the book a little better and spent a little more time to test and expand some of the sections of the book – the sections that discuss analytic functions, for example. I did not spend a lot of time reading through the chapters "Working with XML Data", "Partitioning", or "LOBS", so I did not comment on those sections of the book. The majority of the book is exceptional – far better than any book that is strictly a SQL reference type book, and I would not hesitate to recommend the book to others who are trying to figure out: "What do I do with SQL."
I will probably update this review at a later time to supply links to test cases or articles for most of the problems that were identified with the book. I might also take a closer look at the "Working with XML Data", "Partitioning", or "LOBS" chapters, and provide feedback for those sections of the book.
(Section added December 13, 2010): Related blog articles that discuss the contents of this book: