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Thursday, May 22, 2014
UNESCO World Heritage Centre renews partnership for elementary education
UNESCO has renewed its partnership with NTT Docomo, Dentsu and Evergreen (Japan), with the goal of educating elementary school pupils about World ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
UNESCO publishes a practical guide on climate change adaptation for natural World Heritage sites
A practical guide on climate change adaptation for natural World Heritage sites has been published in the latest edition of the UNESCO World Heritage ...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
2014 State of conservation reports now available online
At its 38th session to be held in Doha, Qatar, from 15 to 25 June 2014, the World Heritage Committee will examine the state of conservation of 150 ...
Monday, May 19, 2014
3rd Roundtable of African Ministers on World Heritage in Africa
On the occasion of the 38th Session of the World Heritage Committee (Doha, Qatar), the World Heritage Centre and the African World Heritage Fund are ...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Reconstruction of the Tombs of the Buganda Kings begins
The reconstruction of the Tombs of Buganda Kings at Kasubi in Uganda was launched today at a ceremony held on the World Heritage site, which was ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Training of Local Guides Launched for the Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns World Heritage site
UNESCO Bangkok Director Gwang-Jo Kim and Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (DASTA) Director-General Nalikatibhag Sangsnit ...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Global Ocean Summit makes Marine World Heritage "pitch for action"
From 22 to 25 April 2014, government leaders, ocean practitioners, business, science, donors and international agencies came together at the Global ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
2013-2014 World Heritage map published in Arabic
The latest version of the World Heritage map, produced by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre and National Geographic Maps, has now been published in ...
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Director-General condemns attack on Emmanuel de Merode, Director of the Virunga National Park
"It is with distress and anger that I learned of the violent attack against Emmanuel de Merode, chief warden of Virunga National Park," said ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
The Loire Valley: view from the train
The cultural landscape of the Loire Valley (France) has launched a new promotion and interpretation tool: a geo localized application for Smartphones ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Director-General offers UNESCO's support for Chile in the face of devastating fires in Valparaiso
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today expressed deep concern over the destruction caused by fires that have been raging around the city ...
Monday, April 14, 2014
The first stage in the rehabilitation of cultural heritage of Timbuktu (Mali) is complete
Launched on 14 March 2014 in partnership with UNESCO, the rehabilitation work carried out on Sheik Baber Baba Idjé and Sheik Mahamane Al ...
Monday, April 14, 2014
'Managing Cultural World Heritage' reference manual published in French
This manual provides guidance for States Parties and all those involved in the care of World Heritage cultural properties on how to comply with the ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
UNESCO renews partnership with Our Place, photographer of World Heritage sites
UNESCO has announced the renewal of its partnership agreement with OUR PLACE Publishing Ltd. The New Zealand-based company will continue its mission ...
Monday, March 24, 2014
Director-General Opens International Conference in Bergen on UNESCO Culture Conventions
On 24 March, the UNESCO Director-General opened an International Conference in Bergen, Norway, on the UNESCO 1972, 2003 and 2005 conventions, entitled ...
Friday, March 21, 2014
Urban Regeneration for Historic Cairo Video Competition
The URHC project team invites young filmmakers and urban heritage lovers aged between 18 and 30 years to produce a video of 5 minutes or less, ...
Friday, March 14, 2014
Reconstruction of World Heritage mausoleums starts in Timbuktu (Mali)
Residents of Timbuktu today launched the reconstruction of World Heritage mausoleums damaged by the armed extremists who occupied the north and centre ...
Monday, March 3, 2014
Message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, for CITES communication campaign for the first edition of World Wildlife Day
Today, we celebrate the first World Wildlife Day, proclaimed by the UN General Assembly. Since time immemorial, humanity has marvelled at the wild ...
Thursday, February 27, 2014
3rd edition of 'The World's Heritage' by UNESCO Publishing and Collins features all 981 sites
The third edition of The World's Heritage is available now, published by UNESCO Publishing and Collins. Featuring all 981 entries on the UNESCO World ...
Monday, February 24, 2014
Policy-makers in Uzbekistan meet to discuss implementation of World Heritage Convention
On 20 February 2014 in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, a discussion on the requirements of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and ...


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Welcome back to the third of six total installments chronicling the transformation of our humble "carny" Corvette into the ultimate Timber Wolf C2 street fighter. Last month, the crew at Corvette Restoration AZ was working feverishly on the poorly repaired body panels, necessitating the replacement of the front clip and the rear fenders. In this issue, we will finish the bodywork and panel installations, prime and paint the car, and then install the A/C and all-new wiring harnesses. Before we continue with the build, here are the remaining basic elements of this project:
* 393 Stroker Maxi Mouse engine build, Engine, Transmission, and Radiator Install
* Chassis, Suspension, Brakes, and Rearend Install
* Interior and Stereo Install, Wrap-Up, and Vehicle Drive Experience
We left off last month with the top surround test fitted. Now after a couple of test fits, we trimmed the excess fiberglass as needed, making sure all seams were flat and all gaps were even. We always ensure the hood is flush and the gaps are even, and then-and only then-we will bond the surround. The front fender fit and alignment is very critical. On this job, we are bonding above the stock signal-lamp mounting area so we can retain the stock signal lamp. Doing the job this way gets a little busy in this area, with several curves and angles converging in one square-foot, but the final look is well worth all the effort. We continued to test fit and trim as necessary until we had a good fit. Then we set a few locator pins in place to ensure the same placement when we bond.
When mixing the bonding compound, we are careful to give ourselves enough time so we can find our locators and ensure proper placement. You can't move the panel at all once the bond starts to set. It is safe to say this part of the build process is not a job for rookies.
Sharp-eyed readers will notice very few holes have been drilled for locating pins. How did we do that? The actual process is a trade secret that has been perfected over 30 years and thousands of Corvette restorations. Let's just say we know how to do it right the first time. Note the series of clamps along the bottom edge of the fender in the photos. You must be careful when clamping though, otherwise you can squeeze all the glue out. After cutting around the rear bumper mounting area, we final fitted the rear fender, making sure it was flush. Especially important is the gap from the quarter to the door.
After fitting, trimming, and prepping the underside surfaces to perfection, the rear quarters were bonded in place. Again the panel is bonded in place with only a few locating holes drilled. Of course, all the locating fasteners must be removed and properly filled once the bond has cured. After the proper cure time, the front fenders and the rear quarters were ready to be completely ground down and beveled properly in preparation for the fiberglass work.
Next up, Troy sanded the gaps on the front fender. After a complete and proper grinding, all the seams on all the fenders were glassed, and then ground down again in preparation for the final body plastic skim coating. When grinding and working with fiberglass, always wear the proper protective clothing and safety gear.
A common custom feature back in the "old days" was to add a third taillight to each side. This car previously had a third taillight hole that had been poorly repaired. We didn't want to chance using any of the previous work that was improperly done, so we cut new back-up bonding surfaces, and then reglassed these areas for a permanent repair.
We had other areas of concern on the rear of this car. The number one problem area was the antenna hole. It looks like "Earl" fixed it years ago using his teeth as a grinder and then mixing floor dust with Elmer's Glue for an adhesive. Unbelievable! We had to fix this problem correctly or the car would never look right. Secondly, the old vent holes behind the doors had been poorly filled in, so we did a proper grind and fiberglass application on these areas. We now felt confident about the foundation for this body makeover.
On every Corvette that comes through Corvette Restoration AZ for repair, we always skim coat over all the seams and all the glass work for better holdout (when materials cure, sometimes they will shrink). We always use high-quality body filler. We then hard-block the final application and work through the appropriate sandpapers to the desired grit. After the repair areas are block-sanded, we give the car a complete sanding of all edges, corners, vents, and any hard-to-get areas that are not prepped. At one point, we had five guys prepping all the edges. Any primer that is sprayed on has to be sprayed over prepped areas only. Good adhesion of the applied materials is always critical, and no shiny or unsanded areas are ever allowed.


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S2S Extravaganza consist all the best tracks release by S2S. This album is the best of S2S Artists…it features artists such as Aiza Seguerra, Olivia Ong, Bevlyn, Sofia, Hanjin Tan and many more… The album is a good indicator for any consumers to have a taste of S2S music that suit their lifestyle. All the songs in the album would be good for testing in your high-end sound system, all in HQCD.


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You may not have heard of "slender man," but for two movie makers in Pace, he's a bad guy worthy enough to star in a new horror movie.
"Entity" was shot and produced recently in Santa Rosa and Escambia counties by Chris Jadallah and Will Phillips, who are graduates of Pace High School.
"We were trying to do something that wasn't clich← and predictable," said Jadallah, the 21-year-old director.
Phillips was the writer.
In the 51-second trailer on YouTube, the words, "Some communities harbor secrets" flicker on the screen followed by flashes of scenes from the movie.
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Jadallah said the movie is about a couple returning to a missing relative's home and encountering unexpected horrors. He said he did not want to give away too much information about the movie's plot, but that slender man — a paranormal web forum phenomenon — is the star villain.
The movie was funded by Mervyn Ortiz, a Navy veteran who is a student with the Jadallah and Phillips at the University of West Florida. He became the film's executive producer.
Jadallah said he works four jobs in addition to working on the movie.
"People were working on their own free time. We weren't thinking of money. But it all came together, even with people trying to juggle it all," he said.
The movie was filmed in Pensacola, Gulf Breeze and other local spots. Jadallah said viewers may recognize a scene filmed at Pensacola International Airport.
Shooting and production lasted about seven months on a budget of about $26,000, according to Jadallah.
"It was the hardest and most entertaining thing I've ever done," Phillips said.
Jadallah said the project is gaining publicity, and noted that the movie trailer was featured on "Ain't It Cool News" on Dec. 21. The YouTube trailer, titled "Entity Teaser Trailer" had received more than 335,000 page views as of a few days ago.
Jadallah said his team also is getting phone calls from distributors in California who are interested in buying the film.
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United Technologies Corporation
United Technologies, based in Hartford, Conn., is a diversified company that provides high technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries.
Federal Contract $: $7908.1m
Total Number of Instances: 17
Total Misconduct dollar amount: $1123.1m
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Instances of Misconduct
1. Navy SH-3 Sea King Helicopter Defective Pricing
The government sued United Technologies Corporation's Sikorsky Aircraft Division alleging violations of the False Claims Act and the Truth in Negotiations Act (TINA) by submitting false cost or pricing data to the U.S. Navy during negotiations and providing a false statement to the effect that Sikorsky had submitted accurate, current and complete cost or pricing data. The lawsuit involved a contract the Navy awarded to Sikorsky in 1984 to extend the service life of the Navy's SH-3 Sea King helicopter, an effort that became known as the Main Gear Box Improvement Program. The court found one TINA violation, for which it awarded the government $196,640 in damages and $108,089 in interest. The court found Sikorsky did not violate the False Claims Act, concluding its actions were "merely negligent, inadvertent or a mistake."... more»
2. Cost and Labor Mischarge
According to a GAO report cited by Senator Harkin and Representative DeFazio, United Technologies Optical Systems, reached a settlement for $150,000 for alleged cost/labor mischarging.... more»
3. United States v. United Technologies (Preparing False Purchase Orders and Submitting False Invoices)
United Technologies Corporation's Pratt & Whitney (P&W) Government Engine and Space Propulsion Division entered into a settlement agreement in which P&W agreed to pay the government $14.8 million, following a Defense Criminal Investigative Service investigation. The agreement resolved charges that P&W violated the False Claims Act (31 U.S.C. §§ 3729, et. seq.) by preparing false purchase orders and submitting false invoices under the Foreign Military Sales Program (FMSP) administered by the Defense Security Assistance Agency. The program involved the FMSP-funded Lavi fighter aircraft under development for the Israeli Air Force.... more»
4. Brainard v. Pratt & Whitney (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act Violation)
On July 7, 2005, Pratt & Whitney, a subsidiary of United Technologies, reached a settlement "for potential violations of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, 38 U.S.C. §§ 4301- 4333, et. seq…John Brainard worked at Pratt & Whitney's Jet Propulsion site in Palm Beach County, Florida, under an outsource labor contract between Pratt & Whitney and EDF Company. On April 24, 2002, Brainard, a Major with the United States Army Reserve, was called to active military service. For the next six months, Brainard was stationed primarily overseas in Kuwait. He was released from active duty in October and returned home. Upon his return to work on October 21, 2002, Brainard was informed that his job had been eliminated. No comparable position was offered to him…the companies denied violating the provisions of the Act, but agreed to settle Brainard's claims. The companies will pay Brainard $30,000."... more»
5. Violations of Workplace Injury & Illness Recordkeeping Requirements
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the U.S. Department of Labor…cited the Pratt and Whitney Aircraft, Turbine Modular Center, located in North Haven, Connecticut, for alleged willful violations of the Occupational Safety and Health Act and has proposed penalties totaling $155,000 for those alleged violations…the company is being cited for four alleged WILLFUL violations, carrying proposed penalties totaling $154,000, for: failing to maintain an equivalent OSHA Log at their facility which is as readable and comprehensible as the OSHA 200 form; for calendar years 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999, failure to record 71 recordable injury and illness cases; failure to make available supplementary records of occupational illness and injuries for the month of December 1996; and failure to make readily available complete and accurate OSHA 200 logs for the 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 calendar years".... more»
6. Submitting False Invoices on Jet Engine Contract
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio found that United Technologies subsidiary Pratt & Whitney had violated the False Claims Act by submitting inflated invoices for jet engines it supplied to the Air Force in the 1980s. Because the court found the government had not suffered any actual damages, the court entered judgment in favor of the government for the statutory maximum fine of $10,000 per invoice submitted, for a total of $7,090,000. In November 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed the district court's liability determination but remanded the case to allow the government to pursue its common law contract claims and for a recalculation of damages. On remand, the court ordered United Technologies to pay $664 million in damages, penalties and interest.... more»
7. Black Hawk False Claims Settlement
United Technologies division Sikorsky Aircraft Company agreed to pay the United States almost $3,000,000 to resolve False Claims Act allegations in connection with its U.S. Army contract to install armored plates in Black Hawk helicopters. The government alleged that from 1991 to 2006, Sikorsky knowingly installed armored plates that had not been ballistically tested as required under the contract.... more»
8. CERCLA Cleanup of Memphis Site
Pursuant to a consent decree, United Technologies agreed to undertake the cleanup of hazardous substances at a Superfund Site located in Memphis, Tennessee, owned and operated by its predecessor, Ambac Industries, Inc. (Ambac was acquired by United Technologies in 1978.) United Technologies, which did not admit any liability, also agreed to reimburse the federal government's past and future cleanup costs.... more»
9. NASA Contract False Claims
United Technologies' Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, Inc., subsidiary agreed to pay the government almost $3 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations involving fees charged on a contract with NASA after Pratt & Whitney merged with Rocketdyne in 2005. Prior to the merger, Rocketdyne had subcontracted with Pratt & Whitney for work on a Space Shuttle flight support services contract Rocketdyne had with NASA. Following the August 2005 merger, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne billed NASA fees under the pre-merger subcontract. In December 2006, the Defense Contract Audit Agency questioned whether those subcontract fee billings allowed the merged company to reap excess profits.... more»
10. Federal Air Pollution Standards Violations
"Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. will pay a fine of $176,000 to settle an EPA complaint for violations of the federal stratospheric ozone protection regulations and two federal hazardous air pollutant standards...Sikorsky, a subsidiary of United Technologies Corp., is a helicopter manufacturer with a major plant in Stratford, Conn. EPA's complaint alleged that Sikorsky violated leak repair and follow-up testing requirements for two industrial refrigeration units that used chlorofluorocarbons ("CFCs") or other ozone-depleting substances as refrigerants."... more»
11. Violations of Underground Tank Systems Standards
"The [Connecticut] Department of Environmental Protection entered into an administrative consent order with Pratt & Whitney Division of United Technologies Corporation ("Pratt & Whitney") on September 7, 2004 for allegedly violating the standards for underground storage tank systems...As part of the consent order, Pratt & Whitney has agreed to thoroughly empty the tank systems of all contents and ensure that no material is placed in the tank system until approved by the Commissioner. Pratt & Whitney is required to comply with leak detection requirements and to conduct an investigation to determine whether or not the tanks systems have leaked. Pratt & Whitney has also agreed to payment of a $10,000 civil penalty for the alleged violations."... more»
12. Air Emissions Violations
"United Technologies Corporation ("UTC") entered into an administrative consent order with the [Connecticut] Department of Environmental Protection on December 2, 2002 for alleged air emission violations...Emission testing conducted in January and February 2001, and January 2002 showed that P&W exceeded the full load emission rates...The consent order requires UTC to: expend not less than $46,500 to purchase and permanently retire not less than thirty-six (36) tons of approved non-ozone season DERCs, and pay a civil penalty of $17,700."... more»
13. Price Fixing
"European Union regulators on Wednesday fined United Technologies' Otis unit and four other elevator makers $1.3 billion for operating cartels for the installation and maintenance of elevators and escalators in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands… Fined were Hartford, Conn.-based United Technologies Corp., the corporate parent of Otis Elevator; German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG; Finland's Kone Corp.; Switzerland's Schindler Holding AG and subsidiaries of Japan's Mitsubishi Elevator Europe BV." Otis was fined almost 225 million euros (approximately $295 million).... more»
14. Clean Water Act Violations (2007)
Hamilton Sundstrand, a subsidiary of United Technologies, pled guilty to two counts of violating the federal Clean Water Act and was sentenced to five years' probation and $12 million in fines. Hamilton Sundstrand is one of the world's largest manufacturers of advanced aerospace and industrial systems. The company, in operating its Windsor Locks, Conn. manufacturing plant, violated its state pollutant discharge permit and attempted to conceal those violations by knowingly submitting false environmental reports.... more»
15. Blackhawk Spare Parts Overcharging
An audit by the Department of Defense's Inspector General (DoD IG) found that United Technologies' Sikorsky Aircraft unit overcharged the U.S. Army for UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter spare parts and made excessive profits. DoD IG found that neither Sikorsky nor the Army performed adequate cost or price analyses of proposed subcontractor prices and that the Army purchased parts from Sikorsky when it had sufficient existing inventory to meet requirements at lower cost. Sikorsky also paid excessive prices to subcontractors and did not always provide the most current, complete, and accurate cost data. DoD IG calculated that Sikorsky charged the Army 51.4 percent more than fair and reasonable prices ($11.8 million) and was allowed to make excessive profits of about $931,000 between 2008 and 2010. Sikorsky agreed to provide the Army about $1 million in refunds. DoD IG recommended the Army seek an additional $11.8 million in refunds for unnecessary subcontractor pass-through costs, excessive profits, an unacceptable quantity curve, and instances when Sikorsky negotiated lower supplier prices after negotiating with the Army.... more»
16. Illegal Export of Military Software to China
United Technologies and two of its subsidiaries, Pratt & Whitney Canada (PWC) and Hamilton Sundstrand, settled criminal and civil charges in connection with the export of sensitive military software to China. The government claimed that, between 2002 and 2005, PWC sold to China engine-control software made by Hamilton Sundstrand, which PWC knew China was using to develop its first modern military attack helicopter, the Z-10. The government also alleged that United Technologies, PWC, and Hamilton Sundstrand failed to disclose to the U.S. government the illegal exports to China for several years, and when they did, their disclosures contained numerous false statements. PWC pleaded guilty to violating the Arms Export Control Act and making false statements. The three companies also entered into a two-year deferred prosecution agreement and paid a total of $75.7 million in fines and penalties ($20 million of which is a suspended amount which United Technologies agreed to spend on remedial compliance measures).... more»
17. Defective F-15 and F-16 Engine Turbine Blade Replacements
Pratt & Whitney (a division of United Technologies) and its subcontractor, PCC Airfoils LLC, agreed to pay $52.3 million to the federal government to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they knowingly sold defective turbine blade replacements for engines used in F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft. According to the Department of Justice, between 1994 and 2003, replacement turbine blades designed by Pratt & Whitney and cast by PCC failed to meet a critical design dimension. Under the settlement, Pratt & Whitney will pay $45.5 million and provide $4.8 million for re-inspecting potentially serviceable blades bought by the Air Force.... more»


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The Merrell Women's Jungle Moc Shoe is a comfortable slip-on.
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Reuben Coffey
He married Mary Alice Vaughn on Dec. 25, 1895 in Tennessee. Mary was born Nov. 29, 1877 and died Dec. 17, 1954 in McCreary Co.
Both are buried in the Cedar Grove Church Cemetery in McCreary Co.
There were at least 11 children born to Reuben and Mary:
Emma, born Apr. 6, 1898, died Jan. 23, 1982. She married Joseph Kurtis [sic] Roberts in KY c1923. He was born Jun. 28, 1886 in Wayne Co., and died on Jun. 18, 1962 in Kentucky. The children found so far were: Kathleen, born c1926; Hobart, born c1928; and Clara, born c1929.
Perk, born c1901 in Wayne Co., died unknown. He married Lula LNU c1922 in KY. Their known children were: Victor, born c1925; Donald, born c1926; Pauline, born c1927; and Stanley, born Dec., 1929.
Oda, born c1902 in Wayne Co., married Alice Jones, c1920 in Kentucky. Their known children were: Oda, born Apr. 25, 1922; Stella, born Jun. 15, 1923; Mary Etta, born Oct. 26, 1925; and Conley, born c1928.
John Herbert, born Aug. 20, 1906 in Wayne Co., and died Jan. 5, 1962 in McCreary Co. He married Lillie Dobbs, born Nov. 30, 1910 in Whitley Co., KY to Thomas and Julia Jones Dobbs. Lillie doed Sep. 19, 2000 in Stearns, McCreary Co.
Lonia, born c1908
Nelson, born Apr. 11, 1911, died Feb.,1980
George, born c1914
Sterling E., born Apr., 1916, died 1985. He married Ester Dobbs, sister to Lillie.
Clyde Estill, born Dec. 26, 1918 in KY, married Dora Dobbs, also a sister to Lillie.
Fordie (male), born May 28, 1921, died Dec., 1982
Carl Homer, born 1923 in McCreary Co., died Jul. 1992 in Kentucky. He married Ada Clark. I have one child for them: Joyce Coffey who married Truesdell Coffey, a son of Matthew and Alma Lou Smith Coffey. Truesdell died when he accidentally shot himself while hunting on Nov. 13, 2007.
Contact me at the above e-mail address to add to or correct any of this information.
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Truesdell Coffey was my uncle and Joyce Coffey is my aunt. The children of Homer Coffey and Ada Clark are as follows:ReplyDelete
Joyce Coffey
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Rueben was my great grandfather, George my grandfather, George married Lucy Haynes of Wayne County, 28 Dec. 1946. Their children were, Norman, David (my dad), Harley, Phillip, Phyllis, Roy, Kelly, Gary, and Denisa. Norman and Gary died very young/ infants. George's birthday is 24 Aug. 1913 and died 27 Mar 1967, in Detriot, Mi. Thanks David J Coffey "Jeff"ReplyDelete
Thank you Jeff. I'll update my files with your info.ReplyDelete
James Oda Coffey born July 16,1902 in Wayne Co., KY died July 1, Pulaski Co., Ky and is buried in the Dobbs Cemetery McCreary Co., Ky Married Alcie Elizabeth Jones on August 18,1919 in Scott Co., TN Sje was born August 20,1901 McCreary Co., KY and died November 8,1990 in McCreary Co., KY and is buried in the Cedar Grove Cemetery McCreary Co., KY They had the following children; Gracie Coffey(we suspect this child was still born),Stella Coffey b. 6-15-1923, Mary Etta Coffey b. 10-26-1925, Grover Conley Coffey b. 12-22-1927, Bessie Alice Coffey b. 7-13-1929, Cloie Jean Coffey b. 6-9-1930, Lola Lee Coffey (still living), Reba Emma Coffey b. 2-22-1936, James Ellard Coffey b. 8-1-1942, and Verniece Coffey b. 1-21-1945. Reuben and Mary Alice Vaughn Coffey were my husbands great grandparents, James Oda was his grandfather and Mary Etta was his mother. ~ SusanReplyDelete


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Fujifilm has surprised the IFA 2011 party by rocking up with a mid-range version of its X100 rightly named the Fujifilm X10. And, as dedicated camera freaks at Pocket-lint, we wasted no time in getting our hands on the little devil.
The first thing you notice is of course the look and feel of the device itself. Unlike the X100, Fujifilm has gone for an all black finish which adds a very nice touch of class, just in case you think the other model was missing it. The X10 is also a touch smaller and lighter, and it has more of the feel of a stylish compact than a mock-rangefinder, the sort to give the LX5 et al a run for their money.
Externally, it's very much the same creature with the identical 2.8-inch 460k dot LCD screen only this time the flash pops up from the body and the lens sticks out a lot further. Why does it do that? Well, unlike the fixed glassware on the X100, this time it's a 4x zoomer with a 28-112mm range. The maximum aperture is still f/2.0, offering nice portraiture opportunities, and you'll be able to use it in low light conditions even at the telephoto end where you can open up to f/2.8. Combine that with the 100-12800 ISO range and you should be laughing.
Sadly we couldn't test how noisy it gets at the top of that as it was a pre-production model and Fujifilm weren't too keen for us to test image quality before the company's had time to perfect it. You're unlikely to get the same fun with the 2/3-inch type sensor when compared to the APS-C model in the X100 but that's the reason it cost a lot less.
Controls-wise, it's very similar again with the back face almost identical save the addition of a nice little rubber pad where you can rest your thumb and the change of the focus mode from a switch to a small dial on the front. The user-interface has been slightly improved from what we've seen but do expect that to change. All the same, when you flick between the different shooting modes, it looks much more like something you might seen on a Nikon or Canon but, so far, those graphics don't seem to stick around for that long. We'll have to wait to see how Fujifilm decides to finish it off.
Finally, the viewfinder is something that the company is very excited about. You don't get the same hybrid EV/optical option as in the X100 - it's optical only - but it's designed to let in as much light as possible and the result is that it's as clear as a bell. What's more, despite not an SLR-type where you look down the barrel, it still zooms in and out as you do so with the camera.
Perhaps the only quirk that had us concerned is that the on/off switch is actually on the barrel of the lens itself. When you twist the zoom all the way to wide and beyond, the camera switches off. Even within our 10 minutes of play time, we managed accidentally to power down the X10 twice but this might just be something that you stop doing once you know the thing.
In all, though, one would be hard pressed not to be excited about the X10. It offers almost as much punch - and more importantly, style - as the X100 and at something around half the price (£500-odd pounds but this is as yet to be finalised). Expect arrival on the shelves in October and more from us on the matter soon.


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A longtime Saint Louis University professor has passed away. Fred Yeager, Ph.D., professor of finance, died April 12. He was 72.
Dr. Yeager joined the SLU faculty in 1970 as an assistant professor of finance, was named an associate professor in 1974 and became a full professor in 1981.
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After receiving his undergraduate degree from Liberty State College in 1962, Dr. Yeager went on to West Virginia University where he earned his MBA in 1968 and his doctorate in 1972.
During his more than four decades at SLU, Dr. Yeager served on the faculty senate, chaired the University Small Business Institute Committee and directed the Small Business Institute programs.
Ellen Harshman, Ph.D., dean of the John Cook School of Business, said Yeager was a wonderful leader and great colleague whose dedication to teaching was profound.
"Fred was, first and foremost, committed to his students," Harshman said. "He had a special gift as a teacher and made such a positive difference in the lives of the students he taught over the years as a finance department faculty member."
"His passing saddens us all but we have been enriched by his presence in our lives."
Neil Seitz, Ph.D., professor of finance and a long-time colleague, noted Yeager's many accomplishments and said his greatest priority was teaching and his students.
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Decision sciences professor Ik-Whan Kwon, Ph.D., director of the Center for Supply Chain Management Studies, shared an office with Yeager for 15 years and said his dedication to students was remarkable.
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Dr. Yeager is survived by his wife, Helen, daughters Colleen Beckemeyer and Margie Curran (Tim), sons Tom (Ann) and Tim (Dara) and 13 grandchildren as well as a brother, Albert, and sisters Connie Mayers (Rich) and Betty Ainsworth (Bob).
A memorial celebration of Dr. Yeager's life will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 17, at St. Francis Xavier College Church followed immediately by a reception.
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- Corinne Finnie
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Whose responsibility is it to educate our young people on healthy eating, physical activity, and positive self esteem?
Many statistics indicate that the overall North American adult population is not only overweight, but the number of people with Type 2 Diabetes, heart disease, and depression is consistently rising. Now, we see children as young as 12 suffering with the same conditions. The World Health Organization has called this situation an "overnourishment" epidemic. Parents do not have the practical information to teach their children about nutrition, teachers have a full curriculum and limited resources to contribute, food manufacturers are focused on making margins and are willing to go only so far, Community Dieticians have limited time and resources - whose responsibility is it to make educating children about comprehensive wellness a priority?
Dana Mulvany
Oct 27 2011: Corinne, thanks for posting this, although it's certainly not an easy question to answer.
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Obviously, parents can't teach what they don't know.
I think that as we learn more and more about what *not* to do as well as what we need to do, we'd benefit from more community programs and other outreach efforts to provide this information.
I think we also need to start cracking down on school lunches that provide unhealthy food and drinks, even if they're cheaper to buy and fix. In the long run, such meals end up raising the incidence of obesity and diabetes.Oct 27 2011: It is ultimately the responsibiltiy of the parents. I was raised by my mother alone. She worked constantly to make sure I had what I needed. Lots of good food(fried of course) and love from a parent. Food was food it came and went and exercise was never really mentioned. I was always running around in the neighborhood but still considered a little husky for my age. Now I am 27 and over weight myself and have been over weight all my life. After months of researching weight loss tips, exercise routines, and how food and fat is digested, stored and spent. I have made a plan for myself and finally been able to start losing weight.
I remember health class in junior high. There was nothing that even comes close to what i learned about how the body actually works with food and how calories work. It seems to me that the school system was more concerned about showing reproductive courses and having a real pigs lung to show how they expanded and contracted. Schools in the US are really suffering from intelligence withdrawal. Teachers are ever more detached from teaching meaningful information bound to a useless curriculum that doesn't let them expand into things they need to teach.
The ultimate responsibility lands with the parents. What children see at home is the basis for what they do in adulthood. I was able to change my ways through education at my own will. In adulthood you are responsible for your own education and just because you graduated and you think you are finished are going to at a loss for sure. Those who rely on the Government for education, assistance or thinking that the Govenment will always be there when a disaster happens only have themselves to blame for not having initiative. Those who dont have that initiative will probably suffer more for it.
Stop eating crap you will feel better.
Oct 28 2011: Great addition to the conversation!!!! I agree with you completely and appreciate your insight!!Oct 28 2011: So well said Justin, and a great job on your part for taking control of your life:>)Oct 21 2011: It is the job of the parents to do this. Simply put.
If they are failing at it, then they need to start leading by example, as all parents should.
Oct 21 2011: Agree it should be parent first.
Who else will care more for kids ,if parents don't?Oct 21 2011: I agree completely. Parents need to lead by example, and teach their children wellness tools that will allow them to maintain good health. But, obviously, with the multi-billion dollar weight loss industry and the countless fad diets that bombard our society, adults are 'losing' the battle on wellness. How do they know what to do and who to trust?
Oct 22 2011: Understand what you mean by industry impact (weightloss industry is not a barrier. It grew as society as a whole running after thoughtless consumerism & sedentary life style).
Who shuold fight back ? Will government do ?
While government's ,main focus is it's political agenda, how it will deliver this extra job?
Future is everyone's own hand. Internet & communication technology , made information easily accessable then ever before. If parents are self informed , set example for kids, will not be that more powerful to kids than confusing advertisement those industry monsters?
If not we really have big problem with our credibility to our kids.
João Coucelo
Nov 9 2011: I think I wrote about 4 or 5 comments on this conversation.
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Why? Well because it is important... and because I think there is much to understand and change.
I will let other comment not directly following other I did but with its own line.
Whose responsibility is to educate overweight and obese parents? professors? day care workers? nutritionists? health care providers?
Whose responsibility is to stop food brain washing literally from birth?
Whose responsibility was to teach you to eat as if there won't be a next meal in about 3 hours?
SCIENCE: Over eating and bad eating habits modify your neural chemically system in ways that leads to obsessive compulsive disorders, depression, addiction not in strength wise but in pattern like comparable to drug addictions.
Obesity is a disease, actually an epidemic disease.
Nina Gomes
Nov 2 2011: Every adult in contact with a child on this planet.
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Nov 10 2011: yeah but what do you tell em?Oct 26 2011: Everybody
You cannot raise perfectly under one person's responsibility.Oct 26 2011: It takes a village, does it not, to raise a child? You mention many of the stakeholder groups that should be acting on this in your question. The answers below have perhaps naturally focused on the day-to-day manifestations of the symptoms of the problem: media-driven body image & food giants' bottom lines, but:
Your question is much broader, I think, than you intend. It's our responsibility - all of us, in everything that we do, to be role models and help the next generation do a better job of moving humanity forward towards a sustainable future than we are doing. Health is part of it, as is stewardship of the environment, reducing global inequalities, pushing the frontiers of science, knowledge and understanding.
Making this virtuous sentiment a practical reality is the hard part: there are a multitude of starting points outside the formality of the classroom and, if they're lucky, a loving family.Oct 23 2011: Dear people, true information on nutrition will never come from food and health industies or the government. Teach what? The false science of the subsidized chemical grain based agriculture system that monopolizes the food supply? The cholesterol mythology?
High glycemic carbs, polyunsaturated vegetable oils, high fructose corn syrup, feed lot meat, eggs, pasteurized milk are the problem. Check Weston A Price Foundation and learn how food fraud has become genocide. Heart disease, cancers, diabetes, obesity, brain issues and intelligence appeared with the advent of modern foods, avoidance of sunshine, saturated fats, sedentary living, industrial toxins and the mass anxiety of media.
The doctor is in,......the kitchen!
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Oct 25 2011: However, it appears that people who eat nutrient-dense foods list alarmingly to the left.
(Look at the *photo* in the web site above!)Oct 23 2011: Captain - I like how you think!!! This is the basic truth in wellness. It is not about balancing carbs/proteins fats to illicit a caloric reduction. It isn't about figuring out which food is the latest 'miracle' food. It is about choosing foods wisely - being a saavy consumer and eating whole, living foods. Children already know this but they get bombarded with excellent marketing schematics and poor examples in their own household. They lose the intuitive nature to eat to survive. It truly becomes about satisfying a desire.Oct 22 2011: Corinne thank you for raising this topic. This is a critical issue in North America and needs to be resolved.
I believe that at the heart of this issue, beyond poor parenting, is poor adult living.
With changes in our educational system we can better inform our children about the dangers of unhealthy eating and the positive results of physical activity but I think this will have a diluted impact if the parents that are raising the children are themselves poor examples of these value systems.
I feel the burden of responsibility lies heaviest on the parents. To target the children we would most need to affect change in the adult role models they are influenced by. I do believe a fat tax, and health care reform with emphasis on rehabilitation not financial aid would be viable solutions.
Oct 22 2011: Thank you Timothy - the fat tax is a whole other conversation. There are interesting arguments surrounding this topic.
The World Health Organization has stated that early intervention is necessary to ensure that children will not grow up to be overweight/obese. So, children before the age of 6 need to be of normal weight and engaging in a healthy lifestyle that includes proper nutrition and physical activity to assist in developing as a healthy adult.
So, let's say a child grows up with parents that (1) did not know how to role model a healthy lifestyle (2) choose not to role model a healthy lifestyle and that child grows up to be an overweight adult. Now that individual has to pay a fat tax with the burden of either scenario above. Will the fat tax alone be a motivating factor to learn, choose, do better?
On a personal note:
I have to say; however, when I see an overweight family feeding their toddler french fries, pop, and ice cream - I wonder if they realize the road they are sending their precious child down and I do wish there could be some retribution.
Oct 22 2011: Corinne I am somewhat confused by the scenario of the overweight child you present in the third paragraph. The fat tax I was speaking of is that which was imposed by Denmark earlier this month, a tax on saturated fats. Under their new system, a food product which contains 2.3% saturated fat or more will be subject to an additional tax. This would effectively raise the cost of foods at places like the Colonels, Clowns, and Kings. Rising prices at these places could motivate people to go elsewhere. Economists would be better able to evaluate what the compound affect of this might be, but I believe the best way to see what it would do, would be to try it.
Oct 22 2011: Ahh - thank you for the clarification!Oct 25 2011: Well said Tim!
This issue is quickly becoming an issue for India and China too as they migrate up the socio-economic ladder to middle class. Novartis is investing hundred's of millions of dollars in research and production facilities in China in anticipation of a wave of illnesses (e.g. diabetes) associated with over consumption of fat, starch salt, sugar.
Oct 26 2011: I have read about this myself. Tragic!
Me! Apache
Oct 22 2011: Kids... I don't know how many of you know the definition of a parent but not to worry if you don't, society today has erased the meaning of the word and redefined it to mean nothing more then 'a person you received you DNA from'. A parent is responsible for the physical and psychological development of a child, but todays generation is reduced to rely on Social media for development. Everything they know now is a learned behaviour from their surrogate parent, advertising/Hollywood. It is not easy to be a parent and most parents had the same lack of parenting growing up they are currently giving the the youth of today. Ignorance is bliss and pointing the finger at someone else is all too easy. NO is not the fast food restaurants fault your 4 year old weighs 120 lb. It's yours for taking the easy way out and not wanting to be a parent and tell hem No, being a "Friend" to your kids is far more important.
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Just a little last minute thought to any who say parents don't know the information or were to get it. We are in the age of information. With even a small amount of effort you can find any information you want. I can Google how to make a Nuclear Bomb and get most of the information needed, so don't tell me that you "don't know". Work - its a four letter word I know, but its not an outside agency that needs to give you the information/tools to be a parent, so you can sit on your butt and tell me you raised your kid.Oct 22 2011: We over-eat because our appetite is a biological system, tuned to a reality where sugar was available only in ripe fruit in the autumn (when it was a REALLY good idea to add weight) and where you generally had to walk a couple of miles for your dinner and then maybe only got half a portion and had to walk another mile for the rest. The older you got, and the more your joints ached, the stronger your appetite had to be, in order to get you to feed yourself. In the end, you starved to death. Today, you're more likely to eat yourself to death. It's a big difference.
The responsibility for better education belongs to whoever CAN to do anything about it. "Responsibility" in this sense of the word is the direct reverse of "freedom". If you are free to act, then you are 100% responsible for the consequences of what you do or not do. Responsibility in this sense has nothing to with blame. Blame is something we do to each other, not something mystical that is already there, and that the "blamer" points out.
So, each parent is 100% responsible, as is each kid, each teacher and each politician who could have set up a better system. And each food company executive is 100% responsible for the way he balances his company's short-term profit and the long-term health of its customers.
We do stupid things like over-eat and under-exercise both because we don't know any better (Remedy = information, as you indicate), and because our actions are governed by systems inside our brains that are no more rational than dog brains, and are EXTREMELY prone to short-term planning (No remedy known yet).
Oct 23 2011: I could not agree more with everyone having 100% responsibility.Oct 22 2011: Corinne,
But children need far less education with expert information and far more engaging, experiential encounters with healthy lifestyles. They need modeling that makes active, healthy behaviors the norm, not the exception.
Answers to systemic problems like these require systemic solutions.
Oct 22 2011: Very well stated, Andrea.
Adam Burk
Nov 18 2011: For the last year and a half I have been part of a holistic effort to create healthy communities in nine towns and 11 schools. The short answer to Corinne's question in my opinion is that its everyone's responsibility. Most certainly families, but also schools, corner stores, farmers, and more. Our policy and decision makers have a responsibility to ensure that their directives whether school wellness policy or zoning encourage opportunities for health rather than discourage or hinder.
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Corinne notes some great research and there is other relevant findings as of late to the impact of environmental factors being at least as important if not more so than personal choices. Environmental factors include access to healthy food options such as fresh and appealing fruits and vegetables. It's also about safe places to be active outdoors and clean air.
Tao P
Nov 15 2011: Parents, family and community. Lets all stop relying on the state to educate. They do a terrible job at it. It's time to stop wasting money, resources and potential in these poor excuses for schools. Include children in day to day life and they will grow in a similar fashion as to how they begin to talk, by exposure to stimulus. If one can step out of the 'more money more teachers' dogma and look at how ineffective schools are we can begin a serious discussionNov 14 2011: This is a very difficualt issue to tackle in north America as people are required to pay-for their healthcare, mainly through insurence. This means there is a reduction in the ammount of interventory action that can be taken by the government as a sink or swin mantra is reinforced through leaving all responsibilities for ones immediate health to the individual(s). On the other-hand in countires where healthcare is provided majoritivly through the state the qaulity of the servie provided (per-person) increases (i.e. change4life in Britain) but is loosely enforced and ill-promoted, largely because of miscommunication and an unwillingness of multi-angency co-operation.
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With this in mind the main theme involved in healthcare in the 21st century is 'responsibility', who is responsible for the deterioration of mass health issues such as these.
1) Legislation needs to be reconfigured concerning the fat, salt and sugar content within food - especially food aimed at children - the traffic light system used in Britain is a good start but there is much more to be done. As with the imagry on cigerette packets some form of verbal or imagry shock tactics could be employed to educated people are the dangers of overeating and the consuptions of high fat food stuffs.
2) All schools should be responcible for offering a healthy meal menu whcih should be advertised to parents in an appropriate way. For instance, inviting parents and children into school to cooking lessons/demonstations similar to that provided my Jamie Oliver. It is of grave importance that children understand where food comes from, how it is produced and what is added to it during its manufacture.
3) Simply, governments need to act to reduce the cost of fresh ingredients in supermarkets including making sure that farmers are given a fair deal in the production process. Far too few politicians have the gall to go up agaist the corporations that are profiting on the back on one of the worlds largest health dangers.
James Boyd
Nov 13 2011: Some really interesting thoughts here:
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I can see how there are many different cause and effect elements in how people make their choices, both young and old... and each new generation initially find themselves reliant, on those who precede to provide example...
Diet is habitual, and as mentioned, wellness can be achieved through lifestyle choices. The issue in a modern world that demands so much of our attention, with the carrot of convenience and the stick of long work days, people have grown to see food as a fix rather than where it should be; at the apex of way of life, much like quality of sleep and clean drinking water. I for one can relate to being lazy with my diet at times.
Parents naturally have a responsibility to their children; and schools equally have an opportunity to educate children irrespective of what may be absent at home. Broadcasters can, and do, play a vital role in inspiring the young and old to make lifestyle changes. From experience I personally believe we can be thankful here in the UK whereupon for years the majority of family TV programmes have been broadcast over a mere handful of channels, which has enabled the funding and focus of quality public documentary programming to a broad domestic audience.
Most importantly, people themselves have a responsibility to effect habitual change in their own lives. The individual should lead themselves, follow examples of where they want to go, not where they have been. It is too easy to fall back into old habits right? We live in a free world so start by rejecting the unhealthy in favour of the healthy. We can also petition and mobilise into groups to effect local change at the heart of our communities.
Finally, it is clear that our retailers and their wholesale suppliers have a responsibility to position healthier foods before all others in terms of both visibility and pricing. It is possible for the public to vote for it as shareholders and as customers.
João Coucelo
Nov 10 2011: More ideas...
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Unfortunately in this capitalist neo-liberal world where money is almost the only grand motivation, may be the solution must come in that line. I mean the motivation that would change people behavior.
A solution where there are consequences besides the "far away" coming Diabetes, Cardiovascular, Self-esteem, etc.
Consequences where people being or having overweight/obese siblings, or not engaging in a non harmful life style (I don't even write a "healthy", but at least not harmful) have a chance and then if not compliant their pockets will be targeted (not popular I know that's why I started with "unfortunately").
A) If a child/worker is found to be overweight/obese the family living with the child/worker has to go through a two month teaching program where is taught how to engage in physical activity (doesn't mean gym or a sport), adequate eating (each family has its own culture and routines), psychological work;
B) Once these 2 months were successfully completed they would have to visit a local center monthly for 1 year;
C) After this year, there would be an analyses of the progresses made by each individual and the family;
D) If they would meet a set of previous established objectives they would be discharged from the program.
Where is the "pocket attack"?
1. Time is money, people attending these programs would "loose" time;
2. To pay for part of the costs with structures, all professionals and activities these people would either loose part of a financial assistance/benefits they might have or pay their taxes + X in the year of their program;
3. If people in the program quit, fail to comply or do not achieve the objectives, there will be different fines, extra charging on hospital taxes or health insurance, no co-payment from governments in medication.
I see this as a government health plan not sponsored by food supplements/pharmaceutical industry or gym companies.
Nov 19 2011: Hi Joao. Nice point of view. It,s original, but I don,t understand, but I can´t understand points 2 and three your hypothesis. Could you explain it to me e bit more, please. I,m a pediatrician involved in childhood obesity and I meant you have an original idea, but I can´t see you echonomical way support
Thanks a lot
Nov 19 2011: Hi Manolo.
A project like this has to be sustained in part by those who need it. To charge everyone would be unfair. We have to keep in mind that this plan is not to attack people is to help them, that's why their's a 1 year and 2 months program before "heavy" measures.
Point 2):In the country I live people with financial difficulties have a financial support, let's say at school the government pays for all or part of the books, or the meals at school, couples with certain number of children and small income or people who don't have a job also and a lot other. For those the motivation to learn and adopt a better life style would be in loosing this supports.
On other hand people with money enought not to have these supports would have to pay taxes + X in the year of their program. As such they would be also motivated to comply with changes.
Point 3) by not achieving the goals set in the beginning or leaving the program people would have to pay a fine and/or would loose their financial support when buying medicines or visiting an hospital. In the country I live, people go to the hospital and according to their social status pay differently (direct translation "moderator taxes"). And everyone when goes to a pharmacy with a prescription from the doctor have some cheaper medicines because the government pays part.
This would work in two ways: people would feel a financial motivation to change behaviors and on other hand is socially fair. Why? Health represents a huge part of government year budgets, on health as you know cardiovascular diseases are the 1st cause of death, desability(stroke) and chronic diseases. Obesity is central to HTN, DMT2, hypercholestorolemia, and a lot other.. so it is only fair that those consciously contributing to increase this problem to loose their financial supports from the government. It is a question towards self and other.
Nov 19 2011: Thanks Joao.
I´ll reread your answer, searching the way to adapt it to my country. I live in a society where people thinks to cure theirself is not their responsabilty; they think they should be cured by public health, whithout cash and effort, of course!
Sincerelly yours
Nikolas R
Nov 10 2011: We need to all choose a versatile and general system of facts on healthy body-fueling principles and all of us need to stand behind that canonical information in a unified and official way so it becomes more ingrained in our civilization. It needs to become the "Bible" of healthy eating. Like the Apple Computers of health where it makes it easy for the masses to pick it up and use it successfully.
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It has to be simple, effective, and popularized through unity so that it can overcome and eradicate the other smaller lifestyle based myths and old-wives tales about food that are spamming our public consciousness.
It would be in the same official spirit as the food pyramid, but much deeper (yet still easy for the masses to understand and practice)
Brent Jones
Nov 9 2011: Parents, parents, parents.
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Better societies come from better parenting.
Nov 10 2011: Cool you just solved the problem! :)
Now all the obese parents in the world will teach their children to be healthy!!! yayyy!!!Nov 2 2011: Kids are going to eat what's available. I believe this begins at home. With a good foundation kids will make better decisions at school.Nov 2 2011: For me it is easy - parents at first - they should give grounds to all this - they are first contact of the baby/kid with world, they are to show the kid how to behave, how to survive... And when there are good grounds, then schools come as a second step - having classes in gym at least twice a week for everyone, having 5 vegetables/fruits a day.. learning by watching :)
jay kline
Oct 31 2011: Miss Finnie you are very intuitive but you also like to stir the pot and I like that:) This is my first response on here but it is an important one because I too deal and see this every day and I believe it is one of our greatest dillemas as americans.
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The answer to this question is simple and we all know it but like most americans we try to dissect it until its enigmatic.
Judgment seems to be selective in the US and its not right. We must first look inward and respect ourselves and than project that outward and assist people in respecting themselves.
Ignorance is no longer an excuse and I believe that is at the heart of this problem. PEOPLE NOT ONLY LIKE TO BE INGNORANT THEY CHOOSE IT and we all allow it... thats the sad part.
thank you.
Oct 31 2011: Jay,
I'm with you. This is a systemic problem, which requires a systemic "all of us" solution. A lot less talking and lot more doing, by everyone.
I'm involved in a delightful initiative called "Play it Forward: Paha Sapa" that engages people from all ages, ends, economic, ethnic and abilities of our community spectrum in engaging physical play and healthy eating.
What never ceases to amaze me if how much fun we are having, while others with their wrinkled brows are stuck in conference rooms trying to find answers. In my mind, they'd do a lot more good if they brought the problem to their local park with a football or frisbee and invited people to play.
A "subversive," non-standard way to illuminate healthy lessons. But effective, I'd say, if only....
Oct 31 2011: Andrea, please, tell us more about the Play it Forward idea.
I like the word-play.
The movie Pay it Forward was a turning point for me personally, and helped me to propel my energy in a bolder way towards a personal call to effect change.
I am seeing "play" is a constant with you... just saying...
Oct 31 2011: Karina --
Yes, play is a theme with me. Maybe more so as I also engage with serious topics like politics that can be so draining I need to build outlets into to de-stress and keep myself as healthy as possible. It's my way of detoxing!
And I'm very bought into to the endorphin-effect of play and positive social interactions.
That said, I'm now heading out for Halloween treats. But promise Corrine I'll work them off soon!
AndreaOct 31 2011: all great ideas are non standard thats what makes them great and the KISS method will always prevail. thanks for your follow up.jjon
I apologize this reply was meant for Andreas threadOct 31 2011: I agree with you!
A good idea you have pointed out is that people opt to be ignorant! I would say they choose not to live accordingly to what they generally know is better for their health.
As a young medical doctor I like to talk with patients and try to understand their options. In the end when comes the part of health advices and related attitudes (physical activity, ways to deal with stress, eating habits) they know almost every general behavior they should have. Most don't practice any because they don't want to.
They don't have the culture of spending time and effort on such changes.People prefer to think that science will come with something new soon enough to help them, they prefer to ask for medication to stabilize their conditions... It is part of our task to tell people what is correct, but I clearly feel that most don't care.
To change behaviors will take time... I can't see a drastic change on this in a near future! Though I work for it every day :)
João Coucelo
Oct 30 2011: All the parts of your question/title to this topic are part of a lifestyle!
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There is no real meaning in pointing out who is responsible, it is something that most people, even those not living for a healthier life know. Is something like asking who is responsible to tell teenagers that smoking is bad for their health?
The main concern is how to change the lifestyle of our days to a different one.
How to drive everything (education, industry, health, pharmaceuticals) spinning around the actual life style towards one where the concept of Wellness is a center piece.
For most people Wellness is thought as something expensive and exclusive. But Wellness is nothing more than a lifestyle where people invest time and money in options, activities or products that are biologically and psychologically better.
To exercise, to have an healthy diet, to build self esteem is part of a self respect culture! A culture of long term thinking, a culture where what you are matter more than what you own. A little too different from what exist today?
jay kline
Nov 9 2011: Very well said. I too am in health care and am in rehab and see the break down every day but all it takes is one patient to change the way they eat or is some way their life and its all worth it. thanks again for your insight.Nov 10 2011: this is a big element.
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The ones on the other side of that lifestyle, the ones on the dark side need to be given hope and clear plan to empower themselves.
The problem is the ones that do seek out a life change usually fail because the information is too hard to process due to over saturation and bogus diet plans and techniques that riddle our civilization.
We need a super official authority on health to set everything straight in a publicly conscious way. A clearly refined and easily understood method of fueling and maintaining these walking delicate supercomputers we call our brains and bodies.Oct 27 2011: I feel that it is everyone's responsibility. The media plays such an essential role, so why not have celelebrities, commercials, or your everyday individual contributing to this effort. I feel it would be great to have twice as much commercials talking about healthy eating as opposed to pepsi commercials. As for positive self esteem we would have to change our media's perception, which is essentialy OUR perception. There is already an accepted world wide view on how a male or female is particularly suppose to look. To initiate positive self esteem I feel that we need to start advertising average looking people on our commercials or tv screens (not this glamorous made up) portrayal of a female I could never be. This would take rejecting and challenging world wide opinions on others as well as ourselves.
Ayush Kumar
Oct 27 2011: I believe that the statistics you have described in your question are applicable all over the world (especially in the developing countries like my own, India), and not just North America. However the situation isn't probably as bad here as I believe it is there. But with brands like McDonalds cropping up at every 500m and the heavy western influence, urban India is surely headed North America's way..
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Its fairly clear from the comments here that its the responsibility of everyone, with whom the child interacts, to make the younger generation aware. Each person you mentioned has their own role to play -
1. PARENTS- Encouraging the child to eat green vegetables and fruits. Discouraging eating out. Its as simple as that. As long as the child is being raised at home, encourage home-made meals and avoid food from outside. The kids generally stay with their parents for atleast 18 years and this time is enough to inculcate good food values in them. Even though "Parents do not have the practical information to teach their children about nutrition", I'm sure every parent can differentiate from the 'good food' and the 'bad food'.
2. SCHOOLS/COLLEGES- Awareness through teaching and special courses. Small but periodic workshops is another option. Guest lectures by dietitians, nutritionists etc. too. A very good technique is injecting a fear of the consequences of over-consumption of junk food into the brains of the young minds, which may be with the help of case-studies, images, videos etc. A combination all these techniques is the most efficient solution.
3. FOOD CORPS- We can only hope they do it as a part of their corporate social responsibility.
4. GOVERNMENT- Awareness campaigns >aware public >less diseases >healthier public >less headache for the govt. in form of health spendings
5. Parents - Again, yes. Teaching them to stop following others' lives on facebook & start concentrating on their own. Self-education from the 'Good Internet' *cough..TED..cough*Oct 26 2011: Hi Corinne,
I guess I can sense your worry and concern here,
This issue is happening not only in the United States, though it holds the highest rate of obesity.
It also has been the major concern of many other countries which are having increase in its junk food level, such countries are China, Australia and many of developing ones.
Obesity is our world's major issue currently. Sleeping late also is an affecting factor to weight gaining. Anykind of living creatures, not only human, when they eat excessive amount of food (especially synthetic ones) and are exposed to light at night (such as: working until midnight, staying up for the football match); they will definitely gain weight. And if, this process is being continued and nobody feels like he/she is in charge for the initial course of action, obesity, diabetic disease and any other adverse issues will increase whereas the level of healthiness decrease.
It is our responsibility together in educating our young people on healthy eating, physical activity and positive self esteem.
The aternative way to make kids eat their veggies is to make the food delicious yet healthy. All the healthy, cheap and tasty food' recipes which are not made for vegetarians only are everywhere, to be found in every source (first-hand and second-hand resource, from direct conversation w/ poeple until the internet).
I suggest the schools make healthy living a tradition and provide balance in the curriculas they adopt. Seminaries for the parents and teachers must be held regularly in order to increase their awareness for the impact on the causality in the case where students' negative self-esteem, substandard physical activity and unhealthy habits make their way into students' lives.
I think the best possible way is to start action on students first, from every level—smallest grade to the highest. Since they are still very young at age, they are capable to start off wonderfully before it's too late for them to change lifestyles..
Kat Haber
Oct 25 2011: Being both a grandmother of a 17 year old, 7 year old with autism and mother of a 15 year old, I feel it is an extensive community joy and responsibility. Extended family, elders, spiritual leaders, neighbors, professionals, politicians, teachers, administrators, NGO's, businesses, peers, grocery stores, coaches. Learning is inspiration. Wherever wisdom comes from for my boys, I am grateful. Thanks for the inquiry. Michelle Obama is releasing a book on this subject.Oct 25 2011: The parents first then the entire community, by example.
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Oct 23 2011: Agreed Ed!
And just to be clear, I'm not saying the fast food choices are cheaper (in the long-run they cost us so very much more!), but as you say, they are perceived to be!Oct 23 2011: There are many blanket statements here. I propose an actionable idea.
We should develop an educational curriculum which surrounds healthy eating. I suspect just about every subject can be linked in some way. Obviously, all the sciences from biology to physics can be taught and connected back to the way our body works. Math, reading, and writing can all be done in relation to health and the body. Even history and art can be tied in. Show students how their body works and how those workings relate to the rest of the world around them.
I am not talking about extra courses, I recommend integrating this into the core of the curriculum.
Not only will this approach help teach healthy eating, but it will help answer the age-old question from students: "why do I need to know that?" Everyone can relate to their own body. If you link what they learn back to their body, they will understand the need.
Oct 23 2011: I like your idea. If the education is to be effective, it should aim way beyond just "giving the kids information". It's like the campaign against smoking: Most kids know that smoking can kill. In fact, if you ask them, most of them (apparently) have exaggerated ideas about the danger ... but they still smoke. Sugar and hydrogenated fat tastes WAY better than smoke.Oct 23 2011: Drew and Jorgen,
I like this idea too:>) I agree that everything is interconnected, and when people have appropriate information, they may make better choices. Whenever there is a shift in perceptions and ideas that affect the society, it has to come from many different segments of our communities. Because the health issues we face affect the entire society, I agree Drew, that it has to be integrated into the core of the curriculum, and into the core of society. Everyone, or as many as possible, need to be a part of the change. It's fun and interesting to learn how the body and mind work, and I truly believe that if it is presented well, kids AND adults would be interested, and take part in the change we want to see:>)
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Oct 22 2011: Not my intention - but please explain how you see this question as singling out any one demographic.Oct 22 2011: I've heard this link between poor diet and poverty and I think it's an indirect correlation. I think poor diet, as well as poverty, are correlated to being uneducated. So they only seem like they are directly connected. Evidence does show that eating healthy is actually cheaper than eating a poor diet, but when was the last time you saw a commercial for carrots and how amazing they looked, and that wonderful combo with the milk and broccoli? For ONLY 5.99??
The problem is that uneducated people tend to believe eating at McDonalds is cheaper, and all they can afford. A lot of people say 'they don't have time to cook' - even though I can give you thousands of recipes that don't take more than 5minutes. But they don't know about those recipes, because they remain uneducated to them.
My comments to the specific question is posted separately - but my answer still remains "the parents"
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Oct 22 2011: British Columbia is more progressive on this topic then most other provinces. Many Dieticians look for best practices coming out of B.C. when it comes to wellness and children. Rousing applause for Mr. Garner.Oct 22 2011: This is an interesting dilemma. "Responsibility" as in "responsible for...[prop x]" is a murky compass. It points in every direction with apparent accuracy. Think about the following propositions: "Parents are responsible for what their kids eat." "Education is responsible for what kids know about food and nutrition." "The medical community is responsible for assisting families in raising healthy kids." "Corporations are responsible for being truthful about the food they sell." "Each adult is responsible for what they eat."
Responsibility abounds, but it doesn't quite point us in a clear direction. I very much agree with Andrea about the systemic nature of the issue. What I ponder is whether we can synthesize all of the various points into a coherent direction.
Great question, Corinne.
Oct 23 2011: There is no dilemma here. Yes, responsibility abounds, but it points clearly at me. I, Drew, am the one responsible for all the aspects you mention. That is very clear and not a dilemma at all.
Oct 23 2011: I agree Drew...it is not a dilemma, unless we see it as such.
Russell...I agree....the medical community, families, corporations and each and every person who is part of our communities can take responsibility. That is very clear to me:>)Oct 21 2011: The French.
Oct 22 2011: Seriously?Oct 21 2011: You are correct Corinne. I do believe however that the answer is buried within your statement.
Parents need to stop listening to fads, stop letting the television tell them what is right for them (a mistake many children make), and get back to basics...not for themselves...but for their children.
If a doctor told me, "If continue to eat McDonalds, you will make yourself sick and have a heart attack.", my next visit would be to the fruit/vegetable isle of the supermarket.
I understand that I am over-simplifying something here, but when it comes down to it, arent we all masters of what happens to us anyway? If that is the case, why do we make things so difficult for ourselves by focusing on negative reasoning behind what others do, and start doing what is required to make us healthy?
Too many people suffer from a bigger problem...Feeling everyone should fix everything for them, and having to hit rock bottom before they make significant changes. We have more info available these days to stay healthy.
I dont think it is used because many look for the quick and easy way out first. Positive actions take work, and to me, over the past 30 years...I have witnessed parents getting lazy.
Oct 21 2011: Excellent points: if I may just add:
Parents are getting vey busy - the parents of young children in our society are now called the "Squeeze Generation" - squeezed for time, financial independence, resources. Perhaps a contributing factor is that families now typically contain two working parents and less time is focused on gardening, cooking from scratch (no boxes included), and taking time to make conscious decisions at the grocery store.
I am curious about what rock bottom looks like before something changes in our society whereby children's comprehensive wellness is a priority. Is it children as young as 12 being diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes (formly called Adult Onset Type 2 Diabetes - not really applicable anymore)? Or a statistic like 30% of North American children in our schools are overweight and/or obese?
Anne Dagen
Oct 21 2011: Primarily parents, but also all adults who take on a leadership role.
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The priority will vary according to the nature of the adult's role, but teachers, activity leaders and the like are all role models for the children they come into contact with.
There is a wider role relating to ensuring that there are plenty, safe, and varied opportunities for activity, and for controlling the tide of advertising targeted at children. That's a responsibility every generation has in relation to the next one.
Oct 21 2011: I am very impressed with sports program and other extracurricular activity programs that incorporate wellness into their curriculum. Children respond well to those that display great leadership, and this is not different when it comes to topics such as nutrition. Teachers and coaches/activity leaders could have a valuable role in this journey.


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Living And Breathing Left-Wing Politics
Posted by KingShamus on December 11, 2012
Bob Belvedere points out a strength–or is it a weakness?–of the Left's mindset.
For the Left every aspect of life is, indeed, political — it has to be for any Ideologue. This is because an Ideologue sees everything as needing to conform to the system of ideas they have accepted as being necessary for Life to be good and worthy.
The Ideologue designs a blueprint for how Life must proceed and every material to be used in it is governed by the design. Any deviation and the structure risks becoming unstable. Like a building plan, an Ideology must be followed to the letter and, therefore, it has to dictate the specifications for everything needed to make a building efficient [electrical, plumbing, HVAC, etc.]. Thus, an Ideology must encompass every facet of Life. It must pervade every nook and cranny.
Read the whole thing. It's strong work.
Just to build on Bob's idea, think about progressives and how they relate to their cultural signifiers.
For many people on the Left, Jon Stewart is a comedic genius. He's also the scourge of evil Rethuglicans. He's also the voice of a generation. He's also a total dreamboat.
It's just too bad he and his buddy Stephen Colbert don't get the same ratings as "Swamp People"–even when you add the viewers of The Daily Show and The Colbert Report together.
But because Jon Stewart is a vociferous liberal who routinely buttresses leftist assumptions, he is covered in accolades far beyond his actual influence or ability.
The mental and emotional gymnastics needed to be a liberal must be exhausting. You have to support undertalented overrated court jesters. You have to laugh at their tired clap-humor. You have to recite their dopey bits at parties as if they were the second coming of Richard Pryor.
And that just covers the television socialists that have to be fawned over. There are many musicians who put their liberal politics well ahead of their songs. From Bon Jovi to Bruce Springsteen, the pop world if chock full of lippy leftists who haven't made relevant music for decades because they're too busy to sniffing the Democrat Party's jock. Those luminaries of the left must be coddled and worshiped as well.
The best recent example of Karl Marx getting a permanent invite to a recording studio is Green Day, seen here acting 'zany, yet disaffected'.
If you recall, Green Day was a post-grunge snot punk band who had pretty much worn out their welcome with music fans right around the point when "Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)" became the feel-meh overplayed hit of 1997. After that triumph of tedium the group released a folkie rock album that went directly into the bargain bins. A pair of greatest hits/b-sides compilations killed some time as the new millennium rolled along. For a while, it seemed like Green Day might do the honorable thing and break up due to lack of interest.
By 2004, most of the American public graduated from middle school and moved on from Green Day. The dream of one day living in a world untainted by Bill Joe Armstrong's pathetic fake-British accent was almost a glorious reality, but the band still had one more trick to play: Knee-Jerk George Bush Bashing. Even though the group had largely eschewed political statements throughout their career, American Idiot was rock opera based around the astoundingly novel concept that America is awful, traditional values are a cancer and neoconservatives are ghouls.
Naturally, American Idiot was a huge hit that revitalized the band's career, mostly because it courageously told Hollywood and the New York Times exactly what they already believed. Green Day became the go-to band for college freshmen looking for My First Agitprop while providing pop-culture cover for the arm-patch jacket hipster brigades. With "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" grinding away on the ipod, one could finally read Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Dissent" without immediately falling asleep.
The problem is that as a piece of art American Idiot is jaw-droppingly weak. Besides the title track's frenetic energy, the songs just aren't there. The album is too polished for punk, too emo for metal and too pop-oriented for either.
As muddled as that sounds, the real sonic failing is the pair of overambitious 9 minute long song/suites. Making a rock opera is difficult when the writers have talent. It's even harder when lead guitarist Billy Joe Armstrong has only a tenuous grasp of his instrument. "Jesus of Suburbia" in particular is a cobbled-together dog's lunch of decent to mediocre guitar riffs interspersed with Billy Joe's faux-literate complaints about small town America. The lyrics are tedious, but the song itself suffers from the lazy transitions and ramshackle construction of the tune's not-so-great components.
If American Idiot was not a pointed blast of hate directed at George Bush and red state America, there is no way the media and the progressive movement (alas, I have repeated myself) would've lauded Green Day to the degree they did. If American Idiot's lyrical content had been apolitical, it would've been perceived as just another craptastic Green Day disc. No loving reviews, no Grammy awards, no high-toned Broadway adaptation–none of that would've occurred based strictly on the artistic merits of American Idiot.
In other words, liberals had to talk up a ham-fisted piece of creative shit just because it aligned with their socialist tastes.
This is no way to live. It's emotionally barren and neutered. We on the Right should avoid this trap with all our strength.
I keep making this observation, but I think it's worth making several dozen more times: Although conservatives pride themselves on "Not worshipping the government" and "having interests and lives outside of politics" — as contrasted with liberals — in fact, if you consume conservative media, you will find our media completely rubbishes that claim, because the expressly conservative media is almost entirely about government and politics.
Even when the conservative media notes the occasional fiction book, the review is often largely about what the book says about politics or morality. That is, even in a review of fiction we seem over-concerned with the politically didactic usefulness of art.
No insult to Matthew Condinetti, and I should note it's not exclusively about those things — I cite this just as a for-instance. I see this a lot. K-Lo will put in a positive review for an Adam Sandler-produced movie like Deuce Bigelow (yeah, I think I remembered she liked it), but will spend the bulk of her praise talking about how the movie illustrates Deuce's central decency and how that is a Good Message and… yawn.
Is it a funny movie? Does it achieve its goals? Does it entertain? Does it provoke? Those are the proper grounds for review of a film or book. Sure, given a conservative audience, you'd also want to note the objectionable material or positive messages in a sentence or two, to alert conservative-minded people about them. But such things are not properly the main grounds for appreciation of a fiction.
Rest the rest of Ace's piece. It's very good.
Here's something that may sound a little too simple, but it's still true–Conservatives should critique art. Conservatives should confront the culture head on. More importantly, conservatives should get a glove and get in the game of creating art. What conservatives should not do is automatically get behind a movie or book just because it's sympathetic to the Right.
Let the Left have a monopoly on being knee-jerk applause clowns. By all means progressives, keep barking like trained seals for corrupt propaganda pieces. Liberals have already more than filled America's quota for sycophantic entertainment knob-polishers.
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December 11, 2012 at 9:13 am
Ah yes, Bruce Springsteen. Constitutional scholar. Green Day. Intellectual lights.
We need a conservative to create a "Piss Allah" sculpture.
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