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Raymond Chandler on the big screen: 'Brasher Doubloon' and 'Murder, My Sweet' to play this Thursday at the Aero
I've never seen "The Brasher Doubloon" but I love the name! This 1947 film, directed by John Brahm and starring George Montgomery as Philip Marlowe, is based on a Raymond Chandler novel ("The High Window"). "The Brasher Doubloon," on a double bill with "Murder, My Sweet," starts at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Aero Theatrein Santa Monica, 1328 Montana Ave.
Also, three excellent neo noirs are coming up in Los Angeles. Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989) in a double bill with "Blood Simple" (1984) by the Coen brothers plays at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, at the Aero. Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" (1976) will show at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 25, at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, 6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Murder, My Sweet/1944/RKO/95 min.
One of these days, I'll get around to compiling my list of the Top 10 classic film noir movies. When I do, "Murder, My Sweet" (1944, RKO) will be on the roster because it's a superb flick and a defining work of the genre, thanks to Edward Dmytryk's directorial flair, top-notch acting and a terrific script (based on Raymond Chandler's novel "Farewell My Lovely") full of choice one-liners.
"Murder, My Sweet" stars Dick Powell as private eye Philip Marlowe, perhaps Chandler's most famous character and one of the best-known screen detectives. The movie opens with Moose Malloy (Mike Mazurki) showing up at Marlowe's office, wanting him to find his old girlfriend, Velma. Marlowe looks for clues at Florian's, a dive bar, and at the home of widow Jessie Florian (Esther Howard). How to describe Mrs. Florian? Well, it's hard to beat Marlowe's take: "She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who'd take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle."
Meanwhile, Marlowe agrees to act as a sort of bodyguard for another client, fussy and effete Lindsay Marriott (Douglas Walton) who must deliver a ransom for stolen jewels. The exchange doesn't go well – Marriott is murdered and Marlowe takes a crack on the head. Once back at the office, Marlowe is visited by a reporter asking questions about a stolen jade necklace. The "reporter" turns out be Ann Grayle (Anne Shirley), a cute, feisty Girl-Scout type from a wealthy family. Pretty quickly, Marlowe meets Ann's cootish Daddy (Miles Mander) and her femme fatale stepmother Helen (Claire Trevor).
And a great meeting it is, a bit like Stanwyck and MacMurray in "Double Indemnity," but here Trevor, dressed to the nines and sporting ankle-strap chunky heels, can't really be bothered with coy flirtation. World-weary and blasé, she gives Marlowe the once-over without a word, just a great look of "another day, another guy." A few minutes later she does fight the ennui enough to say pointedly, "Let's dispense with the polite drinking, shall we?"
Besides drinking and shopping, Helen likes to dance and has no shortage of partners – guys who take her out on the town because Mr. G isn't quite up to it. Turns out, Marriott was one of Helen's companions and had been trying to help her buy back a stolen jade necklace. Now she thinks Marlowe might be up to the task.
But Marlowe isn't easily seduced, even though he pretends to be if he thinks it will yield a clue or two. As he figures out who's guilty of what, we meet Marriott's suave, sinister chum Jules Amthor (Otto Kruger) and the nefarious Dr. Sonderborg (Ralf Harolde).
With its constantly twisting plot, original music by Roy Webb and high-contrast, shadow-heavy visuals from cinematographer Harry J. Wild, "Murder, My Sweet" is awfully good fun to watch.
John Paxton's sharp screenplay honors Chandler's wit and many lines still seem fresh today. Ann rails against "big league blondes: beautiful, expensive babes who know what they've got – all bubble bath and dewy morning and moonlight. And inside: blue steel, cold – cold like that, only not that clean." Helen's retort is simple: "Your slip shows, dear."
The movie fared well with critics and audiences – the popular appeal was at least in part because leading man Powell was a matinée idol and musical comedy star. Financially strapped RKO signed him to a contract hoping he could pull in much-needed cash at the box office; Powell signed with the condition that he could first play a straight dramatic role. The studio changed the movie's name from "Farewell, My Lovely" so that viewers wouldn't mistake it for a musical.
Though Dmytryk wasn't thrilled with this casting decision, Powell did a near-flawless job, earning approval from both the director and Chandler. Trevor and Shirley match his fine work as do Howard, Walton, Mander and Kruger. And Mazurki was perfectly cast. Trevor was quite the celluloid bad girl; most notably as the cold-blooded temptress in "Born to Kill" (1947, Robert Wise). She won the best supporting actress Oscar for her role as gangster Edward G. Robinson's moll in the classic "Key Largo" (1948, John Huston).
Dmytryk deftly balances cynicism and anxiety with acerbic humor and lighthearted romance. Gifted at creating suspense and edgy moods, he is an undisputed master of film noir. After "Murder, My Sweet," he helmed "Cornered" (1945), "Crossfire" (1947), "The Hidden Room" (1949), "The Sniper" (1952) and "Mirage" (1965).
His career was sidetracked, however, by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), and its unconstitutional efforts to eradicate a perceived Communist influence in Hollywood. Dmytryk was one of the Hollywood Ten who refused to cooperate with HUAC. But, after spending time in prison, Dmytryk changed his mind, testified before the committee and named names of supposed Communists.
Despite his decision to testify and the enmity it earned him, Dmytryk remains one of noir's best directors.


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Conservative media hype misleading report suggesting CRU destroyed raw climate data
Research ››› ››› DIANNA PARKER
Conservative media have recently suggested that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia intentionally "threw out" or "destroyed" the raw temperature data "underpinning the man-made-warming theory," in the words of the New York Post, echoing a recent London Times article that said it is "now impossible" to examine how the CRU made its conclusions. In fact, according to the scientists, the raw data is still available at the meteorological services where they obtained it -- director Phil Jones said the CRU simply did not keep copies for "less than 5 percent of its original station data" in its database because those "stations had several discontinuities or were affected by urbanization trends."
Conservative media suggest CRU destroyed original data on which global warming theory is based
London Times: CRU scientists "admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based." A November 29 London Times article stated, "Scientists at the University of East Anglia (UEA) have admitted throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based. It means that other academics are not able to check basic calculations said to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years":
The data were gathered from weather stations around the world and then adjusted to take account of variables in the way they were collected. The revised figures were kept, but the originals -- stored on paper and magnetic tape -- were dumped to save space when the CRU moved to a new building.
The admission follows the leaking of a thousand private emails sent and received by Professor Phil Jones, the CRU's director. In them he discusses thwarting climate sceptics seeking access to such data.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: "We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data."
The CRU is the world's leading centre for reconstructing past climate and temperatures. Climate change sceptics have long been keen to examine exactly how its data were compiled. That is now impossible.
NY Post: "If you can't prove apocalypse is nigh, at least now nobody can prove it isn't." A December 1 New York Post editorial claimed: "It turns out that most of the 'data' underlying claims that the planet is on the verge of global-warming destruction got tossed with the trash." The editorial also asserted that the CRU scientists "now claim that the key data underpinning the man-made-warming theory was ... thrown out: Original climate data stored on magnetic tape and paper were dumped, supposedly when the CRU moved to new quarters."
HotAir's Morrissey: CRU "threw out the raw data on which much of" theory of man-made global warming is based. In a November 29 post on HotAir.com, Ed Morrissey wrote, "When would scientists expecting the world to take them seriously throw out the raw data on which their conclusions are based?" and added that the CRU "now admits they threw out the raw data on which much of their theories on anthropogenic global warming are based."
Brit Hume: "Raw data used to create these models has been destroyed or otherwise disposed of." On the November 30 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier, senior political analyst Brit Hume -- while misleadingly asserting that '"[t]here's been no apparent increase in global temperatures over the past 11 years" -- said: "Now it has come out that the original raw data used to create these models has been destroyed or otherwise disposed of. The response of the alarmists to these revelations has been that the emails were taken out of context and that the destruction of all that raw data was done for space reasons. There's a one-word answer to all of that: Please."
Wash. Examiner's Michael Barone: "They destroyed all the original data." On the November 30 edition of Fox Business' Cavuto, The Washington Examiner's Michael Barone said the scientists "destroyed all the original data. Only data that they have now is data that they have manipulated and adjusted, perhaps to fit their hypotheses. And, as a result, we're not being asked to [lower greenhouse gas emissions] on the basis of science." Later, Barone said, "They have non-retrievable data. They say they can't get their original data. They have non-replicable data."
Gateway Pundit: "[S]cientists admitted to throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based." In a November 29 post about the "global warming scam artists" on the conservative blog Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft wrote: "Global Warming scientists admitted to throwing away much of the raw temperature data on which their predictions of global warming are based."
In fact, original data is held by meteorological services
CRU scientist: "We haven't destroyed anything. The data is still there." According to an October 14 Greenwire article, Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit, said, "We haven't destroyed anything. The data is still there -- you can still get these stations from the [NOAA] National Climatic Data Center." The article said that Jones' statement came after the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) "blasted the research unit for the 'suspicious destruction of its original data.' " The article further noted that Jones "said that the vast majority of the station data was not altered at all" and that "[t]he research unit has deleted less than 5 percent of its original station data because the stations had several discontinuities or were affected by urbanization trends, Jones said."
At issue is raw data from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, including surface temperature averages from weather stations around the world. The data was used in assessments by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, reports that EPA has used in turn to formulate its climate policies.
Citing a statement on the research unit's Web site, CEI blasted the research unit for the "suspicious destruction of its original data." According to CRU's Web site, "Data storage availability in the 1980s meant that we were not able to keep the multiple sources for some sites, only the station series after adjustment for homogeneity issues. We, therefore, do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (i.e. quality controlled and homogenized) data."
Phil Jones, director of the Climatic Research Unit, said that the vast majority of the station data was not altered at all, and the small amount that was changed was adjusted for consistency.
The research unit has deleted less than 5 percent of its original station data from its database because the stations had several discontinuities or were affected by urbanization trends, Jones said.
"When you're looking at climate data, you don't want stations that are showing urban warming trends," Jones said, "so we've taken them out." Most of the stations for which data was removed are located in areas where there were already dense monitoring networks, he added. "We rarely removed a station in a data-sparse region of the world."
Refuting CEI's claims of data-destruction, Jones said, "We haven't destroyed anything. The data is still there -- you can still get these stations from the [NOAA] National Climatic Data Center."
NASA climate modeler: "The original data is curated at the met services where it originated." In response to a comment on his blog Real Climate asking whether it is true that the CRU lost the data, Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, replied: "No. The original data is curated at the met services where it originated."
Scientists: CRU climate change findings similar to those of other research centers with separate data sets
Scientists note that datasets from other research centers show the same climate trends. The Greenwire article said that Tom Karl, director of NOAA's Climatic Data Center, "noted that the conclusions of the IPCC reports are based on several data sets in addition to the CRU, including data from NOAA, NASA and the United Kingdom Met Office. Each of those data sets basically show identical multi-decadal trends, Karl said." The article also said that Ben Santer, a climate scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, "said CRU's major findings were replicated by other groups, including the NOAA climatic data center, the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, and also in Russia."
Santer: "[K]ey point here is that other groups ... WERE able to replicate the major findings of the CRU." Responding to charges made by the CEI, Santer wrote:
I am sure that, over 20 years ago, the CRU could not have foreseen that the raw station data might be the subject of legal proceedings by the CEI and Pat Michaels. Raw data were NOT secretly destroyed to avoid efforts by other scientists to replicate the CRU and Hadley Centre-based estimates of global-scale changes in near-surface temperature. In fact, a key point here is that other groups -- primarily at the NOAA National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), but also in Russia -- WERE able to replicate the major findings of the CRU and UK Hadley Centre groups. The NCDC and GISS groups performed this replication completely independently. They made different choices in the complex process of choosing input data, adjusting raw station data for known inhomogeneities (such as urbanization effects, changes in instrumentation, site location, and observation time), and gridding procedures. NCDC and GISS-based estimates of global surface temperature changes are in good accord with the HadCRUT data results.
Conservative media also distort stolen CRU emails
Destroyed data claims follow media's aggressive distortion of stolen CRU emails. Since the reported theft of emails from the CRU, conservative media figures have aggressively claimed that those emails undermine the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activities are causing climate change, dubbing the supposed scandal "Climategate." But these critics have largely rested their claims on outlandish distortions and misrepresentations of the contents of the stolen emails, greatly undermining their dubious smears.
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When Carmen Iniguez and Kimberly Aceves met five years ago, their connection was instant. As the Oakland couple's love grew and talk centered on starting a family, it was clear that both women wanted to bear their children.
It made sense for Aceves, who was then 36 and older than Iniguez, to try first. But Aceves, a youth center executive director, had difficulty conceiving in a previous relationship, and the experience had taken a great toll on her emotionally. Was she ready to go through that again? Could they even afford fertility treatments?
Ultimately, after a year of contemplation, the couple decided that Iniguez, who was younger and in a less rigorous career as a consultant, was the better candidate. For Aceves, a period of mourning and acceptance followed.
"It was painful, but I realized I wanted to be a mom more than I wanted to carry a child," says Aceves, now 41. "It (making the decision) was a journey before the journey of even getting pregnant for us."
For lesbian couples, choosing a birth mother can be an emotional decision. Often, it is based on simple facts, such as age, health, career demands and desire. However, when both women want to conceive and carry a child, it can take time, soul-searching and compromise for couples to come to a decision.
For Erin Bayer and Lori Shannon, of Oakland, the decision was relatively easy. Both women were interested in bearing children, but it was less realistic for Shannon, who is the founder and owner of See Jane Run, the popular retail chain for female runners.
"She had the busy career and I didn't, so it was much easier for me to take time off," says Bayer, 37, who was the birth mother to their 2-year-old twin boys. "Plus, my personality is such that I would be perfectly happy staying home, and she would lose her mind."
Because they wanted two children, Judy Appel and Alison Bernstein simply took turns. The Berkeley couple were together for six years when Bernstein became pregnant with donor sperm. She went first not only because she was a year older, but to assert her feminine side and push against socially imposed stereotypes about gender presentation, Appel says about Bernstein, who prefers pants, wears her hair short and "was always getting mistaken for a 12-year-old boy."
"We very intentionally wanted to hold up the feminine side of her that people from the outside wouldn't expect based on the way she looked and carried herself," says Appel, executive director of Our Family Coalition, a support network for gay and lesbian families. "She is the most caring, maternal mama bear that I know."
When both women want to conceive, it is common to take turns and to use the same sperm donor so there is a biological link between the children, says author and family therapist Arlene Lev, of Albany, N.Y. That's how Appel and Bernstein brought Kobi, 14, and Talia, 11, into the world.
Other times, it is clear throughout the relationship that one woman will be the birth mother.
"The assumption is that both females have wombs that are fertile and want to bear a child," says Lev, who specializes in gay and lesbian issues and is the author of "The Complete Lesbian and Gay Parenting Guide" (Berkley Trade, 2004). "But women in general are feeling freer than they ever have to say, 'I don't think I want to carry a child.' I think it is sometimes more acceptable for lesbians to say that they are not interested in becoming pregnant than it is for heterosexual women."
Jaime Jenett never yearned to be pregnant, so it worked out that she fell in love with and married Laura Fitch, who knew from a young age that she wanted to have "the full experience" of motherhood.
"There was never a time when I thought it wasn't going to happen for me," says Fitch, 39, a social worker who carried and gave birth to their 4-year-old son, Simon. Jenett, who is 36 and works in public health, says the decision was very easy.
"There was no question for us," she says. "People really don't understand the idea of a woman not wanting to get pregnant, but I just didn't have a particular investment in it."
Difficulty arises when a woman who wants to give birth is unable to conceive. Lev, the therapist, says fertility doctors need education on how to work with lesbian couples instead of making simplistic assumptions that the other partner is ready to conceive or even wants to.
"When a woman is dealing with infertility, having a partner who can conceive, and may easily conceive, can be very painful," she says. "It is wonderful that they may have other ways of bringing a child into their family, but that may not ease the pain of infertility for a woman who really wanted to conceive."
Aceves came to terms with her infertility the day her wife told her she was pregnant. She spent nine months nurturing Iniguez, 34; on Feb. 20, their son, Mateo, came into this world weighing an ounce shy of 9 pounds.
"It was the most amazing, life-transforming thing that's ever happened to me," says Aceves, who wants to start a support group for nonbirthing lesbian moms. "We were in it together the whole way, and when she had to go to that place during delivery, I helped her. I feel at peace with this."


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Ardeena Nalder Sasser of Pingree, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. She was 94 years old.
Ardeena was born July 29, 1919, the daughter of Archie and Clara Webb Nalder. She grew up in Holbrook, ID, attending schools in Holbrook and Kaysville, UT.
She married Blaine Sasser on Christmas day 1936 and they were later sealed in the Idaho Falls LDS Temple. She and Blaine settled the family farm in Pingree, where she has lived for the past 74 years.
Ardeena loved spending time with her family. She enjoyed animals, the outdoors, the farming life-style and working in her yard. She had numerous church callings throughout her life. She was loved by all who knew her.
She is survived by her four children: Lyle (Sonja) Sasser of Richland, WA, Ileen Bunce of Eagle, ID, Oralee (Paul) Woods of Pingree and Eldon (Karen) Sasser of Madras, OR; 15 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Blaine Sasser; her parents, her siblings: Vernal Nalder, Myrle Nalder, Beth Peck and a son-in-law, Delbert Bunce.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Lakeview Ward LDS Church, 2120 W. 800 S., Springfield. The family will receive friends and relatives from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, at Hawker Funeral Home, 132 S. Shilling Ave, Blackfoot, and again for one hour prior to services at the church.
Interment will be in the Springfield Cemetery.
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One of the most important things going on at Slow Food Nation this weekend, is the distribution of the Declaration for Healthy Food and Agriculture for groups and individuals to support and endorse.
This document is aimed at changing the current model of our food system, comprised of industrial food production reliant on cheap fossil fuels and (once) abundant land and water resources with a focus on providing cheap calories globally.
The Food Declaration was developed to change this and the purpose of the Declaration is not only to establish a healthy food and agriculture policy, but it's an "invitation to all Americans to join in the improvement effort by taking action in their own lives and communities and by offering them a way to call on policymakers to comprehensively support change."
It has 12 principles that should frame our food and agriculture policy to ensure it will contribute to the health and wealth of the U.S. and the world. Check these out http://fooddeclaration.org/. and if you support them, please endorse the Declaration!
To me, the main reason for supporting this declaration is outlined in this paragraph: "We believe that the food system must be reorganized on a foundation of health: for our communities, for people, for animals, and for the natural world. The quality of food, and not just its quantity, ought to guide our agriculture. The ways we grow, distribute, and prepare food should celebrate our various cultures and our shared humanity, providing not only sustenance, but justice, beauty and pleasure."


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Oklahoma history consists of the ebb and flow of humankind from a variety of diverse cultures. During the early 19th century, no less than 64 distinct Indian tribes were removed from points around the country and resettled in Indian Territory Oklahoma. The Five Civilized Tribes once removed were drawn into the Civil War. In the latter half of the 19th century, non Indian settlement began to overtake the lands of the various tribes. With the various land openings to settlement by non Indians, Oklahoma Territory was created and Statehood occurred in 1907. The development of oil and gas industry began in earnest during the first part of the 20th century. The Depression era depleted the population of the state, but those who stayed helped build a better Oklahoma, said William Welge, Director of the Oklahoma Historical Society Archives Division.
This was the first newspaper, per se, published in Indian Territory, It was printed in both English and Cherokee with the first issue being published on September 26, 1844, Publication was suspended several times, the first being in 1851 or 1852 due to funding; after the Civil War publication was resumed in April of 1870, again using volume 1, number 1. A fire at the plant interrupted publication 1875, from that point the Cherokee Advocate continued until 1907 when tribal political difficulties were responsible for its demise.
The first news story published in Oklahoma referred to Professor Morse's rapid long distance communication system the Electro-magnetic Telegraph that operates between Baltimore and Washington D.C, a distance of 33 miles. One hundred fifty two years later the Oklahoma Newspaper Project posts its first news on today's rapid long distance communication system, the World Wide Web. Morse began just prior to the National Democratic Convention (1844) while the Oklahoma Newspaper Project begins on the web just prior to the National Democratic Convention (1996).
The Morse story was highlighted by this statement: "By means of this Telegraph, every new movement of the Convention was made known at Washington almost simultaneously with its occurrence; while with the same rapidity the proceedings of Congress were made known at Baltimore". Lastly, the article mentioned: "Telegraph would be of great importance in case of war". Was it?
Newspapers have chronicled the lives, fortunes, and major episodes in
Oklahoma's history since September, 1844, when the first edition of the
Cherokee Advocate was published. Our newspapers brought us words of hope
and news of tragedy, the charms of a simple daily life and the drama of
international events.
This heritage is literally fading away. As vital and valuable newspapers are for researchers and historians, newspapers also are extremely vulnerable to destruction through neglect or decay. Once these barometers of specific times and places disappear, they will be gone forever.
Recapturing the drama and spirit of these printed "snapshots"
of moments in history is the goal of the Oklahoma Newspaper Project, which
is itself a component of the United States Newspaper Project--a campaign
to catalog and preserve forever the history of newspaper publishing in the
United States.
This nation-wide project is funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities
To date, forty-seven states and two territories have participated in the U.S. Newspaper Project, an endeavor to preserve the history found in the estimated 250,000 U.S. newspapers published since 1590.
The Oklahoma Newspaper Project will make a significant contribution to
the preservation of, and access to, newspaper resources in Oklahoma.
Staff members will travel the highways and back roads of Oklahoma to find, evaluate, and catalog every small town and big city newspaper that ever put out at least one issue. The Oklahoma Historical Society currently has 3,225 newspaper titles on microfilm. As a result of this project, the staff expects to locate additional titles--reaching a total of 4,500 at the end of the project.
While much of the effort will be to find newspapers that have never been preserved, the project also will catalog newspapers currently located in local libraries or historical institutions, publishers' offices, and private collections throughout Oklahoma. The project also welcomes non-Oklahoma newspapers.
In July of 1990 the Oklahoma Historical Society was awarded a planning grant for $17,996 (#PS-203530-90) by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) which was extended for an additional three months. During the Planning Phase, identification of newspaper title holdings (both print and microfilm copies) throughout the state was performed through newspaper questionnaires. These questionnaires were sent to newspaper publishers and/or editors, libraries, county clerks, and museums or historical institutions. The results of the surveys were compared with the listed holdings of the Oklahoma Historical Society. It was determined from these results that 85% of all of the newspapers ever published in Oklahoma were already preserved on microfilm at the OHS, The Oklahoma Press Association was instrumental in this vast collection.
Cooperation in the planning phase has included extensive use of the facilities of the OHS Newspaper Department, the OHS library and the University of Oklahoma School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Cooperation also has included extensive work in listing publications by the University of Oklahoma, the University of the Oklahoma Western History Collection, the Oklahoma State University Library, the No Man's Land Museum at Goodwell, the Five Civilized Tribes Museum at Muskogee, the Pioneer Woman Museum at Ponca City, the Museum of the Western Prairie at Altus, and the libraries of the University of Central Oklahoma, Northeastern State University and the Southeastern State University.
In July of 1992, the OHS was awarded another grant by the NEH for $574,311 (#PS- 20560-92) for a three year period which was extended through April of 1997 for an additional $150,000. The purpose of the grant funding was to: inventory the entire microfilm collection (consisting of over 29,000 reels of microfilm) at the OHS and other major repositories throughout the State; catalog all newspaper titles and create local data records on the OCLC database; and to locate, retrieve, and microfilm all copies of Oklahoma newspapers which were not previously preserved on microfilm. This effort has involved both cataloging and site visits, which have been performed on a county-by-county basis. To date, thirty counties have been visited by staff members, 44 (of 77) counties have been inventoried and cataloged, and over 348,000 pages (360 plus roles) of newsprint have been retrieved, prepared, microfilmed, and returned to the loaners.


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The prisoner's dilemma is a description of a problem where you have two suspects are captured, accused of committing a crime, and are isolated in separate cells. If either admits to the crime while the other does not, the prisoner admitting to the crime is set free, the other given the most severe punishment (10 years in prison). If they both confess, they are given a light, 2 year sentence. If neither confess, they are held in prison for one year, but eventually freed for lack of evidence.
So if you're one of the prisoners, what do you do?
If they could collaborate, then the best approach would be for neither to confess. They'd esch serve a year in prison, which isn't great, but overall they'd serve only two years. That's much better than the alternates.
But they're isolated, so they can't collaborate. For each prisoner, what the other prisoner does is beyond their control. If the other prisoner confesses, then he is better off confessing as well, getting a 2-year sentence. If he does not, he'll get the maximum of ten years. On the other hand, if the other prisoner does not confess, then confessing means walking free, while not confessing means a year in prison.
So the best result for the group is cooperation. But if individuals act in their own selfish interest, then there will be no cooperation, and the net result is worse.
This is what happened in the group 2 small groups start at Patterson Pass yesterday. Groups were ordered by speed, based on prior scores or, in the case of a few brand-new riders, by considering results in other races, if any. The groups were thus fairly well matched within the group, but were still competing against each other. It was a mixture, therefore, of competing against the riders within your group and cooperating with the riders within your group.
The best overall result for the group was that everyone contribute on the early, relatively flat portion of the course. And by "contribute" I mean spend time at the front at a level of effort which will cause some fatigue, causing some loss of speed on the steep portion, but just a little. The payback in following the draft of other riders within the group, each of them also riding at a fatiguing pace when at the front, would more than compensate the loss.
However, without any way to enforce global cooperation, for each rider a better scenario is that everyone else does fatiguing pulls at the front, while that individual rider sits in and rests. Every rider in the group would prefer this to occur, so for every rider within the group the incentive is to sit in and rest, or if at the front to take a brief, low-power, non-fatiguing pull.
In group 1, one rider, Nils, hammers most of the way himself. This was good for the group, since Nils is freakin' strong on the flats, but it hurt Nils' result.
In group 3, there was a strong tandem with Paul McKenzie and Paul Chuck (this is Low-Key, so we allow all sorts of bikes to ride together). Tandems are well known for being strong on the flats, and in this case the tandem led the way along the flattish section, everyone else within the group benefitting.
But in group 2, we had no tandem, and we didn't have Nils. It was going to be up to each rider to contribute, and not enough did. I took the first pull, from the start line, and one other. That would have been more than enough given the length of the opening section and the number of riders (10) in the group.
But too many riders weren't working. They were playing to the prisoner's dilemma. As a result, group 2, which should clearly have been faster than group 3, lost substantial time to that group here, and of course we lost even more time to group 1. Our scores suffered as a result.
This is shown in the following plot. The plot uses only male solo scores, for consistency. I have two curves: the blue curve is the rider's best score in the most recent year for which that rider has a score, with older scores depreciated 1%/year. This is what I used for group assignments. The other curve is the average score for riders in the group on Patterson Pass.
Although group 2 still did better than group 3, the differential between group 2 and their qualifying score is the greatest among all groups. It's clear group 2 could have done better overall, even if the "selfish" strategy may have helped some of the individual riders. Group 3, in particular, did well at Patterson due to the hard work of the tandem there. (Note: I fixed this from an initial version which showed group 6 also scored low. In the revision, where I restricted the comparison to riders for whom old scores existed. It's important the same riders contribute to both curves.)
Thanks to Paul McKenzie, here's the average speed of the groups on the first 1.3 miles:
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My conclusion from this limited data is that Group 2 was indeed soft pedaling at the beginning, and conversely, Group 4 put in quite a cooperative effort, putting about 24 seconds on Group 2 during the first part of the climb. Those in our group (Group 3) received the benefit of a nice tow to the base leaving them with fresher legs for the climb.
This may seem unfair to members of group 2. But we dug our own graves. A great thing about bike racing is it's multiple facets. It's more than just a physical contest, it's also a mental game. And the prisoner's dilemma is a classic mental game.
By the way, this situation was very similar to handicap racing, where slower riders are given a head start, and the first across the finish line wins. There the penalty is more obvious, however: you can see your competitors up the road, or approaching from behind. Here the results aren't obvious until the math is complete on the start and finish times. But they're just as real.


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I suddenly remembered that I had several yards of natural cotton duck for who knows what project from years past that would be perfect for the big part. Next I Googled other doorway puppet theaters and decided that making a pole pocket curtain with an extension rod would work best for us. We went and picked out fabric to decorate our theater, got the extension rod but don't get too excited, I haven't even started it yet. Because here is my sewing machine.
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About a month ago I spotted this adorable doorway puppet theater in Country Living. Immediately cue the "I could do that" thoughts.
Not a place of pride is it? Shoved in a closet underneath extra pillows with all sorts of extra what do you do with stuff. I do know how to sew, I can make simple things and sew a straight line but that's about it. Honestly I don't use my machine too often so I usually forget how to use it by the time I need it again. So I have to bother my mom to come and show me for the 100th time how to thread the bobbin. I'm hoping all my practice on my machine will turn me into a sewing gal because I really want to make one of these for the front of my ugly office desk.
Cute huh? Good thinking from Laura Casey. Between this photo and Erika's hidey spot for her stuff I think it would make an excellent solution to my desk dilemma. Cross your fingers that my I want to sew crusade doesn't fizzle before I finish my projects.
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- No.35style said...
i am wanting to make a table skirt for a small living room table out of that keywest trellis fabric in brown!
- June 2, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Laura Casey Interiors said...
Thanks Sarah! Glad that the table skirt is inspiring. Can't wait to see what you come up with. I am working on learning to sew myself.
- June 2, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- Aartee said...
SO cute! I would love to learn to sew....
- June 2, 2009 at 11:01 AM
- Luvs2dance said...
Are you going to make sock puppets are go the distance and try for some life-like creatures?
I can't to see a puppet show - I LOVE these kinds of things!!!
- June 2, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- Lauren said...
Sarah!!! Saw the puppet show too & love it!!! It's def on my list for when my little guy gets a bit older... I can't wait to see how you do it!!
- June 2, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- simply seleta said...
Yummy table skirt with raised banding along bottom. Keep us posted on your puppet + table skirt projects!!!
- June 4, 2009 at 6:48 AM
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Phishers Become More Sophisticated Open redirects were one of the favorite tactics of phishers in 2005, said Web-tracking and anti-phishing company Netcraft, and they're a good example of fraudsters' increasing proficiency.
Look Who's Talking At CES Intel and Dell, both of whose CEOs are keynote speakers, intend major home- and entertainment-oriented announcements at next week's Consumer Electronics Show.
Prediction No. 10: Continuous Controls, The Intersection of BPM, ECM And Event Monitoring This final prediction for 2006 is a look at where the rubber will meet the road in the journey toward a sustainable, automated compliance architecture. Your goal is to create an environment of continuous controls, but what exactly is that? Continuous controls are something that analysts, consultants and auditors stress but, somehow, only vaguely describe. It will be your number one priority for compliance management but there is no silver bullet technology that gets you there. There are no pre
Small Victory In Battle Against Kiddie Porn When Dutch credit-card processor Vorotel cut ties with Bigfunhouse, the online payment site that provided access to Webcam pornography closed, a small victory was won in the war against Internet child porn.
Intel's New Marketing Campaign Paves Way For Apple Intel's Yonah processor is expected to be seen in Apple's products in the first quarter of 2006, as both companies head directly toward the home entertainment category.
VeriChip Files IPO The Delray Beach, Fla., company has been the subject of controversy from privacy advocates for its human implantable RFID chips.
Way Cleared For Large U.S. Spectrum Auction It will cost far less than previously thought to move U.S. government agencies off of valuable portions of wireless spectrum, freeing that spectrum up for use by cellular carriers.
Company Claims First-Ever Chip For iPod-Compatible Video Capture Claiming an industry first, low-power codec IC provider Mobilygen said that its MG1264 chip supports real-time, high-quality H.264/ACC video capture compatible with Apple Computer's video iPod.
Breaking Up (Microsoft) Is Hard To Do For nearly two years, Microsoft has played European antitrust regulators the same way it played U.S. regulators: as a bunch of hapless nitwits. This time, however, Microsoft has misjudged its opponents -- and instead of a slap on the wrist, it may face an executioner's ax for its trouble.
AskMeNow Launches Interactive Voice Response Customers will be able to register for the AskMeNow service, which delivers text-message responses to any question, from their cell phone or mobile device.
Sony BMG Rootkit Settlement Proposal Submitted To Court Consumers who bought the rootkit-infected music would get free music downloads. A judge still has to approve the settlement before it's final; that decision is expected sometime in January.
Online Holiday Sales Soar By 25% Though the busiest online shopping days were Dec. 12 and 13, the sales momentum continued till Christmas, ComScore Networks report.
Secret CIO: Resist Temptation: Don't Push That Hot Button Our country's political discourse is interesting in a perverse sort of way. The dialogue is reminiscent of what happens during my company's executive committee budget-review meetings. In both processes, participants spend a huge amount of time on arguments aimed at fixing the blame for what went wrong while concurrently trying to grab the credit for what little has gone right.
It's Too Early To Say The only thing that is a certainty about the Internet, I believe, is that the next generation will blow anything we're doing right out of the water.
XM To Unveil Concept Car Tech At CES XM Satellite Radio will unveil what it calls the XM Advanced Services vehicle, a concept car featuring in-car video, voice command, weather alerts, parking space locator, and other technologies next week at the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show.
Microsoft, Nissan Put Xbox In A Car The URGE car enables people, while parked, to play the game ''Project Gotham Racing 3'' using the vehicle's steering wheel, gas pedal, and brake pedal.
How To Beat Back The New Zero-Day Windows Bug Workarounds include disabling the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, the application that Internet Explorer automatically launches to display WMF image files.
New Year's Day Delayed By One Second The need to accommodate changes in the earth's rotational spin will add an extra second to atomic clocks around the world.
XM Satellite Radio To Showcase 'Advanced Services' A concept car featuring video, voice command, weather alerts, parking space locator, and other innovations will be on display at next week's Consumer Electronics Show.
Microsoft Promises To Patch Worsening Zero-Day Flaw In a security advisory posted on its Web site, Microsoft confirmed the vulnerability and the associated release of exploit code, but declined to give a timetable for its patch.
Google To Supply Search For Opera's Mobile Browsers The browser's Mini version operates on WAP-equipped cell phones, while the more robust Opera Mobile version is generally offered as an add-on to mobile and wireless devices for a small user fee.
'Spintronics' Generating Excitement In Tech World The new science of electron spin promises innovations including instantly bootable computers.
Credit Suisse First Boston Disruptive Technology Portfolio An index of companies shaking up traditional business models.
Nokia Loses In Smartphone Patent Ruling InterDigital says the U.S. District Court ruled in its favor, which will require Nokia to pay it more than $232 million in royalties. It's the latest development in a string of patent disputes plaguing the mobile-device industry.
Indian Terror Attack Wake-Up Call For IT Firms The city of Bangalore, which houses over a thousand hardware and software development firms, is said to be on the radar map for terrorists, experts said.
Beware Post-Holiday Phishing Consumers should be especially watchful for bogus "get out of debt" phishing pitches, a security firm warned.
Browser Inventor Starts His Own Blog Tim Berners-Lee, now a scientist at MIT, said his blog is intended to be for "geeky semantic web stuff mostly."
NEC To Delist On European Exchanges Japan's NEC said it will make the move because such delisting would not affect its shareholders and investors and trading volume of its shares on these stock exchanges is "small."
MSN To Webcast New Year's Eve Countdown This will be the second year that MSN broadcasts live from New York's Times Square. But unlike last year, viewers will have an option to choose the camera angles and the events they wish to view.
Moore's Law: 1965-2015, May It Rest In Peace The demise of Moore's Law is in sight. Well, maybe not Moore's Law itself, but the end of the ability of the silicon chip to double computing power about every two years--Moore's Law--is a decade away.
Consumer Reports: AT&T Wireless Customers Got Short End Of Stick The magazine is reporting in its upcoming issue that connection problems and extremely poor customer service plague former AT&T Wireless subscribers who kept their old phones after the acquisition by Cingular.
Startup Offers Unique Delivery Model For Open-Source Software iRadeon Group's monthly subscription serves up three open source applications in a dashboard-type interface, a model that could appeal to cost-conscious small businesses.
Rumor: TiVo To Announce DirecTV, Dish Partnership At CES A rumor is circulating online that TiVo will announce at the upcoming CES show next month in Las Vegas a partnership with DirecTV and Dish Network over mobile content. The idea is to unite on a standard for supporting content that can be viewed on portable devices.


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In 1989 I published a book about a plutonium-producing nuclear complex in England, on the coast of the Irish Sea. The plant is called Sellafield now. In 1957, when it was the site of the most serious nuclear accident then known to have occurred, the plant was called Windscale. While working on the book, I learned from reports in the British press that in the course of normal functioning it released significant quantities of waste—plutonium and other transuranic elements—into the environment and the adjacent sea. There were reports of high cancer rates. The plant had always been wholly owned by the British government. I believe at some point the government bought it from itself. Privatization was very well thought of at the time, and no buyer could be found for this vast monument to dinosaur modernism.
Back then, I shared the American assumption that such things were dealt with responsibly, or at least rationally, at least in the West outside the United States. Windscale/Sellafield is by no means the anomaly I thought it was then. But the fact that a government entrusted with the well-being of a crowded island would visit this endless, silent disaster on its own people was striking to me, and I spent almost a decade trying to understand it. I learned immediately that the motives were economic. What of all this noxious efflux they did not spill they sold into a global market.
Early in the morning on June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, the city's most popular gay bar. The police had raided Stonewall frequently since its opening two years before, but the local precinct usually tipped off the management and arrived in the early evening. This time they came unannounced, during peak hours. They swept through the bar, checking I.D.s and arresting anyone wearing attire that was not "appropriate to one's gender," carrying out the law of the time. Eyewitness accounts differ on what turned the unruly scene explosive. Whatever the inciting event, patrons and a growing crowd on the street began throwing coins, bottles, and bricks at the police, who were forced to retreat into the bar and call in the riot squad.
Left to the tender mercies of the state, a group of veterans and their families continue to reside in a shut-down town
The squat warehouse at Miami's 5th Street Terminal was nearly obscured by merchandise: used car engines; tangles of coat hangers; bicycles bound together with cellophane; stacks of wheelbarrows; cases of Powerade and bottled water; a bag of sprouting onions atop a secondhand Whirlpool refrigerator; and, above all, mattresses—shrink-wrapped and bare, spotless and streaked with dust, heaped in every corner of the lot—twins, queens, kings. All this and more was bound for Port-de-Paix, a remote city in northwestern Haiti.
When I first arrived at the warehouse on a sunny morning last May, a dozen pickup trucks and U-Hauls were waiting outside, piled high with used furniture. Nearby, rows of vehicles awaiting export were crammed together along a dirt strip separating the street from the shipyard, where a stately blue cargo vessel was being loaded with goods.
My father decided that he would end his life by throwing himself from the top of the parking garage at the Nashville airport, which he later told me had seemed like the best combination of convenience—that is, he could get there easily and unnoticed—and sufficiency—that is, he was pretty sure it was tall enough to do the job. I never asked him which other venues he considered and rejected before settling on this plan. He probably did not actually use the word "best." It was Mother's Day, 2013.
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A recent earthquake in Chile was found to have shifted the city of Concepción ten feet to the west, shortened Earth's days by 1.26 microseconds, and shifted the planet's axis by nearly three inches.
Gene Simmons of the band Kiss addressed Department of Defense personnel in the Pentagon Briefing Room.
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Life... what is it for real?
I don't know... yo
It's like hate takin over but hold up, what is it over?
Suicide, man that's the devil tryin to control us
They told us but we ain't notice the pain was sittin on they shoulders
The world is just too polar, they'd rather live in the solar
System got us hopeless, they focus on foreclosures
Wake up and smell the Folgers
Obama bring home the soldiers
Osama, you owe us, the 9/11 was bogus
Now we right back at him, save the world is our motive
Yeah, wake up early in the streets of the block (streets of the block)
He posted up on the corner like a soldier in a drill but it won't stop
Yeah, livin life in the battlefield (battlefield)
Hmm, tryin to survive every day and every night is the same deal
Cause, life's strange (life's strange) time changes (time changes)
But karma always finds a way
Stay strong (stay strong) hold on (hold on)
And don't let all your dreams fade away
[Interlude: Nelly]
Yeah life can beat you down
What goes, it comes around
It's not how you hit the ground
It's how fast you get back up, and
[Hook: Nelly]
Go! Keep goin, sometimes it feel like I'm givin my life away
And it gets hard, and harder, the happiness is worth the wait
Cause all I want is a better day
Cause all I want is a better way, hey
A lot of mothers they just don't understand (they just don't understand)
Yeah, they think we hard on our sons but we gotta teach our boys how to be a man
Yeah, they on they own when they walk out the door (when they walk out the door)
Mm, see we can show 'em how to fire but they gotta teach theyself how to reload
Cause, unemployment's higher than it's ever been
Sometimes it feels like I can't win
And even though all the rules keep changin
I'm stronger now than I was when I came in
[Interlude] + [Hook]
[Talib Kweli]
Hey, hey
Rollin through the back streets like we got beef
A carnival for carnivores with the sharp teeth
They animalistic, that's why we call the cops beast
They on the hunt cause they hungry for the dark meat
I'm rappin to my heartbeat, the brain is the bass
The heart is the drum; give the drummer some
Promise of a better life is all I got to give
I ain't just tryin to survive, I'm tryin to live
Cause all I want is a better way, hey
If you're not prepared the world can be so cold
All that you can do is your best and just hope (yeah)
In time the truth will show, just stick to what you know
Get a grip on somethin real, and never let it GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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Alexander remembers Don Henry & Kevin Ives
White balloons drifted into the mid-day sky at Alexander City Park Saturday. On each balloon was a message written by a friend, a family member, a resident of the city or simply by someone who had been touched by the tragic deaths of Kevin Ives and Don Henry on August 23, 1987.
"Gone but not forgotten" was a common theme among the hundreds of balloons that drifted into the sun like pearls to heaven.
The balloon release was part of a ceremony for a bench dedicated to the two young men whose deaths on a nearby railroad track 25 years ago remains unsolved.
On this day, the crowd came to celebrate the lives of Ives and Henry. The circumstances of their deaths and the lingering questions about what really happened that night were matters to discuss at another time and place.
The idea for the bench was first suggested by Alexander City Alderman Farren Wadley who knew Ives and Henry growing up in Saline County. Wadley proposed the idea to the Alexander City Council and Mayor Paul Mitchell. The idea gained momentum. Pinecrest Funeral Home donated the bench to the city as well as the required engraving and landscape labor.
On Saturday, Linda Ives, mother of Kevin, and Curtis Henry, father of Don, told the crowd gathered that each appreciated the way the city had embraced their children.
As a prayer was being said during the ceremony, the whistle of a train could be heard drawing closer and closer to the park. The noise grew louder and the prayer was stopped. The train continued its slow run along the nearby tracks.
On cue, the balloons were released. Eyes were filled with tears. One person in the crowd said, "That train going by was our babies letting us know they are still here."


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Mars rock 'Jake Matijevic' proves a surprise, even to NASA
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LOS ANGELES _ The more Curiosity gets to know Mars, the more it seems like a big red Earth. Curiosity recently examined what appeared to be an ancient riverbed and conglomerate rocks similar to those at home. Now comes "Jake Matijevic" _ a pyramid-shaped chunk of rock that's proved to be a surprise, even to NASA.
The space agency says that Jake, named for a legendary NASA engineer, is unique _ unlike any rocks examined before on Mars. And that's saying something. Previous rovers have examined hundreds of Martian rocks.
When Curiosity team members picked Jake, they were just hoping for a "simple and uniform" rock that would help them compare results from two chemistry instruments.
Jake was the first rock analyzed by the rover's arm-mounted Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer; it was about the 30th on this mission examined by the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument.
"It's a strength of Curiosity to have instruments that use different techniques to get at the same answers," Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity deputy project scientist, told the Los Angeles Times on Friday morning. "But it's also a challenge for the science team, like trying to understand the plot of a story when one person saw the movie and another read the book. We were hoping that Jake M. had a simple plot."
But NASA got more than it expected. The rock was diverse, surprisingly so.
"Our laser instrument saw a slightly different composition at every point it analyzed," Vasavada said. Although there was "broad agreement between it and another spectrometer that the robotic arm held against the rock, there also are some discrepancies yet to be understood. The differences between the two instruments are telling us that the rock contains a diversity of minerals down to the finest scales."
The results so far reveal a good match, Vasavada said, for a type of Earth rock.
"We see a composition that is a good match to a rare but widespread rock type on Earth, one that forms deep inside the Earth as magma moves around and partially crystallizes, leaving basalts that are rich in alkali elements like potassium."
He stressed that scientists can't be certain Jake formed in the same way as rocks on Earth.
"Like many aspects of planetary exploration," the scientist noted, "we use the long history of Earth studies to form our best ideas to explain Mars."
Curiosity is spending about three weeks at Rocknest, the patch of dirt where it recently made its first scoop. After that, the rover team will direct Curiosity 100 yards to the east to do some rock drilling as the pursuit of information on possible previous microbial life on Mars continues.
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Business Loan Opportunities for Military Veterans in 2014
Business Loan Opportunities for Military Veterans in 2014
The service of veterans has done a tremendous amount for the United States – on our own soil and around the world. Many continue their contributions to the country by channeling their skills and leadership into entrepreneurial endeavors that help strengthen our economy.
And now through the rest of the fiscal year, SBA's Express Loan Program will make it easier to get loans in the hands of veterans so they can succeed in their business ventures.
Loan fees
Through the end of September, SBA has set the borrower upfront fee to zero for all veteran loans authorized under the SBA Express program, which supports loans of up to $350,000.
Additionally through the end of the fiscal year, fees on all loans (and not just for veterans) $150,000 and under are set to zero.
These initiatives make the loans cheaper for the borrower, which is just another way SBA is looking to serve small business owners – and those veterans who have served us – as they look for ways to access capital.
About the Express Loan Program
One great feature of the Express Loan Program is that it has an accelerated turnaround time for SBA review. You'll receive a response to your application within 36 hours.
With a fast turnaround, streamlined process and easy-to-use line of credit, this program is SBA's most popular loan delivery method – nearly 60 percent of all 7(a) loans over the past decade being authorized through the program. Since the program began, it has also been one of the most popular delivery methods for getting capital into the hands of veteran borrowers.
Getting started
Interested in exploring loan options to get your business started? Check out these loans that fall under Express Program standards. Our business loan checklist can also help prepare you for the application process, in addition to taking a look at the credit factors lenders will consider when you apply for an SBA-backed loan.
In the transition from military service to customer service, you'll find great resources from SBA to help you find success. And if you're looking for funding to get your business off the ground, these loan perks may make it possible to do just that.
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Prominent psychiatrist offers hope to cancer patients
Empowering an audience of more than 100 cancer patients, caregivers and supporters, Rahn Kennedy Bailey, MD, FAPA, chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., addressed the critical importance of emotional and mental well-being when coping with a diagnosis of cancer in his special presentation, Depression in Cancer Patients.
Bailey, former president of the Tennessee Psychiatric Association and current president of the National Medical Association, representing more than 30,000 African-American physicians, encouraged attendees to be advocates of their health and seek treatment and support for mood disorders common to those affected by cancer.
It was a homecoming of sorts for the Beaumont native. A 1982 graduate of Hebert High School, Dr. Bailey fondly recalled his Southeast Texas upbringing and cited the support he received from family, friends and the community as essential to his success. He warmly greeted those in attendance then turned to his very serious subject.
It is estimated that clinical depression, a treatable illness, occurs in one in four people with cancer, resulting in impaired functioning and a diminished ability to follow treatment plans. Proper medical attention, combined with a therapeutic network of support, can greatly reduce the suffering of patients and ultimately improve their quality of life.
"Not only does having a mood disorder make periods of illness more difficult," Bailey said, "But it is also more likely to create an earlier bad outcome — independent of what cancer you may have. Optimal mental health can actually improve the quality and length of your life, even with medical concerns, such as cancer."
The informative presentation and complimentary dinner were hosted by the "Gift of Life's" Prostate Cancer Support Group, Men Against Cancer (MAC), and made available to all cancer patients, survivors, loved ones and caregivers.
"This program was excellent," said attendee Vernon Durden. "I learned that the endocrine system will signal depression, sometimes even before cancer is detected. The body is an amazing machine, and if we pay attention, it will tell us what's wrong."
Many of the guests were heartened by Bailey's assurance that positive healthcare outcomes favor those who proactively obtain help for clinical depression and anxiety.
"Dr. Bailey did a great job of discussing how depression and cancer are intertwined," Mike Lagaza said. "You have to open up about these things, and talking about it is the first step forward. As Dr. Bailey stated, when you combine medication and talk therapy, there is an 84 percent improvement – which is huge!"
The "Gift of Life," with its medical partners, hosts monthly breast and prostate support group meetings for those recently diagnosed with cancer, survivors and their families. These gatherings provide a vehicle of expression and an educational platform with shared information, as well as camaraderie and compassionate support.
"I commend and admire the work of the 'Gift of Life,'" Bailey concluded. "This kind of community involvement is essential to bringing people together and finding the best in one another. The 'Gift of Life's' programs are essential for maintaining a quality societal orientation."
In addition to educational outreach and healthcare seminars, the "Gift of Life," in partnership with Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas and other local healthcare providers, offers free prostate cancer screenings and vital healthcare information to hundreds of medically underserved Southeast Texas men during the month of June. In Port Arthur on June 8, 86 men were screened; an additional screening was held in Beaumont on Saturday, June 15, and one is scheduled for Saturday, June 22, in Orange.
Since 2000, the "Gift of Life" has made available nearly 7,000 free prostate cancer screenings and helped extend the lives of more than 60 men who have been diagnosed with prostate cancer and whose diagnostic and cancer treatment costs were entirely underwritten by the "Gift of Life."
During the past 24 months, seven men have been diagnosed with prostate cancer through "Gift of Life" screenings and navigated by a program case manager through cancer treatment and provided support services and other immediate resources, when needed.
Call the "Gift of Life" to find out if you qualify for a screening and to make an appointment: (409) 833-3663 or toll-free at (877) 720 GIFT (4438).


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