text:
Welcome to the HealthCorps Pressroom. Here you can find the latest news releases and articles, as well as approved photographs and biographies.
All media inquiries can be directed to the following:
HealthCorps Contact for News Media
Karen Johnson, Chief Communications Officer
Phone: 212.742.2875
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Become a fan on Facebook & follow us on Twitter.
- Electronic press kit (right-click to download)
- HealthCorps in the media
- News Releases
- Approved Photos
About HealthCorps
HealthCorps® is a 501 (c) 3 founded in 2003 by heart surgeon and Daytime Emmy Award-winning host Dr. Mehmet Oz and his wife Lisa to combat the childhood obesity crisis. HealthCorps® is building a nationwide movement to shape a new generation.
HealthCorps® "Coordinators" lead unique in-school and community programming designed to foster physical and mental fitness, particularly among high-need populations. The Coordinators serve as peer-mentors who deliver a progressive curriculum in nutrition, exercise and mental strength to more than 40,000 students. For more than a decade, the HealthCorps program has inspired its participants to adopt a healthier lifestyle. HealthCorps' 60 schools in 13 states and DC serve as "Living Labs" to explore and find solutions to the complex, underlying causes of the obesity crisis, as well as discover, communicate, implement and advocate for national and regional solutions.
Today, the program network spans 60 schools in 13 states and the District of Columbia impacting 40,000 students. Ultimately, HealthCorps' goal is to extend the reach of its program to an ever-wider network of American communities. To that end, in 2012, we introduced HealthCorps University, a "train the trainer" professional development program that makes available the HealthCorps principles and curriculum to virtually any school, community or organization.
For more information, please visit at www.healthcorps.org and follow us on Twitter and on Facebook.
Biographies and Images
Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
Dr. Oz, two-time Daytime Emmy® Award-winning host of the three-time Daytime Emmy® Award-winning "The Dr. Oz Show," is Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. His research interests include heart replacement surgery, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, complementary medicine and health care policy. He has authored over 400 original publications, book chapters, and medical books, has received several patents, and performs more than 100 heart surgeries per year.
Dr. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Delaware, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University (1982) and obtained a joint MD and MBA (1986) from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Wharton Business School. He lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife Lisa of 28 years and their four children, Daphne, Arabella, Zoe and Oliver.
Previously, Dr. Oz was a featured health expert on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for over five seasons, spanning 55 episodes. In addition to regular appearances on the "Today" show, he has also been featured on "Good Morning America," "Larry King Live," "The View," "Piers Morgan Tonight," guest-hosted the "Charlie Rose" show and appeared on all the evening news broadcasts. He also served as medical director of Denzel Washington's "John Q" and participated in several other feature films.
Dr. Oz authored seven New York Times Best Sellers, including "You: The Owner's Manual," "You: The Smart Patient," "YOU: On a Diet," "YOU: Staying Young," "YOU: Being Beautiful," "YOU: Having a Baby," "YOU: The Owner's Manual for Teens," as well as the award-winning "Healing from the Heart." He has a regular column in O, The Oprah Magazine, Time and AARP, and his article "Retool, Reboot, and Rebuild" for Esquire magazine was awarded the 2009 National Magazine Award for Personal Service.
In addition to belonging to every major professional society for heart surgeons, Dr. Oz was named Forbes' #3 most influential celebrity (2010-2011), has been honored as one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People (2008), Esquire magazine's 75 Most Influential People of the 21st Century and a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum (1999-2004). He has also won the prestigious Gross Surgical Research Scholarship, received an honorary doctorate from Istanbul University and was voted a "Doctor of the Year" by Hippocrates magazine.
Download High-Res Image
Download Low-Res Image
Lisa Oz
Lisa is a writer, producer and entrepreneur. She is host of the Lisa Oz Show on XM and Sirius radio, as well as the co-host of the Dr. Oz radio show. In addition to authoring the New York Times bestseller US: Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships that Matter Most, Lisa coauthored five New York Times bestselling books, including the YOU: The Owner's Manual series.
Lisa is a regular contributor to Fox's Good Day New York, appearing every week to discuss current events through the lens of family, relationships and health. With her husband, she helped found HealthCorps, a peer-mentoring, non-profit which delivers a progressive curriculum in nutrition, fitness and mental resilience to over 32,000 teens in at-risk communities across the country.
Lisa and her work have been featured in O magazine, Redbook, Esquire and Shape. She has appeared on The View, Good Morning America, Fox & Friends, The Dr. Oz Show, The Nate Berkus Show, The Martha Stewart show, Good Day LA, The Joy Beyhar Show, Extra, The Wendy Williams Show and The Chew.


text:
This month, we discuss a couple of new high-end SSDs based on fresh developments in flash technology. Are they really that much better than the latest mainstream-oriented drives, though? Check out our...
It's rare that we get the chance to test SSDs before they hit production. But after waltzing with Silicon Motion's SM2246EN platform last year, JMicron offered us a handful of reference drives with different...
Storage on the Community
Solved by - JULY 28can games run from ssd w/o windows on it?
Solved by - JULY 28Just had a computer crash on a dual drive (SSD/HDD) system. Can the information on the HDD be easily reintegrated?
Solved by - JULY 28Windows 8 MSI laptop drives will not wipe no matter what method I try.
Samsung's new external DVD drives are very thin.
If you are like me, and have your system on an SSD, or if you are just short on disk space in general, you know...
WD announces first external hard drives with the new 6 TB drives.
Western Digital introduces seven new hard drives.
New NAS and NAS PRO series geared toward home and SMB users
Dropbox just got zippier.
Icy Dock has built a new hard drive cage which can be used to fill up your remaining optical drive bays.
This NAS solution looks like a set-top-box.
It's the world's first SSD with 3D V-NAND technology.
After winning an award last year for its 840 EVO, Samsung is ready to follow up with another high-end offering. The company's 850 Pro SSD merges the EVO's familiar MEX controller with 3D V-NAND. Does the...
Here's a good way to back up your files.
SSD makers may be fighting for your hard earned dollar soon.
Video surveillance has been around for years. Grainy gas station cameras are giving way to higher-end 1080p-capable IP cameras, and storage is evolving to meet the needs of these ever-expanding solutions. Today...
I-O Data's new external hard drives are pretty.
Transcend adds three new M.2 SSD models to its lineup.
Asus showcased white motherboards at Computex, along with a four lane PCIe-to-M.2 adapter.
Z97 ushers in new and exciting ways to attach and use storage devices. With support for M.2 PCIe and SATA Express, two sides of the same SSD coin, Z97 improves on Z87. But not everywhere. AsRock add to Z97 with...
Kingston has updated its MobileLite line with a new model.
OCZ hits the entry enterprise market with the new Vector 180 SSD
Kingston's M.2 SATA SSD ships to consumers next week.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Views: 617
I would say I do it on principle, because I care so much about animals, et cetera... if only that were true. If that actually were true, I'd have become a vegetarian a lot sooner.
To be honest, it is because I really don't enjoy the taste of meat. In fact, it's one of the things I tend to like the least in ANY food. And I like a challenge - can I stay away from consuming any meat entirely for a specified period of time, let's say a year at least?
Besides, I see no health benefits in consuming meat (other than consuming fish which is actually quite good for you, but which I don't consume either for the sake of a challenge), in fact, it is rather the opposite - meat tends to be bad for you.
My main Primary reason is that I am not into mammalian murder!!!!! I have also found that it is possible to avoid eating all forms of complex life. This being said I would likely agree with killing one human to protect many animals as I think we are the biggest threat to both our selves and complex life on this planet.
Interesting that you specifically choose to posit the scenario of killing humans to protect animals, and not the other way around. Say for instance, you were put in the position where 50 elephants are angrily charging towards a small group of people, and you had to kill at least a few in order to keep the crowd from continuing to press their charge and thereby save the people... how does that stand in your view?
I specifically chose elephants, BTW, because they demonstrably exhibit a level of self-awareness which is on par with that of human children around the age of 2-3... something that can't quite be said for a lot of other non-primate mammals.
Also, what qualifies as complex in your mind? Something that has a sophisticated nervous system? If so, then shellfish and crustaceans shouldn't be a problem for you. If complex simply means that it's an animal, then that's a poor choice of wording. If it's simply about *mammalian* murder, then fish, poultry, and dairy should be fine. For that matter, eggs shouldn't be an issue because they're not even potential lives at all -- they're all unfertilized eggs, which makes them pretty much the equivalent of a hen's menstruations. Short of parthenogenesis (i.e. Chicken Jesus), there is no possibility of damaging a life there.
I'm a vegetarian, all right, but I don't much like the idea of basically politicizing food of all things. I just happen to like what I eat. If you try to analyze it on the basis of political stances about the treatment of animals and your emotional reactions to these realities, you're likely to jump a few sharks too far. I've explained my position earlier in the thread, but on my blog, I also go a lot further into why I don't care for a lot of common arguments for vegetarianism/veganism --
The short version is -- they're all too black-and-white and involve little to no analytical thought.
It is simple to answer that. Provided I have no personal investment in relations with either the elephants or humans then it simply comes down to looking at where the animals including humans are on the spectrum of neural complexity or sentience.
If it were two humans killed to save 100 elephants then that is probably OK. If it were 5 elephants to save one human then that also might be OK. but if it were 1000 elephants killed to save one human that would not be OK. This is but a simple guideline for conversation as If it were a poacher I would kill him to save one elephant. I would also add that one endangered animal of lesser sentience is worth more than one animal (human) of a higher sentience.
In relation to shell fish. again it would be preferable to eat a prawn over a bird and a bird over a mammal (maybe). but the question is must one eat any of these to survive?.
My deffinition of complexity is relative. I am fine with killing single celled organisms in order for complex organisms to survive. If you must kill to survive then that is your right. But:
do you need to eat eggs to survive?
Do you need to eat birds to survive?
Do you need to Drink the torturously derrived lactate of a cow?
Needless suffering is just that needless.
you can do what you like but at least justify it against what you would tolerate yourself. After all if your basis for torturing cows to produce lactate is due to our higher level of intellect then you best be willing to submit to the same fate when aliens come knocking.........
But the question is must one eat any of these to survive?
Do you need to eat eggs to survive?
Do you need to eat birds to survive?
I'm sorry, but if your point is to suggest that those individual items are not necessary for survival, then you've made one of the most profoundly meaningless points that could ever be made. That same point is true of nearly ALL conceivable specific food items. I don't need to eat eggs to survive any more than I need to eat tomatoes or apples.
Though I will point out that there are exceptions to every such rule. There are various forms of anemia which effectively demand the consumption of red meat. There are quite a few mothers who are unable to produce sufficient breast milk for infant children, as well as infants who aren't capable of breast feeding... and dairy is generally necessary for them to develop. One of the reasons why cow's milk is generally preferred is because its profile of fats, whey and casein proteins, and milk sugars is in the same general range as that of breast milk.
Animal-sourced proteins, almost without exception, are also better absorbed by our digestive system than plant-based proteins, which also are very difficult to get in complete form (with soy being the only standalone complete protein source, and yet still not "ideal"). A lot of particularly active people and serious athletes definitely do better on including some animal sources of protein. I'm not about to tell you that there are absolutely NO alternatives, but most all are impractical and sticking to them is more costly. That said, the best sources, in terms of digestive absorption, are still eggs and dairy, and there are no animal lives put at risk for that. There is certainly no argument of torture in terms of the extraction of eggs, seeing as how it's a natural bodily function of hens. There is the issue of the cooped conditions that are endemic to factory farming, but there are ways around that, too.
Do you need to Drink the torturously derrived lactate of a cow?
I love how you write that in such a way as to indicate that all dairy is necessarily equal to torture of cows. I know you're getting this from the stark imagery of the worst of factory farming and the problem is it's an egregious distortion. You're taking one image and projecting it across the entire planet, and it is quite simply wrong. There is more to the world than one farm. It's an approach that is full of touchy-feely pandering to emotion, and it is quite devoid of facts.
Take, for instance, India, which is pretty much the largest consumer of dairy on the planet -- it's also a country where the majority religion declares that cows are sacred. There's no market for veal or beef, so there is no added value for the dairy concerns to actually separate calf from mother early on... Moreover, it is far more valuable to these companies to see the calves develop healthily so that they can be more productive in the long run. The dairy boards and private dairy concerns actually understand this and they realize that the very same issues you have about "torture" are counterproductive to their needs. Now in the U.S., the market for meat outstrips the market for dairy, and so it works out more cost-efficient to work in much larger numbers and simply maintain a much shorter useful life for the animals. Yes, it sounds cruel and amoral put like that, but it is unfortunately logical as well because it proves fiscally prudent. May not be nice to hear, but it's simply true.
I can understand that seeing the horrifying images of the types of things that go on in these factory farm conditions can be pretty moving. I don't accept that as valid because it's rooted in emotion. Call me crazy, but I actually like to actually base things on FACTS. Even within the US itself, there are smaller farming movements that aim to buck those trends of cruelty. And this applies not only to something like dairy and eggs, but even to meat itself. There are ways of killing an animal without having it suffer. There are ways of raising an animal for meat that do not keep the animal in cramped unclean conditions and feed them diets which aren't entirely suitable for them. It is true that these sorts of practices are far more common outside the U.S. than within, but there's also a reason for that as well. Other countries don't have quite the same meat obsession that Americans do. And the reason we even have factory farming in the first place is simply to meet that kind of demand. People don't just eat meat here, but they eat it quite excessively, and all the health arguments against meat consumption are strong so long as you base it on that particular model of consumption. This is really the result of a history that included a period in the mid-20th century (especially post-WWII) where meat was dirt-cheap, and that made the appetite for it huge, and as the population grew, old habits died hard. Nonetheless, movements towards free-range cattle and cage-free eggs and so on are rising in the U.S. as well, as it is not only healthier for the animals, but it also generally yields superior-quality product that is healthier for us humans as well. Yes, it's much more expensive, but that is also a moderating influence on the quantity of meat consumption towards a more healthy balance as well (compared to what many people do now).
I will add, though, that the idea of simply following the labels to look for something like "free-range grass-fed beef" is not really sufficient by itself, because the regulations here in the U.S. don't require that such animals need be raised as such throughout their entire developmental cycles, but only within the last 6 months or so prior to slaughter. So this is where people who actually care about these sorts of things need to do their homework. In all fairness, though, I find this a more realistic proposition than wholesale elimination of meat because it deals in market shifts in where the money goes without having to work in ideological shifts which are not realistically achievable across all of humankind. Convincing people to cut back on meat consumption for their own health and buy more cruelty-free goods is far more achievable than screaming that meat is murder and that you have to cut it out of your life entirely in a fell swoop, else you're morally complicit in all forms of animal torture. The dollar is still more powerful than tears.
Red meat is only required to obtain b12 with is easily supplemented. I use a sublingual b12 due to better absorption and also take a multivitamin. Since becoming vegan my cholesterol levels have improved dramatically and I no longer need to take acid inhibitors for my hiatus hernia. This is just changing from Veg to vegan over a 1 year period. I live in rural Australia and can tell you that no farmer I have ever met thinks that the welfare of their cows come before production efficiency. It is slavery in its worst form. I would also point out that we have only recently domesticated the Cow so How do you think we obtained milk previously?. The point is that it is possible to live healthier or at least as healthy with a scientifically supplemented Vegan diet than the alternative, therefore it is not ethically justifiable to enslave , torture and then consume animal products. However This does not prevent someone from consuming animal products, As long as they admit that they would not like to be treated that way by a superior race of aliens in future should we ever meet.
Red meat is only required to obtain b12 with is easily supplemented. I use a sublingual b12 due to better absorption and also take a multivitamin.
There are few examples anywhere of any vitamin or mineral which can be absorbed as well in supplement form as from a food source. Nonetheless, we do often need some supplementation as we often get somewhat downgraded foodstuffs from a nutritional standpoint in this day and age... and inferior absorption from pills is still better than zero. This is aside from the fact that pernicious anemia disorders means you will suffer very dangerous reactions to sublingual B12 supplements (unless you take it relatively small doses) which can go as severe as cerebral edema.
I personally happen to be one of those people who can't use high-dose B12 supplementation myself because part of my stomach has been removed due to a gastrointestinal tumor. Nonetheless, as a vegetarian, I don't have a particularly good source of it in food either. I generally have to depend on supplementation as well, but I need to take care to take it in very spread out over the day, usually have to use a gelatin capsule (can't avoid this, unfortunately), and I have to stick to taking it either with dairy or with wine. I would add, though, that all this is very expensive, and not something which is not entirely feasible for people who earn significantly less money than I or people who live in regions of the world where such resources are readily available. Trying to make absolutist judgments because you or I personally have the freedoms and opportunities that we do is something that religious fundamentalists do.
In any case, I was less focused on B12 than the fact that red meat actually also contains more substances to aid in the absorption of iron than any other food. Bear in mind that among "red meat" I'm also including a number of varieties of game animals as well (i.e. not just cows). All plant sources of iron contain additional components which inhibit the absorption of iron... among these include oxalic minerals, calcium, various polyphenols, and even some plant proteins, sterols. This is on top of the fact that ALL heme iron sources are superior to all non-heme iron sources as far as what will actually be absorbed. Though there are plant sources which have better general density of iron (and indeed, more dietary iron even for non-vegetarian people is generally going to be non-heme). Combining meat sources of heme iron with sources of non-heme iron often proves to be better because you can cancel out a lot of the inhibitive effects. For instance, the combination of 1 serving of oysters taken alongside 1 serving of lentils (I know it sounds weird, but I'm talking in hypotheticals here) can come pretty close to giving you a full day's worth of iron... however, if you try to take 3 servings of lentils by itself, you can't get there no matter how hard you try unless you also take approximately 2 full OUNCES of vitamin C along with it.
People who suffer from certain forms of gastrointestinal disorders are likely to not even be able to absorb non-heme iron at all. They'll just end up with magnetizable poop... which sounds very peculiarly intriguing to a geeky person like me and gives me visions of wrapping coils of copper wire around a toilet bowl, but that's neither here nor there.
Since becoming vegan my cholesterol levels have improved dramatically and I no longer need to take acid inhibitors for my hiatus hernia.
Sounds like you've had some other issues that are related, and given that, it's also unlikely that every potential variable in your case has been taken into consideration for your analysis. Even otherwise, it's fallacious to universalize based on your personal experience. I've been vegetarian almost my entire life, but I actually found that my cholesterol went down when I increased my dairy intake. Of course, I'm also leaving out that I did so while also exercising a lot more and more regularly including red wine in my day-to-day life.
I live in rural Australia and can tell you that no farmer I have ever met thinks that the welfare of their cows come before production efficiency.
I guess your experience with the people you've met in rural Australia proves that it's universally true for all farmers all over the world, right? What happens to the cows, to a large extent, is really going to boil down to market forces.
I mean, the reason why, for instance, in India there is concern over the welfare of the cows comes from -- a ) the fact that there are a lot of parochial and religiously-guided dogma about the care of cows, b ) there is little to no market for other cow-based products like beef or veal. There is a leather market, but because of "a)", the laws prevent you from specifically slaughtering cows for that purpose; only cows that have simply died or been euthanized can be used for this. c ) because of a and b, it actually works out to improve their production efficiency in the long run. For large concerns, it averages out a little bit ahead, and for small local dairies, it works out better because the animal has a longer useful life and cows happen to be very expensive.
There are markets all over the world for people who specifically look for humanely produced animal products. This includes dairy, eggs, and meats as well. They are still a minority -- I won't deny that. This can be remedied through properly informing the public and making them aware of the avenues available to subvert the more terribly managed parts. Legislation works to a certain extent, but that is a dangerous and difficult game to play as well. However small a section of the market it is at this time, you are still objectively wrong to equivocate all animal products to slavery, torture, and cruelty when simple understanding of the process even if humane dairies or cage-free hen rookeries never existed would show you that simply does not have to be the case. That's the problem when you think with your heart.
I would also point out that we have only recently domesticated the Cow so How do you think we obtained milk previously?
Ummm... how recent do you consider recent? Archaeological evidence largely suggests that domestication of the cow goes back as far as the early Neolithic era. There are songs in India depicting butter-making dating back well over 5000 years. As far as milk being difficult to obtain... as long as you ate a complete diet, which for most of human existence included meat, you didn't really need dairy as a source of complete protein once you were old enough to be weaned off your mother's milk. This is generally not just true of humans, but of mammals overall.
So what happened to children for those few hundred thousand years of human existence if their mothers couldn't provide sufficient milk or if they couldn't breast feed properly? Simple -- they died. Infant mortality rates were insanely high back then compared to today (well over 50%), and the majority of people never lived to see their 30s. That was still enough for the species to continue to exist, but it wasn't until we developed agriculture and domesticated animals that we actually got to the point of growing populations and longer lifespans.
Very little evolutionary change occurs over 5000 years, I feel that if you can not justify eating meat that your defence of the dairy industry is more that of convenience. I have not enough time to write a full rebuttal which is why I only through in anecdotal evidence previously. There is ample evidence if you wish to acknowledge it that contravenes the convenience of dairy. In relation to supplementation, My wife has celiac so she has much less efficient absorption of fit/mins etc hence sublingual rather than gastro tablets. I would opt for injections as they are the cheapest over here 3 full vials for 12 dollars. In your situation I would deffinately go for injections, would you not?. I give blood 4 times a year and also have had numerous blood workups each year, I always have high iron and b12. I take a vitC tab in order to absorb iron better when I consume leafy greens and sporadic b12 sublinguals. My multivitamin is as a backup plan. I also have a thyroid condition and bipolar so must make sure I get enough iodine as well. I can not speak for others but my wife and I have turned our health around with a vegan diet even though Our intention was just to become more ethically responsible. I would be vegan even if it was a health challenge. I have many other health challenges that I have overcome and would just treat veganism as another one to negotiate. I fully acknowledge the requirement of animal domestication in our past just as I acknowledge the role religion played in our progress. I believe to hold on to that as a reason to still behave this way when we have more ethical options is retarded......
Very little evolutionary change occurs over 5000 years, I feel that if you can not justify eating meat that your defence of the dairy industry is more that of convenience.
I'm not sure where you're going with the evolutionary change part. I never said that we've now evolved all the way to the point of being able to subsist on cow's milk. That said, the "5000 years" only referred to songs being written. The archaeological record of cow domestication actually indicates more like 9-10,000 years ago, at least. And if you're wondering how much evolution has occurred since then in humans... lactose tolerance actually has appeared within the last 7,000. I'm also an example of someone who is capable of processing lactose even in my adulthood (not being able to is actually normal for all adult mammals).
I remember in a lecture that Kenneth Miller gave in his series on refutations of Intelligent Design that he quoted some figure that there are more than 70 newly developed genes that have been identified that are determined to have appeared in humans at the very least within the last 35,000 years. At least 1 of them that I'm aware of has been determined to have developed within the last 160 years (namely the CCR5 gene which grants immunity to HIV), though these are yet to be widespread obviously, but they have at least appeared within a few populations.
All that aside, though... if you're going to argue on the basis of evolutionary change within humans, you have a bit of a problem... humans evolved to eat meat. There's no denying this. Meat consumption has been part of our evolutionary heritage for a very very very long time, and every known hominid species has eaten meat. Yes, it's known that certain populations lived in areas where meat was scarce, but even they were only determined to be something akin to "bad weather vegans."
I would opt for injections as they are the cheapest over here 3 full vials for 12 dollars. In your situation I would deffinately go for injections, would you not?
Nope. Here in the United States, that's the most expensive option. We may have very high quality medical care, but it's also the most expensive medical care of any nation in the world. The other thing is that the conservative party tows the line that any effort to reduce the cost of medical care is necessarily a threat against our freedom, and it means the terrorists win, and it's also something Jesus would have been against (I kid you not... none of these are exaggerations). Also, intravenous vitamin/mineral supplements are considered under the regulations to be "non-essential", so insurance companies will not cover it. Hence, something like 3 doses of the stuff would set me back around $275.00 US (about $260 Australian). Some states also don't allow you to do it yourself (I live in one such state), so you have to actually do it as an outpatient visit, which means that even a single dose goes up to $65 (if I had no insurance, it would actually be over $800, but at least the doctor's visit is covered in this case). If I have to do that regularly, it would mean I'd have to earn at least 11x the money I currently make in order to afford that and all the other expenses I take on anyway.
I believe to hold on to that as a reason to still behave this way when we have more ethical options is retarded......
Behave WHAT way, exactly? You still appear to be over-generalizing and making a lot of assumptions here. I have admittedly used a lot more mention of eggs and dairy, but only because they're the industries which show a lot more counterexamples to your particular viewpoint that all such producers are guilty of horrible crimes unto our bovine and galline(?) brethren. Also, I bring it up because they are most obviously completely devoid of murder and have very obvious and uncomplicated means by which to be completely cruelty-free. Nonetheless, there are also counterexamples even within the meat industry as well, and though rare, they definitively exist and such products ARE on the market, if terribly expensive due to minimal supply. There was a time (I think shortly post-Vietnam?) of meat shortages when quite a bit of beef was substituted with horse meat as a cheaper alternative, and in these cases, humane killing (where the animal feels nothing) was the norm. Now, in all fairness, they didn't do this out of kindness, but out of fear that a horse driven mad with fear of brutally dying in a meat processing plant would actually get very wild and violent, but nonetheless, the techniques were developed that could provably make their deaths quick and painless before actually butchering an already dead animal.
Here's the main point, though, that I've been trying to get across. And for the sake of argument, I'll just pretend that no humane farming or meat processing practices exist anywhere in the world just yet.
Several thousand years ago, eating meat vs. vegan vs. vegetarian and so on was simply not an option. You had to eat animal products at some point, or you'd not even survive 1 full year. Today, we have technological advancements, scientific advancements, medical advancements, etc... all of which has given us options in our diets, at least in developed modern nations. Still not at all the case in the third world, but let's just say that they'll get it some day.
Is there any reason why the meat, dairy, or egg industries would realistically be exempted from being able to benefit from any pertinent advancements that could make these industries more humane? You seem to be arguing from a position that not only is there no such thing as a humane way of handling such industries, but you don't even seem to entertain the remote possibility that such developments could ever even exist or advance further in the future! I find that beyond absurd even if I were to assume that no such thing exists here and now. Human beings can indeed have empathy for animals, but eating meat itself is not intrinsically immoral in my mind so long as we consider the fact that we have indisputably evolved as omnivorous creatures. I don't believe that it is an impossible proposition to accommodate both of these aspects of our nature.
You're selling humanity short.
Also, I bring it up because they are most obviously completely devoid of murder and have very obvious and uncomplicated means by which to be completely cruelty-free.
If you think that dairy and egg production are void of murder you are factually incorrect. What do you think happens to a hen when it becomes a non efficient layer or a non layer. It is then promptly executed and fed to the pet industry in most instances or low quality food products if regulations permit. This is not to mention that only female chickens are kept for layers all males are killed or sent off for meat production plants. There is a lot of collateral damage in each of those eggs. That does not even take into account battery production operations.
As for the bovine lactate industry, the cows are murdered after they are no longer efficient producers and the bobby calves are sent off for veal. This is clearly murder and also very cruel to the mother of the calf.
Clearly you can see there is a lot more to each pint than meats the eye ( or the mouth) and the same with the eggs.
I had only referred to animal domestication in relation to evolutionary time because you had mentioned we had been consuming milk for that period. I myself see no real evidence that milk is required based on evolutionary adaptations and see no reason at all based on available options. However I do not use evolution as a justification for Veganism, Well only in the sense of ethical evolution. Quite clearly we did consume meat sporadically at times in varying quantities depending on our Geo locations, I would suggest the huge buffer period of b12 is possibly indicative of long periods without meat though ( as in a week or two). However the basis for Veganism is purely one of modern options and hence an ethical compulsion to take the path of best ethics. As a side effect most people can expect better lifespans if forced to eat Vegan than the choices they would otherwise make.
I would also mention that the huge percentage of lactose intolerance in african americans does little to bolster the claim of any bovine dependency in recent history anyway.
When I say 12 dollars for 3 vials that is unsubsidised as well. So what the hell is going on with your pharmaceuticals over there?
I buy about 13 dollars for 100 b12 sublingual 1mg b12 tabs by thompsons (and would gladly purchase any of these things on your behalf if that ever helps) we take one each every few days so our b12 supp is about 15 dollars each a year..thats not exactly prohibitive. I don't use injections because my wife hates needles which is why I am the blood donor for both of us...
PS - Blood donation over here is volunteer so I do it as a humanitarian thing not for profit...I only mention this because I had heard that in the US you don't have blood volunteering.
© 2014 Atheist Nexus. All rights reserved. Admin: Richard Haynes.


text:
Hours after being traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday, Jussi Jokinen watched helplessly as his new team was torched by the opposition's newest players.
Two days later, Jokinen became the latest NHL trade deadline acquisition to make an instant impact with his new team.
Jokinen scored in regulation and again in the shootout during his Penguins debut, leading Pittsburgh to a 2-1 victory against the New York Rangers on Friday night.
More right here


text:
By Devin Golden
— Editor's note: This is the fourth of four features on the finalists for the men's head basketball position at Dalton State College.
One finalist already has a relationship with Dalton, and Tony Ingle believes that gives him a head start.
The Whitfield County native is one of the four finalists named Tuesday for the Dalton State College men's basketball head coaching position. DSC Athletic Director Derek Waugh said on-campus interviews with the four started this week and will conclude early next week. In addition to Ingle, the finalists are former University of Tennessee at Chattanooga head coach Henry Dickerson; former Georgia Southern assistant coach Carl Nash; former Winthrop head coach Randy Peele.
Ingle, the former Kennesaw State University head coach believes his ties to the area — he grew up here, graduated from North Whitfield High and played for the Roadrunners basketball team when the school was Dalton Junior College — give him an advantage. Dalton residents and Roadrunners fans "need to be rallied."
"I think we need to get everyone together and on the same page," he said Wednesday in a phone interview. "I've seen it in the past, but I'm not here to talk about the past."
Ingle's track record includes an NCAA Division II National Championship at KSU in 2004. He was the Southeast Whitfield head coach from 1977 to 1978 and a Brigham Young University assistant coach in the 1990s, including a stint as interim head coach in 1997. He has been head coach at University of Alabama-Huntsville, Gordon Junior College and Cherokee High. Ingle feels his coaching road fits in with building DSC hoops up to where it was 30 years ago before it was shut down.
"That's all I've done my whole life," he said. "I've always gone in with programs and they were either down or nonexistent except when I was an assistant with BYU.
"Yeah, you can question some of my decisions, but in my opinion, you can't question my work ethic, enthusiasm and if I care."
Some question marks stem from the end of his tenure at Kennesaw State.
After winning the national title, athletics made a jump to Division I with Ingle still on board as the men's head coach. However, he was terminated at the end of the 2011 season after more than a decade leading the program due to the program's academic issues, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. According to the newspaper, the NCAA penalized the program in 2010 with the loss of a scholarship "for failing to meet the minimum score in the Academic Progress Rate (APR)" one year after being penalized and losing two scholarships. The APR's formula tracks a student's academic progress over a four-year period, the newspaper stated. A perfect score is a 1,000 and the NCAA requires at least a 925 for a program. According to the AJC, the Owls posted scores of 883 in 2008-09 and 843 (2007-08).
However, Ingle disputes his specific program as academically flawed, but rather believes the entire athletic program at KSU was riddled with "infrastructure" issues once the school went Division I.
"No. 1, to say that it's academic related is absolutely ludicrous," he said. "I've got five children, four sons all graduated from college and all with a 3.0 GPA or better. One has a master's from the University of Georgia and two are going for master's right now. I've stressed academics in my own home. Fifty-five from Kennesaw State made the conference All-Academic Team, and I had 20 of my players do it at BYU.
"We were not ready to go Division I. ... APR is based on retention. If you raise academic standards or don't have correct academic policies in, then the kids couldn't be retained."
Ingle, 60, admits he did roll the dice with some kids, and it backfired with classroom performance.
"I took a chance on recruits, but there was no infrastructure in place to handle them," he said. "What do you look for in a recruit? Do they have good character, can they play basketball and do they have the academics? And you can flip that around in any order. ... I gave these kids an opportunity, and they made the NCAA requirements barely."
However, he feels there were "lessons learned" from the experience, allowing him to be a better coach and leader. Now he wants the chance to start fresh and become a hometown hero.
"That's one of the reasons I'm applying for the job," he said. "I have family, friends and people there. Dalton is my hometown. I'm a Daltonian. I taught at Northwest Whitfield High School, taught at Southeast Whitfield High School, played at Dalton Junior College.
"We need something positive. If I'm the guy people need to hold the flashlight on, let's give them something."


text:
|All market data carried by BBC News is provided by DigitalLook.com. The data is for your general information and enjoys indicative status only. Neither the BBC nor Digital Look accept any responsibility for its accuracy or for any use to which it may be put. All share prices and market indexes delayed at least 15 minutes. 52 week high and low values are calculated from close price data. Click here for terms and conditions
Top stories
Features & Analysis
Love and the bomb
The Japanese man who lost everything but found peace
Moon of indifference
Why the US public quickly lost interest in lunar exploration
Return of 'the chair'
Five people talk about their roles in Tennessee's execution debate
Plagiarism scandal
US senator says trauma from Iraq partially to blame
Most Popular
- Wreckage of Algeria plane 'found'
- Amazon reports $126m quarterly loss
- Russia 'fired rockets into Ukraine'
- The perils of sexy Facebook pictures
- Gaza shelter attack 'kills 15'
- As it happened: Air Algerie AH5017
- Indian boy has 232 teeth removed
- Doubts grow over Iraq 'FGM edict'
- Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies
- Obama urges action over tax scheme
Elsewhere on the BBC
Hidden rail trip
Canada's tiny, two-car shuttle is a train lover's dream with scenic views
The Travel Show
It is not cheap or glamorous - so why are people choosing to travel by cargo ship?


text:
A long overdue privatization
Almost 35 years ago the Rural Telephone Bank was created to subsidize phone service in rural areas. Now that cell phones cover all the US save a few pockets of government-owned wilderness, the slow process of privatizing the Bank has begun. You'd think it would just be eliminated, but as you know that rarely happens to a government project. But sink or swim in the private sector is pretty good. I'd like to see them accelerate the process so it doesn't drag out another 5 years, and be sure no subtle government backing or unusual guarantees remain. (Thanks to John Palatiello for the tip on this)


text:
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Dr. Todd Goranson joined the faculty of Messiah College as Associate Professor of Saxophone and Bassoon after eight years in that role at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Goranson holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree (Bassoon performance) from West Virginia University, and the Master of Music (Saxophone performance) and Bachelor of Music (Saxophone & Bassoon performance) degrees from the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho. An active performer in a variety of genres, he has appeared with a diverse list of artists including Ray Charles, Lionel Hampton, Sandi Patti, Claudio Roditi, Sputzy Sparacino, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, and performed extensively with The Billy Price Band.
Goranson has presented recitals and clinics at universities throughout North America, including the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music, University of Western Ontario (Canada), Oklahoma State University, Utah State University, Idaho State University, University of Idaho, Whitworth University, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, and many others. Recent concerto performances include the Brandon "Concertino" for saxophone with the TAMU-C Symphonic Band and the Smith "Fantasia" with the Messiah College Wind Ensemble (recorded for Klavier Records and to be released in early 2014).
Goranson's orchestral saxophone credits include the Utah Symphony (soprano and tenor saxophone soloist for Ravel's Bolero), the Dallas Wind Symphony, Shreveport Symphony and other fine orchestras. He was a featured jazz saxophone soloist with the Plano Symphony for concerts at Meyerson Hall and Eisemann Center, and with the Dallas Black Dance Theater and Irving Symphony. He is a founding member of Triforia Winds, a group that served concurrently as the Dallas Wind Symphony Wind Trio.
An accomplished bassoonist, Todd has extensive professional orchestral experience. He was a member of the Irving Symphony and Plano Symphony from 2002-2012, and performed frequently with the Dallas Wind Symphony, Longview Symphony, Texarkana Symphony, Shreveport Symphony. Dr. Goranson has also performed with the York Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, the Kingsport Symphony (TN), South Arkansas Symphony, the Westmoreland Symphony (PA), Opera Roanoke (VA), the Washington-Idaho Symphony and the Orquesta Filarmonica de Jalisco (Mexico).
Notable recent performances include the 2013 International Saxophone Symposium, a lecture presentation on conditioned response and performance anxiety at the 2012 NASA Biennial Symposium (Arizona State University), and Triforia Winds performances at the 2012 ICA ClarinetFest and IDRS 2012. Other recent performances include the 2009 SVM Sommarmusikskola (Jonkoping, Sweden); World Saxophone Congress XV (Bangkok, Thailand); IDRS 2009 (Birmingham, England), the Dallas Wind Symphony Summer Music Institute, and 2011 North American Saxophone Alliance regional 4 conference. Goranson's solo and chamber performances have been broadcast on KPBX, KISU and WRR radio. He has performed world, North American, and Asian premieres of works by numerous acclaimed composers.
Dr. Goranson served as a saxophone quartet and solo adjudicator for the Texas State Solo & Ensemble Competition from 2005-2012, and was the director of many TMEA and ATSSB All-region ensembles. He served two terms as the jazz representative for the College Music Society South Central Region Board, and founded the Northeast Texas Saxophone Symposium.
Todd's major teachers for saxophone include Robert W. Miller, Curtis Johnson and Barry Bergstrom, with additional post-doctoral studies with Andy Wen. His bassoon teachers have included Ronald Klimko, Terry Ewell, Susan Hess and Winston Collier. A Conn-Selmer Artist/Clinician, Todd endorses and performs with Yanagisawa Saxophones and Hercules stands.


text:
ScrumCenter is on the lookout for talented agile coaches and trainers on a permanent or freelance basis. We have immediate requirements.
What can we offer?
Interesting engagements where you can make a real difference to our clients and the chance to work with coaches and trainers who are at the leading edge of agile methods in Europe.
Please contact us at email@example.com in the first instance.
We look forward to hearing from you.


text:
From the Interim Dean
UNL selects Wei as COE dean
Two COE departments merge
I-SAVE competes at EPA event
$1.2M gift aids teaching, research
300+ combined years of experience
Virginia Baldwin
John Ballard
David Cochran
Milford Hanna
Richard "Otto" Hoffman
William "Bill" Holmes
David Y.S. Lou
Ray Moore
Michael Riley
Richard Sincovec
John A. Smith
Rodney Soukup
Maher Tadros
Gren Yuill
Student organizations
Getting the keys to the Chem-E Car
Finding the right Formula
Floating on work with NASA
Durham School hosts ASC events
Energy research with City of Lincoln
Yong Cho earns NSF CAREER Award
Student PROFILE
Martinez Real achieving her dream
Construction alumnus honored
COE students, alumni meet in NC
Engineering runs in the family
Campaign for nebraska
Equipping engineering students
Mentoring transportation learning
Combined years of experience is one measure of the remarkable group of Nebraska Engineering faculty retiring in Spring 2011. The numbers grow in terms of the community of students these educators have worked with, and the hours of research they've devoted. These retirees span several departments and programs in the college and, though not all of these individuals were available for in-depth interviews, each has been a strong factor in raising our college's profile.
We salute them and thank them for their service.
Engineering@Nebraska is published by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Engineering.
The University of Nebraska–Lincoln does not discriminate based on gender, age, disability, race, color, religion, marital status,
veteran's status, national or ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.
Direct correspondence (including address changes) to email@example.com; 203 Othmer Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0642; telephone (402) 472-0451, fax (402) 472-7792.
Submissions of letters to the editor, class notes, stories, photographs, illustrations, or other materials with a University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Engineering connection are welcome.
©2011, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska. All rights reserved.


text:
Pacific alumnus Tom Zalutko MFA '10 and current student Emily Abramson '14 joined forces in "Dancing on the Edge," which was shown at two international film festivals in August and won many awards.Ashleigh Simons (2012)
When Tom Zalutko MFA '10 and Emily Abramson '14 began working on the film "Dancing on the Edge" in Vancouver, Wash., they realized almost immediately they had something in common – Pacific University. Zalutko was a recent MFA graduate and Abramson was a freshman.
While Zalutko is a partner in Highland Light Productions, the company producing "Dancing on the Edge," Abramson became involved in a much different manner.
The film, which focuses on a young ballerina named Corey who struggles through addiction and tries to get her life back together, has a strong tie to dance. When Abramson heard that auditions were being held at her former dance studio, she decided to try out.
Abramson ended up getting the second lead, Diane, a "misguided" dancer who meets Corey at her dance studio. Together, the girls fall deeper into trouble.
Not only was Zalutko a partner in the production company, he was an important part of the cast. He played Corey's father, a character Zalutko describes as being more interested in his job than in dealing with family issues.
The film took 23 days to shoot and two months of post-production work. The film has won numerous awards, including the Triangle Award from the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival; Best Cinematography from the New York City International Film Festival; and Award of Excellence for a Feature Film at the IndieFest.
According to Zalutko, the feeling he had when he saw the film accepted into the film festivals was "unbelievable."
Zalutko and his production partners are already planning their next film, "Michael's Ride," and Abramson is continuing her dance minor at Pacific University and looking forward to more acting projects.
"Winner—Traingle Award"
"Best Director" Alexander "Sandy" Mackenzie
"Best Young Actress" Nicole McCullough
"Best Cinematography" Daniel Steely
"Award of Excellence" Feature Film
"Award of Excellence" Leading Actress Nicole McCullough
"Award of Merit" Supporting Actor Thomas Zalutko
"Award of Merit" Inspirational/Motivational Film
"Award of Merit" Overall Post-Production Rexpost


text:
Museums Faulted on Restitution of Nazi-Looted Art
New York Times, June 20, 2013
Not until 1998, when 44 nations including the United States signed the groundbreaking Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, did governments and museums formally embrace the idea that they have a special responsibility to repair the damage caused by the wholesale looting of art owned by Jews during the Third Reich's reign.
When Helen Keller Confronted the Nazis
JNS.org, June 17, 2013
June 27 is Helen Keller Day - the annual occasion when students across America learn about the disabilities activist whose remarkable achievements inspired her generation, and every generation since. Less well know, but no less deserving of commemoration, was Keller's powerful outcry against the Nazis.
Remembering the Holocaust: Column
USA Today, Sara J. Bloomfield, June 8, 2013
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum reminds us that freedom requires vigilance and that individual actions can help change the course of history.
Rabbi Heerschel Schacter Is Dead at 95; Cried to the Jews of Buchenwald: "You Are Free"
New York Times, March 26, 2013
The smoke was still rising as Rabbi Herschel Schacter rode through the gates of Buchenwald. It was April 11, 1945.
Adding a New Dimension to Holocaust Testimony
JTA, March 25, 2013
In a dark glass building here, Holocaust survivor Pinchas Gutter shows that his memory is crystal clear and his voice is strong. His responses seem a bit delayed - not that different from other survivors I have known who are reluctant to speak openly about their experiences - but he's doing just fine for a 3-D image.
The Good Goering: Nazi Hermann's Younger Brother Could be Honoured for Saving Jews During the Holocaust
UK Daily Mail Online, March 12, 2013
The younger brother of senior Nazi Hermann Goering could be honoured for risking his life to save Jews during the Holocaust.
A Holocaust Pageant that as too "Political" for FDR
The Jewish Press, March 6, 2013
Seventy years ago this week, 40,000 New Yorkers watches as Jewish activists and Hollywood celebrities joined hands to bring news of the Holocaust to the vaunted state of Madison Square Garden. But a requested message of greeting from President Franklin D. Roosevelt never arrived, because the white House decided the mass murder of the Jews was too "political" to touch.
The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking
New York Times, March 1, 2013
Thirteen years ago, researchers at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum began the grim task of documenting all the ghettos, slave labor sites, concentration camps and killing factories that the Nazis set up throughout Europe. What they have found so far has shocked even scholars steeped in the history of the Holocaust.
The Ever-Changing Face of Holocaust Studies
NewStatesman, February 14, 2013
At meetings across the country on Holocaust Memorial Day, worthies intoned the "lessons of the Holocaust" and warned that we must "learn form the past." But ask most historians and they will blanche at the thought of anything as static or as simple as "lessons." Over the past five decades, "Holocaust studies" have altered almost beyond recognition and explanations for what occurred have changed significantly.
Statement by the President on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27, 2013
On January 27th, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we honor the memories of the 6 million Jews and millions of other innocent victims whose lives were tragically taken during the Holocaust over sixty years ago.
Foundations of Holocaust: American Eugenics and the Nazi Connection:
Jerusalem Post, December 30, 2012
If America's response to the unfolding Holocaust is characterized as passive, its role in promoting the science behind Nazi racism, justification for the Holocaust, was active, even aggressive.
Norway's Police Apologize for Deporting Jews
Reuter's, November 26, 2012
Norwegian police apologized for the first time on Monday for their complicity in the deportation and murder of over 700 Jews during the Nazi occupation in World War II, just months after the prime minister made a formal apology.
The Photographer at Auschwitz: Man Forced to Take Chilling Images of Inmates and their Nazi Guards was Haunted Until His Death at 94
Daily Mail Online, October 27, 2012
These chilling images of a young Jewish girl at Auschwitz are among thousands that have haunted a Nazi photographer all his life.
German Roma Holocaust Victims Memorialized, But Discrimination Persists
International Business Times, October 25, 2012
In the Tiergarten Park near the German parliament building in central Berlin, a new fresh flower will be laid every morning to commemorate the suffering of the Roma people during the Holocaust
Pregnant in Auschwitz: Toronto Holocaust Survivor Recalls Split-Second decision that Saved Her and Unborn Son
National Post, August 25, 2012
Miriam Rosenthal was four-months pregnant, starving, bone-tired, cold, filthy and afriad when an SS officer in big black boots and a crisp uniform appeared before the barracks in Auschwitz with a loudspeaker in hand.
The Man Who Saved 900 Jewish Boys Inside a Death Camp
The Times of Israel, August 11, 2012
Last month, 67 years after the end of the Holocaust and over 20 years since his death, Yad Vashem granted the honor of Righteous Among the Nations to Antonin Kalina, a Czech communist who saved over 900 boys in Buchenwald.
Poland Confronts its Role in Jewish Deaths
NBC World News, August 2, 2012
In 1941, six Poles allegedly beat 20 Jewish women to death with metal-tipped clubs outside the hamlet of Bzury, in northeastern Poland. Now, government prosecutor Radoslaw Ignatiew hopes to charge the killers, if they are still alive.
Out of the Darkness
San Diego Jewish Journal, August 2012
...In short, comparing Holocaust education today to what existed just a generation ago is similar to comparing the engineering behind laptop computers and the iPhone to the technology that led to black-and-white television.
Holocaust in France: Exhibition Documents Deportation
Time World, July 27, 2012
One of the most extraordinary documents on show is Memo 173-42. It is dated 13 July 1942 and marked "secret." "The occupying authorities," it reads, "have decided upon the arrest and grouping together of a certain number of foreign Jews."
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Unveils New Poll: American Believe that Genocide is Preventable and that U.S. has Major Role in Prevention
Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2012
A new poll commissioned by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum finds that 67 years after the Holocaust, American believe genocide is still very possible, yet preventable, and they would like to see the U.S. government play a major role in stopping it from happening around the world. Americans expressed support for a range of strategies...especially education about the Holocaust and other past atrocities.
A Muted Anniversary: Are Europeans Forgetting the Holocaust?
Time World, July 17, 2012
Limited public and media reaction to the news events rooted in world War II atrocities raises concerns that societies may be starting to forget the dark, hard lessons of the Holocaust.
Cecile Widerman Kaufer, Holocaust Survivor, Recounts 1942 Vel d'Hiv Roundup in Paris Stadium
Huffington Post Online, July 17, 2012
This weeks marks the 70th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup. Cecile Widerman Kaufer and her younger sister escaped from the Paris stadium and subsequently went into hiding in Normandy, France. The two Widerman sisters are believed to be among the few children to have survived the Vel d'Hiv roundup.
French Holocaust Records Exhibited for the First Time
ABC News, July 17, 2012
They are among France's darkest days: Police dragged over 13,000 Jews from their homes, confined them in a Paris cycling stadium with little food or water, and then deported them to their deaths in the concentration camp at Auschwitz. But even in France, one of the most brazen collaborations between authorities and the Nazis during World War II is unknown to many in the younger generation.
Museum of Polish Jews Wins Major New Donations
Associated Press, July 4, 2012
A museum on the history of Polish Jews has made huge strides toward its planned opening next year thanks to several million dollars in new donations announced this week. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, going up in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, will narrate the 1,000-year history of the Jews in Poland.
The Vatican Archive
The New York Times, July 4, 2012
While it's commendable that after new research Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum, "changed the wording of an exhibit on Pope Pius XII's actions during World War II to soften its criticism of the pope," the controversy over what precisely those actions entailed still simmers.
Hitler Protected Jewish Vet, Newly Discovered Nazi-era Letter Suggests
International Business Times, July 6, 2012
Adolf Hitler protected a Jewish veteran from extermination during the Holocaust because the World War I vet served in the same unit as the leader of Nazi Germany, according to a Nazi-era letter unearthed by an historian.
Israel's Holocaust Museum Softens Its Criticism of Pope Pius XII
The New York Times, July 1, 2012
Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust museum and memorial, on Sunday changed the wording of an exhibit on Pope Pius XII's actions during World War II to soften its criticism of the pope over a subject that has long divided Jews and the Vatican.
Shoah Foundation Completes Preservation of Holocaust Testimonies
Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2012
It's a wrap for the Shoah Foundation Institute's ambitious, 18-year project to gather and preserve testimonies from more than 52,000 Holocaust survivors and witnesses.
Nazi Collaborators or Victims? With a reference to 'Polish death camps,' Barack Obama stumbled into a debate about World War II.
Tablet, May 31, 2012
During Tuesday's awards ceremony for this year's recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, President Barack Obama honored Polish resistance hero Jan Karski as a man who was "smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto and a Polish death camp to see for himself" the savagery of Nazi anti-Semitism. What appeared to most American political observers as a minor gaffe, quickly metastasized into a diplomatic incident between the U.S. and Poland.
The Treblinka Gold Rush
Tablet Magazine, May 21, 2012
Rachela Auerbach visited Treblinka on November 7, 1945, as part of an official delegation organized by the Main Commission for the Investigation of HItlerite Crimes. She called one of the chapters of a small book she subsequently wrote about the Treblinka extermination camp "The Polish Colorado or About the Gold Rush in Treblinka."
Life Inside the Camps
Tablet, March 28, 2012
Dutch Jews David Koker's extraordinary diary, a clear-eyed and sensitive account of life inside a concentration camp, is finally available in English.
IBM's Role in the Holocaust - What the New Documents Reveal
Huffington Post, March 9, 2012
Newly-released documents expose more explicitly the details of IBM's pivotal role in the Holocaust - all six phases: identification, expulsion from society, confiscation, ghettoization, deportation, and even extermination.
Poland, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Tussle Over Auschwitz Barracks
Huffington Post, March 9, 2012
Polish and U.S. officials are engaged in intense talks to determine the fate of a sensitive object: a barrack that once housed doomed prisoners at the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp and is now on display at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Nazi Persecution Saw Jews Flee Abroad as Servants
BBC News, March 7, 2012
As the Nazis tightened their grip on power in the late 1930s, Jews in Germany and Austria began to fear for their safety. Many fled abroad using well-documented methods such as the Kindertransport. But less well known is the story of thousands of Jewish women who fled to the UK by getting jobs as domestic servants.
AP Exclusive: Researchers Push to Open UN Archive
Associated Press, February 25, 2012
Locked inside U.N. headquarters is a huge but largely unknown archive documenting 10,000 cases against accused World War II criminals, from Belgian charges against Adolf Hitler to the trial of a Japanese commander for inciting rape.
Holocaust Museum in Negotiations to Maintain Loaned Exhibitions
Washington Post, February 16, 2012
In the late 1980s, when organizers of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum were searching for Nazi-era artifacts, they sought to tell a story that was industrial in its magnitude and horrifying in its detail. The results, a widely acclaimed permanent exhibition that broke new ground in museum design, may be in jeopardy as the museum deals with demands to return one of its most powerful and haunting objects.
Treblinka: Revealing the Hidden Graves of the Holocaust
BBC News Magazine, January 22, 2012
Any doubt about the existence of mass graves at the Treblinka death camp in Poland are being laid to rest by the first survey of the site using tools that see below the ground, writes forensic archaeologist Caroline Sturdy Colls.
Remembering Wannsee
The Jerusalem Post, January 18, 2012
On January 20, 1942, the Nazi leadership gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin and adopted the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question." The Wannsee Conference, as this became known, from the suburb where the meeting was held, formalized the process that exterminated so much of European Jewry.
Sweden Launches Probe into Fate of Holocaust Hero
Reuters, January 18, 2012
Sweden has commissioned a new inquiry into the fate of Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis during World War Two but disappeared after being arrested by advancing Soviet troops in 1945.
Mass Graves at Nazi Death Camp Treblinka Proves Holocaust Deniers Wrong
Huffington Post, January 17, 2012
A British forensic archaeologist has unearthed fresh evidence to prove the existence of mass graves at the Nazi death camp Treblinka.
Search Begins for Holocaust Refugees Rescued by "Unsung Hero"
The Gazette, January 16, 2012
A global search has been launched for Holocaust refugees saved by a little-known Portuguese diplomat stationed in France during the Second World War - a man described as "one of the great unsung heroes" of the era by renowned Canadian writer Peter C. Newman, who credits the maverick consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes with helping his own family escape the Nazi death chambers.
Holocaust Orphan Find New Relatives
Jewish World, January 16, 2012
The phone at the Hecht home in Rehovot hasn't stopped ringing. The family has been receiving exciting reactions from all across the globe ever since Ynet published Martin Hecht's story as part of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Remember Me" project, which aims to locate 1,100 orphaned children who survived the Holocaust.
Search is Launched for Families Who Escaped the Holocaust Through Portugal
Market Watch, January 9, 2012
The Sousa Mendes Foundation is seeking to identify and locate Holocaust refugees who were given life-saving visas by Aristides de Soussa Mendes in the Spring of 1940. Sousa Mendes, the Portugese consul stationed in Bordeaux, France, rescued an estimated 30,000 people from the Holocaust.
In Poland, Unburying a Nation's Jewish Past
NBC News World Blog, January 6, 2012
Zuzanna Radzik wants Polish children to know that almost every Polish town and village was part of the Holocaust. There were about 3.5 million Jews in Poland before World War II, making up 10 percent of the overall Polish population. And in some pre-war Polish towns, Jews comprised as much as 70 percent of the residents.
The First Killings of the Holocaust
New York Times, January 3, 2012
On the brisk winter Tuesday of January 20, 1942, 15 Nazi officials assembled at a lakeside villa on the Wannsee near Berlin to deliberate on the "final solution." This month, the world marks the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, one of the pivotal moments in Holocaust history.
A Disquieting Book from Hitler's Library
New York Times, December 7, 2011
On Thursday, a Manhattan auction house will be accepting bids on one of the more disturbing books to come onto the U.S. antiquarian book market in some time: Adolf Hitler's personal copy of a city-by-city, state-by-state guide to the location of the America's Jewish population.
Hans Litten: The Man Who Annoyed Adolf Hitler
BBC News Magazine, August 19, 2011
A new drama tells the story of a Jewish lawyer who confronted Hitler 80 years ago - earning the dictator's life-long hatred. So who was Hans Litten?
At Auschwitz, Future U.S. Military Leaders Learn What Not to Do
NBC News World Blog, August 5, 2011
In an upstairs room at the only remaining synagogue in Oswiecim, 37 miles west of Krakow, 13 future American military officers, clad in jeans and T-shirts, were wrestling with ethical questions in the shadow of Auschwitz.
Bill Would Boost Holocaust Survivors Seeking Aging Services
JTA, August 3, 2011
U.S. Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida sponsored a bill that would give Holocaust survivors preference in obtaining aging services.
Book Prompts Questions in Wallenberg Case
UPI, August 2, 2011
Researchers say Russia intentionally withheld information about a Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
Poland Earmarks Funds for Auschwitz Memorial
boston.com, August 2, 2011
Poland's government has earmarked funds to improve accessibility to the Auschwitz Nazi death camp.
From Mussolini's Estate to Shoah Memorial
The Jewish Daily Forward, July 29, 2011
In August, the city of Rome is expected to give its final approval to plans for Italy's new Holocaust museum, the Museo Nazionale della Shoah.
Project HEART's Comprehensive Archive o Jewish Holocaust Victims' Assets Now Contains 1.5 Million Records
PRNewswire, July 25, 2011
Project HEART announced today that its searchable database of Holocaust era property records now contains 1.5 million records, making the database the largest, publically available single-source database of lost Jewish property assets from the Holocaust era.
Filmmakers Still Find Stories to Tell About the Holocaust
Washington Post, July 22, 2011
It's called "Holocaust exhaustion" - the feeling that there have been so many films about the destruction of European Jewry that it's time to say "enough already." Or is it?
Connecticut Auction House Says it has Sold Journals of Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele, Sparking Criticism
Washington Post, July 22, 2011
A Connecticut auction house says it has sold the journals written by Nazi death camp doctor Josef Mengele.
"Sarah's Key" Looks at Holocaust's Lasting Impact
Reuters, July 22, 2011
Seven decades have passed since French police arrested thousands of Parisian Jews and sent them to death camps in an incident know as the Vel' d'Hiv roundup, but for some, the guilt still lingers.
New Angle on an Oft-Visited Nightmare
New York Times, July 15, 2011
The French filmmaker Gilles Paquet-Brenner was aware he was taking on a subject that was daunting, unpopular and overworked. ... Mr. Paquet-Brenner was suggesting that his latest, "Sarah's Key," might be the Holocaust movie for this moment.
Plaques in Prague Commemorate Holocaust Victims
New York Times, July 11, 2011
The small bronze cobblestones can be easy to miss, but they are scattered, in plain sight, all over the streets of Prague and numerous other cities across Europe.
Auschwitz - a Derbyshire Student's Plea
Derbyshire Times, July 7, 2011
When Chesterfield student Nick Baskerville, 17, visited Auschwitz with a group of A-Level students, the experience left him profoundly moved. This resulting article is an account of what he saw and carries a plea from the heart to all of us to learn the lessons from the past.
Ukraine's Vanished Jews, A Series of Articles
Kyiv Post, June 24, 2011
• Ukraine's Vanquished Jews from World War II. June 24, 2011
• Ukraine's Vanquished Jews: 'Their Fate was Clear to Them'. June 30, 2011
• Surviving the Holocaust in Lviv. (Coming Soon)
Israel Ambassador Salutes Pope Pius XII for Sheltering Jews from Holocaust
CatholicCulture.org, June 24, 2011
Israel's ambassador to the Holy See has confirmed that Pope Pius XII was responsible for protecting many Jews from the Holocaust.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Remember Me? Project
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, June 9, 2011
This past April, Jean-Claude Goldbrenner typed his name into Google. To his amazement, the first search result was a photo of himself taken in the 1940s at the end of World War II. Jean-Claude is a Holocaust survivor. The photo he found is part of Remember Me?, the Museum's innovative effort to identify more than 1,100 photos of children who were separated from their families during the Holocaust. Jean-Clause shares his story.
A Fight Over Anne Frank's Fallen Tree
The New York Times, June 8, 2011
From the window in the attic of her family's hiding place in Amsterdam, Anne Frank could see the crown of an old chestnut tree growing in a neighbor's garden. For two years, it was her only contact with nature. The tree is gone now, having fallen during a storm in August, but its memory lives on - not in the diary, but in a nasty dispute over its remains.
Hitler's First Anit-Semitic Writing Finds a Buyer
The New York Times, June 7, 2011
In 1919, a soldier in Munich discovered that he could galvanize small groups of fellow trench warfare veterans with virulently anti-Semitic diatribes. A superior officer, impressed with the soldier's oratorical skills, asked him to commit his ideas to paper. Out of that came the first written record of Adolf Hitler's obsessive hostility toward Jews, an embryonic form of the worldview that would later lead to the Holocaust and millions of deaths.
Sobibor Museum Closes Due to Lack of Funds
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, June 2, 2011
The museum in Poland on the grounds of the death camp, Sobibor, announced Thursday that it closed because the regional government did not provide enough funding to keep it open, the German press agency dpa reported.
New Memorial to Gay Holocaust Victims to be Built in Munich
Pink News, May 31, 2011
The German city of Munich, where the Nazis raided gay bars in the early days of the Third Reich, is to have a new memorial dedicated to the gay and lesbian victims of the Holocaust.
Mass Graves Database to go Online
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, May 16, 2011
Information gleaned from Father Patrick Desbois' years-long search for mass Jewish graves in Eastern Europe will be made available on a database. Desbois' organization, Yahad-In Unum, has joined with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the American Jewish Committee to set up an online database of his finding since 2004 of mass graves in more than 600 towns and villages in Belarus, Ukraine, Russian and Poland.
Justice Breyer Recalls Legal Lessons of the Holocaust
Washington Wire, May 17, 2011
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer Tuesday capped the National Days of Remembrance, the congressionally man dated commemoration of the Holocaust, by focusing on a legal legacy stretching from the Nuremberg Tribunal to present-day efforts to hold war criminals accountable, such as the International Criminal Court.
Demjanjuk in Munich
The New York Times, May 16, 2011
Last week a German court in Munich found John Demjanjuk guilty of 28,060 counts of accessory to murder, one for each of the Jews exterminated during the six months that he worked as a guard at the Sobibor death camp in Poland.
7 Decades After Hitler's Fall, German Grandchildren of Nazis Delve into Family Past
Associated Press, May 13, 2011
Rainer Hoess was 12 when he found out his grandfather was one of the worst mass murderers in history.
Demjanjuk Conviction Shows Holocaust Criminals are Held Accountable
Haaretz.com, May 13, 2011
John Demjanjuk was handed a five-year sentence by a Munich court for his involvement in the murders at the Sobibor Camp in German-occupied Poland.
New Web Sites Help Track Nazi Plunder. The Timing Couldn't Be More Urgent
Forbes, May 8, 2011
New online databases, along with recently-discovered photographs, may help resolve one of the most controversial unresolved legacies of the Holocaust - locating and returning the art, jewels, and other assets stolen and seized by the Nazis from European Jews.
500,000 Holocaust Era Names Online
J-Wire, May 5, 2011
For the first time in its history, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) is making a collection of its historic records and photographs from the Holocaust period available online. The new site enables the public, especially Holocaust survivors and their families, to perform searches for themselves or others.
Eyewitness to Genocide: He Was the First to Warn of the Holocaust, But No One Believed Him
Daily Mail / UK , May 4, 2011
Jan Karski nervously crawled through the dank, underground tunnel in wartime Warsaw, not to freedom, but to become an eyewitness to the "world of the dead" known as the Warsaw Ghetto.
Trove of Historic Records of Holocaust Goes Online
Associated Press, May 2, 2011
A trove of papers and photographs documenting the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors includes notable names like Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel and former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. With over 500,000 names and more than 1,000 photographs, the searchable collection documents the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's vast efforts during World War Ii and the postwar era
Holocaust Survivor Preserves Treblinka in Art
BBC News, May 1, 2011
Samuel Willenberg, now 87, is one of the last two known survivors of the Treblinka extermination camp. His two sisters were killed there. Now living in Israel, he hopes that one day his statues can be a part of a museum at Treblinka.
Irreverence Now Shoah Teaching Tool
The Jewish Week, April 27, 2011
After years of Holocaust farces, observers debate the uses of irony or graphic novels when it comes to Holocaust remembrance.
Page last updated: July 2, 2013


text:
It looks like you're posting an email address or phone number. To protect your privacy, don't post any personal contact information here.
11 posts by 3 people
Love all crazy stuff. :) Open to everything. Wild City Cat.
I have been living in Montréal since 2008. I am here at Couchsurfing to chill out with you guys! :)
Let's party!
I am an anomaly. Born to an unconventional family, I tend to have my own way of doing things. I have my own way of thinking. I am different and I am alright with that.Traveling has always been my p......
By clicking "Sign Up" you agree to our Terms of Use. See our Privacy Policy for more information about our privacy practices.


text:
The internal affairs investigation into last November's pepper-spraying controversy at UC Davis concluded that Lt. John Pike acted reasonably, with a subsequent review concluding he should have faced demotion or a suspension at worst, according to documents obtained by The Bee.
Despite those recommendations, Pike was fired Tuesday after UC Davis Police Chief Matthew Carmichael rejected the findings and wrote in a letter to Pike that "the needs of the department do not justify your continued employment," according to the documents.
Pike has declined to comment since he was placed on paid leave shortly after the Nov. 18 incident, and the university said it cannot legally comment on internal affairs investigations.
However, the documents obtained by The Bee, including the confidential 76-page internal affairs investigation report, shed light for the first time on Pike's rationale for using pepper spray on seated students and protesters, and on the differing opinions of whether he deserved to be fired from the campus police force he had served for 11 years.
The internal affairs report, conducted by a Sacramento law firm and private investigator hired by UC Davis, is dated March 1 and was completed after interviews with at least 27 police officers, including Pike, as well as university leadership going all the way up to Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi.
"For reasons detailed in this report, we conclude that Lieutenant Pike's use of pepper spray was reasonable under the circumstances," the report states. "The visual of Lieutenant Pike spraying the seated protesters is indeed disturbing.
"However, it also fails to tell other important parts of the story."
The report found that Pike had repeatedly warned students who had gathered on the Quad to protest rising tuition costs that they would be pepper-sprayed if they did not disperse, and that "the police officers were fully encircled by protesters who had locked arms and would not let the officers exit."
The report concluded that Pike voiced serious concerns about the university's plans to remove the protesters from the Quad and that he felt the operation should be called off.
It also found that Pike had "temporarily rendered himself ineffective" in his role as the incident commander a duty he assumed when he decided he needed to take charge when he began taking down tents, physically separating students from each other and, ultimately, deploying his canister of pepper spray.
Video images of Pike calmly shaking his canister of pepper spray and unleashing it on students have been viewed millions of times on the Internet.
Investigators asked him to explain what they said was the public view of his "nonchalant demeanor."
"I take my job very seriously," he told them. "Any, any any application of force umm for me it's not a it's not a thrill ride it's not 'woo hoo, this is gonna be fun, I get to hurt somebody.' That's not it."
Instead, he said, he viewed it as applying "a tool on them to gain compliance, so that I can get my troops out of there, my suspects out of there, and get a job done," he said.
"So, if that's a critique, that I did my job in a manner-so-factly that I looked relaxed, well then maybe let's say that I'm relaxed because I'm professional."
The report added that Pike felt using the pepper spray was "appropriate" and that it "prevented further escalation" of the incident.
"Grappling (with students) would have escalated the force, whereas pepper spray took 'the fight out of them,' " the report quoted Pike as saying.
Pike, 39, did not cooperate with an independent panel's probe of the incident led by former state Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso that was released earlier this year, so the statements in the internal affairs report are the first indication of his thought process in the incident.
Other officers told the internal affairs investigators that they were concerned about the escalating tensions on the Quad, which one called a "pretty hostile environment for us to be in at that point."
One officer recalled thinking, "Man we don't have enough officers for this," the report states. "At the point when we're encircled, I'm thinking, 'This is horrible, this is really bad.' "
There are deep disputes over the notion that the officers were in danger.
Some students say they posed no threat to anyone as they sat peacefully with their arms locked. Defenders of the police reject that, pointing to videos of protesters moving around officers and chanting that they would let the officers go if they released students they had arrested.
The internal affairs investigators, who reviewed more than 6,000 pages of emails, videos of the disturbance and other material, concluded there was a "preponderance of evidence" to support Pike's action.
"Lieutenant Pike's deployment of pepper spray was reasonable under the circumstances," the report states.
But that was not the end of the process to determine Pike's fate.
A second panel comprised of a UC Davis police captain and the campus chief compliance officer reviewed the internal affairs report and issued its own recommendations April 2.
That panel, called a "sufficiency review board," recommended "an Exonerated finding as to the charge alleging that Lt. Pike's use of force may have been excessive under the circumstances."
The panel found that some of Pike's actions in carrying out the operation "were not reasonable and prudent under the circumstances in view of his rank and responsibilities at the time."
The board cited Pike's decision to "go hands on" in removing tents himself and said that "caused him to lose perspective on the operation as a whole."
It found Pike had "multiple opportunities" to minimize the escalation of tensions and that "serious errors of judgment and deficiencies of leadership" required that he face discipline ranging from a demotion to a suspension of at least two weeks.
That recommendation was forwarded to Matthew Carmichael, the acting chief who was placed in the job permanently on April 19.
In a letter dated April 27, Carmichael informed Pike that he planned to fire him. Carmichael noted that Annette Spicuzza, who was chief at the time of the pepper-spraying, had indicated she wanted "a minimum amount of force" used and that Pike had objected to her request that officers not wear helmets or batons.
Carmichael concluded that Pike had assumed the role of de facto commander of the operation "but performed it poorly" and that the "manner in which you used the pepper spray showed poor judgment" given the direction that minimal force was to be used.
"The Operation caused damage to the campus and the Department," Carmichael wrote. "It is my judgment that you bear significant responsibility for that outcome.
"Knowing this information, you stated when interviewed that there is nothing you would do differently. Faced with the same circumstances, you would still have deployed the pepper spray."
Experts differ on whether a law enforcement leader's decision to overrule a disciplinary recommendation from an internal affairs panel is common.
Former Sacramento Sheriff John McGinness, who said he has overseen more than 100 such investigations, said such moves are extremely rare.
"That would be most unusual," he said.
But Michael Risher, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union who is suing Pike and the university on behalf of students who were pepper-sprayed, said there are numerous instances where internal affairs investigations have failed to properly discipline officers.
"The idea that police departments adequately police themselves has been shown again and again to be a complete fallacy," said Risher, who added that he had not seen any of the documents related to Pike and did not want to comment directly on his firing.
"History has shown us that police departments do a horrible job of disciplining their own officers for their conduct," he said.
© Copyright The Sacramento Bee. All rights reserved.


text:
UNIVERSITY CENTER, Michigan, October 9. EARLIER this week, Saginaw Valley State University announced Bruce Zimmerman as its first head swimming coach in the history of its program. The women's team is set to open up competition next fall with a men's team commencing in 2015.
Courtesy of: Saginaw Valley State University Athletics
Courtesy of: Saginaw Valley State University Athletics
Previously, Zimmerman served as the head coach and aquatics director at the College of Charleston since 1999. During his 14 years there, he won five conference championships, and had three swimmers make the NCAA Division I Championships.
"When we began this important search, we knew exactly what we wanted in our initial head coach of the swimming & diving program," SVSU Athletics Director Mike Watson said. "Not only does Coach Zimmerman bring a long history of success in the sport, he directly reflects what our athletic department stands for and represents. He will be a great addition to our Athletic Department Family."
Prior to his decade-and-a-half at Charleston, Zimmerman had served as an assistant coach with Indiana University.
"I am very honored to be selected as the first-ever Head Swimming & Diving Coach at Saginaw Valley State University," Zimmerman said. "I am looking forward to getting started right away to develop a highly-competitive program that will succeed at the highest levels, both in the conference and nationally. The resources are in place here at SVSU, both facility-wise and financially, to aide in developing a top-tier Division II program. I am excited to 'dive-in' head-first!"
SVSU Introductory Press Conference


text:
The WGST Gender Violence Program
Sexual assault is an issue of significant concern on American college campuses, including Valdosta State University. College women "are at greater risk for rape and other forms of sexual assault than women in the general population or in a comparable age group" (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Highest at risk group on college campus are freshmen women. Between one half and three fourth of sexual assaults on college campuses involve alcohol consumption on the part of the victim, the perpetrator, or both (Sampson, 2002). The Women's and Gender Studies program is dedicated to educating our students on this topic to reduce the likelihood of sexual violence occurring within our community.
Our goal is to reduce sexual violence by raising awareness, providing prevention education, and creating a climate for social change via a feminist perspective.
Educate students, staff, and faculty about sexual violence, its under lying causes and impact on our community
Empower women to be active sexual agents
Empower men to challenge harmful aspects of traditional masculinity and to embrace their role as allies in violence prevention work
Work toward comprehensive, coordinated interventions for social and cultural change
Work toward increasing dramatically the number of men who make these issues a priority in their personal and professional lives


text:
Julie Benz
• 'Dexter' Star Julie Benz Weds On Cinco De Mayo
• Dana Delaney Back For 'Desperate' Finale
• DVD Review: 'Answers to Nothing'
• Celebrities That Turn 40 in 2012
• TV Spotlight: Check Out 'A Gifted Man' Tonight
More News >>
Birth Name: Julie Benz
Born: 05/01/1972
Birth Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Born: 05/01/1972
Birth Place: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
The daughter of a surgeon father and a competitive ice skater mother, Julie Benz was born May 1, 1972 in Pittsburgh, PA. She followed in her mother's footsteps at the age of three, quickly rising to 13th in the United States in ice dancing. A stress fracture at the age of 14 brought her skating career to a halt, so after graduating from Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville, PA, she briefly entertaining the idea of becoming a doctor like her father. However, one glimpse at an operation convinced her that she lacked the stomach for the job. Instead, she became involved in local theater, and soon developed a passion for acting. A bit role in "Two Evil Eyes" (1990), a horror film co-d... Continue Bio >>
Photo Gallery:
Video News:
Popular Movies:
Answers to Nothing
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
Saw V
Punisher: War Zone More Credits >>
Browse More Actresses:


text:
Check out his incredible performance right here!
Ed Sheeran Performs 'Lego House':: Filed Under: Music :: Comments 1
Add Your Comment
Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry.
Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.
When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.
To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put 1 URL in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.
One of my favorite singer with my favorite person in the whole world : )
Love both of them
Bonjour from France !
Likes 0 Dislikes 0


text:
Advanced Search
Subscribe Now
Learning Tools | News
WizIQ is making its distance learning platform free for K-12 teachers and college and university instructors.
WizIQ is an online service that provides virtual classroom capabilities via Web browser or through the WizIQ apps for iOS and Android. It allows teachers to create and deliver courses live or on demand and includes functionality like tests and quizzes, chat, screen sharing, whiteboarding, file sharing, breakout sessions, various reporting tools, and courseware management.
WizIQ is also available in the form of a plugin for Moodle. The plugin, WizIQ Virtual Classroom, is a collaborative learning tool that provides audio conferencing, videoconferencing (with up to six live video streams), whiteboarding tools, screen sharing, breakout rooms, file sharing, and support for unlimited attendees. It supports single sign-on and allows presenters to schedule and manage classes, track attendance, record sessions, and edit various WizIQ parameters directly within the Moodle environment.
The free service is available to teachers who register using their institutional e-mail addresses. According to WizIQ, the free membership is the equivalent of a "Solo Unlimited Premium account," valued at $690 for a year of service.
The Solo Unlimited Premium plan includes:
Free memberships are available now. Registration information can be found at wiziq.com/academic.
About the Author
David Nagel is the executive producer for 1105 Media's online K-12 and higher education publications and electronic newsletters. He can be reached at email@example.com. He can now be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/THEJournalDave (K-12) or http://twitter.com/CampusTechDave (higher education). You can also connect with him on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=10390192.
More FREE Webinars
Campus Technology | CT Summer Educational Conference | CT Leadership Symposium | CT Forum ConferenceTHE Journal | FETC | FETC Virtual Event
[ + ] Feedback [ + ]
©2001-2014 1105 Media Inc, Ed-Tech Group. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use